Chapter 113 Zhou Qingde asks Wang Jianye for help

Even if most of the responsibility lies with me, don't you also have some fault?
When Master Bai comes back, he can at least hold you accountable for failing to keep it properly.

Thinking of this, Li Hai breathed a sigh of relief.

He and Zhou Qingde are now tied to the same rope, and Zhou Qingde will not fail to help him.

So Li Hai took his fried son and found Zhou Qingde.

After listening to Li Hai's explanation, Zhou Qingde took a deep breath and asked, "Did you fry Master Bai's son in a frying pan?"

Li Hai nodded and said anxiously: "Master Zhou, please help me think of a solution, otherwise when Master Bai comes back in a few days and knows about this, he will definitely fight with me."

Zhou Qingde looked at the fried and fragrant old yeast in front of him and regretted that he had lent it to Li Hai at noon.

If he had insisted on not lending it out and kept it well in his own hands, this problem would not have arisen.

But now it is too late to regret. The old yeast has been fried by Li Hai and can no longer be used.

Zhou Qingde could only quickly find a way to make up for it.

After all, he was also at fault in this matter.

Zhou Qingde frowned and walked around the room. Suddenly he stopped and asked, "Do you know Master Luo who does white cases in our Sijiu City?"

"I know him. All of us chefs know him."

Speaking of Master Luo, Li Hai became excited.

He is the best chef in the whole city. From the Qing Dynasty to the Ming Dynasty, and then to the present, countless dignitaries have been willing to pay a large sum of money to ask him to do it.

Young chefs like Li Hai and Bai Nan who are good at cooking plain dishes all regard him as their goal and role model. If they can reach half of Master Luo's level, they will be hired by the big restaurants in the city with high salaries to master plain dishes.

Unfortunately, Master Luo had a strange temperament. Although he had a lot of skills, he had been doing criminal work for nearly sixty years and had never accepted an apprentice to teach him his skills.

It is said that Master Luo's requirements are too high and no one meets his requirements for accepting a disciple, so Master Luo would rather not have a disciple to inherit his mantle than to make do with just any disciple.

"I remember that Master Luo has a piece of old yeast in his hand. He raised it when he first started learning white bread. It has been more than 60 years now. If we can borrow a small piece from him and compensate Master Bai, I believe Master Bai will forgive us."

Zhou Qingde wasn't sure if it would work.

But this is also a method, let’s try it.

So Zhou Qingde and Li Hai left Fengze Garden and went to find Master Luo.

……

Meanwhile, on the other side.

Wang Jianye asked his master Chai Wenshan about a long-lost famous dish, Kite Fire Roasted Buns.

"I heard about this dish from your master. No one knows how to make it nowadays. Why are you asking about it?"

Chai Wenshan asked in confusion.

Wang Jianye made up an excuse to get away with it.

Then he returned to his desk and secretly gave orders to the system.

"System, give me the recipe to learn the dish of Kite Fire Roast."

[Ding, the recipe was used successfully. Congratulations to the host for mastering Kite Fire (Entry Level 1+)]

"Oh, you really learned it?" Wang Jianye tried it.

Unexpectedly, it was successful and he knew the basic method of cooking this dish.

"Master said that this dish has been lost for a long time, but I was able to learn how to make it directly through the systematic recipes."

"Doesn't that mean that as long as I have enough experience points and recipes, I can learn all those famous dishes in history that have been lost?"

Wang Jianye was a little excited.

"In the future, I will visit various places and collect those lost famous dishes. Then I will use the recipes to master them and make them into recipes to pass on to future generations. This can be regarded as my small contribution to Chinese cuisine."

But that would have to wait until he became the state banquet chef.

Now, his most important task is to achieve his third goal, to master the fifty dishes that a second-stove chef should master and become a true second-stove chef.

Wang Jianye continued to work, and from time to time he gave instructions and comments to Chen Xiaoyang who was practicing knife skills seriously next to him, so as not to let his apprentice Chen Xiaoyang go astray.

……

It's about two o'clock in the afternoon.

After lunch, Wang Jianye sat in the lounge drinking tea.

This tea is provided by Fengze Garden, Longjing tea.

Wang Jianye was drinking when Zhou Qingde and Li Hai, who was in charge of the case, came over.

"Master Wang, I want to ask you something. You are so talented in cooking. Is it only when you are cooking red dishes? How about your talent in cooking white dishes?"

Zhou Qingde came up and asked directly, obviously very anxious.

After asking, I looked at him expectantly, hoping to get a positive answer.

Li Hai, who was standing next to him, also had an expression that showed he hoped for a positive answer.

Seeing them like this, Wang Jianye hesitated: "I have never learned how to make white pastry. I have only rolled noodles and made dumplings at home over the years, so I don't know how talented I am in making white pastry."

I heard Wang Jianye say that he didn't know how talented he was at making fake cases.

Zhou Qingde was not completely disappointed, but continued to hold on to a glimmer of hope.

After all, he really has no other choice now. He can only hold on to Wang Jianye as his last life-saving straw, and can only hope that Wang Jianye's talent for handling white cases will be as strong as his talent for handling red cases.

"It's like this. Yesterday, before Master Bai, who makes white cakes here, asked for leave to go back to his hometown, he handed over the old yeast that his family had raised for more than a hundred years to me for safekeeping. Today, Master Li asked me to borrow it, so I borrowed it. Who knew that the old yeast had an accident in Master Li's hands? Master Li fried it like ordinary dough. After frying, the old yeast was useless.
But this thing is Master Bai's treasure. He handed it to me, but I didn't keep it well. It's my responsibility. In order to make up for the mistake, Master Li and I found Master Luo, the top chef of white case in our city. He has a piece of old yeast that he has cultivated for more than 60 years. I thought that if I could borrow half of it and return it to Master Bai, it would be barely enough to make up for it.

But after we met Master Luo, no matter what price I paid, he was unwilling to take out his old yeast. Master Luo has top-notch craftsmanship, so naturally he is a little arrogant. It is reasonable that he does not want to sell the old yeast that has been with him for more than 60 years..."

Zhou Qingde explained the details of the situation.

Wang Jianye asked in confusion: "Master Luo is unwilling to take out his old yeast, so why did you come to me, Master Zhou?"

Zhou Qingde explained: "Master Luo is over 70 years old this year. He said that if he can find a satisfactory apprentice in the last few years, he will pass on his old yeast to him. If he does not find a satisfactory apprentice, he plans to take his old yeast into the coffin with him."

Li Hai added: "Master Luo's children died a few years ago and are now being taken care of by people in his courtyard. Otherwise, his old yeast would have been left to his children."

Zhou Qingde looked at Wang Jianye and pleaded, "So we came to you for help. We want you to become Master Luo's apprentice. When you get Master Luo's old yeast, as long as you can give us some, no matter what price you offer, we can agree to it."

(End of this chapter)