Back to Xue Minglou, the restless Feng Erniu couldn't help it, and stumbled about Xia Jinxuan's finding her, when she came, Cheng Tie happened to come to Su Miao to talk about Zhao Ping, so she listened to it together, after listening to Feng Erniu's words, Su Miao didn't do anything, Cheng Tie got angry first:

"I said that there must be something greasy here, it turns out that the girl surnamed Xia is making trouble! Zhao Ping, this bastard, how did his master teach him, and he actually taught such an ungrateful thing! ”

Feng Erniu saw that Cheng Tie was angry, shrunk her neck, and was even more frightened. The pen and fun pavilion glanced at the master www.biquge.info, and the master was making a small hot pot and did not react. In front of the square table where Master was sitting, there was also an aftertaste of sitting across from Master as a background. When Feng Erniu came in, Huiwei was eating Yangchun noodles while listening to Su Miao and Cheng Tie's conversation, without saying a word, Feng Erniu stood in the room for a long time, and Huiwei was still eating Yangchun noodles there slowly and methodically, without saying a word. If it weren't for the fact that his presence was too strong, he didn't speak like that, and it was no different from the background hanging on the wall.

Cheng Tie was angry and began to scold Feng Erniu again: "The surname Xia is looking for you, why don't you say it when you come back, but you have to wait until this time to say, are you also tempted by the conditions of the Lotus Building, and are hesitating?" ”

"No, no! Uncle Cheng, I don't! Feng Erniu shook her head into a rattle, frightened by Cheng Tielei's roaring reprimand, flashing with tears, and denying it with tears.

"Uncle Cheng, your voice is too loud, look at the second girl." Su Miao lifted the lid of the casserole, the soup in the casserole was already rolling, she sandwiched the ruddy thin slices of meat and put it in to shabu, and said lightly, "Even if Xia Jinxuan looked for Erniu, because Erniu didn't agree, she turned to Zhao Ping, and we have no evidence, unless Zhao Ping or Xia Jinxuan admit, we can't wronged people." In case Zhao Ping's mistake was just because he was careless, I went to ask him if he was bought by Xia Jinxuan, wouldn't it chill his heart, so trustless, how would he work together in the future, because he was Zhao He's apprentice, and I also regarded him as the main force of Pinxian Building to cultivate. She took out the thin slices of meat that had just changed color, and asked Cheng Tie and Feng Erniu, "You really don't want to eat it?" ”

Cheng Tie shook his head.

Feng Erniu also shook her head and said no.

Su Miao handed the shabu beef slices to the aftertaste who was eating noodles again, but the aftertaste didn't raise his eyelids and refused directly.

Su Miao pursed her lips, she really didn't know what was delicious about that Yangchun noodle, she put the sliced meat in her mouth and ate it with satisfaction, her face was covered with a layer of happiness.

"Second girl!" Cheng Tie saw that she had completely forgotten about Zhao Ping's affairs when she ate, and couldn't help but remind her that this matter had not been resolved, "Originally, I couldn't control this as my own business, but Zhao Ping's kid can do anything for silver, he owed a lot of gambling debts when he was in Fengzhou, and two days ago I found out that he actually went in and out of the casino after coming to Liangdu, and owed a lot of debts, and he was worried that he had no money to pay off the debt!" ”

"Huh?" Su Miao was stunned, she knew that Zhao Ping loved to gamble, but as Cheng Tie said, this is a personal matter, Zhao Ping has never made a mistake at work, and he is an apprentice cultivated by Zhao He, Su Miao is still very optimistic about him, but he didn't expect to come to Master Liang to watch him enter the casino again.

"Ninety percent of that bastard was bought by the surnamed Xia, and it is impossible to make that kind of mistake in the game!" Cheng Tie said angrily.

Su Miao didn't speak, she rubbed her chin slowly with her hand, everything is just speculation, this kind of thing can't be asked directly, employers and employees also need a sense of trust, once this sense of trust is destroyed, there will be estrangement, it will be difficult to work together in the future, not to mention that Su Miao doesn't want to use speculation to wronged the other party, the taste of being wronged is not comfortable.

"Second girl, you can talk about anything else later, tomorrow's game is related to victory or defeat, you can't let Zhao Ping follow you to the stage, and if he destroys the second girl, he will lose!" Zhao Ping saw that she was careless, anxious, and said loudly.

Su Miao nodded slowly, she was obviously thinking about something else, she thought about it for a long time, tilted her head, and asked Cheng Tie with a smile:

"Uncle Cheng, what do you think of Xia Jinxuan?"

"Huh?" Cheng Tie was stunned.

"Pretty interesting girl, isn't it?" Su Miao smiled and said, "At first, we all thought that she was the eldest lady who came out to play the game with her family background, and guessed how she came out of the local competition, whether she gave the game money money, but she is quite skilled." ”

Cheng Tie thought for a long time, frowned, his expression was a little hesitant, and he said uncertainly:

"Maybe."

Su Miao laughed and said to Cheng Tie:

"If you only let Zhao Ping retire, in case he is really wronged, he finds out that I don't trust him, and I won't be able to get along well in the future, so tomorrow's game, you can rest, and Xia Jinxuan and I will compete alone."

Cheng Tie and Feng Erniu were stunned for a moment, surprised by her decision.

"Master, in case, in case Miss Xia doesn't agree to compare alone and bring an assistant to the stage, can you handle so many shares alone? Won't there be enough time? Feng Erniu said worriedly.

Su Miaowan smiled, supported her cheek with one hand, looked at her with a smile, and said slowly:

"I have accepted you as an apprentice for so long, I really haven't taught you anything, tomorrow is the first lesson, I will let you know the true meaning of food."

Feng Erniu looked at her in a daze and paused, because the master's attractive voice was covered with a layer of glittering adoration on his face.

"Ahem!" The aftertaste was choked, and he kept coughing with his head down, which ruined this beautiful picture of "master's kindness and filial piety".

Su Miao's face darkened, glared at him, and said in a hard tone:

"I didn't put peppercorns, what are you coughing up?"

"Ahem, ahem!" The aftertaste was still coughing, and he was about to burst into laughter.

Su Miao glanced at him with a dark face, turned her head, and smiled at Feng Erniu with a "kind" face:

"There you go."

Feng Erniu responded obediently and retreated respectfully.

Cheng Tie saw that Su Miao had made up his mind, and he had no choice but to give up persuasion and follow Feng Erniu out.

As soon as the two of them left, only Su Miao and Huiwei were left in the room, and Huiwei was still coughing, Su Miao glared at him, and then stretched out his hand and slapped him twice on his arm, this beat the aftertaste's laughter came out, he laughed out loud and asked her:

"What is the true meaning of good food?"

Su Miao blinked her eyes twice, put the shabu shabu in her mouth with chopsticks, chewed slowly, and said:

"There's still a night to spare, and I'll figure it out anyway."

"So you don't know it yourself, so why would you say that?" Aftertaste asked with a smile.

"Xia Jinxuan actually told my apprentice that I was not worthy of being a master and an apprentice, just because of her sowing discord, my apprentice is about to lose confidence in me now. I don't want to be the same thing, but the apprentice mistakenly thinks that the master is incapable of abandoning the master and finding another way out, and it is very embarrassing for me to be a master when that kind of thing happens, this is a matter of dignity as a master! Su Miao emphasized seriously.

Aftertaste looked at her with the eyes of a fool.

"In case you can't get out of your mystery tomorrow, your apprentice who didn't want to leave will probably have to leave." He said in a cool tone.

Su Miao stared at him with a dark face, with an unconvinced expression.

Aftertaste finally ate a bowl of Yangchun noodles, put down the chopsticks, took a sip of water from the water cup, looked at her cheeks were about to bulge, paused, and said with a smile:

"You care about Xia Jinxuan very much."

"Particularly concerned? Have it? Su Miao put a piece of green vegetables in her mouth, ate it unhurriedly, and said.

"If it was usual, when you heard that your own person was bought by your opponent, you would have jumped up a long time ago, but today instead of jumping, you ignited your fighting spirit and wanted to compete with Xia Jinxuan alone, isn't it particularly concerned." Aftertaste turned the cup in his hand and said slowly.

"Hmm......" Su Miao held her cheek with one hand, tilted her head, pondered for a while, and said in a casual voice, "Xia Jinxuan's expression when she made fish cakes today is very similar to the expression I used to have when I first learned to cook. was tricked by the dishes she made, it wasn't her cooking, but the dishes doing her. After a pause, she added with a smile, "Her eyes are very focused when she makes kamaboko, and I like to look at it." ”

"You just want to see her look on her face to challenge you, right?" Aftertaste said slowly and methodically in a cool tone.

"Although everyone in the King Chef Competition is a peer, there are still differences between peers and peers, many people enter this industry in order to master a craft to support their families, and many people because they like it, but this liking is likely to be erased by various reasons over time. Only Xia Jinxuan, although she was covered by many masks, the kind of love that occasionally appeared in her eyes could not be hidden, even if she didn't have to go into the kitchen anymore now, her kind of love still didn't dissipate. Isn't it interesting to meet such a different opponent in this kind of competition? Su Miao said with a smile, "I was taken aback when she threw out all the dishes that were about to be cooked on the stage today. Tomorrow, I want to see how she looks when she doesn't have any scruples and just focuses on the game. ”

Aftertaste listened casually, one hand slowly rotated the porcelain cup in the palm of her hand, it was really rare that Su Miao was going to move the real thing, and the person who made her really move was actually the proud and arrogant eldest lady.

"Eat?" Su Miao took out a piece of tender scallop meat from the shabu-shabu, brought it to the aftertaste's mouth, and asked him.

Aftertaste looked at the scallops she handed over, paused, opened his mouth to take it, and ate it.

"How's it going, is it delicious?" Su Miao asked with great interest.

"It's fine." The aftertaste expression was faint, and his reaction was very flat.

"Why is it 'okay', it's very fragrant, right? That's why I said that any dish is better than hot pot, and the judges are so discerning, they actually think I'm lazy, and they will never understand the breadth and profundity of hot pot! Su Miao said indignantly, while constantly shabu-shabu, eating happily.

The aftertaste is not wordless, it is better for him to have Yangchun noodles.

……

Summer House.

Xia Jinxuan stood in the courtyard, there was a very old plane tree in the courtyard of the house, like the one planted in the courtyard of her hometown, Xia Jinxuan stood under the plane tree, quietly looking at the almost bare canopy.

The soft cloak with the warm smell of smoke was gently draped over her shoulders, Xia Jinxuan did not look back, she still looked at the plane tree above her head, staring intently, without saying a word.

Sharon didn't speak either, he stood a little farther away from her, his head bowed, acting as a background.

Xia Jinxuan's mood was much calmer than when she went out during the day, as if she had suddenly precipitated a little, and at this time she returned to the dignified and gentle that everyone should have.

"It's been a long time since I've remembered my father." After a long time, Xia Jinxuan suddenly spoke softly and said, "Today on the stage, my father's shadow suddenly flashed in my head, and my father looked like when he was doing a family party. ”

Sharon looked at her, and at this time her back fell into the eyes of onlookers, because her back was too thin, and there was a kind of loneliness and loneliness in it.

Xia Jinxuan suddenly raised her swan-like neck and took a deep breath.

"What would my father say if he knew that I was winning the race this way?" She muttered to herself, paused, and said softly in a voice that she could only hear, "How despicable! ”

"Miss." Sharon was a little worried about her mood change, frowned, and called out.

Xia Jinxuan came back from her contemplation, but she didn't look back, she still looked at the ancient plane tree in the courtyard, she stood there quietly, stood for a long time, a long time.

Xia Lang stayed by her side and stood with her for a long time, he kept looking at her thin back, and his eyes never looked away in other directions.

……

The third round of the competition was sunny, light and windy, and it was a very rare good weather.

Su Miao came again in time, she thought she was late enough, but she didn't expect that Xia Jinxuan, who usually arrived early when she arrived at the arena, hadn't appeared today.

Su Miao was surprised, and sat on the bench under the competition platform and waited boringly. According to yesterday's plan, she didn't need an assistant today, so Cheng Tie and Zhao Ping didn't come today, Feng Erniu sat in the viewing area alone, leaving Su Miao alone on the bench. She sat on a stool, boringly counting her nails.

At this moment, Xia Jinxuan appeared.

At first, Su Miao didn't dare to admit it, because today's Xia Jinxuan was dressed completely differently from the past, although Xia Jinxuan also wore light clothes during the previous competition, she still retained the dignified and graceful beauty of everyone's ladies, but today's dress of long clothes and trousers is completely abandoning the identity of a rich lady, and the change in clothing has shown that she is participating in the competition as a chef today.

Xia Jinxuan walked straight towards Su Miao.

Su Miao stood up.

The two men stood face to face in front of the bench, and when their eyes met, a strange tension had begun to spread. (To be continued.) )