Chapter 220 Meeting an apprentice who knows everything will drive you crazy sooner or later!
People may feel jealous of those who are slightly more talented than themselves, but when faced with those who are far more talented, all that remains is awe and reverence.
Liu Lin clearly realized that Pan Duole's future was limitless, so his attitude immediately made a 180° turn.
After Pandora cleaned the mutated deer's fur, he began to instruct her on how to tan the fur.
Liu Lin shared his secrets without reservation: "First, put the raw hides in box number 1 on the left. There's a thermostat heater there that can keep the water temperature around 10°C."
After soaking for 12 hours, take it out and put it in box number 2 next to it, where an appropriate amount of caustic soda has been added.
The ratio of caustic soda to water varies depending on the type and size of the animal hides; this needs to be gradually explored through practice.
Do you understand what "appropriate amount" means?
“I understand. Just like when my sister taught me to cook, she would say to add salt as needed, which means to add salt according to the actual situation!” Pan Duole said happily.
"Strictness! Attitude is the most important thing when tanning furs, understand?"
Adding too much caustic soda will make the tanned fur too soft and the hides relatively fragile.
If the proportion of alkali is too small, it won't be able to completely remove the oils from the leather, leaving a lingering odor, and the fur will be too stiff and lack elasticity..."
Liu Lin patiently explained the entire tanning process to her, which gave Pan Duole a headache. Finally, she couldn't take it anymore and said:
“Master Liu, all of what you’ve said is in the ‘Refining Tips’ book that Grandpa Butler gave me. I’ve already memorized it.”
"Since you already know it all, why did you come here?" Liu Lin said angrily.
“Practice skinning! Grandpa Butler only has books, no animal skins for me to skin,” Pando said with amusement.
Liu Lin: Encountering an apprentice who knows everything will drive you crazy sooner or later!
However, despite his anger, he was mostly happy.
This little girl is talented and lucky. It seems that a master craftsman has already taken a liking to her. All she lacks now is basic practical experience.
Since her purpose in coming here was to practice skinning, Liu Lin didn't want to waste her time. Coincidentally, the mercenary group had made quite a few harvests recently, and he had half a warehouse full of animal hides waiting to be processed.
Liu Lin simply took out five frozen mutated beasts and handed them to her at once: "You handle it yourself. Thaw them, skin them, and clean them. Get these steps done first, and leave the rest to me."
"Really? That's wonderful! Thank you, Master Liu! You're such a kind person!" Pan Duole was extremely excited.
Master Liu: Another friend card issued! He doesn't even look like a good person, does he?
Before she knew it, it was lunchtime. Liu Lin called her to eat, but Pan Duole waved her hand and said, "I'll eat later. This pangolin of mine is only missing its tail!"
Liu Lin had no choice but to wait for her to finish.
Sigh! This girl is indeed different from the other odd jobs. They're so happy to jump for joy when they hear him call them to eat that they don't want to waste a single second.
But what did she do? She wasted a whole half hour, not only peeling off the tail, but also cleaning it, and then shaving off the skeleton of the skinned mutated beast and cutting it into neat 20-centimeter square pieces like those sold in the store.
In her words, such chunks of meat are easy to sell and easy to cook.
His workshops always just skinned the bloody corpses and stuffed them into sealed bags; who would bother cutting the corpses into pieces for them?
Fortunately, mercenary groups all have detectors that can directly detect the material, weight, and radiation level. Otherwise, if you kindly help someone cut it up, they might suspect you of embezzling their meat.
No, he wants to charge extra for cleaning and cutting.
Lunch was dried wild vegetables cooked with animal meat. In the past, those who did odd jobs were only allowed to gnaw on two pieces of animal bones and drink a bowl of wild vegetable and meat soup. But seeing the girl's hard work, Liu Lin felt really embarrassed and insisted on giving her one of the two pieces of cooked animal meat.
Pan Duole frowned as he gnawed on the tough, pungent second-tier mutated dog meat.
"What? You ungrateful girl, you actually complain that the meat doesn't taste good?" Liu Lin said angrily. He had finally been generous this time, and this was her reaction?
"Master Chef, you actually made such delicious meat tenderloin taste terrible! What a waste!" Pan Duole said bluntly.
She had only recently learned the phrase "wasteful" and never expected to use it on Master Liu so soon.
"You say my cooking is bad? Mutant beast meat can only be roasted or stewed. The meat of this second-tier mutant jackal is already very tough, so what else can we do besides stew it?" Master Liu said.
“You can grind it into minced meat, mix it with wild vegetables, steam it, and add some chopped wild chives to mask its fishy smell. Why don’t you try it?” Pan Duole said happily.
My sister once said that cooking methods don't need to be kept secret. Even if everyone knows how to cook, not many people can actually make it taste really good, since not everyone has the right ingredients.
Master Liu's stewed meat was really awful. Considering that she would be working odd jobs here and eating Master Liu's lunches every day, she couldn't help but offer some pointers.
Liu Lin wasn't unwilling to have the handymen help with cooking; it was just that food in the wasteland was too precious, and he was worried that the handymen would steal his meat, so he cooked the meal himself.
Now the little girl was complaining about the meat he stewed, and he was furious. He glared at her and said, "If you're so good, then you do it! I want to see how delicious your cooking is!"
Pandora didn't actually want to cook for him; she was there to practice peeling skins, and cooking would be such a waste of time!
Master Liu was so kind; on her first day of work, he allowed her to peel the meat herself and even gave her a piece of meat for lunch.
She wasn't ungrateful; she knew that most bosses wouldn't easily share meat with their handymen. Being given a bowl of meat soup was considered extremely generous.
In order to prevent Master Liu from continuing to waste his talents, she decided to show him her skills, even though her cooking was far inferior to her sister's.
Next, Pandora started chopping the meat. After the meat was chopped, Liu Lin gave her a frozen leek leaf. He had found it when the mercenary group went hunting a while ago and gave her a few leaves to curry favor with him.
Pandora thought of the fresh chives in her sister's plantation and couldn't help but sigh. This winter, she felt like she was living in paradise. In the past, when the extreme cold came, she and her mother could only eat dried vegetables.
The meat and frozen chive leaves were chopped into small pieces, salted, and mixed well. Master Liu didn't have any starch at home, so he could only put the mixed filling in a plate and steam it.
Half an hour later, the aroma of meat mixed with the fresh scent of chives filled the room, dispelling the stench of blood from the workshop.
Just smelling it, Master Liu already thought it smelled delicious.
After eating it, he was speechless; it was so delicious he almost cried.
Unexpectedly, this apprentice who did odd jobs not only had a high talent for weapon crafting, but also had superb cooking skills.
Alas! It's a pity his talent is limited; he's not fortunate enough to take such a genius as his apprentice.
Pan Duole saw that he could eat this simple version of wild vegetable meatballs and it smelled so good that he almost cried. He wanted to recommend his own wild vegetable meatballs to him, but he was worried that Master Liu would not have enough purchasing power.
Giving him food for free is definitely not an option; she works for him and earns her wages by selling her physical labor.
She had already taught him a recipe for free because she thought he was a very kind person.
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