On the first day after the summer vacation, the news of a halberd on the Yuanyue campus stirred up a storm among the students.

"Have you heard? Emiya, a first-year transfer student, is going to eat halberds with the ninth seat of the Ten Greats, Ruishan Zhizu. ”

"Really? I didn't expect there to be such a big drama to watch on the first day of the consecutive break. ”

"What are you waiting for, the seats in the arena are almost full. If you don't go, you won't have a place. ”

This halberd between Li Xiang and Ruishan is public. The venue is in the special halberd competition venue in the Far Moon School Park. Since both sides of the halberd included a member of the Ten Masters, it attracted a large number of students to watch. All of a sudden, the venue was crowded.

Ruishan and Li Xiang are making final preparations in the field.

"Why did you pull me over, there is still a lot of preparation work to be done for the fall selection. Ruishan-kun too, obviously the autumn selection is about to start, why do we need to increase our workload, isn't it good for everyone to get along amicably? ……”

As Eizayama Ezuya was checking his kitchen knife, a soft male voice was breaking his thoughts on the side.

Hearing the voice, Ruishan turned his head to look, and it was the first seat of the Ten Masters who accosted him, and behind him, followed by the second seat of the Ten Heroes, Kobayashi Gentian.

"Senior Si, Senior Sister Gentian, why are you here too?"

Ruishan was surprised.

Kobayashi Gentian is a red-haired cheerful girl: "I'm here to see the excitement, and I pulled the division over." I have been staying in the office for the past few days, and if I don't come out and walk around, I will be suffocated. Thank me. ”

Si muttered quietly: "It's not Ruishan-kun and Gentian who pushed all the work to me......"

"That's right, Ruishan-kun." Kobayashi Gentian's words revealed excitement: "Where is the junior who challenged you?" I'm going to see what he looks like. ”

Ruishan pointed to Li Xiang, who was wiping the blade on the other side: "No, that's it." ”

Li Xiang was wiping the blade of the knife at this time while recalling the main points of his recipe.

Under the deliberate guidance of Li Xiang, Ezuyama Eretsu also mistakenly thought that he had proposed a halberd to him for the sake of Erina Nagikiri. Since the "opponent" also seems to be "bitter", Ruishan does not have too much hostility towards Li Xiang. In addition, now the Engetsu School Park is still in power by Nagi Sen Saemon.,The system in the school has not been destroyed.,Ruishan didn't use small means like the original book used against the protagonist Kohei Soma.。

The topic of the halberd raised by the other party was as Li Xiang expected, "Use Satsuma local chicken as the main ingredient to make a dish, and the form of cooking is not limited." ”

After careful consideration, Li Xiang finally settled on the current recipe.

"Oh, so you're the first-year student who challenged Eiyama-edatsuya. Well, it's handsome, and it looks much more pleasing to the eye than Eizan looks. Come on, I'm rooting you to take him down! ”

Just as Li wanted to think, Kobayashi Gentian's words interrupted his memory.

"Hello senior Xiaolin, is there anything you want to do with me?"

"It's okay, I'll encourage you, junior come on, I've been looking at Ruishan for a long time, kill him!"

Ruishan complained loudly: "Hey, hey, Senior Sister Gentian, I heard it all, okay?" ”

The girl stuck out her tongue and grimaced at Eiyama Ezu.

Si Yingshi, a white-haired boy who looked very weak all over, came over and pulled away Kobayashi Gentian: "Gentian has always been like this, junior brother, don't care." Go ahead and prepare. ”

Li Xiang nodded in confusion and agreed: "Oh, okay......"

The agreed start time for the game was fast in coming.

The three judges invited by the Far Moon Eclipse Administration took their seats, and the referee gave an order, and the two faced their own cooking table and entered their own cooking world.

Native to Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan, Satsuma Chicken was originally an ornamental fighting produced by the mating of small national chickens and military chickens in the Kagoshima region, and later formed the current Satsuma Chicken after a series of improvements. The meat is tender and sweet, and the quality is excellent. Together with Nagoya Cochin Chicken and Inland Chicken, it is known as Japan's three major local chickens.

How to bring out the deliciousness of Satsuma chicken has become the key to the quality of the dishes and even the victory or defeat of the halberd.

Ruishan made the first move, only to see him divide a few carefully selected Satsuma chickens into the pot, add green onions, ginger, and rice wine, pour cold water over the chicken, and cook over high heat.

While the chicken broth boils, Ruishan puts the chicken fat in another wok over low heat and melts. The umami substance contained in the chicken fat is heated to exude a rich and plump chicken flavor, which instantly attracts the attention of the audience and the judges.

"It is worthy of the ten masters of Yuanyue, and the sophistication of the technique is comparable to that of an old chef for many years."

One of the judges, food critic Komatsu, commented.

Another judge, Watanabe, a former chef at a five-star hotel, chimed in:

"The fragrance of chicken fat is far from the common varieties on the supermarket, I am afraid, these chicken fats are his own boiled 'Satsuma native chicken' chicken fat, there is an ancient Chinese saying 'original soup into original food', with Satsuma native chicken own fat, with chicken, the phase will be very high."

Next to Komatsu's right, Keiko Sakata, the proprietress of a well-known handmade tofu shop, focused on Li Xiang.

"Well, compared to Ruishan-san, Emiya-san's haven't started to handle chicken yet, he's ...... Spices? ”

Contrary to Ruishan, who had already fired, Li Xiang's cooking table was very quiet. He is constantly adding more than a dozen spices, including fennel, star anise, and peppercorns, to the four casseroles.

The amount of seasoning is important in order to make the perfect dish, and some culinary experts even use a balance or electronic scale to weigh the amount of spices and set it aside for later use.

And Li Xiang is different, every time he adds a spice, he grabs a handful and throws it into the casserole, such a move, if he is not crazy, he knows the weight of his hands well.

Back on the side of Eizan , after the chicken broth had boiled for a few minutes, he skimmed off the foam from the pot completely, added a few spoonfuls of fine salt to the pot, and immediately turned off the heat and covered it.

Judge Komatsu nodded and said, "It seems that Ezuya Ruiyama has a deep understanding of how to handle chicken." He plans to use the residual heat to slowly simmer the chicken in the pot to keep it tender. A really good steak is never fully cooked, as this ruins the delicate texture of the beef. The same goes for handling chicken. ”

At this time, Li Xiang finally took out his main ingredient - a few still fresh Satsuma chicken roosters.

"There are already prepared chickens to choose from, why does Senior Emiya have to come by himself?"

The Kobayashi gentian in the audience was eating lollipops, very puzzled.

Si Yingshi on the side gave the answer: "It's very likely that I can't trust other people's handling, all the ingredients have to go through my own hands to ensure that the perfect dish is made, this is similar to me, every time I think of other people may make mistakes in the process of handling the ingredients, I am terrified......

Once again, Si Yingshi has entered autism mode.

Si Yingshi's guess is correct to some extent, the reason why Li Xiang has to handle the live chicken by himself during the race against time is for the freshness of the ingredients and the little bit of taste improvement.

In the final analysis, cooking skills are in the details, countless subtle details are piled up, and finally form a gap between the tastes of the dishes, I don't know if these aboriginal chefs in the world of the spirit of the halberd will have any hole cards, Li Xiang undoubtedly used all his strength at this time.

"Look, that knife in Emiya's hand!"

"What a beautiful knife pattern."

The Damascus patterned steel knife created by Li Xiang himself was generous for the first time on the stage of the halberd.

The clouds flickered, the knife light slashed, and the blade of the patterned steel accurately cut through the major arteries in the necks of several live chickens, and then Li Xiang slowly rubbed his hands on the chickens several times, and the chicken blood gushed out of the blood vessels.

Using the water control ability after slashing the sword emperor Jiao, the blood in the chicken was completely squeezed out, and after the bloodletting was completed, Li Xiang picked up the Wenwu knife and slashed several times.

The young is perfectly decapitated, with the head removed, the tail removed, and the claws removed. Then the sharp knife traveled vertically and horizontally, and the internal organs of the chicken were also removed by three times and five divided by two.

"Wait, wait, is the order wrong? The chicken's feathers haven't been removed yet! ”

Judge Watanabe, a former chef at a hotel, is now retired but has no experience in handling live chickens.

No matter how it is handled, chicken dishes need to remove chicken feathers after all, but Li Xiang now directly disembowels the chicken, and the skin of the chicken is no longer complete, how can it be possible to clean the chicken feathers?

looked at Ruishan on the fabric platform, and smiled contemptuously: "I thought you had the ability to kill live chickens on the spot." I didn't expect to make such a major mistake, how can the food served in the halberd be cooked with hair like some rough people in the countryside, you are finished. ”

Ruishan no longer paid attention to Li Xiang on the other side, and lowered his head to concentrate on making his own dishes.