Shunfeng Building, the largest restaurant in Dongtai Town.

Ma Biao, the owner of Shunfeng Building, looked at the young man looking around downstairs, and a suspicious look appeared on his face: "I said that Shopkeeper Hong, if you can't invite a refiner, don't just find someone to make up the numbers." How old is this kid? At his age, I'm afraid he can only do some food processing work. ”

Shopkeeper Hong whispered: "Yan Ji Yan introduced it by Boss Yan." ”

Ma Biao was a little surprised: "Boss Yan introduced, let him in." ”

"Okay. Shopkeeper Hong answered and went downstairs.

Ma Biao's face was solemn: "Boss Yan actually introduced me to the refiner, it seems that the matter of Shunfeng Lou stopping the supply of spiritual food has spread in Dongtai Town...... This refiner is so hard to find. ”

Dongtai Town is a distribution center for spirit beasts, with many ingredients, but unfortunately there is no special refining building. Ma Biao has a business vision and sees the huge potential of the spiritual food market in Dongtai Town, so he hired a refiner from the city a year ago, hoping to develop and monopolize the spiritual food market in Dongtai Town.

But after the specific operation, he realized how difficult it was to find a qualified refiner.

Refiner is a rather embarrassing profession, which is due to many objective conditions.

First of all, upskilling is hard.

The vast majority of ingredients are fresh, which makes refined food more restricted by objective conditions such as origin and transportation. Most of the time, refiners can only refine a few major ingredients, and the number of ingredients may not be sufficient, resulting in slow improvement of refiners' skills, and another problem arises: refiners tend to have a strong regionality, and if there are no ingredients in the local area, refiners are not much better than novices.

Secondly, the job is unstable.

The value of spiritual food is not bad, and most of the people who can eat spiritual food often are rich people or Damen factions, but Damen factions usually cultivate their own refining talents, and the rich people outside are always a minority, and some ingredients are also seasonal. Compared with alchemists, the low production efficiency of alchemists is obvious, and the refining buildings with poor strength tend to reduce their staffing during the off-season.

Third, spiritual food is far less convenient than elixir.

Alchemy and food refining are both processing edible spiritual objects, making it easier for the body to absorb the spiritual energy, and the spiritual energy absorption efficiency is almost the same, but the convenience and preservation period, the spiritual food is completely exploded by the elixir. The elixir can be stored for many years, the spiritual food is ready-to-eat, and the shelf life is mostly measured in hours; the elixir is simple to take, and the time for eating the spiritual food is much longer; in addition, the monks in the foundation building period can open the valley and basically will not eat again.

Refiners are constrained by various objective factors, and the overall situation is not good, and there are fewer and fewer practitioners.

Excellent refiners are mostly recruited by big forces, with good treatment and a good refining environment, so they disdain to come to a small place like Dongtai Town. Most of the people who are willing to come are novices in refining, and it is difficult for Ma Biao to satisfy Ma Biao with his level. Ma Biao knew that he had no room to pick and choose, so he had to select the best from among the low-level refiners. He plans to take advantage of the abundance of ingredients in Dongtai Town to cultivate talents by himself, but the refiner is not stupid, and those who are willing to come purely regard Dongtai Town as a leveling point, and when the level is almost the same, he will pat his ass and leave, and find another job.

Ten days ago, another refiner quit his job, and Shunfeng Lou has not found a successor so far.

This has seriously affected Shunfeng Lou's reputation, and its main competitors have been particularly arrogant lately.

After thinking about it, Shopkeeper Hong had brought the young man in.

Although he was seeing the boss, the young man was not nervous at all, and smiled calmly. Ma Biao nodded secretly, not to mention the level of skill, the composure of the young man is quite rare.

Ma Biao's heart suddenly had more anticipation, and asked, "What do you call the little master?"

"Back to the boss, my name is Tang Chen. ”

Ma Biao smiled lightly: "It turned out to be Master Xiao Tang." I wonder how many years has Master Tang learned to refine food?"

Tang Chen raised his fingers and calculated, and then said seriously: "Add up before and after, about four months." ”

"Four months?"

Ma Biao and Shopkeeper Hong asked questions at the same time, and after receiving a positive answer, the two looked at each other.

Shunfeng Building has been employing refiners for more than a year, and he is familiar with the market. Like most professions, refiners need to improve their skills through continuous practice, but the nature of the industry dictates that refiners do not have enough ingredients to squander, and their skill level is relatively slow. Under normal circumstances, it takes three years to learn refining before becoming a teacher, and a little guy who has studied for four months dares to come to Shunfeng Building to apply, which is really unbelievable.

Ma Biao picked up a cup of tea, and the shopkeeper Hong had no choice but to bite the bullet and ask, "How many spiritual foods can you concoct?"

Tang Chen hadn't been refining food properly, so he decided to be conservative, and took the ingredients that had detailed examples in his refining experience and that he had seen in Dongtai Town as a target: "Ten kinds should be fine." ”

"Poof", just as he was about to put down the horse mark of the cup, the tea in his mouth spurted out, and the tea crossed a silver arc in the air, and the water splashed on the face of the shopkeeper Hong. Ma Biao was also not happy, a small amount of tea was choked into the trachea, causing a violent cough, and his face was red.

After a while, Ma Biao regained his strength, and he glared at the shopkeeper Hong and said, "Ten kinds?"

Shopkeeper Hong's face was full of tea, and he looked very embarrassed, but he didn't have time to care about it at this time, and asked with a dark face: "The spiritual food ingredients we have here mainly come from spirit beasts, are you good at poultry or beasts?"

"I know a little bit about it. ”

Ma Biao and Shopkeeper Hong glanced at each other, and they were a little crying and laughing.

Shopkeeper Hong squeezed out a smile: "You go downstairs and wait for a while, I'll discuss it with the boss." ”

As soon as Tang Chen left, Ma Biao couldn't help but shake his head: "A teenager who claims to know ten kinds of spiritual food preparation methods, and he knows a little bit about the methods of various ingredients. Are you sure he's not kidding us?"

Shopkeeper Hong's forehead was watery, and he couldn't tell whether it was the tea that was sprayed or sweat, and said with a wry smile: "A refiner who can prepare more than five kinds of spiritual food can enjoy courtesy in the refining building in the city, and most of them are specialized...... This young man looks quite clever, who knew that the cowhide was so fresh and refined, so I went to send him away. ”

"Wait. ”

Ma Biao snorted coldly: "He is the person introduced by Boss Yan, even if he is not suitable, he can't be blasted out like this." Let's do it, let him go into the kitchen to try his hand, and then we politely decline, and Boss Yan will be able to explain it in his face. ”

Tang Chen waited boredly downstairs.

He has been out for a few years, so he can naturally see that the "interview" just now was not successful. He roughly guessed that he might have said the wrong thing, but he didn't know what the problem was. He was ready to go home, and when Shopkeeper Hong went downstairs and let him go into the kitchen to try his hand, Tang Chen was a little surprised.

At this moment, a fat man walked into the Shunfeng Building.

Seeing that Shopkeeper Hong was downstairs, the fat man who had just entered the door had a bright eye, and greeted loudly: "Yo, Shopkeeper Hong is also here!

Shopkeeper Hong's face suddenly became ugly.