When the next day, Mr. Qiao came to the store and as usual, they began to prepare the ingredients they needed for noon.

Of course, Mr. Qiao knew exactly what ingredients Chen Nian used to cook yesterday. After all, the ingredients in the entire kitchen must be passed by his hands, so what was left yesterday and what was still very clear and bright now.

Beef, mushrooms, fungus...

"Did you make beef lily yesterday?" Mr. Qiao asked while putting the ingredients into the pot to prepare soup.

"Yes, Manager Qiao, I made a beef sauerkraut yesterday, but it didn't taste very good."

After hearing this, Manager Qiao nodded: "You just started to learn how to cook, and it is normal for you to not master the taste well. It will be better if you get used to it later. From now on, I will leave you some dishes every night for you to practice by yourself. Anyway, you young people are in good health and consume a lot of money. The dishes you cook will be treated as midnight snacks."

"Thank you, Shopkeeper Qiao."

Unexpectedly, Manager Qiao waved his hand: "No need to thank me, why do I do? It is logical that you should give you some wages when you are a guy here. The ones you gave you before are considered pocket money at most, so you can buy clothes and daily necessities by yourself."

After hearing this, Chen Nian hurriedly said, "It's okay, I don't want wages. Just storekeeper Qiao can leave me some ingredients tonight. I won't go out anyway, so asking for money is useless."

After hearing this, Manager Qiao looked at Chen Nian with great appreciation, thinking that this young man looked more and more pleasing to the eye, and the words he said made people feel very comfortable.

However, even if Chen Nian said he didn't have any wages, Qiao and Yong still planned to give Chen Nian some more money every month.

After all, Chen Nian has grown up now, and is not the boy who used to be like a child. No matter what, there is no harm in having some money in his hands. In the past, he basically chose someone to give Chen Nian some money during the holidays and ask him to buy new clothes or something else.

Or if you usually ask Chen Nian to go out to buy some medicinal materials, some fruits, etc., and let Chen Nian put the remaining money he found on himself.

But by noon, A Cai came again.

Just like yesterday, she still came here to have dinner alone this time.

After ordering the dishes, A Cai looked at the kitchen again. Although there was a separate room in the kitchen, it was connected to this one, and you could also see the outside from the inside and the inside from the outside.

After A Cai sat down, he put a bag of fruit in his hand on the table: "Mr. Qiao, I came here this time to express my special thanks to your guy. If it weren't for him yesterday, I would have lost a lot of money!"

Chen Nian was stagnant when she heard this, and she immediately knew what A Cai was talking about at this moment.

But Mr. Qiao didn't know that after hearing this, although he looked down on people like A Cai, he was so old that he had seen all the storms and waves, so he would not let these emotions go superficially.

But after hearing A Cai say this, he couldn't help but ask curiously: "Who on this street has the ability to make Miss A Cai lose money? What happened last night?"

After asking, Mr. Qiao turned around and looked at Chen Nian: "Why didn't I know that this kid has such great skills? I used to think that he would just work in the kitchen, but I didn't expect that he could help Miss A Cai."

"Mr. Qiao, you don't know this. Isn't a new girl in our store yesterday? But that girl has a little stubborn temper. At first, I didn't think anything was wrong. Many girls just came here like this. When they made money, they knew that I, A Cai, would never harm them.

But she is different. Last night, the little girl actually climbed over the wall and ran away. I don’t know that the girl has such great ability, but I don’t know what the girl thought. After she ran out, she ran straight to your hotel. As a result, A Nian happened to be here at that time, and she didn’t know what they said. Anyway, the girl returned to me by herself.

Do you think this should be thanked by A Nian? If that girl really ran away, don’t say that she ran to the dock and boarded a boat from someone who didn’t know, she accidentally met a policeman in the middle and was shot, and I felt so heartbroken.”

Master Qiao naturally knew what Acai was doing. At this moment, he was also a little curious about what Chen Nian said to the girl, which could make a person change his mind and willingly return to that place.

However, it is not the time to ask questions. If you have to ask, the guests must have finished leaving, and ask them privately.

At this time, he just replied to A Cai's words: "How much did you spend?"

"All $300!"

"That's really expensive, but since Miss A Cai is willing to pay such a high price, I guess this girl has something extraordinary."

"That's true, this girl looks a little better than I did back then. With this personality, which man can control her when she sees her? Who doesn't want to go up and conquer her?"

"Indeed, that old man is here to congratulate Miss A Cai for adding another general!"

"Where is it? How can I like this little book dealer? But this time I will just thank Ah Nian."

Chen Nian didn't say anything during the whole process.

To be honest, I feel uncomfortable, but there is nothing I can do about it. If this were placed in China in the 21st century, Chen Nian would have immediately taken the girl to the police station to find the police uncle without saying a word.

But now it's in America!

And it was in America in the last century. If you go to the police, wouldn’t it be like a sheep entering the mouth of a tiger?

After that, there were more and more customers, and the old man began to get busy for a while...

Mr. Qiao is only responsible for serving rice, then put it on the bar and collecting money. As for the remaining dishes, tidying up the dishes, wiping the table, and assisting Mr. Qiao in serving rice, serving soup is all aged job.

Yesterday, Chen Nian ate the jack chicken, and today Chen Nian looked at the salted egg meat patty on the other side. This dish looked very simple, just put a salted egg on the top of the meat patty.

However, Chen Nian knew that this salted egg was also Mr. Qiao's unique skill, and there might be some other places, but it should not taste as good as Mr. Qiao made.

As for the meatloaf below...

Chennian knew that there would be a hamburger meat on the recipes in some countries. In fact, it was also a meat patty, but there was still some difference from this meat patty.

And the meat patties in Cantonese cuisine are actually steamed.

After getting a salted egg patty and a bowl of rice for himself, Chen Nian went to serve the soup again.

Today's soup was cooked with horseshoes and ribs, but there was still some yam inside, which was not as thick as yesterday. But every time a customer ordered soup, he could still smell the fragrance inside.

Horse hooves are a not-so-expensive fruit, but they still taste a bit troublesome and need to be removed. Unlike other fruits with skin, when peeling horse hooves, peeling horse hooves requires tools to peel off the skin outside, which is a bit like potatoes.

However, except for the few horse hooves used to make soup today, Mr. Qiao demonstrated how many of them were left with old men.

Chen Nian was a little unfamiliar with this job at first. After all, although this thing was not the first time I ate it, it was the first time I peeled it myself.

Although it is not difficult to cut clean, it is just slow and it is easy to peel off large pieces of flesh.

However, as time goes by, Chen Nian is becoming more and more familiar with this work. First, peel off the skin in the middle and bottom, then turn the skin around and cut it off bit by bit, and even cut the skins cut by Chen Nian behind. If you make do, you can form a hollow horse's hoof.

"A Nian, what happened yesterday?" After putting the food on the table, Mr. Qiao suddenly asked.

"Shopkeeper Qiao, didn't you go home first yesterday? I was going to cook in the kitchen alone, but before I started cooking, a girl came in outside, that is, the girl who ran out of their store just now, as A Cai mentioned.

But I couldn't help her, so I could only tell her the location of the pier and tell her that the streets here were actually very dangerous.

But later when I was cooking, she didn't leave. I had to chat with her when I finished cooking and brought the dishes to the table. I probably told her about A Cai's life. After hearing this, she asked a few more questions and finally said she wanted to go back. She also said that she was sold by her parents, and even if she went back, she had no support. It would be better to stay here..."

But Mr. Qiao didn't quite understand why Chen Nian did this at this moment: "Then why didn't you keep her? Even if you hide her in the room, I don't know. And if you keep the person, even if A Cai dares to ask me for someone, if I don't give it to her, she will have no choice."

"Mr. Qiao, I can't cause trouble for the store. It's not easy for you to take me in, and I really didn't have the conditions to help her at that time."

After that, Qiao and Yong didn't say anything more.

Chen Nian didn't say anything anymore, but savored today's food and soup carefully.

Although this dish is called a salted egg meat patty, the salted egg is not as salty as the salted duck eggs I bought. The egg yolks are a little rustling, probably because they are steamed in the pot.

In addition, the meatloaf is also very delicate and it was pressed very solid before, so it doesn't taste too soft. You need to cut it with a spoon to get a piece of it.

But Chen Nian felt that the taste was a little lighter when she ate it. When she turned around, she saw that there was chili sauce on the table. So she made a small spoonful of chili sauce, applied it evenly, and then cut it off with a spoon and ate it. It felt like her appetite.

But in fact, this is the same as yesterday's Zhe Chicken. Although they are both Cantonese cuisine, they are not very light. Zhe Chicken has a rich taste and can taste the flavor of seasonings in one bite.

Although the salted egg meat patties don’t have that much seasoning, probably just the seasonings that are placed in the meat filling when making the meat patties, the meat patties still taste a bit greasy.

This has nothing to do with the method and Mr. Qiao’s cooking level, but with the aged taste.

But this dish is obviously a bit more popular, probably because it has meat and eggs, and the taste is not hard, so it doesn’t take much effort.

However, compared with this salted egg steamed meat patty, Chen Nian still felt that the soup surprised me more.

No matter what, the pork rib soup always has some oil on it. Sometimes, when you drink pork rib soup, you will feel good at first, but as you drink it, you will feel a little bit greasy, and you will feel that the soup tastes stronger the more you drink.

Because as the soup is stored longer, all the seasonings are accumulated in the soup base, and the taste in the mouth is constantly increasing.

However, this bowl of horseshoe rib soup did not feel like this. Horseshoe was added to the original pork rib soup, which cleverly resolved the common problems of the broth, and it also contained the sweetness of the horseshoe itself.

After drinking it, I felt much more refreshed, as if I was walking on the street in the hot summer, but suddenly a fast horse galloped over next to me, and the cool breeze blew on people, not to mention how comfortable it is now.

Now Chen Nian finally understands why there were Guangdong people eating Fujian people at the beginning.

If you think about it abstractly, you will feel that this image is quite appropriate.

...

The days afterwards passed day by day. Although Chen Nian's daily work remained unchanged, in Chen Nian's opinion, it was not boring at all, but enjoyed it.

Mr. Qiao also left some ingredients for Chen Nian every night for Chen Nian to make midnight snacks. Sometimes it was beef, sometimes it was chicken, sometimes it was only some vegetables, and what could be left was basically determined by what was leftover when cooking during the day.

Moreover, the ingredients delivered to Glory Hotel every day are not fixed, and sometimes there are even some seafood, river food, etc.

Chen Nian took this opportunity to cook all the dishes that Kim Dachuan taught him before.

Although not all has been perfect so far, I already know how to improve Chen Nian.

In addition to cooking, Chen Nian also learned that Wang Chaoyun is now very famous in Acai. Every day, as long as Wang Chaoyun comes out, many people will come to support him. Those who have the conditions will seek a beautiful woman to accompany her. Those who have no conditions will be satisfied with being able to take a look at him from afar.

But I only heard about these Chen Nian. After all, the Guangrong Hotel is very close to that alley, and people who come to eat every day sometimes talk about these things, but Chen Nian has never visited them once.

He just felt a little sad...

But whether it is Wang Chaoyun sad or himself sad, or whether it is this era and society sad... Chen Nian himself can't explain this clearly.

Days passed day by day, and soon the eve of Dragon Boat Festival was coming.

Of course, you need to eat rice dumplings during the Dragon Boat Festival.

However, since the boss, Mr. Qiao, is a Hakka, the materials used to make rice dumplings are somewhat different from what Chen Nian knows, and are also different from some areas in Guangdong.

Because Chen Nian knew that Guangdong eats meat dumplings, he sometimes uses char siu, salted egg yolks, etc.

But the ingredients for the rice dumplings prepared in advance include pork belly, peanuts, mushrooms, mung beans, glutinous rice, dried vegetables, etc.

He specially asked someone to bring back the rice dumpling leaves from China. He brought several boxes of them in total, but they obviously couldn't finish them, so after leaving what they needed, the rest was sold to the neighbors around him at a very low price.

This is what Mr. Qiao does every year. After the neighbors make rice dumplings and cook them, they will also bring some to the Glory Hotel on the Dragon Boat Festival.

This is also a matter of goings and goings. Although Mr. Qiao collected the money, it was just a symbolic meaning. Otherwise, they were just ordinary people here, so there would be no channel to buy rice dumpling leaves.

In order to make rice dumplings today, Mr. Qiao soaked peanuts, mung beans and glutinous rice in water yesterday.

He also told Chen Nian to look at it and not be eaten by mice or other animals, and to make these ingredients dirty.

After coming the next day, Mr. Qiao soaked mushrooms again and chopped the dried vegetables into the water. According to Mr. Qiao, this would not make the taste too salty.

Candy vegetable is naturally the same as candy fruit, but to prevent rot, a lot of salt is usually added on it.

At noon today, Guangrong Hotel did not sell any other dishes except rice dumplings, but even so, the soup must be cooked.
To be continued...