Chapter 3: Recruitment
It is extremely joyful to survive the nine deaths in a lifetime.
Ding Qiliang should have been happy, but when he looked at the young man in front of him and smiled and told him that he was a shopkeeper and that he wanted to be his own cook, he was unhappy.
"Engong, although you saved my life, don't think that this will drive me to cook for you."
Chen Hui smiled bitterly: "It's really a bit of the emperor's cook's shelf." But it's my business to save you, it's none of your business, I want you to be my chef, just because I want to. ”
Ding Qiliang said proudly: "My Ding family has been a chef for generations, and has produced two chef kings, known as the world's first kitchen family. ”
Chen Hui nodded in understanding and said, "Originally, there was a saint who could eat the dishes you made, but this incident probably made you die for the court." ”
It's a long sigh.
"If I have trouble with you in the future, you will surely save you?" Chen Hui said again.
Ding Qiliang looked directly at Chen Hui and said: "I, Ding Qiliang, owe you a life, if you have trouble with me in the future, I will naturally save it, and I will do my best to save it." ”
"So even the trouble of needing to fight is not worth asking you to cook?"
Ding Qiliang said with a hint of piety in his eyes: "That's nature, cooking is cooking, working hard is desperate, one yard is one yard." ”
Chen Hui clapped his hands and smiled: "Wonderful." ”
But then he said with a sad face: "But I'm not good." ”
Ding Qiliang was also a little embarrassed, and said bluntly: "Although you can't sell yourself as a cook, but you saved my life, I should invite you to a meal." ”
This time, it was Chenhui's turn to refuse.
"But I don't want to eat your cooking."
Ding Qiliang was puzzled.
Chen Hui said: "If you can eat it all the time, it will naturally be a great joy for everyone, but if you only eat the best food once, it is really torture, and it is more painful to be hungry for a lifetime than to be desperate." ”
Ding Qiliang laughed, and suddenly looked at this life-saving benefactor more pleasing to the eye.
Chen Hui sat opposite Ding Qiliang, picked up the chopsticks on the table, and began to eat.
"Oh, it's not that I look down on this dish, or even ordinary children can cook better than you, it's too unpalatable, you can still eat it?"
"Even if you don't be my cook, you can still call me a shopkeeper, it's my profession. In addition, I have also investigated some of your affairs, since you think that the ingredients are not high or low, so the unpalatable dishes and delicious dishes should also be like this, every grain is hard, even if it is unpalatable, I can't waste it, right? ”
Chenhui ate very slowly, and spoke very slowly. So Ding Qiliang heard every word very clearly. Ding Qiliang's expression changed slightly.
"And you have to understand one thing, if a cook can cook the best food in the world but don't give it to others, it is like a doctor who has a wonderful hand to rejuvenate but dies. Since you can treat the ingredients as equals, you should know that diners may have good and evil, but there is no high or low. ”
"In the future, my inn may entertain many poor people who can't afford even the cheapest ingredients, and you must not have seen that smile, the smile that is more satisfying and happy than eating delicious." Chen Hui has saved many people, and the smile from death to life is indeed the most beautiful smile he has ever seen.
Ding Qiliang was not stupid, he understood the meaning of Chen's reply. The impression of Chenhui is a little better.
"If you're just looking for a good cook, it's not difficult, why me?"
"It's really not difficult, it's not that I have a tricky taste and I have to find the world's first chef, but it just so happens that your perception of ingredients is the same as my opinion of ingredients. There is no high or low level of ingredients. But other cooks I've worked with, I give them enough money to make a dish, but they always have to cook with those expensive ingredients. That's not good. ”
Ding Qiliang's eyes brightened.
"Looks like you're worthy of my food. I don't pretend to pick cheap ingredients to cook, in my eyes, it's all the same, I can get whatever I have. ”
Recalling that time to make bitter gourd, he was indeed itchy for a while, but Ding Qiliang didn't regret it, he just hated it.
"Pity the cooks in the imperial dining room." Ding Qiliang said suddenly.
"Your Majesty is used to eating your dishes, and if you suddenly change the cook, you will definitely not like it, and this anger will inevitably be vented on the cook, which is indeed pitiful." Chen Hui naturally understood what Ding Qiliang was going to say.
Ding Qiliang also began to move his chopsticks and ate this unpalatable meal. Chen smiled back, but in his heart he was even more determined to recruit this person as a partner.
"I still want to convince you again."
Ding Qiliang seemed to not let his tongue touch the vegetables, swallowed it directly, almost choked, and said: "Even if you are worthy of eating my dishes, you are not worthy of me to be your cook." ”
"That's where you get it wrong. I saved you, and by doing so, I offended the Empire, and you are a wanted criminal for the Empire. Therefore, you are not my subordinate, and the relationship between you and me should be partners in adversity. Although you are strong in martial arts, there are countless masters in the imperial court, and you are alone, and you always need a helper. So you and I are together, but you happen to be good at cooking, I happen to have a business, and we are on an equal footing. ”
Ding Qiliang looked at Chen Hui seriously and said, "If it's just like this, it's not enough to impress me." After all, there are many inns like you, but there is only one cook like me. ”
Chen Hui ignored it and continued: "Your opinion on ingredients is the same as mine, the Imperial Palace is the only place where you can play your level, because only the Imperial Palace will have top-quality ingredients from all over the world to provide you. Therefore, you can cook for the emperor, not because you think that he is worthy of you as a cook, but because only the imperial dining room can provide you with enough rich ingredients. ”
"But, I can do that here."
Ding Qiliang's eyes lit up, and he wondered: "Oh? ”
"There is indeed only one cook like you, but there is actually only one inn like me."
Chen Hui ate all the vegetables, and there were no grains of vegetable residue left. He opened the window, and the sound of insects outside became clear.
"Don't you wonder why I opened such an inn in the middle of nowhere?"
"It's weird." Ding Qiliang looked out the window and realized that it was indeed a wilderness. He also knew that if the inn was opened in such a place, there must be no business.
"How can you make an inn have ingredients from all over the world? Come to think of it, the only way to make this inn appear all over the world. And my inn is such an inn. Because, this inn, can be moved. ”
Ding Qiliang was surprised: "The building that will move? Are you kidding? ”
Chen Hui looked at Ding Qiliang seriously and said, "I so sincerely invite you to join my inn, naturally it won't be a joke." And there is no point in such a joke. In addition to not entering the city, I can go to this building, which is the largest in the world. ”
Ding Qiliang felt appalling, but he knew that Chen Hui really had no reason to lie to him. If there really was an inn where he could go to all parts of the world, it would indeed be the place he dreamed of. Although the palace is rich in ingredients, it is a place of ultimate luxury. A chef like him naturally craves a normal restaurant.
But without the restaurants in the north, it is impossible to eat fresh Anhai snow fish, and it is impossible to eat the authentic whole sheep roasted by the Wanzang tribe in the inns in the south. It is impossible to count all the products of the world in one place.
Ke Ding Qiliang is a true chef who can cook with any ingredient and is eager to cook with different ingredients.
After being silent for a long time, Ding Qiliang said: "If this is the case, I am also a little tempted, I can be your cook." But to prove that you're right, I need you to do something for me. ”
Chen replied, "Please speak." ”
"I'm a repeat offender in the empire now, the empire won't let me go, and you're right, there are many masters in the empire, I almost died because of the enemy this time, if I don't hone my martial arts more, maybe I'll die in the rivers and lakes, after all, the rivers and lakes are more dangerous than the empire, and I will return to the rivers and lakes. I need to get two treasures from my Ding family, two treasures in the kitchen. ”
Chen Hui was curious, and asked with interest: "What kind of thing can be called the second treasure in the kitchen by a chef like you?"
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Ding Qiliang said: "The first one is a kitchen knife, a chef cooks, naturally a kitchen knife is indispensable." ”
"I guess it's not just a kitchen knife."
"Naturally, this knife is called Jiu Tu. It is a treasure knife that has been passed down from generation to generation in my Ding family. Only this knife can withstand the potential of the knife method. This knife is still thrown on the divine weapon spectrum of the martial artist Ye Yi. ”
Chen Hui didn't know much about this, just waited for Ding Qiliang to continue.
"The second piece is the Ding family's Ox Solving Knife Spectrum, my Ox Solving Knife Method has only been practiced to the fourth level, although I Ding Qiliang is confident that I can fight with the first-class masters in the rivers and lakes, but in the face of those masters of the nine major factions and even the respect of one faction, I have no chance of winning. But if I get the sword spectrum to study, I will not be afraid of anyone in the rivers and lakes. ”
Chen Hui said: "In this way, even if it is your contract with me, I will help you obtain the knife and the knife book, and you will come to my inn to improve my food." ”
"I'm going to say the same thing! However, Jiutu and Dao Pu are now in the Qi family in Qinzhou City, and the Qi family is not a good place to go now. This journey could be fatal. And I want to take back my Ding's things openly, so if you want to help me, you will probably die. ”
Chen Hui cleaned up the dishes and chopsticks, and when he heard Ding Qiliang say this, he didn't turn his head back, but just asked casually: "Which is more valuable if you don't care about yourself or someone to cook." ”
The laughter of the two could be heard from the inn.
At dawn, Ding Qiliang was woken up by the sound of a dense shaft gear turning. He didn't sleep deeply. Looking up at the moment, I just felt incredulous. The building is really moving. And it's fast, like a fast horse.
When he was a child, he had heard his father tell him some legends, and those stories still made him yearn for them many years later.
It is rumored that there was the first floor in the world in the rivers and lakes, and the owner of the building was the first in the world, and the building could be moved to protect an important person, but then the first in the world died. The people who were protected in the building also died.
The imperial court used that building to attract the heroes of the rivers and lakes to fight each other, and the martial arts of the rivers and lakes became an unprecedented depression in that fight.
Until a master of the world appeared, he used the world's most amazing swordsmanship and martial arts to defeat everyone in the world, and then used a strange beast to take the first floor of the world to the sky. Ended the strife.
Ding Qiliang did not suspect that this end-floor inn was the first floor in the world, because many people had seen the first floor in the world. It was by no means an inn. But again, facing a movable building still makes him very excited.
He is a cook, but he also has a dream. It's just that Ding Qiliang himself doesn't know what he will do in the future is more magnificent than his dream.