The county seat, the western suburbs, on the bank of the Suolong River.

Zhou An rode an electric tricycle straight to the street here, the street here is relatively dilapidated, and the side adjacent to the Suolong River is a long flood control wall, three meters high, is to prevent the river water in the Suolong River from pouring into the entire county during the rainy season every year.

On the other side of the street, there are houses of different heights, all of which are old houses from twenty or thirty years ago, but they are still popular now, because the rent here is cheap! In short, Zhou An looked at the old houses, in front of the doors of the old houses or on the balconies on the second and third floors, clothes were drying, and occasionally one or two sexy women's underwear could be seen.

Zhou An came here to find someone, a young chef who could fry vegetarian dishes for him.

In his previous life, he learned to cook at the Regent Hotel in the county seat, and the master he followed back then should be working at the Regent Hotel now, but Zhou An didn't want to find the master in his previous life.

It's not that his master's skills are too bad to even fry vegetarian dishes, in fact, the master he used to work with is still good at cooking.

He is especially good at roasting seafood, and the seafood practice over there in Zhejiang cuisine.

Zhou An didn't want to go to the former master, the reason was complicated.

First of all, his master is good at making seafood, and vegetarian dishes can definitely be fried, but he wants to ask a master who makes seafood to go to a small shop for him to fry vegetarian dishes?

Or poaching people from a three-star hotel like the Regent Hotel, the difficulty is really not ordinary.

For example, if a kindergarten pokes a high school Chinese teacher to teach children to read and write, it is not entirely a question of salary, but also the willingness of people to be low.

Secondly, Zhou An still has a bit of a psychological obstacle, he is afraid of inviting the master in his previous life, he usually has a psychological barrier when he commands, and he is embarrassed to call him arbitrarily.

There is another important reason - the master he followed in his previous life was not very good-tempered.

It can even be said that it is very bad!

It's not that Zhou An, who is an apprentice, doesn't respect the master and arranges it randomly, but the facts!

Do you know how Zhou An worshipped that master back then?

In fact, it was not Zhou An's teacher who rushed to worship back then, but the master chef who was good at making seafood took the initiative to do his ideological work several times, and Zhou An reluctantly agreed.

If you elaborate, it will be a long time.

The master's surname is Zhong, he was once married and has a beautiful daughter, but he has long been divorced, and his daughter follows his ex-wife, Master Zhong usually lives alone, and he only has the opportunity to visit his daughter once a month.

But he doesn't cherish the opportunity to visit his daughter, often only half a year, or even a year to see his daughter, the rest of the time, he always cares about himself chic.

Of course, he still gives his daughter's living expenses, as a master who is good at roasting seafood, his salary is not low, the general salary in Yinma County is only four or five hundred years, and Master Zhong has a high salary of 4500 per month, so he has no pressure to pay his daughter's living expenses every month.

The extra money, in addition to drinking, is to go to the hair salon or nightclub lady, Zhou An remembered that many people laughed behind their backs at that time: without Gu Long's talent, but infected with Gu Long's disease.

The salary is not low, but he can't save money because of his indiscriminate spending.

The temper is also a little weird, anyway, Master Zhong had a very poor relationship in the kitchen of the Regent Hotel.

How bad is it?

1. No one wants to serve him with dishes, he needs to report to the head chef every once in a while, and then the head chef forcibly orders him, and several masters with side dishes reluctantly serve him.

Second, no one wants to give him a lotus.

At that time, including Zhou An, there were five people in the kitchen, but none of the five people were willing to give Master Zhong a lotus.

Other masters have lotus beaters behind him, as a master chef who makes seafood, but Master Zhong doesn't, the dish is cooked, and there is no one to help get a plate, which is called a miserable.

The master of the board prepared the dishes for him, because no one gave him a lotus, so he had to go to the board himself to bring it over.

When the dishes are cooked, they have to be served to the food table.

There is no harm if there is no comparison, Master Zhong sees that other masters have a hand to play lotus, but he has to do everything himself, of course his heart is unbalanced.

He tried to find the head chef and assigned him an apprenticeship to do the lotus.

The problem is that this time even the head chef didn't come forward.

Why?

The salary of the lotus is low, and the head of the head stove is only 1,200 a month, like Zhou An, they are only a pitiful four or five hundred per month.

Compared with the salary of the master of the board starting from 2,000, or even more than 3,000, and compared with the high salary of the masters in charge of the spoon starting from 3,000 and 5,000, and the head stove is 7,800.

The wages of the lotus are simply sad and tearful when they see them, especially compared to the swear words and tiring work they usually do.

By the way, it was about '06.

Most of the migrant workers in Yinma County have a monthly salary of more than 1,000, and those who are better can already get 15,000 or more than 2,000.

The salary of the lotus job is so low, and the work is dirty and tiring, and the chef may be scared of the chef usually, but as soon as the rebellious psychology comes up, the chef is not easy to speak.

Because who's afraid of who?

With the development of the country's economy, the industrial park of Yinma County is thriving, jobs are getting easier and easier to find, wages are getting higher and higher, and there are very few young people learning to cook.

The work is dirty and tiring, and he is scolded and blamed every day, the salary is still so low, and he can't see the hope of becoming a teacher for three or two years.

No one wants to learn to be a chef anymore, but all hotels of all sizes are indispensable for apprentices, and they are still squeezing the wages of apprentices.

It can be said that since then, apprentices have become a sought-after commodity, and everyone has no worries about finding a job.

Anyway, the head chef spoke, but still no one was willing to give Chef Zhong a lotus.

The head chef wanted to get angry a little, but he endured it all the time, and didn't dare to scold, he was also afraid that he wouldn't be able to stand the anger and leave in anger.

In the end, he asked Master Zhong to find a way to communicate with a few lotus workers by himself, or Master Zhong found an apprentice from outside to come in, as long as the salary was reasonable.

The ball was kicked back into Master Zhong's hands and he was asked to find an apprentice from outside...... There are so many big hotels that lack apprentices, with his popularity, how likely is it to find them from outside?

No way, he began to lure.

In the name of collecting apprentices, he tempted Zhou An and a few of them to play lotus, especially Zhou An.

Why?

Because of the head lotus, Master Zhong didn't dare to hook up, that was the forbidden side of Master Touzao, and if he hooked up with a lotus, he would inevitably offend Master Touzao.

And Zhou An's proficiency and work ability at that time were the best one except for the head lotus.

It's a shame that Zhou An didn't resist Master Zhong's temptation, and after two days of entanglement, he nodded and agreed to apprentice, and then took charge of giving Master Zhong a hand.

Why do you struggle for two days?

There are two reasons, one is that there are very few opportunities to learn to make seafood, and how expensive seafood is! The seafood raised in the fish tank of the aquatic department of the Regent Hotel is often two or three hundred yuan a catty, and as an apprentice, Zhou An is qualified to practice with these fish?

Not to mention practicing, when a fish is cooked, it is great that you can use chopsticks to dip some soup to try the taste, and you want to taste a bite of fish? Which piece of chopsticks do you plan to put on the fish? Where do you place the chopsticks, and the guests can't see it when they eat?

Learning seafood, there are very few opportunities to get hands-on, and even the opportunity to try the taste is very rare, and it is naturally extremely difficult to learn the technique of roasting seafood.

Another reason is that Master Zhong has a strange temper and often yells at Dahe, and Zhou An doesn't want to serve this ancestor.

But in the end, he still didn't resist the temptation of apprenticeship, because the other masters had no intention of accepting apprentices.

And Zhou An wants to learn more technology.