Chapter 102
The kitchen is well-equipped with various facilities...
Senior Jiang was a very direct person, so when Cheng Hui and the others opened their eyes, they found themselves in a huge kitchen.
The kitchen is fully equipped with various facilities, and the warehouse next to the kitchen is also filled with various ingredients.
The ingredients were so rich in content that Cheng Hui was dazzled and wanted to show off his cooking skills. Fortunately, he remembered his character as a culinary black hole in time and put those things down with regret.
"You can use whatever ingredients you like. As long as you can make four dishes and a soup that satisfies me within three hours, you'll pass."
Jiang Nu dragged out a recliner from somewhere and lay down on it. She poured herself a cup of tea. The clear tea was fragrant and there were a few bright red cherries floating in the emerald green tea soup.
Jiang Nu took a sip of her food happily, then collapsed on the recliner with satisfaction, playing with the instant noodles she had asked from Cheng Hui.
Her slender, white, round fingers tapped the dough and sniffed it, quickly figuring out how it was made. Then, she began analyzing the seasoning packet, and just as quickly figured out all the proportions.
Cheng Hui was amazed watching from the side. Jiang Nu was indeed an expert in cooking. His instant noodles were not something particularly complicated, but Lin Qingyang had spent a lot of time preparing the ingredients. He didn't expect that Jiang Nu had gotten the complete recipe just by looking and smelling without even tasting it. She was really amazing.
"Sister Jiang, what flavor do you like? Light or strong? Or... do you like spicy food?" Cheng Hui asked with a smile.
Jiang Nu glanced at him with a half-smile: "Isn't it inappropriate for you to ask me this?"
"Well, what's inappropriate about that? As a chef, of course you have to consider the guests' tastes when cooking. If you serve a light vegetarian noodle dish to a guest who likes strong flavors, or a table full of fish and meat to a monk, the former is fine, but the latter will probably get a beating." Cheng Hui shrugged. "So, it's normal for a qualified chef to ask the guests about their preferences in advance."
Jiang Nu smiled and said, "Okay, my dear little brother, since you are so sincere, I prefer things with strong flavors. I also like spicy food and I especially hate sweet things. Oh, and I really, really like eating meat. As long as it's meat, I basically won't refuse it."
Upon hearing this, Cheng Hui was secretly glad that he had thought of asking. Otherwise, he would never have imagined that such a beautiful and graceful woman actually didn't like sweet food and loved spicy food.
He always thought that girls couldn't resist sweets...except when they were dieting to lose weight.
I quickly turned around to look at Lin Qingyang, and he had decisively put back the ingredients he had just taken out to make dessert.
Strong taste, no spicy food——
Lin Qingyang pondered for a while and decisively decided on a menu of four dishes and one soup.
If you love spicy food, boiled pork slices and boiled fish are both suitable. Since Cheng Hui prefers boiled pork slices, Lin Qingyang chose the former.
In addition, there are stir-fried pork intestines, twice-cooked pork, spicy diced chicken, and the only non-spicy soup on the table - boiled cabbage.
The main reason for making boiled cabbage is that Lin Qingyang feels that such a mellow and delicious clear soup can purify the spicy taste, making the spicy dishes spicier and more enjoyable to eat.
It takes a lot of time to boil cabbage, but fortunately, there is such an advantage in the world of cultivation. If you don't have enough time, you can make up for it with your skills. The Blazing Palm that Lin Qingyang learned specifically for controlling the heat is used to perfection, and Cheng Hui is amazed every time he sees it.
He still remembered the distorted expression on his master Wuyouzi's face when he learned that Lin Qingyang wanted to learn the Scorching Flame Palm in order to cook for him.
“It smells so good.”
The aroma of the fried peppers was very pungent, but after smelling it, Ms. Jiang sat up from the recliner as if she had taken stimulants.
Smelling the fragrance wafting from the kitchen, Jiang Nu felt a little restless. She was an expert in cooking, but she had been trapped in the black tower for so many years, working behind closed doors, with no one who could really communicate with her about cooking. As a result, although she was skilled in other aspects, she was particularly poor at innovation.
I've been stuck here for so long, the view outside the window is always the same, how can I have the extra inspiration to invent new dishes!
Even for many ingredients, she only knew their names but had never seen them. After all, only people who had truly seen that kind of ingredient could enter her dream and allow her to create the corresponding things.
In other words, some of the ingredients in the kitchen warehouse were prepared by Ms. Jiang, while the other materials that Lin Qingyang was using were actually constructed based on the memories of Lin Qingyang and Cheng Hui.
Jiang Nu smelled the fragrance in the air and couldn't help swallowing.
It smells so good.
What others find spicy and pungent is a delicacy for Jiang Nu.
In the past, all the little animals that met her had to work hard to cook, but she would still criticize them for everything, saying this was not good, that was not right, the heat was too high, there was not enough salt... It was really heartbreaking to hear.
But at this time, Jiang Nu was no longer as idle as before. Instead, she took the initiative to move the table and chairs. If the meal was not ready yet, she would have served the meal and placed it on the table.
Sitting on a chair, guarding the empty table, Jiang Nu stared at the kitchen until a tall and thin figure walked out of there. Then she pretended to be cold and casual, trying to maintain her status.
Cheng Hui, who watched all this, said: ...Well, well, Sister Jiang, did you forget that I have been standing right beside you?
Cheng Hui wanted to go in and help, but was driven out by Lin Qingyang, so he could only stay in a corner. Unexpectedly, he perfectly witnessed the whole process of Jiang Nu trying to show off.
Ms. Jiang also realized belatedly that Cheng Hui had been standing beside her. Her expression was a little stiff, and then she glared at him with a very fierce look, as if she wanted to kill him to silence him.
Cheng Hui: ...
Cherish life and keep silent.
He silently made a gesture to shut up. After reading it, Jiang Nu coughed twice and decided to turn the page.
"The dishes are all here." Lin Qingyang usually doesn't talk much when facing others. This time, he only said this after all four dishes and one soup were served on the table.
Ms. Jiang no longer cared about what he said. She had been keeping her eyes on the bright red dishes since they were served on the table.
"Please." Cheng Hui took the initiative to serve a bowl of rice to Sister Jiang.
Although the ingredients used were not from his own garden, Lin Qingyang did not feel bad about using them. He picked the best of all kinds of materials, and even chose the most expensive green core rice. This kind of rice has a glossy surface after it is cooked, and has a soft and chewy texture with a sweet taste. It smells fragrant when it is just out of the pot, and has a light sweet fragrance after it cools down slightly.
Jiang Nu picked up the bowl and observed the green rice. The light green appearance combined with the sweet aroma made the appearance of this bowl of rice soar. She took a bite, and the slightly sweet taste lightly stimulated the taste buds, which made people's appetite involuntarily open and look forward to more delicious food.
She picked up a piece of pale white meat with the white jade chopsticks and put it into her mouth. After chewing it for a while, Jiang Nu's eyes suddenly lit up.
Then, the pair of jade chopsticks were seen flying back and forth between several dishes at an incredible speed.
And the vegetables are decreasing at a rate visible to the naked eye.
Cheng Hui: ...not that I would eat so much.
Jiang Nu's movements were still graceful. If it weren't for the jade chopsticks that moved so quickly that only afterimages could be seen, proving her satisfaction with the dishes, one wouldn't have guessed from looking at her expression that she was enjoying the food so much...
When all the dishes were eaten up, even the jade bowl of boiled cabbage did not have any water stains, it was so clean as if it had been licked, Jiang Nu put down her chopsticks in satisfaction and lay down on the chair, holding her stomach.
"I haven't felt so satisfied with a meal in a long time... wuwuwu..." Jiang Nv touched her belly. For some reason, she felt so sad that she started crying.
Cheng Hui's scalp was about to explode. He had never coaxed a girl before. At a time like this, he should... He winked at Lin Qingyang.
Go ahead and use your unique way of acting cute to win her over.
Lin Qingyang looked at him expressionlessly. Me? Acting like a spoiled child? To her? You're probably still asleep!
Cheng Hui: ...
Hey, the child is grown up and it’s not easy to fool him... although he has never succeeded in fooling him before.
Fortunately, Miss Jiang stopped crying after a while. Cheng Hui lowered his head, wishing he didn't exist.
Jiang Nu wiped away her tears, her expression returning to its previous calmness. She smiled at Cheng Hui and said, "Oh, I'm so sorry for making you two little brothers laugh."
"No, no..." Cheng Hui waved his hands repeatedly.
Normally, he would be a bit naughty, but when facing a girl who had just cried, he felt really uncomfortable.
"Well, old people tend to daydream. It has nothing to do with you." Jiang Nu smiled and waved her hand. "By the way, didn't you want the Hundred Beasts Picture? Here..."
As she spoke, she threw out a scroll.
Cheng Hui caught the scroll and was a little slow to react.
Just... it's so easy to get it?
But on second thought, it's true. They entered the Black Tower and went through several tests before they successfully got the clue about Jiang Nu. If their choices had been slightly different, they might still be wandering around in the Black Tower looking for clues.
According to the young lady in palace dress in the hall, the Picture of a Hundred Beasts only recently fell into Jiang Nu's hands. They were definitely very lucky to be able to get it smoothly.
"By the way, why do you want the Hundred Beasts Picture?" Jiang Nu was a little curious.
Cheng Hui had no intention of hiding anything and said directly that they had met people from a village outside and their village chief asked them to help take the Hundred Beasts Picture out.
"Is that so..." Jiang Nu thought thoughtfully: "If I'm not mistaken, they should be..." Thinking of something, she suddenly stopped talking, then took out a book and handed it to Cheng Hui, asking him to give the Hundred Beasts Picture and the book together to the village chief.
Cheng Hui agreed, and Jiang Nu waved her hand and sent the two out.
They appeared in the lounge again. The raccoon had just slurped a bowl of noodles. Perhaps there was no one around, so it was holding the pot and licking the soup with its tongue.
As soon as Cheng Hui and the others appeared, he discovered them. He was so frightened that he accidentally spilled the remaining soup on his face.
Raccoon: ...
Cheng Hui, who witnessed everything: ...Hold on, don’t laugh!
Fortunately, the soup was already warm, otherwise this would not be a comedy but a tragedy...
Perhaps because someone had seen its embarrassing side, the raccoon didn't stay long, cleaned itself up and ran away.
Cheng Hui and Lin Qingyang had completed their mission here. After some discussion, they decided to leave the Black Tower.
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