Quietly waiting for the memory isolation to take effect, Li Yi looked at the inscriptions that appeared on the wooden tablet.

Zheng Er (August 16, Yongzheng 9th year to March 9th of Qianlong 55th year)

Male, Jinling people, 14 cooks, into Jinling cheap shop to learn to cook, Qianlong 23 years into the palace, later served as the head chef of the imperial dining room, good at cooking birds, Qianlong 55 spring, because of the snaring grouse into the water, suffering from wind and cold and died.

Looking at the inscription, Li Yi recalled Zheng Er's memory.

From these inscriptions, there is no complete glimpse of Zheng Er's life.

Before possessing Zheng Er, he didn't know much about Zheng Er, only that he was unsmiling, had a dull personality, and was often followed by two fat apprentices.

But after possessing him, he learned that Zheng Er's character was developed as a child.

Zheng Er was raised by his biological father since he was a child, but his biological father beat and scolded him, and sent him to be an apprentice before he grew up.

But in those days, it was not easy to manage him to eat and drink in one bite and pull him up.

Zheng Er still respects his father very much in his heart.

After going to the bargain shop for an apprenticeship, he always wanted to learn the trade and roast a duck for his father to eat.

On the one hand, it is to repay his father's nurturing kindness, and on the other hand, he also wants to prove to his father that he can support himself.

But because he has no talent, he is born with a dull sense of taste, and he is clumsy, and the other apprentices have already left the school, but he is still an apprentice.

Finally, just before he was about to leave the school, just before he took twice as long as the other apprentices, his biological father died of the cold.

The son wants to raise but does not treat his relatives, which also creates Zheng Er's dull character.

It is precisely because of this regret that Zheng Er pinned his feelings for his father on the cheap shop master Ding Lao Wu.

It happened that Ding Lao Wu had no children under his knees, and when he saw that Zheng Er was honest and good to himself, he took him as his godson and taught him roast duck and the technique of making duck offal.

And Ding Lao Wu's wife is also the daughter of Jinling celebrity chef Tao Fang, who makes good stir-fried dishes and stews, and Zheng Er also learned these skills, laying the foundation for the integration of cooking skills in the future.

Zheng Er's culinary talent is very poor, but he has one advantage, and that is obedience.

Every time Ding Lao Wu scolded him because he couldn't control the heat well, he didn't get angry, but would go back and think about it over and over again to find ways to improve.

Diligence can make up for clumsiness, and in the end, he relied on lessons again and again to sum up his experience, and gradually went from being scolded to being praised all the time.

And when he was praised, he never dared to take it seriously because of his inferiority, he was always cautious and careful, and every time he cooked, he was serious and meticulous to the extreme.

In the later stage, he really reached the point of being stunned to even count the number of grains of salt.

But the devil is stunned, and his cooking skills are getting better and better, which finally makes him stand out and become the head chef of the imperial dining room.

He is the complete opposite of Zhang Dongguan's two extremes.

Zhang Dongguan is talented, God appreciates food, has an absolute sense of taste, no matter what the dish, you can taste it in one bite, and then reproduce it, and even make it better than the original.

And Zheng Er is one step at a time, conscientious, never dares to make mistakes, and relies on absolute seriousness to reach the peak.

Looking back on Zheng Er's memory, Li Yi had an understanding.

Almost all the imperial chefs he possessed before were naturally good chefs, and their talents were not bad.

But how Zheng Er, a chef with extremely poor talent, became a top chef was the first time he experienced it.

It was completely different from the experience he had experienced in possession.

When he was possessed before, he was not slow to learn things, and with the blessing of his previous possession experience, he could be faster.

But this time, after he possessed Zheng Er, by understanding the way of thinking of Zheng Er, a person with relatively less talent, he had to pay attention to some subtle basic issues, but he had a new harvest.

It's like letting a level 80 tuba enter the novice village and become a level 1 trumpet.

You can't use any equipment or skills, so you can only start from scratch and use the most basic methods to fight.

Although they are all the most basic things, if you look at them from the perspective of the eighty-level tuba, you can see a lot of new things that you have never paid attention to before.

It's like Zheng Er, in order to verify the optimal proportion of old ginger, he spent half a year before and after making a ginger duck hundreds of times.

Each time, different types and proportions of old ginger are used for the master and master to taste, so as to find the most balanced proportion.

If this is replaced by a talented player like Zhang Dongguan, as long as you taste it once or twice, compare it through your own taste, and then adjust it slightly according to the feedback of diners, you can do it.

But Zheng Er had to spend hundreds of times to find the balance.

This method, although stupid, is very scientific and reproducible.

Zhang Dongguan has only taken five apprentices in his life, but he has not even achieved anything.

However, Zheng Er has brought more than 300 apprentices in his life, and more than 40 of them have become the mainstay of the imperial dining room.

And the other apprentices have also gone to various places among the people and have become independent existences.

In terms of technical level, there is a gap between Zheng Er and Zhang Dongguan.

But in terms of passing on art and benefiting people, Zheng Er's achievements are many times higher than Zhang Dongguan.

Li Yi looked back at the metal plate, and the information above did not show any new changes in the rank except for the addition of a [Hundred Birds and Filial Piety Phoenix Banquet].

His chef level is still [Master Culinary].

In the last episode, he taught the audience a lot of pastry skills through the show, but he still failed to improve his professional level.

If he hadn't possessed Zheng Er, he might have been a little incomprehensible, thinking that he hadn't taught enough skills.

But after possessing Zheng Er, he understood that it was not that he didn't pass on his skills enough, but that he was not good enough.

His cooking skills are getting higher and higher, and his understanding of cooking skills, as well as some cooking skills at his fingertips, have opened up the gap with ordinary cooking enthusiasts, and even ordinary chefs, and he has not noticed.

It's like he showed how to make exquisite [Hundred Flower Cake] and [Lion Awakening Cake] in the show.

But for ordinary cooking enthusiasts, they can only watch the excitement, and if they try it themselves, they often don't know how to start.

This should also be the reason why the program team organized an activity to learn pastry from Brother Yi, allowing the audience to upload their own pastry works, and most of the audience uploaded the simplest peach cake.

This also reminded Li Yi that in the upcoming food training of the Gaoyou Lake Food Festival, he had to consider the choice of snack categories and the trade-off of the difficulty of production.

The memory gradually became alienated, and in the end, it stayed on the memory fragment of the head of the imperial dining room who came to announce Qianlong's oral message and asked Zheng Er to be responsible for preparing for the 80th birthday of Empress Xiao Shengxian.

And this is obviously the mission of this dream space.

As soon as the thought moved, Li Yi returned to reality, and fatigue hit.

and Liu Yifei's voice is still connected, and it has been connected for three hours.

The blood rushing out of the cut wound is still effective, and the real world has not passed for too long.

Listening to Liu Yifei's breathing, Li Yi's heart instantly settled down.

With a slight smile, he cut to the WeChat collection, clicked on the script sent to him by Wang Tian before, and looked at the guest list for the next issue.

He remembered correctly, it was indeed the crew of "The Legend of Zhen Huan".

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