A Mouthful of Sky-high Fried Rice, Lao Tang Apprenticed on the Spot Chapter 468

  Chapter 468 New harvest

   Quietly waiting for the memory isolation to take effect, Li Yi looked at the inscription that emerged on the wooden tablet.

  Zheng Er (August 16th in the ninth year of Yongzheng to the ninth day of March in the fifty-fifth year of Qianlong)

  Male, from Jinling, learned how to cook at the 14th year, entered Jinling Bianyifang to learn how to cook, entered the palace in the 23rd year of Qianlong, and later served as the chief chef of the imperial dining room, good at cooking poultry.

  Looking at the inscription, Li Yi reviewed Zheng Er's memory.

   From these inscriptions, Zheng Er's life cannot be fully glimpsed.

  Before he possessed Zheng Er, he didn't know much about Zheng Er, he only knew that he was serious and dull, and he was often followed by two fat apprentices.

  But after possessing himself, he realized that Zheng Er's character was developed in childhood.

  Zheng Er was raised by his biological father since he was a child, but his biological father beat and scolded him, and sent him to be an apprentice before he grew up.

  But in that era, it was not easy to manage him to eat and drink, and to grow him up.

   Zheng Er still respects his father very much in his heart.

  After he went to Bianyifang as an apprentice, he always wanted to learn the craft and bake a duck for his father himself.

  On the one hand, it is to repay the father's kindness in nurturing, and on the other hand, he also wants to prove to his father that he can already support himself.

  But because he has no talent, he is born with a slow sense of taste and clumsy hands. Other apprentices have already left the teacher, but he is still an apprentice.

  Finally, just before he spent twice as long as other apprentices and was about to leave the teacher, his biological father passed away due to wind and cold.

  The son wants to support but does not wait for his relatives, which also created Zheng Er's dull personality.

   It is precisely because of this regret that Zheng Er puts his feelings for his father on Ding Laowu, the master of Bianyifang.

   It happened that Mr. Ding had no children under his knees. Seeing that Zheng Er was honest and kind to him, he adopted him as a godson and taught him roast duck and the technique of making duck offal.

  Ding Laowu's wife is also the daughter of Tao Fang, a famous chef in Jinling.

   Zheng Er's culinary talent is poor, but he has one advantage, that is, he is obedient.

  Every time Ding Laowu scolded him because he couldn't control the heat, he wasn't angry. Instead, he would go back and think about it over and over again, trying to find ways to improve.

  Hard work can make up for one's weakness. In the end, he relied on lessons learned again and again to sum up his experience, and gradually went from being scolded to the point of being full of praise.

   When he was praised, because of his low self-esteem, he never dared to take it seriously. He was always cautious, and every time he cooked, he was serious and meticulous.

  In the late stage, he was really bewildered to the point of counting the grains of salt.

  But he was stupefied, and his culinary skills improved day by day, which finally made him stand out and become the head chef of the imperial dining room.

  He is the complete opposite of Zhang Dongguan.

  Zhang Dongguan is very talented, God appreciates food, has an absolute sense of taste, no matter what kind of dish, he can taste it all in one bite, and then reproduce it, even better than the original version.

   And Zheng Er took one step at a time, conscientiously worked hard, never dared to make mistakes, and reached the peak by relying on absolute seriousness.

  Reviewing Zheng Er's memory, Li Yiruo realized something.

  All the royal chefs he possessed before were almost all born good cooks, and their talents were not bad.

  However, it was the first time for him to experience how a chef with extremely poor talent like Zheng Er became a top chef.

  This is completely different from his previous possession experience.

  Before when he was possessed, he was not slow to learn things, and with the blessing of previous possessing experience, he could be faster.

   But this time after he possessed Zheng Er, he had to pay attention to some subtle basic issues by understanding the way of thinking of Zheng Er, a relatively less talented person, and instead gained new gains.

   This is like letting an 80th-level tuba enter the Novice Village and become a first-level trumpet.

  No equipment or skills can be used. You can only start from scratch and use the most basic techniques to fight.

  Although they are all the most basic things, if you look at them from the perspective and angle of an eighty-level tuba, you can see many new things that you have never noticed before.

   It's like Zheng Er spent half a year making **** ducks hundreds of times in order to verify the optimal ratio of old ginger.

  Every time, different types and different proportions of old **** are used to let the mother and master taste, so as to find the most balanced ratio among them.

  If it is a talented player like Zhang Dongguan, he only needs to taste it once or twice, compare it with his own taste, and then make a slight adjustment based on the feedback from the diners, and it will be done.

  But Zheng Er had to spend hundreds of times to find the balance.

  Although this method is stupid, it is very scientific and highly reproducible.

  Zhang Dongguan only had five apprentices in his life, but he didn't even have a successful one.

  However, Zheng Er led more than 300 apprentices in his lifetime, and more than 40 of them became the mainstay in the imperial dining room.

  The other apprentices also went to various places among the people and became independent existences.

   In terms of technical level, there is a gap between Zheng Er and Zhang Dongguan.

  However, Zheng Er's achievements are many times higher than Zhang Dongguan's in terms of spreading art and benefiting people.

  Li Yi looked back at the metal plate. Except for the addition of a [Hundred Birds and Phoenix Feast] on the information above, there was no new change in the occupation level.

  His chef level is still [Famous Chef].

  In the last program, he taught the audience a lot of pastry skills through the program, but he still failed to improve his professional level.

  If he hadn't possessed Zheng Er, he might not understand it, thinking that he didn't teach enough skills.

  But after possessing Zheng Er, he realized that it wasn't that he didn't pass on skills enough, but that he wasn't good enough.

  His cooking skills are getting better and better. His understanding of cooking skills and some cooking skills at his fingertips have widened the gap with ordinary cooking enthusiasts, or even ordinary chefs, but he has not noticed.

  It's like he showed how to make exquisite [Hundred Flowers Crisp] and [Lion Wake Crisp] in the show.

   But for ordinary culinary enthusiasts, they can only watch the fun, but if they try it themselves, they often don't know how to start.

   This should be the reason why the program team organized a pastry activity with Brother Yi to let the audience upload their own pastry creations, but most of the audience uploaded the simplest peach cake.

   This also reminded Li Yi that during the food training for the upcoming Gaoyou Lake Food Festival, he should give more consideration to the choice of snacks and the trade-off of difficulty in making them.

  The memory is gradually alienated, and finally, it stays on the memory fragment of the head of the imperial dining room who came to announce Qianlong's oral order, asking Zheng Er to be in charge of organizing the 80th birthday of Empress Xiao Shengxian.

   And this is obviously the task of this dream space.

  With a thought, Li Yi returned to reality, exhausted.

   and Liu Yifei's voice is still connected, and it has been three hours.

   The blood gushing from the cut wound is still effective, and the real world has not passed too long.

  Listening to Liu Yifei's breathing, Li Yi's heart instantly settled down.

  Smiling slightly, he switched to the WeChat collection, clicked on the script that Wang Tian had sent him before, and looked at the guest list for the next issue.

  He remembered correctly, it really was the crew of "The Legend of Zhen Huan".

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