Liu Yang thought, since those six people insist on waiting to compete with the guy snatching their meal, and they want to wait and eat meat first before they act.

Why not just get these people to leave?

This plan is totally feasible, Liu Yang thought about finding some reason to get people to leave without exposing his identity.

At this moment, Chen Mo had already started cutting the ingredients.

The ingredients bought earlier to remove fishiness were still left, slicing the carrots, cutting the celery diagonally into pieces, then grabbing some dried wood ear mushrooms and shiitake mushrooms from the cupboard to soak in water.

Chen Mo always had a stash of dried goods like wood ear mushrooms, dried beancurd sticks, string beans, and shiitake mushrooms; these things don't go bad, and they come in handy every once in a while. Buying a lot at once is very convenient.

Seeing Chen Mo busying himself, several customers waiting for meat started watching attentively.

"Bro, do you really need to add these ingredients when making scallion braised lamb?" Yu Hui was quite puzzled. This didn't really align with his understanding.

Chen Mo shook his head and said, "No need. It's just that there's a technique I haven't mastered yet, and I want to practice."

Yu Hui bit his teeth and took a deep breath. He felt he understood what Chen Mo meant, but also thought that there might be a misunderstanding, so he asked, "Do you mean to say that you can't make this dish, so you are learning it now?"

Chen Mo thought about it.

"If you put it that way, it's not wrong."

Yu Hui: ...

The others were also at a loss.

Even Feng the Second was thinking, just now when the young boss was squatting on the ground watching his phone, could it be that he watched a quick tutorial on TikTok and then just started cooking?

He had experience with this matter.

Feng the Second's wife was someone who especially liked to cook, but she had the knack of messing everything up, as if it was some sort of innate ability.

So every time his wife found some delicious recipe on TikTok and was about to try it, Feng the Second would find an excuse not to come home for dinner.

That's why Feng the Second has some trauma regarding such... learn-as-you-go methods.

Watching Chen Mo put the sliced carrot into the pot, he just added some water, the flame heated the black pot, and the little water quickly boiled.

Chen Mo grabbed some cornstarch, mixed a sauce, and poured some into the boiling water. Guided by Hou Yao, Chen Mo's ability to thicken sauces had improved a lot.

A ladle of starchy sauce went into the pot, and the clear water in the pot gradually became thicker.

Then...

Chen Mo held the small black pot with one hand, tilting it slightly forward at about thirty degrees.

Turn and turn, spin and spin.

The soup and carrot slices in the pot, under the force, reached a state of relative stillness; though they were a mix of solid and liquid, at this moment they seemed to merge into one.

Chen Mo felt the change in force, taking advantage of the unawares of the pot's ingredients.

I just flipped the pan!

The onlookers' mouths slowly turned from "o" to "O".

The thickened sauce soaked in the carrot slices, under Chen Mo's force, maintained their original shape and flew into the air, flipping 360 degrees, then were firmly caught back into the pan by Chen Mo!

Not a drop spilled; it returned looking just the same as it did when it left!

"This!"

"Wow, it's like something from a slow-motion movie, isn't it?"

"And you said you can't cook, learning on the spot?"

"Damn it, Boss Xiao Chen, were you just messing with us?"

This trick, regardless of its use in cooking, just by itself, looks impressive, giving off the vibe that if he can do this, how could the food not taste good?

Chen Mo breathed a sigh of relief, and his tensed thigh and hip muscles relaxed.

To his surprise, it was much simpler than he imagined.

This trick is a bit like... when building village houses, bricks are thrown from the ground to the roof. The person on the roof doesn't just catch the bricks hard, but instead catches them by lowering their hands steadying gradually.

It's a very magical feeling.

It seems hard, but really it's hard.

Chen Mo reckoned it could be because he played around with stones and whatnot pretending to be a martial arts master when he was a bit of an edgy kid, so he picked it up quite fast.

But that wasn't all...

Chen Mo also sliced the shiitake mushrooms, then put them in the pot, forming a fifty-fifty circle with the red carrots.

Then, continuing to spin, aiming for the right angle, the pot's inner side pressing down and the outer side flipping up.

"Done!"

The flipping side of the mushroom and carrot circle fell back into the pot; if you looked closely, even the arrangement of the small pieces hadn't changed.

[Our hero Chen Mo has the demeanor of a culinary god!]

"I suspect you've inherited some traits from Mu Mu..."

[Go for it!]

Lately, the system seemed to be quite chatty.

Next, Chen Mo put the wood ear mushrooms and celery into the pot, using the black ladle to arrange the four types of ingredients separately, resulting in a pot divided into four colors.

Swirl and swirl, spin and spin.

This time, Chen Mo's focus was incomparable, the upgraded black pot, though not explicitly specified, seemed to have a kind of bloodline connection, the force transmitted from the pot felt as if it was in Chen Mo's palm!

As the pot's ingredients spun towards the edge of the black pot, Chen Mo sharply flipped the pan, outward!

Outside the food cart, several people stared blankly as they watched the vegetable dish rise in the air, then the four-color platter dropped back steadily into the pot, even the arrangement remained unchanged.

The Cultural Square instantly erupted!

Even Shao Hailong, sensitive about his identity, couldn't help but clap hard, applauding until his palms hurt, "Awesome! So awesome!"

"Wow, this is even more entertaining than Yu Opera, Boss Chen, you should cook on stage."

"Impressive, impressive, with this skill, finding a job paying ten thousand a month shouldn't be difficult, right?"

Suddenly, words like "awesome", "wow", "tough guy" were endlessly heard, showcasing a lack of culture.

Dunzi took countless short videos in the car, and the intelligence group couldn't stop exclaiming "wow." Someone even suggested chartering a plane to chase down Boss Xiao Chen.

No one agreed with this suggestion except Fang Zhizhong.

The four-colored ingredients went into the pot steadily. Chen Mo felt like he almost mastered this technique. The downside was he wasn't proficient yet, so he couldn't form muscle memory and had to stay tense.

But that was enough!

The thinly sliced lamb returned to view as the cleaned black pot was placed on the stove to heat oil!

The white parts of the green onion were directly cut into 5-6 cm long sections, and once the oil temperature rose slightly, they were put in to fry.

This was also a little trick Chen Mo had recently learned.

After frying, the aroma of the green onion became richer, but it's usually difficult for people to master the timing. If you under-fry it, it doesn't smell fragrant; if you over-fry it, the taste becomes muddled.

The golden-fried onion segments were picked out for later use.

A bit of Sichuan peppercorn oil was added to the pot and heated until it started smoking, then the lamb broth that had been waiting was ladled in!

There wasn't much broth, just enough to cover the bottom of the pot.

The collision of broth and peppercorn oil instantly exploded with intense fumes, which normally people would avoid. Yet, the onlookers inhaled it like it was a rare delicacy, as if inhaling slowly would put them at a loss.

If someone watched from afar, they'd probably think Chen Mo was dealing special smoke in Da Kang, surrounded by addicts inhaling wildly.

Dunzi cursed himself for being blocked by six people and unable to get out of the car to join the inhalation frenzy, furiously honking the horn in the car!

The addition of lamb broth caused the pot temperature to drop rapidly, and the fumes quickly disappeared.

The crowd still hadn't had enough, but as the temperature rose, the fumes disappeared, giving way to steam!

"Keep inhaling!"

"We're all savoring the aroma, why are you opening your mouth like that?" Yu Hui looked at Feng the Third.

That guy opened his mouth wide, inhaling like a panting dog, "I damn have rhinitis!"

The lamb broth began to boil, and Chen Mo did some simple seasoning.

According to the progress bar, he used each seasoning with precision.

Salt, pepper, yellow wine, and a bit of MSG.

The black spoon gently stirred in the pot, preventing the pepper from clumping, waiting for the seasonings to fully merge with the broth.

Chen Mo kept the sliced meat in its original shape on the cutting board, then steadily placed it into the pot with both hands.

Switched to medium-low heat, covered it!

Not with a pot lid, but with a round plate, almost perfectly covering the broth and lamb.

Liu Yang saw this as his chance, winked at Chen Mo, "Brother, how long do you need to cook this lamb?"

Normally, it would take at least 15 minutes, but not with the black pot.

"About seven or eight minutes, why?"

Liu Yang rubbed his hands, pulling out two hundred Yuan from his pocket, "I'll buy this lamb!"

Yu Hui immediately disagreed, about to argue, he saw Liu Yang's slightly twitching eyelids and suddenly understood.

"What do you mean? I'll offer three hundred!"

Wang Zhifeng immediately said, "Three hundred? I'll give four hundred!"

The Feng Family's Three Brothers were clueless, not understanding what was happening, but joined in the fun.

"The three of us will put in five hundred!"

Behind Shao Hailong, the six of them were completely dumbfounded. What the heck is happening? They were also waiting to eat, should they join the auction too?

Shao Hailong, being more steady, gave his brothers a look and none of them said a word.

Instead, it left Chen Mo, who had no idea what was going on, baffled, "I just roughly calculated, this portion of lamb should be a little over two pounds. Honestly, selling it for 288 is about right, you guys don't need to compete for it, I'm cooking quickly here."

Liu Yang nodded, "Alright then, I'll give you the money first."

Wang Zhifeng also took out three hundred Yuan and placed it generously on Chen Mo's food truck counter, "Keep the change."

Then came Yu Hui and the Feng Family's Three Brothers, all took out money and placed it on the food truck.

Chen Mo tossed the money into the cabinet offhandedly.

Seeing this, Shao Hailong's eyes lit up.

Just the money they tossed in wasn't little, at least a couple of thousand Yuan.

And seeing how smoothly this boss operated, it seemed like the money he usually made was also stored in that cupboard.

At this moment.

Liu Yang somewhat provocatively said, "Boss Chen, I just saw that you're good at chess. When I arrived, I saw an old man at the village's east end solving chess puzzles. Do you dare to challenge it?"

Solving chess puzzles is a traditional fairground event.

Chen Mo smiled, "Really? How much do I get if I win?"

Liu Yang spread his hand, "50!"

Chen Mo calculated the time, going to the east end of the village would take just a minute, and he could even play chess in his mind on his way. Earning two or three hundred in five minutes wasn't an issue!

The money didn't matter.

He mainly wanted to give Old Yu a taste of his own medicine through the puzzle.

Then he said, "Let's go!"

Seeing this, Yu Hui immediately followed, "Let's go, I'm going too! I don't believe you can solve the puzzle."

The Feng brothers looked at the black pot, then at Chen Mo, "Let's go, we'll tag along to see the excitement. Who dares to play these things in our village?"

Without another word, they all left the food truck.

Leaving Shao Hailong and six others, plus Dunzi in the car.

They looked at each other.

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