Shokugeki no Imitation Chef

"Brother, we really have to work harder! You see, Liu Maoyuan is two years younger than us, but her cooking skills... before, it can be said that her cooking skills are only limited to Chinese cuisine, but now... if we don't work hard , when she comes back from Yuanyue, I'm afraid she will completely overtake us!"

"That's right, brother, starting from today, let's train for another three hours every night!"

Two brothers, Zhao Ming and Zhao Liang, were walking in the corridor of the hotel while discussing with great interest how to train themselves...

"As for that Liu Maoxing... hey..." Zhao Ming mentioned Liu Maoxing, but he looked a little depressed.

"Brother, don't be discouraged! I believe that Liu Maoxing's skills must have been honed hard, and he has put in more hard work than us..."

The level of the Zhao family brothers is obviously not high enough to know the old conjectures of the Liu family, and Liu Lousan has never mentioned it to them.

"That's right, so we have to work hard! But my mother has been urging us to find a girlfriend recently... Really! What are you kidding, how can such a precious promotion period be wasted on such things?"

"Fortunately, Master stopped Mom. I just want to concentrate on learning to cook now. Being distracted by doing that kind of thing will definitely delay the improvement of cooking skills! Others... Huh? The door is not locked? Could it be that Master has been here?"

At this moment, the two finally walked to the kitchen where they usually practiced.

The two opened the door directly, only to find that someone was already inside...

This kitchen is very big, with a total of eight cooking tables, usually the two brothers only use a small part, and at this time there are already people on the other side.

"Huh? It's Liu... Eh? Huh? This is..."

"Is it practicing some kind of special skill?"

"No... I think this should be... the legendary..."

"Cutting, vegetable cutting play?"

That's right, what was displayed in front of the two of them was Liu Maoxing holding Liu Maoyuan from behind, putting his hands on Liu Maoyuan's hands, "together" holding a kitchen knife, holding the tofu to slice and shred...

If you look carefully, Liu Maoxing is now expressionless, while Liu Maoyuan, who is almost in Liu Maoxing's arms, is already flushed, and his eyes seem to be covered with mist, but he is still trying to concentrate on chopping vegetables!

And the Zhao family brothers who suspected that they opened it in the wrong way have already closed the door and "restarted" it again, but the picture still hasn't changed...

Fortunately, at this moment, the tofu had already been shredded, and Liu Maoyuan was stunned for a moment, and then suddenly fell over his shoulder, throwing Liu Maoxing out of the cooking table!

That's right, don't forget that the members of the Liu family basically have internal strength, and all of them are directly proportional to their cooking skills!

Fortunately, although Liu Maoxing doesn't know any moves, he also has internal strength and is very agile. He stopped when he turned over in the air...

"You, you, you... what are you doing!" Liu Maoyuan asked.

"Thank you!" Liu Maoxing said excitedly.

Seeing the excited look on Liu Maoxing's face, and the excited brilliance in his eyes, without any obscenity, Liu Maoyuan felt a little bit incapable of blaming for a while...

Before, she was also thinking about when Liu Maoxing told her, and guessing that Liu Maoxing was having some kind of enlightenment, so she resisted not interrupting.

But after cutting, the state of "eating sense" was lifted, and he couldn't control it anymore, and "thrown" him out...

"No, you're welcome." Liu Maoyuan replied instinctively.

Immediately, he reacted again, and immediately said: "You're welcome! I mean... Forget it! Next time, next time, if you dare to do this again..."

At this time, Liu Maoyuan and Liu Maoxing had also noticed the Zhao family brothers on the side, Liu Maoyuan's face turned redder, and Liu Maoxing said calmly: "Huh? Do you usually practice here? Senior Lou San also gave me A key, and I will be disturbed for a month later!"

"It's nothing... It's nothing to just hone your cooking skills, just don't be too intense. Although there is no monitoring here, but..."

"Ahem, okay brother, don't talk about this..."

Liu Maoxing was still immersed in excitement, he hadn't realized what the others were saying, but took out a few knives he brought, and made gestures out of thin air.

As for the Zhao family brothers, because they were stimulated by this incident, they began to consider whether to obey their mother's arrangement...

However, Liu Maoxing didn't care about this kind of thing anymore, the "double cultivation" just now (Liu Maoxing:?) has benefited him a lot!

Driven by the little IQ left before, Liu Maoxing changed a body position (Liu Maoxing:?), and under the joint force of "super-touch" and "super-vision", he entered the perspective of the mind again, "seeing" The process of inspiration...

After carefully observing the moment when Liu Maoyuan's "fire of inspiration" burst out several times, Liu Maoxing's "sword skill" was also ignited!

Just as Liu Lousan said, with Liu Maoxing's sword skills, he should have been introduced to the essence, or even fully comprehended it, but "for some reason", there has never been an opportunity to enter, as if his inspiration would never appear ...

If one's own skill is gunpowder, then the "essence" seems to be a big explosion that completely releases its power!

A talented chef can ignite it when the gunpowder equivalent is very small...

And for a chef with poor talent in this area, the gunpowder seems to be soaked in water, and it is very difficult to ignite it...

As for Liu Maoxing, he has already accumulated a strategic equivalent, but there is nothing that can ignite it!

If it is just a simple cumulative equivalent, no matter how powerful the skill is, it cannot be ignited.

And now Liu Maoxing has "borrowed" a fire from Liu Maoyuan!

It was not the copying ability of "Super Vision", but borrowed from Liu Maoyuan's burst of inspiration, Liu Maoxing completely ignited his "sword skills".

Just as Liu Lousan said, no matter whether the talent in this area is good or bad, as long as you finally understand the essence, it will be the same...

I saw Liu Maoxing brought another rib from the side, and then took out his twelve special kitchen knives, a thin one that seemed to be used for cutting vegetables, and waved it at the ribs!

Zhao Ming's knife skills have already begun to comprehend the "spiritual essence". Because when he was a child and his brother worked together to cook together, he was responsible for cutting vegetables, so he has an extraordinary affection for kitchen knives. The kitchen knife is even more envious.

Seeing Liu Maoxing's movements, I was about to remind him that it is easy to hurt the thin-edged kitchen knife, but I only heard bursts of pleasant voices coming...

It was the sound of a kitchen knife rubbing against a bone!

At first glance, it seems that there is no rhythm, but even ordinary people will instinctively feel that it sounds very comfortable, just like hearing the birdsong in the secluded forest. Although it is not a melody, it has a natural rhythm.

And if you are a cook, the higher your cooking skills and knife skills, the more you will feel the beauty of the rhythm of this voice!

In the first period of China, Yan Xian, who possessed "super hearing", would be scared away by Lan Feihong's voice when cooking. This is the reason...

Although he hasn't seen Lan Feihong's cooking, Yan Xian already "heard" that he lost!

After Liu Maoxing's sword skill was ignited by "borrowing fire" from Liu Maoyuan, he quickly awakened the essence, the complete "sword skill essence"!

Just as Liu Lousan guessed, with Liu Maoxing's previous knife skills, he has already surpassed the average cook who possesses the "essence of sword skills".

And Liu Maoxing is now, after "borrowing fire", completely bursting out his inspiration in one breath...

Now as long as Liu Maoxing thinks about it, when using sword skills, there is no "thinking process" for each knife, but it is caused by the "inspiration" directly from the bottom of my heart!

It's completely different from Liu Maoxing's state before...

After a while, the separated pork ribs were placed on the cooking table, along with the glistening bones that could not be seen at all, as well as pieces of fascia tissue and cartilage...

Liu Maoxing's movements this time were not considered fast, but not only completely separated the bones, flesh, fascia, and cartilage, but even faintly made people feel a sense of life after the cut flesh and bones!

"Wait! This is... Yuan?" Liu Maoyuan exclaimed.

"Yuan? What circle?" Zhao Ming obviously didn't know about "Yuan Cuisine".

After all, even the Liu family has followed the will of their ancestors and given up this thankless way of cooking. Naturally, Liu Lousan did not talk about "yuan cuisine" to the two brothers of the Zhao family.

Even for top chefs, "source cuisine" is not common sense to master, because it is so rare...

There has not been a cook who uses "source cuisine" as the main method for more than a hundred years, and even cooks who can occasionally make "source cuisine" are rare!

"No, I just touched a little bit... It's too difficult for ordinary ingredients to activate 'Yuan', but my knife skill is high enough, so the ingredients have some signs of releasing 'Yuan'." Liu Maoxing The understanding of oneself is clear.

That's right, the "source" of ordinary ingredients is difficult to dig out, and the "source" must be stimulated by choosing the "most comfortable" cooking method for the ingredients.

And the reason why Liu Maoxing made "ribs" show some signs of "source" just now is not because Liu Maoxing's understanding of "ribs" has improved, but because after mastering the "essence of sword skills", the sword skills have greatly improved. This makes Liu Maoxing promote the "source" of various ingredients when performing knife skills!

"Wait! Have you fully comprehended the 'sword skill essence'?" Zhao Ming suddenly reacted.

He didn't understand whether it was round or not, but Zhao Ming's sword art was already gradually entering the realm of "the essence of sword art", so he was naturally even more surprised that Liu Maoxing had comprehended the complete "essence of sword art" in one day!

You must know that a day ago, Liu Lousan said that he had no talent in the aspect of spirit at all, and did not understand the meaning of spirit at all...

"That's right... But it's a pity that I don't have any clues about pyrotechnics and spices for the time being." Liu Maoxing managed to be humble for a while, but he seemed even more in need of a beating.

But Liu Maoxing did not lie, because regarding the essence of pyrotechnics and the essence of spices, he really has not thought of a way to "detonate".

Entering the "spiritual perspective" is the basis of "borrowing fire", but the "spiritual perspective" is not so easy to enter!

Judging from the previous "borrowing fire" with Liu Maoyuan, first of all, the other party must be willing to let Liu Maoxing enter the "spiritual perspective", otherwise he can easily interrupt him...

Then the essence of this kind of perspective is actually to use perceptions other than vision to activate the psychological judgment of "super vision"!

Because the normal perspective will affect the perspective of the mind, the premise is that vision cannot be used...

In this way, fortunately, Liu Maoxing has other "super senses", such as using "super touch" before, and has a comprehensive insight into Liu Maoyuan's vegetable cutting process.

But other than that, what about the essence of pyrotechnics and the essence of spices?

The inspiration generated by the essence of knife skills will be directly reflected on the body, but the inspiration of the adjustment of firework and the ratio of spices is more like an idea, a thinking signal, not just physical contact. Totally insightful!

Even if there is a cook with the "firework essence" and "spice essence" standing in front of Liu Maoxing, willing to "borrow fire" to him, Liu Maoxing doesn't know what to do...

Of course, Liu Maoxing also asked Liu Lousan for his opinion on this matter on the third day of his training.

Although the bearded man has neither super vision nor super touch, but after all, the level of cooking skills is here, and he has a wealth of experience, maybe there will be a way!

To be precise, it was Liu Lousan who approached Liu Maoxing early in the morning and asked him about yesterday's events.

The Zhao family brothers were also there at the time, so naturally they would not hide from Liu Lousan, the "essence of sword skill" that Liu Maoxing mastered within a day...

If it wasn't because Liu Lousan wasn't at the hotel last night, I'm afraid he would have come earlier!

"Using the ability of 'super vision' without using vision? It's so complicated..." Liu Lousan didn't seem to have any good opinions.

But before Liu Maoxing was disappointed, Liu Lousan suddenly seemed to think of something, and immediately said: "That's right! I know that there is a master who, although he doesn't have 'super vision' himself, knows very well about 'super vision'. Maybe he is an old man. There will be a way!"

Liu Maoxing vaguely guessed something, after all, he had heard that the master who lent him old Shu Han noodles was named "Xie", but he still asked, "You always said..."

"It's Master Xie! Although his whereabouts are uncertain, he will definitely come as a notary at the "Shenqian Cuisine Showdown" in a month's time. You can ask him for advice then!" Liu Lousan said.

really!

Master Xie is the son of the gangster Jielu, so his mother should be the blue-eyed tiger Mira. I believe that even if Master Xie does not have super vision, he should have a deep attainment in visual skills!

Moreover, Mira may have left records such as notes...

At this moment, there was a "bang", and the people in the kitchen were kicked away.

Liu Maoxing looked over curiously, not knowing who was so bold, who would have expected to see an angry Liu Maoyuan!

But the "good news" is that now Liu Maoyuan's attention is obviously not on him, but staring at Liu Lousan behind him...

"Pleiades? Didn't you go to the French restaurant to study today? Although your talent is good, but fishing for three days and drying the net for two days is not enough..." Liu Lousan obviously didn't have much confidence in himself.

"Hehe, don't worry, I've already asked for leave... Uncle Lou! Would you please explain to me first, what are the rumors about the hotel and the Liu family's ancestral house?" Liu Maoyuan said through gritted teeth.

"Eh? What rumors? How can I..."

"If you don't know, then I feel that it must be the seemingly loyal Zhao family brothers who are spreading rumors. I will definitely report this matter to the clan elders in the future, and teach them the rules by the way!" Liu Maoyuan said with a smile.

Liu Maoxing always feels that this kind of smile seems to have been seen somewhere... It looks like a beating, who did it learn from?

Well, it should be that Liu Maoxing will see it when he looks in the mirror!

"Wait! Yuanyuan... Uncle is also doing it for your own good! Even if the clan elders won't directly interfere with such an excellent clansman like you, they will definitely pay attention to your marriage. Uncle also snooped for you in advance. !" Liu Lousan immediately changed his tune.

And Liu Maoyuan raised his voice eight times again: "What? Did you talk to the clan elders?"

In fact, the cause of the incident was that since last night, Liu Maoyuan had been receiving text messages one after another, and relatives and friends asked her about "having a boyfriend" one after another!

Among them even Liu Maoyuan's mother...

They even talked about the "vegetable cutting play" swearingly, which made her rebuttal pale!

Liu Maoyuan's first reaction was that the Zhao family brothers actually had the hidden "big mouth" attribute, but immediately realized that something was wrong. The Zhao family brothers didn't have much contact with young people in the clan, so it was unlikely that in just a few hours, they would Pass the gossip back.

Then she thought of Liu Lousan!

Sure enough, as long as Liu Lousan knew about it, it was equivalent to making it public within the clan.

Only now do I know that this "rumor" is still from top to bottom, and even the clan elders have been "notified"!

"This... I also do it for...You young people, since you have already chopped vegetables and played, why don't you just say it out loud?"

"Cut vegetable play? What are you guys talking about?" Liu Maoxing had a rare moment of sharpness.

"Shut up and get out!"

"..."

Seeing Liu Maoyuan's smile and the kitchen knife less than ten centimeters away from her hand, Liu Maoxing decided to show his excellent virtue of respecting women's will, and helped her close the door from the outside...

In the following month, Liu Maoxing felt that the members of Liu's family seemed to be extremely enthusiastic, and even made a special trip to ask himself to go to the ancestral house in Sichuan. The eight old artists greeted him in various ways and gave him many "improvement" experiences. recipes.

That's right, many of them are the recipes of the "Zhonghua Yiyi" period that Liu Maoxing has mastered. Obviously, after more than a hundred years, there have actually been improved versions, but the ordinary people who are not independent still learn the most primitive ones. Version.

What puzzled Liu Maoxing the most was that, judging from the current situation, it was useless to go back to "Yangquan Restaurant" by himself, but after that they urged him to stay for another month, and asked him to help guide Liu Maoyuan...

However, Liu Maoxing did not become too suspicious of this reason. After all, even though Liu Lousan was already guiding him, who could understand the rules of Yuanyue Academy better than this "Ten Heroes"?

Time passed day by day, and it was getting closer and closer to the "Shenqian Cuisine Showdown"...

After Liu Maoxing reached the realm of "sword skills", he became more confident, and when he was ready to "explode" the opponent's sword family, he went to play with sisters Erina and Alice!

Because when he called Erina at night these days, Erina mentioned that she would go to Sichuan to "do some things" recently, so she could come to him later.

"It's best to let Liu Maoyuan, who has completed her practice, be a guide and go to Jiuzhaigou together... Her first stage of practice is over, right? Besides, I also tutored her for a month, so I shouldn't refuse, right? Although the Liu family and The Nakiri family doesn't seem to have a good relationship, but Subaruen and Erina should have some personal grievances, and it's fine if the Liu family doesn't know about it!"

Well, Liu Maoxing's plan is perfect...

However……