National Goddess: The First Spirit Chef in History

Chapter 15 The First Pot of Gold
In August in City X, it was still very dark, and it was not yet seven o'clock when the sunset was westward and the sunset glow was transpiring.

Outside a small door in the corner of the backyard of the bustling Quanfulu Building, a middle-aged chef with an anxious expression was walking around non-stop—he is the new head chef of Quanfulu who will take over the responsibility of the chef from his father today Quan Shurong.

Today is a special day for him. He will hold a handover banquet with his father. The layout of the banquet, the invitation letter, the menu and the ingredients used in the kitchen will be drawn up by him alone from beginning to end. He will use His culinary skills conquered the [-] authoritative diners in the industry who will be present, and opened a new chapter for Quanfulou.

Since half a year ago, he has been preparing for this banquet, and assured his father that he will definitely hand in the best grades, so that he can retire with peace of mind.

Having studied cooking for more than 30 years, he has such confidence and strength.

However, there are always accidents, otherwise he would not be wandering outside the small gate of Quanfulu Building now.

Just three days ago, several suppliers who supplied ingredients to Quanfulou suddenly switched to Yipinxuan, which had always been in competition with Quanfulou, and almost made Quanfulou open the skylight. Obviously, someone didn't want Quan Shurong's A handover banquet was successfully held, and even wanted to use this method to attack Quanfulou.

If Quan Shurong, who is about to take over as the chief chef, can't even solve this crisis, he will lose not only his face, but the whole family's face. If Quan Shurong's father is the one who encounters this problem, then this A little problem is not a problem at all, relying on the relationship network that the Quan father made, it can be solved in seconds. However, Quan Fulou is no longer the responsibility of the Quan father who is about to retire soon. He couldn't ask his father for help, so he chose to hide from his father, urgently borrowed a large amount of ingredients from a restaurant he knew well, and then found a new supplier by himself, and only then did he resolve the crisis.

However, although the new supplier's ingredients are only higher than the original supplier's, the types of ingredients they supply are not complete. For example, they have no way to produce the matsutake that must be used in today's banquet!

Matsutake is one of Quan Shurong's father's most beloved ingredients. How could it be missing in this special banquet?

For this reason, after he learned that the new supplier could not provide the best matsutake, he relied on his personal relationship to buy it. He even logged in to buy information on multiple food forums, WeChat groups and other channels where information diverges quickly. .

He received a lot of replies and inspected a lot of goods, but he was still unable to satisfy him. He always felt that there was a slight difference, which made him hesitant and unable to make up his mind. Today's banquet is a very important one. He wants to be his father's pride, so he has very high demands on himself, if he can be perfect, then he will never allow the slightest flaw.

It wasn't until noon today that he saw a picture of matsutake in a food hunter post on the forum, and finally realized that his persistence was right, but the comments under the post made him hesitate, his time was limited, It can't be wasted, and the seller's requirements are really harsh. If he waits until the end and gets a fake product, he feels that he will explode.

And just when he hesitated to browse through other posts about matsutake but couldn't find what he wanted, after returning to this post again, he suddenly found that the original poster had revised the information, although the price was twice as expensive as before, but But very confidently marked that the fake one will pay ten, and intends to inspect the goods face to face.

The seller was so confident, which gave Quan Shurong a little more trust. He was not afraid of high prices, but he was afraid that the fake goods would miss his handover banquet.

He decisively contacted the seller to make an appointment, but in order not to open the skylight, he had already bought a batch of first-grade matsutake as a spare, but there were better ones. Who would use defective ones? This is a chef's obsession with ingredients.

At this time, there were only less than two hours left before the banquet, and the agreed time was about to pass, so Quan Shurong lingered outside this small door and waited.

Finally, just when he couldn't help but want to take out his mobile phone and make a call to confirm the other party's arrival, there was a sudden sound of footsteps outside the alley, and the next second, a female voice sounded behind him, "Is it Quan Shurong, Mr. Quan?"

Quan Shurong turned his head sharply, and then saw a fat girl carrying a bamboo basket, a chubby orange cat squatting on her shoulder, and wearing a white T-shirt printed with a certain fast food restaurant advertisement.

This unique shape, Quan Shurong thinks, he will probably not forget it for a long time.At this time, he had no idea that this fat girl was the one he was waiting for. After hearing the fat girl calling him, he even asked suspiciously:
"I'm Quan Shurong, who are you?"

Knowing that she did not admit the wrong person, Wen Qiao let out a long sigh of relief, then quickly unloaded the bamboo basket she was carrying, put it in front of Quan Shurong and said, "Hello, Mr. Quan, I am a foodie. Wen Qiao, who posted a post on the hunter forum selling matsutake, this is what you need, please check and accept it."

"What did you say, you said you were Wen Qiao?"

It's no wonder Quan Shurong was surprised. Compared to a gourmet hunter, Wen Qiao is more like a delivery boy in a fast food restaurant, and considering the figure of the fat girl in front of her, it's impossible to imagine how she traveled through mountains and rivers to find ingredients. No need to imagine that he must feel very tired.

The astonishment was only momentary. Quan Shurong, who was about to be promoted to the head chef, was still very calm. He quickly remembered that the most important thing he should do now was to inspect the goods. No matter how untrustworthy the seller looked, the goods had already been delivered to him. , he always had to take a look at it to judge whether the deal was concluded.

I have to say that Quan Shurong made the right decision and has been grateful for it for many years.

When Wen Qiao lifted the cover on the bamboo basket, revealing the matsutake that smelled like earth inside, fresh as if it had just been plucked from the ground, Quan Shurong's eyes lit up instantly, and in the next second, his whole body They all threw themselves in front of the bamboo basket, carefully picked up a matsutake from the back basket, and brought it to his eyes. He carefully looked at it and then carefully opened it to look inside. He even put it on the tip of his nose and sniffed it carefully. , finally showed an obsessive smile, and hugged the bamboo basket directly into his arms like hugging a treasure, and said excitedly:

"Wen Qiao, right? I've been waiting for you for a long time. Come on, come in with me. Let's weigh it. As long as the matsutake in the basket is like the one above, our business will be closed, and we will have fresh ones in the future." Ingredients, don’t forget about me, as long as the food is good, money is not a problem.”

Wen Qiao naturally nodded in agreement, and after she followed Quan Shurong through the back kitchen of Quanfulu and came out again, there was already a transfer message on her phone.

About nine kilograms of matsutake, Wen Qiao's original price was 3 yuan per kilogram, but after being provoked by the comments, she directly doubled it and changed it to 5 yuan per kilogram. The price can be said to be ridiculously expensive. Confidence, knowing that my matsutake can be said to be super quality, its value far exceeds the top quality, it is worth the price, but others may not have confidence in her, and it is also lucky to meet Quan Shurong, otherwise it would not be possible to sell it so smoothly go out.

Six 10,000+ came into the account in the blink of an eye, even the calm Wen Qiao couldn't help but excitedly lifted the cat master on his shoulders in front of him, and buried his whole face in the orange cat's white, soft and furry abdomen, completely He didn't notice the suddenly stiff body and rising body temperature of the suddenly attacked orange cat.

(End of this chapter)