Although Sun Xiangdong said that he would tell Zhao Heping about Su Bai, the next morning, Su Bai still washed up carefully and found Zhao Heping's office while the athletes were still taking breakfast break.
"Coach." Su Bai knocked on the office door, and then Zhao Heping in the office looked up and saw him, snorted, and waved him in.
"Sun Xiangdong told me last night that he has no problem with your work, and he even praised your skills." Zhao Heping is used to being a coach, and he couldn't help but say to Su Bai, a kid he has watched grow up, "Since he praised you, you should work hard in the future. You know how we treat you in the team."
After a pause, Zhao Heping continued, "Also, don't forget your profession just because you're a chef... Since you're staying in the team, there's always hope for other options in the future."
Zhao Heping's voice was not loud when he said the following sentence, but Su Bai heard it clearly.
Su Bai didn't expect that his coach had this intention in mind when he asked him to stay in the team... He knew that the coach had always cared for him and often brought him to his home for dinner when he was a child.
Along the way, after realizing the limits of his own performance, he felt that what was most disappointing was not that his talent was limited, but that his talent was limited and he could not meet his coach's expectations of him.
Until now, he has chosen to retire, but his coach has not given up on him and is still making the best plans for him to the greatest extent possible.
Su Bai opened his mouth and wanted to say something, but he was not good at speaking and felt he could not express his sincere gratitude to Zhao Heping.
After hesitating for a while, Su Bai looked at Zhao Heping seriously and said, "Master...can I come to your house in a few days? Then, I will cook a meal for you and your wife, and let you try my cooking skills."
After saying the word "Master", Zhao Heping, who was sitting at the desk, looked up at Su Bai deeply, then slowly smiled, pointed at Su Bai, and said, "Okay, your Master's wife and I will be waiting for you to come."
Su Bai's eyes were a little red. He blinked nonchalantly, then bowed to Zhao Heping, said goodbye and turned away.
He hasn't called her "Master" or "Master's Wife" for many years.
When he first came to the provincial team, he was one of the only two players under Zhao Heping. The other player left because he failed the trial assessment, leaving him alone.
At that time, he called Zhao Heping "Master" and his wife "Master's Wife".
For him who was still young at that time, his master and his mistress gave him a sense of home warmth.
Later, his master led more and more players, and everyone else called Zhao Heping coach. Although no one had any objection to his calling him "master", as an orphan, he had a natural sensitivity and resistance to this "different" uniqueness.
I have forgotten when he started to stop calling them Master and Master's Wife.
Times have changed. Thinking about it now, he was actually a little too sensitive when he was young, but he is different now after all.
Su Bai's mind was a little confused, but he finally put all his thoughts into a corner temporarily. Although he had retired, from now on, he could be better to his master and mistress to make up for his escape over the years.
Thinking like this all the way, when he returned to the dormitory, Qiu Wen had already completed his morning exercises, eaten breakfast, and took a shower again.
Seeing Su Bai coming back, Qiu Wen put on a face full of complaints: "Xiao Bai... we agreed that you would provide me with three meals a day!"
Su Bai looked at his half-dead look and thought for 3 seconds: "But, I haven't officially reported yet."
Qiu Wen knew this, of course. He continued to hug the back of the chair with a look of complaint and sighed, "I bet that after you left yesterday, Chef Sun must have been envious of your cooking! This morning, there was a window in the cafeteria that served bone soup noodles, exactly the same as what you made last night!"
At this point, Qiu Wen's eyes welled up with tears: "I was also greedy when I saw it, so I immediately ordered a bowl! But as soon as I put it in my mouth, I knew it didn't taste like the one you made, Xiaobai."
Qiu Wen was muttering to himself, wondering why the taste of noodles was so different when they were both the same type of noodles.
After Su Bai returned to the dormitory last night, he carefully looked at the effects of the so-called basic cooking skills level 1 and finally understood why this happened.
Basic Cooking Skill Level 1: The host's five senses will be greatly enhanced, thereby increasing the sensitivity to ingredients, condiments, heat and other cooking-related aspects. At the same time, Basic Cooking Skill Level 1 will produce a 10% color, aroma and taste bonus to the food cooked by the host.
This seemingly insignificant basic cooking skill level 1 actually seems to have surprisingly strong effects.
After improving the control over ingredients, condiments, heat, etc., the final product can also have improved color, aroma and taste. With the improvement of these two complementing each other, it is not surprising that tempting delicacies can be made.
Qiu Wen kept talking to Su Bai until he left the dormitory: "Xiao Bai, don't forget our agreement yesterday. I'll leave the next three meals to you!"
Su Bai looked at Qiu Wen and raised his index finger very calmly.
Qiu Wen: “?”
Su Bai: "I am one year older than you."
The implication is that he, Su Bai, is the older brother.
Qiu Wen was choked by the index finger and said sadly: "Xiaobai, you have changed." Then he left the dormitory with a melancholy face.
Looking at Qiu Wen's back, Su Bai smiled for the first time in a long time.
In just one day, he noticed the change in his mentality, especially after coming out of his master's office earlier, he suddenly felt a lot more relaxed.
Su Bai arrived at the kitchen after 1:30 p.m. Several chefs he knew were taking a break and chatting, including Sun Xiangdong.
When they saw Su Bai, they all greeted him with a smile.
"Hey, Xiaobai, welcome!"
Obviously, Sun Xiangdong had already told everyone in advance that he would be working in the kitchen.
One of the men, Wang Wu, who was in his thirties, greeted Su Bai and started to tease him with a smile, "Xiao Bai, I heard from Old Sun that you are a master at making bone soup noodles! Sun Xiangdong has been studying it for a long time today. We tasted it and said it was delicious, but he still said it was far worse than yours."
"That's right! I've eaten three bowls of bone soup noodles from Lao Sun today. When you have time later, please remember to make the bone soup noodles for us to taste what it tastes like!" Another chef in the kitchen next to Wang Wu also laughed and shouted.
They obviously had no resistance to Su Bai's arrival. They were all members of the provincial team, which was, in fact, a large group. Everyone knew the character of each member of the group. Most people also knew what kind of person Su Bai was, and they would not have any objection to him coming to the kitchen.
Sun Xiangdong naturally saw Su Bai as well. He waved his hand at Wang Wu and the others in annoyance and said, "I've told you guys before, don't bully Xiao Bai because he doesn't like to talk. You dare to say anything to him."
Wang Wu and his companions also laughed and said, "Hey, we didn't bully Xiao Bai. We are just telling him about your embarrassing story!"
After everyone laughed for a while, Sun Xiangdong quickly took Su Bai out of the kitchen and went towards the administrative office.
Along the way, Sun Xiangdong also explained to Su Bai: "The team's recruitment of people in the kitchen this time is actually to find a helper for me. You know, in addition to the big pot meals on the first and second floors of the cafeteria, we also have a group of key sprint players. The team has prepared nutritious meals for them separately."
"This year, the 2018 season is about to begin. Our provincial track and field team's performance was average last year, so this year, Lao Zhao and his team have put in a lot of effort to train the players in their respective events.
We will take good care of this group of players in the coming year, including in terms of nutritious meals. The team's requirement is to make good meal plans for nutritious meals and adjust each athlete's individual meals at any time according to the actual situation of the team members and coaches' training plans. ”
After hearing this, Su Bai finally understood why Sun Xiangdong needed to recruit new chefs. People like Wang Wu were responsible for the meals on the first and second floors of the cafeteria on a daily basis. The meals for these ordinary contestants also needed to be carefully prepared in accordance with regulations, which would require some manpower.
Speaking of key athletes, although they are only the track and field group of the provincial team, track and field itself is a major event, with more than 40 running, jumping and throwing events in total.
These more than 40 events are divided into men's and women's events. Not to mention that there are key athletes who need to be taken care of in each event, even if there is one male and one female in each event who need special meals, Sun Xiangdong cannot take care of it all by himself.
The two walked all the way to the administrative office and completed all the entry procedures for Su Bai. Sun Xiangdong also explained the current work in the kitchen to Su Bai.
Their work consists of only a few items. The first is to be careful in the selection of raw materials to prevent any unqualified ingredients from entering the kitchen and avoid any possible doping crisis in the athletes' diet. The second is to reasonably plan daily nutritional supplement menus suitable for athletes in different events based on the training plans formulated by the coaching team for the team members. The third is to make appropriate adjustments to the diet at any time based on the coaching team's adjustments to the athletes' training plans or the athletes' own physical conditions.
In addition, we just need to cook well for the athletes.
Su Bai has now entered the kitchen. Among so many responsibilities, the previous ones are temporarily taken over by Sun Xiangdong. What he needs to be responsible for is to prepare nutritious meals for each contestant according to the nutritious meal menu prepared by Sun Xiangdong.
This matter is simple to say, but Sun Xiangdong has a heavier burden of other work, so Su Bai needs to prepare more meals, and the meal proportions for each athlete are different. Overall, this job is not difficult, but it is indeed very tedious.
After Sun Xiangdong finished speaking, he exhaled and patted Su Bai on the shoulder: "At present, we need to prepare special meals for 76 contestants, but there are many side dishes in these meals that can be fried in a big pot together, so we don't really need to prepare separate meals for each person."
Having said that, Su Bai definitely needs to prepare a lot.
When Sun Xiangdong and Su Bai returned to the kitchen, it was almost 3 o'clock. The kitchen was already busy. Everyone, including the chefs and kitchen helpers, had begun preparing nutritious dinner for the athletes in the evening.
Su Bai was taken by Sun Xiangdong directly to the canteen kitchen on the third floor which was specially provided for key athletes, and began his first day of work in the kitchen.
As soon as the two of them arrived at the kitchen on the third floor, Sun Xiangdong handed the total menu of the nutritious meals to Su Bai, circled out a few dishes for Su Bai, and after confirming that these were dishes that Su Bai could cook, he handed over the preparation of these dishes to Su Bai and started to busy himself with other things.
What was handed to Su Bai was the preparation of three nutritious meal side dishes, namely home-style braised beef, stir-fried eggplant with sauce, and a tomato and egg soup.
What surprised Su Bai was that these dishes were all included in the reward nutrition recipes sent to him by the system the day before.
Open the system's nutritional menu and you can see the introduction to these dishes.
Home-cooked braised beef, whose main ingredient is beef, has a low fat content and is suitable for athletes who need to do a lot of exercise for a long time. It is not easy to produce fat deposition in the body. At the same time, beef is rich in B6, linoleic acid, etc., which can help athletes recover their physical fitness better.
Stir-fried eggplant with sauce, the main ingredient of which is eggplant, is rich in vitamin P, which can effectively maintain the elasticity and physiological function of blood vessel walls and promote wound healing.
Tomato and egg soup, whose main ingredients are rich in vitamin C and protein, can provide a certain supplement for the daily protein needs of athletes.
While flipping through the menus, just like how he learned in his daily tasks the day before, the cooking techniques for the dishes on the menus were also instilled into his mind in a universal way.
At the same time, stars indicating proficiency levels appeared on the sides of these menus.
Su Bai rubbed his head and recalled the several nutritious meal cooking techniques that had just been instilled into his mind. To be honest, they were not much different from the techniques he already mastered, but some details were added, and there seemed to be hidden mysteries in these details.
According to Su Bai's guess, looking at the stars representing proficiency, perhaps the preparation of these dishes will have different effects after he reaches a certain level of proficiency.
While guessing these possibilities in his mind, Su Bai ordered various ingredients in the kitchen. After making sure that he had selected enough ingredients, he began to prepare dinner seriously.
Large pieces of high-quality beef were washed, cut into pieces, and stir-fried together with green onions in a huge iron pan. While the beef was being stir-fried, Su Bai had already prepared various condiments on the side. Su Bai had carefully selected cooking wine, light soy sauce, dark soy sauce, etc. from dozens of condiments in the kitchen. He just shook his hand and poured just the right amount into the pan.
As these condiments were added into the pot, the beef, which had already changed color after being stir-fried, began to emit a sizzling aroma accompanied by hot steam that made one's saliva water.
A rich aroma rose up, and after the beef in the pot was stir-fried evenly with various condiments, Su Bai took the huge lid and covered the huge wok, allowing the beef to stew quietly in it.
That’s not all. While the beef was stewing, Su Bai turned around and took out the spices that were always available in the kitchen. According to the ratios in the system menu, he carefully prepared the ingredients needed for slow-cooking the beef later.
While preparing the braised beef, Su Bai also did not neglect the preparations for the other two dishes. The ingredients for the stir-fried eggplant had already been prepared, and the fragrant and refreshing tomato and egg soup was already emitting a hot aroma.
Sun Xiangdong, who was preparing some other dishes in the kitchen, would occasionally look back at Su Zhe when he had time, worried that he would be too busy and make mistakes while cooking the big pot of food on his first day in the kitchen.
But every time he turned around, he saw Su Bai, who was calm and composed. This made him even more satisfied with Su Bai's job in the kitchen.
If there was one thing that bothered Sun Xiangdong, it might be the aroma that kept coming from the area that Su Bai was in charge of, which made his stomach growl.
Around 5:10 in the afternoon, the athletes had finished their afternoon training and flocked to the cafeteria. The smell of food had already wafted from the cafeteria, which was no different from usual.
It was not until the athletes who were dining on the second floor stepped into the cafeteria that they vaguely smelled an enticing aroma. The aroma seemed to be like a hook, leading them to walk up the stairs to the third floor. Many people even walked halfway and then remembered painfully - damn, they did not have the permission to dine on the third floor!
Ahhhh!
What’s going on with the cafeteria on the third floor?
The fragrance today is really going to kill me!
Most of the athletes didn't know why such an intoxicating aroma appeared in the cafeteria on the third floor today. However, when Qiu Wen walked to the stairs on the second floor and smelled the aroma, Su Bai's name popped up in his mind instinctively.
"Oh! That's the smell. Xiaobai is cooking on the third floor today!"
Qiu Wen let out a roar and went straight to the third floor - he was on the 76-man roster in Sun Xiangdong's hand and had the permission to dine on the third floor.
Several other key members of the track and field team who were originally walking with Qiu Wen looked at Qiu Wen's actions and looked at each other in confusion.
"Xiao Bai is the chef? Are you talking about Su Bai?"
"This kid has been bragging to us all day today about how delicious the bone soup noodles Su Bai made for him last night were. Looking at his expression, it seems like it's real."
"You know what? We've never smelled such a tempting smell on the third floor before, right? Stop talking and hurry upstairs! My stomach is growling at the aroma!"
The contestants looked at each other and quickly walked to the third floor.
Behind several people, there was a young contestant who was walking at a leisurely pace, but kept a distance from the other contestants. He was scratching his hair in annoyance, but after reaching the stairs to the second floor, a mellow fragrance seemed to tear through the surrounding air and came straight to him. The rich and tempting smell seemed to rush to him impatiently, making him dazed for a moment, and then he could not help being bewitched by the aroma. He quickened his pace and walked to the cafeteria on the third floor.
By the time he reached the third floor, the tempting smell had become even clearer and more layered. Amidst the mellow aroma, there was also a refreshing sweet and sour taste, which neutralized the rich feeling in the mellow aroma, but made people even more salivating.
There must be a new chef in the cafeteria!
These words flashed through the young man's mind, and then he could no longer wait and rushed into the cafeteria with his teammates who also hurried upstairs.
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