Chapter 1621: Set your own price

Translator: 549690339 

The system displayed,”the manuscript is in the small box on the kitchen table downstairs.”

That’s right. Strictly speaking, the reward could be divided into two parts. The “original manuscript of the inventor of the 12 ancient recipe” was an unmarked experience and notes that had already been stored in Yuan Zhou’s head, while the other part was a physical manuscript.

The experience notes were something that came after success. To complete a dish or write it into a cooking book, a lot of practice was required. For example, finding ingredients was recorded in the manuscript.

“Dong Dong Dong”, Yuan Zhou immediately went downstairs. He looked over and saw a box the size of a medical box on the kitchen table. The appearance of the box was the standard style of the system.

Carrying the box upstairs, Yuan Zhou said while walking,””Why must the reward be placed downstairs and I have to make a trip down?”

The system displayed,”as the second floor is the host’s private territory, the system does not have the right to place the reward.”

“You’re right, I have nothing to say. ” Yuan Zhou said.

Nowadays, it was really rare for the system to follow the rules so obediently. Yuan Zhou was pondering whether he should present a big red flower to the system as a form of encouragement.

“It’s time to make a bookshelf specially for storing ancient books. ” Yuan Zhou thought.

For now, they could only be placed on the shelf temporarily. Yuan Zhou divided them into two piles. One pile was for the 12 books and the other was for the ancient books and recipes that he had just selected and won the manuscript reward.

In the next hour, Yuan Zhou was sorting out and absorbing the knowledge in his mind. He first went through the entire knowledge and then did it in detail.

Even though he had only gone through it once, he was still shocked by it. With a sigh of relief, Governor Yuan said the most direct feeling in his heart,””Phew … Chinese food is indeed profound.”

Yuan Zhou took a look at the watch. Yes, that’s right. It was the watch that he had spent tens of thousands of Yuan to buy and had never had the chance to wear. He hung it in his room as a clock. He couldn’t do whatever he wanted with his money.

“It’s still early. Let’s watch for another half an hour. ”

The next step was to read it in detail. The first book Yuan Zhou came into contact with was “the story of fragrance”. Judging from the title, it seemed to be a book with 18 forbidden reading materials. In fact, it was not. It was a book that seriously studied cooking skills.

However, this chef, li Tianqi, was a little off track. What he studied was how to make the dishes more fragrant. As the saying went,”color, smell, taste, everything is complete, but color comes first.” However, chef li wanted to push the incense stick to its limit.

In the book, li Tianqi summarized the smell: The salty fragrance was the most appetizing, the sweet fragrance was the most eye-catching, the spicy fragrance couldn’t be distinguished, the sour fragrance was the most appetizing, the bitter fragrance was hard to taste, the fresh fragrance was supplemented, and the other fragrances were not unified.

Li Tianqi divided the food fragrance into five flavors and seven types. Among them, the numbing and spicy flavors couldn’t be separated, and it was stated that if they were separated, it would be spicy. A single numbing and spicy flavor would be pungent. It was difficult to make a bitter flavor that could make people hungry, and the fresh flavor could only be used as an auxiliary flavor.

Of course, other than that, there were also other fragrances. However, they were too mixed and could not be separated into a single column. However, li Tianqi had recorded all of them.

“This chef li is a little too stubborn. Sometimes, he would destroy the taste of the ingredients for the sake of fragrance.”

For example, the book said that stir-fried meat with more pickled vegetables would have a sour fragrance and appetizer. It was true that stir-fried meat with pickled vegetables was appetizer, but not all.

“Although it’s a little extreme, there are some ideas that I can learn from.” Yuan Zhou thought about it seriously.

Yuan Zhou had always paid the most attention to the original taste of the ingredients, followed by the color. As for the fragrance, the ingredients were good and the cooking skills were excellent, so the natural fragrance assailed the nose.

The chef God system probably thought so too, so it didn’t pay special attention to it.

He had to admire the imagination of the ancient people. There were really people who specialized in incense. Thinking about it carefully, since they could learn how to set the table and carve flowers for the sake of beauty, why did they favor one over the other and neglect “incense”?

Yuan Zhou wasn’t as stubborn as chef li, but he could control the fragrance without affecting the taste and color. With Yuan Zhou’s current cooking skills, it was not a problem at all.

“If there are three of us, I’m sure there’ll be someone to teach us. No matter when, we can always learn new things from the books.” Yuan Zhou still wanted to Continue reading, but it was getting late. Helplessly, he could only put down the book, wash up and go to bed.

“On feishi” referred to the fact that it was not a proper meal. It was a record of Southern Street snacks from the end of the Ming Dynasty.

“No drinking” was the cooking method of The Hangover dish and the “compendium of breeding birds” was the most suitable ancient book for Yuan Zhou at the moment. The compendium referred to “drawing up a list of people to investigate” in the ancient text. This ancient book was about the observation of the habits of breeding birds. Yuan Zhou had the knowledge of the ox Cleaver and the cattle. Now with the addition of the birds, it was just right to supplement his knowledge.

One of the five ancient books was special, guanggong’s travels.

From the name, one could tell that it was a record of a foodie named Guangli who shopped and ate during the early Qing Dynasty. However, this book was not written by Guangli. It was his study attendant who was responsible for recording the food during the journey.

There was no need to explain more about ancient recipes. They were recipes that had not been passed down. Since ancient times, there was a saying that “teaching the disciple will starve the master.” Although this saying came from martial masters, it was also common in the cooking world. Many chefs would keep their own specialty dishes and not teach them to their disciples. However, they were afraid that there would be no inheritance, so they would record it down and pass it on to future generations.

These dishes, namely live water fish, ground opening vegetables, white clam medicinal cuisine, heavenly immortal soup, volcanic fish, starving Dragon and vegetarian food from mountain spring temple, were all dishes that Yuan Zhou had never heard of before.

Among the 31 recipes he had collected, there were four other recipes apart from the seven ancient recipes. The reason why Yuan Zhou didn’t choose them was simple. Some of the four recipes had been restored, while some of them didn’t require much skill.

Among the seven ancient recipes he had chosen, Yuan Zhou was most interested in the starving Dragon.

As the saying goes,”dragon meat in the sky, donkey meat on the ground.” A starving Dragon was able to make donkey meat so delicious that even the Dragon would drool.

Yuan Zhou was confident that he could fully digest the 12 ancient recipes in one or two months. After that, his cooking skills would have a small improvement.

“I also know several lost dishes. After I learn these seven dishes, can I make a lost feast?” Yuan Zhou felt that it was feasible. As a successful restaurant, it not only needed to have hard dishes, but also a hard core banquet.

The reason why Yuan Zhou could absorb and master it so quickly was because of the manuscript and experience rewarded by the system. If he only got the ancient recipe, it would be very difficult for him to develop it successfully so quickly.

Nowadays, many of the cooking tutorials on the internet said: A little salt and a spoonful of soy sauce.

How much was a little? How big was the spoon? These were basically all his own research.

It was even more so for ancient prescriptions written in classical Chinese. Sometimes, just one word could make you rack your brain.

To research the proportion of ingredients, the heat, and the proportion of ingredients, it would take a few years.

When it came to the changes in ancient and modern materials, it was even more difficult.

This was why it was so difficult to restore ancient recipes. First, it was difficult for modern people to calm down and study them. Second, even if your research succeeded, you might not get enough returns from your efforts.

To put it bluntly, many chefs had preserved many ancient recipes, but none of them had been restored. They would only look at them when they were free.

Yuan Zhou was still self-disciplined as usual and time passed by naturally. However, due to Yin ya’s busy work recently, Yuan Zhou had fewer opportunities to show off his affection.

The breakfast, lunch and dinner were all very peaceful. The only thing to be said was Wu Hai, who became more and more irritable as time went by.

Those who didn’t know better would think that the crow beast was in heat.

Which was lunch a week later.

“Compass, I’m leaving in the afternoon. Are you really not going to Italy?” Wu Hai didn’t leave immediately after eating. Instead, he waited until the lunch time was over and then asked with an expectant look.

“You’ve been asking me this question every day for the past few days, and my answer has been the same every day. ” “I’m not going,”Yuan Zhou said expressionlessly.

“Italy is really fun. There’s the ancient Roman Colosseum, the Milan Cathedral, and the Bridge of Sighs. There’s also Italy Food, which originated from ancient Roman palace cuisine and is the mother of Western food. ”

Wu Hai racked his brain and prepared for the last “desperate struggle” to persuade Yuan Zhou. It could be seen that he had checked a lot of information privately.

“As the saying goes, it’s better to travel ten thousand miles than to read ten thousand books,” he continued. “As a chef, you also need to experience the customs and practices of various countries.”

“What you said makes sense.” Yuan Zhou nodded his head and appeared to be moved. Not to mention the other mothers of European cuisine, they were also worth his time.

Wu Hai was very happy and nodded his head like pounding garlic. He said hurriedly,””Yes, yes, there’s no mistake.”

“I’ll go there when I’m done with the young chef’s exchange meeting,” Yuan Zhou said.

The face-changing skill of Sichuan Opera made Wu Hai’s face turn bitter instantly. According to Yuan Zhou’s words, not only would he not go there this time, but he would also have to find another time.

This was what it meant to lift a stone to smash one’s own foot.

“Well, compass, I’ve thought about it. There’s nothing fun in Italy” Wu Hai changed the topic and tried to persuade him.

“The Colosseum of ancient Rome is in ruins. The Milan Cathedral is beautifully decorated, but compass, you’re not Catholic, so I won’t comment on the Bridge of Sighs. As for the Italy Food that was used to detain criminals, there were only noodles and chicken, but they were not as famous as you. So, I don’t think you should waste time making a trip here.” Wu Hai’s words were so sincere that Yuan Zhou almost believed him.

“Oh, let me think.” It was hard to tell whether Yuan Zhou believed Wu Hai or not.

“You have to think about it carefully. Compass, don’t make a mistake.” Wu Hai said.

With that, however, everyone in Yuan Zhou’s restaurant knew that Wu Hai was going abroad for a week.

“Little hai, it’s time to go.” Zheng Jiawei reminded him for the fifth time.

“I still want to smell it,” Wu Hai said.

“But lunchtime has ended. How can there be any flavor left?” Zheng Jiawei said helplessly.

They were jumping and pulling. Wu Hai really didn’t want to leave. He was just short of rolling on the ground.

Although the lunchtime had ended, there were still many customers who hadn’t left yet. Those who knew Wu Hai came over one after another to encourage him.

“It’s only a week,” Zheng Xian said.”Just tighten your belt and it’ll pass in a flash.”

As a regular customer of the pub, Zheng Xian was naturally quite familiar with Wu Hai.

“Brother Wu, why don’t you exercise less these days? you won’t be so hungry then,” Tang Xi said.

“Have you ever heard of the saying of the crow beast? life is a little bitch. The angrier you are, the more it will brush you off. You might not even come back in a week,” said Sun Ming.

Every sentence was like a knife stabbing into Wu Hai’s heart.

There were even more brutal ones after that.

“Big brother hai, don’t worry. Tell us what you want to eat and we’ll definitely help you eat.” The one who said this was Qin Xiaoyi, the brain.

“It can’t be too accurate because we’re not as rich as you are. We can only take turns sending you pictures.” The one who replied was happy Gao Fan.

As a result, Wu Hai was even more reluctant to leave.

“No, I’m not going. Jiawei, go and refund the tickets.” Wu Hai shouted.

The moment Wu Hai finished his words, a cold female voice sounded behind him.

“Brother, what did you just say?”

The voice was clean, clear, and even contained a strong killing intent. Anyway, Wu Hai was so scared by the voice that he shivered.

“Ah, why aren’t you leaving? didn’t you see the time? I can’t even catch the plane. ” Without even turning his head, Wu Hai dragged Zheng Jiawei and walked towards the street.

“You’ve been bullying me since I was young, you’re so fierce. ” Wu Hai muttered while walking.

They called a taxi and waited.

Needless to say, when the beast fighting heroine, Wu Lin, came back, she saw Wu Hai and Zheng Jiawei off with her eyes.

“Lin, I haven’t seen you in a long time.” Tang Xi said.

“Has Xiao Lin returned from her mission?” Zheng Xian asked.

The two of them greeted Wu Lin.

“Yes, I just finished training. I’ll report to work tomorrow, and then I’ll have a five-day holiday.” Wu Lin said.

“What are you planning for the holiday? I’m planning to go on a trip, do you want to join me?” Zheng Xian said.

“Thank you, sister Zheng,” Wu Lin said.”But I’ve already booked the plane ticket and am going to Italy.”

“Are you going to see Wu Hai?” Zheng Xian asked.

“Why are you looking at him? throw him into the hotel and lock the door. I’m going out with Jiawei. I’ve always wanted to go to the ancient Roman Colosseum and Milan Cathedral.” Wu Lin said.

It was the Colosseum and the Cathedral again. For some reason, Yuan Zhou felt like laughing when he heard the two familiar scenic spots.

Wu Lin and Zheng Xian didn’t chat for long before they left separately. As for Yuan Zhou’s loyal little fan, Tang Xi, she stayed to watch Yuan Zhou sculpt.

“Boss Yuan’s knife skills are getting stronger and stronger. And I feel that there are many changes.” Tang Xi’s eyes were sparkling.

Any creative industry depended on one’s talent, and Kang Hu was the one who gained the most from the green Chef society’s observation group.

Carving.

Ranch observer cow.

Practice the ox-Cleaver.

He read the ancient books.

He tried to cook the recipe of an ancient dish.

This was the main thing that Yuan Zhou was busy with during his free time in the following week. It was very fulfilling and happy. For Yuan Zhou, it was the best if he could learn something practical.

Yuan Zhou had finished studying the two books,”the Legend of Fragrance” and “no drinking”.

After he finished learning “don’t drink” and combined with the ingredients provided by the system, Yuan Zhou was able to make 8 kinds of dessert and two kinds of sober-up tea. They were definitely top-notch.

“Although my alcohol is good and I won’t get a headache if I drink too much, can I consider making a hangover meal?” Yuan Zhou stroked his chin and considered.

The system suddenly displayed,[the host will add the sober-up set meal on his own, so the price will be determined by himself.]

“Oh, so I can set my own price.” While saying that, Yuan Zhou was even a little excited.

Yuan Zhou had to think about the sober-up set meal again.

During the meal time, as Wu Hai wasn’t there, he felt the atmosphere in the restaurant was a little different.

Just like what Qin Xiaoyi and Gao Fan had said, without the crow beasts eyeing them covetously and snatching food from the side, they felt less motivated to snatch food.

He was probably tortured by Wu Hai to the point of stockholm.

It was another night when Yuan Zhou came back from the ranch.

“Thank you, master Liang. I’ve troubled you every night.” After Yuan Zhou paid the bill, he got off the car.

“Boss Yuan, you’re too polite. No need to thank me.” Master Liang waved his hand and then asked,”will we still do the same tomorrow?”

“Um … I probably won’t be going to the farm for the time being, so there’s no need to trouble master Liang,” Yuan Zhou said.

“OK. If boss Yuan needs to go there again, please call me at any time. I’ll be on 24/7,” said master Liang.

While he was talking, master Liang received another order.

“Boss Yuan, I’ll leave first.” Master Liang said.

“Slow down and be careful.” Yuan Zhou instructed her.

Master Liang agreed loudly and drove to the address of the order.

From the street of Taoxi road, he returned to the small shop.

“I think it’s about time.” Yuan Zhou muttered to himself while sitting on the bed.

That’s right. It had been half a month since he obtained the “ding style ox Cleaver”, which meant that he had been to the ranch for more than ten days. Yuan Zhou felt that he could use the “ding style ox Cleaver” to dissect an ox for the first time.

He was ready to do something big.

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