"Oh, okay. ”

The little girl looked at Lu Yu like a fool.

Lu Yu could also feel the deep malice in the other party's eyes.

couldn't help it, walked over and reached out to pinch her cheek, pinching it hard and deforming.

As soon as I let go again, my face bounced back directly, like jelly, and I shook it back and forth twice, which was really elastic.

Lu Yu pinched it directly, on the other side, symmetrically.

Then he led the little girl to the back kitchen and asked softly, "What's your name?"

"Cocoa. ”

"Hmm...... It's a pretty greedy name. ”

Lu Yu turned his head to take a look, especially around her small body and looking at her little buttocks, I really wanted to go up and pat it, it should be full of elasticity.

But I held back.

Facing the small stove in front of him, and the pot, he said, "First of all, I will teach you how to cook." There are three skills to master in cooking, the first is heat, the second is using oil, and the third is ...... Sharpening. ”

Turning to look at Coco, he asked, "Which one do you want to learn first?"

Coco asked, "Which one is more important?"

"Hmm...... Well, if I say it, it's sharpening knives. ”

"Oh, then learn to sharpen knives. ”

Coco didn't ask why.

Sharpening knives, so people who learn to cook, I'm afraid that the first step is to learn this, and the apprentice of barbering also learns this first.

First, because this work is necessary in the future, but also because the process of sharpening the knife is long, quiet, and a superficial grasp of something that cannot be seen clearly.

Unless you have a particularly good eye, you won't see whether the blade is sharpened precisely, but through the angle force and the grasp of the grinding stone, you can still grasp these things from the side.

It's a mode of thinking, and it's something that needs to be mastered.

On the other hand, these two jobs need to endure loneliness, whether a person can endure loneliness, hard work, just look at the sharpening of the knife.

In his previous life, Lu Yu once saw a grinding master, known as a master, and any knife placed in his hand would be sharpened by him...... It doesn't seem to be a thing anymore!

He was very old, his body was very thin, and he looked like he could be blown away by a gust of wind, but his ten fingers were very thick.

Every morning, he would fetch a basin of hot water, soak his hands in it, and cut a piece of ginger, rubbing it back and forth on each finger. The whole process lasts more than half an hour before the day's work begins.

This process is very ritualistic, everyone is saying, this is to make the fingers secrete as little sweat and oil as possible, so that when he sharpens the sword, his fingers will not leave any marks on it, so that a sword can achieve the best effect, because you can often see him only holding a piece of fine sandpaper with a side length of less than one centimeter on the knife back and forth, the action is not very fast, but it can really be sharpened into an effect that others can't achieve anyway.

Everyone passed it on and on, as if this was really the case.

But in fact, the process of soaking and grinding ginger by hand every morning is only because his fingers will be swollen and painful so that they can't bend at all in the early morning.

What kind of hard work would make his fingers look like that, and how much pain he had to endure? He had never told anyone, and that was the price a master had to pay.

So...... The first thing Lu Yu taught cocoa was to sharpen knives!

Seven stones in succession, rectangular and slab, were placed on the desk and fixed by Lu Yu.

Picking up a knife next to him, Lu Yu said: "You see, how I do it, you have to do it, you have to think about why I want to do this, think about it before you do it, if you can't figure it out, just ask." ”

Coco nodded hurriedly.

But his eyes remained on the stone and did not leave.

After all, if she sharpens her knife on weekdays, she really only uses one stone, and she can continue to use it after two rubbings, how can it be so complicated now......? It's pretty good!

Especially the last stone, which looks crystal clear, like a piece of ice, indescribably oily on the surface, like a jewel, and like a piece of freshly cut meat.

Lu Yu held the kitchen knife in his hand, grinding it from the first piece, piece by piece, the movement was not fast, and the sound of the blade slashing back and forth on the magic stone was sometimes a little harsh, but it was not difficult to hear.

The strength in Lu Yu's hand was already extremely ingenious, so in half an hour, a kitchen knife was sharpened by him.

When the blade passes over the last piece of the grinding stone and turns at a certain angle, the thin blade reflects the light, giving it a jewel-like luster!

"Why do you need to use a good knife to cut vegetables? On the one hand, the speed must be fast, and on the other hand, you must not let the knife affect the whole rhythm of cooking. ”

As he spoke, he picked up a piece of ingredient next to him and gently brought it over, as if the blade was casually waved on it, but in fact, hundreds of knives had been cut.

Lu Yu picked up one of them and spread it on the board, and the wooden lines on it were clearly visible through the translucent ingredients.

"Cut evenly, in order to achieve the same heat of the ingredients, if some pieces are large, some pieces are small, then they will not be cooked at the same time, either there is a life, or the fire is large, even if there is a slight difference, even if few people can taste subjectively, but still subconsciously feel that something is wrong. This is the first point, the second point is also for the sake of beauty, is the food good or not? Naturally, it is a very subjective thing, if it looks good, and has an appetite, the degree of deliciousness will increase by a few points, and often sometimes, it is higher than others, and it is higher than this point. ”

Coco is stupid.

She walked over in a daze, then picked up a slice and put it in front of her eyes to look carefully, she never knew that this piece of ingredient would become like this, it was really ...... It's amazing!

Lu Yu handed the knife to Coco and said, "You come and feel its sharpness." ”

Coco nodded, brought a piece of the ingredient, and then went to cut it...... As a result, before she could help, she pressed down on the weight of the knife alone...... The ingredient was cut in half, and the angle at which she held the knife was not straight, so she cut it diagonally, so smoothly that she almost threw the knife away.

Lu Yu hurriedly pressed her fingers and said, "As a chef, you can doubt everything, but there are two things you must not doubt, your own knife, the fire in front of you, these two things...... It's your skill! For 5,000 years in China, this culture of stuttering has all been on fire with this sword!"

Coco asked blankly, "China?"

"Uh......" Lu Yu scratched his head through the cloak and said, "Oh, nothing, that's my hometown." ”

"Oh......"

"Okay, you also try it, this knife, sharpen it first, then cut it, I'll see your comprehension. ”

Coco nodded again, took the other knife that Lu Yu handed her, and then ...... Grind, then, chop the vegetables.

Tiny body...... made Lu Yu look a little stupid!

Because......

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In this short period of time, her movements have changed from a child who is unfamiliar with everything to extremely calm and calm.

Because seriously.

Because with all her heart, she only had this thing left in her heart.

It is extremely rare to concentrate on such a situation, and it can even be said that it is an extraordinary talent!

When the sharpened knife falls straight down, slowly dividing a piece of food into two...... The corners of Lu Yu's eyes even twitched.

This knife alone, I'm afraid that in my previous life, I don't know how many old chefs will be angry to death.

Because of a knife, because of the charm.

With 'rhyme'.

"Okay, we can move on to the next step. ”

Lu Yu took a deep breath, and then said with relief.