CH.2 Knife work

"By the way, senior sister, I only need to practice for half a month, and I can reach your level for two years?"

"Oh, you're dreaming, aren't you? I just said that you cut turnips for half a month, and I didn't say that after this half a month, you don't have to cut turnips again. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE怂 ļ½‰ļ½Žļ½†ļ½ā€

"Huh?"

Zheng Ke's eyes widened, his brain went blank, he wouldn't have been cutting radishes for a whole month, right?

Just when Zheng Ke felt a headache, the screen of the mobile phone on the desktop suddenly lit up, and Yishihui sent an email.

"What's wrong?"

"It's nothing, the question for the fall tryouts qualifiers came out. Zheng Ke stood up and stretched, "Senior sister, there is not much time left for me." ā€

"What's the topic?" asked Xuan Li curiously.

"Pasta. The corners of Zheng Ke's mouth rose slightly, revealing a smile.

The theme was given nearly two months in advance, and the school clearly wanted to keep the participants well prepared for the fall auditions. At the same time, it also means that if you want to stand out from the 60 contestants, you must come up with a good enough cuisine.

However, Zheng Ke decided to put this matter aside for the time being, and now his primary purpose is to learn exquisite knife work from Xuan Li's hands, as for the rest, it is not so urgent.

After this month passed, Zheng Ke focused all his attention on the autumn auditions.

Zheng Ke thinks so, and at the same time, he does this.

After eating 10% of the experience fruit, although it has a certain effect, it can only last for three days. After three days, the effect of the practice had decreased a little, but the speed of improvement still surprised Xuanli, and in her impression, few people could make such rapid progress.

In just a few days, Zheng Ke has found some tricks for knife work, and although the cut radish slices are still some distance from the thin cicada wings, the thickness is already considerable.

Half a month later, hundreds of catties of radishes were all killed by Zheng Ke, and then Xuanli taught the flower knife again.

The knife itself is carved with the technique of cutting and slicing, and after cooking, the ingredients are automatically curled up. A typical example is that when cooking squid, it is common to engrave a pattern on the squid.

In addition to aesthetics, another important role is to shorten the ripening time and equalize the heat penetration, so that the heat inside and outside the ingredients are consistent.

Different ingredients also require different knife techniques, such as straight cutting for thicker ingredients, diagonal cutting for thinner ingredients, and mixed cutting for thinner ingredients.

As the saying goes, the master leads the door, and the practice is in the individual. After Xuanli told Zheng Ke about the method of chopping the flower knife, the rest was Zheng Ke's own business.

After coming into contact with the flower knife, Zheng Ke understood Xuanli's intention to let him cut the radish for half a month, whether it was straight, oblique or mixed, it was based on the straight knife method, the flat knife method and the oblique knife method.

However, this knife method has harsh requirements for ingredients, because it requires that the raw materials are relatively thick, and there is a certain plane structure, and the raw materials are not broken loosely. Therefore, ingredients such as fish, meat pieces and offal of livestock are generally used as raw materials, and cucumbers or lettuce are also used.

Financially, Zheng Ke mainly chooses tofu, cucumber and squid. But even so, a lot of money still slipped out of Zheng Ke's hands like flowing water.

A month passed in a flash, and under the guidance of Xuan Li, Zheng Ke's knife work has made great progress. If you talk about knife work alone, he may have surpassed them in one color.

As we enter August, the date of the fall trials is getting closer. Zheng Ke also decided to return to Yuanyue School Park to prepare for the autumn selection qualifiers that began in early September.

"It's unconscionable to go back to school so early. Xuan Li snorted dissatisfiedly, "I've taught you so much, and you just learned to run away, so you can't let me exploit it for another month or two?"

"Sister Xuanli, in another month or two, the autumn trials will be over," Zheng Ke said with a wry smile......

Xuanli heard Zheng Ke mention the autumn trials, and she also knew its importance, and she no longer insisted, "You kid, you actually used the autumn trials as a shield, forget it, it's not difficult for me for you, if you don't win the championship, you don't want to come over again." ā€

"Eh, Sister Xuanli, the difficulty of winning the championship is too great, right?" Zheng Ke said with a surprised expression.

"Is it difficult?" Xuan Li shook his finger with a look of disdain, "I can only say that this is a very low requirement, right? If you want to qualify for next year's top ten, the champion must be indispensable." ā€

"Senior sister, have you won the championship?"

"Me?" Xuan Li's face suddenly became very embarrassed, and she gritted her teeth and said, "No, we had a big BT that year, and in the finals of the autumn selection competition, the strength crushed Sister Suwon Dongmei. And after graduating from the Far Moon Academy,I flew to France.,A few years ago, I heard that I got the Order of Prispur.怂 ā€

Zheng Ke always felt that Senior Sister Xuanli had an inexplicable hatred for this senior. As for what the Pruspur Medal is, he also has an idea in his head.

Whatever Xuan Li said, he listened.

"If there are no too BT bastards in this class of students, you'd better win the championship. As far as I know, the best of the first-year students is probably Isshiki, right? If you win him, you'll have a much better chance of winning the championship. ā€

Hehe...... Obviously, Xuanli did not know the existence of Ji Zhiguo Ningning.

This idea just came to Zheng Ke's mind, and Xuan Li said again: "By the way, I heard that there is a girl in the first grade who is particularly good at molecular cooking, and you also need to pay attention to it." However, although molecular cuisine can add variety and flavor to dishes and subvert people's imaginations, it will never replace traditional cuisine.

"So that girl might make it to the quarterfinals, but I think it's hard for her to go too far, after all, the judges after the quarterfinals are all leaders in the culinary world, and they haven't eaten anything. ā€

Regarding Xuanli's evaluation of Ji Zhiguo Ningning, Zheng Ke did not dare to communicate. He had personally eaten the food of Ji Zhiguo Ningning, and there was no doubt that her strength was at the top of the first-year students. Moreover, she also won the halberd with Kuga Teruki.

Although it is said that I have suffered a little loss in the subject matter for a long time, Ji Zhiguo Ningning is not from the Dessert Research Association, and his research on dessert is also very limited.

In short, Ji Zhiguo Ningning's strength is definitely very strong, if you let Jiu Zhao Ji and her have a halberd eating with her, unless the theme is Sichuan cuisine, there is still a great possibility that Jiu Zhao Ji will lose.

Seeing Xuan Li's expectant eyes, Zheng Ke didn't know how to refute her, so he could only promise like Xuan Li that he would do his best to win the championship of the autumn trials.

"Sister, what kind of game can we go and see? Xuan Hua pulled Xuan Li's clothes and asked softly.

"Then we have to wait for him to enter the quarterfinals, right? But it shouldn't be a big problem, right?" Xuan Li looked at Zheng Ke's figure gradually disappearing and said softly.