Food starts with Mapo Tofu

Chapter 277 Do you want to be my apprentice?

However, from the beginning to the end, there is actually only one dish cooked in the old age. This fried green vegetable is not particularly eye-catching compared with other dishes on the table, but because it is made in the old age, so It just made them look a little different.

But this can be said to be no difficulty for aging.

After all, Chen Nian felt that a dish of stir-fried vegetables could not explain anything.

However, after eating the whole meal, Chen Nian still felt a little awkward and uncomfortable. After all, for Chen Nian, he was sandwiched between father and son. Speaking of which, he was actually an outsider, although the whole process Among them, the aging did not show timidity or express inner feelings.

But looking at the two of them, Chen Nian was very happy to eat.

Just when the meal was about to end, Qiao Tianhua suddenly raised his head and looked at Mr. Qiao: "Father, have you ever thought about taking in an apprentice, so that you can pass on your skills to the next generation."

When Chen Nian heard this, he suddenly became energetic, but he didn't look up, but pretended to eat with his head down, but his ears were always upright, ready to hear what old man Qiao would say next.

"Take an apprentice? What do you think? Do you want me to rest at home again?"

After all, Mr. Qiao is still very experienced and has a vicious eye. He can tell at a glance that Qiao Tianhua has other purposes, otherwise Qiao Tianhua would never say such things before.

As the saying goes, a new generation replaces the old ones. If the apprentice I teach leaves the teacher, wouldn't I have nothing to do with myself?
"Dad, what bad thoughts can I have? I don't want you to enjoy the happiness, and when you have an apprentice, you don't have to do everything. If you want to do it, you can do it if you don't want to do it. .”

Chen Nian thought it was a good idea.

"I don't know what you're thinking yet? You're my son, and it's too early to hide it from my eyes!" Mr. Qiao was obviously dubious about this, but soon he said, "But the apprentice I'm already thinking about this, my current skill is what I learned from my master, no matter how I say it, I have to pass on this skill.

But you also know that apprentices are very difficult to find. At first I wanted to pass them on to you, but you went into business again. Otherwise, it’s fine. You lose all your current jobs and come back to learn from me. Cooking, I just go to enjoy the Qingfu after you leave the teacher, what do you think? "

Qiao Tianhua couldn't laugh or cry when he heard this, how could he quit his current job?

If he stepped down from the position of president, he would have to hand over everything to his cronies.

But now that he is overseas, it's hard to say these things. If the cronies have other thoughts and want to mess with themselves, it's a matter of talking.

When the time comes to rank seniority, I may be regarded as a senior, and those juniors will respectfully call me an elder when they see me, but that is only superficial, without rights and resources, it will be like a paper tiger.

Among other things, maybe even the Guangrong Hotel opened by my father may not be able to keep it. After all, the location is quite good. I don't know how many people are greedy for this land, but they have been hindered by Qiao Tianhua Because of my face, I dare not move.

So for Qiao Tianhua, he must take the position of president of the chamber of commerce, and he has to sit for a long time, so as to ensure that he can become a strong backing for his father.

"Father, you are joking, how can I retreat now?"

"If I retire now, those enemies from before will all come to me."

Of course, Qiao and Yong also knew this.

I've been happy all my life, why haven't I seen that when Qiao Tianhua first became the president of the chamber of commerce, he couldn't make up his mind about many things, so he came back to ask Qiao Heyong.

It can be said that although Qiao and Yong stayed in the restaurant all day, they stayed in the kitchen.

However, he knew no less than Qiao Tianhua about these sophistication of people and things in the business field, maybe even more.

It's just that he usually faces Chen Nian and the guests who come to Guangrong Restaurant for dinner, so he doesn't need to make himself so tired.

Of course, what Qiao and Yong chose was to make themselves tired and enriched on the other hand.

At this time, Qiao and Yong had almost eaten, so he was asked to put down the chopsticks, stand up on the table and go to the stove beside him to get a kettle to add some water to the teapot.

But Chen Nianjian quickly got up quickly, took the teapot over first, and then filled the teapot on the table with water.

Qiao Heyong nodded and was very satisfied with Chen Nian's cleverness, and then he picked up the teapot and came to the three cups of tea.

There is no rush to do this aging, after all, there are rules in drinking tea, and the owner still has to come to pour the tea.

He picked up his teacup and took a sip.

"Actually, if you want to talk about apprentices, Ah Nian is not bad. I actually have this idea. After observing this period of time, I found that Ah Nian is quite talented in cooking, but you know me as a person. Although I am old now, I still refuse to accept the old in my heart, and always want to do more."

As soon as the words fell, Qiao Tianhua and Chen Nian said beside him: "You are not old, you are still young."

"Hahaha, you guys thought I was old just now, but now you say I'm not old, do you think it's fun to lie to me, an old man?"

But after he finished speaking, he didn't give them a chance to say anything else. Instead, he said to himself: "Tianhua, you are usually busy and don't have much time to come back. Ah Nian has been with me these few years. A Nian said before that he wanted to learn my craft, but I didn't give it to him at the time, but now I want to do it too."

As he said that, Mr. Qiao put his old hand on the back of Chen Nian's again: "A Nian, would you like to worship me as your master? Although I am old now, I still haven't forgotten to cook."

"I am willing, Master!." Of course Chen Nian is willing. What he lacks is an opportunity. Even if Mr. Qiao doesn't teach him, he will be able to learn these dishes sooner or later with his own eyesight in a few years.

But that's just a no-brainer. If Mr. Qiao is really willing to accept him, he will definitely have to be a teacher, and that will be more legitimate.

The etiquette of apprenticeship is also clear.

As a disciple, you should serve tea and kowtow to the master. This is what you should do. Chen Nian does not dislike these things. It is okay to kowtow to the master in this era, because for people in this era, the master is willing to hand over his craftsmanship to you. , It is equivalent to giving you the ability to eat.

Parents are born with the grace of nurturing, but it is the skill that Master gave you to be able to eat more and eat better in the future.

"Okay, okay, get up." Qiao and Yong smiled from ear to ear, because today he has an extra apprentice.

But at this time, Chen Nian still had a question in his mind, that is why Mr. Qiao would suddenly say that. After all, if he was based on what Mr. Qiao said to him last time, he would have to work for another seven or eight years to be eligible. Learn from Mr. Joe.

"Because I thought about it, I still need to give more opportunities to young people, and you are pretty good. Although you are young, you are not reckless at all. I know that you are younger than most of you after the girl in Yihongyuan last time." Everyone should be steady and measured.

So it’s okay to hand over my craftsmanship to you, otherwise I’m afraid that when I get old and start to forget things in a few years, if I want to hand it over again, I might not be able to remember it. "

Chen Nian was suddenly moved in his heart, and didn't know what to say.

But since he can become Mr. Qiao's apprentice, it means that his main task has officially started. The dish he wants to learn is pickled pork with pickled vegetables, but Chen Nian still plans to practice the recipe he got from Jin Dachuan here. .

The big deal is just like Wensi Tofu stuck with a bug.

In fact, according to this method, Chen Nian can let himself learn all the cuisines in his dream.

Anyway, the dream has no time limit, as long as the conditions are met, you can go back. If you stay in a dream for 50 years, you will be able to master all cuisines when you add up to three or four hundred years old.

When the time comes, going out is like a living fossil.

It's not that he didn't think about it, but later he decided that it would be fine to get stuck in a bug occasionally. If he really planned to try his best to fill up the limit in every dream, wouldn't he become a tool for cooking?

For Chen Nian, cooking in the kitchen and selling to customers is a hobby, and a small goal can just urge him to make continuous progress.

But if Chen Nian is to pay such a high price for being proficient in every dish of all cuisines, Chen Nian is not willing from the bottom of his heart.

He doesn't really want to restrict himself, maybe he still wants to open a restaurant in the next 10 years and make the restaurant bigger, maybe 10 years later, he wants to be a full-time self-media, and then he will be a gourmet grandma, like It's like Miao Miao House.

In the following days, Chen Nian actually did the same work as usual.

Occasionally, Mr. Qiao imparted some experience, some of which Chen Nian already knew, and some of which Chen Nian didn't know much about.

The progress is a bit slow, but the aging is not in a hurry.

Moreover, after the Dragon Boat Festival, Wang Chaoyun also started to follow A Cai over for lunch from time to time. She wanted to try the old-fashioned craftsmanship again, but she didn't eat it after half a year.

Half a year later, it will be winter, and Chen Nian put on his padded jacket early.

This day, A Cai came over for dinner, because yesterday A Cai had learned that what Mr. Qiao cooked at noon today was stewed chicken soup with American ginseng.

So since yesterday, she has been thinking about coming to drink some chicken soup today to dispel the cold.

San Francisco is surrounded by the sea on three sides, and the temperature in winter here is about 7-15 degrees. In fact, most of the time it is not particularly cold, but it is often warmer in the yard than in the house.

Mainly because of the heavy humidity.

So as long as Chen Nian is not in the kitchen, he still has to wear a cotton jacket.

But compared with when I went to school in the north, the climate here is still very good.

Because Chen Nian himself is from Sichuan, and he went to school in the North, not to mention he stayed in the Northeast for a long time when he was learning pot-packed meat. Now he has come to San Francisco, where the conditions are similar to those in Guangdong.

On the spot, I felt that magic attacks and physical attacks were pure nonsense.

The temperature in the north is ten to twenty degrees below zero. If he is not as cold as the south, Chen Nian thinks that these people have to go to the northeast in winter.

That rascal!
Just exposing the skin to the outside wind will hurt like a knife, and if it is exposed for a long time, there is a risk of freezing and necrosis.

The scene where boiling water instantly turns into ice balls is not a special effect.

So I feel very happy to spend the winter in this kind of place.

As long as the weather is good, you can hang the quilt to dry.

Back to the point.

A Cai came to the restaurant for dinner, and this time she brought Wang Chaoyun.

After seeing the two people coming in, Mr. Qiao greeted them cheerfully as usual.

"Shopkeeper Qiao, I have been thinking about your pot of soup since yesterday. I told Ah Yun early this morning that I must come over for a bowl of soup at noon." A Cai said with a smile.

When the voice fell, Wang Chaoyun also nodded and said: "Yes, this sister A Cai has been talking to me since the morning, and she also said that if I can drink a bowl of soup at Qiao shopkeeper in winter, I will eat it all day long. It doesn't feel cold."

"The little girl can talk, sit down first, Ah Nian, quickly serve them two bowls of soup, today is my treat for the old man."

Chen Ning nodded, and then brought out two bowls of soup, and placed them in front of Ah Cai and Wang Chaoyun respectively.

And Ah Cai looked at Chen Nian, and for some reason remembered that at the beginning of this year, when Wang Chaoyun came and ran out for the first time, he came to the Guangrong Hotel, and he didn't know what he said to Chen Nian. She actually went back and willingly followed him to make money for him.

"Ah Nian, you are not too young now, why don't you find a girl? Is it because you are shy?"

When Chen Nian heard this, he smiled and shook his head: "Sister Ah Cai, stop joking."

"Sister, I'm not joking with you. To be honest, I have a few more girls here recently, and they all look good. I know you have high requirements. Although the looks of these girls are not as good as my sister and Ayun, but They are better than clean, they are still there in the first night.

And they came willingly, which is very rare.

I have given them a lot of things before, when the time comes, my sister will ask them to take good care of you. "

A Cai actually said that on purpose, because she also knew that Mr. Qiao looked down on them, and that was because they had already spent a good night with countless men.

But the new girl who came this time hasn't experienced that yet, so A Cai wants to have a good relationship with Chen Nian.

Now Chen Nian is Master Qiao's apprentice.

If you have a good relationship with Chen Nian, then you will be able to talk to Master Qiao.

But what she showed was a casual mention.

But just after she finished speaking, Chen Nian said that it had nothing to do with these reasons, but he didn't have the heart to touch them.

This is the old answer that Ah Cai heard.

But A Cai didn't notice that the whole body of Wang Chaoyun who was beside her was trembling at this moment!
She kept thinking about what A Cai said just now in her mind:

"The new girls are clean."

"However, although"

Isn't this just saying that you are dirty?

Wang Chaoyun knows that she is dirty, but every time she sees Chen Nian, she always subconsciously forgets all her good things, just like the girl back then.

At this time, Ah Cai said it inadvertently.

It uncovered the scar that Wang Chaoyun had been unwilling to look directly at and face.

And it's still in front of the old age!

(End of this chapter)