The Young General's Wife Is Mr. Lucky

25. Overestimation

"Young Lady, what about us? How can we help?" Zhao Fei and Qian Laiduo, the other two cooks asked hurriedly.

Yu Jinli looked at the two, then at ingredients around him and said: "What about you help cut the potatoes into shreds?"

As cooks, they should be good at taking care of ingredients. With their help, it would take him less time.

However, clearly, he had overestimated the ability of cooks in this world for the shredded potato the two cooks had cut was bigger than that of a kid's finger, worse than what beginners on earth would achieve.

Yu Jinli: ...

Well, people here are stupid.

"Well, you guys, help me pick the edible part of vegetables instead, like this. Don't get it wrong." Having no alternative, he gave the other two another task and started to cut potatoes himself.

Perhaps it was because of this new body, which was very weak, or perhaps it was because he hadn't cooked for a long time, he was a bit rusty as he cut the potatoes. However, in the eyes of the three cooks, his skills with the knife was the acme of perfection. With a few random clangs, a big potato had become fine shreds. That ability was beyond their knowledge of human capability.

Right now, to them, Yu Jinli was a god who had descended to their world. They looked forward to his dinner more.

Three tiny white dots came out of the three men and merged into Yu Jinli's body. However, absorbed in the potatoes, he didn't notice that at all.

Having finished cutting the potatoes, the salt was almost done too with all the water gone and a layer of crystal solid at the bottom of the pot, only that the solid wasn't white but... black.

Yu Jinli chipped off a bit with a chopstick and put it into his mouth. It tasted the same as salt except that it came in a different color.

However, since all the ingredients here were multiple times larger than those on earth, it was acceptable that salt was black.

As a koi fish in this time, he was quick to learn new things, otherwise he wouldn't have accepted everything so fast when he was in a new world and found himself a gold coattail in the shortest possible time.

"Young Lady, is that... salt?" Zheng Peiqi and the other two looked at the bottom of the pot curiously. This was the first time they saw this black crystalline solid.

"Yes. But we can only use it after it is ground. Find something and make it into powder," said Yu Jinli, starting to prepare ingredients for another dish.

When Zheng Peiqi had made salt powder, Yu Jinli had finished his preparation as well. All he needed now was to cook.

Though people in this world didn't know how to make a dish, they knew how to cook rice.

Perhaps, that was because rice was meant to be boiled, which fitted this world's cooking habit perfectly.

That spared him a lot of trouble.

He told Zheng Peiqi to cook the rice first. Zheng Peiqi accepted the task happily, relieved that there was finally something within his capability. He swore to behave otherwise he would feel like a loser as a cook in this family.

The other two cooks who didn't have a task looked on when Yu Jinli was cooking. They were very curious about what the Young Lady was going to make given all the different measures he had taken.