Chapter 427: The Lottery
Hui Xiang Lou.
The draw ceremony for the final of the triennial King of Chef Competition was held in the Peacock Pavilion here, with a total of 22 groups of contestants, of which 19 groups of contestants were from 17 provinces of Yueliang Kingdom, and the remaining three groups of contestants were all from Liangdu. Liangdu's players did not have a selection competition in advance, so to be a Liangdu contestant, it is not in the name of a person, there must be a representative restaurant behind it, and this restaurant must be reviewed, from the history of the restaurant, popularity, reputation, the position of the contestant in the restaurant, of course, the most indispensable one is the recommendation letter of a resident member of the Yueliang National Restaurant Federation, so it is very difficult to be a Liangdu contestant.
There are a total of three places for this year's Liangdu players, two of which have been rumored to be, one is Ruan Qian, the chef of Gan Bao Lou, and the other is his sister Ruan Shuang. Ruan Shuang did not represent Gan Baolou, she begged her mother to participate in the competition, this time she came to participate on behalf of her mother's mother's Xianhe Tower, this girl came to participate in the competition purely to join in the fun.
Aftertaste also participated, but he didn't occupy the quota, as the unlucky guy who was only one step away from winning the title of King Chef in the last session but finally lost to his brother, this time he has the preferential right to directly participate in the finals of the Liangdu Division, which is also the reason why many people sharpen their brains and squeeze into the King of Chef Competition, the King of Chefs has a rule that looks very "corrupt" but is actually very interesting, whether it is a regional competition, a Liangdu final or a palace finals, anyone who enters the final final and loses, The second session can be lowered one level to directly participate in the finals, for example, if the palace finals fail, you can directly participate in the Liangdu finals, if you fail in the Liangdu finals, you can directly participate in the regional finals, and if you fail in the regional finals, you can directly enter the semifinals of the regional competition.
The catering industry is very developed in Yueliang country, especially after the King of Chef competition was held, more and more people are employed, and the consumer group is getting bigger and bigger.
Originally, when Su Miao first heard Huiwei say this rule, he felt that this kind of "airborne" was a bit unfair, but when Huiwei said that only three people had used this special rule over the years, and all three of them lost to the very promising young people at that time, and all three of them had retired and given up because of consecutive defeats, Su Miao began to feel that the competition committee was definitely a bad taste.
In short, this time he will be parachuted directly to the scene of the final match in Liangdu, and he doesn't need to draw lots, but he still came to the lottery ceremony.
The lottery ceremony was held at the end of the day, and when I arrived at the Peacock Pavilion at four o'clock in the morning, the Peacock Pavilion was already overcrowded. The lottery ceremony stipulates that no assistants are allowed, and Rao is so, and the twenty or so contestants still packed the huge water pavilion to the brim. What's more, although the contestants who came to participate in the competition are all chefs, some of them are young owners or partners of restaurants, and some of them are just chefs of big restaurants. The self-proclaimed identity looks down on the greasy cooks, and disdains to live in the same room with those vulgar people, and the professional chefs who are full of greasy in the eyes of the young masters look down on the young masters who were born with golden spoons, thinking that these young masters are purely playing tickets as chefs, and they are not serious at all, this is an insult and trampling on the industry they love deeply, and now seeing their such arrogant faces, how can those coarse people who are considered vulgar endure it, and they almost fought when they disagreed several times, at this time the Peacock Pavilion was closed, Young Master Sven, who did not bring his retinue and assistants, was weak and could not win a dispute with a group of rough people, so he had to sit aside indignantly and reluctantly shut up.
Aftertaste is not strange to this kind of scene, I still remember that the scene was even more chaotic than this one last time, and he even saw that a kid who didn't know where he came from actually took advantage of the lottery ceremony to take off the jade pendant decorated on the wall and take it away. Compared with the previous session, the people of this session are quite good, although there are the antique jade objects in the Peacock Pavilion touched one by one, at least they didn't carry it in their arms.
The Peacock Pavilion is full of men, it was too late last night to go back to Xueyizhuang and could only live in Huixiang Building, and I came to participate in the lottery today, I thought it was almost a little bit Su Miao should come, how do you know that the late king has not come yet, Bacheng was too happy to sleep too late last night, and he overslept this morning, he greatly despised it in his heart, thinking about why she was only diligent at work but so lazy in daily life, while entering the Peacock Pavilion, attracting many scrutiny of the eyes.
There was a waiter outside the Peacock Pavilion who signed up, and the waiter recognized that it was the young owner, so there was no registration word, which made the other contestants in the Peacock Pavilion even more confused and curious.
Aftertaste ignored these curious glances and calmly stepped into the Peacock Pavilion, but someone already recognized him:
"Isn't that the one who lost to Second Young Master Hui last time?"
"You can see it, isn't it that little master?"
"It's pitiful to lose to my brother in the last game." Someone said regretfully.
"Brothers fight each other, and it's 'tragic' enough."
"No way, although his craftsmanship is good, it is not a star and a half worse than the second young master Hui."
"What I said is that the craftsmanship of the second young master is really ...... I can't even say a word to describe it, the dragon and phoenix in the finale of that year were auspicious and amazing, and many people can't imitate it after that. ”
"Indeed, fortunately, the second young master will not participate in the competition this year, and I still have a chance to win."
"Forget it, it's strange that you can win with this kind of unproductive idea!"
"What do you know, no matter what you think, as long as you meet the second young master, you don't have to compare, just carry the burden back to your hometown!"
"I don't believe that the second young master was really that powerful that time."
"You call ignorance, you haven't watched the last competition, if you have seen it, I guarantee that it is also my idea!"
"I'm not as unproductive as you!"
"Hi, you ......"
"Okay, okay, you see, this session not only has the third young master who went home, but also, isn't that the fourth young master who lost to the third young master last year when he won four and won two." Someone hurriedly played the round and raised his chin to the person sitting in the most conspicuous position in the Peacock Pavilion, changing the subject.
Looking back, I saw that Tong Ran, who was "red and willow green", was sitting on a chair in the center of the Peacock Pavilion, wearing a vermilion brocade robe with a dark green collar placket to be more fancy and fancy, and how dazzling and dazzling it was, not to mention the red sandalwood bone ink folding fan in his hand and the palm-sized jade hanging from his waist, which was almost written "I am very rich" on the door of his head.
Tong Ran never minded that he became the talk of people's mouths, even if he heard people mention him, he just shook his fan calmly, smiled gracefully, and thought while laughing, but it was a pity that there was a room full of men here, and no one fell for his charm.
The people who talked about him just ignored him with a single sentence, and the same men, of course, men are more interested in young girls:
"Have you heard, there are two girls in this year's Liangdu finals?" Someone said with interest.
"Are you sure it's a girl, not a lady?" The other asked suspiciously.
"Tsk, of course I am sure, a twenty-eight year old, with a lot of money, is the principal of the largest restaurant in Funing Province, Lotus Building, with a beautiful appearance, sweet and lovely; The other one heard that he is almost twenty years old, but he is also a capable one, he is the shopkeeper and chef of Su Ji Pin Xian Building on the first floor of Fengzhou, Su Ji Pin Xian Lou was founded by her, she is beautiful and cute and filial, always smiling, hard-working and virtuous, gentle and kind. That girl is very famous in Fengzhou, and the people of Fengzhou are saying, 'Marrying a wife should marry the second mother of the Su family', but unfortunately the girl has too many brothers and sisters in the family, and a widowed mother and grandmother, because she has to worry about family affairs, Yunying has not married so far. ”
"Poof!" First of all, Tong Ran laughed.
The aftertaste's face was blue and white, and the corners of his eyebrows twitched slightly in an incredible shape.
Industrious? Well, she is quite industrious when she wants to be industrious.
Virtue? Well, she was quite virtuous when she wanted to be virtuous.
…… Do you know how difficult it is to achieve this word "think"?
Gentle? Well, sometimes it's quite gentle, especially when she wants to do something, so gentle that it can give you goosebumps.
Kindness? Well, she's been asking him how the two ornamental sika deer he keeps in the garden taste like.
Should you marry a wife and marry the second mother of the Su family? Aftertaste tears, simple! You are so innocent!
"I said, you know so much about other girls, you can't have seen them, right?" Someone asked.
"Naturally." The young man smiled embarrassedly, scratched his head, and said seriously, "When I came from Heshan, I passed by Fengzhou and went to take a look, the girls in Jiangnan are different, as if they were made of water, and their voice is called a soft wow, and they laugh like a flower, but it's a pity that I didn't catch up with the dishes she cooked, and the day I went was just in time for her to go out, and the ship was in a hurry to set off, which is a bit of a pity." ”
Looking at the young man in linen clothes with an indulgent expression when he mentioned Su Miao, he couldn't resist the desire to roll his eyes, thinking that he had never seen the world from a small place!
Tong Ran on the side smiled even more happily.
At this moment, the waiter who signed up outside the door cleared his throat and shouted:
"Qin'an Province, Fengzhou City, Su Ji Pinxian Building, Su Miao girl has arrived!"
This kind of registration is to give the participants a general idea of their opponents, after all, any two people present can become opponents before the competition is completely over.
As soon as the waiter who signed up for the speech fell, the Peacock Pavilion suddenly fell silent, and everyone looked at the door.
Such a scene is not because of how charming Su Miao looks, but because it is too rare for female contestants to appear in the King Chef Competition, there have been no female contestants in the King Chef Competition for many years, and a young and not so ugly female suddenly appeared in a group of male creatures, and Su Miao, who is a female, will naturally become the focus of attention of the audience.
But Su Miao stubbornly thought that such a scene was definitely because she was too beautiful and moving, so she accepted the audience's gaze very happily, and her eyes were full of pride.
Tong Ran laughed out loud again, and sure enough, as soon as she appeared, the world would become interesting.
Aftertaste glanced at Su Miao extremely speechlessly, turned his head and sat down indifferently, pretending not to know her.
Su Miao didn't care what he was thinking, she saw him in the crowd at a glance, she smiled, ran over happily, sat beside him, and said with a smile:
"I thought you wouldn't be at the lottery." He doesn't have to draw lots, he has the right to go straight to the final.
"You're oversleeping again." Aftertaste did not answer, but asked.
Su Miao blinked twice with an innocent face, and said seriously: "No, I'm not late." ”
Aftertaste looked at her with a sideways face, she was carefully dressed, and she also wore the lucky clothes she had just made two days ago, and after looking at her lightly for a while, he stretched out his hand to straighten the hairpin on her hair, and asked:
"Have you had breakfast?"
"Nope."
He knew it! She couldn't do anything without him!
Aftertaste sighed helplessly, took out a food box with a magpie climbing a branch from his arms, and placed it in front of her.
Su Miao picked it up with a smile and opened it, and it turned out to be golden and attractive sweet potato balls, and bamboo sticks were inserted on the sweet potato balls.
Su Miao was very happy, picked up a bamboo skewer and inserted one, put it in her mouth, and took a bite of it, sweet and soft, salty and fresh, crispy on the outside and tender on the inside, it was definitely a delicacy for all ages. What's even more surprising is that there is a large shrimp hidden in each crispy golden sweet potato ball, the shrimp is fresh and tender, and it also has a little bit of spicy taste obtained because of pickling, delicious and refreshing, sweet potatoes are sweet, and the fried sweet potato pulp is condensed together to form a thin and crispy shell, with an attractive taste, which is the taste that Su Miao likes to eat.
She smiled toothlessly.
Her smile can make people see her happiness at this time very clearly, looking back at her smiling face, irresistibly infected, the corners of her lips are lightly hooked with a smile, and the eyes looking at her are warm and soft that others can see.
"Could it be that Second Miss Su and the little young master are a couple?" The young man in the linen cloth who had been intoxicated by Su Miao's various ways before was broken in his heart and muttered in disbelief when he saw this shocking scene.
"Looks like so." His partner replied.
Huiwen glanced back at the young man in the sackcloth, pointed at Su Miao, and said to him lightly: "Second Miss Su will soon become my wife, little brother, please respect yourself in your tongue in the future." ”
"......" a room full of people were dumbfounded.
Su Miao smiled.
Brother Sack's young man's heart has been shattered into slag, and he himself has been completely ashed and scattered with the wind.
Tong Ran, who had been smiling and watching, had a gloomy expression at this time. (To be continued.) )