Chapter 754

As dinner approaches, although Gu Zheng's Qidian has not yet received a single order of business, the discussion on Qidian is very popular online. Unfortunately, people who will discuss this kind of thing passionately are often people who dare not gamble, or who do not have the strength to gamble.

A strange restaurant like Qidian opened in the city, and the cultivators naturally learned about it very quickly.

Immortal cultivators are different from ordinary people. The Qidian bulletin boards that ordinary people see are just ordinary bulletin boards! But the fonts displayed on the Qidian bulletin board that the cultivators saw were specifically for the 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 shopkeeper is also willing to do business with the immortal cultivator, but the remuneration and compensation are replaced by resources with higher value.

There were also two immortal cultivators who entered Qidian No. 1 and Qidian No. 2 respectively, and also made some inquiries about Gu Zheng. However, they did not express their position on whether they were willing to give it a try. As for the conversation with them, Gu Zheng also made a video, but it will not be shown to ordinary people, but will only be shown to immortal cultivators who come to inquire again, so as to save some trouble of explanation.

"Master, do you think that boy 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, Dieling couldn't help but feel a little anxious.

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

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

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

However, Gu Zheng and Die Ling did not let Gu Zheng and Die Ling wait any longer, and the young man finally appeared again.

"First see if these ingredients can be used."

The young man placed a bag on the table and poured out the contents.

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

When Gu Zheng saw what the young man took out, he felt a little happy.

"It's okay!"

The young man raised his eyebrows at Gu Zheng proudly.

In the young man's opinion, even if some of the things he had carefully prepared were discarded by Gu Zheng, they could still dampen Gu Zheng's arrogance and let him know the price of bragging.

I have to say that these things that the young man brought are of a certain standard. If ordinary chefs see these things, they will definitely be confused and don’t know how to make them into delicious food! However, for Gu Zheng, these things brought by the young man are really a bit too childish.

A preserved egg in the shell, two wilted green onions, one head of garlic with sprouts, a piece of pickled ginger, a bit of moldy Sichuan peppercorns, two red peppers with wormholes, a handful of coarse salt, and a piece of lard. , a piece of brown sugar that has solidified 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’s anything that needs to be removed?”

The young man was very proud. Preserved eggs were a food he hated very much. The lime smell in them would make him feel nauseated just by smelling it! He really didn't believe that Gu Zheng could make such an ingredient into something that he would find very delicious after eating it! As for the auxiliary ingredients, even if Gu Zheng discarded them all, the young man didn't care at all, he only wanted the ecstatic taste of preserved eggs!

The food provided by the young man was naturally seen by the Taotie jade carving in the restaurant, and the message it conveyed to Gu Zheng was that there was no problem.

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

Gu Zheng smiled at the young man. The cooking method had already appeared in his mind when he saw these ingredients, so he smiled easily.

"Oh."

The young man shrugged, sadness flashing in his eyes.

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

"Okay!" Gu Zheng nodded and smiled.

The young man thought for a while and then said: "Am I really the one who has the final say on the taste of the ingredients when I am satisfied with them?"

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

"Okay, I'm willing to let you cook these things, let's start swearing?" 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. When he came to the Taotie jade sculpture, he swore a poisonous oath, and Gu Zheng also swore an oath according to the script.

In fact, for Gu Zheng, cheating does not exist on his side. If he cheats in violation of the rules, Qi Ling will be the first to refuse. As for what the young man's definition of cheating is, he doesn't need to know, he just needs to do it according to his heart.

As for the young man's oath, it actually doesn't mean much. With the Taotie statue around, the young man can't say anything against his will. The reason why Gu Zheng wanted to emphasize this point on the bulletin board was just to win people's trust to the greatest extent.

"I will leave the compensation here for the time being. If I don't do well, these are all 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 were no private rooms in the strange restaurant, so the young man sat in the so-called lobby. As for the kitchen, it was not in a place that customers could not see, it was a space separated by glass in the lobby.

"Master, what is the quality of these ingredients?"

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

"Preserved eggs with excessive alkalinity and moldy peppercorns are considered toxic ingredients. Some spoiled green onions and sprouted garlic are considered garbage ingredients. Although red peppers have wormholes, they are not bad in nature. They, unsoaked pickled ginger, and condensed brown sugar can barely be considered low-grade ingredients. As for coarse salt and lard, they can be considered low-grade ingredients." Gu Zheng said.

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

"Your sister divides deliciousness into ten levels. The taste buds of ordinary people can only experience seven as their limit. Lord Tiexian asked me to reach eight. If we follow this standard, among the three levels of fairy chefs, only a very small number of the first-level fairy chefs can do this! After all, the ingredients provided by the young man are all low-grade ingredients, and some of the auxiliary ingredients are not well matched with the main ingredients! In this case, if you want to turn decay into magic, you must have a sufficient understanding of the ingredients and be able to really control the changes in taste after they collide. This is easy to say, but it is difficult to do." Gu Zheng said.

"It's hard to imagine how weird it will taste when a bunch of low-grade ingredients are cooked together! And how weird will it become a delicious delicacy that people praise?" Die Ling murmured.

"What I said just now is still relatively shallow. If you talk about it in depth, the most difficult thing for this business to be completed perfectly is not the change in taste!" Gu Zheng laughed.

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

"It depends on the person!" Gu Zheng said.

"It depends on the 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 he doesn't know this, even a first-class immortal chef will fall!" Gu Zheng said.

"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 was allergic to preserved eggs?" Die Ling asked.

"Because I have the Eye of Tao! And this business is done with mortals, not with immortals, so naturally I have to consider whether the food he makes is suitable for his mortal physique! So I used the Eye of Tao to see him, and found that preserved eggs would make him allergic." Gu Zheng said.

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

"As long as you know it, it will be easy to solve. I will remove the ingredients in the preserved eggs that will make him allergic." 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 Tao to directly improve the quality of the ingredients, I will only process the ingredients as much as possible. If I use the power of Tao to directly improve the quality of the ingredients, then it will be considered cheating! Because this is a test of cooking skills, directly using the power of Tao to improve the quality of ingredients is not considered part of cooking skills."

Gu Zheng paused, and then said: "However, this is only for ordinary people! If the customer is a cultivator, because their taste buds can experience the level of eight or even nine, the standard that the Taotie statue requires me to achieve is above nine, so when facing the ingredients provided by the cultivator, I can improve the quality of the ingredients by one level!"

Although Gu Zheng and Die Ling communicated a lot, it did not take much time, and Gu Zheng also began to do preliminary processing of the ingredients.

Remove the seeds and insects from the red pepper, wash it and put it aside.

Gu Zheng put the moldy peppercorns in clean water, and when he stirred them with his hand, he used the water control technique to quickly clean the mold on them.

"The degree of mold on these peppercorns is very shallow, otherwise the Taotie statue will tell you that this kind of thing cannot be used as food." The spirit of the weapon said.

"I understand. It is this kind of food that is on the verge of being bad that can better test my control over food." Gu Zheng said.

There were some spoiled green onions, and Gu Zheng only took the parts that were not spoiled. But just when Gu Zheng was about to wash them, the young man spoke.

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

The young man couldn't say anything more. He felt that he should raise questions, but he felt that he shouldn't raise questions, so he was a little conflicted.

"I didn't remove much of it. If you had it at home, you probably wouldn't eat the whole scallion, right? I'm confident in my cooking skills, but I certainly wouldn't cook for you the part that's so bad that it can't be considered an ingredient! Just like the preserved egg you gave me, the lime and sawdust on the surface are not edible. I can't just cook it for you with the skin and shell just because it's an ingredient you provided, right?" Gu Zheng said with a smile.

"Well, just ignore what I said." The young man rolled his eyes.

Gu Zheng didn't do anything with the sprouted garlic. He just peeled the garlic and soaked it in water temporarily. After peeling and washing the preserved egg, he also put it in water. Sliced ​​pickled ginger was also put in water.

As for the clumping brown sugar, Gu Zheng put it in a pot and boiled it.

After the lard was simply washed and coarsely salted into water, Gu Zheng used water control techniques to separate out the parts that would affect the taste.

All the ingredients have already gone through preliminary processing. When they go through the in-depth processing of Guzheng, the grade of the ingredients will almost change. Of course, this cannot be considered cheating, because removing the waste and retaining the good is part of cooking.

"I suddenly have a question!" the young man said again.

"Say." Gu Zheng said.

"Is there anything fishy in the water you use to process ingredients?"

The young man discovered that when Gu Zheng processed the ingredients, he used neither mineral water nor tap water. All the water he used was scooped out from the water tank in the kitchen.

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

Gu Zheng was not lying about this. Ordinary tap water cannot be used! After all, the ecological environment of Fenglan Star 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 method of ordinary fairy chefs to purify water quality. By absorbing moonlight essence and fairy essence, the originally low-quality water was purified. The tap water has reached an ordinary level.

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

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

After listening to Gu Zheng for less than half an hour, the young man stopped saying anything.

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

Because the kitchen is relatively closed, young people cannot smell it. The unique sweetness of brown sugar, which is not a pleasant smell, has completely disappeared by now! The sweetness that replaces it actually has a refreshing taste, which makes people think of taking a bite of crispy and chewing sugar cane with a mouth full of sweetness.

"Yes, by boiling the brown sugar that was originally of poor quality, it has turned into the syrupy syrup it is now. I have to say to you that it is amazing!" Qi Ling said.

"Using the conventional methods of Xianchu, coupled with my Tao Eye, as well as the control of fire, understanding of ingredients, etc., the originally low-quality brown sugar was transformed into ordinary-quality syrup. But if I use Tao's I strive to improve the quality of the ingredients, and I can improve the brown sugar that has been condensed into high quality!" Gu Zheng said.

"The original low-quality brown sugar was transformed into ordinary-quality syrup without using the power of Tao. This is really amazing! An ordinary fairy chef who can transform it into inferior-quality syrup is regarded as Very good." Qi Ling said.

"Dingling bell..."

The young man's phone suddenly rang.

"We have said before that your cooking process cannot be broadcast to outsiders! However, from my understanding, you do not allow me to record a video for dissemination, right?"

The young man did not answer the phone directly, but looked at Gu Zhengdao.

"That's right."

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

"The person who called me was a chef friend of mine. He was very curious about my visit to Qidian. He called me at this time. He probably wanted to ask me how you cook. I wanted to tell him that you are How to cook is completely different from the video. Will you object to my approach? "

Although the young man is arrogant, he is also more cautious. He does not want to become a defaulter in the ancient dispute because of something he did.

"Can."

Gu Zheng smiled lightly and continued to process his ingredients.

Just like Die Ling said before, even if Gu Zheng deliberately conceals it, his identity as an immortal cultivator will eventually be guessed, and he will gain more and more recognition from mortals! After all, he couldn't spend time to stop everyone from talking about Qidian, nor could he erase everyone's memories of 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! Usually in this situation, isn't it that one party tries every means to obtain benefits, while the other party tries every means to deny benefits?

Unable to see through Gu Zheng, the young man simply ignored it and answered the call from his friend.

Faced with inquiries from friends, young people are simply doing a live broadcast.

"The shopkeeper boiled brown sugar into syrup before, then took the preserved eggs out of the water, and fried the lard. Now he is using lard to fry Sichuan peppercorns, chili peppers and garlic cloves!"

The young man reported on the progress of Guzheng, and then asked his friend: "Usually, preserved eggs are either eaten cold or made into lean meat porridge. Among the ingredients I gave, brown sugar, lard, and pickled ginger should all be used." It doesn’t go well with preserved eggs, does it? You think he can really use these things to make something delicious?”

"Normally, you can't make delicious food with these things! However, since someone dares to open a store, he naturally has something to rely on. He doesn't let the video be spread, isn't he just afraid that people will see what's wrong? So you still don't think about winning. So optimistic!”

Although the conversation between the young man and his friend was very low, it still reached Gu Zheng's ears.

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

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

"Don't be ridiculous! If he is a cultivator, I would be relieved! At least I don't have to think whether he is doing this to cheat money!" the young man said.

"Even if he is not a cultivator, I think he is also a cultivator. The ingredients you gave him cannot be made into delicious food!" the young man's friend said.

"Brother, he actually put the green onion, ginger and preserved eggs, along with salt, lard and syrup, all in a cold water pot, and then lit the fire! Is he going to cook a preserved egg for me?" the young man said.

"It's really anxious to see it! Forget it, I won't tell you, just tell me the result later! Not later, call me as soon as you know the result!"

The young man's friend hung up the phone. Although he did not participate in the gamble, as a chef, he naturally has a great interest in things that go beyond common sense in terms of food.