Chapter 37 "Then let's begin..."
"Shall we begin our work today?" Lin Guo handed over four pairs of shoe covers. "Put them on and come over here to choose your favorite apron."
Several brand-new, cute aprons with different patterns were hanging on the wall, clearly prepared specifically for the show's guests.
Following Lin Guo through the dazzling array of goods on display, stepping up a small flight of stairs and walking a few steps into the workbench, an oven was running, and the rich aroma of baking cookies wafted into our noses.
Lu He'an couldn't help but swallow hard. He craned his neck and asked, "Can people eat these things?"
Lin Guo turned on all the lights on the workbench and explained to everyone, "Yes, but the snacks made for pets, such as jerky, are baked raw, so it's not recommended to eat too much of them. People with sensitive stomachs are prone to diarrhea from eating them."
The workbench was spotless, with a polished white ceramic surface. The entire workbench was neat and orderly, with many baking equipment placed to the side.
Between the workbench and the display area is a partition, the upper part of which is separated by a huge glass panel, allowing a clear view of the shop's interior. Outside the glass, on the cat tree to the right front, an adorable, round kitten is lazily licking its paws.
Lin Guo took out the necessary ingredients and placed them on the workbench: "We need to make four kinds today, namely pet biscuits, cucumber, chicken and duck slices, duck and pear jerky, and chicken and apple donuts."
Considering the drying time, we need to put the snacks we made into the dehydrator before 2 PM so that we can finish baking by tomorrow morning and sell them outside in the afternoon. Time is quite tight, so let's get started!
Cameras were already set up on the workbench, and with photographers moving around, the pet baking team's live stream was divided into two two-person cameras and one all-person camera.
Lin Guo, holding up chicken and duck breast, asked, "Whose knife skills are better? They need to be sliced into thin slices of about 2 millimeters."
As the young master of the Lu family, Lu He'an had never stepped into a kitchen in his life, let alone done something like slicing thin meat.
Lu He'an was very self-aware: "I'm not good at this, I'll do something else."
Seeing that the other three people besides himself looked hesitant, Shen Li said, "I'll slice it."
He goes into the kitchen a lot.
When he was little, he helped the director with the kitchen utensils and bowls. Later, as the director got older, his movements became less agile, and he became the oldest child in the entire orphanage. After the director accidentally cut his finger, Shen Li took over the job of cooking for his younger siblings.
Later, Shen Li married Jiang Huaichuan. Jiang Huaichuan was a picky eater. If he didn't like the dishes Wang Ma made, he would only eat a couple of bites before stopping. Shen Li was afraid that he would ruin his stomach by eating like that, so she would go into the kitchen whenever she had time.
Honestly, Shen Li knew that his cooking skills were not very good, at most just average home cooking. He was very nervous when he first cooked a dish and served it on the table, worried that Jiang Huaichuan would not eat it, and worried that Jiang Huaichuan would ridicule him for wasting his time.
But for the first time ever, all the dishes were eaten that day.
Shen Li still remembers what Jiang Huaichuan said to her while standing by the table after they finished eating.
"It's delicious, I like it very much, thank you."
Shen Li sat at the dining table in a daze for a long time. Looking at the empty plates on the table, he felt an indescribable sense of satisfaction.
Perhaps it was simply because of Jiang Huaichuan's words, or perhaps it was simply because she wanted to spend more time with Jiang Huaichuan, but whenever she had time, Shen Li would cook for him herself.
Although she has been cooking much less frequently in the past six months, Shen Li still likes to buy fresh ingredients and cook hot pot with Jiang Huaichuan at home on weekends.
Shen Li lowered his eyes in thought, thinking that his current knife skills should still be able to withstand the attack.
Lin Guo asked with a smile, "Anything else? Because three out of our four snacks need to be sliced, it's quite a lot of work, so it's best if two people work together."
Fang Xuan hesitated. Although he had also gone into the kitchen, his slicing was shaky, and he wasn't sure he could slice it as thinly. After a couple of seconds of hesitation, Fang Xuan raised his hand: "I can try..."
"I'll do it."
Before Fang Xuan could finish speaking, he heard a familiar voice beside him, and he frowned in surprise.
“Alo, you…”
Wang Luo didn't look at Fang Xuan. He stood next to Shen Li, almost shoulder to shoulder.
Wang Luo emphasized, "It's settled then. Xiao Li and I will slice it together."
Fang Xuan's expression froze. He couldn't quite understand Wang Luo, but he didn't say anything. He thought forlornly that Wang Luo might be capable of doing it, but he had never done it for him before.
Lu He'an was inexplicably pushed aside by Wang Luo. His face was ugly, but he couldn't lash out in front of the camera. He could only stomp his foot in frustration, looking as angry as a pufferfish.
[Hmm, this feels a bit strange...]
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[Our brother is so brave! He has hands meant for filming, and he even used a knife! It's heartbreaking.]
【？？】
The strong scent of Wang Luo's perfume reached Shen Li's nose. Shen Li frowned slightly, shifted her toes slightly, and moved closer to Lu He'an.
Lu He'an's face instantly lit up with a warm smile.
Finally, Shen Li and Wang Luo were responsible for slicing the chicken and duck breasts, while Fang Xuan and Lu He'an were responsible for putting the other ingredients into the meat grinder and grinding them.
Ten minutes later—
“I never expected it would be the two of us together.” Wang Luo, holding a knife, stood to Shen Li’s left, staring at Shen Li with an ambiguous tone. “It’s quite a coincidence.”
Shen Li gave a soft "hmm," not sparing him a glance. His eyelashes drooped, and his slender, pale fingers held a pair of black scissors as he focused intently on trimming away the excess grease from the meat.
Hehe, I'll just pretend this is someone cooking for me.
[How rude! He didn't even respond when his brother spoke.]
[Did you eat that "um"? Besides, your brother is so talkative; ten minutes have passed and he hasn't done a single thing!]
"Hey, don't fight, don't fight, don't hurt our friendship." Seeing someone on the screen standing up for him, Wang Luo immediately smiled and said, "Xiao Li, can you teach me how to cut it? Is it like this?"
Shen Li stopped what he was doing and looked at Wang Luo's hands. He reached out and turned the meat around, pointing to the grain and saying, "Cut the knife vertically, just cut along the grain."
"Okay, thank you, Xiao Li."
Shen Li paused, then frowned.
Brother, you're so kind!
Wang Luo's smile deepened as he looked at the knife. He placed his hand on the counter and occasionally slid it across the meat in front of him, making many irregular cuts on a piece of meat.
In a blind spot where the camera couldn't capture the shot, Wang Luo's eyes revealed disgust.
He has no idea how to do this; those soft, limp things are the most disgusting.
Wang Luo thought for a moment and then chatted with the viewers in the live chat even more diligently, using the chat to divert everyone's attention and thus cover up the fact that he didn't know how to use a knife at all.
Behind them, Fang Xuan kept gnawing meat while peeking his head in this direction.
Shen Li picked up a piece of chicken breast and, seeing that Wang Luo was still chatting with the comments, he said tactfully, "Put the cut pieces in this box."
“Okay,” Wang Luo replied.
Another ten minutes passed, and Lin Guo had replaced all the boxes in front of Wang Luo with new ones, but Wang Luo still hadn't produced anything. Shen Li got angry and said to Wang Luo, "Please stop torturing this piece of flesh. Give him a quick death, okay?"
Wang Luo's confident and eloquent expression instantly froze.
Hahahaha
Twenty minutes have passed, and this piece of meat still hasn't been subjected to slow slicing (shrugs).
Does he even know how to do it?
These words may have touched a nerve with Wang Luo's fans, as the comments section became quite chaotic.
[Isn't my brother learning? Shen Li's teaching isn't very clear, so it's normal that he doesn't know how to start. Is it necessary to be so harsh?]
[That's right, my brother is so busy, maybe he's a little rusty, but he doesn't want to waste ingredients, so it's slow.]
Can't Li's fans be a little more tolerant? They really are like their idols, so indifferent!
Instantly, some viewers in the live chat couldn't stand it anymore.
[What the heck?! If he didn't know how, he shouldn't have taken the job! Fang Xuan raised his hand too, but your brother insisted he knew how, so it was assigned to him. This is work, okay? There's a time limit! How much time did your brother waste?]
[This is hilarious! Which eye of yours saw Shen Li being indifferent? He asked several times, and Shen Li taught him, right? I've never been in a kitchen, but I know that you have to cut the meat along the grain to make it chewier. I know how to do that. And what happened? The meat is still cut against the grain. What are you pretending for? If you don't know how, then don't. If you don't know how, then find someone else. You're wasting everyone's time.]
Wang Luo's little scheme was exposed. On the one hand, he wanted to have more contact with Shen Li and try to interact with her in a scene, so that people would naturally swoon over them.
On the other hand, he really didn't know how to cut, nor did he want to. He sensed that Shen Li didn't talk much, so even if he didn't work and just chatted, no one would say anything even if they had opinions.
Who knew that Shen Li would break this balance and put him in front of the camera, forcing him to do it.
Wang Luo was displeased, but the image of Shen Li's luxury car from that day flashed before his eyes, so he suppressed his displeasure and sliced a few pieces.
【？？】
What is this? Zhengxin large chicken cutlet?
One after another, giant slices of meat emerged from Wang Luo's hands. Lin Guo stood to the side, her eyes wide with disbelief. She looked awkwardly at the staff outside.
If we let him continue cutting like that, this will have to be redone!
Shen Li's eyes were calm; as expected.
Shen Li's calm demeanor appeared to the viewers in the live stream as a sign of utter despair and collapse.
Please help my wife, she feels like she's about to break.
I feel so sorry for Shen Li. May I never encounter a colleague like that at work.
The atmosphere instantly became a little awkward. Fang Xuan stared at the back of Wang Luo's head. Although he didn't know what Wang Luo's purpose was in doing this, perhaps he wanted to get more screen time, he still couldn't bear to see Wang Luo looking so helpless.
Fang Xuan stepped forward, took the knife from Wang Luo, and said in a low voice, "I can't really stand the smell of minced meat, let's switch."
"Sure."
After saying that, Wang Luo ran to the other side as if fleeing.
Fang Xuan smiled at Shen Li: "I'm really sorry."
Shen Li shook her head: "It's nothing."
Fang Xuan's technique wasn't superb, but it was still pretty good. He didn't control the pressure well at the beginning and cut the first few slices too thickly, but he cut the rest very thinly.
Compared to Fang Xuan's ease and composure, Wang Luo on the other side felt extremely uncomfortable.
Because Lu He'an was left here, and Lu He'an didn't give me any face at all.
"Please, can you take a look at what's inside the machine?"
Lu He'an was furious. There were two machines in front of him, one grinding chicken breast and the other grinding yam. He had told Wang Luo several times, but he still got it wrong, causing the chicken breast and yam to mix together.
After failing a second time, Lu He'an couldn't take it anymore. He ignored the camera and confronted the person directly.
Lu He'an slammed the meatball on the table: "Are you dreaming?"
How can there be such a stupid person?
Wang Luo didn't care at all. He put the newly made yam and chicken breast mixture into the box next to him: "It can be used anyway. Wouldn't it be good to make more cookies?"
Lu He'an rolled her eyes so hard they almost reached the sky: "..."
Those biscuits are practically everywhere!
【Why……】
[This looks exactly like my deadbeat husband, it makes me so angry!]
Please, I can tolerate working on weekends, but watching variety shows while slacking off is driving me crazy!
Lu He'an was furious; his eyes were red and his chest heaved.
Damn it, this idiot is just dragging them down!
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