Chapter 29, The Art of the Sword

Jiu I raised my head according to Ji and glanced at Shi Ke, without saying a word, I continued to chop meat, but my forehead started to sweat.

Shi Ke saw that Jiu Wo ignored himself according to Ji, smiled, and marinated the prepared meat with seasonings, and then started to rummage through the ingredients box again.

"How many things did you bring?" Jiu Wo Zhaoji couldn't bear it anymore.

You doraemon, can't you finish the things in the box?

"Nothing. Just the last thing and a little seasoning."

"what?"

"Winter melon."

"You scolded me again!!"

"I know you're short, but don't grab yourself casually." Shi Ke brought out a Japanese winter melon that was a circle bigger than a watermelon from the ingredients box.

"Really winter melon?"

"Otherwise, what do you think?" Shi Ke put the winter melon on the chopping board, pulled out the beheading knife inserted in the wooden pier, put it back in its sheath and hung it across his waist.

"...It's nothing, let me tell you, being fancy doesn't necessarily mean the dishes are delicious. You spend so much time on knife skills, let's see how much time you can spend on tofu!"

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"Of course there is time, otherwise I wouldn't be able to cook this dish. Besides, if it takes less time, why should I call it all?!" Shi Ke swung his knife across the wax gourd, then put the knife back into its sheath.

The light of the knife flashed by, but the winter melon didn't move.

"What are you doing? Draw your sword and chop?"

"Hmm! That's right." Shi Ke put down his big knife and picked up the upper part of the wax gourd (the upper and lower parts are the same size).

"..." The audience was silent for a moment, and then there was chaos in an instant.

I don't know how many times my jaw has dropped to the ground.

"Did you see it? Pull out the sword and cut it!! It's exactly the same as in the action movie! When the light of the sword flashes, everything is broken!! So handsome!!" The boys and girls in the stands were all staring.

"I want him to teach me!!" You Ji's eyes were full of little stars.

"Don't think about it. This technique has been practiced for more than ten years, and it is useless. If you learn this, you don't plan to be a chef? This kid is a weird person." Mrs. Wenxu gave a particularly rare blow.

"(＞＜)☆, let me just talk! Mrs. Wenxu." Yuji said coquettishly.

"Huh... the next thing is going to be slower. This winter melon is more expensive than my tofu gold!! The whole winter melon in Japan is too expensive!" Shi Ke complained, and picked up the smallest knife , Cut around the wax gourd, and bit by bit the wax gourd skin fell to the ground.

"What are you going to do again?" Jiu Wo Zhaoji really couldn't understand.

"Go cook your dishes. Don't keep asking me, okay?" Shi Ke couldn't help laughing.

Daguo, didn't you learn Chinese cuisine? You don't know about my classic operation?

After a while, Shi Ke stopped what he was doing and walked aside.

The audience was dumbfounded again.

"Are you carving a winter melon into a vessel for serving vegetables?" Jiu Wo Zhaoji stared at the winter melon carved with dragons and phoenixes on the Shike cooking table, and the upper part was also carved into a lid.

"That's right. The traditional technique of Chinese cuisine is just carving winter melon. Don't you know?"

"Hehe..." Jiu Wo Zhaoji turned his head with a blushing face, feeling guilty.

"Okay, it's time to deal with the tofu." Shi Ke took out the last bag of things in the food box, which was the seasoning that he spent two days traveling all over the two nearby cities to collect.

"..., what kind of tofu are you going to make? Chili, cumin, star anise, mapo sauce... Hehehehe, are you planning to compete with me with multi-seasoned mapo tofu? Are you too bold? Don't you know that my specialty is mapo tofu?"

"Who told you that I'm going to make mapo tofu?" Shi Ke said, sorting out the seasoning.

"Your seasoning is obviously the standard configuration of Mapo Tofu! Do you think I can't see it?!"

"Oh. So what?"

"..., uh. No big deal, just do whatever you like."

"Oh. Come on. You won't be able to beat me just by improving the taste of Mapo Tofu."

"!!!" Jiuwo Zhaoji's pupils dilated.

"Your tofu has been specially conditioned, don't think I can't see it. It is indeed a very good idea to add another flavor to the five flavors. However, this is what the predecessors played in the Qing Dynasty. I just made the same dish." Shi Ke picked up a piece of white jade tofu that he had made, put it into the water tank with one hand, and put the knife for carving winter melon into the water with the other hand. Shi Ke closed his eyes.

As the water rippled slightly, pieces of tofu pieces surfaced.

Kuga Teruki frowned looking at the tofu on his chopping board.

Damn, this guy has seen through what I'm going to cook.

Think of a way, or... create a new path directly!

"This is... tofu carving!! The ultimate knife technique of Chinese cuisine!" Kirisezaemon appeared at Ishike's cooking counter, staring at the hands in Ishike's water tank without blinking. Teachers Erina and Roland Chapelle were also watching.

"The biggest difficulty in tofu carving is that tofu is fragile. If you want to keep tofu unbroken, you can only carve it in water with the help of buoyancy. But in this case, you can't observe with your eyes, you can only rely on the touch of your hands and the chef's own intuition. So, in a sense, this is a world-class knife technique." Teacher Roland Chapelle nodded.

"Phew... the three judges, can you stop looking at it. My hands are shaking a little when you look at it like this." Shi Ke opened his eyes, and took out a small white jade tofu sculpture from the water by the way. The strange uncle on crutches sits on a stone and drinks from a gourd.

"Oh? This is the Eight Immortals, a figure in ancient Chinese mythology... the one with the cane, I can't remember what it's called?" Kirisezaemon stroked his beard.

"Tieguai Li." Teacher Roland Chapelle added.

Erina blushed at the side, confused, what is Tieguai Li? Why can't I talk at all? Shame on me! !

Shi Ke nodded, "That's right."

"Let's go down first." Kirisenzaemon said.

Miss Lin Longdan, one of the ten heroes in the audience, grinned, showing her small canine teeth, walked up to Saito Zongming, pointed to the Tieguai Li in Shike's hand, "This... you can do it ?"

"Such skills have already exceeded the scope of sword skills. If you go too far, it will be a drag. I will fight with you next time, but we can talk about it later."

"???" The other ten heroes all looked at him.

What are you talking about in this article?

Ji Zhiguo Ningning, one of the ten outstanding glasses girls, pushed his glasses, "Translate it, I can't compare now. I will compete with him when I go back to practice."

"Oh!!" Kobayashi Rindou nodded suddenly. Don't be too exaggerated.

"...cough cough." Saito Zongming blushed, crossed his hands and stopped talking.

The three referees returned to their seats.

Shi Ke took a deep breath, gently put down the iron crutches into the tray, then picked up another piece of white jade tofu and put it into the water tank again, and started carving again.

At this time, Jiuga Zhaoji had already started the operation process of Mapo Tofu.

After a long time, "Huh... finally finished." Shi Ke looked at the eight statues on the tray and heaved a sigh of relief.

Shi Ke fiddled with it for a while, and put the prepared statue into the steamer.

"The next thing is going to be faster." Shi Ke set up two large iron pots on the stove at the same time, and started cooking in two portions at the same time according to the order of the tofu.

As Shi Ke shook the pot with his hands, bursts of different aromas permeated the venue.

Sometimes spicy, sometimes sweet, sometimes fresh, sometimes full-bodied, sometimes elegant, sometimes wild, sometimes irritable, sometimes cold.

The ever-changing taste made everyone in the audience involuntarily immersed in it.

"What kind of food is he cooking? This smell makes people hungry! I'm so hungry! Me too! He's shaking two large Chinese-style iron pots at the same time, isn't he too strong?!..." The audience in the stands Some viewers are crying.

After a while, Shi Ke put the last portion of tofu into the wax gourd container one by one with chopsticks.

Then, he stretched out his hand to the last piece of white jade tofu, put it on the chopping board and began to cut it slowly.

Fifteen minutes later, "Okay! Time is running out! Both parties please serve!!" Rei Kawashima said.

A few minutes later, Shi Ke and Jiu Wo installed the plate according to the rules, and waited for the judge with their hands behind their backs.