Chapter 43 Let Wang Jianye prepare the banquet (Seeking follow-up reading)

On his way back, Yi Zhonghai met Jia Dongxu.

"Aren't you going to have a wedding in a couple of days? I want Wang Jianye to cook for you."

"Why? He's just an apprentice. What if he makes me blind?"

Jia Dongxu was puzzled.

Yi Zhonghai shook his head, "No, Wang Jianye's cooking skills are very high now, basically the level of the chefs who can cook in Fengze Garden. It would be better to ask him to help cook for your banquet than to ask those chefs who are already in the kitchen.
On the one hand, you and he live in the same courtyard, so you see each other every day, and he won't charge you more.
On the other hand, as an apprentice, he certainly doesn't have many opportunities to cook, so if you invite him to be in charge of your banquet, he will definitely agree."

Yi Zhonghai was thinking about Jia Dongxu, and his thinking was quite thoughtful.

Jia Dongxu nodded, thinking that what Yi Zhonghai said made sense, so he listened to him.

When the two returned to the courtyard and passed the front yard, they attracted the attention of Yan Fugui who lived in the west wing of the front yard.

"Hey, Old Yi."

Yan Fugui called him and came up to him with a smile.

Yi Zhonghai turned his head to look at him, and said, "Oh, I remembered it. You want to ask me how the investigation is going, right?"

"Yes, that's what I want to ask. What's the situation of Wang Jianye in Fengze Garden?"

Yan Fugui said expectantly.

When Jia Dongxu heard about this, he found it boring, so he continued walking and went home to rest.

Yi Zhonghai told Yan Fugui what his apprentice had found out.

Yan Fugui's reaction was the same as Yi Zhonghai's when he first heard it, "Ah? Is Wang Jianye really that good?"

Yi Zhonghai said with emotion: "I asked my apprentice to find out. My apprentice is reliable. He said that he asked several people at the back kitchen door of Fengze Garden, and their stories were similar. Wang Jianye is really successful now."

"So, our hospital will have a skilled chef in the future."

After being surprised, Yan Fugui felt that he had to establish a good relationship with Wang Jianye.

Because in this way, when his family member Yan Jiecheng gets married, he can ask Wang Jianye to prepare the banquet.

Living in the same compound and being neighbors for many years, Yan Fugui felt that it would be great to save a lot of money if he asked Wang Jianye to help.

"By the way, I heard that Lao He didn't agree to prepare a banquet for Jia Dongxu. Who did you find?"

Yan Fugui mentioned this matter.

He thought that if Yi Zhonghai had not found a suitable chef to prepare wedding banquet for Jia Dongxu, then he would recommend Wang Jianye.

In this way, Wang Jianye would know that it was he who recommended him, and he would do him a favor, so their relationship would naturally become closer. In the future, he would be able to ask Wang Jianye for help whenever he wanted to do something.

"Besides Lao He, we have another ready-made master in our courtyard. I plan to find him."

"Wang Jianye?"

"Yes, I heard from my apprentice that he performed very well in the kitchen, and several of his dishes were at the level of a master chef. I think he can do it at this level."

Yi Zhonghai nodded.

After hearing this, Yan Fugui felt a little disappointed that his plan had failed.

However, with his brain full of calculations, he thought about it and suggested, "We have heard that Wang Jianye's cooking skills are good, but we have never eaten or seen his food, so we don't know what it is like.
Old Yi, let me remind you that the Jia family's wedding banquet is a big deal and cannot be sloppy, so I think we should let Wang Jianye try it once, and then let everyone have a taste. If he approves, let him be responsible for the wedding banquet. If not, let's change someone else. How do you think?"

"You have a point."

Yi Zhonghai thought for a moment and said, "The day after tomorrow is the weekend, and everyone is off work. I have been discussing with Dongxu about holding a wedding banquet in this courtyard at noon that day.
I will talk to Wang Jianye about this today when he gets off work. If he agrees, I will ask Jia's sister-in-law to buy some food tomorrow and ask Wang Jianye to cook a table in advance to test his skills.
You can come over when the time comes, on the one hand to taste Wang Jianye's cooking skills, and on the other hand to discuss what kind of banquet to hold for Dongxu, how to welcome guests, how to collect gifts, how to post wedding couplets, etc. You can help with the advice. " "Okay, I'll come over when the time comes."

Yan Fugui was very happy when he heard that he could have a free meal.

Just now he suggested trying out Wang Jianye's level first, just to have a free meal, and now he has got what he wanted.

……

As usual, Wang Jianye sat on the back seat of the bicycle, and Sha Zhu rode the bicycle to take him to the gate of the courtyard house at No. 95 Nanluoguxiang.

Today, Sha Zhu pedaled his bike particularly hard because Wang Jianye gave him some pointers in the kitchen, which helped him improve his skills significantly.

So Sha Zhu was very active when he rode the bike to take him, and they arrived at the destination soon.

Wang Jianye got off the bike, took the handlebars, looked at Sha Zhu and said with a smile, "Thank you for your hard work."

Sha Zhu waved his hands, panting. He had put in a lot of effort this time and was exhausted from the journey.

Although he was very tired, he was willing to do it.

After all, everything Wang Jianye taught him was very useful. Wang Jianye answered whatever he asked without hiding anything, which greatly improved his cooking skills today.

As the old saying goes, teaching an apprentice may starve the master to death, so a master usually keeps something back when teaching his apprentice.

But Wang Jianye was trying his best to teach him, which had nothing to do with this old saying.

This made Shazhu very grateful.

"Hey, this isn't much trouble for me. I can't thank you enough."

"That's enough, it's not going to end, is it?"

Wang Jianye was a little annoyed because ever since he had given Sha Zhu some pointers this morning, Sha Zhu had been particularly grateful to him, which made him a little uncomfortable.

"Tsk, seriously, Brother Wang, thank you so much. If it weren't for your guidance, my spicy and sour potato shreds wouldn't have improved so much."

Sha Zhu followed him into the gate of the courtyard.

As soon as Wang Jianye pushed his bicycle into the front yard, he met Yan Fugui again.

However, they met by chance two days ago, but today it was Yan Fugui who was waiting for him to come back and came to find him on his own initiative.

"Teacher Yan, what's the matter?"

Seeing Yan Fugui blocking the road, Wang Jianye stared at him vigilantly.

"You didn't bring your lunch box back today?"

Yan Fugui didn't see Wang Jianye holding the lunch box, so he asked curiously.

Wang Jianye patted the army green shoulder bag hanging on his body: "It's in the bag. I only have one dish today."

"It's a good dish, but it has meat, and it's available every day. From now on, your family will be able to eat meat every day. Oh, I'm so envious."

Yan Fugui spoke from his heart.

Whenever his family wanted to eat meat, he would either go to the market and buy it or go fishing in the river.

Both methods are time-consuming and costly.

Unlike Wang Jianye who works at Fengzeyuan, he can take a meat dish home after get off work. How great is that.

(End of this chapter)