Chapter 231: The Final List
Ten rings, excluding the ring where Wei Qiaoyi is, there are still nine.
Each person has two chances to fight.
That is, a maximum of sixty fights.
Nine rings, that is, about 6 to 7 competitions in each ring.
Of course, this is not the case, some rings have more people, and some have fewer people.
On the last day, everyone is trying their best to grab it, and if you hold on to today, you can enter the final list.
Gao Dian is now in the second ring, he resists the pressure, and every fight, he does his best to deal with it.
The energy and mental exhaustion are extremely high, and the continuous high-intensity competition is so overwhelming that he is almost out of breath.
In fact, he can lose one game, go down and rest, and after recuperating his spirit, he will come back to fight, anyway, he still has two more chances today.
With Gao Dian's current level, it is not very difficult to get a place in the competition.
However, he did not choose to lose deliberately.
He's just standing here, he's going to win, he's going to stand to the end.
One, two, three
Gao Dian persevered in every game.
Of course, in these processes, Gao Dian does not always make impeccable pastries. He can't do it, and others can't do it.
In fact, on the last day, except for the beginning, everyone didn't make much impeccable pastry in the future.
Because my heart is in turmoil.
Impeccable pastry requires that all aspects are well done, and some steps of pastry require a calm mind and steady hands to do well.
And when your mind is confused, you have complicated thoughts in your heart, and it is easy to be in a trance, and it is easy to make mistakes.
Although Gao Dian's heart was not disturbed, there were too many people who came to fight, and he was exhausted to deal with a few fights a day.
Time passed slowly, and the competition became more and more fierce.
As the number of fights ran out, the final champion slowly appeared.
Finally, the last fight is over.
It was past eleven o'clock at night.
The lights were on as bright as day.
In each of the ten rings, there is a champion, and after they fail, they beat them to the last champion.
Wei Qiaoyi, the No. 1 ring champion.
The second ring is the main Gao Dian.
The No. 3 ring is the champion Qiu Weijun.
The fourth ring is proud of Aoxue.
The No. 5 ring is the main Lan Yuan.
Shen Yue, the leader of the No. 6 ring.
Zhu Jiangming, the leader of the No. 7 ring.
The No. 8 ring is the main Wang Jiufang.
Sun Ruiqing, the leader of the No. 9 ring.
The No. 10 ring is the main Miao Meiling.
These ten people are the final list of entrants.
Among them, Wei Qiaoyi, Miao Meiling, and Zhang Aoxue are female pastry chefs, and the other seven are male pastry chefs.
Of course, Zhang Aoxue and Miao Meiling are both older than Wei Qiaoyi.
The twenty-one people who failed were a little sad in their hearts, but they were not unconvinced.
They have all done their best, there are still so many chances, and there is nothing out of the ordinary, not that they are not inferior.
Hu Dekun said: "You twenty-one people go back to rest first, and the ten of you stay, I have something to say." ”
The twenty-one people who were eliminated went back to their rooms silently, and their backs were a little lonely.
Hu Dekun looked at the ten people and felt some emotion in his heart.
The training camp has been going on for too long, more than four months.
Among them, the third stage is the longest and the most intensive.
In the first stage, it seems that you have to practice for more than ten hours a day, but when you have a break in the middle, your body is tired, but your heart is not so tired.
The three stages are different.
Between fighting and guarding, everyone is thinking, and every time they cook, they are wholeheartedly.
Under this intensity, the heart is exhausted, and although the body is not so tired, the heart is tired.
The ten people in front of me went through three stages of intensive training, and finally stayed, which can be said to be selected after a lot of hard work.
These ten people can almost represent the highest level of the young generation of pastry chefs in China.
The reason why I say almost is because Huaguo is too big and there are too many people, and no one knows where an unknown genius is hidden.
"It's five days after the game, and during those five days, you can take a break. However, it is not completely unanswering, you still have one more thing to do in five days. Hu Dekun said.
"What's the matter?" Wei Qiaoyi asked.
"Look for ingredients!" Hu Dekun muttered.
Gao Dian was surprised: "Do you have to bring your own ingredients?" ”
He participated in a competition or something before, and the ingredients were all ready-made, and even in this training camp, the ingredients were ready and ready to be used at any time.
Hu Dekun glanced at Gao Dian and said: "It's not your own, it's just that you are asked to find the ingredients you think are suitable, and the cost of the final purchase of ingredients can be reimbursed by the organizer." ”
"Old Hu, I don't understand, why do we have to find the ingredients ourselves?" Gao Dian asked.
As soon as this question was asked, everyone looked at him strangely.
Hu Dekun said: "You are not a first-class pastry chef, and it is normal if you don't understand. ”
When Hu Dekun said this, everyone suddenly discovered that Gao Dian was not a first-class pastry chef. And he is not a first-class pastry chef, but his cooking level is the same as theirs.
Lan Yuan looked at Gao Dian with a complicated gaze.
He is one of the few people who has seen the rise of Gao Dian with his own eyes, from the apprentice in the kitchen of the Appreciation Building, to the current level, how long has it passed?
Especially today, many of them have lost, and they are the champions who regained it later, but Gao Dian has not lost today.
Regardless of the challenge of others, Gao Dian did not lose.
This strength has surpassed him.
Thinking of this, Lan Yuan felt a touch of bitterness in his heart, it had only been a long time, and he had gone from being far inferior to himself to now surpassing himself, not for a year.
Immediately, Lan Yuan looked at Wei Qiaoyi next to Gao Dian, and his gaze became even more complicated.
"If you compare cooking to building a house, then the ingredients are bricks. No matter how good your skills are, you can't build a house without these bricks. Hu Dekun explained.
Gao Dian understood, "Therefore, the quality of the ingredients can affect the quality of the pastry, and we can maximize the deliciousness of the pastry by looking for good ingredients ourselves." ”
Hu Dekun said: "Yes and no. It's not about finding the best, it's about finding the most suitable. Blindly pursuing good, but falling behind. ”
"The most suitable? Any explanation? Gao Dian asked.
Let's put it this way, the wheat produced in the north is generally better than that in the south, because of the geography of the north. But because the wheat produced in the north is good, no matter what kind of pastry you make, do you have no brains to use the wheat produced in the north?
That is certainly not appropriate, because some pastries have a strong local flavor, and some pastries in the south, using flour from the north, are likely to lose their unique flavor. Hu Dekun said.
Gao Dian nodded, as if he had realized.
Hu Dekun added: "Of course, this is just a more extreme example, in fact, you all have to explore more, the development of pastry is changeable, not sticking to the rules, immutable."
That's for later, for now, you still have to find the right ingredients to make the pastry. ”
Everyone answered, nodding at the same time.
"Tomorrow, you will leave here and meet again in five days. You can go back for five days, but don't really relax. Hu Dekun said.
"Okay Hu Lao!" Ten people should arrive.
"Well, let's go rest." Hu Dekun waved his hand and left alone.
Gao Dian had a sad face, he was a little confused.
To be reasonable, although the teacher gave him some books on the selection of ingredients, he only read them and did not practice them.
That's his shortcoming.
"Gao Dian, what's wrong with you? A sad face? Wei Qiaoyi asked.
"Huh? Am I so obvious? Gao Dian asked.
"It's obvious, what's on your mind?" Wei Qiaoyi asked.
"That's what Hu Lao said just now, I don't know where to choose the ingredients, and I don't know if those ingredients are suitable." Gao Dian said with a bitter face.
"It's really not easy to choose the ingredients." Wei Qiaoyi said.
"yes." Gao Dian said.
Suddenly, Gao Dian remembered that Wei Qiaoyi had become a first-class pastry chef a few years earlier, and she should know a lot about selecting ingredients.
"Qiaoyi, how do you choose the ingredients? Or you talk about it, and I'll learn from it. Gao Dian said.
Wei Qiaoyi glanced at the time and said, "It's too late today, and you're asking like this?" ”
"So how do you ask? Saliva in your mouth? Gao Dian wondered.
Wei Qiaoyi glanced at him and said, "Invite me to dinner, and I'll tell you." ”
She is this kind of character, she will say anything, and she will not let people guess around the bush.
"Say it earlier, please eat, no problem." Gao Dian said.
"We'll talk about it tomorrow, then." Wei Qiaoyi waved his hand.
"Okay." Gao Dian responded.
Back in the room, Takanori packed his luggage, which was more than when he came out.
That's natural, when he came out, he was still wearing short sleeves, and now he is wearing a down jacket.
Most of his clothes are bought online.
Not to mention that it is convenient to shop online now, like the time of Gaodian training, I can't go out, and I place an order online when it's cold, and the day will be soon.
Fortunately, Gao Dian had the foresight to know that he had more luggage, and the backpack he carried out before would definitely not be able to fit it anymore, so he bought a suitcase online.
I packed all my luggage into it and stuffed it with a big suitcase.
After cleaning up, Gao Dian lay down to sleep.
In fact, at this moment, he still has a feeling of unreality.
Already on the entry list?
When he started to participate in the training camp, it was the teacher who persuaded him to come, and the teacher didn't have much hope at that time, let alone himself, he just planned to try.
When he came in, he found many unfamiliar faces, as well as some familiar ones.
Most people treat him quite coldly.
Then Gao Dian met Li Dongyang and Zhou Yongqing, and they had familiar people, and they held each other together to form a small group.
At the beginning, the wind was calm, and the small group was very comfortable, and after studying every day, they discussed with each other.
Gao Dian quite likes this atmosphere.
But all this was broken, and Deng Buliang's provocation pulled the second-level pastry chef and the first-level pastry chef to the opposite side.
The first-level pastry chefs originally looked down on the second-level pastry chefs, and the two didn't have much friction at first, but they just couldn't get used to each other.
When he arrived at Deng Buliang, he became a fuse.
Then the contradictions became more and more intense, and the competition often happened, the warehouse snatched the ingredients, and deliberately spoke disgustingly.
Later, with the help of Wei Qiaoyi and plug-ins, he successfully reached the level of a first-class pastry chef.
The competition between him and Deng Buliang can be regarded as the end of this storm.
It was also from that time that Gao Dian was slowly accepted by the first-class pastry chefs.
In the second stage of the training camp, he sent away his friends one by one, and in the end he was the only one who stayed here, and he persevered, step by step, until the third stage of the training camp.
There were not many people left in the three-stage training camp, and they began to fight and defend each other.
Basically everyone has been a champion and has almost challenged it.
Gao Dian recalled the bits and pieces of the past four months, and felt a little unreal in a trance.
But he could recall everything clearly, telling him that it was all true.
In four months, I went from the level of a second-level pastry chef to the level of a first-level pastry chef.
But Gao Dian himself is also a third-level pastry chef.
He didn't know how it came to be.
The second-level pastry chef exam is the fastest, and it will be a few months later, let alone the first-level pastry chef exam.
Therefore, Gao Dian had to take the name of a third-level pastry chef to participate in this international competition.
Thinking about it, Gao Dian quickly fell asleep.
Wei Qiaoyi was lying on the bed, her room was much better than the others.
This is probably the special treatment, not only the room is large, but also has a separate bathroom and floor-to-ceiling windows.
The luggage has been packed by her, and she has a lot of luggage, a girl's luggage.
She didn't fall asleep, I don't know what's wrong, she didn't feel sleepy.
Recalling the days when she came to the training camp, in fact, she has nothing to recall, either watching dramas or watching short videos.
The only thing that Wei Qiaoyi remembered deeply was Gao Dian.
What Wei Qiaoyi said to Gao Dian before was not to lie to him, she really hoped that Gao Dian could become an opponent on an equal footing with her.
She has stayed at the threshold of a first-class pastry chef to a special first-class pastry chef for too long, and she has not broken through.
In the past few months of communication with Gao Dian, Wei Qiaoyi has also gained some gains and insights, but it is far from enough for her to break through.
As for the reason, Wei Qiaoyi herself knows, and it is very difficult for her to break through.
Maybe with the pressure given by Gao Dian, it may not be possible for her to reach that level faster.
Thinking about it, Gao Dian's face frequently appeared in Wei Qiaoyi's mind.
"Gao Dian, are you the one chosen by your grandfather?" Wei Qiaoyi's eyes were a little deep.
"Let me see if you can really live up to Grandpa's expectations? Is it you or me," Wei Qiaoyi muttered to herself.
Night, silent.
Next.
Everyone has a habit of waking up early and getting ready for a morning run.
Many people are halfway through packing, only to suddenly find that the training camp has ended, and there is no need to go for a morning run.
For four months, everyone had to go for a morning run every day, and now it suddenly ended, and they were all a little lost.
"Gao Dian! Help me with my luggage! Wei Qiaoyi shouted.
As soon as Gao Dian walked out of the door, he saw Wei Qiaoyi's luggage and exclaimed, "I'll go, why do you have so much luggage?" ”