Chapter 64:
Ignoring the barrage, Tang Yu switched to using his phone for the live stream.
He carried the bag of abalone and other ingredients into the kitchen.
He let Xiangling take charge of the cooking.
When the viewers saw that Xiangling was really going to cook, their eyes widened.
They looked confused.
Wait!
You're actually doing it?
For a moment, the viewers' curiosity surged, and no one switched away from the stream.
Even when their girlfriends texted them, they ignored the messages for now.
Inside Immortal Mansion, Lao Hei was also slightly surprised!
You couldn't fake things on a live stream. Since Xiangling dared to start cooking, she probably had some real skills.
But it was only slight surprise.
Cooking ingredients and making them taste good were two completely different things.
"Heh! I'd like to see whether what you cook is even edible."
Back in Tang Yu's live room.
Xiangling poured all the abalones into a basin.
After a brief inspection, she had already figured out the structure of the abalone.
This ingredient needed to have its internal organs removed before cooking.
She casually took a small spoon from the cabinet, then inserted the spoon into the gap on the side of the abalone shell without organs, forcefully pushed the spoon in, cut the attached meat, and removed the black abalone innards.
Next, Xiangling pinched with her small hand and also removed the abalone's mouth.
After finishing all this, she placed the abalone meat into a nearby basin of clear water.
Then, she added a few spoonfuls of raw salt.
These steps were done by Xiangling with incredible smoothness.
There wasn't the slightest bit of unfamiliarity.
Only someone who cooked frequently would have this level of skill.
Seeing this, the viewers' mouths were already hanging open!
They now believed that Xiangling really had cooking skills.
Just this technique of removing abalone innards had already defeated 90% of the viewers.
Meanwhile, inside Immortal Mansion, Lao Hei's expression gradually became serious.
Back to the main scene.
Tang Yu saw Xiangling's movements flow like water and felt relieved.
"Xiangling, what are you going to do next?" Tang Yu asked.
Tang Yu: "..."
In the live room, the viewers could no longer hold it in.
{Haha! I give up on you guys. It's just an ingredient, yet you perverts find everything lewd!} {Exactly! She's just genuinely cooking. Don't be like this—it's not polite at all!} {....}
"What's your next step?" Hu Tao also walked into the kitchen at this time. She swallowed a mouthful of saliva and asked Xiangling.
They hadn't eaten yet today, and they were already a little hungry.
Xiangling put her hands back into the basin of clear water.
"Chop the green onion, ginger, and garlic finely, and do the same with the red chili peppers," Xiangling said.
Tang Yu nodded. He handed the phone to Hu Tao. "Hu Tao, hold this. I'll chop the onion, ginger, garlic, and chili for Xiangling."
As a guy, he naturally couldn't let Xiangling do this kind of rough work.
He would help wherever he could.
Hearing this, Xiangling's gaze toward Tang Yu became even gentler.
She didn't refuse.
{Ding: Favorability increased by 10. Current: 30%.}
Tang Yu's action earned him another 10% favorability from Xiangling.
Hu Tao nodded, took the phone, and pointed it at Tang Yu. After washing the ingredients, Tang Yu began chopping carefully.
But because he rarely entered the kitchen, his movements looked extremely clumsy.
This made the viewers burst into laughter!
Watching Tang Yu, they felt like they were watching themselves.
"You're too slow like this," Xiangling couldn't stand watching anymore from the side.
She quickly spoke up.
Tang Yu: "..."
He felt a little embarrassed.
Xiangling didn't care. She took the kitchen knife from Tang Yu's hand.
When the viewers saw this, they all laughed out loud.
{Haha! Xiangling couldn't stand it anymore—Tang Yu's movements are way too slow.} {By the time he finishes chopping, the abalone will probably be dry.} {Haha! Why does it feel like I'm the one chopping? This is literally me! Covering face!} {WTF! WTF! WTF!} {....}
The viewers were still teasing Tang Yu!
But in the blink of an eye, they only saw Xiangling's hand rise and the knife fall.
Clack clack clack.....
After a blur of motion, the green onion, ginger, garlic, and chili peppers on the cutting board had turned into fine pieces in less than ten seconds.
This speed was simply like cheating!
{Insane! This knife skill—how could it be achieved without twenty years of practice?} {I didn't even see clearly and it was already done. Terrifying!} {Is this really a young girl's knife work? She's way too scary.} {...}
While shocked, the viewers spammed gifts like crazy!
{Gift Info: Wangsheng Hall Master Hu sent Super Airplane ×5 and commented: This skill is something I can never reach in my lifetime.} {Gift Info: Wang a Mao sent Flowers and commented: I really want to eat the food little sister Xiangling makes. I wonder if I'll have the chance in the future!} {....}
The ones shocked weren't just the viewers.
Even Tang Yu beside her was left speechless!
Although he knew Xiangling's cooking was excellent, he had never seen it with his own eyes!
Now that he saw it personally, he was utterly shocked by Xiangling's exquisite knife skills.
Hu Tao, on the other hand, found it normal.
Back in Teyvat, she often went to Xiangling for free meals, so she naturally knew about her knife work.
The most shocked one, without a doubt, was Lao Hei from Immortal Mansion.
Originally he had been lying down watching the stream.
The moment Xiangling displayed her knife skills, he stood up in shock, his eyes widened to the maximum, and so did his mouth.
"This….."
The hand holding his phone trembled slightly.
He had been staring the entire time Xiangling was chopping the ingredients.
He originally wanted to see her technique, but….
He found that he couldn't see it clearly at all.
The speed was simply too fast.
"The green onion, ginger, garlic, and chili are chopped extremely evenly, and the speed is this fast," Lao Hei's breathing became heavy. "This is a genius."
Although he hadn't seen Xiangling's final dish yet, just from the knife skills alone, Lao Hei already believed that Xiangling was a genius chef.
"Looks like she has the capital to be arrogant!" After the shock, a flash of appreciation appeared in Lao Hei's eyes.
He became even more interested in Xiangling's subsequent cooking.
Just what kind of delicacy would the abalone become in Xiangling's hands?
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