Chapter 52 Chapter 1 The World's Most Famous Chef

Cooking plays an important role in a person's life. Think about it, in a person's life, there are two things that occupy a very important position. eat, sleep. Strictly speaking, everyone's life is dedicated to these two things, no matter you are a high-ranking official or a peddler, let you do the great cause of helping the people, or just live in the wilderness. Wild dogs kicking the road. Your whole life, everything you do, is indeed only for these two things, eating and sleeping, and only for these two things. Even though there are differences in fine powder and high or low, in the end, a person's life is really just about eating and sleeping.

No matter how rich you are, how powerful you are, and if you eat only three liters a meal, you won't eat dozens of times more food just because you are an important person. Even if you are magnificent and beautiful, the sleeping place is no more than three feet wide. Even if you have a big bed that looks like a garden, the space between sleeping and sleeping is only about three feet wide. Sleep when you are full, and eat when you are full. In life, everything actually exists only between eating and sleeping! Therefore, a good cook can theoretically control half of your life. Of course, Yi Yangjiu, Yi Ya and the others would not understand this kind of truth. They were only eighteen or nineteen years old, and because of unwarranted disasters, they had to stay away from the familiar hometown they grew up in and come to this spring and autumn. In the territory of Qi State, the first-class power in the period, in addition to trying to find out the mysterious murderer who killed Yiyangjiu's family, he could only temporarily settle down in Linzi, a famous city where sweat was pouring rain and breath became clouds.

Because they are still young, they don't understand the many truths of life, they just follow the arrangement of fate, and then use their own ability to passively cater to them, living a life without any goals. In the world, how many young children can escape such a fate? In the morning of late spring, Yi Yangjiu was awakened by the sound of birds singing in the twilight of the morning light. He woke up early in the morning, wandered around the garden in a daze, and then fell asleep under a big tree. . The sun quietly blazed on his face, it was hot and stinging, he closed his eyes and frowned, turned over, as if he had rolled into the shade of a tree, and felt cool for a while.

So he was peacefully immersed in the sound sleep of dreams. Until the scorching aroma came to my ears, and the clanging sound of spatulas came to my ears. Among the scents and sounds, there is also a faintly joyful singing: "Suizong of the Shi family, eat a lot of people with a head and a face! Follow each other, eat food is really particular about bitterness, salty and sour, and I cook it for you. The food is delicious, sour, sweet, bitter and spicy. Fat beef tendon, if you cook it with some fat beef tendon! Stewed braised bacon splashes out the fragrant belly turtle lamb, there are some braised soft-shelled turtle and grilled lamb, topped with delicious Sweet sauce dew chicken huo snails, bitterly marinated chicken, soft snails, a spoonful of refreshing wurztraminer honey, some good wine like jade in a real wine glass, add a spoonful of honey After drinking so much wine, put it in the wine glass of the banquet, there is some good wine, don’t be afraid, because there is sour plum soup to hangover, so please come back to your hometown! Out there wandering and wandering..."

I don’t know if you have ever experienced such an experience, but when you are sleepy, the air is full of delicious food aroma. Of course, if you are in a sober state, the aroma of this kind of food is undoubtedly very pleasant. If you move your index finger, and think about the delicious meal in the near future, it will be even more mouth-watering. It's just that if you smell this smell and hear that song in your sleep, when the two most important things in life conflict with each other, the two ends of the balance are heavy sleepiness on the one hand and heavy hunger on the other. Shannon, that was not a pleasant experience.

The most tantalizing aroma of broth can make you feel like a boiled corpse. The most desirable deep sleep has become a half-dream and half-awake nightmare. Yi Yangjiu struggled like this for a while in the sunshine of late spring, then sat up with a distorted face, and reluctantly opened his sleepy eyes. The sun is just right, and the green grass and trees in the garden are full of life. In front of a bush, his fat green soul "Luo Ye" was imitating his posture, lying lazily on the ground. He settled down for a while, then looked around, wrinkled his nose and sniffed, and found that the smell of cooking came from the right.

Braised beef, sautéed soft-shelled turtle, and the aroma of sweet mead. Then, his stomach let out a long series of "gurgling" sounds without disappointment. Then, with a "tiger" sound, he conveniently landed on the ground and jumped up from the ground. He took a long breath, and then yelled ferociously, "Fatty! You're an idiot who owes your father money!" Sure enough, after walking a few steps beside the garden, I saw Yi Ya, the fat man, lined up pots, ladles, pots, and pots in an open space again. In several places, there were blazing stoves. Thick white smoke came out, and some racks were filled with hot oil, making a pleasant crackling sound.

Of course, Yi Yangjiu knew that this was Yi Ya's preparation for the future "Supreme Cooking" competition. In order to celebrate the birthday of King Qi Xi, the people of Qi specially arranged this cooking competition program on his birthday. On the one hand, it made the whole celebration more lively. The strength and prosperity of the country. Fatty Yi Ya was standing in front of a frying pan, sweating profusely while frying a dish of vegetables, when he looked up, he saw Yi Yangjiu standing in front of him with sleepy eyes and an angry expression on his face. "What strange thing did you eat? Such a stinky face?" Yi Ya smiled, picked up a cooked swan, and threw it greasy at Yi Yangjiu's face, "When people are angry, eat some The stuff is the best, if you move your mouth and fill your stomach, then you won’t have any gas.”

Yi Yangjiu grabbed the cooked swan angrily, took a bite, and the delicious soup flowed into his mouth. No matter how angry he was, most of it disappeared, but he still said viciously: "It's early in the morning! , why do you fat man work so hard? People have a refreshing breakfast and don’t eat big fish and meat, but you made such a lot of things in the early morning and early in the morning, who are you going to eat?” Looking around, he found that the whole open space was full of food and cooking materials, some baskets contained many strange foods that even Yi Yangjiu could not tell, and some of them shimmered like jade, It is obviously a strange food that is rarely seen in the world.

"Such a lot of things, I'm afraid it will cost you the money of a pair of pants? Where did you get the money?" Yi Ya tilted his head, with an intriguing expression on his face, but muttered to himself. "Yes! Why are these things sent to me?" He turned around and took out a large shell from the basket beside him. The surface of the shell shone like jewels, with a sapphire blue color. Yi Ya took out a small knife, opened the shell, and skillfully scooped out the shell meat, only to see that the shell meat was plump and plump, dripping with the light of crystal pearls and jade.

"This is a deep-sea fish in the far south, and the locals call it 'abalone'." "Abalone?" Yiyang Jiuqi asked, "Could it be a kind of fish? Why does it look like a big shell to me?" "It is indeed not a fish, but a kind of shellfish in the sea. I heard that its meat is delicate and delicious, but I have never eaten it, not only me, but also most of the people in this country. ate." During the Spring and Autumn Period, the gap between nobles and commoners was huge, and the living conditions were also very different. Ordinary people rarely had the opportunity to eat meat, let alone seafood. , the aquatic products along the coast are abundant, but the chances of ordinary people eating seafood are still very small. Yi Yangjiu and Yi Ya were teenagers who grew up in the Kingdom of Wei. The territory of the Kingdom of Wei is located inland and is not connected to Dajiao, so they are quite unfamiliar with many seafood. Yi Yangmo looked at the big shell "abalone" and was amazed. Fatty Yi Ya casually opened a stewing pot, and brought out a strange creature that looked like a crab but not a crab, and a shrimp but not a shrimp. It's bright red, and it's really beautiful. Nine Yi sheep have caught aquatic animals such as river prawns and crabs in the streams of the mountains and forests of Weiguo. They know that this kind of crustacean aquatic organisms taste very delicious, and their shells will indeed turn red when cooked, but they have never seen this kind of shellfish before them. A large aquatic animal that is neither shrimp nor crab. With a sound of "ke", Yi Ya broke open the strange creature's shell, separated a piece of soft meat with a light red color, and handed it to Yi Yangjiu. "Take a look," the fat man said with a smile, "This stuff is called 'lobster', and it's also a strange product in the sea. Eat it and see how it tastes, just be careful, don't chew your tongue too." Yiyang Jiuyi put the piece of "lobster" meat into his mouth and chewed it a few times, only to find that the taste was as delicious as sweet juice, the meat was more elastic than shrimp and crab, and it had a fragrant sea flavor. "Delicious!" He still had the lobster meat stuffed in his mouth, and said loudly, vaguely: "This stuff is really delicious!" After chewing a few mouthfuls, he swallowed the lobster meat unsatisfactorily, and let out a sigh of relief, as if he had eaten the most delicious thing in the world. However, Yi Yangjiu is not a blind and ignorant young man after all, after the passion in his tongue, he rolled his eyes and took a look at the delicacies around him, with a puzzled look on his face. "In this case, it's even more strange, now it's not just a question of whether you have money or not," he asked suspiciously: "Some of these things can't even be bought with money, why do you fat people have them? " Yi Ya scratched his head, hesitated for a moment, and then said slowly: "These things are all sent by the prince." The son, of course, refers to Jiang Zhuer, the successor of the current monarch.In fact, the residence of Yiyang Jiu and the others is also arranged by Jiang Zhuer. Although Yiyang Jiu and the others only met Jiang Zhuer once at the gate of the city, logically speaking, the relationship between the few people in front of them It can be said that all the basic necessities of life were given by Jiang Zhuer. But Yi Xueer thought about it again, and recalled the incestuous relationship between Jiang Zhuer and his half-sister Wen Jiang, and a sense of disgust arose in his heart for no reason. "It's him!" Yi Yangjiu said "Oh" expressionlessly, and put the cooked swan on the shelf casually, "He treats you very well." Yi Ya smiled kindly. "It's not about being nice to me, it's about being nice to the title of 'The World's Most Famous Chef'. He knows my culinary skills, and he also knows that we all have our own specialties, so that's why he is so kind to us." Yi Yangjiu thought for a while, then rolled his eyes. "Be good to us. I'm not like you. Everyone has specialties. I don't know anything except fighting." "That's true," Fatty Yi Yaxiong smiled without a city: "That's why people never looked for you, and I was the one who came to look for it, or it was Kaifang and Shu Diao, the prince really didn't ask about it." you." Yi Ya said such a sentence unintentionally. They were used to fighting since they were young, so they naturally spoke freely, but for some reason, Yi Yangjiu felt a little bit of displeasure when he heard it. feel. As for why he was unhappy, he couldn't say. "I don't know how they know. Knowing that Shu Diao can communicate with all kinds of animals, they put him in the noble hunting team, where they take care of cattle and horses. They also know that Kai Fang can tell fortunes, so they put him in Entering the gate of witch divination, and letting him divination with people every day, it is considered a legitimate job." He laughed and said: "To be honest, there is really no one who wants you left." Yi Yangjiu snorted, and became even more sullen. He was open-minded by nature, and he came from a wealthy family, so he wouldn't get angry because of such an insignificant errand, but what made him angry at the moment was a faint intuition that felt something was wrong. He always felt that Jiang Zhuer, the prince of Qi, was a bit weird, but he couldn't find any specific examples if he wanted to say something was wrong. Of course, Yi Ya didn't know what he was thinking, and just fell asleep half-jokingly and patted his shoulder: "Why are you so dazed? They don't pay the price, so I don't care about you? Come, come, come, my fat man is here to ask you Guaranteed, no matter how hungry you are in the future, I will definitely cook for you and make sure you won't starve to death, so it's okay, right?" Yi Yangjiu looked at him coldly, and hummed: "Who cares about your cooking?" He deliberately put on a cold and arrogant expression: "Smelly! Your father, I keep eating the stinky food you cook for your face! I'm afraid you will lose heart, you don't know my suffering!" Yi Ya laughed out loud, his movements were extremely fast, and in the blink of an eye, he brought out seven or eight side dishes and a jug of wine. "Then you kid, come and eat my 'stinky' food, and you have to eat it up! Otherwise, I'll kill your mother!" The two happily ate an unexpectedly sumptuous breakfast in the morning light. It seemed that Jiang Zhu'er had confidence in Yi Ya's cooking skills. The supply of food was astonishingly large. If only Yi Yangjiu and the others ate it If it is, it seems that there is no problem in eating it for three months. Hearing the laughter of the two, Kaifang and Shu Diao also came out rubbing their sleepy eyes, and the four teenagers gorged themselves on Yi Ya's exquisite delicacies until they were full. The young man was just growing up, so he already had an excellent appetite, and Yi Ya's cooking skills were indeed unrivaled in the world, so after a few days, the small courtyard became a paradise for four people. In the next few days, Yi Ya showed off his cooking skills in the open space of the other courtyard, and Yi Yangjiu and others became the best candidates to taste his carefully prepared food. Incomparably talented, although his primordial spirit "Pao Ren" has even more extraordinary cooking powers, but this time Yi Ya deliberately did not rely on the help of "Pao Ren" to think about the mysteries of cooking by himself. After a few days, his novel dishes are still emerging one after another, but Yi Xuejiu and the others have tasted the rich fat and fat for many days, but they can't stand it anymore. The first one to forgive is Shu Diao. He is not tall, but thin and thin. He is already a weak body. After eating delicious food for a few days, he began to have diarrhea. "There's nothing wrong with diarrhea," he said to Yi Yangjiu with a bitter face, "The most frightening thing is that I didn't have anything else for a few days, and I lost weight. Forget it." As he spoke, he pulled Yi Ya who was cooking at the side and shouted, "Don't worry, even if you kill me this time, I won't be able to eat your delicacies anymore, I stand upright He is a person with poor fortune and cannot eat your good things!" Afterwards, Kai Fang disappeared without a sound, and as long as he was eating, he was nowhere to be seen. When he saw the figure again and asked him where he had been, he would always say vaguely that he did not understand. Only once, Shu Diao secretly told Yi Yangjiu that he also slipped out while eating, but saw Kai Fang squatting at a small stall in the corner of the city gate, drinking millet porridge with a sigh of relief. Adding ingredients and no side dishes, it seems to be tens of millions of times more delicious than eating Yi Ya's peerless food. If you enjoy the blessings and enjoy more than the amount, it really means suffering. After suffering to the extreme, as long as there is a little bit of happiness, it is considered a great blessing. This is the unchanging truth in life. When Yiyang Jiu couldn't take it anymore, fortunately, Qihou's birthday had already arrived. Qihou's birthday was the sixth day of April, and when it was the third and fourth day of the third day, he, Kai Fang, Shu Diao and others had a good laugh Happy, as if it was they who celebrated their birthday, not Qi Xigong. The day before his birthday, Yi Ya put away all the cooking equipment and stopped cooking. He just nestled in his room, burned incense, bathed, prayed silently, and prepared to make a big show at the "Supreme Cooking" conference on the second day skill.