Chapter 176 Going to the Canteen
After Bai Mengmeng processed the fish, she also helped peel the bamboo shoots.
The bamboo shoots are thin and long. If you smell them gently with your nose, you can smell the scent of soil.
I didn't use much force with my fingers, but some water stains appeared on my nails. These bamboo shoots are so tender.
Pinch the tip of the bamboo shoot with your hand and pull it down hard to pull off all the bamboo shoot shells. The bamboo shoot flesh inside is yellow and green and looks tender and white.
The few people worked quickly and soon they had peeled a full sack of bamboo shoots.
"Okay, let's make lunch." Bai Mengmeng stretched and brushed off the dirt on her body.
As the temperature of the sun rose, Huaguduo and Xu Bo began to weigh and put the ingredients into the machine.
As for today’s new dish, braised catfish with spring bamboo shoots in white sauce, Bai Mengmeng naturally has to make it herself.
Cut the cleaned fish into pieces, and then cut the bamboo shoots into diamond shapes. After blanching, set them aside.
Bai Mengmeng felt that if she made too little, it would definitely not be enough to eat. Relying on her good cooking skills, she simply cleaned an iron pot that was so large that it could be used for bathing. Then she heated the pot with cold oil, stir-fried large pieces of onion, ginger and garlic, and started to fry the fish.
The fish meat is fat and tender, and has few bones. After stir-frying in the pan, it looks like chicken and looks particularly delicious.
Wait until the oil temperature gradually rises and the fish begins to change color.
Bai Mengmeng directly took out a bottle of white wine and poured it into the pot.
There was a bang and flames suddenly appeared.
“So handsome!”
The flames were blazing, the aroma of wine was everywhere, and fish and meat were spreading across the kitchen.
Bai Mengmeng quickly added warm water and started to boil it.
Even if only a little water is added to the catfish, the soup will still turn milky white.
When it was almost cooked, Bai Mengmeng started to sprinkle basic seasonings such as salt and sugar.
After turning it over evenly, add the blanched bamboo shoots.
The fish meat was white and tender, and the slightly yellow bamboo shoots looked like beautiful jade. Bai Mengmeng was in a good mood at the moment and couldn't help but recite a couplet.
"Without bamboo, one becomes sad; without meat, one becomes thin. To neither be sad nor thin, one can stew fish with bamboo shoots."
After about ten minutes, before the sauce was reduced over high heat, Bai Mengmeng sprinkled some white pepper on it to enhance the flavor and remove the fishy smell.
The soup is thick and looks particularly delicious with the green and crispy green onions sprinkled on top.
Bai Mengmeng was very satisfied.
"Almost."
Leaving aside the taste of this dish, the appearance alone is very good.
The white and rich soup, the plump and tender fish meat, the slightly yellow bamboo shoots, and the green onions are so delicious that it makes your mouth water.
Bai Mengmeng suddenly didn't want to use the stainless steel basin anymore, as it really lowered the grade.
"This plate doesn't look good at all. It doesn't look high-end at all."
Xu Bo thought for a while and found a few white porcelain bowls.
"Use this. The small bowls look better."
"That's right."
Huaguduo took out her phone and played a song while drooling: "I think at a time like this, we need some appropriate background music."
With the music from Cooking Master Boy playing, Bai Mengmeng started to divide the dishes with a proud look on her face.
"By the way, didn't Master Pi say today that Team 12 is back? Will they come to dinner?"
Huaguduo thought for a moment and said, "That shouldn't be the case. Don't the bosses always give us special treatment? And they didn't even inform us."
Bai Mengmeng thinks that’s right.
Actually, we cooked a lot of dishes today, so it wouldn’t matter if there were more people.
…
Through the continuous recruitment of talents through the selection competition, Zigai Mountain has absorbed several hundred monks in total.
After these people have been trained and assessed, those on the fourth day of the New Year will be assigned to twelve teams.
These teams have different roles.
For example, Team No. 1 focuses on military force and has more attack-oriented monks.
Most of the members of Team No. 12 are medical practitioners and pharmacists. They usually research newer medical technologies, solve difficult and complicated diseases, and are responsible for treating illnesses.
Such teams are usually sent to carry out more difficult tasks.
If you contribute more, you will naturally be treated preferentially and get more resources than others.
The captain of each team is a rare talent.
Not only did they represent the strongest talent level at the time, but they were all at least at the foundation-building stage.
There are even three people among them who have entered the Golden Core Stage.
For example, the medical practitioner Hua Hualiu, the captain of the twelfth team, is in the Jindan stage.
For example, the formation master Zheng Yuanqi, the captain of the 11th team, is in the Jindan stage.
Fu Xiu Ye Qingxuan, captain of the ninth team, is in the Jindan stage.
Team No. 1 is the most powerful team. Its captain is a swordsman named Yin Wufeng, who is very powerful with the Gentleman Sword.
He is still at the foundation-building stage, but his combat awareness and combat experience are extremely rich, and he can be called the strongest person in terms of martial arts.
…
It is now late April. The cold wave has ended and spring has returned. The dormant spiritual veins on Mount Zigai seem to have awakened. Now is the most suitable time for cultivation.
The captains of the twelve teams returned to the island together today.
In addition to reporting on their work, they also have to prepare to teach talent courses to new cultivators entering the mountain.
Early in the morning, the team leaders came to Director Fang's office.
This group of cultivators, Director Fang held a meeting for the whole morning today. When he came out, it was already time for lunch, but there was no lunch in the lounge.
"No food?"
Yin Wufeng frowned.
Every year when we come to report on our work, since no one likes to eat food made by machines, Chef Pi will specially order a table of food from Shiweixuan and put it in the lounge for everyone.
Why isn’t it here now?
Ye Qingxuan sneered: "Isn't it all because of you? You fried all their fish to death, so they won't cook for you!"
Yin Wufeng was unable to refute for a moment: "It was just an accident. I was feeling the sword practice and couldn't hold it back."
"Then when you want to go to the toilet, can't you hold it in?"
Yin Wufeng was speechless. After a long while, he nodded and said, "That's right, I just can't hold it in."
Everyone: ...
Ye Qingxuan: "Only old men can't hold their urine. If you have a prostate problem, why not get treatment?"
Yin Wufeng: ...
The two of them never got along.
Seeing that there was no food to eat, the discussion was about to start with me.
Hua Hualiu quickly said, "Alright, stop arguing. If we don't have food, let's go to the cafeteria."
As soon as these words were spoken, everyone's expressions became strange.
Although cultivators do not pay much attention to the desire for food, especially captains like them.
But Hua Hualiu particularly likes delicious food and even brings a cook with her when she goes out.
There is even a member in the team who may not be very talented but has good cooking skills.
Now such a picky eater actually asked everyone to go to the cafeteria to eat, which was really surprising to everyone.
Noticing that everyone was looking at her in surprise, Hua Hualiu smiled mysteriously: "The cafeteria is a little different now, you'll see later."
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