Chapter 218: Enjoying food is a happy thing

After sending Liu Xining and the others away, Jiang Yu looked at the time, and it was almost time to go to work.

He remembered what Lu Shuwu said last night that Xiong Yusheng came to find him, so he didn't rush back to the cafeteria, took out his mobile phone from his pocket, and dialed a call to go out.

As soon as the phone rang twice, it was answered:

"Hey, hello! Is it Jiang Yu?"

"Good morning, Mr. Xiong, it's me!"

Jiang Yu responded with a smile, and continued,

"I heard Xiao Wu say, you came to me yesterday? If there's anything you can just call me about, why don't you have to run it yourself?"

"It's not a big deal, I was going to eat in the cafeteria, by the way." Listening to Jiang Yu's words, Xiong Yusheng's heart was warm, making him feel respected, and he said with a smile,

"I told Xiao Wu about it yesterday, and he told you everything, right?"

"Well, I said it a little bit, saying that in two days, there will be a foreign university visiting group, about 30 people, who will come to our school for visits and exchanges, and then the school is tentatively scheduled to be received by our seven canteens."

Jiang Yu thought about it for a moment, briefly repeated it, and then said,

"However, I don't know the specific situation very well, so I'll call and ask Teacher Xiong, and when I understand the situation, I can determine whether the Seven Canteens have the ability to receive them."

"Well, this foreign university visiting group is composed of the University of Bristol and Loveboro University in England, there are not more than 30 people, the exact number is 25 people, one of them is the team leader, two teachers from each of the two universities, and ten students."

Xiong Yusheng spoke in detail, he said,

"The delegation only stayed at our school for two days.

The meaning of the school is that we have to show the hospitality of the Chinese people, and at the same time, we must show our country's splendid and excellent culture to foreign friends, so we plan to take care of the food and drink during their visit.

Of course, Xiao Jiang, you don't have to worry, all the consumer schools in the delegation will bear it."

"I'm not worried about that."

Jiang Yu smiled and asked, "I just want to ask clearly, are these 25 people arranged to eat in the No. 7 dining room, or are they arranged in the student cafeteria on the first floor?"

"I also asked Vice Principal He this question."

Xiong Yusheng paused, and he said with some hesitation,

"What he means is that it is better to arrange it in the No. 7 dining room, there are so many students eating on the first floor that it is really not nice to squeeze around, and although there are international students in our school, there are not many of them after all.

But when 25 foreigners come to the cafeteria to eat at once, they are worried that they will make some jokes, and if that is the case, the image of the school is okay, but I am afraid that it will affect the image of our great China."

"Okay, I see."

Jiang Yu pondered it carefully, and he almost knew in his heart, he didn't care where the delegation came from, and it was unlikely that he would make a recipe for such a group of foreigners.

If they order food, it is naturally best, and he just does it; If they don't order, then it's only what he does, what those people eat.

….

Now there are only four private rooms open every day in the No. 7 dining room, plus these 25 people, there are only six private rooms, which can fully cope with the current kitchen staffing.

Of course, the most important thing is that in any case, the seventh canteen is also the canteen of Jiang University, although he is running it, but he can't really refute the face of the school leaders, if that's the case, then he doesn't plan to continue to do it in the future?

So, he said to Xiong Yusheng, "Teacher Xiong, I took this matter, just follow what you said, let's receive it in the seventh dining room."

Seeing that Jiang Yuying had done this, Xiong Yusheng suddenly breathed a sigh of relief, and he said with a smile,

"Okay, if there's any news here, I'll let you know in time."

"Okay.

Hanging up the phone, Jiang Yu breathed a sigh of relief, turned around and went back to the kitchen.

……

In the Taoyuan Guild Hall.

"Chenchen, you're awake? Then go wash up, wash up, and come back with something to eat."

Liu Xining carried the soup dumplings and preserved eggs and lean porridge packed back from the Seven Canteens, and as soon as he entered the door, he saw Pan Jingchen wearing pajamas, sitting on the edge of the bed with his hair scattered, looking out of the window in a daze.

Outside the window is a small, well-tended garden, with small deciduous shrubs that have grown tender green buds and leaves.

After a few spring rains, the grass that had been silent for a whole winter began to grow wildly, and some red, yellow, purple, unknown wildflowers of various colors also bloomed wantonly under the sun, everything was full of vitality and vitality, and the spring was full of vitality.

After hearing Liu Xining's words, Pan Jingchen turned his head and asked expectantly, "Is it still fish with braised noodles with tomatoes?"

After saying that, she also subconsciously licked her lips.

Obviously, yesterday's stewed tomato fish and fish was so appetizing to her that she was still savoring it after the night.

"I won't tell you yet, you go wash up quickly."

Liu Xining's two big eyes were bent into crescents, and he said with a sly face, "When you come back after washing, you will definitely be surprised."

"Oh."

Pan Jingchen's eyes dimmed, she liked the kind of fish and fish with tomatoes stewed noodles she ate last night, because she tasted the taste of her grandmother's cooking.

After her mother died, her father didn't care about her life or death except for gambling with others, and it was her grandmother who took her over for her to study, and made her her favorite braised noodles with tomatoes and fish.

It's a pity that before she had time to make money and be filial to her grandmother, her grandmother fell ill and died, and from then on, she could never taste the tomato stewed noodles and fish made by her grandmother.

After washing, Pan Jingchen returned to the room, closed the curtains and shrunk up with the quilt.

Seeing this, Liu Xining "chuckled" in her heart, could it be that she had said something wrong before, which made her feel unhappy?

She hurriedly walked over and asked in a low voice, "Chenchen, what's wrong with you?"

"I miss my grandmother a little, my grandmother feels so sorry for me, but I haven't had time to honor her properly, I'm really useless."

Pan Jingchen buried her face in the quilt, her thin shoulders trembled, and it was obvious that she was crying silently again.

Liu Xining sighed secretly, depressed patients are like this, psychologically fragile and extremely sensitive.

….

A casual word, an inconspicuous little thing, can remind them of something sad, so that they have an emotional breakdown.

She ignored it a little before, for Pan Jingchen, the stewed noodles and fish with tomatoes were not just a delicious pasta, but also her thoughts about her grandmother, and the words she said probably made her realize that the breakfast she brought was not this, so she was disappointed.

"Chenchen, grandma only hopes that you can live happily, but I don't want to see you hiding in your room and crying."

Liu Xining took the opportunity to sit down on the edge of the bed, stretched out his hand and took Pan Jingchen into his arms, and said softly,

"If your grandmother saw the way you are now, how sad would she be? You don't want your grandmother to worry about you, do you?

If you still want to eat fish with tomato noodles, I'll bring it to you at noon, but you can't go hungry in the morning.

Why don't you try the food I brought you, and if you don't think it's delicious, we'll stop eating it, okay?"

Pan Jingchen didn't speak, but Liu Xining got up and took the lunch box from the side and opened it slowly.

The lunch box has two layers, the top is filled with soup packets, and the bottom is filled with preserved eggs and lean porridge.

As soon as Liu Xining opened the lid of the lunch box, a strong aroma of preserved eggs with the scent of green onions came to his nose, so that Pan Jingchen, who was sitting on the side, couldn't help but look at it.

Liu Xining obviously noticed her reaction, brought the lunch box in front of her, and said softly with a warm smile on her face:

"Chenchen, look, this is a chicken soup dumpling, when the two of us went shopping in the past, didn't you have to order this every time?

And this porridge with preserved eggs and lean pork, I always say that the preserved eggs smell stinky, but you always refute me, saying that it smells very fragrant and smelly.

I've brought you both kinds of food, whether it's good or not, how about we taste a little bit? If you taste it and think it's really unappetizing, then we won't eat it, and I'll bring you tomato stewed noodles and fish later, okay?"

As she spoke, she reached out and held the lunch box, put the soup dumplings and preserved egg and lean porridge in front of Pan Jingchen, and looked at her expectantly.

The heat of the rising food, with the aroma of tempting appetite, constantly burrowed into Pan Jingchen's nasal cavity, stimulating her nerves, tempting her taste buds, and making her swallow her saliva.

Pan Jingchen raised his head slightly, carefully glanced at Liu Xining, who was sitting opposite, and then looked down at the crystal clear soup dumplings and fragrant preserved egg and lean porridge, and finally couldn't help but slowly raise his hand.

She picked up the chopsticks, took a soup packet, put it to her mouth and carefully bit into it, and then sucked it gently, and the rich and fragrant soup instantly flowed into her mouth, making her eyes widen all of a sudden.

Everything was not as expected by Liu Xining, after Pan Jingchen tasted a mouthful of soup dumplings, he couldn't put it down anymore......

Looking at Pan Jingchen, who was immersed in small sips of soup dumplings and drank a spoonful of preserved egg and lean porridge from time to time, Liu Xining couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, while she was happy, she couldn't help but be a little amazed:

The food made by Jiang Yu is not only delicious, but also has a magic that others can't explain!

….

At this moment, she was more and more glad, fortunately she accepted the school's invitation to come to the school to perform, otherwise, how would she know Jiang Yu, a magical junior brother?

Pan Jingchen now seems to have fully accepted the food made by Jiang Yu, and the next step is to make her more interested in food, so as to become interested in the things around her, so as to slowly get out of the "predicament" of depression, which is a matter of one day or two.

However, now Liu Xining has full confidence that as long as Jiang Yu is still here, Pan Jingchen will sooner or later get rid of depression and return to the previous style of flying freely on the stage.

……

Jiang Yu naturally knew about Pan Jingchen's changes, because every time Liu Xining and Xie Siqi came over, they would tell him about Pan Jingchen's changes little by little.

This made Jiang Yu himself very surprised.

Just like Wu Wenle, the son of Liu Shurong, a wealthy businessman in Qiantang, who became skinny because of anorexia, he was not interested in other people's food, but he could eat the food cooked by Xia Jiangyu.

Even the bacon and biscuits made by Jiang Yu are more attractive to him than the delicacies made by other chefs.

Originally, Jiang Yu thought that this kind of thing was just an example, but who knew that there was another Pan Jingchen who was depressed, and her change was not much different from Wu Wenle's situation.

One person may be accidental, but if two people are like this in a row, then it may be possible.

Jiang Yu is also thinking, is it because he has a food system, and the food recipes it provides actually have this "healing" function?

Because, enjoying food is a happy thing.

Of course, all this is just Jiang Yu's own speculation, and the food system in his mind is not intelligent, unlike other plane protagonists, the built-in system can still speak, which is enviable to think about.

So, he pondered and pondered, but he couldn't figure out whether it was a coincidence, or if the food he cooked could really cure the disease.

However, Jiang Yu didn't have time to dwell on this matter, because a delegation from colleges and universities where the sun never sets is coming to visit the school today.

Just after lunchtime, Xiong Yusheng came to the seventh canteen to find Jiang Yu and explained the general arrangement of the university visiting group:

"The delegation arrives at about 2 p.m., and the school will have a welcome party and then take them on a tour of the school, and dinner will be peaceful

The schedule officially starts at 7 p.m.

Because the first meal is a banquet, the school side Vice Principal He and other three leaders to accompany me."

Jiang Yu silently calculated in his heart, the visiting group plus the three school leaders who accompanied the meal, that is, 28 people, just two boxes could sit down.

Moreover, the dinner was arranged at seven o'clock, and at this point in time, the dishes of the four tables of guests who had booked the box in advance had basically been served.

He nodded, glanced at Xiong Yusheng, and asked, "Since it's a banquet, do you have any requirements from the school?" For example, what kind of food do you cook, what kind of drinks do you need, etc.?"

"Most of the members of the delegation are students, so forget about the drinks, right?"

Xiong Yusheng frowned slightly, thought for a while and said,

….

"Xiao Jiang, didn't you make your own drink? Let those students have a drink on it.

As for the banquet dishes, the school leaders didn't specifically explain it, but I personally think that those foreigners shouldn't eat spicy food, right?"

"Okay, then I probably know."

Jiang Yu smiled at Xiong Yusheng and continued,

"By the way, Mr. Xiong, I recently made some fruit wine by myself, including kiwi fruit wine, strawberry fruit wine, and mulberry fruit wine.

The alcohol content of these fruit wines is not high, Mr. Xiong, would you like to try it?"

Last time, when Jiang Yu and Hu Zhihai, Jia Dequan and others went to the foot of Meiling to play in spring, on the way back, they met someone selling wild kiwifruit, these wild kiwifruits are grown in the old forests in the deep mountains of Meiling, which are much better than the kiwifruit artificially planted in the greenhouses.

Of course, this small wild kiwi does not taste as sweet as the artificially grown one, but it is a good material for making fruit wine, and many people even go to the countryside to harvest this wild kiwi to make wine.

Therefore, Jiang Yu, who was interested, also bought some kiwifruit and prepared homemade fruit wine, and there was a recipe for making kiwi fruit wine in the food system, and the taste made was naturally not comparable to others.

Now that he had already made kiwifruit wine, Jiang Yu simply asked Hu Zhihai to contact farmers in the suburbs, buy a batch of strawberries and mulberries, and make three kinds of fruit wine in one go.

By now, the wine has basically been fermented.

"You made your own fruit wine?"

Xiong Yusheng's eyes lit up, and he subconsciously smacked his lips, but he quickly reacted, shook his head again and again, and said with some regret,

"I'm still at work, how can I drink? Even if it's fruit wine, if the leader smells the wine on my body for a while, then I'll be miserable."

Jiang Yu couldn't help but laugh and said:

"That's okay, Teacher Xiong is going back in a while, I'll fill you two bottles, you can take it back and drink it slowly."

Xiong Yusheng was very happy, and said again and again, "Then I'm welcome, thank you Xiao Jiang."

After talking about the visiting group, Xiong Yusheng chatted with Jiang Yu a few more words, and then left happily with Jiang Yu's homemade fruit wine.

Jiang Yu returned upstairs, and had to do two more tables of reception banquets in the evening, and some preparations had to be done a little in advance, so as not to be in a hurry and really mess things up, which would be embarrassing.

In the midst of the hustle and bustle, time flies, and in a blink of an eye it is evening.

At this moment, the dining hall on the first floor of the seventh canteen has gradually quieted down, and only a few students are sitting in the corner of the dining area, eating quietly.

Vice President He, together with two school leaders, accompanied a tall foreigner wearing gold-rimmed glasses as he walked towards the No. 7 Canteen, smiling and chatting.

Behind them were twenty or so young foreigners, who were talking to each other as they went, not knowing what they were saying.

"Professor Hans, this way, please!"

Vice Principal He led everyone around the corner and walked towards the door of the seventh canteen, with a slight look on his face

Laughing, introduced,

….

"This is a student cafeteria at our school, does Professor Hans know? This canteen was actually created by the students of this school, and in less than half a year, it has already become famous.

His understanding of Chinese cuisine is beyond the reach of many great chefs, and Professor Hans will definitely taste it later!"

"Oh, really?"

Professor Hans looked surprised, as far as he knew, many Chinese students had always regarded reading as the most important way out in life.

It's hard to imagine that a college student would run a canteen on campus, and that's it, he not only runs the canteen, but also becomes a chef himself, and even makes many chefs unreachable!

It's a rarity.

Cooking is not just a technique, it's an art.

It's one thing to make a good dish, but it also requires a little art from the chef to be able to arrange the dishes into a plate of intriguing deliciousness, or to use some simple ingredients or scraps to piece together beautiful patterns.

This is not a level that can be achieved in a day or two, whether it is a Chinese chef or a Western chef, it takes a lot of time to practice.

Therefore, Professor Hans was suddenly interested in the "students of our university" that Professor Hans said to Vice President Ho.

He nodded slightly and said with a smile,

"Chinese food is world-renowned and part of China's splendid culture, in fact, I am not only obsessed with the ancient Chinese culture, but also obsessed with Chinese food, and I can't wait to try it!"

"Hahaha! Professor Hans, rest assured, you will be able to feel the unique charm of Chinese cuisine in a while!"

Vice President He couldn't help laughing, and he said,

"I believe that as long as you taste it once, you will never forget the wonderful taste of Chinese food!"

Professor Hans also had a smile on his face and said, "Oh, I'm looking forward to it!"

Internationally, the three recognized food kingdoms are clearly China, France and Haussman, but the sun never sets is known as the "food desert".

The reason why it is called a "food desert" is that the sun never sets is not only lacking in ingredients, but also the cooking method is extremely simple.

In terms of ingredients, the vegetables are basically potatoes and peas, while the meat is mainly beef, and the staple food is bread with jam.

In the cooking method, there are basically only three kinds of cold dressing, boiling and fire roasting, which cannot be compared with the frying and cooking in Chinese cuisine.

The simple way of cooking, coupled with the lack of ingredients, the taste of the dishes made is naturally not much better, and many tourists who have been to the sun never sets have only one sentence after returning, that is, the dish that the sun never sets is really unpalatable.

There's a joke on the Internet that says:

Chinese cuisine and French cuisine are tied for the first place in the world, and all other countries' cuisines are tied for second place in the world, and the sunset cuisine dominates the third place in the world.

This paragraph illustrates people's feelings about local dishes where the sun never sets.

Of course, the food that never sets the sun is not delicious, it does not mean that people who do not like to eat delicious food, such as the Professor Hans in front of him, after listening to Vice President He's introduction, his two blue eyes are about to glow green.

The group entered the door of the No. 7 cafeteria and went up the stairs to the second floor, where Vice President He led Professor Hans and several other teachers into one of the large boxes, and the students into the other large box.

Not long after sitting down, Jiang Yu, who had already received the news, arranged for someone to serve the food.

Since it was a banquet, the first thing to serve was naturally cold dishes, and several waiters acted together to put the delicate dishes and brightly colored cold dishes on the table, which made Professor Hans and several other teachers of the visiting group stunned one by one.

This, this, this, these are all dishes to eat? Are you sure it's not a work of art?

It's not that they haven't eaten Chinese cuisine, and there are Huaxia restaurants in the sun never sets, but why do they suddenly feel that what they eat in the Chinese restaurants where the sun never sets is all fake Hua

Summer vegetables?

This plating is too exquisite, isn't it?!

(End of chapter)

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