Chapter 400: Four-Joy Flower Roll

Advanced finger technique brought Qin Huai many insights. Although these insights didn't improve him much, they made him realize the technique and difficulty of finger technique for the first time.

Finger technique, as one of the basic skills judged by the game system, was very technical. This skill was not only reflected in high-difficulty techniques like cloud patterns, but also in all aspects.

Qin Huai even had some insights that the reason why his cloud pattern progress was so slow and had long been ranked last in the Four-Joy Roll research team was because his foundation in finger technique was too poor.

Although he seemed to have the level of intermediate finger technique before, he only had the consciousness of primary finger technique.

And primary was the lower limit of the game system's rating, not Qin Huai's lower limit.

Qin Huai didn't attach much importance to finger technique before, or rather, he underestimated it a bit. This might be related to Master Xiao Qin really having been a breakfast shop master for many years. The deep-rooted concept formed by the breakfast shop master made Qin Huai feel that finger technique was just pinching folds for buns, and making shapes for high-difficulty dim sum like flower buns and dough fruits that had high requirements for finger technique.

Only primary and master level, no intermediate and advanced in between.

Qin Huai had no pursuit for master level, so he felt that primary consciousness was enough.

But the fact was not like this.

After finger technique was upgraded to advanced, Qin Huai clearly felt what a delicate technique it was in the process of forward rolling. It required a pair of clever hands, but not just a pair of clever hands.

What finger technique needed was technique, strength, technology, and consciousness in parallel. The reason why Qin Huai mistakenly thought that all dim sum requiring high-difficulty finger technique were very high-end was because finger technique required too many items for each skill. Even if there was only a little bit of each, it would appear to be a very high-difficulty technique.

It was not that there were simple one or two, learning to pinch folds for buns, making shapes for shumai, making steamed buns the same size, knowing how to reasonably use tools to make beautiful hedgehog buns, and how to make cute dim sum like piggie buns was considered learned.

It needed aesthetics, technology, certain basic skills, dexterity on the fingers, and most importantly, it needed consciousness in this regard.

It had high requirements for consciousness.

After Qin Huai's filling seasoning was upgraded to master level, he understood many things at a deeper level in terms of conditions. After tasting dim sum, his first reaction was not to sigh at the deliciousness of this dim sum, but to think about and seek the combination of the dim sum filling and dough, the use of ingredients, and how the ingredients needed for this dim sum were processed.

Qin Huai couldn't taste these things before. It wasn't that his tongue wasn't sensitive, but that he didn't have consciousness in this regard.

Just like what was written in martial arts novels, no matter how well the external moves were practiced, it was all in vain if they couldn't match the corresponding internal mental method. Only by practicing both internal and external could one become a grandmaster.

Making dim sum was also like this. No matter how good the technology was, no matter how good the hardware conditions were, no matter how sensitive the tongue was, without corresponding consciousness, the achievement could only reach that point.

Then at this time, many readers might be curious, could Qin Huai's improvement and realization in finger technique consciousness be directly reflected in the production process of Four-Joy Rolls?

Qin Huai: Yes, brothers.

Qin Huai finished a batch of Four-Joy Rolls at a relatively slow speed.

Huang Jia, Tan Weian, and Zheng Siyuan had been watching from the side, from beginning to end.

Although Huang Jia was a red-case chef and not proficient in white-case, it didn't mean he couldn't see Qin Huai's progress and the doorway in it. As a red-case grandmaster, Huang Jia knew better than anyone how important consciousness was, and the importance even far exceeded the progress in technology.

In Huang Jia's view, progress in consciousness was the most difficult.

Technology could rely on hard practice, but consciousness could only rely on sudden enlightenment. Saying it relied on sudden enlightenment was not very accurate. Huang Jia felt that that thing was not even sudden enlightenment, but more like a mathematician suddenly grabbing the white dove symbolizing inspiration while thinking about a difficult problem.

First, you are not sure if the white dove can fly in front of you, and second, you cannot be sure if you can grab that moment.

This thing was more like an opportunity.

As a result, Qin Huai just had this sudden enlightenment opportunity.

Huang Jia even wanted to call Zheng Da to tell him that you don't need to come tomorrow, and it's best not to come the day after tomorrow. Play at home for two more days, don't delay Master Xiao Qin's progress.

As for Zheng Siyuan, he didn't have as good an eye as Huang Jia and didn't see Qin Huai's huge progress in consciousness. He just simply saw that Qin Huai's Four-Joy Rolls seemed to have a bit of appearance, and it seemed to be barely an introduction.

The last place in the Four-Joy Roll research team finally entered the door. Zheng Siyuan naturally had to witness this moment worth celebrating.

Tan Weian...

He had really learned cloud patterns seriously, and could see more things than Zheng Siyuan, but he didn't want to see it, nor did he care much. He watched from the side for so long just simply to fish.

Tan Weian first had a whimsical idea, thinking about whether he could imagine a game system, rate his skills, and allocate proficiency, so as to achieve huge progress and amaze everyone.

After thinking for only two minutes, Tan Weian felt it wouldn't work.

He wasn't crazy yet and couldn't do it.

Then Tan Weian started searching for something to eat. He found the lotus root starch balls that Qin Huai had made but hadn't put into the pot on the cooking station, and cooked two bowls.

Huang Jia didn't eat, Tan Weian had one bowl, and Zheng Siyuan had one bowl.

When Qin Huai's batch of Four-Joy Rolls came out of the pot, Tan Weian was eating the fresh meat mooncakes made by Zheng Siyuan in the previous batch.

As for why Zheng Siyuan would bake a batch of fresh meat mooncakes before business hours—because this was secretly baked by Tan Weian for himself. He counted the number of people in the Huang Ji back kitchen who wanted to eat fresh meat mooncakes and baked them according to the head count.

Tan Weian felt that it was quite good to communicate in Huang Ji, and he could eat whatever he wanted.

Just when Tan Weian was gnawing on the fresh meat mooncakes with relish, the Four-Joy Rolls came out of the pot.

The Four-Joy Rolls just out of the pot couldn't see whether they were successful, and had to be cut open to know.

Of course, this batch of Four-Joy Rolls didn't need to be looked at. Everyone knew it was impossible to succeed. The process of Qin Huai making Four-Joy Rolls just now was still full of mistakes. If this could make successful cloud patterns, then many professional white-case chefs would doubt life.

Qin Huai deftly took out the Four-Joy Rolls one by one and cut them open.

Failure, couldn't see cloud patterns.

But there was progress.

This batch of Four-Joy Rolls was a good-looking flower roll.

It was a flower roll that conformed to public aesthetics, could make people's eyes light up when they saw it, felt that it was not a loss to buy such a flower roll for 18 yuan, and the chef specially made a creative flower roll with a shape.

This was the gold content of consciousness.

Even if the finger technique level was not enough, even if the technique was not practiced skillfully, even if it failed, it shouldn't be failed very ugly.

Chefs need to have consciousness in this regard, need to have aesthetics in dim sum, and need to know how to use other ways to make this dim sum at least presentable to customers when their technology is not enough.

The shape of dim sum is also very important.

Even wrapping buns pays attention to pinching the folds well.

Tan Weian looked at the Four-Joy Rolls cut open by Qin Huai and sighed: "It's completely impossible to see that it's a Four-Joy Roll now. It really looks like a new flower roll."

"How did Qin Huai do it?" This sentence was Tan Weian's muttering to himself.

"Did you discover something just now?"

This sentence was Zheng Siyuan's direct question to Qin Huai.

Qin Huai didn't answer first, but picked up a Four-Joy Roll, regardless of whether it was hot or not, and took a bite to taste it.

Delicious.

The taste of the Four-Joy Roll, there was no improvement in taste, but perhaps because this Four-Joy Roll looked more pleasing to the eye, the senses would feel that this Four-Joy Roll was better than the previous ones.

"I just suddenly realized that making shapes for dim sum is not as simple as I imagined." Qin Huai said slowly, "I always felt that making shapes was either successful or failed, just like making Four-Joy Tangyuan before. Successful ones are delicious, failed ones are destined to be unpalatable, no matter how unpalatable, that is the inevitable result of failure."

"But I suddenly realized just now that this only applies to filling seasoning, not to finger technique. Our original intention of making shapes for dim sum is to make it look better. Even if it fails, it shouldn't be ugly. It should also be a good-looking failure, just simply not reaching our expected effect."

Zheng Siyuan fell into deep thought.

Tan Weian was dumbfounded.

Tan Weian: Not brother, can finger technique upgrade also realize this kind of thing?

Please tell me, how is that advanced finger technique defined? I also want to have advanced finger technique!.

Because Qin Huai achieved a huge breakthrough in aesthetics, Huang Jia felt that it was the right time for Four-Joy Flower Rolls to be on the shelves today; otherwise, it would greatly hit the enthusiasm of his dear Master Xiao Qin.

After a simple discussion with the team leader, Huang Ji launched Four-Joy Flower Rolls at noon.

This matter was originally agreed upon in advance, and the menu and everything had been prepared, which didn't affect anything.

At lunch time, Shi Dadan came to Huang Ji for lunch as usual.

By the way, Wang Gensheng's accounts had already been settled a few days ago. As a down-to-earth man, even though he really wanted to stay in Gusu to keep sponging off meals, he felt that since the matter was concluded and his work was done, staying behind would make him seem a bit thick-skinned, so he took the initiative to propose returning to Shancheng first.

Qin Huai wanted Wang Laogen to stay in Suzhou for a while longer. After all, Wang Laogen's subsequent plot likely needed to be triggered through Suzhou, and his memory drop was also related to Xu Nuo.

But Qin Huai knew very well that the practice cycle of Four-Joy Rolls would be much longer than he expected. He might stay in Suzhou for a long time, and letting Wang Laogen stay in Suzhou alone was really a bit unfair to him.

It was better to let him return to Shanshi first, and wait until he was greedy or the elderly in the Yunzhong canteen couldn't help but form a group to Suzhou. What if Qin Huai's Four-Joy Rolls had already made small achievements by then, and he could give the elderly a surprise.

Wang Laogen returned to Shanshi, and Shi Dadan could only come to Huang Ji for meals alone every day. Before, when he needed to eliminate Four-Joy Rolls, Shi Dadan sat at the door of the Huang Ji back kitchen and ate Four-Joy Rolls conscientiously. Later, Four-Joy Rolls were renamed Four-Joy Flower Rolls and sold to Huang Ji's member customers. Shi Dadan didn't need to eat so many Four-Joy Rolls every day, and could eat normally for three meals, simply becoming a member customer by applying for a membership in Huang Ji, coming to Huang Ji for lunch and dinner every day.

Of course, Shi Dadan could receive small stove.

The dishes he ordered, whether it was stir-fried green vegetables or pan-fried tofu, were all stir-fried by Huang Jia himself, with a 100% probability of opening an SSR, and the super high explosion rate was enviable.

Shi Dadan didn't know that Four-Joy Flower Rolls were on the shelves in advance. He came to Huang Ji happily as in the past two days, sat at the 6-person table specially left for him by the window, and ordered dishes.

As usual, he ordered the staple foods he liked first, such as fermented rice steamed buns, San Ding Bao, fresh meat mooncakes, Four-Joy Flower Rolls, and a large pot of rice, and then started ordering dishes.

Because he came a bit late, when he ordered dishes, the dim sum of the table behind him had already been served, which was exactly Four-Joy Flower Rolls.

Before sitting down, Boss Shi swept a glance at the table behind him, vaguely remembering that there were quite a few people, including adults, children, and the elderly.

The table behind him was actually Qin Huai's acquaintance, and also Wang Laogen's acquaintance.

Qian Zhongheng's family.

As soon as the Four-Joy Flower Rolls were served, Qian Zhongheng's son exclaimed: "Dad, your intelligence is wrong. Didn't you say that the shape of this Four-Joy Flower Roll is not very good-looking but the taste is quite good? I think this shape is also very good-looking, better than the so-called cartoon flower rolls and steamed buns sold in those breakfast shops."

Qian Zhongheng didn't expect his intelligence to be wrong, his old face turned red, but he was stubborn: "What do you know? With Master Xiao Qin's craftsmanship, making flower rolls like this might not be very good-looking."

Shi Dadan heard the guests at the back table mention Master Xiao Qin, couldn't help but look back, and saw the Four-Joy Flower Rolls on the table with some surprise.

Shi Dadan's confused head tilt, thinking, is this still a Four-Joy Roll?

How did it become better-looking.

Qian Zhongheng was still stubborn: "If this shape can be said to be ugly, then the taste must be quite delicious. Why don't you eat it quickly? 18 yuan each."

The whole table reached out with chopsticks one after another. Even the 6-year-old granddaughter grabbed half a flower roll, and the other half was privately pocketed by her dear father and put into his own bowl.

Qian Zhongheng took a bite first, making a satisfied sound.

"Hmm."

Eating one wolfishly, Qian Zhongheng drank a sip of tea and cursed: "Old Xiao really has wrong intelligence. He is still a member who has eaten more than me. Why is this Four-Joy Flower Roll a low-profile version of the Four-Joy Roll? Zheng Da didn't teach well, leading to Master Xiao Qin making the shape ugly and difficult to look at, so it can only be called a flower roll."

"It's clearly quite beautiful. You can tell at a glance that it's a flower roll. What does it have to do with the Four-Joy Roll? And the taste is better than Zheng Da's Four-Joy Roll. The Four-Joy Roll Zheng Da made in the first year was really ugly and the taste was not very good. The ones in the following years were slightly better."

One could see that Qian Zhongheng had a good memory.

Bai Xiujuan (Qian Zhongheng's wife) was still gnawing on the Four-Joy Flower Roll leisurely. Hearing Qian Zhongheng still dissing Zheng Da, she couldn't help but speak for Zheng Da: "It was normal for Xiao Zheng not to do well back then. Master Jing retired due to illness suddenly, and Xiao Zheng was not prepared. How old was he then?"

"In all fairness, can you find a chef in the entire Suzhou area who made dim sum better than him when Xiao Zheng took over?"

"If you could find one, you wouldn't be muttering that Xiao Zheng's craftsmanship was not refined, that the fermented rice steamed bun didn't learn the essence of his master, and while you were off work every day, you couldn't wait to pedal your bicycle to sparks to grab steamed buns."

Qian Zhongheng:...

"But Master Xiao Qin is not very old now."

Bai Xiujuan raised her voice: "Can Zheng Da compare with Master Xiao Qin?"

Eavesdropping Shi Dadan:... 6

Shi Dadan looked at the menu and canceled the 6 Four-Joy Rolls he had just ordered.

Place order.

Two minutes after placing the order, the waiter came over with the receipt and placed it on Shi Dadan's table, not forgetting to ask: "Mr. Shi, are you not eating Four-Joy Flower Rolls today? Did you miss it when ordering? Do you want me to add it for you?"

It could be said to be very thoughtful.

Shi Dadan shook his head: "Four-Joy Flower Rolls are officially on the shelves today, right? I saw it on the ordinary menu. I have a big appetite, so I won't compete with everyone. Qin Huai can't make too many every day, so as not to tire him out."

"This is a banana I brought for Qin Huai. Please trouble you to send it to the back kitchen later."

"Okay, Mr. Shi."

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 401 =====