Chapter 11: The Wisdom of Life (2)
That day, Head called Madrick and Des over and told them to learn a new way to exercise. The two of them were waiting with great interest for Fade's explanation and demonstration, but they were led to the kitchen by Have, and then they saw him start doing something inexplicable.
“...... Are you going to make croquettes, but you add too much water, right?" Uncle Babyface couldn't help but interject as he watched as Hide added too much water to the haode flour, almost making it into a "noodle soup".
"No, take a closer look at the way I use the source force. Hade said as he stretched out his hands and fished out a large ball of dough that was close to the noodle soup from the wooden basin, wrapped it with source force, and then began to stretch it, fold it in half, stretch it again, and after repeating it dozens of times, he began to shake with his hands as the axis, and with the help of centrifugal force, the noodles of uneven thickness that had been drawn into hundreds of strips gradually stretched into a relatively even shape.
Although it seems to be a normal way to make ramen, it is actually impossible to keep the noodles falling off if you use ordinary methods because you deliberately add too much water to make them thin. This is to use the source force to wrap each noodle line, and then run the source force to squeeze out the excess water, which requires a very high degree of fineness in the control of the source force.
It took nearly ten minutes to make a decent ramen, and Hide put down the fairly acceptable mass of ramen, not even getting flour juice on his hands.
"Got it?"
"It doesn't seem to be very difficult. The silver-haired female apprentice Desi didn't say a word and stretched out her hand to imitate, but she couldn't handle the overly wet dough smoothly, either accidentally pulled it off, or when shaking and squeezing the water, the source force made a mistake in manipulation to spread the thin dough, and after a few clicks, the silver-haired girl's face and hands were covered with dots of white flour, which looked very embarrassed.
Instead, Majik muttered thoughtfully, "I seem to have a little impression of this method...... After a moment, he clapped his hands violently, "I remembered, water refining method!"
"Oh, uncle, do you know the name of this advanced workout technique?" said Ved, surprised.
"Well, I hooked up about three years ago...... Uh," Madjik glanced at Des, "I know a female adventurer, she seems to be a nobleman of considerable status, and we lived a few days...... Well, after we had a warm exchange of feelings with each other, she would make a basin of water every morning, and then use the source force to control the water into dozens of filaments wrapped around her hands, around her, and even use her feet to control the flow of water, so as to exercise her control skills. ”
"I was curious to know that this woman was obviously a typical heavy samurai who used a chain hammer, and actually practiced manipulating the flow of water, so I asked. She just said that this kind of special exercise technique can exercise the precise control of the source force. Magik scratched her head, "But I'll try to do that later, but it won't work at all, the most I can do is form a water shield, well, it's the mercury shield you're used to in Hede." ”
"Well, uncle, you know the existence of this water refining method, so you don't need me to explain too much. Hide thought that although this baby-faced uncle had a very good style of life, he had gained a lot of knowledge.
Looking at the silver-haired female apprentice who was still trying to fiddle with the dough, Hade reminded: "This method of water refining is a very effective way to exercise, but it is really unrealistic for novices to exercise with water in the early stage, so I use this moist thin dough as a medium for exercise. ”
Next, Hide carefully explained some points to the two of them, how to use the source force to accurately wrap the noodles that are easy to break, how to use the source force to squeeze the water, and so on.
"The fine control of the source force is very important to any cultivator, whether it is a low-level combat professional at LV10 or a super master at the master level. For example, uncle, your most proud source power conversion skill, each time you use a hundred copies of source power, but you can only transfer sixty of them to the target's body, and the other forty copies are wasted due to insufficient control refinement. ”
Hade said and turned to Desi, "You are the same, the offensive cultivation inheritance is especially important for the accuracy of the use of source power, I don't need to explain this, right?"
The silver-haired female apprentice nodded.
This method of exercise was a novelty, and both Madjik and Des were excited to get started. Obviously, theoretical knowledge alone will fail without practical operation, and it will not take long for the two of them to get their heads full of batter powder, which looks very ridiculous.
But it's also a lot of fun, and the almost playful way of getting a good workout results is a good one, and the two of them have fun doing it despite repeated failures, and then gradually find some tricks. Then, under the prompting of Have, first reduce the amount of thin dough, and operate a few dozen or so dough noodles, so that the difficulty of running the source force will be much less, and Zuihou finally made some ramen noodles that look like a point.
"Whew, it looks like it takes a lot of practice. Magik wiped his face, and half of his face was covered with flour and batter.
Even Des, who had never had much expression on his face, couldn't help but smile happily after successfully making a small ball of a dozen ramen noodles, this was the first time Hide had seen this silver-haired girl smile.
"It's a pity, it's a bit of a pity, a lot of this flour is wasted, and this strip-shaped dough that I finally made has to knead them into a dough and add minced meat to make a croquette......."
"No, this can be cooked and eaten. While Madjik and Des were busy practicing, Hide had already made the braised pork, boiled the bone broth, boiled the ramen he had made first, poured the meat pieces into the soup, and made three bowls of ramen.
"Well, it's okay to eat. "Hede knew that he wasn't very good at it, and that the ramen he made with this semi-workout method was not authentic at all, but he was happy to finally be able to eat the familiar pasta. After all, as long as you don't misplace the seasoning, something as simple as noodle soup will never be difficult to swallow.
Madjik and Des tried it, and thought it was acceptable, at least much better than what Hede had made the first few times, so they didn't attack Hede's cooking skills again.
In this way, Hide finally succeeded in getting them used to ramen, but he didn't deliberately give it a special name or try to promote it to make money or anything, after all, it was just a small episode to improve his life.
Since that day, Magik and Desi have practiced every day, and the ramen noodles they have made have become more and more presentable, at least not as uneven as they were at the beginning, so that Hat, who has always liked noodles, can finally stop munching on bread steaks in pain every day.
"Hmm, you estimate that it will take you half a year to improve to the point where you can practice source force manipulation with water, so keep working hard. "And Hade himself no longer uses this method to exercise the source force manipulation technique, he directly uses magic mercury to exercise the water refining method.
Although Marcik and Des learned this exercise at the same time, the source power was in the accumulation period, and the lower level Des was familiar with it faster, and the effect was better, and of course, the ramen made was more decent. And the more attentive silver-haired female apprentice found that her mentor liked this food very much, and it was a by-product of cultivation anyway, so she basically made ramen for Hide every day.
"Uncle, how was the last time you paid attention to the inquiry?" Hide asked Maggik, who was also eating, while enjoying the ramen made by Bishoujo's apprentice.
"Are you talking about the circulation channels of the various demonic beast crystal nuclei in Roland City? This is a bit complicated, I'll tell you slowly after I'm done. ”