"Uncle Zhong, what is the relationship between you and those two people?" Long Xiang asked on the way back. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Uncle Zhong also felt that there was nothing to hide, and replied: "The three of us grew up together since childhood, studied art together, went to the provincial capital together, and interned in Longyang together. I am worthy of them, and they are brothers to me.

"But you also know that talent is very important. When I was interning in Longyang, my strength was strong, and I was more prominent than the two of them, and I was deeply liked by your grandfather. Because your grandfather is strict in teaching, if he makes a mistake with the two of them, he will either beat or scold.

"One day, Pan Sheng made a mistake and was noisy in the restaurant by the guests; But your grandfather drank a lot of wine that day, and was in a bad mood for a while, so he slapped Pan Sheng in front of everyone in the back kitchen, and released words and said: "Like you garbage, you can't even reach a Li Zhong, after you finish your internship, go back to farming directly, you don't need to be a chef." ’

"Since then, there has been a bitter tie between the three of us. After the two of them finished their internship, they left Longyang and fended for themselves in the provincial capital. And I stayed in Longyang, and I didn't have any contact with each other. For more than ten years, no one knew about the relationship between the three of us, so when I was in trouble in Longyang, I thought that they were the ones who could help, but I didn't expect to harm your Long family. ”

Long Xiang listened to Uncle Zhong's reproachful tone, and comforted: "You don't have to blame yourself too much, you were also kind back then, if it weren't for you, maybe we would have perished faster, it's just that you saw the wrong person." ”

Uncle Zhong seemed to think of something, took out the colorful wishful box, and handed it to Long Xiang.

"What is this?" Long Xiang recognized the Ruyi box at a glance and asked in some surprise.

"I gave it to you, the two of them were in too much of a hurry when they left, so they dropped this, and the lock fairy altar was shattered by me all at once, it's a pity." Uncle Zhong was a little annoyed.

Long Xiang hurriedly waved his hand, he couldn't accept this gift: "No, Uncle Zhong." Your cooking skills are so high, this thing can only play its best effect if it is left by your side, and if you give it to me, it is simply a tyrannical thing. ”

"No, the best effect of this stuff is to rely on the chef's accumulation of spices. I'm past that age, and you're just getting started, so it's a gift for me before I get a chef. "Uncle Zhong forced it into Long Xiang's hand.

Long Xiang didn't shirk it, but when he heard the chef qualification exam, he was a little uncertain, and asked Uncle Zhong: "Is that exam really difficult?" I heard that both Big Brother Ma and Big Brother Xiong didn't pass. ”

"The two of them failed because of their lack of basic skills and limited talent. It's useless to say that now, when you actually participate, you will understand what the eldest young master and I have done before. ”

In a few words, taking advantage of the moonlight, the two were already almost home, but they found Long Qian standing at the door, as if he had been waiting for them.

"Dad!"

"Shopkeeper!"

Long Qian was wearing a coat, his eyes were a little unhappy, he stared at the two and asked, "What are you doing?" Still wearing a night outfit? ”

"It's okay, I'm going to meet an old friend." Uncle Zhong explained.

Long Qian was still very relieved of Uncle Zhong's words, and did not ask carefully, but just asked: "Is it exposed?" He had always thought that Uncle Zhong's friends were from the surrounding towns.

"Not really, but I'll have to be away for two days so I don't find out."

"No, look at this, someone sent it just now. I wanted to look for you, but I found that you were not there, so I deliberately waited here. Long Qian didn't continue to ask, but handed over a letter.

Uncle Zhong naturally knows what it means, and sending things over this big night is either to seek revenge or to collect debts.

As expected, it was a challenge letter, sent by Shui Yunxuan, and the letter said that three days later, Shui Yunxuan would swing in the ring in the town and have a life-and-death duel with Longyang Restaurant. Take Shui Yunxuan's Zhenlong Altar and Longyang Restaurant's exercises as a bet, if you don't go, leave Longyang directly.

After reading this letter, Uncle Zhong was a little puzzled. Shui Yunxuan actually has no other outstanding chefs except for Zhenlong Altar and Zhai Xing. Moreover, Uncle Zhong once ate Zhai Xing's cuisine, and he didn't even feel like a three-star chef, but it is not ruled out that Zhai Xing did not use his strength.

"Let's go in and talk!

"Uncle Zhong, what do you think?" Long Qian was a little puzzled, they had been in Longyang for two years, and Zhai Xing had not moved, and today he suddenly made a war letter.

Uncle Zhong didn't understand either, and shook his head.

"Three days later, if the three-battle battle system is played, you and I will basically be able to lock in the victory, but I don't know what medicine is sold in Zhai Xing's gourd. If something happens in the middle, it will be a shame. Long Qian's face was solemn, after all, it was someone else who made the first move, if he took it indiscriminately, he would inevitably fall into the trap of others.

Long Xiang didn't have the rhythm to interject on this occasion, but he thought about it and said his thoughts: "Dad, Uncle Zhong." If the two of you can guarantee victory, what about the other one? ”

"There is still someone who can abstain directly, there is no need to play." Long Qian said very confidently, but he suddenly had a problem, picked up the letter and read it again a few times, and immediately understood.

"Haha, I understand Zhai Xing's intentions, I didn't expect it to be so insidious!" After Long Qian read the letter several times, he finally understood Zhai Xing's intentions, and his mood became happy.

Uncle Zhong looked at Long Qian and frowned, but then laughed again, and he couldn't figure out his temper for a while.

"What do you mean, shopkeeper?"

"It's not interesting, Uncle Zhong, how about you teach your famous dish to Long Xiang in the past three days?" Long Qian discussed.

Uncle Zhong was stunned, but then a smile appeared on his face: "Of course there is no problem." ”

Uncle Zhong's famous work is a cold dish, or a cold soup, which was made by Uncle Zhong when he was assessing the prefecture-level chef. Soup occupies a certain proportion in Fujian cuisine, and the housewives of every household may not have a specialty dish, but if the soup is stewed, they all have a hand, and the stewed soup is fragrant for ten miles, which is not an exaggeration. Therefore, it has the reputation of the soup of Fu Province and the soul of Fujian cuisine.

Uncle Zhong's cold soup is different from traditional soup. There is no richness of hot soup and it is delicious. Just for flavor.

That year, Uncle Zhong participated in the prefecture-level chef examination, and he was selected as the first chef to be assessed. According to past experience, the first chef will do his best to make a big table, no less than the Manchu and Han dishes, in the highest and most generous way, to impress the judges, but Uncle Zhong served a tender and refreshing cold soup.

Seeing that bowl of cold soup was served in front of the judges, all the opponents were laughing, and they all felt that Longyang Restaurant had sent a chef who was not skilled at home, and he might not dare to cook other dishes, so he could only take a bowl of cold soup to make up for it.

But to everyone's surprise, when the judges tasted the first bite, they did not directly judge the loss, but asked Uncle Zhong, "Why did you think of making a bowl of cold soup?" ”

Uncle Zhong replied truthfully: "Today is the day of the prefecture-level chef assessment, and there are still several dishes to be judged and tasted after me. If the first dish is a big meat and fishy thing, all the judges must be tired of it, then it will inevitably affect the subsequent judgments. If it's a cold soup that brings you flavor, you won't be disgusted, and you'll have more opportunities to taste the dishes that follow. ”

Everyone is silent!

"It's not difficult to make delicious food as a chef, but it's hard to make something that suits everyone, and that's the biggest obstacle for you as a chef. And since we were judges, the most we have faced is the food in the world. In the eyes of outsiders, how glamorous and beautiful it is, it is enviable, but what we don't understand is that some dishes are tired of taste, and we just want to use our own ideas to taste a chef's standard, not to cater to other people's tastes. This was the final evaluation of Uncle Zhong by the jury, and that year, only Uncle Zhong won the title of prefecture-level chef, and he was also the youngest prefecture-level chef in Fujian Province.

Long Qian hoped that Uncle Zhong would pass on this dish to Long Xiang, and the meaning was also here. In the big battle three days later, Long Qian has decided to hand over Long Xiang's name, then the first person will be Long Xiang, with this dish, even if there is no guarantee of winning, but a tie should not be a problem, unless the first one will rank Zhai Xing first.

After this tossing and turning tonight, after the three of them finished discussing, the rooster had already reported that it was dawning, and the east was white.

In order to prepare for the big battle three days later, Long Qian deliberately left a note on the willow wood table, telling everyone that they would have a five-day holiday, and they should not go back to the store casually if they had nothing to do, but Ma Yun and Xiong Guangye had to stay on duty. And left a reply letter, asking Ma Yun to send the letter to Shui Yunxuan opposite when he went to work, and handed it directly to Zhai Xing.

When Ma Yunzhan handed the letter to Zhai Xing with trepidation, he didn't even understand what was going on. It wasn't until the afternoon that he knew what was going on.

In Longyin Temple, Shui Yunxuan's young master Zhai Li, and Longyang Restaurant's young master Long Xiang duel Five days later, Shui Yunxuan officially handed over the challenge to Longyang Restaurant, and the mayor will be the judge of this time, inviting all the people in Longyang Town to visit.

The whole Longyang is boiling, this has been a rare event in Longyang for hundreds of years, Zhai Xing, who has the title of prefecture-level chef, is finally going to make a move, and according to the grapevine, Shui Yunxuan has invited two prefecture-level chefs from the provincial capital to help, you can imagine how grand the scene will be.

However, Uncle Zhong and Long Xiang are no longer in the town, and now the two of them are on Longyan Mountain, which is nearly a hundred kilometers away from Longyang, and then collect the extremely important ingredients in a cold soup, if Uncle Zhong is now in Longyang, when he knows the news, he will definitely not be so calm.

The moment to test the life and death of Longyang Restaurant is coming, a real curtain is about to be opened, some people will succeed after all, and some people are destined to be annihilated in the long river of history and become a stepping stone to legend.