Abnormal Gourmet Chronicle-Chapter 975 - 479: Not Forgotten Completely_3

"Look, I just woke up and haven't met everyone yet, I've only seen Old Shi before. The others are still young with time, only Bi fang feels like he's running out of time. Judging from Sister Hong's tone in the chat, I feel like he's going to kick the bucket any day now."

"I checked the chat history in the group. Are you planning to find a time to gather in Shan City? I definitely need to go, but the time has to be set in advance, and once it's set, I need to come up with an excuse. Please help me ask Master for two more days off."

"I really can't keep living like this. Do you know how I've spent the past week? I've been making snacks for over 12 hours every day! It's been eight lifetimes, and I've never practiced making snacks like this in all eight lifetimes!"

"I just don't get it. In those novels, it's all about retrieving memories from past lives and then skyrocketing to the peak of life. I never expected anything extraordinary, but why did I retrieve memories from seven past lives, and they're all bad habits? What was I doing in my first life?"

"Why is it that Xia Mubing and I were both brought up by the same master, yet he's got such great culinary skills now, while I only have bad habits? Xia Mubing is even worse. I talked to him about this a couple of days ago, and do you know what he said to me?"

"He said my habits back then were even worse than now, and I haven't actually recalled all my bad habits. What's that supposed to mean? Back then, my culinary skills were indeed pretty good, my snacks were quite popular, and the old lady at the Li Mansion loved my snacks the most!" Zhao Cheng'an whispered angrily. 𝒻𝑟ℯℯ𝑤𝑒𝑏𝑛𝘰𝓋𝑒𝓁.𝒸𝑜𝘮

Qin Huai seemed to understand now, it's been 7 days, and Zhao Cheng'an still hasn't forgiven himself from seven lifetimes ago.

"You've gone off track." Qin Huai pointed at the resume, "You could also benefit from some more practice given your situation. The skills from when you were Chen Sheng... did have big issues, but there were some merits too. At least back then, I thought you had a lot more personal style, you had your own ideas when making snacks."

"Once you've corrected your bad habits and rediscovered your personal style, wouldn't that be the enlightenment breakthrough? You could then explain to Master Zhou that you went to Beiping for enlightenment, got lost on the path, and now you've returned to the right path with a level-up story, which wouldn't be a bad tale."

Zhao Cheng'an: !

Zhao Cheng'an had an epiphany.

"Is this what Master Level in lies is like?" Zhao Cheng'an said excitedly.

"...Let's talk about something serious." Qin Huai pointed at the resume again, "Aside from learning An Youyou's good mentality, what else have you figured out?"

"In her first life, she definitely learned to make snacks; someone taught her, but her skills were just average," Zhao Cheng'an said.

Qin Huai was somewhat surprised: "How did you figure that out?"

"Because I'm the same," Zhao Cheng'an said proudly, hinting that he's providing the standard answer, just copy it, "Look here, she writes that she started helping at her family's breakfast shop from second grade, initially doing small tasks like washing and picking vegetables until fifth grade when her family got so busy they tried teaching her to knead dough, and she learned it right away."

"Although over the years at the breakfast shop, An Youyou has mostly been making steamed buns, vegetable buns, and probably rarely the meat ones, but her steamed buns aren't bad at least they're about the same as her dad's."

"Is there anything special about that?" Qin Huai also remembers this part but thinks it's quite normal.

Zhao Cheng'an: ...

"I'm beginning to understand Tan Wei'an a bit now."

"Do you think everyone is as talented as you and me, picking up kneading dough on the first try?"

"Making buns seems simple, but for a beginner, especially a child who has never been exposed to it, it actually has a threshold. Not to mention, An Youyou isn't from some culinary family, lacking the influence from the surroundings, her family just runs a regular breakfast shop, and her parents' skills are average."

"Technically, even to make breakfast, you'd typically spend a few years learning from a master first."

"In An Youyou's case, if she were like the other apprentices at Zhiwei Restaurant, with parents who valued her a bit more or knew the field well, they'd realize her talent in this area and send her to a big shop as an apprentice to learn the trade early rather than letting her help out in the family breakfast shop, wasting her talent."

"To describe her entrance into this field as a natural genius might be a bit much, but she's definitely very talented."

"But if she truly had innate talent, she should be like you, being self-taught without anyone instructing her, and be able to achieve her current skill level just from reading the Snack Encyclopedia."

"But she hasn't, her current skill level fully indicates that she's not innately talented, she's just simply hasn't completely forgotten, and it's highly likely the skills she learned during her 1st life haven't been entirely forgotten. These skills were very important to An Youyou back then, so whenever she gets the chance to use them, she'll demonstrate amazing talent."

Qin Huai started to grasp the idea.

He looked at Zhao Cheng'an thoughtfully.

Zhao Cheng'an: ?

Suddenly Zhao Cheng'an felt uneasy: "What's that look?"

"You made a lot of sense, so I'm thinking, when you first joined Zhiwei Restaurant, your skills amazed everyone, it was like witnessing a marvel, and a multitude of Masters dubbed you a prodigy rare in a hundred years, gradually fading after showcasing your talent for a few years, might it be because you didn't forget completely back then either?"

"Looking at it this way, waking up this time considerably benefits your culinary skills. Since you were relying on old skills, now that you've recalled all the old skills, when you amend these bad habits, you should experience significant breakthroughs."

Zhao Cheng'an: ...

"Shut up!"

"Don't think that I fear you just because you really have a system."

"Be careful, I might steal your phone so you can't use it during breaks!"