A mouthful of fried rice at a sky-high price, Old Tang apprenticed on the spot

Chapter 38 [Tofu Feast]

Familiar colorful fog space, familiar wooden monument.

Li Yi returned to the dream space again.

Everything around him was the same as it was before he left last night.

The only difference may be that the colored mist behind the wooden monument has thinned a little.

Looking at the vague shape of the monument behind the fog, he was a little curious.

Does that monument, like this wooden monument, hide countless magical skills?

After thinking for a moment, he collected his thoughts.

It's useless to think so much, he can't even see clearly with the fog wall blocking him, let alone go to check.

Or learn everything in front of you first!
Turning the ring, he pricked his finger with ease and touched the wooden monument.

The next moment, his eyes blurred, and he appeared in a large kitchen steaming with mist.

Noisy sound swept across Li Yi's surroundings in an instant.

"Add firewood! The soy milk needs to be boiled so that the brine can melt!"

"Hurry up! The more you are afraid of being scalded, the slower you will move! You need to be quick to remove the bean skin!"

"These ten boards of tofu are going to be sent to the palace. Be careful on the way, if they are broken, I will ask you!"

Looking at the unfamiliar big kitchen, Li Yi couldn't help being stunned.

Why is he not in the imperial dining room?
Without saying a word, he went out directly to the eaves outside the door.

There is usually a water tank filled with water outside the kitchen to prevent fires.

After taking a photo of the water tank, he immediately recognized his identity.

"Pharaoh?"

Seeing the familiar yet unfamiliar face in the water, Li Yi was a little surprised.

He was familiar because Li Yi knew him. His name was Wang Kui, and he was a full-time tofu chef in the imperial dining room. He was nicknamed the Tofu King.

The strange reason was that in Li Yi's impression, Wang Kui was about the same age as his master Fried Rice King Song Yushan.

He came in to learn cooking twice before, and when he saw Wang Kui, he had to address him as Master Wang.

But Wang Kui in front of him is just a seventeen or eighteen-year-old pupil.

Raising his head, Li Yi surveyed the surrounding environment and guessed where he was.

Since it was Wang Kui when he was young, he should now be in the tofu workshop of Wang Kui's family in Shou County, Huainan.

Shou County is located in the Huainan area of ​​Hui Province, in the area of ​​Bagong Mountain.

The area here is small, but it is the birthplace of a special ingredient, tofu.

During the Western Han Dynasty, the Huainan area was ruled by Liu An, the king of Huainan.

More than 2000 years ago, Liu Anya was fond of Taoism and wanted to live forever, so she spared no expense in recruiting alchemists. Among them, there were eight well-known people, known as "Eight Dukes".

Liu An took the eight of them up to Beishan to build a furnace to refine elixir for longevity.

They took the clear water from the "Pearl", "Daquan" and "Ma Pao" in the mountains to grind soybean juice, and then used the soybean juice to cultivate Danmiao.

Unexpectedly, alchemy failed, and the soybean juice and brine combined to become a white and tender thing.

Liu An asked a local farmer to try it, and it turned out to be delicious.

So he named it tofu, and an ingredient known as "Oriental borneol" was born.

Li Yi remembered that he once heard from Wang Kui that his family originally ran a local tofu shop in Shou County.

Because he likes tofu and likes to study dishes made with tofu.

So his family sent him to learn how to cook, who would have thought that he would learn the tricks.

He soon surpassed his master's cooking skills, so he began to research new dishes.

Later, his fame spread to the capital.

Because Queen Xiaoxian prayed for blessings and was vegetarian, the palace ordered him to be summoned to the palace to cook a tofu feast for the queen.

His cooking skills are superb and won the queen's favor.

His title of Tofu King was also bestowed by Empress Xiaoxian Chun.

After confirming his identity and time, Li Yi roughly understood.

He came in this time, probably because he wanted to learn how to make tofu.

If so, learn it!
Ever since, in the blink of an eye, 24 years have passed.

When Li Yi returned to the colorful fog space again, he took a long time to recover.

Wang Kui (March 53th, Kangxi 56 years to April [-]th, Qianlong [-] years)

Male, from Shouxian County, Hui Province, 12th year learning to cook, entered the palace by order in the [-]th year of Qianlong, cooked a tofu banquet for Empress Xiaoxian Chun, and was awarded the No. [-] Tofu King, and died well.

Looking at the new inscription on the wooden tablet, Li Yi let out a sigh of relief.

This time, I actually stayed in it for more than 20 years...

Recalling the experience in the dream space, Li Yi still has lingering fears.

He didn't expect that he would stay in the dream space for so long this time.

In the second year after entering, he learned master's specialty dishes.

But he didn't receive the task and returned to the colorful fog space.

After several times of verification, he vaguely guessed that he should have learned how to make Wang Kui's tofu feast before returning to reality.

But he has never eaten Wang Kui's tofu feast, and many of the dishes are designed by Wang Kui himself, so he has nowhere to learn.

Therefore, he could only use the most stupid way to solve this problem.

That is to use time to learn how to make all tofu dishes, and rely on one's own strength to reproduce Wang Kui's tofu feast.

If you want to learn, start from scratch.

Grinding tofu, peeling off the bean skin, pressing dried tofu, sauce tofu... He started to learn from the most basic craft.

As the saying goes, there are three hardships in the world: punting, blacksmithing, and grinding tofu.

In order to learn how to make the best tofu, he sleeps at three o'clock every day and wakes up at five o'clock every day. After untold hardships, he finally made the ideal tofu.

Then, he collected all the methods of making tofu, and learned them one by one. Every day, he opened his eyes to be tofu, and closed his eyes to be tofu.

After more than 20 years of study, he finally mastered the production methods of all tofu dishes, and successfully returned to the colorful fog space.

Standing up, he looked back at the metal plate behind him, only to see that there was an extra piece of information in the column of his personal specialties.

李逸

Occupation: 【Chef】

Personal specialties: 【Supreme Emperor Fried Rice】, 【Unrivaled Beef Noodles】, 【Tofu Banquet】

Looking at the three words [Tofu Banquet], Li Yi still felt a little palpitating.

This [Tofu Banquet] is much more difficult to learn than the first two.

However, if you pay, you will gain. Today, he knows the ingredient of tofu very well.

He has mastered dozens of methods of making tofu in different materials and states, as well as cooking methods of hundreds of tofu dishes.

Even if only tofu is used, he can make a table of various and delicious banquets.

Looking past the wooden monument, he noticed that the concentration of the fog wall was a little weaker than when he entered last time.

He came to the fog wall and tried to press it hard.

This time, he pressed his hand to the depth of his elbow before he could get any further.

Obviously, the gold content of [Tofu Banquet] is much higher than that of [Supreme Emperor Fried Rice] and [Tianxia Beef Noodles].

Because the value of the ingredients used in those two meals is not low.

The ingredients used in the tofu banquet are all very cheap tofu.

This will naturally require higher skill for the chef.

Withdrawing his hand, Li Yi did not explore any further.

24 years of dream time made him very tired, and he returned directly to reality.

Boom!
A muffled sound.

There was a stone mill the size of a washbasin at his feet.

This is what he brought out when he entered the dream space this time.

This is a stone mill carved out of a whole piece of sesame black granite, which he spent a lot of money to order in the dream space.

This stone mill has high hardness, good wear resistance, and fine texture. The tofu that is ground is also white as jade and crystal clear.

Being highly fatigued, he didn't bother to touch the stone mill, so he simply put it by his feet.

It was still dark outside the window, similar to when he just fell asleep.

But the mobile phone time told him that the time had actually passed 24 hours, a whole day and night.

There are more than a dozen missed calls and dozens of messages in the phone.

Before Li Yi could look at it, he fell into a deep sleep.

What he didn't know was that there were countless netizens on the Internet who were eagerly discussing the latest episode of "Challenge the Limits" that had just aired.

And Li Yi was the core of the topic everyone was talking about.

(End of this chapter)