Chapter 22

On the official road outside the city, a little brother was on his way with an oil paper umbrella, a basket and an old man.

Today's weather is extremely hot. The sun overhead seems to scorch the ground. The bright sun stabs people's eyes, which is very fierce.

"Hey, it's so hot." The old man took a cloth towel to wipe the sweat on his face and said with emotion: "this boss is really far from their home."

The little snake basking in the sun in the roadside grass heard the voice of people and ran away.

"No, fuber, are you tired? Why don't we take a break?" Miguel's forehead was covered with sweat and his face was red. Even if he was holding an umbrella to avoid direct sunlight, the heat from the ground was choking.

Fuber looked up at the distance and said, "don't rest. It's getting late. It's better to arrive early. It's not good to cook again when it's late. It's not good to give people trouble."

Miguel said hello.

They went to North Street to find Yu Qingze this morning. They didn't see anyone at the common stall. They looked for a circle in North Street and didn't see the familiar snack stall. Later, I asked the old lady who sold tea eggs next to Yu Qingze snack stall. Only then did I know that boss Yu was injured in a robbery and rested at home. I'm not sure if he will come or when.

When they heard this, they were stunned. How could such a thing happen? Then they thought again, oh, it's bad. If boss Yu and they don't come, what can we do if the second young master gets tired of those porridge? Boss Yu knows so much fresh food that he won't come. Where can he find such a person in the future?

Moreover, Fubo also wants to discuss the practice of delicious food with Yu Qingze. After consulting Yu Qingze about the seafood porridge last time, he went back and tried it several times. As expected, it's much better. The second young master of their family can eat it.

They immediately went back to the house and reported to the master. With the master's permission, they went to the kitchen to get some food, and brought some gifts to visit the doctor.

It's just that Niutou village is far enough away!

Boss Yu, it's not easy for them to go so far to set up a snack stand in the city every day.

They were in a hurry. On the way, they asked two more people. After walking for more than half an hour, they finally found the Changle home in Niutou village.

To the surprise of Miguel and Fubo, it turned out that boss Yu was only on loan at his boy Changle's house.

"Who are you looking for?" Grandpa Chang saw two strangers at the gate of the hospital and came out and asked.

Miguel stepped forward and asked, "old man, is this boss Yu Qingze's house?"

Grandpa Chang nodded and replied, "yes, are you two?"

Miguel said with a smile, "Sir, I'm Miguel, the servant of the Cai family in the south of the city. This is Fubo. I was lucky to get several porridge recipes from boss Yu. The second young master of our family likes it very much. Today, I heard that boss Yu was injured. The owner specially asked us to visit him. "

Grandpa Chang hasn't seen Miguel and Fubo, but he has heard from them. As soon as they heard that it was them, they quickly let them in and said, "they have gone to the mountains. They should come back later. Come in and sit down. It's hot and hard for you to run."

Miguel and fuber entered the house.

Miguel smiled and replied, "Sir, you're welcome. Boss Yu is injured. We should come and have a look. This is the master's wish. Please accept it. " With that, Miguel handed the basket to them, containing the gifts they brought and some fish food.

"Oh, just come. What else do you bring. Sit down and I'll pour you water. " Grandpa Chang put the basket on one side of the stool, then went to the kitchen and poured two cups of cold boiled water for them. When they drank, he brought them two bowls of jelly.

"Come on, eat a bowl of jelly, cool, cool."

"What is this?" Miguel looked at the crystal clear jelly in the bowl and asked in surprise. Another fresh food!

Fuber's eyes brightened when he saw it.

"This is jelly. Try it quickly to reduce the heat." Grandpa Chang said.

They curiously picked up the spoon and took a bite. The cool feeling was immediately conveyed from the mouth to the brain. It was a cool feeling. After eating a whole bowl, the whole person was refreshing, his mind was dazed by the heat was sober, and the fatigue of driving for more than half an hour was also reduced.

"Good taste! Elder brother Chang, what is this jelly made of? " As soon as fuber finished eating, he asked because of his career.

Grandpa Chang smiled and said, "some things in the mountains were made by Azer. You can ask him when he comes back."

This thing can be sold on the street. Grandpa Chang knows whether to let Miguel and Fubo know that Yu Qingze has the right to decide.

He didn't get the answer, and Fubo was not disappointed. Boss Yu might sell such a special food. Naturally, his practice should be kept confidential and can't be disclosed at will, but he was more curious.

He said with a smile, "OK."

Grandpa Chang talked with them for a while. Seeing that it was not early, he began to wash rice and cook. Fubo was going to help cook. Grandpa Chang quickly stopped him and said, "how can you do it? Sit and wait for them to come back and let you taste different flavors."

Fu Bo's heart moved, "but boss Yu's craft?"

Grandpa Chang laughed and said, "I don't know yet. Let's see at that time. Anyway, brother, you'll wait."

In the mountains, Chang Le watched Yu Qingze pick off the pale yellow white fungus like chrysanthemum on the dead wood one by one, and anxiously gestured to one side.

Chang Hao translated and said, "brother Yu, my brother said this thing can't be eaten. Someone used to eat it. His whole body is red and itchy and has blisters. It's poisonous."

Yu Qingze said with a smile, "did he take it back and cook it directly?"

Chang Le nodded.

Yu Qingze said, "it's called Tremella. You can't eat it until it's dried. If you eat it directly, you should soak it in the water for at least three-quarters of an hour. Otherwise, once you eat it, it will cause skin itching. However, this is a good thing. It nourishes Yin and lungs. It is especially nutritious. It is better than fir fungus, tea fungus and fungus. "

The two brothers were stunned.

Chang Hao stared and asked, "so good?"

Yu Qingze nodded, "that's good. Therefore, you should help me pick all these quickly so that I can go back early. "

Two people listened and quickly picked it up. Whether it is poisonous or not, since elder brother Yu said it was a good thing, it must be a good thing.

"Pick the big ones, keep the small ones first, and pick them when you grow up." Yu Qingze asked again.

"Can this also sell for money?" Chang Hao asked again while picking.

Yu Qingze nodded, "you can sell it. But we don't sell these. We'll save them for ourselves first. "

Although there seem to be many Tremella in this forest, it can't be sold continuously in batches. You'd better keep it for yourself. Moreover, people here don't know how to eat it. They don't know its value. It's estimated that they can't sell it at a good price. They have to spread the eating method to have an effect.

However, after picking the food in the mountain, we can consider mobilizing the villagers to find it and buy it. Anyway, people here think it can't be eaten, and there should be no competition.

Yu Qingze thought about his future plans silently and sighed that he was right to come to the mountain today. He not only dug two bamboo shoots, but also found immortal leaves. Changle picked up half a box of fungi and a handful of black fungus. However, the biggest surprise was to find the tremella!

This forest is close to the stream. There are a lot of dead trees, damp and many fungi.

When he was picking black fungus, he found a Tremella by chance. He was so surprised that he asked Chang Le if there was anything else. Changle took them into the forest.

Here, there is a large area of Tremella!

Yu Qingze's feeling was like suddenly being hit by five hundred thousand, a huge surprise.

In previous lives, tremella was basically cultivated artificially, and there were few wild Tremella like this. All wild animals sell very expensive.

Several people picked all the big Tremella in the small forest. Seeing that it was getting late, they went back. The big basket carried by Changle is full of mountain treasures.

Back home, several people were surprised to find Miguel and Fubo coming.

Knowing their intention, Yu Qingze said gratefully, "Miguel, Fubo, thank you, and please thank you for me. It's very kind of you."

Miguel answered and asked, "how could someone rob you?"

Yu Qingze replied, "I met a few gangsters on the official road and moved my hands."

Miguel frowned.

Chang Hao said angrily, "brother MI, Fubo, you don't know, we've had bad luck recently."

Miguel asked, "what bad luck? Isn't business good? "

Chang Hao broke his finger and counted to MIGUEL: "let me tell you, since we opened the snack stand, first a thief came to our house to steal cold skin, and then a few days ago he met someone who came to find fault. He put the insects in our noodles and said our cold noodles were not clean. You said it was hateful! Then the next day, when we came home, we were robbed. Brother Yu was injured in order to protect us. He was beaten with many sticks, bruises on his back and a knife on his shoulder. He couldn't lift his arms with such a long cut. "

Then Chang Hao compared his palm, it was so long!

Yu Qingze was washing his face. When he heard what Chang Hao said, the corners of his mouth were slightly hooked. Chang Hao's little Baba also has the advantages of Baba. At critical moments, he can always bring some unexpected surprises.

Like now.

All kinds of news on the street are very well-informed. After chatting with Miguel and Fubo for a while, and the news learned from the guests chatting with the owner of the nearby small stall when doing business, Yu Qingze has basically understood the identity of the Cai family in the south of the city. He is an unexpected figure.

However, if we can have a good relationship with them, it will be of unexpected help to our future business.

When Miguel heard the speech, he looked at Fubo and said, "you've only been open for ten days?"

Chang Hao nodded angrily and deeply: "it's not. I've met some inexplicable things in three or two days. Why is it so difficult to do a good small business!"

At this time, Yu Qingze came over. As usual, Hao shouted a wet cloth towel on his face and said with a smile: "go and wash your face. It's like a mud monkey."

Three people are drilling around in the mountains. They are not like mud monkeys.

Chang Hao smiled and walked away with a cloth towel. Yu Qingze and two humanitarians: "Fubo, MI Ge'er, you have a good time today."

Fuber was most concerned about cooking. He immediately asked, "what do you want to do for fresh food?"

Yu Qingze said, "let you taste my cooking skills."

Fuber's heart itched. "Can I look aside?"

Many craftsmen don't easily show the process of making things in front of others. Cooking is also a craft, and there are many unique recipes. Fubo also respects Yu Qingze.

Yu Qingze nodded, "no problem."

Fubo happily followed Yu Qingze into the kitchen.

Changle asked Changhao to accompany Miguel, and then went into the kitchen.

How can you, an authentic disciple, not be around the master!

Miguel brought a lot of dishes, including fish, chicken, pork and tofu. Yu Qingze felt their consideration and even brought the dishes.

Seeing tofu and fish, Yu Qingze immediately decided to make fish head tofu soup. For the rest of the fish, he made pickled cabbage just two days ago. He can eat it and make pickled cabbage fish.

Then make a spicy diced chicken. Grandpa Chang raised the snails he picked up in the stream and ditch for several days a few days ago. The mud is almost edible. He can also make a spicy snails and add a small green vegetable to entertain guests.

Yu Qingze began to deal with the fish with a smooth approach, descaling and cutting, and then cut off the fish head. The fish head was slightly pickled, and the fish body was sliced into fish slices.

Chang Le started by cutting the chicken leg and breast into small pieces according to Yu Qingze's instructions, then marinating them slightly, then washing pickled vegetables and snails and preparing various ingredients.

In order to let Changle see his cooking process, Yu Qingze didn't start until all the ingredients were ready. When Changle burned the fire, Yu Qingze began to do it. While doing it, he explained to Changle.

Fubo followed Yu Qingze all the way and didn't speak. He just stared at Yu Qingze's actions. He watched every process and every processing step attentively. Because he didn't know what the finished product and taste Yu Qingze wanted to make, he could only try to write down every step.

When the first spicy diced chicken was made, fuber couldn't help swallowing the fried golden crispy diced chicken in the bright red dry pepper.

Yu Qingze handed Fu Bo a pair of chopsticks and said with a smile, "try it."

Fubo had wanted to taste it. Hearing the speech, he happily took the chopsticks and put a piece of diced chicken in his mouth.

The entrance first felt a little spicy, and then bit the diced chicken. The crisp and mellow chicken flavor filled the mouth, mixed with salty and spicy taste. Fubo felt that he had a sense of satisfaction and hunger at the same time.

Satisfaction comes from the great happiness of "eating real meat"; Hunger is the sense of urgency to eat more and eat more.

Fuber squinted and tasted the diced chicken in his mouth. While satisfied, he also sighed deeply: he has been a cook for decades, but he didn't know that chicken still has this way to eat. It's a pity to do so.

Fortunately, I have tasted it now and know how to do it.

"How about fuber?" Yu Qingze asked. In fact, you can know the answer by looking at fuber's expression, but out of politeness, you still have to ask.

Fubo sighed and said, "boss Yu's craftsmanship is beyond my reach."

Yu Qingze said with a smile, "Fu Bo is modest. The way of delicious food is broad and profound. We can try all kinds of collocations and practices, and there will be unexpected gains. "

Fubo thought so deeply, nodded and said, "what boss Yu said is very true."

Yu Qingze then fried the fish head, then put it in a casserole, put the boiled water and ginger slices, transfer them to a small stove to cook, wait until the soup boils, change the low heat to milk white, then add tofu, gently stir well, put some salt to taste, and then boil over high heat for a few minutes.

In the process of making fish head soup, Yu Qingze fried the snail again.

Finally, make the sauerkraut fish and you can eat it.

Spicy and crisp spicy diced chicken, spicy fried snail, tender, smooth and appetizing pickled fish, delicious fish head tofu soup and crisp green vegetables.

Fubo watched these dishes all the way, smelled that all the dishes were fragrant, and extremely stimulated his appetite.

They ate these dishes for the first time, just like Fubo and Miguel.

Five ancient people who didn't eat much food praised these dishes. One by one, their faces turned red, their lips were red, and their foreheads were sweating.

Especially Miguel and Fubo, they ate the dishes made by Yu Qingze for the first time. They couldn't hide their surprise and shock. They sighed that they were delicious and satisfied with their life.

Yu Qingze looked at them and smiled with satisfaction. He was injured and couldn't eat heavy food, but he was only eating green vegetables and tofu. He was also satisfied and in a good mood.

As a chef, the greatest sense of satisfaction and achievement is that his dishes can be praised by diners, and the most obvious and intuitive embodiment of this praise is that the dishes are eaten up.

After dinner, Miguel and Fubo are still aftertaste. Grandpa Chang accompanied them to chat one by one. Chang Hao helped Changle clean up the dishes and chopsticks and wash them.

At noon, the sun was strong. Miguel and Fubo didn't go back so soon. Yu Qingze went to the kitchen to prepare immortal tofu.

He asked Chang Hao to boil a pot of boiling water and burn the cypress bark he picked up into ash. Then he put the ash into a wooden basin, mixed it with water, stirred the sediment, and then poured out the water on the upper layer for use.

Then he took the fairy leaves picked in the morning, washed them and drained them, and began to make fairy tofu.

Immortal tofu, which Yu Qingze learned from his master when he was an apprentice, is a special food launched in their hotel. In fact, it is a very rustic and rustic way to eat in the countryside, but because modern people begin to advocate green and healthy food, it is particularly popular in big cities.

Yu Qingze chopped the green leaves into a wooden basin, added an appropriate amount of boiling water, rammed the leaves into a paste with a spatula, filtered the juice of the leaves with a cotton towel, added water to tamp the paste, filtered, and then poured the water on the upper layer of cypress ash into the leaf juice through cotton cloth, and then put the juice in a cool place and let it stand.

Miguel and fuber had a nap on the table. When he got up, Fu Bo asked Yu Qingze to discuss the practice of those dishes at noon.

Yu Qingze didn't hide anything and told Fu Bo what to pay attention to in those dishes.

They talked for an hour. It's getting late. It's time for fuber and Miguel to go back.

Before leaving, Yu Qingze taught Fu Bo two ways of nourishing soup suitable for summer. Finally, when he left, he also filled a large bowl of jelly for them to take away. In addition, cut a large piece of the solidified immortal tofu, put it in a large bowl, float it in cold water, and let Miguel take it back.

"Cut the immortal tofu into thin slices, add minced ginger and garlic and chopped pepper, stir it and you can eat it." And tell them how to eat.

Fubo is curious about the green tofu. It's a pity that Yu Qingze didn't see it before.

Miguel asked Yu Qingze again, "boss Yu, when will your snack stand be set up again?"

Yu Qingze said, "there's no way. I haven't recovered yet. I have to wait two days."

Chang Hao interrupted: "elder brother Yu, if we go again, I don't know if we will encounter bad luck."

Yu Qingze rubbed Chang Hao's head fiercely, and gave Chang Hao a praise in his heart. On his face, he was very 'helpless' and said, "there's no way but to admit bad luck."

Miguel and Fubo looked at each other, and Miguel comforted, "there's always a way."

After a pause, Miguel asked again, "boss Yu, do you intend to cook in CAI's house?"

Yu Qingze stared slightly, showed surprise and asked, "am I here?"

Miguel nodded and said, "our master appreciates your cooking. If you like, our master very much welcomes you to cook in CAI's house." This is another purpose of Miguel's coming today.

Yu Qingze thought about it, and then solemnly replied, "thank you very much for your appreciation of Yu. However, Yu still wants to do some small business with his family."

Speaking of his family, Yu Qingze glanced at the two brothers of Changle with soft eyes.

Miguel also fought for it and said, "think again?"

Yu Qingze shook his head and said, "thank you, sir."

Hearing the speech, Miguel knew he couldn't persuade him. He didn't say any more. He left with Fubo and went home.

Cai Fu, dinner time.

Old Cai looked at a large pot of fish and a plate of green food on the table and asked, "what kind of food is this? And over there, green, from fuber's new Institute? "

While filling the second young master with seafood porridge, Miguel replied, "Mr. Hui, this fish is called pickled cabbage fish, which is very appetizing. The green over there is immortal tofu, which is very cool. Fu Bo learned it from boss Yu today. Have a try. Make sure it's as delicious as the jelly you ate before! "

"Oh? Did you learn it from boss Yu? Try it. " Old Cai picked up his chopsticks and ate a piece of fish first. He nodded while eating and said, "good, good, Fu Lang, Wei'er, you can try it too."

Then he took a piece of fish for his husband and grandson, watched them eat, and asked, "how about it?"

After eating, Cai laofulang nodded and said, "good, very tender."

Cai Yunwei, the second young master of the Cai family, also nodded to say that the taste was OK. Then he tasted the immortal tofu. There was a faint fragrance in his mouth, which was cool and delicious. He ate more for dinner.

I saw the Cai family's old men smiling.

After dinner, master Cai asked Miguel if yu Qingze would like to be a cook at home.

Miguel shook his head and said, "he didn't agree. He said he still likes to do some small business by himself. But his small business is going to fail. "

Hearing the speech, master Cai asked, "why can't you do it? Didn't you say business was good? "

So Miguel told Yu Qingze what they had encountered recently.

Old man Cai frowned and asked, "they can't open the snack stand?"

Miguel replied: "yes, I live by the snack stand. How can I live without it. He said he would come in two days, but if he ran into some cattle, ghosts and snakes, he wouldn't know if he could drive on. "