Chapter 100 Luo Shen
Recently, after school every afternoon, Zhang Yunqi teaches his elder brother Zhang Yunfeng how to make authentic traditional Zhangji Qifengdu fish noodles at home.

Now that he has completed his studies, he has plenty of free time at night.

Zhang Yunfeng studied very hard, but his understanding of cooking skills was not very high. However, it didn't matter. When the business was good in the future and they opened chain stores, it would not be his turn to make fish meal alone. But these days, the two brothers had to eat Qifengdu fish meal for dinner every day.

For Zhang Yunqi, this thing is like rice and he will never get tired of it. On the contrary, when he was working hard outside in his previous life, he couldn't eat the authentic Qifengdu fish rice noodles, so he missed it very much.

Everyone should have this feeling. After all, when a person lives abroad for a long time, his habits and accent will change, but his taste will never change, because he will always remember the taste of his hometown and the taste of his mother.
For Zhang Yunqi, Qifengdu fish meal and Jiangchuan roast chicken have always been his favorites. There was a period of time in his previous life when he was not doing well in the workplace, so he resigned and started a catering business. He specially invited a master chef from Qifengdu, who had a close relationship with him. Seeing that he liked fish meal, the master taught him the most traditional and authentic method of making Qifengdu fish meal.

The old master behind is old and retired to live in his old age, but the two have always kept in touch. Zhang Yunqi remembers chatting with him on the phone once, and the old master sighed and said: "Although Qifengdu fish noodle is very famous now, the taste is not as good as it used to be. There were many old people like me who came from Qifengdu and worked in this industry. But as people of our generation died or retired, even local people can't cook the taste of traditional Qifengdu fish noodle now."

This happened many years ago, but Zhang Yunqi can still vaguely remember this sentence.

He could understand the helplessness in the master's words, but in fact everything follows this law. After excessive commercialization, it is inevitable to lose the authenticity of the product.

In later generations, the status of Qifengdu fish noodles in Jiangchuan is equivalent to Chongqing hot and sour noodles, Guilin braised noodles, and Liuzhou snail noodles. As the most representative food of Jiangchuan City, Qifengdu fish noodles can be found in every street and alley of Jiangchuan, but the taste is no longer what it used to be. In order to save costs and increase the spiciness and freshness of the food, countless businesses use dead fish to make soup and add a lot of capsaicin and MSG to the soup. Not only does it taste bad, it is also harmful to people's health.

This business will be run by the eldest brother Zhang Yunfeng in the future, but no matter how much money he makes or where the chain stores are opened, Zhang Yunqi hopes that he can abide by some basic bottom lines. So when teaching him how to cook Zhangji Qifengdu Fish Powder, Zhang Yunqi would occasionally talk about these things and tell him that the catering industry must have its own quality and style, and no matter what, at least he should not be unconscionable in treating consumers.

As for the method of making Qifengdu fish powder, it is simple and yet not simple at the same time.

First of all, the rice noodles must be dry-cut rice noodles, and they must be handmade dry-cut rice noodles. This is easy to do, and handmade dry-cut rice noodles are sold everywhere in the nearby vegetable market. In 92, there were very few self-cooking rice noodle machines on the market.

As for the soup, it is the key to whether a bowl of Qifengdu fish noodles is authentic and delicious.

It is made from a variety of seasonings, including fish, ginger, garlic and chili peppers. The fish must be silver carp, and it must be a living silver carp bought in the morning. It cannot be the slightest bit fake. If you use fish that has been left overnight or kept in the refrigerator, the soup will definitely not be fresh. Only spicy and fresh fish can constitute the special flavor of authentic Qifengdu fish meal.

After the fish meal is out of the pot, in addition to sprinkling basic condiments such as coriander, shallots, pickled radish, kelp shreds and peanuts, a special seasoning must be added: soy paste.

In the local dialect of Jiangchuan City, soybean paste is also called soybean oil, but soybean oil is not soybean oil. In fact, it is a black paste with a slightly strong taste. It is a daily condiment loved by the people of Jiangchuan City, but people who like it think it is very fragrant, while people who don’t like it will think it smells very smelly, just like snail noodles. Moreover, except for the area around Jiangchuan City, there seems to be no soybean paste for sale in other areas. When Zhang Yunqi lived in Lijin City, the provincial capital in his previous life, if he wanted to eat this stuff, he had to ask his mother to mail it to him.

One night, when Zhang Yunqi was teaching Zhang Yunfeng how to make fish meal from Qifengdu in the kitchen, Zhang Yunfeng suddenly asked him, "By the way, Yunqi, you have never been to Qifengdu since you were a child, how come you can make fish meal there?"

Zhang Yunqi thought for a moment and made an excuse: "Last semester, I went to Qifengdu Town with a few friends. One of my friends was from Qifengdu Town, and his father cooked this noodle to treat us. I ate it and thought it was very good. At that time, I came up with the idea of ​​doing this, and then I asked that friend's father how to make Qifengdu fish noodle."

Hearing his brother say this, Zhang Yunfeng smiled and said, "Is this what good eyesight is? You can find business opportunities even when you're out having fun. You're born to be a businessman."

Zhang Yunqi said: "If you want to do business well and make a lot of money, it's not enough to just have a good eye, and working hard is even more unacceptable."

Zhang Yunfeng was very interested in this topic: "What does that require?"

“Capital, vision, ability, opportunity, and luck.”

This sentence is very general, but Zhang Yunqi has a deep understanding of it because he himself is a living example. Regardless of his ability, he has vision, and rebirth is the biggest opportunity and luck, but he has no capital. Although he has made some money in the past six months and the lives of his relatives have become better and better, he has not achieved any great results.

It is said that the journey of the reborn should be to the stars and the sea, but now he is still teaching his elder brother how to make fish meal and how to sell fish meal. Speaking of which, he is really embarrassing his reborn friends. Look at Dr. Ma Qiangdong next door, who is cheating and deceiving people and taking the high-end fraud route; look at brother Li Dong next door, who has risen from the supermarket and is a business maneuverer, and he is also pretending to be cool and picking up girls. He is definitely a textbook example of a loser who counterattacks and reaches the pinnacle of life. He is so cool, it makes people envious.

But then again, he had also read a sentence by Goethe: We need to look up to the sky, but we also need to keep our feet on the ground. Every heart that lives seriously should be respected.

As for myself, the road ahead is long and arduous.

In short, the road ahead is difficult, but I am content to be able to live freely and wantonly, and to make the lives of those who love me and those I love a little better.

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In recent days, the class's dance team recruitment has been progressing in full swing.

Zhang Yunqi had never participated in it. He only gave the monitor Lin Yueying a sum of money to recruit people at the rate of 50 yuan per person. Such a sum of money was not a small amount for students of that era. After a few days, he found that Lin Yueying did a good job in this matter, and many girls signed up.

The dance program was proposed by Zhang Yunqi.

Since he paid the money, he still has some say.

But he spent this money not just to win honor for his class.

At present, the renovation of his Zhangji Qifengdu Fish Powder Store is being rushed day and night, and the progress has been accelerated a lot. It will open after the Qingming Festival. Coincidentally, the school will hold an 88th anniversary cultural performance during that period. At that time, it will definitely be very grand. In addition to thousands of students, parents, and TV media reporters, there will definitely be a large number of outstanding alumni from home and abroad and municipal party committee leaders attending the school anniversary activities.

If you don't take advantage of such a good hot topic, it would be a waste of all the gossips you have enjoyed on Weibo over the years.

So in addition to sponsoring the dance team in the class, Zhang Yunqi has recently been thinking about coming up with a whole set of planning schemes to use this school anniversary to promote Qifengdu Fish Powder. It would be best if Qifengdu Fish Powder could have some connection with some big shots to achieve an overnight success, which would be of great help in the future opening of the Zhangji Qifengdu Fish Powder chain store.

As for what kind of dance to choose, that's easy enough.

He bought several classical dance videotapes, watched them at home, and finally chose a Chinese classical dance, "Shen of Luo River".

The dance of "Shen of Luo River" only requires six people, one main dancer and five supporting dancers, but there were more female students who signed up, so Lin Yueying took the list to Zhang Yunqi to choose.

Zhang Yunqi has only one standard for selecting people: beautiful women with good figures and great temperament.

As he picked along, Zhang Yunqi was somewhat surprised to see Chu Jian's name at the end of the list. He looked up at Chu Jian, who was sitting in the front reading Walden seriously, and then ticked the name on the list.

Judging from her temperament at first sight, she is the best choice for the lead dancer.

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