Life is a Game

No matter how slow Zhou Shi's reaction was, he would still find something was wrong, not to mention that he was not a slow person himself.

Zhou Shi looked at the cold sea cucumbers on the table, then at Peng Changping, then at the sea cucumbers, and then at Peng Changping, his eyes were constantly exchanging between the two.

Who is he?

Zhou Shi didn't understand why his cold sea cucumber appeared on the next table, and he didn't understand why it was Sun Maocai who obviously wanted to eat cold sea cucumber, but this cold sea cucumber still looked untouched after so long.

Jiang Feng and Sun Maocai were lying to him, but why did Jiang Feng and Sun Maocai lie to him?

What else is worthy of Sun Maocai's acting in person and deceiving others.

Zhou Shi looked at Peng Changping, but he already had a name in his heart.

No matter how impossible and unbelievable, as long as these keywords are combined, the old man, Yongheju, Sun Maocai, that incredible name can almost be called out.

How do you say that? Eliminate all impossibilities, and the remaining answer, however improbable, is the correct answer.

"Zhou Shi, what's wrong with you Zhou Shi?" Tao Shu pushed Zhou Shi, he didn't see the shock in Zhou Shi's heart, but he could see that Zhou Shi was in a daze. And he was staring very impolitely at the old gentleman at the next table who he didn't know but Zhou Shi seemed to know in a daze.

"Don't talk." Zhou Shi's face was serious, and Tao Shu didn't dare to speak immediately, and he didn't dare to touch Zhou Shi. He just stared at Peng Changping curiously with Zhou Shi.

Peng Changping is eating cold sea cucumber calmly.

As if not aware of Zhou Shi's and Tao Shu's eyes, they were calm, chewing carefully, and took a second, third, and several mouthfuls before putting down their chopsticks.

Peng Changping cleared his throat and took a sip of water.

He moved, and he turned his head to meet Zhou Shi's gaze.

Peng Changping showed a smile from Zhou Shi.

"Is it convenient to ask a few questions?" Peng Changping said.

"You say?"

"Actually, I didn't mean to eavesdrop on your conversation just now. It was a bit of a coincidence, and then... I heard a lot." Peng Changping smiled apologetically, "Do you like restaurants?"

"like."

"Since you like it, why do you want to resign and go back to your hometown to open a small restaurant by yourself? Jiang Feng told me that you did a good job in Taifeng Building before, and the salary is not bad." At this time, Peng Changping stopped acting. .

"At that time, I always felt that after staying outside for so many years, I had no one to rely on, no friends and relatives were not around, I would save some money and go back to my hometown to open a shop, and I could spend more time with my parents, at least I was still at home. "Zhou Shi told the truth.

"At that time, it seems that you don't think so now." Peng Changping grasped the key words.

Zhou Shi nodded: "After I went back to my hometown and opened the shop, I realized that things were different from what I thought."

"What's the difference?"

"I can't tell you the specifics, I just feel uncomfortable." Zhou Shi thought for a while, "Actually, it's busy and tiring to go home and open a shop by myself, but there's nothing wrong with having a lot of money and freedom. But I always feel uncomfortable all over my body." Comfortable, I feel that I have not been happy when I was in Peiping, I feel that it is deserted, and I have not made much progress in cooking, and I feel that I live a life of mechanical repetition every day."

"But you should have lived similarly to this kind of life when you were in Beiping. Isn't everyone like this? What's the difference between going to and from work and rest every day?" Peng Changping asked with a smile.

Zhou Shi shook his head: "It's different, and I can't say why, but it's just different."

Peng Changping showed an obvious smile, turned to look at Lu Sheng and said to him: "I just said, I have a destiny with this kid."

Lu Sheng: ...

As long as you are happy.

"You should have guessed who I am?" Peng Changping looked at Zhou Shi.

"I probably guessed it." Zhou Shi said with some difficulty, "Why do you want to..."

"I want to take in a closed disciple." Peng Changping interrupted Zhou Shi's words, "I'm getting old, and I can't be as energetic and patient as I used to be. I want to take in a disciple with good basic skills, preferably good cooking skills. , don’t need me to send charcoal in a timely manner, just need my closed disciple who is the icing on the cake.”

"Actually, I never had this idea at first. I just started to have this idea two days ago. Then I met you as soon as this idea came up. At first, I just thought you were very interesting young man and wanted to start a relationship with you." It was a joke, but I happened to meet Jiang Feng yesterday, and he told me about your situation, which really moved me."

"Chefs of our age pay attention to fate when accepting apprentices. Talent is not important, as long as fate is there. So I beg Jiang Feng, let him trick you into cooking without your knowledge, and don't be angry. I just want to see if we still have that fate in the dishes."

Zhou Shi felt that it was difficult for him to breathe. He felt that he could understand what Peng Changping said, but he couldn't understand what he said. He didn't dare to take a big breath, holding himself uncomfortable, making him a little dizzy.

Tao Shu really heard it.

He didn't really understand who the old man in front of him was, but he could guess that the old man in front of him seemed to be very powerful and wanted to take Zhou Shi as his disciple. He wished he could grab Zhou Shi's arm and shake him violently a few times to wake him up, so as not to be stupid at such a critical moment.

Tao Shu could not wait to shout in Zhou Shi's ear: You have missed Master Qiu, don't miss the next one.

What are you doing in a daze, call Master quickly.

Zhou Shi hesitated at this critical moment. To be precise, he was a little timid.

Originally, he just wanted to chase after a star, and it would be best to meet his idol by chance and have a word, and then he could go back to his hometown and continue to open the store with satisfaction.

As a result, the idol now told him, boy, I think you are very good-natured and we are very destined, why don't you be my closed disciple.

Zhou Shi swore that although he had fantasized about being able to worship Peng Changping as his teacher when he was young, it was really only when he was young. For so many years, he had never dreamed of such a plot.

"I...I might..." Zhou Shi rarely showed such an expression.

Peng Changping could tell at a glance what he was hesitant about and worried about: "You don't think you learned from the master in a serious way, and most of your cooking skills are dishonorable because you learned them secretly, so...excuse me?"

Zhou Shi was silent, which was a tacit agreement.

"Do you know why I said you and I are destined? When I heard you chatting with your friend just now, I thought you looked like my junior sister, but when I asked you questions later, I found that you and my junior sister are actually two kinds of people. But you and I are the same kind of people." Peng Changping put away his smile, "You don't know why you feel uncomfortable after returning to your hometown, but I know, because you are an ambitious person like me. An Yi Your life is not suitable for you, what you need is a place where you can grow and improve, not a place to retire and make money.”

"I chose to go abroad because I wanted to see how round the moon is? How high-end is the high-end western food? And it turns out that the moon is the same, and the dishes are the same. There is no distinction between high and low, only Talk about different cuisines."

"You should know that besides my junior brother, I also have a junior sister."

Zhou Shi nodded.

"My junior sister is a genius. She only needs half a year to practice what ordinary people need to practice for a year or two. No matter what dish you cook in front of her, she can copy it for you. I am more than 10 years older than her, but When she left Peiping, I thought I was not as good at cooking as her."

"But do you also know why such a genius chose to worship my father as his teacher?"

"Why?"

"Because my junior sister wants to have enough food, she wants to eat delicious food."

The three who listened carefully to the story: ? ? ?

"My junior sister has three children in her family, and her brother is a few years younger than her. In her family, only her father has a job, and her mother can only do odd jobs on weekdays. Life is very difficult. After her brother was born, she never had food. What delicious food, but my junior sister is greedy."

"My junior sister has been helping her mother cook since she was very young. When she found that the food she cooked in a short period of time was better than her mother's, my junior sister felt that she was very talented in cooking. Then she went to Yonghe Residence to talk about it. It was like a joke among children, and then she worshiped my father as a teacher and became my little junior sister."

"Do you know why there were so many restaurants in Beiping and my junior sister chose Yongheju alone?"

"Why?" Zhou Shi asked.

"Because she heard people say that Yonghe's dishes are delicious, and they are all meat dishes. She wants to eat meat. She thinks that if she can learn from a master chef and work as an apprentice in the back kitchen, she can mix up some leftovers and eat them." delicious."

Week time:? ? ?

"So when I just heard from you that you stole a teacher to learn how to cook because you wanted to make more money, I felt that you and my junior sister are actually somewhat similar." Peng Changping took a sip of water, "It doesn't matter how you started, Learning to cook is a very arduous and long-term thing that tests patience and talent. You have no master to teach, and you were born in Yeluzi, but you can still make such dishes, which just proves that you are qualified to be my closed disciple."

"So I want to ask you, would you like to?"

Zhou Shi was actually still hesitant, mainly because he thought this matter was too magical, but his mind was hesitating, but his mouth was very decisive, and he was very impulsive very quickly.

"I do!"

Tao Shu was almost so excited that he applauded.

Peng Changping happily turned his head and glanced at Lu Sheng, as if to show off: "Look, haven't I just received my closed disciple?"

Lu Sheng: ...

As long as you are happy.

Peng Changping, a closed disciple, felt 20 years younger suddenly, and instantly became an 80-year-old man of the same age as Jiang Weiguo: "He is Lu Sheng, the current boss of Yongheju. You can ask him for help if you have any problems in life. For a while, you should look after the house first, find someone who lives close to Yonghe, and when the problems in life are solved, tell me to come to Yonghe Bureau to learn how to cook with me."

"Hey, it's a pity that I don't have any friends in Beiping now. Zhang Chu has gone back again. We have to hold a banquet to celebrate such a big event as accepting an apprentice. How about this? Tell Xu Cheng some time to let him come over for a meal and treat Jiang Feng Call me too, let me think about who else... Call Sun Maocai too, I haven't had dinner with him yet. Is this your friend? Anyway, it's fate, let's come together." Peng Changping has already begun to think Follow up question.

Said Cao Cao Cao Cao arrived, Xu Cheng and Han Guishan had dinner at Taifeng Building today, relying on Jiang Feng's WeChat relationship, through some not very proper means, they ordered Chickpea Flower and Eight Treasure Chestnut Pigeon. Come down to the second floor.

Xu Cheng, who was discussing with Han Guishan when he would eat chickpea pudding next time, saw Peng Changping at a glance and hurried over to say hello.

"Master Peng is such a coincidence, you also come to Taifeng Building for dinner, yo, Boss Lu is here too." Xu Cheng couldn't help but look at Zhou Shi and Tao Shu when he said hello, and found that he didn't know these two young people. .

"This is my new apprentice named Zhou Shi." Peng Changping introduced.

Xu Cheng:?

little apprentice?

Closed disciple? !

Xu Cheng stared at Zhou Shi for a while, and found that it seemed familiar, as if he had seen it somewhere before.

"Hello." Xu Cheng said, "Where did Mr. Zhou get a high school?"

"I used to be the chef of Taifeng Building. Mr. Xu, I met you when you came to the shop to do interviews with Jiang Feng, Wu Minqi and Zhang Guanghang, but you may not remember me," Zhou Shi said.

Xu Cheng:! ! !

Peng Changping was worried that he didn't have any friends in the country, and he couldn't fill the table for the apprentice banquet. Seeing that Xu Cheng and Han Guishan had a good relationship and met each other at the midsummer banquet last time, he said with a smile: "The apprentice banquet will be held in two days." , when the time comes, you must show your face, if possible, your friend must come, there are so many people, I will cook a table of special dishes myself."

Xu Cheng:! ! ! !

"Okay, okay, I will definitely come, congratulations." Han Guishan said cheerfully, but he hadn't really figured out the situation yet.

Never mind, just eat anyway.

Simple.