Chapter 82
Lu Shiyu put a large piece of pork with fat and lean meat on the iron pan, and used a dry pan to scald the skin of the pork belly to remove the fishy smell.
Soak the blanched pork belly in warm water for a few minutes, then use a kitchen knife to scrape off the burnt material and hair on the skin in one direction. Put the whole piece of pork belly into a pot of cold water, add onion, ginger, cooking wine, etc., bring to a boil over high heat and continue to cook for five minutes before removing it.
After washing it with clean water, cut it into evenly sized square pieces with a knife. Apply a thin layer of oil on the inner wall of the iron pan, put in the cut pork belly, and fry it for a while with all four sides of the pork belly sticking to the pan as much as possible to slowly fry out the lard. Fry until the four sides of the pork belly are slightly golden, then you can pick up the pork belly with chopsticks.
Pour out the excess oil in the pot, leaving only a little oil in the pot, add some rock sugar, stir-fry over low heat, and when it turns into a translucent date red color and keeps bubbling, you can pour the pork belly back in, stir-fry until it is colored, add half a bowl of cooking wine to remove the fishy smell and enhance the flavor, then add light soy sauce, dark soy sauce and vinegar, then continue to stir-fry for two minutes, add spices such as green onions, ginger slices, cinnamon and star anise, and add boiling water to cover the meat in the pot.
After the water in the pot boils, cover the pot and simmer for an hour. Finally, add a little salt to season. When the soup becomes thick over high heat, you can serve it in a bowl and sprinkle a pinch of white sesame seeds to make the meat more delicious and tempting.
An iron basin filled with steaming hot braised pork was brought to the table. Lu Shiyu wiped his hands, indicating that it was time to eat.
The table that usually only had two people sitting at it was now surrounded by people, each holding a bowl full of rice, drooling at the aroma of the braised pork.
"It smells so good..." Yan Hong swallowed her saliva. Several members of the Eagle Team stretched out their chopsticks to pick up a large piece of meat and put it on the crystal clear rice. The sauce on the braised pork seeped into the rice, dyeing the top of the rice with a layer of sauce color.
Tang Zeyu and Yan Ning waited until Professor Chen had picked up the meat before they picked up their chopsticks. The square, shiny piece of meat was picked up, and the fat on the top swayed slightly like jelly.
With a gentle bite of the teeth, the piece of meat is easily bitten open like butter. The first thing that comes into the mouth is the bright red skin. After being boiled, fried, stir-fried, and finally simmered in the soup, the skin becomes soft, sticky, elastic and slightly tough, closely connected to the fat part. The trembling fat is translucent amber. After going through many processes, the excess oil inside the fat has long been forced out, and the remaining fat structure has become abnormally soft. You don’t even need to chew it hard after putting it in your mouth. It has already melted gently like warm cream, and the smooth fat fragrance fills your mouth.
The lean meat is soaked in the rich broth. After a long period of slow cooking, the lean meat fibers that may have had a tough texture are completely broken down and softened, becoming crispy but not loose. Every fiber is soaked in the salty, sweet taste of the broth, and is soft and glutinous with a slight chewiness, forming a wonderful contrast with the fat that melts in the mouth.
The rich broth wraps around the meat, and its thick texture allows it to cling perfectly to the meat. Even after the meat is chewed and swallowed, the aftertaste of the broth still lingers between the mouth and lips, lingering endlessly. Its "richness" seems to have concentrated the essence of the meat, the caramelized aroma of sugar, and the complex aroma of multiple seasonings, forming a deep and complex flavor that leaves people with a long aftertaste.
The complex deliciousness of the fresh and refreshing food repairs the tired body. After eating a few pieces of braised pork, pick up a piece of stir-fried vegetables. The salty taste accumulated in the mouth is swept away by the fresh and sweet vegetables, freeing the tongue that was weighed down by the heavy sauce. After the vegetables complete the task of cleansing the taste, you can eat big pieces of braised pork again.
The combination of braised pork and vegetables is like a perpetual motion machine, as if it can make people never feel tired or bored. They keep eating one bite after another until their stomachs are filled with warm food and their appetites are completely satisfied.
The braised pork was quickly eaten up, and even the soup was scooped out by someone and mixed with rice. Everyone ate until their bellies were full.
Professor Chen breathed a sigh of relief.
Ever since Lu Shiyu and the others left, he had to cook for himself again. But the difference was that before, even if Yan Ning was not around, he would not starve to death. He could just eat anything to get by.
But ever since he ate the food made by Lu Shiyu, Professor Chen started to feel anxious every time it was time for dinner. He really wanted to eat some hot food, no matter what it was, as long as he could have some hot food. Anything was better than eating compressed biscuits and boiled deformed creatures.
However, Professor Chen had never really cooked anything in his life. Needless to say, there were plenty of ways to eat normal food in the base. Even if he left the base, Yan Ning would take care of him. In order to make sure he had meals on time, Yan Ning even learned some cooking. Although he didn't learn any hard dishes in the end, at least he could make some basic dishes.
In the past, Yan Ning would chase Professor Chen and ask him to eat. Now that Yan Ning is gone, Professor Chen starts to want to eat instead.
After a long psychological struggle, Professor Chen found a suitable reason for himself.
It is easy to distract your energy when you are hungry, so it is necessary to eat on time.
So Professor Chen, who had hardly ever been in the kitchen in his life, finally decided to try cooking real food himself.
Professor Chen followed the cooking order of Yan Ning and Lu Shiyu in his memory, heated oil in a pan and poured in the ingredients. Suddenly he remembered that he had put the ingredients directly into the pan without cutting them. He hurriedly tried to take the ingredients out of the pan, but ended up scalding his hand and getting the oil splashed onto his arm.
In anger, Professor Chen simply gave up, thinking that as long as it was cooked, it would be the same.
There was no time to think about what would happen next. Professor Chen closed his eyes and prepared to keep the matter to himself.
"Yan Ning, you'd better not leave," Lu Shiyu said to Yan Ning standing beside him, "If Professor Chen blows up the camp again, it will be really troublesome."
"Um."
Professor Chen: “…”
Professor Chen, very dissatisfied, rummaged through the junk and handed it to Tang Zeyu.
"Take this, and the people at Dawn Base will let you in."
"This is……"
When Tang Zeyu took it, he found that it was a letter with a wax seal on the opening to prevent anyone from secretly opening it during delivery.
"Um...don't worry about what it is for now. Anyway, have the people at the base give the things to the base commander, and she will naturally let you in. I can only help you up to this point. As for what happens next, you're on your own."
Tang Zeyu glanced at the envelope and thanked Professor Chen.
The Eagle Squad and others used the next afternoon to rest. After a brief tidying up, they set off immediately the next morning.
*
Yi Donglin turned his office chair impatiently. The flexible mechanism almost threw him out, but he was not worried about it. He had something more bothersome now, and everything else had to be put aside.
The team members were confused by seeing him spinning around endlessly.
"Team leader, please stop turning."
“So annoying!”
Yi Donglin suddenly stopped and slammed his hands on the desk.
"They are simply shameless!"
"Assholes! A bunch of ******, I ******!"
"Don't give me the chance, or I'll ****!"
The team members sat on the chairs and tried to make themselves as small as possible. They were frightened by Yi Donglin's outburst and trembled, not daring to say a word.
Even though the team members had been with Yi Donglin for so long, they had never seen her lose her composure like this. She completely threw her usual manners to the wind and vented her anger by wantonly insulting the base's top brass, completely disregarding whether anyone else would hear her.
The team members wiped their sweat, thinking that Yi Donglin probably wasn't afraid of being heard. After all, he had just cursed in front of the management building not long ago, and these few words in private were not worth mentioning.
"Bitch! A bunch of bitches!"
Yi Donglin pushed the documents on the desk down, and the papers scattered all over the floor.
"I'll hang them from the base gate sooner or later!"
The team member glanced at the closed door with a puzzled look on his face and said to Yi Donglin, "Team Leader Yi, don't be angry yet. That exploration team hasn't been captured yet, and they have a high-level healer in their team, so they won't be in any serious trouble."
Yi Donglin glared at the team members fiercely.
"Who said I care about them?"
Team member: “…”
Okay, I’m flattering you.
Just then, there was a knock on the door. The team members rushed to open the door as if they had been pardoned.
As soon as the door opened, they saw several uniformed staff members of the Supervisory Commission standing outside, and the team members silently closed the door.
Unfortunately, the door closed too slowly and was blocked by an inspector's hand, and was pushed open again.
Three inspectors walked into the office one after another. The leading inspector took out his ID and the team members had to step aside.
"Yi Donglin, we suspect you of colluding with fugitives, selling confidential base documents, embezzling public funds, and using public power for personal gain. Please come with us."
Yi Donglin raised her eyebrows, fell backwards, and lay back on the office chair. The high-end office chair only bounced twice before catching Yi Donglin steadily.
"The higher-ups at the base have finally seen enough?"
The inspector pointed out with a serious expression: "It was the inspector who determined that you were a suspect of a crime. You are obligated to cooperate with our investigation."
Yi Donglin half-reclining in her office chair, turning around: "So many charges! In your eyes, I don't do any experiments every day, and I'm just doing worthless work."
The inspector's expression remained stern, his tone devoid of emotion. "Please come with us. If you refuse to cooperate, we will have no choice but to take strong measures."
"Tough measures? How tough?" Yi Donglin continued provocatively, "If I'm not mistaken, they only let you take me away, but they didn't dare let you hurt me. If anything happens to me, let's see who will be anxious first. Want to guess?"
After all, the inspector has seen a lot of ups and downs. He is like an intelligent robot with a pre-programmed program, and he speaks and acts in a methodical manner.
"Since Team Leader Yi is unwilling to cooperate, we have no choice but to resort to this last resort."
The leading inspector raised his hand and said, "Do it."
The two inspectors at the back immediately took action, one on the left and one on the right, behind Yi Donglin's chair.
"What do you want to do? Hey! What are you doing with the rope?!"
"Don't touch me! Let go! Get away from me!"
“Woo woo woo!”
The two men were quick and agile, and tied up Yi Donglin in no time, not forgetting to shut up her chattering mouth - Yi Donglin strongly suspected that there was a personal grudge involved here, and then, in front of the shocked eyes of the team members, they carried Yi Donglin away.
Before leaving, he did not forget to close the open door.
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