Chapter 182 The End of Revenge

Li Yan said, "The first round of the competition is about knife skills. Jidi, you should not have forgotten it!"

Jidi nodded, and the two of them took out a black cloth to cover their eyes, groping for ingredients and knives in the dark.

Lai He said to Xu Qing proudly: "Just wait and see, Li Yan's knife skills will surprise you."

Xu Qing watched the scene nervously. According to the original plot, Li Yan put a poison needle in the lobster to take revenge in the same way as he did that time.

After his repeated warnings, Master Jidi should not fall into the trap again.

Meili was also staring at the scene. Seeing that both of them had their eyes covered and were groping for knives, she asked curiously, "What are father and his friends going to do? Why are they covering their eyes?"

Xu Qing replied: "To test my knife skills."

Now Meili was even more confused, "Why do you have to blindfold yourself to test your knife skills?"

She had watched her father or other people in Yangquan’s family cutting vegetables before, and no one had ever blindfolded themselves. Wouldn’t it be easy to cut their hands if they did that?

Xu Qing patiently explained: "Knife skills test muscle memory. When beginners practice knife skills, they need to pay attention to the way they hold the knife, the position of the knife, and their eyes should be fixed on the ingredients to prevent them from straying.

This is a requirement for knife precision. After achieving precision, you need to further increase the speed, the faster the better. "

"After countless times of practice, knife skills have become a pure autonomous reaction of the muscles. Where the knife will land, how much force is used, and how thick the cut vegetables are, these no longer require observation with the eyes or even thinking with the brain. Instead, the muscles of the body will make autonomous judgments at the moment of cutting."

“Therefore, if the chef’s knife skills do not deteriorate at all after being blindfolded, and his cuts are still neat and precise, this means that the chef’s knife skills have reached the top level. He no longer needs to rely on his eyes and brain, but completely relies on muscle memory.”

Mary didn't quite understand what he said, but she knew that this was a very remarkable ability!
Meili looked at the field with sparkling eyes.

When Lai He heard Xu Qing's words, he looked at him in surprise: "I didn't expect that you also know something about knife skills."

"Know a little bit."

Xu Qing said this with rare modesty.

After all, there will be competitions later, and he doesn't want to expose his strength now.

Lai He naturally took Xu Qing's words seriously.

The stir-frying skills that Xu Qing had demonstrated before were already comparable to his. It was estimated that Xu Qing had spent all his time and energy on this, combined with other tricks, or some training that was harmful to his body, to have mastered the extremely exquisite stir-frying skills.

He certainly doesn't have time to practice other skills.

After all, even Lai He himself, in order to hone his stir-frying skills to the highest level, has slacked off on other skills, and his knife skills are even worse than Li Yan's.

Most chefs are like this, constantly working towards a goal and investing all their energy and time into it. Only in this way can they achieve something, and only those with talent can become top chefs.

No one has ever been able to excel in all skills.

In Lai He's mind, the only person who could possibly do this might be the one standing at the top of the dark cuisine world.

As for Xu Qing, this guy said he "knows a little bit", so it is estimated that his knife skills are just at the ordinary level, not even as good as Lai He, let alone the two people in the field.

Lai He said, "Boy, then you better open your eyes and watch carefully. What you see in front of you is a peak showdown between two chefs who are at the top of knife skills."

At this time, the two people in the field moved.

In the darkness, two silver lights suddenly flashed across the sky, like two crescent moons shining in the night sky at the same time.

In their hands, the lobster with a hard shell was neatly cut into pieces, claws removed, shells peeled, tails chopped, meat taken out. This series of complex actions was as easy as taking something out of a bag. The blindfolded eyes did not stop them, but instead made them more focused, and their sense of touch, hearing, and smell became more sensitive. Thanks to Lai He's suggestion to blindfold the judges, the two of them had adapted to the feeling of losing their vision in advance, which made the knives in their hands more accurate and sharper, and their movements were so fast that they could not even blink.

At this moment, all that could be seen on the scene was the constantly flashing silver light of the knives. The lobsters in their hands were precisely cut into pieces and neatly placed aside.

The tender shrimp meat is crystal clear and the cut surface is as smooth as a mirror. It can be seen that the chef did not hesitate at all when cutting the shrimp and has full confidence in his knife skills.

Moreover, Jidi and Li Yan, two top chefs, unexpectedly showed a consistent pace at this moment. The speed at which they peeled the lobster meat, the force of their knives, and the precision of their cutting were almost exactly the same, like a mirror reversal.

Xu Qing couldn't help but sigh, as if they were fellow apprentices who competed with each other and never gave in, their skills were so similar. And after Li Yan had gone through the rigorous training in the dark culinary world, he was only on par with Master Jidi, which showed that Master Jidi had never slacked off over the years.

Mary was dazzled and couldn't take her eyes off. To her, the skills of these two people seemed like magical powers, completely beyond her imagination.

She had never thought that there would be such exquisite knife skills in the world.

Lai He was also surprised. He had seen Li Yan's knife skills, but he didn't expect that Li Yan at this moment was even better than he had seen before.

It seems that this is Li Yan's real ability. He is worthy of being a person with skills similar to Chef Lin.

What surprised him even more was that the top chef opposite him actually had such superb knife skills. That person's strength far exceeded the scope of a top chef.

There are many hidden talents in the Guangming cuisine world.

Lai He felt much better when he thought that this powerful chef and the boy named Xu with unlimited potential would eventually die here.

At this moment, Li Yan suddenly stopped what he was doing, took off the blindfold, and said, "I'm done."

Almost at the same time, Master Jidi's voice also rang out: "I'm done."

Xu Qing breathed a sigh of relief. The first dish was done. It seemed that Master Jidi had avoided Li Yan's poison needle.

Li Yan looked at Jidi, his tone was full of admiration and the pleasure of revenge: "I didn't expect you to complete it. I didn't expect that after being poisoned, your sword skills were still as accurate and fast as before. Jidi, you are worthy of it! However, in this battle of three lobsters, you can't continue because you are poisoned, so I won! Jidi, you will experience the taste of approaching death in despair!"

Jidi's body shook, the knife in his hand fell, and he fell to the ground.

"Father!"

Mary screamed and ran over quickly.

Xu Qing was faster than her and rushed to Master Jidi's side in just three or two steps.

Xu Qing saw that his face was pale and his lips were purple, and he was obviously severely poisoned.

"Master Jidi..."

Jidi said with all his might: "I owe him this... Sorry, I'll leave the rest of the matter, and Meili, to you..."

After saying this, Jidi lost consciousness and fainted.

Meili cried and threw herself on Master Jidi, calling him non-stop.

It was only then that Xu Qing realized that perhaps Master Jidi had been determined to die before the duel began.

He entrusted everything to Xu Qing and paid the price with his own life to put an end to this revenge that had lasted for many years.

(End of this chapter)