Chapter 498 (2/2)

“And then?” Zhou Shijie signaled him to continue.

“So the scorched aroma surely isn’t from the fish head. It might be from something else. For example, some kind of leaves with special fragrance or some other ingredients.” Liu Tong knitted his brows and said that with slight uncertainty.

“Ok. You can stop it now. These two idiots don’t know. You tell me.” Zhou Shijie was also a little helpless in the heart, thus he had to say that to Chu Xiao.

He spent so much time on his two disciples, but still, they were no match for Yuan Zhou and Chu Xiao. Thinking of that, Zhou Shijie felt a slight heartache.

“Rice crust. There is rice crust in the soup and thus, we can smell some scorched aroma.” Chu Xiao said lightly.

In his opinion, it wasn’t really a very difficult question. He was more curious if the taste of the soup could be as good as how he had imagined.

“Rice crust?” “Rice crust?” Li Minghui and Liu Tong shouted in surprise with one accord.

“Right, it’s indeed the rice crust. The scorched aroma of meat is quite different. Out of the two of you, one doesn’t know while the other merely speculated it. Humph.” Zhou Shijie snorted coldly and discontentedly.

“It is really an odd cooking method to put the rice crust in the fish soup.” Liu Tong murmured. He wasn’t really afraid of Zhou Shijie’s anger.

“Sorry, teacher.” Li Minghui on the contrary apologized seriously.

“That’s fine. Let’s drink it.” Zhou Shijie waved his hand. After that, he picked the spoon up and started to scoop the soup up.

“Hua La, Hua La”. Basically, a bowl could be filled with one and a half big spoonful of soup. The fish soup was just enough to fill four bowls, 80% full, without a single drop more or less.

“You little brat, why don’t you just call yourself ‘a bowl of soup’? There’s not even a drop more.” Looking at the empty soup bowl, Zhou Shijie pointed at Yuan Zhou and said.

“Thank you for your compliments. That way, it won’t be wasted.” Yuan Zhou accepted the compliments deservedly.

“I’m not complimenting you.” Zhou Shijie almost laughed out due to the extreme anger. He said no more and directly drank the soup.

“I’d like to eat the rice crust in the soup to savor the taste.” Liu Tong was most curious about the rice crust.

Theoretically, the rice crust would surely soften upon touching the water. The taste of the soft rice crust need not be brought up as it was not really delicious and pleasing. Naturally, Liu Tong also got ready to eat the unpleasant rice crust.

Once the rice crust entered his mouth and was bitten, however, it emitted a sound of “Ka Ca, Ka Ca”. Having been soaked in the fish soup, it still maintained the crisp texture yet with a lower level of hardness, which did not make it feel that hard anymore.

Nonetheless, it was easier to chew and the taste was more wonderful. With the crisp texture and the fresh and delicious fish soup that overflowed continuously upon biting, the more one chewed, the more fragrant and crisper it became.

“This is the first time that I find out rice crust and fish soup are a perfect match.” Liu Tong was greatly astounded.

Meanwhile, he didn’t forget to drink a mouthful of fish soup. This time, the feeling was totally different again.

Upon entering the mouth, fish soup would normally taste fresh and fragrant. However, it wasn’t so this time. Instead, there was a faint, delicate fragrance. Only after that came the strong fresh and fragrant fish soup. It was so fresh that Liu Tong even wanted to swallow his tongue up. This was what Liu Tong was thinking now.

“How unexpected, I can also experience such a feeling one day that makes me want to swallow my tongue.” Liu Tong smiled with a manner of self-mockery.

Originally, this comment was usually made by others to express their acknowledgment to his culinary skills. However, it proved to be quite ironic now. The fish soup cooked by him was far from being called “fresh” if compared with Yuan Zhou’s.

Only the Fish Head Soup cooked by Yuan Zhou displayed the freshness and delicacy of the fish soup…