Life is a Game

Regarding Chef Arnold's escape, Sun Maocai and others didn't have much reaction. .

There wasn't much reaction, mainly because Tao Shu was just an ordinary chef assistant in the restaurant on the top floor, and what he said was not credible, just like if Sang Ming told others that Jiang Feng ran away and jumped to Yongheju, not many people would believe it.

Sun Maocai told Jiang Feng that when he was working at the Hong Kong City Restaurant, he would often ask for several days in a row to go abroad for exchanges or competitions. This is especially true for a competition madman like Chef Arnold. It is very normal for him to disappear suddenly, so there is no need to make a fuss.

It's just that the timing of his disappearance this time is quite coincidental, so he looks a bit like running away. Chef Arnold's character is not a person who can run away at all.

Hearing what Sun Maocai said, Jiang Feng actually felt a little relieved.

Compared with what Chef Arnold will do when he returns to the United States, everyone is more concerned about when Peng Changping will arrive.

Jiang Feng had already told everyone that Peng Changping wanted to accept Zhou Shi's apprenticeship just now, and it was a happy event to make everyone happy. Everyone was happy, some were jealous, and some were confused about the situation, but one thing was undoubted, today's protagonist was Zhou Shi, and no one could steal his demeanor.

Even the cold sea cucumber that Zhou Shi made was protected and placed in a very safe place. Make sure that no one accidentally bumps into it while passing by or something strange floats in and affects its texture and taste.

It can be called VIP level protection.

Zhou Shi didn't know anything about it, and even chatted with the very calm Tao Shu.

Zhou Shi, who had just finished ordering, found that the menu of Taifeng Restaurant had been updated a lot, and he couldn't help sighing: "I didn't expect that the menu has changed after I left for more than half a year."

"Oh, has it changed a lot?" Tao Shu asked curiously.

"The price has increased a lot."

Tao Shu:?

Zhou Shi sighed, and sighed sadly: "If I leave my job half a year later, maybe I can buy the bigger store nearby."

Tao Shu:? ? ?

Tao Shu didn't have anything to eat before the dishes were served, so he could only drink a few sips of the free kumquat lemonade: "How do I feel, you seem to be... a bit regretful."

Tao Shu couldn't understand why Zhou Shi would speak in such a tone of nostalgia for his old club. He felt that if one day he saved enough money to go back to his hometown and open a restaurant, he would leave the top-floor restaurant happily without any nostalgia.

What Zhou Shi is living now is the life he longed for.

"Are you sorry?" Zhou Shi himself didn't realize that his tone just now was not quite right, "Maybe it's after I opened the store that I realized...it's different from what I originally imagined."

When Tao Shu looked at Zhou Shi, it was rare that he didn't chatter, and listened to him quietly.

"At first, I always felt that it was not good to be floating outside. There was no fixed place to live and no security. No matter how hard or tiring I was, I was working for others. The money I could get every month was just such a dead salary. Even if there were bonuses, I still made money. If it’s not much, it’s better to save enough money to go back to my hometown to open a shop, to live a more stable life, and to be able to accompany my parents.”

Tao Shu nodded, he thought so too.

"But when I really opened the store, I found that it was not as good as I thought. I have been in Peiping for more than ten years, and I have long been used to the busy life of nine to five. After returning, I was actually tired. , especially when recruiting workers for the pre-renovation site, although my mother helped, I was still busy from morning to night in those few months. But I always feel that it is too leisurely, obviously busy every day, every day After returning home from the store, I didn’t even want to talk after taking a shower, and I just wanted to sleep in bed, but I always felt free, that something was missing.”

"After opening the store, the business in the store is really good, earning a lot more than when I was in Beiping, but... But I just think it's wrong, I just don't think it's what I want. Is it a bit too hypocritical?" Zhou Shi laughed at himself I smiled, "Especially when I went into the back kitchen and looked around, I didn't say a few words, just made a dish, and it felt the same as when I went to work, but I felt very uncomfortable when I was making this dish. Enriched."

Tao Shu:?

"I think, you just entered the back kitchen and saw the original working environment. Didn't you tell me that the working environment in Taifeng Building is good, you just miss it a little bit. Let me tell you, if you really After you close your shop and come back to work, you will definitely miss the time when you opened the shop again." Tao Shudao pointed sharply at the waiter walking towards him, and hurriedly said, "The food is served, let's eat first, but I'm starving."

Zhou Shi smiled and did not speak, and ate quietly.

The dishes are all ordered during the week, and there are no more three dishes and one soup. Although Tao Shu works in the top-floor restaurant, the top-floor restaurant does not allow each stove chef to cook in turn like Taifeng Building. The staff meals in the top-floor restaurant are even worse than those in Yongheju, and they are more perfunctory.

He is not like Zhou Shi who just had a girlfriend when he was 30 years old. He has a family, a wife and children, and his daily expenses are high. A meal in a restaurant at this price point.

He eats a meal with gusto and doesn't even want to talk, and only turns on the chatterbox mode after eating.

"Zhou Shi, let me tell you, don't be too tempted to close the shop in your hometown, and come to Peiping again." Tao Shu still remembers what Zhou Shi said to him before eating, "Our original shop Do you still have contact with those who did odd jobs together?"

Zhou Shi shook his head, Tao Shu was the only person he kept in touch with over the years.

"Let me tell you, it's very good to be like me. Xiao Wang, remember, he was recruited into the store in the same batch as you. When he first entered the store, he knew nothing like you. The one who can cook miscellaneous vegetables and is not allowed to cut them."

After Tao Shu said Zhou Shi in this way, he seemed to have some impressions.

"I have a little impression, the tall one?" Zhou Shi asked.

"Yes, that's the one. He returned to his hometown a few years ago, and he has long since quit working as a cook. I heard that he later went to do sales, first selling furniture, and then selling houses. It seems that he made some money from the sale of houses. Back to my hometown." Tao Shu said, "I still have a little contact with him. I mentioned it to him when you went back to your hometown to open a store. You don't know that he envies you. Let me tell you, when we had so many people in the store, You are the best now."

"Actually, I always thought you were the most powerful. I was lucky. My dad was a chef. I learned a little bit from him since I was a child. Later, when I entered the store, I learned a few hands from the master chef through my relationship. Be a kitchen assistant in those big hotels." Tao Shu hiccupped, "Although I haven't saved much money in all these years, I didn't starve to death anyway. Fortunately, I bought a house early when I got married, otherwise I would like to buy a house to pay off the mortgage now. They didn't even give me this chance."

Zhou Shi was amused by his last sentence.

"Don't laugh, I'm telling you the truth. To tell you the truth, I thought you were amazing from the very beginning. You said what you would do when you entered the store. You would hold a knife, and the way to cut vegetables was wrong. I don’t know how to cut it, and no one teaches it, I just watch others and learn it secretly.”

"I remember that I didn't know how to cut meat at that time, and I was always scolded by Master Zhan for cutting it in a mess. You taught me later." Zhou Shi laughed.

"How can I teach you? It's so easy to cut meat. Even if I don't teach you to watch other people watch it for a week or two, you can watch it for a week or two. At that time, I just felt strange. It's hard to find a job and have to come to the kitchen. You’re not tired yet, and you can’t do anything, the most you get is the least.”

"I was only in my teens at the time, so I couldn't think too much. I just saw a job offer posted at the door of the hotel and I applied for it. Dry your scalp." Zhou Shi said.

"Actually, I was still unconvinced at the beginning. Master Zhan is such a bad-tempered person. At that time, I asked Master Zhan to teach me something through my relationship. He didn't teach much, and he didn't give me a good face. What about you? You have only been in the store for less than half a year, and Master Zhan is willing to teach you two good dishes. At that time, I was much better than you." Uncle Tao felt his mouth was a little dry after talking too much, and drank another half cup of kumquat lemon Juice, "But in fact, I can figure it out later, why doesn't Master Zhan teach you? You are a handyman, and you are asked to chop vegetables because the kitchen is short of manpower. You didn't even know how to cut meat at the beginning, and it was only a few months. The dishes cut out by Kung Fu look like decent ones."

"You are so smart, if I were master accounting, I would teach you too."

"Actually, Master Zhan didn't take the initiative to teach me. I learned it secretly at first." Zhou Shi said.

Tao Shu was startled.

"At the beginning, I just thought that I had too little money to do miscellaneous work. If my cooking skills could be better and I could become a chef or even a stove chef, then my salary would be much higher. So I wanted to see how other people did it. Yes, learn a little by yourself."

"At that time, my idea was also very simple. Although our store was not big, the business has been good all the time because of the high cooking skills of Master Zhan. I think it is stealing anyway. If you want to steal, you can steal the best, and you will not be afraid of death." Every day, I showed my courtesy to Master Zhan, and went to hang around him, wanting to see more, but in the end, I really saw and learned something."

Tao Shu was so shocked that he couldn't speak. He didn't expect Zhou Shi to embark on the career of a chef in this way.

"Because this matter is not very glorious, so I have never dared to tell others. Later, I was discovered by Master Zhan. Master Zhan was actually quite angry, but it was rare that he didn't get angry. Instead, he taught me two dishes. And a lot of basic skills, helped me lay the foundation and taught me a lot." Zhou Shi said, "Master Zhan is very good."

"Yes, Master Zhan is a very nice person." Tao Shu echoed, "You are so stupid, you should have directly taken Master Zhan as your teacher in the first place."

"I'm not afraid of your jokes. Do you know who I wanted to be my teacher at that time?"

"Who?" Tao Shu asked curiously.

"Didn't Master Zhan say that a serious master can only worship one? If you recognize it, you can't change it, or you will betray the master, deceive the master and destroy the ancestors. At that time, I wanted to be the best in everything I did, and I learned it secretly." At that time, I wanted to steal the best, so I stole the matter of the master, and the apprentice also wanted to worship the best, so I..." Zhou Shi laughed at himself while talking, which made Tao Shu look confused.

"Do you remember that Master Zhan used to tell us that his father was the chef of Yongheju?" Zhou Shi asked.

"I remember, of course I remember. Master Zhan always said that he wanted to say it three times a day. He said that his father was originally a chef in Yongheju, but he was not very lucky because he was too old to be able to worship Master Peng Changping Peng as his teacher. His father If he could have worshiped Master Peng as his teacher back then, it would definitely be different now. Master Zhan boasted about Master Peng Changping every day, wishing to blow Master Peng up to the sky, as if he had seen him before." Tao Shu talked about this. Excited, he suddenly reacted while talking, looked at Zhou Shi in disbelief, and even pointed at him, his hand stopped in mid-air.

"You...you shouldn't..."

Zhou Shi nodded helplessly.

"Wow, you can... you can..." Tao Shuke couldn't come out with a word for a long time, "You can think about it, no wonder you told me that you wanted to go to the United States, I thought you were I want to play."

"At that time, I just wanted to simply take a look. Didn't I give up because I didn't know where Master Peng lived? Besides, how old was I at that time? I was only 20, okay? 10 years ago!"

"But now that Master Peng has returned to China, why don't you give it a try?" A voice that did not belong to Zhou Shi and Tao Shu came from behind Zhou Shi.

Zhou Shi turned his head and saw Peng Changping with a smile on his face and Lu Sheng who was staring at the ground as if the floor tiles of Taifeng Building were very beautiful, very unique and very attractive.

"Why are you here? Didn't you go to Yonghe for tea this afternoon?" Zhou Shi was a little surprised.

"I didn't go today because I had something to do. I didn't come to Taifeng Building with my younger generation for a light meal. I didn't expect to see you. The table I reserved is next to you." Peng Changping said with a smile, pointing to the one next door that has always been vacant. table.

Lu Sheng continued to stare at the ground.

"You haven't answered me yet. Hasn't that master Peng Changping returned to China now? I think you have a chance. Weren't you the chef of Taifeng Building? Now Taifeng Building is the only one in the limelight. I think You can try it, maybe Master Peng will say that you are... a closed disciple."

Lu Sheng was still staring at the ground, wishing he could see a crack so that he could jump down.

"Don't make fun of me. I'm just an ordinary chef. I've never been in the list of famous cooks. How can I be selected by Master Peng as an apprentice. Didn't I tell you before? Master Peng is a hundred years old How could it be possible to accept apprentices. Besides, I am already 30, whoever accepts apprentices these days will accept such a big one!" Zhou Shiquan thought Peng Changping was joking with him.

Lu Sheng has something to say, but he knows he can't say it, at least not right now.

"How do you know if you don't try it? Maybe that master Peng you mentioned just wants to accept a closed disciple, maybe he likes to accept people in their 30s." Peng Changping's face is full of the words "I am a gangster".

"Stop joking."

Peng Changping stopped talking, went to sit on the table next to Zhou Shi, and said to Lu Sheng: "Send a message to let them serve the food."

Lu Sheng immediately took out his phone and started sending messages.

In the kitchen, Jiang Feng has been waiting for Lu Sheng's news with his mobile phone since he received the news from Lu Sheng that they are coming soon. Seeing that Lu Sheng finally sent a message telling him that the dishes could be served, Jiang Feng hurriedly delivered the cold sea cucumbers to the delivery window, and told the waiter in charge to be careful not to spill them.

The waiter was carrying the cold sea cucumber with a serious face, walking very slowly and carefully.

Tao Shu's eyes were sharp, and he could tell from a distance that the waiter was going to serve Peng Changping's table. He exclaimed, "It's better to make a reservation in advance, and you don't have to wait for the food to be served as soon as you arrive."

Zhou Shi subconsciously looked at the waiter, and immediately saw the plate of cold sea cucumber she was holding.

Very familiar.

This is basically the dish he made just now!

Still the kind that didn't move at all.

Zhou Shi watched helplessly as the waiter brought the cold sea cucumber he made earlier to Peng Changping's table, looked at Peng Changping, Peng Changping smiled at him, and picked up the chopsticks.

Week time:?

He suddenly felt that something was wrong.

It's not that something is wrong, it's that something is very wrong.

Who is this old gentleman?