The first thing I did was to find out

Chapter 341 Intermediate Knife Skills

Qin Huai couldn't stop eating.

In his opinion, whether it is braised pork with preserved vegetables, firewood-cooked duck, sea cucumber with scallions or stir-fried yam, they are all good dishes to go with rice.

Yes, anything cooked by Cao Guixiang is delicious.

Among them, stir-fried yam is the simplest and the most reasonable combination.

As Cao Guixiang said, yam itself has a sticky texture and is a natural thickener. Thickening yam is easier than other dishes, but also more difficult.

It is easy because no matter how you thicken the sauce, the yam will definitely have a thickening effect when it comes out of the pot. The difficult part is how to thicken the sauce to achieve the desired effect, how to make the dish look better and more delicious, and at the same time change its taste and flavor to achieve the effect the chef wants.

Cao Guixiang did it.

When eating pork with preserved vegetables in Qinhuai, I felt that the pig’s death was not in vain.

When I was eating the duck with firewood, I felt that the duck’s death was not in vain.

When eating the sea cucumber fried with green onions, I felt that the sea cucumber deserved to die on this plate.

When eating stir-fried yam, I deeply felt that it would be better if I could cut the yam slices a little thinner.

If the yam slices are thinner, the taste should be crisper. When chewing the yam, you may be able to taste a feeling that is closer to crispiness. That is a refreshing feeling, which is the effect pursued by thickening the sauce.

Qin Huai found that when he was eating now, he was no longer just sighing at how delicious a dish was, and how much it went with rice. He simply couldn't stop eating. He used to be satisfied when he was 80% or 90% full, but now he wanted to eat 150% full.

He could already start analyzing how delicious the dish was and why it was so delicious, where the chef was good at cooking it, where he made mistakes, and where he was ingenious.

Before, Qin Huai felt that the food would taste better when Huang Anyao explained it to him. Now, Qin Huai no longer needs Huang Anyao to explain it to him, he explains it to himself in his mind.

Qin Huai himself did not realize that when he ate, he seemed to be wolfing down his food, eating with big mouthfuls and enjoying everything. In fact, he chewed every mouthful slowly, and there was a pause for thinking between the time he put the food in his mouth and the time he started chewing.

This is product.

Cao Guixiang saw all of this and ate with a smile on her face without saying a word. She would only pick up some food for Qin Huai from time to time and warn her husband at the same time.

"Why eat so much at night? One bowl of rice is enough. If you eat too much later, you will get stomachache."

Zhang Chu: ...

So wife, love will disappear, right?

After Zhang Chu successfully finished eating a bowl and a half of rice, washed the dishes and cleaned the kitchen, Cao Guixiang and Qin Huai tied their aprons again and went into the kitchen to work.

Cao Guixiang makes soup, Qinhuai cuts radish.

The soup in the kitchen has been cooking since the afternoon. For all the dishes Cao Guixiang makes that require soup, the cooking time for the soup will not be less than 16 hours. With such a long cooking time, it is impossible for the chef to always be there to watch.

In fact, as long as there is someone watching at the initial stage of making the soup and the final stage, and checking at regular times the rest of the time, there will be no problems.

There is no need to monitor the broth at this time.

Therefore, Cao Guixiang was nominally hanging out with Gao Tang, but in fact she was keeping an eye on Qin Huai.

Apprentice Xiao Qin was a little nervous.

Online classes are definitely different from offline teaching. During online classes, Cao Guixiang would only conduct sting operations from time to time, but if there were any problems during offline teaching, she would really take action to solve them.

When Qin Huai was practicing holding a knife at Cao Guixiang's house before, as soon as Cao Guixiang moved her hand, Qin Huai would subconsciously stop and wait for Cao Guixiang to pry his hand apart. It was almost like muscle memory.

Apprentice Xiao Qin was concentrating on cutting radishes.

Compared with the last time he cut radishes at Cao Guixiang's house, Qin Huai's knife skills have improved significantly.

大家总说从1~100很容易，但是从0~1很难，秦淮觉得都很难。他已经从0~1了，现在正在挣扎着从1~10。

Zhang Chu was watching quietly outside. He didn't really understand what was going on, but that didn't stop him from muttering to himself, "Xiao Qin is now cutting radishes pretty well. They look pretty good. The radish slices are radish slices, and the radish shreds are radish shreds."

"Should I make him a few more cutting boards?"

While apprentice Xiao Qin was concentrating on cutting the radish, he was watching out of the corner of his eye to see if Master Cao would rush up and break his hands at any time.

Master Cao didn’t.

Master Cao was pretending to make soup.

Before he knew it, he had cut one radish after another, and the large basket covered with a sack used to hold the shredded radishes was full. Zhang Chu dragged the basket out and came back with a new one.

The Qinhuai people became more and more relaxed, and cut radishes faster and faster.

Well, this was actually the first time that Qin Huai was so focused on cutting radishes.

When practicing at Cao Guixiang's house before, Qin Huai had to pay a lot of attention to Cao Guixiang because he couldn't hold the knife correctly. As long as Cao Guixiang moved, he knew that he had a problem again.

In the first few days, Qin Huai even felt that he didn't know how to hold the knife. Every day when he got the kitchen knife, his first reaction was to repeatedly adjust the way he held the knife, thinking that this was not right and that was not right. Anyway, whenever his hand touched the kitchen knife, he felt weird.

Under such circumstances, the pressure of practicing swordsmanship can be imagined.

Fortunately, Cao Guixiang was not the kind of strict and critical teacher. Even if Qin Huai made many basic mistakes, or one mistake appeared repeatedly, or even if she corrected it one second and it appeared again the next, Cao Guixiang would not show any displeasure or displeasure, but would correct it quickly and tell him what to do.

At that time, Qin Huai was cutting radishes at Cao Guixiang's house, which was really laying the foundation.

Later, when taking online classes, Qin Huai couldn't concentrate fully because his master was not around and no one was helping him. Because Master Cao liked to gossip and like to fish for law enforcement, Qin Huai had to be careful when chatting, paying attention to the content of the gossip while being careful not to get too involved in the content of the gossip.

This directly resulted in Qin Huai rarely having the opportunity to devote himself so wholeheartedly to cutting vegetables. He just had to cut vegetables. He didn't have to worry about being corrected by the chef next to him if his knife holding posture was not good, nor did he have to worry about making the same mistake again and again and disappointing the chef next to him. He didn't have to be too relaxed and chat while cutting vegetables. It was as easy and enjoyable as his daily work.

He was just chopping vegetables.

Very simple cutting of vegetables.

Qin Huai held the knife in his hand and cut quickly, getting faster and faster. His movements were standard, clean and neat, making neat sounds of cutting vegetables.

The kitchen was very quiet. The broth in the pot was not boiling, and the roar of the range hood was not very obvious at this moment.

Cao Guixiang didn't say anything, didn't make a sound, and even tried to control her breathing so that it was imperceptible. She just watched Qin Huai cut the radish and handed it to Qin Huai.

Zhang Chu washed all the radishes in the afternoon and piled them all in the kitchen. Those that couldn't be piled in the kitchen were put in the storage room.

In order to allow Qin Huai to cut radishes better, Zhang Chu bought two days' supply at one time.

Qin Huai cut basket after basket.

As time passed, the radishes turned into shredded radishes one by one.

Zhang Chu started out by secretly peeking through the crack outside the kitchen, but now he moves a stool and sits directly at the kitchen door, browsing on his phone while waiting for the basket to be full. He doesn't even dare to turn on the sound while browsing on his phone.

When he was dragging the basket half an hour ago, he made a little too much noise and was glared at by Cao Guixiang.

Although Zhang Chu is not a chef, he is a very good carpenter and he also learned skills from a master in his early years. Therefore, he can see that Qin Huai is in very good condition at this moment.

It's a state of enlightenment that is often seen in fantasy novels.

Commonly known as the feeling coming.

Considering that Qin Huai is a master of the feeling school, and has been relying on his feelings to hone his skills in making dim sum over the years, his feelings are super doubled when they come.

Therefore, Zhang Chu was very careful when dragging and changing baskets, fearing that the noise would disturb Qin Huai and make him a sinner for eternity. Otherwise, he would not be able to eat any of the snacks Qin Huai brought back, and he would not be allowed to eat tomorrow's big meal, and would be asked to go fishing.

Qin Huai was completely unaware of this. He didn't even know how many radishes he had cut. He just cut as many radishes as he could find.

Before I knew it, all the radishes in the kitchen had been cut.

The moon outside the window became brighter.

Cao Guixiang's feet were sore from standing, but she didn't sit down. She just leaned against the stove, and occasionally took a look at the soup she was making. Zhang Chu was sleepy, so he covered his mouth and yawned silently, wiped the tears from the corners of his eyes with his index finger, and silently watched the video.

The hour hand of the wall clock has passed 12 o'clock, and the second hand is ticking slowly.

Zhang Chu was getting sleepier and sleepier, yawning more and more silently, and he didn't notice that the short video of DYD Air Force Collection on his phone had been replayed 17 times. Because he had fallen asleep in the same position as when he was sleepy in class, with his head falling to the ground.

The basket in the kitchen is almost full again.

Qin Huai finished cutting the radish at hand and reached out to touch the next one.

A mock, oh, no carrots.

Qin Huai turned around and found that Cao Guixiang had fallen asleep against the refrigerator.

When I turned around again, I found Zhang Chu sitting in the chair and almost snoring.

Qin Huai:......

Is he...serving both the old man and the old lady?
Qin Huai didn't know what to do for a moment. He didn't know whether he should pat Cao Guixiang to wake Master Cao up first, or call Zhang Chu to wake Grandpa Zhang up first.

Between waking up Master Cao and Grandpa Zhang, Qin Huai chose to pick up the last radish on the ground, which was also the last radish in the kitchen.

Now that things have come to this, let’s cut this radish first.

Qinhuai cuts radish with a sharp knife.

He didn't know what happened to him just now. He felt like he was just cutting radishes and cutting radishes. He didn't think about anything, and he didn't need to think about anything. He just had to keep cutting radishes. The radishes were cut very smoothly, and the shredded radishes were also very beautiful.

He felt that he had a very good feel for cutting the radish today. Both the knife and the radish were more obedient than before. The shredded radish was more uniform, smoother, thinner and neater.

Soon, the last radish was cut.

Qin Huai yawned with some lingering feeling, turned his sore neck, moved his shoulders, twisted his waist, and found that he seemed to have been cutting radishes for a long time, causing many parts of his body to become sore and even stiff.

Qin Huai took out his cell phone and reached out to Cao Guixiang, tapping her lightly to wake up Master Cao.

Qin Huai turned on his cell phone with his left hand, glanced at the time, paused, and stopped his right hand in the air without taking a picture of Cao Guixiang.

It is now 2:47 am.

Qin Huai vaguely remembered that he should have entered the kitchen around 9 o'clock.

That means he spent nearly six hours in the kitchen chopping radishes.

Qin Huai looked at the ground in a daze and found that there were actually some extra things in the kitchen, including a few more cardboard boxes that did not belong in the kitchen. This meant that he might have cut all the radishes in the kitchen, and Zhang Chu went to the storage room and moved a few more boxes of radishes, but he didn't notice it.

How could he not notice?

No, it cannot be said that he did not notice. Qin Huai felt that he had the impression that someone was walking around in the kitchen, but he did not care at all at that time. The only thing he was thinking about at that time was cutting radishes.

What happened to him in these 6 hours?
The game system gave him a cheat, allowing him to enter the realm of enlightenment.

Is there such a plug-in for the game system?
Qin Huai was still in a daze when a "Duang" sound came from outside the kitchen.

Zhang Chu was dozing off too much and his hand loosened, causing his phone to fall to the ground and collide violently with the wooden floor. At the same time, he fell forward and hit his head on the kitchen door.

"Ouch." Zhang Chu wailed.

Qin Huai quickly opened the door to check the situation.

Cao Guixiang also woke up.

Cao Guixiang herself never thought that one day she would fall asleep while watching others cutting radishes in the kitchen. She was a little dazed in the first second after waking up, but when she heard the noise outside, she immediately rushed out to check the situation.

Cao Guixiang guessed what had happened at a glance and looked at Zhang Chu speechlessly.

His face was full of the message that if you feel sleepy you should go back to your room and sleep, and don't stay out there where you will only cause trouble.

Zhang Chu covered his head and looked at his wife with remorse.

Qin Huai half-knelt on the ground to check the injury on Zhang Chu's forehead. It was not very serious. It was just a little red and swollen from hitting the kitchen door. If he was unlucky, it might cause a small bump, but it was not a big problem.

"Master Cao, this is my fault. It's almost 3 o'clock now. I don't know what happened to me today. I've been cutting radishes until this hour." Qin Huai apologized first, "You and Grandpa Zhang fell asleep while waiting for me to cut radishes. Otherwise, Grandpa Zhang wouldn't have fallen asleep outside and knocked on the door."

Zhang Chu waved his hands repeatedly: "My problem, my problem."

"It has nothing to do with you, Xiao Qin. Your Grandpa Zhang and I are willing to wait by the side. It's already 3 o'clock. Your hands must be sore. Soak your wrists in hot water for five minutes when you take a shower. Otherwise, your hands will feel uncomfortable tomorrow."

"It's so late, you should take a shower quickly. Your Grandpa Zhang and I are not in a hurry because there are fewer elderly people. Your Grandpa Zhang often wakes up at 3 o'clock and can't fall asleep. He plays with his phone in the middle of the night. Now is the time when he is awake, right, Old Zhang?"

"Yes, yes, yes." Zhang Chu nodded repeatedly for breakfast, lunch and dinner.

Qin Huai:......

He felt a little sympathetic towards Zhang Chu. So, if there was any chicken soup left tomorrow, he would make a bowl of chicken noodle soup for Zhang Chu to replenish his body.

It was indeed very late, so Qin Huai didn't say anything more. He took his pajamas and went into the bathroom to take a shower.

Zhang Chu covered his head and asked his wife in confusion: "Did Xiao Qin suddenly realize it just now? When I was learning carpentry with my master, I would occasionally have this state, but not as exaggerated as Xiao Qin. The main reason is that our carpentry is a strenuous job. Working for 6 hours non-stop at a time is really too much for the body."

"But doesn't this usually happen when the skills are good enough? Is Xiao Qin's swordsmanship... good enough?"

Cao Guixiang shook her head: "It's still a long way to go, but it's right to ask him to come back this time."

"That is, he may have to stay for two more days to finish learning the next stage of sword skills before returning."

"Buy some more radishes tomorrow. No, don't buy radishes. Buy yams. It's a good opportunity to practice thickening the sauce."

"Okay." Zhang Chu nodded.

On the other side, when Qin Huai walked into the bathroom in his pajamas, he was still recalling the feeling of cutting radishes just now, unprecedented concentration, unprecedented efficiency, and unprecedented feeling.

It’s great to savor that state of ecstasy after experiencing it.

Qin Huai closed the bathroom door.

Now that we have gone to the bathroom, let’s open the game panel and take a look. Qin Huai feels that his sword skills should be upgraded.

Player Name: Qin Huai

Unlocked illustrations: 7/12
skill:
Dough making (Advanced): Your dough making skills have surpassed 96% of pastry chefs in the country. (41009/100000)

Stuffing (Master): Your stuffing skills have surpassed 98% of the excellent pastry chefs in the country. (59637/1000000)

Fingering (Intermediate): You finally start shaping the pastry. (9337/10000)

You Tiao (Intermediate): The fried dough sticks you made are pretty good. (2171/10000)

Knife skills (intermediate): Still need to work on it. (99/10000)

Heat (intermediate): Still need to work hard. (9511/10000)

Food Tasting (Advanced): OK, you are quite good at eating. (Not upgradeable)

Management (Intermediate): I know how to run a business and I won’t lose money. (1999/10000)

Lies (Master Level): You are the one who speaks the truth to people and lies to ghosts! (496137/1000000)

Sure enough, my knife skills have improved.

(End of this chapter)