Chapter Fifteen: The Noble Person (Seeking Collection)

  For over a week, Chen Li had been spending all his time learning how Zhang Fu Gui made beef noodles with his magical hands, except for eating three big bowls of beef noodles every day. Especially on this cold and chilly winter day, by the fiercely burning stove, when Zhang Fu Gui quickly made bowl after bowl of steaming hot beef noodles with his skilled hands, Chen Li seemed to have gained some sort of enlightenment from it.

  On one side was the biting cold wind, while on the other was a blazing stove. The hands that had been frozen stiff outside now held a steaming bowl of beef noodles. One extreme cold, the other extreme heat; yin and yang, opposites yet complementary, just like the principle of the interdependence of yin and yang in the "Hundun Yinyang Tianjing".

  "Get up, brother, I've already helped you with the noodles, now come and help me knead them!"

  Zhang Fugui took advantage of the fact that there were fewer people to knead the dough well, and then thought about teaching Chen Li how to knead from the first step. However, at this moment, Chen Li's mind was completely immersed in the yin-yang doctrine of the "Hunyuan Yinyang Tianjing". After hearing Zhang Fugui's words, he subconsciously walked to the chopping board and recalled the hand movements of Zhang Fugui kneading the dough that he had seen before, and naturally started kneading.

  At this time, Chen Li used the words of a cultivator to say that he had already entered the realm of unity between heaven and man. Although his consciousness was completely immersed in the cultivation of "Hunyuan Yinyang Tianjing", his hand movements were not affected at all, but rather like flowing clouds and water, naturally perfect. A large piece of dough in his hands kept flipping up and down and slapping back and forth on the chopping board. Originally, this signature move of the beef noodle restaurant was a unique landscape of the northwest with its boldness and coarseness, but in Chen Li's hands, it expressed another kind of charm, just like a high-level Tai Chi master performing, not only making Zhang Fugui and his wife stare in amazement, but also attracting many passing customers to come over.

  When Chen Li felt that the noodles had been kneaded enough, he automatically stopped and continued to stand there stupidly, feeling the changes brought to his body by practicing the "Hunyuan Yinyang Tianjing", while the onlookers couldn't help but want to taste the noodles made by his magical technique and whether it would be different from before, so they all sat down at the table and asked Zhang Fugui to quickly make a bowl of noodles.

  "Wow, delicious! It's really too delicious! This noodle is really flavorful and completely different from the previous one!"

  When Zhang Fugui nervously handed the first customer a bowl of beef noodles made from the dough that Chen Li had kneaded, after taking one bite, this customer started to praise it repeatedly like a child, and wolfed down the remaining noodles. The other customers waiting on the side couldn't help but salivate, urging Zhang Fugui to hurry up and cook their pulled noodles.

  Mr. and Mrs. Zhang looked at Chen Li, who was standing aside in a daze, with surprised eyes, but they didn't even have time to ask him how he managed to make such delicious noodles. They were busy attending to the guests who had been waiting for a while and were getting impatient. As a result, after all the guests finished eating, they all praised the noodles loudly, just like the previous guest, and some of them even said that they would come back often to eat here. Some people couldn't wait to call their friends and family to tell them about the delicious beef noodles they had just eaten at Zhang's noodle stand, bringing countless potential customers to the stand.

  Originally, they thought that today's late arrival would mean that the prepared goods might not sell out and a large portion would be wasted. However, what Zhang Fugui and his wife did not expect was that their nephew Chen Li, who had just joined them this morning, brought them such huge gains on his first day of making dough. Not only did they sell all the prepared goods, but they also finished ahead of schedule, leaving Zhang Fugui and his wife extremely excited. The couple even thought to themselves, "Could it be that heaven really is watching over us? Does doing good deeds really bring rewards?"

  "Hey, Brother Li, where did you learn that technique of kneading dough? The posture is great and the noodles taste delicious. With this skill, even if you go to those big noodle restaurants in the provincial city and become a professional noodle maker, you can still earn three to five thousand yuan a month!" Zhang Fugui, being honest and straightforward, had no private motives after discovering Chen Li's talent, and instead spoke bluntly about the true situation of this profession.

  "Zhang, I also learned from watching you knead dough and imitated your movements to get it just right. If you think my noodles are too delicious, then tomorrow I'll make them a bit worse!" Chen Li had long considered Zhang Fu Gui and his wife as her own family members, so why would she abandon these two hard-won loved ones for the sake of that little bit of profit? She said this with a playful tone to Zhang Fu Gui.

  "What are you talking about! Are you going to push your own brother out? Since Lier brothers have this skill, and our business will definitely be much better in the future, why don't we give Lier brothers some salary every month, just like we're taking advantage of you!"

  Wang Caixia grumbled about Zhang Fugui while calculating how much money they could spare each month to pay Chen Li, and couldn't bear the thought of letting this brotherly figure work for them without compensation. This was the simplicity of people from the Great Northwest - they rarely took advantage of others.

  "Zhang, sister-in-law, you're being too polite. I've already considered you as my own family members. How could I possibly ask for a salary from you? If you bring up this money matter again, it's equivalent to driving me away!" Chen Li said with a serious face to Zhang Fu Gui and his wife;

  "Alright, alright, I'm not willing to let a good brother like you go. Since you don't want it now, the money will stay with your sister-in-law. In the future, when you have a wife, I'll give it to her together, and by then you won't stop me, haha..." At this point, Zhang Fugui's couple and Chen Lisan all burst out laughing.

  "Wa Er's dad, I think after learning Li Er brother's skills, our business will definitely be much better than before. So let's work hard tonight and prepare more materials for tomorrow!" King Caixia, who was also keen to seize a business opportunity from the reaction of today's customers, instructed her husband Zhang Fugui.

  "Brother Li, you've given us such a big surprise as soon as you arrived. You're really the benefactor of our whole family!" Zhang Fugui was also moved by his own good deed and felt fortunate to have recognized Chen Li as his brother.

  "Brother Zhang, sister-in-law, you two are the greatest benefactors of my life!"