Chapter 235 Doesn’t this delay your apprentice?

the next day.

Wang Jianye got up early, washed up, and went to the breakfast stall outside. He ate something and spent a little over ten cents.

When he came back, his disciple Chen Xiaoyang was already waiting at the door. "Master, I have taken your empty kettle back home. I will bring it back to you when my mother finishes boiling water and fills it up for you."

Wang Jianye nodded. With this apprentice around, he didn’t have to worry about these things.

After locking the door, Wang Jianye sat on the back seat of Chen Xiaoyang's bicycle and soon arrived at the kitchen of Fengze Garden.

Because Wang Jianye’s braised pork sells very well, he has to make two large pots in the morning and afternoon.

It has been like this for the past few days. When Wang Jianye came today, his apprentices started processing 50 kilograms of pork belly without waiting for Wang Jianye to arrive.

The apprentices were all busy. After Wang Jianye came, he was not idle either. He put on an apron and started working together.

Wang Jianye only needs to do the most critical steps to ensure that the braised pork is cooked to legendary standards. The other less important steps, such as cutting meat, washing meat, blanching, heating the pot, etc., are all done by his apprentices.

At 10:30 in the morning, Wang Jianye made two large pots of braised pork.

Since there were no guests at the moment, Wang Jianye could take a break. He was in the lounge, drinking the tea brought by his apprentice, and then opened his personal panel in his mind.

[Experience value: 1890]

【Recipe: 79】

【厨艺：传说级（2道）、国宴级（103道）、大厨级（0道）、头灶级（0道）、二灶级（0道）、三灶级（50道）……】

[Special effects that can be triggered by state banquet-level dishes: Increase lifespan by one day (1), increase IQ by one point (0.01), increase strength by one pound (0.01), increase concentration time by one minute (0.01)]

"To upgrade a dish from the third-stove level to the state banquet level, you need 69 experience points. With the more than 1,800 experience points I have now, I can upgrade 32 second-stove level dishes to the state banquet level."

Wang Jianye did a simple calculation and then gave the system an order:

"System, system, upgrade these twenty-three dishes of the Third Kitchen level to the state banquet level."

[Ding, a certain dish (three-stove level 31+) has been successfully upgraded after spending 69 experience points. Congratulations to the host for mastering a certain dish (state banquet level 100+).]*23.

[Ding, get a recipe. ]

[Ding, congratulations to the host for obtaining the probability of triggering special effects. The number of times can be increased by +23]

Following Wang Jianye's order, the system's prompt sound rang twenty-three times in his mind. In just a moment, Wang Jianye mastered these twenty-three state banquet-level dishes.

"Then add the number of times the special effect can be increased to [Increase IQ by one point]."

Then, the triggering probability of the special effect [Increase your IQ] instantly increased from 0.01 to 0.23. Every time you cook a state banquet-level dish, there is a one in four chance of triggering the special effect of [Increase your IQ].

Wang Jianye was very satisfied with this because IQ is very important. The higher the IQ, the stronger the learning ability, the faster the progress, and the better the talent. This is of great benefit to Wang Jianye, his mother, younger brothers and sisters, and his apprentices.

……

Today is Saturday and tomorrow is the weekend. It is the turn of Wang Jianye and his apprentices to rest, so Wang Jianye made an appointment with his apprentices in advance. On the weekend night, they will come to Wang Jianye’s Qianmen No. 11 Siheyuan and he will treat them to a good meal. Naturally, the apprentices agreed very happily, because the dishes cooked by Wang Jianye are really delicious and you will never get tired of them.

The next morning, after Wang Jianye got up in the courtyard of No. 11 Qianmen, he tore off a page of the perpetual calendar.

"Today is the twenty-fifth day of the twelfth lunar month. I will work two more days tomorrow and the day after tomorrow, which will be the twenty-eighth day of the twelfth lunar month. I will go to Xiyuan to participate in the preparation of the state banquet."

Wang Jianye first went back to the courtyard house in Nanluoguxiang and cooked lunch at home. He made a total of six dishes, among which the special effects triggered were [one day more life] six times, [one point more IQ] twice, and [one kilogram more strength] once.

In the afternoon, Wang Jianye returned to the courtyard in Qianmen and took his apprentice Chen Xiaoyang to the market to buy some vegetables, chicken, fish, meat, eggs, etc.

In the evening, Wang Jianye's seven apprentices, Chen Xiaoyang, Ma Hua, Wang Yijun, the Defu brothers, Ye Youzhang, and Cheng Jie, all came to his house. When Cao Youzhi, an old man in the courtyard, passed by and saw so many young people coming to Wang Jianye's house, he curiously asked Cai Quanwu: "Why are there so many people in Master Wang's house?"

Cai Quanwu explained to him: "These people are all disciples of Master Wang."

"Ah? Master Wang has so many apprentices. Can Master Wang teach them all?"

Cao Youzhi was very confused.

He knew that Wang Jianye was highly skilled, but he did not believe that Wang Jianye had enough energy and time to teach seven apprentices at the same time.

With so many apprentices, it is certain that one will neglect some while another. Some apprentices are taught well, while others are not, which will eventually lead to dissatisfaction among the apprentices.

Cao Youzhi is a worker in the workshop. He doesn't dare to take in more apprentices because two apprentices are enough for him to handle now. If there are more, he will definitely not be able to teach them all.

In his opinion, it is the same for a chef to take in apprentices as it is for a worker like him to take in apprentices. If there are too many apprentices, it will be very troublesome and he may not be able to teach them all, which will trouble himself and delay the apprentices.

"Alas, young people are still too young. Cooking and teaching apprentices are two different things. Being able to cook does not necessarily mean you can teach apprentices well, and being able to teach apprentices well does not necessarily mean you can cook well. Just wait and see. Wang Jianye has accepted so many apprentices, but by then not even half of them will be able to become talented. Do you believe it?"

After seeing Cao Youzhi's analysis, Cai Quanwu still had a blank expression, "Master Wang is willing to take on more apprentices, of course he has his reasons, uncle, don't worry about him about this matter."

"I don't think it makes sense. It's probably just that young people are too impetuous."

Cao Youzhi shook his head and left, thinking that one day Wang Jianye would regret and feel troubled for having accepted so many disciples.

Little did people know that Wang Jianye felt that having these seven disciples was not enough and he wanted to take in a few more.

Didn't the boss of Fengzeyuan promise to give him ten places for kitchen apprentices? Now there are still three places left, so he has to fill them up.

Wang Jianye quickly prepared a large table of dishes in the house, including fish, chicken, meat, eggs, both vegetarian and vegetarian. Every dish was of state banquet quality and was extremely delicious.

Because most of them were minors, Wang Jianye did not prepare any alcohol, but asked Ma Hua and others to run errands and buy two dozen bottles of Arctic Ocean soda.

Nowadays, Arctic Ocean soda has glass bottles, metal caps, and big white bears, which is considered a relatively fashionable packaging. A bottle costs only five cents, and you can get one cent in exchange for returning the empty bottle.

Many children like to drink it, on the one hand because it is really delicious, with an orange flavor and sweetness, and on the other hand because they can take the empty bottles back to exchange for money.

After eating and drinking, the remaining work, such as clearing the table, sweeping the floor, washing pots and dishes, etc., was assigned to the apprentices by the eldest apprentice Chen Xiaoyang, and Wang Jianye didn't have to worry about it anymore.

Afterwards, Wang Jianye asked them to go back and rest early.

"Goodbye, Master."

The disciples said goodbye and left.

Wang Jianye prepared to go out for a walk to digest his food.

He would wait until he left the house and then meet Cao Youzhi, the manager of the courtyard, walking into the house.

Wang Jianye looked at him curiously, and after asking, he found out that the other party was advising him not to accept so many disciples because he would not be able to teach them all.

"Thank you for your concern, uncle. But my apprentices are all very obedient and sensible, and they learn very quickly. It's not difficult for me to teach them. I can teach them."

Afterwards, Wang Jianye said that he wanted to take in a few more apprentices, and asked the old man to help him find and keep an eye out for any good ones, and bring them to meet him.

Cao Youzhi expressed his incomprehension.

He felt that Wang Jianye had limited energy and time, and he could not even teach his seven disciples, yet he wanted to take in more disciples. He had never seen a master like this before.

He couldn't understand why Wang Jianye wanted to accept so many apprentices. You couldn't teach them all, so wasn't this a waste of your apprentices' time?

(End of this chapter)