Life is a Game

In the next period of time, Jiang Feng basically soaked in Yonghe Juli and Peng Changping to learn broth. After a long time, many chefs in Yongheju even agreed that Jiang Feng was the chef of Yongheju. It took a long time to see Jiang Feng before he remembered that he was actually He is the chef of Taifeng Building.

In order to concentrate on studying, Jiang Feng gets up early every morning and cooks himself a plate of slightly sweet braised pork with sugar. Wu Minqi is puzzled at first and then gets used to it. Braised pork mixed with noodles or braised pork with porridge, one serving a day, happy work .

The two months passed smoothly.

In fact, it is not ordinary. In the past two months, the income of Taifeng Building has hit a record low.

Jiang Feng graduated successfully. In June, he spent two days going back to the school to defend his defense and go through graduation-related procedures. He didn't stay much for a day. The graduation certificate was sent by the school, and now the courier is still on the cabinet.

Jiang Feng has been busy every day for the past two months.

Get up, go to Yongheju, go home, sleep, two o'clock and one line, and the number of times to go to Taifeng Building can be counted on the fingers.

Even so, Jiang Feng knew that Taifeng Building's business had been very bad in the past two months.

Jiang Feng seldom returns to Taifeng Building during business hours because he focuses entirely on learning how to cook with Peng Changping. Occasionally, when he goes back, he can clearly find that the traffic flow is far worse than before, and the attendance rate in the lobby is obviously lower than before. Not to mention the invisible private room. Even if the old man cooks every now and then, it doesn't help much. Compared with Chef Arnold, who is ranked sixth in the list of famous chefs, the old man's craftsmanship is still a lot worse.

On the contrary, the top restaurant, with the help and influence of Chef Arnold, the top restaurant has captured the hearts of diners from all walks of life in a very short time. Even after various activities have ended and vegetable prices have returned to the previous sky-high prices, the customer flow is still very impressive, and there is not even a significant decline in word-of-mouth.

In May and June, the restaurant on the top floor shines brightly in Beiping, as if it has the meaning of dominating the catering industry in Beiping. Taifeng Building suffered the most from the loss of a large number of high-end diners due to the heavy attack and the proximity of the location. The other established restaurants are not much better. Yongheju has Peng Changping, a great master, whose turnover is gradually declining, let alone other restaurants that don't have any particularly important chefs.

The restaurant on the top floor and Chef Arnold are probably the most prominent and eye-catching cubs in Beiping's catering industry in the past two months.

Other high-end restaurants in Peking also experienced the darkest two months in the past few years.

At two o'clock in the afternoon on July 12, Jiang Feng returned to the kitchen after lunch as usual to continue processing the broth.

For two months, under the influence of the buff, Jiang Feng learned how to cook as hard as chicken blood every day, and with Peng Changping's careful guidance, the progress of Gaotang was rapid. Occasionally change the method and rewrite the details. If you don’t follow Peng Changping’s method and Jiang Weiming’s recipe to make broth, you can only make A-grade broth.

Jiang Feng is very clear, he understands the method and the reason, he can step on the thunder in two months, he has encountered and made all the mistakes he may have made, and he has corrected them all under Peng Changping's help and guidance. The reason why he still can't make S-grade broth is because of his lack of cooking skills.

He understands the truth, but his strength really can't keep up.

Jiang Feng's purpose was actually very simple. What Peng Changping taught him was Jiang's ginseng soup, but the only thing he had to learn now was broth. As long as the broth can be made into S-grade, clear soup can also be made into S-grade. By then, S-grade chickpeas will not be a matter of quality but a matter of time.

As long as the practice is proficient enough, S-level chickpeas can be made.

Peng Changping didn't know that Jiang Feng wanted to make an S-grade broth, and wanted to use the broth to increase his proficiency in seasoning.

Peng Changping went back to the restaurant with Lu Sheng after lunch as usual. As soon as he entered the kitchen, he saw Jiang Feng who was tasting soup.

"Have you eaten yet?" Peng Changping asked warmly.

"Eat." Jiang Feng put down the spoon.

In terms of taste, this pot of broth is good enough.

But what he wants is not qualified, not even excellent.

He wants to be extreme, to be able to reach the extreme of S rank.

"Based on your current level, the current broth is quite good." Peng Changping said, "Of course it's good to practice more, but you don't have to practice too much. The broth has passed, and now you can start learning how to handle sea cucumbers." .”

Jiang Feng politely refused: "But Master Peng, I don't think my broth is enough now."

Peng Changping casually took a spoon from the side, scooped up half a spoonful of boiling hot broth, blew on it, and tasted it.

"It's enough. If I can make this soup at your age, I'm afraid my father will be so happy to cook a table of soup for me." Peng Changping even made a small joke, "Don't stress. It’s too big, when I first opened a restaurant and ran a restaurant on my own, I often worried about gains and losses, and I was always worried about some small fluctuations so I couldn’t sleep, and the next day I went to the store as if nothing had happened, but in fact I was very flustered.”

"After a few more years, when you reach Lu Sheng's age, you will understand that restaurant management is nothing more than money and chefs. The chef's level is sufficient, and there are no financial problems. As long as there are no major accidents, the restaurant's business will be fine. It will always be prosperous, and it is normal to have occasional small fluctuations and downturns, so don’t worry about it.”

Jiang Feng listened for a while before he understood that Peng Changping was trying to comfort him not to worry and worry too much about the business of Taifeng Building.

Maybe there is a point, Jiang Feng has been eager to improve the proficiency of seasoning during this time, but the progress is far from as fast as he thought. Two months, with Peng Changping's guidance, should be enough to get the seasoning to the master level, but the reality is that Jiang Feng is still 10,000 proficient so far.

He has hardly practiced knife skills during this period, and even the knife skills are only four thousand short, and the seasoning is still ten thousand short.

The most difficult ten thousand.

The longer the time, the less obvious the effect of brushing proficiency was, the more anxious Jiang Feng became. In the past half month, he has become even more anxious, feeling like he has pre-exam syndrome. Jiang Feng only felt this way a few months before the college entrance examination. He clearly felt that he was working hard every day, but he didn't seem to be able to produce anything. As the timeline approached, he became more and more panicked. It's hard to learn something.

vicious circle.

"Actually, it's not because..." Jiang Feng wanted to explain but found that he couldn't explain clearly.

The business of Taifeng Building is not as sluggish as rumored by the outside world. Unlike Babaozhai, which spends a lot of money on publicity and operation every year, Taifeng Building spends very little in this regard. Coupled with the lack of rent costs, although the business has indeed failed in the past two months, it has not reached the point of losing money and facing bankruptcy at any time.

The financial situation of Taifeng Building is very healthy, even without bank loans.

Jiang Feng can't explain why he has become so anxious recently. He knows very well that the downturn in Taifeng Building's business can't make him anxious to the point that everyone can see it. It happened only a month ago. He seems to be inexplicably anxious because of some things that he can't explain clearly, maybe it's because he can't figure it out himself, that's why he is so anxious.

"I understand, don't tire yourself too much. Humans are amazing creatures. Sometimes you can make progress if you push yourself hard, but if you push too hard, you may be pushed directly to a dead end. Humans will always find themselves in a dead end. , When I was young, I also went through many dead ends, these days you probably didn't go anywhere other than the kitchen." Peng Changping said.

Jiang Feng nodded.

"Let's go for a walk. It just so happens that there is no sun right now. It has just rained in the morning and it is cooling off. Don't just stay in the kitchen." Peng Changping thought for a while, "Why don't we go to the vegetable market."

"ah?"

"Since I retired, I have nothing to do. I just go to the supermarket to buy vegetables every day, and occasionally I go to the farm in the countryside to pick up fresh ones. I have been back to China for so long, and I don't seem to have gone shopping. How about I go to the vegetable market?" Peng Changping suggested.

"Okay, wait a minute. I'll turn off the fire and change my clothes." Jiang Feng is still wearing the staff uniform of Yongheju.

There is no way, it is impossible to wear his own clothes in a place like the kitchen, and Jiang Feng can't wear the staff uniform of Taifeng Building in Yongheju, so he can only choose to blend in with everyone and ask Lu Sheng to give him two sets of Yongheju's staff uniforms.

Jiang Feng now has his own locker in Yongheju.

"Go, I'll call Lu Sheng. Like you, he has been staying in a small room every day except for eating and getting off work. I don't know how long. You just happened to go out for a walk together."