A mouthful of fried rice at a sky-high price, Old Tang apprenticed on the spot

Chapter 485
"Xiao Liao, long time no see!"

Xia Zhuo chuckled, stretched out his hand to shake Liao Wendong, and joked, "Come to your unit today for a chat, sorry to bother you!"

"Welcome!"

Liao Wendong smiled and said: "I have prepared the kitchen for you, this time I have to learn a few more tricks from you."

"Good! Young people must be eager to learn."

Xia Zhuo nodded in satisfaction, with an approving expression.

"This is Xia Zhuo, the successor of Xia's Restaurant."

Shen Han lowered his voice, and introduced to Li Yi: "Xia's Restaurant has a high status in Hunan Province. Foreigners and superior units come to Hunan Province for exchanges, inspections, and banquets are all arranged at Xia's Hotel."

"Oh." Li Yi suddenly realized: "No wonder he doesn't look like a cook, but looks like a leader."

The corners of Shen Han's mouth twitched and he almost laughed out loud, but he still explained: "There is no way, you have to get used to it after dealing with the authorities a lot! But their craftsmanship has been passed down, except for the signature braised pork, all kinds of Hunan dishes Stir fry is also very good.”

During the conversation, Liao Wendong chatted with Xia Zhuo for a few words, and then brought the topic to Li Yi.

"Eh? Li Yi! Come here, let me introduce you."

Liao Wendong turned around and beckoned, called Li Yi over, and introduced him: "This master Xia Zhuoxia is a legend in our Hunan province, the eldest son of a master of Hunan cuisine Xia Qinian. He called Master Uncle, haha!"

Liao Wendong laughed, and introduced Li Yi to Xia Zhuo: "Master Xia, this is Li Yi, Master Li, the recently broadcast "Chinese Restaurant", which is very popular on the Internet, and he is the chef in it.

Don't look at his young age, his craftsmanship is really extraordinary. I talked to him yesterday, and he made a small stir-fried pork. The taste is really amazing! "

Hearing Liao Wendong's introduction, Xia Zhuo was aroused a little interest, and asked Li Yi with a smile, "Who did you learn to cook from?"

Li Yi knew that he was asking about his teacher's background, so he explained with a smile: "I have never studied cooking with a teacher, I just researched and figured it out by myself."

When Xia Zhuo heard this, his smile faded immediately.

But Liao Wendong looked back at Li Yi in surprise, and asked in disbelief, "Are you Ye Luzi?"

In any industry in China, there are two schools of formal masters and wild masters.

Both Liao Wendong and Xia Zhuo belonged to the "well-known and decent school". Only after worshiping their masters and offering tea by kowtow can they learn their skills.

And those who don't have a formal teacher, but only through their own thinking, or stealing teachers from various places, learn a piece of skill, this is called Yeluzi, or Jianghu School.

In ancient times, those who had formal apprenticeships were official chefs.

During the Zhou Dynasty, Yi Yin, the sage of food, even realized the way of governing the country through the way of cooking, so that Shang Tang, the founding king of the Shang Dynasty, went to the Kingdom of Youshen to hire him again and again with gifts of jade, silk, horses, and skins. .

But King Youxin refused to let him go, so Shang Tang had no choice but to marry King Youxin's daughter as his concubine, so that he could invite Yi Yin to his side.

After that, Yi Yin also became the first emperor's teacher in history, teaching Tang the strategy of ruling the world with virtue and conquering Xia in order to save the people, following the example of Yao and Shun.

During the Spring and Autumn Period, Laozi also put forward the theory that "governing a big country is like cooking small fish" in the Tao Te Ching.

After the Han Dynasty, there are countless examples of official chefs entering official careers.

Therefore, since ancient times, chefs with formal apprenticeships have looked down upon the Jianghu school without apprenticeships.

In their view, the Jianghu faction is not in the mainstream.

Xia Zhuo was a "well-known decent school", so when he heard Li Yi say that he was a quack school, he immediately lost interest.

Liao Wendong never asked about Li Yi's parentage, that's why he knew that Li Yi was from Ye Luzi.

But when he recalled Li Yi's cooking operation that he saw yesterday, he was very puzzled: "Isn't it right? I don't think your knife skills or frying skills are like Jianghu school?"

Li Yi was not surprised by Xia Zhuo's change of attitude.

In the dream space, this kind of contempt in the kitchen is much more obvious than Xia Zhuo.

Hearing Liao Wendong's question, Li Yi smiled, and joked casually: "Maybe I'm more serious in my self-study!"

"Xiao Liao, let me take a look at the stove first!"

Xia Zhuo spoke to Liao Wendong.

"Okay, okay, I just replaced this stove last year."

Liao Wendong hurriedly greeted him.

Xia Zhuo nodded, turned and left without looking at Li Yi.

Seeing him leave, Liao Wendong turned around and asked in a low voice, "You really don't have a teacher?"

"No."

Li Yi joked: "I'm learning all kinds of arts, and I really don't have anyone who kowtows to a teacher."

"You can't!"

Liao Wendong shook his head and regretted, "Working hard, you can't do it alone. If you don't learn from your teacher, you can't get ahead in your life."

"That's not necessarily true, is it?"

Li Yi smiled.

"You are still young, and you don't know the way to do it. Which industry is not mixed now?"

Liao Wendong raised his chin, and pointed to the chefs behind Xia Zhuo: "A real chef doesn't have dozens of disciples and grandchildren under his command, how can he come out to mess around?
Someone has the right to speak, and your craft is good, but how much can you do alone?

Just like you came to participate in a selection this time, you still have to ask me to help you cook.

The Xia family is highly respected in the Hunan cuisine circle, and the help cooks who came to help Xia Zhuo had to rely on robbing.

This is the difference! "

Listening to his words, Li Yi thought for a while, and asked: "Is this Xia family very famous in the culinary circle of Hunan Province? It seems that it has only become famous in the past few decades, right? I don't think I've heard of it before."

"Ten decades isn't long enough?"

Liao Wendong explained: "It is said that the ancestors of the Xia family were the direct disciples of the imperial chef of Hunan cuisine, and they learned court cuisine. At the end of the Qing Dynasty, there were two homes in Xingcheng."

"Royal chef?"

Li Yi asked suspiciously: "Which royal chef? What's it called?"

"You don't know that, do you?"

Liao Wendong explained with a smile: "During the Qianlong period, there was a cook named Yu Jiu in Hunan Province who was recommended to the palace and served as an imperial cook for more than 20 years.

Later, he retired from his old age and returned to his hometown, and he took in many apprentices. Now many masters of Hunan cuisine have a relationship with him for several generations.

However, many of them are far-fetched, and there is no evidence.

But the Xia family has a genealogy, remembering the names of that generation of royal chef apprentices, this is the evidence.

Otherwise, how could Xia Family Hotel be selected by the officials so early to receive official banquets? "

Hearing his words, a clumsy boy with two lines of snot always flowing in Li Yi's mind appeared in Li Yi's mind, he couldn't help laughing and asked: "Is that apprentice of the imperial chef called Xia Musheng?"

"Eh? You know?"

Liao Wendong was a little surprised: "It seems to be Xia Musheng, the ancestor of the Xia family."

"It's him!"

Li Yi nodded with a smile, and finally got the number.

He remembered that Yu Jiu did bring a few young apprentices with him as help cooks, and one of them was a round-faced boy named Xia Musheng.

Yu Jiu's level in the Imperial Dining Room is not high, so she doesn't have a sense of presence, and she doesn't get any rewards on weekdays.

For that little monthly money, he also bought wine, went out to listen to a play from time to time, gambled twice, and covered the door twice.

Those little apprentices followed him and suffered a lot.

Especially Xia Musheng, because he was clumsy and could not be favored by him, he didn't even have a thick padded jacket in winter, and his nose was cleared from the cold.

At that time, Li Yi was possessed by Shuanglin, and he couldn't see it. After talking to Yu Jiu, Yu Jiu bought him an old padded jacket and put it on.

Unexpectedly, his descendants would become the masters of the Hunan cuisine circle hundreds of years later, which is really unpredictable.

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