Chapter 288: Accepting Bai'an Apprentice

After receiving the "Classics of Sichuan Cuisine" from the publishing house, Wang Jianye flipped through it casually.

This book was written by him, so he must be very familiar with its contents.

Now I am just looking through it to check if there are any missing or wrong printings.

Fortunately, no.

"Master, do you want me to give the Sichuan Cuisine Classics you wrote to my fellow apprentices?"

When "Classics of Shandong Cuisine" was published in May, Wang Jianye asked Chen Xiaoyang to take it and distribute it to other apprentices after arriving at Fengze Garden.

Now in late June, Wang Jianye has published another recipe book, but this time it’s about Sichuan cuisine.

This made Chen Xiaoyang hesitate whether to give it to Ma Hua and the others.

After all, these apprentices have always learned Shandong cuisine from their master Wang Jianye.

Shandong cuisine isn’t even that good yet, but it’s a bit too ambitious to try out another style of cuisine.

"Give it to them. There are similarities between the cooking methods of different cuisines. If you take some time to take a look, you can learn something."

After Chen Xiaoyang left.

Wang Jianye took out a stack of draft paper from the system space and continued to write his third book, "Fujian Cuisine Classics".

As his disciples’ levels get higher and higher, Wang Jianye can gain more and more experience points every day.

For example, in February, he could gain 220 experience points every day, and now in late June, he can gain 300 experience points every day.

Once you have experience points, you need to use them.

After Wang Jianye mastered the mainstream Shandong cuisine and mainstream Sichuan cuisine to the level of state banquets, he collected some mainstream Fujian cuisine.

Then use recipes and experience points to learn and upgrade it to state banquet level.

In this way, Wang Jianye had enough insights and understanding about these dishes to be able to write them into "Classics of Fujian Cuisine".

In the future, Wang Jianye will also write about Cantonese, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Hunan, and Anhui cuisines to complete all the mainstream dishes of the eight major cuisines.

Perhaps in a few decades, chefs from all over the country will use the recipes written by Wang Jianye when learning to cook, no matter what cuisine they learn.

By then, Wang Jianye's status in the chef industry will definitely be very high.

For lunch, Wang Jianye made some noodles at home and ate them with his apprentice Chen Xiaoyang.

Not long after the meal, someone from the publishing house came to deliver the books.

After receiving the book, Wang Jianye wrote it at home until five o'clock in the afternoon.

I rode my bike to Master Luo's residence.

Ever since Wang Jianye became his disciple and learned Bai'an from him, his progress has been very fast.

In just over half a year, I learned everything Master Luo could teach me in his lifetime.

Although now, Master Luo has nothing to teach him.

But Wang Jianye still came to see him often. He was an elderly widower with no children, and Wang Jianye was his only disciple.

It would be so lonely if Wang Jianye didn't come here more often.

After riding for a while, Wang Jianye stopped his bike at the door and walked into the yard.

Aunt Niu is collecting clothes under the balcony.

Wang Jianye recognized it at a glance. The washed and dried clothes belonged to his master, Master Luo.

"Hey, Jianye is here."

"Aunt Niu, thank you again for helping my master wash his clothes."

"It's just a simple matter, why bother?"

"..."

Wang Jianye greeted Aunt Niu from the Central Courtyard and went into the backyard.

"General!"

"Haha, draw the horse!"

There were a bunch of old men sitting in the backyard, two of them were playing chess, and the rest were watching from the side, pointing and talking with spit flying everywhere.

"Oh, I told you to move the cannon here, but you didn't listen. Now look what you did. You've been eaten by someone else."

"You should have listened to me and just driven out and fired there, and his gun wouldn't be able to move."

"What were you doing so early?" "..."

The one who gave the most intense advice and was the least gentlemanly of watching a game of chess without saying a word was Master Luo, who looked regretful.

"You you on the line."

The old man being instructed by him was annoyed.

"I'm not going up. My apprentice is here."

Master Luo saw Wang Jianye and stopped paying attention to the old man playing chess.

"Master." Wang Jianye raised the net bag in his hand, "I bought you some bananas and peaches. They are all soft and easy to chew."

"Hey, good."

Master Luo looked at the group of old men proudly and happily took him into the house.

Wang Jianye studied with Master Luo for more than half a year and surpassed him.

At present, Wang Jianye’s level of solving white cases has far surpassed Master Luo.

Yesterday, a young man wanted to become Master Luo's disciple, but Master Luo was unwilling to accept him, saying that having Wang Jianye as his disciple was enough for him.

But the young man had good talent and good character, so Master Luo wanted to introduce him to Wang Jianye.

"Master, do you want me to accept him as my apprentice, or do you want me to accept him as my apprentice on your behalf? And teach him Bai An?"

Wang Jianye asked somewhat uncertainly.

Master Luo replied affirmatively: "If you accept him as your disciple, your level of white case work has surpassed mine.
Besides, you are younger and more energetic, so you are very suitable to be my disciple."

"Well."

Wang Jianye had no objection and agreed.

He believed in his master's vision and believed that he would not make a mistake in choosing someone.

Master Luo told Aunt Niu's child to go to a small courtyard two streets away and call Chu Mengqi.

Chu Mengqi is the young man who wanted to come and worship Master Luo as his disciple yesterday.

After hearing the news that Master Luo asked him to come over, Chu Mengqi came over excitedly:
"Master Luo, are you finally willing to accept me as your disciple?"

Master Luo smiled and shook his head, "It wasn't me who accepted you as a disciple, it was him."

At this time, Chu Mengqi looked at Wang Jianye who was next to Master Luo.

Seeing that Wang Jianye was so young, only one or two years older than him, Chu Mengqi frowned. Who is this person?

Seeing Chu Mengqi's puzzled look, Wang Jianye said:

"Master Luo is my mentor, and I am his apprentice. My name is Wang Jianye, and I currently work at Fengze Garden."

"Fengze Garden? Wang Jianye? Are you the Master Wang from Fengze Garden?!"

Chu Mengqi looked at him in surprise.

Wang Jianye nodded calmly, "It's me."

After getting Wang Jianye's affirmative answer, Chu Mengqi couldn't help but take a breath.

He had heard many great stories about Wang Jianye and admired him very much.

Now that I saw the real person for the first time, I was extremely excited: "Master Wang, I want to be your disciple! I want to learn your craft from you!"

Then he knelt down and kowtowed to Wang Jianye.

"Okay, I'll take you in as my apprentice, and you'll learn the white case from me from now on."

Wang Jianye nodded: "Get up."

But Chu Mengqi did not stand up. Instead, he turned to Master Luo and kowtowed to him: "Thank you, Master."

Master Luo, who was sitting on the side, saw this scene, nodded with satisfaction, and said with a smile:
"From now on, just follow your master and learn well. His skills are better than mine."

"Ok!"

Chu Mengqi nodded seriously. He was very excited to be able to have the person he admired most as his teacher.

After serving tea and signing the master-disciple contract, Wang Jianye instructed him:

"You are my eleventh apprentice. There are ten other apprentices before you. I will introduce them to each other when I have the chance.

I will come to my master's place every Monday and Wednesday night, and Sunday afternoon. You can come too, and I will teach you the craft..."

(End of this chapter)