I'm a dragon sparrow in Tokyo

Chapter 57 Winning the World (Thanks for subscribing!)
But it's not over yet. After Hagiwara Sho thickens the cornstarch three times and sprinkles garlic sprouts, it can be put out of the pot and covered with a lid.

Aoba's eyes seem to be shining, and she really wants to get to the opposite side from the phone screen.

She knows how powerful her father's ability to stimulate the original flavor of ingredients is.

Originally, Aoba imagined this pot of mapo tofu according to Hagiwara Sho's steps, which was a bit out of balance.

But after such a stimulus, the original flavor of the ingredients themselves bursts out.

Let her just imagine the painful feeling that the brain is resisting the spicy taste, but the tongue is constantly secreting saliva, and she really wants to challenge it.

"Father's ability is simply too difficult to learn. It is obviously a few simple steps, but I can't achieve the same effect no matter what."

Aoba said in an extremely envious tone.

Jiang Xu looked at her with vacant eyes.

Without the food spirit, even if you keep 100% consistent with his movements, it is impossible to produce a slight effect.

But then again.

He also wanted to know what this pot of mapo tofu tasted like.

Just by seeing it on the screen, he is already absolutely fluent in speech.

The aroma of mapo tofu is still spreading continuously, from the window and from the crack of the door.

Some chefs with a more sensitive sense of smell are already sniffing the tip of their noses to find the source of the smell.

However, when they opened their kitchen door and saw a certain figure, they immediately closed the door with a bang, as if some evil spirit was parading outside the door.

Hagiwara Sho outside the door.

A figure pushed open the door and walked over slowly.

Jiang Xu and Aoba, who were still in the video, were taken aback because of the angle of the camera.

The first thing they saw was the lower body of the visitor.

Under the pure white summer clothes, there are faint muscular lines, and there is an indescribable mighty demeanor. His hands are naturally placed on his side. The vicissitudes of the palms are very thick, but they have the unique softness of a chef.

After the figure moved forward a few steps, Jiang Xu could see that the person who came was an old man with gray hair, but extremely vigorous spirit, and a ruddy complexion that did not match the color of his hair at all.

Just his face.
There are all kinds of dark scars all over, as if they have been splashed with hot oil, and they look like evil spirits.

"Master An! Why are you here?"

Hagiwara Xiang heard the sound of pushing the door, looked back, and was taken aback for a moment.

"Hey, wait a minute, I'll turn off the video."

After Hagiwara Sho said this, he hurriedly turned around and apologized to the phone camera.

"Xu-jun, Aoba, I'll leave the food halberd to you two to cheer up. I still have something to do, so I'll turn off the video first."

After speaking, the screen went black immediately.

Jiang Xu and Qing Ye were left looking at each other.

"What's the situation?" Jiang Xu asked suspiciously.

"I don't know." Qingye also shook her head blankly: "Maybe that Master An's identity is a bit special."

Xiaguo, Jinling, Tongfang Restaurant, Room [-] of the Experimental Kitchen.

Hagiwara Sho hurriedly turned off the video on his mobile phone, turned his head, and faced Master An, who was burly and not showing any signs of aging.

He looked anxious and blamed himself: "I'm sorry, Master An, my mobile phone video recorded your real face, I'm really sorry, I shouldn't be making video calls in the kitchen."

"But I assure you, both of them are good children, and they still live in Sakurajima, and they will never disclose any information about you."

But Master An laughed: "Xiaoqiu, you are too nervous. What, is it because I am afraid that my old face will scare your precious daughter, and the one next to her is your son-in-law?"

"son in law???"

Originally, Sho Hagiwara wanted to apologize again, but when he heard this word, he felt like a cat whose tail had been stepped on, and quickly explained, fearing that it would be a second too late.

"No, that kid is just an exchange student from Xiaguo to Sakurajima, temporarily staying at my house, just a temporary tenant, and has nothing to do with Aoba."

"Oh, is that right? I think your daughter is quite cute, and that young man is also very handsome. I thought... Hahaha, I misunderstood."

Master An apologized with a smile.

"Thank you for your compliment, my daughter is really cute."

Hagiwara Sho squeezed out a smile: "Then, Master An, may I ask why you are here?"

"What else can you do, just for this."

Master An pointed to the mapo tofu that Sho Hagiwara had just put on a plate and covered.

"what!"

Hagiwara Sho didn't doubt the other party's sense of smell, but was surprised that the aroma of the dishes actually attracted the other party's attention!

This is not some rare profound food, but a new dish that is not well completed.

"Can I have a taste?" Master An asked.

"it's my honour!"

Hagiwara Sho took the initiative to lift the lid.

Immediately, a spicy and fresh aroma that was stronger than before burst out from the ceramic bowl.

At the same time, a tiny ray of light also began to light up.

Until the accumulated fragrance dissipated, the light went out, but it did exist for a long time.

Hagiwara sent a porcelain spoon.

Master An poured a large spoonful of tofu wrapped in red like white jade, and put it in his mouth.

hmm~
Putting down the spoon, Master An exhaled a long mouthful of foul air, smacked his mouth, and said with a satisfied face.

"Is this dish called Mapo Tofu? Although there are some differences, it is indeed the same spirit! Finally, I tasted it again."

Hagiwara Sho was taken aback, "Wait, you mean, have you tried this dish before? But, as far as I know."

Master An interrupted with a smile.

"I didn't say that I tasted this dish in this world."

"It's not in this world, so you mean, virtual world?!"

Sho Hagiwara shrank his pupils and said in shock.

He knows some insider details, and knows that the world is not as simple as it seems on the surface.

Under the seemingly prosperous world, there are actually countless turbulent undercurrents.

The enemy is not outside, but inside.

In other words, they are historical ghosts that cannot be explained by science, but actually exist.

They do not know where they come from, but they have a cultural history that is paradoxical to the present world.

And always delusional, and replace it with the present world.

Once they are successful, the part of the world they occupy may be a village, a street, or even a city.

Everyone's memory will be tampered with, and even some people will be replaced.

They will not remember their true history, and neither will the outside world.

These ghosts will be revived in the true sense, and continue to spread their influence, like a cancer, until they erode a country and a world.

In the history of the hegemony between the East and the West, there was a tacit understanding without words. They all wanted to use a war to clean up all these cancers that had formed a stubborn disease at that time from the root.

Because in fact, if you study that war carefully, you will find that neither the Great Xia nor the main Western allies actually suffered much loss of strength.

On the contrary, the forces along the war route were all turned upside down.

Even if there is a possibility of being secretly replaced, it is completely shuffled and becomes the only history that belongs to this world.

It's just that for ordinary people, the truth of history is too difficult to accept. It's better to believe that it is a war launched for cultural hegemony.

What's more, this is part of the truth.

Facts have proved that the best way to defeat those ghosts is to suppress them with national luck.

And if a country wants to have a strong national fortune, it has to spread its own civilizational influence.

From this point of view, East and West are still in competition.

The world is so big, you radiate more areas, I influence less areas, and my national fortune will also be less.

Dealing with the ghosts of history is not so easy.

Therefore, in the post-war era of competition, it is actually just a means to spread influence around the world and harvest luck.

In the civilization circle of Daxia, the national fate of most of the national forces is closely connected with Daxia.

In this way, they can take advantage of Great Xia's majestic national fortune to protect their own cultural history.

After all, the more superficial and superficial a person's own historical civilization is, the easier it is to attract the attention of historical ghosts, trying to use him to revive his soul.

But having said that, after so many years of research, people in this life have also discovered that these ghosts are in the final analysis losers in their own world and their own time, so they were expelled.

Because the victor is still living well in his own world line, there is no need to snatch the "existence" of others, change himself and graft it in.

Therefore, these historical ghosts are also called defeated by some people.

In contrast, the present world and the history on its own timeline that have defeated the ghosts of history and swept them into the garbage dump of history are victorious.

"To be precise, it is a corrupted world. That decayed world wanted to come down forcibly, and when I squeezed into the present world for a short time, I took this opportunity to taste this dish."

When Hagiwara Sho recalled these truths that he still finds strange and unbelievable, Master An also spoke.

"It's just that the dish at that time was still very crude and simple, and it shouldn't have been born for a long time. But the unique taste in this dish is something I will never forget."

Master An continued.

"I believe it can become a dish handed down from generation to generation. But having said that, any famous dish handed down from generation to generation didn't start out simple and crude, but passed down from generation to generation, slowly refined and improved, and then spread and evolved."

Master An showed a trace of nostalgia.

"Later, I experienced a lot of imaginary worlds and defeated worlds, but I never encountered this dish again. I knew that the history of that world had become a triumphant world. This dish may have become part of their history and culture."

"Compared to tasting this dish in the imaginary world and the defeated world, I hope that the victorious world will last forever."

"So, Xiaoqiu, can you tell me, where did you learn this dish?"

Master An asked kindly.

A line of cold sweat broke out on Hagiwara Sho's head, but he knew how terrifying this "Food Hunting" master in front of him was.

A research-oriented chef like him, if he really tried to do it, he might be subdued in just one face-to-face meeting.

After all, these 'hunters', no matter if they are food hunters, sparrow hunters, or sword hunters, are ruthless people who dare to face defeat, not only put their own lives, but also the traces of their own existence out of the matter.

If it was before, without confirming who lied between Jiang Xu and Master An, he would definitely not tell Master An anything.

But now, Jiang Xu has made it very clear that even an ordinary person can teach this dish if he wants to learn it, let alone just explaining the origin of the dish.

After listening to Hagiwara Sho's narration, Master An nodded thoughtfully.

"Perhaps, it is the accident of history that let this dish reappear in our ordinary life through the hands of this Ma Po. This is not a big deal. Because not every defeated world wants to occupy the magpie's nest. "

"There are still some who are willing to cooperate. Now, they are also designated as virtual worlds. They are living well. They even made a lot of contributions. If they have value, they will distribute luck according to their work and help them in some uninhabited areas. Resurrection."

"So, it's not a big deal, and you don't have to be nervous."

Master An's whole body restrained his aura, which made Hagiwara Sho, who had been tensing his body, relax a little.

"This mapo tofu dish is indeed a famous dish that can represent Sichuan cuisine."

"It's a pity that Daxia's food luck has been close to saturation recently. For the time being, it won't draw out the luck at all to promote it as a famous dish handed down from generation to generation."

"However, your Sakurajima is different. A famous dish handed down from generation to generation should be very important to the current Sakurajima."

If mapo tofu is really a dish handed down from generation to generation, it will undoubtedly be a great thing for Sakurajima who has no food luck but no recipe.

It can fill in the loopholes to a certain extent, prevent the world from taking the opportunity to cause chaos, and give Sakurajima Shiyun more time to wait for the birth of his own path.

Sho Hagiwara's own ideal is to carry forward Sakurajima cuisine.

But there is always a gap between the ideal and the present.

For the sake of reality, ideals cannot be put back a little bit.

I just don't know why, there are so many ruins related to Sakurajima.

Could it be because Sakurajima is a loser in other world online?
Not only Sho Hagiwara didn't figure this out, but many Sakurajima people didn't figure it out either.

What's more, even if the historical source of this dish belongs to Daxia, it doesn't really matter much to Sakurajima.

After all, the three pillars of Sakurajima's national destiny, mahjong, kendo, and cooking, are all derived from Daxia culture in the final analysis.

Even if mapo tofu is added, it's just a little more, and it doesn't matter.

Sho Hagiwara’s purpose in coming to Daxia is firstly to learn from major cuisines to hone his own culinary skills in an attempt to blaze his own path and find a way out for Sakurajima Cuisine.

Secondly, it is also to learn from the classics and learn some famous dishes that are suitable for adaptation into the Sakurajima version.

Now, unexpectedly found the first hope in Jiang Xu.

Then this is many times more expensive than the treasure recipe he estimated before.

'I will definitely report to the Sakurajima Gourmet Association and try my best to promote mapo tofu in Sakurajima. '

Hagiwara Sho secretly swears in his heart.

Master An smiled, food luck is also a kind of national luck.

Sakurajima uses food luck to promote mapo tofu. Although it will be changed to Sakurajima's version, the source is still Daxia.

This means that Sakurajima has bound a part of the national destiny to Daxia again.

'This kid named Jiang Xu is really talented.Wait a minute, Jiang Xu, where does the name Jiang Xu seem to be heard? '

Master An frowned, he seemed to have some impression of this name, as if he had heard someone mention it somewhere, but he still couldn't remember it

In short, he just remembered the name.

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