"Can you eat cleanly like me? The plate I finished eating is as good as new. Little friend Li Heng doesn't need to wash it anymore."

Song Qingfeng held up the plate he had just finished to show off, and sure enough, there wasn't even a trace of oil stains on it.

"We can do it too."

The disciples said in unison that not licking the plate after eating would be a desecration of food.

"Wait a minute, Junior Brother Li Heng, you didn't really wash the dishes and just used them, right?"

A disciple suddenly said.

"Shh, shh."

All the disciples looked at Li Heng standing aside, as if asking: Is it true that he hasn't been washed?

"Of course they have been washed. Cleanliness and hygiene are the most basic qualities of a chef. Don't listen to your sect master's nonsense."

Li Heng glanced at Song Qingfeng. Wasn't this a sign of defeating him?

"Hey, I just want to express that you guys don't eat as cleanly as I do."

Song Qingfeng explained.

"Huh~, I was scared to death. I almost thought we were eating the sect master's saliva every day."

A disciple patted his chest and looked at Song Qingfeng with disgust, then said.

After everyone had fun for a while, they all left on their own.

Li Heng tidied up for a while, moved a deck chair, lay down in the courtyard, closed his eyes to rest, and thought about what special dish he would make for Elder Leng Zhong for the next meal.

I’ve already tried the spicy one, how about trying the sweet one next?

"Then let's have dessert after dinner."

Li Heng thought again of a dessert he had eaten as a child - old-fashioned crispy cake.

This kind of cake uses fewer ingredients and is very simple to make, making it more suitable for the current environment.

After making up his mind, Li Heng fell into sleep under the warm sunshine. In his dream, he was surrounded by various cakes...

"Brother Li Heng, don't sleep. The sun is almost setting."

Lu Xiaoxiao shook Li Heng's arm and urged.

A familiar voice woke Li Heng from his dream. He opened his eyes slightly and blocked the dazzling sunset with his hands. After a while, his eyes gradually adapted to the surrounding light. He looked into the distance and saw the setting sun like blood. It was almost dinner time. .

"Ha~"

"I know, stop shaking."

Li Heng stood up lazily, yawned, stretched, and slowly walked into the kitchen.

The first thing was to prepare dinner for everyone. Since he had been thinking about Elder Leng Zhong, Li Heng did not plan to try any new dishes, but fried a large pot of shredded green pepper pork that he had made before.

Anyway, Li Heng has the final say on what the seniors eat, and no one will complain to him just because he makes a repetitive dish.

The next thing to do is the highlight of the night, the crispy cake.

This cake requires very few ingredients: a few eggs, sugar, wine, flour, cooking oil, sesame seeds.

After preparing all the ingredients, Li Heng first cracked the eggs into a basin. This old-fashioned crispy cake uses a method of beating whole eggs, and there is no need to separate the egg whites and egg yolks.

Add appropriate amount of sugar to the basin.

Add a small amount of wine, because the wine can remove the fishy smell of eggs and make the cake ferment in a shorter time and become softer.

Next, prepare a larger basin, pour half a basin of warm water at about 40 degrees Celsius, then put the basin containing the egg liquid into it, and stir quickly with chopsticks.

This step is also called beating (baking terminology). Usually, this step is completed directly with an electric egg beater.

Without this convenient and useful tool, Li Heng could only use his hand speed.

What originally only took three or four minutes to complete, Li Heng took more than ten minutes to complete.

Under Li Heng's constant and rapid stirring, the egg liquid turned into white egg paste.

After beating, you can write a random number on the egg liquid. If the number does not disappear within five breaths, it means it is ready.

Add flour and cooking oil to the egg batter, mix evenly with a spatula, and then pour it into a mold brushed with oil on the surface. Li Heng used a small bowl instead of the cake mold.

There is no need to pour it too full, because the cake will expand when heated. Finally, sprinkle some sesame seeds on the surface for decoration, and all the preparations are done.

The last step is to bake it in the oven, and Li Heng chose to use a steamer instead.

After one stick of incense, the old-fashioned shortcrust cake with golden color and delicious flavor is ready.

"Taste it?"

Li Heng took a freshly steamed cake and handed it to Lu Xiaoxiao and asked.

"Brother Li Heng, isn't this also spicy?"

Lu Xiaoxiao was a little hesitant. It seemed that the Sichuan-flavored pork ribs in the morning had left a shadow on Lu Xiaoxiao's young mind.

"Don't worry, this isn't spicy, it's sweet. I guarantee you'll like it."

Li Heng rubbed the deer's small head and comforted him.

How can dessert be spicy?

In order to make Lu Xiaoxiao believe what he said, Li Heng directly broke off a small piece from the cake and ate it in front of Lu Xiaoxiao.

"There's too much sugar, it's a little too sweet."

Li Heng said while eating that he intentionally added more sugar, hoping to take this opportunity to stimulate Leng Zhong's less sensitive taste buds.

After receiving brother Li Heng's guarantee, Lu Xiaoxiao finally let down his guard, took the crispy cake from Li Heng's hand and ate it.

Soft and delicious, it melts in your mouth and has a very sweet taste.

"Well, it's true. It's so sweet. I like this."

Lu Xiao couldn't stop after taking a bite of the snack. He jumped up excitedly and put the rest of the cake into his stomach in a few mouthfuls.

"Brother Li Heng, I still want to eat."

Although he knew that these cakes were prepared for Elder Leng Zhong, Lu Xiaoxiao still couldn't help but want to eat them.

It's normal for girls to have a sweet tooth. Li Heng took two more for Lu Xiaoxiao: "Eat it, I made more today."

"Shhhhh."

Xiao Chi also came over, biting the corner of Li Heng's clothes, staring at Li Heng with a cute expression, and begging to be fed.

"I know, you have too."

He rubbed Xiaochi's little head again, turned around and got one for her too.

While Lu Xiaoxiao was still immersed in the joy of eating cake for the first time, there was a burst of noise outside the door, mixed with bursts of screams.

It seems that some seniors have come over to queue up for dinner. From the sounds of it, the competition is getting more and more intense.

Sure enough, as soon as Li Heng opened the door, a senior brother with a bruised nose and swollen face appeared in front of him.

"Senior Brother Ergou, it's you again!"

Li Heng remembered that Senior Brother Ergou seemed to be ranked first yesterday.

"Hey, we won the position based on our strength. Junior Brother Li Heng, what are you going to eat today?"

Ergou sniffed hard, but couldn't smell what the dish was. It seemed that he still wasn't practicing well enough.

"Today's dish is shredded pork with green pepper."

Li Heng let the senior brothers who were lining up into the courtyard and started serving food.

Not long after, Song Qingfeng appeared in front of Li Heng with Su Lingxuan and Leng Zhong.

"Elder Leng Zhong, this is today's special dish, please try it."

Li Heng handed the crispy cake that he had prepared long ago to Leng Zhong.

"Well, thank you."

Leng Zhong nodded.

This thank you made Li Heng a little flattered. Can this cold elder also say kind words?

It seemed that after many days of getting along with each other, Elder Leng Zhong finally began to make some changes.

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