Abnormal Gourmet Chronicle

Chapter 1238 593: Wang Gen Sheng's Guilt_2

"My dad brought me the fermented rice with steamed buns you made."

"You've improved again."

"The fermented rice with steamed buns, indeed. A while ago, using Tan Wei'an's words, I had another big realization," Qin Huai was not being modest at this moment, since Zheng Siyuan had already tasted it, any modesty would seem insincere.

"My fresh meat mooncake has improved too. Next time you come to Gusu, let me know, and I'll have my dad bring some to you," Zheng Siyuan said.

"Really? That's great. I'm now using the fresh meat mooncake crust for the fresh flower cake. I'll consult you on how to make the fresh meat mooncake next time I'm in Gusu; you're much more professional in that area than I am."

"Mm." Zheng Siyuan hung up the phone.

After the call ended, Qin Huai began to contemplate and simulate in his mind how to use the fresh meat mooncake method for making fresh flower cakes.

Is this method feasible?

Of course, it is feasible.

Because Qin Huai never intended to make fresh meat mooncakes or fresh flower cakes; he wanted to make Red Silk Cake. Who said Red Silk Cake couldn't be a combination of fresh meat mooncakes and fresh flower cakes? However, fresh meat mooncakes are slightly more challenging, especially in the pastry layers, which might require Qin Huai to challenge himself a bit.

Qin Huai felt that there wasn't much of a problem.

After numerous failed attempts during this period, Qin Huai had mastered the making of fresh flower cakes, turning Yunzhong Restaurant into an ocean of fresh flower cakes, where passersby would think the restaurant was actually a specialty shop for flower cakes.

Now Qin Huai just needed to turn the fresh flower cake specialty shop into a fresh meat mooncake specialty shop.

Yes, Qin Huai needed to make fresh meat mooncakes first.

That's how textbooks are; in order to integrate, one must grasp all the knowledge points from before the integration, complete all the related exercises. Without a solid foundation, recklessly tackling high-difficulty and supplementary questions will not end well.

After determining the new direction, Qin Huai started making fresh meat mooncakes.

So, did Qin Huai's fresh meat mooncakes taste good?

Of course, they were tasty. With Qin Huai's current foundational skills, whatever he makes tastes good, even if he rolls out a dough sheet and cooks it for customers to dip in sauce.

Then, how did Qin Huai's fresh meat mooncakes compare to Zheng Siyuan's?

Yunzhong Restaurant's loyal diners, especially the uncles and aunts, certainly wanted to say, against their better judgment, that Master Qin's craftsmanship was definitely better. But facts speak louder than rhetoric, and even Qin Huai's most loyal diners felt that Zheng Siyuan's fresh meat mooncakes were superior.

Fresh meat mooncake is Zheng Siyuan's signature pastry, his most skilled pastry, without a doubt. And for Qin Huai, fresh meat mooncakes were actually a pastry he wasn't very proficient in.

Sure enough, Master Qin's fresh meat mooncakes were delicious, but given the comparison, and the fact that Master Qin's fresh flower cakes were evidently tastier than fresh meat mooncakes…

Everyone could only buy wildly, eat crazily, while feeling somewhat melancholic, distressed, confused, and puzzled.

Hey, what was going on with Master Qin? Why did he abandon the perfect fresh flower cakes and start making fresh meat mooncakes instead? Weren't fresh flower cakes what Master Qin had painstakingly learned over several months and secluded himself for days to launch as his year-end new product?

Is the year-end new product only for a few days?

Or is the year-end new product actually the fresh meat mooncake, with fresh flower cakes just passing through?

No, Master Qin, please don't abandon fresh flower cakes; fresh meat mooncakes really aren't suitable for you!

Countless diners shouted in their hearts, but dared not speak, and could only silently eat the fresh meat mooncakes.

The ordinary diners could taste the huge difference, and of course, Wang Gen Sheng could taste it too.

But Wang Gen Sheng didn't dare say it either; he was afraid to speak now; he didn't dare utter a word, and even when critiquing, he was very tactful.

Wang Gen Sheng couldn't understand why Qin Huai would think that fresh flower cakes were Red Silk Cake, and after making fresh flower cakes for a week, began to think fresh meat mooncakes were Red Silk Cake.

But Wang Gen Sheng felt this wasn't Qin Huai's problem.

It must be his problem!

Blame his clumsy mouth for not being able to articulate, not knowing how Red Silk Cake was made, and yet wanting to eat Red Silk Cake, leading Master Qin astray.

Wang Gen Sheng particularly wanted to tell Qin Huai that this wasn't right, none of these were Red Silk Cake, but he couldn't articulate what Red Silk Cake was like.

Because… because…

After another week of making fresh meat mooncakes, the conflicted Wang Gen Sheng finally couldn't hold back.

In fact, everyone noticed during this week that Wang Gen Sheng had a problem, including Ouyang.

Almost every day after Qin Huai finished work, Ouyang would run to Qin Huai's house and gossip, asking if Qin Huai thought Wang Gen Sheng secretly took out a payday loan, causing such mental stress and guilty conscience.

Considering Wang Gen Sheng's personality, job, experience, assets, and age, Ouyang wondering if he secretly took out a payday loan was something Qin Huai could only admire for Ouyang's imagination, which was well-suited to writing novels.

Such creativity, even more imaginative than Tan Wei'an.

But no one asked Wang Gen Sheng why he felt guilty, because everyone knew clearly that given Uncle Wang's personality, it was obvious he couldn't hold it in for much longer.

Yet Wang Gen Sheng managed to hold it, enduring for an entire week.

When Qin Huai set down the freshly baked, delicious but not exceptionally delicious fresh meat mooncakes on the small table, Wang Gen Sheng finally couldn't hold back.

He bowed his head, full of remorse, like a child who had done something wrong.

"Master... Master Qin, actually... I... I have something I want to tell you." Speaking, Wang Gen Sheng glanced at Ouyang and Shi Dadan on the small table.