Life is a Game

When Jiang Feng came out of the kitchen with a spoon, he saw Grandma Jiang sitting at the dining table with a happy face and looking at the crab stuffed oranges on the table, while the old man was sitting beside Grandma Jiang drinking tea expressionlessly.

The tea has just been brewed, and the hot water is slowly steaming upwards. The old man seems to have not noticed that he picked up the teacup and put it to his mouth.

As soon as the tea touched his lips, the old man silently put down the cup.

"Grandpa, grandma, try it quickly." Jiang Feng enthusiastically handed the spoons to the old man and Grandma Jiang, not forgetting to uncover the top of the crab-stuffed orange, and the service was in place.

The old man took the spoon and took a spoonful of crab stuffed orange.

Entrance.

The old man narrowed his eyes slightly, and his lips moved invisibly, as if he was savoring the crab stuffed orange in his mouth.

While the old man was tasting crab-stuffed oranges, Grandma Jiang had already eaten a spoonful of crab-stuffed oranges and began to eat the second spoonful. Grandma Jiang didn't have much feeling or reaction to this new dish that she had never eaten or heard before.

Since Grandma Jiang got married to the old man, she ate meals cooked by the old man for three meals a day. When the old man was still the chef of the state-owned restaurant, he also made some big dishes for the leaders. He used a lot of rare ingredients, and Grandma Jiang also enjoyed a lot of time and tasted a lot of good dishes.

Grandma Jiang may have been out of the province a handful of times in her life, but she is definitely well-informed when it comes to eating.

If Grandma Jiang was forced to comment on the crab-stuffed oranges in front of her, Grandma Jiang could only say that cooking with fruits is quite interesting, but she is not used to the taste of steamed oranges, which taste a bit weird.

But this dish is the grandson's wish, Xiao Feng prepared it specially for her in the evening, it represents the importance Xiao Feng attaches to her grandma, even if she is not used to eating it, she still has to eat it with a smile.

After Grandma Jiang took her second mouthful of stuffed crab and oranges, the old man spoke up.

"How long have you kept this crab meat outside, can you not smell such a strong fishy smell?"

"Xiangxue wine, you poured it in with shaking, right? Don't be blind if you don't have that ability. Can you control the amount you shake in each time?"

"Also, you..." The old man wanted to continue finding fault, but was interrupted by Grandma Jiang with a dissatisfied expression.

"Okay, okay, just say a few words and you're still in the mood. Xiaofeng made this crab-stuffed orange specially for me and not for you. You just did it by the way. If you don't want to eat it, just take yours." Give it to me, don’t eat it! It’s not a culinary art assessment, what are you doing so seriously? Xiaofeng just made a special trip to honor us two old people when he has nothing to do. , Aren’t you intentionally hurting my grandson’s heart?” As soon as the old man’s m416 was loaded, Grandma Jiang’s Uzi submachine gun was already firing at the old man.

"You old woman is really making trouble for no reason, I am normal..."

"What's normal? In normal teaching, you stare at Xiaofeng cooking in the kitchen during the day, and after Xiaofeng cooks, she lets you taste and criticize. That's Xiaofeng scolding herself. Can it be the same tonight? Tonight This dish was specially prepared by Xiao Feng and brought here for me to eat, and it is for you to eat. What are you doing here? You talk before I speak. You also said that I was making trouble for no reason. If you are making trouble for no reason, you are making trouble for no reason!" Grandma Jiang's uzi charge will continue to shoot, and even shot the friendly army Jiang Feng by the way.

Grandpa: ...

"Only women and villains are difficult to raise." The old man muttered.

Although Grandma Jiang was old, she had very good ears, and could hear the old man's muttering clearly, and replied to him on the spot: "A gentleman stay away from the cook."

Jiang Feng: ...

Wonderful, it is worthy of being a confrontation between cultural people, and the words used to scold people are all selected sentences from the Analects of Confucius in junior high school textbooks.

In Jiang Feng's memory, the old man and grandma Jiang quarreled. The old man never won, and every time it ended with grandma Jiang's victory. It may be because the old man doesn't know how to quarrel, or it may be because the old man is unwilling to quarrel with Grandma Jiang, but Jiang Feng thinks that most of the time it is because of Grandma Jiang that the core of the argument is actually what the old man thinks.

For so many years, the reason why Grandma Jiang and the old man had quarreled was because of their children and grandchildren. Grandma Jiang generally never asks how the old man disciplines his son and grandson, but sometimes Grandma Jiang thinks that the old man has gone too far and will quarrel with him.

For example, in the early years, when the old man was angry with Jiang Jianguo, he was not allowed to enter the house during the Mid-Autumn Festival. Grandma Jiang kicked the old man out of the house together, and the whole family went out to eat moon cakes together, and no one was allowed to enter.

Most of the time, the quarrels are caused by trivial matters. For example, Grandma Jiang thinks that the old man wants to let his grandson practice cooking at night; Grandma Jiang occasionally passes by and hears the old man scolding her son. The old man punished his son for cleaning the pigsty. He felt that if one person could not finish cleaning, he should punish two of them for cleaning together.

This time the quarrel was the same as every previous quarrel, it passed after the quarrel, and the two continued to eat crab-stuffed oranges in peace, and the old man also closed his mouth and stopped picking on Jiang Feng's crab-stuffed oranges.

But this time was different from the past. Jiang Feng really hoped that the old man could pick out the most important flaws in his crab-stuffed oranges, preferably the ones that would immediately turn the crab-stuffed oranges into A-level after the modification.

"Grandpa, what do you think is the biggest problem with my crab-stuffed orange?" Jiang Feng asked proactively.

The old man looked up at Jiang Feng. He didn't expect that his grandson was not active in learning other dishes. He was very active in cooking such strange dishes, although he still took the initiative to scold and find problems.

But after all, Grandma Jiang was watching. The old man knew that he should organize his words and speak in a more tactful way.

"Didn't I just say that the crab meat has been stored for a long time, and the fishy smell is too strong. You can't get rid of it with this Xiangxue wine." It’s changed, it’s still a problem with the crab meat itself.”

"What about the others? Is there any particularly outstanding problem?" Jiang Feng asked. He didn't make an A-level limited range when he moved quickly.

"Others?" Jiang Feng's question stumped the old man. He had never eaten orange stuffed with crab before.

Although crab stuffed orange is a famous dish handed down from the Song Dynasty, it has been lost for a long time. The current method is also restored by later chefs according to the ancient method in ancient books. No one knows what the original method is. I know, even the old man doesn't know what he is doing now.

Ask him to comment on how well a dish that he can't remember how to cook and has never eaten before, the old man can't speak rashly.

"Do you think there is a problem with the heat?" Jiang Feng began to hint strongly.

"Fire?"

"I don't know why. I tried many steaming times, but I still can't find the feeling. The most suitable time should be more than 5 minutes, but it just doesn't feel right." Jiang Feng said.

Hearing what Jiang Feng said, the old man was silent. He is a chef who believes in feelings. The old man has long insisted that the chef's first feeling is more important than anything else.

"Go to the store early tomorrow morning and cook this dish in front of me." The old man said, "Let me figure out what's going on."

Since the grandson is willing to learn, he, as a grandfather, naturally has to find a way to teach.

"Okay, thank you Grandpa."

After Jiang Feng left, the old man remembered what happened just now and still couldn't help showing off to Grandma Jiang proudly: "You old woman, you think I'm too talkative to hurt Xiao Feng's heart, do you think Xiao Feng is that kind of person? Let me tell you, you just don’t understand, the thing we cooks are most afraid of is others picking faults, the more faults we find, the happier we are, and those who can’t find faults should be worried.”

Grandma Jiang nodded perfunctorily as she wiped the table: "Yes, yes, yes, it's me who judges a gentleman with a villain's heart. I, an ordinary housewife, don't understand the problems of you chefs."

"That has to be our grandson's filial piety. No one would be happy to be picked on by others. That's what you think." Grandma Jiang walked to the sofa and continued to wipe the tea table, still a little unsatisfied after wiping the table.

The old man knew that Grandma Jiang was a dead duck, so he stopped talking.

"That's right." Grandma Jiang suddenly straightened up halfway through wiping the tea table, then turned her head and asked, "I'll make pancakes for you tomorrow morning, do you want pancakes with shallots or pancakes with scallions?"

"Scallions, add more sesame oil, and sprinkle some white sesame seeds." The old man didn't hesitate at all.

...

After Jiang Feng went back, he took the time to finish making the remaining crab-stuffed oranges and send them door-to-door. Unfortunately, the delay was so long that Jiang Weiming had already fallen asleep, so Jiang Feng could only make them for Jiang Weiming tomorrow morning.

Although Ji Xia dismantled the crabs until he disliked the crabs, he didn't dislike the taste at all. He happily finished his two crab-stuffed oranges and went upstairs to sleep.

After a busy night, Jiang Feng was always thinking about why he always felt that something was wrong with the heat. Is it possible for him to pinch the seconds and steam them one by one, or even a few tenths of a second and a few tenths of a second, and use a scientific and rigorous method to explore the steaming time that is really suitable for crab stuffed oranges?

But how can Chinese food do this?

Everyone walked by feeling. Jiang Feng was holding the stopwatch to check the time like this. This feeling was like materialism colliding with idealism.

Don't ask Jiang Feng what idealism is. Ma Yuan only scored 66 points in the test and wrote it blindly. It is all because of the teacher's kindness that he can pass.

Before going to bed, Jiang Feng watched Cao Guixiang's process of making crab-stuffed oranges again, and he didn't see anything too wrong, not to mention that Cao Guixiang's steaming time was originally wrong. If he could see Master Peng's making process alright.

Wait, master Peng's production process.

Jiang Feng quickly turned down the familiarization panel to the backtracking function, and the cooling time was still zero. In Cao Guixiang's memory, there was the whole process of Master Peng making crab-stuffed oranges.

But you can only watch it once a week. If you don't see anything wrong this time, Jiang Feng will have to wait until the next week.

Silently closing the property panel, Jiang Feng was going to consider whether to use the backtracking function after making oranges stuffed with crab in front of the old man tomorrow morning.

If the old man can't tell where his problem is, he will use the backtracking function to read Master Peng's practice again, and he will treat a dead horse as a living horse doctor. Maybe after watching the master's production process, he will be enlightened and enlightened on the spot.

Jiang Feng comforted himself and closed his eyes to sleep.

Have a good night's sleep.

PS:

Life is not easy, moving bricks and sighing. Thanks for the weekend, I don’t need to move bricks tomorrow~

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