Chapter 888 Extra 2: Ji Xia Chapter (End)
Ever since Xia Xia went to Zhiweiju to study Bai An, she rarely met people from Tai Feng Building.
Except for Jiang Feng and Wu Minqi's wedding, when everyone gathered together, Xia Xia was always absent from the rest of the gatherings.
A video call every day is essential, but a video call is a video call after all. As Ji Xia becomes more and more valued by the masters of the white case in Yongheju, the time spent talking to everyone is getting shorter and shorter. From half an hour a day at the beginning, to twenty minutes a day, to ten minutes a day, and finally to three to five minutes. Sometimes there are so many people at Jiang Feng's side that there isn't enough time for one person to say a few words, so he can only let Xia Xia speak, and then hang up the phone because the meal is finished.
Despite this, although many people no longer remember what Xia Xia originally liked to eat or what she was like when she first came to Tai Feng House, everyone still pays close attention to Xia Xia.
She is so dazzling.
You don't need to rely on daily video calls. You can know how much Xia Xia has improved over the years by just paying attention to the major domestic competitions related to the Bai case.
It is really hard for such a genius to not be outstanding in a good environment and taught by famous teachers, it is hard not to be brilliant, and it is hard not to shock the world.
Nine years after Ji Xia left Tai Feng Tower——
As soon as Jiang Feng arrived at the store, he saw a group of people gathered around reading electronic magazines on tablets. He leaned over to see what they were reading.
Seeing Jiang Feng coming, Zhang Qian quickly made way for him: "Master, senior sister, she won another award."
"What prize?"
"See for yourself." Ji Yue handed the tablet to Jiang Feng and began to eliminate Jiang Feng, "Xia Xia participates in such an important competition, and you don't even care if you are still his master."
"Xia Xia participates in so many competitions a year, how can I care about it all the time. Hey, isn't this the highest-level white case competition in the country? I was negligent. Lao Sun and Master Sun just left two days ago. I really didn't do much. Spend your time on this." Jiang Feng immediately realized his mistake.
Xia Xia has been a competition fanatic these years. She can participate in seven or eight large and small white case competitions a year, specializing in those with high bonuses.
"Tsk, tsk, tsk." Ji Yue could only tut at him to express her disgust.
"Tsk, tsk, tsk, Xia Xia even won the gold medal in this competition, and Lao Sun has also gone back to reopen the Treasure Building. Now we can point to you and Lao Zhang to bring us something new." Jiang Feng decided to divert the trouble to the east. .
Ji Yue suddenly became wary: "What new thing? What new thing can Lao Zhang and I have? Unless one of us cheats, who of us has more potential to cheat? Otherwise, I will go and treat my dignified Ji family now." As the second-in-line successor to Pickle, he made everyone happy by having an affair with a few handsome young men.”
"Come on, I'll give you the identity of the second heir to Ji's pickles and the identity of the first heir. Do you dare to ask for it?" Jiang Feng lowered his head and read the magazine.
Having said that, Ji Yue really didn't dare to claim the identity of the first heir to Ji's pickles.
In recent years, as Ji's pickles have been successfully mass-produced, put on the market, and promoted nationwide, not only selling well offline in their own specialty stores, but also selling well online, Ji Yue has successfully transformed from poor Ji Ge to Taifeng. Lou is second only to the richest woman in the Sun family.
Her mother wanted her to go back and inherit the family business, because her brother was unwilling.
Who would have thought? Ji's Pickles, whose annual income exceeds 100 million, has two heirs who are unwilling to return home and inherit the family property.
Whether Ji Yue wants it or not, her mother can't control her. If she doesn't want it, forget it. If Ji Qiran doesn't want to, he can't help it. Ji's mother gives Ji Qiran an ultimatum. He must choose between getting married and inheriting the family business, otherwise he will lose his living expenses. So Ji Qiran resolutely chose to inherit the family business and went home to learn pickles with his mother and grandma Ji. From a handsome programmer with short hair to a pickle master with short hair who was soaked in a pickle jar.
What does this mean?
Explains the importance of financial independence.
Ji Yue is now the new leader of the service industry in Tai Feng Building, with a monthly salary approaching six figures. She will not go home and inherit the family business if she says she won't.
Of course, these are all digressions. Since I have said so many digressions, why not say a little more.
With the rise of the domestic catering industry in recent years, it may be that Tai Feng Building's higher turnover year by year has attracted other people's attention, or it may be that the courtyard house near the Li family where the Jiang family currently lives has made peers jealous. . Countless capital has poured into the Chinese food market, and many new cooking competitions with generous bonuses have been added.
Under such a general trend, not only red cases are blooming everywhere, but even white cases, which have always been unpopular and only Zhiweiju is struggling to support them, are also flourishing.
Gu Li finally embarked on the same old path he mentioned before, and has been restoring the long-lost Bai'an dim sum in ancient books. It's just that his path was much smoother than others imagined, and he was a great success.
Xu Cheng was not optimistic about Gu Li because he felt that Gu Li had been following the path of others. Even restoring the snacks in ancient books was the same old path as his master.
No one thought that Guli would really find his own path on the road to recovery.
He reconstructed the snacks similar to those in the book according to the ancient books, and then improved them according to the newly added methods, adding different ingredients, and developing new flavors or more palatable snacks while keeping the overall tone unchanged.
A huge success.
Four years ago, Guli ranked 57th in the celebrity chef directory, a very ordinary ranking, which is already considered good among white chefs. In the past four years, Guli has not stopped the pace of restoration and improvement, and his influence has expanded step by step. He even has many loyal fans of his dim sum in Southeast Asian countries such as Japan and South Korea.
Everyone speculates that Guli will definitely be ranked in the top 30 in this year's celebrity chef directory, and may even be ranked in the top 20, setting a new record for chef Bai An's highest ranking in the celebrity chef directory.
To this day, when someone mentions the cooking competition a few years ago in which Guli was first, Jiang Feng was second, Zhang Guanghang was third, and Wu Minqi was fourth, no one would talk behind his back and say that Guli's first place was not worthy of the truth. , why should he defeat Jiang Feng.
Those who had chewed the tongue of Guli back then, except for Sun Jikai, who had been in Hedong and Hexi for thirty years, suffered setbacks and depression, and worked hard to pursue the great road, the others have long been forgotten by everyone, and even their names have been forgotten by everyone. Forget.
Zhao Shan and his ilk have long been forgotten by everyone.
Speaking of Zhao Shan now, does anyone know who he is? Ling Guangzhao may still have some impression. After all, this was his former employee, but he had fired him long ago.
Babao Zhai is now also a well-known restaurant in Beiping City, and it has high requirements for the quality of its chefs.
"I didn't expect Xia Xia to win this kind of competition." Although Jiang Feng is considered a layman in Bai An, it doesn't mean that he doesn't understand these domestic cooking competitions.
The Good Taste Cooking Competition is held year after year, and he serves as a judge every year to give face to Boss Han. Xu Cheng also generously uses the "Zhiwei" interview as a championship gimmick, causing the Good Taste Cooking Competition to become recognized as the highest-level chef in the country. Art competition.
Of course, this cooking competition is biased towards the red case.
There are also cooking competitions held specifically for chefs Bai An, such as the one Xia Xia won this time. It was newly established in the past few years and is only in its fourth edition.
The history is not rich enough, but the influence is great, because this is the highest prize among the pure Baikan chef competitions, and many Baikan masters who are short of money will join in the fun.
Not every chef is as rich as the chef at Tai Fung House. Someone like Roland owes a huge sum of money for no apparent reason. He worked miserably in a top-floor restaurant for seven years before paying off the debt and leaving, returning to his old club to continue his career. There are many part-time workers who work as chefs.
"No, our Xia Xia is a genius. This kind of competition is a small case!" Ji Yue looked proud, and those who didn't know thought Xia Xia was his apprentice.
Jiang Feng was still reading the magazine, so Ji Yue gave him the spoilers first.
"What do you think Xia Xia made for winning snacks?"
"What?" Jiang Feng asked, but his eyes had already glanced at it, "Fresh meat mooncakes. It's not surprising that although fresh meat mooncakes are common, they actually require a lot of skills and skills. It's very difficult to make them extremely well. , it’s normal to win the championship with this dish, what’s wrong?”
"You read on, the interview after the game."
Let's look down and the first thing we see is the picture of Xia Xia winning the championship.
A face that is no less noble and cool than Wu Minqi back then. I don’t know if she is nervous about facing the camera or something else. There is no smile on her face. She looks a little serious, and she has the feeling of a boss.
Compared to Wu Minqi's domineering boss, Xia Xia is more like the arrogant flower from the high mountain because of her appearance.
Even though he had long realized that his eldest apprentice was no longer the kid Ji Xia who only knew silly fun, Jiang Feng still couldn't help but sigh in his heart about the magic of time.
Time has made him, the great disciple, almost the leader of the criminal world.
Jiang Feng saw Xia Xia's post-game interview.
It's a video.
There are indeed many types of electronic magazines.
Reporter: "Master Ji, may I ask? Why did you choose fresh meat mooncakes as a competition dish in the finals of this competition? You have never chosen fresh meat mooncakes as a competition dish before. This time you chose this dish before the Mid-Autumn Festival. What does the dish mean? ”
Ji Xia: "Because this is the dish my master taught me."
Reporter: "Oh, that's it. Can I ask which master from Zhiweiju it is?"
Ji Xia shook his head: "It's not the master from Zhiweiju. It's the only master I worship, Master Jiang Feng from Taifeng Tower."
Jiang Feng was stunned, and so were the reporters in the video.
"Master Jiang Feng from Tai Feng Tower? Are you... a disciple recently? But we haven't heard that Master Jiang has accepted any apprentices recently, and Master Jiang doesn't seem to be very good at criminal cases. Master Ji, can you tell me a little bit about what it is?" What's going on?" The reporter quickly realized that this was a big surprise.
People in the cooking circle who have known Jiang Feng for a long time basically know that Ji Xia is Jiang Feng's apprentice. In these years, he just went to Zhiweiju to learn skills instead of becoming an apprentice, but people outside the circle don't know.
Jiang Feng and Ji Xia never talked about this matter to the outside world, mainly because they had no chance to talk about it. Jiang Feng was famous for not being good at white cases, and no one would associate him with Ji Xia.
If Xia Xia had become famous a few years earlier, there might have been careful reporters covering her past. But she actually became famous only in the past two years, and has not even been listed on the list of famous chefs. Because of her appearance and amazing competition results, she became very popular in the culinary industry, and even became popular in some circles.
At this stage, reporters are only digging into tidbits such as Xia Xia's emotional experience. There are also some unscrupulous reporters who have noticed that Xia Xia has a bad relationship with her parents and want to make a big fuss about it. Jiang, who has been paying close attention to such trends, was The family pressed down.
News reports are okay, and gossip news is okay, but the direction of the report must be positive. Even gossip news must boast about Xia Xia's beauty, otherwise the Jiang family, Xu Cheng, and Boss Han will be the first to refuse.
Xu Cheng has acquired many magazines and periodicals related to food and tourism in recent years, and he can be regarded as unifying the food paper media industry, although most of the publications now are electronic journals.
"No, I became my master eleven years ago." Ji Xia's face in the video was blank, but in Jiang Feng's opinion, he was a little nervous, so his facial expression was out of control and looked cold.
Jiang Feng suddenly remembered what Xia Xia said to him during that New Year greeting.
"I want to become as good as you, I want to be worthy of being your apprentice, worthy of being your junior sister's senior sister."
So now Xia Xia feels that she did it, right?
"So Master Ji, what you mean is that the fresh meat mooncakes were taught to you by Master Jiang Feng eleven years ago, not by the masters at Zhiweiju." The reporter caught the topic.
"That's right." Ji Xia nodded and suddenly looked at the camera, "I have been practicing fresh meat mooncakes for these years, every day without a break."
Jiang Feng looked at the tablet and smiled.
He returned the tablet to Ji Yue.
"Look, congratulations to the player for completing the advancement of [Su-style Mooncake (Fresh Meat) Level B], upgrading to [Su-style Mooncake (Fresh Meat) Level S]. Please go to the menu bar to view the corresponding tutorial."
The sudden sound of the game prompt really startled Jiang Feng and made him tremble.
To be honest, in recent years, games have become more and more like a tool to assist Jiang Feng in checking the finished products. Although the buff dishes are good, Jiang Feng's other dishes are not bad either. Except for the skill appraisal, which is very useful in the game, the rest of the game is already very useless to Jiang Feng.
And since the end of the final known as the Showdown of the Century, Jiang Feng has never received any mission from the game, whether it is a main line, a branch line, or a hidden one.
The only task left in the task bar now is [Big Flower's Wish]. Even the tasks related to the thirty-seven letters that Jiang Feng found to be the most difficult were completed last year.
He also read the remaining unread memories. With his current strength, no recipe from his memory could surprise or challenge him, not even Jiang Chengde's.
To this day, Jiang Feng can say proudly and without pretentiousness that he will one day surpass Jiang Chengde. He may have already surpassed him, or he may do so in the future.
"Why are you so startled?" Ji Yue was startled by Jiang Feng's move.
"It's nothing, I'm going to the toilet, you guys watch." Jiang Feng slipped away.
Ji Yue:?
If she remembered correctly, Jiang Feng hadn't rushed to the toilet in such a hurry for several years.
Should she remind Qiqi to ask her to take Jiang Feng to the hospital for a checkup? There might be something wrong with this man who is over thirty.
Jiang Feng slipped into the toilet and opened the attribute panel after a long absence. He only realized what was going on after seeing the relevant prompts for advanced dishes.
There are two recipes for Su-style mooncakes, one with fresh meat and one with salt and pepper. Jiang Feng's most involved work in the past few years has been stretching noodles to make fried noodles and egg noodles. He has never been involved in difficult challenges such as fresh meat mooncakes, so much so that he has forgotten that these two recipes can be upgraded.
There are two upgrade conditions: making this dish more than 10,000 times and making A-level finished products more than 100 times.
The number of times the apprentice cooks can be shared with the master. Jiang Feng has never made fresh meat mooncakes in these years, and has only made it less than ten times since getting the recipe.
This means that Xia Xia has made meat mooncakes more than 9,990 times in the past nine years.
On average, more than a thousand times a year, three times a day.
Combined with basic practice and normal business, this is a very scary number.
And Xia Xia would insist on making fresh meat mooncakes every day just because Jiang Feng taught her this dish.
Jiang Feng silently closed the properties panel, feeling his nose was a little sore and something in his eyes blurring his vision.
Jiang Feng took out his mobile phone and called Xia Xia.
It wasn't the agreed call time, but he couldn't control that much.
"Hello, Master." Xia Xia answered the phone immediately.
"Xia Xia, where are you now?"
"I'm on the high-speed rail. I just finished the game yesterday. I'm taking the high-speed rail back to work today." Xia Xia said.
"I saw your game report today. Congratulations on winning the championship. Our Xia Xia is indeed extraordinary now. We all have the style of a master." Jiang Feng said with a smile.
"Of course. Junior sister was among the top eighty in the celebrity chef list last time. Master, you are now the number one in the celebrity chef list. Of course I can't embarrass master and junior sister." Ji Xia said happily, "I will definitely be in the celebrity chef list this year. If you record it, you will definitely be ranked in the top sixty!”
"I also saw your post-game interview."
There was suddenly silence from Xia Xia's side.
"We all really want to try your meat mooncakes and want to know what the gold medal-winning mooncake tastes like."
Xia Xia still didn't speak.
"You are already very good, Xia Xia, come back."
"Okay."
The voice on the other end was choked with sobs, still the same as when he was a child. (End of chapter)