Liu Ying was indeed afraid.

Behind the door, there is a delicate face with excitement and shyness written on it.

is different from the strong spirit that showed up yesterday to challenge Liu Lan, as if the 13-year-old girl hiding behind the door at this time is the standard and classic Lolita.

"I'm Xia Yu—"

A slightly familiar voice.

Liu Ying's hand on the door lock trembled.

Although it was the first time we met by chance yesterday, Liu Ying even felt that this voice was much more cordial than her mother's call.

Open your mouth to respond.

"Don't you remember?" said the voice again.

"Remember, remember!"

Liu Ying whispered.

"Open the door for me!"

This was followed by a pounding knock on the door, which was very direct.

"Ahh

Obviously startled, Liu Ying squatted down and covered her head with both hands, "Wait a minute!"

"How long will it take?"

"Wait!"

"I'm busy, I'm leaving if I don't open the door......"

As he spoke, Xia Yu turned around.

Smack!

The sound of the door lock being unlocked, the courtyard door cracked slightly, Liu Ying's face was in the crack, and she shouted to him timidly: "Wait......"

She plucked up all her courage, and her hands were clenched.

Xia Yu turned around, and when he met his eyes in the crack of the door, he could clearly observe the shyness in Liu Ying's eyes, which really subverted his impression of Liu Ying.

Yesterday, when I first met Liu Ying, she was still a rude problem girl who instructed her brother and special chef Liu Lanyi, and now her painting style has changed greatly, and she has become a senior otaku who is afraid of seeing people?

Hell yes!

Xia Yu had bruises on his forehead, and he faintly felt that he had found the wrong person.

For the first time, Xia Yu had deep doubts about his choice.

However, there is such a thing as human nature, and it is really difficult to explain it in words.

Let's just say that the chief of the ten masters, the white knight of the table, and the Si Yingshi.

This guy is handsome enough, his cooking skills are good enough, he definitely belongs to the rich and handsome who has no dead ends, it stands to reason that he is the No. 1 boss of Long Aotian's character, but he just has a cowardly personality, and his control over the Ten Jie organs is very weak, so that in daily life, the rest of the seats can make small moves in front of him, or simply curse.

However, the cowardly personality is limited to daily life, and if it is a matter of cooking, Si Yingshi immediately becomes serious and strong.

Thinking of Si Yingshi, Xia Yu's frowning brows loosened slightly.

He looked at the big dodging eyes in the crack of the door and decided to give it a try with something from his cooking skills.

It just so happened that he was assigned a homework-like topic yesterday.

"Sakura-chan, as I said yesterday, control is not only reflected in the amount of ingredients, but also in knife skills, heat, and so on. I asked you to come back and study the effect of knife skills on the quality of a dish, right?"

Liu Ying was stunned.

"Hmmm......"

Strangely, when it came to cooking, her eyes suddenly became calm and decisive, and her wavering, dodging and even shyness were all gone, "Mr. Xia, I tried again and again when I came back yesterday, for what you said, knife skills affect the quality of dishes, the relationship between knife skills and control, I am willing to believe and feel that this is the direction I am working for, but I think I am too far away at the moment, and I haven't touched the margins......"

The head hung down again, but this time it was not shy, but lost.

Liu Ying's change made Xia Yu's eyes light up.

"This is saved!"

couldn't help but step forward and push the door open, Liu Ying looked at him with a stunned face, but Xia Yu then said, "Well, you have tried to show that you have a heart, I can demonstrate it to you first, to prove that the sword skills I am talking about have infinite possibilities in the future." ”

Winked at Liu Ying.

"Okay!"

Liu Ying shouted in surprise, her voice full of vitality and fighting spirit.

Seeing this, Xia Yu smiled, "That's right, come, raise your head, hold your chest up, I want to train you to be a female demon that everyone fears, not you to fear others." ”

Mother Liu and Liu Feng were outside, looking at each other.

Seeing Xia Yu holding his sister's hand and walking towards the courtyard kitchen, laughing and talking as he walked, Liu Feng was dumbfounded, is this really the sister who is afraid of life and extremely indifferent to her brother?

Mother Liu muttered happily: "It seems that Sakura can learn from this Summer Demon King." ”

In the afternoon of the morning, Xia Yu said goodbye to Liu's mother and returned to the old house.

Zhu Qing opened the door for him and asked with great interest: "What's the matter, have you deepened your relationship with that female apprentice?"

Xia Yu lowered her head and thought about it, ignoring her.

"When it comes to cooking, it's a warm and cheerful personality, but once I'm free, my style of painting changes...... No, it seems that before the Lantern Festival selection, she will have to give her a special training!"

The first festival after the year is the Lantern Festival, which is on the fifteenth day of the first month of each year, and there are about two weeks.

According to the system task, in the past two weeks, he will improve Liu Ying's cooking skills by a large margin, at least to the extent that he can compete head-to-head with the special chef, so as not to be eliminated early in the selection.

On the one hand, it is cooking, and on the other hand, it is special training for her character......

Xia Yu really had a headache.

Tight at this time, according to the current situation, looking at the task of "Ju Xia's Name", it is not an exaggeration to call it hell difficult.

The problem is, there is a serious mismatch between the reward and the difficulty of the mission!

"System, unlock the "Ju Down the Tower" business template, can you change it, such as replacing it with a golden evolution spar or something......"

Reminder, "Kikushitalou" is a special historical store, which is indirectly owned and operated by the host, and you can get a certain number of famous store specialties on the monthly business settlement date. ”

Specialty?

Xia Yu was stunned, inexplicably, he thought of the white jade building's specialty "Cold Water" used by Ye Feizhou.

"If it's a special ingredient, it can't be purchased through fame, but can only be produced by owning a special store...... That task, the reward is okay!" Thinking of a certain specialty ingredient, Xia Yu's hands itched.

What could it be? In short, don't disappoint anyone.

"Aunt Qing!"

Suddenly muttered to Zhu Qing, and the more Zhu Qing listened, the more strange his face became.

"Are you sure?"

Zhu Qing was stunned.

"Well, there's only this way, isn't it just that she's afraid of life, then let her see the market more, and by the way, she can also hone her cooking skills!" Xia Yu already had a training plan for the nominal disciple Liu Ying.

First of all-

Just twist her second personality back to that much for too long, at least she can't be afraid of life, and she can play her cooking skills normally on the duel stage.

Otherwise, Xia Yu didn't have to expect a 13-year-old girl with psychological defects to be selected at the Lantern Festival and win the prize.

That's not a pipe dream.

……

This year has been very unpeaceful.

In the Chinese realm outside the Xia family's old mansion, the position of the third pavilion master of the Baiyu Building, the news of the upcoming open recruitment has been spread all over the sky, and everyone is discussing it.

On the third day of the new year.

Jingzhou, Jianghan City.

A small secluded mountain village on the bank of a large river welcomes visitors.

"Brother Huang is so interested!"

There is applause behind him, the yellow crane who has retired from the high position of the imperial capital and returned to his hometown, wearing a hat and a coat, is a fishing old man who is alive, sitting on a small stool on the riverside wharf, motionless for a long time.

The visitor was not in a hurry, and stood for an hour with his hands in his hands, until Huang He caught a plump freshwater fish, and he suddenly said leisurely: "Fish, when I see fish, I will always turn out the video of this year's hunting finals, and watch it again, I have watched it about seven or eight times so far, and every time I look at it, I feel that the Xia Demon King is worthy of his name!"

The fish got out of their hands, were not loaded into the basket, and were bouncing around on the dock floor.

Huang He picked up the fish, turned his head and stared at the person faintly, "Wu Tong, I know why you came, but after the battle of the Loulin ship, Xia Qing and I have a grudge." Let's go. ”

The one who came was the contemporary 'Heavenly Machine Star' Wu Tong, the second person under the leader Yan Qi in the dark cooking world, and a real old monster.

Wu Tong stood with his hands in his hands, his eyes were far away, as if he was looking at the big rivers, but there was ridicule written on his face.

"Your place is about to be replaced by Xia Qing. ”

Hearing this, the yellow crane, who was grabbing the fish basket, was shocked.

"Have you heard? The third pavilion master of the White Jade Building, the dragon leader has the intention of recruiting from outside. Think about it, how did this Pavilion Master's Chair become vacant? It's not that he Xia Qing defeated you. In terms of cooking skills, in terms of fame, he is qualified enough!"

The indifference on Huang He's face was replaced by a kind of coldness, "I must not accept Xia Qing to sit in that position!"

The old monster Wu Tongpi smiled and said, "Very good, I don't want the Xia family to resurrect either." ”

Huang He stared at him coldly.

"Tell me, what do you want me to do?"

"Brother Huang can continue your secluded life, you just need to lend me a person, a powerful Lin Chef. Wu Tong's flickering gaze contained some kind of unspeakable murderous intention.

"Chef Lin, not Chef Dragon?"

Huang He's face changed slightly, and he understood the killing intent in Wu Tong's eyes, and suddenly understood.

"For the rest, I don't need Brother Huang to worry about it, but in terms of Lin Chef's manpower, only the former head of Bai Yulou in the Chinese world can say everything. ”

"Good!"

Huang He's answer was concise.

In fact, what he had in mind was more of the determination to get rid of the demon king of the same generation for his beloved disciple Ye Feizhou.

In the Chinese realm, one mountain cannot tolerate two tigers, and there can only be one successor of the king.

Otherwise, there will be more princes, and other dragons will be better, so the Chinese food world will be prone to chaos. Huang He thought a lot, and even ten years later, the Xia Demon King and Ye Feizhou fought fiercely, and the Chinese world was divided into two factions......

This is something that Yellow Crane does not want to see.

Not for personal enmity, but for the future of the Chinese community. That's what Huang He told himself in his heart.