My Four Superstar Ex-Boyfriends

Chapter 13: C and D

As soon as she heard the other's reply, Emily felt that she simply couldn't understand what was going on in the boy's head at all! However, her expression and demeanor were obviously misunderstood by the nineteen year old Czech boy, who thought that Emily had found out that he wasn't being completely honest!

So Heinz, this time with his head down, said, "Well, it was over five hours. But I promise, it's definitely less than six hours."

Seeing that Emily was about to open her mouth to lecture him, Heinz hurriedly said, "Actually, I've been thinking about something since I received that read contract you handed me this morning."

After saying this, Heinz paused for a moment before taking a deep breath and said, "Whether I should go to Prague Lokomotiv in the C-League, or Prague Meteo, which will probably be coached by you from the new season onwards."

One could only imagine the struggle the boy had gone through before he met the late Emily. If he hadn't, he wouldn't have been able to wait in front of Emily's house for almost six hours without telling her in advance. He didn't tell Emily because he wanted to give himself a chance to back out. If he changed his mind before Emily came back, he could just leave without letting anyone know he had been there.

But in the end, he waited for Emily.

And by this time, he'd been waiting for nearly six hours.

The moment the words were uttered, Heinz seemed to have made up his mind, and the Czech boy's face wore a smile, and his eyes looking into Emily's could be as bright as they were even at night. He said, "Yesterday afternoon you said to me, 'Heinz, you've graduated, you can't talk about us at times like this anymore.' Then I thought, yes, you won't be coaching the varsity team at Rutland High School anymore, but I can. If I can impress a Division C team with my ball skills and performance, then I can certainly impress a Division D team."

It was only when Heinz got to this point that Emily realized what the boy was really thinking! She immediately interrupted the other party and said, "Heinz, this idea of yours is very immature. You don't realize what a big difference it makes to be one division away from your team's league! Can you imagine a player playing well in the first division voluntarily transferring to the second division? Even in the Premier League, which is the most commercially successful and has the largest number of fans outside of their own country, their second division, the Championship, has no market for its teams abroad. The Czech Republic's C and D leagues are both amateur leagues, but the gap between them is also huge! The C division is the professional league as long as you go up one level, and you can get more attention from the B division teams by playing in the C division. Only when you get to the professional league, your career can be considered to have officially begun! You have to understand that even the Czech First Division is only ranked 14th in all of Europe! The world of soccer is vast, you shouldn't just see what's in front of you. You're different from me. You're a player, and I'm a coach. A player's youth is precious!"

"I know, I know all of this. I've been considering this matter for a long time, I've been waiting for you here for six hours!" Heinz had wanted to liven up the atmosphere a bit, so that Emily wouldn't talk about him so seriously, but accidentally this slipped out!

Luckily, the sound of Heinz's hungry stomach rumbling saved him at the crucial moment.

Krumlov was not like Prague, it was just a small town in the south of the Czech Republic. The town's restaurants would close early, and at this point it was nearly 10:00 p.m. It was almost impossible to walk out and find another restaurant for dinner. Realizing that the other party probably hadn't eaten dinner until now, and had waited from four in the afternoon until now, Emily really couldn't harden her heart to continue to blame this boy, so she sighed and said, "Hungry? Come upstairs with me, I'll cook something for you to eat."

When she went out this morning, Emily had already thought that she would most likely come back late this evening. And, in order to hurry, she should be too late to come back after dinner in Prague. Therefore she had cooked a pot of beef after getting up.

Drizzle some olive oil in a casserole dish, add the cubed brisket, curry powder, and a little diced onion, sauté for a while, add water when you can smell it, cover the casserole dish and cook for an hour, and you'll have a crispy, flavorful, wonderfully sinewy pot of brisket!

When she comes back in the evening, just add potato cubes and chunks of curry and you have a very tasty beef and potato curry! When she was hungry, just thinking about the freshly cooked beef and potato curry in the car made her feel like she had something to look forward to in life.

The Czechs are meat lovers and are particularly fond of steak and pork ribs, and roast duck with a special side dish is a traditional Czech dish that has been around for a long time. But while the people here like their steak with a side of grilled or boiled vegetables, Emily found the meal a little too dry. It was also too strong and not refined enough for one meal.

In the two months she'd been overeating and giving herself up, she'd been able to eat one British pizza after another, and she'd been shoveling takeaway fries and burgers into her mouth like a madwoman.

But once she got her life back on track, she didn't even want to eat steak.

Nonetheless, when it came to preparing dinner for herself, she could never muster the heart that she once had for those ex-boyfriends of hers who prepared three meals a day. But now, she'd been much kinder to herself than she'd ever been before.

As soon as Emily returned, she took the seared shrimp from the refrigerator and dipped them in water to wash them. And then she peeled and cubed the potatoes. Considering the amount of food Heinz, who had been hungry for most of the day, might have eaten, Emily deliberately cut two extra potatoes, and set them aside after she had poured the rice.

Once that was done, Emily started to use two pots to simmer the half-finished beef with cubed curry and potatoes in a casserole dish with water, and then used another pot to sauté the prawns.

There are about two ways to cook shrimp and shellfish in Europe. The first is to cook them in white wine with butter and a little garlic. This way, the shrimp will have a full-bodied wine flavor, and the freshness and sweetness of the shrimp and shellfish will be emphasized to the fullest extent. Another way is to use tomatoes as the main ingredient, accompanied by unique spices, which will give the seafood a particularly strong flavor, the taste is rich and heavy.

By varying the ingredients and cooking method from these two basic methods, a wide range of seafood flavors can be created.

However, Emily found both of these flavors to be too Western. She got tired of eating out too much, so after she learned about Asian cuisine, she became fond of using a frying pan, drizzling some soy sauce over the prawns to bring out their freshness and make the simplest savory flavor.

In fact, Emily had originally just wanted to take those two items and add some vegetables to make a seafood curry beef puffed rice dish! But she does not have the rice that she cooked the night before, and it is obvious that the freshly cooked rice will not taste very good, so Emily chose the paella method, and directly took the raw rice to cook the Seafood Curry Beef Bubble Rice.

However, it would take at least twenty minutes for the already hungry Heinz to eat his late dinner!

So Emily glanced at Heinz, who was sitting at the small square table behind her, looking extraordinarily formal, and she thought to herself that this Czech boy was really interesting ......

Then she took a small plate and picked out some freshly cooked shrimp and handed them to Heinz, leaving her with the words, "Eat first," and then she went back to the refrigerator! She rummaged through a packet of blue mussels! And then she found lots of duck breasts! Emily's eyes lit up at this discovery! She then turned her head to the pineapple that was sitting on the fruit bowl in the back, while preheating the oven!

When Emily turned her head to look at the pineapple, Heinz, who was struggling with the crayfish, which resembled a crayfish, with a knife and a fork, as if sensing something, straightened up his back and asked in a formal manner, "Is there anything I can do to help?"

To which Emily smiled and replied, "Yes, just sit there."

With that said, Emily walked over and picked up the pineapple and peeled it with her hands, then cut it into three large chunks and laid them in the oven and set the temperature. Then she washed the lemongrass she had bought from Prague.

Twenty minutes later, Heinz was dumbfounded at the two colorful dishes that Emily had brought up after making the whole kitchen smell so good.

"I happened to bring some of this Thai spice with me when I came back from Prague, and there are so many Thai food restaurants in Prague that you can even get lemongrass. So I cooked you blue mouth mussels with lemon grass and coconut milk."

"It smells ...... so special."

Heinz had never been served a meal of this magnitude before, not to mention that Emily's blue-mouthed scallop, though simple to make, was a solidly innovative dish that combined Western and Asian cuisines in a way you wouldn't find in a Western restaurant or in the Thai restaurants that were prevalent in Prague.

The other dish, too, is one that is not complicated to make, but looks so hearty that you'll feel like you're getting a surprise just by looking at it!

Duck breast is not very popular in some countries, but it is very popular in Western cuisine. And when it comes to the cooking method of duck breast meat in Western cuisine, it is the sweet flavor that is honored!

Some chefs are sweet and like to use strawberry sauce. Some cooks like a refreshingly tart flavor, so they use orange. Instead, Emily's choice is fresh blueberries, raspberries, and grilled pineapple, with fresh jam handmade by the townspeople and blended with freshly browned duck breasts to make a delicious sauce.

For this dish, she had contributed all the fruits she was going to eat tonight! But looking at the finished product made Emily feel good again. The blue of the blueberries, the red of the raspberries, the yellow of the pineapple, and the beautiful texture of the juicy duck breast as it browned, all of this seemed to brighten up the entire tiny kitchen after being carefully plated. After putting the dish down, Emily walked back to the stove, almost humming, and chopped the cleaned vegetables into the pot of curried beef and seafood rice, tossed it around, sprinkled in some parsley to replace the cilantro, and turned off the heat.

Seeing her action, Heinz, who had been all kinds of formal from the moment he walked in the door, got up in a hurry and came over to help Emily carry the big pot to the small square table.

Looking at the dishes on this table, Heinz was so surprised that he didn't know what to say. So he picked up his knife and fork, but he didn't know where to start. This Czech boy said, "I thought ...... you used to be a scout."

Hearing this, Emily, who had long known exactly how these boys guessed her identity behind her back, wanted to smile noncommittally, but finally told the truth: "I used to be a housewife, or a housewife who didn't even have a wedding ring."

This answer from Emily clearly flirted with the statement Heinz had made when he first met her, as well as with herself. After that, not wanting to go on about this issue, Emily signaled Heinz to quickly serve herself a bowl of curry beef and seafood puffed rice. Unexpectedly this guy is also very good at lending flowers to Buddha, after serving a bowl full of this hands to Emily, so Emily also happy to accept, scoop up a spoon with the sweet aroma of curry and light spicy, but also through the oil explosion of shrimp silk fresh salty taste of kimchi, just a mouthful of it can make people feel that the heart is about to melt.

"Eat some duck meat! It was made especially for you. Duck breast is very nutritious and not too many calories. The grilled pineapple will also be good for the athlete's joints."

Heinz, who had long ago become a little giddy with hunger throughout, felt so weak he could have eaten a sheep! He wolfed down the dishes made by his soccer coach. And, perhaps because of the relationship of the hungry hard, Heinz although eat up the action is quite elegant, but almost took less than twenty minutes to finish the table above the meal, even the blue mouth shellfish such as shellfish dishes have not let go.

Both of them tacitly refrained from talking about the choice between the C-League and the D-League during the meal. When sending the other downstairs, Emily even urged the other with great concern that it was a bit too late to finish the meal at this time of the day, and asked him to make sure that he didn't go back on his bicycle, urging him to push his bicycle and walk back on a stroll.

However, after saying all these, Emily still solemnly said to the most outstanding player in the varsity team she had taken, "Regarding whether you want to play with Prague Lokomotiv or Prague Meteo, I still hope that you can think about it a little bit more carefully."

And this time, Heinz, who had already decided everything in his mind, was finally able to speak frankly, "Before you coached the varsity team of Rutland High School, I never thought that one day in the future I would be able to follow this path. I know it's been a long road for me, and it's going to be hard, but ......"

Heinz seemed to be at a loss as to how to say what was on his mind just like that. So he changed his approach. He said: "In the past, I have seen a number of players abandon their home teams after they became famous to play for the big clubs that could offer him a higher salary, but they still had to say that he went there because of the coach of that big club. I used to scorn those people as cowards and liars who were afraid to tell the truth. But now, I think I finally understand the feeling of choosing to go to a certain club just for a good coach too. I'm sure I'll make the right choice. I also believe that you will take me further."