A Mouthful of Sky-high Fried Rice, Lao Tang Apprenticed on the Spot Chapter 485

  Chapter 485 Jianghu faction wild way

   "Xiao Liao, long time no see!"

  Xia Zhuo laughed, stretched out his hand to shake Liao Wendong, and joked, "Come to your unit today for a chat, sorry to bother you!"

   "Welcome!"

  Liao Wendong smiled and said: "I have prepared the kitchen for you, this time I have to learn a few more tricks from you."

   "Good! Young people must be eager to learn."

  Xia Zhuo nodded in satisfaction, with an approving expression.

   "This is Xia Zhuo, the successor of Xia's Hotel."

  Shen Han lowered his voice, and introduced to Li Yi: "Xia's Hotel has a high status in Hunan Province. Foreigners and higher-level units come to Hunan Province for exchanges, inspections, and banquets are arranged at Xia's Hotel."

   "Oh." Li Yi suddenly realized: "No wonder he doesn't look like a cook, but looks like a leader."

The corners of Shen Han's mouth twitched and he almost laughed out loud, but he still explained: "There is no way, you have to get used to it after dealing with the authorities a lot! But their craftsmanship has been passed down, except for the signature braised pork, all kinds of Hunan dishes Stir fry is also very good.”

  During the conversation, Liao Wendong chatted with Xia Zhuo for a few words, and then brought the topic to Li Yi.

   "Eh? Li Yi! Come here, let me introduce you."

Liao Wendong turned around and beckoned, called Li Yi over, and introduced him: "This master Xia Zhuoxia is a legend in our Hunan province, the eldest son of a master of Hunan cuisine Xia Qinian. He called Master Uncle, haha!"

  Liao Wendong laughed, and introduced Li Yi to Xia Zhuo: "Master Xia, this is Li Yi, Master Li, the recently broadcast "Chinese Restaurant", which is very popular on the Internet, and he is the chef in it.

  Don't look at his young age, his craftsmanship is really extraordinary. I talked to him yesterday, and he made a small stir-fried pork, which tastes amazing! "

  Hearing Liao Wendong's introduction, Xia Zhuo was aroused a little interest, and asked Li Yi with a smile, "Who did you learn to cook from?"

  Li Yi knew that he was asking about his own mastery, so he explained with a smile: "I have never studied cooking with a master, I just researched and figured it out on my own."

  Xia Zhuo's smile immediately faded when he heard that.

  And Liao Wendong looked back at Li Yi in surprise, and asked in disbelief, "Are you Ye Luzi?"

  In any industry in China, there are two schools of formal masters and wild students.

  Liao Wendong and Xia Zhuo both belong to the "well-known and decent school".

   And those who don't have a formal teacher, but only through their own thinking, or stealing teachers from everywhere, to learn a piece of skill, this is called Yeluzi, or quack school.

  In ancient times, those who had formal apprenticeships were official chefs.

During the Zhou Dynasty, Yi Yin, the sage of food, even realized the way of governing the country through the way of cooking, so that Shang Tang, the founding king of the Shang Dynasty, went to the Kingdom of Youshen to hire him again and again with gifts of jade, silk, horses, and skins. .

  But King Youxin refused to let him go, so Shang Tang had to marry King Youxin's daughter as his concubine, so that he could invite Yi Yin to his side.

  After that, Yi Yin also became the first emperor's teacher in history, and taught Tang the strategy of ruling the world with virtue and conquering Xia to save the people, following the example of Yao and Shun.

  During the Spring and Autumn Period, Lao Tzu also put forward the theory that "governing a big country is like cooking small fish" in the Tao Te Ching.

  After the Han Dynasty, there are countless examples of official chefs entering official careers.

  Therefore, since ancient times, chefs with formal apprenticeships have looked down upon the Jianghu school without apprenticeships.

  In their view, the Jianghu faction is not in the mainstream.

  Xia Zhuo is a "well-known decent school", so when he heard Li Yi say that he is a quack school, he immediately lost interest.

  Liao Wendong never asked about Li Yi's apprenticeship, and that's why he knew that Li Yi was actually from Ye Luzi.

   But he recalled Li Yi's cooking operation that he saw yesterday, but he was very puzzled: "Isn't it right? I don't think your knife skills or stir-fry methods are like Jianghu school?"

   Li Yi was not surprised by Xia Zhuo's change of attitude.

  In the dream space, this kind of contempt in the kitchen is much more obvious than Xia Zhuo.

  Hearing Liao Wendong's question, Li Yi smiled, and joked casually: "Maybe I'm more serious in my self-study!"

   "Xiao Liao, let me take a look at the stove first!"

  Xia Zhuo spoke to Liao Wendong.

   "Okay, okay, I just replaced this stove last year."

   Liao Wendong hurriedly greeted him.

  Xia Zhuo nodded, turned and left without looking at Li Yi.

   Seeing him leave, Liao Wendong turned around and asked in a low voice, "You really don't have a teacher?"

"No."

  Li Yi joked: "I'm learning all kinds of arts, and I really don't have anyone who kowtows to a teacher."

   "You can't do this!"

  Liao Wendong shook his head and said regretfully: "Working hard, you can't do it alone. If you don't learn from a teacher, you can't get ahead in your life."

   "That's not necessarily it?"

  Li Yi smiled.

   "You are still young, and you don't know the way to do it. Which industry is not mixed now?"

  Liao Wendong raised his chin, and pointed to the chefs behind Xia Zhuo: "A real chef doesn't have dozens of disciples and grandchildren under his command, so how can he come out to mess around?

   Only someone has the right to speak. Your craft is good, but how much can you do alone?

  It's like you came to participate in a selection this time, and you still have to ask me for help.

  The Xia family is highly respected in the Hunan cuisine circle, and the help cooks who came to help Xia Zhuo had to be robbed.

   This is the gap! "

  Listening to his words, Li Yi thought for a while, and asked, "Is this Xia family very famous in the culinary circle of Hunan Province? It seems that it has only become famous in the past few decades, right? I don't think I've heard of it before."

   "A few decades isn't long enough?"

  Liao Wendong explained: "It is said that the ancestors of the Xia family were the direct disciples of the imperial chef of Hunan cuisine, who learned court cuisine. At the end of the Qing Dynasty, there were two homes in Xingcheng."

   "Imperial chef?"

  Li Yi asked suspiciously: "Which royal chef? What's it called?"

   "You don't know that, do you?"

  Liao Wendong explained with a smile: "During the Qianlong period, there was a cook named Yu Jiu in Hunan Province who was recommended to the palace and served as an imperial cook for more than 20 years.

  Later, he retired from his old age and returned to his hometown, and took in many apprentices. Now many masters of Hunan cuisine, for several generations, have a relationship with him.

  However, many of them are far-fetched, and there is no evidence.

  But the Xia family has a genealogy, remembering the names of that generation of imperial chef apprentices, this is the evidence.

   Otherwise, how could Xia Family Hotel be selected by the officials so early to receive official banquets? "

  Hearing his words, a clumsy boy with two lines of snot always flowing in Li Yi's mind appeared in Li Yi's mind. He couldn't help laughing and asked, "Is that apprentice of the imperial chef called Xia Musheng?"

   "Eh? You know?"

  Liao Wendong was a little surprised: "It seems that his name is Xia Musheng, the ancestor of the Xia family."

   "It's him!"

  Li Yi smiled and nodded, and finally got the number.

  He remembered that Yu Jiu did have a few young apprentices as help cooks, and one of them was a round-faced boy named Xia Musheng.

  Yu Jiu's level in the imperial dining room is not high, so he doesn't have a sense of presence, and he doesn't get any rewards on weekdays.

   With that little monthly money, he also bought wine. From time to time, he would go out to listen to a play, gamble twice, and cover the door twice.

  Those young disciples followed him and suffered a lot.

  Especially Xia Musheng, because of his clumsiness, he was not favored by him. In winter, he didn't even have a thick padded jacket, and his nose was clear from the cold.

  At that time, Li Yi was possessed by Shuanglin, and he couldn't see it. After talking to Yu Jiu, Yu Jiu bought him an old padded jacket and put it on.

   Unexpectedly, his descendants would become the masters of the Hunan cuisine circle hundreds of years later, which is really unpredictable.

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