The Game of Life-Chapter 849 - 848 She Should Choose for Herself (Added

Chapter 849 -848: She Should Choose for Herself (Added more for Alliance Hierarch Fan Qiu Zi Ji!)

Chapter 849 -848: She Should Choose for Herself (Added more for Alliance Hierarch Fan Qiu Zi Ji!)

The booming business at Taifeng Building lasted for about three or four days, and although there would still be long queues outside at lunch and dinner times after that, it wasn’t as exaggerated as the first few days when people came at noon to queue for dinner.

After all, the prices at Taifeng Building weren’t suited for the working class. Queuing up to eat once to experience the strength of the top ten chefs from the show “Master Chef” and then bragging about it on social circles was enough; eating there several times would be too much for both the stomach and the wallet.

While everyone from the manager to the janitor at Taifeng Building had been extremely busy these past few days, Jiang Feng and Sun Maochai, as the primary draws, weren’t really that tired.

Jiang Weiming hadn’t cooked at all during these days; instead, Sir took to the kitchen vigorously for a few days, only to find that he wasn’t as popular as Jiang Feng, and in frustration, went on strike with Jiang Weiming. They spent their days drinking tea and boasting with the old men in the teahouse, not wanting to go back to work.

By the way, what he bragged about was his grandson Jiang Feng ranking sixth on the “Master Chef” show.

On January 11, Ji Xia’s mother-in-law and aunt came to Beiping for a visit.

Jiang Feng directly gave Ji Xia and Ji Xue a long holiday. Ji Xue had a paid leave, and although Ji Xia didn’t have a salary, Jiang Feng gave her a big red envelope of 8888 and told her to take her mother-in-law out to have fun. It also saved Ji Xia from having to use her savings, which she had scrimped together over a few months by abstaining from fried chicken, roasted sweet potatoes, oden, cola, ice cream, and fries, to treat her mother-in-law to roast duck.

The first day of their outing, at 10 p.m., the first thing Ji Xia did upon returning was not to go home but to go to Jiang Feng’s house to report on her day out with her mother-in-law and aunt, and to detail the day’s expenses to prove that she would use the entire 8888 funds for their outings, not secretly save it for snacks.

When Ji Xia was reporting, Jiang Feng was cooking high soup noodles.

Ever since he cooked a bowl of simple yet delicious high soup noodles at a five-star hotel in the south, Jiang Feng had fallen in love with the flavor. After returning to Beiping and resuming work, he made it a habit to save a bit of the high soup every day and cooked a bowl of high soup noodles as a midnight snack before bed.

Jiang Feng had initially thought of cooking extra to invite Wu Minqi, but Wu Minqi decisively declined, saying that this kind of high-carb, high-purine meal would make her gain ten pounds from just one meal.

“Master, this afternoon my sister and I took our mother-in-law and aunt to visit the Great Wall, and after taking the cable car down, I bought a roasted sweet potato for my mother-in-law. Then we went to eat roast duck, and after that, my sister accompanied our aunt shopping while I took our mother-in-law to the snack street where you competed before. We had stinky tofu, skewers, lotus root starch balls, donkey rolling, pickled vegetable buns, sugar dough twist, crispy twisted dough sticks, green bean cakes, swan pastry…”

Seeing that Ji Xia was turning her travel tales into a list of dishes, Jiang Feng quickly interrupted her, “Did you finish eating all that?”

Jiang Feng was already considering whether to send Ji Xia to the hospital for a stomach pump.

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Ji Xia shook her head, “No, those are foods our mother-in-law can’t find in the village, so I just wanted to buy them all for her to try. Except for the stinky tofu and skewers, she didn’t finish the rest and took them back to the hotel.”

Jiang Feng then breathed a sigh of relief, turned off the fire, and the high soup noodles were ready.

“Do you want some noodles?”

“Yes.”

Jiang Feng was about to stretch his hand to grab a normal dining bowl to serve Ji Xia half a bowl of noodles, but just then the barrage of dish names echoed in his ears, causing him to change his grip and grab a small condiment dish instead.

Jiang Feng served Ji Xia a condiment dish of noodles.

Ji Xia: ?

Taking advantage of Ji Xia eating the noodles from the condiment dish, Jiang Feng asked her about the plans for the next day’s outing.

“My mother-in-law said she wants to come to the restaurant to see you tomorrow.” Ji Xia finished the noodles in the dish in just two bites.

“To see me?”

“Yes,” Ji Xia nodded. “My mother-in-law said that you have helped our family a lot. If it hadn’t been for your willingness to hire my sister initially, she might still be working elsewhere. If it hadn’t been for your willingness to take me as your apprentice, I might not know what I’d be doing now. I certainly wouldn’t be able to afford meat, let alone eat so much delicious food.”

“My mother-in-law also made a pair of gloves for you. I wanted to bring them over today, but she said she’d like to give them to you as a gift in person tomorrow,” Ji Xia said slowly.

“That’s fine, Xiaxia, bring your mother-in-law a bit later tomorrow, around eight in the evening. Don’t have dinner; I’ll make a couple of dishes for her to try my cooking. If you come early, the restaurant might be too crowded, and there will be no place to sit,” Jiang Feng thought for a moment and said.

“Okay.” Ji Xia nodded. “The dishes you make are the best, Master. My mother-in-law will definitely love them.”

Jiang Feng truly enjoyed hearing his apprentice speak candidly, and immediately served Ji Xia another half bowl of noodles. After watching Ji Xia finish eating and drinking her soup, he urged her to go upstairs to sleep.

After Ji Xia left, Jiang Feng sat at the dining table and pondered her future.

He really wasn’t as commendable as Ji Xia’s grandmother had said. Initially, on impulse, he thought Ji Xia had talent and took her as his apprentice without preparing properly to be a master, and he didn’t know how to be one.

He could only teach Ji Xia the basics; he was incapable of teaching her anything else.

Even though he was now ranked sixth in the chef rankings, if he were to shout out or issue a statement seeking apprentices, chefs from all around the world, both young and middle-aged, would flock to him. Yet, he still couldn’t teach Ji Xia anything.

He was a Red Chef; no matter how exceptional, he was still just a Red Chef. Ji Xia’s talent lay in the White Chef’s realm, and it shouldn’t be hindered just because he was a Red Chef.

Jiang Feng had thought about this issue before, and had even planned a few future paths for Ji Xia. However, due to this year’s pileup of countless back-to-back matters, he soon neglected the plans for Ji Xia’s development.

Xiaxia was about to turn seventeen, approaching the prime and most suitable time in her culinary career; she couldn’t be delayed any longer.

Jiang Feng was so engrossed in thought that he even forgot to eat his own noodles, until Wu Minqi came out thirsty for water.

“Fengfeng, what are you thinking about? Your noodles must be cold by now.” Wu Minqi patted Jiang Feng.

Jiang Feng snapped out of his reverie, “I’m worried about what Xiaxia should do next.”

“Xiaxia? Isn’t Xiaxia doing well? If I remember correctly, didn’t her grandmother visit today? Xiaxia should be with her grandmother today; what’s wrong?” Wu Minqi asked, confused.

“Xiaxia still hasn’t settled on a White Chef master.”

Wu Minqi could only sigh, “Initially, sending Xiaxia to learn systematically at Taste House for a few years was the best option. During the competition earlier, I even found a chance to ask the master chef at Taste House; he said they don’t mind taking in chefs who learn without formally pledging as an apprentice. Moreover, now you, Master Sun, and Grandpa Jiang are all in the top ten of the chef rankings; any one of you speaking to Taste House about this matter would certainly earn you their respect.”

“But Xiaxia is unwilling.” Jiang Feng did not want to force Xiaxia into something just because they all thought it was right, the best option.

Over the years, Xiaxia had been continually pressured by everyone to do what they thought she should do.

Her mother wanted her to be a garbage bin, an outlet for expressing stress and discontent.

Ji Xue wanted her to be a normal child, to live the life she never had the chance to experience.

No one had ever asked Ji Xia what she wanted, what she wanted to do, or what kind of person she wanted to become. It was just like no one ever cared about what grade she was in at school or what she actually did during the summer holidays.

If Ji Xia was still a child who needed adults to make decisions for her, but now, whether in terms of physiology, psychology, or world experience, she was no longer a child.

More than a year ago, she had been capable of running away from home to work in a clothing factory, unnoticed for months surviving fine, even planning to open her own breakfast shop in the future, which proved that Ji Xia was capable of making her decisions.

However, at that time, because of her limited knowledge and perspective, she was unable to make decisions that everyone thought were correct.

Back then, Ji Xia was not a normal child.

Now, Ji Xia was a normal and happy young person.

Jiang Feng felt he had no right to make decisions for her; all he could do was think of the best possible options for her to choose from.

“Let’s talk about it later.” Jiang Feng sighed, suddenly feeling the headache of deciding how a child should apply for college.

Indeed, having children was worrisome when they were young, and it remained so even when they were older.

“There’s still time, and there are still options. I will ask around to see if there’s a better way than going to Taste House.”