In the kitchen, Xiang Kun was skillfully handling the ingredients, and at the same time whispered to Tang Baona, who wanted to help on the side, but didn't know where to start:

"By the way, I made a small wood carving for you to make a Christmas gift, because I was too late, so I only made one, put it in the bag with the sauce over there, you wait for us to leave and then open the gift, otherwise let Lao Yang see that I didn't prepare her share, then I have to be pestered by her all night, and I have to be forced to sign some unequal treaties to get out. The next time we meet, I'll get another wood carving to make up for her Christmas present."

Tang Baona couldn't help laughing: "'Old Yang'...... You wait and call her that in front of her, I really want to see her expression when she hears it, haha......" Then the gift to him also came to the interest, and asked, "What is the little wood carving you carved? Is it an original image, or an anime image?"

"You'll find out when you go back. Xiang Kun said.

"Ah......h

"Nana, what are you looking at?" Yang Zhen'er's puzzled voice suddenly came from the kitchen door, making Tang Baona almost jump up in fright.

"Ahh

Yang Zhen'er didn't notice anything strange, Nana was startled in the kitchen, and said, "I want to take Xiaoping to the room to see your collections, okay?"

Tang Baona has a lot of anime and game peripherals, many of which are very rare versions, and Qin Ping, a classmate invited by Yang Zhener today, is also interested in these.

"Yes. Tang Baona replied, without saying anything else. She knew that with Yang Zhen'er watching from the side, it would definitely be no problem, and she wouldn't let people damage her collection.

After getting the approval, Yang Zhen'er made a fist gesture to Xiang Kun next to Tang Baona: "Come on! Chef Xiang, my stomach is already in full swing!"

After Yang Zhen'er took her classmates away, Xiang Kun smiled at Tang Baona and said, "You can also go and chat with your friends." ”

"Well, you came to my house to help us cook, and you were doing it alone, I don't want to go!"

"Go ahead, go ahead, you can't help anyway, make up here to occupy my space and reduce my efficiency. Xiang Kun said with a smile.

"What?" Tang Baona glared at him, "You dare to dislike me?"

"Go, go, go. Xiang Kun waved her hand to let her out, knowing that she was acting.

To prepare dinner for ten people, even for the current Xiang Kun, it is quite difficult. He had already calculated the entire cooking process in his mind and made a very detailed division of steps, Tang Baona stayed in the kitchen, which was a huge variable, which would indeed affect his plan and process. Of course, he knew very well that he wouldn't mind saying this, and if someone else was here, he would have to change the euphemism.

"Okay, okay, you let me out anyway, it's not that I'm lazy and don't help~!"

Tang Baona walked out of the kitchen as she spoke, and then was stunned to find that the people who were chatting and talking in the living room and balcony before were actually gone.

Then she followed the sound and found a large crowd gathered in her room, several of whom could not even get in, but stood in the doorway.

Although her room was quite large, she couldn't squeeze so many people at once.

As soon as Tang Baona walked over, she heard the voice of Linlin's husband, Xie Peng, the art director of the game company with pigtails: "This big sword and this stupid hair are all carved directly? This is very laborious, and it tests patience and skill! When I was in the Academy of Fine Arts before, I also played wood carving with a few senior brothers, and I know how difficult it is! This maker is a master!"

Then came Yang Zhen'er's voice: "Then Brother Peng, look at this again, how is this carving?"

Tang Baona was behind a bunch of people, holding Wang Han and her sister's shoulders, tiptoeing between the two of them, only to see Yang Zhen'er pointing to the defective and semi-finished wood carving saber that Xiang Kun didn't do at the beginning, and asked Xie Peng.

"What's going on?" asked Tang Baona in a low voice, confused.

Tang Baoting couldn't help but laugh and whispered back: "Zhen'er took her classmates to see your collection, and then was attracted by your saber wood carving, when they were discussing, Xie Peng and his wife also came to see, it just so happened that he had learned a little wood carving before, so he commented." ”

She knew the origin of these wood carvings, so she knew very well that Yang Zhen'er was going to break it again.

In Tang Baona's room, the most conspicuous are two wood carvings, one is the finished saber wood carving, and the other is the half-finished flawed saber wood carving, and both of them are made by her to put a transparent display box on the shelf, which seems to be equally important.

"This ...... 'Evil God Saber' and 'Venus Saber'?" Xie Peng observed the half-finished wood carving, shook his head and said, "This is obviously a beginner's work, these two works are not of the same level." ”

"What if the level of the producer is at the same level?" Ms. Yang said.

"You mean, he deliberately carved it like this?" Xie Peng observed again and shook his head affirmatively: "Impossible, judging from the works, this can't be a level." If you don't look at the works, how can you judge the level of the two producers?"

"What if I can prove it? If I prove that these two producers are of the same level, how about you call me 'Third Sister' from now on?"

Tang Baona, who was watching from behind Tang Baoting, immediately understood Yang Zhen'er's purpose, it must have been Xie Peng jokingly calling her "Yang Laosan" again today.

"Okay! As long as you can have a way to prove that these two producers are indeed at the same level, so many of us are watching, you can't use a trick! I don't believe you......" Xie Peng was very confident in his judgment.

But before he finished speaking, Yang Zhen'er said in a flat and quiet tone: "Their makers are the same person. ”

Xie Peng was stunned for a moment, looked at the two wood carvings again, and said in surprise: "How is it possible to be the same person?"

"It's really the same person. Tang Baona walked over with a smile and said, "And you also know that person." ”

"I know too?" Xie Peng frowned and recalled, muttering: "Our classmates, your relatives, I have seen, I know, it seems that there is no one who can do wood carving, and there is a level of ......" Speaking of this, he was suddenly stunned for a moment, and then looked at Yang Zhen'er: "It won't be 'Chef Xiang', right?"

He still remembered that when Tang Baona was on her birthday, a group of their friends celebrated in the box, and then Yang Zhen'er introduced them to Xiang Kun's words.

first introduced Xiang Kun as a cooking genius, a bow and arrow genius, and a martial arts master, and then asked them to guess Xiang Kun's own job, and if they guessed wrong, they would drink, but as a result, none of the people in the group guessed his profession, and each of them was fined several glasses.

Could it be that in addition to cooking, bowing and arrows, martial arts, and his own work as a programmer, he also does wood carving? Oh yes, this guy is also very good at singing, quite infectious.

Yang Zhen'er laughed and said: "BINGO! I guessed it right! These two pieces are made by the chef! The same person is naturally at the same level! Lao Xie, don't call me sister!"

"No, it's the same person, different periods, and the level is different......" Xie Peng struggled.

"How do you count the same period, and how long?"

"Why does it take a year...... Within half a year!"

"These two wood carvings will not be more than half a month apart!

Xie Peng's eyes widened and he looked at Tang Baona in disbelief for confirmation, and the latter could only shrug his shoulders helplessly and say that what Yang Zhen'er said was indeed true.

Xie Peng had no choice but to say helplessly: "I can't imagine that I was deceived by you last time by using your profession as a chef, and this time I planted it again...... Three sisters, three sisters, satisfied......"

"Hey, Brother Peng, be good. Yang Zhen'er said with a grin.

Xie Peng was not annoyed, their group of friends had been losing money all the time, and his wife Linlin was also so laughing that she couldn't straighten her waist.

Wang Han, who was watching the excitement by the door, turned around and said to Chang Bin: "Xiang Kun can also do wood carving?" She is a little strange, if she usually knows this kind of talent, Chang Bin should have mentioned it when she introduced Tang Baona to Xiang Kun, after all, although this is not as good as piano and violin, it is also an artistic talent, which is a plus.

Chang Bin shook his head: "It's also the first time I know that he can do wood carving, and he definitely won't in college, I guess I learned it after work." ”

Although Xiang Kun was concentrating on cooking, he was also clear about what happened in Tang Baona's room. He doesn't care much about being known for his woodcarving skills, at most he says that he has a strong learning ability and is more talented in woodcarving.

However, after coming out of Tang Baona's room, the topic of conversation among the people actually focused on Xiang Kun.

Tang Baona and Yang Zhen'er praised how delicious the dishes made by Xiang Kun were, and Tang Baoting kept seconding the proposal next to her, raising the appetites of those who had not eaten Xiang Kun's cooking.

Xie Peng and Linlin described the situation when Xiang Kun sang "People Like Me" on Tang Baona's birthday before, saying that someone was directly cried by Xiang Kun, and the singing was extremely influential. So everyone unanimously decided to find an opportunity to let Xiang Kun sing another song after eating.

Then Yang Zhener took out her mobile phone again and played the previous video of Xiang Kun's "righteousness and courage", showing it to Qin Ping, Chang Bin and Tang Baoting who had not seen it, and boasted about Xiang Kun's "divine martial arts" again.

If it weren't for Chang Bin talking about their troubles in college from time to time, Xiang Kun's current psychological quality would be a little unbearable to their praise.

At 6:11 p.m., eleven minutes later than planned, Xiang Kun began to ask Tang Baona and Yang Zhen'er to help serve food outside.

With the boasting of the Tang sisters and Yang Zhen'er before, everyone else also had extremely high expectations for the dishes made by Xiang Kun.

Now I see the first few dishes that come out, which is really appetizing, and they all start to gather around the table and prepare to eat.

Xiang Kun finally came out with a dish, and through the position of the people who had already sat down, he speculated about the position of the people who had not yet sat down, and then when he put down the dish, it seemed that it was just to place it more loosely, so he naturally adjusted the position of several other dishes, so that the dishes he had adjusted for specific tastes were placed closer to the corresponding "diners".

Originally, when they knew that there were a total of ten people going to eat together tonight, Tang Baona and Yang Zhen'er were a little worried that Xiang Kun would not be able to cope with it alone, so they wanted to call ready-made dishes directly from the restaurant outside, and only let Xiang Kun cook one or two dishes.

However, after Xiang Kun calculated, he still felt that he could handle a table of dishes by himself now.

With the new cognitive model, Xiang Kun can now directly establish a cognitive model for each dish when cooking, and can adjust the cooking process between multiple dishes more conveniently and efficiently, and how to change the cooking details of which step according to the tastes of different people, so that he can be more comfortable in the kitchen.

The tastes of the diners tonight, in addition to his own disregard, Tang Baona and Yang Zhener are naturally the ones he knows best, and there are four dishes that are completely made according to their tastes; Tang Baoting and her fiancé Gao Yao have eaten a few meals together, and the taste strategy is already more than 50%, and two dishes are adjusted according to their tastes; Chang Bin is his college roommate, Old brothers, after graduation, they also occasionally eat together, although they have not eaten the food he cooked, but the taste also has a basic judgment, there are two dishes that are made by recalling his taste; as for Xie Peng, Linlin, Xiaoping, Wang Han, Xiang Kun does not understand their tastes, so he can only arrange the remaining four dishes according to the tastes of most of the local people, which are more light.

Of course, it doesn't mean that the dishes made for the tastes of Tang Baona and Yang Zhener can't be eaten by others. Xiang Kun believes that other people will still feel good when they eat it, and if the taste is similar to the two of them, the feedback they get will be better. He had just done the calculations before, and he felt that this kind of flavor combination should be able to maximize everyone's satisfaction.

Everyone was about to sit down and start eating, but Yang Zhen'er suddenly stopped: "Wait a minute, I'll talk to Lao Xia first!"

However, her video invitation was directly refused.

So Yang Zhen'er turned to take a short video and sent it to Lao Xia, and deliberately made a close-up on Lao Xia's favorite crispy assistant, and said while shooting: "Ho Ho Ho, do you see Lao Xia? Your favorite crispy pork knuckle, made by the chef, um~~~ It smells really good! It must be quite good to eat! Oops, my saliva is about to flow down! Lao Xia, don't worry, I will help you get rid of them!"

Seeing Yang Zhen'er's embarrassed appearance after posting the video, Tang Baoting couldn't help laughing: "I now know why your cousin didn't accept your video invitation." ”

Tonight, in addition to Xiang Kun and Gao Yao's 10,000-year-old boiled water and 10,000-year-old ice cola, there are also two men, Chang Bin and Xie Peng, who can all drink, and they can be regarded as drinkable.

But tonight, it is obvious that the girls are the protagonists, they are either sisters or sisters, sisters or classmates, so whether it is Wang Han or Linlin, they all want to drink.

Chang Bin and Xie Peng simply accompanied Gao Yao to drink ice and become a driver later, and now they will focus on dealing with dishes.

In fact, the dishes on the table made by Xiang Kun, at first glance, are not too amazing, and they can even be said to be too homely.

At a glance, except for fish soup, there is no seafood at all, lobster, crab, prawns or anything, except for a few rabbit dishes, that is, crispy pork knuckle, braised pork ribs, fried chicken in sauce, vegetables, only cabbage and eggplant, even eggplant is meat foamed eggplant.

However, these "diners" on the table, Tang Baona and others have long known how delicious the dishes made by Xiang Kun are, and the others have just been overwhelmed by their sense of expectation for Amway, so they are not disappointed because these ingredients are not "high-end" enough.

And when they start eating, the aroma and taste buds together bring excitement that even exceeds their expectations.

Chang Bin chewed a piece of dry pot rabbit meat, and couldn't help but look back at Kun: "You are really so good at cooking? If I hadn't just seen you cooking, I would have wondered if you went directly to the restaurant outside to buy it! You kid...... I don't think you should open any farms, just find a place and open a restaurant in this city! If you need anything, I can help!"

Xiang Kun said with a smile: "Maybe you will really open a restaurant in the future." Then he pointed to another dish: "You try this, you have a relatively heavy taste, you can eat spicy, you can try this." ”

The table was soon filled with admiration, and then the dishes were constantly served, and everyone wanted to try the flavors of each dish. In comparison, Tang Baona, Yang Zhener, Tang Baoting and a few other people who had eaten Xiang Kun's dishes before, on the contrary, ate more slowly, and helped introduce the taste of the dishes to the people next to them by the way.

"Chef Xiang, I really admire it. Xie Peng, who had pigtails, held a glass of Coke and respectfully greeted Kun: "When we met for the first time, Mr. Yang ...... Okay, don't stare at it, don't stare at it, it's the third sister, the third sister, okay?" smiled and responded to Yang Zhen'er, who gave him a threatening look, and continued to look at Xiang Kun and said: "The third sister called you 'Chef Xiang', I thought it was just a joke, but now I finally understand that the chef is really a chef! Oh, by the way, your wood carving is also quite good, admire!"

Then several other people at the table also took turns to "toast" Xiang Kun, thanking him for making such a large table of sumptuous food, but what is more unusual is that the three men all used Coke, while the six women all used red wine, as for Xiang Kun, of course, he drank several glasses of boiled water.

Xiang Kun updated the data of their tastes and preferences in real time according to the physical feedback of several people, and then pretended to inadvertently recommend dishes that were more suitable for them.

Naturally, not only did they eat at the table, but they also began to chat frequently after eating and drinking.

After Xiang Kun's various sensory abilities have been greatly improved, and he has been trained in rapid analysis of sensory information, and his brain-related processing ability has been evolved and strengthened, he is much more comfortable than before when interacting with and chatting with people, and can analyze according to observations and then give feedback.

Especially after he learned a little psychological knowledge and skills related to micro-expressions, he applied them more freely.

But after truly mastering and obtaining that new cognitive model, Xiang Kun found that he had entered another realm in communicating with people.