An orange-red, cone-shaped carrot was held tightly in Jiang Yu's left hand, sometimes spinning in circles, sometimes flipping over, sometimes fast, sometimes slowly, making it dizzying.

In his right hand, he held a kitchen knife with a long and narrow blade. He used the sharp tip and blade to cut, peel, poke or twist the crisp, tender and juicy carrots. After just a few breaths,

A lifelike orange-red bird with a slightly open mouth gradually revealed its outline.

Even at this moment, Jiang Yu still did not relax at all. He held his breath and stared at the half-finished carrot carving in his hand, and continued to work.

Among the many cuisines in China, Huaiyang cuisine is recognized as the one that pays the most attention to knife skills. Whether it is Wensi tofu, which is famous in China, or boiled dried shredded noodles, they are all examples of Huaiyang cuisine’s exquisite knife skills.

Even Huaiyang lion head, a dish that seems to require no knife skills, actually contains the ultimate knife skills, and this is a kind of "invisible knife skills" in Huaiyang cuisine.

In fact, although each major Chinese cuisine has its own emphasis, superb knife skills are indispensable, but Huaiyang cuisine does not develop knife skills to the extreme.

The cooking carving practiced by Jiang Yu today is a unique knife art.

Different from the chef's basic knife skills of slicing, slicing, chopping, chopping, beating and basting, cooking carving is much more complicated. It mainly involves turning, cutting, carving, cutting, peeling, digging and withering.

A variety of techniques such as fruit and vegetable raw materials present unique artistic effects.

As early as when he was running the "Jiang's Soup Dumplings" shop in the Second Canteen, Jiang Yu had practiced cooking and carving for a period of time. However, at that time, he could not even fully master the basic knife skills and could only use white radish.

It’s just carving out radish flowers, and the shape of the radish flowers is not very pretty.

Nowadays, Jiang Yu's cooking skills have not only reached the level of a technician, but his knife skills have also improved. Coupled with frequent practice, he is now many times better at carving ingredients than before.

It was already late at night, and in the sky outside the window, a crescent moon hung diagonally in the distant horizon. The cold moon sprinkled down through the branches that had sprouted new leaves, and scattered silver fell to the ground.

Jiang Yu, who was sitting in front of the window, still had his head buried, staring at the carrot in his hand with concentration on his face. The tip of the knife shining with cold light was like the sharp beak of a woodpecker, quickly and meticulously, "pecking" out the carrot bit by bit.

The shape he wanted.

Time passed slowly on his fingertips, but Jiang Yu didn't notice it at all.

"Huh~"

I don't know how long it took, but suddenly there was a long exhalation sound in the quiet kitchen, which made the originally stagnant air suddenly become active again.

Jiang Yu put down the kitchen knife in his hand, stood up from the chair, and twisted his stiff neck and sore wrists, but his face was full of smiles.

On his left hand, stood an orange-red bird with sharp eyes, half-open wings, and an eagerness to fly. Its long tail feathers were raised high like a sword, making it look majestic.

This is naturally the "bird" that Jiang Yu spent more than half an hour carving out of an ordinary carrot.

This "bird" not only looks lifelike, but even the feathers on its body are carved to perfection. If it hadn't been for the eyes, the color would also be a bit off. At first glance, I would have thought it was a real bird.

After thinking about it, Jiang Yu took two more black beans from the room where the ingredients were stored and embedded them in the carrot bird's eyes.

When I look at it now, the carrot bird seems to be alive, as if it will fly in the next moment.

Jiang Yu held the little bird and admired it for a while, feeling somewhat satisfied in his heart. This was one of the few times he had carved food, and he was very pleased to have achieved this level of completion.

In fact, he had tried to carve a bird before, but unfortunately, the bird he carved that time was a failure. Not to mention that it looked silly, its body was swollen, and it felt like a bird.

Stupid, stupid fat bird.

What he carved this time is a real bird!

However, Jiang Yu is not proud, because in food carving

Among them, carving a single flower with a carrot is the easiest, followed by a single bird or animal, and there are many more complicated carvings than this.

In some videos of food carving, he even saw someone using various ingredients to carve out a landscape corridor, pavilions and pavilions in the "Jiangnan Garden". This scene was hidden in the misty water vapor and brilliant colors.

Under the lights, it looks beautiful, as if you are in a water town in the south of the Yangtze River.

With Jiang Yu's current level of carving, it would be difficult to carve such a complex work, but he believed that with his own abilities, he might be able to do this before long.

Of course, this still takes time.

Take a short bamboo stick, insert one end into the belly of the carrot bird, and attach the other end to a white radish with both ends flattened. From a distance, it looks like a fiery red bird sitting on top of the radish.

On top of the white radish, he looked cautiously for the food below.

The moment he finished carving the bird, Jiang Yu was a little excited, but now, he had calmed down.

After placing the little bird on the operating table, he wiped his hands, turned back to the resting area at the back, took a few pieces of clean clothing from the cabinet, and went into the bathroom next door to take a shower.

After taking a hot bath, he felt much better all over. When Jiang Yu changed his clothes and walked out of the bathroom, he suddenly felt something was wrong. When he turned around, he found that Lu Shuwu had come upstairs, and he was holding a

Look at the little carrot bird and look left and right.

Seeing Jiang Yu come out, he didn't ask why Jiang Yu didn't go to the kitchen on the first floor after work today. Instead, he raised the carrot bird in his hand and asked with interest:

"Boss, did you do this?"

"Besides you and me, is there anyone else here?"

This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Jiang Yu wiped his wet hair with a dry towel while giving him a sideways glance.

"Ah haha! That's right, I just didn't expect that boss you would start practicing carving again!"

Lu Shuwu laughed twice. He had seen Jiang Yudiao carving radish flowers before.

But at that time, the store only sold soup dumplings and there was no need for decoration, so Jiang Yu lost interest after practicing a few times.

Of course, the store was busy at that time, and he didn't have that much time to waste on this "useless" food carving.

What Lu Shuwu didn't expect was that this time Jiang Yu actually started practicing carving again, and looking at the little carrot bird on his hand, it seemed that he was carving very well.

This is much more delicate than those radish flowers before.

Lu Shuwu lowered his head and glanced at the carrot bird a few more times, then suddenly remembered something and asked again,

"By the way, boss, are you practicing butchering in preparation for the Chinese Young Celebrity Chefs Culinary Competition to be held in August?"

Jiang Yu had told him about this before. Jiang Yu was not going to compete, but was invited to participate in the pre-competition cooking show as a guest.

To be honest, if Jiang Yu could carve a work quickly during a cooking performance, it would be quite eye-catching.

"No, I was just playing around."

Jiang Yu dried his hair, threw the towel with the dirty clothes, and shook his head.

He obviously saw the confusion in Lu Shuwu's eyes and explained again,

"I already have other shows for the cooking show."

Lu Shuwu was stunned and quickly asked:

"Ah? What show is it?"

"Didn't you say that you would go back to Tanzhou with me then?"

Jiang Yu glanced at him again, turned around and prepared to go back to the room to rest, and said,

"Won't you know when you see it? If I tell you now, won't it be boring for you to watch?"

Lu Shuwu: "..."

What you said makes so much sense, I am speechless!

…

Jiangzhou University, open-air track and field training ground.

The sun has not yet gone up the mountain, and the lawn of the track and field field is still a little damp. The air is filled with the fragrance of grass and soil. Take a deep breath.

My somewhat groggy head immediately sobered up a lot.

In fact, the fresh air is not as refreshing as the coach's roar.

At this moment, on the plastic track of the track and field field, Liu Xiaohu, Du Haihua, Yao Xuehui and other students from the track and field team were lining up in a row.

In front of them is Yin Tao, the coach of the Jiangsu University track and field team, a muscular man in his thirties.

He had always been stern and kept a straight face all day long. Now the expression on his face was even more serious. It looked as if it had been coated with a lake of slurry and was tense.

Coach Yin just stood in front of everyone, scanning them one by one with sharp eyes. After a while, he opened his mouth to break the dull atmosphere:

"We started training as a team in September last year, and except for a few days off during the Chinese New Year period, the training has continued without interruption until now.

Although there have been twists and turns of one kind or another along the way, in general, everyone trains pretty hard every time and is able to complete the training plan on time and in the right amount.

but!"

Coach Yin's "but" suddenly turned up the volume, causing Liu Xiaohu and others to tremble and tighten their nerves involuntarily.

They have been in contact with Coach Yin for such a long time and are already very familiar with him. Under normal circumstances, if he suddenly raises his voice, it means that what he said before is not important, and what is behind is the key!

Especially this "but", if there is a twist, it will definitely not be a good thing!

According to Coach Yin's usual style, once he is unhappy, no one will be happy that day. He will definitely not give up until he trains everyone until they can't get up.

Therefore, while Liu Xiaohu and others tensed up their nerves, they couldn't help but secretly pray, hoping that Demon Yin would not be unhappy today, but he must not train again, it was too much!

"Although everyone has completed the training tasks on time and in quantity, why can't everyone's performance improve after such a long time? Huh?!"

Coach Yin's face began to look ugly. He must have thought about this question for a long time, but he never got an answer. He raised his hand and pointed at Liu Xiaohu, and continued,

"Take Liu Xiaohu for example. When he was a freshman, he jumped 2 meters and reached the level of a national first-class athlete. But after practicing for so long, by the time he was a sophomore, his performance had only improved by 0.08 meters.

, not even 2.1 meters!"

After saying this, he stared at Liu Xiaohu, looking like he hated iron for not being able to become steel.
To be continued...