On the evening of the second day, Fujii stood in front of the closed oden shop, frowning at the closed tin door, yesterday's oden tasted good, and he had planned to buy another batch.

"Can you go to Granny Deng, can you rest today? It's rare! ”

He muttered to himself, and was about to turn away, when a drunken young woman stumbled from behind and fell in front of the tin door, wearing a high-end skirt, and her face and temperament were incompatible with this old and lonely little commercial street.

"It's just a real sake, I can still drink it... Drink a lot, vomit! ”

This woman was very unreasonable and threw up in front of Noto's mother-in-law's shop, Fujii Shu couldn't see it, and if she wanted to be drunk, don't go crazy in front of someone's store, which will affect other people's business.

"This young lady, please get up and go home, right? Need help hailing a taxi? ”

He patted her on the shoulder and kindly reminded her.

"Less coming, this is my home, this is the key, do you see it! Little ghost head. ”

The drunken Noto Kiko took out a bunch of keys, held them in her hand, and showed them to Fujii.

"Are you a relative of Grandma Noto? Nieces or something? ”

Fujii Shu shook his head, having such a junior who spends all day and drinking is a bad thing for the kind and kind Noto mother-in-law, right?

"Oh yes! I am... It's Noto Miko, her niece, Aunt Noto She has returned to her hometown in the countryside, and I've come to see the store these days. ”

After vomiting, Noto Kiko's spirit recovered a lot, she slept in a five-star luxury suite last night, so she was not sleepy, and after she became conscious, she began to make up her life background, anyway, it was only three days, no! It's been two days.

I opened the iron roller door with the key in my hand, and when Nonobu Kiko pulled up the roller door, Fujii Shu helped to lift the rusty roller door with ease.

"Thank you, Fujii-kun."

Noto Kiko subconsciously spoke, she usually called Fujii Shu who came to buy things.

"You know me? What did Grandma Noto tell you? ”

Fujii felt strange, he had never seen this woman before, although after looking closely, she did bear a slight resemblance to Granny Noto, especially the eyes, especially when she looked at herself after she was sober.

"Hey! Yes, you're here to buy oden, right? I'll do it for you. ”

Noto Kiko sensed that something was wrong, even though Fujii would never have dreamed that he was actually Noboru Kiko, and quickly changed the subject.

The production of oden is not complicated, and it is even easy to promote and become popular because of its simplicity, but Noboriko's brain is empty, and her hands have become clumsy, and she has a bitter face, remembering the words of the smiling salesman.

"You should need this, and for the price of your excellent cooking."

Do you have to start from scratch with the cooking skills you rely on for your livelihood?

After all, Noto Kiko has lived for decades, and this price can still be afforded, she turned her head slightly apologetically to look at Fujii Tree who was waiting, and said apologetically.

"I'm so sorry, I'm drunk and confused, and I don't know how to make oden at all."

I knew that your hands weren't like cooking a lot.

Fujii Shu unexpectedly thought that the young Noto Xizi's ten fingers were white and jade, and she was completely untouched by the appearance of spring water, and she probably had never cooked, right?

Noto's mother-in-law is not here, and she runs the store, so don't smash the signboard!

It's Friday, and if it's only two days, he'll still be able to help with the cooking, and Grandma Noto usually deliberately charges less when he buys oden, and it's still very good, and it can be used as a part-time job to make money.

Noto's mother-in-law lives alone, and she relies on this small shop to make a living, even if it closes its doors, it's better than asking this woman to come to the store, right?

Looking at this unreliable woman, Fujii opened one of the items in the gold finger panel.

"Culinary; LV3/81％。 ”

You can also practice your cooking skills and get some free attribute points.

It's a pity to say that as a high school student in an island country, he hasn't worked a day of odd jobs, and he feels a little incomplete in his life experience.

Thank you for my great mercy.

Fujii took one last look at Noto Kiko, who was at a loss, rolled up his sleeves, and asked.

"I know some cooking, after you eat the oden I made, let's talk about the price of the part-time job in the two days that Noto's mother-in-law is away."

"Huh? So? ”

Noto Xizi said in surprise, does this mean that she thinks she is stupid? Coming to cheat the salary? A good child with such an appearance as Fujii Tree, did it turn out to be such a salary thief?

After her body became younger, her thinking was much more lively than before, and she was no longer a slow old woman's thoughts.

After washing his hands, Fujii took out two large white and tender radishes, the size of an adult's upper arm, from the kitchen refrigerator behind the counter on the first floor.

Washing the white radishes in the same way, picking up the kitchen knife and quickly slicing them into standard three-centimeter-thick rounds, holding and turning the edge of the rounds, and using the blade to peel off the skin with one hand, this action can make Noboru open her mouth, and then cover it so as not to lose her temper.

I feel more proficient than I used to cook! How did he develop this skill?

Although the cooking skills are gone, Noto Kiko's vision is still there, and after Fujii Shu finishes processing the radish slices, he boils a pot of hot water and deep-fried the semi-finished fried food in the oden until golden brown, and the aroma of the food is overflowing, and the stomach of Noto Kiko, who has just been emptied of the Five Organs Temple, growls.

"Do you want to taste it?"

Fujii picked out two meatballs that were in slightly inferior condition, put them in a bowl and handed them over.

"Thank you, Fujii-kun."

The body has become younger, and the appetite has become greater, and Nobukiko can take the bowl respectfully with both hands, and taste it little by little like an old woman.

The ingredients and utensils are the same, but why is it that the fried food is just better than what I made?

Noto Kiko was puzzled, Fujii Shu glanced at her strangely, obviously a young man, but he looked the same as an old woman when he ate, a strange guy.

Oden wanted to be delicious, but the knife skill and heat alone were not enough, so Fujii Shu lifted the iron bucket containing the dashi, filled it with a long spoon, and drank it.

It's close to the production level of LV3 professional-level cooking, and in terms of the positioning of the small store, it's already good.

He objectively evaluated that if it was not delicious, he would not come back to buy it the next day.

But that's not enough, it can be even tastier!

Once he decides to do something, he will not be perfunctory, football and baseball, as well as kendo and cooking.

The oden shop is still very well stocked with ingredients, and Grandma Noto has been making oden with all her heart, and the whole process is also made by hand as much as possible, rather than heating up the finished product to fool customers.

Find two palm-sized pieces of dried bonito, a large handful of shiitake mushrooms, a few strips of kelpcloth, and a packet of oden base.

First, break the shiitake mushrooms one by one by hand, then crush the kelp (sea head) and add it, put it into a gauze bag together with the dried bonito, fill it to the brim, turn over the opening and seal it with a string, at this time the water boiled in advance is also half boiled, and throw it into a large iron pot with six liters of water together with the base packet.

"Is there any secret to putting dried bonito?"

Noto Kiko asked puzzled after reading Fujii's set of operations.

"It's just a matter of enriching the taste, nothing special."

Fujii replied truthfully, turned around and picked up the boiling water bottle in the kitchen, and poured it into the basin containing the fried food he had just fried, this step was to remove the oil, the routine operation of professional chefs, in fact, the difference in cooking skills lies in the small details that are not conspicuous.

Then cut bamboo wheels (a food that looks like young bamboo shoots) and konjac slices, all of which are three centimeters thick, and use a kitchen knife to cut off the water chestnut, which is not a good meaning in the food culture of the island country, which is not to enhance the taste, but a kind of local custom.

Next, lightly make a half-shaded cross in the center of the radish slice to make it easier to cook soft and absorb the flavor of the broth.

Add a small handful of rice to the fully processed daikon slices separately to make the boiling point higher and the daikon slices softer.

After all the ingredients were prepared in advance, the water surface of the soup stock also boiled, Fujii Shu did not stop for a moment, tasted the taste of the stock with a long spoon, shook his head, and found an unopened bottle of Kikushomune Ten Years Brew, and poured about fifty milligrams.

"Wait, that's almost 10,000 yen!"

Noto Xizi's six-million-yen dress said that he would buy it, but when he saw that his collection of old wine was wasted like this, he couldn't help but step forward and grab the wine bottle, hold it in his arms, and complain sideways.

"If you do this, you will lose money!"

(End of chapter)