"Why?"

That's a long way to say. Xue Yi suddenly stretched out his hand: "What about the letter?"

Su Zifang took out the letter from his bag and handed it with both hands.

Xue Yi took the letter in his hand and sighed: "This letter is the last letter your grandfather wrote to me. After this letter, he didn't contact me for a long time, and I went to Jingling to learn that he had sold the shop. What happened?"

"Grandpa, because he had something at home, he had to buy a shop and return to the north, and my father didn't say anything about the rest of the matter. But I probably know that my grandfather died of depression because he couldn't be a chef, and before he died, he asked my father to buy back the shop he sold. And my father is really good at cooking...... Forget it, don't mention it. He opened a dry goods store in the north all his life. At first, I was sent to learn to cook just so that I could get to know some chef classmates and go back to use my connections to develop the dry goods industry, but I didn't expect that when I graduated, I suddenly knew that they had bought back my grandfather's shop, and this is the story of my going to Jingling. ”

Su Zifang finished saying everything he knew in a few words, and looked at Xue Yi.

"I see. Xue Yi sighed.

"Back then, your grandfather's cooking skills were very good, I was in Linzhou, he was in Jingling, usually occasionally I always wrote a letter to exchange cooking practice, I studied Huaiyang cuisine, I think that being a chef should dig deep into a cuisine to the extreme, can be called a culinary master. But your grandfather is different, he thinks that cooking should be based on the strengths of others, and then bring forth the old and new to form his own cooking style, and then he can be considered a culinary master. ”

"Later, we had a disagreement over these things and decided to make a bet. The two sides jointly select an ancient dish, restore it in their own way, and ask someone to judge the taste to judge whose cooking thinking is better. ”

"It's a pity that as soon as the bet was made, your grandfather went back. The competition was put on hold. ”

Xue Yi took a few people into the house while talking, the tea set on the table had already been burned, and Xue Xinjian obediently poured tea for everyone.

"Master Xue, wouldn't that dish you are talking about?" Su Zifang had already thought about it, and still opened his mouth to confirm.

"That's right, it's the shrimp rot you made. ”

Xue Yi took out a few color photos from his hand: "This is the photo I printed out by someone else, and the two dishes I asked you to make, you can tell me what is the difference." ”

Su Zifang spread out the photo and found that it was indeed Longjing shrimp and shrimp rot that he had made.

"The second one is better than the first. Su Zifang replied truthfully.

"What's so good?" Xue Yi tapped his finger on the table.

"Because the knife work and the heat are different. Su Zifang understood his situation very well and blurted out.

"Think about it again?" Xue Yi was obviously not satisfied with this answer.

"That's, what?"

"It's the heart. Xue Yi put down the tea bowl in his hand, "Although I haven't eaten the food you cooked, judging from these photos, your state of mind when cooking is completely different." ”

"For example, this shrimp rot. When you make it for the first time, although the ingredients, heat, and performance are all up to standard, it is obvious that you have not yet gotten rid of the shackles of the recipe, and you have been thinking about the proportion of egg liquid and steaming, which is also very important in cooking, but it has fallen into the inferiority. ”

Xue Yi moved the first photo away, revealing the second photo below.

"The second photo is different, you use two kinds of egg mixture to make egg custard, and then stack and press out the water to form shrimp rot, so that the finished product will take into account the smoothness of the egg and the strong fragrance of the duck egg, but also retain the unique fragrance of the shrimp powder. ”

"It's just that I'm still curious about how you did this? You know, your grandfather and I were already senior chefs, but we were still confused at this step, blindly trying to restore the practices of the ancients, and even made many nondescript attempts. ”

Looking at Xue Yi's sincere eyes, Su Zifang was embarrassed to say the rhetoric that fooled Xue Xinjian, his brain turned quickly, and finally thought of a sentence: "Maybe I didn't want to study hard in school at the beginning, so I was relieved to polish my interpersonal relationships, and I started to learn cooking when I graduated, so I didn't have much opportunity to accept the solidification of thinking?"

"Hmm......" Xue Yi fell into thought, "Indeed, the chef industry, whether it is the previous master or the current teacher, is mostly based on the church, in this case, the innovation ability of the new chef is getting worse and worse, and he can only consume the recipes of his predecessors." ”

"It is worthy of being the grandson of Su Xingchao, bold enough, exactly the same as he was back then. I'm very optimistic about you!" Xue Yi nodded, showing a satisfied smile.

Seeing Xue Yi's attitude, Su Zifang also put down his heart and asked boldly questions.

"Then, Master Xue, can I still participate in the Huaiyang Cuisine Exchange Meeting now, after all, I ...... before? Huh......?"

"Do you really want to go, why are you going?" Xue Yi didn't answer Su Zifang's question, but let him make his own choice.

Su Zifang was a little speechless.

If it was before today, he might have told others directly that he would go, because even if he couldn't win the championship and get Xue Yi's culinary inheritance, it would be happy enough to get the ranking.

But Xue Yi's question made Su Zifang realize a problem.

That is, he doesn't seem to care about what this exchange will do at all, only thinking about the final result.

But in this case, in fact, he has already obtained Longjing shrimp and shrimp curd from Xue Yiping, which is not much better than the inheritance cuisine, so why is there any need to participate?

"I'm sure you've heard that this Huaiyang Cuisine Cooking Exchange Conference will choose one of the winning contestants to take over my mantle, although I don't want to make this matter so utilitarian and philistine, but Huaiyang cuisine is a great synthesis of knife work and technical connection, and every top Huaiyang cuisine is a feast of sight and taste formed by countless chefs for thousands of years. ”

"So......" Su Zifang didn't quite understand why Xue Yi wanted to say this to him.

"The Huaiyang cuisine industry has been sleeping for too long, so long that many people don't know that Longjing shrimp is a substitute formed because of the lack of Longjing shrimp, so long that most people think that chrysanthemum tofu is the top knife work in the Huaiyang cuisine industry, and those Huaiyang restaurants that look decent can't even make a complete set of three sets of duck. ”

"Is this because they don't have to work?"

"No!"

"They all got into the eyes of money, and they all thought about how to make money with orthodox Huaiyang cuisine, but they didn't think about developing Huaiyang cuisine. Xue Yi's tone was a little excited, and even his beard fluttered.

"Zifang, I admit it, I have selfish intentions. I seem to want you to stimulate these muddy Huaiyang chefs, let them know that there are people outside the sky, don't always guard your own acres and thirds of land and think that you are sorry. ”

Su Zifang: ......

Now I understand, I think of myself as a catfish with a catfish effect: "Sure enough, the old fox is not simple!"