On Saturday, July 2, light rain turned to sunshine.

There has just been a light rain, which has brought a hint of coolness to the originally hot and dry air, and even the trees and flowers on the campus seem to have become greener and full of vitality because of the long-lost rain.

The school has not officially started the holidays, and the staff of the Seven Canteens are still working normally, but because some students have begun to leave the school one after another, correspondingly, the meals prepared by the Seven Canteens every day are also a small part less than before.

Of course, this is the Seven Canteens after all, and the attraction to students is extraordinary, and even if some students leave on a huge campus, the rest can be crowded here.

It's just that because the weather is too hot, some students who are too far away are reluctant to run around, while some students who are preparing for the public examination or even the graduate school entrance examination are worried that they will waste too much time in line, which makes the seven canteens seem relaxed.

But compared to the other canteens in the school, the seven canteens are still very popular, and the number of diners per meal is even more than the other six canteens combined.

Today is the weekend, and the No. 7 dining room is closed again, but Jiang Yu is not in the habit of sleeping lazy, so he still got up early and came to the kitchen on the first floor to help prepare breakfast as usual.

It's almost the holidays, and the breakfast is a little less varied than ever.

For example, steamed buns and flower rolls, which are usually sold slowly, are simply not made, and the varieties of hot marinade and porridge have also been reduced.

Correspondingly, there are more soup dumplings, meat dumplings, vegetable dumplings, and eight-treasure porridge and mung bean porridge even have more chilled flavors, which are more popular with students in the hot summer weather.

After finishing breakfast, Jiang Yu took a big bowl of cold noodles and made noodles, and after just two bites, Hu Zhihai also came over with a big bowl of cold noodles.

This kid will enjoy it, and he also added two duck wings to the mixed cold powder, and as soon as he sat down, he reached out and picked up one of the duck wings and gnawed it deliciously, and said while gnawing:

"Lao Jiang, let me ask you something, you explain it honestly!"

Jiang Yu didn't raise his head, and said vigorously: "If you have something to say, just say it, and let it go if you have a fart." ”

"The Seven Canteens are open for business during the summer vacation, is it for me?"

Hu Zhihai came over and said with a rather narcissistic look,

"You know that I want to stay in school and study hard to prepare for the graduate school entrance examination, and I am worried that I will not eat well, so I decided not to take the holidays, is that right?"

“……”

Jiang Yu raised his head in astonishment, looked at Hu Zhihai's fat face full of smiles in a daze, and was speechless for a while.

Big brother, have you been taken away by the brain?

Otherwise, with your pitifully small brain capacity, how did you open such a big brain hole?

"I guessed it a long time ago, and sure enough, that's it!"

With the expression of "I have already seen everything" on his face, Hu Zhihai raised his hand and patted Jiang Yu's shoulder, and said with emotion,

"You still had a holiday on National Day last year, but this summer vacation is open normally, if it weren't for me, who else?

Don't say anything, good brother, for a lifetime! ”

Jiang Yu: "......"

I've told you all the words, so what else do I say?

Okay, whatever you want, just be happy.

Jiang Yu didn't bother to pay attention to him, and continued to lower his head to eat his own mixed noodles.

Eighty percent of this fat man is too nervous to review for graduate school entrance examinations, and his brain is in trouble.

You see, he's going to make up for it himself!

After breakfast, Hu Zhihai carried his backpack again and went to the self-study room of the library to study in high spirits.

Obviously, after "confirming" that the Seven Canteens chose to operate normally for him during the summer vacation, Hu Zhihai even had a lot of motivation to review, and if he couldn't get into the graduate school this time, it was estimated that even he wouldn't be able to forgive himself.

Not long after Hu Zhihai left, Lu Shuwu held a bowl of preserved egg and lean porridge in one hand, and a big meat bun in the other hand, walked towards Jiang Yu while eating, and asked:

"Boss, those chefs are going to come over for an interview in a while, and I haven't interviewed chefs before, what should I do then?"

"You just sit and watch, Lao Jia and I will go."

Jiang Yu had already finished breakfast and was sitting there scrolling his mobile phone, when he heard Lu Shuwu's words, he glanced up at him and said,

"Lao Jia has been a chef for so many years, and there are not hundreds of chefs interviewed, but there are dozens, and he has a lot of experience!"

After a pause, he said, "Let's just observe more, the interview is not the point, the food tasting is the key, no matter how rich the work experience is, the taste of the food is not good, it is also in vain." ”

"Oh, well, as soon as you say that, I'll understand."

When Lu Shuwu heard this, he immediately breathed a sigh of relief, and said with a smile, "I'll let people clean up the box on the first floor first, and it will be used as a temporary interview venue for a while." ”

"Well, there you go."

Jiang Yu nodded, lowered his head again and continued to swipe his phone.

After watching the news for a while, seeing that the time was almost up, he stood up and prepared to go back upstairs to take a shower and change his clothes.

Although the temperature dropped slightly after a rain, the kitchen without air conditioning was still as hot as a stove, and after a busy morning, the clothes on my body were already wet and dry, dry and wet, and soaked with sweat several times.

】

The interview is coming soon, and as a boss, you can't always interview employees with a sweaty smell, which is somewhat disrespectful.

Thinking of this, Jiang Yu didn't waste time, and after leaving the kitchen, he went straight to the second floor, took a set of clean clothes, and went into the bathroom to take a bath.

……

Although the notice sent by the seventh canteen had stated that the interview time was 9 o'clock in the morning, Xiong Zhengtao did not dare to be careless at all, got up at 6 o'clock in the morning, hurriedly cleaned up, and rushed to Jiangzhou University in the northern suburbs by bus.

Sitting on the bus, watching the scenery outside the window gradually become sparsely populated from the bustling downtown area, his mood was not disappointed, but became more and more excited.

This is the Seven Canteens, even if it is hidden deep in a suburban university with inconvenient transportation, it is still a place that countless people yearn for.

In order to be able to eat the delicious food made by Jiang Yu, even if it is a lot of money, it is not hesitant to spend it, but more people, even if they have money, they can't spend it, so they can only cry out in vain.

Now, the place he is going to is Jiangyu's Seven Canteens, and there is a great possibility that he will become a member of the Seven Canteens!

How could this not excite him?

As early as a day ago, Xiong Zhengtao had officially resigned from Qingshan Restaurant and completed all the resignation procedures.

He still remembers that when he took the resignation formalities and asked He Donglai, the head chef of Qingshan Restaurant, to sign, He Donglai threw away the pen after signing, and threw down a sentence with a gloomy face:

.“ Young man, if you don't know what to do, you will suffer a big loss, you better bless yourself to enter the Jiangda Seven Canteen, otherwise, I guarantee that you will not be able to enter any of the major restaurants and restaurants in Jiangzhou!

With your little arms and legs, you want to put me together? I think you're overthinking! ”

Listening to He Donglai's undisguised "threat", Xiong Zhengtao didn't even bother to look at him, picked up the signed resignation report and turned around and left his office.

It's not that he doesn't believe what He Dong said, a person like the other party who has been operating in the Jiangzhou catering industry for decades and has a good status is much stronger than himself in terms of connections and circles.

If He Donglai really stumbles on himself, he will really not be able to enter those big restaurants and restaurants.

But so what, even if he really couldn't enter the Seventh Canteen, he didn't believe that if he offended He Donglai, he would really starve to death.

It's a big deal, just leave Jiangzhou.

But no matter what, Xiong Zhengtao will not give up this opportunity to join the Jiangda Seven Canteen!

Thinking about these things in his heart, time passed quickly, and in a blink of an eye, the bus stopped at "Jiangzhou University Station", Xiong Zhengtao took a deep breath, got up from his seat, and quickly got off the bus through the back door.

It was just after seven o'clock, and the campus of Jiang University seemed to have just woken up, and the surroundings were quiet.

The rain that had just fallen in the early morning made the cement pavement slightly wet, and the stubbornly growing weeds on the roadside were still hanging with dewdrops, which were crystal clear, and the delicate grass bent over.

On the wide campus avenue, there are only three or three early students who are running, or hurrying with books in their hands, and occasionally you can see one or two people holding breakfast in their hands, eating while rushing to the school gate, and they don't know what they want to go out to do.

Xiong Zhengtao didn't look too much, and after showing the interview text message of the Seven Canteens to the security guard at the door, he went straight to the door and rushed all the way in the direction of the Seven Canteens.

He had been here with a friend once before, and he was no stranger to the Seven Canteen.

But the last time I came to consume, this time I came to the interview, although they are all seven canteens, but the mentality is completely different.

This time for chef recruitment, there were 10 people shortlisted for interviews, but only 3 were hired in the end, which made Xiong Zhengtao a little nervous.

I don't know, where are the other 9 people from? What is the level of cooking? Which cuisine are you good at? What are their representative dishes?

With his cooking skills, can he really stand out from 10 people and be selected by Boss Xiaojiang?

All this, Xiong Zhengtao has no bottom in his heart, so he can only take one step at a time.

All he can do now is to adjust his mentality, deal with this competition in the best condition, and hope to play his best.

As for the final result, it can only be left to fate.

With this kind of thought, Xiong Zhengtao soon came to the seventh canteen.

This is the opening hours of the canteen, although it is about to be a holiday, and many students have left the school early, but there are still many people who come to eat in the seventh canteen.

The long row of business windows is filled with all kinds of steaming food, and the aroma of steamed buns, hot marinade, and rice porridge comes to the nostrils, making people can't help but have an appetite.

Xiong Zhengtao went out very early, and he didn't have time to eat breakfast, and he smelled the aroma of food at the moment, where could he bear it?

Without saying a word, he returned to the back of the line in front of the dinner window and lined up honestly.

When he decided to come to the Seven Canteen to apply for a chef, he had already had an in-depth understanding of the Seven Canteen in advance, and of course he didn't know that there was a queue to eat at the Seven Canteen.

Although Xiong Zhengtao is not a student of Jiang University, he does not want to break the rules here.

After all, he came for an interview, if he broke the rules by cutting in line, and was unfortunately known by Boss Xiao Jiang, then he didn't have to think about the consequences, he might not even need to participate in the interview, and he would be eliminated directly.

Of course, he didn't want to miss the opportunity to enter the Seventh Canteen because of such a trivial matter, it would be too stupid.

After less than half an hour of queuing, Xiong Zhengtao was already standing in front of the window.

He looked at the dazzling array of breakfast in the window, and he didn't get too entangled, he asked for a cage of soup dumplings, four braised duck feet, and a bowl of preserved egg and lean porridge, and after paying with his mobile phone, he came to the dining area with breakfast and found a corner to sit down.

Xiong Zhengtao is still a little regretful, originally he still wanted a cold salad, but he was worried that he would eat too much.

He thought silently in his heart: "If I can't apply this time, I guess I won't have much chance to taste the cold noodles of this seven canteens in the future." ”

Shaking his head slightly, he stopped thinking about these things, picked up a soup dumpling and put it in a spoon, brought it to his mouth and took a small bite, and then sucked it gently.

When the warm and rich soup was sucked into his mouth, Xiong Zhengtao couldn't help but be shocked, and all the thoughts in his head disappeared in an instant, leaving only two big words "delicious"!

When he came to his senses, he couldn't think about anything else, and after quickly drinking the soup, he put the rest of the bun skin and meat filling into his mouth and began to chew it.

After eating four or five soup dumplings in one go, Xiong Zhengtao breathed a sigh of relief, and until this moment, his head seemed to start turning again.

The soup dumplings of these seven canteens are worthy of being the signature snacks that everyone yearns for, and they are really delicious.

The thin crust, the mellow and fragrant soup, and the tender and juicy meat filling......

As soon as you take a bite, your stomach seems to be hooked with barbs, and you can't give up the taste anymore.

It's no wonder that even patients with anorexia can't resist the taste of this soup dumpling.

This smell should only be in the sky, how many times can I smell it in the world?

For this breakfast, Xiong Zhengtao devoured a few soup dumplings in a row, except for the first moment, and in the following time, he controlled himself with strong self-control and began to taste it slowly.

While slowly savoring the deliciousness of soup dumplings, hot braised duck feet and preserved egg and lean pork porridge, he was still mentally comparing the difference between the Seven Canteens and the Castle Peak Restaurant, trying to find out the root cause of the gap between the two.

Is it the difference in the choice of ingredients and seasonings, or the difference in the preparation method, or the difference in the way the ingredients are handled?

Until he finished eating all the food on the plate, Xiong Zhengtao still couldn't analyze the reason.

This is actually normal, if a chef's carefully prepared food is so easy for people to pour out the production method and the application of seasonings, then there will be no "secret" products in this world.

Xiong Zhengtao sighed with some regret, and an idea suddenly popped up in his mind:

"There's probably only one reason why the food in the Seven Canteens is so delicious, right?

Just because the name of the person who cooks these meals is Jiang Yu. ”

This breakfast is the most delicious breakfast Xiong Zhengtao has ever had, and the pure and delicious taste is still in the mouth even if he has finished eating.

He smacked his lips and looked around with a satisfied expression, it was already past eight o'clock, and there were fewer students coming to the cafeteria than before, but there were still people coming into the cafeteria from time to time.

These people are either alone, in groups of twos or twos, or in groups of three or five, hurrying to the food window to choose their favorite breakfast.

Looking at it, Xiong Zhengtao's eyes suddenly froze, and he set his eyes on a twenty-four or five-year-old young man sitting not far from him.

This person was dressed neatly, with a hint of calmness on his face, which was rare at this age, and he didn't look like a student of Jiang University.

This young man must have just arrived, and in front of him, there was a drawer of steaming soup dumplings, a cold lotus root slices, and a bowl of green vegetables and lean porridge.

Originally, Xiong Zhengtao didn't notice him, but this young man seemed to be coming to the Seven Canteens for breakfast for the first time, he looked at these breakfasts in front of him for a while, and couldn't help but lean over and take a deep breath, with an admiring expression on his face.

Then, he picked up the fast child, carefully lifted a soup dumpling, and carefully observed it for a moment, then gently put it in the dipping dish, dipped it, and began to eat it slowly.

After just observing for a while, Xiong Zhengtao's heart could roughly confirm that this young man was definitely not a teacher and student of Jiang University!

There is no doubt that he, like himself, is a chef, and he came to the Seven Canteen for an interview!

Thinking of this, the muscles in Xiong Zhengtao's body couldn't help but tense, and he was secretly vigilant in his heart:

"Just by looking at the action of eating breakfast before, you can see that this is definitely a master cook!

There's a big rival here! ”

Xiong Zhengtao's heart suddenly lifted, and he hurriedly went to the other places in the cafeteria hall to take a closer look, and soon, he found several suspected "strong enemies".

In an instant, he breathed a sigh of relief, and suddenly felt that Yali Mountain was ......

……

A quarter of an hour after nine o'clock, all 10 candidates who had come to interview for the chef had arrived.

Yan Tongtong poured a cup of tea for everyone, asked everyone to stay in the canteen hall for a while, and then turned around and entered the box on the first floor, and said to Jiang Yu and the others:

"Boss, everyone is here, when are we going to start?"

The box on the first floor had been sorted out before, and at this moment, the dining table inside was put away, and the three writing desks were put together into a long table, covered with a blue tablecloth, Jia Dequan sat in the middle of the long table, and Jiang Yu and Lu Shuwu sat on both sides.

Opposite them, there is a couch.

The venue for the interview is still a little simple, but Jiang Yu and the others didn't pay much attention to it, after all, this is just a student canteen, not a five-star hotel.

What's more, the interview is just a formality, a process for both parties to get to know each other, and the real investigation is still to come.

Jiang Yu, who took a shower and changed into clean clothes, felt a lot more comfortable, and after listening to Yan Tongtong's words, he turned his head to look at Jia Dequan and Lu Shuwu, and asked with a smile:

"You're all set, right? So let's get started? ”

"Let's get started!"

Jia Dequan nodded, this kind of interview is not a matter for him at all, he has even interviewed the head chef, let alone the chef who stir-fries in the kitchen?

Lu Shuwu was a little excited, he has always been interviewed since he graduated from college, and now he actually starts interviewing others, that feeling is like turning over a serf and singing, not to mention how excited.

He originally wanted to keep a straight face and pretend to be very serious, somewhat allowing himself to have some of the majesty of an interviewer, but he was really happy in his heart, and the corners of his mouth couldn't help but turn up, which was too damaging to the artistic conception.

In desperation, I had to go with the flow.

Jiang Yu didn't know that a small interview could make Lu Shuwu like this, and seeing that everyone was ready, he nodded to Yan Tongtong and said:

"That's okay, Xiao Yan, you call in one by one according to the order of your resume."

"Okay, senior brother."

Yan Tongtong answered, picked up the resume in his hand and glanced at it, then turned around and walked out of the box to notify people to come for an interview.

After a while, there was a knock on the door of the box, and Jiang Yu said in a deep voice, "Please come in." ”

After the door was pushed open, a young man with an ordinary appearance and a somewhat honest appearance walked in from the outside, and he couldn't help but be stunned for a while when he saw three people sitting in front of him, probably for the first time he had encountered this kind of scene.

After a long while, he came back to his senses, bowed slightly to the three people, and said with some nervousness:

"Hello bosses!"

"Don't be nervous, let's just meet and have a casual chat."

Jia Dequan smiled kindly at him, raised his hand to the sofa opposite, and said with a smile,

"Come on, come on, sit down first, sit down first!"

After the other party carefully sat down on the sofa, he spoke again,

"Niu Daqiang, huh? Let's introduce yourself. ”

"Huh?"

Niu Daqiang was stunned again, pointed to the resume in Jia Dequan's hand, and said with a puzzled expression,

"It's all on my resume."

“……”

Juddquan was choked for a moment, and he didn't know what to say for a while.

Lu Shuwu almost laughed out loud, but fortunately he quickly raised his hand and covered his mouth tightly, if he really laughed out loud, it would be too embarrassing.

"We know it's on the resume."

Just when the atmosphere in the box was gradually weird, Jiang Yu opened his mouth at the right time, and he said with a smile,

"We asked you to introduce yourself, of course, because we wanted to know more about you that wasn't on your resume.

For example, why did you choose to become a chef in the first place? When did you start learning cooking? Under what circumstances did it happen when someone first complimented you on the deliciousness of your food? How was you feeling at the time, etc. ”

"Oh, that's what you said."

Niu Daqiang's face showed a look of sudden realization, he frowned slightly and said, "However, these things are a long story. ”

"It's okay, take your time, we have a lot of time."

Jiang Yu looked at him with a smile and took a sip of tea from the teacup on the side.

Jia Dequan and Lu Shuwu looked at Jiang Yu in surprise:

Ah......h This is your first time interviewing?

How it feels like you're familiar!