Chapter 390: Posture in Front of the System (Continuation)
Translator: Xiong_Guoqi Editor: DesTheSloth
"Um. Will you release the reward now?" Yuan Zhou raised his wrist and looked at his watch.
It was 16:40. The opening hours for dinner were about to arrive. With regards to the upcoming time, Yuan Zhou gave a rare frown.
The system displayed, "Yes, right now."
"Ok. Thank you." Yuan Zhou nodded his head and seemed to let out a sigh of relief.
"Peng", Yuan Zhou set down the pan and spatula used for practice.
Right now, the pan did not have the appearance it had as of one month before.
It was so bright that it seemed to have been covered with a layer of grease, emitting a dark shine along with the iron sand inside the pan. It looked like the black small diamonds and seemed quite beautiful.
As for the pan and spatula, the part for scooping dishes had been polished until it was very thin and sharp by the abrasion of the iron sand and the pan. It was glistening with the silver light like a blade.
It was the achievement of Yuan Zhou after his practice for one month.
[Side mission] Complete 60 hours of pan-tossing exercises within 4 months. (Completed)
(Mission tips: As a to-be Master Chef, your craftsmanship of pan-tossing is still to be improved. Please work hard to complete the mission. The time of exercises could be arranged on your own, but you need to finish it within the scheduled time.)
[Mission reward] Cooking Method of Vegetable Stir-fried With Button Mushroom. (Available to be received)
(Reward tips: The concealed reward is that you don't need to worry about the overuse injury of your wrists. This system will solve the problem for him automatically. No need for thanks.)
"Receive." Looking at the reward, Yuan Zhou was a little excited.
Then the reward became a light spot and was straightforwardly absorbed by Yuan Zhou.
Yuan Zhou closed his eyes and remained still for quite a while.
It was quiet in the restaurant. After quite a while, the system appeared suddenly.
The system displayed, "Host, can you answer a question?"
"Wow, you surprisingly want to ask me a question?" Yuan Zhou opened his eyes and asked curiously.
However, the system just neglected his query and asked directly.
The system displayed, "Host, why do you want to complete the mission so anxiously?"
Yuan Zhou didn't answer him immediately, but instead, he kept silent for a while.
After quite a while, Yuan Zhou nevertheless said when the system thought he wouldn't answer him.
"It is rare for you to be my backup and hence I have no worries behind. So of course, I will try to work hard to complete it, let alone the benefits belong to me." Yuan Zhou said lightly and then continued.
"It's such a rare opportunity. Perhaps, I won't have such a good opportunity next time." Yuan Zhou didn't conceal his purpose at all.
The system displayed, "Host, you are truly a good chef."
"Thank you for your compliments." Yuan Zhou received this remarks immodestly this time.
This time, the system was really shocked by the Yuan Zhou's speed of completing the mission.
Furthermore, his remarks for Yuan Zhou completing the mission were, "Perfect completion in advance."
On the first day, Yuan Zhou only practiced for half an hour. With the duration of half an hour per day, he needed four months to complete the mission. Instead of making a suggestion, the system only reminded Yuan Zhou.
On the second day, Yuan Zhou practiced for one hour. That time, Yuan Zhou felt slightly tired and aching in the arms. The system also told him dutifully that the ache wouldn't disappear and he could only help to remove the injuries from overdoing it.
On the third day, Yuan Zhou practiced one and half hours. He felt aching in his waist, shoulders and arms more, but he said nothing but just practiced silently like that.
Right after that, Yuan Zhou increased the practicing time to two hours per day. At that time, the system clearly reminded Yuan Zhou.
The system displayed, "Host, excessive practice does no good for your health."
"You help in removing the injuries for me thus it won't affect my health." Yuan Zhou said earnestly.
The system displayed, "Host, your mental exhaustion isn't in the scope of removal made by the system."
"I know. It's just like the aches of the muscles." Yuan Zhou nodded his head, indicating that he understood that.
Then, the system no longer said anything. He just watched Yuan Zhou excessively spend two hours on the practice every day.
Yuan Zhou ran the restaurant for 6 hours every day. If there wasn't any extra work, it was fairly reasonable and had barely reached the intention of the normal work fatigue. After all, no chef was easy.
If he spent another half an hour on pan-tossing practice every day, he would feel slightly tired and thus the overuse injury would get severe; if one hour, he would be very tired and hence the overuse injury would get more severe.
Only because of that did the system help to remove the injury from overdoing it.
However, another two hours of pan-tossing practice every day would surely be a burden to one's wrists.
The aches of muscles could only vanish after 5-7 days. However, people wouldn't be accustomed to continuous practice the very next day, but instead, would make people feel sorer unless it was done moderately. Apparently, Yuan Zhou wasn't doing that moderately.
In order to complete the mission within one month, Yuan Zhou even tried to practice for two and half hours and three hours per day. Of course, that attracted the system's remark.
The system displayed, "There are still 101 days before you finish the mission."
"Thanks for reminding me." Yuan Zhou didn't immediately react and had thought the system was calculating the remaining time.
Only after quite a while did Yuan Zhou react that the system was actually reminding him the time was still early and don't work so desperately.
However, Yuan Zhou just picked up the pan and spatula again and started to practice. The system didn't appear again, either.
"Hua La", Yuan Zhou pulled the door open and then found the customers lining up outside as expected. The foremost one was still Zhou Jia.
Zhou Jia took a look at the spirited manner of Yuan Zhou and let out a sigh of relief. Then she said smilingly, "Boss, you look so handsome today."
Having worked here for so long, Zhou Jia knew what Yuan Zhou liked listening to. As a lively and vivacious girl, she sometimes really could say something and make Yuan Zhou happy.
"Thank you." Yuan Zhou thanked her seriously with a manner of "You really have sharp eyes."
However, Yuan Zhou was really happy as the system had just displayed a line of words just now.
The system displayed, "Host, you have surpassed the system's calculations."
"Of course. This prince charming always gives others a surprise." Yuan Zhou answered silently in his heart.
This time, the system didn't retort back at him. After all, it had experienced many hosts before.
Some were so lazy that they didn't work hard anymore after they got the system; some were paranoid geniuses; but only Yuan Zhou was an ordinary person who had persistence and desire to advance.
In most cases, ordinary people were really inferior to the talented people. Since there was this opportunity, however, Yuan Zhou would naturally try to seize it, let alone the reward had a special significance to him.
Back to reality. Hearing Yuan Zhou's answer, Zhou Jia was quite accustomed to that. What she felt happy for was that Yuan Zhou finally didn't look so tired but instead, seem fairly spirited.
"Everybody, the opening hours commence now. The first ten customers please come in." Zhou Jia greeted the crowd lining up behind with a smile.
"Whoops. Boss Yuan, you look so spirited today." Once the customers entered the restaurant, they said to Yuan Zhou while looking at him.
"People are in high spirits when involved in happy events. Boss Yuan, please tell us about your good story. Of course, the old rules are..." While speaking of that, the customer looked back at behind.
Other customers behind directly shouted together, "Except taking days off."
"I'm not taking days off. A matter worth being happy will happen tonight." Yuan Zhou gave a rare answer.
"Is it a blind date?" A customer who was being bothered for a blind date couldn't help uttering that.
"Have you thought of some new dishes?" Wu Hai always cared about eating more than anything else.
"Have you finally made up your mind to go on a business tour with me?" Ling Hong broke in timely.
"In my opinion, he's going to employ an assistant." It was the customer mentioned by Chen Wei.
"None of the above. Please order your dishes." Yuan Zhou shook his head and then said seriously.
"Of all important things, eating mattered the most. Jia Jia, time to order dishes." Wu Hai looked very happy today. He said while stroking his small mustaches.
"Ok. Coming." Zhou Jia nodded her head and answered.
After Wu Hai ordered his dishes, other customers followed.
Yuan Zhou was standing in the kitchen with an earnest expression and his arms crossed against his chest while Zhou Jia was taking orders busily outside. Everything appeared harmonious and nice...
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Chapter 391: Vegetables Stir-fried With Mushrooms
Translator: Xiong_Guoqi Editor: DesTheSloth
"Xiao Li, I'm waiting for you at Yuan Zhou's restaurant along Taoxi Road." A young man dressed in a thin sweater said gently on the phone by the door.
"Got it. We meet there every time, but never eat there." A delicate grumble of a girl passed from the other end of the phone.
"Just wait until the end of the year. After I get my annual bonus, I will take you there to eat the Egg Fried Rice." The young man held his phone and said decisively.
"No need. I don't really feel like eating it anyway, just saying casually. Wait for me. I'll be there right away." The girl refused flatly and then said happily.
"No hurry. Just take your time. I'm waiting for you." The young man nodded his head and instructed her carefully.
Such matters often happened at the door of Yuan Zhou's restaurant and the customers that lined up there didn't feel strange at all at sight of that. After all, Yuan Zhou's restaurant was the most famous place around there.
Three hours were too short. The man in a suit had barely swallowed up his last mouthful of mineral water that came with the set.
"Everybody, today's opening hours have ended. Please come earlier tomorrow." Yuan Zhou stood in the kitchen and said earnestly.
"Zhou Jia, you can go back now. No need to clear these things away." Yuan Zhou turned his head and said to Zhou Jia who was prepared to tidy up at the side.
"Huh?" Zhou Jia looked at him with puzzlement.
"Go back now." Yuan Zhou waved his hand and moved the bowls and plates onto the transmission belt by himself.
"Boss, let me do it." Seeing Yuan Zhou doing the work by himself, Shen Min that had just arrived went up said that immediately.
"No need. You can go to the backyard to prepare now." Yuan Zhou gestured at the door of the sergestes wall.
"But..." Shen Min also became puzzled.
"Just go." Yuan Zhou stressed again in the end.
"What's wrong with our boss?" Shen Min asked Zhou Jia beside her with a low voice.
"I don't know. I was not allowed to move them just now." Zhou Jia was also very puzzled.
"Who knows? As long as he isn't angry." Wu Hai chose a seat and sat down randomly.
Generally speaking, when it was the time for the afternoon shift, Shen Min would always come earlier and help Zhou Jia to tidy things up. Only after that did she start to prepare for the opening of the pub. However, Yuan Zhou didn't let them tidy things up today, which was very rare.
Other customers that stayed behind also felt it to be strange.
After dinner, some customers wouldn't leave immediately, but would instead stay behind for a rest. And some stayed behind in preparation for drinking liquor. An example would be the novelist and Wu Hai that often came here for meals recently.
As well as the man in a suit that purely sat there and stared blankly.
Zhou Jia turned around and left when she saw Yuan Zhou almost finishing up the work. Shen Min, nevertheless, went into the pub and wiped all the tables first before she came back and stood quietly by the door of the sergestes wall.
"Hua La Hua La", Yuan Zhou turned on the tap and started to wash his hands very earnestly.
"Boss Yuan, are you still going to cook?" Su Mu asked that when he saw the strange demeanor of Yuan Zhou.
"Yes. Everyone, you all can go to the pub to wait." Yuan Zhou said lightly.
"Ok. But I prefer to watch you cook the dish here." Su Mu said smilingly.
"As you please." Yuan Zhou nodded his head indifferently.
Having washed his hands, Yuan Zhou took out a new handkerchief to wipe his hands dry and then put on a thin glove earnestly.
"It feels like a new dish as I have never seen Yuan Zhou cook it. Do we have any opportunity to eat it?" Wu Hai looked at Yuan Zhou earnestly at the side.
"But it's the very first time that I see Boss Yuan cooking at this time of the day." It was on this point that Su Mu felt strange.
"He might be busy recently and has time now." Wu Hai only cared about what Yuan Zhou would cook.
"It's also possible." Su Mu nodded his head.
The man in a suit only watched them at the side.
"Hoo." Yuan Zhou let out a solid breath and then pulled open the cabinet, where there were bright shiny and green vegetables.
Of course, the green vegetables were still planted in the soil. They looked luxuriantly green and incomparably fresh. One could even faintly seen some drops of dew.
"Is that a green vegetable?" As a meat-eater, Wu Hai was a little disappointed.
"It really looks fresh and tender." The viewpoint of Su Mu was nevertheless different.
"Of course. The supply channel of Boss Yuan is quite mysterious." Wu Hai shrugged and said that.
"But is he wearing gloves because he is afraid of dirt?" Seeing Yuan Zhou draw out the vegetables in a very weird way, Su Mu asked with puzzlement.
"This guy definitely doesn't want to touch the vegetable with his hands in order to make it maintain the best taste." Wu Hai had already witnessed what Yuan Zhou's obsession was like.
Yuan Zhou took about a plate's amount of vegetables and then stopped his movements. Afterward, he washed his hands quickly, changed another pair of gloves and opened another cabinet. Inside it was a length of wood with mushrooms growing on it.
"What the f*ck. The mushrooms are all so fresh that they are still on wood." Even a benign person such as Su Mu couldn't help swearing.
"People that have seen little regard many things as strange." Wu Hai didn't care about that at all.
What a joke! Who was Yuan Zhou? He was a person that could get the meat of an extinct cattle. Therefore, this little thing did not matter to him.
However, how would other chefs survive if Yuan Zhou cooked so perfectly? He had caused all the customers' sense of taste to become excessively sharp.
"It's said that the mushrooms have a nickname of 'meat among the vegetables'. It must be one of the home-made dishes, the Vegetable Stir-fried With Mushrooms." Su Mu revealed an expression of "I have already known it."
"We know that even if you don't say it." Wu Hai stroked his small mustaches and just waited for Yuan Zhou to get the dishes ready so that he could have a small portion.
"I can say anything I want." Su Mu humphed.
Nevertheless, Yuan Zhou wasn't affected by that at all. He took the bamboo knife and started to cut the mushrooms off.
The mushrooms on the wood all looked more or less the same. This 'same' meant only the size, not the shape.
Having cut six mushrooms off, Yuan Zhou stopped and then put the piece of wood back into the cabinet.
"Hua Hua Hua", the vegetables were washed very clean beneath the flowing water. After washing them, Yuan Zhou specifically placed the vegetables into water for a rinse and poured a thin layer of salt inside.
The washing method of mushrooms was a little more complicated.
Yuan Zhou put all the mushrooms into a big porcelain bowl and filled it up with water. Then, he stirred the water repeatedly with the chopsticks like how people stirred eggs. However, he couldn't damage the mushrooms at the same time. After that, the sand in the wrinkles of mushrooms began to sink to the bottom of the bowl slowly.
The brown sand sank to the snowy bottom of the bowl. Yuan Zhou picked the mushrooms out with the chopsticks and changed another bowl of clear water. With the same method, he changed the water four times and stirred the mushrooms for about a thousand times.
Only then did he bring out the mushrooms, ready to be used.
The green vegetables were naturally washed clean. He didn't use any ironware during the process, but just broke the leaves off with his hands.
"Duo Duo Duo", it was the sound of the bamboo knife striking the chopping board. Along the board, the mushrooms were cut into uniform slices by Yuan Zhou.
After all the ingredients were prepared, Yuan Zhou started to create a fire and cook.
"I feel that it will look better to use the entire mushroom." Su Mu turned his head and looked at Wu Hai, saying that.
"Whole mushrooms are indeed used more often in restaurants for better plate presentation and decoration." As a person who ate in most restaurants, Wu Hai said positively.
"That way, the appearance will indeed be worse." The man in a suit chimed in and said that.
"But Boss Yuan definitely has his own intentions for doing that." The unreasonable phenomena of other people naturally became reasonable at Yuan Zhou's end.
"Zi La Zi La", there passed a pretty sound of the hot oil touching the green vegetables and mushrooms.
It had originally been a quick-frying dish. Not long after, Yuan Zhou started to scoop it into the plate and put it aside.
"Deng Deng Deng", Yuan Zhou dragged out a folding table from one side of the stairway and laid it down quickly.
The table looked a little old but it was very clean. Having been soaked in grease for so long, it emitted the characteristic radiance of wood. The dish Vegetable Stir-fried With Mushrooms was placed by Yuan Zhou at the very middle of the table.
"Pub time has almost arrived. Shen Min, get ready." Yuan Zhou pulled off the face mask and said to Shen Min beside him.
"Ok, boss." Shen Min nodded her head.