In September, Su Yan and Ning Le went down for the third time.

As the third time of the children's examination, the college examination is more formal than the first two, with a total of two exams, one for the main test and one for the second test, each of which takes three days. It is not that the candidates will be selected to participate in the re-examination after the main examination, but that the re-examination will be carried out directly after three days of the main examination, that is, the examination will be carried out for six consecutive days, and the results will be the sum of the results of the two examinations, which has caused a greater psychological burden to the candidates who have experienced the pressure of the county examination and the government examination, because there are many people who have played this role. Su Yan and Ning Le's faces were gray when they went to the examination room on the first day, and although Su Miao was worried, she couldn't help them, so she could only pray silently for them in her heart.

It's also September, and this month is also a bad month for Su Kee Pinxian Building, this month is the worst month for Su Kee's business since it opened, and the reason is very simple, the already small number of customers has returned to Pinxian Building on Ling Yuen Street again. It is said that the popularity of the restaurant has increased since the new chef changed, and although it no longer continues the traditional style of the restaurant, it is more interesting than the original, and it has attracted many people who were not interested in the restaurant.

Su Miao hadn't been there, but when she heard the news, she was a little shocked by Tong Ran's bold reform and daring to decisively abandon her previous style, and at the same time, she was deeply curious about the new chef who looked thirteen or fourteen years old but was praised by him.

At that time, it turned out that this hour in Changle Town was still within the scope of the peak period of dinner, but now there are only a few tables of guests, and after they are busy serving, the kitchen that should be busy can be heard at this time, and everyone is standing with big eyes and staring at each other.

Su Miao leaned her back against the counter. With his hands on his chest, he glanced at the kitchen that had become empty because of his leisure, and after a while. Whispered:

"It's been a long time since I've been so idle."

Aftertaste glanced at her, the apprentice cooks were already starting to feel uneasy, but this time she said such things to herself, which was really not like her style.

"Second girl, don't worry, there are always profits and losses in this business, not to mention that we haven't lost yet, what are you afraid of?" Cheng Tie smiled. comforted, "Lingyuan Street is just fresh, and when it is fresh enough, whose guys are more pleasing to whose food is more fragrant, the guests naturally have a rod and scale in their hearts." At this time, it is time to prepare the dishes and wait for the guests to come to the door with peace of mind. ”

"What you said is light, now that even regular customers don't come to the door, they must have been hooked by Lingyuan Street. You still have to wait with peace of mind. If we wait any longer, we might have to close! Zhao He couldn't get used to his self-deception, and retorted in a violent tone.

"You old boy, why are you so uncontrollable at your age, if you don't wait for you to say what to do, we can still smash the building on Lingyuan Street!"

The two of them quarreled, but Su Miao was silent.

Su Kee is completely different from Su Cai Restaurant, which is a snack bar aimed at low-income people such as dock workers, fishermen, boatmen, etc. Those people have irregular work and life, and the purpose of their visit is to fill their stomachs. And it may not be when to come to the door, Changle Town is small, and her relationship with the guests is close, so there will be guests at any time; Su Kee is a restaurant, aimed at the middle and high-end consumer groups, those people come to eat not to fill their stomachs, for people to fill their stomachs is the task of food stalls and small restaurants, and restaurants are for people to consume and enjoy the fun of food and service. One is for satiety and the other is for pleasure, and it is a difficult thing to let guests enjoy the fun in catering, even when the business is good, Su Ji almost does not enter when he is not eating, and now there are also very few people when he arrives at the meal. Toyosu City, with a well-developed restaurant industry, luxury restaurants abound, full of tricks, and even the high-end flower houses in the flower street are competing with restaurants for business, so it is not an easy task to gain a firm foothold in the territory of Toyosu. Although it was only a two-month failure, it was careless, otherwise the business would have been bleak, and if you didn't think of adding customers in time, it might really be closed at that time.

"Have any of you ever heard of the name 'Anju Changsheng'? Su Miao interrupted Cheng Tie and the others, who were still arguing, and suddenly asked in a condensed voice.

"I haven't heard of it." Zhao He shook his head.

"Immortality? Anju? Cheng Tie tugged at the beard on his chin, "Why does it sound a little familiar?" ”

"Uncle Cheng, don't you often go around the place, haven't you also been out for a while after Pinxian Building changed hands, haven't you heard of this name?" Chen Sheng sharpened his kitchen knife and interjected to ask.

"Hiss, Changsheng? Anju? Yipinlou? Cheng Tie condensed his eyebrows and thought for a long time, suddenly his eyes lit up, his hand clapped, and said with a smile, "I remembered, I worked in a tavern in Anzhou for a while, and I heard the shopkeeper say once when he was drinking, a child was used as the head chef in Anzhou's Yipin Building, although he was a child, but the dishes made by that kid were even praised by the Zhizhou of Anzhou, and because the dishes were delicious, the two of them often called brothers and sisters." I've only heard of it, but like a child's chef, and it's a first-class building, it's probably the person you are talking about. The Yipinlou in Anzhou has not been open for a long time, and the person in charge seems to be the child. ”

In other words, that child is by no means an ordinary person.

"Tomorrow is a rest day, all of you are thinking about fresh dishes at home, I'll go to Pinxian Building to have a look." Su Miao pondered for a long time and announced lightly.

"The second girl is going, why don't you go with me?" Chen Sheng stopped sharpening his knife, and after a while, he suddenly spoke, and said with a smile, "I heard that Lingyuan Street also made fish tart, and I want to go and take a look." ”

That's right, not long after hearing the news that Pinxian Lou had changed to a new chef, Pinxian Lou launched a fish belly with richer varieties and delicious ingredients than Su Ji, which robbed Su Ji of its biggest advantage, and Chen Sheng, as the inventor of Yu Xianlou, naturally wanted to take a look.

Su Miao nodded.

At noon the next day, Su Miao and Chen Sheng prepared to go to Pinxian Building.

The aftertaste is naturally followed, and there is no need to ask him, he has always been inseparable from her, and he will follow wherever she goes.

Su Xian went shopping early in the morning, but Su Yan was not at home for the exam, so Su Chan insisted on going along. Su Miao thought in her heart that the more people who went, the more natural it would be, so she simply took Chun Niang with her, and the two men and three women went to Lingyuan Street.

Nothing has changed in Tong Ran's Pinxian Building. Only the number of guests increased.

"It's all big people in the city, the Tong family is really wealthy, and the people who cheer them on are not ordinary people!" Chen Sheng whispered in admiration. "If we can get to know these people, Su Ji's business will definitely improve immediately."

Su Miaohe didn't care.

Although the Tong family is rich and wealthy, and making friends with officials and businessmen is their daily routine, Su Miao thinks that it is not feasible to prosper in the catering industry by relying on relationships. In the final analysis, the prosperity of the restaurant is closely related to its own strength. The fact that Pinxian Lou was able to turn over from being suppressed by Su Ji can only show that Pinxian Lou's strength has been greatly improved.

The bright and tempting fish platter was brought up by the guy and served with ice cubes that were steaming with snow-white cold. Not only fish, but also shrimp and crabs, sea cucumbers, cuttlefish, and dried scallops, and even if they are fish, they are not ordinary river fish. Most of the platters are filled with seafood. At least as far as the fish is concerned. Sea fish is naturally more attractive than river fish, no wonder I heard a group of old customers talk about fish trev, saying that the fish troll in Pin Xian Lou is more delicious, because the grade of the materials is different, and the reason why the fish sheng in Chinese food has gradually declined in history is because it uses all freshwater fish as ingredients.

Su Miao stared at the gorgeous, luscious and fresh sashimi platter for a long time, lowered her head and said to Chen Sheng:

"Brother Chen, I'm sorry, although you can make paper-thin sashimi, I can't afford to buy fish from the sea."

In the era when the transportation industry was so backward. Tong Ran actually has the ability to transport fresh sea fish to inland cities, and Su Miao is not on the same level as him.

"Second girl, don't worry about this. He is just eating fresh, we are from Fengzhou, we grew up on the Qingjiang River, and we naturally have to eat the fish in the Qingjiang River when we eat fish. Chen Sheng hurriedly smiled and comforted.

"This one is indeed tastier." The aftertaste has already tasted the chopsticks first, and then whispered a very shocking sentence.

Su Miao hung her head in frustration again.

"The problem with ingredients is the gap in financial resources, which is unavoidable, but you can't make it without high-end ingredients? Ah, that's a familiar statement. Aftertaste raised his eyebrows and said slowly.

"I'm right, you don't have to repeat it." Su Miao glanced at him and said with a puffed face.

At this moment, there was a sudden commotion at a table not far from their table diagonally, and a short boy walked over with a brisk step and a grin, and behind him a schoolboy held a plate of roast goose with a golden color and an attractive fragrance. Almost everyone everywhere they went, smelled the scent, and all of them couldn't help but look over to see the plate of roast goose, and some of the guests had already called their men to ask what kind of dish it was, and asked for one for them too.

"Brother Changsheng, you finally came out, Lan'er has been waiting for a long time!" A fifteen or sixteen-year-old girl at the table got up with a smile and said with disgust.

Su Miao looked at it with one hand on her cheeks, and was slightly stunned when she heard this, a fifteen or sixteen-year-old girl called a boy who looked like he was only thirteen or fourteen years old as her "brother", how old is this young man?

It stands to reason that at the age of thirteen or fourteen, he is still an apprentice, and even a super prodigy rarely has the situation of becoming a chef right away. Or rejuvenation?

She scratched her cheeks.

"It's really him." Aftertaste whispered.

Su Miao nodded, this person was really the one who asked them for directions that night on Qixi Festival, a subtle coincidence.

Changsheng was obviously very familiar with the guests at that table, smiling and squinting, lifting the part of the roast goose's neck with his left hand, and a shiny willow leaf knife in his right hand showed out, and he actually put the plump and juicy goose meat on the plate naturally and smoothly with a knife blade, surprisingly neatly landed on the plate, each piece of meat with skin, crispy and tender, even and delicate. So not only the guests who ordered the roast goose, but even the guests who saw this kind of unique activity for the first time couldn't help but applaud.

"It is worthy of being a person from the Tong family's Yipinlou, there is such a powerful chef here, look at this knife work, amazing!" The slightly drunk guest muttered a loud compliment.

"Speaking of knife work, the newly opened Freshman Building on Shouchun Street is also good, I heard that the chef is still the second daughter of the chef of the Freshness Building here."

"Tsk, it's far worse than Chef Changsheng! In the past, the chef here was not good, but now that the new chef is Changsheng, the one on Shouchun Street is in danger! Originally, opening a restaurant to cook is a man's craft, what good dishes can a milky girl over there make, even if her father's craftsmanship is good, she is her, her father is her father, if you want me to say, she will definitely not be able to make this roast goose! ”

"I can do it." Su Miao lay on the table, her head resting on her arms stacked together, and muttered softly.

Aftertaste rubbed against the back of her head as a sign of comfort.

Chun Niang laughed and grabbed the drunkard who was about to get up and beat up her second sister who said bad things, and persuaded one after another: "Chan'er, Chan'er, we're not here to fight!" ”

Changsheng finished performing for the old guests at that table, and when he turned around, he felt the commotion here, and looked at him inadvertently, and Huisheng was rubbing the back of Su Miao's head and looking at him, the two looked at each other, Changsheng's eyes lit up, and he shouted:

"You're the brother of that day!" A smoke ran over, smiling brightly, "Thanks to Brother Tai for showing me the way that day, what a coincidence, I was looking for Brother Tai and Brother Tai actually came to the door by himself." This is the eldest sister that day, why did you lie down, big sister, do you have a sore appetite? He bent down to look at Su Miao, who was sitting in the aftertaste, and asked with concern.

Aftertaste patted Su Miao's head, Su Miao was bored for a while, raised her head and glanced at Changsheng, and asked suspiciously:

"Excuse me, how old are you?"

"Me?" Changsheng was stunned for a moment, pointed to the tip of his nose and replied with a smile, "I'm twenty-five this year." ”

"Twenty-five?" Even Chunniang, who had always been quiet, couldn't help but cry out in surprise, "You look like you're only thirteen or fourteen years old." ”

"No way, I was older than other children before I was thirteen, but I didn't grow long after thirteen, so every time I go out, I always meet kidnappers, liars, and thieves who treat me as a child who leaves home for the first time." Changsheng said with a smile bent eyebrows.

Su Miao looked at his smile when he bent his eyebrows, and was stunned, such a smile was very familiar, she looked at him carefully, and asked:

"You and Tong Ran look a little similar, are you relatives, are you his brother?"

Changsheng was stunned, and his expression became quite surprised at this time, as if he didn't know how to answer.

"It's not." A cold negation suddenly came, Tong Ran had already appeared behind Changsheng, stood still at the table, glanced at everyone, and smiled at Su Miao, "Second Miss Su is here, and our store is shining." ”

"Young Master Tong, your politeness today is too numb." Su Miao noticed that Changsheng's eyes darkened slightly when he heard Tong Ran's negative answer, and his eyes flashed, and he said with a smile.

"Since Miss Su's restaurant opened, Miss Su has never been to my fresh restaurant, what kind of wind blew you here today?" Tong Ran smiled impeccablely.

"Su Ji's business has been bleak in the past two months, so I'm here to take a look at your trump card."

The person who can say "reconnaissance of the enemy's situation" so bluntly in front of the opponent is probably the only one in the world, Su Miao, who is speechless in the aftertaste. (To be continued......)