Cao Hong on the stage waited for everyone to calm down, and then continued, "It seems that this first place is really difficult to deliver, so be it!" We draw 10 spectators and form an audience jury, and they vote to decide who is the first place, okay? ”

"Okay!"

"Support !!"

"That's great!!"

……

The audience below seems to have exploded, this is a new thing, the final champion actually wants the audience to choose, for a while, everyone wants to be the audience judge, everyone wants to know, the third round of snacks made by these three stores, what is the taste, why the three judges also have differences.

Ten spectators were immediately chosen.

Xiao Yu asked Da Niu to pull the noodles again, the soup and sauce were ready-made, and he made a 'superb chicken steak noodles' for ten people, and the other two also made snacks for ten people and put them on the cooking table.

The ten people spun around, smiled and returned to the judges' seat.

At this time, the three judges had already gone down to rest, and the staff had already prepared three ballot boxes made of transparent plastic, with the names of the three stores written on them, and each audience judge was assigned a small table tennis ball, and when voting, the table tennis ball was put into the box of the store that they thought was the first place.

Voting begins.

The first to take the stage, a young man in his mid-twenties, looked at the ballot box in front of him and stuffed the ping-pong ball into one of the middle boxes.

"One ticket for Xiaoyu's hot sauce noodle shop!" Miss Manners sang loudly.

Xiao Yu and the three couldn't help but be happy.

The second audience member on stage, who was in his mid-fifties, dropped his ticket into the rightmost box.

"One ticket for Lao Zhang's pastry shop!"

As the voting proceeded, without exception, the younger audience voted for Xiaoyu Hot Sauce Noodle Shop, while the older audience voted for Lao Zhang's pastry shop.

After the first nine spectators voted, Xiaoyu Hot Sauce Noodle Shop also received four votes, Lao Zhang Pastry Shop also received four votes, and Tianlin Hot Pot City only received one vote.

Liu Baocai's face was even uglier than pork liver, he clearly knew that he was out of action in the first place, the audience who voted for his shop, he had seen it, it was an employee of Hot Pot City.

He lost, he lost so completely, and now he only hopes that the last audience member will vote for Lao Zhang's pastry shop, so that his bet with Xiaodao will become a piece of waste paper, and he can continue to work here.

The last audience member was a little girl of three or four years old, led by her mother, who walked onto the judging stage.

Everyone also wants to know who this little girl will vote for.

I saw that the little girl glanced at the three transparent boxes, asked her mother a question, and ran forward excitedly holding a table tennis ball.

"The one in the middle! The one in the middle! The ...... in the middle" Xiao Yu clearly heard the knife next to him muttering as if chanting a mantra, and couldn't help but feel funny.

Hundreds of pairs of eyes were staring at the little girl, wanting to see the little girl's choice, and the scene was suddenly terrifying.

'Plop~~~'

The little girl apparently didn't notice the wires under her feet, and she tripped over them and sat on the ground crying.

The audience couldn't cry or laugh, such a tense moment, there was such a scene, and the tense atmosphere of the scene was also resolved a lot.

The girl's mother hurriedly stepped forward and comforted the girl, and the little girl stood up again, carried by her mother until she came to the middle box, and stuffed the ping pong ball in her hand into the small hole in the box.

"One ticket for Xiaoyu hot sauce noodle shop! The voting is over, and Xiaoyu hot sauce noodle shop wins! Miss Manners reluctantly announced the results of the competition.

"Great!" Xiaodao and Da Niu jumped up excitedly, and Xiao Yu's face was also filled with a smile of joy, winning, they won.

The owners of those restaurants also came forward to congratulate one by one, although Xiao Yu knew that his peers were enemies, and most of these bosses were jealous of themselves, but they reached out and didn't hit the smiling people, and they also coped with them one by one.

Tianlin Hot Pot City side is like a defeated rooster, all of them are dejected, Liu Baocai cautiously looked at the gloomy Boss Yang beside him, and said in a low voice, "Boss Yang, I didn't play well this time, I will definitely ...... next time"

Boss Yang raised his hand to stop him from continuing, "There is no next time, since you have already made a bet with that kid from the hot sauce noodle shop, we have to admit defeat in the bet, you can leave today." ”

Liu Baocai was like five thunderbolts, stunned in the local area, eager to smoke himself a hundred big mouths, since leaving the five-star hotel, now it is easy to find a job with a very good salary, what kind of bet with others! It's a good thing now, but I lost my new job.

Now that the top three have been announced, the next step is the award ceremony.

When he received the pennant with the words 'First Place in the Tianlin Road Snack Street Food Competition' and a prize of 10,000 yuan from Director Li, Xiao Yu felt that he was really fame and fortune today, as if he was in a dream.

Director Li patted Xiao Yu's shoulder appreciatively and encouraged, "Young man, do a good job!" ”

Xiao Yu suddenly remembered something in his heart, and asked quietly, "Director Li, didn't you receive Boss Yang's transportation expenses?" ”

Director Li was stunned for a moment, and scolded with a smile, "Good boy, you are well-informed, I am also a bureau chief, this 5,000 yuan is too little for me, if you give 50,000, you can consider it, hehe." ”

Xiao Yu knew that he was joking, and he laughed it off.

The biggest beneficiaries of this food competition are undoubtedly Xiaoyu Hot Sauce Noodle Shop and Lao Zhang Pastry Shop, whose names have skyrocketed, and many people are asking each other about the specific locations of these two shops, looking for time to have a quick meal.

Xiao Yu gave Xiaodao and Da Niu a bonus of 1,000 yuan each, and after going back, he divided Zhou Xin, Tao Hong and Xiaomei with 500 yuan each, and gave Lao Zhangtou a New Year's red envelope of 1,000 yuan, and everyone was happy.

Xiao Yu took out another 500 yuan from the remaining money, invited the whole store to go out for a meal, and saw Zhou Xin and them off.

This afternoon, Zhou Xin, Tao Hong and the two of them were about to leave Shanghai to go home for the New Year, Xiaoyu not only helped them buy train tickets in advance, but also gave them two weeks off, so that the two of them were so grateful that they didn't know what to say, where to find such a good boss?

After sending Zhou Xin and them away, several people returned to the store, starting today, Xiaoyu's store will also be closed for two weeks during the Spring Festival, take a good rest, take the opportunity to adjust the existing varieties, and the two new varieties participating in the food competition will also appear in the menu after the festival.

After returning from the train station, Da Niu has been in a low mood, Xiao Yu knows that this kid must be reluctant to part with Tao Hong, but the relationship between the two has not yet reached the level of talking about marriage and meeting the parents of both parties, so this time Tao Hong went home, Da Niu did not follow.

"Da Niu, Tao Hong and the others are all home, why don't you go home for the New Year?" Xiao Yu came to Da Niu's room and asked with some curiosity.

Xiaodao and Xiaomei are veritable homeless, and it is completely understandable to stay here during the Chinese New Year, but Da Niu obviously has a hometown in Henan, why don't you go back?

A trace of melancholy crossed Da Niu's eyes, "When I came out of the house, I swore that if I didn't make a difference, I would never go back, and I didn't make any money in the past few years, so I didn't dare to go back, and if I went back, it would definitely cost money along the way, and it would add up to a lot, so I still sent them this money better." ”

"Da Niu, how many years have you been out?" Xiao Yu asked next to him.

Da Niu folded his hands and counted them, and said gloomily, "It's been six years." ”

Xiao Yu was silent, as soon as this big cow came out, it was six years, didn't he miss home?

"Who else is in your family?"

Talking about his family, Da Niu's eyes were red, "There are grandfathers, mothers and sisters at home, my father went to Shanxi to dig coal mines for private people in order to earn money when I was a child, a mine accident, was crushed to death in it, the mine owner only gave my mother a pension of 5,000 yuan, my mother and my grandfather planted five acres of land, saving money to pull me and my sister ......"

Xiao Yu silently listened to Da Niu talk about the situation at home, and deeply felt the difficulty of survival, but compared with himself, Da Niu also has a mother, grandfather, and sister, but what about himself? Where are your loved ones?

It's very helpless to think about this question, in this day when I miss my relatives every festival, Xiaoyu really wants to do something for the big cow.

“…… When I graduated from junior high school six years ago and came out to work, my sister was still in elementary school, so I guess she's already in high school, right? A while ago, I wrote home and told my grandfather and mother about my recent situation, and my grandfather was very happy and asked me to work hard, and asked my sister to write back to tell me, saying that everything is fine at home now, the fields have been replanted with medicinal herbs, and the economic situation is not as bad as in previous years, and there is no need for me to send money back, so I can save money to let me go back for the holidays. ”

"My grandfather also said, when it is convenient for me to invite you to sit at home, although there is nothing good to eat at home, the game in the mountains cannot be eaten elsewhere......"

Xiao Yu listened and listened, and suddenly a flash of inspiration occurred in his mind, anyway, he didn't have anything to do during this time, so it was better to accompany Da Niu to go home and have a look, so that Da Niu could also see his relatives who had been absent for a long time.

Thinking of this, Xiao Yu thought about it for a while, and then said to Da Niu, "Da Niu, I think so!" Our store is not open during the spring, I am also on winter vacation, there are no relatives in Shanghai except godfather, just wait for tomorrow to have a Chinese New Year's Eve dinner with godfather and Xiaodao, how about I accompany you home for the New Year on the first day of the new year? Don't worry, I'll take care of all the expenses along the way! ”

Da Niu's eyes lit up and blurted out, "That's a good dare!" ”

Then his expression darkened again, and he continued, "But, it will cost a lot of money for the two of us to go together, right?" Besides, I can't buy a train ticket at this time! ”

Xiao Yu waved his hand and said, "You don't have to worry about money, didn't we just win 10,000 yuan in the game?" I still have six thousand left, it should be enough, in addition, the ticket for the first day of the new year should not be so nervous, let's go to the ticket office on Tianlin Road to ask, if you don't think of a way, it's really not good, buy a station ticket over, Shanghai to Henan is not far, what are we two young men afraid of? ”

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