Zuo Minglei was very satisfied with the screaming sound in his ears, as satisfied with the pile of ingredients to be cooked under the knife he was holding.

For many years, since moving to Tongjia Town, these hands have been rubbing in the basin with yeast all day long, pulling a few slender noodles on the table and beating them, and constantly repeating simple and mechanical actions between steamers. Although these are all part of cooking, it is better to hold a kitchen knife and feel the texture of the broken veins of the fleshy fibers and vegetables with the regular cutting and chopping movements.

That's what cooking really is...... Zuo Minglei thought so. He rubbed his fingers over the wooden grip of the knife in his hand, and his thoughts gradually drifted away a little, drifting away from his days in the West Sea.

Zuo Minglei's culinary skills are not professional, and he has not undergone professional training in formal colleges or other places. When he was still very young, he was just a handyman in a small restaurant in Xihai. Washing vegetables and washing dishes all day to help the cook, it is a bit bitter, but the little handyman's heart is full of sunshine, he likes to cook, and is eager to show himself on a bigger stage, instead of bowing under the fire and the automatic cleaning robot all day long. In the days of working as a handyman, he was diligent and studious, not ashamed to ask questions, and seized all his free time to practice his cooking skills, and his level was improving day by day, and everything seemed to be developing in a better direction......

Beautiful and hopeful stories always seem to have a cliché ending, and the little handyman becomes a chef by his own efforts, but then an accident puts an abrupt end to his dream. Having inadvertently offended those who should not have been offended, the handyman gradually came to see the rules that were hidden beneath the federal society, but known to all, written on wealth and power, behind force and conspiracy, and even under the most just of all, blue-clad laws. The helpless handyman was shattered by these rules, and he packed his bags and decided to leave, and he subconsciously came to the borough furthest from those rules, to this place where he seemed to be an orphan abandoned by the Federation, and the life gap between the other boroughs was unimaginable......

In fact, this place is not bad, Zuo Minglei thought about his wife's gentle and beautiful face and his son, who was already taller than himself, and the corners of his mouth were slightly upturned. They live in Xiaye City, where they have richer living resources and better education than Tongjia Town, and they must be better off than themselves......

What interrupted him was a few muffled sounds of "bang bang", Zuo Minglei followed the prestige, and saw Hugo next door bending his index finger with a smile on his face and knocking on the water glass on the side, as if he was reminding himself of his distraction.

"What the hell is this guy doing?" Zuo Minglei came back to his senses, and his afterglow swept to the empty desk in front of Hugo, and he was surprised in his heart: "Why hasn't this guy started yet?" ”

Zuo Minglei took a deep breath and calmed down, refocused his attention on the operating table in front of him, and no longer paid attention to what was going on on Hugo's side. He took the yellow loaches from the pool and put them on their sides in the center of the cutting board to chop off their heads, and neatly broke the whole loach into the abdomen and removed the internal organs, and then leaned slightly to the left. Waiting until the eye, the back of the knife, and the loach formed a special angle with the cutting board, the knife in Zuo Minglei's hand moved again instantly, cutting obliquely into the depths of the yellow loach's skin and flesh without cutting it all, leaving only a trace of tenacious black fish skin and flesh connected with tendons.

"Boom" Zuo Minglei slashed down more than a dozen knives in a row, and the yellow loach skin and flesh that was still long just now were cut and rolled over one by one, revealing the knife edge, looking just like a delicate rose, and the rolled flesh was like tender rose petals. Zuo Minglei cut the loach and put down the kitchen knife in his hand, the action did not pause at all, open the fire, put the pot, and put the oil in one go, without waiting for the oil temperature to rise to the same temperature with the alloy pot, quickly put the ingredients and chives into it, and the hot oil "hissed" gently licked the ingredients at the bottom of the pot, and gradually poured out the wisps of attractive fragrance. Zuo Minglei smelled the fragrance of green onions, pressed it a few times on the touch screen, replaced it with a high fire, put the cut green and red pepper pieces into the alloy pot, and picked up the wok with one hand with a "Teng" sound, and stir-fried with the bursting stove.

"Hmm!" Listening to the amazing sound in the crowd again, Zuo Minglei secretly pinched the spatula in his hand, very confident. Everything is perfect until now, although I have moved from Xihai for many years, but because of the constant practice from time to time, the benefits have not been left behind, and I can hear such wonderful exclamations that are even more praised, it is perfect......

It's a pity that Zuo Minglei didn't notice that everyone's exclamations were not caused by him, and the leisurely Hugo finally gave up watching with interest, and seemed to be a little reluctant to tie his apron. I saw that Hugo skillfully mixed the cumin, sweet wine, fragrant sauce and other ingredients he had selected earlier in a small bowl in proportion, and then bent down and picked a four-inch square piece of tender tofu. Hugo stretched out his left ring finger and gently pressed it on the surface of the tofu a few times to test the tenderness, and after confirming that it was okay, Hugo held his breath and picked up the rotary knife, carefully turned in the center of the tofu, and then turned again, opened a small hole of about half an inch, and then slowly pulled out a small hole in the tofu.

Lao Yang, like everyone in the room, was staring intently at Hugo's movements at this time, watching in confusion as he slowly poured the sauce he had prepared before into the hollow dug in the middle of the tofu. Although the public security station often went to Canglanju to open a small stove collectively, Lao Yang and Hugo had a good personal relationship, and even ate a few private dishes made by Hugo, but looking at the hollow tofu in front of him, Lao Yang was sure that this dish was definitely not on the menu of Canglanju, and he had never even seen such an ordinary yellow loach doing this.

How do these hollow tofu and yellow loaches come together? Lao Yang frowned and thought hard but had no answer, he quietly raised his eyes and looked at Lian Kecheng and Sister Hong sitting next to him, both of them were also puzzled, and it seemed that they didn't know what Hugo was going to do next.

At this time, Zuo Minglei's side was in full swing, the cut yellow loach was drizzled with hot pepper sesame oil, and the fish meat was quickly tightened and set, and then Zuo Minglei slid the fish along the edge of the pot and began to stir-fry and cook. With the beating of the flames, the aroma of green and red peppers and chives began to seep into the fatty fish as the woks began to seep deeper. After a while, the sauce with the starch began to shrink as the fire licked it, and gradually stayed on the skin and flesh of the yellow loach, shining with an attractive color. The most admirable thing is that from the time of stir-frying in the pot to the present, the black flesh that has been cut into roses and turned up beautifully has not changed in the slightest, and the spatulas that continue to fly with Zuo Minglei are still blooming in the wok, and they are about to be finished out of the pot.

Hugo's side is much slower than Zuo Minglei. He scooped up the yellow loach that had been soaked in the pool for a long time and rinsed it again, gently pressed the back and tail of the loach with both hands a few times, and then made a small opening in the tail of the loach, and after removing the inedible internal organs, he quickly placed the still alive loach next to the large steaming tray containing hollow tofu, and then quickly placed the whole plate into the steaming pot that was already steaming. It seems that at a particularly important moment, Hugo changed his leisurely attitude just now, and his face was extremely serious and he quickly pressed and operated on the light screen with one hand, and a bead of sweat gently rolled down from the corner of his forehead and the boiling hot water vapor in the steamer did not make Hugo's eyebrows tremble a little, he didn't care about wiping it, but kept pressing on the light screen in front of him.

"Colonel, I'm done." Zuo Minglei skillfully turned off the heat and put it into the plate, and he was relieved until he saw that the dishes were completely completed. Zuo Minglei knew that although he had been diligent in practicing in private over the years, and his cooking skills were not unfamiliar, he was old after all, and a large number of movements in his body in a short period of time made Zuo Minglei feel tired after all. "Time is not forgiving......" Zuo Minglei sighed secretly and shook his head imperceptibly.

"Done." Hugo's voice followed, stopping the fingers in his hand that were operating the light screen. He turned on the steamer, and put the dishes next to Zuo Minglei's dishes next to the thermos plate with the lid of the thermos plate in front of Lian Kecheng and Lao Yang and the other guards to judge.

"Both of them completed the question in less than an hour, and they seem to be very confident." Lian Kecheng glanced at Director Yang next to him, took the knife and fork handed by Adjutant Xu next to him, and said with a smile: "I still don't know how to use wooden chopsticks...... Since there is a order of completion, then I will taste it in the order of completion, and you are welcome, please. How dare Lao Yang put down the chopsticks in front of his top boss, nodded again and again, but there was no movement in his hands, just a little nervously looking at the two dishes to be evaluated in front of him.

Zuo Minglei's dish on the left is very eye-catching, the skin and flesh that had been cut and rolled up are cooked and cocked high, just like a blooming rose blooming on the plate, and the thick sauce wrapped in it is like dew drops left on the petals in the morning mist, and the fatty fish meat underneath is mouth-watering. Tender white chives and green and green pepper cubes are mixed with the sesame oil-drenched fish to create an extremely attractive aroma.

"Rose loach. Please taste it from the colonel. Zuo Minglei looked at the people in the mediation hall looking at him, and he seemed to be very confident in his own food.

Lian Kecheng easily cut off a few pieces of meat with a knife and fork, first put them in front of his nose and sniffed them gently, and then put them in his mouth and chewed them slowly.

"The name of this dish is good, and the taste is even better!" Lian Kecheng's eyes lit up and praised: "This dish has an excellent appearance, the yellow loach is crispy on the outside, fragrant and tender on the inside, and with the silky brown-red sauce in the mouth, you can feel the crispy and tender two sensations with the sauce stirring together between the tongue, which is really intoxicating." These two pieces of loach meat really made me eat some rose-like flavors, Zuo shopkeeper! It's just ......" Lian Kecheng put down the knife and fork unsatisfied, shook his head, left half of the words without saying anything, looked at Hugo who was waiting quietly on the side, and asked: "Little boss, what is the name of your dish?" ”

Hearing this, Hugo stretched out his hand and gently lifted the lid of the thermal insulation plate on the steaming plate, only to see a hot steam, and the two loaches that were still on the edge of the plate just now somehow actually got into the middle of the tofu, and only the head and tail were exposed outside the tofu. The white and jade-like tender tofu is lined with a loach that seems to be still alive, as if the loach will bounce in the next moment. When the steaming water vapor dissipated when the lid was lifted, a refreshing fragrance quickly spread, and the fragrance of Zuo Minglei's rose loach was completely covered in just an instant.

"Loach drill tofu." Hugo spoke very short and quickly, and seemed a little embarrassed by this and obviously not as beautiful as the name of the rose.