At home, Chen Youyi let the two chefs master the dishes he asked them to make, and seeing that the time for the competition was approaching, the first round of the competition was mainly to eliminate all those who were unqualified.

In this case, only some teams will be left to participate in the second game, and there will be a third game, and by the third time, there will be almost three teams left, and if they make it to that level, it is likely that all three teams will be recruited into the palace to prepare for this dinner.

After all, this competition was only held to prepare for this dinner, mainly to find some famous dishes to entertain those officials from the northern tribes, and not let them underestimate Chen Guo.

Of course, the dishes of each cuisine have their own characteristics, and it does not mean that the dishes of your cuisine are delicious, so you don't want all the dishes of other cuisines, which is also unreasonable.

In the first competition, Chen Youyi prepared two dishes, she did not take out her best dishes, and her newly created dishes, but just took out the ordinary dishes that she usually makes, she thinks that to promote the dishes of her own cuisine, not only take some signature dishes, after all, not all people can afford to eat signature dishes, but also some dishes suitable for the taste of ordinary people.

The first time she participated in the competition, Chen Youyi just watched the game below, and did not go up directly, Xiaoxue followed up to help beat it, and only one of the two cooks participated, so only one chef and Xiaoxue came to the stage in the first game, and the others were waiting under the stage.

Chen Youyi is still quite confident in her dishes, so she didn't show her housekeeping skills at the beginning, if she took it out at this time, there would be nothing to take in the next two games.

Because there are a lot of participants, there are several competition venues, a total of five, and each competition venue has more than a dozen teams participating in the competition, some teams are dishes of the same cuisine, but they are just people sent from different restaurants or different places.

In addition to these two officials, there were twenty other ordinary people who signed up, and then voted on which dishes to be eliminated and which ones to keep.

Of course, these twenty people are almost all family members of some officials in the court, and even some idle officials and people in the palace.

Bai Tiesheng was standing beside Chen Youyi, and when the game was nearly halfway through, he whispered in Chen Youyi's ear, "Madam, do you see the Lord Liao sitting on the left side of the stage?" ”

"Lord Liao?" Chen Youyi followed Bai Tiesheng's gaze, she didn't know much about the officials in the court, not to mention that these were just some nameless petty officials, "What's the matter, what does he have to pay attention to?" ”

"I know this Lord Liao, there are at least five or six people in the audience who know him, it is estimated that it is not these chefs who will cheat for personal gain, but these officials on the stage, maybe some of the teams have already stuffed silver in private, anyway, the people who taste these dishes are arranged by themselves, as long as they arrange a few more of their own people to go in, they can eliminate whoever they want."

Hearing this, Chen Youyi's brows immediately furrowed, "What else about this?" ”

"yes, isn't that normal?" For Bai Tiesheng, favoritism and fraud are simply like the innate skills of officials, and they don't feel strange at all.

Chen Youyi didn't expect this kind of internal operation, and couldn't help but be a little worried, "Then what will happen to our dishes?" What if those who have paid the money have nothing to choose from and eliminate our dishes, aren't we being cannon fodder for others? ”

"Cannon fodder?" Bai Tiesheng didn't understand what this meant, but from Chen Youyi's words, he roughly understood what she was worried about, "Don't worry, madam, I have already dealt with this aspect, although I didn't give a lot of money like them, but I also handed in a few people I knew, unless our chef made the dishes that were really poor, or they really didn't have a team to choose from, and eliminated us, otherwise they would be eliminated, and they shouldn't eliminate us first." ”

Although there is Bai Tiesheng's sentence, I am Chen Youyi's psychology is still inexplicably a little bottomless, but this kind of thing, she wants to win by her own strength, and she doesn't want to cheat on her own, if she really wins the game in that way, what's the point, she hopes that everyone can accept her dishes, and they really like it, not by boasting.

Chen Youyi didn't say anything after that, but she was a little worried in her heart, afraid that she would be inexplicably eliminated by those people who cheated for personal gain, and became cannon fodder for others, so wouldn't all her efforts during this period of time be in vain?

The first round of the competition is also relatively simple, because there are more teams in the competition, so each chef only needs to take out one dish, and it is to cook on the spot, but also to avoid cheating, all the ingredients and seasonings are checked, and they are all prepared by themselves, and the people in the court will not spend money to prepare these for them.

The first game, about two and ten inches had passed, and their cooks came down from above, their foreheads were covered with sweat, and the weather was not very hot that day, and they could see that they were very nervous.

"It's over, our team has passed ......" Master Lin said to Chen Youyi as soon as he came, and wiped the sweat on his forehead with his hand, and a smile appeared on his honest face.

Xiaoxue on the side also looked weak, as if her whole body had been emptied, and came to Chen Youyi's face, "I'm scared to death, my mind is blank and I don't know what to do, people are staring at us all around, and there are so many officials, fortunately, Master Lin is here, he has been encouraging me, and then told me what to do, otherwise I will really mess up, and I will be nervous to death." ”

These words amused Chen Youyi, "This is nervous, there are still many senior officials to see in the future, not to mention that you didn't say before that you want to see the emperor?" You've just met a petty official, and you're nervous like this? ”

"I don't want to see the emperor, I'm going to be scared and faint by that time." Xiaoxue pouted, but everyone's atmosphere was not bad, after all, the first level had passed normally.

"What does Master Lin think?"

"There's nothing difficult about it, I just do what you ask me to do, after those people tasted it, I looked at their faces, it seemed that some were not willing to accept it, but there were also those who liked it, and most of them recognized it." Master Lin explained.