"Xiao Liao, I haven't seen you for a long time!"

Xia Zhuo smiled, stretched out his hand and shook Liao Wendong, joking: "Come to your unit today to communicate, I'm sorry!" ”

"Welcome!"

Liao Wendong said with a smile: "My kitchen is ready for you, this time I have to learn a few more tricks from you." ”

"Good! Young people should have a studious heart. ”

Xia Zhuo nodded in satisfaction with a look of approval.

"This is Xia Zhuo, the successor of Xia's Hotel."

Shen Han lowered his voice and introduced to Li Yi: "Xia's Hotel has a very high status in Hunan Province, and foreign and superior units come to Hunan Province for exchanges, inspections, and banquets are all arranged in Xia's Hotel. ”

"Oh." Li Yi suddenly realized: "No wonder he doesn't look like a chef, but like a leader." ”

The corners of Shen Han's mouth twitched, and he almost laughed, but he still explained: "There's no way, I have to deal with the official a lot, and I will get used to it!" However, people's craftsmanship is truly inherited, in addition to the signature braised pork, all kinds of Hunan dishes are also very good. ”

While talking, after Liao Wendong and Xia Zhuo chatted a few words, they brought the topic to Li Yi's side.

"Huh? Li Yi! Come, I'll introduce you. ”

Liao Wendong turned around and beckoned, called Li Yi over, and introduced him: "This Master Xia Zhuoxia, that is the legendary figure of our Hunan Province, the eldest son of the Hunan cuisine master Xia Qinian, according to the seniority, I have to call him uncle, haha!" ”

Liao Wendong said with a smile, and introduced Li Yi to Xia Zhuo: "Master Xia, this is Li Yi, Master Li, the recently broadcast "Chinese Restaurant", which is very popular on the Internet, he is the chef inside."

Don't look at his young age, his skills are really extraordinary, I communicated with him yesterday, he made a small fried meat, the taste is amazing! ”

Hearing Liao Wendong's introduction, Xia Zhuo was aroused, and asked Li Yi with a smile: "Who did you learn to cook?" ”

Li Yi knew that he was asking about his teacher, so he explained with a smile: "I haven't studied cooking from a teacher, I studied it myself and pondered it blindly." ”

When Xia Zhuo heard this, his smile suddenly faded.

And Liao Wendong looked back at Li Yi directly in surprise, and asked in disbelief: "Are you a wild road?" ”

In any industry in China, there are two factions: formal teachers and wild roads.

Liao Wendong and Xia Zhuo both belong to the "famous and upright", worship the master, kowtow and serve tea, so that they can learn the arts.

And those who don't have a formal teacher, but just learn a scale and half a claw skill by pondering by themselves, or stealing teachers from everywhere, are called wild roads, or Jianghu faction.

In ancient times, those who had formal teachers were all official chefs.

During the Zhou Dynasty, Yiyin, the food saint, even realized the way of governing the country through the way of cooking, so much so that Shang Tang, the founder of the Shang Dynasty, also went to Youxin to hire him with jade, silk, horses, and skins as gifts.

But King Youxin refused to let go, so Shang Tang had to marry King Youxin's daughter as a concubine, so he was able to invite Yi Yin to his side.

After that, Yi Yin also became the first imperial teacher in history, teaching Tang to follow Yao Shun's strategy of ruling the world with virtue and fighting Xia to save the people.

During the Spring and Autumn Period, Lao Tzu also put forward the theory of "governing a big country, such as cooking small fresh" in the Tao Te Ching.

After the Han Dynasty, there were countless examples of entering the official career from an official chef.

Therefore, since ancient times, chefs with formal teachers have looked down on the Jianghu school without teachers.

In their opinion, the Jianghu faction is not in the stream.

Xia Zhuo is a "famous and decent person", so as soon as he heard Li Yi say that he was a Jianghu faction, he immediately lost interest.

Liao Wendong never asked about Li Yi's mentorship, and he only knew that Li Yi was actually born in Yeluzi.

But he recalled the operation of Li Yi cooking that he saw yesterday, but he was very puzzled: "Isn't it right?" I don't think you look like a Jianghu faction whether it's a knife technique or a frying method? ”

Regarding Xia Zhuo's change of attitude, Li Yi was not surprised.

In the dream space, this kind of contempt in the kitchen is much more obvious than Xia Zhuo's.

Hearing Liao Wendong's question, Li Yi smiled and said casually: "Maybe I'm more serious about self-study!" ”

"Xiao Liao, I'll take a look at the stove first!"

Xia Zhuo opened his mouth and said hello to Liao Wendong.

"Okay, okay, I only changed this stove last year."

Liao Wendong hurriedly greeted.

Xia Zhuo nodded, didn't look at Li Yi, and turned to leave.

Seeing him leave, Liao Wendong turned around and asked in a low voice, "You really don't have a teacher?" ”

"Nope."

Li Yi joked: "I learned a hundred arts, and I really haven't kowtowed to a teacher." ”

"You can't do this!"

Liao Wendong shook his head and said regretfully: "You can't work hard, you can't do it alone, and you won't be able to get ahead for a lifetime without apprenticeship." ”

"Not necessarily, right?"

Li Yi smiled.

"You're still young, you don't know the doorway here, which industry doesn't mix up now?"

Liao Wendong raised his chin and pointed at the few cooks who followed Xia Zhuo: "The real chef, there are not dozens of apprentices under his hands, how can he come out and mix?"

Someone has the right to speak, your craft is good, but how much can you do alone?

Just like if you came to participate in the selection this time, you have to ask me to borrow a cook.

The Xia family is highly respected in the Hunan cuisine industry, and just to help Xia Zhuo help the cook, they have to rely on grabbing.

That's the gap! ”

Listening to his words, Li Yi thought for a while and asked, "Does this Xia family have a very high status in the culinary world of Hunan Province?" It seems that it has only become a little famous in the past few decades, right? I don't think I've heard of it before. ”

"Isn't a few decades long enough?"

Liao Wendong explained: "It is said that the ancestor of the Xia family is a personal disciple of the imperial chef of Hunan cuisine, who learned court cuisine, and had two families in Xingcheng at the end of the Qing Dynasty. ”

"Imperial Chef?"

Li Yi asked suspiciously: "Which imperial chef?" What is it called? ”

"You don't know that, do you?"

Liao Wendong explained with a smile: "During the Qianlong period, there was a cook named Yu Jiu in Hunan Province, who was recommended to enter the palace and served as an imperial chef for more than 20 years.

Later, he returned to his hometown and accepted a lot of apprentices, and now many Hunan cuisine masters, counting up several generations, have a relationship with him.

But a lot of it is far-fetched, and there is no evidence.

But the Xia family has a genealogy, and remembering the names of the generations of imperial chef apprentices back then is the evidence.

Otherwise, how could Xia's Hotel be selected by the official so early to receive the official banquet? ”

Hearing his words, Li Yi's mind came up with a clumsy kid who always had two lines of snot in winter, and couldn't help but smile and ask: "That imperial chef apprentice, is it called Xia Musheng?" ”

"Huh? You know? ”

Liao Wendong was a little surprised: "It seems to be called Xia Musheng, the ancestor of the Xia family." ”

"It's him!"

Li Yi smiled and nodded, and finally got the number.

He remembered that Yu Jiu did have a few little apprentices with him as cooks at that time, including a round-faced boy named Xia Musheng.

Yu Jiu's level in the imperial dining room is not high, so he has no sense of existence, and he doesn't get any rewards on weekdays.

For that little bit of monthly money, he also bought wine, and from time to time he had to go out to listen to a show, gamble twice, and hide the door twice.

Those little apprentices followed him, and they suffered a lot.

Especially Xia Musheng, because he was clumsy and clumsy, he was not favored, and he didn't even have a thick cotton jacket in winter, and he was so cold that he cleared his nose.

At that time, Li Yi was possessed by Shuanglin, he couldn't see it, and after saying a few words to Yu Jiu, Yu Jiu bought him an old cotton jacket to wear.

Unexpectedly, his descendants would become the masters of the Hunan cuisine industry hundreds of years later, which is really unpredictable.

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