Chapter 37： temporary cook

Chapter 37 Temporary Cook

The fishing boats on the river were all docking, and a long stall was set up on the street. The two of them found a stall and ordered a wonton.

Unexpectedly, Jiang Ning was so surprised that the wontons were filled with fish meat. He asked a fellow vendor: "Boss, your wontons are actually made of fish meat. They are so delicious!"

The boss laughed loudly and said, "As long as your guest likes it! My family is on the boat, and the unsold fish will be made into wontons. My mother-in-law will make them, and I will pick them out and sell them."

Jiang Ning was amazed again and gave a thumbs up to the vendor, "Your wontons are so delicious, your business must be very good!"

"It's okay! People here who go fishing here go out early and come back late, and people come over to eat in the middle of the night. We can barely make ends meet to support our families." As the vendor spoke, he quickly got busy when business came.

The mother and son spent four pennies on a delicious meal of fish and meat wontons, and found a relatively clean inn to stay.

Jiang Ning found another place to sleep uneasy, and this place was by the river. The tide ebbs and flows, and the sound of the water made her head spin. She almost didn't sleep all night, and she got up before dawn.

I originally wanted to ask the shopkeeper for some hot water in the lobby, but I found the shopkeeper anxiously circling in the lobby. He looked up and saw Jiang Ning standing at the top of the stairs looking at him. The shopkeeper felt embarrassed and quickly put on a smiling face, "What do you need, sir?"

“I want some hot water.” Jiang Ning said and walked down.

The shopkeeper nodded repeatedly, "Hey! I'll get it for you from the kitchen right now."

As soon as the shopkeeper turned around, he bumped into the waiter who hurried in. He was about to curse when he saw it was the waiter and asked quickly: "How is it? What do you say to the other side?"

The waiter shook his head with a grimace, "They said they wouldn't lend it to me."

"This old yinpi! I knew he was not a good guy! What will we do now that we don't have the boss? The guests in the inn will be getting up soon, so let them drink the northwest wind!" The shopkeeper said in a panic sweat.

Jiang Ning originally planned to go back, but when he heard this, he couldn't help but ask: "But something happened to the chef?"

The shopkeeper sighed and smashed the pot, "That's right! Originally, one of the two chefs in the inn went to his hometown for a funeral and would not be back for another three days. The other said that he had vomiting and diarrhea after eating so much last night that he couldn't come today. You Say it’s not going to cost me my life!”

Jiang Ning raised his eyebrows and said, "You can temporarily find a woman to work on the stove. It's only for one day and you'll be able to cope with it."

"How is that possible! It took a lot of effort for my Linjiang Inn to have the reputation it has today. If a random woman can't cook well, wouldn't it ruin the brand I've worked so hard to build!" The shopkeeper blew his beard and glared in anger. .

Jiang Ning nodded, "That's true. I wonder what the shopkeeper plans to cook? How much will he pay?"

The shopkeeper was startled for a moment, then looked at Jiang Ning seriously, "Sir, do you want to give it a try?"

Jiang Ning nodded slightly, "I think my cooking skills are pretty good. I can make a few dishes for the shopkeeper to try."

“Where do the guests come from?” asked the shopkeeper.

“Dashan Town.”

I heard that the shopkeeper in Dashan Town was disappointed. Can the people there make good fish dishes?

But now there is no choice but to treat a dead horse as a living horse doctor. The shopkeeper immediately gritted his teeth and said: "If the dishes you cook satisfy me, how about I hire you for a day and give you fifty coins?"

Jiang Ning shook his head, "I can only take care of breakfast and lunch, and I have to check out after noon." "Alright! As long as you can help me with breakfast and lunch, I will give you the same fifty cents." The shopkeeper thought about it. The master who takes charge of the dishes should be able to come back tonight, and the crisis in the inn will be resolved.

Jiang Ning immediately got up and went to the kitchen. He took a look at today's preparations and found that they were all fish, including sea fish!

The shopkeeper asked worriedly: "Do you know what kind of fish these are? Can you make them?"

Jiang Ning came back to his senses, pointed at one of the pots of fish, and said, "Bass is suitable for steaming. What seasonings do you have here?"

The shopkeeper immediately opened the cabinets. After Jiang Ning looked at them one by one, he found that this inn actually had miso, which could be used as a substitute for soy sauce. Maybe it was mainly used to make fish, and there was some high-strength white wine in it, which was probably used to remove the fishy smell.

Seeing Jiang Ning's curiosity, the shopkeeper explained: "Our chef has a special skill of cooking fish in white wine. The cooked fish pot has both the deliciousness of the fish and the aroma of the wine. It is also the signature dish of our Linjiang Inn."

Jiang Ning nodded slightly, "Perch, sweet-scented osmanthus fish, and sea crucian carp are suitable for making fish cooked in white wine. There are some ready-made fish today. I can make this dish. In addition, there are steamed fish, fried fish cakes, garlic shrimp, and shrimp smooth eggs. "

"Enough, enough! If you can really cook all these dishes, I will give you more money!" The shopkeeper was so excited. He thought he was taking advantage of the situation, but he turned out to be an expert. Jiang Ning reported many names of dishes. I’ve never heard of it, so I’m looking forward to it even more.

Jiang Ning turned around and started to process the ingredients. With the knife in her hand, she could clean a fish in just three or two strokes.

An expert can tell whether there is something there as soon as he makes a move. Not to mention anything else, just by looking at her hand, the shopkeeper's heart has been half stabilized.

Although there are so many dish names, who eats these hard dishes early in the morning? Most people mainly eat porridge or wonton noodles.

So Jiang Ning directly prepared a pot of fish porridge, and used an old hen to boil a pot of soup to make shrimp and clam noodles.

The manager of the Mingjiang Inn across the street has been watching since he found out that Linjiang Inn is short of a chef, ready to laugh at their jokes. Who knows that he didn't see any trouble happening across the street from dawn until daybreak, and all the guests looked satisfied when they left.

What made him even more confused was that the business of Linjiang Inn seemed to be much better than that of their Mingjiang Inn today. After a while, three or four more guests came in across the street, but on the other hand, their place was deserted.

The shopkeeper felt something was wrong and quickly asked the waiter to go over and find out the news.

The waiter went for a while and then came back with a pale face, "Shopkeeper, what's wrong! The guy across from me found a chef who was very good at cooking. The dishes he cooked were not only good in color and flavor, but also the ones we don't have here." The food on the other side is so good now that the shopkeeper doesn’t even look at me seriously.”

If Shopkeeper Hua must say something wrong, he didn't expect that the inn's business would be so good. It was suddenly turned into a restaurant. There were only two of them, and they couldn't greet each other. How could they have free time to deal with the waiter of Mingjiang Inn.

When Shopkeeper Fang heard this, his face dropped, "Let's go! I'll go take a look and see what Hua Wankuan can do!"

Shopkeeper Fang went into Linjiang Inn full of anger and ordered all the dishes listed today.

Jiang Ning, who was in the kitchen, frowned subconsciously when he heard the name of the dish. "Are you looking for trouble?"

The waiter nodded, "That's right! Aunt Jiang, the shopkeeper on the other side, just do what you want and severely weaken their spirit!"

Jiang Ning frowned and said, "I can do it, but I don't want to be exposed in front of others. You need to remind Shopkeeper Hua about this."

(End of this chapter)