Li Yi was stunned at first, his face showed yearning, and then he shook his head and said, "No, no!" Master once said that the different cuisines are like different worlds that have been separated, and they cannot be intersected in one place, otherwise there will be no rules and regulations! ”

Xiaoguo smiled: "May I ask Brother Li, what is your original intention to learn cooking?" ”

Li Zhilang said: "Naturally, it is to make more delicious food for everyone to taste!" ”

"That's it!" Xiaoguo clapped his hands and said, "The people take food as the sky!" Food, the most primitive origin, is three meals a day, grains, and even later fish! At the same time, people have more pursuit of things, hoping that food can bring richer and more wonderful taste enjoyment, so they continue to try to cook ingredients in various ways, so the original intention of food is to bring people happiness and birth! ”

Xiaoguo looked at Li Yi like a torch: "But right now, people have changed the original intention of food for their own selfish desires, drawing rules and regulations, and hindering its further development, isn't this move putting the cart before the horse?" ”

Li Wei looked at Xiaoguo in shock, and suddenly looked eager, and said, "What Brother Ma said is extremely true!" ”

He always felt that there was something wrong with the master's words before, but he couldn't say a thing or two, after Xiaoguo said this, he realized like waking up from a dream, and said in his heart: When the competition is over, I will go back and have a good debate with the master!

Xiaoguo saw that he had a flexible brain and was willing to accept new ideas from the bottom of his heart, and his good feelings increased greatly.

The four of them gathered around the table to talk about tomorrow's preliminary round.

Li Wei had come here two months in advance, and the three of Xiaoguo learned that it was a little bit closer, so that the competition would pass by, and they all had palpitations.

Li Wei said: "During this time, I have inquired about a lot of previous competitions. There are a total of 128 towns in Zhu Danguo, and tomorrow there will be 1,200 people in each town, who will participate in the preliminary screening and will eliminate half of the contestants. Five days later, the winning half of the players will go on to participate in the semi-finals, so that after four consecutive rounds, there will be 75 people left in each town! These seventy-five people need to rush to the imperial city together to participate in the finals, and there will be ten rounds of postgraduate entrance examinations in the finals, and the top ten in the competition will be selected to be eligible to enter the highest restaurant! ”

It was the first time for the three of Xiaoguo, and when they heard about the specific game process, they all looked solemn when they thought that they were about to experience nearly two months of competition.

"Good boy! There are more than 1,000 participants in one town, and the number of participants is more than 100,000! Nuan'er thought of the crowded scene and secretly smacked her tongue.

"But it's not," Li Yi nodded, he thought for a while and reminded, "Brother Ma, although I agree with your point of view very much, but without the cuisine of the past, you can't participate in the competition!" Before tomorrow's competition, someone will record each person's cuisine, and if you are lucky enough to make it to the finals, you will also have to compete with your department's signature dishes! ”

"And this?" Xiaoguo hugged his fists and said, "Thanks to my brother's advice, otherwise I would have been caught off guard tomorrow!" ”

Li Wei waved his hand and said, "Brother Ma doesn't have to be polite!" However, I don't know what kind of cuisine you plan to belong to? ”

"What are the current cuisines?" Ming Ze asked.

Li Wei snapped his fingers and said, "At present, there are nine major cuisines, namely Sweet, Mixed, Qing, Xia Liang, Changshan, Lanhai, Banqiao, Shipo, and Chenzhen!" These cuisines are either based on taste, or after the name of the place, or after the name of the person who created the system. In addition, there are many lesser-known small dishes, and there are too many to count! In the last five consecutive competitions, the top 10 of the food competition are all from the nine major cuisines! ”

Xiaoguo muttered: "If you belong to these nine major cuisines, will you belong to them in the future?" ”

Li Wei nodded and said, "That's true!" Not only will words and deeds be restricted, but even cooking techniques must comply with the regulations of the department, and once a new recipe is developed, it must be reported to the department owner as soon as possible, and the department owner will taste and give a star rating, and then arrange which level it will be classified to and how it will be announced to the world! ”

"Oops, that's troublesome!" Nuan'er stuck out her tongue and said.

Li Wei nodded and said: "The more famous the cuisine, the more cumbersome the rules!" But in the game, with the help of the Venerable Referee of the same lineage, it is easier to advance! ”

Xiaoguo thought for a while and said, "Except for relying on these cuisines, is there no other way?" ”

Li Yi thought for a moment and said: "There is a way, that is, you can create your own cuisine!" In this way, there is no need to be constrained, and if you can enter the top 10, the cuisine you create will also become famous! Like the founder of Chenzhen cuisine, he created his own series and stood out in the competition! It's just that in this way, during the competition, you can only rely on yourself! ”

Nuan Er said happily: "Great! That's it, Master can create his own cuisine, and it saves some trouble! ”

Xiaoguo bowed slightly.

Li Yi couldn't help but admire: "Brother Ma really dares to act boldly, so courageous!" I believe that with the strength of the three, even if no one secretly helps, they can break into the finals! ”

"Brother Li's auspicious words!" Nuan'er clenched her fists and smiled.

Nuan'er said excitedly: "What kind of cuisine does Master plan to come up with?" ”

Xiao Guo thought for a moment and muttered: "It's called Chinese cuisine, how about it?" ”

"Good name! Loud and atmospheric! The other three praised one after another.

After the dishes were ready, the four of them chatted for a while, and then they went back to their rooms and agreed to compete together the next day.

The next day, before dawn early in the morning, Li Yi knocked on the door one by one and woke up the three of Xiaoguo.

The four of them had a simple breakfast, and with the burden of bottles and cans of condiments, Li Yi led the way towards the destination.

On the way, I met many of the same contestants, and everyone walked together or walked alone in silence, all of them were in a mood of excitement and apprehension.

The competition venue was set up in a wide flat area in the suburbs, and after walking for nearly half an hour, the sky was already bright when Xiaoguo and the others arrived.

Because of the large number of people, the competition was carried out in batches, with 100 people in each batch, and the competition was completed in 12 times.

A hundred simple stoves had just been built in the open space, and around these stoves a long table made of stone slabs had been erected.

As time passed, the huge place was so crowded that it became a little crowded.

In addition to the contestants and the ten official supervisors, there are also 50 recruited citizens who sit at the stone table and serve as judges for the preliminary round!

At the end of each round, each of them will receive a bead in their hand, and after eating some satisfactory and supportive dishes, they will give the bead in their hand to the contestants.

During the preliminary screening, each contestant can only get a maximum of one bead, if the other party has been given beads, the judges need to send the beads to the relatively satisfactory, and so on, the last contestants who get the beads, only need to pass the supervision level, it is considered to have successfully passed the preliminary round.

The officers and men who maintained order put the 1,200 people who participated in the competition into a large wooden box with their names and cuisines written on them, and the official supervision randomly selected the number of contests.

Xiaoguo was divided into the second game, Ming Ze and Nuan Er were the fifth and sixth respectively, and the three of them could participate in the morning.

Only Li Wei was assigned to the last game in the afternoon!

After the announcement of each person's participation in the competition, the fat and fat superintendent sitting in the center began to announce the competition arrangement and the basic process: "The materials used in the competition are randomly selected from the ingredients provided by the government, and the materials are prepared by themselves." The time should be controlled within one stick of incense, and when the time comes, the dishes that are not finished will be automatically classified as eliminated......"

Li Wei whispered to Xiaoguo and the others, explaining: "The overseer who is speaking is named Chi Heel. He has presided over the overall situation in the previous preliminary competitions in this town, don't look at his smiling and kind appearance, but he is very picky about the taste of food! Many players who got the beads were kicked out because they couldn't get past him in the end! ”

Wing roots? Xiaoguo held back a smile and turned red.

"Master, why are you uncomfortable?" Ming Ze said worriedly when he saw this.

Xiaoguo waved his hand at him: "No, I'm very good." ”

"Senior brother, Master must have been excited about the competition!" Nuan'er looks like she has insight into everything.

Li Wei hurriedly said: "Don't laugh, Inspector Chi is here!" ”

Sure enough, Na Chi stopped talking, and was staring in the direction of several people, his small eyes sandwiched in the fat ** were full of displeasure, and the others followed his gaze and also looked here, and the atmosphere of the scene was a little solemn.

The three of Xiaoguo hurriedly closed their mouths and made a gesture of listening carefully.

After a long time, Chi followed before he continued: "Since you are so impatient, Chi will talk less nonsense!" I announce: the Meal Contest is now open! Please take the first round of contestants to the corresponding stove in the field! ”

Some officers and soldiers drove the cart and brought porcelain basins one after another, which were cleaned and cleaned, chicken, fish, raw meat, vegetables and other ingredients, and the porcelain basins were arranged in three rows on the stone table.

When all the contestants have selected satisfactory ingredients, they will return to their original positions, everything is ready, and the incense will be lit!

Xiaoguo found that all the meat and fish ingredients were selected, but the vegetables and fruits were very few selected, she swept the field around, and saw that some people were methodically cutting fish and meat, but some people were nervous, either getting the ingredients to the ground, or cutting their fingers with a knife, only to sweat profusely and panic.

Xiaoguo whispered to Ming Ze and a few people, and said: "In this live game, psychological quality occupies a huge part, and when it is our turn to play for a while, we must not calm down!" If you feel very nervous, take a few deep breaths and you will calm down! ”

Ming Ze and Nuan'er nodded, taking Master's words to heart.

Li said against him: "What Brother Ma said is very true, you see, half of the time has passed, and the man has not even lit the stove, I'm afraid it will be difficult to burn the dishes!" ”

The time of a stick of incense passed quickly, and only half of the contestants successfully cooked the food, a few were sad and a few were happy, and this part of the people who cooked the food all got the opportunity to enter the next round of the competition.

After a short break, the second round begins.

Xiaoguo said goodbye to Ming Ze and the three of them for the time being, and when she came to the venue, she found her stove and followed the instructions to choose the ingredients.

The ingredients used up in the porcelain bowl have been refilled.

The time of a stick of incense is not long, and the dishes with cumbersome processes are always tightened.

She had already made up her mind, so she went straight to the point, picked three potatoes, took two eggplants and chives, and returned to the stove.