Chapter 221 Begins
Su Xia has a talent.
No matter how useless it is, it is still a talent.
Su Xia can do it easily. He can usually wake up in advance at the time he wants to get up the next day. Of course, there will be problems occasionally, mainly because a gentleman should not stand under a dangerous wall, so he still needs to prepare an alarm clock in advance to avoid accidents.
This morning, before the alarm went off, Su Xia woke up and opened her eyes to a dark room. She rolled over, reached for her phone from the coffee table beside the bed, turned on the screen and saw that it was 4:30 in the morning, half an hour before the alarm she had set yesterday.
Why set the alarm so early?
The answer is simple. Today is the day of the cooking competition. As the commander-in-chief, Su Xia must arrive early. In addition, three little girls, led by Xiao Zhai, joined the cooking competition for fun. He promised them that he would help them. They had written a plan together earlier.
Even though I knew I had to get up early today, I still went to bed quite late last night, so there was no way I could fall asleep at ten o'clock. I had to wait until at least twelve o'clock.
Adults should get seven to eight hours of . After only five hours of sleep, Su Xia felt a little sleepy. It wasn't long before the agreed time came, and it was inconvenient to continue sleeping. He chose to play with his phone, squinting his eyes and browsing the forum, and his spirits immediately recovered.
By the time she put down her phone and slowly got up, it was already past five o'clock. Su Xia walked barefoot on the wooden floor and pulled open the curtains of the French window. It was still dark outside. It seemed to be getting a little brighter. It was already turning pale at dawn.
After getting dressed and washing up, she just sat down on the bed when there was a knock on the door. Su Xia ran to open the door and saw three little girls standing at the door. Xiao Zhai was wearing an apron and a chef's hat, Xiao Luo was wearing a beautiful maid outfit, and even Xiao Hua was wearing a plaid apron. They were all very cute.
Su Xia had nothing. She looked at the little girls dressed up and said, "Are you dressed so formally?"
"Of course." Xiao Zhai said. She was very proud of her outfit.
"The chef's hat is here." Su Xia took the chef's hat off Xiao Zhai's head and took it in her hand to look at it. There were oil stains on the chef's hat, which was obviously not new. Xiao Zhai must have borrowed it from someone. "Where did you get the chef's hat? Who did you borrow it from?"
"I borrowed it from Z16." Xiao Zhai put his hands on his hips, "What do you think, Admiral? Chef Tirpitz."
"Okay." Su Xia said.
"What do you think of Xiao Luo, Admiral?" Xiao Luo blinked her big eyes. She was wearing a maid outfit that Rodney helped to prepare. It had lots of lace and ruffles. The British were not allowed to participate in the cooking competition, except for Xiao Luo. The British were the only ones left.
Su Xia looked at Xiao Luo, who was dressed up like a doll, and said, "Xiao Luo is so cute."
"Xiao Luo is also a great chef." Xiao Luo said.
Su Xia smiled and said, "Of course."
Xiaohua stood by with his arms folded across his chest, thinking, what a fool! Do you care so much about the admiral's evaluation?
Su Xia noticed Xiaohua. Xiaohua didn't dress up much, but at least she had an apron. Isn't this a cute contrast? She said, "Xiaohua is cute too."
Xiaohua tugged at her apron and said seriously, "Xiao Zhai forced me to wear this."
"Arrogant Xiaohua." Xiao Zhai said, covering his mouth.
Xiaohua pouted, raised his hand and pretended to hit someone. He was very violent at such a young age.
It was already late, Su Xia closed the door and asked everyone to get ready to go to the cafeteria.
As they walked down the road, Su Xia asked, "You guys are dressed so formally, what place are you going to get?"
"Of course it's first place." Xiao Zhai said.
"I'm confident." Su Xia said. Anyway, he had no confidence in their combination at all. Eliminated in the first round?
"Of course." Xiao Zhai jumped up and down, "Yes! Yes!"
Su Xia looked at the cute Xiao Zhai and couldn't help but said, "Yixian's stuff, self-destructive stuff, and my wife's stuff, beat them all. I, we, are the most, the most powerful." While saying this, she picked up Xiao Zhai, and the weak state from getting up early completely disappeared.
Chatting casually, they came to the cafeteria from Guanhai Building. Since there were street lights along the road, they didn't need flashlights or anything, so the road was not difficult to walk, but it was still quite far. When they arrived at the cafeteria and walked through the hall to the kitchen, they saw that there were already many people here. They had already started preparing, so they were considered to be latecomers.
After greeting everyone one by one and finding an available stove, everyone looked at each other in confusion as to what to do now.
The three little lolis were just there to join in the fun and didn't know anything at all, so Su Xia had to step out and give orders.
"Xiao Zhai, go fetch a bucket of oil."
"Xiaohua, do you know how to use a soymilk maker?"
"Xiao Luo, come here and rub my face, then bring me some chopped green onions. Do you know chopped green onions?"
In fact, Su Xia was also there to join in the fun. After ordering the three little girls around, she looked around and ran to Yixian, where she got several bags from him. The bags contained sour beans, sour bamboo shoots, braised beef, pot roast, a mineral water bottle filled with brine, and a large ball of fermented dough for frying dough sticks.
Su Xia knows how to cook, but her limited knowledge is limited to buying ingredients and cooking. She doesn’t know how to add one more step.
Cutting green onions, pickled bamboo shoots and pickled beans requires a knife. Su Xia is not confident in leaving it to the three little guys. Yixian is also worried about him, so he asked, "How about I help the admiral cut it?"
"No problem, no problem, just do your own thing and don't bother me." Su Xia felt very embarrassed.
Lexington also participated in the competition. Since Yixian had already asked, she was also worried that Su Xia would cut his hand with the knife, so she refrained from asking, but just watched him prepare and asked, "Admiral, what are you going to do, Baozi?"
"Not buns." Xiao Zhai said loudly, "Rice noodles, fried dough sticks and soy milk." What everyone discussed was actually mainly proposed by Su Xia. That was the only breakfast he was familiar with.
"It's actually rice noodles?" Lexington said, "It's beans and dough. I thought you were going to make dumplings."
Su Xia asked curiously, "Lexington, what are you going to make for breakfast?"
"Sandwiches," Lexington replied.
"Just a sandwich?"
"And toast, oatmeal with nuts, fried eggs, fruit, and milk."
“Egg tart?”
"No egg tarts, not really. The egg tarts you usually eat are all bought from the cake shop." Lexington said, "Including the toasts and croissants, all of them are bought from the cake shop. I am not very good at baking, I just tried a few times."
Su Xia laughed dryly and said, "Me too."
"Me too." Xiao Zhai interrupted.
"Me too." Xiao Luo repeated.
Xiaohua snorted.
Lexington smiled bitterly, her goal was to become a perfect wife, but now she had fallen to the point of competing her cooking skills with men and children. Wasn't she such a failure?
Lexington looked around. Her goal today was simple: not to be eliminated in the first round.
Don't count on Yixian and Mutsu. Whether they can surpass Scharnhorst is another matter. It is said that Scharnhorst often goes to Chinese restaurants to learn from masters. The chef of the German canteen also asked Spey and Z16 to help. In comparison, her two sisters can only make trouble. It is better to say that it is difficult to find people in the American department.
If you want to capture a man's heart, you must first capture his stomach, which will definitely not work.
Lexington suddenly remembered another sentence. When she was practicing cooking, her sister came over and muttered that it was better to grab a man’s kidneys than his stomach.
Lexington laughed for a moment. As a dignified lady, she would not tell dirty jokes. She just watched Su Xia cut the green onions and put them in the bowl, and began to cut sour beans. She said, "Come to think of it, I haven't eaten rice noodles yet. I've only heard about it. Is it delicious? What does it taste like?"
"Not really. You've never eaten rice noodles?" Su Xia was surprised, but then thought about it and it seemed normal, rice noodles were just famous in his hometown. The best example was that he didn't know about okra until he was in his twenties, which was obviously a common vegetable.
"I haven't eaten it either." Xiao Zhai lay on the table, "What's the difference between rice noodles and snail noodles?"
"Rice noodles and river snail noodles... there's a huge difference, from the type of noodles to the side dishes, they are completely different." Su Xia said, thinking that river snail noodles have quite a lot of side dishes, such as bean curd, water spinach, pickled bamboo shoots, peanuts, black fungus, etc., while rice noodles only have a few kinds, simple and crude.
"I heard that snail rice noodle is smelly, is that true?"
"Some people say it stinks, mainly because of the sour bamboo shoots. I can't smell it anyway." Su Xia said that there are rice noodle shops everywhere in his hometown, and there are quite a few snail noodle shops as well. He eats them quite often, but never felt anything. He was stunned when he suddenly heard on the Internet that snail noodles are smelly.
"What's the difference between wontons, wontons and dumplings?" Xiao Zhai asked again.
Su Xia narrowed her eyes slightly, stretched out her hand and pinched Xiao Zhai's cheek, and said, "You did it on purpose."
After a brief chat, now is not the time for chatting, as the cooking competition will begin soon. Lexington went back to continue preparing, and Su Xia was also busy preparing side dishes for the rice noodles. She set up the oil pan and fried dough sticks with the three little ones, all kinds of strange shapes.
It was almost seven o'clock, and the cafeteria opened at seven o'clock. The cooking competition officially began. Lexington ran over again: "Admiral, please prepare . I won't have time to eat when I get busy."
"Exchange, exchange." Xiao Zhai shouted.
Next, rice noodles were exchanged for sandwiches, rice noodles for steamed buns, soup dumplings, rice noodles for pizza, rice noodles for croissants, rice noodles for tamagoyaki... Everyone ate rice noodles, and Su Xia and the three little ones ate the various exchanged breakfasts. It was an extremely strange scene.
Then, at seven o'clock, the sky outside was completely bright, and there was even sunlight, and the cooking competition officially began. With the cooking competition as the beginning, the canteen officially began to operate.
