Chapter 242: Dark Horse
The reason why Yan Yue only played with one person was to take this opportunity to prove his refining skills.
When he participated in the conference, the purpose of not passing the audition was to participate in this grand event every ten years, and secondly, to enter the quarterfinals and slightly enhance the reputation of the Cup.
By this time, both of these goals had been achieved.
I didn't think much about the final leader of the conference and whether he was eligible to be ranked among the top ten restaurants.
His Ah Fu Restaurant has been rated as one of the top ten restaurants, and the owners of the top ten restaurants need to appear at the same time on many major occasions, and it is impossible to find excuses such as fighting wine next time to make an identity disappear temporarily.
Yan Yue has little ambition to win the championship, he just wants to give full play to his greatest strength in addition to the soluble soul melting technology and the ultimate distillation technique, and see how the spirit wine he has refined is evaluated in the mouth of wine tasters.
And the spirit wine refined by two people is not at the personal level, so they did not bring their deputies.
If any restaurant does this, everyone will definitely say that they are grandstanding, and if the famous Dragon Gongzi does this, it is a sign of self-confidence.
Everyone applauded and praised, "If Young Master Long has such confidence, he will definitely lose against Sui Hantang." ”
Since Yan Yue was willing to do this, the host did not stop him and announced the start of the competition.
Brother Jiedan, the person who organized the conference, said, "Young people are self-confidence." ”
"If I were to go back to his age, I would like to do it again. ”
"It's just that you can't go far alone after all, but it's good to ...... like this"
The rules are different for each round of the conference.
In the eight-in-four competition, the contestants need to refine a kind of spirit wine stipulated by the conference, which is a special wine for this kind of competition, which is very difficult to distill, and can only be refined into the lower grade.
In the past, there were only a few restaurants that had been refined, and these restaurants are now among the top ten restaurants.
And Yan Yue's opponent, Sui Hantang, is such a restaurant that can refine high-quality.
The spectators began to speculate about the outcome of the two sides.
"Although the dragon prince has excellent qualifications and understanding, his wine art is only three bottles after all, and it is very difficult to defeat the two four-bottle spirit winemakers in Sui Hantang. ”
"It's not very difficult, it's simply impossible. ”
"Not necessarily, maybe there will be a miracle. ”
"Yes, these kinds of games are still up to the game. ”
Some of the people are optimistic about pouring the cup, some believe that the year Hantang will win, and friends bet on each other, and in the end, nine adults bet on the victory of the year, and only one adult thinks that the outcome is unknown.
Yan Yue and Sui Hantang, the two four-bottle spirit wine masters, made a gesture of please, took a deep breath, took the raw wine that had been prepared, and began to melt the spirit.
This link is mainly compared to the distillation technique, and it is not difficult to melt the spirit, and Yan Yue will complete the fusion spirit quickly.
found that the two people on the opposite side were already distilling, and the aroma of wine continued to waft out of the wine, and there was a slight sense of powerlessness.
"Will you lose the first battle......
Yan Yue's extreme distillation technique cannot be used, and even if it is used, it may not be able to defeat the two four-bottle spirit winemakers opposite.
After knowing that there was little hope of winning this battle, Yan Yue's mentality, on the one hand, relaxed, and on the other hand, slightly aroused the idea of not admitting defeat in his heart.
"If you surrender without a fight, then this conference will be in vain, and only by playing at the highest level can you live up to this trip!"
Yan Yue does not want to win the championship, but also wants to get the highest ranking, except for the two techniques that are easy to expose his identity, he wants to give full play to his highest strength.
After strengthening his beliefs, he entered a state of self-forgetfulness that naturally occurs when refining sake.
The divine consciousness carefully observed the microstructure of the spirit wine, cast a fire spell, accurately controlled the size of the flame, and peeled off the impurities with different densities in it, distilling it little by little.
In the seat of Songfeng Building, Xi Rou, who was cheering for Yan Yue, suddenly pushed Elder Huang on the side, "Master, you see that Gongzi Long is really similar to Erlenzi when he is refining wine." ”
Elder Huang said with a smile: "When the spirit wine master is refining wine, most of them will devote themselves to this state of concentration and selflessness. ”
In the audience, Jiang Yuxian and Jin Mingxiu cursed the dragon prince who could be compared to Yan Yue, "This thief-eyed guy had better lose the first battle." ”
"If Childe comes to the conference, he will definitely be able to win the final leader, how can these people show off. ”
I don't know if Yan Yue, who was affected by the curse of the two and incarnated like a dragon boy, did not distill the entire spirit wine within the specified time.
"There is still a small portion that has not been distilled, and the quality is probably greatly reduced......
The spirit wine is sent to the wine taster, and the wine taster begins to taste the spirit wine refined by the two sides.
"Pouring a cup of this spiritual wine, it should be of the sixth grade. ”
"Well, almost, but there is still a small part that has not been distilled, otherwise it can be one or two higher. ”
Among the four grades of Lingsheng, Lower, Middle, Upper, and Extreme, there are nine smaller grades that are more detailed, with the first class being the highest and the ninth class being the lowest.
The monks can generally distinguish which grade the spirit wine belongs to, and the specific level is how many grades, and only the wine tasters can taste it.
After everyone tasted Yan Yue's spirit wine, they took the spirit wine of Sui Hantang again.
"Hmm, the distillation is over-distilled, and it hasn't reached the middle grade. ”
They didn't need to taste it, so they found that the spirit wine of the Sui Han Hall was just a lower taste.
The two four-bottle spirit wine masters in the Sui Han Hall shook their heads and sighed, "Hey, the two of us wanted to use this conference to regain their reputation, and wanted to distill the top grade, but they were in a hurry, causing the spirit wine to be damaged......
The two sides have a medium grade and a lower grade, and the wine tasters announce the results of the battle.
As soon as the results came out, the audience was in an uproar.
"Hahaha, if the dragon boy won nine hundred spirit stones for me!"
"If the dragon prince can pick the Sui Hantang who is sure to win the championship!"
"If Young Master Long can defeat the Sui Hantang, who must be the first, then isn't the final leader already in the bag?"
Yan Yue originally had little hope, but he won unexpectedly, and couldn't help but feel slightly agitated, "Sure enough, a conference like this still depends on the on-the-spot performance!"
Although it is a fluke victory, any competition itself has a certain element of luck.
If a team draws the weakest opponent of the other seven teams, the odds of winning it will naturally be higher than that of the other players.
And if you win the opponent who is destined to win one game, it is unfortunate.
The two four-bottle spirit wine masters in Suihantang were unwilling and helpless in their hearts, "Count us unlucky." ”
In the Jiedan monk's seat, the Qianyuan City Lord and the Thoughtless Daoist looked at the results of the field, looked at each other and smiled, and said: "Sui Hantang is quite interesting, and I need to take care of their business more in the future." ”
The battle between the two parties ended, and the next match followed, and Yan Yue returned to the seat next to the thoughtless Taoist.
Seeing that Yan Yue's face was full of joy that could not be concealed, the thoughtless Daoist said with a smile: "The virtuous brother is full of spirit and radiance, is he pointing the sword?"
Although Yan Yue won a fluke, he still won after all, and after winning a game, his confidence increased a lot.
As a senior disciple of Yuanying, he shook the folding fan in his hand, and said lightly: "If you can win all three battles, it will naturally be the best." ”
Hearing this, the thoughtless Taoist laughed a few times, looked at the direction of the Qianyuan City Lord for a moment, and then turned his head to Yan Yue and said, "Brother Xian, there are some things that my brother wants to explain to you......"
Yan Yue listened to the voice of the thoughtless Taoist, and the folding fan in his hand that was shaking for nothing gradually stopped.
......
There was a time limit for the competition, and the final four were released quickly.
In addition to the victory of the first battle, another dark horse beyond people's expectations is a restaurant that has just emerged in recent years, Songfeng Building.
The other two semi-finals are the Cup that won the second battle and the Juxian Lou that won the third battle.
The top four were released, and everyone talked about it, guessing the ownership of the first and second places.
"If the new type of Dongli liquor refined back then, if it was not just the first order, but the second order, it would be among the top ten restaurants in one fell swoop. ”
"I heard that the spirit wine master who refined the new type of Dongli wine is Master Huang, the main general of Songfeng Building, he has not only refined the first-order homesick spirit wine, but the original Dongli wine thirty years ago also has a sense of wine, and it is still a second-order. ”
"It is really unique to be able to refine the spirit wine with the intention of wine twice, when he refined the Dongli wine, it was only in a small place called Tiannan, if it was in Qianyuan City, he would have already made a name for himself. ”
"After he left the cup, he was recruited by the owner of Songfeng Building with 100,000 yuan, so it seems that the strength of Songfeng Lou is still above the cup. ”
"That's right, and such a spirit wine master who has refined homesick wine twice is from the Nanshan School. ”
"The Qingfeng Taoist of the Nanshan faction was well-known even among the five bottles of spirit winemakers, and the restaurant he opened also entered the top ten restaurants. ”
"And Master Qin, the main general of the Gathering Immortal Tower, is the personal disciple of the Qingfeng Daoist, who once defeated Master Huang of the Songfeng Tower. ”
In this way, these three restaurants should be led by Juxian Building. ”
"Not necessarily, Juxian Building and Songfeng Building have just opened, and the cup is a time-honored brand, not necessarily weaker than them. ”
Originally, there were eight restaurants, five time-honored brands, and three were newly opened, but after a round of competition, only one time-honored brand was left to forget about worries, and the three newly opened restaurants were all promoted.
Originally, everyone thought that after the high-level top ten restaurant ranking competition, the children's fight behind them was no longer interesting.
Now I know that the most exciting thing about the conference is that there is uncertainty about who wins and loses, unlike the top ten restaurants in the rankings, where the rankings have not changed much.
What they want to see is this kind of battle with unknown outcome and defeat.
In addition, in order to be famous at the refining conference, these restaurants have been prepared for a long time, and in the previous refining conferences, there were often sensational brews, which were refined from the hands of ordinary spirit wine masters who were originally unknown.
The three newly opened restaurants may bring them unexpected excitement.
However, no matter how powerful the cup forgets, Songfeng Building, and Juxian Building, it will not be as good as pouring the cup.
After pouring the cup to defeat the highest call to win the championship, it has been recognized by everyone that he will be the final leader of the conference.
Yan Yue is the first to defeat the outer, and the opponent of the four-in-two competition is the second to defeat the out-of-the-box Cup.
After a short break, the competition between the two restaurants began.
The rules are different for each round of the conference.
In addition to the distillation technique, the four-in-two competition also needs to compare the familiarity with various elixirs.
The conference party gave ten kinds of raw wine, and one hundred kinds of elixir, and asked the two parties to choose a wine recipe that was at least ten kinds of elixir and one kind of raw wine.
The changes are endless.
However, many elixirs cannot be matched with each other, or it is extremely difficult to distill after matching.
These elixirs have been carefully selected by the organizers, and there is only one combination of them, which is the best solution, and this solution is the easiest to distill.
In the second level, the distillation difficulty is higher than that of the former, and so on.
One party picks a solution, and after confirmation, it cannot be changed, and at the same time, the other party will get the information about the plan selected by the former, and this solution cannot be selected again.
In other words, if one party picks out the first option, the other party can only choose the second option at most. And if one party is in a hurry and does not choose the first plan, it is in a hurry to confirm, which is tantamount to handing over the first plan.
In addition, the selection plan and the refining of spirit wine are the same limited time, and they both need to be completed within half an hour.
As a result, the contestants may choose the inferior plan in a very short time, and then no longer choose, and directly refine the wine.
It is also possible that the contestants spend a lot of time and finally choose the first plan, but the rest of the time is not enough to refine the wine.
Half an hour, very tight.
How you allocate your time and weigh the pros and cons will directly affect the final result of the competition.
This competition does not entirely depend on the familiarity with various elixirs.
Even if two parties choose the best solution and the other chooses the inferior solution within a similar amount of time, the latter can use distillation technology to make up for the disadvantage of the liquor.
Therefore, in order to win the competition, it is necessary to select the best solution in the shortest possible time, and have the distillation technology that is not weaker than the competition.
The players did not know in advance what the various elixirs were, but they were already familiar with the rules of the game.
Yan Yue and Cup Forget are entering.
The main and deputy generals of the cup forget their worries, that is, the shopkeeper and the shopkeeper father and daughter, the former is four bottles, and the latter is three bottles.
The cup-in-store forgot his worries, as if he had just found that Yan Yue was alone, and said in surprise: "If Gongzi Long didn't bring his deputy, then how dare my father and daughter take advantage of the number of people." ”
In this round of links, the main and deputy two will be the same as above, two to one, there is no precedent, if the initiative to propose that the side can have one less person, a fair competition, then this rule, a slight change is harmless.
The cup-forget-worried shopkeeper was smarter, and he didn't take the initiative, but first revealed that he didn't want to take advantage of the number of people, and then handed over the choice to Yan Yue.
On the one hand, she wanted to win, but on the other hand, she didn't want to offend Yan Yue.
If Yan Yue proposes that he needs one-on-one, he owes them a small favor.
If he said proudly, this son doesn't need you to let him, and this opportunity to "perform" is also given by them.
In fact, she knows that in this round, there is not much difference between one person and two people.
When two fools work together, they may defeat the wise man, and when two wise men work together, they are likely to influence each other's thinking.
Therefore, no matter how Yan Yue chooses, they will not suffer a loss.
But Yan Yue didn't choose, just smiled disdainfully and snorted in his nose.
For example, Long Gongzi has always been very easy-going and polite, and such arrogant behavior made the cup-in-store and everyone watching the game slightly stunned.
"If you don't need them to give in, they propose that there can be one less, which is disrespectful to Rulong Gongzi. ”
"Isn't it, even if there is only one person, the dragon prince can defeat the two of them. ”
"Come on, if you come on, we bet on you to win. ”
In addition to some of these admirers, more are bright-eyed people, and they can see that this competition, such as Long Gongzi, is actually extremely disadvantageous.
"Although the young and talented son of the dragon is young and talented, he is afraid that he will lose more than one victory against the owner of the restaurant who has been in contact with the wine industry for more than 100 years. ”
"Exactly, the skill may be affected by talent, but the choice of the best wine recipe depends on the familiarity with various elixirs and the understanding of medicinal properties. ”
"In addition, there is also the ability to derive on the spot, the owner of the cup, and he is also a formation master, who is an expert in this area, and he may not need to take a long time to directly grasp the best plan. ”
"At that time, even if the distillation skills of the dragon prince are slightly higher than him, it will not be able to make up for the disadvantage in the recipe and time. ”
The shopkeeper smiled awkwardly and walked with his father to a table covered with cloth.
After the host announced the start of the competition, he lifted the cloth on the table of the two parties, and when he boarded, two identical elixirs of various kinds appeared in front of both parties.
This link not only tests the contestant's elixir knowledge reserve, but also tests the on-site derivation ability.
What effect will be produced by the combination of two elixirs, and what will happen if a third one is added, all need to be derived as quickly as possible.
These elixirs are not very rare, the effect of combining with each other, as well as the rules of change, may be remembered by the spirit winemaker, but to find the optimal solution within a limited time, and it is also found out of a hundred elixirs, and the solution formed by at least ten combinations is not ordinarily difficult.
In order to make the exam questions free of loopholes, several spirit wine masters who prepared the exam questions spent several days and repeated verifications together several times before presenting the exam questions in front of the contestants.
The shopkeeper just swept his eyes, and knew that it was impossible to find the first plan in half an hour, and the questioner had too many obstacles stuffed into the elixir, so he could only retreat to the second and find the second plan.
Just as he was about to start his deferment, he suddenly heard a bell ringing from the place where he poured the cup.
Turning his head to look, he saw Yan Yue throw a jade slip on the table, and then in the elixir pile on the table, after grabbing several elixirs, he actually started refining wine directly.
The competition started at this point, but at three breaths, after the host announced the start of the competition, his thoughts had not yet been retracted, and he heard the bell that Yan Yue had caught out of the confirmation of the wine.
Slightly stunned, he ran to Yan Yue's table, "Rulong Gongzi really confirmed?"
Rulong Gongzi just nodded lightly, and had already begun to refine wine.
The host's job still has to be done, and the jade slip with the content of the wine recipe will be taken to the cup to forget the worries.
The shopkeeper forgot his worries, took the jade slip in a daze, and swept his consciousness inward, only to see that there was a raw material wine engraved in it, and the names of eleven eleven elixirs.
"Isn't it possible to have at least ten, why did he choose eleven?"