Abnormal Food Article

Chapter 180 Blackmail Beast (3) (I’ll reward you with an undefeated city leader!)

After Gong Liang returned home, Gong's mother didn't say anything. She just went to notify the neighbors and told them that they didn't need to look for Gong Liang when he came back. Then she heated the rice in the lunch box with the stove so that Gong Liang could eat quickly.

The lunch box contained roasted pork with quail eggs and steamed buns. The steamed buns looked wrinkled and shapeless, and you could tell at a glance that they were made from pure whole grains. The roasted pork with quail eggs was the portion that Gong Liang set aside for the hot dish in the afternoon. Gong's father and Gong's mother didn't take a bite.

Gong Liang didn't speak much during the whole process. After eating, he washed the lunch box, washed briefly and then went back to the room to rest.

When Gong Liang got up the next day, Gong's mother was no longer at home. There was a stick of boiled corn on the table, and the door of Gong's father and Gong's mother's room was closed. Gong Liang glanced inside and saw that Gong's father was still sleeping with his eyes closed, so he didn't say anything and went to work.

Gong Liang couldn't see clearly without God's perspective, and Qin Huai kept wandering around the house. I saw Gong's mother getting up before dawn to make medicine, clean, sort out the laundry, and do needlework. She was never idle for a moment, for fear that if she did less, someone would do more.

A quarter of an hour before Gong Liang woke up, Gong's mother went out to mend clothes with some sewing work to do. She probably calculated the time to avoid being seen by Gong Liang.

There are many styles of clothes that Gong's mother needs to repair, and the styles are very complicated. Those clothes most likely did not belong to their family, but were picked up by her outside.

As for Gong's father, he didn't sleep either and woke up long ago.

Most of the time I lay in bed with my eyes open in a daze. Occasionally I would try to move to see how paralyzed I was, and then I would stare at the ceiling with my eyes open in a daze.

Gong Liang walked to work, eating corn as he walked.

Although the sales department has an office, it is always understaffed. Qin Huai counted and found that there were 11 positions in the office. In theory, there were at least 11 people in the sales department, but only 4 arrived in the morning.

Section Chief Chen, Gong Liang, Liu Hai, and a middle-aged man they haven't seen before. The middle-aged man who told Liu Hai not to say a few words yesterday is not here today. He probably went out to run business.

Running business outside is hard work, and it’s impossible to be idle while sitting in the office. Gong Liang was assigned the task of collecting information. He said he was collecting information, but in fact he meant reading newspapers, writing letters, and making phone calls.

Read newspapers from all over the country and look for factories that may be interested in ordering silk. Making direct calls with a certain probability of success, and writing letters with a slim probability of success. These three tasks cannot be performed at the same time. In the morning, Gong Liang was mainly responsible for reading newspapers and recording information.

Qin Huai watched from the side and realized that Gong Liang was indeed a born salesman.

Gong Liang is not only sharp-tongued and thick-skinned, good at stalking and beating snakes with sticks, he is also very good at collecting information, identifying information, and extracting information. Many of the contents in the newspaper were clearly advertising, such as handicrafts and toys. He recorded them and marked the types that could be promoted.

Even when it was reported that the pearls from a certain pearl farm were well received at last year's exhibition and that the pearls were successful in earning foreign exchange, he would write down the news and mark the possibility of silk packaging.

With this ability and patience, Qin Huai fully believed that Gong Liang's failure to negotiate the deal with Magic City at the beginning of the year was not a matter of ability, but purely a matter of mentality.

No wonder Section Chief Chen trusted Gong Liang, a young man who had just become a full-time employee, so much that he would be the main force when negotiating big orders.

After the morning's work, Gong Liang did not go to the cafeteria to eat, but ran to Section Chief Chen to ask for leave. He explained the reason directly and did not make up a story. He just said that Master Jing asked him to go to a state-owned hotel in the afternoon.

Section Chief Chen agreed without thinking. He didn't ask Gong Liang to write a note. He told Gong Liang that if the state-owned hotel ended early, he could just go home instead of coming to the work.

Gong Liang went to the cafeteria to have a meal before setting off for the state-owned hotel.

The food in the canteen of the silk weaving factory is very perfunctory, consisting of multigrain steamed buns, minced meat roasted cabbage and stir-fried white radish. Except for some oily spots in the minced pork braised cabbage, the stir-fried white radish looks no different from the boiled one.

With this food, it’s no wonder that the workers in the silk weaving factory are trying their best to transfer to other factories. From the food, it can be seen that the efficiency of the factory is indeed not very good.

When Gong Liang arrived at the state-owned hotel, it had just closed and the waiter was already eating noodles with a bowl. It looked like white noodles and the food was good.

Seeing Gong Liang coming, the round-faced and slightly chubby waiter raised his head, pointed the way to the kitchen with his eyes, and said in a long voice as if he was reluctant to open his mouth: "Master Jing is waiting for you in the kitchen."

Gong Liang walked into the kitchen with some confusion.

Jing Lixiang was the only one in the kitchen.

"Here we go." Jing Lixiang looked at Gong Liang with a smile and pointed at all the ingredients visible on the table, "Is there anything you want to eat?"

The implication is that you can order whatever you want. All dishes today will be paid for and prepared by Chef Jing.

Gong Liang was very frightened for a moment.

The first thing he saw was the beautiful pork belly on the chopping board, and he quickly looked away. I saw the chicken again and looked away. Duck, look away. Fish, this one didn’t move away. After looking at it for a while, I saw a crab.

Gong Liang pointed at the crab.

Based on the order in which Gong Liang looked at the ingredients, Qin Huai saw the pattern.

I dare not look at the expensive ones, so I always choose the cheap ones.

In this era, crabs, fish and shrimps are an absolute bargain, and the rivers are full of them, so you can catch them if you want. If you want to make these dishes delicious, you have to add condiments. Condiments mean spending money. They are not delicious when boiled in plain water. The most important thing is that there is no oil and water, so eating them does not make you feel full like pork.

Although now is the season when crabs are at their most plentiful, this big pot of crabs crawling around is not necessarily as valuable as the small piece of pork belly on the chopping board.

"Crabs, the crabs in this season are really good. They are plump and have a lot of roe. Let me think about what you can do with crabs. Cooking is a bit too grand. I will inevitably be criticized for using my power for personal gain."

"How about making some snacks? How about crab roe dumplings?" Jing Lixiang asked.

Gong Liang shook his head repeatedly. He knew that the crab roe xiaolongbao required pork and was too expensive.

Jing Lixiang also saw Gong Liang's thoughts, and smiled helplessly: "Since Xiaoliang doesn't want to eat pork stuffing today, why not make crab roe shaomai, shrimp stuffing with crab, although it is a bit troublesome, but the ingredients are easy to get, and it's not Cost money.”

Gong Liang nodded without knowing why.

Jing Lixiang started making crab roe shaomai.

Qin Huai was very familiar with this dish. He was so familiar with the preparation process that he knew what to do next even if he covered his eyes.

Qinhuai’s crab roe siomai was taught by Zheng Da, and Zhengda’s crab roe siomai was taught by Jinglixiang. Therefore, Qinhuai’s and Jinglixiang’s crab roe siomai are actually from the same origin.

Qin Huai was familiar with every move made by Jing Lixiang, but it was a bit unfamiliar.

How can I put it, Bai An’s level is too high.

If physical strength is ignored, the level of chef Bai An can theoretically be improved with practice.

White Case does not have as strict control over strength and techniques as Red Case. Red Case's cooking skills will gradually decline after reaching the prime of life. Although he is more experienced, his body will not be able to keep up with his brain. In particular, red case is a demanding physical labor, and as I get older, I can’t keep up with the intensity of the kitchen. The white case is relatively better, which is why there are very few female chefs among the red case chefs, but there are relatively many female chefs among the white case chefs.

Although Jing Lixiang is now over 50 and is lame in one leg, Bai An's cooking skills are still at their peak. As Qin Huai watched from the side, he could only sigh with his mouth open and sigh that it was beyond his reach. How many years and months had he been able to reach such a peak level?

His movements can no longer be described as smooth and coherent.

Qin Huai felt that Jing Lixiang was probably the second best cook he had ever seen, and the best was Jiang Chengde, who couldn't understand the instructional videos.

This one from Jing Lixiang is somewhat understandable.

"You went home last night and thought about it all night, right?" Jing Lixiang was distracted and chatting with Gong Liang while kneading the dough.

Gong Liang nodded.

"Have you thought of anything?"

Gong Liang didn't say anything. If he didn't say anything, he didn't.

"Sometimes the process of making a decision is difficult, but when you make up your mind and start doing something that you think is difficult, it is often not that difficult." Jing Lixiang said, "It's like when victory comes to your hand for the first time. Since then, he has always been very careful, for fear of cutting his hand again. "

"But in fact, people don't fail once and then fail again and again. When you learn to cook, you don't cut your hand once and then cut it many times."

"When people fail, they learn lessons and make corrections. Correction is to avoid repeating the same mistakes."

"If you don't have the courage to try, you won't even have the chance to know whether you have corrected yourself."

Gong Liang stood quietly by the side without speaking.

Jing Lixiang chuckled softly: "I think Master Qi Jing is talking about some great truths and empty words again, don't you?"

"No." Gong Liang quickly denied, "I just...just...it's useless to think about these things now. There are no quotas for the exhibition, and I don't even have a chance to try."

"The opportunity is always there."

"I still remember how your parents excitedly told me last year how you negotiated your first deal."

"The silk mill has no orders, so you go to the newspaper to find interested manufacturers and call them one by one. Section Chief Chen feels that you make too many calls and the phone bill is high, so you just write a letter and wait for a reply."

"Other people go to Jinling on a business trip and only visit the places they originally planned to visit. You do your homework in advance and visit more factories than others. Even if the guard does not let you in and you are rejected outside, you squat at the door. Procurement leadership.”

"Isn't that how you got your first order?"

Gong Liang didn't expect Jing Lixiang to remember this so clearly.

"You, Chief Chen, are old-fashioned, but not bad, and appreciate your talents. Otherwise, he wouldn't have trained you as a backbone before you became a full-time employee, and wouldn't have let you, a newcomer, go to Shanghai to take on important responsibilities and negotiate orders. "

"Giving up after one failure is not the Gong Liang I grew up watching."

"I remember when you were a child, I made snacks during the Chinese New Year. You were so greedy that you tried to beg for something to eat. If you failed once, you would do it twice. You never stopped saying beautiful words. If one trick didn't work, you would switch to another. You are not like that. A character who gives up after being hit."

Gong Liang was a little embarrassed by Jing Lixiang's remarks. He lowered his head and blushed slightly: "Master Jing, that was all a matter of childhood."

"Didn't you cheat on Shengli and Zheng Da when you were in junior high school..."

"Master Jing!" Gong Liang had already begun to plead.

Jing Lixiang smiled and shut up, no longer uncovered Gong Liang's underwear, and quietly made crab roe shaomai.

Crab roe siomai really doesn’t take long to make. Soon, the crab roe siomai was steamed.

"What I want to say is, Xiaoliang, I have watched you grow up, Master Jing, over the years. You are not the kind of person who will accept your fate if the superiors don't give you a place in the exhibition."

"When Section Chief Chen didn't let you make phone calls, you could write letters. Now I believe you can do it too."

"It's just that you are still hesitating in your heart about whether to do this or not."

"But I want to tell you something. Opportunities are fleeting. Not every time there is such a good opportunity in front of you waiting for you to seize it."

Gong Liang remained silent.

Jing Lixiang stopped talking and waited for the steamed crab roe and steamed wheat to be cooked.

Seven or eight minutes later, the crab roe siomai is out of the pot.

After letting it cool slightly, Gong Liang picked up a crab roe shaomai, wrapped it in one bite, and chewed it.

Gong Liang's eyes widened. He didn't say a word, but he seemed to have said everything.

While Gong Liang was chewing crazily, Jing Lixiang stood by and asked with a smile: "What do you want to eat tomorrow?"

Gong Liang:!

Gong Liang swallowed it quickly and refused again and again: "Master Jing, no need, I will..."

Jing Lixiang didn't give him a chance to refuse: "Don't be polite to me, just order whatever you want. People have to face their own desires and their own hearts. You must first determine what you want before you can make choices and work hard." motivation.”

"Master Jing, I am not someone who only talks empty words."

Gong Liang thought for a while and said sheepishly: "Master Jing, I want to eat meat buns."

Jing Lixiang laughed loudly: "I knew that your eyes had never moved away from the pork belly since you entered the kitchen. Okay, I'll make pork buns for you tomorrow!"

"Special meat buns, triple buns."

(End of chapter)