Food starts with Mapo Tofu

Chapter 5 I just want to learn to cook
"In the past, let's not say too far, just three years ago, guests had to bring their own vegetables when they came to eat." In the kitchen, Chen Nian listened to Xue Xiangshun's story about the past, and picked vegetables together with Xue Xiangshun.

"At that time, when people came to eat, they had to cut the yellow beef, make clear oil, make wine, and buy oily rice seeds and peanuts. Some customers always played tricks and used less clear oil, so the taste would be much worse, and the tofu oil would be more The taste is excellent, so, making tofu is the same as being a human being, if something is missing, the taste is not right~"

Chen Nian just listened, not missing a single word.

This principle is almost the same as what he heard from Old Chen when he was a child.

"You can be short of money, you can be short of chickens and eggs, but you can't be short of heart."

Compared with Master Xue, it may be a little more straightforward, but the words are not rough.

For the next two months, Chen Nian's life was the same every day.

Get up early and follow Master Xue to buy vegetables, and gradually become the leader of the morning market. Everyone knows that there is a man from Chen Mapo Restaurant who speaks better than a sentence, but if anyone wants to bully his youth, he wants to sell him a few cents more Don't even think about it, but even so, after Chen Nian and Xue Xiangshun went to the vegetable market, everyone began to habitually greet Comrade Xiao Chen first, not Master Xue.

When it opened at noon, Xue Xiangshun was basically only in charge of cooking and arranging dishes.

As for the pre-cooking work such as cutting vegetables and side dishes, Chen Nian is responsible.

After cutting the tofu for two full months, the old man can already skillfully cut the tofu into cubes of basically the same size. Although he has not reached the level of Master Xue, it is still enough for cooking.

But apart from Chen Nian himself, no one knew how he got here in the past two months.

During the two months just for supper, he ate more than 70 catties of tofu. Later, he couldn't eat anymore, so he used some seasonings in the kitchen to make the tofu taste a little better.

Otherwise, if you eat more than a catty of tofu every night for two months, the gods will not be able to stand it.

During the past two months, Chen Nian found that there would often be a middle-aged man in his 30s wearing a white shirt and well-tailored black soft trousers, wearing glasses and looking very gentle. , Look behind the kitchen from time to time.

Although he ordered everything, according to Chen Nian's observations, he ordered Mapo Tofu the most.

Sometimes he doesn't leave after dinner, sits in the store when there are not many people, and waits outside when there are many people, and when there are no customers, Master Xue will go out to catch up with this person.

It was only later that I found out that this was a well-known reporter in Chengdu, named Che Spoke, with many works.

Once, Chen Nian was washing the dishes in the back kitchen, while listening to the radio playing outside, "every street and alley, everyone's mouth, the first sentence of meeting is congratulations."

After listening, he was suddenly called out.

Master Xue called Chen Nian to his side, and introduced his apprentice to reporter Che: "My apprentice, a very willing kid, comes from a family background, and I think he will be able to replace me in a few years."

Finally, he made a joke, and it was obvious that the two were very familiar with each other.

Seeing this, Chen Nian quickly said: "Master, I am not capable enough now, and my level is limited. I am just a primary school student learning to cook. I have a lot to learn from you in the future."

Reporter Che looked at Chen Nian and couldn't help but his eyes lit up: "Not bad, what's his name?"

"Old age, the aging of old vinegar."

"Hahaha, such a young guy called me a name my age." Reporter Che couldn't help but find it quite interesting looking at Chen Nian's slightly immature face at this time.

Chen Nian couldn't help but blush when he heard that, who would have thought that he would be five or six years younger after time travelling.

From a handsome guy in his 20s to a handsome guy.

Afterwards, the proprietress also settled the account of the last customer and came to chat with her.

They said that Xue Xiangshun and the proprietress had noticed Chen Nian's hard work, and they found that Chen Nian was actually a cultural person!

Although it has been liberated, there are still not many cultural people.

But thinking of this era, coupled with Chen Nian's background, everyone probably learned it by himself.

But it's also pretty remarkable.

Not long after, Chen Nian continued to go back to tidy up the kitchen, while reporter Che looked at Chen Nian's back thoughtfully.

After closing at night, Xue Xiangshun finished wiping the kitchen knife and said casually, "Do you want to go to school? Reporter Che said that he can arrange a school for you, so that you can become an intellectual in the future."

But what he didn't expect was that Chen Nian didn't think about it at all after listening to it, and simply refused: "Master, I still want to learn how to cook."

"Why?"

"Because I like this better."

"Then let me ask if I can learn how to cook with me while going to school at his place?"

"No need for Master, actually... I know what I was taught in school. I have taught myself foreign languages, literature, mathematics, etc."

Xue Xiangshun naturally didn't believe it, but then Chen Nian spoke a few words in English directly.

Although these things sound like chatter to the ears, Xue Xiangshun's intuition tells Xue Xiangshun that his apprentice doesn't seem to be talking nonsense.

"You really know these things?"

In the end, Xue Xiangshun didn't say anything, no wonder Chen Nian improved so fast, he had learned all these cultural things when he was a teenager, and he could even learn foreign languages, let alone a cook.

"But since you know this, why?"

"Master, I like the feeling of being in the back kitchen. There are many things I want to learn, but there is only such a long time in one's life, and I am afraid that there is not enough time."

This is Chen Nian's true thoughts, he doesn't know if he is here is a dream, and he doesn't know how long he can stay here.

Maybe a year, maybe three years.

He didn't want to use this time to change the world like other time-traveling or golden-finger counterparts, using the gap between time and information to make himself great in this era.

Chen Nian just wants to learn how to cook.

As I said before, Chen Nian knew his strengths, and the plots of those cool novels were actually very deep, and he couldn't grasp them.

In a blink of an eye, it was already the end of 1950.

Since October, news of the war has continued to come from the radio.

However, the business of Chen Mapo's restaurant has not been affected much. Like the restaurant business, what has not changed is Master Xue's clothes.

Blue cloth clothes with oil wax flakes, straw sandals with thread ears.

It's just that the inside of the clothes is much thicker.

noon this day
"On the 29th day, the Volunteer Army drove the enemy to the south of the [-]th parallel, not only completely crushing the "Christmas Offensive" launched by the "United Nations Army", but also pushing the front from the Qingchuan River to the [-]th parallel, regaining the enemy's power beyond the [-]th parallel. north."

It was still the voice of the man with the excited voice.

Even though he already knew this period of history, Chen Nian couldn't help clenching his fists in the back kitchen excitedly when he heard this.

At this moment, Xue Xiangshun suddenly looked at Chen Nian: "Xiao Chen, you have been in the restaurant for a while, and you probably read the red case almost. After lunch today, I will teach you how to make mapo tofu."

　*Reporter Che’s information comes from Baidu Encyclopedia.

　　
　　The contract has been received and will be signed soon.

　　Now the investment is stable, brothers, isn’t it good to buy some coins for nothing?

　　
　
(End of this chapter)