Chapter 7 Incredible Dream

   It is a fine weather.

  The afternoon sun shines through the window, through the half-closed curtains, diagonally in the room, moving slowly, moving, and finally a strip of light about an inch long shines on the sleeping person.

  Sunshine is warm. - This is common sense, but many times it is easily overlooked. But to a man who is about to wake up, the sunlight on his body is enough to bring warmth, a light or even a call that can be felt even in sleep.

   Because of this, Xu Guangling woke up when the sun continued to shine on his body for about five minutes.

Immediately, an indescribable feeling of comfort came. It was a wonderful experience that would come only after the body and mind had been fully rested, adjusted and renewed after a full and full sleep. However, the truth was that Xu Guangling had been around for many years. There is no such experience, and even, he has forgotten this feeling.

  Usually, due to insomnia, Xu Guangling's sleep quality is not good, so every time he wakes up, his head is a little heavy, drowsy, sometimes even a headache, which will disappear after some time.

   But now, what does it feel like?

   As if time was reversed, to six or seven years ago.

  Full, plentiful and energetic, Xu Guangling only thought of these words for a while.

   But this feeling didn't make Xu Guangling linger for a long time. It can even be said that he didn't get his attention, and he felt these things just out of his body's instinct. Xu Guangling's consciousness immediately focused on another matter.

   Last night, something really happened to him! For the time being, I don't know if it's a blessing or a curse.

  Xu Guangling had a dream, but in fact, it is not appropriate to use "dream" to describe what happened last night, and it is even very inappropriate.

Dreams, Xu Guangling has done a lot in the past few years, but no matter what kind of dream, there is always one most obvious feature, that is, the things in the dream are always fragmented, exist in the form of fragments, and , Compared with reality, things in dreams always have different degrees of deformation.

   In addition, many times, when I wake up, I still vaguely remember the content of the dream, but soon, like the words written on the beach, when the tide blows, it disappears. I only remember having a dream, but I no longer remember what the dream was about.

   But last night, it was different.

   There is no need to close your eyes, meditate, or recall. What you "dream" about yesterday came to life in Xu Guangling's mind.

   In his dream, he became a chef, making a soup called "Nine Pin Baiyu Soup". The main ingredients of the soup are not complicated, there are only three kinds, namely mushrooms, tofu, and potatoes. Yes, potatoes are the same ingredients he ate last night, but the selection, practice and processing of these three ingredients are completely different. It was something Xu Guangling had never seen or heard of before.

Tofu, take traditional Chinese soybeans, soaked, peeled, only peeled tofu made from pure watercress is fine enough, without the rough texture and astringency brought by the bean skin, and when ordering tofu , using neither brine, nor gypsum, nor any internal fat, but a mixture of glutinous rice wine and black rice vinegar.

The tofu produced in this way has both 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. Come.

   And the tofu made in this way is fine enough and smooth.

How delicate and smooth is   ? Delicate and smooth, the master chef with deep knives can cut such tofu into hair as thin as a hair.

It's not the point to cut the tofu as thin as a hair, the point is that when the tofu can be cut so thin, through the continuous or broken knife work, the tofu can be "flowered", or placed in the soup to show the appearance. Swaying in the shape of aquatic plants, and the tofu shreds are dyed through green vegetable juice, etc., then it is aquatic plants, at least in appearance, it is almost completely similar.

   Potatoes are shredded, very thin, soaked in half sugar water and half vinegar water. The vinegar water can also be replaced by orange juice, lemon juice, etc.

Mushroom, take the wild chicken leg mushroom, which is the kind with a very long and long cap that almost completely covers the mushroom stem. Only such mushrooms are fresh enough and smooth enough, and then the cap stem is used for both purposes, and both are drawn into thin slices. Silk.

Shredded tofu, shredded potatoes, shredded mushrooms, delicate tofu, soft potatoes, tender mushrooms, the three ingredients complement each other in terms of taste, taste and nutrition, and the soup made from these three ingredients is Baiyu Soup .

   Among them, the three flavors of tofu, the two flavors of potatoes, and the two flavors of mushrooms together are seven flavors.

   Then, the mixture of tofu, potatoes and mushrooms is one flavor, and the clear soup is one flavor, plus the previous seven flavors, the total is nine flavors, that is, "nine flavors". The ninth grade, plus the three ingredients that are all white as jade, this is the origin of the "nine grade white jade soup".

   Then, a clear picture appeared in Xu Guangling's mind.

That is, the ninth-grade white jade soup has been prepared, put it into a small celadon bowl, and a spoon also made of porcelain is put in, and when it is gently stirred in it, there are thousands of threads, all of which are swirling, like a blooming flowers.

   Then taste, start with two scoops.

  Take the clear soup in the first spoon, open your mouth, take the mixture in the second spoon, and enjoy the full flavor.

  After two spoonfuls, next, you can taste it little by little and taste the "nine grades" of this nine-pin white jade soup.

When such a picture flashed in his mind, Xu Guangling moved his tongue involuntarily and swallowed his saliva, but felt that the saliva was gushing out of his mouth like a rising tide of sea water, and after swallowing a few mouthfuls, there was still new saliva in giving birth.

   It was almost the first time in his life that Xu Guangling knew what "greed" was. This experience was much more vivid than the explanation in the dictionary. No, it was too vivid, and it was so vivid that it made people a little embarrassed. —

   This is too much!

   However, greedy and greedy, Xu Guangling was a little sluggish.

  Is this a dream?

   As long as his mind is still a little bit awake, it is impossible for him to regard the previous ones as a dream. What kind of dream can be so concrete, so real, so out of nothing?

   Xu Guangling is not a chef, and he has not learned how to cook.

   He can do some simple things, such as scrambled potatoes, scrambled eggs with tomatoes, and stewed tofu, but they are only edible, and there is no particular attention to them. He didn't know what knife work and how hot he was, and he didn't even know whether to put oil or salt first when cooking, and he did it at will.

   Food books, he basically never read it.

  Where did he come from in the past?

   But in the dream yesterday, what did he dream about? That is completely out of nothing! In other words, it was not his own. However, over the night, he was familiar with a lot of things without a teacher.

   For example, how tofu is made, a complete set of processes from soybeans to tofu.

For example, tofu is called south tofu and north tofu. If it is ordered with gypsum, it is called south tofu, and if it is ordered with brine, it is called north tofu. In addition to gypsum and brine, there are other better ones that can be ordered. tofu stuff...

   These are all things that the former Xu Guangling did not know or even knew nothing about.

But at this time, he seemed to be a chef who had been immersed in this recipe for decades. Even Xu Guangling had an illusion, that is, he felt that he could give that "nine-grade white jade soup" to him. do it! Those sophistication and complexities that make people feel a headache just thinking about it, to him now, it seems as simple as 1+1=2.

   (end of this chapter)