"What is the 'Heart of the Holy Chef'?" After the old Zhang and the fat man left, Liu Mang sighed and cleaned up the coconut shells on the table.

"Xiaobao, is this really useful?"

"Master, don't be in a hurry, it's definitely useful. Xiaobao said.

"Okay. Liu Mang replied lightly and looked at the time.

It's already past 9 o'clock in the evening, and no one should come, so it's time to close.

Just as Liu Mang was about to pull down the roller shutter, a hand reached in from the outside and pushed open the wooden door.

"I'm sorry, I'm ...... today" Liu Mang originally wanted to say that the door was going to close today. But when I saw the people who came in, I was a little unbearable.

Coming in were a man and a woman, both young. The boy was wearing jeans and a T-shirt, tall and big, and he looked fresh. The girl was wearing light makeup, wearing a professional skirt, and her eyes were red, she should have just cried.

"Boss, is there anything to eat here?" the boy asked.

"Yes. Liu Mang hesitated for a moment and replied.

The girl didn't speak, but sat down on the bar by herself with her head down.

"You're hungry, get something to eat. "The boy took the girl's bag with a gentle attitude.

"I'm not hungry, I don't want to eat. The girl replied stiffly.

The boy smiled awkwardly: "Boss, is there a menu?"

"No menu. Liu Mang replied.

"No menu? What's there to eat?"

"Whatever you want to eat, I can cook it for you. ”

"I want to eat Malatang, do you have it?" the girl said half angrily, half teasingly.

"Yes. ”

"There really is. The boy was stunned, looked around, and felt that this was not a place to eat Malatang.

"Boss, how do you sell this spicy hot?" stunned for a moment, the boy pinched his pocket, and then asked.

"100 yuan a pot, I'll help you scald it. Liu Mang thought for a moment and replied.

"100 pieces! Okay, let's have a pot. The boy turned to the side and muttered in a small voice, "It's expensive." ”

"Wait a minute. Liu Mang walked into the kitchen and opened the small door on the side of the kitchen. It was a small bedroom with only a single bed, which was where he usually slept.

Liu Mang entered the space, picked up in the space, and prepared a lot of ingredients.

There are fresh vegetables in the space, cucumbers, lettuce, green beans, water spinach, and they don't need to be taken care of by Liu Mang at all, and they grow lush and green.

In addition to vegetables, Liu Mang also picked up a few eggs, and instructed Xiaobao to get a fish and more than a pound of prawns from the big lake.

"You make it clear, why did you break up with me?"

As soon as he came out of the space, Liu Mang opened the door and heard the girl questioning the boy loudly.

"I don't love you anymore. ”

"You're lying! You look me in the eye and tell me, is it true?"

"Yes. ”

The atmosphere fell silent, and only the girl's suppressed sobs could be heard.

Liu Mang stood at the door and coughed, and after it was quiet outside, he walked into the kitchen.

There were just some leftover chicken bones, Liu Mang put them in a pressure cooker, added water and prepared to stew into a soup base.

The vegetables are cleaned, the fish are slaughtered, and the prawns are shelled and the shrimp line is picked out.

This fish is a perch of about one catty, Liu Mang scrapes off the scales, removes the main spines, and cuts it into large fillets. Marinated with cooking wine and light soy sauce.

As for the shrimp, chop them on a cutting board and add egg whites, starch, minced ginger, salt and pepper to make the shrimp slippery.

"You tell me, why don't you love me anymore?" Liu Mang was busy in the kitchen, and the girl in front of him began to question the boy again.

"It's not that I don't love you, it's that I may never give you the life you want. The boy's voice rose a few degrees, "I really can't go on with you, I have 100 yuan in my pocket now, this is all my money!"

The crying sounded again, and the girl lay on the bar, her shoulders twitching.

"Boss. The boy scrambled to take the tissue box and found it empty.

"Hello, here you go. Liu Mang took out a pack of tissues from under the bar and gently placed it in front of the girl.

The girl raised her head, two black marks on her face from her crying eyeliner, and she whispered, "Thank you......"

Heat the pot, add a small piece of butter, and when the oil temperature reaches 200 degrees, add the ginger and green onion and fry until fragrant. Then add the bean paste, glutinous chili peppers, turn to low heat and stir-fry slowly.

Next, add spices such as cardamom, bay leaves, star anise, green and red peppercorns, rock sugar, and mash. Wait until the flavor of the base material is stir-fried, and finally pour in the chicken bone broth and add a pinch of salt and pepper to taste. The spicy soup base is ready.

First blanch the shrimp, then blanch the fish fillet, and finally blanch all kinds of vegetables, blanch these ingredients one by one and put them into a large bowl, sprinkle with chopped green onions, and pour a little spicy soup base, this Liu Mang's version of 'spicy hot' is completed.

"Please use it. Liu Mang brought this large bowl of spicy tang to the table, and then sent chopsticks and two plates of minced garlic as a base, and a dipping dish with sesame oil.

A rich, spicy aroma burst out of the basin, and boys and girls couldn't help but look at it.

"Eat. The boy shoved the chopsticks into the girl's hand: "I'll give it to you after eating." ”

"I don't!" the girl shook her head stubbornly, placing her chopsticks heavily on the bar.

"Boss, you have so few spicy things. The boy was a little helpless, so he picked up his chopsticks and rummaged through the basin.

The general spicy tang has duck blood, meatballs, ham sausages, vermicelli and so on, but now there are only fish fillets and shrimp slippery in the basin, which is indeed a bit monotonous.

"I'm Malatang, it's different from the outside. Liu Mang replied, thought about it and added: "Although the ingredients are simple, they are very fresh, especially suitable for people who have no appetite." ”

"Really?" the girl picked up her chopsticks, picked up a fillet from the basin, dipped it in a dipping dish, and put it in her mouth.

"It's really fresh!" the girl twitched, tears falling again.

The fillet with the skin is so tender that it melts in your mouth with just a sip, and with a slight spicy and numb sensation, and the taste of sesame oil, it is so delicious that you can forget all your worries.

"Well, it's delicious!" the boy picked up a piece of shrimp and tasted it, his eyes full of surprise.

The shrimp is so tender and slightly elastic that it seems to be able to beat in the mouth.

"Hello, you taste it. The boy then picked up a piece and brought it to the girl's mouth.

"It's spicy. The girl swallowed the shrimp slip from the boy's chopsticks and said.

"yes, it's so spicy, so spicy that I burst into tears. The boy turned his head away and covered his eyes with his hands.

"Boss, your craftsmanship is so good, why don't you change to a better store? If we hadn't stumbled upon it, we wouldn't have found it at all." The girl asked.

"That's fate. Liu Mang took two glasses, poured two glasses of ice water and sent them to the two of them: "Fate is a very wonderful thing, many times, we have encountered it, but we don't know it, and then we turned around a lot and came back here." Everything is a chance or a certainty. Therefore, everyone we meet in our lives should be cherished, because you don't know why this short encounter will come to an abrupt end, and then you will make a mistake with each other, and meet again, only to find that you can never go back to the past, what a terrible thing it is. ”

"Is that so?" the boy looked at Liu Mang, then at the girl next to him, and nodded thoughtfully.

"Yes, life is hard, but it doesn't have to be hopeless. ”

"Boss, pay the bill. The boy stood up and pulled a crumpled bill from his trouser pocket.

Liu Mang took it and took it back fifty: "Today's discount, only half price." ”

"Thank you. The boy whispered, hesitated, and held out his hand to the girl: "Let's go......"