Seeing Tan Wei'an about to explode like announcing a dish, revealing a younger generation even stronger than Zang Liang, Qin Huai quickly stopped him: "How is his thickening skill?"

"Probably okay, I'm not really sure, definitely better than ours, he's from the meat kitchen." Tan Wei'an replied, and then realized what Qin Huai was trying to do, eyes widened incredulously, "You can't possibly want to..."

Qin Huai nodded.

"I was just thinking about whether we could invite Zang Liang over for a period of exchange." Qin Huai said quite frankly.

Tan Wei'an was so shocked that the food in his mouth almost fell out, quickly chewed a few bites and swallowed, not even able to clean the vegetable leaves off his teeth, and said in surprise: "But he's a meat chef!"

"A genuine meat chef, he learned Huaiyang cuisine!"

"What's he coming here to exchange?"

Originally, Tan Wei'an thought that Taste apprentices going out for exchange was already outrageous, but didn't expect something even more ludicrous.

A meat chef coming to a pastry kitchen for exchange, this is beyond defying natural order, it's plain ancestral defiance.

Even if meat and pastry chefs are supposed to be close, it's not this kind of closeness.

"For flavoring." Qin Huai said very naturally, "He told me back in City A that he thought the filling I made was very beautiful."

"Which means he's definitely interested in exchanging ideas on flavoring with me, and didn't I just tell Zheng Siyuan clearly? The Double Crab Bun is a red case filling but a white case snack, in a certain sense it's just like guo'er, you're the most familiar with guo'er, guo'er is a snack made by me and Master Huang together."

"If I can make snacks with Master Huang, why can't the three of us plus Zang Liang study snacks together?"

Qin Huai's tone was so matter-of-fact and his manner so sincere that Tan Wei'an was at a loss for words.

What to do, Tan Wei'an now actually finds Qin Huai's argument quite reasonable.

But... how can red case and white case be together...

Even if there are common grounds between the two, they can't be mixed...

Your master originally taught... oh, you don't have a master.

Zheng Siyuan, say something!

At this point, stop staring at that salty-meat-pot, it doesn't taste good. I know Zang Liang's cooking definitely tastes better than Yunzhong Restaurant's two meat chefs, but you can't condone this just for something tasty!

Where's your steadfastness as a pastry chef?

Where's your pride from formal training?

Are you not going to say anything now?

Zheng Siyuan, hurry up and say something!

Seeing the atmosphere build up, Zheng Siyuan slowly shifted his gaze from the salty-meat-pot, looked at Tan Wei'an, and very calmly nodded: "I think Qin Huai's argument makes sense."

"Whether Zang Liang is willing to come for an exchange is his business, as long as he's willing, everything's open for discussion."

Tan Wei'an: ?

Zheng Siyuan didn't forget to comfort Tan Wei'an: "Relax, approach the issue with an open mind."

Tan Wei'an: ...

"Considering both you and Zang Liang are childhood friends and classmates, with a good relationship, why don't you ask tonight if he'd like to come over? If he does agree, we can help arrange accommodations here. Sister Hong has a few apartments in her area, we can clean them up, ready for immediate move-in."

"I have to ask?" Tan Wei'an was already in despair, feeling hopeless about this world.

"Don't want to ask?" Qin Huai pondered, "No worries, I have Zang Liang's WeChat, if you don't want to ask, I'll do it."

Tan Wei'an raised his hand, signaling to stop.

He stood up, gaze deep, voice heavy: "I'll ask."

Tan Wei'an believed if he didn't rant about Qin Huai and Zheng Siyuan's crazy antics to Zang Liang tonight, he wouldn't get any sleep.

"Alright, it's happily decided then." Qin Huai said cheerfully, "Tan Wei'an, what are you standing up for? You finished eating?"

"Not yet." Tan Wei'an sat back down quietly to eat while mentally organizing words for a hearty rant with Zang Liang tonight.

But by evening, Tan Wei'an was struck again.

As a quintessential meat chef, Zang Liang's finishing work hours were quite late.

He didn't get off work until 10:30 PM.

This late finishing was because Zang Liang needed to tidy the culinary station for Zang Mu, being Zang Mu's nephew and sole apprentice, even as the Knife Skills Prodigy, Zang Liang had to do assistant's work.

The chef industry is just like this, each apprentice goes through it. Those with more senior and junior colleagues would even fight for tasks because there's only so much to do, and once things are done by others, there's nothing left for oneself, which gets noticed by the master.

Fall once, fall everywhere, and that's how the workaholic wizard comes to be.

Waiting for Zang Liang to get off work almost lulled Tan Wei'an to sleep, supported only by his desire to rant.

But as soon as Tan Wei'an explained the matter, before starting his rant, Zang Liang agreed merrily.

"What?! You agreed!" Tan Wei'an's scream almost tore the sky apart, shooting up from the chair, face filled with 'how could you betray the revolution'.

"Otherwise, do you want me to agree or not? Was Qin Huai not honestly inviting me? Does he have other options?" Zang Liang's face was full of questions.

Tan Wei'an had the same puzzled expression: "He doesn't have other choices. I mean, why would you agree? Do you know the current situation at Yunzhong Restaurant?"

"Do you know how ordinary Yunzhong Restaurant's two meat chefs are? Just average restaurant chef level. The salty veg-meatpot is terribly salty, scrambled eggs with tomatoes are mediocre, fried pork with pepper is too spicy, I don't like it, stir-fried lotus root slices aren't crispy enough, even worse is the potato slices, oily."

"Though affordable, it's truly cheap, the price of two meat and one vegetable fast food can barely get a Four Happiness Glutinous Rice."

"Not to mention, Yunzhong Restaurant now is all pastry chefs, what would you exchange here for?"

"Didn't you mention the Double Crab Bun needs thickening? I'm here for thickening." Zang Liang said, "Besides, Master Qin's flavoring skill is indeed high, I assisted him for a day in City A, I've seen his flavoring ability firsthand."

"You mentioned a few days ago about leading a team to Yunzhong Restaurant, I was envious, I'm telling you I've always wanted to go. Last time assisting Qin Huai in City A felt incredible."

"Although Qin Huai doesn't articulate well, he does it clearly, you don't need to listen to what he says, just watch and you can learn a lot."

"Learn what?" Tan Wei'an was confused.

"Ideas, the filling relies on ideas." Zang Liang enthusiastically said, "Ingredients vary, facing different state ingredients needs different handling."

"I watched him make Four Happiness Glutinous Rice for two days, his fillings were always adjusted based on ingredient status. My master said, Qin Huai definitely has a gifted tongue, his tongue helps quickly find the feeling. But that's only finding the feeling, ideas are innate talent, some people cultivate ideas, some are born with it, Qin Huai is the latter."

Zang Liang grew more excited as he spoke: "You know, I have excellent knife skills, but Huaiyang cuisine emphasized flavor even more than knife skills, my flavoring hasn't matched my knife skills."

"My master says I lack flavor ideas, I couldn't grasp the feeling, always baffled by what he meant by feeling, how to find by feeling, until I watched Qin Huai make fillings in City A, then I suddenly understood that feeling was about? Qin Huai has this feeling, he consistently uses that feeling to find ideas, do you understand the feeling I'm saying?"

Tan Wei'an: Holy crap, familiar words.

"Nope." Tan Wei'an replied honestly, "Flavoring needs ideas."

Zang Liang: "...You need more practice."

Tan Wei'an: ...

"So, you're definitely willing to come, right?"

"Of course!" Zang Liang's eyes lit up, "I'll call my master right now, he'll surely agree."

"Qin Huai said he could handle accommodation, right? That'll make it easier, if my master agrees I'll book a ticket for tomorrow, I'll be there by tomorrow evening!"

Tan Wei'an hung up the phone in a daze.

For some reason, he suddenly felt the person who understands Qin Huai the most in the world has emerged.

Whoa, turns out Qin Huai always saying do you understand the feeling, have you found the feeling, isn't him speaking incoherently, it's truly feels.

What exactly is the feeling? How do you both understand?

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