Food conquers the world

Sally invited Mr. and Mrs. Smith next door to visit, and Evan invited a new friend Ron.Mr. and Mrs. Smith are quite familiar with Zou Kai these days. After all, they can live in and greet each other when they go in and out. This is the first time Zou Kai has heard of Ron.

All the guests arrived at night, Lisa prepared good wine, Zou Kai prepared meals, Evan laughed and introduced his new friend Ron to Zou Kai and the others.

The reason is that once Evan drank too much wine with his friends in a tavern, walked home drunk, and then found someone following him.Although his footsteps were not steady, his mind was still very clear, and he suddenly felt that something was wrong, but he was a man, he didn't wear any good clothes, and he didn't look like a rich man, and he wasn't too sure whether this man was Not following himself, but the people behind him have been walking the same path with him.

After pondering for a long time, he decided to try the person behind him, so he started to run. After running for a while, he turned around and saw that person was gone, so he stopped. At this moment, he found that person slowly turning out from the corner of the street. , Now Evan was really taken aback, and immediately ran home regardless.

In the end, something happened within a few steps. He ran too fast and didn't notice that he kicked a piece of wood. The piece of wood brought him back and almost knocked off his two front teeth. Then he heard a loud noise, He took down the canvas on the wooden pole.This wooden pole turned out to be the wood used by others to build a shed.

Evan hesitated for a moment between helping others clean up and running, but he still chose to run. As a result, several men rushed out of the room where the shed was built and blocked him. The leading man looked fierce, and Evan recognized the man. It's a local thug leader, thinking that this is going to be bad luck.

Sure enough, those men clamored to lose money, and they were not allowed to leave if they didn't pay, and they proposed a large sum, which was obviously blackmail.Evan secretly breathed a sigh of relief, thinking that someone would not catch up just now, and while dealing with these gangsters with a headache, he suddenly found that the person just now had walked not far from them.

With the light from the room, Evan could see that following him was a young man with shoulder-length brown curly hair and a beard. The beard and hair almost covered his entire face, leaving only a pair of light blue eyes It looks very easy to talk.

"How much do you pay?" This was the first sentence Ron said when Evan met Ron.

Seeing that Ron was well dressed, the gangsters thought he was being taken advantage of, and immediately raised the price just now. En Luo didn't say a word, and took out a few silver coins from his pocket and handed them over. Some people thought they had taken advantage of it. , come and pick it up.

Evan talked about this with great passion and spit: "I was thinking about how to pay back Ron's money, but those people didn't even get the money, and Ron beat them up as soon as he stopped. After a while, the speed of Ron's shot is faster than the knights in Wangcheng!"

As one of the Knights of the Royal City, Steer just smiled when he heard the words, and looked down at the gift Ron gave him. It was a swordsman's glove. It was not very expensive, but he just needed one.Not only him, everyone here, Ron, has prepared small gifts, which are not expensive, but they are delivered to everyone's hearts. Just this gift, everyone has a good impression of Ron.

Seeing that Evan continued to talk, Sally couldn't stop, so she patted his hand: "Evan, it's time for dinner. Today is for Maier to see him off."

Only then did Evan stop, and turned to look forward to what delicious food Zou Kai made today.

Due to the limited ingredients, Zou Kai didn't come up with any new tricks today, so he made stir-fried potato shredded pancakes as the main course, fried some meatballs and topped them with sauce, fried seasonal vegetables and served with a honey-roasted chicken leg, and The soup is a pot of pork rib soup with white-eared deer.

Zou Kai spent a lot of effort on this soup. He selected several magical medicinal materials that are very beneficial to magicians and added them to stew together. These medicinal materials are the medicinal materials that he has studied for a long time. He has considered everything from efficacy to taste. The pork rib soup is very delicious, and the smell coming from the kitchen has attracted people outside to ask many times.

Most of the people here are used to the food made by Zou Kai, but they still couldn't help but praise the soup.Mrs. Smith, who was a new guest, was even more exaggerated, she was so excited that she shed tears, and asked Zou Kai if he could teach her how to cook these foods.

Before Zou Kai could speak, Sally received the message: "I think Murray would like to learn after eating these, so you can call her here too."

"Yes, there are also Lorisa and the others." Mrs. Smith received, "No, no, no, I dare say the whole town's wives want to learn! Let's start a school!"

"Let Kai be the teacher! The tuition is five copper coins!"

"No, no, five copper coins is too little! Let them bring the meat!"

"Yes, yes, yes, teach them that we can't let us pay for our own food, we need food in addition to tuition fees!"

"Huh?" Zou Kai looked at the two women discussing excitedly for no reason, completely ignoring him, but he still didn't say anything in the end, which was regarded as acquiescing.

Early the next morning, Zou Kai sent Maier to the carriage that came to pick him up to the Master Academy, and returned to Evan's place. Sally had already invited a few friends to learn from Zou Kai. Surprisingly, Ron was also there, using Ron In other words, he was very interested in Zou Kai's skills, wanted to learn, and paid the tuition.

Ron didn't feel at all that it was against the law for him to be mixed with a group of women. He calmly watched Zou Kai cook from behind, with a calm look, and didn't do anything. He would come every time Zou Kai finished cooking. Taste it, give it a compliment, and read on.

Zou Kai felt that this person did not come to learn how to cook, but to eat.

However, the other wives like Ron very much. Ron speaks humorously, has extensive knowledge, and is very good at complimenting others. Give a pertinent but pleasing evaluation of the food.

Zou Kai can't do this, he would just say that there is too much and too little, and the heat is not right.He felt that he had communicated with them in a very, very gentle tone, but after they made the finished product, they still liked to give Ron a taste of it as soon as possible, rather than giving it to him, the teacher.

Seeing that Ron was so popular, Zou Kai accepted this existence purely for eating and drinking, anyway, he was not the one who paid the tuition.

Ron's stay also solved a big problem for Zou Kai, that is soy sauce.

One day Zou Kai inadvertently mentioned that it would be great if there was soy sauce, and the wives all said that it was too expensive to buy. After hearing this, Ron left for a while and came back with two bottles of soy sauce.

The wives all said that it was too expensive to take it, but Ron smiled and said, "If you can eat better food, this is nothing."

Zou Kai also said: "No, it's too expensive. Even if I teach how to cook with soy sauce, they have no money to buy soy sauce."

Ron thought about it seriously, and said to everyone: "Don't worry, let me handle this matter, and you can use it at ease."

The next day, everyone found that the price of soy sauce had dropped. Soy sauce, which used to be bought with one or two gold coins, now only costs a dozen copper coins.

Zou Kai went to look for Ron immediately after hearing the news, and Ron laughed and said, "No one knew how to use soy sauce before, and it was mostly used as a substitute for salt. I wanted to make money and make soy sauce more precious. The more expensive it is, the better, but now I find that if everyone cooks with soy sauce, then I can definitely make more money by lowering the price of soy sauce.”

Zou Kai was surprised: "Are you the boss who sells soy sauce?"

Ron didn't answer, just blinked playfully.

Zou Kai's cooking school was opened in this way. At first, there were only a few friends of Sally, but word spread, and soon many people came here admiringly. Evan's house could no longer accommodate so many people.So Ron funded and bought an open space outside the town to enclose and opened an open-air cooking school.

On the first day of school, Zou Kai personally named the school: New Western Cooking School.

Many people came to ask Zou Kai the meaning of the name, but Zou Kai only replied: "My hometown is in the west of Wilder Continent, and this name is to commemorate my hometown."

Everyone felt that Zou Kai was really a good man who loved his hometown.

The New Western Cooking School is a half-day school, which starts in the morning and rests in the afternoon and evening to give these ladies time to rest.Taking advantage of these free time, Zou Kai himself also made a lot of good things.

Such as starch.

Zou Kai has long wanted to make starch. Without starch, Zou Kai always felt that the meat he fried was not tender enough, and the meatballs he made were not sticky enough and would fall apart.

The production of starch is very simple, which is why Zou Kai made the starch first.

Zou Kai took the raw potatoes to the mill, and asked the miller to mash them, then put the mashed raw potatoes into a piece of washed gauze, and then put the gauze containing the raw mashed potatoes into a bowl filled with clean water. In the basin, wash raw mashed potatoes through gauze, and you will see that the water in the basin becomes cloudy.Repeat several times until the washed water becomes clear. Collect the water for washing raw mashed potatoes, pour it into a large tank, and let it stand for half a day. You will find that the water is stratified, the upper part becomes clear, and the lower part into a muddy state.Finally, scoop out the upper part of the clear water, and take out the lower part of the mud to dry, which is the potato starch Zou Kai needs.

After making the starch, Zou Kai immediately made a sliced ​​mushroom meat soup for his students. The meat slices were wrapped in starch and tasted very tender and smooth. The students said that they all wanted starch, so Zou Kai also made potato starch The method was taught to them.

Later, Ron talked to Zou Kai alone, and expressed regret that if he didn't tell this method, he could sell potato starch to make money. Zou Kai smiled and said: "I think this method belongs to everyone, not me alone. .”

In fact, Zou Kai also thought about using this to make money, but who asked him to act as an envoy who taught everyone how to make delicious food? How could an envoy hide his secrets?

The second thing Zou Kai produced was Douban.

Douban is more difficult than starch. It’s not just one or two points, but when Zou Kai was a child, the douban he ate at home was made by himself, and he also helped adults do a lot of things.

First soak the broad beans in water, peel them, then boil them in water. After boiling until soft, spread them in a cool, unventilated place for a few days, and then wait for them to grow mold in a ventilated place.

This step is to make moldy watercress. This step is very critical to the quality of the watercress. Zou Kai also groped a few times before finding the trick to grow mold.

Then take fresh red peppers, wash the water on the air-dried surface, boil them in hot water and chop them with a knife after drying them, mix them into the moldy bean paste with salt, and finally seal them in a jar, and put them in a cool place. Keep in a sunny place.

Douban jars were originally made of kimchi jars. There are no kimchi jars here, but there are glass containers. Zou Kai went to the place where the glass jars are made many times, and then asked them to make a few according to the shape of the kimchi jars. There are kimchi jars. After that, Zou Kai started to brainstorm again, wanting to make kimchi.

After challenging Starch and Douban, Zou Kai originally thought that kimchi was a small problem, but he just couldn't get it out.

Many people think that kimchi is just kimchi in salt water, and it can be eaten when it is cooked.Zou Kai thought so at first, so he boiled the water, added salt, and then threw the radish and cabbage into it.But he found that the things he soaked always had a bad taste, and the salt water was easy to spoil, so he began to wonder what was going on.

One person is small, but everyone is powerful. Zou Kai didn't think about it. He just described the deliciousness of kimchi in class, which made everyone salivate. Then he told everyone: Kimchi, I I haven't made it yet, but everyone can think about what to do together, let's treat it as a final exam.

The students complained about learning how to cook and eat and still have final exams, and then turned their heads to think hard. After all, Zou Kai never missed the delicious food that Zou Kai said.

In a blink of an eye, Zou Kai has been here for two months, and more and more people are looking for him to learn how to cook. His reputation has spread to other places, and the concept of "food" has become popular.

On this day, Ster came back from the outside and brought back a letter.

That night, Zou Kai knocked on the door of Ron's room and said to him, "I have thought about what you said."