Volume 2: Jade Promise Chapter 13: Black Shop (VI)
The beautiful woman in the thin skirt lifted her skirt and trotted into the kitchen.
The light in the kitchen was a little dim.
Li Qing's not-so-pretty face looked even more tired in the dim light, but her fingers were still as clean as shallots. She washed them immediately after touching the stove, without getting any grease on them.
If Tang Zheng entered the kitchen, he would see that all the stoves in front of Li Qing did not require the use of star power to control the fire.
However, the fire in the furnace does not have the same powerful star power fluctuations as the Wolf Smoke Beacon Furnace, it is just hotter than an ordinary furnace.
The waitress ran over and whispered something to Li Qing...
Li Qing wiped her sweaty face with the back of her hand, and a hint of an ambiguous light flashed in her eyes: "Did he really say that?"
"It sounds like that's what it means..." said the waitress.
Li Qing frowned slightly.
She was going to refuse at first. Although she didn't know whether Tang Zheng knew Lu Yilou, and she didn't know how Tang Zheng could guess that she had a special dish that she had practiced, she changed her mind and thought that the last time Tang Zheng pointed out the shortcomings of her dish, almost every word he said hit the nail on the head...
She had an idea and turned around to light the stove and start a fire.
The gradually rising flames made her nose sore, but there was no fluctuation in her eyes and she went straight to the pot.
It was a simple dish, but she used four stoves. As the pot kept turning on the stove, her heart beat faster and faster.
"It still doesn't work..." She sighed again the moment the dish came out of the pot.
Judging purely from the color, aroma and taste, she was already at the level of a master chef. If she had not really cooked with a foundry furnace, it would be almost impossible to taste what was missing. However, as a woman, she also had a woman's intuition, and she always felt that something was missing.
The waiter has come in and been waiting for a while.
Seeing that Li Qing was lost in thought, he asked, "Should we take it out?"
"Well, give it to him." Li Qing looked out the window, and a rare hint of nervousness appeared in her voice. "Tell him to wait for me for a moment. I'll be out soon."
"Okay." The waiter responded immediately.
Li Qing didn't say anything else, but continued to light the fire and cook the second dish.
…
The dishes made by Li Qing were brought out from the kitchen by the waiter.
Seeing Tang Zheng’s special treatment, the onlookers who didn’t know the truth felt a little jealous.
"What's his first dish? Carrot? White radish? Why does it smell so good?"
"I don't know, maybe there is some secret method. Who is he..."
"I heard from the waiter that he sends people to this restaurant to pack up every day. Wow, he's really rich."
The radishes on the plate are either shredded or sliced, and come in red, white, pink, and orange. A dish is like a small garden.
The various flowers made from radishes all have different petals.
With radishes as flowers and wines of different colors as springs, one can't help but rush in to take a good look at it.
However, the fragrance emitted from such a small garden made of vegetables is not the fragrance of flowers, but the fragrance of completely different vegetables!
Every flower has a different shape and smell!
"She put so much effort into it." After taking a bite, Tang Xiaotang felt like she had stepped into a small garden.
"What a waste! Such a clever and skillful girl actually fell for that bastard Lu Yilou." Tang Zheng kept shaking his head while eating. "So, 90% of women are blind..."
Tang Xiaotang glanced at him unhappily: "Okay, okay, I know you have good eyesight. Let's see what kind of sister-in-law you choose for me in the future!"
Tang Zheng waved his chopsticks and said with great joy: "Me? I want to pick someone who knows how to spend money, who can find ways to help me spend money in various ways... Well, it would be best if she can give me another bunch of daughters, and the daughters must also know how to spend money, and then, the daughters will..."
"The second dish is here!" Tang Xiaotang speechlessly knocked Tang Zheng's head hard to stop him from doing anything funny.
The second dish Li Qing made was a bowl of soup.
The idea behind her soup is somewhat similar to the Seven Colors and Seven Flavors Soup, but it only has five layers.
The seven-color, seven-flavor soup has seven layers like a rainbow, but the five layers of her soup are all green, namely tender green, emerald green, pure green, dark green and yellow-green...
"Summer!" Tang Xiaotang understood the meaning of the soup almost immediately after taking a look at it.
The first dish served just now was a small garden full of spring, and the second dish was from tender green to yellow-green. She created the entire summer with her dishes.
Tang Xiaotang took a sip of the soup and found it very refreshing...
"She also added winter melon and cherry wine to the bottom layer." After Tang Zheng finished a bowl, he said, "Her soup is actually better than the seven-color and seven-flavor soup."
Soon, the third dish came.
This golden field actually uses more than one hundred kinds of grains!
This mixed flavor is blended into a magical taste, neither too hard nor too soft. Along with this staple food, there is also a cup of fragrant rice wine.
"Autumn is the season of harvest..." After Tang Zheng finished eating and drinking, he felt almost full.
Three dishes for two people, almost the perfect portion.
However, he and Tang Xiaotang both knew that there must be a last one - it represents winter and also perfection.
"What she meant is that she is willing to accompany Lu Yilou through every spring, summer, autumn and winter." When Tang Xiaotang saw the fourth dish being served, there was already a hint of sigh and envy in her voice.
"I guess... Lu Yilu may not understand it." Tang Zheng laughed twice.
What was finally served was a snow-white pastry.
Like the previous three dishes, it has a sweet wine flavor.
However, the spring water in the small garden is made into wine from various fruits, the wine in the soup is the refreshing double-buckle bamboo leaf wine, the rice wine is served with the grains, and the last cake is added with mare's milk.
Li Qing knew that Lu Yiluo loved wine, and without wine, there would be no meal.
So she integrated wine and food into one, you are in me and I am in you, which is another unique intention.
After Li Qing finished cooking the four dishes, there were only a few diners left on the second floor. Even those who remained were spectators waiting to watch Tang Zheng finish cooking the four dishes.
"I say, these four dishes are really well cooked." Several diners couldn't help but ask Tang Zheng, "I didn't see them on the menu, did you make them specially for me?"
"I guess so." Tang Zheng replied with a smile, "But it's not for me."
"So what do you do?" they asked.
"I'm just a food taster!" Tang Zheng smiled and saw Li Qing coming out of the kitchen.
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Li Qing was still as tired as when they first met, and there was no light in her eyes.
Her tiredness was not just physical tiredness.
But she had eaten the most delicious food in the world in her life, but she could not cook it no matter what, which made her feel mentally lost and disappointed.
When she saw Tang Zheng, a hint of expectation flashed in her eyes by chance, but it was fleeting.
"Have you finished eating?" Li Qing drooped her eyelids and did not rush to ask Tang Zheng for his opinion. Instead, she glanced at their table. The four dishes she cooked had all been eaten, without even a drop of soup left.
"Yeah, it's delicious..." Tang Xiaotang winked at Tang Zheng and said to Li Qing with a smile: "It's really delicious..."
"I know it's delicious." Li Qing sighed, looking calmly at the table that had been swept clean, "But it's not enough."
"Actually." Tang Xiaotang considered her words and said, "You probably don't know..."
"What?" Li Qing raised his head.
"You can give it a try. Even if you just bring a glass of water to Lu Yilou... he will find it very sweet."
"Haha, is that so?" Li Qing's eyes flickered, but she shook her head, "I know. But that's why I want to make the best taste... But I always feel that the dishes made by me and my father are too different in taste. Sure enough... It's because I didn't light up the fate palace..."
Tang Zheng saw the fatigue in her eyes, which deepened a little, and his mind was also turning.
He had never eaten the dishes made by Li Qing's father Li Jin, so he had no way of judging how big the difference in taste was.
However, judging from Li Qing's dishes, they didn't require much star power to control, so she shouldn't feel a difference in taste.
"Miracle Restaurant..." Tang Zheng suddenly thought of something, "Have your father's dishes always been so delicious?"
"Not really." Li Qing shook his head. "In fact, after opening this restaurant, his cooking skills are not as good as before."
"Because a miracle has happened?" Tang Zheng nodded with a smile and took out the beacon stove from his sleeve.
Li Qing glanced at the stove and asked, "What do you mean?"
Tang Zheng said with certainty: "If you don't marry Lu Yilou, you probably... you will never be able to make such a delicious dish in your life."
Li Qing frowned: "What do you mean?"
"Let me do it." Tang Zheng stood up and walked towards the kitchen. "Take one bite and you'll understand."
"You? You really can cook?" Li Qing didn't think that was the case no matter how she looked at it.
"Compared to you, I certainly can't be considered good at it." Tang Zheng said with a smile: "But you can try it..."
Li Qing followed Tang Zheng suspiciously and walked into the kitchen.
Tang Xiaotang also had no idea what Tang Zheng was thinking, so she quickly followed him.
There were no other cooks in the kitchen.
As soon as Tang Zheng entered, he heard a continuous rumbling sound. He lit all the stoves in the kitchen in one breath.
However, he did not choose those expensive ingredients.
He just casually grabbed a handful of cabbage and put it into the pot, then poured a ladle of water into the beacon stove in his hand...
