Volume 2: Jade Promise Chapter 14: Black Shop (VII)
Li Qing had never used so many stoves at once. Even her father had never used all the stoves in the kitchen at once.
So, when she saw Tang Zheng lighting the stove, she subconsciously took a step back.
"It's just cooking some cabbage...that's all..." A waiter blinked several times.
To cook a dish of cabbage, it would seem like too much trouble to use so many stoves.
Tang Zheng did not answer. He was already immersed in this set of carefully crafted foundries. The eight foundries each produced a completely different fluctuation of solar star power, some slow and some fast.
Tang Zheng put a whole head of cabbage into the third pot, and with a slight flick of his finger, the flame rose to a height of a person. The boiling water quickly formed an almost imperceptible layer of white frost on the cabbage. When the white frost completely dissipated, Tang Zheng immediately took out all the cabbage from the pot on the third stove.
The knife flashed.
The cabbage in Tang Zheng's hand was quickly cut into pieces.
Just like cutting noodles, each piece was thrown into a different pot, leaves, rhizomes, heart... a cabbage was cut cleanly from the outside to the inside.
He only used one stove to blanch the water and five stoves to make the "cut cabbage". He set up two soup pots on the seventh and eighth stoves. A spoonful of chicken soup was directly scooped into the seventh pot, let it boil for a while, and then immediately transferred to the eighth pot.
In the eighth pot, the spoonful of chicken soup solidified rapidly due to the rapid change in temperature. While the chicken soup was solidifying, Tang Zheng kept scooping up cabbages from the pots and put them into the beacon stove in his hand...
No one could understand the fluctuation of Tang Zheng's star power.
He simply dropped the cooked cabbage into the water very quickly, as if it were being rinsed again, and put it into the eighth pot of chicken soup.
Then, Tang Zheng put pieces of cabbage covered with soup onto the plate.
Of course, Tang Zheng’s cabbage flower is not as exquisite as the one made by Li Qing. It can only be regarded as...looking like a flower.
However, the fragrance that Li Qing smelled told her that it was more than just a flower!
"Can I try it?" Li Qing asked.
"Please." Tang Zheng handed Li Qing a pair of chopsticks with a smile.
The cabbage just out of the pot is not scalding hot, but just the right temperature to eat.
After Li Qing took a bite, she felt something move in her heart. Then, she looked at the plate in front of her and actually smiled.
She placed hundreds of seasonings on the shelf, but Tang Zheng didn't use any of them.
"The ladle of clear water in the beacon stove must have only salt in it!" Li Qing's eyes seemed to have a hint of enlightenment.
"Yes, it's just like when you and your father were being chased and fleeing all the way." Tang Zheng replied.
"No wonder you said that if I don't marry Lu Yilou, I will never be able to cook such delicious food in my life..." Li Qing understood without Tang Zheng saying more.
What is that slightly different taste?
It’s not that there is a secret recipe missing, but that under extremely difficult circumstances, the mother tried her best to make her daughter eat better.
Because she is the fruit of love between her father and mother!
Miracle Restaurant...
She understood that what she ate during her long and terrifying journey was a miracle.
At that time, her father couldn't have brought complicated seasonings with him, but he treated every meal as the last meal he prepared for his daughter!
The complex is what she has never figured out.
Actually, it's very simple. It's just salt.
Even her father, after settling down in Emerald City, had more spices at his disposal, but he couldn't create that taste anymore.
Tang Zheng simplified things. Although he couldn't completely simulate the feeling of their difficult journey, as long as Li Qing could figure it out, he would have solved the common confusion between the father and daughter!
Tears flowed down Li Qing's smiling face.
Tang Xiaotang hurriedly said, "Uh...you...don't cry, don't cry, Lu Yilou said he has avenged your father..."
"What's the meaning of revenge? The blood of my enemy, the head of my stepmother... No, I don't want anything. I just want him to come back... come back..." Li Qing had already fallen to the ground, holding the jar of crystal salt on the spice rack.
"The dead cannot be..." Tang Xiaotang was about to say that the dead cannot be resurrected, but when she thought of her own astrological talent, she blushed a little and didn't say anything else. She could only change her words, "Your happiness is your father's greatest hope."
"Do you know? I say this to myself ten or twenty times a day... Every night I tell myself that you must be happy. Only when you are happy, his spirit in heaven will be at ease... I keep saying it, keep saying it... Yes, the happiness that he cannot see is always missing a piece! It's like an apple that has been bitten. It's bitten. Even if it is made into the most delicious apple in the entire Xingyao Continent, it is still not a complete apple."
She had endured it for too long, and when she started crying while holding the salt shaker, she sobbed uncontrollably...
Tang Zheng and Tang Xiaotang didn't say anything. After all, Tang Zheng wasn't a god. He could only solve Li Qing's knot that she wasn't satisfied with the food he cooked. But a deeper knot couldn't be solved by just one dish.
"There's nothing we can do. Things like this... can only be solved by the power of time." Tang Zheng sighed, and silently left the kitchen with Tang Xiaotang.
Tang Zheng also wiped his sweat when he left the kitchen.
He just used the stove to boil the cabbage with floating water. Although the stove did not need to be controlled, the control of the star power he displayed in the stove was also at the pinnacle!
The solar star power in the wolf smoke beacon furnace was compressed to the extreme by him.
He tried his best to shorten the time it took to salt the cabbage to the shortest possible time - just like when Li Jin and Li Qing were fleeing, they needed to save as much time as possible on every meal.
As soon as he came out of the kitchen, Tang Zheng felt a powerful force of the sun gushing out from the stove in his hand!
One, two, three.
The beacon fire stove in Tang Zheng's hand was like a lit beacon, one higher than the other.
"Uh, what's going on?" Tang Xiaotang had never seen such a strange sight and couldn't help but scream.
"No way?" Tang Zheng's face fell.
Tang Xiaotang has never seen it, but he has!
In the flames that were pushed higher layer by layer , a fiery red ball of light floated in the air, flickering. As the flames receded layer by layer, it jumped several times on the stove and suddenly flew towards Tang Zheng.
Tang Zheng had seen this kind of ball of light before.
Just when he killed Lan Shaoze!
He will never forget the pale silver halo that emerged from Lan Shaoze's life palace.
"Husband... Master..." Tang Xiaotang was also suddenly enlightened when she saw the ball of light.
"I made this boiled cabbage to control the solar star power in the wolf smoke beacon furnace and unlock the restrictions of the formation." The stars behind Tang Zheng had risen, and that ray of fire, like the last time he obtained Lan Shaoze's star inheritance, suddenly crashed into his first life palace.
The black and white fish in the first life palace finally started chasing each other again, restoring the balance that had been missing for several months!
The star tide in his body could not calm down and continued to surge in waves.
The star power surged wildly.
The star power in Tang Zheng's body was once again washed by the power of the Sun Star. Then, the powerful and joyful Sun Star Power extended to his limbs, his weapons, and even to a small part of the chopsticks in Tang Zheng's hand that were not a weapon...
And the two-star power in his body is still rising.
Ten strands, twenty strands...
Fifty strands... One hundred strands...
The direct increase in star power intensity brought by the sun's star power is greater than that of the moon's star power, increasing by three hundred strands in one go.
Tang Zheng only has more than a thousand strands left to reach the two-star peak.
If he calms down and practices in seclusion, with the powerful and wonderful balance of stars in his first life palace, he will be able to reach it soon.
As long as you reach the peak of two stars, you will have the basic qualifications to challenge three stars!
Tang Zheng subconsciously raised his head and looked out the window.
Above the clear sky, the moon was hidden in the clouds. A fiery red star, just like the meteorite he had seen last time, was streaking across the night sky, dragging a very long tail.
However, the meteorite from the Sun's star family seemed even more overbearing and powerful. The color of the meteorite that streaked across the night sky was not only bright and eye-catching, but also accompanied by a crackling sound like firecrackers.
It would be hard for everyone in the entire Jade City not to see it!
The meteor's trajectory was very long, and its fiery red light was so dazzling that it almost blocked out the sky. However, the light soon dimmed and finally disappeared.
"Hiss...what's that thing in the sky?" Several waiters gathered at the window to watch curiously.
When the falling star phenomenon completely disappeared, they turned back and looked at the stove in Tang Zheng's hand: "Could it be related to the stove that our chef had been holding when he was alive?"
Another waiter looked at it and said, "Strange, really strange..."
Tang Zheng got the Sun Star's favor, but his expression couldn't improve when he heard them talking about it.
"I guess this is the worst star inheritance in the world." Tang Zhengdao.
"Hmm!" Tang Xiaotang's eyes also became a little nervous.
Although obtaining the Sun Star inheritance was a good thing and what Tang Zheng had dreamed of doing in the past few months, he never thought that he would complete the Sun Star inheritance under such circumstances of being watched!
The furnace in his hand had a strange vision, and a star fell from the sky...
In less than one night, the entire Jade City will probably know that he may have inherited the star inheritance of the "mysteriously disappeared" owner of the Miracle Restaurant!
