Chapter 398: Dead Hand, Roll Fast

By the time Zheng Da finished crying, the Four-Joy Rolls had cooled slightly, but it wasn't a big problem; they were still delicious.

Zheng Da, who had collapsed emotionally and had a good cry, went through a complex psychological change—wanting to die, wanting to die very much, wanting to jump off the building right now but discovering that Huang Ji was only two stories high and he might not even break his legs, wanting to eat Four-Joy Rolls to choke himself to death but finding it hard to do, wanting to eat until he burst but having no talent in that regard—and after thinking about it, decided not to die for the time being. Facing the cruel reality, he chose to suffer amnesia as a last resort.

"Xiao Qin, look, this is how Four-Joy Rolls are made. The difficulty isn't very high. I haven't made them for many years, so my hands are rusty, which is why the cloud patterns on some Four-Joy Rolls might not look very good. Your ham recipe is very good, so just use your recipe."

"Did you see the process of making Four-Joy Rolls just now? Is there anything you don't understand? If there's anything you don't understand, ask at any time. Do you want me to demonstrate a few more times for you?"

Qin Huai looked at Zheng Da, who was acting out amnesia so vividly that he almost wanted to bang his head against the wall to act out the process of amnesia. He couldn't help but sigh in his heart: who said Master Zheng's psychological quality was poor and he had a glass heart?

This psychological quality was absolutely top-notch.

Zheng Da wanted to pretend to have amnesia, so Qin Huai naturally had to cooperate. He nodded repeatedly and said in a very sincere voice: "Really? That's great, Master Zheng. We all want to see your demonstration a few more times!"

Zheng Da felt warm in his heart from this intimate "Master Zheng." Without any hesitation, he rolled up his sleeves and started kneading the dough.

He was full of fighting spirit and high spirits.

Gong Liang stood at the door of the back kitchen and saw from afar that Zheng Da seemed to have started working again. He hurriedly swallowed the Four-Joy Roll in his mouth, didn't eat the remaining half he hadn't finished, casually put it in a packing box on the small table, and took out his phone to make a call.

"Hey, wife, are you at home? Oh, you are shopping with Baozhu? That's perfect. Hurry up and come to Huang Ji with Baozhu. Zheng Da has gone crazy again. I feel like he's going to make Four-Joy Rolls all day. Bring the biggest packing boxes at home."

After speaking, Gong Liang hung up the phone, picked up the half-eaten Four-Joy Roll again, and beckoned to Dong Shi.

Dong Shi walked up, puzzled: "Mr. Gong, is something the matter? You really can't go in anymore. It's almost business hours. Even if you change into work clothes, you can't go in."

Gong Liang showed a kind and amiable smile unique to elders: "Of course I know the rules of your Huang Ji. Outsiders cannot enter the kitchen, and everything is based on kitchen hygiene and food safety. As a shareholder of Huang Ji, can I not understand this point? Am I the kind of person who makes unreasonable trouble?"

Dong Shi:...?

"I just wanted to ask, are the Four-Joy Rolls just now enough to eat?"

Dong Shi: "Ah?"

Gong Liang pointed to the Four-Joy Rolls in the packing box: "If it's not enough, I have some here. You young people have big appetites, and being a chef is heavy physical labor, so eat more to pad your stomach. You won't be able to handle it when it's mealtime."

Dong Shi held the two packing boxes in a daze and returned to the cooking station to distribute Four-Joy Rolls to everyone, not even missing Seeing Zang Liang.

When distributing to Seeing Zang Liang, Dong Shi couldn't help but complain: "Mr. Gong usually sends a lot of red envelopes, but this is the first time he has distributed dim sum. What day is it today? Uncle is crying inexplicably like this. I kept asking Master just now but couldn't get the reason. Mr. Gong is distributing dim sum again. Am I dreaming?"

Seeing Zang Liang was addicted to cooking, didn't even look at the shape of the Four-Joy Roll, just glanced at it to confirm it was a flower roll, and stuffed it into his mouth to eat.

Hearing Dong Shi complain like this, Seeing Zang Liang chewed a few times fiercely and swallowed the half-cold Four-Joy Roll in his mouth, freed his left hand to hold the Four-Joy Roll, emptied his mouth to speak, and said: "What reason could there be? Isn't Master Zheng making new ones? Freshly steamed hot flower rolls must be better than cold flower rolls!"

"Don't say, this flower roll is quite delicious. Are Qin Huai and the others studying this flower roll recently? How did he suddenly think of making flower rolls?" At this moment, Seeing Zang Liang finally remembered Master Qin.

Dong Shi:...

Dong Shi had been listening to Tan Weian complain to him for the past few days that Seeing Zang Liang had been addicted to red-case cooking since he came to Huang Ji, completely living in his own world, and didn't know what the world was anymore.

Dong Shi always felt that Tan Weian was exaggerating.

Now...

Dong Shi was shocked: "You don't even know what Qin Huai and the others are doing? Don't you know that Gu Li was teaching Qin Huai cloud patterns yesterday?"

Seeing Zang Liang was also shocked: "Damn, Gu Li teaching Qin Huai cloud patterns! How come no one told me about such a spectacular thing?! Alas, missed it."

Seeing Zang Liang was extremely regretful. The more he thought about it, the more he felt he couldn't miss such an important moment. He directly put down the kitchen knife: "Dong Shi, help me finish cutting the remaining vegetables. I have to go over and take a look."

After speaking, Seeing Zang Liang ran to Qin Huai's side to forcefully watch Zheng Da make Four-Joy Rolls.

Zheng Da's second demonstration was not much better than the first. The forward roll was still perfect, and the reverse roll was full of problems. Gu Li also remained at the commentary post, explaining conscientiously, not letting go of any of Zheng Da's problems.

Don't say, Gu Li's problem-catching was quite accurate.

This time, Zheng Da deliberately slowed down his speed when making Four-Joy Rolls, unlike the last time when he did it very fast, and would miss many details if he wasn't careful.

Such a demonstration teaching, coupled with Gu Li's commentary, was simply a perfect teaching scene.

Qin Huai could even watch Zheng Da make Four-Joy Rolls while shaking lotus root starch balls. Shaking lotus root starch balls mainly tested the feel. Gu Li's commentary could help Qin Huai grasp the key points. Shaking while listening didn't affect learning.

It was just that this lineup made this teaching team look very strange.

Zheng Da now theoretically had five students.

One student was using one heart for two purposes, making lotus root starch balls while listening to the lecture.

One student was being too serious and responsible while not doing his proper job, teaching while learning.

One student listened very seriously and had a foundation, but always couldn't help but be distracted, and kept eating while listening, his mouth never stopped, and he kept eating Four-Joy Rolls.

One student was a red-case chef who couldn't understand at all, but just wanted to stand on the side and listen.

And one student was his own son, who could be considered the most normal among them, listening very seriously without speaking, but also the one who made Zheng Da feel the most abnormal and uncomfortable.

Zheng Da always felt that his son was a person with a lot of rebellious bones. Since he learned the craft and could barely be considered to have finished his apprenticeship, he liked to go against him, his father.

Zheng Da let Zheng Siyuan be a dim sum chef at Huang Ji, or go to other famous restaurants he wanted to go to. At worst, Zheng Da could pay for a restaurant himself to sell white-case dim sum. As a result, Zheng Siyuan chose the fourth option among the three good options, running to the entrance of the residential complex to open an ordinary dim sum shop.

Zheng Da let Zheng Siyuan go on a blind date. Zheng Siyuan either would rather die than go, or was not satisfied with the object after going. He was not satisfied with any kind of object.

Zheng Da taught Zheng Siyuan to make new dim sum, and Zheng Siyuan always had different opinions. Either he pointed out that Zheng Da's skills in this area were a bit rusty, or he felt that Zheng Da was cutting corners and being too lazy at a certain point.

In Zheng Da's memory, it seemed that after his son reached a certain age, he was no longer obedient and sensible, and became a thorn, a rebellious son, picking on him, his father, everywhere.

Today, he had been making Four-Joy Rolls for so long, and the problems with the reverse roll were so obvious, yet Zheng Siyuan didn't say a word. Zheng Da wasn't used to it.

Zheng Da wasn't used to it to the point of asking directly: "What do you think of the Four-Joy Rolls I made?"

Qin Huai said very supportively: "Outstanding. Master Zheng, your craftsmanship is naturally beyond reproach!"

"Very good, very good!" Tan Weian echoed randomly.

"Delicious, delicious!" Seeing Zang Liang couldn't understand at all, and could only comment from the taste. "Master Zheng, your level is countable on one's fingers even in our Zhi Wei Ju." Gu Li said very objectively.

Only Zheng Siyuan didn't speak. Zheng Da stared straight at Zheng Siyuan.

Zheng Siyuan:...?

Is his dad... stimulated and crazy?

Zheng Siyuan said expressionlessly: "Pretty good."

Zheng Da: 〣(o)〣

Zheng Da: Not good, my son is crazy!.

After the second batch of Four-Joy Rolls came out of the pot, everyone finally tasted the best and hottest Four-Joy Rolls.

Even though Gu Li told Qin Huai when he was laying the foundation for Qin Huai yesterday that in many cases, for dim sum like Four-Joy Rolls, the shape and taste had nothing to do with each other.

Rolling cloud patterns played more of a role in the shape. The essence of the Four-Joy Roll was a flower roll, and it was the cloud patterns that made it become palace-like and high-end. Just like many big dishes piled up with high-end ingredients were not necessarily delicious, in that era when dignitaries pursued ultimate luxury and uniqueness, many good dishes were not necessarily delicious.

With Qin Huai's current level, even if he made the Four-Joy Roll into an ordinary flower roll, it was still a delicious flower roll, perhaps a flower roll that was not much different in taste from the Four-Joy Roll.

Qin Huai's filling seasoning level was high enough. Master-level filling seasoning could absolutely handle 99.99% of dim sum.

However, after eating the hot version of the Four-Joy Roll, Qin Huai deeply felt that Zheng Da's Four-Joy Roll was better than what he made yesterday.

Not only because Zheng Da's culinary skills were originally above Qin Huai's, but more because of the blessing of successful cloud patterns.

Qin Huai discovered that cloud patterns didn't seem to play only a role in the shape in the Four-Joy Roll, but could also complement the taste, although the effect was not that big and not that obvious.

But it was definitely helpful.

Qin Huai even thought of the Ruyi Roll by comparison. The difficulty of the Ruyi Roll was above the Four-Joy Roll, but the shape was not as good-looking as the Four-Joy Roll. If the cloud patterns of the Ruyi Roll were only to concave the shape, then using higher difficulty to concave a shape that was not as good-looking as the Four-Joy Roll, this dim sum was a bit too putting the cart before the horse.

The Ruyi Roll was Master Tan's signature dim sum before his death, and even an exclusive signature dim sum. This dim sum was restored by Master Tan through ancient recipes. Since Master Tan passed away, it had been lost, and no second person could make it.

Its gold content naturally didn't need to be said, much higher than the Four-Joy Roll.

Gong Liang could still find some low-profile alternatives for the Four-Joy Roll outside the pass, but the Ruyi Roll didn't even have low-profile alternatives.

Such a dim sum with difficulty, background, popularity, and verifiable achievements, did its cloud patterns really only play a role in the shape?

Thinking this, Qin Huai couldn't help but look at Gu Li.

Qin Huai wanted to talk to Gu Li, but not now. He had other ideas now.

He wanted to punch the Four-Joy Roll in his hand now.

This was too difficult!

Qin Huai's Four-Joy Roll yesterday could be said to be a Four-Joy Roll with completely failed cloud patterns. Because Gu Li's level was limited, he could provide theoretical guidance in language, but could not provide any actual guidance in technique.

Qin Huai looked like he was rolling forward and reverse rolls yesterday, but in fact, he just learned the appearance, and was just rolling randomly. He didn't even know where the difficulty of the Four-Joy Roll was.

Now Qin Huai knew under Zheng Da's guidance.

He also finally understood why Zheng Da always had problems when rolling the reverse roll, and would pause before the problem occurred.

Because he would too.

He was even worse than Zheng Da; he would also pause when rolling forward.

If the difficulty coefficient of the forward roll was 5, then the reverse roll was 10. Qin Huai's current level was only 3-4. It could be said that there were small problems in the forward roll and big problems in the reverse roll. Combined, it was a huge problem.

Sometimes Qin Huai wanted to get angry while rolling, give his hand a slap, and ask: You stupid hand, why can't you roll? Roll!

Qin Huai even thought of the game system's evaluation of his finger technique before: You don't make shapes for dim sum at all.

At that time, Qin Huai disdained finger technique, because at that time, Qin Huai's biggest use of finger technique was wrapping buns. As long as the folds of the buns were good-looking, it was fine.

Later, making apple dough fruits was also like opening a hang, succeeding once. Although other dough fruits were not very good, it didn't matter, because Qin Huai didn't make other dough fruits at all; he just made apple dough fruits.

It could be said that since Qin Huai got the game system, he hadn't encountered any problems in finger technique.

Now he encountered it.

Qin Huai didn't discover until this time making Four-Joy Rolls that rolling the forward and reverse rolls of this Four-Joy Roll to roll out cloud patterns had requirements for the chef's finger technique.

It turned out that finger technique didn't only play a role in the shape, it could also determine the taste of dim sum. There was a reason why it was included in the basic skill column by the game system, because it could really be a chef's basic skill.

And Qin Huai didn't make shapes for dim sum at all.

He looked at Zheng Siyuan and felt that Zheng Siyuan's forward roll was not bad.

He looked at Tan Weian and found that Tan Weian was worthy of being Master Tan's grandson and had a foundation. Not only was the forward roll okay, but the reverse roll also seemed to be okay, but the final finished product was not satisfactory.

He looked at Gu Li again.

Gu Li hadn't practiced cloud patterns for several years in vain. Although the reverse roll was not very good, the forward roll was more outstanding than Tan Weian's.

Look down at what he rolled.

Damn, I really want to punch this Four-Joy Roll, and give my hand a slap by the way.

At this moment, Qin Huai suddenly empathized with Tan Weian a little.

So this was the feeling of being at the bottom of the technology in the small team.

Qin Huai looked up, didn't look at the damn Four-Joy Roll, and wanted to leave two lines of clear tears.

Actually, Zheng Da couldn't be blamed for not making Four-Joy Rolls well back then.

This Four-Joy Roll was really too difficult.

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