Life is a Game

Cao Guixiang did it casually. Heat up the oil and fry the chicken nuggets until they are cooked. There is no problem with this, but she gave the chicken nuggets a cross knife before putting them into the pan.

It can be said to be quite arbitrary.

"What are you doing with the knife?" Zhang Chu, a master of cooking theory, asked a question.

"At that time, it will be more delicious when thickened, otherwise Yunyun will vomit the meat after taking two bites of the sauce." Cao Guixiang, a cooking master, answered the question.

After the chicken nuggets are fried, take them out and drain, leave a small amount of oil in the pot, add the ingredients, add the chicken nuggets, stir fry evenly, take out of the pan, thicken the sauce, and drizzle with sesame oil.

It seems simple, but it requires a high level of mastery of ingredients and heat. The counterfeit and shoddy General Tso's chicken looks no different from the genuine one after it comes out of the pan. The size of the chicken pieces is uniform, because when they are cut and deep-fried, there are more or less different deformations. After thickening, it is as clear as amber, and the red is translucent.

"Oh, this looks delicious, let me taste a piece first!" Zhang Chu, a master of cooking theory, instantly became a master of tasting theory. He picked a small piece and bit it down. juice.

"Oh, it's a bit hot. Very good, very good, crispy on the outside and tender on the inside, sweet and sour." Zhang Chu commented pretendingly, poked his head out and called Zhang Zhiyun, "Yunyun, come and eat you, I'll make it for you General Tso's Chicken."

"Call him later, you won't be afraid of scalding Yunyun's mouth just out of the pot, you think everyone has a thick skin like you. Go and see if the rice is ready..." Cao Guixiang turned her head and saw that the inner pot was empty rice cooker.

"It's broken, it's all your fault, old man, come in and make trouble for me, I forgot the rice!" Cao Guixiang's face changed suddenly, and he rushed to the living room with a brisk walk.

Sure enough, Zhang Zhiyun was lying on the carpet playing with the rice that had been soaked in the liner for nearly half an hour, having a great time.

"Ah, the rice is ready!" Zhang Zhiyun didn't have any self-consciousness of working and fishing, so he got up and asked for credit.

Cao Guixiang squeezed out a smile: "Yunyun is awesome, come on, give me the guts."

Holding the liner, Cao Guixiang changed his face instantly when he turned around, went back to the kitchen, put the liner heavily on the kitchen counter, and there was a "clang".

Zhang Chu's heart skipped a beat.

"Ahem, Guixiang, don't blame the kid for being playful!" Zhang Chu said flatteringly.

"This rice has been soaked for half an hour. Chi Yuan and his wife will be home from work in ten minutes. The chestnut roast chicken will be out of the pot immediately, and the remaining three vegetarian dishes will be fried in ten minutes. Now that the dishes are ready, the rice is still ready." No shadow, tell me what to do." Cao Guixiang had a dark face.

"This, haha, that, haha, it's not me, I'm so excited to win the old man Zhao again! It's a little bit of a surprise, you see that there are quite a lot of dishes today, and there is no food...haha..." Zhang Chu laughed weakly .

Cao Guixiang rolled his eyes at him, poured out the beige water in the inner tank, and refilled it. I lifted the lid of the casserole on the stove, tasted a piece of chestnut to make sure it tasted good, took another casserole from the cabinet, and poured all the rice and water in the inner pot into it.

"Put the roasted chicken with chestnuts on the table, and have porridge for lunch today, and the porridge will be ready in ten minutes after boiling on high heat."

Zhang Chu asked anxiously while carrying the casserole: "Will the porridge be cooked in ten minutes?"

Cao Guixiang glanced at him, Zhang Chu immediately shut up and worked obediently.

The white porridge was boiled on the stove, and Cao Guixiang turned on the other stove and started to stir-fry the vegetables.

The movement was very quick, and with the last fried carrot out of the pan, Zhang Zhiyun's parents also came home from get off work.

"Hey, what did mom cook today that smells so delicious!" Zhang Chiyuan exaggeratedly sniffed, "Chestnut roast chicken."

"Wrong, it's Zuo Zongtang's chicken!" Zhang Zhiyun retorted loudly to his own father.

"Zuo Zongtang's chicken?" Zhang Chiyuan went to the living room and hugged Zhang Zhiyun, pinched his ears, "Yunyun, you are the one who is clamoring for you to cook it again."

"Slightly slightly!" Zhang Zhiyun made faces at Zhang Chiyuan.

Zhang Zhiyun's mother put down her bag, rolled up her sleeves and walked into the kitchen: "Mom, let me help you."

"No, it's all good. You must be tired after working all morning. The porridge is on the stove, you go and take the porridge." Cao Guixiang came out with the dishes, "Chiyuan, don't tease Yunyun, come and eat quickly."

Zhang Chiyuan put down Zhang Zhiyun, and sat at the table happily, waiting for his wife to serve him a meal. Seeing that porridge was served, he was surprised and said, "Hey, let's have porridge today!"

"It's just like your father's virtue. There are too many things to do if you don't eat. You don't even know how to hold a pair of chopsticks, so you will sit and wait for food. When I am old and can't cook, you will starve to death. Your father is also the same. , You are really father and son!" Cao Guixiang reprimanded, turned around and went in to get chopsticks.

Zhang Chiyuan untied the lid of the casserole silently and looked at Zhang Chu.

Zhang Chu gave him a helpless look.

Zhang Zhiyun stared eagerly at Zuo Zongtang's chicken on the table.

With a "click", the wall covering on the top suddenly cracked, and a large piece of wall covering fell down, and half of it hung on the top and half could not fall off. It made people want to climb on the chair and tear it off.

All eyes were focused on that unusually strong wall.

"It has been broken for three or four days, right?" Zhang Zhu sighed.

"Yes, it finally fell off. Hey, the south is still too damp. Our house is low-rise, and the walls fall off every day. I'll find a painter to repaint the roof tomorrow." Zhang Chiyuan said.

Cao Guixiang came out with a pair of chopsticks, and was instantly attracted by the hanging wall. Each of them had a pair of chopsticks and said to Zhang Chiyuan, "Chiyuan, please contact the decorator tomorrow to repaint the roof of our house." , falling down crackling all day long, even sweeping can’t sweep it away.”

"I just told Dad about it." Zhang Chiyuan pointed his chopsticks at the chestnut roast chicken.

Zhang Zhiyun picked up a large piece of General Tso's chicken, stuffed his mouth full, and the sauce was all over his mouth.

After finishing the roast chicken, Zhang Chiyuan sighed, "Mom, you should have continued to be a cook. Your skills are better than those in big hotels outside."

"The restaurant your mother stayed in was not much better than these hotels outside. It was your father who was capable of chasing your mother and making your mother quit being a cook." Zhang Chu proudly puffed out his beer belly.

"Bah, just blow it." Cao Guixiang also sat down to eat.

Zhang Zhiyun reluctantly swallowed the meat in his mouth, and asked, "Ah, why don't you do it in the restaurant?"

"Aren't you here to take care of you?" Zhang Chiyuan blamed his own son.

"Dad, you lied. It must be because you were disobedient when you were a child. I have to take care of you!" Zhang Zhiyun exposed his own father's lie on the spot.

"I heard people say that General Tso's chicken is sweet and sour, why isn't this spicy?" Zhang Zhiyun's mother asked.

"Because this is not Zuo Zongtang's chicken at all." Zhang Chu agreed for a while.

Zhang Zhiyun stopped doing it immediately, and started to make a fuss: "Ah, ah, you lied to me again, you villain, you know how to lie to children every day!"

"Then do you still want to eat?" Cao Guixiang frowned.

"eat."

Zhang Zhiyun continued to eat the chicken nuggets in the bowl.

After a while, he couldn't sit still anymore and started asking questions.

"Ah, you haven't told me yet, why didn't you do it in the restaurant?"

Cao Guixiang took a sip of porridge and thought about it.

"Because of love."