After pretending to be incomprehensible for a while, Beishan Xingyi changed the topic and said: "What do you think of the first and second seats of your 'Top Ten'? They don't seem to be very good at yesterday's theme. There is no limit to the theme tomorrow. I hope they can bring me some joy."
"Are you talking about Senior Si and Senior Xiaolin? They are both very good cooks. They will definitely satisfy you tomorrow!"
Ji Zhiguo Ning Ning said very seriously.
She is a member of Totsuki and also belongs to the "Gourmet Central Organization", so she naturally has to say good things about her companions.
"Senior Xiaolin, although she is a bit unruly and always does embarrassing things, she is a master of rare ingredients and can make very novel dishes every time."
"As for Senior Si, he..."
When talking about Si Yingshi, Ji Zhiguo Ning Ning paused, and then said: "Senior Si is a very special person. Although he usually looks very cowardly and seems to have no confidence, once he meets He Lian When it comes to related matters, he will seem to change as a person, becoming extremely tough and resolute. The only thing in his mind is how to improve his cooking. He is persistent and pure. This is Senior Si, the most powerful and invincible cook!"
"Oh, really..." Beishan Xingyi smiled and said, "Xiaolin Ringtong, you only said a few words, but you said so much about Si Yingshi. You admire him very much, right?"
"Yes, after all, Senior Si is one of the 'Top Ten', a cook who stands at the top of Yuanyue."
Ning Ning from the Kingdom of Ji said bluntly.
Japanese people generally admire the strong, and the same goes for Ning Ning from the Kingdom of Ji. As a cook, it is difficult for her not to admire Senior Si, the powerful cook who tries everything in cooking. Of course, this is the normal admiration of a school girl for her senior. There is no other emotional component between men and women in it.
"Although you say so, I think the woman named Kobayashi Rgentan is more interesting. The persistence and purity of Si Yingshi that you admire, in my opinion, is boring, and... dangerous!"
There is a quiet road in Xingyi, Beishan.
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Ji Zhiguo Ning Ning was confused and couldn't help but ask: "Miss Hengshan, why did you say that?"
"Sit down and talk."
Beishan Xingyi said to Ji Zhiguo Ning Ning that the two of them had been standing talking just now, and it was only now that she remembered to ask people to sit down.
"Yes, Miss Yokoyama!"
Ji Zhiguo Ning Ning sat on the sofa as he was told, and was very excited at the same time.
Asking her to sit down meant that Miss Kitayama Xingyi did not intend to end the conversation for a while.
Being able to have a "long talk" with representatives of the Beishan family... Father, your daughter is going to be successful!
"To be honest, I actually went to university in Zhongyuan."
Beishan Xingyi sat down and said to Ji Zhiguo Ning Ning.
"yes!"
Ning Ning from the Kingdom of Ji had no thoughts about this.
There is so much culture in Japan that was inherited from the Central Plains. Even now, many ancient families with a long history have the tradition of studying Chinese studies. Therefore, for Ningning, the country of Ji, going to the Central Plains to study is a very common thing. , especially the Central Plains martial arts circle is still the largest martial arts circle in the world. It is very logical for people from the Beishan family branch to go to the Central Plains to study and explore the situation of the Central Plains martial arts world. As long as they are not members of the Beishan family, it is not worth making a fuss about.
"While studying abroad, I learned a lot about the Central Plains culture. To say that the thing that impressed me most about the Central Plains culture is probably..."
Beishan Xingyi stretched out her index finger and pointed it on the tea table in front of her. With a "sizzle" sound, Beishan Xingyi easily drew a standard circle on the small square table.
Ji Zhiguo Ning Ning's eyelids jumped.
With her family background, she could tell at a glance that the tea table was a high-end piece of furniture made of fine huanghuali wood, but this was not what surprised her. What surprised Ning Ning of Ji Zhiguo was that Beishan Xingyi casually The drawn circle was actually carved into the tea table half a finger deep!
This is huanghuali wood! Huanghuali wood is famous for its density and hardness! Kitayama Xingyi actually drew a circle on it casually... Is this the power of a martial artist?
Ning Ning of Ji Zhiguo was amazed by Beishan Xingyi's actions, but Beishan Xingyi curled her lips slightly in her heart and was very dissatisfied with the move she just made.
If Yan Kai or Xue Wenhai were to do the same thing, they would be able to do it more lightly than she did, and there would be no "Zi La" just now.
The martial arts of these two people have already reached the realm of "hardness and softness", but Beishan Xingyi has always stayed at "the most hard and the most powerful" and failed to achieve the "hardness begets softness".
Damn it, it feels like losing again!
She felt unhappy, but Kitayama Xingyi still didn't stop her movements. She drew an "S" in the middle of the circle, and then clicked a little on both sides of the "S".
"This is Tai Chi?"
Ning Ning from the Kingdom of Ji was unsure.
It's not that she doesn't know Tai Chi, but she doesn't understand why Beishan Xingyi drew Tai Chi. Does this have any special meaning?
"In the culture of the Central Plains, there has always been a saying that 'too much is too little, and everything that goes well must be reversed', Taoism's 'the way of heaven damages more than it can make up for,' Confucianism's 'golden mean', and Buddhism's 'words cannot be exhausted, and power cannot be exhausted' , If it is too late, fate will inevitably end early', these words have similar meanings."
"Perhaps in the eyes of a family of cooks like Ji Zhiguo, which has been passed down for many years, persistence and purity are very precious qualities, necessary qualities to cultivate excellent cooks, and are the embodiment of 'craftsman spirit', but in my opinion , these two qualities are actually a bit...dangerous!"
Kitayama Xingyi said seriously: "Persistent and pure people are, to put it bluntly, people with extreme egos. Many of the most harmful things in history were caused or led by people with extreme egos. And they possess these two qualities at the same time. It is easy for people to take a narrow path. To be honest, although Si Yingshi is now recognized as the number one among Yuanyue students, I believe that his cooking skills have reached a very high level. This is also the result of persistence and purity. One of the major characteristics of people is that they are easy to achieve certain achievements in a certain area in a short period of time, but because of their own characteristics, it is easy to stay where they are and not make any progress. I think Si Yingshi may not be able to do so in the next few years. It’s a huge improvement, if he keeps this so-called persistence and purity.”
Ji Zhiguo Ning Ning still doesn't understand. In her opinion, if you want to improve your skills, you need this kind of persistence and pure spirit. Why does this become a shortcoming in Kitayama Xingyi's view?
"You don't understand, do you?"
Hengshan Xingyi smiled and didn't mind. After all, what she said may indeed be difficult to understand for Ning Ning, a country who grew up in traditional Japanese culture.
The Japanese are a nation that doesn't know how to master degrees. The principle of "too much is not enough" is a bit out of line for Japanese people, although Beishan Xingyi himself is also a Japanese.
"Well, let me give you an example, you know 'steel', right?"
Beishan Xingyi said to Ji Zhiguo Ning Ning.
"certainly."
Ji Zhiguo Ning Ning nodded. As a metal material that is very popular in modern society, how could she not know about steel.
"The same is iron. We generally call iron with a carbon content of less than 0.02% as 'wrought iron', iron with a carbon content of more than 2% as 'pig iron', and iron with a carbon content between 0.02% and 2%. The so-called 'steel'."
Beishan Xingyi gave Jizhiguo Ningning some science knowledge, and Jizhiguo Ningning nodded again, indicating that she knew.
"In terms of forged knives, wrought iron is soft and pig iron is too brittle, so the performance of 'steel' must be superior. In fact, the same is true for people. Of course it is not good to have too many impurities, but it is not good to be too pure. Only if it contains just enough With just the right amount of impurities, talent can be tempered into steel."
Beishan Xingyi looked at Ji Zhiguo Ning Ning and said.
Ning Ning of Ji Zhiguo was shocked by Beishan Xingyi's words, because no one had ever told her such a truth before, so she didn't know how to react for a moment.
"Si Yingshi, the first cook, and Kobayashi Gentian, the second cook. I am actually more optimistic about Xiaobayashi Gentian. Although the dishes she presented to me before showed a sense of entanglement and hesitation, they were more lively than Si Yingshi's. Si Yingshi's Shi's cuisine..." Beishan Xingyi thought for a while, and suddenly thought of the most appropriate description, "...like a flower without fragrance, beautiful, but missing its connotation. Compared with those real flowers, even if it is more It’s beautiful, but it’s also completely unapproachable.”
This was the first time for Ji Zhiguo Ning Ning to hear someone commenting on Si Yingshi's cooking. Before that, she had always heard words of praise for Si Yingshi.
"To tell you the truth, among the dishes served by you Totsuki students so far, my favorite is actually the 'Crystal Sour Pork' made by the little girl named Tazoe. Unfortunately... 9 My sister is greedy and finished that dish, otherwise I really want to try it."
Beishan Xingyi smiled.
These words made Ji Zhiguo Ning Ning feel aggrieved again. She said rather unconvincingly: "That Tian Suohui, she is only a first-year freshman, and she has been expelled from school once!"
Kitayama Xingyi smiled: "So what? I don't care about her identity or her past at all. I just saw her attentive hospitality to the diners from her cooking." A layer of rock sugar not only adjusts the sweet and sour juice, but also has the function of keeping warm. It is the same as the previous kid named Yukihira Soma who came up with the idea of using Sanfan flour to make soba noodles to ensure the fragrance. It is all done to the maximum extent. Ensure diners’ eating experience.”
After finishing speaking, she looked at Ning Ning of the Kingdom of Ji: "I found that when your 'Food Center' made the dishes, you didn't seem to consider the diners. You just mechanically made the dishes according to the recipes you had already prepared in your mind. Come out. The connection between cooks, food, and diners. From your side, I only see the connection between the food and the cooks. The diners have become outsiders."
"That's because..." Ji Zhiguo Ningning wanted to refute, but found that she couldn't say anything to refute, because what Beishan Xingyi said was right.
One of the core concepts of the "Gourmet Central Agency" is to formulate unified "gourmet standards", and this standard must be in the hands of the "Gourmet Central Agency". In this way, the elites of the "Gourmet Central Agency" only need to Just make food that meets the standards of the "Gourmet Center". As for how the diners will feel after eating the food, this is not within the scope of the "Gourmet Center"'s consideration. Anyway, as long as the food of the "Gourmet Center" is not It’s delicious, that’s just a rough guy who doesn’t know how to eat olives, a nouveau riche who doesn’t know how to appreciate art. In the future, if the “Culinary Central Organization” really gets Nakiri Erina’s “God’s Tongue”, it will have the absolute say in the world of Japanese cuisine. Right, the "gourmet central organ" can do whatever it wants.
"It seems that your 'gourmet central institution' is not very friendly to diners."
Beishan Xingyi shook his head slightly.
"Ms. Yokoyama, please don't get me wrong, our 'Culinary Central Organization' definitely doesn't mean this!"
Ning Ning of Ji Zhiguo said anxiously, if Beishan Xingyi has a bad sense of the "Gourmet Central Agency", it will be a major blow to the "Gourmet Central Agency", because what Beishan Xingyi represents is the number one in Japan. The wealthy Beishan family!
"I don't know what your 'Food Central Organ' means. I just want to see how you do it. I'll wait and see what happens with tomorrow's 'Food Halberd'!"
Kitayama Xingyi's smile suddenly froze, and she spit out a mouthful of blood.
Gan, too much chatter, the internal injury recurred!
Beishan Xingyi covered her mouth and said.
"Miss Yokoyama, what's wrong with you?"
Ning Ning of Ji Zhiguo couldn't help but want to see and explore Beishan Xingyi's situation, but Beishan Xingyi reached out to stop him.
"It's okay. Don't worry. People who practice martial arts have strong blood. It's reasonable to vomit a few mouthfuls of blood occasionally. Don't make a fuss."
Beishan Xingyi said calmly.
"Is...is that so?"
Ning Ning from Ji Zhiguo always felt that Beishan Xingyi's words were a bit nonsense.
"Of course it is!"
Kitayama Xingyi, who had suppressed his internal injuries, wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth and said seriously to Ji Zhiguo Ning Ning: "You don't understand, this is what we martial artists are like. This is the same reason that regular blood is good for physical and mental health."
"Ah, is that so? Ning Ning has learned a lesson!"
Ji Zhiguo Ning Ning nodded honestly.
At the same time, I was thinking, even if vomiting blood regularly is normal for a martial artist, why did he vomit blood all of a sudden? Is vomiting blood out of control for a martial artist? In that case, wouldn't it be the same as a woman having sex once a month?
Amazing! Other women ejaculate from above, but martial artists can vomit from above. Thinking about it carefully, this is much more convenient!
Ji Zhiguo Ning Ning looked at Beishan Xingyi with even more reverence.
Beishan Xingyi took out a handkerchief to wipe the blood on her mouth, and suddenly felt an inexplicable feeling of reverence in Ningning, the land of Taoism. Although she couldn't figure out why, forget it, anyway, there have always been people since she was a child. She was used to misinterpreting her meaning and inexplicably interpreting some of her actions to have profound meanings, and this feeling was not bad, so she just continued to pretend to be incomprehensible.
"Girl from the Kingdom of Ji, I still have some things to deal with here, so I'll stop talking to you today."
Beishan Xingyi got up to see off the guests.
"Yes, Miss Hengshan, I'm sorry to have disturbed you for so much time, but please allow me to come and listen to your teachings when I have the opportunity in the future!"
Ji Zhiguo Ning Ning stood up and bowed.
"Let's talk about it when we have a chance."
Beishan Xingyi smiled and added in her heart, but there is probably no chance. After the matter here is over, I will prepare to run away from home again and go to the Central Plains to find her husband. Who wants to stay in Japan? !
