Chapter 38 [Tofu Banquet]

Author: Round head and round belly

Chapter 38 [Tofu Banquet]

Familiar colorful fog space, familiar wooden monument.

Li Yi returned to the dream space again.

Everything around him was no different from before he left last night.

The only difference is perhaps the colorful mist behind the wooden monument is a little thinner.

Looking at the blurry stele behind the fog, he was a little curious.

Is that monument also hidden countless magical skills like this wooden monument?

After thinking for a moment, he gathered his thoughts.

It’s useless to think so much. He couldn’t even see clearly with the foggy wall, let alone check it out.

Let’s learn everything in front of you first!

Turning the ring, he pierced his fingers with ease and touched the wooden monument.

The next moment, his eyes flashed and he appeared in a large kitchen with fog steaming.

The noisy sound swept across Li Yi in an instant.

"Add firewood! The soy milk needs to be rolled, and the brine can melt!"

"Hurry up! The more you are afraid of being hot, the slower you will move! Just peel the bean skin quickly!"

"This ten-plate tofu is to be sent to the palace. Be careful on the way. If it breaks, I'll ask you!"

Looking at the somewhat unfamiliar kitchen, Li Yi was stunned.

Why didn't he be in the imperial kitchen?

Without making any noise, he went out directly to the eaves outside the door.

There are usually water tanks outside the kitchen to prevent fires.

After taking a photo at the water tank, he immediately recognized his identity.

"Old Wang?"

Looking at the familiar and unfamiliar face in the water, Li Yi was a little surprised.

I am familiar with it because Li Yi recognized him. His name was Wang Kui. He was a chef who worked in the imperial kitchen for tofu dishes. He was nicknamed Tofu King.

The strange thing is because in Li Yi's impression, Wang Kui and his master Wang Song Yushan are about the same age.

When he came in to learn cooking twice before, when he saw Wang Kui, he had to respectfully call him Master Wang.

But Wang Kui in front of him was just a primary school apprentice of seventeen or eighteen years old.

Li Yi looked up his head and guessed his location.

Since he was Wang Kui when he was young, he should be in the tofu shop of Wang Kui's family in Shou County, Huainan.

Shou County is located in the Huainan area of ​​Huizhou Province, Bagong Mountain.

It is not large in size, but it is a special ingredient and the birthplace of tofu.

During the Western Han Dynasty, the Huainan area was the territory of Liu An, the king of Huainan.

More than two thousand years ago, Liu Anya was interested in Taoism and wanted to live forever. She spared no expense to recruit people with alchemy. Among them, there were eight more famous people, known as the "Eight Dukes".

Liu An led eight of them to the North Mountain to build furnaces and refine immortal elixirs to seek longevity.

They took the clear water of the three springs of "Pearl", "Big Spring" and "Horse Run" in the mountains to ground the soybean juice, and then cultivated the seedlings with soybean juice.

But unexpectedly, the alchemy was not done, and the soy sauce and salt were combined and turned into a white and tender thing.

Liu An found a local farmer to try it, and it turned out to be delicious.

So he named it tofu, a ingredient known as "Oriental Dragon Brain", which was born.

Li Yi remembered that he had heard Wang Kui say that his family originally ran a tofu shop in Shou County.

Because he likes to eat tofu and also likes to study dishes made with tofu.

So his family sent him to learn cooking, but who would have thought that he would learn the trick.

His cooking skills quickly surpassed his master, so he began to study new dishes.

Later, his reputation spread to the capital.

Because Empress Xiaoxianchun was praying for blessings and eating vegetarian food, the palace issued an order to summon him to the palace to cook a tofu banquet for the queen.

His exquisite cooking skills are deeply loved by the queen.

His name is also given by Empress Xiaoxianchun.

After confirming his identity and time, Li Yi roughly understood.

This time he came in, he should have to learn the skills of making tofu.

Since that's the case, then learn!

So, in a blink of an eye, twenty-four years passed.

When Li Yi returned to the colorful mist space again, he took a long time to recover.

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Male, from Shou County, Hui Province, was a chef at the 16th year of Qianlong. He was ordered to enter the palace in the 12th year of Qianlong to cook a tofu banquet for Empress Xiaoxianchun. He was awarded the title of Tofu King and died happily.

Looking at the newly appeared inscription on the wooden monument, Li Yi slowly breathed.

This time I actually stayed in it for more than 20 years...

Recalling his experience in the dream space, Li Yi is still in fear.

He didn't expect that he would stay in the dream space for so long this time.

As soon as he entered, he learned his master's specialty.

But he did not receive the task and returned to the colorful fog space.

After several proofs, he vaguely guessed that he must have learned to make Wang Kui's tofu feast before he could return to reality.

But he has never eaten Wang Kui's tofu banquet, and many of the dishes were designed by Wang Kui himself, so he had no place to learn even if he wanted to.

So he could only use the stupidest method to solve this problem.

That is to use time to learn how to make all tofu dishes, and rely on your own strength to replicate Wang Kui’s tofu feast.

Since you want to learn, start from scratch.

Grinding tofu, peeling bean skins, pressing dried beans, and soy sauce tofu... He started learning from the most basic craftsmanship.

As the saying goes, the three hardships in the world: raising a boat, striking iron, and grinding tofu.

In order to learn how to make the best tofu, he slept at three o'clock every day and got up at five o'clock. After going through a lot of hardships, he finally made his ideal tofu.

Then, he collected all the methods of making tofu and learned one by one, whether tofu is tofu when he opened his eyes, or tofu when he closed his eyes.

After more than 20 years of study, he finally mastered the production methods of all tofu dishes and successfully returned to the Colorful Fog Space.

Standing up, he turned around and looked at the metal plate behind him, and saw that there was indeed a message in the column of his personal specialties.

Li Yi

Personal occupation: [Cook]

Personal expertise: [Supreme Emperor Fried Rice], [The World's Best Beef Noodles], [Tofu Banquet]

Looking at the three words [Tofu Banquet], Li Yi was still a little palpitations.

The difficulty of learning this [Tofu Banquet] is much more difficult than the first two.

However, there are gains when you have to make efforts. Now he has no idea about tofu, such as tofu.

He has mastered dozens of different materials and states of tofu making methods, as well as the cooking methods of hundreds of tofu dishes.

Even if he only uses tofu, he can make a table of delicious and diverse banquets.

His eyes passed over the wooden monument and he noticed that the concentration of the fog wall was slightly less than when he came in last time.

He came to the fog wall and tried to press hard.

This time, he kept pressing his hand to the depth of his elbow, and he could no longer make any progress.

Obviously, the value of [Tofu Banquet] is much higher than that of [Supreme Emperor Fried Rice] and [World's Best Beef Noodles].

Because the ingredients used in those two dishes are of no low value.

The ingredients used in tofu feasts are all very cheap tofu.

This will naturally require higher skills for the chef.

Li Yi did not explore again after taking his hand back.
To be continued...