The afternoon sunlight slanted through the window and through the half-closed curtains in the room, slowly moving, moving, and finally an inch-long strip of light shone on the sleeping person.
Sunlight has temperature. This is common sense, but it is often ignored by people. But for a person who is about to wake up, the sunlight shining on the body is enough to bring warmth, even in sleep.
Feel the light or even the call.
Therefore, when the sun continued to shine on his body for about five minutes, Xu Guangling woke up.
An indescribable feeling of comfort came immediately. It was a wonderful experience that can only be experienced after sleeping soundly and fully, and after the body and mind are fully rested, adjusted and renewed. However, the fact is that Xu Guangling has been sleeping for many years.
There is no such experience anymore, and he has even forgotten this feeling.
Usually, due to insomnia, Xu Guangling's sleep quality is not good, so every time he wakes up, his head feels a little heavy and groggy, and sometimes he even has a headache, which will disappear after some time.
But now, what does it feel like?
It's like turning back time, to six or seven years ago.
Full, abundant, and energetic. In terms of physical and mental feelings, Xu Guangling could only think of these words for a moment.
But this feeling did not keep Xu Guangling around for a long time. It could even be said that it did not attract his attention. He could feel these things just because of his body's instinct. Xu Guangling's consciousness immediately became completely focused.
On to another thing.
Last night, a change did happen to him! It's just temporary, I don't know if it's a disaster or a blessing.
Xu Guangling had a dream, but in fact, using "dream" to describe what happened last night is not appropriate, or even very inappropriate.
Xu Guangling has had many, many dreams in the past few years, but no matter what kind of dream they are, there is always one most obvious feature, that is, the things in dreams are always fragmented and exist in the form of fragments, and
, compared with reality, things in dreams always have varying degrees of deformation.
Furthermore, many times, when you first wake up, you still vaguely remember the content of the dream, but soon it will be like the words written on the beach, which will be wiped away by the tide. I only remember that I have dreamed.
, but no longer remember what I dreamed about.
But last night was different.
No need to close his eyes, no need to meditate, no need to recall, what he "dreamed" yesterday appeared vividly in Xu Guangling's mind.
In the dream, he became a chef, making a soup called "Nine-grade White Jade Soup". The main ingredients of the soup are not complicated, there are only three kinds, namely mushrooms, tofu, potatoes, yes, potatoes, that is
The ingredients he ate last night were the same, but the selection, preparation and processing of these three ingredients were completely unheard of and unheard of by Xu Guangling before.
Tofu is made from traditional Chinese soybeans, soaked and peeled. Only tofu made from pure bean paste with the skin removed is delicate enough and does not have the rough texture and astringency brought by the bean skin. When ordering tofu
, what is used is neither brine, nor gypsum, nor internal fat, but a mixture of glutinous rice wine and black rice vinegar.
The tofu made in this way has the mellow aroma of soybeans, the mellow aroma of rice wine and the mellow aroma of rice vinegar. These three kinds of mellow aromas are harmonious but different, and are called "three products", which means that three flavors can be obtained from it.
Come.
And the tofu made in this way is delicate enough and smooth.
How delicate and smooth is it? It's so delicate and smooth that a master with profound knife skills can cut this kind of tofu into hair-thin slices.
Cutting the tofu into hair-thin threads is not the point. The point is that when the tofu can be cut into such thin pieces, by connecting or breaking the knife, the tofu shreds can "flower" or be placed in the soup to show the appearance of flowers.
It looks like a swaying waterweed, and if the tofu silk is dyed with vegetable juice and other substances, it is a waterweed. At least in appearance, it is almost completely similar.
Cut the potatoes into very thin shreds, soak them in half sugar water and half vinegar water. The vinegar water can also be replaced with orange juice, lemon juice, etc.
Mushrooms, take the wild Coprinus comatus, the kind with a very long cap that almost completely covers the mushroom stem. Only such mushrooms are fresh enough and smooth enough, and the cap and stem can be used for both purposes, and they can be drawn into thin pieces.
Silk.
Shredded tofu, shredded potatoes, and shredded mushrooms. The tofu is delicate, the potatoes are soft, and the mushrooms are tender. The three materials complement each other in terms of texture, taste, and nutrition. The soup made from these three materials is Bai Jade Soup.
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Among them, there are three flavors of tofu, two flavors of potatoes, and two flavors of mushrooms. Together they are seven flavors.
Then, the mixture of tofu, potatoes and mushrooms is one flavor, and the clear soup is another flavor. Together with the previous seven flavors, the total is nine flavors, which is also the "nine grades". The nine flavors, plus the three ingredients are as white as jade, this is the "nine flavors".
The origin of "Taste White Jade Soup".
Then, a clear picture appeared in Xu Guangling's mind.
That is, the ninth-grade white jade soup has been prepared. It is put into a small celadon bowl. A spoon, also made of porcelain, is put in. When it is stirred gently, you will see that there are thousands of threads, all spinning like a ball.
Blooming flowers.
Then taste it, start with two spoons to appetize.
Take the first spoonful of clear soup, open your mouth, and the second spoonful of mixed ingredients, enjoy the full flavor.
After two spoonfuls, you can then taste it bit by bit, carefully and slowly, savoring the "nine-grade" taste of this nine-grade white jade soup.
When such a scene flashed through his mind, Xu Guangling moved his tongue involuntarily and swallowed again, but he felt that saliva was gushing out of his mouth like a rising tide of sea water. After taking several mouthfuls in a row, there was still new saliva.
Giving birth.
Almost for the first time in his life, Xu Guangling understood what "greedy" was. This experience was much more vivid than the explanation in the dictionary. No, it was too vivid. It was so vivid that it made people a little uncomfortable.——
This is too much!
However, Xu Guangling was a little sluggish as he was greedy.
Is this a dream?
As long as his mind is still slightly clear, he will never regard the previous ones as dreams. What kind of dreams can be so concrete, so real, and so made out of nothing?
Xu Guangling is not a chef, and he has never learned to cook.
He can make some simple things, such as stir-fried shredded potatoes, scrambled eggs with tomatoes, and stewed tofu, but he can only make them to an edible level, and there is no particularity in them. He doesn't know anything about knife skills or heat.
, he doesn’t even know whether to put oil or salt first when cooking, he just does it at random.
He has basically never read any food-related books.
How could he have such thoughts in the past?
But what did he dream about in yesterday's dream? It was completely out of thin air! In other words, it was not his own thing. However, after one night, he became familiar with many things without any teacher.
For example, how to make tofu is a complete process from soybeans to tofu.
For example, tofu is known as southern tofu and northern tofu. The one made with gypsum is called southern tofu, and the one made with brine is called northern tofu. In addition to gypsum and brine, there are other good ones that can be used to make it.
Tofu stuff…
These were things that Xu Guangling did not know before and could even be said to be completely ignorant of.
But at this time, he seemed to be a chef who had been immersed in this skill for decades. Xu Guangling even had an illusion, that is, he felt that he could give it to the "Nine-grade White Jade Soup".
Do it! Those details and complications that make people feel headache just thinking about it, to him now, seem to be as simple as 1+1=2.