Chapter 854 She is a good child
The reason why Jiang Feng asked Ji Xue to make fish balls and Ji Xia to make noodles was because the dinner he prepared for Ji Xia's mother-in-law today was very simple - a bowl of thick noodles with fish balls in clear soup.
The soul of this bowl of thick noodles with fish balls in clear soup is naturally the same clear soup he uses to make chickpeas. In this way, Jiang Feng can not only show off his cooking talent, but also let Ji Xia's mother-in-law taste the excellent craftsmanship of Ji Xue and Ji Xia.
Ji Xia is now a skilled noodle maker. If you don't care about the quality, you can make longxu noodles. It's no problem to make a bowl of thick noodles that are chewy and refreshing.
While Jiang Feng was cooking noodles, Ji Xia gathered around Jiang Feng and kept asking about Zhang Qian's apprenticeship.
"Master, will you accept that sister just now as your apprentice?"
"Xia Xia, do you want me to accept her as my apprentice?" Jiang Feng asked back.
"I don't know." Ji Xia didn't know Zhang Qian at all. She just wanted to be a senior sister, "But I think it would be good for the master to recruit a few more junior brothers and sisters for me. In this case, I will be a senior sister. I can I can teach them knife skills, and I can also teach them how to make noodles, shortcakes and fresh meat mooncakes!”
Ji Xia's current meat mooncakes are pretty good. Although they are far inferior to Zheng Siyuan's, they are still delicious.
"Bring the colander over there." Jiang Feng pointed to the shelf in front, "I'm afraid, Xia Xia, you won't have the chance to teach your future junior brothers and sisters how to make noodles, shortcakes and fresh meat mooncakes."
"Why?" Ji Xia was puzzled.
"Because Xia Xia, you are different from them. You studied white cases, while they studied red cases." Jiang Feng explained.
He was not going to accept talented white case disciples any more. Even if Jiang Feng wanted to recruit a disciple, he was very clear about his direction. It must be a red case, a pure red case. The limit of deviation would be making porridge.
Ji Xia nodded, understood and didn't care, and continued to ask: "Master, you haven't said yet whether you will accept today's sister."
"I don't know either." Jiang Feng took the colander from Ji Xia and took out the noodles. "It depends on the situation. That sister will come to the store to help in the past few days. Whether she can accept it depends on her performance in the past few days."< br>
Ji Xia's face made me understand: "I know, just like Master, you tested me on how to stretch noodles before accepting me. There are standards for accepting disciples, and you must pass the test before you can accept them, right?"
"Yes." Jiang Feng nodded, turned and shouted to Ji Xue who was at the other stove: "Ji Xue, are your fish balls over there ready?"
"Almost." Ji Xue called back.
Jiang Feng started to put the noodles on the plate, but he forced two spinach sticks into a concave shape. When Ji Xue's fish balls were placed upwards, they instantly turned into two dragons playing with pearls, but there were a lot of pearls in this double dragon's playing.
"Xia Xia, please serve the noodles to your mother-in-law." Ji Xue said with a smile, giving the opportunity to serve the noodles to Ji Xia.
Ji Xia happily trotted out with her noodles in hand, followed by Ji Xue.
Jiang Feng still had a few dishes to finish in the kitchen. He was busy for more than twenty minutes before finishing his work for the day. He went out to change clothes and then went to the lobby to find Granny Ji Xia.
I have finished eating the thick noodles with fish balls, and I ate it very cleanly, not even the soup was left.
Ji Xia was talking to her mother-in-law when Jiang Feng went there. Ji Xia seemed to be saying something happy and even laughed out loud. Ji Xue's eyes were full of smiles, and Ji Xia's mother-in-law was even more so, looking very kind. She was completely different from the old lady who made Jiang Feng tremble at first sight.
Seeing Jiang Feng coming, Ji Xue quickly sat down to make room for Jiang Feng, but Jiang Feng did not sit down.
"Ji Xue, Xia Xia, I want to talk to your mother-in-law alone, okay?" Jiang Feng said.
Ji Xia stood up without much thought, but Ji Xue was stunned for a moment, quickly nodded in agreement, and took Ji Xia to help in the kitchen.
"Hello, if you don't mind, I will call you mother-in-law just like Xia Xia." Jiang Feng sat across from Ji Xia's mother-in-law.
"This is not a confusion of seniority, but you young people will probably not care about this. You can call it whatever you want. By the way, these are the gloves I knitted for you. The style is a bit old but warm. I heard Xia Xia said that you all walk to and from get off work in winter, even though the distance is not It’s far away, but if you don’t wear gloves when it’s so cold in Beiping, your hands will definitely get cold. As a chef, you have to protect your hands. I hope you won’t find it objectionable.” Granny Ji Xia is indeed a very kind old man, and she will speak up as soon as she opens her mouth. I know that her appearance is completely inconsistent with the person.
"Of course I don't dislike it. How could you dislike such a thoughtful gift?" Jiang Feng took the glove and looked at it carefully and squeezed it. It was indeed very thick and very comfortable to touch. The person who knitted the gloves was obviously very attentive.
"Thank you for taking care of Xia Xia for more than a year. I have watched this child grow up. He is sensible even if he says he is sensible, and he is really ignorant even if he is said to be ignorant. Among these children, Xia Xia has always been the one I have been most worried about over the years. Xia Xia. If Xia Xia hadn’t had such a good master like you, her life would have been ruined.”
"Don't say that. I believe Xia Xia will never be ruined in her life whether she has me as her teacher or not. She is a good child and will not go astray, but sometimes the road is not so smooth." Jiang Feng said quickly.
Granny Ji Xia was stunned for a moment, then she smiled from the bottom of her heart and nodded: "Yes, she is a good child and has always been a good child."
After the basic courtesy, Jiang Feng told Granny Ji Xia all the issues he had thought about last night and discussed with Wu Minqi about Ji Xia's future development.
The more Grandma Ji Xia listened, her expression became more serious, and her smile completely disappeared. If you didn't know her better, you might think that this old lady was a little unhappy now.
"So, the best way now is to let Xia Xia go to what you said, that..."
“Zhiweiju.”
"Yes, are you going to Zhiweiju to learn art?" Granny Ji Xia asked.
Jiang Feng nodded: "This is the best choice. Zhiweiju is now the best restaurant specializing in white rice noodles in the country, and the top white rice chefs in the country are basically all in Zhiweiju. If there are still Zheng Siyuan and Zheng Da, Zheng Da I had taught Xia Xia before, but it was clear that he was not willing to spend time teaching apprentices. I actually asked Zheng Siyuan about it, and he didn't mind, but he told me very clearly that he had never taught apprentices and had no experience. Can’t teach.”
"Actually, both Zheng Da and Zheng Siyuan have limitations, but Zhiweiju does not. Zhiweiju has many Bai An chefs. If Xia Xia can go to Zhiwei Ju, she can receive the most systematic and comprehensive Bai An cooking instruction. As long as we come forward and know that Weiju will give us face, even if we don’t give everything, we will not deliberately make things difficult.”
Grandma Ji Xia frowned: "But Xia Xia doesn't want to."
Jiang Feng nodded helplessly again: "Yes, the biggest problem now is that Xia Xia is unwilling. For Xia Xia, Zhiweiju is a completely unfamiliar environment. She likes it here and she also likes Beiping. If she wants to go to Zhiweiju, there will be eight Nine years, sometimes three to five years, without relatives or friends. Although Xia is about to be seventeen, she often feels like a child born in junior high school. If someone asked me to leave home and go to a completely unfamiliar place for several years when I was in junior high school, even if they told me that it was all for the sake of it. Well, I’m afraid I don’t want to either.”
"We have all seen Xia Xia's changes this year. We all like her, and we don't want to force her to make decisions for her. In fact, she doesn't have to go to Zhiweiju, but that is the best. If If Xia Xia really doesn't want to go, I can also find a way to invite less top white-paper masters from other places to work in Tai Feng Building, so that Xia Xia can continue to learn skills in Tai Feng Building. It's just a pity. A waste of her talent.”
"She is a genius, you may not feel it, but she is really very talented in white cases, not an ordinary talent, she is a one-in-a-million genius, the kind that no one can surpass among young and middle-aged people in the country and even the world. It's precisely because Xia Xia's talent is so good that we would feel sorry if she couldn't receive the best education." Jiang Feng was also helpless, "I don't want to force her, but I also want to help her make this decision. ”
"I can't tell now which idea is right and which idea is wrong. You are Xia Xia's mother-in-law. I believe you know her very well, so I would like to ask for your advice."
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Grandma Ji Xia's eyes turned red.
Rubbing the corners of her eyes with her hands, Grandma Ji Xia smiled apologetically for her gaffe: "I'm sorry, I'm just happy for Xia Xia."
"After so many years, you are the first one to ask me... the first person to consider Xia Xia with such sincerity." Mother-in-law Ji Xia said, her voice a little choked.
"Is Xia Xia really that talented?"
"Really." Jiang Feng nodded affirmatively, "None of us have ever seen a more talented chef Bai An than her."
"Are you in a hurry now? What I mean is, we must let her..."
"No need." Jiang Feng shook his head, "There is still time, we should be able to wait for another half a year. We are actually also thinking about whether there is a better way to get the best of both worlds."
"There are so many good things in this world that have the best of both worlds. She can't take all the good things in the world by herself." Mother-in-law Ji Xia shook her head with a smile, "Well, let me give it a try and give Xia Xia some more time."< br>
"I believe she will be responsible for you and herself." (End of Chapter)