CHAPTER XXXI

In the next two days, Du Qiyue has been working in the back kitchen of Zuifu Building so tepidly, Chef Wei is still smiling on his face, but he keeps crowding Du Qiyue in action, unless it is too late, he will never let Du Qiyue make snacks, so that Du Qiyue has become a helper of other chefs, doing a little by this side and doing a little by that side all day long.

Lei Cheng and his chefs have not been in Zuifu Mansion for a year or two, and they are basically clear about the entanglement between Du Fugui and Chef Wei back then, so they also understand what Chef Wei thinks in his heart, and he just wants to vent his anger on Du Qiyue. But it's been almost 20 years, and Du Fugui is gone, just do a little tricking, why don't you let Du Qiyue make snacks all day long. Their owner invited Du Qiyue to come and let Du Qiyue be the dim sum master, if Du Qiyue didn't make dim sum all the time, the news would not be blamed when the news reached the ears of their owner.

Not only these chefs, in fact, most people in the back kitchen think that Chef Wei is too small-bellied chicken intestines, and he has remembered a little grudge for 20 years, and it is really not Du Fugui's fault that incident at the beginning, if your Chef Wei is better than Du Fugui's skills, how can you not be the chef. Even if your own craftsmanship is poor, you still put the responsibility on others, and now that you are dead, you still remember other people's sons, but your heart is really smaller than the tip of a needle.

To say that Chef Wei hates Du Fugui, that's a sure thing. Chef Wei is from the town, the head of the family is not bad, he has loved to eat all kinds of dim sum since he was a child, and he makes it himself, his father and mother entrusted him to send him to Zuifu Lou to follow the dim sum master Wang Lao Man as an apprentice. Chef Wei's qualifications are good, and he can sneak around, and he was quite liked by Old Man Wang in the first two years, but things changed completely as soon as Du Fugui came.

Du Fugui is just a poor man in the countryside, he hasn't even eaten the most ordinary dim sum, he came to the back kitchen of Zuifulou to do the hardest and most tiring chores, but he was born to make dim sum, as long as he saw Old Man Wang do it once, he could follow it, the taste was quite good, and his talent could be said to be more than a little or two points higher than Chef Wei. Since he entered the eyes of Old Man Wang, the status of Chef Wei, the big apprentice, can be described as a sunset, and in the end, even the position of the chef he had in mind was snatched away by Du Fugui, how could he not hold a grudge against Du Fugui.

But if you want to say how much you hate, it doesn't necessarily matter how much, besides, it's been twenty years, no matter how small Chef Wei's heart is, he won't still think about revenge, let alone transfer this hatred to Du Qiyue. But he really hates Du Qiyue, so he is willing to give Du Qiyue a little suffering, but it will not be as difficult as now, after all, Du Qiyue is just here to do odd jobs, and he is not a chef who Wu Mingyao is seriously hired into the restaurant, so it will not affect Chef Wei's status in the back kitchen at all.

The reason why Chef Wei is now so squeezing out Du Qiyue is actually on the two small snacks that Du Qiyue made before. Those two dim sum dishes are very simple to make, especially pumpkin pie, which almost everyone can make. However, the simpler the dim sum, the more it can reflect the craftsmanship of the person who makes it, and Du Qiyue's two dim sum dishes taste much better than Chef Wei's later ones. This made Chef Wei have a huge sense of imbalance in his heart, why did Du Fugui press him back then, and now his son still wants to press him, it is precisely because of this jealousy that he did everything possible to make Du Qiyue unhappy, and tried his best to squeeze Du Qiyue out of Zuifulou.

At first, Du Qiyue was really unhappy, after all, no one likes to be troubled for no reason. But Du Qiyue has long been a kitchen veteran, and now he just changed the kitchen, Chef Wei's little trouble is really not a problem for him, and he is like a fish in water in a day.

Everyone in the kitchen thought that he was bullied by Chef Wei, so in order not to make people feel that he was not working for nothing, he had to rob other chefs of the chores, and he was busy all day long in the kitchen to chop meat and scrape the skin. In fact, Du Qiyue has been lazy when he is working, but others can't find out.

Just like the big basket of cucumbers waiting to be peeled in front of Du Qiyue, with his ability, he could cut them in twenty minutes with his eyes closed, but he maintained the same speed as the two people next to him who were peeling cucumbers together, and he couldn't finish it in less than thirty or forty minutes. In this way, others seem to be working hard, but for Du Qiyue, he is lazy.

Wu Mingyao has been dealing with the squire and aristocrats in Dahu Town for the past two days, going back and forth to different socials every day, and today he finally got free, so he went to Zuifu Building to inspect, of course, it was also to see if Du Qiyue had made any delicious dim sum, but what disappointed him was that Du Qiyue was not making dim sum but washing vegetables.

"Shopkeeper Li, what's going on?" Wu Mingyao stood at the door of the kitchen and pointed in the direction of Du Qiyue with a fan and asked.

"This, the owner, Chef Wei and Du Fugui, who make dim sum, originally had some festivals, and he was very unhappy that Xiaoyue came to work, and he had the intention to exclude him." Shopkeeper Li lowered his head and said.

He knew about this on the first day Du Qiyue came, but he couldn't help it, everyone in this restaurant knew that Chef Wei was bullying Du Qiyue, but he didn't commit the taboo of the restaurant, Shopkeeper Li couldn't catch the mistake at most, so he would mention a few words to Chef Wei, and he couldn't teach Chef Wei a lesson for Du Qiyue. A good pastry chef is not so easy to find, and if Chef Wei is unhappy and leaves, Shopkeeper Li will really not be able to find a replacement for a while. Du Qiyue's craftsmanship is good, but he can't stay in the restaurant all the time, sooner or later he will have to leave.

"Why didn't you tell me earlier?" Wu Mingyao asked with a frown.

"I've thought about things for so many years, even if Chef Wei isn't happy in his heart, he won't do anything too embarrassing, who knows he will be like this, I can't say it." Shopkeeper Li said with a wrinkled old face.

Wu Mingyao snorted, although Shopkeeper Li didn't do it beautifully, he couldn't blame him, if he stayed in Shopkeeper Li's position, he wouldn't casually offend Chef Wei for Du Qiyue. Every place has its own rules and balance, Wu Mingyao suddenly got Du Qiyue into the drunken Fu Lou to break the balance before the kitchen, if you want to restore the balance, you need Du Qiyue to come by himself, if he doesn't have the ability to solve Chef Wei's difficulties, then even if Wu Mingyao or Shopkeeper Li helps him teach Chef Wei a lesson, he won't stay long.

"Forget it, you go back to the front, I'll talk to Le Ya for a while." Wu Mingyao shook the fan and went into the kitchen by himself.

Wu Mingyao stepped into the kitchen, and the people in the kitchen stopped what they were doing, bowed their heads one by one, and Du Qiyue also stood up and wiped his hands on his apron.

"Keep working, don't worry about me." Wu Mingyao said, then walked straight to Du Qiyue and asked, "Has Le Ya come up with any delicious snacks in the past two days?" I heard from my cousin that the loquat stuffed meat dish you made for him last time was very good. ”

"It's called chicken paste loquat spring, it can also be regarded as a steamed dish, I heard that the young master had a bad cough that day, so I made this, loquat is very good for coughing. I was supposed to make some loquat paste, but it didn't look good, so I didn't do it. Du Qiyue said, in fact, he originally wanted to make wine-stuffed kumquat lotus root flour balls, but when he arrived in the kitchen, he remembered that Dafeng Dynasty did not have such a food as lotus root flour now. I couldn't get my hands on loquat paste loquat sugar water or anything, so I had to make this dish that was barely counted as a snack.

"My cousin eats well, and he specially asked me to send you a thank you courtesy." Wu Mingyao took out a palm-sized wooden flower and bird pattern tea caddy from his sleeve pocket and stuffed it to Du Qiyue and said, "This is the famous Yunlu tea, it's really cheap for you." ”

Tea is a delicate thing, the yield is small, the process of making zuò is complicated, and the price is high, which is a luxury for ordinary people. Du Qiyue's family used to make some tea when guests came to the door, and he usually didn't drink it, so he didn't know anything about Yunlu tea and Yulu tea at all. However, Wu Mingyao's cousin can give him tea as a thank you gift, which is really enough for Du Qiyue's decency, tea is a kind of elegant thing, it is the favorite drink of literati, and people give him tea, which is a kind of respect for him as a scholar. Although Du Qiyue hoped that Wu Mingyao's cousin would be happy to reward him with dozens of taels of silver, the intimate act of giving him tea still made him very happy.

"Then Qi Yue has thanked the young master here, and I ask the owner to go back and help bring thanks." Du Qiyue respectfully put away the tea jar and said.

Wu Mingyao watched Du Qiyue stuff the tea jar into his sleeve, a little reluctant, and muttered: "Although this Yunlu tea is not famous, the taste is indeed rare and good, but there are too few things and few people can eat it, so I don't know how good it is." This tea is only on the Mahayana Mountain behind the Mahayana Temple in Haijun, there are seventeen tea trees, all grow on the cliff of 100 meters high, pick the young leaves and tea hearts when the dew is not dry in the early summer morning every year, fry and put it into a jar made of 100-year-old red sandalwood, put it for a year and taste the best. When drinking, boil the water with the first snow of the osmanthus stored for a year, take the white porcelain teacup, brew the first two times and taste slightly bitter, after three times, the bitter taste is faintly revealed with a subtle sweetness, the most delicious is not to drink, only one bite can make people feel comfortable, and the aftertaste is endless. ”

Wu Mingyao said in a more reluctant tone, Du Qiyue quietly put the arm containing the tea jar behind his back, if Wu Mingyao didn't say Yunlu tea so well, Du Qiyue might have transferred this can of tea to Wu Mingyao, but Wu Mingyao said this tea so well, Du Qiyue was reluctant to give it to people. He has never lost his mouth since he was a child, and after the age of eighteen, he has eaten all the delicacies of the mountains and seas, and now he has come to this world but even a piece of meat has to be counted and eaten, and he has never eaten good things.

Wu Mingyao said so much, in fact, he didn't really want to ask Du Qiyue for it, Zhao Yiyun gave him several cans of this tea when he first came, and he didn't lack that good tea, but he just felt that it was a pity to give such a good Yunlu tea to Du Qiyue, a kid who had never seen the world at first glance. Seeing Du Qiyue put his hand behind his back, he also felt a little embarrassed that he had given away something like this, so he closed his mouth.