Chapter 31 You Can Try It

Wang Jianye's level has improved, and he needs to let others know about it, so that his status in the kitchen can be improved.

Otherwise, when Wang Jianye's level reached a very high level, but not many people in the kitchen knew about it, wouldn't it be like a secret operation at night?

When Cao Xiaodong arrived, he was greeted warmly by the aunties who were washing vegetables. On the one hand, it was because of his great talent and cooking skills. On the other hand, it was because his master Sun Qu helped to spread the word, so that basically everyone in the kitchen knew about Cao Xiaodong, the talented apprentice.

If Wang Jianye wants to become famous, he must make a splash in the grading assessment.

From the perspective of outsiders, there is no doubt that Cao Xiaodong is the best performer in this grading assessment.

If Wang Jianye wants to make a splash, he has to perform better than Cao Xiaodong.

Therefore, Wang Jianye wanted to be directly promoted to the second team, so that his reputation would immediately overshadow Cao Xiaodong.

The last person who was directly classified as a second kitchen chef in the grading assessment was Zhou Qingde. After the grading was completed, he immediately received treatment far beyond that of ordinary second kitchen chefs. Other second kitchen chefs could take two meat dishes back, while he could take two meat dishes plus two vegetarian dishes.

He even received praise from the owner of Fengzeyuan, who also allowed Zhou Qingde to use various ingredients to practice and improve his cooking skills.

Therefore, whether for fame or profit, Wang Jianye very much wanted to become the next Zhou Qingde. In this grading assessment, he was directly graded as the second kitchen master.

In this way, not only can his status be significantly improved, but he can also bring several dishes home and use various ingredients to practice cooking, which is of great benefit to him in gaining experience points and improving his cooking skills.

After a while, when it was almost time to go to work, Sun Qu and Chai Wenshan walked into the kitchen.

At this time yesterday, Sun Qu was still showing off to Chai Wenshan how powerful his apprentice Cao Xiaodong was and how great his talent was, while Chai Wenshan felt very uncomfortable listening to him.

But today the two people's roles were swapped compared to yesterday. It became Chai Wenshan who showed off, and Sun Qu felt awkward and uncomfortable.

When Wang Jianye saw Chai Wenshan coming, he walked to the wall, took down the army green shoulder bag hanging on the wall, and took out two lunch boxes from it.

Coming to Chai Wenshan, Wang Jianye handed over two lunch boxes: "Master, these are the two lunch boxes you gave me yesterday. After I took them home, my family was very happy and praised me a lot. I really want to thank you so much, Master."

Chai Wenshan smiled and said you're welcome.

His attitude towards Wang Jianye is much better than in the previous three years. After all, Wang Jianye's level has improved.

"Master, I want to ask you how our chef, Chef Zhou, who was the head chef of the first kitchen, was promoted to the second kitchen. Can you tell me?"

"Why did you think of asking this?"

Chai Wenshan asked in surprise.

Although Wang Jianye’s talent has improved now, his level can improve quickly by practicing one dish.

But he never dared to think that Wang Jianye actually wanted to directly upgrade to the second kitchen.

"I'm just asking, nothing more, just tell me."

Wang Jianye was very curious.

"It's okay to tell you that when Master Zhou first started, he took Master Zhao, our chef, as his teacher.
During the three years as an apprentice, he made rapid progress. He learned many dishes quickly and well, and it didn't take long for him to reach the level of being able to cook.

However, he did not take the grading test in advance, but continued to study seriously with Master Zhao. Three years later,

By the time he took the grading test, his level had already reached that of an average second stove master.

Our kitchen only considers the level of the staff. Although he is just an apprentice, because his level is high enough, he was directly promoted to the second chef. "

Chai Wenshan told everything that happened back then.

He and Zhou Qingde entered Fengze Garden as apprentices at about the same time. Although he had good talent, he was far behind Zhou Qingde.

Wang Jianye asked again: "Master, can you tell me about the level of the second kitchen chef and what dishes he can prepare?"

This is what he wanted to know. Chai Wenshan looked at Wang Jianye and said, "Are you asking this because you want to..."

"Yes, I just want to try if I can be directly rated as a second-class stove."

Wang Jianye expressed his thoughts.

Chai Wenshan took a deep breath and said, "Jianye, listen to me. We can't be too ambitious. We have to be down-to-earth and improve our level step by step. We can't think of eating a big fat man in one bite."

"Master, I just want to think about it and see how big the gap is between me and Master Zhou. If the gap is too big, I will give up. Please tell me about it."

After hearing Wang Jianye's words, Chai Wenshan calmed down a little and sat on a chair beside him.

Wang Jianye poured him a cup of tea.

Chai Wenshan took a sip and said, "I remember that he picked nine dishes out of fifty. All of these nine dishes reached the level of a second-class chef, so he was directly promoted to a second-class chef."

For Zhou Qingde, he needs to at least improve all fifty dishes to the level of the second-class kitchen to ensure that he has absolute confidence in passing the assessment.

But for Wang Jianye, there is no need to work so hard.

He just needs to accumulate enough experience points, and then wait until the day of the assessment to see which nine dishes he will draw, and then improve the level of these nine dishes.

In this way, he can relax more in the next few days and just need to accumulate enough experience points for these nine dishes.

You can really give it a try.

Wang Jianye asked, "Master, what are these fifty dishes?"

Although he didn't need to know which dishes would be tested, if he asked now, when the test came, others would not think he was joking. After all, he had asked his master in advance about which dishes would be tested and could prepare in advance.

If he doesn't find out in advance, others will think he doesn't even know what dish to cook, which will definitely not work.

"Do you want to try? There are many dishes here that you don't know how to cook yet."

Chai Wenshan didn’t understand. Why did you still want to try even though I told you it was so difficult?
"Master, please tell me. I'm just asking. I don't have to try."

Under Wang Jianye's persuasion, Chai Wenshan finally spoke out.

However, it had been such a long time since Zhou Qingde took part in the grading test that Chai Wenshan might not remember it clearly. He just talked about what he remembered and what might have been the content of the test.

There were a lot of dishes, so Wang Jianye took out his small notebook and wrote down what Chai Wenshan said.

"That's probably all I remember. How many dishes did you remember?"

Chai Wenshan took a sip of tea, moistened his throat and asked.

"Master, let me count."

After Wang Jianye finished counting, he looked up and said, "There are thirty-five dishes in total."

"That's all I remember. It's been so long since I remember the rest. If you want to know more details, I'll take you to see Master Zhou. He's so talented that he can remember it after someone shows him once. He should be able to remember this, too."

"Then Master, please take me there. I want to know something more specific."

Seeing that Wang Jianye was so sincere, he looked like he really wanted to give it a try.

Chai Wenshan sighed and said, "Well, when Master Zhou comes, I'll take you over to ask him."

"Thank you, Master."

Wang Jianye, thank you very much.

(End of this chapter)