Border Cook

This is what is meant by teaching students in accordance with their aptitude.

"Yes, I will practice hard." Xia Mingyue bowed to Zhou Zhiqing, "Thank you, Mr. Zhou."

"Madam Xia, you are too polite." Zhou Zhiqing chuckled, "It's getting late. I won't disturb you. I'll take my leave first."

"Go slowly, Mr. Zhou."

After seeing Zhou Zhiqing off, Xia Mingyue packed up the books, pens, ink and papers and went into the kitchen to check on the condition of the meat.

After the pork is cooked to 80% done in water with rice wine and ginger slices, it is now completely cooled.

Xia Mingyue and Niu cut the cooled pork into thin slices, and then stir-fried them in a pan, removing the excess oil from the pork over low heat until the slices turned brown.

Take out the pork, leaving some oil, stir-fry the bean paste, ginger slices, sugar, soy sauce, and peppercorns. When all the seasonings are stir-fried evenly and the aroma gradually releases, put the washed and cut garlic sprouts into the pot.

After the pork slices and garlic sprouts are put into the pan one by one and stir-fried evenly, the fragrant twice-cooked pork can be served.

Twice-cooked pork requires a high temperature, but the kitchen of the small canteen uses a high fire and a large stove. In order to make many dishes cooked thoroughly and tasty, most of them can only be stewed. In order to ensure the taste of the twice-cooked pork, Xia Mingyue had to cook it in small amounts at a time and in multiple times.

But in this case, it is easy for the dishes cooked earlier to get cold and taste bad after all the dishes are cooked.

In order to make the best use of everything, Xia Mingyue did not use the fat and lean pork belly to stir-fry the garlic sprouts and pork, but the rump meat with skin. After cooling down, the skin is difficult to chew, which greatly affects the taste.

Therefore, Xia Mingyue decided to continue to prepare lunch for the students at noon. Niu and others would prepare lunch for the students, while she would be busy in the kitchen.

In this way, neither is delayed.

However, what Xia Mingyue did not expect was that during dinner time, the students came to the canteen fifteen minutes earlier than usual.

And they came in droves.

Everyone was lining up, waiting to get their food so they could enjoy it.

When these students saw that the dish for tonight was the fragrant twice-cooked pork with garlic sprouts, the gluttony that they had suppressed with great difficulty came out again.

Even the saliva in the mouth will stage a magnificent scene of a waterfall dropping three thousand feet.

Niu and others naturally noticed the "greed" in the students' eyes, and knew that the garlic sprouts and pork cooked with garlic sprouts would be in short supply in the evening, so they explained the principles of getting meals in the evening to everyone in advance.

The food is distributed in fixed quantities, with equal amounts for each person, and no more can be added.

As soon as the words were spoken, a heavy sigh echoed throughout the small dining hall.

It is such a pity that we cannot eat enough of this delicious twice-cooked pork.

But when I thought about being able to eat such delicious meals during the time when Chef Wei was away, I immediately felt much more balanced.

The students still went to receive their meals in an orderly manner, then each chose a table to sit down and slowly enjoy the limited portions of food.

But in order to prevent anything from going wrong, he was still secretly happy but frowned.

Soon, Zhou Zhiqing and the teachers came for dinner.

The twice-cooked pork slices, which retained their emerald green color and were full of fragrance, had a slight chewiness and were very fragrant, but not at all greasy, which Zhou Zhiqing and the teachers found very delicious and they ate the meal with gusto.

Only Dai Changnian frowned at this time.

Just like at noon, he found the twice-cooked pork with garlic sprouts in his bowl so delicious that he wanted to finish it quickly and then have some more.

But when the meal was served, the cook said that the amount of twice-cooked pork was limited and everyone had a fixed amount, including the headmaster and the teacher, and no more could be added. This made Dai Changnian, who had not had any more food at noon, feel a little annoyed.

He was so annoyed that his brows were furrowed tighter and tighter, and he even gritted his teeth when biting the bun in his mouth.

"Master Dai, are you feeling unwell?" Zhou Zhiqing asked with concern, "I see that you don't look very well."

Dai Changnian came back to his senses and said hurriedly, "Thank you for your concern, Principal. I'm fine."

"Is that so?" Zhou Zhiqing blinked, "So the food is not very tasty?"

"No..." Dai Changnian explained hurriedly, "Maybe I'm not very hungry, so I can't eat..."

The other teachers looked at each other in bewilderment as Dai Changnian had already finished the bowl of pork with garlic sprouts.

It looks like he wants to wipe the bottom of the bowl clean with the steamed bun. Does he really not want to eat it?

Or maybe, eating like this is too much for Dave.

I don’t think I noticed that Dave had a big appetite before…

Zhou Zhiqing saw everything and said nothing. He just told Dai Changnian to go to bed early after dinner and not to keep marking students' essays and go to bed late because of fatigue.

"Thank you for your concern, Dean." Dai Changnian bowed and silently finished the remaining millet porridge.

After dinner, everyone went back to their rooms.

The students were divided into rooms of ten or so, while the teachers were divided into rooms of their own.

Dai Changnian returned to the house and, as usual, reviewed the essays submitted by the students in the past two days.

This article is about current affairs, and the theme is insights into the current court wars.

The new dynasty had not been established for long, and the court was currently focusing on only two things: the first was to expand territory, and the second was to recuperate. Therefore, in the examinations for selecting talents, questions about current affairs always included these two things.

Therefore, Dai Changnian recently assigned such an assignment to students, asking them to take a good look at the opinions of the county school students themselves.

Dai Changnian has been reading these articles for two days. He read each article carefully, word by word. He marked the incoherent sentences, the parts that were difficult to understand, and even the typos carefully. At the end, he wrote down his understanding and evaluation of the article.

But today, when Dai Changnian was reading the article, he felt his mind was wandering and he couldn't calm down.

The wonderful taste of the twice-cooked pork for dinner seems to still be in my mouth. I can taste it whether I swallow my saliva or lick my lips.

The densely packed words in the article in front of me seemed to become a little blurry, and something seemed to appear between the lines. Those things quickly gathered together and formed the shape of twice-cooked pork...

Dai Changnian was stunned for a moment, then closed his eyes and rubbed his temples.

He must be ill...

Xia Mingyue didn't need to clean up at night, and she had to go back to her home in Xicheng District, so she listened to the advice of Niu and others and left the county school early to go home.

It is the time when autumn turns to winter, and night has fallen over the entire earth. The shops on both sides of the street have either closed their doors or lit various lanterns by the door, making the lights bright.

There were not many pedestrians on the road, so Xia Mingyue quickened her pace.

Before she even reached her home, Xia Mingyue ran into Song who was working in the central kitchen. (End of this chapter)