Almost overnight, the name of 'Su Bai, the chef of the cafeteria on the third floor of the S Province Track and Field Team' spread among the gourmets on the Food, Color, and Fragrance forum. After all, gourmets from other places were not in the same place, so let's not talk about them for now, but all the gourmets in S Province have more or less started to establish connections everywhere.
The most direct one was the gourmet who knew Sun Xiangdong. Although the relationship between him and Sun Xiangdong was not very good, he still had the face to come to Sun Xiangdong's house for a meal.
Before he posted Sun Xiangdong's evaluation of Su Bai on the forum, he had already asked Sun Xiangdong for a meal - not for any other reason, because he knew that the kitchen staff in the cafeteria would usually keep some leftovers after cooking for the chefs' own lunch. When he heard that the chefs of the track and field team were all eating Su Bai's food, he spoke directly with a smug look on his face.
Sun Xiangdong didn't know where his old friend Qian Desheng had heard about Su Bai's cooking skills. He did know that his old friend was a senior gourmet who had no other hobbies and just wanted to eat something good. He agreed without thinking too much.
Not long after Sun Xiangdong hung up the phone with Qian Desheng, he received a series of calls one after another, all asking him about Su Bai. After each call, they would ask if it was convenient for him to have a meal with the kitchen staff of the track and field team canteen.
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Sun Xiangdong finally realized what was wrong now. Su Bai's fame seemed to have spread all of a sudden in the food circle in S Province, and not just in that circle. He also had a friend far away in B City who called him to find out if there really was such a person as Su Bai, and if he really had such good cooking skills.
When the first one or two friends wanted to eat for free, Sun Xiangdong agreed without thinking too much. But when someone else called and expressed their desire to eat for free, Sun Xiangdong rejected them all.
After all, the person who will really have to cook an extra meal is Su Bai. If he has one or two friends coming to eat, it would be fine if they just say hello to Su Bai, but if he really brings a bunch of people with him, what would that look like? Even if Su Bai agreed, Sun Xiangdong didn't have the face to do it!
Therefore, people like Qian Desheng and another gourmet from S City, Li Ruixiang, took advantage of the first-mover advantage and got Sun Xiangdong's promise. They happily came to the S Province Track and Field Team at noon the next day.
Outside the gate of the track and field team, Qian Desheng and Li Ruixiang happened to meet each other. They greeted each other with a smile, and then began to talk about Su Bai's craftsmanship.
"Oh, the comments of the Dou family father and sons really made me feel itchy."
"Who isn't? But just like what Dou Lao Er said, eating in the cafeteria kitchen is not like the carefully prepared food in the kitchen, so the taste should be different from what the three of them have tasted."
The two chatted for a while, called Sun Xiangdong at the guard room at the entrance of the track and field team as proof, took out their ID cards to register, and together they applied for entry. They also asked the security guard for the direction of the track and field team canteen, and then slowly walked towards the canteen.
The time they came was perfect, as it was after the canteen had served their meals and the chefs in the kitchen had some free time of their own and could sit down to rest and prepare for the meal.
The two of them arrived neither too early nor too late. Most of the athletes were already eating or were about to finish eating at this time, so there were not many people in the team at this time.
When the two of them reached the stairs to the second floor of the cafeteria, they could faintly smell the aroma of food from the third floor - at this point, the aroma of food had almost dissipated, but the little bit of smell that remained made the two of them feel refreshed.
Hey, this smell coming from the third floor is really interesting?
When Qian Desheng and Li Ruixiang arrived outside the kitchen on the third floor, Sun Xiangdong also saw them, so he opened the door and let the two in.
After all, the kitchen is not a proper place for dining. There are only some tables. The chefs from the first and second floors have all come to the third floor at this time. They are chatting and laughing in the kitchen while eating Su Bai's food, and from time to time they praise Su Bai for the outstanding taste of one of his dishes today.
After Qian Desheng and his companion came in, the kitchen seemed a little more crowded. However, they did not mind it at all. After all, they were gourmets and had been to all kinds of dirty and shabby restaurants just for food. As long as the chef's skills are truly outstanding and the food is truly delicious, they basically don't mind the dining environment.
Before Qian Desheng and the other man arrived, Sun Xiangdong told Su Bai about this incident. Su Bai roughly guessed that this matter should be related to the father and son of the Dou family, but he did not expect that the influence of the father and son of the Dou family would be so great.
After entering the kitchen, Qian Desheng and Li Ruixiang greeted Su Bai with a smile - they knew that when the second son of the Dou family mentioned Su Bai yesterday, he was referring to their brother-in-law's junior fellow apprentice, which showed that Su Bai was young. However, after meeting him in person, they felt that Su Bai was too young.
Moreover, this kid looks so gentle and polite. Not only can you not tell that he is a top-notch chef, but you can't tell that he is a coach either.
But the fragrance coming from their noses told them clearly that the craftsmanship of this child named Su Bai was indeed extraordinary.
When the food was brought to Qian Desheng and Li Ruixiang, they both thanked them and started eating - just as Sun Xiangdong had told them in advance, these were all big pot meals prepared by Su Bai in the cafeteria, and there was nothing extra to pick and choose. However, this meal consisted of three dishes and a soup, so it was definitely not bad.
What was served to them were a serving of celery and beef soup, braised yellow croaker with tofu, stir-fried beef fillet with king oyster mushrooms, and stir-fried lotus root slices. It can be seen that most of these meals are prepared to take into account the nutritional needs of the athletes. There are basically no heavy dishes. The food is nutritious and easy to digest, and does not add burden to the body.
However, no one would say that the meals in front of them only have the advantages mentioned above - for gourmets like Qian Desheng and Li Ruixiang, such dishes with good color, fragrance and taste are undoubtedly the delicacies they are pursuing!
The celery beef soup is smooth and refreshing. It not only has the refreshing fragrance of celery, but the beef is also tender and tasty. The slightly sour soup makes people salivate as soon as they take a bite, and it is very appetizing. The yellow croaker and tofu stew is characterized by its soft, tender and fragrant taste. The yellow croaker and tofu are both fresh and tasty, and the tofu and fish are equally tender. The soup absorbed by the stewing is evenly full. Scoop a spoonful of tofu into your mouth, and then pick up a chopstick of delicious fish meat, and you will feel satisfied instantly.
If there is anything that is not perfect for Qian Desheng and Li Ruixiang, it is that the table is missing a glass of wine. Such a delicious meal would taste even better if they could sip some simmered rice wine!
Qian Desheng and Li Ruixiang looked at each other, and they could read the slight regret in each other's eyes. After looking at each other, they turned their attention back to the plates, and savored the food in front of them carefully, bite by bite.
Oh, there's nothing they can do. They all know that all the old friends who called Sun Xiangdong after Li Ruixiang were rejected by Sun Xiangdong. It's just the two of them, so this is one less bite at a time. Don't even think about borrowing this old face to get a free meal next time!
Thinking of this, the two of them ate more carefully. After tasting these delicacies, they couldn't help but marvel at Su Bai's cooking skills in their hearts.
It is no exaggeration to praise Su Bai's cooking skills as "exquisite cooking and sophisticated techniques". What's even better is that they are eating meals cooked in a big pot, but the dishes served to them are evenly flavored and cooked at just the right temperature, without any of the problems that are common in big pot dishes.
Qian Desheng and the other man were thinking, if Su Bai could even cook big pot dishes at such a high level, how delicious would the carefully prepared small-pot dishes that Dou's father and son had eaten the day before be?
What’s more, what Dou’s father and son enjoyed was a table full of delicious food!
Thinking of this, Qian Desheng and the other man couldn't help but feel a little envious and jealous.
After enjoying the meal, Qian Desheng and Li Ruixiang praised Su Bai a lot before leaving. After that, the two of them asked Su Bai in a roundabout way. When they heard that he really had no intention of leaving the track and field team to open his own private chef, the two gourmets couldn't help but feel a little depressed - it would be really difficult to eat Su Bai's food in the future.
After the meal, Qian Desheng and Li Ruixiang returned home, opened the Shiseshengxiang forum, quoted the post by Dou Yifeng, and praised Su Bai again.
Qian Desheng: [Oh, although Chef Xiaobai is young, his cooking skills in the kitchen are really top-notch. The delicious aroma of the braised yellow croaker with tofu is still lingering on my tongue. What a pity, it was just missing a glass of wine. If I could have had a sip at that time, the taste... I can’t even describe it! 】
Li Ruixiang: [Master Xiaobai’s cooking skills are indeed superb. Having eaten his food for many years in Province S, I can say that the quality of today’s dishes is comparable to that of Master Lin from many years ago! 】
This Master Lin was a big name in the food industry of Province S in the early years. It was said that his master was also from a family of imperial chefs, but he fell into decline and only passed on his skills to him.
Whether the chefs are imperial chefs or not is something that gourmets cannot tell for sure, but as long as the chefs have top-notch skills and have stories like their imperial chef background, gourmets can often taste some stories behind the dishes when they eat.
It can be said that a chef who has the title of successor to an imperial chef is highly sought after in the food world, and it is not easy to get a chance to eat a dish cooked by them.
Li Ruixiang and Qian Desheng are considered to be picky eaters among gourmets. Due to their long experience and wide network of contacts, they have eaten a lot of good food. Today, the two of them praised Su Bai again, especially Li Ruixiang who compared Su Bai with Master Lao Lin, who was one of the most famous chefs in S Province at that time. After the praise, the gourmets in the forum became even more greedy.
However, there was nothing he could do. In the kitchen of the S Province Track and Field Team, the only one who could really bring people in to eat for free was Sun Xiangdong. Even if the remaining chefs really asked for help, Su Bai would not refuse. They would be suppressed by Sun Xiangdong first, so as not to attract too many people and make Su Bai too busy.
Seeing that all the ways to Sun Xiangdong and other chefs in the kitchen were blocked for the time being, the Dou father and son also kept silent, saying that this was their in-laws' apprentice, not their apprentice, so how could they bother him all the time?
For a while, although the gourmets knew that there was such a "Master Xiaobai", they could only "sigh in despair" and lament helplessly.
There were even gourmets in the forum who made a joke - "When I send my son to be an athlete, maybe one day I can go to the track and field team's cafeteria under the pretext of a family visit and eat a bite of Chef Xiaobai's food."
On the Food, Color, and Fragrance forum, Su Bai's cooking skills became widely known because the Dou family father and son, Qian Desheng, Li Ruixiang and others spoke out one after another. However, Su Bai was not very clear about these things. Although Sun Xiangdong knew about it, he knew in his heart that Su Bai's right path was still in coaching, so he didn't tell him much about the Food, Color, and Fragrance forum.
In the afternoon, after finishing the kitchen matters, Su Bai came to the training ground when it was time for training, bringing with him the training plan he had prepared for Zhang Wei and Hu Li.
On the training ground, Zhang Wei and Hu Li already knew that Su Bai would bring them the latest training plan today, and they were a little excited and nervous for a moment.
After Su Bai arrived, he did not put too much pressure on them. For veteran athletes like Hu Li and Zhang Wei, their ability to withstand pressure is actually quite strong. But at the same time, after withstanding the pressure, they were disappointed and lacked confidence in their own abilities and results because their results had not been significantly improved after years of training. This led to their repeated failures to achieve excellent results, and they attributed them to their own lack of talent. Over time, under the vicious cycle, they became more and more "tired" and felt that their athletic careers were just getting by.
Before, after Su Bai officially took over Hu Li and Zhang Wei, during the 100-meter speed test and the subsequent series of tests, Su Bai wanted to get some of the latest test data for himself and also to give Hu Li and Zhang Wei some confidence.
The power of self-confidence may sound a bit mysterious, but it can indeed bring some extra enhancement to people's state. When a person does something with confidence, he only needs to put in the same effort and struggle, and the probability of success is often much higher than that of an unconfident person.
Hu Li and Zhang Wei are now in a state of gradually developing some confidence. In addition, they have Su Bai, a 400-meter coach that they both look forward to and trust, which gives them new expectations for future training and results.
After today's training plan was distributed to Jiang Dongjian, Hu Li and Su Bai, Su Bai did not ask them to train immediately according to the training plan, but asked another question.
"Do you have any ideas about how to improve your performance in the future?"
After hearing Su Bai's question, Hu Li and Zhang Wei were stunned for a moment, and then guessed that Su Bai might be trying to make an estimate of the extent of their academic improvement?
Indeed, this kind of adjustment of training plans and then making some predictions about the improvement of athletes' training results is something that basically all coaches will do, but it is difficult to say how accurate this kind of prediction is. After all, whether the training plan is suitable for the athletes and what the actual effect of the athletes' training is will all affect the athletes' final training results.
Therefore, coaches usually do make a periodic valuation of the athlete's performance improvement, but this valuation usually exists in the coach's own mind. He will make judgments based on whether the athlete's training results during the training cycle have achieved his goals, and constantly adjust and update the athlete's training plan in this way.
Zhang Wei and Hu Li looked at each other, both of them a little confused: Does their coach Xiaobai mean to tell them the estimated target for their performance?
But……
If the coach initially reports the estimated performance improvement after the training cycle is completed, but when the corresponding cycle comes, if their performance improvement fails to reach the expected level, won’t it dampen their training mood?
Not only Zhang Wei and Hu Li were worried, Jiang Dongjian next to them was also a little worried. He was afraid that Su Bai lacked coaching experience, so he secretly tried to stop him. However, after Su Bai noticed his action, he just nodded to him but did not show any intention of stopping.
From the expressions of the three people present, Su Bai certainly knew what they were thinking. This was also normal. Although he had now trained Qiu Wen, due to his age, qualifications and other reasons, his identity as a coach was still not convincing enough.
At present, the only person who can truly believe in him wholeheartedly is Qiu Wen.
But this is far from enough.
Su Bai needs to establish his own coaching prestige so that Hu Li, Zhang Wei and others can better implement his training policies. Only in this way can his training plan be implemented most effectively.
If he wanted to establish his prestige, he had to first make Hu Li and Zhang Wei trust him more.
Although Hu Li and Zhang Wei have gained some confidence due to his previous tests, this confidence is still not enough. They are also willing to believe Su Bai, but this trust is not yet deep.
What Su Bai has to do now is to make Zhang Wei and Hu Li more convinced of his instructions through some seemingly impossible things.
For example, now.
After careful consideration, Su Bai directly reported the training goals for Zhang Wei and Hu Li.
"What?! After one training cycle, both of them achieved 47.60 seconds at the same time?!"
Zhang Wei and Hu Li were both shocked by Su Bai's plan.
At the beginning of this year, they both really hoped that within this year, one of them could challenge the national athlete level result of 47.60 seconds, but this was only "within this year" and "planned achievement".
As the saying goes, plans cannot keep up with changes. Who can guarantee that if they want to make a breakthrough, their results will steadily reach 47.60 this year?
But Su Bai said so. Not only did he say so, but he also extended the planned time to within a training cycle.
They had already glanced over the training plan in their hands. This was a training plan with a complete monthly cycle, although the training content was different from their previous training content.
This plan includes more special running training. In Zhang Wei and his team's previous training plans, there would actually be 1-2 days dedicated to physical training such as strength and endurance. In Su Bai's plan, all 6 days of training a week include special running training. In addition, there are some other differences in details.
Including Zhang Wei and Hu Li, their respective training plans, although similar, also have some differences.
Even so, Hu Li and Zhang Wei still couldn't believe that with such a training plan, they could achieve a score of 47.60 seconds in just one month.
However, Su Bai's expression seemed so determined.
Could it be that...they both actually have good talent in the 400m event, but due to improper training in the past, their potential has not been brought into play?
Both Zhang Wei and Hu Li were a little confused. After all, Su Bai's coaching ability and ability to discover talents had been verified to a certain extent in Qiu Wen. So after Su Bai gave this plan goal, the first reaction of everyone, including Jiang Dongjian, was not complete disbelief, but just doubt.
Su Bai did not give any further explanation on this. He just showed the training plan to Zhang Wei and Hu Li again and gave them instructions again.
"Yes, our goal is to get your 400m results to within 47.60 seconds within January. Of course, this goal is not easy to achieve, so I hope you can cooperate with my training plan to the greatest extent possible, and let us do our best in this training plan together."
"On June 24, there will be another Grand Prix race in City Z. I hope you can set new records in your career at the race."
After hearing what Su Bai said, Zhang Wei and Hu Li were both a little dazed. They felt that Su Bai was a very capable coach in the 400-meter event, but could Su Bai really help them achieve such progress within a month?
Not only Zhang Wei and Hu Li were suspicious, but Jiang Dongjian next to them was also a little confused. He didn't know whether Su Bai was just trying to provoke them or was truly targeting Hu Li and Zhang Wei.
After Su Bai finished speaking, he did not keep Zhang Wei and Hu Li for long, but asked them to go to training immediately and not to think too much.
"Instead of doubting, why not give it your all for a month? After a month, you will know the answer, right?"
Su Bai's words stunned the three people present - yes, it's only about a month, won't they know the answer after a month?
Thinking of this, Zhang Wei and Hu Li both managed to calm down and began to devote themselves to training.
After Su Bai finished explaining things to the two of them, he watched Qiu Wen's training again, then buried his head and began to record the various data in his hands, and began to write and draw on the training plan form in his hand.
Next to Su Bai, Jiang Dongjian hesitated for a moment and then asked Su Bai whether the goal he set was true. But this time Su Bai did not answer him, but just smiled at him slightly.
In fact, Su Bai's approach this time did have some elements of gambling, but if one wants to mobilize Zhang Wei and Hu Li's confidence and training state, this is also the most direct and effective way.
According to the plan, Su Bai is about 80% sure that Zhang Wei and Hu Li can achieve their goal within a month. The remaining 20% actually depends on Zhang Wei and Hu Li themselves.
That is why, after careful consideration, he came up with the motivational method he used today.
In the evening, after the afternoon training, He Yishen and Zhao Heping also heard Jiang Dongjian relay Su Bai's training goal. They were both a little amazed. When Jiang Dongjian asked them hesitantly whether this goal was really possible to achieve, He Yishen was silent for a moment and answered the same question as Su Bai.
"Didn't Xiaobai say that we'll know in about a month whether it's feasible or not. Let's just sit back and wait and see."
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