Two months later.

April 20, Gu Yu.

The third canteen of the steel plant.

Deputy Director Chen found Xiao Liu and asked:

"Xiao Liu, where is your master? Why didn't you see him? ”

Xiao Liu replied with a smile: "He has something to do today, so he asked for leave early in the morning and went out." ”

"This Lao He!"

Deputy Director Chen complained and asked:

"What's the matter with him, where has he gone?"

Xiao Liu said honestly: "He went fishing outside." ”

Fishing?

That's fine!

Deputy Director Chen urged: "You must know where he is fishing, hurry up and call him back, there will be a reception in the evening." ”

Xiao Liu smiled: "Factory director, why don't you let me try?" I studied with the master for two months, and my level has improved a lot. ”

Deputy Director Chen scolded with a smile: "It's a shame for what you said!" You've only been studying for two months, and you want to be in charge of cooking? Pull it down, you can't even carve a flower, you don't have to make people laugh. Hurry up and find someone. When your master comes back, I still have something to tell him. ”

Xiao Liu said "hey", hurriedly put down the kitchen knife, took off his apron, and ran outside.

Nearly an hour later.

Chen Tao returned to the steel plant.

He handed over a grass carp he caught to Xiao Liu to deal with, and then went to Deputy Director Chen's office.

Deputy Director Chen smiled:

"Lao He, you're back. There is an important reception tonight, it is a person from the Beijing Red Star Rolling Mill, you have to give me a whole table with your heart. ”

Beijing Red Star Rolling Mill?

Chen Tao pretended to be curious: "Old Chen, can you tell me, who are the people over there?" ”

Deputy Director Chen haha: "You old He, don't you watch people put down dishes?" Let me tell you, there is a deputy factory from there, and I heard that he is very good at eating, so I have to ask you, the master, to come out and help me settle him. Don't you want to go back to Beijing? I don't embarrass you, and I will introduce you to this deputy factory director Li in the evening, so that you can have a job as soon as you go back...... By the way, I'll give you another promotion to the fourth level, and let you get a salary of sixty-three dollars and five cents. ”

Deputy Director Li?

It should be Li Huaide, a familiar character for Chen Tao.

Chen Tao pretended to be modest: "As the saying goes, if you don't put this Director Li on the table tonight, then I will definitely not dare to be promoted to the fourth level, which makes people see jokes." ”

Deputy Factory Chief Chen smiled and said, "Don't be modest. How high your level is, I still don't know? Let's get ready, we're waiting to eat! ”

Coming out of the office, Chen Tao returned to the third canteen.

Xiao Liu was very clever, immediately handed over the brewed tea, and gossiped with a smile:

"Master, what do you say?"

Chen Tao took a sip and said, "What do you say?" Today, your master and I use a little bit of real skills, you will give me a hand, if you don't understand, just ask, otherwise after this village, there will be no such shop. ”

Xiao Liu was so happy that even snot bubbles were about to pop up:

"Hey, hey, hey...... Master, you are so good to me. Come, I'll give you a pinch. ”

If you're a woman, I'll let you hammer me, forget it if you're a man!

"What kind of shoulder pinching now!" Chen Tao refused: "Hurry up and prepare the food." ”

Seven p.m.

In the special box for hospitality, a group of six people sat down chatting and laughing.

At this time, wine and six cold dishes were already on the table.

Each cold dish is covered with another plate, and it is not easy to look at.

Li Huaide smiled: "Lao Chen, you are here prepared!" Is it a master looking for in a hotel outside? I'm telling you, forget it this time, not next time. We, the leaders, have to lead by example and not eat and drink. ”

Deputy Director Chen smiled: "Lao Li, don't worry, the master who cooks is from our steel factory." We are here, it's not as good as your capital, the conditions are quite limited, you can't dislike it......"

The more he said this, the more Li Huaide looked forward to it.

When the lid plate is opened, the husband and wife lung slices of Sichuan cuisine, the honey sauce barbecued pork of Cantonese cuisine, the smoked fish of Suzhou style, and the centipede waist silk of Lu cuisine...... and other six exquisite cold dishes were presented in front of the eyes of several people.

Chen Tao deliberately used some effort in plating, so that these dishes looked beautiful under the illumination of the lights, which directly aroused their aesthetic pleasure.

The major star-rated restaurants in later generations have proved that the latter two requirements in "color, flavor and shape" are also indispensable elements in high-end cuisine.

Of course, there is also such an element of "nourishment", which is nutrition.

"Lao Chen!"

Li Huaide was surprised: "This master of your factory is really amazing. I've eaten a lot of good things, but I've never seen anything like this in these dishes today...... Hurry up and introduce me! ”

The master of our factory? Alas, it will soon become your factory!

Deputy Director Chen sighed in his heart, but he said:

"Lao Li, let's not rush first, there are several hot dishes to be made by the master later. When he's almost done, we'll invite him over and talk. ”

Li Huaide nodded: "It's okay, let's eat first." ”

As one hot dish after another, both delicious and artistic, was served, Li Huaide was already numb with surprise...... Could it be that I ate a state banquet tonight?

Not a state dinner.

But there are levels comparable to, or even exceeding, the current state banquet.

After eating a nine-turn large intestine that Chen Tao deliberately retained the taste, Li Huaide couldn't help but sigh:

"This dish is also amazing, much better than Fengze Garden!"

Seeing that he had been settled, Deputy Director Chen said to Xiao Liu: "Go and invite your master over." ”

Xiao Liu answered, and quickly went to the kitchen to invite Chen Tao.

Deputy Director Chen also introduced Chen Tao's situation to Li Huaide.

When he heard that Chen Tao was going back to the capital to join his son, Li Huaide immediately slapped the table and said:

"Lao Chen, you have to help persuade him to come to our Red Star Rolling Mill...... No, I'll persuade you myself later. ”

Deputy Director Chen smiled: "I'm afraid it's useless for us to persuade us!" This old He wants to retire now and let his son retire, I'm afraid he won't be happy to work again~"

"How's that going to work? Isn't that a waste of talent? No, no, I must persuade him to change his mind. ”

Li Huaide is a person who is delicious, lustful, and powerful.

He is also very "good" at employing people, no matter whether it is good or bad, as long as it can be used for himself, then he dares to use it.

The bad breed Xu Damao, as well as the two official fans who don't do anything but do everything else, are typical representatives.

Therefore, a talent like Chen Tao who can greatly satisfy his appetite, he really doesn't want to miss it.

Chen Tao's cooking is too delicious and compelling.

Even if it's just ordinary ingredients, he can be ingenious and make a look that people can't afford to eat.

For example, this dish of [boiling water cabbage], although it looks like a lotus blooming [unremarkable], in fact, it took six hours to hang this soup.

Another example is Wensi tofu, which has more than 10,000 shredded tofu cuts, as well as various lifelike vegetable carvings...... This knife work is really an art.

There is also a painting-like arrangement, which is simply art itself.

Li Huaide made up his mind that he must let Chen Tao come to the Red Star Rolling Mill.

(End of chapter)