"Didn't Master Luo just watch me mix the fillings?"
Tongdao Xu asked with a smile.
Luo Zongshan frowned, "I don't quite understand, Master Xu doesn't want to say?"
Tongdao Xu smiled again, but his eyes were cold, "Family craftsmanship and ancestral rules cannot be taught except to sons and apprentices. I'm sorry, Master Luo!"
The smile on Luo Zongshan's face disappeared. He frowned and looked at Comrade Xu for several seconds before he smiled coldly and nodded slightly, "It's okay! Since Master Xu has this rule in his ancestors, just pretend that I didn't ask."
After saying that, Luo Zongshan left with a dark face.
Tongdao Xu glanced at his back coldly, looked away, and continued making steamed mutton dumplings.
Jiang Jinsong and Wei Xiaokun saw and heard the scene just now, and at this time, they both subconsciously kept silent.
Just now, Comrade Xu had obviously lost Luo Zongshan's face, which made both Jiang Jinsong and Wei Xiaokun frown a little.
There is a sense of dilemma.
After all, Luo Zongshan is the cousin of the chef, Luo Zongping, and the head cook of the kitchen.
They didn't dare to offend.
Logically speaking, Xu Tongdao offended Luo Zongshan, and they should distance themselves from Xu Tongdao and draw a clear line between them.
But is Comrade Xu easy to mess with?
They can't forget how Comrade Xu dealt with them in the first few days after he arrived.
They work under Comrade Xu every day. If they really draw a clear line with Comrade Xu, although it will be difficult for Comrade Xu to carry out his work, they will not reap any good results.
It's entirely possible to lose your job if you're not careful.
Who knows that Comrade Xu was personally recruited by Mr. Zhang?
Comrade Xu noticed their expressions, but he didn't say anything.
Ever since yesterday, when they helped hide the fact that Luo Zongshan had cooked a whole-sheep feast for Mr. Zhang and others, Comrade Xu no longer expected these two people to be of the same mind as him.
He is now waiting for news from his cousin Ge Liangcai.
As long as Ge Liangcai's brothers or masters are interested in contracting Zhiweixuan's kitchen, once they succeed, Jiang Jinsong and Wei Xiaokun will naturally be kicked out.
If not...
Then Comrade Xu, just put up with it! Put up with the intrigue in the kitchen until he stops working here.
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It was around 10 o'clock that night.
Ge Liangcai rode his bicycle alone to Xu Tongdao's barbecue restaurant.
When he arrived, Xu Tongdao still had a few dishes to prepare. Ge Liangcai was not in a hurry and found a table to sit at. Xu Tongdao asked Xi Dongyang to serve him some cold dishes and asked Xu Tonglin to bring him two.
A bottle of beer and let Ge Liangcai eat it first.
About half an hour later, Comrade Xu finished what he was doing and came out of the kitchen with a portion of lamb and scorpion pot. He casually took off the apron from his waist and threw it on the bar. He carried the pot to Ge Liangcai's place.
The waiter Cao Min was very alert and hurriedly brought an alcohol stove. Comrade Xu put the pot on the alcohol stove and took out a lighter to light the alcohol in the stove.
Ge Liangcai looked at it with a smile, took out his cigarette case, threw a cigarette to Comrade Xu, and lit one himself.
Xu Tongdao picked up the cigarette, clamped it to his ear, and reached out to take the opened bottle of beer handed by Ge Liangcai.
"Cousin, do you have any good news for me?" he asked.
Hearing this, Ge Liang smiled.
"Of course! There is a good thing about contracting a kitchen. Except for people like me who want to open their own shop, who can refuse it? The first thing I asked was a senior brother of mine. He was interested as soon as he heard about it. He is now working in Grandma's Village and leads his subordinates.
I have two apprentices. He is better at craftsmanship than me. He is almost forty years old this year. It just so happens that he has been having a bit of trouble with the boss of Grandma’s Village recently and is thinking of changing places! Originally, I wanted to bring him to see you tonight.
Yes, but his wife is sick recently and he has to go back early to take care of her. However, he said that he will go to his hometown to pick up his wife and take care of his wife tomorrow night, and he can come with me tomorrow night. "
As soon as Ge Liang said this, Xu Tongdao guessed who he was talking about.
In the original time and space, when he and Ge Liangcai were apprentices, they drank with that man.
At that time, the man was already in his early forties.
What impressed Comrade Xu deeply was that the man had a good tongue. One of the dishes they ate at a small restaurant was sweet and sour pork ribs.
Xu Tongdao remembers that the man only tasted one piece and said: "This rib is boiled with white sugar to get a sugary color, but the taste is just a little bit off! If you use rock sugar, the taste will be better!"
At that time, Comrade Xu thought this guy was bragging.
After eating a portion of sweet and sour pork ribs, you can still taste the sugary color of the roasted pork ribs. Is it boiled with white sugar? Or is it boiled with rock sugar?
Anyway, he couldn't taste it at the time.
result……
When he finished eating and paying the bill, the man casually asked the owner of the small restaurant. It turned out that the owner was an acquaintance of him.
When paying the bill, the man asked the boss, "Old Sun! Your cooking here is no longer as sophisticated as before! Have you started using sugar when cooking sweet and sour pork ribs?"
Tongdao Xu remembers that the boss said with a smile: "It's faster to boil sugar with white sugar! Rock sugar takes too much time."
Much later, Xu Tongdao himself used white sugar and rock sugar to separate the sugar color, cooked many portions of sweet and sour pork ribs, and after tasting them, he could slowly tell the subtle differences.
He remembered that the person's surname seemed to be Huang.
"It's okay. It doesn't matter if it's a day late. Anyway, even if the head chef at Zhiweixuan is replaced, it will definitely be after the year. There's no rush!"
As Tongdao Xu spoke, he asked casually: "By the way, your senior brother's wife doesn't matter, right? What's wrong with her? His wife is sick. Does he have time to contract the kitchen in the city?"
Ge Liangcai picked up a piece of scorpion and chewed it, and said casually: "Don't worry! It's not a serious illness, it's just cold weather and bronchitis. Just wait until he calls his mother over to help take care of it."
"Oh, all right!"
Comrade Xu smiled, raised his bottle and touched it with Ge Liangcai.
The brothers chatted while drinking.
The conversation slowly turned to opening a store.
Ge Liangcai asked Tongdao Xu how much the rent for a storefront here was, and also asked how many peak passenger flows there would be here every night, etc.
It seems that he is really planning to open a store on this street.
That night, Ge Liangcai left just before 12 o'clock. When he left, he was already a little drunk. It was his brother Ge Lianghua who rode him back.
…
At almost 10 o'clock the next night, Ge Liangcai brought a short man wearing a pair of baggy camouflage pants and a black down jacket to Xu Tongdao's store.
This person is the person in Xu Tongdao's memory.
Although he is not tall, he has broad shoulders and is very strong. He has a square face and two deep dimples when he smiles.
As soon as he entered the door and saw Tongdao Xu, he immediately showed a warm smile and took out a cigarette to smoke Tongdao Xu.
The tone is also very enthusiastic.
"Hello, hello! Are you the cousin Xiao Xu that Ah Cai mentioned? Just call me Lao Huang! Your cousin and I are not outsiders. We were both taught by the same master. Hehe, we are going to be in trouble this time.
You've been threading the needle for me, come on! Have a cigarette, I heard Ah Cai say you're a smoker, right? Haha."