Chapter 427

After a meal, the host and guests were happy.

Because the amount of dim sum was really too large, Shi Dadan couldn't finish it even after finishing it off. Coupled with the fact that there were still some raw embryos in the kitchen, under Master Zhou's light and breezy arrangement, An Youyou packed two of the remaining dim sum each and happily carried the packing box home.

The rest of the dim sum were taken away by Qin Huai and Shi Dadan. Of course, Zhao Chengan's home also had to keep some dim sum. The dumplings Zhao Chengan wrapped and the pumpkin cakes he fried were all left at his home.

Hearing this arrangement, Zhao Chengan almost had tears fall.

"Xiao Qin, do you have time to accompany me for a walk outside? The environment in Old San's residential complex is still quite good, and it's not hot at this time, so it's just right to go out for a stroll." Taking advantage of the time Shi Dadan was packing the dim sum, Master Zhou issued a walking invitation to Qin Huai.

Qin Huai knew that the masters at Zhi Wei Ju had the habit of taking walks by the lake. Originally, not every master had this habit, but ever since someone set the place for a fight by the lake, the number of masters who had this habit increased.

*What if they bumped into each other? *

Hearing people talk about it when going to work the next day, how could it be as exciting and wonderful as watching the live version when taking a walk?

Qin Huai nodded obediently: "Of course I have time. It just so happens that I ate too much, so taking a walk to digest is quite good."

Zhao Chengan: (-) *Master, you've changed. Weren't the people who accompanied you for walks before all me? *

Qin Huai and Master Zhou came downstairs to the residential complex to take a walk, and it was really just a walk. Master Zhou walked in front without saying a word, and Qin Huai followed him at a distance of 5~10 steps like a little follower. The two of them just strolled around in Zhao Chengan's residential complex like this.

To be fair, Zhao Chengan's residential complex was quite large, but the greening wasn't as good as the Cloud Residential Complex, not as lush as the Cloud Residential Complex, but there were many birds chirping, which sounded quite nice.

Qin Huai and Master Zhou just strolled around the residential complex like this for a full circle, not saying a word the whole time. Master Zhou walked very fast when taking a walk, not like taking a walk but like race walking. Qin Huai's breathing was a little bit rapid after walking this circle.

After the first circle was finished, they started to walk the second circle.

When they walked halfway through the second circle, Master Zhou suddenly stopped by the flower bed without a trace of warning. Qin Huai almost didn't brake in time and passed Master Zhou. When Qin Huai looked at Master Zhou, he found that Master Zhou was looking at him with a relatively complicated expression.

The flowers in the flower bed were blooming just right, and the property management carefully used flowers of different colors to set up good-looking styles. Three or five birds were jumping and chirping in the flower bed, and there were seven or eight butterflies dancing above the flowers in full bloom. It was indeed a good place to stop and take a rest.

Master Zhou didn't mean to sit down and rest. He just stood there, standing very straight, looking straight at Qin Huai and asking: "Before eating, in the kitchen, what did Old San say to you?"

*Look, not only does a father know his son best, but a master also understands his apprentice just the same. *

Qin Huai thought about it and organized his language: "Told me about his mental journey when he apprenticed."

Master Zhou was amused by Qin Huai's concise language and chuckled twice: "It seems that Old San feels that what I've been doing these days is because I want to take you as an apprentice, and you are already his junior brother who is nailed down."

Qin Huai didn't speak obediently.

Master Zhou signaled Qin Huai not to stand, walked to the bench and sat down, and Qin Huai followed and sat down.

"I really want to take you as an apprentice; Xiao Qin, you should be able to see this."

Qin Huai continued to nod and added: "Not only you, Master Hua also really wants to take me as an apprentice, and Master Li, Master Wang, Master Zhao, they all do. I can see a little bit of it."

"So you chose to play dumb." Master Zhou asked.

Qin Huai could only learn Shi Dadan's honest smile and write the words "play dumb" on his face.

"You were taken to Huang Ji by Zheng Da; why didn't Zheng Da take you as an apprentice?" Master Zhou asked.

Qin Huai didn't expect Master Zhou to ask such a sharp question. He paused and chose to use the art of language: "Master Zheng... has a very carefree personality, and he won't be as proactive as you all. I know Master Zheng really wants to take me as an apprentice, and I am also very grateful that Master Zheng is willing to teach me everything he knows. But... there may need to be a certain fate between master and apprentice. There is no such fate between Master Zheng and me, and Master Zheng didn't take the initiative to open his mouth. This matter should be tacit between the two of us."

Master Zhou smiled disdainfully, but didn't act sarcastically: "Zheng Da, very talented."

"He could also endure hardship once. I heard about his master back then, Master Jing, a famous master of the state-run restaurant in Gusu, an extremely rare master who was extremely good at both savory and pastry cooking. It's just that he left a bit early. When I was learning to cook as a child, I thought that after I started working, I would save money and go to the state-run restaurant in Gusu to eat a meal."

"My skills are family-inherited. When I was learning to cook from my father back then, I also told my father. If he hadn't also been a chef, I would have long gone to Gusu to apprentice under Master Jing."

"Everyone knows I hate Zheng Da very much. They only know I hate Zheng Da because Zheng Da doesn't be a good chef and only has money in his heart. I feel that he wastes his culinary skills, wastes his talent, and has become a businessman full of the smell of copper."

"Actually, it's not."

"I hate him because I'm jealous of him, jealous that he could be taken as an apprentice by Master Jing and carefully taught for so many years, yet he went into business and stopped being a chef just a few years after Master Jing passed away."

"I've also heard a little about his reasons for going into business. In my opinion, this is not a reason at all."

"He was just protected too well by Master Jing. What does it count to not be a master of the state-run restaurant? The master of the state-run restaurant wasn't taken by someone else; wasn't it taken by his senior brother Huang Shengli? The pastry world has been declining for so many years. If it weren't for the fact that Little Su has been operating Zhi Wei Ju vigorously these years and made some fame, are there any restaurants in the country that are mainly based on pastry dim sum that can make people familiar?"

"The masters in Zhi Wei Ju, one counts as one, who hasn't suffered more unfair treatment than him, who hasn't suffered similar grievances? It just so happens that he, Zheng Da, is precious and can't suffer even a little bit of grievance. This chef says he won't be one, so he goes into business, and the skills he learned for so many years are discarded just like that."

"And it just so happens that his life is good, and he can still give birth to a good son with outstanding talent in this situation. It is very common for us to inherit the father's business in this line of work, but the premise is that the son can inherit the father's business. None of my three children have talent in this area, nor do they have interest or ambition in this area, and I don't force it. Don't look at Little Tan as if he is a bit lazy and not very motivated, and his talent is not particularly good, but Little Tan is already an excellent representative of inheriting the father's business in our Zhi Wei Ju. The business his father couldn't inherit was inherited by him."

"We have several old things in Zhi Wei Ju who have already retired, and now they are counting on their sons and daughters to give birth to someone with talent like Little Tan to inherit their skills."

"Having said so much, Xiao Qin, do you know why I changed my view on Zheng Da?" Master Zhou suddenly cued Qin Huai.

Qin Huai was listening to the story, not expecting that Master Zhou would turn the topic so quickly when chatting, so he shook his head decisively, but guessed boldly: "I heard it was because Master Zheng reformed the dim sum recipes, no longer mass-producing low-end dim sum, but producing mid-to-low-end dim sum, which raised the industry quality."

"No." Master Zhou shook his head, "This can only be considered a bonus."

"Then why?" Qin Huai was very curious. In his view, Zheng Da being able to make the industrial dim sum reform taste like this could already be considered a very powerful behavior. If this kind of reform was compared to the traditional dim sum world, it would definitely be at the master level.

"It was after you were on "Zhi Wei," I led Old San to wear a mask to Huang Ji to eat a meal of fruit, and also queued at the gate of Huang Ji at 5 o'clock in the morning to buy the dim sum of the day."