Guan Qidong took a short rest, and it was almost noon. Guan Qidong refused Canghai's invitation to him to have dinner at home, so he decided to eat with the students.

When Guan Qidong walked out of the kiln door and came to the kitchen, he found that the chef who cooked this time had changed. It was not Li Liren and his wife before, but a few men he had never met before, and the clothes were all cook clothes, and they were very clean and tidy on them.

"A few, have you never seen you before?"

Guan Qidong took out a cigarette from his pocket and dispersed it to the masters.

Several masters took the cigarette and did not suck it, but clamped it next to their ears.

The oldest person who looks about 40 years old said, "We just came here yesterday. If you are old, you will see us often."

"Are you the chief chef?" Guan Qidong pulled a small stool and sat down, asking with a smile while helping with the vegetables.

The old man said, "What a chef, you have three people under your jurisdiction! My father and Mr. Li were brothers before, but now the business of the restaurant in the county is not easy to do, so I am resting at home. Just now, Mr. Li said that there is work in the village and wants someone to do, so he remembered me..."

"Then are your surname?" Guan Qidong asked.

"The surname of Duangui is Li, and the same surname as Li Erye, but he is not related. These kids are my nephews and the youngest nephew. They just graduated from high school last year and did not get into college. They just learned to cook with me," said chef elder Li.

Lao Li knew that everyone who came to Jingshi University this time was from the family. For this area, getting into college was equivalent to Wenquxing. If you have knowledge, you are a respectable person. So Lao Li was quite polite to Guan Qidong, answering whatever you ask.

It was the village’s decision to hire a chef outside. It was a bit unprofitable to put Li Lirengu in the kitchen. How much does it cost to maintain a local chef team in a year?

Li Liren and his wife were liberated. How much income can they bring to the village? Even if Hu Shijie is not good at arithmetic, he can do it. Besides, Li Liren doesn’t want to just take care of the whole day, and they also want to get the top prize in the village.

The chef invited was Li Liren's son who used to learn from the chef's junior brother. He had a good craftsmanship, and now there is nothing to do. The economy in the northwest is not good at all. Industry and commerce are poor. The most popular on the street are hotels. There are so many hotels and few customers, so the restaurants close almost every day, and new hotels open every day, which has become a cycle.

Lao Li originally opened a restaurant outside, but the business was really not very good. Apart from rent, water, electricity and labor wages, there was not much money left every year, so he closed the hotel and was about to wait for the slack season to go to the south to find opportunities. Li Liren happened to find someone here, and the first thing he thought of was him. He hit it off, so Lao Li brought a few nephews and nephews over.

"It's good to be a chef. My student lives in this village. He likes to cook and cook very well," said Guan Qidong.

Lao Li then asked, "You are talking about Boss Cang, are you?"

"Um!"

"That's a capable person! Now many villages envy Sijiaping Village for such a person. I tell you that every household has worked a lot when they force their children to go to school. Many people didn't mind in the past, thinking that their children would go out to work if they didn't study. Now because of Boss Cang's deeds, they all hope that their children can go to college to learn more culture..." Lao Li was very good at chatting and began to praise Canghai.

Guan Qidong nodded and said, "That's for sure. In the past few decades, no matter if you didn't know a few big words, or just illiterate, as long as you are brave and dared to do it, you may succeed. For example, how many of the first batch of wealthy people in China have high education? But now it's not possible. Look at the current business leaders, how many of them are not highly educated. What does this mean? In the past, it was the stage of wealth accumulation, and they competed for courage, but now it's not possible. Almost every industry has developed, and it's difficult for you to stand out in the industry without knowledge."

"Isn't it like you said!"

Old Li patted his thigh: "I want to grab my two cowards and learn for them now, but unfortunately, it's useless. The grades are still as bad as shit. What do you say to them? It's like a donkey's ears pouring in the spring breeze - the ears come in and out, and the children can't always play with bamboo shoots and stir-fry meat when they grow up..."

When Guan Qidong heard what Lao Li said interestingly, he laughed.

"Your clothes are quite new?" Guan Qidong asked.

Old Li showed off his clothes: "I just put on my body last night. Don't worry, we are absolutely hygienic here and the food is absolutely fresh enough! I'm not talking nonsense to you. Have you seen the regulations in the kitchen? It's counting, and it's always checked, and there are also the specified deductions. If there are five times in a month, we can't continue to do it..."

"So strict?" Guan Qidong was a little surprised.

A young man said in a jerk: "It's so strict. I guess the county recruitment does not require this, and even stipulates the process of washing vegetables!"

"Do you honestly do your work. People pay for it and ask us to work. You have to follow their rules when eating their meals. Why don't you say that you used to get two thousand yuan, but now it has grown to four thousand yuan? Work hard for me, don't ruin your own job. Whoever ruins everyone's job will I smoke whoever I'll do it!"

Old Li yelled at his nephews.

Four thousand yuan is considered a high salary except civil servants. As for tens of thousands of yuan, it is only heard that ordinary people have no skills or education. Ordinary people cannot get so much.

Originally, he turned his face and smiled when facing Guan Qidong: "The children are a little lazy, but I will stare at it. Don't worry, the food here is definitely not worse than what you eat in your star-rated hotel!"

"Then I'm waiting to taste your craft at noon?" Guan Qidong said.

Old Li smiled and patted his chest: "Just look! You are the standard for working meals. Each person has two meat dishes and three small vegetarian dishes, so enough rice?"

Guan Qidong nodded after hearing this: "Well, it seems like this."

In the past, when everyone came, they ate and drank, because there were few people, so they only treated them as guests.

But now we can't do this. Sijiaping Village doesn't expect to make money, but it can also lose money. It's like paying a little money like before. Every meal is made of big fish and meat. Even if you are at home, you don't have such cheap things to eat.

Therefore, when we came this time, everyone agreed on the standards, and every student and teacher were the same, a standard lunch box.

"Today's steamed fish segment, leek and small river shrimp, the big bowl of meat we have here, and braised duck cubes. I won't give an example of vegetarian dishes. You can choose whatever you like," said Lao Li.

"Okay!" Guan Qidong nodded with satisfaction when he heard this.

After choosing the dishes for a while, I walked around the kitchen and found that there were a lot of equipment added to the kitchen. The original firewood stove was replaced with a standard gas stove, lined up, with four stoves and two steamers. In one corner of the kitchen were two gas tanks that were more than one person high.

Looking at the canteen, it has also been renovated. It was originally a cloth shed, but now it has been replaced with a steel frame body. It is an antique-style building. It is spacious and bright. The rows of chairs are all solid wood, with only a layer of varnish. Through the varnish, you can see the beautiful native wood texture. A table with two long benches can almost sit for six people to eat. The entire restaurant can accommodate almost two hundred people.

The roof of the restaurant is full of bamboo chandeliers. These lanterns are very distinctive. Some look like bamboo baskets, some look like bamboo hats, full of farm style, and the roof is not covered with suspended ceilings. They directly reveal the steel frames and wooden boards on them, as well as air-conditioning pipes, which are refreshing, tidy and pleasing to the eye.

As soon as you look at the restaurant, you will know that it is designed, the pool and the storage box are all arranged in a very well-organized manner. It is definitely not something that a half-toned designer can play with. Just one look, Guan Qidong saw his students' small style from it, and guessed it was his students' work.

He looked around carefully with his hands behind his back. Guan Qidong's heart was full of clues. He saw the talent of his students, but he also knew that his students would never calm down and inherit his mantle in this life. He felt a little disappointed.

Turning back to his kiln, Guan Qidong sat down and read the book for a while, feeling a little upset, so he went out and walked away, stood at the entrance of the small village, looked into the distance, and looked at the endless yellow earth, and suddenly felt his mind relaxed, and the depression in his heart was much cleared.

Just as I was about to return to the village, I suddenly heard a buzzing sound from afar. I turned my head and saw a group of students playing and taking photos on the lawn under the slope.

Nowadays, students seem to have no idea how to live their lives when they leave social media. When they arrive in a new place, they either post on WeChat Moments or Weibo. Guan Qidong also tried to play with the mind of young people for a while, but they always feel that they are not good at it. They don’t know what the meaning of young people’s brushing this thing every day.

Even so, Guan Qidong tried to understand young people, because this society always belongs to young people. No matter how awesome you are, you will never live for thousands of years. In the future, this society and this country still have to rely on these young people, because only young people are the future.

Guan Qidong carefully descended from the slope to the slope to the large lawn. Then he found a group of people patting the poultry in the stream. From time to time, he could see a group of pigs coming out of the bamboo shrubs. Sometimes an old sow appeared leisurely next to the stream with seven or eight mixed-bred wild boars.

As for rabbits, weasels, pheasants, etc., it can't be said to be in groups, but from time to time you can always see one or two jump out, and then they flee in panic as the students shouted and shouted.

When the teachers who followed him saw Guan Qidong coming, they immediately greeted the old man.

"Teacher Guan, I really didn't expect that this place is simply a little Jiangnan."

"Little Jiangnan, where can I find such a place in Jiangnan now? I guess some wild animals have been caught almost. Look, the wild animals here are not afraid of people. Just now, a pheasant walked past two or three meters in front of me. When I wanted to catch them, it flew away with its wings."

"Didn't you say there are bears? Why didn't you see them?" asked the only female teacher.

Guan Qidong smiled and said, "It's the busy farming time, so the bears have gone to help."

"The bear can help, don't fool me." The female teacher who was speaking just now laughed.

"It's not about helping, it's actually just to drag something. When it's time for dinner, the villagers here will give some food to the bear. To put it bluntly, it's just like training dogs. The dogs trained well can buy vegetables. The bear's IQ is actually not lower than that of dogs. Forget it, you won't believe it now. I'll take you all to the villagers' melon planting place in the afternoon and you'll know." Guan Qidong said.

"The weather here is so good, it's lukewarm or hot, just a piece of thick clothes and single clothes." At this time, a student came over.

For majors that are linked to art, the relationship between teachers and students is more casual than those in pure science and engineering, and the relationship between teachers and students is closer.

"It's quite cold here at night, and now it's about four or five degrees, so when the sun sets, you have to add a sweater to your body."
Chapter completed!