Three Ways to Cook One Fish

"Then again, is it really useful to do this?"

The next day, morning.

Today, Chen Yusheng didn't go to the lab; she gave herself a day off.

People doing research often don't have weekends. Even if they stay at home, they sit in front of the computer to push their progress, occasionally playing some games.

Especially for someone like Chen Yusheng right now, who has her own project and resources that even newly hired young teachers might not have. She was full of motivation.

Therefore, her pattern was to randomly choose one or two days a week to give herself a break.

This also made it easier to coordinate with Su Bai's daily routine. If Su Bai happened to be free on a certain day, she had to seize the time to hang out with him.

Su Bai was very busy now, a man who also needed time management!

It was raining outside. Strictly speaking, it was already early winter, and the patter of the rain sounded quite chilly.

Snuggling in her boyfriend's arms in this kind of weather was the most comfortable.

Chen Yusheng rested her head against Su Bai's chest muscles and asked with some confusion, while scrolling through Li Xingya's WeChat Moments on her phone.

She is a very hardworking... uh, senior.

Although her temperament was like a junior, in terms of age, she was undoubtedly a senior, genuine and authentic.

As an employee, she was very obedient and useful, humble and eager to learn. In fact, even in legendary cutting-edge scientific research, not that many super geniuses are needed. Instead, it is a good thing for grassroots employees to have fewer ideas.

However, Su Bai obviously had other expectations for her, otherwise he definitely wouldn't have deliberately made that phone call.

Chen Yusheng had observed from the corner of her eye that Li Xingya's face was extremely red, and she looked very unnatural. For a girl who was already a junior, this was indeed quite innocent.

Not to mention juniors, even the current freshmen who had been at the university for nearly a semester had many girls letting themselves go.

But Li Xingya was indeed innocent, which couldn't help but make Chen Yusheng particularly admire Su Bai's eye for people.

Being able to accurately identify innocent schoolgirls is not a simple job. You know, women are the best liars. At the programming competition, there were also a few other girls from Jiangcheng Normal University who dressed up gorgeously. However, they emitted a weird smell that Chen Yusheng, as a girl, could faintly detect. But the male students from the computer science department of Jiang University who participated seemed generally lacking in insight, and quite a few of them tried to curry favor with them.

For example, the classic Xue Tao...

Xue Tao was also unbelievable. She didn't know what kind of relationship dynamic he and Liu Yuanyuan had now.

"Of course it's useful," Su Bai commented sharply while savoring the touch of her battle-damaged black stockings. "Such an innocent girl would easily be deceived when she enters society. It's better to just let me deceive her. Anyway, our team has good benefits, doesn't it?"

"You really... you really are a scumbag without limits!" Chen Yusheng wrinkled her little nose and rubbed her cheek against Su Bai's body endlessly. Every time they finished discussing academics, she loved to act coquettishly with Su Bai. How should she put it? Should she say it's a biological instinct?

Actually, girls don't hate scumbags, as long as the scumbag's stats are strong enough to a certain level and he is sincere and enthusiastic to every girl. This is not annoying, but might rather be some kind of charm point.

Therefore, Chen Yusheng would even help Su Bai pick up this newly arrived innocent senior.

To be honest, it was also quite interesting. Nowadays, Chen Yusheng was already an experienced veteran and had all kinds of fun with Su Bai, extremely happy. As a result, just chatting a bit on the phone and being accidentally overheard by Li Xingya caused her to have such a huge reaction.

In the end, many female college students are just all talk.

Su Bai didn't go out in the morning. He cuddled affectionately with Chen Yusheng until mealtime. It wasn't until Zhou Jialu sent a WeChat message saying the logistics guys had arrived that he excitedly threw on a bathrobe and ran to the underground parking lot to inspect the newly arrived fish.

Recently, he had been cooperating frequently with this multinational logistics company to import various expensive seafood.

Jiangcheng is an inland city after all. To eat seafood, cold chain logistics must be arranged. Some deep-sea fish will die almost as soon as they come ashore, or even be killed right after being caught and then quick-frozen. This is a mature technology.

Some can be kept alive and delivered. Among them, those of lesser quality flow into the mass market, while the top-tier goods are distributed to high-end restaurants and wealthy people with connections.

Looking at the fish tank on the transport truck, Su Bai suddenly realized that he was now considered a wealthy person with connections.

Leaving aside one's background, this stuff mainly depends on connections and the intimacy of cooperation. Su Bai had already injected a lot of intimacy into Xia and Liu Chenyang, and his cooperation with logistics providers was also quite frequent.

This time, he directly bought a whole bluefin tuna and also brought in a few boxes of sea urchins.

Winter sea urchins are fat enough and delicious. The texture of ice cream combined with the sweetness of seafood is a pure enjoyment as long as one doesn't have gout.

Sometimes, when Su Bai ate sea urchins, the indulgence rewards given back by the system were several times the cost price of the sea urchins themselves.

Truly invincible.

High-quality sea urchins are very expensive; hundreds of dollars for a single ounce is not an exaggeration.

"Are you going to put it away to discharge the acid? Or age it directly..."

"Let's discharge the acid first. Aging is not urgent. Let's see the quality. We'll eat the small fish today. Unpopular small fish are actually very good for sashimi, but they need to be roasted a bit with a blowtorch, and the dipping sauce needs more ingredients to remove the fishy smell."

Su Bai rubbed his hands together, already preparing to start.

Actually, in theory, many fish that are usually cooked directly can also be aged. For example, the large yellow croaker. After aging, cooking it home-style results in a more unique flavor.

Slow fermentation techniques similar to aging are actually the strong suit of French cuisine. Chinese cuisine also has them, but not as varied. Chinese cuisine excels in the broadness and comprehensiveness of its system, while foreign cuisines have many specialized strengths.

Recently, Su Bai had been messing around in the kitchen when he had nothing to do, and he had gained many new insights into cooking.

These were all piled up with time and money.

Therefore, Su Bai never felt that it was such a rare thing for rich kids to have various decent and glamorous hobbies. Many times, it's just that children from poor families don't have the opportunity. If really given a way to get started, who knows who would be weaker.

The main time before lunch was spent skinning the fish.

Skinning is a quite stress-relieving job, especially maintaining continuity in places where it's easy to break gives a great sense of accomplishment, like hitting a combo in a game.

This fish cost Su Bai over two thousand yuan. After skinning, there was a total of over two catties of pure meat. The meat was slightly fishy, but if suppressed with yuzu ponzu and chives, and paired with a special chili sauce, it would make a very refreshing sashimi.

If one isn't used to eating it raw, roasting it a bit with a blowtorch is also delicious.

The fish meat would be made into both raw and cooked sashimi, the fish bones stewed into soup, and the fish liver and other scraps mashed into a molecular gastronomy dish.

Three dishes from one fish, as they say.

Today the Wan sisters were at school. Lunch was eaten by the three of them: Su Bai, Chen Yusheng, and Zhou Jialu. It was a traditional lineup. Whenever this lineup appeared at the dining table, they basically talked about things at school, or more accurately, things in the computer science department.