Chapter 401: Fishing

Four-Joy Flower Rolls caused a huge sensation in the Huang Ji dining circle. The shape was beautiful, the taste was excellent, and the price was very affordable (the same price as fermented rice steamed buns).

Huang Ji's customers hadn't seen such cost-effective food in Huang Ji for a long time. As a famous high-end restaurant in Suzhou, Huang Ji's biggest feature was the serious premium.

Hearing that Four-Joy Flower Rolls were on the shelves in advance, with super cost-effectiveness and super deliciousness, customers swarmed in, queuing to buy. Those who had to work and didn't have time to queue also started running errands. For a time, the outside of the Huang Ji gate was as lively as it was on New Year's Day.

At this time, some people might question, how could it be as lively as New Year's Day? New Year's Day was when Huang Ji's customer flow was the most explosive, and it was blessed by "Zhi Wei." Every day, countless out-of-town customers came for the name, willing to queue for several hours just to buy some dim sum.

No matter how high the cost-effectiveness of Qin Huai's Four-Joy Flower Rolls was, it was impossible to cause such a huge sensation in one day.

Theoretically, it was like this.

But there was another marketing method, which was hunger marketing.

Huang Ji didn't want to do hunger marketing. It was mainly because the output couldn't keep up, and they were forced to do hunger marketing.

"Master Xiao Qin, that was the last batch of Four-Joy Flower Rolls made today, right? Do you know the specific amount? The team leader asked me to come and ask you, so she can persuade the customers queuing outside to leave."

Around 3 PM, a round-faced waiter quietly poked his head and stood at the kitchen door and asked loudly.

Qin Huai accurately reported the data and continued to fish and eat lotus root starch balls.

The round-faced waiter counted it, nodded, and left quickly.

Dong Shi, who had been curious about what happened to Qin Huai since morning and why his Four-Joy Rolls suddenly became beautiful, took the opportunity to approach. When approaching, he was still holding half a cucumber he hadn't finished gnawing, lowered his voice and asked: "Qin Huai, you don't make Four-Joy Rolls anymore at 3 PM?"

Qin Huai nodded very decisively: "Not making anymore. Today's Four-Joy Rolls end here."

"Are you not feeling well?" Dong Shi asked tentatively again, quietly observing Qin Huai's complexion, feeling it didn't look like it.

The complexion was ruddy, the lip color was normal, and most importantly, he was spirited and radiant. No matter how you looked at it, he was in good health.

"No." Qin Huai was still eating glutinous rice balls calmly, not understanding why Dong Shi suddenly asked this, "I don't feel uncomfortable anywhere. Why, is my complexion not very good?"

Dong Shi shook his head and continued to stare at Qin Huai: "Then why did you get off work at this time? Anything later?"

Qin Huai was full of inexplicable feelings, put down the bowl and started staring at Dong Shi, wanting to see if his brother's brain was not very normal because he hadn't eaten wonderful melons recently.

"Who told you I got off work?" Qin Huai asked, "Isn't my normal off-work time 5:40 PM? I have other dim sum to make later."

"What dim sum?"

"Four-Joy Tangyuan."

Dong Shi:???

Qin Huai watched Dong Shi's complexion change from shock to doubt, then to thinking, then sudden realization and doubt and thinking, and couldn't guess what he had supplemented at all.

Dong Shi's thinking was too jumpy. According to common sense, he usually didn't play cards according to common sense. But if you didn't play cards according to common sense, he would play cards according to common sense.

Qin Huai chose to ask directly: "What are you thinking?"

"I'm thinking about how you changed." Dong Shi said a very philosophical sentence. This sentence had been said to Wang Jun and more than one of his ex-girlfriends.

Qin Huai:?

"How did I change?"

This sentence had also been said to Wang Jun by more than one of his ex-girlfriends.

"It's just..." Dong Shi scratched his neck and tried hard to organize the language, "This is not your style of doing things."

"Did you get infected with laziness after playing with Tan Weian for a long time?"

Tan Weian, who was fishing not far away and listening to Dong Shi and Qin Huai chatting by the way:?!!!

Tan Weian grabbed the half-eaten tomato and walked towards Dong Shi angrily, angrily saying: "Dong Shi, what do you mean by this? What do you mean by getting infected with laziness after playing with me for a long time? Do you know what time I get up every day? Do you know what time I go to bed every day? Do you know how many dim sum I have to make every day? Do you know that I have to flip through recipes every night when I go home to see if there are any dim sum that meet Qin Huai's aesthetics? The messy dim sum he is good at, like Four-Joy Tangyuan and lotus root starch balls, are not in my ancestral recipes at all. My grandfather and great-grandfather were not good at these!"

Tan Weian's crazy output shocked Qin Huai. Qin Huai didn't expect that he just said it casually that day, and Tan Weian answered casually. Later, Tan Weian didn't mention it and he forgot it. As a result, Tan Weian actually kept it in his heart and flipped through recipes in the treasure bag every night.

Qin Huai was a little moved.

He began to reflect on whether he had neglected Tan Weian during this period. After all, Tan Weian really liked to fish, and sometimes he fished himself to the point of having no sense of existence.

Every day, besides barely keeping up with the progress of the small team to make related dim sum, Tan Weian just practiced the dim sum he was good at casually. The workload could be said to be the least and the work was the easiest among the white-case dim sum chefs in the same batch.

Tan Weian even had a sense of relaxation, a sense of relaxation that was impossible for a chef from Does Zhi Wei Ju.

Every day he stood in the kitchen, and a few big characters were written on his face: Can practice, can't practice, pull it down.

After being moved, Qin Huai hurriedly came out to smooth things over: "Dong Shi didn't mean that. Eh, Tan Weian, where did you get this tomato? Give me one?"

Tan Weian was quickly diverted from the topic, pointed his finger at the vegetable shelf: "Take it from there. Today's tomatoes are quite delicious, full of juice, sour and sweet."

Tan Weian was tricked by Qin Huai to help him get tomatoes. Qin Huai seized the time to ask Dong Shi: "Do you think that with my previous personality, it is impossible to just practice casually after making progress in the shape of Four-Joy Rolls. Not practicing at 3 PM, but practicing other dim sum instead."

Dong Shi nodded, his face full of incomprehension: "You used to practice one dim sum and keep practicing it, and you didn't do other dim sum. Only when you were tired of practicing would you do a few easy dim sum for entertainment."

"When you were not here, the senior brother often used your state of practicing Four-Joy Tangyuan and crab roe shumai to educate me, telling me not to be distracted when cutting vegetables, telling me to put my heart on the cutting board, and telling me to learn your state and attention."

Dong Shi's face was full of: Brother, you are a teaching example, how did you become a wrong question set now?

Qin Huai didn't expect that during the time he was not in Huang Ji, Huang Jia would actually use himself as an excellent case to educate Dong Shi. However, thinking about it carefully, it made sense. Dong Shi was good everywhere, with excellent talent, but his personality was a bit too jumpy, and his attention was extremely unfocused.

It was also related to Dong Shi's hobbies. Dong Shi usually liked to listen to some gossip, chat about some gossip, and wanted to not miss every piece of gossip around him, so it was impossible to focus his attention on one thing. He must be listening to all directions and watching all directions.

Qin Huai explained: "That was before, now the situation is different."

"What situation is different?" Tan Weian picked a big, red, and good-looking tomato and walked back, stuffing the tomato to Qin Huai.

"Four-Joy Rolls are different from the dim sum I practiced before." Qin Huai continued, "Four-Joy Rolls are too difficult. I can't learn them."

Dong Shi & Tan Weian:???

Both of them looked at Qin Huai very shocked, Tan Weian's expression was especially exaggerated.

Tan Weian had witnessed how Qin Huai conquered dim sum one by one.

He joined Qin Huai's small team time and time again, was at the bottom, fished, couldn't figure out the situation, took out recipes, and had no sense of participation in the small team time and time again. Feeling couldn't be found, dim sum couldn't be learned.

However, Tan Weian felt it didn't matter, he saw it through. He could accept that Qin Huai's brain had some problems, and the game system he imagined was really useful, accept that Qin Huai was a pervert, accept that Qin Huai might not have finished drinking Meng Po soup, accept that the dim sum made by Qin Huai might once again make the cover of "Zhi Wei," accept that Qin Huai might quickly squeeze into the famous chef list, accept that Qin Huai might refresh the highest ranking of white-case chefs in the famous chef list...

Tan Weian felt that one day Qin Huai told him that he was actually a child of their Tan family who was left outside, he could accept it.

But he couldn't accept Qin Huai saying that a dim sum was too difficult and he couldn't learn it.

Tan Weian really wanted to grab Qin Huai's shoulders and shake them frantically, questioning him, roaring, and roaring loudly.

Ask him how he could say such words, you are Master Qin! You are the omnipotent Qin Huai! You are the one who can think of ways to conquer any high-difficulty perverted dim sum! You are the one who couldn't make progress on the Double Crab Bun, and you could think of a solution after riding a few roller coasters in the amusement park!

How can Master Qin say it won't work!

Is the Four-Joy Roll that difficult? Isn't the Four-Joy Roll just cloud patterns...

Okay, the Four-Joy Roll is indeed quite difficult.

But... is it that difficult?!

Could it be that even you, the dignified Qin Huai, have to retreat, rot, and learn from me, Tan Weian?

I, Tan Weian, am really not good, you, Qin Huai, are not. You are a real genius, with talent so high that it is about to overflow from your body, making ordinary people like me want to take a basin to pick up some and stuff it into myself.

How can you say it won't work?

Tan Weian even began to suspect whether he made Qin Huai like this. What Dong Shi said just now was actually true. He fished a bit too blatantly, too rampant, and too obviously during this period, and brought Qin Huai bad.

Tan Weian slapped his head fiercely, showing an annoyed expression, almost saying "I really deserve to die."

Qin Huai didn't guess what the expression on Dong Shi's face meant just now, but he guessed Tan Weian's expression roughly.

Qin Huai couldn't help but laugh, explaining again: "I didn't give up on the Four-Joy Roll."

"I realized that with my current level, it is impossible to make this dim sum."

"Finger technique is difficult and important. I underestimated it before. I was like a frog at the bottom of a well, sitting in the well and looking up at that side of the world, feeling that the sky was like this. But I climbed out of the well this morning, I saw the real world, discovered the fact that I couldn't do it."

"I am a person with self-knowledge. I won't force myself to do things I can't do."

"So you didn't give up?" Tan Weian asked.

"Of course not. The Four-Joy Roll is a dim sum I must make." Qin Huai glanced at Dong Shi, "I promised Mr. Shi. Although I didn't understand the difficulty of this dim sum when I promised, since I promised, I must do it."

"When I realized that I couldn't make Four-Joy Rolls at my current stage, I felt there was no need to force myself."

"Like you, it's also very good to relax your mentality and be relaxed and leisurely. Do the dim sum you should do every day, do what you want to do, instead of forcing yourself to devote yourself to the dim sum you want to practice, and forcing yourself with a large amount of practice."

"I thought about it carefully at noon and felt that my state these two days was a bit problematic."

"I was very anxious to practice the Four-Joy Roll well, making so many failed Four-Joy Rolls every day, but I didn't even understand what finger technique really was."

"This might be the reason why the last two proficiency points of my intermediate finger technique have been stuck for two full days. Making dim sum shouldn't be like this. Even if I didn't rush for success, I was a bit too eager to cause a qualitative change through piling up quantity, but didn't think about stopping to think."

Qin Huai said very seriously. What he said to Tan Weian was actually the truth, without a single lie.

Tan Weian was dumbfounded.

"So..." Tan Weian began to doubt life, "Actually, my state is also quite good. I am very relaxed every day, and I don't think about brushing those so-called skills you imagined through a large amount of practice."

"No wonder Master Zhou sometimes praises me for having a good mentality."

Qin Huai:...

That shouldn't be praise.

According to Qin Huai, Master Zhou of Does Zhi Wei Ju occasionally yin-yang people, and has this small hobby.

Qin Huai finished the lotus root starch balls, put down the bowl, and felt a little thirsty after eating too many sweets, wanting to drink two sips of tea to moisten his throat.

Just when Qin Huai was looking for where the teapot was, Su Gan rushed out from the corner with a cup of hot tea at a suitable temperature.

Qin Huai sighed again in his heart that Su Gan was really too comprehensive, took the teacup and drank two big sips.

Su Gan didn't leave. He stood by Qin Huai's side, as if deliberating, and only asked after Qin Huai finished drinking tea: "Master Qin, I accidentally heard a few sentences just now. I want to ask, how long do you plan to communicate in Huang Ji this time?"

Qin Huai thought that Does Zhi Wei Ju was busier, urging Su Gan and others to go back, and said: "I might stay in Huang Ji for a while longer. As I just heard, I can't practice Four-Joy Rolls for a while."

"I plan to consolidate in Huang Ji for at least 20 days, and then return to Yunzhong canteen. I can't leave for too long either."

"Your exchange time should be almost up, right? Have you set a return date?"

"We're in no rush on our end. Last night, my second uncle even told me to let us learn from you for a while longer and not to be in a hurry to go back," Su Gan said with a smile. "Actually, I wanted to talk to you about something else."

Qin Huai put on an expression of listening intently.

"Although I haven't studied cloud patterns, Master Zhou at our Does Zhi Wei Ju can actually make cloud-patterned dim sum."

"Eh?" Qin Huai seemed to have guessed what Su Gan meant.

"As far as I know, there are many types of cloud-patterned dim sum. They have different directions, different schools, and even different difficulty levels and techniques. If you feel your current finger techniques are insufficient to make the Four-Joy Roll, you could actually try other, simpler cloud-patterned dim sum, or try simpler cloud-patterned techniques."

"You might just have a breakthrough."

"If you have any thoughts on this, I can help you ask Master Zhou tonight to see if he is willing to exchange techniques in this area with you."

"However, Master Zhou is definitely unwilling to leave Does Zhi Wei Ju, so if you want to exchange, you might need to trouble yourself to make a special trip to Does Zhi Wei Ju."

Qin Huai was pleasantly surprised: "Is that okay? Wouldn't that be a bit too presumptuous?"

"Of course it's okay. Our Master Zhou usually likes to exchange with other chefs as well. Every year, many chefs from other places come to Does Zhi Wei Ju for exchanges."

"Then I'll trouble you to help me ask."

"However, there are quite a few chefs coming for exchanges next month, so Master Zhou might not have time. Shall I help you ask about an exchange for this month first?"

"Of course!"

(End of chapter)