Life is a Game

Regarding Peng Changping's intention to talk about Zhou Shi's status as a closed disciple, Jiang Feng didn't really feel much except for being shocked.

The friendship between him and Zhou Shi is not very deep, but it is not shallow. They are just ordinary friends. From the perspective of a friend, if Zhou Shi really has the chance to worship Peng Changping as his teacher, he will certainly be happy. Although Peng Changping is old and lacks energy, it is impossible to teach hands-on like a master teaches his apprentices, and he can't even give face-to-face demonstrations often, and the most is oral teaching. But with his culinary skills and status in today's culinary industry, it is definitely the dream of countless young and even middle-aged chefs to be able to worship him as a teacher.

It was because Jiang Feng found it difficult to choose Taifeng Building as the location of the assessment.

Probably how to lure Zhou Shi to Taifeng Tower quietly, and then quietly let him cook a high-level specialty dish, and then quietly take this dish to Peng Changping to taste. This is a very serious matter. question.

After all, Jiang Feng didn't even know where Zhou Shi lived now.

After Jiang Feng returned home, he pondered for a long time. He didn't know how to talk to Zhou Shi about Taifeng Building until Wu Minqi came back. In the end, Jiang Feng couldn't hold back, and told Wu Minqi clearly what happened tonight, and wanted to ask her opinion.

"This is a good thing. Master Peng intends to take Zhou Shi as his apprentice, and Zhou Shi happens to have this opportunity. Let's just do what Master Peng said." Happy to have this opportunity.

"But... How should we let him come to the store and let him cook?" Jiang Feng was actually struggling with this.

Wu Minqi didn't understand why Jiang Feng was troubled by this at all: "When he comes, tell him that the business in the store is very good today and everyone is very busy, so just ask him to help. Just like before, if he doesn't return the previous information In the background of the system, directly put his recipes on the shelves."

Jiang Feng:?

This is not very good. He said that he would come to the store to catch up, but in fact he asked someone to come to the store to work.

Alas, it makes sense to think so.

Isn't one of the characteristics of their Taifeng Restaurant is that they come from afar and they come all the time, why don't they cook two dishes before leaving!

"It seems to be possible." Jiang Feng was thoughtful.

Compared with Zhou Shi's matter, Wu Minqi is more concerned about another thing: "Fengfeng, I remember that you went to Yonghe Bureau to learn from Master Peng about your family's ginseng soup. Have you finished learning your dishes now?"

"Not yet, I only learned how to hang broth, and I haven't started learning how to deal with sea cucumbers yet."

"If Master Peng is really interested in Zhou Shi, then he will definitely have to bother to teach Zhou Shi in the future. Your dishes may be... I think you should hurry up recently. Anyway, the business in the store has been slow recently. Wake up, and Master Sun is in charge, I think you can continue to learn cooking from Master Peng without worrying too much about the business like before." Wu Minqi said.

Wu Minqi reminded Jiang Feng that a lot of things happened during this period, and he forgot the most important one. Peng Changping’s return to China this time is for the selection of the famous chefs. The ranking of the famous chefs is usually announced at the end of October. Although Xu Cheng and Xu Gezi have participated in many issues of "Zhiwei" and other things over the years, the famous chefs are so important. Big things are definitely not doves.

Peng Changping may stay in China for a long time, but there will always be a day when he will go back. After all, the visa will always expire.

If Jiang Feng didn't want to go to the other side of the ocean to learn a dish, he could only hurry up and try to learn Jiang's ginseng soup before the end of October.

It was already August, and Jiang Feng only had two months to spare.

Not quite enough.

You must know that Jiang Feng has been learning how to hang soup for more than two months, but it can't be counted that way. When Jiang Feng was learning how to make broth, the seasoning and heat hadn't reached the master level. Now he is no longer what he used to be, and he has a certain foundation of sea cucumber dishes. It will not take too much time to learn Jiang's ginseng soup.

Wu Minqi's words made it difficult for Jiang Feng to make a decision. Should he seize the time while the iron is hot to improve his knife skills to the master level, or should he temporarily put aside his knife skills and the thriving business of Taifeng Building, and go to Yongheju to learn Jiang's ginseng soup from Peng Changping in a short time? over.

To be honest, he was a little worried about Chef Arnold.

After all, this old man has a bad temper, does not play cards according to common sense, and is rich and willful. No one knows what he will do when he is happy or unhappy. After the Summer Banquet was successfully held, Jiang Feng became the number one most searched, and everyone had been paying close attention to the top-floor restaurant's dynamics, but the top-floor restaurant didn't do anything.

It's been a few days, and the restaurant on the top floor has not moved at all. Chef Arnold stopped working for several days and disappeared, allowing the flow of customers to decline, and it has been declining.

It almost fell to the same level as Babaozhai.

Having said that, Babaozhai's business seems to be doing better in the past two days. Jiang Feng even snatched a red envelope of 12 yuan and 80 cents in the group yesterday.

"Let's wait for Zhou Shi to finish this matter first. Then I will find a chance to ask Master Peng when he will return to the United States, and then we will see." Jiang Feng didn't make up his mind.

Wu Minqi nodded. She just wanted to remind her: "You just need to remember this."

"By the way, how is the business in the store today?" Jiang Feng felt that it would be more practical to pay attention to the business of Taifeng Building, after all, the money had not been repaid.

"It's good, but today you have a lot of guests who don't know about it. Ji Yue said that the students of the Academy of Fine Arts have been moaning and sighing during lunch, and they seem to be more uncomfortable than eating pure meat wontons." Wu Minqi laughed, suddenly remembered What, took out his phone to find a picture from the album, and handed the phone to Jiang Feng.

Jiang Feng took the phone and found that it was a painting.

A very monotonous painting with only two people on it.

One is a woman who looks very haggard, with disheveled hair, very old and thin clothes, looks very thin, and seems to have a bit of madness in her eyes.

The other was a little girl, also pale and thin, who looked malnourished, with a hint of timidity in her eyes.

The woman is tall and the little girl is short. The woman in the painting is standing like that, and the little girl is looking up at the woman from the corner.

One looks depressing, but it is very real, as if it is not a painting but a realistic photo. The two in the painting are real people, and there is a trace of inexplicable artistic conception.

The most important thing was that Jiang Feng felt that the little girl in the painting looked familiar, as if he had seen it somewhere.

"It was painted by Xue Shaoheng." Wu Minqi said.

"Drawn by Xue Shaoheng?" Jiang Feng was a little surprised. If he remembered correctly, Xue Hua seemed to have said that Xue Shaoheng never painted figures.

Having said that, he hadn't seen the siblings for a long time.

"I feel like they haven't eaten in the store for a long time," Jiang Feng said.

"I haven't been here since the annual leave. Xue Hua was alone at noon today. She came to see you but you weren't here, so she told us." Wu Minqi said, the joy in her eyes obviously meant something. Good thing, "Xue Shaoheng won an award for this painting."

Wu Minqi mentioned a name that Jiang Feng had never heard of, but judging from Wu Minqi's tone, it should be a very remarkable award.

"Xue Hua said that the people in this painting are her and her mother, and Xue Shaoheng named him Mom and Sister. Xue Shaoheng started painting this painting in December, and it took more than half a year to complete it at the end of June. They have been abroad for two months, and they just got off the plane early this morning." Wu Minqi said, "Xue Shaoheng has spoken complete words now, do you know what he said in the media interview yesterday?"

"What?" Jiang Feng finally realized that this matter didn't seem so simple.

"A reporter asked him yesterday if the painting was inspired by his mother and his sister."

Jiang Feng felt that what the reporter asked was nonsense. This painting was about mother and sister, and the names were called mother and sister. Could it be that the inspiration came from sister and mother?

"He said no."

"ah?"

"He said the inspiration came from your pure meat wontons."

Jiang Feng: ...

He didn't know what to say.

If the students of the Academy of Fine Arts could see this interview, they would probably go crazy.

Just don't know if they can see it.

What Jiang Feng didn't know was that the students of the academy of fine arts had gone crazy.

The award that Xue Shaoheng won was actually even better than Jiang Feng had imagined.

To what extent is it so awesome, it is probably the level that Xue Shaoheng will walk outside from now on, and whenever he sees him, he will call him Master Xue.

When Ji Gezi dreamed of being an artist, he never dreamed that he could win this award.

Some buyers have already offered millions or even tens of millions of dollars to buy this painting by Xue Shaoheng. Of course, this price is inflated. After all, everyone knows about hype, but Xue Shaoheng insisted on not selling it.

Although he can speak complete words now, it is still very difficult to truly express the complex emotions in his heart. The reason why he didn't sell the painting was simple. It was the only evidence that he had ever seen the normal world.

Xue Shaoheng has no way to fully express his thoughts, and sometimes he expresses his thoughts will be misinterpreted by others and the media, so it is actually very difficult to understand his interviews.

He said that his inspiration came from the interview with Pure Meat Wonton, which is probably the only interview that everyone can understand what it means.

Xue Shaoheng spoke Chinese, and he only spoke pure meat chaos, neither Taifeng Tower nor Jiang Feng. It was not easy for him to say the four words pure meat wonton. The interview was freshly released last night. Due to the time difference, the interview video was not reported and reproduced by domestic media until this afternoon.

Foreign media reporters are still at a loss as to what pure meat wonton is. Of course they know what it is, but they don’t think that such a complete word from Xue Shaoheng’s mouth will be the simple one they imagined. ravioli.

Isn't it a magical food from the East?

Just when the foreign media reporters were still having a headache about how to write this damn interview that was so explosive at first glance, and the interviewers in other parts of the country didn’t understand what kind of ravioli this pure meat ravioli was, the Academy of Fine Arts Students have gone crazy.

The pure meat wontons are cooked!

Can you be unfamiliar? How many classmates have been driven crazy by this person who loves and hates.

Combined with Xue Shaoheng's biography, the pure meat wonton he mentioned must be the pure meat wonton they thought!

Having eaten "Destruction" from a bowl of pure meat wontons back then was enough to make countless students of the Academy of Fine Arts fearless of death, not to mention Xue Shaoheng.

Isn't it just crying, isn't it just distraught!

After so many years, those artists can’t do anything for the sake of art, so what is eating a bowl of wonton?

On the second day, Ji Yue was surprised to find that there were many new faces in the store.

There are a lot more, and it looks like the fresh faces of the students of the Academy of Fine Arts.

There are also some people with similar temperaments, but they really don't look like students at their age, so she has to suspect that they may be strange people who are professors from the Academy of Fine Arts.

She even seemed to have seen a famous painter in recent years, but Ji Yue was not sure, she suspected that she was wrong.

These people occupied the seats in the lobby to the brim. There were 6 people in the 4-person table, and 8 people in the 6-person table. There were so many people that they didn’t occupy the table. It just looked really weird.

All the while muttering, the tablet in my hand was changed from one person to another. Every person who took over the tablet seemed to have received a difficult task, with a dignified face, wandering and firm eyes, and the hand holding the tablet tightly, wishing to pinch a few holes out of the tablet.

The most important thing is that these people holding the tablet seem to have Parkinson's, not only their hands and legs are shaking, but even their whole body is shaking. This also caused the person holding the tablet to keep changing it. The tablet began to shake as soon as it was in the hand, and it returned to normal as soon as the tablet left the person, and even breathed a sigh of relief.

Ji Yue:?

"Qi Rou." Ji Yue decided to send out the most friendly and excellent waiter in their lobby who was good at inquiring about news, to find out what was going on with these guests.

It's like taking the wrong medicine, so don't make trouble if something happens.

"Go over there and see what's going on with those people from the Academy of Fine Arts. I feel like they are not normal today." Ji Yue whispered.

Qi Rou nodded, and walked towards one of the students of the Academy of Fine Arts who she recognized and said a few words to.

Then Qi Rou asked directly.

Ji Yue:?

The most important thing is that the student of the Academy of Fine Arts really answered, not only answered, but also took out his mobile phone and showed Qi Rou the video.

Qi Rou excitedly went back to tell Ji Yue what happened.

Ji Yue knew that Xue Hua came to look for Jiang Feng yesterday, and she led them to look for Wu Minqi. Later, Wu Minqi also told her that Xue Hua came here to announce the good news, because Xue Shaoheng won an award abroad because of Jiang Feng's pure meat wontons. But Wu Minqi didn't say what the specific award was at that time, probably because it was a bit confusing to remember the name for a while, and Ji Yue didn't care. There are many young artists who go abroad to win awards these days, and they can be called a genius when they return home. The name of the media is basically gone after the media blows it up.

Not to mention that although Xue Shaoheng looks very young and still a child, he is actually not young.

Ji Yue didn't expect him to speak so well.

Ji Yue was dumbfounded after hearing the information Qi Rou reported to her.

She knew why these art students and even professors seemed to have taken the wrong medicine.

Without further ado, Ji Yue went straight to the delivery window, and asked the handyman who was closest to him to call Jiang Feng out.

Jiang Feng, who had already wrapped the wontons and was cooking the wontons:?

"I think your wontons can be sold in another way." Ji Yue cut to the chase.

Jiang Feng:?

How else can I sell my 10 yuan bowl of wontons?

Ji Yue pointed to the guests in the lobby, especially those with 6 people at the 4-person table and 8 people at the 6-person table.

"did you see it?"

"I see, what's the matter?" Jiang Feng just felt that there seemed to be a lot of guests today, and there seemed to be more in the past. Did you add more tables?

"They all come to eat your wontons."

Jiang Feng:!

"Did you see that?" Ji Yue pointed to the painter she recognized but was not sure about, but now she was sure about it.

"Saw."

"He sells 6 figures for a painting, and he also came to eat your wontons."

Jiang Feng:! ! !

"Understood?" Ji Yue asked.

"Understood!" Jiang Feng understood immediately, what else did he not understand.

He will go back to contact Sun Maocai now, and then ask Ji Yue to contact Wang Xiulian. It is best to quickly discuss how to sell the wontons within these 20 minutes.

In another 20 minutes, noon business will start.

"Wait, there's one more thing." Ji Yue pulled Jiang Feng back with a solemn face.

Seeing that Ji Yue's expression became so serious, Jiang Feng thought there was something more urgent, and suddenly became nervous: "What else is there?"

"Can you sell one less bowl of wontons today, and save one bowl for me, as an employee benefit." Ji Yue looked at Jiang Feng pitifully, like a poor child who hasn't eaten pure meat wontons for a year.

Jiang Feng:? ? ?