Six p.m., dining room seven.

"Xiao Jiang, today's dish is delicious, I haven't eaten such authentic Gannan cuisine for a long time, thank you so much."

Liu Xining had to catch a plane, so everyone at the table ate quickly, and they were full before six o'clock, of course, the dishes on the table must have been emptied, otherwise they wouldn't be able to stop.

With some satisfaction on her face, she turned her head to look at Pan Jingchen again, and then said to Jiang Yu,

"After I go back, I'm going to have a lot of trouble here, if you have any questions, you can call me at any time."

"Okay, I know, senior sister, you can rest assured."

Jiang Yu nodded with a smile and said,

"I'm very busy at the restaurant, so I can't leave, so I won't go to the airport to see you off."

When Liu Xining heard this, he waved his hand again and again and said: "No, no, I often fly around, if I have to be sent every time, then I won't be troublesome to death?" ”

"Well, that's good."

Jiang Yu smiled again, turned around and brought an insulated lunch box from Yan Tongtong behind him, handed it to Liu Xining, and explained,

"Today is also a coincidence, there is a table of guests who happened to order Xinfeng radish dumplings, I think this is also one of the top ten famous snacks in southern Gansu, so I just made more, if my sister is hungry on the road, you can also use it to fill your stomach."

"Xinfeng radish dumplings?"

When Liu Xining heard this, the whole person was stunned for a while, and it took a while to come back to his senses, glanced at Jiang Yu deeply, and said with some emotion,

"Senior Brother Xiao Jiang, thank you! I haven't eaten this in years......"

Although Xinfeng radish dumplings are called dumplings, they only look like dumplings, but the materials are completely different, its dumpling skin is not made of flour, but with sweet potato starch as the skin, with white radish, pork and fish to mix and wrap into the shape of dumplings, and then steamed in the drawer.

The steamed Xinfeng radish dumplings have thin skin and crystal clear, the filling inside is faintly visible, the taste is soft and glutinous, the taste is spicy and refreshing, the juice is delicious, and you will never forget it after eating it once.

"Senior sister, don't thank you anymore, my ears are calloused!"

When Jiang Yu heard this, he waved his hand again and again, and said with a wry smile,

"As I said just now, this is not made specifically for you, a guest ordered this snack, so I made a little more by the way......"

Liu Xining nodded: "I know, I know!" ”

“……”

Jiang Yu was speechless, looking at her expression, she obviously didn't believe what she said, so what did she know?

Thinking of this, he couldn't help but tremble and snorted:

No, no, people are big stars in the entertainment industry, how can they have this kind of thought?

I must have thought too much about it!

Jiang Yu quickly shook his head and threw out the messy thoughts in his mind.

To be honest, seeing Liu Xining's reaction, he had already begun to regret it in his heart, he had known that this would be the case, he might as well save some effort and not make this Xinfeng radish dumpling for her!

Just thinking about this, he glanced to the side out of the corner of his eye, and saw Pan Jingchen standing on the side pursed his lips, looked at himself with resentment in his eyes, and whispered:

"Why is it only for Aning, I also want to taste Aning's hometown......"

"Uh, Sister Chen, it's not that I didn't think about you, the main thing is that the time is too tight, I can only do so ......"

It's really embarrassing now, why did you forget that there is a woman?

Jiang Yu scratched his head, smiled a little embarrassedly and said,

"Sister Chen, haven't you gone back so soon? When you want to eat it one day, I'll make it for you. ”

"Forget it, I'll just say that."

Pan Jingchen couldn't help but purse her lips and smile, and said meaningfully,

"If you really make food for me, I'm afraid that someone will be unhappy."

Jiang Yu: "......"

I don't understand, I'm pretending to be stupid, isn't it?

Fortunately, Liu Xining still had to rush to the airport, she didn't stay here longer, and after chatting with Jiang Yu a few words, the group hurriedly went downstairs, got into the business car parked outside the canteen, and went straight to the airport.

Jiang Yu stood at the door of the cafeteria, watching the car slowly drive away, and couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, feeling a lot more relaxed all of a sudden, as if he had unloaded the burden of a thousand catties on his body.

It's good to go, it's good to go, if you don't go, what kind of misunderstanding will really happen, how embarrassing will it be?

At that moment, just standing there, he felt uncomfortable up and down, that is, the ground under his feet was poured with cement, otherwise he would have to dig a hole with his toes to get in.

Back in the kitchen upstairs, Jiang Yu put away the distractions in his heart and continued to be busy.

It was only six o'clock, and it hadn't been long since the guests in the four boxes arrived, and he still had a lot of dishes to cook.

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Jiang Yu washed his hands, looked at the menu posted on the wall, and was about to start cooking, when Du Guangning, who was next to him, suddenly whispered:

"Boss, this, this dish may still have to be made by yourself......"

"Huh?"

Jiang Yu turned his head suspiciously, only to see Du Guangning's embarrassed face, he pointed to a freshly slaughtered and cleaned fish on the plate on the operating table, and said with some embarrassment,

"The guest in the 'autumn' box originally ordered braised fish, but I haven't started to make it yet, and he said that the braised fish is no longer needed, and it is changed to 'squirrel mandarin fish'......

This, this squirrel mandarin fish, I won't! ”

Squirrel mandarin fish, also known as squirrel osmanthus fish, is a representative work of Subang cuisine with both color and fragrance, and is one of the top ten classic dishes in Gusu, enjoying a good reputation at home and abroad for a long time.

This dish has a delicate process and unique shape, and after the dish is completed, the meat of the whole fish explodes and towers outward, "with its head raised and its tail cocked", just like a squirrel.

What's even more interesting is that when the fried squirrel-like cinnamon fish is served on the table, it is poured with a steaming marinade, and the fish will "squeak" like a "squirrel".

The reason why Du Guangning feels embarrassed is because the difficulty of the squirrel mandarin fish dish is not its cooking method, but its knife work.

Cutting a whole fish into the size of 108 garlic cloves with a flower knife like a kidney flower and the flesh of the fish is like a chrysanthemum blooming, which is really not something that ordinary chefs can easily do.

"Okay, I'll make this dish, you can go and prepare the other dishes first."

Jiang Yu glanced at Du Guangning, nodded and said.

Du Guangning is okay to cook ordinary dishes, but with his knife skills, it is somewhat difficult for some strong people to make this Huaiyang dish that requires high knife skills.

After hearing Jiang Yu's words, he also breathed a long sigh of relief, and nodded again and again:

"Okay, then I'll make the braised prawns."

Braised prawns don't need to be knifed, or even knives to handle prawns, so it's always no problem.

Jiang Yu: "......"

This Xiao Du, shouldn't he be stupid by the knife worker?

A squirrel mandarin fish is just an entry-level test of Huaiyang cuisine chef's knife skills, where is this?

If you were asked to make Wensi Tofu, cut a piece of lactone tofu into a hair-thin tofu shred, and you couldn't break it up, then you still had to go crazy?

Shaking his head, Jiang Yu didn't think much about these things, reached out and took the mandarin fish on the plate and put it on the cutting board, took a knife with the other hand, and began to deal with it.

He first prepared to dispose of the mandarin fish's bones and bones.

Jiang Yu held the body of the fish with one hand, and held a knife in the other, and cut off the head of the fish along the back of the gills.

The head of the fish should retain the fins on both sides, so that when the plate is placed for a while, the head of the fish can rely on the support of the fins to stand up, forming a "head-high" trend.

Then, he put the knife against the crest of the fish and slice the flesh on both sides of the fish until the tail without cutting it, and then carefully slice the bones off the belly of the fish in the manner of an oblique knife.

Next, it's the cutter.

Lay the fish body on the cutting board, pull out the knife edge at an interval of 0.5 cm vertically, and then, Jiang Yu put the fish body horizontally on the cutting board, continue to cut the knife diagonally, and slice out the diamond-shaped knife pattern, deep to 4/5 of the skin and flesh, the knife is accurate, and the fish skin can not be cut.

The third step is to fry the fish.

Jiang Yu added an appropriate amount of salt, pepper, cooking wine, egg white, etc. to the fish meat cut with a flower knife, and then sprinkled with starch along with the fish head.

When sprinkling starch, Jiang Yu is extremely careful to ensure that the gaps in the flower knife on the fish meat are also coated with starch, and after the head and body of the fish are all coated with starch, he shakes off the excess starch.

When the oil in the pot was about the same temperature, he first put the starched fish head into the pot, and then slowly poured hot oil with a spoon until the fish head was fried until it was set, then took it out and drained the excess oil.

Subsequently, Jiang Yu pinched the fish tail with his hands, slowly put the fish body into the oil pot, clamped the fish tail with a fast son to set the shape, and also poured oil on the fish with a spoon, and drained the oil out of the pot when it was fried until it was set.

After waiting for a while, Jiang Yu puts the fish head and fish body into the oil pan again and fries it until the fish head and fish body become golden, then drain the excess oil and put it on the plate.

The last step is to boil the sauce.

Restart the pot to heat the oil, Jiang Yu first put the tomato sauce into the pot, fry for a while, then add cooking wine, vinegar, sugar, salt, and a small amount of water, and then add an appropriate amount of starch after boiling.

To do this, all you need to do is pour the marinade on the shaped plate, and the squirrel mandarin fish dish is basically done.

But in a restaurant, the marinade is usually served at the table, and if the squirrel mandarin fish doesn't "squeak" like a squirrel's "quack", the dish is a failure.

Therefore, before the marinade was taken out of the pot, Jiang Yu turned his head and beckoned Yan Tongtong and said to her:

"Xiao Yan, this squirrel mandarin fish can be served now, you go first, and I'll come later."

"Oh oh oh!"

Yan Tongtong didn't know why Jiang Yu also had to follow to the box, but since the senior brother had ordered so, then she just did it.

She stretched out her hands, carefully picked up the oval plate that had been placed in the shape of a squirrel, and walked straight towards the box with the name "Autumn".

After Yan Tongtong walked out of the kitchen, Jiang Yu used his hand hard, directly held a small iron pot with piping hot marinade, and chased after him.

After Yan Tongtong entered the box, he put the plate in his hand on the table and introduced crisply:

"The squirrel mandarin fish is here, please wait!"

With that, he retreated to the side of the box and waited.

There are more than a dozen people sitting at the table in the "autumn" box, these people are men and women, all about the same age, about 30 years old, all well-dressed, several of them still wear glasses, and they look polite.

Seeing the squirrel mandarin fish coming up, everyone turned their heads to look over, only to see that in the oval white plate, the fish head is slightly high, the fish tail is high, and the fish meat on the fish body is fried and turned over one by one, as if it has been fried, and the whole shape looks like a squirrel bowing slowly.

It's just that this squirrel mandarin fish, why does it look like something is missing?

Just when everyone was wondering and wondering, they suddenly saw another person enter the door, this person was wearing a white chef's suit, a chef's hat on his head, holding a steaming iron pot in one hand, and a spoon in the other.

You don't have to guess to know that this person is naturally Jiang Yu.

Jiang Yu smiled at everyone, didn't speak, walked to the dining table in a few steps, brought the iron pot to the plate of squirrel mandarin fish and tilted slightly, the bright color and red hot marinade poured it from the pot and poured it directly on the fish on the plate.

Before the guests at the table could react, they heard a "squeak" of the mandarin fish on the plate, which was actually like the sound of a squirrel!

This time, both men and women, they were dumbfounded!

Not all of them at this table have eaten squirrel mandarin fish, and of course they don't know that this squirrel mandarin fish not only looks like a squirrel in appearance, but also looks like a squirrel when it "barks".

How can you not be surprised to hear this "squirrel call" at the dinner table at this moment?

At this time, Jiang Yu also poured all the marinade in the pot on the fish, and he sprinkled the pine nuts and fruit grains in the spoon, and then glanced at the people sitting at the table, smiled and said:

"The squirrel mandarin fish is ready, please use it slowly!"

After saying this, he turned around and walked out of the box with the iron pot and spoon.

Seeing this, Yan Tongtong also hurriedly followed.

At this moment, this little girl's two big eyes are full of starlight, she has never seen this squirrel mandarin fish before, and she wondered how this dish looks like it is fried, and there is not even a little soup.

I didn't expect it, I didn't expect it, it turned out that this soup was poured on the table when the dish was served, and the soup was poured out, and the dish would be "called"!

It's really amazing!

Senior Brother Jiang is really the best! It's amazing!

In the "Autumn" box, those guests waited until Jiang Yu and Yan Tongtong left, and then they came back to their senses one after another and began to discuss:

"It's amazing! I thought it was an exaggeration to say that the squirrel mandarin fish poured with marinade on the Internet would 'scream', but I didn't expect it to be true, I was stunned just now! ”

"This Xiao Jiang chef really lives up to his reputation, I heard that only real chefs dare to pour the sauce after serving this dish, and ordinary chefs only serve it after pouring the juice in the back kitchen."

"Of course, you don't want to think about it, which dish made by Master Xiao Jiang is not delicious? If you don't have some skills, the box of this No. 7 dining room will not be so difficult to book! ”

"Oops, I was stupid just now! At that time, it would be nice to take a picture of the scene of Master Xiao Jiang pouring juice with his mobile phone, if this was posted on the Internet, it would definitely be a hit! ”

"Oops, it's too late for you to regret it now! I see, let's hurry up, this squirrel mandarin fish looks delicious! ”

"Eat, eat! Everybody eats! ”

“……”

Everyone chatted a few words, and saw that the plate of squirrel mandarin fish in front of them with bright color, unique shape, and rich marinade was placed in front, exuding a burst of sweet and sour tempting aroma.

"Hmm! This fish is crispy on the outside and tender on the inside, fragrant and delicious, and with this sweet and sour marinade, it is really beautiful! ”

"It's delicious, it's delicious! I've never been a fan of sweet dishes, but this squirrel mandarin fish dish really subverted my perception and was so delicious! ”

"This squirrel mandarin fish is really not ordinary, fried just right, it is crispy and tender in the mouth, sour and sweet, delicious and delicious, and you can't stop eating a bite!"

"Hey, don't rob, don't rob! I just took a bite! Hold the grass! ”

“……”

……

The box in Dining Room 7 was bustling with activity, with guests sitting around the table one by one, tasting the food and laughing constantly.

On the other side, Lin Yahui, Wang Dongkai and others had dinner early and were chatting and walking on the quiet campus at the moment.

Their dinner was served in the small canteen on the third floor of the first cafeteria.

Just like the meal at noon, only two dishes for dinner were prepared by Jiang Yu himself, and the rest of the dishes were made by the chef of the small canteen, and the taste was just like that.

Therefore, in addition to giving one to each of the three student-athletes who trained the best in the afternoon, the two dishes made by Jiang Yu were quickly snatched up by others.

Without the dishes made by Jiang Yu, what would this nutritious meal taste like?

Because of this, everyone ate quickly at dinner, and it was hastily finished in less than fifteen minutes.

"Hey, I miss the team's restaurant a little bit, speaking of which, the food in our team still tastes okay."

Wang Dongkai touched his stomach, less than an hour after eating dinner, he felt a little hungry again, obviously, he had not eaten enough before.

He sighed as he kicked the small stone on the road with his toes,

"Master Qian, the chef in our team, is said to have been a famous Huaiyang chef in Gusu before.

This is really no comparison, I don't know, I was shocked by the comparison, the nutritious meals made in the small cafeteria of our school are really tasteless, and I have no appetite when I taste it. ”

"Hehe, you've said so much, I'm afraid that the restaurant food in the team is fake, and I want to eat the food cooked by Jiang Yu's junior brother, right?"

After Lin Yahui heard his words, he couldn't help but laugh "hehe", he raised his hand and pointed at him, and scolded with a smile,

"You kid, I know exactly how many intestines you have in your stomach, and you're still here to play with me."

"Ahem, what you said is as if you don't want to eat the food cooked by Jiang Yu's junior brother!"

After Wang Dongkai was broken by him, he couldn't help coughing dryly twice, and said with some shame,

"If you have the ability, if you have the ability, you will never go to the No. 7 dining room to eat in the future, then I will count you as powerful!"

"Hehe, I don't have the skills, right?"

Lin Yahui smiled dumbly, and said with a happy face,

"The food cooked by the little brother Jiang Yu is so delicious, who has tasted it and who knows, who can bear not to eat it a second time?

But then again, when we return to the team, it's either a game or a training, how can we have any chance to go back to our alma mater again, just to eat a meal in the No. 7 dining room? ”

"Uh, speaking of returning to the team......"

As soon as Wang Dongkai opened his mouth, he stopped, he turned his head to look at Lin Yahui, and stopped talking a little.

In the end, he still couldn't hold back, with a little worry on his face, and said in a low voice,

"I heard someone say some time ago that you seem to want to retire?"

"Who did you listen to?"

After Lin Yahui heard this, he didn't admit or deny it, he subconsciously asked a rhetorical question, and before Wang Dongkai could answer, he smiled bitterly, shook his head and said,

"You know, since I strained my right Achilles tendon last year, I haven't been able to recover, and no matter how much I practiced, I couldn't get my best result before.

When Senior Sister Chen asked about this before, didn't you say that I was suffering from PTSD?

Actually, no, I can feel it, maybe my peak is over, and if I can win the men's high jump championship at the Asian Games, I guess it will be my most glorious time.

Judging from my current form, there is a good chance that I will not even be able to meet the B standard for next year's Olympic Games......

So, I was thinking that instead of staying in the team and being embarrassed, it would be better to give up early and find a new path in life. ”

Speaking of this, he sighed, turned his head to look at Wang Dongkai, and said with a serious face,

"We can't be active in the field all the time, sooner or later we have to retire, since I have no hope, it is better to leave early and start the second half of my life."

"You, are you really planning to retire?"

Listening to Lin Yahui's words, Wang Dongkai was no less than if he had been struck by lightning, and the whole person was stunned for a while, and it took him a while before he came back to his senses and opened his mouth to persuade,

"Brother Hui, maybe the situation is not as bad as you think?

There is always a recovery process after an injury, maybe you are still in the recovery stage, maybe you will get better next year.

Do you want to hold on to it anymore?

After so many years of hard work, it's a pity to retire suddenly! ”

"What a pity? Nothing is a pity. ”

When Lin Yahui heard what he said, he couldn't help laughing and said,

"No matter what profession you have, it's a life.

I've experienced what it's like to sweat on the field, and that's enough, and then I'm going to have to experience another kind of life. ”

Seeing that Wang Dongkai was going to say something more, he simply waved his hand and smiled,

"Don't persuade me, persuade you to turn the other cheek again!"

“……”

Wang Dongkai was dumbfounded, opened his mouth and finally gave up, he asked instead,

"Then have you figured out what to do when you retire?"

"Do what?"

Lin Yahui muttered and repeated, at this moment the two of them had come to the vicinity of the stadium, and they could already see the two-story building opposite, which was brightly lit in the night.

He smiled and muttered in a low voice,

"It would be nice if I could go back to my alma mater and become a PE teacher......