Boiling is a unique cooking technique in the Chaoshan region, which is similar to common blanching or boiling, but the trick is to use an appropriate amount of seasonings to match and highlight the deliciousness of the ingredients when boiling beef.

Chua Lam's boiled beef is slightly different from ordinary home-cooked dishes. It tastes fresh and tender and has a salty taste.

There is no such thing in this world as the dishes in "The Little Master of China" that shine so casually. It is difficult for everyone to agree. The ability to make a table full of people shout "good" after finishing the dishes is already a sign of skill.

After everyone finished eating Cai Lan's braised beef, they turned their attention to Lin Chaoyang, full of expectations.

For them who wandered around Vanity Fair, parties were common, but this sudden cooking competition was something new. Everyone was looking forward to Lin Chaoyang's move with great interest.

What he is going to make is kidney slices mixed with sesame sauce, a typical dish to accompany wine.

Ordinary people in Xiangjiang cannot find sesame paste in their homes, but Zhang Cuiying is from Yanjing, so there is no shortage of sesame paste in her home.

After washing the pork kidneys, he first sliced ​​them flat on both sides with a sharp knife and discarded the kidney residue, so as to ensure the integrity of the kidney slices to the greatest extent.

Then use cold water to pull out the bleeding water. You need to change the water three or four times repeatedly to check that the water quality is clear before it is completed.

Then boil water to blanch the kidney slices. At this point, Lin Chaoyang and Cai Lam have similar methods. They put a big pot with more water, wait for the water to boil, put the kidney slices into the pot, and then use a skewer to take them out.

At this time, the kidney slices will be cooked but not yet cooked. Pour out the first pot of water, boil water again, and repeat the previous operation.

The kidney slices were cooked after blanching them twice, but they were still tender and crisp. When Lin Chaoyang poured the kidney slices into the plate with a spatula, the kidney slices collided with the ceramics, and they actually had a duangduang elasticity, which surprised everyone around them.

Just now while waiting for the water to boil, Lin Chaoyang had already prepared the ingredients, sesame paste, bean paste, minced green onions, minced ginger, and garlic, and poured them into the dried kidney slices.

After stirring evenly, a dish of sesame sauce mixed with kidney slices is ready.

When Lin Chaoyang was cooking, the kitchen was full of people, and everyone watched the whole process. When the food was ready, there was no need to bring it to the table. Each person had to use a pair of chopsticks to taste it.

However, Cai Lan stopped them and asked everyone to take a drink of water to clear the aftertaste in their mouths.

"Because of what you've done, I'm almost ready to record a TV show."

Li Hanxiang said something, then put two pieces of loin slices into his mouth, biting them with his teeth, and the firm and tender taste passed through the teeth and bones, making a crunching sound between the eardrums.

This sound was not loud to other people's ears, but it was very clear. Li Hanxiang kept chewing, and felt that it was tender, smooth, fragrant, salty, sweet, spicy, and the taste was unusually rich.

Everyone looked at his shiny mouth and the constant crunching sounds coming from his mouth. They couldn't help but move their chopsticks. The kitchen was filled with crunching sounds for a while.

"Hmm~ delicious!"

"Not bad, not bad. This is my first time eating kidney slices like this. It tastes really good."

Li Hanxiang took two bites of waist slices and wanted to take more, but Lin Chaoyang picked up the plate.

"Don't just eat it, give it a review anyway!"

Everyone immediately cheered in unison.

Everyone agreed that Cai Lam's braised beef just now was good, but Li Hanxiang thought it was bland. Based on this calculation, Lin Chaoyang won the cooking competition by one vote.

Li Hanxiang pretended to be loud and said loudly: "I announce that the final winner of this gourmet competition is..."

He paused deliberately when he said this, and Yue Hua, Di Long and others immediately imitated the drum beats on TV that were designed to whet the audience's appetite.

"Dangdangdangdang..."

Lin Chaoyang and Cai Lan looked at each other, smiled, and shook their heads.

"He is...Lin Chaoyang!"

As soon as Li Hanxiang finished speaking, the crowd immediately burst into warm applause. They were so excited that it felt like they had really participated in some cooking competition.

There were more than a dozen men present, the oldest of whom were in their sixties, but the commotion was like a group of teenagers.

Lin Chaoyang also pretended to stand up, raising his head and chest, as if waiting for an award, and waved to the crowd, which again attracted thunderous applause.

"Hey, that's not right. Why should we be called 'Gourmet' when we compete in cooking? Shouldn't we be called 'God of Cooking'?" Yue Hua raised an objection.

Li Hanxiang waved his hand, "Don't worry about these details."

After some laughter, the atmosphere of the party became lively.

Compared with the gatherings with writer friends in the Mainland, the gatherings and interactions with Li Hanxiang and others are more extensive, and the topics are more popular and down-to-earth. Each has its own advantages.

Different from the casual acquaintances at the party at Li Hanxiang's house after the Academy Awards last year, at today's party, Lin Chaoyang became truly acquainted with these people.

In the next few days, Tao Yushu went to Lockhart Road almost every day. Although New Kunlun Pictures was just a leather company, in Tao Yushu's eyes, there was still a lot to learn.

Since Lin Chaoyang supports her in starting her own business in the future, she naturally cannot be lazy. Regardless of whether it is useful or not, it is always right to study first.

Lin Chaoyang, on the other hand, focused on writing and spent most of his time climbing grids every day.

One advantage of coming to Xiangjiang is that he could stay shut up all day long without any distractions. Lin Chaoyang's creative progress returned to its peak, and he wrote a maximum of 12,000 words in one day.

At this rate, the first draft of the novel will be completed in less than half a month.

Of course, it will definitely need to be modified and improved when the time comes.

That evening, when he just came out of the study, Tao Yumo said: "Brother-in-law, I have some letters for you."

Lin Chaoyang was a little surprised. After they settled in Xiangjiang, they notified their family that they were safe and informed them of their mailing address. It only took a little more than a week for the letter to arrive so quickly.

He took the letter and first looked at the sender and address. One was from Yanjing, signed Lin Erchun, and the other two were forwarded, one from China and one from abroad.

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He first read Lin Erchun's letter, which contained some family-friendly topics. The one he was most concerned about was the unborn little one in Xiao Dongdong and Tao Yushu's belly.

In addition, at the end of the letter, Lin Erchun mentioned that the two forwarded letters were sent one after another two or three days after Lin Chaoyang left, so Lin Erchun forwarded them both to Lin Chaoyang.

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The sender of the domestic letter was Li Shifei from Huacheng Publishing House. The content of the letter was nothing surprising. It was to report on the current sales situation of "Crossing the Boat" and "Crossing the Guandong", and then asked about the progress of Lin Chaoyang's new work.

The latter purpose was of course the focus of Li Shifei's letter this time. Lin Chaoyang thought about it and mentioned the matter of Yanjing Publishing House to Li Shifei in his reply. This kind of thing must be mentioned in advance, at least to let people know.

A mental preparation.

Another letter from abroad turned out to be from Naoko Kondo. Lin Chaoyang didn't pay attention when he opened the letter. The first thing scattered were a few photos.

Lin Chaoyang picked it up and took a look. The content of the photo included a Japanese manuscript being translated, as well as a working photo of Naoko Kondo and a middle-aged man.

Lin Chaoyang read the letter again. According to Kondo Naoko's description, after returning to Japan, she devoted most of her spare time to translating the Japanese version of "Enter Guandong".

Since the workload and difficulty exceeded her expectations, Kondo Naoko had to ask Fujii Shozo, an associate professor at the Faculty of Literature at the University of Tokyo, to help.

The two of them spent more than three months and have completed most of the translation of "Crossing the Guandong", and it is expected that the entire translation work will be almost completed in another two months.

During this time, Naoko Kondo and Shozo Fujii were also using their personal connections to communicate with various publishing houses in Tokyo. Kawade Shobo became interested in "Into the Kanto" after reading some of the manuscripts they translated.

However, because the translation of the manuscript has not yet been completed, Kawade Shobo is not sure about the quality of the final manuscript, so their attitude is a bit ambiguous.

At the end of the letter, Naoko Kondo made a promise to Lin Chaoyang, saying that she would definitely promote the publication of "Enter Guandong" in Japan.

The firm attitude made Lin Chaoyang feel a little embarrassed.

That is a novel of more than 600,000 words, and most of the translation was completed in just over three months. I still used my spare time, so you can imagine the effort and hard work.

Lin Chaoyang can probably understand Kondo Naoko's thoughts. In her eyes, Lin Chaoyang gave her the manuscript of "Crossing Guandong", which was undoubtedly entrusting her with the fruits of his hard work.

A woman looks good to one who pleases her, and a scholar dies for a confidant.

This is the origin of Naoko Kondo’s firm attitude.

At the end of the letter, she also mentioned that assuming that the Japanese version of "Enter Guandong" was translated in the future, formal negotiations would have to be held with the publisher. She hoped that Lin Chaoyang would make a trip to Tokyo to see the red leaves in Kyoto.

After reading the letter, Lin Chaoyang wrote back to Naoko Kondo and expressed his gratitude.

As soon as May came, Lin Chaoyang and his family had been here for more than half a month. Except for Tao Yushu who often went out to work, Lin Chaoyang and Tao Yumo basically stayed at home. Taking advantage of the good weather, he planned to take his family out for a walk.

Unfortunately, the phone rang at home. It was Li Hanxiang calling to ask him to have a cup of coffee.

Lin Chaoyang knew that something must be wrong. After all, he still owed Lao Li a favor, so Lin Chaoyang agreed without thinking.

The two made an appointment at a cafe near Princess Road called Hair Culture Cafe, which roughly translates to Hair Culture Cafe.

When Lin Chaoyang arrived, he discovered that there was a middle-aged man with a bald head, small eyes, and black-rimmed glasses sitting next to Li Hanxiang.

"Old Li!"

"Migao!"

"Lin Sheng!"

Both parties greeted each other.

Mi Gao is Xu Guanwen's English name. According to the transliteration habits of the Mainland, it should be "Michael". Everyone calls him that, and Lin Chaoyang also follows the local custom and calls him that.

After a few words of greeting, Li Hanxiang said: "It's actually Michael who is looking for you today. It's what I told you before."

When Lin Chaoyang saw Xu Guanwen, he had already guessed the purpose of Li Hanxiang's invitation to come today. He asked with a smile: "I heard that Michael, aren't you filming "The Brave Double Cannon: The Wise and Brave Three Treasures"? There are many movie stars in it, and there are many movies.

Selling shouldn’t be a problem, right?”

"The box office should be good."

When it comes to box office, Xu Guanwen looks very confident, but there is no excitement on his face.

"Aren't you happy about the box office success?"

Xu Guanwen waved his hand, "I may be anxious about a box office failure, but a box office success has nothing to do with me."

If someone else had said this, it might have been a bit crazy, but when it came from Xu Guanwen's mouth, there was no sense of disobedience.

For more than ten years, he has conquered movie audiences all over East Asia with one acclaimed and well-received movie after another, and is the well-deserved king of comedy in the Hong Kong film industry.

After Xu Guanwen said this, he ignored Lin Chaoyang's reaction and continued:

"When I was young, I wanted to buy a gold Rolex. Later, the gold Rolex became a Mercedes-Benz. But how much can I eat? How much can I drink? How much can I use?

The difference between the deposits in the bank and one more zero and one less zero is not much to me.

I am forty-three years old this year. The audience loves to see me perform comedy, but how many more years can I perform?

I can’t act anymore, and I don’t want the audience to look at me pretending to be crazy and stupid on the screen someday in the future, with disgust on their faces.”

Speaking of this, Xu Guanwen's face was filled with loneliness.

As the most popular star in the Hong Kong film industry in recent years, people only see his glamor, but no one knows his mental journey.

Xu Guanwen is the eldest son in the family. After he became famous, he focused on leading his younger brothers to succeed. Now all three younger brothers have carved out their own careers. Over the years, the reputation of the four Xu brothers as outstanding civil and military figures has spread throughout Hong Kong.

The brothers' wings were strong, and Xu Guanwen decisively chose to let go.

In the past, when the eldest brother acted in movies, his younger brothers would definitely have their place, but now, Xu Guanwen has not worked with his younger brothers for a long time.

Xu Guanwen rambled on about what was in his heart, while Lin Chaoyang and Li Hanxiang listened quietly.

"Lin Sheng, do you know why I came to you?" Xu Guanwen suddenly asked Lin Chaoyang.

"Why?"

Xu Guanwen laughed at himself, "We Xiangjiang people, whether you call it snobbish or realistic, if I said these things to that filmmaker, they would just think I'm hypocritical. But you are different..."

Xu Guanwen looked at Lin Chaoyang with eyes full of appreciation, "You are a writer, I believe you understand me."

Lin Chaoyang smiled. He didn't know whether Xu Guanwen's words were sincere or a compliment.

In his view, Xu Guanwen has the narcissism of an artist. Narcissism is certainly not a good thing in the eyes of others, but for many people engaged in art, it is a trait that must be possessed if they want to succeed.

"Mi Gao, I can understand your feelings. However, even if I cooperate with you, I may not be able to achieve the success you want, right?"

Lin Chaoyang's question hit the point. Xu Guanwen wanted to transform, so why should he be targeted?
Chapter completed!