After black and red traffic fell in love with farming

"Father, what should a real strong person look like?"

"The real strong, they have the courage to face the difficulties, never give up, fight more and more bravely in the face of difficulties and obstacles, until they climb the peak."

"I know, Dad, a real strong man should be like Dad, practicing under the spring water every morning, but never catching a cold!"

"..." Shen Zhiyan questioned his soul:

"Is such a line really okay?"

An old man passed by the door, he glanced into the kitchen, and then was furious: "What are you doing?!"

Shen Zhiyan stood up straight in a panic, and said loudly: "Intermission, it's just an intermission, I'll go back immediately!"

He hurried back to the kitchen with the little brother who was fishing. The little brother ran into the warehouse, but he could only hold the knife again with his sore wrist against the angry and burning gaze behind him.

kitchen knife.

a day ago.

Master Zhu looked at the young man sitting upright in front of him, soothed his voice, and said:

"If you want to learn how to cook, you need to be able to pass the first knife. A master who can't cut all the ingredients into the shape and thickness you want is not worthy of being a good chef."

"The first thing you have to do is to practice knife skills. From today on, you will go to the store to chop vegetables every day until I say yes."

Shen Zhiyan hesitated: "Is it just chopping vegetables every day?"

It was rare for Master Zhu to see this kid showing weakness, so he deliberately provoked him: "Why, can't it be done? Didn't you brazenly say that you want to be a chef?"

Shen Zhiyan immediately took the bait: "Hmph, I won't be able to do it? Just wait and see, I'm sure I can get you to nod in no time!"

Shen Zhiyan didn't know whether he was really provoked or what, so he said the above sentence confidently.For the next whole morning, he stayed in the kitchen, cutting shallots, Chinese cabbage, broccoli, spring bamboo shoots...everything he could cut.

To summarize:

Cutting vegetables is really tiring.

"Is there anything in the world that can be done without hard work?" Master Dong walked past him with a smile, sat down, and handed him a lunch box.

Shen Zhiyan was lazily lying on the sofa in the staff lounge. His figure was comparable to that of a model, with long hands and long legs, and even such a salty fish could make a bit of elegance and extravagance.Hearing Master Dong's words, he slowly turned his light-colored pupils, the angle between his neck and jaw turned 30° reservedly, and he stretched out his palm to take the lunch box from Master Dong.

As soon as he opened it—

Well, there was smoked fish which he didn't like.

Shen Zhiyan glanced left and right, and with a smile on his lips, he put the smoked fish into Xiao Wang's lunch box opposite:

"Brother Wang, come, I remember you like to eat smoked fish."

"Oh, thank you!"

Shen Zhiyan picked up the dish he didn't like, and then began to move his chopsticks slowly.Except for the smoked fish, he ate everything, but he ate slowly.Master Dong had already finished eating, and while wiping his mouth with a tissue, he said:

"Actually, I see you chopping vegetables, it's already almost done."

Shen Zhiyan didn't feel anything when he heard it at first, and he tasted it after a while.

"Master Dong, why do you think it's fast? What do you think it's fast?"

Master Dong looked at him and said, "It's your basic skill of cutting vegetables. You are just a step away. When you understand the knack of using a knife, you will be able to really cut vegetables."

Shen Zhiyan put down his chopsticks: "I don't understand. I think this kitchen knife is against me. The longer it goes on, the more disobedient it becomes. My hands are sore in the end, and I'm cutting vegetables entirely by perseverance."

"This is because you haven't mastered the knack of using a knife. It is said that practice makes perfect only through continuous practice. I can't explain this clearly, but I do have some experience, and maybe I can tell you about it."

Shen Zhiyan quickly said: "Okay, okay, tell me."

Master Dong led him to the kitchen and asked him to stand aside to watch, while he stood in front of the chopping board holding the knife, inhaling and exhaling slowly.

"When you cut vegetables, don't think about cutting vegetables, but think about how to integrate with the kitchen knife in your hand. Don't resist or complain, but feel the idea of ​​the knife and fit it Integration, the so-called mastery, the avenue to simplicity, when you understand the idea of ​​the knife, you can fully use the knife."

After he finished speaking, his wrist quickly cut vertical afterimages on the cutting board, and the sound of the blade hitting the cutting board was clear and neat, like a clear song.Shen Zhiyan is extremely sensitive to sound, and he knew that this rhythm must be caused by the same speed when the knife is dropped.

"Did you see it?" Master Dong turned to look at him: "Let the knife guide you, and you follow the knife's thoughts. I'll do it again, watch it."

He took a large spring bamboo shoot in his hand and cut it in one stroke. In just a few seconds, a plate of bamboo shoots with uniform gaps in thickness was completed.

When Master Dong was chopping vegetables, Shen Zhiyan had an inexplicable feeling in his heart, which made him feel itchy.After Master Dong finished the rehearsal, he was inexplicably full of confidence, and said directly:

"I understand."

He couldn't wait to snatch the kitchen knife back, and at the same time took a Chinese cabbage in his left hand.

Feel the idea of ​​the knife, integrate into the action of the knife, master it, and make it simple.

A smile appeared on the corner of the young man's mouth.

after an hour:

"Ahhh, my hands are so sore!!!"

system:"......"

……

Shen Zhiyan chops vegetables every day, even in his dreams, the kitchen knife is waving

afterimage.The system was startled by his shouts of "watching the knife" in the middle of the night, so he wanted to call 110, but the next day, Shen Zhiyan arrived at the hotel with dark circles under his eyes as before.

As soon as he picked up the knife, he held the cabbage with his left hand, and unknowingly, he quickly lowered the knife with his wrist.

"Xiao Shen is here, so early."

"En." Shen Zhiyan nodded slowly.

Master Dong was about to pass by him, saw his movements, turned his head and smiled, and said:

"Yes."

meeting?What will happen?

Shen Zhiyan hadn't completely woke up from the daze, he looked down by himself.

"what--"

He woke up suddenly:

"I seem to feel something!"

Master Dong smiled and said: "How stupid are you, do you feel that you and the knife are one, what do you think, what can your knife do?"

Shen Zhiyan quickly chopped a few more, including meat dishes, and nodded repeatedly: "That's right."

"It only took you more than two days to master it. You are really talented. Shall I call Master Zhu and let him have a look at you?"

Shen Zhiyan turned his eyes and said, "I don't want it for now, I will practice for a while, and I will show the master after I have mastered it."

"also."

Shen Zhiyan turned around and picked up the knife again.The moment he picked up the knife, a strange cold current surged from the bottom of his heart, just like the feeling the knife gave him.

Shen Zhiyan waved the knife a few times in satisfaction, and suddenly remembered a joke that was very popular on the Internet before: I want to quietly become the sword god, and then amaze everyone.

Master, just wait to be amazed by me!

Shen Zhiyan practiced for another day, and only called his master over at night.

Master Zhu looked at him suspiciously: "In just these three days, you have learned how to use a knife?"

Shen Zhiyan smiled and said nothing, just looked at him quietly.Master Zhu opened a special "practice room" for him. At this moment, the mask on Shen Zhiyan's face was pushed down to his chin, his skin was as smooth as jade, his eyes were smiling, and he had the aura of a master.

He stood in front of the cutting board, took a deep breath, picked up the kitchen knife on the side and chopped a piece of pork tenderloin into slices quickly.With each vertical cut of the kitchen knife, the red tenderloin is gently poured on the cutting board like a child's jigsaw puzzle.Soon a row of tenderloins of the same size and uniform thickness appeared in front of their eyes.

After Shen Zhiyan finished cutting the pork, he put the meat on the plate, then picked up a piece of carrot next to him, the knife quickly appeared an afterimage, and his left hand holding the carrot was kept about two millimeters away from the surface of the knife. Chengsi keeps retreating, but never stays away.

After a while, the shredded carrots were also cut.

Shen Zhiyan took one meat and one vegetable, and put them in front of the master, with an increasingly calm and handsome expression on his face: "How is it?"

The brilliance in the chef's eyes magnified for a moment when he saw him arranging the plate, and he walked to the counter without saying a word, and took out a piece of tenderloin.Shen Zhiyan didn't even have time to watch how he cut the knife, but in an instant, slices of tenderloin, as thin as a cicada's wing, lay down slowly along the knife's surface, intact and soft like butterfly wings.Because the thickness of the meat is extremely thin, the human eye can even see the back of the meat through the slices, and the texture of the cut surface is beautiful, just like the lines on porcelain.

The master inserts the knife from the bottom of the cutting board, wipes it, and the knife surface quickly withdraws along the smooth surface of the plate.

He glanced at Shen Zhiyan indifferently: "How is it?"

Shen Zhiyan threw himself to the ground:

"Master, you are so strong!"

Master: "Hmph. Just don't show off your petty skills, it's shameful. But you're barely qualified. Next, you can start a new practice."

Shen Zhiyan, who just thought he had escaped from the sky: "Ah, what else?"

The master said angrily: "Of course, what do you think cooking is? Knowing how to use a kitchen knife is a big deal?"

"Next, you have to practice the accuracy of your fingers. Cooking is the same as using medicine. If the ingredients are slightly different, the result will be a thousand miles away."

"From now on, you have to learn to get every main ingredient and auxiliary ingredient accurately in the shortest time. You can use everything in the kitchen to practice, and you must make sure that the difference is within 5%."

This test of weighing by hand is the most difficult. Some people will either know it or not.But as a chef, if you can get "a large spoonful" or "one medium spoonful" of soy sauce even if you want a "small spoonful", then even if you can be a chef, you will definitely not be a master chef.From this perspective, the master really didn't intend to scare the apprentice.

Master Zhu originally thought that Shen Zhiyan must be in trouble, but he didn't expect that the boy next to him was not only not depressed, but also had a meaningful smile on his face.

"Master..." Shen Zhiyan said slowly, "You don't usually watch variety shows, do you?"

Master: Variety show?What variety show?

Is it cooking skills?

After Shen Zhiyan said this sentence, he stopped making a sound, walked to the kitchen and was familiar with all kinds of seasonings, while looking at the amount of various seasonings in the recipe.

It wasn't until he left that Master Dong walked in through the door.

"It takes three days to learn how to chop vegetables, and another three days to handle cooking. Do you still have time to teach in these three days?"

Master Zhu also had this worry in his heart, but he insisted: "If he can't learn this, it means he can't be a chef."

Master Dong looked at him and shook his head silently.

You old man has such an awkward personality, and Xiao Shen is so outgoing, no wonder he beats you.

......

Everyone thought that Shen Zhiyan would spend another three days figuring out how much material to use. Unexpectedly, at noon the next day, he would:

"Master, come on, we are here to test the school."

Master: "????" So fast.

However, his suspicion quickly collapsed under the reality that Shen Zhiyan grasped the materials accurately one after another.

Shen Zhiyan said modestly:

"It took me a lot of time to learn how to use the familiar ingredients and seasonings, otherwise I would have asked the master to check and accept it that night."

master:"???"

"Ahem." Master Zhu said with a stern face, "Okay, I will treat you as having passed this test, and then..."

Shen Zhiyan held his breath.

"Next, let's learn how to cook."

Shen Zhiyan: "So fast?!"

Master Zhu glared at him: "I have recipes for two dishes. You can make them yourself. If you think it's good, tell me."

"Okay, master!"

The master gave him a recipe for braised pork and a recipe for hot and sour potato shreds. Shen Zhiyan knew that he wanted to test himself, so he took the recipe and studied it with great concentration that day.

These two dishes are difficult to say, but not easy to say.

Basically, it is difficult to fail, but it is not easy to do well.

Shen Zhiyan still remembered the feeling when he ate the hot and sour potato shreds made by his master for the first time, that feeling was like rain after a long drought, the sour, refreshing and spicy taste, he might never forget it in his life.

The system sensed something strange in his heart: "...Host, are you afraid?"

"No, I'm full of expectations!" His eyes shone with a scorching light. Only the most difficult cooking skills are the realm that he can keep pursuing!

Shen Zhiyan prepared for two full days, and in the afternoon of the second day, he called his master and said:

"I'm ready."

Master Zhu said lightly: "Then you can start."

Just as Shen Zhiyan was about to prepare, he saw that Master Zhu also took out the ingredients he had prepared earlier, and walked to another pot.

He was taken aback: "Master..."

"Don't look at me, be yourself."

"......it is good."

Shen Zhiyan has a top-notch mentality. Although there are unexpected things, he still concentrates and concentrates on his own pot.After more than an hour, the two ended almost at the same time.

Four dishes were placed in the middle of the table, and the chef handed him chopsticks: "Taste it."

Shen Zhiyan hesitated for a while, and finally decided to taste the master's two dishes first. He knew the taste of his own dishes very well, so he didn't need to confirm. As for the master's...

The moment the braised pork entered his mouth, he knew he had lost.

Although he didn't expect to win at first, the strong gap still made him feel depressed.

Master Zhu also tasted his dishes, put down his chopsticks and said slowly, "What kind of dishes do you think are delicious?"

Shen Zhiyan was the only one who thought about it, and said, "What do you like to eat?"

"It's hard to tell everyone. How do you know that everyone likes this taste? Not to mention that there are huge differences in tastes in different places. Even people in the same place have different evaluations of sweetness, spicy acceptance, and sour taste. How to do it?"

The master continued without waiting for Shen Zhiyan to come up with a result: "For a delicious dish, you can't just rely on the recipe. When something happens, just say that the recipe is written like this, and I followed the recipe. You have to make your own judgment , your own taste, and know what your dish will look like when you make this sauce. You don’t need to be able to change the taste of the dish according to everyone’s preferences, but you must at least know why you make this dish If you can't even do this, you can only be a kitchen master in this life, not a chef."

Shen Zhiyan was in awe, and respectfully said: "Master, I was wrong."

"I shouldn't just follow the recipe, I should delve into why this dish is made like this, and what I want to make it."

"Yeah." The master nodded.

Although this kid is fooling around, with one face on the other and another on the back, his understanding is really high. At this time, most people probably haven't even figured out how to use a knife.

"From tomorrow, you will officially learn how to cook with me."

"Okay, master!" Shen Zhiyan replied loudly with enthusiasm.

......

On the second day:

"Ah, learning how to flip a spoon?"

"That's right!" Master Zhu took it for granted, "You can't even turn the spoon, so what are you learning to cook?"

As a result, Shen Zhiyan encountered his first real difficulty after learning to cook: tossing the spoon.

Shen Zhiyan: I cut vegetables and pick them up like a rabbit, and I stir fry them like a virgin.

The master looked disgusted: "What's wrong with young people now, I used to stand with a pot under the sun for a whole morning and I was fine."

Shen Zhiyan held the cauldron and turned back with difficulty: "Master, my skin will turn red when I stand under the sun all morning, and my manager and makeup artist will tell me."

master:"......"

Delicate, just fucking squeamish!

At night, Shen Zhiyan was standing in the bathroom, and suddenly remembered the TV series he had glimpsed a few days ago, in which the male protagonist practiced swords under the spring water in order to enhance his ability to resist stress.Didn't he and the male protagonist have the same situation?

Thinking so, he walked out of the room like a ghost, took the pot from the kitchen and walked back.

The master who happened to walk out of the pouring water: "???"

He yelled: "Shen Zhiyan, what are you doing? Don't waste water, get out of the bathroom!"

......

......

At a certain VIP exit of Beijing Airport, a handsome man from a foreign country put his hands on his hips, laughed twice, and said in English mixed with strange Chinese:

"Shen, I'm here, come and meet your good friend!"

The author has something to say: The internet at home was broken yesterday, and the computer couldn’t upload it.I uploaded it to the company today, so it is a bit late