Chapter 2: The Ghost Kitchen (Part I)

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Cha Ji smiled bitterly: "What can an old man like me who has broken his hands and tendons do to you?"

Nian Bing looked at Zha Ji, the horror in his eyes weakened a little, and asked tentatively, "Grandpa, you, why are your hands like this?"

Cha Ji pulled Nian Bing to sit down, sighed gloomily, and said, "Listen to grandpa tell you a story." A story that happened to myself. After listening to it, you will understand why I was so excited when I saw the appearance of magic in you. At this point, he looked at the darkness outside the door, and the look in his eyes had gradually become hazy.

"Our Yangon continent, after nearly three hundred years of war, about seventy years ago, the entire continent entered a stable stage, the five empires gradually formed, the whole continent was divided, except for some special places, all the land was drawn into their own territory by the five empires. After three hundred years of war, people need to recuperate, and in the past few decades, various industries and agriculture have been developed, and although the five empires have occasional disputes, they are also peaceful. ”

Nian Bing nodded and said, "The five empires you are talking about are the Orlan Empire in the east, the Qilu Empire in the southeast, the Huarong Empire in the southwest, the Langmu Empire in the northwest, and the Bingyue Empire in the north. ”

Cha Ji nodded and said, "Yes, it's these five empires." I was born in the southeast of the Qilu Empire, when I was a child, my family was very poor, I couldn't even eat fine grains, I remember, I once asked my mother, when the nest head will be full, my mother hugged me and cried, until now I remember it clearly. At that time, my greatest wish was to be able to eat delicious food every day and make the best meals for my mother. Later, I continued to work towards this goal, but unfortunately, my parents died in a plague before I could support them. Perhaps God had mercy on me, but when I was thirteen years old, I met my master, and at that time, because my family was poor, I was still very young and was sent to a restaurant as an apprentice, which was also what I wanted the most, and my master was the chef of that restaurant. In order to learn the cooking skills I desired, I was very diligent and pleasing everyone in the restaurant. Our restaurant, called Qixiang, is one of the most famous restaurants in the Qilu Empire. The master saw that I was still diligent, and began to teach me some simple cooking skills, I was not smart, but I was very hardworking, the so-called diligence can make up for clumsiness, and with unremitting efforts, after three years, I finally rose from the handyman to the position of side dish. One day, the chef called me to a secluded place, and he told me that if you want to learn how to cook well, it is not enough to be diligent, but also to have a sense of understanding and perceive the dishes you are making with your heart. He taught me eight words and asked me to complete them, that is, ten years of practicing cooking, ten years of mastering cooking. These eight words, I still remember to this day. After continuous efforts and comprehension, at the age of 23, the culinary skills finally embarked on the road to Dacheng, but the master passed away due to illness in that year, I always kept in mind the master's advice, so I gave up the opportunity to inherit the position of the master in the Qixiang Hotel, resigned from all positions, took my kitchen knife, with a meager savings, embarked on my own journey, I want to travel all over the mainland of Yangon, to learn the cooking skills of every country and every region. ”

Speaking of this, Cha Ji's eyes shone brightly, and he seemed to have returned to his original glory. He sighed: "Ten years, another decade, really let me understand the true meaning of cooking ten years, in this ten years, I have almost traveled to all the famous restaurants, and each of the chefs in the restaurant to learn, and then through their own understanding, finally created my own stunts, and later, because my cooking skills have reached the realm of ghosts, so people give the nickname ghost kitchen." In the five consecutive world of the Chef God Competition, I got five consecutive championships, and the dishes I made became a symbol at that time, and the palaces of the five empires threw olive branches to me, hoping that I could serve as their head chef, but I always felt that my cooking skills were not good enough, so I have been continuing to explore, hoping to improve my skills to a higher field. It's a wonderful feeling to be constantly exploring, especially when I make a great dish every time, and that sense of accomplishment is unmatched. I dedicated my life to cooking, and until I was forty-seven years old, I was still unmarried. ”

Speaking of this, Cha Ji paused, looked at Nian Bing, who was listening attentively to what he was telling, smiled slightly, and said, "I can't imagine it, my bad old man still has a brilliant side." ”

Nian Bingleng paused, although Cha Ji said very plainly, but with his keen senses, he could still find that in the tone of this Grandpa Cha, there was a trace of sadness, "Grandpa, what happened later?"

Cha Ji smiled bitterly: "Later, frankly, I really don't want to recall everything that happened at that time, but now I have to remember." When I was forty-seven years old, it was an important turning point in my life and the year I fell from the clouds. Maybe it's because I've lived for more than 40 years and haven't experienced anything like feelings, that year, I fell madly in love with a woman, she was so beautiful, so lively and cheerful, her every movement, a smile and a smile, made my heart flutter. At that time, she was only twenty-four years old, and I was twice her age, but I still fell in love with her. She was also a chef, but she was a very different chef from me, only making delicate dim sum and working as a pastry chef in a restaurant at the time, which was also the one I stayed in for the longest time. After thinking about it for a long time, I decided to express my inner feelings to her, and although I did not expect her to accept it, I still wanted to express my inner thoughts. ”

Nian Bing asked, "Then did she accept it?"

Cha Ji shook his head and said, "She didn't say she accepted it, nor did she say she didn't accept it. After listening to my expression of feelings, she made a condition. If I win, she will marry me, and if I lose, she will quit the culinary world, and all the fame I have will go to her. ”

Nian Bing frowned, a strange look appeared on her handsome little face, "Grandpa, I think you were used by her." She must have some confidence that she dared to make such a request knowing that you were the strongest chef. What's more, she made such a request, obviously not well-intentioned, how could she really marry you?"

Cha Ji smiled, "What a smart kid. Yes, I was indeed taken advantage of by her, but at that time, I was already carried away by my feelings, and I didn't think much about it at all, so I agreed to it. After all, standing at the pinnacle of the culinary world for many years has already made me inexplicably arrogant. At that time, I hadn't tried my hand at cooking for a long time, because no one would challenge me at all. Even in the Chef Competition, I'm just a judge. Since she wants to compete with me for what I am best at, there is no reason why I should not agree. And so a game began that I can't forget to this day. ”

After a pause, Cha Jici continued: "In order to convince her, I decided to make six famous dishes that I am best at, and we invited eighteen of the most famous chefs in the culinary world to judge us. My cooking skills have reached the point of perfection, six complex famous dishes, in my hands, only took an hour to complete, years of mastery of cooking, so that I am extremely satisfied with the dishes I make, they are almost alive. But strangely, she didn't move in the face of a pile of materials at that time. When I finished my six dishes and looked at her, she said to me: You make so much, I only make one dish, fine, one is enough. While speaking, she moved, there was no gorgeous movement, no skilled knife skills, she simply picked up a piece of meat, quickly threw the meat strip into the air, chanted something in a peculiar tone, a blue flame rose into the sky, engulfing the piece of meat, and the white knife light flashed in the air. By the time the strip of meat landed on the plate, it had already turned into thirteen sections, flashing golden thirteen sections, and only then did I know that she was actually a magician, and she was also an extremely powerful fire magician. Still, I thought I had won, after all, she only had one dish, while I had six, and judging from the two points of color and aroma on the surface, she was far behind. However, I soon knew that I was wrong, when I tasted the golden meat strips, an unprecedented feeling filled my taste, the meat strips had not undergone any processing beforehand, and no seasoning was added in the process of making, but she completely released the aroma in the meat strips, thirteen meat strips, although there are no sweet, sour, bitter, spicy and salty flavors that we are familiar with, but each meat strip is divided into thirteen parts, thirteen different degrees of taste, these thirteen flavors are mixed together to bring the aroma, which is much more delicious than any dish with ingredients。 When I took a sip, I knew I had lost, and I had lost badly. Although my six dishes are by no means inferior in taste to this meat strip of hers, my cooking skills are already inferior in front of her. Not only because of speed, but more importantly, because of innovation. ”

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