The first thing I did was to find out

Chapter 308 The Poorest Monster

After handing over the important task of making sanding buns and fermented glutinous rice steamed buns to Zheng Siyuan, Qin Huai started cutting radishes.

Qin Huai hadn't cut radishes seriously for two days, so he didn't feel that his knife skills had stagnated or even declined as much as last time, but there was still some impact.

The first 20 minutes were not good.

As a master chef who cannot describe the specific operation and can only say that you know the feeling, Qin Huai attaches great importance to feeling.

He thinks feeling is a very magical thing.

I feel like I am assisted in everything I do, but something seems wrong. There is nothing wrong with the standard operating procedures and all the details have been controlled, but I still cannot achieve the desired effect.

Qin Huai was cutting radishes in front of the camera of his mobile phone, trying to get the feel of the process while cutting.

"What's wrong, Xiao Qin? You look absent-minded. You just came back from a business trip in City A and are very tired. Don't you want to cut radishes? If you are really tired, just cut less. Half an hour will be enough." Cao Guixiang said with a smile.

Cao Guixiang is kneading dough.

It's not dumpling noodles, it's steamed bun noodles. Cao Guixiang plans to improve her family's breakfast by making a batch of northern meat buns, which she should theoretically be very good at.

In fact, Cao Guixiang also has some basic skills in white case, and she is quite good. She is not a pure red case chef like Zang Mu and Tong Deyan. Maybe because of the times, Cao Guixiang learned a little bit of everything when she was apprenticed to learn the skills.

In her words, the circle of chefs in Peking at that time was particularly competitive because of a senior chef who was a master of competition. He started with red cases and then white cases, and then Shandong cuisine and then Cantonese cuisine. In the end, he ended up combining the strengths of all chefs.

Under the influence of this senior, well-known chefs like Master Cao Guixiang felt embarrassed to stay in the circle if they didn't know a few different skills. When Cao Guixiang was learning the skills, she also learned a little bit of everything from her master.

Cao Guixiang knows a little bit about the daily snacks such as steamed buns, steamed buns, and noodles with soybean paste.

However, Cao Guixiang has basically stopped making dim sum in recent years, and her skills in making pastry have become rusty. She retired a long time ago and no longer works as a chef. She usually just makes some home-cooked meals for her family. She has no time to make steamed buns and steamed buns and freeze them in the refrigerator, and then steam them every morning. She might as well go to the breakfast shop at the entrance of the community to eat some rice noodle rolls.

Maybe she has been in contact with Qin Huai more recently. Every time Qin Huai practices knife skills and plays video, Cao Guixiang has to chat with him to distract him. Qin Huai's life is very monotonous. In addition to snacks, there are guests, sisters and friends. After chatting about snacks, Cao Guixiang also wants to pick up the white case that has been thrown away for many years and practice it again.

At this time Qin Huai had to say something very cruel.

Even though Cao Guixiang was not a white-case chef and had not made dim sum much in the past few years, the dough she kneaded was still very beautiful, more beautiful than Pei Xing's.

Pei Xing, don't listen, it's a bad review.

"I'm not tired, Master Cao, I just felt that I didn't quite find the feeling just now." Qin Huai explained, "I always felt uncomfortable when holding the knife. It was not right to cut like this, and it was not right to use force like that. It took several adjustments before I felt comfortable."

"You just haven't practiced enough and haven't formed muscle memory, so you feel uncomfortable here and wrong there." Cao Guixiang laughed, "Many beginners have this problem, always wanting to get things done in one go, but they don't realize that some things rely on understanding, some rely on practice, and some require both understanding and practice."

"Xiao Qin, you told me last time that you often can't teach people clearly. You think this is a feeling, this is strength, this is skill, and you can't come up with specific adjectives. This is also the reason."

“Things that rely on enlightenment cannot be taught.”

"Take knife skills as an example. Last time you asked me how long you would cut the radish, and I didn't know. You asked me how you would cut the radish to be considered good, and I couldn't tell you clearly either."

"Is it good to cut the radish slices so thin that they are transparent? Of course it is."

"Does it count if you cut the shredded radish into pieces of the same thickness and length, and spread them out to form shredded radish, and then put them together to form a complete radish? I think it counts."

"Can carrot cubes cut into square pieces be used as building blocks? It sounds like there's nothing wrong with that."

"But is this all that knife skills training is all about? Do chefs practice knife skills just to cut beautiful radish slices, neat radish shreds, and nice-looking radish dices? Can't machines do these things? If machines can do it easily, then why do chefs have to spend years or even decades getting up early and staying up late, day and night, practicing knife skills?"

“Because machines are dead, vegetables are alive.”

"When you actually cook a dish, when you have mastered the technique and have enough understanding, you will know what kind of ingredients you need. What thickness of radish slices, what length of radish shreds, and what size of radish cubes you need."

"When you have reached a sufficient level, you will be able to truly realize the importance of knife skills, a basic skill, for red cases and even white cases. Although you have just started practicing knife skills, you already know the importance of knife skills. Otherwise, you would not have deliberately chosen helpers with good knife skills when selecting helpers."

"Sometimes being unable to express something but only being able to say feeling is not a bad thing. The fact that you can say the word feeling means that you have already felt it. If the listener cannot understand the word, it means that he has not yet felt the feeling he needs to feel. There are many master chefs who cannot teach their apprentices, and there are even more master chefs who have no language. When I was learning cooking, there were some masters who could not explain the reason and could only force their apprentices to practice non-stop, but they were all good masters without exception."

Just as Qin Huai was thinking, and even thinking in his heart, is it possible that Zheng Da's poor language skills are because he is too perceptive and sensitive, so he can't express himself clearly? He is not dumb, he is too talented, when Cao Guixiang's gentle tone suddenly became stern, as if she was smiling and asking you how your lunch was and whether your clothes were warm, and then frowning and discovering that you had changed your pants to tight-fitting pants.

"You're distracted again. You can listen to me, but you can't think. Your attention wasn't completely on the chopping board. If you hadn't stopped the movement of your hands just now, you would have stabbed yourself twice by now."

"It seems that this business trip has had some impact on you. I really should find you a strict master to keep an eye on you every day."

Qin Huai:......

Qin Huai said helplessly: "Master Cao, you are using a bait-and-switch to enforce the law again!"

Cao Guixiang smiled and said, "All's fair in war."

"Just when you stopped, come and see how I'm doing. By the way, is the pixel of my phone not very good? I think the pixel of your phone is quite good. What brand is your phone? Send me the brand. I'll ask my son to buy me a new phone in a couple of days."

Qin Huai hurried to show Cao Guixiang the dough she had just kneaded.

At several cooking tables far away from Qinhuai, Zheng Siyuan was working diligently as Chef Zheng, preparing dim sum for this afternoon and evening.

If nothing unexpected happens, Master Zheng's name will once again spread throughout the Yunzhong Canteen diners circle tonight.

Pei Xing and Li Hua were secretly watching Zheng Siyuan making snacks.

Neither of them was blind nor stupid. They could tell at a glance that Zheng Siyuan was of a very high level and was a graduate of a professional school. His movements were standard, the process was standardized, and the details were in place.

If you don't seize the time to take a closer look at this time, you will be letting yourself down if you try to learn something secretly.

"I have a question." Zheng Siyuan gently pinched the dough that had just fermented, and looked at Qin Huai who was taking an online class in the distance with some doubt, "Has Qin Huai been taking online classes like this recently?"

When Qin Huai is taking online classes, people in the kitchen will not disturb him, and will deliberately stay away from him to create a vacuum zone around him.

This was done not only to avoid disturbing Qin Huai, but also to avoid secretly learning what he and the online course teacher said.

Pei Xing and Li Hua knew this basic principle. They had heard from Qin Huai that Master Cao, who taught online courses, was very skilled. Just because Master Cao was willing to teach Qin Huai did not mean he was willing to teach others.

In the kitchen, you can learn a few tricks by watching other people's movements, but you must never be so tactless as to eavesdrop blatantly when the master chef is personally teaching his apprentice.

This is a very bad act of stealing skills, which would have been despised by peers decades ago.

"It seems so." Pei Xing didn't understand why Zheng Siyuan asked this. "We heard from Master Qin that Master Cao, who taught him, seemed to be a veteran who had retired many years ago. He was from the same place as Master Qin. Master Qin met Master Cao during the Chinese New Year. Master Cao felt that Master Qin's knife skills were too poor, so he took the time to teach him."

At the end, Pei Xing did not forget to add: "Master Cao is such a passionate person."

Zheng Siyuan nodded and continued to ask: "Has Qin Huai's sword skills improved a lot?"

Pei Xing and Li Hua had a hard time answering this question. Although Qin Huai practiced knife skills every day, he was basically not responsible for cutting when he was at work. Based on Pei Xing and Li Hua's level, they could only see that Qin Huai's knife skills had improved, and the improvement was quite obvious, but it was still at the level of a beginner. As for the specific tricks, such as whether the practice method was correct, how standard the knife holding posture was, and whether this improvement was outstanding for Qin Huai's age, the two could not say.

Pei Xing hesitated for a long time and could not answer. Finally, Li Hua, who was relatively good at knife skills, said: "Master Xiao Qin's way of holding the knife is completely different from before."

What this means is that Qin Huai has already stopped practicing and started again.

Zheng Siyuan was a little surprised.

But he didn't say much, just nodded and continued to make snacks. After finishing all the batches of snacks on hand, he washed his hands, went to the locker room to get his mobile phone, and sent a message to his biological father Zheng Da.

Zheng Siyuan: I found out that Qinhuai's knife-making master is a senior female who has been retired for many years. I met her during the Chinese New Year. She appreciated her talent and had time, so she taught Qinhuai knife-making skills every day.

Zheng Siyuan: Very professional. He corrected Qin Huai's knife grip and started practicing from the basics. Dad, you don't have to worry about Qin Huai meeting a crazy master and practicing blindly.

Zheng Siyuan: I think Master Cao is much more reliable than you. At least she is willing to take online classes for several hours every day to supervise Qin Huai’s knife skills practice.

Zheng Siyuan: You don't have to worry about it all the time. With Master Cao's knife skills in Qinhuai, there will be no problem.

Zheng Da, who was still on vacation in Sanya and had not returned yet, replied to the message immediately.

Zheng Da: What do you mean by much more reliable than me? Is there another chef in the world who knows Xiao Qin better than me? No matter how reliable Master Cao is, he is only a chef of red cases. Xiao Qin is a plain case chef. What he needs more is a professional chef like me to give him professional guidance.

Zheng Da: Although Xiao Qin is unlikely to take me as his master, I will always be Xiao Qin’s Master Zheng, and the first Master Zheng.

Zheng Da: I’ll report back after further investigation.

Zheng Siyuan: Busy, no report without inquiry.

After replying to the last message, Zheng Siyuan put his phone back into the cabinet and went back to the kitchen to continue working.

Zheng Da sent three more messages, but still received no response from his son: ...

This unfilial son!
Not only did he not take his blind date seriously, he also did not do his job as a war correspondent properly, going on strike just after gathering some intelligence.

Unable to find anyone to vent his feelings to, Zheng Da could only call his dearest senior brother Huang Shengli to complain.

Huang Shengli listened to his junior brother's complaints perfunctorily while drinking tea, and asked himself: "Didn't you give up and lie down and don't want to be Xiao Qin's master?"

Zheng Da: "...Isn't it that Qin Huai is going to be on "Taste" again?"

"Although he refused, Xu Cheng actually gave him a permanent space on the Taste magazine. This is a treatment that I... I don't even have!"

At the end of the words, Huang Shengli only heard deep jealousy, pure jealousy, extreme jealousy.

Huang Shengli laughed loudly: "Doesn't this prove that you have no chance? Xiao Qin is already better than you."

Zheng Da: ...

Zheng Da hung up the phone angrily.

On the other side, Qin Huai, who was still cutting radishes, didn't know that Zheng Siyuan had finished his work as a war correspondent and was on strike. He was cutting radishes normally while chatting.

As he was cutting, the game prompt sound suddenly rang in his mind.

"Ding, congratulations to the player for completing the main quest [King of Single Items] and receiving the quest rewards Popularity Drainage +1000 and [An Youyou's Dream]."

Qin Huai was stunned.

?

? ?
???

Whose dream?

An Youyou?!

Qin Huai subconsciously looked back, looking at An Youyou who was happily frying carrot cake, and felt that no matter how he looked at her, whether he thought seriously or analyzed calmly, she did not look like a monster.

Are there such normal monsters?
Compared with An Youyou, Chen Gong is indeed a monster.

No.

As a spirit, An Youyou is having a miserable time, even working for herself.

Compared with An Youyou, Qu Jing is considered a wealthy and successful monster.

Cao Guixiang saw Qin Huai suddenly froze and asked, "What's wrong, Xiao Qin?"

Qin Huai came back to his senses: "Um... Master Cao, sorry, I have to go to the toilet first."

After saying this, Qin Huai slipped away, leaving Cao Guixiang with a helpless smile.

Qin Huai rushed into the toilet, opened the cubicle, closed the door, and locked it in one go, then quickly opened the game panel to view the illustrations.

A new illustration has been unlocked.

The current illustration column is (8/12).

Name: An Youyou
Species: Unknown

Status: Awakening

Memory:1/?

Dishes: None
Gift: None
The state is still awakening.

Qin Huai thought about it and felt that the toilet was very safe. It would be better to do it today than to wait for another day. So he went to the toilet to look at An Youyou's memory.

I haven't watched Memory for a long time.

The author of Chen Gong's Memory couldn't finish writing it, so he gave up.

Qin Huai clicked on [An Youyou's Dream] and chose yes.

[Dream loading——]
(End of this chapter)