The sun is like fire, and the earth is like a steamer, so hot that people can't breathe. Knowing that it had appeared, it kept making irritating cries from the branches, as if cheering for the scorching sun.

It's not a good idea to have a chef competition in such weather, standing in front of the stove for a long time is already hot enough, cooking is a manual job, and today's weather is so hot, the three-pronged environment is so difficult that it is difficult to cheer up.

Su Miao stood softly in front of the stove, wiping the fine sweat oozing from her forehead with a handkerchief, she was not a cool and sweatless beautiful woman, so in the summer, it was really uncomfortable.

Fortunately, on today's stage, the pergola was finally set up humanely for the contestants, although the heat wave was still rolling by the stove, fortunately, there was no need to be exposed to the direct sun, and everyone was relieved.

Aftertaste knew that Su Miao was afraid of heat, so she shook a folding fan and gently fanned her, attracting Tong Ran's attention many times.

Lord Jiang never appeared, and seeing that it was time for the opening, the crowd couldn't help but talk about it.

Su Miao glanced at the end corner of the judges' seat and asked suspiciously:

"Why aren't your second brother and His Royal Highness King Wen here today?"

"I don't know the first person, but the second person, it's faster for you to ask your eldest sister." Aftertaste replied lightly.

The corners of Su Miao's mouth twitched fiercely: "My eldest sister and His Royal Highness King Wen have reached that level?" ”

Aftertaste tilted his head and glanced at her, and his tone was still faint:

"Yesterday, I went to pick you up by Shihu, and on the road, I saw your eldest sister and King Wen shopping together on the street, looking very intimate."

Su Miao was stunned. Touching his chin and pondering for a moment, he pretended to say in a deep voice:

"That's not good!"

"Why, wouldn't it be nice to let your eldest sister pick up a princess to do?" Aftertaste said disapprerovingly.

"The position of the princess is not a cabbage. Can you pick it up casually? Even if you really pick it up, it's still a moldy poisonous cabbage. If the two of them are playing, they are not afraid of anything, what they are afraid of is that if one day and which person moves their sincerity, it will be bad. ”

"I can't understand this kind of thing, so I can't understand whether it's good or bad." Aftertaste said nonchalantly, in a light tone. The words that came out were righteous and awe-inspiring.

The corners of Su Miao's mouth twitched fiercely.

"Why didn't the eldest sister come with me today? It doesn't seem like any store is dumping goods today, right? Aftertaste asked.

"The eldest sister drank too much last night, and she didn't get up this morning with a headache."

"Nawen Wang Bacheng is also overdrunk." Aftertaste said.

Su Miaoshen nodded approvingly and paused. Suspiciously asked:

"What about your second brother, didn't he tell you where he went?"

"I don't want to know, why did he tell me?" Aftertaste looked at her and said disappreciatively.

The corners of Su Miao's mouth twitched even more: "...... When I didn't say. ”

"That little girl is here again." Next. The aftertaste is looking at the audience area under the stage. Say.

Su Miao was stunned for a moment, followed his gaze, and sure enough, she saw Feng Erniu, who was carrying a vegetable basket, stretching her neck and looking at the stage, the eyes of the two met, and she didn't know if she was embarrassed or was found out that she didn't go to buy vegetables, so she hurriedly shifted her gaze, lowered her head in disgrace, and looked embarrassed.

She's standing in the third row today. Even standing on the high stage, Su Miao could only see the corner of her face, and she was stunned. sighed helplessly:

"This kid is here to do his job again!"

"It's not a bad job, everyone who does this business starts by stealing teachers and learning arts." Aftertaste said lightly, and said to her, "I think she has a crush on you and wants to worship you as a teacher." ”

"Apprenticeship?" Su Miao smiled and waved her hand, "Forget it, I haven't learned it myself, how many years have Tongxi and Tonggui worshiped me as a teacher, and I still haven't taught them anything, so it's the most unlucky to be an apprentice for me." ”

"Where can you teach hand-in-hand in this industry, people who need to be taught by hand will not be able to survive in this industry at all, although the two of them are not talented, they are smart and willing to learn, and in another two or three years, it is no problem to stand on their own."

Su Miao nodded: "Also, although the craftsmanship of the two of them is not exquisite, they also have their own characteristics, and it is no problem to go out to support their families and make money by crafting." ”

"In this industry, generally after five or six years, you will start to accept apprentices, your years are not short, you can look for apprentices now, with your ideas, in the future, you will either expand the store or open a branch, if you don't train people earlier, you will only be in a hurry when the time comes." Aftertaste gently wiped the blade with a soft cloth and said lightly.

Su Miao tilted her head and thought for a while, then looked at him with a smile and asked:

"You will start accepting apprentices in five or six years, so do you have any apprentices?"

Aftertaste glanced at her and snorted disapprehantly: "Who do you think taught your brother's craft?" ”

Su Miao listened, but frowned tangledly: "Yan'er, he is from my Su family, since he is from the Su family, what is the matter with learning other people's crafts?" ”

The aftertaste's face darkened, and he looked at her through gritted teeth, and said word by word:

"It turns out that I belong to someone else!"

Su Miao looked at him intently, looked at him for a while, and blinked his eyes twice: "Hehe...... Hehe......"

"Miss Su," Tong Ran gently shook a rich peony folding fan, walked over leisurely, stood in front of Su Miao, and asked with a smile, "I heard that you went to Shihu Lake yesterday?" ”

Su Miao was slightly stunned, stared at him, looked at him suspiciously for a while, and asked, "Are you my stalker?" ”

The curvature of the corners of his lips stiffened slightly, and after a pause, Tong Ran said with a smile:

"The girl misunderstood, a friend happened to go to the lake yesterday and saw you in the center of the lake, and I heard about it from him when we got together in the evening."

"A party at night? That person is your friend? Su Miao asked with a big brain.

Tong Ran froze even when he shook the folding fan lightly this time, and Su Miao seemed to be able to hear him gritting his teeth:

"That man is a man!"

"Oh, do you have a good match?"

"Nope!"

"Do you have Xiaomi, then?"

"Xiaomi?"

"Xiaomi is a concubine."

"Nope!" Tong Ran had a handsome face, as dark as the bottom of a pot.

"Really?" Su Miao asked in disbelief.

"Nature is true. Why am I telling such a lie? ”

"That's right." Su Miao nodded, and then said to him with a smile, "Anyway, it doesn't matter if you have anything to do with me." ”

This time. Tong Ran's face turned completely black.

"Miss Su, let me remind you again, there is still a gambling contract between you and me, if you lose in the last two games, you can be willing to gamble and lose and take Su Ji Pin Xianlou into the door of my Tong family on the genealogy of my Tong family." Tong Ran said with an unfathomable face.

Su Miao blinked her eyes twice: "Isn't it that if you lose, I have to marry you, why are you so complicated, you are entering the gate and going to the family tree." ”

Tong Ran's face was darker. Word by word, he said in a deep voice:

"Miss Su, since the gambling contract has been decided, it's not good to want to break the contract."

"I'm talking about you. Is it because I am as beautiful as a flower, or because of the prosperity of Su Ji Pinxian Building? Su Miao held her face with one hand and looked at him with a smile with an expression of "You must have taken a fancy to my beauty like a flower".

The corners of Tong Ran's mouth twitched fiercely, and he subconsciously emphasized: "What I fancy is the prosperity of Su Ji Pinxian Building. ”

"You're really a very visionless person." Su Miao shook her head. looked at him with pity in the eyes of regret. "That's it, I don't care about you, don't worry, I won't regret the gambling contract, anyway, even if I regret it, you can't do anything with me."

“…… Miss Su, are you provoking me? Tong Ran was choked, and the folding fan in his hand unfolded. Pi asked with a smile on his face.

Su Miao just giggled and pulled out a peach-pink silk fan from her waist. The brush unfolded, covering half of his face, and a pair of big hairy eyes were revealed behind the fan, blinking and blinking, as if smiling rather than laughing.

At this moment, there was a slight commotion in the audience area in the front row, and Master Jiang and the judges rushed in from the side and walked to their seats one after another.

Seeing this, Tong Ran stopped talking to Su Miao, and turned around and returned to his own territory.

Aftertaste squinted at Su Miao, Su Miao was inexplicably looked at by him, tilted his head, and asked:

"Why do you look at me like that?"

"It's nothing, so you can see me." After finishing with a faint aftertaste, he twisted his head to the side and continued to calmly wipe the blade with a soft cloth.

Su Miao blinked twice and laughed.

Su Yan finally raised the fire in the stove, stood up, puffed out his cheeks and said:

"Second sister, today's fire is a bit strange, a little can't burn."

Su Miao lowered her head, squatted down, glanced at the stove, and played twice in the stove with a burning stick.

"Those judges and Master Jiang are also a little weird today, they get together early in the morning, and they don't know what to do." Su Yan lay in her ear, furrowed a pair of beautiful eyebrows, and whispered.

Su Miaoliu raised her eyebrows slightly, but did not speak.

After making a brief opening remarks, Mr. Jiang struck the golden gong with a golden mallet and made a loud sound.

This is already the second game of the third round, and the rules of the game naturally need not be repeated, and the players from both sides gathered at the food table with ease.

This time, the two groups of people seemed to have a plan in their hearts, so they didn't spend too much time in front of the ingredients table, Su Miao took a basket of extremely fresh beef, and Tong Ran took a pair of precious Tianjiu wings.

Shark fin is known to be the filamentous cartilage in shark fins, which is a seafood processed from shark fins. Shark fin belongs to one of the eight treasures of the upper class in Yueliang country, although the deep-sea fishing industry in Yueliang country is quite developed, but it is still a very difficult thing to hunt sharks, because sharks are not easy to catch, so shark fins are very rare, because they are very rare, so they are very precious.

The name of the nine wings comes from the "push pai gow", pai gow is a kind of card made of hard materials such as wood, a total of thirty-two cards, the method of playing cards is similar to the "big fight" in poker, and "day nine" is a name for pai gow, if you grab a deck of "day nine" in your hand, it is a good deck of cards.

Tianjiu is divided into two kinds, one is the whale shark fin, the other is the basking shark fin, and the most authentic position of the Tianjiu wing is the dorsal fin and tail fin in the shark.

The preparation of shark fin is not difficult, and the most critical step is the heat.

Tong Ran put the Tianjiu Wings on the tray, steamed them in the steamer for half an hour, took them out and put them in ice water, soaked them in ice water and put them in the refrigerator, chilled them for half a day, and changed the ice water twice halfway.

Rinse the old hen, keel, lean meat, chicken feet, meat skin, elbow, Jinhua ham, scallop, sea rice, and dried octopus with water, and blanch all kinds of fresh goods with boiling water.

Put the chilled shark fin in the steamer and steam it again for an hour, then rinse it with water for an hour to remove the alkaline smell.

Put clear mountain spring water in a pot, put all the ingredients in the pot and bring to a boil over high heat, remove the floating fat and blood bubbles, and cook over high heat until you can smell the thick soup, and then simmer for three hours.

The shark fin is soft and smooth, and the broth is delicious and refreshing.

Cooked shark fin resembles vermicelli, but the bite is a little crispier than vermicelli. Shark fin itself has no taste, but the rarity of shark fins and the particularity of the taste make it the first of the four delicacies of Yueliang country. The secret of shark fin soup is all in the soup, and the flavor mainly comes from the ingredients in the soup. From a gastronomic point of view, shark fin is far inferior to bird's nest, abalone and sea cucumber, it can be called the most impersonal ingredient, but its taste can change with the change of soup, with thick soup is the taste of thick soup, with clear soup is the taste of clear soup, which is no different from vermicelli, which is why vegetarian restaurants or some black-hearted vendors will use vermicelli to pretend to be shark fin, because it is indeed very similar.

It is a precious ingredient that is the biggest failure of a chef's career if it is made into a soup that can be made even with vermicelli, so it can also be said that cooking shark fin, which has no taste, and cooking it into an unforgettable dish is a great test of a chef's skills.

Tong Ran's shark fin soup uses the highest grade of shark fin, Tianjiu Wing, and the hanging soup also uses the most complex handicraft, and the soup soup cooked is mellow, rich and sweet, fragrant and overflowing, and has an endless aftertaste.

Once this shark fin soup is launched, it will be warmly sought after by the judges from Liangdu and the people who pursue noble luxury, I have to say that Tong Ran is very good at figuring out the minds of the judges and spectators, he is sure that those people on the judges' seat are either from Liangdu and are used to eating shark fin soup, or even if they have never eaten shark fin soup, they are also hoping for glory and wealth in their hearts and have been eager to eat a bowl.

When those people knew that the ingredients on the stage were actually Tianjiu Wings, many pairs of eyes stared directly at the soup pot in front of Tong Ran, and there was a fine light, and that look was like Su Miao's eyes when she first ate the nine-headed sugar heart abalone she wanted to eat the most in her life, although it was not as delicious as she imagined after eating it, and she lost interest in the nine-headed abalone since then.

Su Miao pursed her lips disapprerovingly. (To be continued.) )