Soon it was the beginning of the 1960s. Wang Mujia was one year older and was about to have winter vacation.

For most of this semester, his academic performance remained far ahead of the school, and Wang Jianye and Chen Kejia didn't need to worry about him at all.

Not only did he have better grades than his classmates who were about nine or ten years older than him, but even the teacher who taught him didn't know as much as Wang Mujia.

Sometimes, when encountering difficult problems that are difficult to determine, the teacher has to ask Wang Mujia for his opinion.

Even the teacher had to ask Wang Mujia, not to mention other students.

……

As the weather gets colder, every household prepares cabbage, coal, etc. for the winter in November and December before the New Year.

There is a cellar in Wang Jianye’s front yard, near the east wall. The cabbages, radishes, potatoes and so on bought for winter storage are placed in it, which is enough to last for the whole winter.

There are very few types of winter vegetables these days, just a few, radishes, cabbages, and potatoes, which are eaten in rotation.

Wang Jianye has created several home-cooked dishes with these as the main ingredients. He can come up with a new method every day, so it can be said that you will never get tired of eating them.

Zhang Lan, Chen's mother, and next-door neighbor Xu Huizhen all came to learn how to make new dishes from him.

So Wang Jianye wrote down his own creations of making unlimited dishes with limited ingredients in a cookbook and published it.

This is the most suitable dish for this season. If people want to change the taste at home, they can just choose a few methods from this recipe and make them at home.

"Master Wang's recipe was published at the right time. My wife doesn't know how to cook anything except stewing Chinese cabbage and radish.

Now I bought a recipe for my wife to learn how to cook. Guess what? She cooks a new dish every day, and it tastes much better than before."

"The recipe that Master Wang came up with is really good. Even someone like me who has never cooked before can learn how to make it just by looking at it. It's really great.
No wonder all of Master Wang's disciples are so successful. Being able to learn from a master like Master Wang who is so good at teaching, their level will definitely improve rapidly!"

"Master Wang is a good chef who truly cares about ordinary people."

"..."

Many people who bought Wang Jianye’s newly published “Winter Home Cooking Recipes” were very happy.

Because the main ingredients of the dishes in this recipe are common foods in winter, and the seasonings are also the simplest, such as soy sauce and vinegar that everyone has at home.

And the method is also very simple. As long as people who buy it have some cooking common sense, they can make delicious home-cooked dishes.

The incident was reported in the newspaper, and even a reporter from a newspaper came to interview Wang Jianye and asked many questions.

Wang Jianye responded one by one.

"I just had a sudden idea and wrote this recipe and published it. I didn't expect it to become popular all of a sudden..."

……

Yan Fugui and his friends were already tired of seeing Wang Jianye appear in newspapers again and again, but when they saw a newspaper on the road, they still bought one and took it back.

"I heard about it at home this afternoon. Wang Jianye wrote a new recipe book. I saw it from Zhang Lan in the backyard this afternoon. It's really well written. I will learn how to cook it after reading it."

Auntie Yang Ruihua sighed.

Yan Fugui asked curiously, "Does it cost any oil, salt, sauce and vinegar? Is it easy to make?"

"It's not expensive at all and it's easy to make. It's just an ordinary home-cooked dish. I'll make it for you later."

Yang Ruihua was quite confident in herself. After all, the recipe was indeed simple. She and the first and second aunts looked at it for a while and learned how to cook several dishes.

...Qin Huairu bought a newly published copy of "Winter Home Cooking Recipes" by Wang Jianye. Although Jia Dongxu hated Wang Jianye, he still ate a lot of the dishes Qin Huairu made according to the recipes written by Wang Jianye. They were really delicious.

Banggeng is six years old this year and has not yet started primary school. He is just as delicious as in the original show.

Fortunately, Qin Huairu has a decent job, Jia Dongxu is still alive, and the family has double wages, so Banggeng's life is much more comfortable than in the original drama.

In addition to Qin Huairu's serious education, without the interference of Jia Zhangshi and the indulgence of Sha Zhu, Banggeng did not develop the habit of petty theft and did not become the Siheyuan Thief Saint.

……

As soon as possible, Sha Zhu bought a newly published recipe book by Wang Jianye and studied it carefully at home.

His sister He Yushui was more ambitious and was admitted to a technical secondary school. She has never been home, so Sha Zhu lived alone.

Sha Zhu studied the recipe and tried to make it. Even a housewife like Aunt San can learn it easily, let alone a professional chef like Sha Zhu.

"Brother Wang is really amazing. He can make so many different dishes out of these common winter ingredients, radish, cabbage, and potatoes. It's amazing."

Sha Zhu admired him sincerely, since he couldn't think of so many tricks anyway.

"I wonder how good Brother Wang is at cooking big pot dishes..."

Sha Zhu works as a chef in the canteen of the Red Star Steel Rolling Mill. In the past few years, the chef industry has been graded, and Sha Zhu was classified as a level five chef. The level six chef in the original drama is a little better.

The rating of chefs is exactly the opposite of the grades of fitters, with level eight chef being the lowest and level one chef being the highest.

The initial rating work was presided over by Wang Jianye. He has the qualifications and level, and can convince many chefs.

As for Wang Jianye's level, he is undoubtedly a top-grade chef, the only one in the country.

"When Brother Wang comes back one day, I'll ask him if he can cook a big pot dish."

Sha Zhu thought that with Wang Jianye's level, it would be a waste of his talent to cook a big pot, but Wang Jianye must be able to give him some advice.

After all, Wang Jianye is a nationally renowned cooking master, so there would definitely be no problem in giving him some advice on how to make big pot dishes.

Sha Zhu has great confidence in Wang Jianye's level.

……

When Liu Haizhong in the east wing of the backyard learned that Wang Jianye had published another cookbook, he immediately asked Liu Guangtian to run errands and buy one for him.

Liu Haizhong bought a lot of recipes that Wang Jianye had previously published, and asked Second Aunt to learn how to make them.

After all, Wang Jianye seldom goes back to Nanluoguxiang, so Liu Haizhong wants to ask Wang Jianye to cook something delicious, but it's quite difficult, so he can only ask Second Aunt to learn how to cook.

Fortunately, the recipes written by Wang Jianye are very simple and easy to learn. With Second Aunt’s level, it is not difficult to learn them.

……

As a family member of Wang Jianye, Zhang Lan often ate state-banquet-level meals prepared by Wang Jianye. Not only did her taste buds become better, but her IQ also increased a lot.

At present, he has become the best fitter in the fitter workshop of the steel rolling mill, and his level is much higher than Yi Zhonghai.

The meals she cooked at home were much more delicious than before. Every time Wang Jianye published a cookbook, he would send her one so that she could learn from it and make something delicious for Wang Jiannan and the others.

...(End of chapter)