Chapter 448: [The Brightest Boy]

Question: What to do if a hidden task is triggered?

Answer: Click on the game panel to view the task directly. Anyway, Zhao Cheng'an doesn't know that Qin Huai has a game system. As a famous mental patient in the industry, it is normal for Qin Huai to click anything on the road.

Qin Huai thought so, and did so.

He clicked directly in the void and checked the hidden task on the spot.

Zhao Cheng'an:? Brother has been sick a bit frequently recently. Not only pointing fingers in the kitchen, but now he is clicking like this outside.

Hidden task:

1. 【The Brightest Boy】: As the protagonist with a game system, when coming to Taifeng Tower, the former number one restaurant in Beiping, and hearing about the brilliant achievements of Jiang Chengde, the former number one chef in Beiping, how can you not be excited, how can you not create your own legend in this place where Jiang Chengde once created brilliance. This exchange meeting is an opportunity. Cooking has no boundaries. How can you be a qualified protagonist just by making some fame in the pastry world? Please shine in this exchange meeting and become the brightest boy remembered by the organizers.

Task reward: 【A segment of Zhao Cheng'an's dream】

Qin Huai:?

Shine in the exchange meeting and be remembered by the organizers? Isn't the organizer Ling Guangzhao, the new boss of Baobaozhai? To put it bluntly, it is to be remembered by Ling Guangzhao.

However, in an exchange meeting held by a savory restaurant, how can a pastry chef shine? Qin Huai can't just make snacks in Baobaozhai's kitchen

Currently, the dim sum that Qin Huai is relatively proficient in can basically reach A-grade or A-minus grade. Such dim sum is considered quite formidable in the pastry world, definitely at the level of a master chef, but it doesn't hold up in the savory world.

At present, the overall level of the domestic pastry world is not as good as the savory world, and the top-tier level is also inferior. As the undisputed number one in the pastry world, Master Zhou did not even squeeze into the top 30 of the Famous Chef Record.

There are not many top masters in the savory world who have squeezed into the top 30, but at least they have the old Mr. Xia, who is ranked 9th, to hold down the fort. Although Mr. Peng, who is ranked first in the Famous Chef Record, has already retired, he is still number one and has a lot of prestige.

As the proprietor of Eight Treasures House, Ling Guangzhao should have seen many top savory chefs. Taking Tong Deyan as an example, Tong Deyan's dishes can also reach A-grade. It is difficult to shine brightly at Ling Guangzhao's place using A-grade dim sum.

Qin Huai understood a little why this task was a hidden task; it appeared to be a hidden task, but in reality, it was a time-limited task.

The exchange meeting starts tomorrow and ends the day after tomorrow. The time left for Qin Huai to complete the task is very short, the kind where there is no gratitude after the fact.

The task reward made Qin Huai very tempted.

A dream segment of Zhao Chengan.

Zhao Chengan only has three dream segments in total; missing one is definitely a heavy loss.

The look in Qin Huai's eyes when he looked at Zhao Chengan changed instantly, turning into: "Buddy, why is your dream so hard to unlock?" Other people's tasks, no matter how difficult or abstract, can be put aside. How did it become a time-limited task when it came to you?

Zhao Chengan:?

"Brother Chengan." Qin Huai revealed a kind smile.

Zhao Chengan's alarm bells rang instantly. His intuition told him that as long as Qin Huai called him Brother Chengan, nothing good would follow.

"How much do you know about Proprietor Ling Guangzhao?"

Zhao Chengan answered very honestly: "I'm not familiar with him at all. I haven't even seen a photo of him. I only heard that he studied management abroad, and after returning to the country, he carried out drastic reforms on Eight Treasures House. He is quite good at marketing, and the profits are good, but it has somewhat ruined his reputation. He's not a spendthrift, but he is quite the businessman."

"Proprietor Su's evaluation of him is that he is capable but lacks foresight, likes to take shortcuts, and engages in some crooked ways. If this continues, Eight Treasures House might be ruined in his hands. Of course, it's a different story if he is willing to change."

Qin Huai nodded; a very vicious evaluation.

"Then do you understand his personality?"

Zhao Chengan shook his head.

"Can you understand it?"

Zhao Chengan:??

Zhao Chengan hesitated for a moment and asked not very surely: "Do you need me to... understand it?"

Qin Huai's smile became even kinder: "If Brother Chengan has time today, please help me go and understand it. I am quite interested in Proprietor Ling. After all, we came all this way to attend his exchange meeting, so we must first understand the person himself."

Zhao Chengan:...?

Does attending an exchange meeting require understanding the personality of the organizer? Wouldn't it be enough to know tomorrow's lunch menu?

Zhao Chengan didn't understand, but he felt that this wasn't a difficult task. Anyway, Qin Huai's mental state wasn't very normal, and he would occasionally ask some strange questions. Zhao Chengan considered himself two years older than Qin Huai and felt it was only right to take care of him in areas other than making dim sum, so he thought about it and nodded in agreement.

Now that they had seen Tai Feng Lou, Qin Huai had triggered a hidden task and gained a lot. Zhao Chengan was so full from eating on the plane that he was hiccuping and had no interest in dinner. After discussing it, the two returned directly to the hotel. Qin Huai went online to search for basic information about Ling Guangzhao and the reputation of Eight Treasures House over the past two years, while Zhao Chengan used the most clumsy method of going through the list of attendees for this exchange meeting to ask around one by one.

As a personal disciple of Master Zhou, Zhao Chengan is not an unknown person in the culinary world. Especially in the south, Zhao Chengan knows many chefs, and his friendship with Huaiyang cuisine master Pei Shenghua is quite good.

Zhao Chengan loves to chat about gossip, and Pei Shenghua is an even better hand at gossip, nicknamed "Pei the Melon King." After getting Pei Shenghua's room number, Zhao Chengan went directly to his door.

While flipping through the list of exchange personnel, Zhao Chengan also found an unexpected surprise—

The representative of Huang Ji is Huang Anyao.

Qin Huai searched for information online, but there is not much information about Ling Guangzhao himself. He is the proprietor, and everyone's attention on Eight Treasures House is more focused on the chefs; the proprietor belongs to the type that automatically stays invisible.

Everyone chatted casually for a few more words, and then it ended completely. Qin Huai put down his phone and looked at Shi Dadan, who hadn't said a word from beginning to end and had been bowing his head to play with his phone on mute, and asked:

Capable, but relatively opportunistic.

It is better to say that Ling Guangzhao returned to the country to solve a mess rather than to take over the family business. Unlike proprietors like Proprietor Su who are chefs themselves and inherited the restaurant, Eight Treasures House is a famous old brand in Beiping. Starting from his father's generation, Ling Guangzhao had already completely given up on learning to cook and specialized in managing the restaurant. In a sense, it can be considered that the family's craftsmanship has been lost.

The price of being lost is that it is easy for others to poach talent. When Ling Guangzhao returned to the country to take over Eight Treasures House, the old masters of Eight Treasures House had either retired or jumped ship. The restaurant appeared to have a reputation as an old brand, but in reality, it was already an empty shell.

Eight Treasures House was once one of the very few restaurants that had both savory and pastry departments. The first floor specialized in pastry dim sum, and the second floor was for dining in. With the retirement and poaching of the master chefs, the specialty dim sum on the first floor was directly canceled.

The first thing Ling Guangzhao did after taking over was to poach people, hiring Tong Deyan, who had excellent culinary skills but a very poor reputation, at a high salary to serve as the head chef. Then he did crazy marketing, advertised on various platforms, shaped Eight Treasures House into an internet-famous store, launched new dishes to encourage diners to check in and take photos, and incidentally raised prices, achieving huge revenue in a short period of time.