Siheyuan: Pushing Huairu, the Prime Minister admits defeat

At the moment, Sha Zhu, who was busy chatting and joking with a few aunties who were serving food in the cafeteria, was completely unaware of the seriousness of the matter. He still naively believed that with his superb skills in cooking Tan family cuisine, he could keep his position as the leader of the cafeteria's cooking team firmly.

After all, if you ask around the entire steel rolling mill, everyone knows that Director Li loves Tan’s cuisine. If he doesn’t eat it for a day, his whole body will feel like it’s being pricked by needles and bitten by ants and he’s dying.

With such skills and popularity, it would be hard for Shazhu not to be very proud in the canteen logistics department.

This is also the reason why he is arrogant and often conflicts with Li Huaide. It is because he has irreplaceable skills that he has the confidence to challenge Li Huaide.

Tan's cooking skills are completely different from Xu Damao's dispensable projection technology. You can just ask anyone to tinker with the movie projector and watch it for a few days, and then they will be able to project movies pretty well.

Although the maintenance of the film and how to edit it properly are a mess, it's enough that the movie can be released.

But the cooking skills of Sha Zhu's Tan family dishes all lie in Sha Zhu himself. As long as he is determined to keep his skills secret, others, even if they are just watching him as an apprentice, will just stare in anxiety.

Let’s not talk about anything else, just talk about Ma Hua, the apprentice assigned by the factory. He has been following Sha Zhu to learn how to cook Tan’s cuisine for almost a year, but apart from knowing how to make some big pot dishes, he is completely clueless about some special dishes and signature dishes.

As the saying goes, "Teach your apprentice and starve yourself". Of course, there is the reason that Sha Zhu deliberately conceals his incompetence and is unwilling to impart his real skills to Ma Hua. On the other hand, cooking is indeed a matter of talent.

If you don't have the talent and comprehension ability, the food you cook will be bland and taste like chewing wax.

Sha Zhu's ultimate culinary skills were accumulated bit by bit due to the careful guidance of his father He Daqing, who also worked as a waiter in large restaurants for many years.

In other words, he was not afraid of being hidden by Li Huaide at all. Even if he beat Li Huaide up, Li Huaide would at most ignore him for a few days. But if he really pissed him off and no one took care of him, it was hard to say who would lose his temper first.

Zhou Tao, who knew clearly that Director Yang wanted to target Sha Zhu, was cunning enough not to inform Sha Zhu. As the director of logistics, although he was nominally in charge of Sha Zhu, Sha Zhu had always been stubborn and had a bad relationship with Zhou Tao, which often put Zhou Tao in a difficult position.

If Li Huaide had not intervened, the two would have been incompatible. So Zhou Tao was happy to see Sha Zhu suffer a loss. Holding the purchase order, he deliberately passed by Sha Zhu and walked straight towards Ma Hua.

At this moment, Ma Hua is cutting vegetables and cooking a big pot of rice. Although he has not mastered the essence of Tan family cuisine over the years, he is still very good at making home-cooked stir-fries.

So when Zhou Tao told Ma Hua about some of the dishes ordered by Director Yang and asked Ma Hua to be the chef for tonight's banquet, Ma Hua, who had been cooking for the big pot, was stunned.

"Ah? Let me cook tonight's special meal. I'm afraid this is not a good idea..."

Ma Hua looked at Sha Zhu, who also had wide eyes beside him, in shock, and couldn't figure out what Zhou Tao was planning.

Sha Zhu, who had been calm and composed, could no longer sit still. He originally thought that Zhou Tao must have come to speak softly to him, and that some cadre must have come to him for special treatment. However, he never expected that Zhou Tao would actually go directly to Ma Hua.

"What? You can't cook these dishes well. Don't blame me for not reminding you. Add more spicy and salty flavors. Our Director Yang likes this. Don't be like your master, who made bland soup that was not liked by our Director Yang."

Zhou Tao glanced at Sha Zhu who looked puzzled, said this, then waved and left.

Only Sha Zhu and Ma Hua were left looking at each other, neither of them understood the situation.

"Master, Deputy Director Zhou, what do you mean by this? You want me to cook for you alone. Can this be done? I always feel unsure."

Facing Ma Hua's cowardice, Sha Zhu seemed a little unhappy and said, "Hey, look at you, it's your blessing to be favored by our Deputy Director Zhou, so just be happy."