The next day, Feng Yifan got up earlier than usual. Although he was very quiet, he still woke his wife up.
Su Ruoxi asked dazedly, "Are you going over so early?"
Feng Yifan gently hugged his wife, kissed her, and whispered in her ear, "Yes, I'm going to go there early today to get some food and see if there's anything missing. I'll also need Uncle Zhang to notify Zhang Qiang to send some. You can sleep a little longer and go with Ruoruo."
Su Ruoxi responded vaguely, then slowly fell asleep again in her husband's arms.
Seeing that his wife was already asleep, Feng Yifan carefully pulled his arm free, got out of bed, took the clothes his wife had prepared for him yesterday, and tiptoed out of the room.
When Feng Yifan walked out of the room and was about to go to the bathroom in the living room, he suddenly heard the door open.
Turn your head.
A little head popped out of the door.
The father and daughter looked at each other from inside and outside the door.
Feng Ruoruo ran out of the room with a smile on her face, then threw herself into her father's arms.
"Hehehe, Dad, you're up too? Are you going to buy groceries? Take Ruoruo with you."
Feng Yifan picked up his daughter and replied with a smile, "No, Daddy is going to the banquet after your dance today to prepare for you. Ruoruo, can you stay with grandpa, grandparents and mom today? Ruoruo, dance hard, and Daddy will work hard to prepare the banquet."
Feng Ruoruo pouted unhappily after hearing this: "But Ruoruo also wants to go with Dad."
Feng Yifan went on to persuade her, "If Ruoruo goes with her dad, what will happen to your dancing? Ruoruo has practiced with the kids for so long. If she doesn't dance, won't all her efforts go to waste?"
After hearing what her father said, Feng Ruoruo immediately understood.
"Then Ruoruo still has to go dancing."
Feng Yifan nodded: "Yes, then Ruoruo can go to mom and dad's room now and sleep with mom for a while, then get up with mom. After lunch at noon, you can go to the TV station with Xixi, Feifei and the others. Dad will definitely meet up with you and watch your performance."
After listening to her father's words, Feng Ruoruo nodded and said, "Okay, Dad, you have to promise."
Feng Yifan hooked his finger to his daughter and said, "Okay, Daddy promises."
The father and daughter hooked their fingers together, and the little girl went into her parents' room again. She waved goodbye to her father and cheered him up.
After watching his daughter enter the room, Feng Yifan closed the door and went to wash up and prepare to go out.
Feng Ruoruo entered her parents' bedroom and approached the bed carefully.
Seeing her mother sleeping in bed, the little girl stood by the bed and covered her mouth with her hands, giggling.
Su Ruoxi also woke up when she heard the sound. Seeing her daughter standing by the bed, she waved and said with a smile, "Come on, come up and sleep for a while. What are you doing up so early?"
Feng Ruoruo immediately went to bed and carefully crawled into her mother's quilt.
"Mom, I wanted to go grocery shopping with Dad, but Dad isn't going this morning."
Su Ruoxi smiled and said, "Yes, Dad has to go to the hotel for the banquet in the morning to make preparations there, to prepare for the dinner that Ruo Ruo will have after dancing in the evening."
Feng Ruoruo hugged her mother and said, "Mom, can we go and have a look?"
Su Ruoxi said: "No, because Ruoruo still has to prepare for the dance."
Feng Ruoruo thought for a moment and said, "Okay, but Dad promised Ruoruo that he would meet up with Ruoruo and watch me dance with the kids."
Su Ruoxi said: "Yes, your father will definitely go to see it, because his most beloved daughter is there."
Feng Ruoruo was immediately overjoyed, and then she lay down obediently beside her mother, gently stroking her mother's face with her little hand and said, "Mom, let's sleep for a while."
Su Ruoxi had already fallen asleep again, and she responded, "Okay, go to sleep."
In the bedroom, the mother and daughter also fell asleep together.
Feng Yifan washed and changed his clothes outside, and did not forget to make breakfast for his family, which he kept warm in the insulated box in the kitchen.
Then he changed his shoes and went out.
When he arrived at the intersection of the ancient street, he saw that everyone in the kitchen of Su Ji and Ruo Restaurant, including Shi Jiahui and Catherine, was already waiting there.
Feng Yifan smiled and said, "I didn't expect that I would be the last one to come."
Shi Jiahui smiled and said, "The key is that everyone is a little excited, so no one can sleep well."
Feng Yifan smiled bitterly and said, "You all didn't sleep well, how can you work today?"
Then everyone answered in unison: "You can be the chef."
Seeing that everyone was full of energy, Feng Yifan knew that the so-called lack of sleep did not actually mean that everyone did not sleep, but just that they might have slept less.
Knowing that everyone had no problem, Feng Yifan said, "Okay, let's get in the car and go."
In preparation for the dinner, Feng Yifan also prepared several cars in advance. Everyone got in the cars and they started driving towards the TV station's reception hotel.
Today, Feng Yifan and his group arrived at the hotel and did not encounter any problems.
The person in charge of the hotel had already made arrangements, and after Feng Yifan and his group arrived, they were able to go straight into the hotel kitchen without any obstruction, and everyone quickly took over the kitchen.
When the hotel manager received the call and rushed over from home, he found that Feng Yifan and others had already started busying themselves in the kitchen.
First of all, what Feng Yifan and others did was cleaning.
Seeing the person in charge coming, Feng Yifan said bluntly: "Your kitchen is really too messy. How can the food made in such a place be guaranteed to be hygienic? Okay, you don't have to notify those people in the kitchen. We will take over here temporarily today and give them a day off."
The person in charge was stunned, but he could only do as Feng Yifan ordered.
After all, the leaders at the TV station have already given their notice.
In short, we must fully cooperate with Feng Yifan and others today.
The person in charge then called the chef and others in the kitchen and asked them to inform the people below that the hotel would give them a day off today.
When the chef received this notice, he asked curiously on the phone: "Manager, are we being fired?"
The person in charge smiled bitterly and said, "I would like to, but Chef Feng will only be here today and will go back tomorrow, so you should remember to come to work on time tomorrow."
After hanging up the phone, the hotel chef was also a little surprised.
"It turned out that Chef Feng took over? No wonder."
But then the chef fell down and continued to sleep. It was a good thing for him to have a day's rest.
When Feng Yifan led people to clean, Zhang Fenglin and Quan Jie also arrived with the staff from Fujing Building.
Entering the kitchen, Quan Jie was surprised to see Feng Yifan and others cleaning up. "Wow, there's no cleaning going on here?"
Feng Yifan said directly, "Don't just stand there, change your clothes quickly and start working. Use the chef uniforms from the hotel. You will all have to change them soon anyway. After you finish cleaning, change into our Su Ji chef uniforms. Don't get your clothes dirty. Wear them and wash them and send them back to Su Ji for me."
Hearing these words, everyone who came over from Fujing Building was stunned.
Quan Jie couldn't help but say again: "Brother Feng, aren't you too stingy? It's just a chef's uniform. After giving it to us, you actually want to return it?"
Feng Yifan said seriously, "Of course, not just anyone can wear Su Ji's chef uniform."
This statement was extremely domineering, but no one present expressed any dissatisfaction.
To everyone, if Feng Yifan didn't say this, it would be a loss of status.
Zhang Fenglin then said, "Okay, let's get to work quickly and clean this place up as soon as possible. We still have a lot of work to do next."
Everyone quickly changed their clothes and began to clean the kitchen, the food delivery room, and even some corridors in front.
This also made some cleaners in the hotel feel very surprised after they started work.
I thought the hotel had replaced a group of cleaners and was going to fire them all.
Later, the hotel manager explained things to everyone, and the cleaners went to the front and carefully cleaned the banquet hall that would be used for the evening dinner.
After Feng Yifan and his team finished cleaning, they were all covered in sweat even though it was winter.
Fortunately, there was a place to shower in the hotel, so everyone went to shower and changed into Su Ji’s chef uniforms.
Quan Jie was wearing Su Ji's chef uniform and immediately said with envy, "This chef uniform is so handsome, Senior Brother Feng, can I keep this one?"
Feng Yifan smiled and said, "Don't even think about it. Su Ji's chef uniforms are not loaned out casually."
Quan Jie looked at Zhang Fenglin with a sad face: "Brother Zhang, how about you help me talk about it?"
Zhang Fenglin said helplessly: "Sorry, I want to keep one too, so I can't help you."
At this time, Lin Ruifeng came over and said, "Do you think our chef uniforms are cool? Actually, it's easy if you want to keep one. You just need to become my master's disciple."
Quan Jie was stunned for a moment, then shook his head and said, "Isn't this bad? Originally I called you Master and Senior Brother."
Ning Cheng heard this and said, "Then you can call me Senior Brother from now on."
Quan Jie said quickly, "No, no, you have to call me Junior Uncle Master now. Besides, if I switch to your master's sect, wouldn't that be a betrayal? No, no, if my master finds out, he will break my legs, right? Absolutely not."
Feng Yifan saw his apprentice and Quan Jie having fun together, so he started laughing too.
After laughing, he quickly turned serious and said, "Alright, stop joking around and get back to work. Have you forgotten what you came here for today? It's already past nine o'clock. Time is running out. Get busy."
Time really passed quickly, so naturally everyone was not willing to be careless and quickly started to get busy.
Although the hotel has prepared a lot of ingredients, Feng Yifan and his team still need to prepare them themselves.
Fortunately, everyone from Fujinglou came to help today, so the kitchen is not too busy.
It’s just because there are so many people attending the dinner, so naturally there are a lot of ingredients that need to be processed.
At this time, Feng Yifan also asked his three disciples, especially Lin Ruifeng and Ning Cheng, to pay attention and observe.
"You have to watch carefully. When you are at Su Ji, you don't have to deal with large quantities. So you may not understand how the hotel handles ingredients and how some things are prepared when it holds such a large banquet. Watch them carefully."
At Feng Yifan's reminder, Lin Ruifeng and Ning Cheng also observed carefully.
Sure enough, this time they were deeply shocked.
What was shocking was not how skilled the other party's technique was, but the fact that the other party could process so many ingredients at once, which shocked Lin Ruifeng and Ning Cheng.
For example, just to crush shrimps, two people have to crush shrimps by the water platform, and each person has to crush at least hundreds of shrimps.
There is also the processing of various types of fish meat, which requires processing very large quantities at one time.
When it comes to the pickling process, it requires several people to work together to pickle a lot of food at a time in a huge basin.
Feng Yifan looked at his apprentices in amazement and said to them, "See? This is the real process of cooking in a hotel. Because the quantity is large, it must be processed in large quantities. It cannot be done in our meticulous way. This is also the difference between our small restaurant and the hotel."
Quan Jie also came over and said, "But you don't have to be afraid. In fact, we may not do this normally. But when we have a big banquet booked, we will handle it in advance like this."
Some of the subsequent cooking processes, such as braised beef, also need to be stewed in a large pot in advance.
Then they will be put aside for later use. Feng Yifan also introduced: "When these lights need to be served, they are served according to the amount of each portion, directly put back into the pot for stir-frying, and then seasoned and served directly."
At this point, Feng Yifan added: "Of course, tonight, you don't have to serve the dishes separately, you can just put them in the pot."
The dinner after the evening cultural performance was in the form of a buffet, so there was no need to separate the dishes.
As time went by, all preparations were almost completed.
In the blink of an eye, it was already past noon.
Feng Yifan saw that it was already one o'clock in the afternoon, so he clapped his hands to ask everyone to stop, and then asked everyone to prepare lunch first.
"Okay, okay, let's stop for a while. Let's eat first and then continue after lunch."
After hearing what Feng Yifan said, everyone stopped temporarily.
Lunch naturally used some leftovers, and Feng Yifan personally led his apprentices to prepare a staff meal for the entire kitchen staff.
Feng Yifan prepared a staff meal for everyone. He had just eaten a little when he suddenly remembered something and ran out of the hotel without even having time to change his clothes.
Feng Ruoruo and the children also came to the TV station.
At the entrance of the TV station, Feng Ruoruo looked around, as if looking for something
Teacher Guo was a little surprised when he saw this: "What are you looking for?"
Su Ruoxi said: "She is looking for her father."
Feng Ruoruo pouted and said, "Dad lied to me. He promised Ruoruo that he would come and meet up with her, but Dad didn't come."
Su Ruoxi comforted her daughter: "Maybe Dad is a little busy, then let's go in first and wait inside."
Feng Ruoruo was naturally unhappy.
However, when Feng Ruoruo was stubborn and wanted to wait at the door, a figure in chef's uniform came running towards them from a distance.
Feng Ruoruo immediately waved her hands happily and shouted, "Dad, come quickly, it's here."