Food King [Interstellar]

Despite Pingyan’s memory, Jiang Tang was still shocked when the flying car arrived in the sky above Ace City. What caught his eyes was a piece of silver and white. The buildings are all silver round buildings, reflecting a dazzling white light under the strong light. , If you don't wear sunglasses when you go out, you will definitely be blinded.Fortunately, Collins was prepared and handed over a pair of protective goggles early.

There are only two seasons in Ace City, spring and winter, which occupy half of the time. The highest temperature in spring is around 20°C, while winter is very cold, with an average temperature of minus 20°C, and the coldest can reach minus 40°C, and the winter wind is particularly strong. , the strongest wind can reach level 13.In order to resist the severe cold and strong wind, people designed the houses as low circular buildings. The circular houses can also save heat energy. The outer wall is silver-plated to reduce the loss of indoor heat source. The principle is similar to that of a thermos bottle.It was spring in Ace City when Jiang Tang came, and there were red flowers and green trees everywhere. He immediately fell in love with this city because it felt so earth-like.

Collins' home is also a circular fortress. Jiang Tang stayed in it for one night and experienced the high-tech of modern civilization. Everything is served by household robots, which is very convenient. The only unacceptable thing is the problem of eating. At Collins' home The food is still a set meal.Jiang Tang sneaked into the kitchen of Collins’s house to check. Except for the microwave oven for heating food, he never saw any other cooking utensils. There were only various set meals, bottled drinks and packaged food in the refrigerator. Combined with Ping Yan’s memory , Jiang Tang can be sure that people in this era are too lazy to cook and eat ready-made processed food, but is it not boring?

That night, Jiang Tang made up some information about Baker's company. Baker's company is a food company that has risen rapidly in recent years. It is characterized by delicious food, nutrition, health, and diversification. It is deeply loved by the general public. It can be called the largest food company in the empire.What Jiang Tang ate at Collins's house was the nutrition set meal produced by Baker Company, which tasted better than the set meal eaten on the plane, but that was it.Ping Yan's family is also engaged in food processing, which was once brilliant, but due to the aging taste and single variety, the market share has been squeezed by Baker in the past few years and the market share is less than [-]%. This is why Ping Yan will be sent undercover The reason, his mission, is to steal the food formula from the Baker Company in order to reorganize the Heike business.Jiang Tang didn't know what the recipe was, so he could only take one step at a time.

The next morning, Jiang Tang's wrist injury had healed a lot. Collins asked him to put on a piece of plaster in addition to the gauze, and asked him to stretch his sleeves to cover it.

During breakfast, Jiang Tang asked Collins, "Why doesn't Uncle Ke cook for himself?"

Collins stared at him with wide eyes: "Do you think that I, like your Ping family, have the opportunity to learn how to cook? If I can cook, I won't eat this. You should be able to cook, right?"

Of course Jiang Tang knew it, but Ping Yan couldn’t. He had never learned it before, so he shook his head: “I can’t, my family didn’t let me learn it.” Cooking, is it that hard just to cook?

Collins nodded: "It doesn't matter if you haven't learned it before, it's not easy to show off when you go to Baker's company. Have you eaten? Let's go."

Jiang Tang followed Collins to the Baker Building, the tallest building in Ace City. The Baker Building was [-] stories high and had a round top. Jiang Tang looked at the long domed building and suddenly thought of something very evil.Collins seemed to be very familiar with the personnel director of Baker Company. The other party looked at his resume, asked a few simple questions, and said, "You fill out the entry information first, and I will arrange a position for you later." He didn't even ask Whether Jiang Tang was willing or not, he didn't mention the issue of salary, because there was a long queue of people waiting outside the door to apply for a job. It can be seen that even in this era, finding a job is not an easy task.

Collins lowered his voice and said to Jiang Tang: "My friend is not in Sarn recently, there is no way for you to be an apprentice now, you go inside to familiarize yourself with the environment first, and I will ask him to transfer you after he comes back. It's up to you. The company will arrange board and lodging for you, and you have one day off every week, and then call me, and I will pick you up. You have to be careful to protect yourself and wait for the opportunity."

Jiang Tang nodded: "Okay."

This batch of recruited employees included Jiang Tang, a total of ten people, eight men and two women, each of whom was taller than Jiang Tang, and the men were like pans and the women were like gods.Some of them greeted each other, but no one took the initiative to talk to Jiang Tang, they all glanced at him and turned away.Jiang Tang has gotten used to the fact that people around him are taller and prettier than him, so he can't express anything other than rolling his eyes inwardly.

Not long after, two foremen came. The female foreman picked out the most beautiful three men and two women. The male foreman said to the rest: "The rest follow me." On the second floor of the Baker Building, the second floor is A restaurant, Jiang Tang was a little excited, there is still a restaurant, he thought that people here only eat set meals.The male foreman said: "From now on, you will work on this floor. The two of you are in charge of cleaning, and the two of you are in charge of setting up the table. You, little man, go to the kitchen to wash the vegetables."

Jiang Tang almost collapsed, dare they be recruited to do odd jobs?A handsome guy with bronzed skin said, "Sir, I'm here to apply for a job as a waiter."

The foreman squinted at him: "You are less than 1 meters tall, which doesn't meet our waiter standards."

"I'm 1 meters tall, and I'm only 89 centimeter short." Said the handsome bronze guy.

The foreman had no expression on his face: "No difference of 0.1 centimeters is acceptable. The second floor is the main dining room of our Baker restaurant. The image requirements for waiters are extremely strict, and you are not up to the standard. If you don't want to do it, then please turn left and go downstairs. Wait every day The number of people who come into our Baker's company is too large."

The bronze handsome guy's arrogance was extinguished immediately, and he stopped talking.Jiang Tang looked at the other party sympathetically, this is not a waiter selection, it is a beauty pageant.

The foreman said: "Others have no objections, right? Don't think that you can only be a cleaner forever. As long as you perform well, you may be promoted. You can't be a waiter, but you may be a foreman like me, or even a manager." .”

Jiang Tangxin said that these people's IQs were as high as 150. In his era, they were all geniuses. Geniuses actually come to serve dishes and clean up.He himself is an astronaut anyway, but in the end he can only go to the kitchen to do odd jobs. The Heira family asked him to go to the processing factory to steal the formula, but he ended up in the kitchen. Can this still complete the task?We can only wait for Collins' friend to come back.

Jiang Tang was handed over by the foreman to a middle-aged man named Jack. Jack glanced at Jiang Tang's thin body and frowned dissatisfied: "Why did you arrange for me to be such a thin little man with an IQ of only 110? Anyone can come in."

The foreman ignored him, turned and left."What's your name?" Jack asked.

Jiang Tang said, "My name is Jiang Tang."

"Jiang Tang, come with me." Jack walked away with a figure of eight steps, and Jiang Tang had no choice but to follow. He felt very strange in his heart, because no one asked him about his treatment: "Uncle Jack."

Jack didn't stop, just raised his eyebrows and hummed from his nasal cavity.

Jiang Tang said: "I want to know how my salary is calculated."

Jack said: "I will give you an employee card tomorrow, and the salary and benefits are all in it. Have you worked before?"

Jiang Tang shook his head: "No, I just finished my basic education. There was a war in Spanda, and I fled here."

Jack stopped talking, and led Jiang Tang into a door: "This is the storage room, where you work. Behind that door is the kitchen, which is not a place you can go to. You can only work here. .”

Jiang Tang glanced at the kitchen, where the fog was steaming, his vision was blurred, he could vaguely see a group of people working in it, and the smell of food drifted over from there, and got into his nostrils, Jiang Tang breathed heavily After a few bites, there was the taste of meat and the smell of rice, it was simply wonderful: "It smells so good!"

Jack said proudly: "Of course, just smelling it every day will make you full. Go to work and peel this pea. Will you?" He said as he brought a basket of bean pods and placed them in front of Jiang Tang.

Who can peel beans, Jiang Tang nodded: "Yes."

Jack gave him a basin.Jiang Tang took the pot and wanted to find a stool to sit on, but when he couldn't find one, he squatted down and started peeling the beans.When the pods were in his hands, Jiang Tang felt that he was too naive. The beans were different from those on the earth. They had a hard shell like a walnut, and the shell was still lumpy. When you pressed it with your fingers, your fingertips hurt, but the pods were not damaged at all. , no wonder it is called nuclear beans.He studied it and found a raised spot in the middle of the seam of the bean shell, so he scratched it with his nails, and the bean pod opened with a snap, and the four green beans stuck to the pod, and a fragrant fragrance spread out. Beans are really tasty.

Jack came over: "How about it, can you peel it?"

Jiang Tang nodded: "Yes."

Seeing that he had quickly found the trick to peeling peas, Jack nodded slightly. This kid doesn't look stupid.Jiang Tang found the trick and quickly peeled the nut beans. It seemed easy, but after peeling too much, his thumbnail hurt a little.

Jack came back from a busy circle: "It's almost there, take it for washing, and pass it in through that window."

Jiang Tang nodded, and when he got up, his eyes went dark, his body leaned forward, and a few round beans in the basin rolled to the ground.Jack turned his head, frowned and criticized severely: "What's the matter? Be careful, don't spill the beans. Do you know where the beans come from? They were shipped from San Sith, and it will take three months to get them Do you know how precious it is to get here?"

Jiang Tang nodded quickly: "I'm sorry, Uncle Jack, I just squatted for a long time, and I feel a little dizzy." He quickly bent down to pick up beans.

Jack pointed to several silver boxes at the foot of the wall: "Who told you to squat, isn't there a stool?"

Jiang Tang turned his head and looked, he thought it was a storage box: "Oh, I see."

Jack took the basin from him: "Okay, go ahead and peel it."

Jiang Tang just peeled the beans all morning. He didn't understand why the technology is so advanced. If you don't get a machine to peel the beans, you can also ask the robot to do the job. If you have to ask people to do this, the efficiency is so low.However, he noticed that he did not see any robots in the kitchen, and the machines did the dishes.

When it was time to eat, Jack said to him: "You stay here, I will help you get the meal."

Jiang Tang smelled the food all morning, and he was already hungry at the moment. Hearing that he could eat, he looked forward to it.Now that I'm working in the kitchen, I shouldn't have to eat a set meal.He waited expectantly for Jack to bring his meal.

There are many types of ingredients stored in the storage room, none of which he is familiar with, not even Ping Yan, the meat is not chicken, duck, beef and sheep, I don’t know what kind of meat it is, vegetables, melons and beans are not found on the earth The varieties I got were all strangely shaped, and there were some sticky things that looked like slugs in pots, which were actually edible!Even the things called flour and rice are quite unfamiliar. They are probably just substitutes for flour and rice on earth. I don’t know if these things taste good or not.These things were all raw. Jiang Tang was not familiar with the properties of food, and he was afraid that raw food would be poisonous, so he didn't dare to taste it.

Jack had been away for a long time, and Jiang Tang was bored familiarizing himself with the dishes and imagining their taste.Suddenly, he felt something passing by the corner of his eyes, and he turned his head to look, but found nothing.He turned his head and continued to check things, and suddenly heard a "snap" sound, which he was all too familiar with, as he had heard the sound of peas opening all morning.

Jiang Tang frowned and walked to the bean basket, and met the two black pea eyes. The little guy was covered in snow with fluffy hair. He looked like a squirrel, but he was much bigger than a squirrel, and his size could match a squirrel. Chinchilla, but its tail is as big and fluffy as a squirrel, not to mention how cute it is.The little guy hurriedly grabbed the beans with his two little paws and stuffed them into his mouth, then jumped up and down, put them on the shelf, and disappeared somewhere.

Jiang Tang looked around, but the little guy had disappeared. Who kept the pet?At this time Jack came in from the outside: "Your meal."

Jiang Tang took the box, his hope turned into frustration, why is it still a set meal, can't you eat in the kitchen?Jack said: "If you are full, you can rest for two hours and start work at two o'clock."

Jiang Tang said "Oh", took a bite of the tasteless set meal, and couldn't help asking Jack: "Uncle Jack, this is all our work meals? Do you have any food?"

Jack couldn't help sneering: "Don't think that you can eat when you enter the kitchen. Eat your set meal, work hard, maybe you have a chance to eat."

Jiang Tang thought, no way, just want to eat, is it so difficult?He changed the subject: "Who has a pet? I saw a small white animal just now. I don't know what it is."

Jack frowned, and said disgustedly: "The damn thief has appeared again, next time you see it, just kill it!"

Jiang Tangxin said: Not a pet?wild?But such a cute thing, who can do it.