People in the Siheyuan: I am a Buddhist who is in a mess

When I arrived at the canteen kitchen, I found He Yuzhu lying on a long wooden bench, dozing off.

"You slept comfortably, but if you don't pay attention it will affect the environment." Lin Yi walked over and kicked the leg of the stool, waking He Yuzhu up.

He Yuzhu picked up the teapot beside him, gulped down the cold tea, and said, "Come here so early in the morning to start cooking, and I won't be able to have a good sleep in the afternoon."

He Yuzhu looked nonchalant.

"Are there any small kitchen reception tasks tonight?"

Lin Yi first planned to ask He Yuzhu about his plans for the evening. If he was going to cook in the cafeteria, he would go back to the guesthouse first.

"Not today. I'm going to get off work and go home soon. Hiccup."

He Yuzhu drank too much tea and burped, then asked, "What? Do you have any plans?"

"Not here, but in the factory guesthouse."

As soon as Lin Yi mentioned the guesthouse, He Yuzhu got angry and said, "Did that bastard find you? If that bastard wasn't the brother-in-law of the big factory, I would have slapped him hard. I can't kill him."

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"Why are you so anxious? It's been so long since the incident happened. If you are still so magnanimous, why don't you take your kitchen knife and chop the person into pieces like a piece of meat and bone?"

Lin Yi asked with a sneer.

"Just tell me yourself, did he wrong you?"

He Yuzhu is a man who is very tough-talking to outsiders, but if people close to him ask him a question, he will not lie and will tell the truth quickly.

"You are such a skilled chef, how come you can't change your bad habit of taking food?" Lin Yi really didn't understand. If the chef really wanted something, he could just talk to the boss. It wasn't a shameful thing.

"This is the rule. Traditionally, the leftover meat and vegetables are reserved for the chef." He Yuzhu still held on to his outdated theory.

"Come on, don't be so petty in the future. It's just that people don't care about you, but if they really take it too far, they will accuse you of stealing state assets, and you won't be able to escape."

"People have come to me today, which means they have already taken a step back. As a grown man, why don't you also take a step back and help them cook a few dishes?" Lin Yi persuaded.

"I won't go. I have to work overtime to cook for the canteen, and Director Yang promised that I can take the leftovers back. Going to the guesthouse is not only troublesome, but there are no leftovers. I won't go." He Yuzhu was unwilling to go.

However, Lin Yi also understood the meaning behind this, which was that there was no profit to be made.

"I told people that main dishes are 20 cents, and small stir-fries are 10 cents."

"I go."

"Brother, what does Shazhu say?"

Not long after Lin Yi returned to the office, Huang Yang came over again.

"I agree, but this person is very proud. Brother, please don't mention the past. If there is any change of attitude, I will be helpless."

Lin Yi did not forget to give a preventive measure.

"Don't worry, brother. No one in the guesthouse will tell anyone about this. I do have this ability."

Huang Yang was very happy that the chef's problem was solved.

"Brother, there is something you can explain to me. Logically, there are many cooks in this city. Our steel mill is so big, how come there is only one cook like He Yuzhu who is so good?"

Lin Yi has always been puzzled. He Yuzhu's cooking skills are not particularly outstanding. Compared with the state banquet chefs, they are still far behind.

In the plot, it seems that the only dishes that are outstanding are Tan family cuisine and Sichuan cuisine. If they are really top-notch, it must be more than as simple as in the plot.

"Well, who says it's not true? It's just that there are really few good chefs. When we first came to the city, many good chefs left. Most of them went to that broken island in the south."

"The chefs who stayed behind all took their skills very seriously. They learned the skills in this way. They did odd jobs for three years, cut meat for three years, learned their character for three years, and helped in the kitchen for three years."

"This young man, by the time he is ready to become a master, he will be over 30 years old, and he has not even learned half of what his master has done."

"Nowadays, only a few big restaurants and government agencies employ good chefs. For our steel mill to have a chef like He Yuzhu is already a great achievement."

After Huang Yang said this, Lin Yi understood why this good cook was so popular.

According to the understanding of Lin Yi and his followers, these are roughly the points.

One is that the chefs are unwilling to share their skills. After all, it is the old saying "If you teach your apprentice well, you will starve to death".

In addition, you are not allowed to open a restaurant by yourself now. You either have to work in a company, a big hotel, or a factory. If a chef wants to find a job, he actually needs connections. Moreover, the required level of chefs varies from place to place.

The canteen serves all the food from a big pot. It doesn't matter if the quality is a little low. For those who cook in their own kitchen, the cooking skills must be high. Those who eat in their own kitchen dare not hand over the cooking work to a chef they don't know well, so there is not much choice.

Also, the seasoning.

Lin Yi himself has cooked before. At this time, except for a few chefs who have their own secret recipes for making broths and using some Chinese medicine and spices, most chefs are actually more concerned with the control of heat and knife skills.

Seasoning was not as simple as it is in later generations.

In the future, even if people who can’t cook can watch the video a few times, be a little bolder, and take out the seasoning packet, they can make the food taste similar to that of a restaurant chef.

It is no wonder that in the plot, He Yuzhu was able to make a living at the steel rolling mill with his cooking skills. The key point was that no one could be found to replace him in a short time.

No wonder Director Li, after taking office, could resist the urge to kill He Yuzhu. It was really because such a cook was indispensable when entertaining guests with favors.

In the front yard of the courtyard, Xu Zhenghao rushed into Yan Fugui's house with a red face and a stick in his hand.

"Yan Fugui, if you don't pay me back the two hundred dollars you cheated me of yesterday, this matter between us will not be over."

After saying that, Xu Zhenghao swung the stick and hit the window of Yan Fugui's house directly.

With a "crackling" sound, all the glass on the window shattered.

"Xu Zhenghao, are you crazy? Someone come here, someone wants to beat someone up and kill someone in broad daylight."

When Chen Erni saw Xu Zhenghao's eyes were red, she stopped her younger daughter Yan Jiedi from coming out, fearing that something might go wrong.

Her two sons, Yan Jiefang and Yan Jiekuang, were out playing and not at home.

Yan Fugui was inside the house, but he was hiding in the inner room and was unwilling to come out.

"Yan family, if you want to shout, shout louder and call everyone in the courtyard to come and let them see what your son Yan Fugui has done."

Xu Zhenghao was not afraid at all. Anyway, he could no longer hide his son's affairs, and his son's house could no longer be kept. He and Yan Fugui would never be done with this matter.

"Yan Fugui, if you don't come out, I will destroy your house and report it to the police station."

"I'll see how the police punish you for the crime of extorting money... I'll also go to your school and put up big-character posters to let everyone in your school know how you behave as a teacher."

Xu Zhenghao had already planned what he wanted to do. He was not the kind of person who would only think about the beginning and not the end. Today's matter would not be so easy to resolve even if Yan Fugui paid back the two hundred yuan.

Xu Zhenghao's son Xu Damao was sentenced and lost face, but Yan Fugui should not have an easy time either. He should not try to hide the fact that his son Yan Jiecheng had promiscuous relationships with both men and women, slept with a widow, and finally married her.

Yan Fugui, who was hiding in the back room, felt a dizzy sensation in his head after hearing what Xu Zhenghao said. He could never imagine how things could turn out like this.

Seeing through the crack in the door that Xu Zhenghao was about to swing the stick to smash another window, Yan Fugui could no longer stay and hurried out.

"Lao Xu, Lao Xu, I really didn't let this slip. I am innocent."

In the afternoon, Yan Fugui noticed that Xu Zhenghao returned to the courtyard with a gloomy face first. Not long after, people from the Housing Management Section of the Street Office came over with seals and glue in their hands.

Yan Fugui knew that things were going to go wrong.

He just extorted two hundred yuan from Xu Zhenghao last night using the house issue as an excuse. Today, Xu Damao can no longer keep his house.