Chapter 393 Apprenticeship
That night, the entire Jiang family learned the good news that Jiang Feng had gained a disciple.
Recruiting an apprentice is an absolute big deal in the chef industry. To recruit an apprentice, it is not surprising to gather a group of relatives and friends, hold a banquet, and kowtow to the master and serve tea in front of everyone. But this is usually a dish that only masters can have. Jiang Feng, the real behind-the-scenes boss of Tai Feng House who is not even known to the employees of Tai Feng House, has just emerged in the chef world and is somewhat famous. Naturally, he cannot show off this card. .
In addition, Jiang Feng is young. If he told others that he wanted to accept a disciple, most people would only regard it as a joke or a thing made up by young people who are ignorant. Therefore, there is no need to make a big effort to accept a disciple.
After discussion with the uncles and two old men of the Jiang family, everyone decided to let Ji Xia toast Jiang Feng a cup of apprenticeship tea tomorrow in the presence of the elders of the Jiang family, and just go through the necessary procedures.
Early the next morning, Ji Xia rummaged through her suitcase and found out her cleanest and most formal clothes. With Ji Xue's help and guidance, she sorted out her clothes and appearance, and went downstairs to Jiang Feng's house.
The living room of Jiang Feng's family has been sorted out. The coffee table and other blocking objects have been moved away. The sofa has been repositioned. The small two-bedroom house is blocked by the Jiang family. Marginal figures like the Fourth Aunt, the Fifth Aunt, Jiang Jianshe and Jiang Jianye who were observing the apprenticeship ceremony could only stand in the dining room and couldn't squeeze into the living room.
Not to mention Jiang Shoucheng and Jiang Zaide, there is no place for them in the dining room. They can only go into the kitchen or in the bedroom and watch from a distance. As long as you stretch your neck long enough, you might be able to see something. .
Ji Xia was frightened by the Jiang family's fight.
She knew that her master had many relatives, and there were families with many brothers and sisters in their village. It was always lively during the New Year and festivals, and several tables could not fit on one table. In some families with more than a dozen uncles and aunts, the table cannot even fit inside the house during the New Year's Eve dinner. It has to be set up from the living room to the door of the house. The family dinner is as lively as a wedding banquet.
But what Ji Xia never thought was that the master's family had many relatives, not just in terms of people, but in terms of area.
A dozen or so people stood in the living room and dining room, and it felt like there were twenty or thirty people standing there.
For today's apprenticeship ceremony, Comrade Wang Xiulian deliberately returned to her old profession and calculated an auspicious time by using her skills which were not superb and even a bit messy.
The summer season has arrived, and so has the auspicious time.
There are three sequences in the ancient apprenticeship ceremony: the first step is to worship the ancestor, the second step is to perform the apprenticeship ceremony, which is to serve tea, and the third step is the master's instructions, talk about the rules, and give a name if necessary.
When they arrived at Jiang Feng's place, the only second step in the apprenticeship ceremony was to serve tea.
Of course there is no problem in worshiping the ancestor if possible, but the problem now is that even the Jiang family cannot figure out who their ancestor is. Going back from Jiang Chengde, neither Jiang Weiguo nor Jiang Weiming knew anything about it. Jiang Chengde is not a person who likes to mention the great achievements of his ancestors. Even because Taifeng Tower was defeated by Jiang Chengde's father himself. Chengde has always been very taboo about mentioning the past glory of the Jiang family.
Which generation of the Jiang family started cooking, and who is the real founder of Jiang family cuisine? These past glories have long been lost in the long river of time along with artillery fire and war.
And now, everyone knows that they will witness the glory of the Jiang family today.
Teaching is the most glorious and greatest thing that a chef can think of. It not only means that they will have successors, but also means that their cooking skills are recognized.
Ji Xia walked towards Jiang Feng step by step under everyone's gaze.
It has been many years since anyone in the Jiang family has accepted an apprentice. The only one among the people present who has accepted an apprentice is Jiang Weiming. However, when he accepted an apprentice, he had already canceled the apprenticeship ceremony. Even tea was offered to Jiang Weiming secretly when he could. of. So no one in the Jiang family actually knows what other procedures there are in the apprenticeship ceremony besides serving tea, but Ji Xia knows.
Ji Xia remembers that her grandmother told her that when becoming a disciple, the apprentice must kowtow to the master.
She had originally prepared in this way. She hesitated all night last night whether she should kowtow once or three times. But today, with so many people watching, she felt a little timid again.
Ji Xia still remembers what her grandmother said: kowtow is no longer popular now.
Jiang Feng was wearing a long gown, sitting on a chair, watching Ji Xia walking towards him.
The long gown he was wearing was made for him by a tailor on his 18th birthday. In the old man's opinion, although a suit is a formal suit, it is a Western-style formal suit, while the Chinese formal suit is a long gown. Every child of the Jiang family had a gown given by the old man when he grew up. However, whether it was Jiang Feng’s three cousins, his uncles, or even Comrade Jiang Jiankang, their gowns could only be buried deep in the The bottom shelf of the wardrobe is no longer fit for wear.
The gap between them when they were 18 years old and what they are now is still quite obvious.
Only Jiang Feng, whose figure and height had not changed much, could not only wear it but also fit it very close to his body.
Ji Xia walked up to Jiang Feng, knelt down, picked up the tea cup on the table, raised the cup to his eyebrows, bowed around his waist and brought the tea to Jiang Feng.
"Master, please drink tea."
Ji Xia was so nervous that she kept biting her lower lip.
Jiang Feng reached out and took the teacup. When he first took it, he suddenly felt that the teacup in his hand was very heavy, as heavy as a thousand pounds.
Jiang Feng brought the teacup to him, took a sip of it, and then gently put it down.
Jiang Feng didn't know how to drink tea. No matter what kind of tea he drank, it was bitter. He couldn't taste the sweetness or sweetness that others said. It was as if he was born without tea-drinking cells, or was born with a bad condition. This bite.
But this time, he seemed to taste something else.
He tasted sweetness and responsibility.
This cup of tea was brewed with his own eyes. The hot boiling water was poured into the teacup. The tea leaves tumbled up, stretched out in the boiling water, rotated and floated until they fell silent. Jiang Feng saw all this, even if it was him. When I first drank it, the tea was still slightly hot.
Disciples should treat their masters as their parents, and masters should treat their disciples as their children.
Although Ji Xia's statement that he wanted to take Jiang Feng as his disciple was a bit like a child's willful and angry words, Jiang Feng's statement that he wanted to take Ji Xia as his disciple was also like a joke. But now that you have become a master and accepted a disciple, you must shoulder the corresponding responsibilities.
Just like Jiang Weiming and Jiang Weixiang, Jiang Weiming taught each other everything he could and Jiang Weixian treated each other sincerely.
"Pa bang bang."
There was a round of applause in the living room. The two old men looked at Jiang Feng and Ji Xia with a pleased smile. Comrades Jiang Jiankang and Wang Xiulian were even moved to the point of tears.
Ji Xia turned around and saw Ji Xue standing at the door, clapping and smiling, but her eyes were red.
Everyone present seemed to have witnessed an amazing event, and it was indeed an amazing event.
"Get up." Jiang Feng helped Ji Xia up.
The apprenticeship ceremony has been completed.
"From today on, you will learn to cook with me. If you want to complain, there is no chance. There is no turning back. You can't regret taking this path." Jiang Feng said with a smile.
"Master, I will work hard," Ji Xia said.
"Mom, you go to the store first. Qiqi and I are taking Xia Xia to get her hair cut, and then we will go to the shopping mall next to our store to buy some clothes for her, and then go back when it opens at noon." Jiang Feng began to ask Comrade Wang Xiulian reported on the itinerary.
Comrade Wang Xiulian was excited and moved and wiped the tears that were about to overflow from the corners of her eyes, as if she had just watched a touching movie.
"Buy two more clothes for Xia Xia and get an expensive haircut. It's not easy for a girl to have such long hair. Don't just shave her head for 10 yuan like you used to do." Comrade Wang Xiulian instructed. .
Jiang Feng:...
Mom, please wake up. You chose the barbershop where I had my hair cut, okay?
"Oh."(End of Chapter)