Tiexian heirs in the city

As dinner was approaching, although Gu Zheng's Qidian hadn't received a single order of business, the discussions on the Internet were very hot. It's a pity that the people who will discuss this kind of thing are often those who dare not gamble, or those who do not have the strength to gamble.

With the opening of such a wonderful restaurant in the urban area, the power of immortal cultivators naturally learned of it very quickly.

Immortal cultivators are different from mortals. The bulletin boards in strange shops that mortals see are just ordinary bulletin boards! However, the bulletin board of the strange store that the immortal cultivators saw, the characters displayed on it were specially for the immortal cultivators. Therefore, immortal cultivators know that the so-called strange shop is an unusual fairy kitchen shop! In order to complete a certain task, the shop owner is also willing to do business with immortal cultivators, but the reward and compensation are replaced by resources of higher value.

There were also two immortal cultivators, who entered the No. 1 and No. 2 strange shops respectively, and also made some inquiries about Gu Zheng. However, they did not express their opinion, whether they would like to try it or not. As for the conversation with them, Gu Zheng also made a video, but it will not be shown to ordinary people, but only to the immortal cultivators who come to ask again, so as to save some trouble of explaining.

"Master, do you think that kid will stop coming?"

Seeing that it was getting late, and the young man who was most likely to be the first customer of Qidian had not yet appeared, Die Ling couldn't help feeling a little anxious.

"Maybe I sensed that you wanted to deal with him, so I was too scared to come!"

Gu Zheng knew it was useless to be anxious, so he made a joke with Die Ling.

The tension on Die Ling's face disappeared, and she stuck out her tongue mischievously at Gu Zheng.

However, Gu Zheng and Die Ling were not made to wait any longer, and the young man finally appeared again.

"Let's see if these ingredients can be used first."

The boy put a bag on the table and poured out the contents.

"It took you a lot of time to collect these things, right?"

Seeing what the young man took out, Gu Zheng felt a little happy.

"Okay!"

The young man proudly raised his eyebrows at Gu Zheng.

From the young man's point of view, even if Gu Zheng discarded some of the things he carefully prepared, it would still be able to dampen Gu Zheng's arrogance and let him know the price of bragging.

It has to be said that these things brought by the young man are of a certain level. If ordinary chefs see these things, they will definitely be at a loss as to how to make them into delicious food! However, for Gu Zheng, these things brought by the young man were really too childish.

A preserved egg in the shell, two wilted green onions, a sprouted garlic, a piece of pickled ginger, a bit of moldy peppercorns, two red peppers with wormholes, a handful of coarse salt, and a piece of lard , a piece of brown sugar that has coagulated and hardened.

"Although the bulletin board outside your store says that the number of main ingredients can be more than one, but since it depends on the situation, I only took one main ingredient. As for the auxiliary ingredients, you see See if there is anything in them that needs to be removed?"

The young man is very proud. The preserved egg is a food he hates very much. As long as he smells the lime smell, he can't help but feel nauseous! Such an ingredient, he really didn't believe that Gu Zheng could make it into something that would make him feel very delicious after eating it! As for those accessories, even if Gu Zheng discarded them all, the young man doesn't care at all, as long as he has the ecstasy of preserved eggs, that's enough!

The gluttonous jade carvings in the restaurant naturally saw the ingredients provided by the young man, and the message it conveyed to Gu Zheng was all right.

"No need! As long as there is no serious conflict with the ingredients provided by the customer, I will not give up anything, so you don't have to worry about me doing anything unscrupulous in order to win!"

Gu Zhengchong smiled at the young man. As early as when he saw these ingredients, the cooking method had already appeared in his heart, so he smiled easily.

"Ah."

The young man shrugged, sadness flashed in his eyes.

"One more thing, you said that if customers decide to ask you to cook, they must swear, so I also need you to swear that you will not cheat when cooking these ingredients!" the young man said.

"Okay!" Gu Zheng nodded and smiled.

The young man thought for a while and said, "Is it really up to me to judge the taste of the ingredients?"

"As long as you swear that you will not go against your will, then naturally you have the final say!" Gu Zheng said.

"Okay, I'm willing to let you cook these things, shall we swear?" the young man said.

"please!"

Gu Zheng made a gesture of invitation to the young man.

The young man didn't ask any more questions, and when he came to the Taotie jade carving, he swore a poisonous oath, and Gu Zheng also swore the oath according to the scriptures.

In fact, for Gu Zheng, cheating does not exist on his side. If he cheats against the rules, Qi Ling will be the first to refuse. As for what the young man defined as cheating, he didn't need to know, he just had to do it according to his heart.

As for the young man's oath, it is actually meaningless. With the statue of Taotie, the young man can't say anything against his will. And the reason why he wanted to rewrite this point on the bulletin board was that Gu Zheng just wanted to win people's trust to the greatest extent.

"I'll keep the compensation here for the time being. If I don't do well, it will be yours." Gu Zheng pointed to the box in front of the Taotie statue.

"If you can convince me, one hundred thousand yuan is nothing."

The young man also put his money on it.

Without saying anything more, Gu Zheng went to the kitchen.

There are no private rooms in Qidian, and the young man sits in the so-called hall. As for the kitchen, it is not in a place where customers can't see, it is a space separated by glass in the hall.

"Master, what's the grade of the ingredients for these things?"

Although Die Ling was not in the kitchen, it did not prevent her from communicating with Gu Zheng with her mind.

"Preserved eggs that are too alkaline and moldy peppercorns are poisonous ingredients. Some spoiled green onions and sprouted garlic are garbage ingredients. Although red peppers have wormholes, they are not bad in nature. , it, together with unsoaked ginger and brown sugar that has condensed into lumps, can barely be regarded as low-grade ingredients. As for coarse salt and lard, they can be counted as low-grade ingredients.” Gu Zheng said.

"Master, let ordinary fairy chefs cook such ingredients, can they make delicious food?" Die Ling asked again.

"Your sister divides delicacy into ten. Seven is the limit for ordinary people's taste buds. Lord Tiexian asked me to reach eight. If this standard is followed, among the three grades of fairy chefs, there are only a very few of the first grade fairy chefs. Only then can this be achieved! After all, the ingredients provided by the young man are all inferior ingredients, and some auxiliary ingredients do not match the main ingredients too much! In this case, if you want to turn decay into magic, you must It is easy to say that you have enough understanding of the ingredients and can really control the taste changes after they collide, but it is very difficult to do." Gu Zheng said.

"A pile of low-grade ingredients, it's really hard to imagine how weird the taste will be when they are cooked together! How will it change from weird to a praiseworthy delicacy?" Die Ling murmured .

"What I said just now is relatively superficial. If I say it deeply, the most difficult thing to complete this business is not the change of taste!" Gu Zheng laughed.

"Isn't the change of taste the most difficult? Then what is the most difficult?" Die Ling's eyes widened.

"It varies from person to person!" Gu Zheng said.

"It varies from person to person?" Die Ling looked puzzled.

"This young man looks flamboyant, but he is actually quite thoughtful. Among the ingredients he provided, he is allergic to preserved eggs! So, if you don't know this, even a first-class fairy chef will fail!" Gu Zheng road.

"ah?"

Die Ling glanced at the silent young man, and suddenly felt that this guy was extremely treacherous.

"How did the master know that this kid is allergic to preserved eggs?" Die Ling asked.

"Because I have the eyes of Tao! And this business is done with mortals, not with cultivators. Naturally, we have to consider whether the food we make is suitable for his mortal physique! So I use the eyes of Tao. I went to see him, and found out that preserved eggs can make him allergic." Gu Zheng said.

"Master, how do you solve this problem?" Die Ling asked.

"As long as we know it, it's easy to solve it. I'll just remove the ingredients in the preserved eggs that will cause him allergies." Gu Zheng said.

"By the way, master, will you improve the quality of the ingredients?" Die Ling asked again.

"I will not use the power of the Tao to directly improve the grade of the ingredients, I will only try to process the ingredients as much as possible. If I directly improve the grade of the ingredients with the power of the Tao, then it is considered cheating! Because this is a test for the chef It is not a part of culinary art to directly improve the quality of ingredients with the power of Tao.”

Gu Zheng's voice paused, and then he said: "However, this is only for ordinary people! If the customer is a cultivator, because their taste buds can experience eight or even nine, what the Taotie statue requires me to do. The standard is above nine, so when faced with the ingredients provided by the immortal cultivators, I can raise the grade of the ingredients to a higher level!"

Although Gu Zheng communicated with Die Ling a lot, it didn't take much time, and Gu Zheng also started to preliminarily process the ingredients.

Remove seeds and moths from red peppers, wash and set aside.

For the moldy prickly ash, Gu Zheng put it in clear water, and when he stretched out his hand to stir it, he used the water control formula to quickly clean up the mold on it.

"The mildew of these peppercorns is very shallow, otherwise the Taotie statue will tell you that this kind of thing cannot be used as ingredients." Qi Ling said.

"Understood, it is this kind of ingredients that are on the verge of being bad or not, which can test my control over the ingredients." Gu Zheng said.

For some spoiled scallions, Gu Zheng only took the undeteriorated part, but just as Gu Zheng was about to wash them, the young man spoke up.

"You removed all the bad parts, only the good parts, this..."

The young man couldn't continue speaking. He felt that he should raise doubts, but he felt that he shouldn't raise doubts, so he was a bit contradictory.

"I didn't remove many parts. If you put this in your own home, you shouldn't eat the whole green onion, right? Although I am very confident in my cooking skills, the part that has deteriorated to the point that it can no longer be regarded as an ingredient , I definitely won’t cook it for you! Just like the preserved egg you gave me, the lime and sawdust on the surface are not edible. I can’t cook it with the shell just because it’s the ingredients you provided Let me eat it?" Gu Zheng laughed.

"Yes, pretend I didn't say it." The young man rolled his eyes and said.

Gu Zheng did not deal with the germinated garlic, but soaked it in clear water temporarily after removing the garlic skin. After the preserved eggs are peeled and washed, they are also placed in clean water. Soak the ginger slices and put them in the water as well.

As for the agglomerated brown sugar, Gu Zheng boiled it in a pot.

After simply cleaning the lard and coarsely salting the water, Gu Zheng used water control techniques to separate out the parts that would affect the taste.

The ingredients have all been preliminarily processed, and when they are further processed by Gu Zheng, the grade of the ingredients will almost always change. Of course, this cannot be considered cheating, because removing the chaff and saving the chaff is part of cooking.

"I suddenly have a question!" The young man spoke again.

"You say." Gu Zheng said.

"The water you use to process the ingredients, there won't be any tricks in it?"

The young man discovered that Gu Zheng didn't use mineral water or tap water when processing the ingredients. All the water he used was scooped from the water tank in the kitchen.

"Don't worry! This water is tap water, but I put it outside last night and absorbed some moonlight essence and immortal essence."

Gu Zheng didn't lie about this, and ordinary tap water naturally couldn't be used! After all, Fenglanxing's ecological environment is similar to that on Earth. However, Gu Zheng did not directly use the method of improving ingredients to improve the quality of tap water. He used the general method of water purification by immortal chefs. By absorbing moonlight essence and immortal essence, the original low-quality The tap water has reached the ordinary level.

"How long does it take you to cook a dish? I didn't ask you about the time before. You shouldn't be cooking for a day, right?" the young man asked again.

"It's not that exaggerated! The ingredients are special, so it's troublesome to handle them, but no matter how time-consuming, this dish will never take more than half an hour from processing the ingredients to serving it."

Hearing Gu Zheng say that it would not exceed half an hour, the young man stopped talking.

There was not much brown sugar in the first place, but it was boiled into syrup by Gu Zheng.

Because the kitchen is relatively airtight, young people can't smell it. The sweet smell unique to brown sugar, which is not a pleasant smell, has completely disappeared at this time! The sweetness that replaced it is actually refreshing, which makes people think of a bite of crispy and sweet sugar cane when they smell it.

"That's right, the brown sugar that was originally of poor quality has been turned into the present syrup by boiling, I have to say to you that it's amazing!" Qi Ling said.

"Using the normal methods of the fairy chef, coupled with my eyes of the Tao, as well as the control of the fire, the understanding of the ingredients, etc., the original low-quality brown sugar is transformed into a normal-quality syrup. But if it is used I am trying my best to improve the quality of the ingredients, and I can improve the brown sugar that has condensed into a block to a good quality!" Gu Zheng said.

"It's really amazing to transform the low-quality brown sugar into normal-quality syrup without using the power of Tao! It's considered an ordinary fairy chef who can transform it into low-quality syrup. Very good." Qi Ling said.

"Jingle Bell……"

The young man's phone rang suddenly.

"We said before that you can't spread the cooking process! But, in my understanding, you don't allow me to record a video and spread it, right?"

The young man didn't answer the phone directly, but looked at Gu Zhengdao.

"That's right."

Gu Zheng really meant that. He didn't want ordinary people to know that he was a fairy chef, so he didn't want customers to take videos.

"It was a chef friend of mine who called me. He was very curious about my visit to Qidian. He called me at this time, and he probably wanted to ask me how you cook. I want to tell him How to cook is completely different from video, will you object to my approach?"

Although the young man is arrogant, he is also more cautious. He doesn't want to be an excuse for Gu Zheng to renege on his debts because of something about him.

"Can."

Gu Zheng smiled lightly and continued to process his ingredients.

Just like what Die Ling said before, even if Gu Zheng deliberately conceals it, his identity as a cultivator will still be guessed by people after all, and he will gain more and more recognition from mortals! After all, it is impossible for him to take the time to keep everyone from talking about Qidian, nor is it possible to erase everyone's memory about Qidian. Then, there is no need to take some things too seriously.

Gu Zheng agreed happily, but the young man was stunned. He didn't expect Gu Zheng to be so straightforward! Generally, in this kind of situation, isn’t it that one party tries every means to get benefits, and the other party tries to not give benefits?

Unable to understand Gu Zheng, the young man simply didn't think about it. He answered the call from his friend.

In the face of friends' inquiries, the young people seemed to be doing a live broadcast.

"The owner boiled the brown sugar into a syrup, then took the preserved eggs out of the water, and fried the lard. Now he is using the lard to fry the prickly ash, chili and garlic cloves!"

The young man made a report on the progress of Gu Zheng, and then asked his friend: "Usually, preserved eggs are either served cold, or thin meat porridge. Among the ingredients I gave, brown sugar, lard, and pickled ginger should be all It doesn't go well with preserved eggs, right? You think he can really use these things to make delicious food? And it's still delicious to me?"

"Using these things in common sense can't make delicious food! However, since he dares to open a store, he naturally has a reliance. He doesn't let the video go out, isn't it because he is afraid that people will see where the tricks are? So for winning, you still don't think about it. It's too optimistic!"

Although the young man's conversation with his friend was very quiet, it still reached Gu Zheng's ears.

"Hmph, unless he is really capable, if he dares to play tricks, I guarantee that his store will not be able to continue!" the young man said.

"What if he is a cultivator?" the young friend said.

"Don't be ridiculous! If it's really an immortal cultivator, then I'm relieved! At least I don't have to think about whether he did this to cheat money!" said the young man.

"Even if he's not a cultivator, I think this person is a cultivator. Normally, the ingredients you give will never be delicious!" said the young man's friend.

"Brother, he actually put the onion, ginger, preserved egg, salt, lard, and syrup into a pot of cold water, and lit the fire! Is he going to cook me a preserved egg?" the young man said .

"I'm really anxious if I can't see it! Forget it, I won't tell you, just tell me the result later! Not waiting, but call me as soon as you know it!"

The young man's friend hung up the phone. Although he did not participate in gambling, as a chef, he is naturally very interested in things that go beyond common sense in food.