Yan Ziyue took Xiao Huang to wander around the street, buying all kinds of delicious and fun things, Lei Yunting's arms were already full, and his hands were not idle.

Yan Ziyue adjusted a Bugs Bunny mask for Xiao Huang, and she chose a dragonfly mask to put on, and she happened to catch a glimpse of a few figures in the afterglow, feeling familiar, and remembering that it was a ghost eye, she became vigilant.

"Let's go back", Yan Ziyue turned back to Lei Yun Ting Dao, and then bent down and said to Xiao Huang: "Xiao Maruko, let's go back"?

"Hmm...", Xiao Huang nodded, hugged Yan Ziyue's waist and said, "I can't walk."

Yan Ziyue glanced helplessly and turned to Lei Yunting and said, "You hold him, give me things."

It was already dusk when the three of them came back to Hua Minglou.

Yan Ziyue went to the backyard to watch the rehearsal of the song and dance, Jin Buchang greeted waves of guests in front, and Xiao Yan looked at the surging heads on the first floor and every guest who came upstairs with a cold face.

In the blink of an eye, it is about to be the day of the preliminary round of the God of Food Competition, and the inns of all sizes in Fengdu are overcrowded, and Huaminglou is as crowded as ants.

Early in the morning, an elevated highway was erected outside the Huaming Building, and a huge pattern of the God of Food Contest hung down from the ninth floor to the second floor, which was particularly conspicuous from a distance. Hua Ming Lou opened the doors on both sides, all the people who entered the sign in first went to the sign-in platform to spend one or two silver to buy an admission ticket and sign in before they could enter the ticket to watch the game, the number of admission tickets is limited, but one person can have more than one, first come, first served, people who come late have to wait outside the Hua Ming Building to listen to the letter. The judging quota was decided as early as ten days ago, and the judges of the preliminary competition bid as high as 35,000 taels per seat, and the judges of the final round have not been taken out of takeaways, saying that they were taken by bidding on the spot in the preliminary competition.

The background of the Huaminglou ring is golden silk, painted with a picture of the god of food, the long tables on the left and right sides of the stage are placed with various ingredients, and the wide area in the middle is placed with steaming, stewing, frying, frying, cooking, simmering, baking, baking and other utensils.

The gong sounded, the preliminary competition began, Dai Zhang introduced the judges of the preliminary competition in advance, namely the fire phoenix country food office Tong Zhangshan, the fire phoenix national code business Sining business, the first fire tongue in the rivers and lakes, the Wuji Gate Donglongtang Wo Tang master, Hua Ming Lou Jin boss..., and then introduced the rules and process arrangements of the competition in detail, and finally, publicly presented the two treasures of the competition as prizes, Bao Ya recipe and openwork water knife, circulated the judges, and in front of everyone into the two hydrangeas on the roof of Hua Ming Building, hanging in the ring is just above the ring.

Under the attention of everyone, the contestants also appeared on the stage one by one, and the on-site lottery was drawn to determine the order of the appearance, and after the appearance, the flop drew their own available main raw materials, and auxiliary raw materials were taken.

Yan Ziyue and Xiao Yan sat in the exclusive private room on the second floor, looking at the crowd surging under the stage and the contestants who were already seated on both sides of the stage.

An Lu came in, handed over a roster and said, "Jin Bu said that everyone will confirm the order of appearance."

Xiao Yan took it and gave it to Yan Ziyue first, Yan Ziyue opened it and saw that it was indeed a roster of contestants that had been arranged, and the roster recorded the information of each contestant.

Downstairs has already begun to announce the start of the game, cheers, shouts.

"No. 1: Zu Dapeng", together with the high-pitched voice of Dai Zhangshi, a shiny round-headed strong guy came to the stage.

"Please flop the card," Dai said, and the two attendants carried up a piece of Zimu case, on which were ten sheets of red cardboard, with the words facing down.

Zu Dapeng stepped forward and glanced at it, hesitated for a moment, and opened the middle one.

Dai Zhangshi stepped forward and read aloud: "The main ingredient extracted by Zu Dapeng is chicken", and after speaking, he held up the cardboard that Zu Dapeng had opened, so that the judges and spectators in the audience could see it clearly.

The green tendons on Zu Dapeng's forehead twitched a few times, indicating that he was not good at using chicken as an ingredient, but he still had a hard time.

"Limited to a pillar of incense, a pillar of incense for half an hour, the incense has not been made into a finished product, eliminated, and the timing begins", Dai Zhangshi announced the end, and let people light the incense.

Zu Dapeng was so busy that he was sweating profusely for a while, and as time passed, he became more and more anxious and hurried.

A pillar of incense burned out, Zu Dapeng fried chicken was completed, the waiters served the food into fifteen plates, and the waiters served them to the judges present one by one, and then waited for the ten judges to raise their cards. At the same time, Butler Dai began to draw the ticket name tags of five spectators, and all spectators who were selected in the lottery could get a food tasting in this round. The people in the crowd who were selected were like lucky arrivals, and they happily went up to the tasting table to try the food.

Dai Zhangshi saw that the time was almost up, and said: "Please judge and show the cards"!

In front of each judge, two delicate wooden signs were placed in front of each judge, which were the symbols of "√" and "×", with "√" indicating agreement to advance and "×" indicating elimination.

Each judge deliberates and makes a final decision, holding up a wooden card that represents his or her answer.

The results came out, and Dai Zhangshi glanced at the judge's seat and said: "No. 1 Ancestor Dapeng, eliminated."

Zu Dapeng was a little disappointed when he saw this, and walked down dejectedly.

"Next, No. 2, Yi Yuan", Dai Zhangshi's words fell, and the contestant Yi Yuan will come to the stage steadily.

Yan Ziyue had already flipped through a few pages of the roster, and then handed it back to Xiao Yan and said, "It's almost the same today, can it be twelve?"

"Hmm...", Xiao Yan quickly flipped through the entire roster and said: "It will take almost nine days to compete, and the final will be after fifteen."

"Fifteen days later, it's almost the wax moon."

"Hmm... It's time for Laba to end the competition."

"Laba again"?

"What's wrong"? Xiao Yan raised his eyes and looked at Yan Ziyue and asked.

"It's nothing", Yan Ziyue thought for a while and said, "Thank you, thank you for helping me find out about Hu Kuan."

Xiao Yan looked at Yan Ziyue and smiled slightly: "Are you polite to me"?

"You don't like it"? Yan Ziyue tilted her head and asked with a smile.

"Not required".

Yan Ziyue listened with embarrassment, every time she talked to Xiao Yan, she felt that she couldn't match the rhythm, and she was always in frequency.

"What do you have to do with the Lord of Flying Fish Castle?" Yan Ziyue raised her doubts head-on for the first time.

"Want to know"?

"Have you forgotten the third chapter of the covenant? Don't hide it from me."

"So, I won't hide it from you if you ask, but if you don't ask about it, I don't know if you want to know"?

Yan Ziyue is really a bit obedient, what is his brain made of, he always makes himself have the urge to go crazy.

"You answered what I asked, I didn't ask you, I don't blame you."

"Oh... What did you just ask"? Xiao Yan took a sip of a cup of tea and asked.

"You're forgetful, you don't remember"?

"What does forgetfulness mean"? Xiao Yan said with a serious look of humbly seeking advice.

Yan Ziyue smiled and said, "That means you forgot things too quickly."

"Oh"

"Answer my question first".

"What"?

"Do you have any deals with Flying Fish Castle"?

After listening to this, Xiao Yan thought for a while and said, "Was this the problem just now?"

"Xiao Yan...", Yan Ziyue was a little annoyed.

"Yes", Xiao Yan saw Yan Ziyue's expression and knew that she was angry, so he replied directly.

Yan Ziyue was stunned when she heard this, although she had already guessed it, she still felt a little rare when she said it from Xiao Yan's mouth.

"What is the deal"?

"They build weapons for me", Xiao Yan replied succinctly, without any evasion at all.

"What do you want weapons for?"

"Use", Xiao Yan poured a cup of tea and drank it, signaling to the west wind, the tea was light, and it was replaced with a new one.

"Where is it used"? Yan Ziyue asked.

Xiao Yan paused and said, "To Marshal An."

As soon as Yan Ziyue heard this, she confirmed Yan Li's inference, her heart tightened, her mouth pursed, she sat down, thinking about something.

Xiao Yan looked at Yan Ziyue with some confusion, especially her contemplative appearance.

The competition downstairs is still in full swing, and it is almost noon, and it is already the seventh contestant of the day, and the results are also dismal, so far only one has advanced.

"Next, number eight, Juhuan".

Yan Ziyue glanced at it, and it was actually a young girl, with clear eyebrows and beautiful eyes, so she became curious.

Ju Huan casually flipped over a card, revealing that the main ingredient she drew was tofu. Ju Huan looked at all the ingredients on the table, and did not choose ready-made tofu, but instead chose soybeans to make it.

Yan Ziyue looked at Ju Huan suspiciously, thinking that it was only half an hour, was she really in a hurry to choose soybeans?

Juhuan unhurriedly crushed the soybeans into foam and put them in the boiling water to simmer in the pot and boil over high heat, and took some raw meat, fungus, green onion and other accessories to prepare, after the soybeans were boiled many times, the bean dregs were leached, and the soybean milk was repeatedly filtered and poured into the pot to cook over low heat, and at the same time began to stir-fry the raw meat fungus puree, and a meat fragrance was overflowing. Seeing that it was almost time, Ju Huan looked at the pot, cut a whole piece of tender tofu into small pieces with a fast knife and put it into a bowl, poured the gravy, and announced that it was finished.

Dai Zhangshi motioned for the waiter to be passed to the judges' seat, and at the same time selected five spectators to taste it.

Ju Huan's expression calmly processed the bean dregs on the stage, wrapped in gauze and unscrewed boiling water, put it in the pot and stir-fried it to make it fragrant, put it out of the plate and tried it with a spoon first, it felt good, so he signaled to Dai Zhangshi, these can also be eaten.

The judges and the spectators were full of praise after eating Juhuan's tofu brain, and they kept sighing, and when they saw that there was something new to eat, they rushed to ask for it.

Dai Zhangshi asked the waiter to serve fried bean dregs for each judge, and everyone felt great after eating, and without waiting for Dai Zhangshi to say, they all began to raise cards, nine votes were promoted, and one abstained.

Yan Ziyue didn't look very happy when she saw that Ju Huan, but just bowed politely and retreated.

Yan Ziyue reopened the roster and looked at it, and read Ju Huan's information carefully.

Xiao Yan glanced at Yan Ziyue and said, "She came to fight for the water knife."

Yan Ziyue looked at Xiao Yan curiously and said, "How do you know"?

"Because the waterknife is in my hand."

"So, you know it when you first see the roster."

"Hmm...", Xiao Yan put down the teacup and said lightly: "Before I got the water knife, it was indeed hidden in the Pony family, but no one knows."

"You robbed someone"?

"It was they who lost it, but they were unable to confirm that the knife was their own, and more importantly, they were unable to protect the knife, once the knife was made public, it would inevitably cause a scramble among fellow believers, so it became my custody."

"That's... Are you going to give it back to the Koma family?"

Xiao Yan smiled and said, "Now it's the prize of the God of Food winner, it depends on whether she has the strength to take it."

Only then did Yan Ziyue realize that he couldn't understand Xiao Yan, what kind of person he was, seemingly affectionate but ruthless, seemingly ruthless but affectionate, really an unfathomable and unpredictable man.