Chapter 108: A Fateful Encounter
Li Yu didn't expect that the old man in front of him, who looked only a few years younger than Lei Qilian, actually knew about Mousse's video?
Although he was surprised, he quickly replied: "It's good if you call me Xiaoyu... That's right, I took that video, and I was playing with a bunch of kids..."
As soon as he finished saying this, Yao Xishen laughed, he pointed at Li Yu and said: "My granddaughter watched your video and was clamoring to eat mousse. Now, the Lord will send it to the door, you have to take the time to teach me how to do it, and go back to surprise my granddaughter!"
When Li Yu heard this, he could only touch his head, before the age gap of fifty years, it was always right to pretend.
Sure enough, Lei Qilian came out for Li Yu, and he waved his hand and said, "It's no problem to teach you to make mousse, I promised you for Li Yu." But if he's looking for you today, you have to help out. ”
Yao Xi was stunned when he heard this, he glanced at Li Yu and asked, "Do you want me to help?
"That's right, it's knife making. Lei Qilian didn't sell it, and said: "What Xiao Yu used before was your Osendan Chinese kitchen knife, the fourteen-centimeter one." You also know our chef's requirements for knives, I originally wanted to bring him to your booth, just to see if I could meet a director, but I didn't expect to meet you, brother, so...."
Before Lei Qilian's words were finished, he was interrupted by Yao Xishen: "Brother Lei, I understand what you said, if you had come to me two years earlier, if you didn't say anything, I would have opened the turnstile for you immediately, but now.... Hey..."
With that, he stretched out his left hand in front of Lei Qilian, and saw that there were several raised marks on the wrist like dead wood.
Lei Qilian hissed, and asked a little anxiously: "Brother Yao, what's the matter with your hand...?"
Yao Xishen put down his arm and said: "Arm varicose veins and tenosynovitis, I have been recuperating for more than two years, although it is life-threatening, not to mention the knife of the opening mechanism, some heavy objects cannot be lifted, hey, people, the age is up..."
Looking at the mark on Yao Xishen's hand, neither Li Yu nor Lei Qilian spoke about asking him to make knives, whether it was a Chinese-style steel forging knife or a Western-style turnstile forging, the sensitivity of the wrist was very high.
Even in some links, Western-style turnstile forging is stronger than Chinese-style hammering, such as the pressing of some blades, which requires the use of dozens of tons of pressure of industrial presses, such as before Li Yu's rebirth, the head chef of Louis XV's restaurant, Alan Ducasse, known as the king of food, used the main knife pressed under the 60-ton press.
What kind of concept is this? Under the turnstiles of dozens of tons of impulse, unless it is those innate divine iron in the novel, whether you are copper, iron, steel and gold, all of them are like our fingers pressing a sponge, without any resistance.
In order to ensure that the blade is not flattened under this momentum, the operator needs to have a very high degree of control over the wrist, and this kind of talent can even be called a strategic resource - this is really not a joke, in the 80s in China, a well-known Dagang top bridge crane workers, and their families were even restricted from going abroad, and they could not even take planes on weekdays, but could only take trains (Note 1).
And Yao Xishen's hands are full of pain and traces left by the medical process, and there is no doubt that it is no longer possible to control the turnstile.
"Forget it, let's not talk about that. Yao Xishen waved his hand and said to Li Yu: "Now it is estimated that there are only three or five domestic knife forging masters alive, and they are basically members of the ministries and commissions, and you may not be able to move them when you have a rank." Otherwise, I'll introduce a junior to you, the level is very good, Brother Lei should have heard his name, called Cadia. ”
Li Yu didn't express his position at the first time, but looked at Lei Qilian, only to see Lei Qilian nodded: "Lao Yao said that this person is quite reliable, the runner-up of the World Steel Forging Competition last year, although it is not as good as the top steel forging masters in China, it can already be regarded as the top in the second gear, why Lao Yao, he is now in the magic capital?"
Yao Xishen nodded and said, "He is now one of the directors of Osendam, and he is flying to the Demon Capital with me this time, what do you think of Xiaoyu?"
Since Lei Qilian and Yao Xishen said yes, Li Yu didn't act coyly, he nodded and said, "No problem, then trouble Yao Lao." ”
Yao Xishen waved his hand, signaled Li Yu not to be polite, and then said: "Kadiya is visiting the exhibited works of domestic merchants on the first floor at this time, you wait for a while, I will go downstairs to find him, speaking of which, he is still a fan of Brother Lei." ”
As soon as he finished speaking, Yao Xishen turned around and went downstairs, leaving Li Yu and Lei Qilian staring dryly.
Lei Qilian scolded with a smile, 'This old Yao', and then shrugged his shoulders at Li Yu: "Okay, let's not wait, let's find a place to sit." ”
Saying that, he was about to take Li Yu to the side to rest, but suddenly his steps stagnated and he stopped standing.
Li Yu hurriedly asked with concern, "Lei Lao, are you okay?"
Lei Qilian is more than seventy years old this year, and he hasn't stopped for an hour since he entered the venue, is his body overloaded?
Lei Qilian waved his hand and said, "It's okay, I saw a few leaders of the municipal party committee, it's not okay not to say hello on this occasion... In this way, Xiaoyu, you go to the seat and rest first, I'll go and say hello to them, and I'll be there for you later. ”
Li Yu naturally did not refuse this, the group of people opposite was all around fifty years old, it was really awkward for a young man in his twenties on this occasion, and he had no idea of dealing with people in the officialdom for the time being, so it was better to hide away first.
After seeing Lei Qilian pass, Li Yu casually walked around the second floor, to be honest, there are still a lot of unique exhibits in this kitchenware exhibition today, such as crystal kitchen knives, diamond soup pots, this 'concept' product, which has earned enough visitors' attention.
Just as Li Yu was staring at a jade soup spoon with interest, a strange voice with a little familiarity suddenly sounded from behind him: "Hello, you are... Li Yu?"
ps: Note 1: After the founding of the People's Republic of China to the time of opening up, whether it is an academic expert or a top technician, you can't take a plane when you travel, you can only take a train - for fear of being manipulated by the enemy, the survival rate of a plane accident is basically 0, and there is a survival probability in a train accident.
Therefore, in many precious film and television documents, most of the academic masters or top talents who enter the camera are on the train.
Mr. Shi Shaoxi, the father of the Chinese internal combustion engine, refused to take the plane and took the train instead when he went out five years before his death (in 1995, when there was no longer a hard and fast rule for taking the train), and he said something that touched me deeply: "Being tossed on the train road will make me short for two or three months at most, so I can live for a few years." If something happens to the plane, it's a hundred over, I still have a few years to live, and I can help the country move two steps forward. ”
PS2: Today is the first change, a bad cold...