The Ultimate Brother

He was once a top-tier assassin, an existence that even international police feared. Now, he's the small owner of a dry-cleaning shop.

To take care of his younger brother and sister, whom...

Chapter 43 Small Task

Li Jia's smile continued, her movements as she slicing meat with a knife were as fluid and graceful as flowing water. In less than thirty seconds, the original whole piece of pork had been transformed into slices even thinner than those cut by the chef. Amidst a chorus of chattering voices, Li Jia put down the knife and asked, "Master, do you think I cut this meat well?" She spoke in a strong Northeastern accent.

"Hehehe!" The women burst into laughter upon hearing Li Jia's words. They hadn't expected that this seemingly refined and somewhat cool man would be so funny, managing to provoke laughter from everyone with just one sentence.

"Great! That's absolutely great! Let's keep going!" The teacher was clearly a very humorous person, and his Northeastern accent was much more authentic than Li Jia's.

Under the teacher's guidance, Li Jia finally completed the Golden Sweet and Sour Pork, but the color was not quite right. This was because Li Jia did not mix the egg whites and yolks properly when beating the eggs, so the color after coating and frying did not reach the color demonstrated by the teacher. However, overall it was not bad, at least it smelled quite fragrant.

"Alright, Li Jia has finished her task. Now, let's start the tasting!!" After the teacher finished speaking, she placed two plates of sweet and sour pork on the table. Everyone came forward one after another, each picking up a piece of the golden and crispy fried pork and carefully chewing on it.

Li Jia's plate was naturally eaten later. Standing in front of so many beautiful women, admiring their different ways of eating, Li Jia still felt overwhelmed. It was because a dozen women, each holding chopsticks and eating sweet and sour pork, were standing in front of you, chewing with a dozen mouths of different styles at the same time. You only know how overwhelming that scene is once you've experienced it.

"Next up is Li Jia's creation for tasting. Who wants to try it first?" After the teacher finished speaking, she looked at the many women who were still savoring the delicious food from earlier, and after a long while, no one responded. This made Li Jia feel a little defeated. "Is my creation really that bad?"

"Let me try! Sisters, if anything happens to me, please call 120 immediately!" The person who spoke was An Ran. After saying that, she even picked up her chopsticks with a look of no return.

When she put the sweet and sour pork made by Li Jia into her mouth, her face already had a look of resignation. As the meat was chewed up, her expression suddenly became more interesting. The resignation turned into a question. Then she looked at Li Jia, then at the meat on the plate, and finally closed her eyes to carefully savor the taste on her tongue. "It's pretty delicious!" she finally concluded.

Is it really true?

"I want to try it too!"

A group of women swarmed around Li Jia's plate of sweet and sour pork again, and devoured it in no time.

It was almost time for get out of class to end. After demonstrating another dish, the teacher left the classroom. Then, a group of people started arranging the remaining vegetables on the table. In no time, three plates of different colored "Three Treasures of the Earth" were placed on the table. "Junior brother! Come here for a moment!"

An Ran had gotten carried away with being the senior student, so she waved to Li Jia and beckoned him over.

"I'm giving you an important task, a very difficult one for you..." An Ran used a little reverse psychology on Li Jia.

“Oh, then let someone else do it.” Li Jia’s words made An Ran’s prepared words get stuck in her throat. “You… are you even a man? You have to do it even if you can’t! Who told you to be the last one to arrive? Here! Try our sisters’ cooking!” An Ran said, shoving a pair of chopsticks into Li Jia’s hand, then put her hands on her hips and glared at him menacingly.

Looking at the three plates of "Three Treasures of the Earth" in front of her, Li Jia mentally prepared herself before picking up a piece of eggplant from the left plate. As soon as she put it in her mouth, she felt that the eggplant contained far too much salt, but Li Feng's face remained unchanged. After finishing the eggplant, Li Jia's chopsticks reached for the potatoes in the middle plate.

Fortunately, the potatoes weren't too salty, which neutralized the saltiness in my mouth. After finishing the two plates, I nodded and said, "Not bad. Although the seasoning might not be quite right, it still tastes pretty good. Let's see how the last plate is." After saying that, Li Jia picked up the eggplant from the last plate of "Three Treasures of the Earth" and was somewhat surprised after putting it in her mouth.

"Who made this dish? It tastes authentic!" Li Jia put down his chopsticks, secretly praising it. "Senior sisters, I've finished tasting it, and the final result is that the third dish, 'Three Treasures of the Earth,' is the best!" After saying that, he stood aside and watched everyone's eager expressions.

"This is so ordinary! Why do you say this is the best?" It was An Ran again. As Li Jia put down her chopsticks, An Ran picked up a piece of green pepper from the winning dish of "Three Treasures of the Earth" that Li Jia had mentioned, put it in her mouth, and looked at Li Jia with a puzzled expression after eating it.

After An Ran finished speaking, several other women took a bite and kept glancing between Li Jia and Wang Xiao. "Tell me! Did you two plan this in advance?"

Before An Ran could finish speaking, a woman in a denim miniskirt next to her said with a pained expression, "This tastes awful!" She then pointed to the plate of stir-fried potatoes, eggplant, and green peppers in the middle. Seeing the woman in the miniskirt's words, the others picked up their chopsticks and tried it without believing her.

"It tastes bland! Did you forget to add salt, Sister Meiyun?"

"It's so salty! Sister Meiyun, how much salt did you put in?"

"Xiaolu's too, it's so salty!!"

"Li Jia, how did you manage to eat that? This is inedible!" An Ran pulled out a drink from somewhere and gulped it down. The three dishes of "Di San Xian" (a Sichuan dish) felt a little grateful to Li Jia because they knew exactly what the dishes tasted like after eating them themselves. This time, no one tried to punish Li Jia for her behavior.

"Alright, get out of class is over. I'm going back now. See you in class tomorrow!" Li Jia said, preparing to leave. Before she had taken a few steps, two voices called out from behind, "Wait a minute!"

Li Jia turned around and saw that it was two women in jeans who had called him. They came up to Li Jia one after the other and said, "Thank you!" Obviously, these two people must be the authors of the two dishes of "Di San Xian" (a dish of stir-fried potatoes, green peppers, and green vegetables).

"It's okay, I'm leaving now, bye-bye, senior sisters!" Li Jia said before leaving the classroom. The group of beauties behind her started a new round of discussion. Of course, this discussion only lasted five minutes, because get out of class officially ended after five minutes.

Less than a minute after Li Jia drove away, more than a dozen cars appeared in front of the small white building. Obviously, these cars were there to pick up the senior female students who had taken classes with Li Jia. "I learned two dishes today. I must make them for Meng Yao and Xiao Yu tonight!" Li Jia, getting more and more excited, drove back to the dry cleaner as fast as she could.

That evening, Li Jia's cooking skills received unanimous praise from Meng Yao and Zhou Xiaoyu, which made Li Jia very happy. Just as Li Jia was sitting in the study researching how to cook, her phone, which had been silent all day, suddenly rang.

The phone number belonged to Jiang Ling. Li Jia answered the phone and was about to speak when the voice on the other end startled her: "Teacher Hai?"