......

Ma Wenbing was a little helpless and in a dilemma.

"Senior sister, let's wait until the end of the food competition, whether you can participate in the finals is not certain? ”

When Liu Linger heard this, she nodded, feeling that it made sense, and whether she could enter the finals was a matter of words.

"Okay, when the game is over, you can explain it to Daddy, then I'll go. ”

Liu Ling'er went out and took away the fragrance in the house, leaving the air that made Ma Wenbing think.

......

At night, Ma Wenbing, Tianxiang and Liu Ling'er were in the same room, waiting for Liu Yikou's return, and the blind man and the lame man had already set off for Liuhua Village in the west of the city.

"I really hope that my mother-in-law and grandfather can successfully capture Grandpa Cui and return victoriously, Wenbing, Ling'er, I won't accompany you to the competition tomorrow, and when Grandpa Cui comes back, I will personally torture and torture him, I don't believe that he doesn't tell the truth. ”

Tianxiang said, worried and expectant.

"Don't worry, Tianxiang, your mother-in-law and grandfather's kung fu is so high, they will definitely succeed, don't worry too much. ”

Ma Wenbing smiled lightly and comforted with concern.

Tianxiang shook her head and sighed, "That's not necessarily, I was ...... last time."

"At this time and that time, last time we were poisoned by the enemy, Tianxiang, this time they will definitely succeed, how would that Gonggong Cui know that someone is going to arrest him?" Liu Ling'er said.

The three of you said a lot to me.

......

The door was opened, and Liu walked in with a big breath, and said happily, "Good news, we have successfully qualified, and we are the third to advance." ”

"Third place, Daddy, isn't it the first place? The junior brother's dish is so delicious and so creative, why isn't it the first place?" asked Liu Ling'er suspiciously.

"Does Uncle Liu know who the top three are?" Tianxiang also asked.

"Alas......"

Liu shook his head, sighed, frowned and replied, "I don't know the first three, I asked a lot of people, and they don't know each other, they should be great cooks, but looking at their names, they don't look like us Central Plains people." ”

Ma Wenbing asked curiously, "Then what are their names?"

Liu thought about it because their names were too difficult to remember, "Donton Amat, Babachekosi, Kurban Longkeyou, yes, I remember correctly, these are these three people." ”

The names of these three people are so strange, at a glance, you know that they are not from the Central Plains, they are from the Western Regions, it seems that there are many masters of the older generation in this competition, and there are also dark horses from the Western Regions who break in.

Suddenly, Liu Ling'er remembered and asked, "By the way, there are two people from the Western Regions living next to it, will these three people have them?"

Liu pondered, "This is possible, as long as it is a person from the Western Regions, it is possible." But what I'm curious about is that the top three are all from the Western Regions, this thing is very strange, their food style is very different from our Central Plains, there must be something strange in this!"

Liu Ling'er suddenly had a ghost idea, mainly because curiosity occupied most of the reason, and said, "Daddy, I think we should also eavesdrop on what they say, saying that they may not hear a big secret, even if they see it, there is nothing, just report it back and report it, who let them eavesdrop on us first." ”

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Didn't you say that eavesdropping was despicable? Ma Wenbing was silent.

"I think it's okay, the good ones don't come, the ones who come are not good, it's okay for us to eavesdrop once for the sake of the game, but it's not appropriate for you to eavesdrop on Ling'er, Wenbing, you go and eavesdrop. ”

Liu stroked his beard and said seriously, his face was very calm as water.

......

Ma Wenbing was speechless, saying nothing seemed useless, and nodded, "Master, then I'll go." ”

"Go, don't be afraid, we're all behind you. ”

Ma Wenbing walked out of the room, gasped, and looked left and right, just as there was no one in the silence, it was a good opportunity to act.

Ma Wenbing tiptoed to the room of the two people, first stopped and listened, but there was no movement in the room, and then he put his ears close to the door and window and listened again, but there was still no sound.

Ma Wenbing also felt that these two people were very strange, so he pushed the door in, if they didn't eavesdrop on Ma Wenbing first, they wouldn't have done such a thing.

The house was no different from the one he lived in, and even the furniture was the same.

Ma Wenbing first looked around, and finally looked at a few paintings on the table to be curious, Ma Wenbing opened one of the paintings, an ink painting, on which was a big bird, and a string of words from the Western Regions.

Ma Wenbing was shocked, the more the big bird looked more and more like red candy, how could he draw red candy? Ma Wenbing could not know the answer.

Ma Wenbing picked up the four paintings and walked out of the room, and then returned to his room, although it felt bad to do so, but the two people were too suspicious.

After Ma Wenbing returned to the room, he put the four paintings on the table, and first opened the painting with the big bird.

"Tianxiang, senior sister, master, look at these four paintings. ”

When the three of them looked at it, Tianxiang was the first to be surprised and said, "Isn't this a red candy?"

"Red candy? Is that the big red bird we put together? By the way, what kind of bird is that? Daddy, do you know?"

Liu Ling'er asked suspiciously, she released the big red bird with everyone, after all, the size is too huge, and it is inconvenient to bring it to the capital.

Liu said quietly, "That big bird...... If you want to know the answer, you must first know what this string of words means, but this string of words is not our Central Plains text, so I don't know it. ”

At the top of the painting there is a string of words, crooked like earthworms, and I don't know if it is text or strange graphics.

"Senior brother, what are the other three paintings?" Tianxiang asked suspiciously, and opened one of the paintings with his hand.

The second painting opens, also in ink, with a tiger with a big mouth roaring on a rock, and a string of strange words on the top.

"This should be a white tiger, the difference you see about the white tiger is this marking, the black one is thin and narrow, although I have not seen a white tiger, but I have also seen a lot of pictures, very sure. ”

Liu said in shock, the white tiger is the king of the northern jungle, and it is difficult to find its footprints in the deep mountains and old forests, I don't know how people in the far Western Regions have white tiger paintings?

Then Liu Ling'er opened the third painting, which was also an ink painting, which depicted a big turtle lying on the ground, and there were strange words on the top.

"Daddy, what is this painting?" asked Liu Ling'er curiously.

"This ...... This should be a turtle, you see that the painting here should be sea water, this is the beach, turtles, white tigers, desert sparrows, if I guess correctly, the fourth painting should be Tianlong, this is the four spirit diagram. ”

Liu Yiyi was surprised and delighted, the four spirits are four precious and rare animals, and there are countless rumors about them, such as eating them can live a long life and so on.

Hearing Liu's words, Ma Wenbing opened the fourth painting, and sure enough, as the master said, the painting was a multi-legged heavenly dragon.

These four spirits are also recorded in Mr. Bai Eat's "Foodie Encyclopedia", Ma Wenbing has seen it, so the master is not particularly surprised when he says this, and he wonders why the two people in the Western Regions are carrying the four spirit pictures?

"Daddy, I know, those two people with these four paintings must be looking for the four spirits, then the red candy is dangerous, but don't let them find it." ”

"It's hard to say, it's hard to say, Wenbing, you hurry up and send these paintings back, so as not to startle the snakes, we will pay close attention to them and see what they want to do. Liu said that it was better to put the four paintings back, otherwise I don't know what they would do.

"Why? Why do you have to send them back? What if they find the candy according to the paintings? We should destroy these four paintings, and then they will go back. ”

Liu Ling'er did not agree to send the four paintings back, and those two people are now less and less like good people.

Liu Yikou explained, "I'm afraid it's not that simple, with the four paintings, they want to find the four spirits, how can they come back to participate in the food competition? If they want to know more secrets, these four paintings must be sent back first, so as not to startle the snake." ”

"Ling'er, what your father said is very right, if you want to know more secrets, it is best to send these four paintings back, so as not to suspect them. Tianxiang thought about it and said, thinking that Liu was scheming and had a better idea.

"Then I'll send the painting back now, while the two of them haven't come back yet, or they won't be able to send it back when they come back. ”

Ma Wenbing quietly returned the four paintings to their original places, and then came back quickly, the whole operation was very proper and safe, and no one else knew.

"Hey"

Liu sighed heavily, and suddenly remembered a very important matter.

"Uncle Liu, why are you sighing?" asked Tianxiang suspiciously, this plan was perfect, and he didn't understand why he suddenly sighed like this.

Liu shook his head and said, "That's not good, we all have to go to the food competition, and no one will watch their actions, which is also in vain." ”

Tianxiang thought about it, and took advantage of this good opportunity to let herself stay, so she smiled and said, "Uncle Liu, what's there to worry about? I just stay and stare at them? Anyway, I don't know how to cook, I just went to see a curiosity." ”

"You stay and stare at them, don't you want to follow us to the food competition?" Liu stared at Tianxiang suspiciously, she has always been very curious about the food competition all the way, why do you want to stay this time? Oh, it must be that I participated in the knockout round today and felt that it was not so fun, and I was not interested.

"Yes, can't I keep an eye on them? Don't worry, Uncle Liu, I'm sure I can watch their every move. Tianxiang continued, with a confident look.

"Alright then, you'll stay at the inn tomorrow and see what happens. Liu Yikou finally said.

At this time, the door opened, and the shopkeeper brought the evening's meal, and the day passed so quickly.

The next day, there were still a lot of people watching the excitement around the world's food art, all wanting to see what the top two or two hundred contestants would do next.

"There are really a lot of masters in this food competition, and even the nouns of North Marinated Soup, East Sweet and West Spicy are so backward. ”

"Why are the names of the top three people so strange? It doesn't seem to be from our Central Plains?"

"The nouns of the Golden Chef of the Tianlong Inn, the Silver Chef of the Earth Tiger Inn, the Jade Chef of the Desert Bird Inn, and the Treasure Chef of the Turtle Inn are so low, the champion of this competition must be a newcomer.

There is still half an hour before the second round of elimination, Ma Wenbing, Liu Yikou and Liu Ling'er looked at the time and entered the courtyard through the courtyard gate, because there were only two hundred people participating in the competition, so there was no need to divide the stove. So the three of them casually chose a stove, and then quietly waited for the time of the game.

Two hundred people entered the courtyard one after another, and everyone saw it clearly through the door, such as the north and south soup, the east is sweet and the west is spicy, and they are all high-spirited and ambitious.

Three of them attracted the attention of several people in Ma Wenbing, all of whom were in long robes and had messy beards, and they were from the Western Regions at first glance, including the two people who lived in the inn together.

"Master, the few people you are talking about must be a few of them, and they are really from the Western Regions, I want to see what they are doing later?"

Ma Wenbing said solemnly, it is a rare thing for people from the Western Regions to participate in the competition here, and they have won the top three, which is the most rare of the strange.

Liu shook his head and said, "Look at what you see, just do our own thing, no matter what they do, just make our dishes well." I don't know what the topic will be today, if it's a regular topic, then let the master and me do it, if it's a strange topic, let you do it. ”

Ma Wenbing is becoming more and more important in Liu Yikou's heart, he used to look down on him, saying that he was a square mallet, but now this square mallet is about to bloom, Liu Yikou can't help but be happy.

Liu Ling'er pursed her mouth, a little unhappy, "Daddy, either you do it or your junior brother does it, so what should I do? Do you really think that I will only cook the fire and wash the vegetables? I will also fry a lot of vegetables now, and the taste is no worse than yours." ”

Hearing Liu Ling'er's words, Liu Yikou smiled and said, "What will you do?" A girl's family, do you think I taught you to cook to make you a cook? No, it's just to cultivate your interest. ”

Liu Ling'er then said, "What's wrong with the girl's family? Daddy, don't underestimate me, I'll be a famous cook in the future!"

"Senior sister, I believe, I believe that you will be a famous cook in the future. Ma Wenbing said with a smile.

"Hmph, it's still my junior brother who treats me well, Daddy, you just wait and see, my daughter and I will definitely do it for you in the future, you can see it. ”

"The ghost believes you!" Ryu glanced at with disdain with a crooked mouth.

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