Gu Zheng looked young, but at the moment he was very elegant. After saying something indifferently, he walked to the table and sat down with his hands behind his hands. Lingzhu hurriedly poured him a cup of tea.
"Sit down!"
After Gu Zheng said this, Master Yunqing and Yun Jing sat down.
After Lingzhu watched the tea, Gu Zheng spoke again: "I heard from Yunqing that you want to see my cooking skills?"
"Senior, it is indeed like this. I heard from Yun Qing that my senior's cooking skills are superb, and I really want to see him."
Although Gu Zheng looked young, Yun Jing did not dare to be presumptuous, and her attitude was very low-key after entering Jixiang Xiaozhu.
"In the past, Jixiang Xiaozhu did business with mortals, but now Jixiang Xiaozhu only deals with immortal cultivators, so you must know some rules first. If you want to eat the food I cook, the cost is not small."
Gu Zheng waved his hand, and Jixiang Xiaozhu's new recipes appeared on the wall, as well as the charging method.
There are two types of a la carte, one in which ingredients are provided by Jixiang Xiaozhu, and the other in which diners bring their own ingredients.
If Jixiang Xiaozhu provides ingredients, Jixiang Xiaozhu will not only charge the cost of the ingredients, but also receive 20% of the total value of the ingredients as remuneration.
The diners bring their own ingredients, and Jixiang Xiaozhu only charges 20% of the total value of the ingredients as remuneration.
As for some details in the ordering process, they need to be negotiated on the spot. After all, nowadays, the way of eating is not very popular, and the value of some ingredients has not been seen by others. Therefore, when converting into fairy coins, both parties will have
Different opinions are naturally inevitable.
After seeing the menu of Jixiang Xiaozhu, Yun Jing couldn't help but feel shocked. Charging 20% as a reward didn't sound like much, but in fact it was really dark, at least for those who entered Xianchu restaurant for the first time.
Speaking of Yunqing.
After seeing the menu of Jixiang Xiaozhu, Yun Jing actually no longer wants to eat the dishes cooked by Gu Zheng. Although she is the daughter of the head of the clan and has a lot of cultivation resources, these resources are not brought by strong winds. However,
Now that everyone is here, there is no excuse for not ordering, and there is no face for not ordering less. Yun Jing gritted her teeth secretly and decided to order two dishes to try.
"Senior, junior wants to order food and bring his own ingredients."
Yunjing chose the relatively frugal way of ordering food.
"Okay, take out your ingredients and let me see if they are suitable for cooking."
Gu Zheng smiled, Yun Jing was reluctant to let go, he could naturally guess it.
"good."
Yun Jing responded and immediately took out a bunch of ingredients from the storage belt.
The ingredients that Yun Jing took out were basically used for medicinal purposes in the current era. Although the lowest grade was equivalent to ordinary ingredients, they would not be very delicious when cooked.
"You also know that these things are actually medicinal materials. I think you also know their original taste." Gu Zheng said.
"That's right, although these ingredients all have a medicinal aroma, they taste either bitter or weird, which is really not good." Yun Jing shook her head.
"So if it's just these medicinal ingredients, even if I'm a good cook, the taste won't be very delicious, so I need to add some ingredients for seasoning."
After Gu Zheng said that, he took out some ingredients from the storage bracelet and put them on the table.
The ingredients Gu Zheng took out were considered pure ingredients. Yun Jing was not good at ingredients. She just felt that these seemingly ordinary ingredients seemed a bit unusual. However, ingredients are ingredients. If it weren't for curiosity, Yun Jing
Jing also won't come to Jixiang Xiaozhu, so in her mind, Gu Zheng's addition of these ingredients shouldn't cost a lot.
"Okay, anyway, I'm not good at food. Senior thinks adding these things will make it more delicious, so let's add these things! Senior, do the math, how many immortal coins do I need to pay you in total?" Yun Jing said with a smile.
"You need to pay me a total of three Blue Immortal coins for the two dishes, plus twenty Yellow Immortal coins."
"What?"
Gu Zheng's words made Yun Jing's eyes widen.
"Senior, did you make a miscalculation? The medicinal materials I provided, if calculated according to the market price, add up to only one and a half blue fairy coins. The rule in the senior's shop is to only charge 20% of the total value of the materials as compensation.
Why is it so expensive?”
Yun Jing was actually very distressed when she took out medicinal materials equivalent to one and a half Blue Immortal coins for a meal, but the reward Gu Zheng needed was actually close to four Blue Immortal coins. How could she not be surprised! What if?
If she hadn't known that Gu Zheng had advanced cultivation, she would have immediately flipped the table over and accused this of being a shady shop.
"The medicinal materials you provided are indeed worth half a blue fairy coin according to the market price, but the ingredients I provided are much more expensive! Most of the total reward comes from the ingredients I provided.
capital." Gu Zheng said.
"senior,"
Hearing what Gu Zheng said, Yun Jing felt angry, and Master Yun Qing quickly pinched her arm, but her voice was just a pause, and she still said what she wanted to say.
"Senior, after all, we are also immortal cultivators. For us, medicinal materials are more precious, and food ingredients are just dispensable things. Even if you are a senior, you can't be so black, right? Get some things like bear paws.
, to charge such a high price, wouldn’t it be bad for the reputation of the senior if word spread?” Yun Jing looked very angry.
"Ancestor, don't blame me, my senior sister,"
Master Yunqing quickly apologized, but Gu Zheng reached out to stop him. Gu Zheng was not angry because of this. Nowadays, the food culture has not yet become popular. Not to mention Yun Jing would have doubts, but other diners would also have doubts.
"There are three thousand avenues, and the way of food is one of them. It's just that this way is not popular now, so you, a junior, will have misunderstandings. The so-called medicine and food have the same origin. In your eyes, the things I provide are just ingredients, but in fact
They also have medicinal properties, and their medicinal properties are only activated when cooked with certain ingredients! Therefore, the ingredients I provide are actually more valuable than the ingredients you provide. You may not believe it now, but
In less than a hundred years, you will believe that what I say is true." Gu Zheng said with a smile.
"Properties of medicine, what kind of properties are they?"
Although Yun Jing still didn't believe it, Gu Zheng's calm explanation also made her calm down a lot.
"After you eat the two dishes cooked for you today, you will be transformed into immortal energy. Although the amount of transformation is not much, it can still be enough for your two years of hard work."
Gu Zheng paused, looked at Yun Jing's widened eyes and said, "Do you think it's worth using nearly four Blue Immortal Coins to exchange for the Immortal Power that can be accumulated through two years of hard training?"
"Senior, did I hear you correctly? Eating vegetables can accumulate immortal power? Is it equivalent to two years of hard training?" Yun Jing asked hurriedly.
"You heard it right, it is indeed like this." Gu Zheng said.
"Ancestor, is this really the case? I have eaten a lot of food cooked by you before, and some of the food ingredients are of high quality, but why don't I feel like my immortal power has increased?" Master Yunqing also spoke.
"In the past, I didn't face customers as a fairy chef. I only did business for ordinary people, so some of the methods of cooking ingredients were also different. The same ingredients, with different cooking methods, will naturally produce different effects. I can't let that happen.
After cooking, those ingredients will be converted into immortal energy in the stomach of the person who eats them, because my diners are just ordinary people. If the food is converted into immortal energy in their bodies, and they have no way to absorb the immortal energy, then it is not enjoyment.
But it’s fatal!”
Gu Zheng paused, looked at Yun Qing and said: "As for you, although you are an immortal cultivator, my identity has not changed, so I will treat you equally on this point. After all, being an immortal chef means cooking food.
The consumption is also different from cooking food as an ordinary chef."
"Senior, if eating two dishes can save two years of hard training, then the price is not expensive!" Yun Jing said.
"Indeed, I think the number of immortal coins you will spend on elixirs to improve your cultivation within two years will exceed this amount. Moreover, the elixirs must be taken every once in a while within two years, and you must eat the food I cook.
It will increase your cultivation by two years in one meal!" Gu Zheng said.
"Senior, please cook for me! I can't wait to see how it goes."
Yun Jing's mentality has changed. What she wants to see now is not how the food tastes, but how effective it is.
According to the rules of Jixiang Xiaozhu, Yun Jing paid Gu Zheng first, and then Gu Zheng went to cook for her.
After Gu Zheng left, Yun Jing sent a message to Master Yun Qing: "Junior brother, do you think it is really so magical?"
"Is it magical? This is just an ordinary magic! What the senior sister ordered was just food. The ancestor's more magical method is called food cultivation. The reason why I become younger, junior brother, is precisely because I took the food cultivation!"
Yun Qing Zhen Dao.
"Junior brother, are food repairs not available to outsiders? I see there is no such thing as food repairs on the menu!"
Becoming younger is something that is very attractive to all women. Even though Yun Jing is a female nun, she also wants to become younger.
"It should not be done by outsiders for the time being, but senior sister is not my outsider. If senior sister also wants to see the effect of food cultivation, I can go and ask senior! However, food cultivation is not an ordinary thing, that is
The essence of the art of food, even if my ancestor is willing to cook food for senior sister for my sake, senior sister must be prepared to spend a lot of money!"
Master Yunqing was setting a trap for Yun Jing. When he told Gu Zheng before that Yun Jing had a lot of wood-attribute inner elixirs, he thought of making Yun Jing younger in exchange for her wood-attribute inner elixirs.
Dan's method.
"If it really makes people look ten years younger, then I am willing to pay a big price!" Yun Jing said without hesitation.
"Today I will teach you how to be a real immortal chef. Later during the cooking process, I will tell you the characteristics of these ingredients and how to use the immortal power in cooking."
In the kitchen, Gu Zheng, who started to process the ingredients, told Lingzhu that he had taught Lingzhu cooking skills before, but the food cooked with that kind of cooking skills would not increase people's immortality.
"Okay, I have been looking forward to this day for a long time!" Lingzhu said with a smile.
There are two dishes that Gu Zheng wants to cook for Yun Jing. The first dish uses a total of nine ingredients, with the highest grade being excellent and the lowest grade being ordinary. The second dish uses a total of seven ingredients, among which the highest grade ingredients are also excellent.
, the lowest grade is ordinary.
The ingredients have been processed. Looking at Gu Zheng who started cooking, Lingzhu asked: "Sir, what are the names of today's two dishes?"
"The first dish is called 'Sesame Steamed Bear's Paw', and the second dish is called 'Wine-flavored Silky Chicken'."
The names of the two dishes were all improvised by Gu Zheng. He had never cooked these two dishes before, but with his understanding of the ingredients, he could easily control them.
Gu Zheng first put the ingredients used in the first dish, Lingyunque, Huanghu, and Longxiang slices, into a clay pot and used water to make soup.
"Among these three ingredients, Huanghu and Longxiang tablets are medicinal materials, but their medicinal properties do not match. However, adding Lingyunque and making soup together will neutralize their medicinal properties and make the soup taste delicious."
As Gu Zheng spoke, he used the fire control technique to quickly boil the water in the other pot.
"Snowy bear paw is a high-quality ingredient, but it is not easy to cook. If it is not processed well, the odor will be difficult to remove. During the preliminary processing of the ingredients, the irritating glands in snowy bear paw have been removed.
But this is not enough. It also needs to blanch the water, add some seasonings, and simmer it over high heat for a while before it can be cooked together with the other ingredients."
While he was talking, the water in the pot had already boiled. Gu Zheng put the snowy bear's paw into it, and then used the Water Control Technique to activate it: "Because you have no experience and don't have the Eye of Tao, you can't see this part.
I am using the Water Control Technique to get rid of something in the bear's paw, so I won't say more. When you open the Eye of Tao in the future, I will tell you this part!"
Gu Zheng also couldn't see some of the substances he wanted to remove from the bear's paws, but he had previous experience in dealing with bear paws in the snow, so he quickly completed this step.
When the bear's paw was taken out, the original unique smell had become a lot lighter, but the soup that Gu Zheng poured out became a bit pungent.
Put some seasonings into the pot, Gu Zheng put the bear's paws into the pot again, and then used the water control trick to stimulate the fire, and the fire started to stew.
"For this step, you just need to remember a certain amount of heat." Gu Zheng said.
After a while, Gu Zheng finished stewing the snow-covered bear paws. At this time, the bear paws were only half-done.
After using the Fire Control Technique and the Water Control Technique to control the soup that Lingyunque had been cooking, Gu Zheng poured out the soup, and discarded all the ingredients for the soup.
Pour the Lingyunque soup into the pot, then put in the bear paws that are medium cooked, and then add the other four ingredients. Gu Zheng once again used the fire control technique to stimulate the fire.
As Gu Zheng controlled the fire, the aroma gradually floated out of the pot. It was the fusion of meat aroma and medicinal aroma, which can already make people feel like eating. However, the aroma is not strong enough, and it is not as extreme as the aroma.
A fragrant white mist appears.
When Gu Zheng stopped using the fire control technique to stimulate the fire, the bear paws in the pot were already cooked. After Gu Zheng took out the bear paws, he gently pulled them to remove the bones inside.
Cut the bear paws into squares, Gu Zheng added the jute slices he had prepared one by one to the squares of bear paws, and then put them in a basket and started steaming.
"Sir, if the untreated jute is steamed like a bear's paw, will the final taste of the bear's paw be numb and make people's mouth hurt?"
Recalling the tingling feeling on her hands when washing jute before, Lingzhu couldn't help but ask.
"No, the oil in bear paws can neutralize the numbing smell of jute, plus the spiciness that is already infused when the bear paws are stewed directly, this fragrant, numbing and spicy jute steamed bear paws will definitely satisfy your appetite.
My face is intoxicated!" Gu Zheng said with a smile.
"Not to mention her face being filled with intoxication, even when I heard what my husband said, I almost couldn't help drooling." Lingzhu said with a smile.
"Okay, just keep the fire at this level and let it steam for a quarter of an hour."
Gu Zheng came to the eucalyptus board again and was about to start cooking the second dish.
The name of the second dish is 'Wine-flavored Silky Chicken'. The wine used in this dish is not fairy wine, it is just ordinary rice wine. But it is this ordinary rice wine that is used to cook Yunjing.
The medicinal materials provided played a major role.
The 'silky chicken' in the name of the dish is not the conventional black-bone chicken. It is actually a combination of two things, one is medicinal black-bone chicken, and the other is an ordinary old hen.
This dish is relatively simple, it is just a stew, and all the effort lies in the stew process.
Pour the rice wine into the clay pot, put the prepared ingredients in one after another, and Gu Zheng immediately used the fire control technique to stimulate the fire.
After the water in the clay pot boiled, Gu Zheng began to use the water control technique. He scooped out some soup from time to time and discarded it. During this process, Gu Zheng did not say anything, because even if he did, the spirit beads would not be there.
When the Eye of Tao is open, listening to it is of no use.
The aroma of medicinal wine and meat are intertwined, which can make people sneeze. This is not an attractive aroma. However, as the cooking process continues, the medicinal aroma in the aroma gradually disappears, leaving only the aroma of wine and meat.
The aroma of meat arouses appetite.
Here, on the earthenware pot where the 'Wine-flavored Silky Chicken' is stewed, the extremely fragrant white gas is already very rich. Over there, the extremely fragrant white gas above the steamer also begins to condense.
After a while, with Lingzhu swallowing her saliva, Gu Zheng asked her to take out the 'Wine-flavored Silky Chicken' first.
Lingzhu left with the 'Wine-flavored Silky Chicken' in his front leg, and Gu Zheng also took out the 'Jute Steamed Bear's Paw' in his back leg. The two appeared on Yun Jing's table one after the other.
"Huhuhuhu..."
Yun Jing quickly wiggled her nostrils. Although she had not yet opened the lids on the two dishes, the rich aroma made her salivate uncontrollably as she smelled them.
"Smells, it smells really good!"
Yun Jing looked at Master Yunqing next to her: "It's really hard to imagine how the dishes can have such an alluring aroma!"
Looking at the disbelief in Yun Jing's eyes, Master Yunqing felt secretly happy. He felt very proud that anyone could be so irresistible in front of the food cooked by Gu Zheng.
"Senior sister, open it quickly and take a look, you will be surprised!" Master Yun Qing said.
"surprise?"
With doubts, Yun Jing opened the lids of the two dishes.
The white air that originally enveloped the two dishes penetrated into the food when Yun Jing opened the lid, and the extremely fragrant shape also appeared.
