Chapter 040
"There must be some misunderstanding here that we're not aware of. Please wait a moment." Unable to explain why Qingxi took out the fish, Rengoku Makijuro could only temporarily calm his own people. "Since Axi was able to take it out in front of us, it means that the lord also knows about this matter."
"Did you hear the lord mention the appearance of her ingredients?" Kitani Xuanying retorted, "She must have deceived the lord."
"We have to wait for the lord to come and decide." Rengoku Makijuro insisted.
On this side, Rengoku Makijuro stopped Kitaya Genei, and on the other side, Beimingyu Gyomei, who vaguely knew what the current situation was through the conversation between the two, stopped Hasegawa Naoto.
Just as the four pillars were looking like a storm was about to break out because of the fish Qingxi took out, the sound of a clear blade cutting through the air was heard.
The four people who were originally on the verge of a fight paused, then they all turned their heads to look at the girl who had caused the disagreement and almost led to a fight between them.
Qingxi also heard the noise made by the four pillars, but she didn't take it to heart.
Because this is the headquarters of the Demon Slayer Corps, where Ubuyashiki Kōya and Lady Amane live. If they still have some sense, they wouldn't really fight here.
What's more, Madam Tianyin is still giving birth at this moment, so there is no way they can fight.
No, if this really happened, they would have to start considering whether the other party was a spy sent by the demons to the Demon Slayer Corps.
He moved his ten fingers and shook his arms.
Qingxi murmured, "Although I've been using a kitchen knife a lot recently, I've never tried to use this small body to cut ingredients as large as this. I hope I can keep doing it."
The long tables that Beiming Island Xingming and the others brought out were all low long tables that people could sit around on the tatami in the house. This height was convenient for Qingxi.
Picking up the kitchen knife lying quietly on the chopping board, she began to process the noble fish in front of her.
Although a “poor student” has many tools, he also has a kitchen knife that belongs to him personally and is easy to use.
Minghuang was made by Melk using the back of the Bone-Feathered Phoenix, an ancient beast that has become extinct in the Gourmet World, and polished bit by bit using Melk stardust.
It is rumored that the meat of the Bone-Feathered Phoenix itself has no nutritional value at all, and eating one bite is no different from eating wood residue. All the nutrients in its body are absorbed by the spine on its back, so its spine is also called the "Nutrition Garden".
Some chefs, after obtaining it, will put it in a pot and boil it with the purest water, boiling it into a pot of thick and sticky soup and store it for use when needed.
But more chefs prefer to use it to make kitchen utensils.
Because it is rich in the nutrients of all the ingredients that the Bone-Feathered Phoenix ate during its lifetime, the spine itself has a natural ability to preserve freshness. Even when cooking with kitchen utensils polished with it, the quality of the ingredients can be improved.
Bone-feathered Phoenix, capture level 155.
Of course, being able to take a stroll around the food world doesn’t mean she has the ability to fight against the Bone-Feathered Phoenix.
Do you understand the meaning of vulgar development?
Perhaps there might be a few or three of them still living somewhere in the food world, but she had never encountered one. The piece of bone-feathered phoenix spine she obtained was a fossil dug out from a thousand meters underground using the Eye of Dialysis.
One piece was given to Melk to be made into a kitchen knife, one piece was the reward for making the kitchen knife, and since she hadn't figured out what to do with the rest, she put it in her food backpack and kept it until now.
Scrape off the fish scales, remove the gills, use a kitchen knife to gently cut open the fish belly and take out the fish viscera, rinse every corner of the fish belly with clean water to rinse away all the blood inside.
Do not throw away the scales and internal organs of the lady fish. Because it lives in nutrient-rich waters, its scales and internal organs can be processed into a delicious dish to go with wine.
Soak in high-purity water, peel off and remove the fascia and fat around the fish intestines, heart, liver, fish maw, and fish roe, and set aside.
Next comes chopping off the head.
Qingxi encountered a little trouble when chopping the head. The lady fish was too big and the head was too high. Her short arms could not reach the top of the fish head.
After determining that it would be inconvenient even with the help of a small stool, she turned her head and landed on Sizhu who was standing beside her.
"Mr. Beimingyu, could you please come over and pick me up?"
The four people who were about to fight at the slightest disagreement quieted down when Qingxi took out the kitchen knife.
Regardless of whether there is anything wrong with that strange fish, just seeing the kitchen knife in Qingxi's hand that can attract everyone's attention at a glance and her skillful way of handling the ingredients, one can tell that she is a skilled chef who really knows how to handle that fish.
Beimingyu Xingming walked to Qingxi's side and picked her up facing outwards as she wished.
"Yes, that's good, keep it for a while." After communicating with the other party about the height in Beimingyu Xingming's arms, Qingxi slightly adjusted the angle to a comfortable one for himself, and then continued to cut.
Cut off the fish head and set aside.
Considering the number of people at headquarters and the fact that even without the head and guts, the fish still weighed at least five tons, she only sliced a thin slice at the same angle as she had cut the head. Even so, that still weighed about thirty pounds. To preserve its freshness, she stuffed the rest back into her gourmet backpack.
"Mr. Beimingyu, that's enough." Qingxi moved her body, signaling the tall man who was holding her from behind to let go.
With her feet on the ground, she put the fish head into her food backpack. When she walked to the stove, she said to Beimingyu Xingming, "Please, give me a hug."
Hasegawa Naoto crossed his arms and said, "So that's the stove."
"Shouldn't you be asking why the stove is so big?" Kitani Xuanying complained.
The two people who had calmed down could finally look at the situation over there calmly.
Hasegawa Naoto said as a matter of course: "How can it cook such a big fish head if it's not big?"
Kitani Xuanying's mouth twitched. "That's not important. Who would eat something that looks so disgusting? I mean, you saw the kitchen knife, didn't you?"
Hasegawa Naoto's expression grew serious. He nodded. "That fish was so large, its bones should have become harder as it grew. But just now, she chopped it off easily with that kitchen knife. There wasn't even a sound of bone rubbing against the blade... Although only the Nichirin sword can kill demons, it can be easily damaged. If another hard material was added during forging in addition to the Gorilla Scarlet Iron and Gorilla Scarlet Ore, the wear and tear of the Nichirin sword and the rate of melting and reforging could be greatly reduced."
Hasegawa Naoto and Kitaya Genei looked at each other.
Go ask that girl if she has any materials to forge her knife in her backpack.
Okay, then go ask.
Hey, why don't you ask?
Because who would stock up on so many sword-forging supplies for no reason?
The two of them looked at each other, and after a long argument with their eyes, they finally looked away at the same time.
They all sighed in unison.
Boil water in a large pot. When the water boils, Xingming on Beiming Island carries people to the mouth of the steaming pot. Qingxi puts the head of the noble fish that she had put in her food backpack into the pot and blanchs it. After blanching, take it out and rinse it with cold water to remove the fishy smell. At this step, the preliminary preparations are almost completed.
In another long pot, Qingxi put the fish head in, followed by a large number of auxiliary vegetables such as golden carrots, onions, ginger, and green onions. Finally, facing the mouth of the long pot, she held a halo of water ball with one hand, which was shining like stars in the sunlight. The tip of the Minghuang knife gently scratched a small hole on the surface of the water ball, but the next moment a large amount of clear water rushed out along the hole as if a floodgate had been opened and fell into the iron pot below.
The fruit of the deep-sea freshwater tree, marine fruit, capture level 61, absorbs nutrients from the entire ocean and bears fruit only once every ten years. The fruit is a round fruit filled with fresh water. One fruit can produce about 30 kilograms of fresh water, which is the most suitable water for making fish and shellfish soups.
One day, no, it should be half a day, after seeing so many things beyond common sense, Hasegawa Naoto and Kitaya Genei wanted to complain again.
That ball is only two times bigger than the girl's hand. Putting aside what the ball itself is, isn't the amount of water output a bit abnormal?
I'd like to ask, what is the psychological trauma of seeing so many abnormal ingredients in one day?
While the noble fish head soup was cooking, Qingxi asked Beimingyu Xingming to put him down and then went to the long table to start processing the large piece of noble fish meat.
Chop half of the fish into fish floss, add a little sushi salt which is not too strong but can bring out the flavor of the ingredients, a little sesame and pepper, running ginger for removing fishy smell, and egg white of ten yolks, stir clockwise, and set aside to let the seasoning inside blend with the fish floss.
After calculating the time, Qingxi set up a pot and started cooking porridge.
Green corn, a type of rice grown on Gu Island, has a soft, fragrant texture and is packed with nutrients that women who have just given birth desperately need. It's a popular choice for women who have just given birth, and Healing Country Life regularly stocks it.
After the green corn was cooked, Qingxi began to process the remaining half of the fish.
Madam Tianyin was alone and couldn't eat so many dishes, so she planned to cook the remaining half of the lady fish for others to try.
After all, who would want to hear that the food they worked so hard to catch becomes something disgusting and nasty in someone else's mouth?
Especially you, Wind Pillar Kitani Genei, just wait, the disgusting (emphasis) things (emphasis) that you said you would never eat will slap you hard in the face!!!
As the sunlight overhead gradually fell towards the west, the water in the big pot was boiling and bubbling with the burning flames. A rich aroma unique to fish, shrimp and shellfish slowly wafted out, and was carried to every corner of the house by the wind.
Just at this moment, a baby's cry was heard from inside the house. Qingxi had finished cooking the clear soup made with the noble fish head. All that was left was to use utensils to separate the soup in the pot from the noble fish head and side dishes that had been cooked to the point of having no nutritional value.
"Could you please go over and ask someone if Madam Tianyin is awake or asleep? Is she hungry? Would she like to have a bowl of soup or something?"
Kitani Genei and Hasegawa Naoto, who would definitely not go: "..."
Rengoku Makijuro was not as vigilant as the two above, but he would not turn around and ask someone to send a message to the delivery room next door without asking anything: "..."
He was silent for a moment, but still bravely asked, "Ah Xi, in the world you used to live in...did the ingredients all look like this, uh, like this?"
Qingxi, who had just transferred the blanched and cooked ladyfish intestines, fish maw, heart and liver into his ancestral broth, which had been used for more than sixty years, stopped preparing to make the ladyfish roe into caviar and collected the ladyfish roe instead.
She could see that even if the air was filled with the aroma of delicious food, even if she brought the food to them, they would never touch it unless she explained it clearly. Not only would they not touch it, they would also prevent others around them from touching it.
She walked to an open space far away from the kitchen, summoned out a gourmet backpack that only she could see, and poked at the ingredients in the backpack with her fingers. While others said "I don't understand", a small hill called ingredients occupied most of the empty garden on the Demon Slayer Corps headquarters.
Picking up the almond cabbage at his feet, Qingxi said, "Because the land there is generally very nutritious, except for countries at war, some deserts, and areas where the land itself is barren, the ingredients there are generally very large and have the 'multi-element' characteristics you see now. Of course, if you were in my position, you could also think of them as 'patchwork' ingredients.
After all, the ingredients here all taste like pork and vegetables, but over there, you can taste pork, chicken, beef, and so on in one ingredient... Also, are you ready? I'm going to take them back. Without any way to preserve them, the flavor of these ingredients will disappear over time."
Looking at the stunned expressions of the three people when they saw the strange ingredients he took out, which they had never seen before, Qingxi explained.
After waiting for their response for a long time, she stopped waiting, put away her work, and returned to her kitchen to continue cooking the ingredients.
She did not forget that the "head of the family" here was a vegetarian monk.
Take a normal-sized soup pot and pour in an appropriate amount of croaker fish head soup, add a bunch of kelp nunchakus, cut the homemade sponge tofu into small pieces and gently put it in, put in the fish balls made from croaker fish wool, wait for the soup in the pot to boil and the ingredients to be cooked, then turn off the heat and serve in a bowl.
Holding the bowl, Qingxi lowered her head and started eating with a spoon.
The tofu and fish ball soup just served from the pot was steaming. I scooped up a white fish ball without any holes on its surface, which looked like a glutinous rice dumpling. I blew two breaths of cold air on it to lower its temperature, then took a light bite. The moment it entered my mouth, the delicious fish soup filled my entire mouth.
If I were to make an analogy, it would probably be a group of gentle servants clearing the area in advance to welcome their princess.
As the delicious taste enters the throat, the teeth come into contact with the soft and elastic fish ball princess. While chewing, rich layers of juice flow out and mix with the fish soup that remains on the wall of the mouth. The whole tongue is washed by the new taste on the basis of being surrounded by the delicious taste, and then a new taste is established.
Drinking a bowl of this warm and mild soup in this late autumn season will make your body feel comfortable.
Qingxi didn't give herself much to begin with, so she finished the tofu and fish ball soup very quickly.
After eating, she beat the yolks of the remaining ten eggs, added them to the cooled fish soup, added a little salt, mixed well, and steamed them.
Next, shred the almond cabbage and stir-fry it, then chop the Qibao eggplant into sections and stir-fry it with sauce... Then, cook the mixed vegetables and the highland rice...
After finishing them one by one, Qingxi, who had eaten first, faced the others and asked, "Any questions?"
Everyone: "..." Ah this...
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