Chapter 119 The Second Disciple

The next morning, Li Shengli came to the kitchen. There were already many people in the kitchen. Tian Shulin had already started working. When he saw Li Shengli coming in, Tian Shulin hurried forward to greet him.

"You come so early." Li Shengli said in surprise as he looked at Tian Shulin who had changed into a new work suit.

"I live in the factory and don't have much to do." Tian Shulin rubbed his hands nervously.

"Okay, then sit down and rest for a while, and talk about it after everyone arrives." Li Shengli signaled Tian Shulin not to be so nervous, "The squad leader took you to greet them yesterday, right?"

"Yes, Squad Leader Wang asked me to follow you first." Tian Shulin remembered what Wang Tiezhu said to him yesterday.

Tian Shulin had just arrived and probably couldn't even tell where the things in the kitchen were. After a while, Liu Xikui came and his heart tightened when he saw Tian Shulin standing in front of Li Shengli.

"Master." Liu Xikui came up to Li Shengli and greeted him with a playful smile, and glanced at Tian Shulin by the way. Tian Suling just smiled innocently.

Li Shengli nodded as a greeting. It seemed that Liu Xikui had a sense of crisis, but Li Shengli did not say anything. He taught the same thing to everyone.

Breakfast was simple. Several kitchen helpers were preparing to cut vegetables. Li Shengli cooked porridge in the pot and asked Liu Xikui to watch the fire. Li Shengli took Tian Shulin to familiarize himself with the area around the cafeteria.

When Li Shengli returned to the cafeteria, Wang Tiezhu also arrived.

Seeing Li Shengli and Tian Shulin, Wang Tiezhu asked Tian Shulin to help him watch the fire, while he called Li Shengli aside and talked in private.

"Shengli, what do you think of Tian Shulin?" Wang Tiezhu asked quietly.

"It's OK. It's too short to tell anything." Li Shengli answered truthfully, and then asked curiously, "Squad leader, who is this Tian Shulin?"

"I heard that he helped Director Yang a lot. I don't know the details very well, but I only know that Director Yang arranged for him to come here." Wang Tiezhu thought for a moment and said, "Let him worship you as his master, and you teach him."

Hey, what kind of protagonist template is this?

"It's okay for me to teach him. Forget about asking him to be my apprentice. In the early stage, I will only teach him big pot dishes. If he meets my requirements in the future, I will formally accept him as my apprentice." Li Shengli did not intend to keep his skills to himself. He could teach him some home cooking dishes, which were also what he taught Liu Xikui. Some secret dishes had to be tested before they could be taught.

"Okay, I'll call him over." Wang Tiezhu had no problem with that. He thought that Li Shengli was already very good. Some masters simply treated their apprentices as laborers.

"Tian Shulin, come here." Wang Tiezhu waved to Tian Shulin.

Tian Shulin put down the work in his hands and walked towards the two of them.

"Hey, what do you think the squad leader and Master Li want to call Tian Shulin over for?" a kitchen helper who was cutting vegetables gossiped in a low voice.

"I think it's probably about becoming an apprentice." Another older sister who was washing vegetables also said in a low voice after hearing this.

"Hey, Xikui, you're going to have a junior brother." Another kitchen helper who was watching the fire nearby said to Liu Xikui in a joking tone.

"What junior brother? It's still hard to say." Liu Xikui answered worriedly but stubbornly.

The others just laughed and said nothing.

"Tian Shulin, you should follow Master Li in the cafeteria from now on." Wang Tiezhu pointed at Li Shengli and said to Tian Shulin.

"Master." When Tian Shulin heard Wang Tiezhu's words, he immediately knelt down and became his disciple. This frightened Li Shengli and Wang Tiezhu, and they quickly stopped him.

"No, no, no, this doesn't count as becoming a disciple." Li Shengli quickly grabbed Tian Shulin.

"Where did you get this stuff?" Wang Tiezhu was almost scared to death by Tian Shulin's action.

"Xiwa from our village took a carpenter as his master. I saw that Xiwa's parents made Xiwa kneel down and kowtow to him, and then let the master take him away." Tian Shulin looked like he knew all the rules. "That's different." Li Shengli didn't know whether to laugh or cry.

"It's okay, I will consider you my master." Tian Shulin smiled innocently and said, as long as Li Shengli taught him something, he would consider Li Shengli as his master.

"Okay, go and get busy first." Wang Tiezhu was relieved to see that the problem was solved. The problem of Tian Shulin was really difficult to solve. If Director Yang remembered Tian Shulin one day, he would be in trouble if he didn't take good care of him.

Li Shengli brought Tian Shulin to the stove, ready to introduce Tian Shulin to Liu Xikui.

"Xikui, this is Tian Shulin. You two will cut the mounds together from now on." Li Shengli said, pointing at Tian Shulin.

"Got it, Master." Liu Xikui looked at Tian Shulin carefully this time. Seeing that he looked like he had never seen the world, he curled his lips and breathed a sigh of relief.

"Hello, senior brother." Tian Shulin smiled innocently and greeted.

"Master, you accepted him as your disciple?" Liu Xikui was a little surprised. He became Li Shengli's disciple only after he became familiar with him.

"Not yet, I'll take him with me first." Li Shengli didn't think too much about it.

Liu Xikui nodded towards Tian Shulin perfunctorily.

Tian Shulin had no idea what Liu Xikui was thinking. For Tian Shulin, being able to go to the city and eat commercial grain was already a blessing enough.

At breakfast time, Li Shengli instructed Tian Shulin on how to serve food to others and then stood behind Tian Shulin, watching him serve food to others.

While preparing lunch, Li Shengli taught Tian Shulin how to hold the knife comfortably and how to cut vegetables easily, just like he usually did with Liu Xikui. It didn't take much effort for Tian Shulin to learn it well.

“Yes, that’s how you cut it. Once you become proficient at it, you’ll be able to cut faster.” Li Shengli was quite satisfied with Tian Shulin’s learning progress. He was willing to learn and able to endure hardships. Tian Shulin’s achievements as a chef should be better than Liu Xikui’s.

After finishing the meal and it was time to take a break, he rushed to make tea for Lee Seung-ri, and in the middle he glared at Tian Shulin who was also about to make tea for Lee Seung-ri.

Tian Shulin smiled naively and did not compete with Liu Xikui for the opportunity to make tea for Li Shengli.

Lee Seung-ri saw all these things, but he didn't care.

Li Shengli did not expect the master-disciple relationship to be reliable. People will change. He just hoped that his two disciples would not be ungrateful in the future.

A whole morning passed just like that, and the other people in the kitchen gradually became familiar with Tian Shulin. When they first learned that Tian Shulin was arranged by Director Yang to work in the factory, everyone thought he had some kind of connection.

After a day's work, everyone discovered that no matter what Tian Shulin's connections were, he worked very efficiently and would not be lazy.

Having one more person in the kitchen can help share a lot of work.

After finishing work, Li Shengli was about to leave. Tian Shulin had also packed up his things. When he saw Li Shengli was about to leave, he hurriedly followed him with his bag on his back.

"Shu Lin, you don't have to do this." Seeing that Tian Shu Lin seemed to want to send him home, Li Shengli quickly spoke up to stop him.

Tian Shulin then stopped sending it off.

The next day at work, Li Shengli came to the cafeteria early in the morning, and Tian Shulin had already prepared tea for him and was waiting for him.

Tian Shulin didn't listen to what Li Shengli said. He still arrived earlier than Li Shengli and made tea for Li Shengli early.

Li Shengli had no choice but to let it go.

(End of this chapter)