Chapter 21 Ginseng, Sweet Potato, and Wild Yam
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No, it's quite complicated!
Xu Guangling didn't expect that the dream the day before yesterday was just the beginning, and yesterday's dream was obviously a continuation, and then, what about the next, will there be a third dream, a fourth dream?
Sitting on the bed, Xu Guangling thought about the content of these two dreams.
In the first dream, he learned about potatoes, tofu, and mushrooms, not simply knowing, but standing on the identity of a chef, knowing what soil environment potatoes grow best in, knowing the advantages and disadvantages of potatoes after they are unearthed, and knowing a complete set of processes from soybeans to tofu......
And in fact, he just knew that he seemed to have been an old potato farmer for decades, or a tofu factory owner who had been producing tofu for decades......
But the character in the dream, the character who makes the "Jiupin White Jade Soup", is vague, even the cooking scene or something is blurred, or in fact they do not exist themselves, and the content of the dream is potatoes, tofu, mushrooms, and "Jiupin White Jade Soup".
And this dream last night is similar.
In the dream, the person who made the noodles vaguely seemed to be an old man, but the appearance, clothing, voice, etc. of the old man were all vague.
So how did he judge that this was an old man? From the movements, many slow and meticulous movements, Xu Guangling instinctively or intuitively thought that the person doing these things was an old man, but in fact, was that really an old man?
Xu Guangling is not sure.
But what he can be sure of is that the dream of the day before yesterday and yesterday's dream, if it were a human being, then it was not the same person who appeared in these two dreams!
Because they do things at a different pace!
As a music practitioner, well, he hasn't practiced yet, Xu Guangling instinctively learned the answer he wanted from this perspective.
Then his previous conjecture about that cyan light was completely untenable!
He originally thought it was a chef's soul or consciousness or something, but this second dream easily overturned his previous assumptions. - Okay, now it's time to talk about what this second dream looks like.
It's still a dream about cooking, no, it's not cooking, it's food, specifically, it's the making of vermicelli, and it's something he's been thinking about during the day.
The similarity between the two dreams is that they are both related to food.
In yesterday's dream, he was witnessing the development of vermicelli from scratch, or the beginning to the end of vermicelli making.
First of all, the selection of materials, ginseng, sweet potatoes, yams.
That's right, these are the three kinds of sweet potatoes! Not just sweet potatoes, but more ginseng and yams, and these three are basically in a parallel position, rather than having a subordinate or a supplement.
Ginseng is the radish brand ginseng grown by ginseng farmers, not the so-called understory ginseng, let alone wild ginseng, sweet potatoes are also artificially planted sweet potatoes instead of wild potatoes or something, but there are choices in the type, but yams are a bit of an exception.
It is not the ordinary kind of so-called iron stick yam that is stacked straight and neatly stacked together, but the kind that looks various, strange, horizontal and vertical, and some are not even long, but chicken claw type, horseshoe type or something, in short, it is absolutely right to describe it with a "strange shape".
These are three materials.
The next step is production.
The ginseng is placed in a steamer and steamed like steamed buns to extract its juice.
Sweet potatoes are like normal vermicelli, beating, filtering, and removing slag to get flour.
Yam takes it all.
Then ginseng juice, sweet potato powder, and mashed yam are mixed together in the corresponding proportion as raw materials to make vermicelli. The process is not complicated.
Xu Guangling must say that he has gained insight again!
He knew that there were potato vermicelli and sweet potato vermicelli, and he knew it before, but he never knew that he could actually add ginseng to the vermicelli!
Also, steaming ginseng like steamed buns in his dream also made him feel a little dizzy thinking about it now, so many ginseng were really piled up in the steamer like turnips, piled full, steamed in the pot, first put a basket of steaming, after steaming, then put a new cage on the pot, and this first cage was placed on top of the new cage, and then it continued to accumulate like this, until the ninth steamer.
Re-steaming, you can remove it from top to bottom, cage by cage.
The steamed ginseng is regarded as "dregs", and it can be thrown away directly, and only the juice from the pot of steaming can be taken. ――Although he knew that garden ginseng, that is, ginseng grown by ginseng farmers in vegetable gardens and fields, had a short period of time and poor results, and was basically equivalent to radish, but in such a way of making it, to be honest, Xu Guangling did feel a little drunk.
The production of sweet potato flour was decent, there was nothing to say, and there was nothing surprising to Xu Guangling.
And then there's the yam.
Of that shape, there are hardly two yams that look the same, the so-called wild yams?
At the same time, the function or effect of these three materials, and why these three materials are mixed together to make vermicelli, through the dream last night, Xu Guangling is clear. ――This doesn't look like what a chef should be!
Compared to a chef, this is more like a Chinese herbalist.
It's just that the Chinese herbalist has used medicinal herbs to make vermicelli? This style is a bit wild.
Xu Guangling's mind was a little confused, thinking about this strange ginseng sweet potato yam vermicelli for a while, and thinking about this strange dream itself for a while. Or, is it still a person's soul, but this person is both a cook and a Chinese herbalist?
Or, this person is a chef himself, but later came into contact with health preservation and medicinal diet or something, so he turned to the development of this kind of "medicine and food" fusion ingredients?
As for the different rhythms, just because it is a person's performance at different times?
After thinking about it for a long time, there was still no answer. Xu Guangling shook his head, put all this out of his mind for the time being, and then jumped up from the bed, got out of bed, washed up, went out, and went straight to the park.
Although he didn't make an appointment with Zhang Lao yesterday, and he didn't have the obligation to report to Zhang Lao, to put it bluntly, Mr. Zhang just practiced Tai Chi for him, and he couldn't even talk about "teaching". But Xu Guangling still went to report.
In doing so, you will not be wronged by him, and you will be able to respond to the kindness of others a little.
This is also the reason why Xu Guangling did this. -- Why don't you do the best of both worlds?
used to be in the dark, or cold, so in fact, Xu Guangling was extremely sensitive to every bit of kindness outside. Once, because of the cold and darkness, he had rejected many good intentions, but now, he would try to be as open as possible.
For example, this Mr. Zhang, judging from yesterday's performance, is still a very good person, and he has the style of an elder. So Xu Guangling really treats him as an elder and gets along with each other in the form of elders and juniors, so he can't think about it.
Of course, this is actually a small thing.
It is not yet known whether there will be further involvement between the two. -- Perhaps, like many travelers in the past, after seeing each other at first glance, they only remain in their memories, and then they become pure strangers.