On the dining table.
Jiang Tiantian ripped open the last dish, which was two beggar chickens, one by one in front of everyone.
Suddenly, a burst of tea aroma mixed with the aroma of lotus leaves, meat... a complex and rich aroma hit my face.
“Ding ding ding ding~” Jiang Tiantian waved her hands, “The tea-flavored beggar’s chicken is on the table, we can start eating~”
Erzhu quickly grabbed a big chicken leg and stuffed it into his mouth without caring about how hot it was.
Chewing with a grin.
"Fuck!" Erzhu's eyes lit up and he raised his thumbs up instantly, "Sister-in-law, what kind of 'little food genius' are you?"
Jiang Tiantian grinned, "Is it delicious?"
Erzhu munched on the chicken leg and said incoherently, "It's delicious. The skin is golden and shiny, and the chicken meat is chewy and springy. After eating it, the aroma of tea remains in my mouth."
“It’s really a delicacy!”
Jiang Tiantian understood and gave him a look of a fellow traveler, "Well, you know how to eat."
Erzhu finished eating the chicken leg and tried other dishes. "This tea and lotus, this is the first time I've seen someone use them to cook. How did you think of these being edible?"
Jiang Tiantian smiled profoundly, "Do you know what the highest level of a foodie is?"
"What is it?" Erzhu was dumbfounded.
Cha Jiuzhang muttered quietly beside him, "Isn't it just 'eating'?"
Jiang Tiantian heard this, she put down her bowl and chopsticks, stretched out a finger and shook it, "Brother, what you said is wrong!"
Then, with the attitude of an old scholar, he shook his head and said loudly: "The highest level of a foodie is to eat what you see! In the eyes of a foodie, there is only one difference between all creatures: can they be eaten? Can they be eaten?"
"Plop~" The French fries in Erzhu's mouth suddenly fell into the bowl. He opened his mouth and turned to look at Jiang Tiantian, who was separated from him by one person, with a dull expression.
Everyone else at the table suddenly paused and looked at the girl with complicated expressions. It was really weird that she was so crazy about eating.
Mop was squatting in front of the doghouse, munching on his nutritious dinner, when he suddenly shuddered.
It looked up in confusion. Why did it suddenly sense a murderous aura?
Erzhu suddenly slammed the table and stood up, "High, really high!"
Dazhu immediately covered his eyes with his hands, feeling that something was wrong!
Erzhu turned around excitedly and grabbed Jiang Tiantian's hand through Cha Jiuzhang, "Sister-in-law, you are my soulmate! Why didn't I meet you earlier..."
Pah~
Cha Jiuzhang slapped Erzhu's hand hard with his chopsticks, "Let go!"
Just talk, what does holding hands mean?
What if he didn't exist...
Erzhu was completely unaware of the red mark that suddenly appeared on his opponent's back, and said excitedly, "Sister-in-law, I have decided. I want to take you as my master. In the future, we will carry forward this specialty of eating."
Jiang Tiantian turned her head and looked at Cha Jiuzhang with a puzzled look on her face, her eyes twitching. What's wrong with this kid?
What is this path?
She can't understand!
"Puchi~"
Zuo Mingyan couldn't stand it anymore, so she put down her bowl and chopsticks, turned around, leaned on Cha Chengye's shoulder, and laughed non-stop.
Cha Chengye also looked at a dilemma, and patted Zuo Mingyan's back gently, fearing that she would choke from laughing.
Cha Jizu swallowed the chicken in his mouth and said calmly, "Erzhu, let go of your hands. What kind of person are you holding on to your sister-in-law?"
"You want to pay homage to me? Well, after dinner, I'll give you a full cup of tea, and you can pay homage formally once more."
Erzhu suddenly felt enlightened and nodded desperately, "Third Uncle is right, this is a serious matter and we can't be careless. Sister-in-law, I will call my parents and San Ya to come and witness this sacred moment together."
After saying that, he let go of Jiang Tiantian's hand with a smile on his face, turned around and sat down, continuing to eat.
Jiang Tiantian raised her hand and looked around, looking confused.
What just happened?
Cha Jiuzhang sighed and patted her, "Eat first, and we'll talk after you're done."
The meal ended in an inexplicably cheerful and strange atmosphere.
After dinner.
Erzhu said to Jiang Tiantian: "Sister-in-law, wait for me for a while, I will be back soon."
Having said that, the man ran away.
Dazhu looked embarrassed and said to her uncomfortably, "Sister-in-law, don't mind. I'll go back and try to persuade him."
Having said that, the man ran away.
Jiang Tiantian is still in a daze...
When did she say she wanted to take in a disciple?
Cha Jizu sat in the yard, fanning himself with a large palm-leaf fan, and slowly explained to her,
"Erzhu has no other shortcomings, except that he has always loved eating since he was young, and he is a bit stubborn."
"Ever since he could crawl and walk, he would put everything he saw into his mouth. He would swallow anything that tasted good and spit out anything that didn't taste good. Because of this habit, he was beaten countless times since he was a child."
"It was only when he grew up that he realized this habit was bad. Others often laughed at him, so he learned to restrain himself a little. But he has always been very persistent in studying how to cook, and often made some strange things at home."
Zuo Mingyan smiled and continued, "We all say that Erzhu only thinks about three things every day: what to eat for breakfast? What to eat for lunch? What to eat for dinner?"
Cha Jiuzhang also said: "He was very curious about the bread kiln you were going to build."
"Yesterday in the car, you told the villagers about a lot of food that no one had ever heard of. When he came today, he was even more curious and asked what dishes you had cooked in the past few days. He was already very impressed with you."
"Who would have known that you would say something like that at the dinner table? Didn't it hit him right in the heart?"
ohmygod!
Jiang Tiantian covered her face speechlessly.
What is this?
When foodies meet other foodies, they finally find their organization?
Cha Jizu said to her with a smile, "Tiantian, these past few days, I have also noticed that although you are young, you are very knowledgeable about cooking. Erzhu has talent in this area, but he has too little experience."
"If you want, teach him. I think he will have no other future except eating."
Jiang Tiantian nodded, "Grandpa, if he likes, I have a lot of things in my mind that I can teach him, but does this mean he doesn't need to become a disciple?"
"Once a teacher, always a father. Cooking is a skill that can support one's livelihood and requires inheritance. It is only natural for him to call you Master."
"Well, all right then."
Jiang Tiantian nodded in agreement. Although her body was the same age as Erzhu, her mental age was more than enough for her to be Erzhu's master, and she could handle it.
Soon, Erzhu's family arrived.
The fifth cousin-in-law simply wanted to hang Erzhu up and beat him up.
"Third uncle, look at this unlucky kid, he always does what he wants. Tiantian is his cousin's wife, but he insists on becoming her apprentice. Isn't this a generational difference?"
Cha Jizu smiled and waved his hands, "It's okay, each of us can discuss our own things and not affect each other. If he wants to learn cooking, he should find a proper master."
The fifth aunt has also discovered in the past few days that Jiang Tiantian is a smart and capable girl, and it will definitely not be bad for the second child to learn something from her.
Besides, no parent can be more stubborn than their own child.
What's more, he has this resentful son!
She looked at Jiang Tiantian a little embarrassedly, "Tiantian, what do you think?"
Jiang Tiantian smiled generously, "Fifth cousin, how do you think about this?"
"Today, I will accept Erzhu as my master, but from now on, he can just call me sister-in-law. I will still teach him as a disciple."
The fifth cousin gave her a grateful smile, turned around and slapped Erzhu, "Why don't you thank your sister-in-law quickly?"
"Thank you, sister-in-law."
Erzhu held a bowl of tea sincerely and stood in front of Jiang Tiantian, "Master, please accept the greetings of your disciple Shen Liangqing!"
After saying that, Erzhu was about to kneel down with tea in hand.
Jiang Tiantian quickly raised her hand and stopped him from kneeling before his knees hit the ground, then she exerted force and pulled him up.
She brought the tea over and took a sip, "Okay, I'll drink the apprenticeship tea too."
"Erzhu, I have something to say in advance. Since you are sincere in wanting to learn, I will not lower my standards for you. No skill can be mastered in one go. Only a 'dumb chef' can learn real skills. You must practice the basics well."
"Also, cooking is a very profound subject. It is not only related to the food culture of different places, but you also have to learn nutrition, medicinal diet, food aesthetics and banquet design, catering management..."
"In the future, if you want to go further on this path, you must keep learning and go through all kinds of trials..."
"If a chef becomes the best, he will definitely become someone that others look up to!"
"Erzhu, do you have the confidence to do it?"
Erzhu: “Yes!”
"Louder!"
Erzhu looked up to the sky and shouted, "Yes!"
"Very good!" Jiang Tiantian smiled, and took out a few thick books from behind her with a gloating look, "Take these books home and read them first. If you don't understand something, come and ask me."
This was a very systematic set of "Top Chef Training Manual" that she had just searched for from the platform by Xiao Qi when she entered the room. It cost her 100,000 gold coins.
I also spent a lot of time to persuade Xiaoqi to help me make it look old.
Oh, she is so smart. Not only does it save a lot of teaching effort, but her cooking skills also have a source.
Anyway, no one had opened the bag of books that belonged to the original owner, so who would doubt it if she said she took it out from there?
"Sister-in-law, aren't these books a bit too many?" Erzhu was holding a few books, feeling like crying but without tears.
San Ya also started to make trouble, "Sister-in-law Tiantian, you don't know that my second brother hates reading the most."
Erzhu flipped through a few pages and was immediately attracted by the wonderful content with both pictures and texts.
He covered the pages of the book and said to San Ya with a serious face: "Nonsense, I, your second brother, love reading the most."
Then he turned to Jiang Tiantian with a smile on his face, "Sister-in-law, are all these books given to me?"
"Well, I've given it all to you. Take your time to read it. But I will conduct random checks from time to time, so you can't be lazy."
"If I catch you slacking off, I believe there will be consequences, and you won't want to experience them..."
"Sister-in-law, don't worry, I definitely won't do that, believe me." Erzhu hugged the book, smiling happily and foolishly.
That silly look with only teeth showing but no face is a bit unbearable to watch~
Jiang Tiantian thought that one should not look down on a pure foodie, because they are the simplest people who only think about eating every day and have no time to calculate about others.
…
Cha Jizu had been watching from the side and found that this girl, although young, was very tactful and experienced in her handling of things, and had her own set of methods in doing things.
It has the style of a great man!
He was a little curious about how the Jiang family raised his children since childhood.
Now all the money goes to the tea family.