Chapter XVII. Assessment
Qingxi Restaurant, the second floor of the back kitchen.
When Chen Xi and Bai Wanqing walked in, Old Man Ma, Qiao Nan, and Pei Mei were all there, and when they saw Bai Wanqing, Qiao Nan wiped the corners of her lips, smiled and whistled loudly, "Bai Beauty, I haven't seen you for ten days like ten years later, I'm very worried about it, I don't know how it is lately?"
Pei Mei held her charming face in both hands, looked at Chen Xi obsessively, and muttered: "Well, little brother Chen Xi seems to have become handsome again, so manly." ”
Old man Ma banged on the iron spoon in his hand, the sound was like thunder, and he jumped to his feet and roared: "As Lao Tzu's junior brother and sister, he is so shameless, fucking shut up Lao Tzu!"
Qiao Nan and Pei Jiao pursed their lips in unison, dumbfounded.
Chen Xi had already seen such a scene, and he was not surprised, but he couldn't bear Pei Mei, a charming and charming woman, and said in his heart: "When Old Man Ma becomes my master, you will also become my little aunt, can't you be subtle and reserved when you speak?"
"Ten days, I think you have already known the "Vientiane Ingredients Illustrated Book" and "Spiritual Fire Collection", I will give a question, if you can answer it, I will accept you as an apprentice, if not, then you better leave quickly, save each other's time. Old man Ma looked solemn and began to test what Chen Xi had learned in ten days.
Chen Xi nodded, his expression calm.
In the past ten days, by contemplating the statue of Fuxi, his divine sense has become several times stronger than before, and it is precisely because of this that he can keep in mind the vast knowledge in the "Vientiane Food Illustrated Book" and "Spiritual Fire Collection" in a short period of time.
Chen Xi believes that as long as the title comes from these two books, he will definitely not make any mistakes!
Old man Ma's title is only four words - Lang Stack Hongqiao, this is the name of a dish, non-Wuye Ling chefs can't cook it, because the ingredients and spiritual fire used in it have extremely picky requirements, and the difficulty is extremely high, and this dish is also specially prepared for the monks of the Liangyi Jindan Realm.
However, in the "Vientiane Ingredients Illustrated Book", the ranking of Lang Stack Hongqiao in tens of thousands of dishes is not high, compared with other dishes that can be used for the diet of the monks of the Liangyi Jindan Realm, Lang Die Hongqiao is undoubtedly the most troublesome dish to cook, only the ingredients of different attributes used are not less than hundreds, and the cooking steps have reached thousands. Naturally, the name Langdi Hongqiao is rarely cared for.
In Old Man Ma's opinion, Chen Xi Ruozhen has thoroughly mastered the "Vientiane Ingredients Illustrated Book", and it is very suitable to test the dish of Lang Stacking Hongqiao.
"I think that among the three of us back then, I was the only one who wrote down this dish, no matter how smart he was, he couldn't compare to me, barely comparable to you and my sister, senior brother, aren't you embarrassed. ”
Qiao Nan solemnly shouted for Chen Xi, but he was praising himself in and out of his words, obviously, this guy is a very stinky fart no matter what he does.
"Yes, senior brother, you won't be jealous that Chen Xi's younger brother is more handsome than you, so you want to get rid of others in another way, right? ”
Pei Mei rolled her eyes widely, and began to complain about Chen Xi in her own way.
Old man Ma's forehead was bruised, and he gritted his teeth and roared: "Shut up! You two are narcissists, a big nymphomaniac, what qualifications do you have to argue with Lao Tzu? Lao Tzu is a senior brother, and Lao Tzu has the final say!"
Qiao Nan and Pei Mei were silent again, looking helpless to succumb to obscenity.
"No problem, right?"
Although Bai Wanqing didn't know the difficulty of the waves stacking Hongqiao, judging from Qiao Nan and Pei Mei's performance, she roughly guessed the difficulty, and couldn't help but look at Chen Xi with a worried face, and she was extremely suspicious in her heart, could this bad old man really embarrass Chen Xi?
Chen Xi nodded at Bai Wanqing, calm, and replied almost without thinking: "The waves of Hongqiao are ...... with green snail roots, Mo Nan flowers, purple vine nine-leaf fruits, and dragon beard and Poria branches."
The voice, with a unique hint of calmness, resounded in everyone's ears in an orderly manner.
"These hundreds of ingredients, the attributes include the five elements of yin and yang, all of which are cut and chopped into silk, reaching the point of being as thin as cotton wool, so that the first step has been completed, and the second step is to use the thousand-year-old stone milk spirit liquid as a pool, soaking and pregnant these ingredients in different categories, until they are silky and smooth like water, flexible like tendons, and then ...... with green wood spiritual fire, sunflower water spiritual fire, and red melting spiritual fire."
After a while, Chen Xi had reported nearly 100 kinds of ingredients with various attributes, and began to talk about the operation of ingredients, Bai Wanqing didn't understand these, but she clearly saw that as the names of the ingredients floated out of Chen Xi's mouth, the expressions of the three old men gradually became serious, and there was a faint hint of surprise in their eyes.
She couldn't help but secretly breathe a sigh of relief, and a wisp of pride quietly rose in her heart, looking forward to Chen Xi's performance more and more.
"Yo, this kid has a good memory, and he's almost catching up with me back then. Qiao Nan was stunned, with a hint of unnaturalness in his voice.
"No, you are still stinky and beautiful at this time? I remember that although you wrote down all the steps of Langdi Hongqiao back then, there were more than ten mistakes, and Brother Chen Xi has not made a single mistake until now. Pei Mei ruthlessly debunked.
The embarrassment on Qiao Nan's face flashed for a moment, and then he said with a deep face: "Actually, I was able to be perfect back then, but I was only blamed for being too kind, and I couldn't bear to make you and my senior brother look gloomy, so I deliberately ...... it."
"Shut up!" Old Man Ma suppressed his voice and interrupted: "Lao Tzu is accepting apprentices, but I don't listen to your boasting!"
Qiao Nan sighed lightly, stroked his chin leisurely, and looked incomprehensibly lonely, but his heart was burning and angry, and he said in pieces: "Boy, make a mistake, otherwise the image of my buddy's great and heroic will be completely ruined, how can I talk to a beautiful woman in the future......"
However, to Qiao Nan's despair, a quarter of an hour has passed, and Chen Xi still has not made a single mistake, on the contrary, his thinking is getting clearer and clearer, and his speech speed is getting faster and faster, which can be called like a river of mouth, and he talks endlessly.
Qiao Nan lost his soul: "It's over, this day's record was broken......"
Pei Mei muttered obsessively: "The confident man is the most handsome, well, my sister has fallen, and my sister is trapped in love and can't extricate herself." ”
Bai Wanqing's face was radiant, and her mouth kept repeating: "Not bad, not bad......"
Old Man Ma's shriveled and tense cheeks have also bloomed with a smile, like a daisy blooming after autumn.
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All in all, these different ingredients, as long as they are carefully operated in accordance with the above steps, can completely form a unique appearance of waves surging and Hongqiao under the baking of Juling Yin Fire. “
After a stick of incense, Chen Xi finally explained all the steps of the Lang Stack Hongqiao one by one, raised his eyes to look, but saw that the people around him looked sluggish, looking like they were in a trance, and couldn't help but be slightly stunned, is there something wrong with the secret way?
He didn't know how much of a shock the other people had been shocked by this hour's infallible explanation, but he knew very well that today was the one he had spoken the most, almost as much as he had said in a year.
"Ahem, well, ten days of kung fu can reach this level, the talent is okay. After half a ring, Old Man Ma coughed dryly twice, breaking the silence.
Chen Xi breathed a sigh of relief, as long as he passed the assessment, as for his talent, he didn't bother to care.
"What does it mean to have talent?" Qiao Nan seemed to be stimulated, without a trace of grace, as if he was frantically waving his arms, shouting: "How can a guy who is more talented than this genius be called talented?
Pei Mei couldn't stand Old Man Ma's evaluation either, and her words were extremely sharp: "Senior brother, when you told the master about the Langdi Hongqiao, your cheeks were red, and you made a mistake for a long time, you ......"
Being uncovered in front of the old scar, Old Man Ma was embarrassed and angry, and immediately roared and interrupted Pei Mei: "Isn't it okay for Lao Tzu to admit that he is a genius?
After a pause, Old Man Ma said weakly: "Actually, I was also afraid of his pride, so I just hit him." ”
Qiao Nan and Pei Mei rolled their eyes in unison.
Chen Xi was confused, and he didn't have the consciousness to become a genius, but secretly muttered in his heart: These three guys are really weird......
Bai Wanqing tugged at Chen Xi's sleeve and asked in a low voice, "Did you know that Old Man Ma was going to test this wave stacking rainbow bridge?"
Chen Xi was stunned, shook his head and said, "I never know." ”
Bai Wanqing said in surprise: "That means that you have completely mastered the "Vientiane Ingredients Atlas" and the "Spiritual Fire Collection"?"
Chen Xi was puzzled: "Is there any problem?" He was indeed very puzzled, in his opinion, it was not just memorizing some words, what was there to be surprised.
From Chen Xi's tone, Bai Wanqing was finally convinced that this guy had indeed memorized the two books thoroughly, and she couldn't help but feel a trace of indescribable shock.
She once flipped through the "Atlas of Vientiane Ingredients", and there were tens of thousands of types of ingredients, and if she wanted to keep in mind the names, attributes, appearances, growth environments, and efficacy of these tens of thousands of ingredients, it was not something that could be done in a short period of time, but Chen Xi remembered them all within ten days, how could it not be shocking?
But it doesn't matter, other guys with amazing memories can do the same if they are willing to put in the effort. The important thing is that Chen Xi not only memorized these ingredients, but also mastered the dishes that these ingredients can cook and every step of the cooking process, which is the most shocking.
Of course, if Chen Xi was a Purple Mansion Realm cultivator who had condensed his mental power, he would naturally be able to remember everything within ten days, but the fact was that Chen Xi only possessed the cultivation of the Innate Triple Realm, and he had already been seen through by the three of Old Man Ma, so it was impossible to treat him as a Purple Mansion cultivator at all.
It is precisely for the above reasons that the three of them will feel extremely shocked and regard Chen Xi as a smart and extraordinary genius.
Bai Wanqing understood all this at this time, and while she was shocked, she couldn't help but feel proud and happy for Chen Xi.
She knows how much suffering the young man in front of her has endured since he was a child, and what kind of painful ordeal he has experienced, and now he is like being reborn from the fire, and he is beginning to radiate his own light, how can it not be gratifying?
"Old man Ma, since you have recruited disciples, sign an agreement with me. ”
At this moment, a voice as clear as ice sounded faintly from outside, and with the sound, the door was pushed open, and a beautiful young woman walked in, looking arrogant and cold.