"5,000 yuan... there are actually 5,000 yuan!" Ye Tian's heart was beaming with joy. She used to earn 5,000 taels of silver a month, but it seemed that she was not as happy as earning 5,000 yuan now.
She continued to mutter in her heart: "Calm down, calm down, this little money is nothing. However, this seems to be the money earned by Xiao Chizi's family, but I also put in a corresponding amount of work. Well, I still have to treat him to a meal!"
Ye Tian decided that when she had a day off, she would invite Chen Chi to her place and she would cook a few special dishes. After all, he was the young master of the restaurant group and had seen and eaten a lot.
Today, a basket of hairy crabs arrived from the kitchen. Although it's past the peak crab season, the crabs were of excellent quality, all plump and roe-filled. A short while later, another basket of sea crabs arrived, also large and plump.
Ye Tian overheard the chefs in the kitchen discussing how someone was actually planning a crab feast at this hour. They were truly rich and self-indulgent. Furthermore, the head chef was coming tonight to oversee the meal and would even prepare several dishes himself.
Ye Tian had no idea who the important person was, and since she didn't know him anyway, she just went about her job. Lunch was still filled with the same odd jobs, but she didn't complain. She decided to observe and learn. After all, many dishes now existed that she hadn't back then, so she had to keep learning. Of course, there were also dishes she was particularly good at that had now been lost.
At dinner time, Deputy Chef Yu led most of the team to take charge of receiving guests who ordered meals, while Chef Xu, who had just arrived, brought a few apprentices to take charge of preparing a crab feast for this special table of guests.
Chef Xu is in his 40s, not tall, slightly fat, and a little bald. You can tell at first glance that he is a chef.
They used several stoves separately and were busy steaming the crabs and then starting to peel them.
Ye Tian guessed that they would make crab meat lion heads, crab meat tofu, crab meat dumplings and the like, and of course drunken crabs, because she saw Chef Xu's apprentice bringing in a jar, which might have been marinated in advance.
What else? Butter? Crab fried rice cakes? Crab stuffed with oranges? Ye Tian was curious, but she still had a lot of dishes to wash. Once the tables started turning, she would have to wash the dishes.
However, as she walked around the kitchen, she would still unconsciously take a look. She didn't dare to get too close, because the chef would definitely cherish his skills and only show them to his apprentices. Sometimes, he would also hide them from his apprentices.
Although she only took a few quick glances, she still found that the style of modern dishes was very different from what they had before. The dishes were small, beautiful, exquisite, and not filling at all.
However, Chef Xu's carving skills were quite average. Even if she hadn't had the conditions recently and only occasionally practiced with a radish, her carvings were still dozens of times better than Chef Xu's. The chrysanthemum he carved looked like a chicken's claw, and his apprentices were still praising it.
She also thought his exquisite bite-sized dishes were only good to look at, not to taste. The crab stuffed with oranges was transformed into a small dessert served in a crystal glass, the abalone in the abalone with butter sauce was poorly prepared and had no flavor at all, and there was also the dish where he simply removed the crab claws and used the whole piece of crab meat inside, sprinkled it with some sauce, which was too perfunctory.
She used to like to cut the crab claws in half, separate the crab meat into thin strips, and then process it with a secret seasoning to shape it into a whole piece of crab claw meat. She would then put the crab claws back in and cover them, making them look like complete crab claws. When the diners were ready to eat, she would open them herself so the aroma wouldn't leak out.
Because she had wandered around the kitchen so many times under the pretext of delivering food, she felt a little silly: Forget it, I'm not curious anymore, I'll just go and wash the dishes seriously.
As a result, one of the chef's apprentices grabbed her and said, "Why hasn't the waiter come yet? You must be new here. Go and take the plates to room 1!" The dish was just like that in Ye Tian's hands. "Hold it steady, don't shake it!"
Ye Tian didn't expect to be drafted into the army, but she still carried the large plate steadily, walked to private room No. 1, and handed it to a tall and very beautiful waitress at the door.
The moment the waiter opened the door and went in to deliver the dishes, Ye Tian happened to see the distinguished guest sitting in the main seat through the crack in the door, and her mind was suddenly stunned!
"Why is it him?!"
Ye Tian mechanically walked back to the kitchen and continued to wash the dishes with Sister Zhang. The image of that person kept appearing and disappearing in her mind.
"Why is he here too? Does he remember his past life?" The man Ye Tian saw was exactly the same as the Sixth Prince who helped her open a restaurant and also caused her to be imprisoned in the Heavenly Prison!
Ye Tian couldn't help but recall that she was just a little apprentice of her master. She was ostracized by her senior brothers because of her talent in cooking, and she was not valued because she was a girl.
The Sixth Prince accidentally tasted the food she cooked and was amazed. He later contacted her privately and expressed his willingness to open a restaurant for her, which later became Tianxia Diyi Lou.
She had originally thought the Sixth Prince simply loved food, but she hadn't expected the restaurant to be his intelligence gathering base. Those clever waiters, the smooth-talking shopkeeper, even the entertainers, were all his spies.
Only she was kept in the dark, carefully researching new dishes every day, meticulously crafting each dish, and focusing all her attention on the dishes.
She once thought that the Sixth Prince liked her, and she was even willing to be his concubine. In the end, the Sixth Prince was arrested for treason, and she was also imprisoned. Only then did she suddenly realize that she had been used all along.
The so-called gratitude for recognizing someone and the so-called deep love are nothing but a joke.
Fortunately, she had the opportunity to live again in this new world and work in her favorite kitchen. Let the past pass with time!
Regardless of whether the person today was him or not, and regardless of whether he had any memories, judging by the degree to which he was being adored by everyone, his identity was probably not ordinary. Ye Tian felt that she would not have any intersection with him in the future, so let it be!
She had no thoughts of revenge, and she felt very strange. Maybe she was not born with a sharp mind, and it was not easy for her to care about love, hate, and emotions. Maybe all her strongest emotions were put into the food!
Some say you can taste emotion in her dishes: warmth and simplicity, happiness and sweetness, or even a touch of joy. Who are these people? The Sixth Prince and his companion, Little Chizi!
But most people just know to say that the dishes she cooks are exquisite and delicious. Even if they use gorgeous poems and songs to praise them, they will only say that they are delicacies that are unique in the world.
Forget it, she shook her head, not wanting to recall these memories anymore. She should just be an 18-year-old college student, studying hard and working hard! She hoped to be able to rely on her own efforts in this life and open a restaurant that truly belonged to her, even if it didn't have to be too big.
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"Dinner is ready! Xiao Ye, why do you look a little dazed?" A waitress who had just gotten acquainted with Ye Tian called her.
"Oh, okay, thank you Sister Juan." Ye Tian quickly picked up the bowl and followed her to get the food, then sat next to her at the waiter's table.
The crabs were harvested intact, but some scraps remained, so everyone had a large pot of crab porridge for dinner. It contained hairy crab claws, sea crab legs, and even a few shrimps—a truly hodgepodge.
But the porridge tasted very delicious. Ye Tian ate a big bowl and was still not satisfied. Unfortunately, the porridge bucket was empty.
She thought this porridge was better than the chef's exquisite crab feast, even though she couldn't possibly eat it. Oh, and this porridge seemed to be made by Chef Yu, which made her feel a little more favorable towards the serious-looking Chef Yu.
At the crab feast, Ye Tian's favorite dish was the black truffle and butter rice. She was deeply curious about truffles, an ingredient she had never encountered before. She did some research on Baidu and learned that they were actually a type of fungus. Imported ones are very expensive, but they are also grown in Yunnan, China. She thought she'd buy some to study.
Ye Tian's secret observations revealed that Chef Xu and Sous Chef Yu didn't seem to be on good terms, and the other chefs also had their own teams. However, this had nothing to do with her, a small-time handyman called a kitchen helper.
It was said that today's all-crab feast was so well received by the guests that Chef Xu left with his head held high, his nose showing. His disciples also looked very proud. During the meal, I heard people at their table complaining about the crab porridge being bad and how delicious their master's crab porridge was.
The chefs at Chef Yu's table all looked as if they were accustomed to the show.
Ye Tian patted his chest: Fortunately, Sister Juan asked me to sit at the waiter's table, otherwise I would be accidentally dragged into the internal fighting and become cannon fodder, which would be quite scary.
In the past, those wolf-like and ferocious senior brothers of hers had cheated her many times. As a handyman, she should try her best to avoid taking sides and internal fighting. It would be best if she could work peacefully for a month, get the money, and then go back to her united and harmonious little canteen!
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