Guan Qidong took a little rest, and the time was almost noon, and Guan Qidong refused Canghai's invitation to him to eat at home, and he decided to eat with the students.

When Guan Qidong walked out of the kiln door and came to the kitchen, he found that the master who cooked this time had changed, not the previous Li Liren, but a few people he had never seen before, a man with a lot of water, and his clothes were all chef clothes, and he was very clean and tidy when he wore them.

"How many of you, haven't you seen you before?"

Guan Qidong took out a cigarette from his pocket and gave it to the masters.

Several masters took the cigarette and did not smoke it, but clamped it next to their ears.

The eldest of the fourties, who looked to be about forty years old, opened his mouth and said, "We just came here yesterday, and if you are old in the future, you will often see us."

"Are you the head chef?" Guan Qidong pulled a small bench and sat down, asking with a smile while helping to choose dishes.

The old man said: "What kind of chef, there are three people under his command! My father and Li Erye used to be brothers, but now the business of the county restaurant is not good, and I am resting at home, no, Li Erye said that there is work in the village to be done, so he remembered that I was here......."

"What is your surname?" asked Guan Qidong.

"You are also surnamed Li, and the second master Li has the same surname, but they are not related, these boys are all nephews of my own family, the youngest nephew, who just graduated from high school last year and was admitted to college without the ability, so he followed me to learn to cook," said the chef elder Li.

Lao Li knew that all the people who came this time were from Jingshi University, and for the families in this area, being admitted to university would be equivalent to Wenqu Xing, and being knowledgeable is a respectable person, so Lao Li was quite polite to Guan Qidong, and asked what to answer.

It was the village's decision to hire a chef, and it was a bit uneconomical to fix Li Liren in the kitchen, how much would it cost to raise a team of local chefs for a year?

Li Liren and his family are all liberated, how much income can they bring to the village? Even if Hu Shijie is not good at arithmetic, he can calculate it, and besides, Li Liren doesn't want to be in charge all day long, and he also wants to get the first prize in the village.

The chef invited is the son of Li Liren, who used to learn from the chef's brother, and his skills are very good, plus there is nothing to do now, the economy of the northwest is not good, the industry and commerce are poor, and the most on the street are restaurants, there are so many restaurants, and there are few guests, so almost every day there are restaurants closed, and new restaurants are opened every day, which has become a kind of cycle.

Lao Li originally opened a restaurant outside, but the business was really not good, in addition to rent, water, electricity, and labor wages every year, there was not much money left, so he closed the hotel and was ready to wait for the farm to go to the south to find an opportunity, just Li Liren was looking for someone here, and the first one thought of him, and the two hit it off, so Lao Li brought a few nephews and nephews over.

"It's good to be a chef, because there are my students living in this village, and he likes to cook and cook well," Guan Qidong said.

Lao Li followed and asked, "You're talking about Boss Cang, right?"

"Hmm!"

"That's a capable person! Now I don't know how many villages envy Sijiaping Village has such a person, I tell you, now every family forces their children to go to school has worked a lot, many families didn't mind before, thinking that children don't study and go outside to work, now because of the deeds of Boss Cang, one by one are looking forward to the children can go to college to learn more culture......" Lao Li is very good at chatting, and began to tout the sea.

Guan Qidong nodded and said: "That's for sure, in the past few decades, whether you were illiterate or simply illiterate, as long as you are bold and dare to do, you can succeed, like the first batch of people in China to get rich, how many are highly educated? But now it is not good, you look at the current business leaders, there are a few who are not highly educated, what does this mean? In the past, it was the stage of wealth accumulation, and it was courage, a brave word, but now it is not possible." Almost every industry has developed, and it's hard to get ahead in the industry without knowledge."

"Isn't that what you said!"

Lao Li patted his thigh: "I can't wait to pick up my two cowards now, and study for them, but it's a pity, it's useless, the grades are still rotten like, what do you say to them, it's like the spring breeze pouring donkey ears - this ear goes in, that ear goes out, and the child can't always play with bamboo shoots and fried meat ...... when he is older."

Hearing what Lao Li said was interesting, Guan Qidong laughed.

"Your clothes are quite new, huh?" asked Guan Qidong.

Lao Li stretched out his clothes: "I just got on last night, you can rest assured, we are absolutely hygienic here, and the dishes are absolutely fresh enough! I'm not talking nonsense to you, have you seen the regulations in the kitchen......?

"So strict?" Guan Qidong was a little surprised.

A young man interjected and said: "It's strict, it is estimated that the county recruitment does not have this requirement, and even stipulates the process of washing vegetables!"

"Do your work honestly, people pay us to work, and you have to abide by other people's rules when you eat other people's food, why don't you kid say that you used to take 2,000 yuan, but now it has grown into 4,000 yuan?

Lao Li yelled at his nephews.

4,000 yuan is considered a high salary other than civil servants, as for tens of thousands, ordinary people who have no technology and no education are just heard, and ordinary people can't get so much.

Originally, he had a face, and when he faced Guan Qidong, he put on a smile: "The children are a little lazy, but I will keep an eye on it, don't worry, the food here is definitely not worse than what you eat in your star hotel!"

"Then I'll be waiting here at noon to taste your craft?" Guan Qidong said.

Lao Li smiled and patted his chest: "You can see, okay! Your side is the standard of working meals, two meat dishes and three small vegetarian dishes per person, and the rice is enough?"

Guan Qidong listened and nodded: "Well, it seems like this."

In the past, when everyone came, they ate and drank nonsense, because there were few people, so it became a guest to just order people.

But now you can't do this, Sijiaping Village doesn't expect to make money, but it can also lose money, like before, pay a little money, every meal is big fish and meat, even if you don't have such a cheap thing to eat at home.

Therefore, when we came this time, we talked about the standard, and every student and teacher was the same, a standard lunch.

"Today's steamed fish segments, leek prawns, and our special big bowl of meat, in addition to braised duck pieces, vegetarian dishes will not be an example, when the time comes, you can choose what you like," Lao Li said.

"Okay!" Guan Qidong nodded with satisfaction when he heard that it was quite hearty.

After choosing dishes for a while, I walked around the kitchen and found that a lot of equipment had been added to the kitchen, and the original wood stove had been replaced by a standard gas stove, lined up, with four stoves and two steaming drawers. In one corner of the kitchen are two gas canisters more than one person high.

Look at the canteen again, it has also been renovated, it was originally a cloth shed, and now it has been replaced with a steel frame body, an antique style building, spacious and bright, the rows of chairs are all solid wood, only a layer of varnish, through the varnish you can see the beautiful original wood texture, a table with two benches, almost six people can sit for dinner, and the whole restaurant can almost accommodate two hundred people.

The top of the restaurant is made of bamboo, these dead lamps are very distinctive, some are like bamboo baskets, some are like hats, full of farmhouse style, and the roof does not use a suspended ceiling, directly exposing the steel frame and wood plank pattern above, as well as the air conditioning pipes, which are refreshing, tidy and pleasing to the eye.

As soon as I looked at this restaurant, I knew that it was designed, and the pools and food boxes were placed in a very orderly manner, which was certainly not something that a half-tone designer could play, and after just a glance, Guan Qidong saw the small style of his students and guessed that it was his students' handwriting.

He saw the talent of his students from it, but he knew that his students would never be able to calm down and inherit their mantle in this life, and he was a little lost in his heart.

Turning back to his kiln, Guan Qidong sat down and read the book for a while, feeling that he was still a little upset, so he came out for a walk again, stood at the mouth of the small village, looked into the distance, looked at the endless undulating yellow earth, and suddenly felt that his heart was open-minded, and the depression in his heart was reduced a lot.

I was about to go back to the village when I suddenly heard a commotion in the distance, and turned my head to find a group of students playing and taking pictures on the lawn below the slope.

Today's students don't seem to know how to live their lives without social media, and when they arrive in a new place, they either post on Moments or on Weibo, Guan Qidong also tries to play with the thinking of young people for a while, but I always feel that I don't know what the point is in brushing this thing every day.

Even so, Guan Qidong also tried to understand young people, because this society will always belong to young people, no matter how awesome you are, you can't live for thousands of years, and the future society and this country will have to rely on these young people, because only youth is the future.

Guan Qidong carefully slowly descended from the slope to the big lawn, only to find that a group of people were patting the poultry in the stream, and from time to time you can see a group of pigs coming out of the bamboo forest shrubs, and sometimes there will be an old sow with seven or eight mixed wild boars leisurely appearing next to the stream.

As for the rabbits, weasels, pheasants, etc., not to mention in groups, but from time to time you can always see one or two of them popping out, and then they are frightened and fleeing in fear amid the shouts of the students.

When the teachers who came with him saw Guan Qidong coming, they immediately said hello to the old man.

"Teacher Guan, I really didn't expect that this place is simply Xiaojiangnan."

"Xiao Jiangnan, where can I still find such a place in Jiangnan now? Some wild things are estimated to have been caught almost by people, you see, the wild things here are not very afraid of people, just now a pheasant walked two or three meters in front of me, and when I wanted to catch it, it actually flapped its wings and flew away."

"Didn't you say there were bears, why didn't you see them?" asked the only female teacher.

Guan Qidong said with a smile: "Now is the time for farming, Xiong Du went over to help."

"The bear can still help, don't fool me," the female teacher who spoke just now laughed.

"It's not helping, it's actually just dragging something or something, and then when it's time to eat, the villagers here will give some food to the bear, to put it bluntly, it's actually the same as training a dog, and a well-trained dog will also buy vegetables, and the bear's IQ is actually not lower than that of a dog." Forget it, now I tell you that you won't believe it, and I'll take you all to the place where the villagers grow melons in the afternoon," Guan Qidong said.

"The weather here is really good, it's neither hot nor cold, just a thick coat and a single coat," a student came up.

In majors that are linked to art, the relationship between teachers and students is more casual than that of pure science and engineering, and the relationship between teachers and students is closer.

"It's quite cold at night, and it's about four or five degrees now, so when the sun goes down and you come out again, you'll have to add a sweater to your body."

After Guan Qidong finished speaking, he said: "In fact, this time is not the best season, if you come in summer, you can eat watermelon, don't think that the watermelon here is the same as the one you buy on the street, the watermelon here is not sold on the market, and it enters the processing plant when it goes out of the field. There are no wild fruits, no snow, and no watermelon, so it's not the best time."