Chapter 181 Lao Deng's Shock

Thanks to Wang Jianye's guidance, Sun Qu made many improvements to his best dish, sweet and sour carp. Finally, after more than a week of honing his skills, he finally improved it from the initial cooking level to the state banquet level. From now on, the sweet and sour carp made by Sun Qu will become a signature dish of Fengze Garden.

In order to express his gratitude, Sun Qu specially invited Wang Jianye and Chai Wenshan to a restaurant after work in the evening and treated them to a good meal. He was willing to spend money, which surprised Chai Wenshan. He thought it was not easy for such a stingy person to make money.

Wang Jianye didn't drink much, as he still had to ride his bike back in a while. People say that you shouldn't drive after drinking, and don't drive after drinking. After Wang Jianye raised his glass to accept Master Sun's toast, he opened his mouth and seemed to drink it, but in fact, when he poured the wine into his mouth, he secretly opened the system space and put the wine into the space, and it didn't enter his stomach at all.

Humph, what does it mean to drink a thousand cups without falling?

Sun Qu also praised Master Wang for his huge drinking capacity, saying that even if he had not become a chef in the first place, serving as a wine-blocker for leaders would have been a good idea.

Chai Wenshan scolded Master Sun with a smile, saying that if Wang Jianye had not become a chef, such a good talent for cooking would have been wasted, and he would never be able to find such a good apprentice.

After eating and drinking his fill, Wang Jianye, who was not drunk too much, rode his bicycle to take his master Chai Wenshan home. Sun Qu's home was nearby, so he could just walk there.

After sending Chai Wenshan back home and leaving him in the care of his wife, Wang Jianye rode his bicycle back to the courtyard house at No. 11 Qianmen.

When he entered the front yard, he heard some commotion in the middle yard, so Wang Jianye parked his bicycle at the door of his house, walked through the hanging flower gate and entered the middle yard.

It turned out to be a meeting of the whole institute.

Wang Jianye had just arrived and the meeting was about to end, so he asked Cai Quanwu beside him, "Brother Cai, what's going on?"

Cai Quanwu is an honest man and answers whatever is asked.

It was said that the street wanted the person in charge to do a statistics of the young men and women in each courtyard, to see if they had a partner. If not, their name, education, job, family conditions and other information would be recorded. The street wanted to match the unattached young men and women together, just for this matter.

"Master Wang, you should have a partner, right?"

"not yet."

Knowing that Master Wang, who has such good conditions, still doesn't have a partner, Cai Quanwu felt a little more balanced. After all, Wang Jianye is much more handsome than him, younger, and earns more. Such an excellent young man hasn't found a partner, so it's understandable that he can't find a partner when his conditions are far worse...

"Brother Cai, have you finished the statistics?"

"No, one of our uncles will go door to door to ask about the situation and write down everything. This meeting is to make everyone pay attention and cherish this opportunity to find a partner. When they come to the door later, they won't have to emphasize it one by one."

Cai Quanwu told Wang Jianye about the matter, and then after the meeting, he and Wang Jianye returned to their respective homes in the front yard.

Liang Ladi brought a thermos filled with hot water. She took it from Wang Jianye's house this morning and brought it back in the evening. Before leaving, she asked Wang Jianye curiously, "Master Wang, you have become the second chef of Fengze Garden. With your conditions, you should have a partner, right?"

"No, I spend all day at the stove, so I don't have time for a date."

Wang Jianye was also depressed. It was already the twelfth lunar month and the Chinese New Year would be in a month. He would be 21 years old after the Chinese New Year. However, his career was booming and progressing rapidly, which occupied most of his time. As a result, he had no time to go out and meet new girls and had to rely on blind dates and others to introduce them to him.

"Master Wang, with your conditions, you don't have to worry at all. Once the street office publicizes your conditions, there will be plenty of girls looking for you." Not long after Liang Ladi left, Cao Youzhi, the manager of the courtyard, came to Wang Jianye's house to find out the situation.

"Master Wang, you are working at Fengze Garden now, right? What level?"

"He's just an ordinary head chef."

Wang Jianye answered honestly.

Cao Youzhi wrote down Wang Jianye's situation in the notebook and asked, "How much money do you get a month, Master Wang?"

Wang Jianye thought about it.

As the head chef, his basic salary is 130 yuan, plus a bonus of half his monthly salary, plus lottery tickets and subsidies, he can get yuan a month.

Then Wang Jianye has ten signature dishes. Fengzeyuan gives him a relatively high bonus for making signature dishes. Others can get 20 cents for making a vegetarian signature dish and 30 cents for making a meat signature dish, while Wang Jianye can get 40 cents for a vegetarian dish and 60 cents for a meat dish.

Every day, many customers order his signature dishes, which provides him with a large number of orders, allowing him to earn an average of more than three dollars or nearly four dollars a day from signature dishes, which is nearly one hundred dollars a month!
Wang Jianye can also teach others his signature dishes, which can also earn him money. This month, he taught Chai Wenshan how to make spicy and sour potato shreds, and Sun Qu how to make sweet and sour carp, so that both of them have their own signature dishes. Wang Jianye also earned a bonus of 8 yuan and 24 yuan respectively.

Adding all these together, Wang Jianye estimated that he could earn more than 200 yuan this month! This was considered a very high salary in those days. Just imagine that a senior fitter like Yi Zhonghai could only earn more than 60 yuan a month. Wang Jianye's income could catch up with three Yi Zhonghais.

"I can probably get... fifty dollars a month."

What Wang Jianye said was conservative. In fact, he only calculated the basic salary of 50 yuan that Fengzeyuan paid to the second kitchen chef, plus some subsidies and lottery tickets, so this is roughly the amount of money he could get.

As for other bonus income, Wang Jianye did not include it, and he was not the second chef, but the first chef, and his basic salary was 80 yuan.

In this era when the average worker's salary is only 25 or 26 yuan, being able to earn more than 200 yuan a month is too scary. If you tell others about it, people will be envious to death. So let's not scare them too much.

"Fifty bucks?!"

Cao Youzhi, an old man in the hospital, was still shocked when he heard this number.

Wang Jianye sighed. There was nothing he could do. He just tried to keep the tone down.

Everyone in the courtyard knew that he was the second chef, but as for his becoming the first chef, Wang Jianye had instructed Chen Xiaoyang and Liang Ladi to keep it a secret, so no one in the courtyard knew about it.

"My goodness, Master Wang, you are only 20 years old, and you can earn so much money. You are really capable!"

Cao Youzhi said in surprise.

(End of this chapter)