Chapter 010, Rock Sugar Mint Tea

When it was the turn of the tomato and brisket soup, the cooking squad leader specially distributed a full bowl to Wen Xi with a big spoon and asked him to eat it on the small table. A 13-year-old child is only so ordered, and he has to make up for it!

While feeling the taste of the extraction of taste buds, Wen Xi recalled the cooking process of the cooking squad leader, and made tomato and brisket soup in his mind over and over again.

"Little comrade, what do you think! The bowl is empty!" The cooking squad leader was very dissatisfied, these two dishes were his specialties, and this little bean in front of him could still get distracted while eating such delicious dishes!

"Ah~ squad leader, I'm sorry. I was wondering what I would do if I were to make this dish. Wen Xi came back to his senses and quickly apologized, the practice of big pot dishes was not the same as that of Xiaozao, and he still had many places to ask the cooking squad leader.

"Then tell me what you would do if you were in charge. The cooking squad leader took off his apron and sat opposite Wenxi and waited.

"Beef brisket is not easy to stew, if you want to reach the point of being ripe and chewy, you need to blanch the beef brisket in advance, add green onions, ginger and garlic and stir-fry and simmer for 2-3 hours. Your soup is sweet and sour, and it should be a tomato sauce made freshly made after diced tomatoes. If it's just a small serving of tomato and brisket soup, I'm sure I can make it, but with this large pot, I can't control the heat alone. Wen Xi stared at his little thin arm, he is so weak now that he can't even hold an iron pot, so forget about the big pot or something.

"You are still young, exercise more, understand more about how others cook, and you will get twice the result with half the effort if you practice it yourself." The cooking squad leader patted Wen Xi on the shoulder and walked away, and the children who couldn't even reach the stove wanted to cook?

"But squad leader, I want to try. Wen Xi's eyes were full of determination, if he didn't try, where would he go to find so many good ingredients after military training?

"Oh, do you want to try, little comrade, convince me!" the cooking squad leader put away his honest expression, and the extremely aggressive aura that belonged to the soldier was full of energy, and he stood straight in front of Wen Xi like that, looking down at Wen Xi from top to bottom and pressuring him.

Wen Xi almost didn't lie down, and fine beads of sweat appeared on his forehead after a while. Fortunately, there is a foundation from his previous life, Wen Xi raised his head and looked at the cooking squad leader with difficulty, the pressure was huge, and he couldn't stand up!

"My parents just divorced and my mom is a chef so she doesn't let me cook much...... For me, my mother found a part-time job in addition to her job in a restaurant, and when she came home, she had to cook for me...... I want to try to cook a few dishes so that my mother can rest assured that I can cook and eat by myself, and she can easily order it herself......" Wen Xi took another step forward as Wen Xi spoke, and Wen Xi gritted his teeth and incoherently found a high-sounding reason for himself.

Wen Xi, who has been a man in two lives, has never met a person with such a strong aura, and he used to boast of having an aura, but as a result, he was turned into scum in seconds on the other side. The cooking squad leader should have been on the battlefield, he should have seen blood, Wen Xi had palpitations, and he almost told the truth.

"Squad leader?" Quiet and peaceful, a powerful aura suddenly erupted in the kitchen, and a few cooking soldiers who were busy naturally noticed it. Looking at the squad leader putting pressure on Wen Xi again, don't you think the little comrade accidentally said the wrong thing, looking at the sweat on his face, it was really unexpected that he didn't lie on the ground. The cook stared at Wen Xi's stiff back and slightly trembling arms supporting the table, deciding to help. Hey, boss, it's immoral to bully the small! It's not our soldiers' business!

"Oh, you guys send the things to the cafeteria, come back quickly after delivery, our own food hasn't been prepared yet!" The squad leader slowly withdrew his aura, and casually followed the team to the cafeteria to deliver food with his arms copied, leaving Wen Xi still sitting there.

"Whew~" Wen Xi exhaled deeply, he didn't dare to come out just now, but now that the squad leader is gone, his whole body is sweating profusely after the pressure disappears, and he can't hold his hands while supporting his body, and the whole person is lying on the table.

Where would the soldiers who came from the catastrophe get along well? Wen Xi couldn't help but shudder when he thought of the turmoil and chaos in a certain country after every disaster, and the government's iron-blooded methods. He is now a child's body, and he has decades of experience in his previous life, so he is underestimating the enemy in the end!

After resting for more than ten minutes, his hands and feet finally had some strength, Wen Xi took off his white sleeves and white apron, and slowly walked to the open space outside the kitchen and squatted. The cooking squad leader said that the water in the kitchen is all cold water pumped from the well, and it must be put in the sun to dry before washing his face and hands, but he didn't expect Wen Xi to use it now.

In the morning, the sun was abundant, and the well water in the basin was slightly hot, so Wen Xi set aside more than half of it and put it aside, took off the white towel on his shoulder and slowly dried off the sweat, and then returned to the kitchen with the basin to boil the kettle of boiling water to cool down.

The Youth Practice Center is not a barracks after all, and there is no need for the soldiers of the cooking class to distribute meals there, and the comrades of the cooking class will fold back and prepare their own lunches after delivering the things.

Walking from the air conditioning in the cafeteria to the sun, everyone was sweating, but this time it was not so hot when I returned to the kitchen.

There are everyone's water cups neatly placed on the table, one by one steaming, it seems that Comrade Wen Xi did it.

"Squad leader, be thirsty, look at how caring our little comrades are, don't scare the child if you're fine!" Xiao Bing sat down at the table according to the squad leader, pinched his shoulders and pressed his legs to help Wen Xi say good things.

"Yo, the little comrade's eyes are very good, and he found the pot of mint I kept at the door! Squad leader, look at this soup, let's put the leftover black tea foam we drink! I don't know how the little comrade got the broken tea leaves, and he was stunned that there was no scum at all!" The other cooks sniffed, and the cool taste of mint rushed into their noses, which was a good thing to quench their thirst!

"Hmph, can't you just wrap it in a gauze bag and cook it, look at what you blow!" The cooking squad leader moved forward quietly, and the rising heat entered his nose with the squad leader's breathing, and it seemed that it was not brown sugar. The cooking squad leader looked at the brown sugar in the freezer, and he knew that he was going to make brown sugar steamed buns. Xiaoice won't find the rock candy he put in the small ice box!

The cooking squad leader didn't care about the heat, and after blowing on the teacup a few times, he sighed anxiously, sure enough! Hey, this is the rock candy that the old leader used for him to squat in Sydney when he went to visit his comrades in the army last week!

The cooking squad leader pushed away the small soldiers around him and ran out, and happened to meet Wen Xi who came back from fetching well water at the door.

"Little comrade, where did you find that rock candy!" the head of the cooking squad stopped Wen Xi with one hand.

"I found it in the fridge. Wen Xi pressed the basin against his abdomen, and after cutting shredded potatoes for so long in the morning, he was frightened by the squad leader again, and his hands were almost out of strength.

"You're all up?" The cooking squad leader stared at Wen Xi anxiously, grabbed Wen Xi's shoulders with his two big palms, and almost lifted him up.

"Wow~" The well water in the basin was stirred up by the sudden action of the cooking squad leader, of course Wen Xi didn't want the water to splash on himself, he pushed his feet back a step, and as soon as his little stomach shrank, the water was splashed on the feet of the cooking squad leader who followed Wen Xi one step forward.

It's so cool......