Cooking Girl on Fire: All the beautiful men come to the bowl

Chapter 380
Hearing that the taste of the snake meat had changed, Ai Xiaomi couldn't help being taken aback, picked up a piece with chopsticks and put it in her mouth.This taste, sure enough, found the problem.

Although the taste is delicious, it lacks the extremely fresh feeling that hit the taste buds at the beginning.

A serious and solemn expression immediately appeared on Ai Xiaomi's face.

"It doesn't matter if it's just like this?" Luxor and Nandi looked at each other, looked at Ai Xiaomi and comforted, "Even without the original delicious feeling, the umami taste of this snake meat is still not inferior to Other ingredients, even if it is used to make it, will definitely win over others!"

"No!" Ai Xiaomi shook her head, showing a very determined expression.

As a top chef, if she can't fully restore the original taste of this snake meat when faced with this kind of situation, then she is not worthy of being a top chef.She thought, if Ian Berry was here at this time, he would definitely not choose to cook with this snake meat that no longer has the feeling of extreme freshness.

For the present, we must come up with a feasible way to solve this problem.

Ai Xiaomi said hello, entrusted Ai Tiantian to Nandi, then turned and walked into the kitchen.

Everyone looked at each other, but no one dared to disturb Ai Xiaomi.After following Xiaomi for so many years, it was the first time for them to see Xiaomi so seriously!
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Time passed by, and soon it was midnight.Some of these people finally couldn't hold back and wanted to go to the kitchen to have a look.

As the people who are currently closest to Ai Xiaomi, Nandi and Fandan were "pushed" out.

The two of them didn't intend to disturb Ai Xiaomi, but just wanted to see how far she had gone in researching ingredients.The two walked to the door of the kitchen, opened the door slightly, and saw Ai Xiaomi with her back to them, who was concentrating on her research.

Dozens of neatly cut pieces of snake meat were placed in front of her, and countless ingredients were placed on the table on the left—vegetables, meat, eggs, milk, soy products, pickled products...she was eating them one by one. Compare it with snake meat.At the same time, there were more than [-] cooked foods placed on the table on the right. It was obvious that they were all failures.

"It seems that tonight is destined to be a sleepless night." Nandi shook her head helplessly, pulled Raffindan, the two of them closed the kitchen door, and then returned to the dining room.

"How is it?" As soon as I came back, I received everyone's concerned eyes with questions.

Nandy shook her head.

"I hope she can succeed as soon as possible." Fan Dan only said this.

"Go to sleep!" Nandi greeted, "It's fine for Xiaomi to be accompanied by someone. Besides, with her ability, it's okay to stay up all night like this. Instead, we came with her. If there is an emergency tomorrow What's the situation, we have to raise enough elites to help her deal with it!"

"Okay! I'm going to sleep!" Hearing this, An Hao was the first to nod in agreement. Since the master is fine, it's useless for them to waste time here.It's better to raise enough elites, even if the master wants to buy vegetables and meat tomorrow morning, I should have the physical strength to do it!
"Hey, it looks like I'm not needed here." Richard also shook his head, following An Hao's pace with self-knowledge.But he didn't want to go to sleep, but he wanted to go to his own cell to see if he could find some way to help Ai Xiaomi.

His thinking is similar to that of An Hao. Since so many people are wasting time here doing useless work, it is better to use this time to find some solutions. The power of one person is small, how can three cobblers be worth one Zhuge Liang? !

"Nandi, look at the child!" Luxor walked to Nandi, hugged Ai Tiantian into Nandi's arms and said, "This little guy is so troublesome, I can't coax him, you'd better Let's take her back to sleep. Otherwise, Xiaomi will be depressed every day if he is not in a good state of mind every day!"

"This... alright!" Although Nandi was apprehensive, she still carried Ai Tiantian back to her room.

Now only Luxor and Fandan remain.

Fan Dan frowned, remembering the tense and busy figure of Xiaomi just now, he felt distressed for some reason, and at the same time, an idea came to his mind, so he said to Luxor: "I'll go out and take a look around."

In the end, the responsibility of guarding Ai Xiaomi was left on Luxor.

That night Luxor sat in the dining room, and looked out of the kitchen from time to time. Ai Xiaomi almost repeated the same action throughout the night—choosing ingredients—matching—cooking.

The sky had already turned blue, and when it was about to dawn, Fandan came back in a hurry. His body and face were covered with dew, and his face was obviously pale. It was Luxor who saw him. They were all taken aback.

"You, what are you doing here?"

"It's nothing, I just went out to find something."

When Fandan opened his mouth, Luxor even felt that Fandan's breath became weaker. This kid, what happened tonight?Could it be that he really found the ingredients to help Xiaomi restore its umami?

Seeing that Fendan's dew-stained face was tired and weak, he asked softly, "How is Xiaomi? Are you still busy?"

"Yeah." Luxor nodded and replied, "I've been busy all night, and I don't think there's anything wrong with it. Why don't you go and have a look?"

"En." Fandan nodded, walked lightly to the kitchen door, carefully opened the kitchen door, and walked in.

At this time, Fandan was holding a small bottle in his hand. The bottle was very small. There was a drop of crystal liquid in the bottle. Although there was only one drop, Fandan held it as if he was holding a treasure, and his attitude was definitely precious. of.

"Xiaomi?" Fan Dan walked into the kitchen and called softly.

"Hmm." Ai Xiaomi was so busy that she just responded, and didn't even have time to turn her head.

Fandan didn't make a sound, but walked to her side and sat down, watching patiently as she concentrated on cooking the food in her hands.

A few minutes later, Ai Xiaomi finished cooking, and another delicious dish came out. She picked up the chopsticks and tasted the ingredients that had been cooked countless times.However, this time's hard work still did not bring about the desired taste, Ai Xiaomi's eyes flashed a touch of disappointment, and she put down her chopsticks.

Ai Xiaomi couldn't help stretching, stretching her arms and legs, then turned to Fandan and asked, "What's wrong? Is it time?"

"Not yet." Fandan said with a slight smile, "It's just dawn, there should be a while before the game."

"That's great." Ai Xiaomi said with a little relief on his face, "It's a little bit close to researching it, and I have found several ingredients that can maximize freshness."

"That, I also found one." Fandan said, then took out the small bottle tightly held in his hand, and shook it in front of Ai Xiaomi.

"What?" Ai Xiaomi didn't seem to hear clearly.

But he saw that Fandan had stood up, walked to the chopping board and opened the bottle cap, slightly dipped a little liquid in the vial with a toothpick and applied it to one of the snake meat that Ai Xiaomi had divided, then gave up his seat and said: "Try it now, even if you don't add anything, it's just white burning."

Ai Xiaomi looked at Fandan suspiciously, but was pushed by him to the chopping board, and even started to boil the snake meat as Fandan said just now.

Slicing the snake meat, Ai Xiaomi felt a different touch when cutting it with the purple kitchen knife.

Put green onion, ginger and cooking wine in the pot, use magic to bring the water to a boil instantly, and then throw the snake meat you like into the pot, because the snake meat is thin, and it is almost cooked when thrown into the pot.Ai Xiaomi quickly removed the fire, then drained the snake meat, then added a little oil to the pot, put the chopped green onions, added a small amount of sugar, vinegar, soy sauce and cooking wine to cook the juice, and waited until the domestic cooking juice was bubbling. When it was time, the juice was immediately poured on the scorched snake meat.

"Hiss!" With the hot steam rising from the plate, Ai Xiaomi immediately smelled an extremely delicious taste.

"This, this is." Ai Xiaomi picked up the chopsticks and couldn't wait to taste it.

The snake meat has a smooth and tender taste, especially the extremely fresh beauty, which instantly filled the whole mouth, reminding her of the days of eating snake meat in Dream Valley...

exactly the same!It tasted exactly the same as the batwing flame snake that had just been killed at that time, and the umami taste was not lost at all!

how come!
Thinking of this, Ai Xiaomi's eyes couldn't help falling on the small bottle in Fendan's hand.

"How?" Fan Dan's seriousness showed a hint of expectation. If even the contents of the bottle can't help Ai Xiaomi, then there should be nothing that can help the snake meat freshen up.

"What is this?" Ai Xiaomi's serious shock proved that the contents in the bottle had worked, and Fandan finally showed a look of relief in his eyes.

"It's good if it works, take it quickly! But there's only such a drop, don't waste it!" Fandan smiled slightly, and stuffed the bottle into Ai Xiaomi's hand.

However, Ai Xiaomi grabbed Fan Dan's hand in turn, and asked with a serious face: "Is this the essence of life?"

"Huh? You know?" Fandan showed a slight smile on his face, "Since you know, there is no need for me to explain the effect of this life essence to you."

"Don't change the subject! Let me ask you, where did this essence come from!"

Fandan looked at Ai Xiaomi's serious eyes, and pretended to be relaxed and said: "The treasure of our elves, take it with me..."

"Nonsense!" Ai Xiaomi interrupted Fandan and said, "I already said it is a treasure, and the treasure will let you carry it with you? Come on, where did it come from?"

"Don't ask." Fan Dan turned his face away, and refused to say where he got it.

"Is this your own life essence?" Ai Xiaomi stared into Findan's eyes and asked word by word.

Fandan was silent.

It was indeed the essence of his own life.

When he left at night, he was looking for a place full of life, because if he wanted to force his own life out of his body and form the essence, he needed not only strong strength, but also the right time and place.That's why when he came back, his face was covered with dew.

At ten o'clock in the morning, the breath of life is the strongest. With the help of this strong breath, Fan Dan forcibly stripped 10 years of life from his body, forming only a drop of essence.

There is an elf spring in the elves, and the elves can produce the essence of life. It only takes 30 years to produce one drop, so the elves only have dozens of drops.Naturally, it is impossible for Fan Dan to carry this treasure of the elves, so he can only use a last resort method to extract the essence of life.

Life Essence, as the name suggests, can increase the vitality of the object being used, and even if it is added to human beings, it can also increase the lifespan of human beings.In the same way, adding it to the snake meat, although it can't bring the bat-winged flame snake back to life, it can definitely restore the meat quality to its freshly dead state.

It's just that it is indeed a bit wasteful to use this essence of life in this way.

"You are so stupid! Is it worth it!" Ai Xiaomi sighed helplessly.

"It's worth it. Anyway, our elves have a long lifespan, and those who live less than 10 or 8 years will not lose their lives." Fandan showed a faint smile on his face, and comforted Ai Xiaomi and said, "Anyway, they have been extracted. You can't make it useless, can you? Then I extracted it for nothing? Cousin, as long as it can help you realize your dream, sacrificing a little lifespan is really nothing."

At this moment, Fan Dan realized that Ai Xiaomi was holding his hands tightly, and felt a trace of warmth from those soft and boneless hands, and he couldn't help blushing.

"How do you ask me to repay this love." Ai Xiaomi murmured.

"Okay, don't say that these are all gone!" Although Findan was a little bit reluctant, he quietly withdrew his hand and put the small bottle into Ai Xiaomi's hand.Then he patted Ai Xiaomi on the shoulder and encouraged him: "The day will be bright soon, you should go wash your face and refresh yourself. If you lose today's game, I will not spare you!"

"Don't worry, I will never lose!" Fandan's encouragement strengthened Ai Xiaomi's heart, and her face was full of confidence again.

At this time, there was a noise outside the kitchen. It turned out that everyone woke up early.Seeing that Ai Xiaomi had stopped and repeated the whole night's work, everyone more or less had the answer in their hearts, and each of them lifted their spirits.

Ai Xiaomi made a simple self-adjustment, followed everyone to have breakfast, and the group set off for the competition venue.Since there were only 12 contestants participating in today's rematch, the venue of the competition was slightly changed. Platforms were built for the 12 contestants, one for each contestant, and the auditorium was built around the platforms for the 12 contestants. Obviously, there are many more seats than yesterday. Correspondingly, today's audience is several times more than yesterday.

Ai Xiaomi was the last one to enter again.As soon as she entered the venue, the flower wheel man quickly posted over, and said while posting back: "Oh, beauty, you are really stable. I almost thought you would not come."

"Am I like that?" For the first time, Ai Xiaomi smiled at the flower wheel man.The flower wheel man was flattered for a while, and just about to continue to say something, he found that Ai Xiaomi had already passed him, and walked towards the place where the number plate was drawn.

"Ladies! Gentlemen!" At this time, the high-pitched tenor voice of the host sounded on the magic radio, and everyone couldn't help but quiet down.

"Dear viewers, as you can see, after two rounds of fierce competition yesterday, 12 outstanding contestants have successfully passed the exam and entered our semi-finals. These 12 contestants are Kyle, Lina Lian, Wei Wei Kedo...and Ai Xiaomi!" Congratulations to them!
"Today's rematch adopts a two-in-one mode, that is, the 12 contestants will be divided into six groups, and one contestant from each group will enter the semi-finals. At that time, these six contestants will have the opportunity to compete with Ian, the champion of the last MasterChef Contest. ?Mr. Berry formed a group of 6 people to compete for the place in the final!"

"What?" Hearing Ian Berry's name, Ai Xiaomi couldn't help asking, "Is Ian Berry going straight to the semi-finals?"

As soon as Ai Xiaomi's words fell, people around her looked at her like a monster, and Hualun Man couldn't help explaining to her: "The champion of each competition has the right to defend the title in the next competition, and can directly enter the semi-finals or Don't you know about the semi-finals?"

Ai Xiaomi shook her head, and then a hint of expectation appeared on her face.This is nothing but good news for her, at least Ian Berry's exit date can be pushed to tomorrow's semi-finals, right?She always has a belief in her heart, that is, Ian Berry will definitely come to fulfill the promise of a fight with her.

"Hey! Beauty! What are you thinking! It's time for us to draw a number!" The voice of the flower wheel man called Ai Xiaomi back, and I saw that he had already walked up to the table first, and went to the box to get the number.

Immediately afterwards, the results of the flower wheel man came from the front.

"No. 5! Mr. Andreessen has drawn No. 5! He was assigned to the third group, and the No. 6 of the third group has not been drawn yet. Who will Mr. Andreessen's opponent be?"

"The next contestant, there are only 2 numbers left in the box, so will Ai Xiaomi draw number 6 and be in the same group with Mr. Andreessen, or will he be drawn with number 7 and be in the same group with Miss Lina Lian?" ?”

Ai Xiaomi stepped forward, reached out and took out a piece of cardboard from the box.

"No. 7! Ai Xiaomi has drawn No. 7, and she is in the fourth group with Lina Lian. In the end, only Iveco is left with No. 6, which is in the same group as Andreessen! The draw is over, please do your best. Get ready and get ready. Please ask the staff to place the ingredients for each contestant on the corresponding stove, and the competition is ready to begin.”

The 12 contestants stepped off the rostrum one after another and walked towards the stove with their own numbers.But Hualun Nan, a guy who likes to join in the fun, came over again, and said very flatly: "That's great, beauty! It's a good thing we weren't divided into one group. In this way, in the next round of competition, I can see is you."

"Huh!" A cold snort came from behind, and then, the sexy beauty walked between Ai Xiaomi and the flower wheel man, threatening as she walked, "Even if she doesn't go with you, she will do the same." Not tomorrow's semi-final."

The implication could not be more obvious, that is, he will definitely win against Ai Xiaomi.

"Stupid woman!" Hualunnan looked at the back of the sexy beauty in front of him, glared at her fiercely, then turned to Ai Xiaomi and said, "Beauty, you have to work hard! We will participate in the semi-finals together tomorrow." !"

After finishing speaking, he also stepped onto his own competition stage.

Ai Xiaomi smiled slightly, this clingy guy shouldn't be so annoying.

She must enter the semi-finals!Because her opponent is still waiting for her!While thinking about Ian Berry, Ai Xiaomi also walked up to her stove.

The ingredients for the contestants have already been moved up, and Ai Xiaomi's ingredient is the bat wing meat that was fought over by the two associations yesterday.

With the series of familiar operations in the morning, Ai Xiaomi has already figured it out in her heart. She picked up the snake meat and was ready to start cooking.

However, as soon as her hands touched the bat-winged snake meat, she immediately felt something strange. Her ingredients seemed to have been tampered with.

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(End of this chapter)