[Chapter 17]

Outside the exam.

Looking at the examination room, the tit-for-tat examiners and candidates.

The students outside the classroom looked at each other.

Rindou-senpai was still leaning against the door with a smile, watching this scene with great interest.

Erina was angry at this point. She was only 1.62 meters tall, and facing Xie Jun, whose height over 1.8 meters tall, she could only look at him by raising her head.

This made her, who had always been arrogant, feel very uncomfortable. Especially the condescending arrogance of the other party made her feel extremely embarrassed.

"Since you are so confident, make a dish with cabbage and show it to me!"

Erina put her arms around her chest, a sly look in her eyes.

Rindou-senpai, who was standing at the door, was slightly taken aback, and a trace of dissatisfaction appeared on his face.

This Nakiri Erina is obviously making things difficult for Shijun. Using cabbage as the test question was something that has never happened in previous entrance examinations.

"What? Cooking with only cabbage?"

"Miss Erina, how did you come up with such a simple civilian dish?"

"Obviously, you don't plan to let this freshman pass!"

"With the habit of the eldest lady, even if a freshman makes cabbage flowers, she will probably not care about it!"

"It's a pity, the freshmen who know Elite Ten can't even pass the entrance examination..."

The freshmen who were watching in the corridor all sighed with emotion. In their view, Shijun's failure in the entrance examination was a sure thing.

After all, the simpler the ingredients, the harder it was to make delicious dishes. What's more, Erina's exam question was still bland and tasteless Chinese cabbage.

"Hehe, civilian cooking? It seems that you ignorant guys have never heard of the famous dish 'Boiled Cabbage'?" Shijun looked around, still with a faint smile on his face.

"Boiled cabbage? What is it?"

"Boiled cabbage?"

"Is that stuff edible?"

Other first-year freshmen have not heard of 'boiling cabbage'.

Erina knew something. She heard that it was Chinese Cuisine, a famous dish at the state banquet. It is also one of the top ten classic Sichuan dishes.

But Erina didn't quite understand the specific method.

'Could this guy still have that rumored dish? '

Looking at the confident Shijun. Thinking that the other party was from that domineering country.

Erina's heart felt uneasy for no apparent reason. She really held the idea that she didn't want the other party to pass the assessment.

After all, cabbage was really difficult to make delicious dishes. Especially for Erina, who has the "God's Tongue". It's really hard to impress her if it's not top-notch delicacy.

She even decided in secret.

If Xie Jun cooked dishes, the appearance and the aroma could not satisfy her.

She won't even taste it.

...

Shijun started picking cabbage.

In fact, it was mainly cabbage. Boiled cabbage, boiled the innermost pieces of cabbage. In fact, the most critical part of this famous dish was not the cabbage.

Just listening to the name of the dish, many people subconsciously think that the boiling water in it was boiled water.

In reality, it was not.

The boiling water here actually refers to clear soup. A clear chicken soup.

This soup uses ingredients such as old hen, ham hoof, pork ribs, and scallops, and boils it for more than four hours until the meat is simmered.

Of course, it's definitely did not possible to give Shijun four hours as he was currently under assessment.

But he naturally has a solution.

Looking back at Rindou-Senpai, Shijun still had a confident smile on his face. He decided to borrow his girlfriend's secret recipe.

Chatted with Rindou-senpai for three years on the Internet. He also learned a lot of strange ingredients from the other party.

For example, formic acid. Formic acid is actually a type of acid. A long time ago, scientists obtained this acid by distilling ants, which was highly corrosive.

For living things, formic acid is highly poisonous, and a slightly heavier amount can cause death.

For cooking, only Kobayashi Rindou, a chef who 'cherishes ingredients', dares to use it.

'Fortunately, I also brought a spice box today. '

It's Shijun's habit to carry his own spice with him.

Remove a glassware from the spice box. Shijun poured a little of the formic acid into the boiling water. (*It is really possible though?)

This was formic acid extracted from growing ants. This thing could effectively decompose ingredients, so as to achieve a similar effect of ripening.

As long as formic acid wa combined with almonds and other ingredients, Shijun was sure to shorten the cooking time to half an hour.

Seeing the glassware that the other party took out, Rindou-senpai was thoughtful, and a smile appeared on the corner of her mouth.

After doing all this, Shijun found a random stool to sit down and began to close his eyes and rest.

This scene shocked Erina again. She never thought that in the face of such a serious matter as the entrance examination, the other party was still in the mood to rest.

Of those freshmen who participated in the assessment in the past, which one was not trembling and walking on thin ice? The guy in front of her was so good, with his eyes closed, he almost fell asleep.

She din't know if the other party is too confident or arrogant.

The more Erina thought about it, the more angry she became, her pretty face was as cold as frost.

Behind her, Arato Hisako looked at Shijun, who seemed to be asleep, also speechless. She had never seen someone so calm in the freshman assessment.

"I'm convinced! This guy actually asleep?"

"What do he mean? Just put the ingredients in the pot and cook them?"

"That's it? This cooking method, even if the pig could do it!"

The persons standing at the door began to complain frantically. They came to watch the entrance examination for freshmen.

What about knives?

What about the cooking show?

What about the thrilling production process?

Nothing! Nothing at all!

They only saw that Shijuun cleaned the cabbage. Put the chicken and other ingredients into the pot and simmer.

And then it's over?

That's it?

Anyone can do it, even better than this guy.

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