Chapter 88
It took much less time than expected to cook the soup. Lu Shiyu wiped the sweat off his face and started to stir-fry the dishes.
The dried fungus has been soaked in water in advance, and it is just right to use it now. Cut the carrots and cucumbers into small strips horizontally, and then cut them into sections diagonally to get beautiful prismatic shapes.
After the water boils, pour in the chopped carrots and fungus, blanch for three minutes, then pour in the cucumber and blanch for one minute. Remove from the water and set aside immediately after blanching.
Put the tender meat, cooking wine and light soy sauce in the same bowl, mix well and marinate for ten minutes.
Pour cooking oil into an iron pan and heat it. Pour in the beaten egg liquid while the oil is hot. Stir-fry until it is set, then remove from the pan. Pour more oil into the pan, add the minced garlic and stir-fry until fragrant.
The marinated tender meat strips are put into the pot one by one. After being heated, the tender meat begins to curl, turning from a strip into a small circle, and the color becomes more red.
After the tender meat is fried until both sides are golden brown, pour in the cucumber, carrot, and fungus and stir-fry together. The egg is the last one to be poured into the pan.
Then add appropriate amount of salt, light soy sauce, oyster sauce and chicken essence, continue to stir-fry to let the seasoning melt into the dish to make it more flavorful. After stir-frying for a while, you can serve it on a plate.
The tender meat in the torso was processed, but the remaining legs and claws were a bit of a headache.
Because the shell was really too hard, there was no hope of splitting it. Lu Shiyu could only ask Tang Zeyu to help her deal with it, breaking it apart from the joints and breaking it into sections to make it easier to put into the pot. Otherwise, it would be too long and the lid could not cover it.
When Yu put the limbs into the pot one by one, he found that even if he broke them apart, it was difficult for all of them to touch the water. The length of the limbs made it stuck in the middle height of the pot and could not go down, basically in a suspended state.
But she didn't have a bigger pot.
Lu Shiyu looked back and felt that the food should be enough for them, so he simply covered the pot and waited until it was cooked.
Taking advantage of his free time, Lu Shiyu simply prepared a dipping sauce.
Chop the ginger into pieces, add soy sauce, cooking wine, vinegar and sugar and mix well.
After opening the lid of the pot, the water level inside the pot had dropped a lot. Lu Shiyu poked the meat inside the walking legs with chopsticks. When he felt it was almost cooked, he scooped it out, arranged it neatly, and placed the prepared dipping sauce next to it.
On the other side, Chen Yunliang took the internal organs that Lu Shiyu had removed from the large deformed creature, took out two bottles from his bag, and placed them on a flat tree stump.
Chen Yunliang picked up an organ that looked like a water ball, pointed it at the top of a bottle, and then used a knife to melt it from the bottom. The liquid inside instantly flowed into the bottle, emitting a fishy smell.
Chen Yunliang calmly wiped the notebook stained with liquid with a wet towel, not forgetting to wipe off the liquid splashed around. He screwed the bottle cap tightly and set it aside. Then he picked up another internal organ that looked similar and repeated the previous steps.
After collecting both liquids, Chen Yunliang wrapped a circle of bubble film around the bottle to prevent it from being broken by bumps.
"What's this?"
Yan Hong picked up a can curiously and looked at the orange-yellow turbid liquid inside, feeling puzzled.
"This is the secretion of a deformed creature," Chen Yunliang warned. "Be careful not to break it."
At this time, Yan Hong still didn't know the power of such a jar of liquid, and she turned it over and over but couldn't figure it out.
"Is it that important?"
"It's not a matter of whether it's important or not," Chen Yunliang said, pushing up his glasses. "It's just that this liquid is very dangerous."
"Is it dangerous? But didn't you just drop it on your hand?"
Yan Hong looked at Chen Yunliang's hand. There was no trace of it at all, so it didn't look like anything was wrong. Besides, if there was really any injury, Chen Yunliang would never come into direct contact with the liquid like this.
"You still remember the mucus that the deformed creature just spat out, right?" Chen Yunliang put the wrapped bottle into his backpack. "These two liquids are the raw materials that make up that mucus."
“So dangerous!”
Yan Hong hurriedly returned the bottle to Chen Yunliang, but then she came to her senses.
"That's not right. If that's the case, then why are your hands still intact?"
"Because it takes two liquids mixed together to be effective."
Chen Yunliang took out two test tubes from somewhere, and the liquid in each of them was obviously the same as the liquid in the bottle just now.
"This is what I extracted from that little deformed creature. These two liquids are usually stored in different cavities in their bodies. Normally, they don't interfere with each other and coexist peacefully within the body without burdening it. However, if they encounter danger or a predator, they will extract these two liquids from their cavities and reunite them in their mouths."
Having said this, Chen Yunliang also demonstrated to Yan Hong. He placed a small piece of meat on a tree stump, put on gloves and carefully opened the stopper of the test tube. First, he dripped a little liquid on the meat. The meat did not react at all. Then he dripped another liquid on the meat.
A chemical reaction began the moment the two liquids came into contact, making a sizzling sound, and it looked like a piece of meat being frying in hot oil.
The two liquids continued to react. After a while, the two liquids had been almost consumed and the noise gradually subsided.
Only after the reaction of the liquid completely stopped did Yan Hong dare to move closer to check. She saw that the meat, which was originally considered fresh, was now cooked on the side that had come into contact with the liquid. It even looked a little burnt. Not only that, the middle part of the meat was obviously concave.
"That's outrageous," Yan Hong said in disbelief, looking at the piece of meat that was raw on one side and burnt on the other. "It was cooked straight away?"
"That's how powerful the two liquids are when mixed. That's why I told you to be careful. I was fine just now because I wiped my hands clean with a wet towel after filling one liquid. Then when I filled the other liquid, it was safe because there was no mixing with the other liquid."
Chen Yunliang showed Yan Hong the towel with several small holes corroded on it: "But the towel is not very safe."
Yan Hong lowered her head, staring at two cans of liquid that looked ordinary but was actually extremely dangerous, as if she was thinking seriously about something.
After a long while, Yan Hong asked Chen Yunliang in a calm tone, "Do you think food cooked with this liquid is edible?"
Chen Yunliang: “…”
“Dinner is ready!”
When Lu Shiyu came over to call them to eat, he saw the two people pulling their hair.
"Are you a pig? You only think about eating!"
"Can't you be a little more adventurous? Isn't this also a problem?"
"Stop it! You're just greedy!"
Lu Shiyu looked at Tang Zeyu who was watching from the side and asked, "Why are they fighting again?"
Tang Zeyu told them not to pay attention and shouted in their direction, "Dinner is ready."
The two people who were still struggling stopped at the same time, silently let go of each other's hair, tidied their hair and clothes, and quietly went to eat.
"Ah, you're back."
Shaoxing Yang's mouth was stuffed with food, and he was still chewing until several people came over, obviously trying to steal food.
Seeing that Shaoxing Yangdu had already started eating, Yan Hong and Chen Yunliang didn't care about the slight friction just now and quickly joined the group to eat.
Fresh tender meat does not have much taste, only a slight sweetness. Ginger and cooking wine remove its original earthy smell, leaving only the natural sweetness. The freshness ensures its full, firm and elastic taste. The teeth can feel a slight resistance when biting, followed by a crisp and chewy texture.
The fresh cucumber is extremely crisp and refreshing. Although its taste is light, it is slightly sweet and moist, and does not steal the main flavor of the food at all. The tough and crisp carrots are more "solid" than the crisp cucumbers. The plump wood ear mushrooms are full of the flavor of the seasoning and completely absorb the unique aroma of other ingredients, forming a complex and fragrant taste. The first thing you feel when you bite it is the soft elasticity, followed by the crisp taste and thick texture.
The side dishes greatly enhance the flavor of the whole dish, subtly balancing the visual and taste senses. They are not only embellishments, but also an indispensable pairing.
Lu Shiyu helped Tang Zeyu serve a bowl of soup with rich ingredients, which included mushrooms, tofu, eggs and tender meat.
The rich woody aroma of shiitake mushrooms makes the soup base full of mellowness. The eggy aroma is completely integrated into the soup, making it more delicious. The tofu itself has a light taste, but its texture is delicate and delicate, absorbing the essence of the whole pot of soup like a sponge.
The sweetness of tender meat, eggs and mushrooms complement each other harmoniously. The soup lightly wraps around the ingredients, making every bite smooth and moist.
Finally, Lu Shiyu was not very sure about the boiled deformed biological walking legs - although the result seemed to be not much different from the steamed ones.
Shaoxing Yang bit down on the walking leg and almost broke his teeth.
"Hiss! Why is it so hard?"
Faced with the indestructible shell, Shaoxing Yang was like a monkey that had found food it had never seen before. He looked left and right, and finally found that he could take the meat out from the cross-section.
After being boiled in water, the meat of the walking leg becomes easy to remove from the shell. Just insert chopsticks between the shell and the meat, scrape along the edge of the shell, and the meat can be taken out directly.
A piece of white leg meat slid out of the shell. Shaoxing Yang couldn't wait to pick up the meat, dip it in a little sauce, and then took a big bite.
The meat is plump and delicate, with long and distinct fibers. After being cooked, you can tear off a whole piece of meat with just a light tear, and it melts easily when chewed.
The snow-white meat was dipped in the light brown sauce and instantly dyed the same color, and some chopped ginger was taken away when it left the sauce.
The moment you put it in your mouth, you can feel the fermented vinegar aroma rushing straight to your nose and taste buds, accompanied by the spicy feeling of ginger foam blooming on the tip of your tongue. The two pungent smells appear unusually harmonious in the same bowl of dipping sauce, while not covering up the sweetness and freshness of the leg meat. It cleverly balances several flavors without overpowering them.
The mercenary team on the other side had gone to bed early because they had to reduce energy consumption by sleeping due to food shortage.
Neil, who was curled up to sleep, touched his stomach. Although the compressed biscuits could prevent him from starving to death, he was still some distance away from being full. What's more, it was just a bowl of porridge without even any meat. For Neil, it was the same as not eating at all.
Half asleep and half awake, Neil felt that he was hallucinating due to hunger. He seemed to smell some kind of alluring fragrance, which made Neil almost think that he was still at home in the base.
What Neil wanted most at this moment was not the commission or anything else, but a good meal. With the faint aroma, Neil fell asleep with a preset sweet dream.
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