Food conquers the world

Chapter 8 Hot and Sour Potato Shreds

Zou Kai opened his eyes wide and was obviously taken aback for a moment, then he chuckled lightly: "Do you want to learn?"

"I want to learn!" Maier nodded heavily, looking nervous, looking at Zou Kai with extremely hot eyes, "Please teach me!"

The young man's voice was crisp and loud enough to tell his determination. Zou Kai seemed to be in a daze for a moment, and subconsciously reached out to touch his pocket, only to find that it was empty, and then remembered that he had hidden the cigarettes.

The loss of consciousness was only for a moment, and Zou Kai didn't know how many detours he had to go around in that one or two seconds.Then, as if he had made up his mind, he put down the spoon, looked at the boy in front of him, and asked him in rare gentle words: "You want to learn? Why?"

"me……"

This time, Maier was stunned. He had already planned to be ridiculed by this person, and was ready to put aside his face, and with the help of Mrs. Huo Sen, he also asked Zou Kai to teach him.Unexpectedly, Zou Kai's reaction at this time was completely beyond his expectations, and he was a little at a loss for a while, and couldn't think of anything else except "I".

"I heard from Mrs. Hardy that Maier has been cooking at home these days and has been praised by Mrs. Hardy for a long time, but the dishes are a bit salty." Mrs. Huo Sen said with a smile, "Maier really wants to learn You can teach him how to cook."

Melton blushed for a moment, the dishes he cooked were not only a bit salty, but compared with Zou Kai's, they were simply inedible.After eating the potatoes made by Zou Kai at Mrs. Huo Sen's house, he thought that "it's nothing more than that" and "this kind of thing can be made by himself", but when he actually went home to make potatoes, he failed more than once.

Zou Kai made braised potatoes that day. He groped for it and the ones he made were either mushy or undercooked. The only time he made a decent braised potato, but it didn’t taste that way at all.

His grandfather, Mr. Hardy, saw his grandson trying to restore what he ate that day. He didn't say anything at first. After Maier failed many times, he finally called his grandson over and said, "If you really want to If you know how to do it, learn it."

Maier listened to his grandpa, so he came.

Zou Kai just looked at Maier, his voice was very low, which made his tone a bit more serious: "You just want to learn how to make potatoes delicious?"

"You can also teach Mel some other things." Mrs. Huo Sen said, "Kay, you should be able to cook other things, and they must be delicious. If Mel wants to learn, you can teach him. It's rare Young people are so eager to learn."

Speaking of this, Mrs. Huo Sen gave Maier a wink, and Maier immediately reacted and said loudly: "I want to learn! I want to let the whole village eat such delicious food after I learn it!"

"Ambition." Zou Kai smiled and nodded, "All right, in the future, you can bring more food, meat, etc., and eat with us at noon, and I will teach you by the way."

Meier's eyes lit up, and he replied, "Okay!"

He was already prepared to be humiliated, but at this moment he could get Zou Kai to agree so smoothly, he really never expected

"Since you are already going to learn something from me," Zou Kai glanced at Maier, and reservedly wiped his mouth with the tablecloth prepared by Mrs. Huo Sen, "Should I call me teacher or something?"

"Teacher!" Maier immediately shouted loudly, his eyes still bright, apparently still immersed in the excitement of learning how to make delicious potatoes.

After teasing Maier so much, there was no sign of Maier blowing his hair. Zou Kai suddenly felt bored and continued to eat his potato balls. He lowered his head so much that he just concealed his pensive eyes.

Today's decision to teach Maier how to cook is definitely not his whim.

After observing the past few days of his life in this world, he also roughly figured out what kind of attitude the people in the village had towards him.

People in the village are very polite to him, and this kind of politeness is accompanied by a trace of curiosity, just like a big white goose has entered the territory of ducks, a group of ducks are curious and awed by the tall white goose, always want to know what the big white goose is what is the difference.

But he is not a big white goose, he is a bantam pretending to be a big white goose.

The reason for being polite to him is that he is an outsider from the village and is temporarily staying at Mrs. Hawson's house.I was curious about him because everyone thought he was an adventurer who came out of the forest of the world, and being able to come out from there was always something different.

The children here all looked at him with admiration, and more than one person asked him whether he was a magician, openly or secretly, but Zou Kai never answered directly.

But Zou Kai also saw from these tentative questions what the villagers expected of him. They hoped that he would be a powerful magician, even if a magician lived in their village, it would be useless.Or maybe he's a knight with a rape physique, but Zou Kai's body, which is weaker than the average villager, is a good indication that he is definitely not.

He knows that the treatment he is able to work in the mill now is also due to the expectations of the villagers. There are no child laborers here. Children can run and walk and have to help the family. The mill is also fourteen or five years old like Maier. where the teenagers stay.Even if he is considered to be seventeen or eighteen years old, he is still at the age when he should go to work in the fields.

It is true that Zou Kai is no stronger than the villagers, and even weaker than them. It cannot be hidden at all, and people will naturally know it after a long time.

No matter how high the original expectations were, how much disappointment after knowing the truth, there will inevitably be a lot of gossip, maybe he will be invited out of this village.

But he thinks this place is not bad, and he doesn't want to leave until he understands the common sense of this world, then he needs to let the villagers recognize him before they see it, and cooking is a good way.

People in this village seem to have no creativity in eating. Their most common staple food is to boil a whole potato in a pot, then peel it off and eat it directly.The mashed potatoes made by Mrs. Hardy that day already represented their highest level of culinary skills—although Zou Kai felt that this level of cooking skills was not as delicious as boiled potatoes.

Although the villagers have no culinary skills, they still yearn for delicious food. This can be seen from Maier. He can let go of the arrogance of a teenager and learn cooking with him, which is enough to see delicious food The temptation to him is great.

Therefore, in Zou Kai's view, it may be worth a try to win people's hearts with delicious food, which happens to be what he is good at.

Zou Kai taught and taught, and took Maier home at noon the next day, threw him a knife and a potato, and told him: "If you want to learn how to make potatoes delicious, start by cutting potatoes."

"Yeah!" Maier nodded after being taught, and looked at Tudou seriously, his attitude was like dealing with a multiple-choice question in life.

Then he lowered the knife, and with a "click", the fist-sized potato was split into two halves, and he looked up at Zou Kai expectantly.

Looking at Maier's shining little eyes, Zou Kai was silent for a moment, and finally did not mock him, but simply said: "Wash it first, peel it and then cut it, first slice it and then shred it."

Maier nodded to show that he understood. After washing and peeling the potatoes, he carefully sliced ​​the potatoes with a knife. Zou Kai was fine at this time, and was looking at the things Maier brought.

Yesterday he said to ask Meldo to bring something, and the kid really did, but he only brought half a cabbage.It was the first time that Zou Kai saw home-cooked vegetables other than potatoes after being here for a long time. He was immediately kind and happy, so he immediately decided to use cabbage to eat potatoes at night.

Here, Zou Kai was just thinking about the recipe for dinner, when he turned to look at Maier, he saw Maier holding the potato with one finger, cutting slices with extreme care.

Oh...Zou Kai just realized that this kid didn't even master the correct skill of cutting vegetables.

"It shouldn't be like this." Zou Kai was in a good mood and guided Maier patiently, "Put your four fingers together and bend to hold the potato, that's right, the back of the knife sticks to your knuckles, and it's not easy to go in with your fingers a little bit Cut to the finger... Forget it, I will show you a demonstration."

Maier was really confused about how Zou Kai said how to cut vegetables. He handed the knife to Zou Kai, and saw that Zou Kai held the knife in his right hand, and put the four fingers of his left hand together on the potatoes.Maier stared wide-eyed, dumbfounded, wouldn't he cut his finger like this?

The knife in the right hand moved to the left, and the left hand also made concessions and slowly retreated. Finally, the potato slices Zou Kai cut out were thin and even.Then he pushed the potato slices down and spread them out, and with a few strokes, the potato slices turned into shredded potatoes.

After cutting, Zou Kai put the knife on the chopping board and motioned for Maier to come over: "See clearly, I will leave the rest to you."

Maier nodded in confusion, picked up the kitchen knife, imitated Zou Kai's posture and swiped down a few times. When he found that he didn't cut a single piece, he immediately wanted to throw the knife.

Zou Kai looked at it funny, and reminded him: "You can't become a fat man with one bite, take your time, do you think my skill of cutting vegetables was developed overnight? Take your time, young man."

After Zou Kai finished speaking, he was going to go out to get some fresh air, and casually teach Mrs. Huo Sen the skill of making oatmeal. He is trying to persuade Mrs. Huo Sen to add less sugar to it, but the old man is very stubborn. Throw it inside.

"Kay." At this moment, Mel stopped him.

Zou Kai immediately corrected; "Call the teacher."

"Teacher." As soon as Maier became serious, he was immune to the way Zou Kai used to tease children. He shouted seriously, and then asked, "Have you learned how to chop vegetables for a long time?"

"Well, it's been many years." Zou Kai replied casually.

"Does the teacher have a teacher?"

"Yes, I have."

Maier's voice suddenly became a little more excited: "Is the teacher's teacher an old man outside?"

Zou Kai was silent for a moment. His master was an old man with a bad temper. Although he didn't work in a big restaurant, he did his best for his apprentice.When Zou Kai first learned to cook, he was not much older than Maier, and he was still a sophomore in high school. It can be said that he was beaten by the old man with a spoon to have the knife skills he has today.

The old man mastered special beating skills, and he especially liked to hit people's heads with a spoon. In his early years, Zou Kai was almost covered in beatings by the old man.At that time, he was not sensible, and often scolded the old man after get off work, and the old man let go of his words and was unwilling to learn to walk by himself, but Zou Kai finally stayed.

Recalling the past, Zou Kai's original happy mood immediately faded a little, and he rubbed his fingers subconsciously, which was an unaccustomed expression after he was forced to quit smoking recently.

"No." He finally said these two words and left the kitchen.