After Qin Huai left his memories, the first person he saw was Luo Jun sitting on the sofa watching TV.
Oh, that familiar posture.
Luo Jun glanced at Qin Huai: "Finished watching? What dish?"
Qin Huai opened the game panel to check the illustrated guide.
Status: About to lose memory
Recipes: Dried Tangerine Peel Tea, Apple Dough Ball (Click for details)
He clicked on the Apple Dough Ball.
[Apple Dough Ball level B]
Creator: Jiang Weiming
Dish details: An innovative creation by Jiang Weiming, a famous retired chef from Shu in his younger years. To satisfy the picky taste of his benefactor, Jiang Weiming made a groundbreaking decision to mix bun filling into dough balls, creating a dish disguised as something else. Surprisingly, it tasted good. This dish has a probability of tasting the flavor of love when eaten. (The worse the coloring technique, the more uneven the color, the greater the probability)
Maximum times can be made in a day: (0/520)
He was really impressed by Luo Jun’s romantic dishes.
One is 1314, another is 520, is this a confession system in his game?
Does having a wife make him so reckless?
Who else wouldn’t have a wife in the future!
Qin Huai read the dish details aloud to Luo Jun with a blank face, and Luo Jun calmly listened, then transferred 100,000 yuan to Qin Huai.
"The last time, draw ten more sheets." Luo Jun said, hesitated for two seconds, and transferred another 50,000.
"Draw fifteen sheets. I bet you went in there while I was reading the newspapers outside." Clearly, Luo Jun knew exactly what kind of storyline would trigger the Apple Dough Ball.
Qin Huai had a newfound respect for Luo Jun.
An event that would cause any normal person to want to die from embarrassment, wishing to dig a hole and bury themselves while building a house on top, was observed in its entirety by himself. Yet, Luo Jun could calmly extract key information from it and place an order for artwork. Surely worthy of being a Bi Fang who had lived in the human world for 92 years.
Qin Huai went to place an order with Bingbingzi, first transferred an 8k deposit, then sent a voice message describing the scene while finding fruits in the kitchen for himself, making a fruit platter.
No wonder Zhang Shumei buys such good fruits, they’re really sweet. No wonder Chen Huihong loves to scrounge for food at Luo Jun’s house.
After a long time with no news from Bingbingzi after receiving money, at which point Qin Huai had already eaten half of his fruit platter, a message finally came in.
Bingbingzi: Boss, I’ve received all your requests. Due to some changes in character status, I might not be able to provide the draft until tomorrow morning.
Bingbingzi: By the way, whose novel is this from? Is it a commissioned work? The plot is pretty interesting, is it a sweet text?
Qin Huai: Don’t worry about it, just draw it.
Bingbingzi: Okay boss, got it boss, I understand boss, I’ll definitely deliver by tomorrow boss.
Luo Jun threw Qin Huai a look: "Negotiated?"
"Negotiated. They’ll provide a draft tomorrow." Qin Huai said with a smile, continuing to eat his fruit platter.
"Can you make the Apple Dough Ball?" Luo Jun continued to ask.
This question puzzled Qin Huai a bit.
For the making process of the Apple Dough Ball, Qin Huai had seen most of it in his memories. The only part he missed was the kneading process, which he could infer from the dough’s status.
He didn’t expect this dough ball to be level B.
Not that he doubted Jiang Weiming’s skills; the dish’s details mention Jiang Weiming was a famous retired chef from Shu. The skill level to be called a famous chef must be unquestionable, but he simply felt that Jiang Weiming might not be very skilled at pastry.
Not to mention, Zheng Siyuan’s pastry skills are definitely better than Jiang Weiming’s.
From Qin Huai’s understanding, Zheng Siyuan’s pastry skills should also be between level B and A. Making snacks like flaky pastry and fresh meat mooncake, which he’s very skilled at, might be A-level, but ordinary snacks should be B-level, with worse ones at C-level.
Zheng Siyuan’s dough ball should also be B-level.
However, this recipe’s dough ball is also B-level.
This means Jiang Weiming’s Apple Dough Ball compensated for the pastry shortcomings with other elements, forcibly raising its grade.
Math 150, English 30, average it out, that’s still 90 points, a passing grade.
And it’s clear what Jiang Weiming used to elevate the level of the Apple Dough Ball—the filling.
More accurately, it’s the fried filling.
Qin Huai could tell that Jiang Weiming’s filling frying skills were great, but he didn’t expect them to be this good.
And Qin Huai’s filling frying skills...
He can only say he has some, but not much. Though he’s been diligently practicing soup boiling recently, raising his fire control to intermediate level, he still can’t make Dream Come True Sesame Bun because Luo Jun still finds the fried meat filling unsatisfactory.
Given the difficulty of the Apple Dough Ball, it’s not practical for Qin Huai to elevate his filling’s low score through pastry skills.
The complexity of the dough ball speaks for itself. In the short term, it’s more practical to diligently practice filling frying.
Qin Huai didn’t expect that after all this circling around, the problem would still be fire control.
Oh, this damn fire control.
Seeing Qin Huai silent, Luo Jun paused the TV and turned to ask: "No way, you can’t even make buns?"
"Is this an ordinary bun?" Qin Huai said, "This is a B-level bun in the shape of a dough ball."
The disdain in Luo Jun’s eyes was almost overflowing: "How can you be so bad? You can’t even compare to Xiao Jiang. Back then, Xiao Jiang just had a small private kitchen at the street corner, and yet you opened such a big canteen."
Qin Huai: ... The ’Little Jiang’ you speak of is now a retired famous chef.
"Do you still have contact with Master Jiang Weiming?" Qin Huai asked.
He felt that he had already asked Zheng Siyuan to teach him Finger Skill; asking him to teach Fire Control seemed too much, especially since he already had Huang Shengli as his online course fire control teacher.
If all else fails, maybe use Luo Jun’s influence to reach out to Master Jiang Weiming. After all, this bun was his creation; perhaps there are some tips for frying the filling.
"Haven’t contacted each other in over 60 years." Luo Jun replied, "Not sure if he’s even alive."
"Huh?" Qin Huai was stunned.
"Tao and I only stayed in Shu for over two years, then Tao heard her parents might have gone to Shan City, so we came to Shan City, and I’ve never left since."
"When I left Shu, I gave Xiao Jiang a sum of money to buy his snack recipes. He seemed to have opened a small restaurant there, and later sent a letter through someone after getting married. I didn’t go, now counting...."
"If he’s still alive, he must be 90."
Qin Huai thought he’d better just stick to watching teaching videos.
Qin Huai had one last question to ask.
"That carrot-filled bun, er no, Apple Dough Ball, does it really not taste like carrot?"
Luo Jun looked at Qin Huai with eyes like he was looking at an idiot: "Carrots have such a strong flavor, how could it not be tasted."
"However." Luo Jun pressed the remote, resumed watching TV, and said casually, "That bun is quite delicious."
"Xiao Jiang’s skills are pretty decent."
Qin Huai: Tsk tsk tsk.