Wang Xu walked into Chen Shouyi's office. Xiao Hansheng was already inside. He was drinking tea with Condyle while playing chess. Wang Xu originally thought that the two were playing chess, but when he got closer, he found that there were black and white pieces on the table, and the two were playing Go.
"Doctor Wang is late." Xiao Hansheng put a cup of white pieces on the chessboard and looked at Wang Xu with a smile and said, "I just said that Dr. Wang has overslept."
"Mr. Xiao was joking." Wang Xu smiled, looked at the chessboard, and said in surprise: "Mr. Chen is a little bit bad. A big dragon on the right seems to have become Mr. Xiao's meal on the plate."
Chen Shouyi was frowning and pondering. When he heard Wang Xu's surprised voice, he also exclaimed: "Doctor Wang also understands Go?"
"I just understand a little bit, just understand the fur." Wang Xu smiled faintly, looked at it carefully again, and couldn't help but raise his eyebrows and praised: "Mr. Chen is amazing, it turns out that I've seen it wrong."
"Yes!" Chen Shouyi subconsciously looked at the chessboard when he heard Wang Xu say this. The white piece in his hand gently placed it on the chessboard, and laughed and said, "I'm not so powerful, I didn't expect it at all."
Listening to Chen Shouyi's laughter, Xiao Hansheng looked closely and found that Chen Shouyi's white piece fell. The pattern on the chessboard suddenly changed drastically, blocking all his retreat. The big dragon that Chen Shouyi was originally trapped by him turned into a cavalry.
"Haha, Doctor Wang is really amazing. Mr. Chen and I have been in the middle of an hour. We thought we had the upper hand, but Wang Xu told him one by one, and they were defeated in a blink of an eye."
"The authorities are confused, and the bystanders are clear, and it's also a coincidence." Wang Xu smiled faintly, looked at the time and said, "When will we go up?"
When Chen Shouyi saw the time, it was already eight forty, he gently pushed the chessboard and said, "Go up now, and give two more plates with Dr. Wang at noon."
Wang Xu and the other two went up to the top floor. At this time, the auditorium was already full of people. A young man in his thirties stood in the center of the rostrum with a microphone in his hand and said a speech. Seeing that Chen Shouyi and Wang Xu had arrived at the door, he said loudly: "Low, we welcome several judges to the venue."
After the young man finished speaking, a burst of warm applause immediately sounded from the audience. Chen Shouyi was in front, Xiao Hansheng was in the middle, and Wang Xu was in the back. The three of them entered the venue from the side door next to the rostrum and sat in the judges' seat.
"Wang Yi" looked at Wang Xu and the other two sitting on the rostrum. Many people in the audience whispered to each other. One of the young men, who was 25 or 26, exclaimed even more, reached out to cover his mouth, his face full of surprise.
This young man is no other person, Gao Wuke, who was talking to Wang Xu at the door just now. When he was at the door, Gao Wuke planned to chat with Wang Xu for a few more words, but he was stopped by his master and didn't have time to ask Wang Xu what he was doing in Hong Kong. He subconsciously thought that Wang Xu was watching the fun, but he didn't expect that he was a judge.
A middle-aged man sitting next to Chen Shouyi was also full of surprise. He subconsciously glanced at Gao Wuke next to him, and he didn't need to mention the annoyance in his heart.
Just now, he saw Gao Wuke talking to the other party at the door, and was a little impatient, but he never guessed that this young man was actually a judge in their area.
"This young judge should be Wang Xu." The middle-aged man murmured in his heart that he had known that he had asked the other party's name just now, and he could have some connection with the other party because of Gao Wuke.
"Hey!" The middle-aged man sighed, with regret on his face, which was so good. Not only did he fail to get in touch, but he left a bad impression on the other party.
Thinking of this, the middle-aged man's eyes suddenly turned, and he hurriedly looked at Gao Wuke next to him and asked, "Wuke, what is your relationship with Wang Xu above?"
Gao Wuke was still a little stunned. After being asked by the other party, he said, "That's my high school classmate. A while ago, I met another classmate and everyone said that Wang Xu was doing well, but he didn't expect that he was a judge of this cooking competition."
The middle-aged man had no intention of listening to Gao Wuke saying so much nonsense, and asked anxiously: "How is your relationship with him?"
"I haven't seen each other for more than five years, and my relationship was just average when I was in school." Gao Wuke said, and his words were filled with emotion. Although Wang Xu's grades were good, they were not very top-notch. Who would have thought that he was so promising now? I guess Wang Xu was the best among all the students in the grade, he was a judge in the Hong Kong Cooking Competition, and he was so young.
When the middle-aged man heard Gao Wuke say that the relationship between them was normal, he showed a hint of disappointment in his eyes. Finally, he gritted his teeth and said tentatively: "Wuke, can you invite your classmates to have a meal in the evening? Don't worry, the master will not treat you badly. As long as this matter is done, you will be the chef of our hotel in the future. Apart from the master, the kitchen is the final decision."
"Chef, I have the final say?" Gao Wuke was a little dizzy, but he soon understood what his master meant. The chefs participating in this rematch did not compete at the same time. Each competition was held at most ten people at the same time, with thirty people competing a day. The preliminary competition lasted for one week. His master was the day after tomorrow. If he could get in touch with Wang Xu, it would be a great thing.
Not to mention anything else, even if the judges do not understand the support and are slightly biased when a certain dish is not distinguished, this is a great thing.
"I just left him my phone number outside and asked him to call him to have dinner together in the evening. If he calls, I will tell you." Gao Wuke swallowed, and said, feeling a little sick: "If you hadn't been shouting around just now, I would have asked Wang Xu's phone number long ago. How could he be so passive? He could only wait for someone to call me."
"You don't have his number?" the middle-aged man was stunned and asked in confusion.
"I was about to ask just now, so you called me." Gao Wuke said.
"Uh!" When the middle-aged man heard this, he looked disappointed and opened his mouth. He turned his eyes to the rostrum again without saying anything for a long time.!
At this time, Wang Xu and Chen Shouyi had already sat down and were talking in a low voice. The young host just now was holding the microphone and shouting: "Next, please invite the chefs who participated in the first round to the stage. They are representing a certain hotel."
As the host announced his name, ten people came up from the audience, seven men and three women, standing on the stage that had been prepared long ago.
When the ten people were in their seats, the host turned around and looked at Chen Shouyi and Wang Xu. When he saw Wang Xu and the other two nodded, he said loudly: "The competition rules require the contestants to make three dishes they are good at. Each dish is scheduled for twenty minutes. Now I announce that the first dish will start."
As the host's voice fell, a loud sound of a gong sounded from the side, Wang Xu was shocked. He didn't pay attention just now, and there was an extra gong in the auditorium.
The sound of the gong, and the stopwatch in the center of the rostrum began to jump. All the ten participating chefs were busy when they came, washing vegetables and killing chickens.
At first, Wang Xu was a little curious. After watching for a few minutes, he felt bored. He couldn't help but smile and shook his head. Then he realized that this was a real cooking competition, not on TV. The chef reached out and slapped the chopping board, and suddenly a big radish jumped up. The chef held a knife in both hands and waved it in the air for a few quick waves, and then a pile of thin shredded radish fell down, or the chef swung the big knife in his hand, and the vegetables cut on the chopping board flew into the wok.
In reality, there will naturally be no such scene. It is probably not a cooking competition, but an acrobatic competition. Although chefs who are qualified to participate in the cooking competition are not simple, both in knife skills and in their actions, Wang Xu wanted to doze off.
Chen Shouyi, who was sitting in the middle, turned around and looked at Wang Xu, laughing in a low voice: "Why do you think it's boring?"
"Haha, I was just pulled by Mr. Li to make up the numbers, and I actually know nothing about this." Wang Xu whispered.
"Doctor Wang is modest." Xiao Hansheng, who was sitting next to Chen Shouyi, heard Wang Xu's words and laughed in a low voice: "I heard that Dr. Wang had tried dishes in Zhongjiang to stop his life and death. Just relying on a braised pork made by Liang Baohui, it was inferred that Liang Baohui was suffering from a terminal illness."
"What, what's the matter?" Chen Shouyi looked at Xiao Hansheng in surprise and said, "Mr. Xiao, are you not kidding?"
"How could I joke with this kind of thing?" Xiao Hansheng laughed and said, "It's true that I'm going to hide it."
Liang Baohui's daughter Liang Qianru also worked in my Royal Food Mansion for a while. It was because of Dr. Wang that she went to Zhongjiang later."
"Uh!" When Xiao Hansheng talked about this, Wang Xu was suddenly embarrassed and simply closed his eyes and calmed down and stopped interrupting.
However, Chen Shouyi's curiosity was aroused by Xiao Hansheng and asked anxiously, "What's going on? Mr. Xiao, please tell me quickly."
Xiao Hansheng smiled slightly and briefly said the story: "Later, Wang Xu occasionally came to my Imperial Palace for dinner. It happened that there was another braised pork made by Liang Qianru. Dr. Wang tasted it and guessed that the person who cooked the dishes had a relationship with Liang Baohui. He asked Liang Qianru to meet him. Liang Qianru was worried about Liang Baohui, so he quit my Imperial Palace and went to Zhongjiang."
"Tsk!" Chen Shouyi could not help but smash the mouth after hearing Xiao Hansheng's words, and said in amazement: "It's really amazing. I didn't expect that Dr. Wang had this trick. Compared to the so-called foodie, Dr. Wang is one of the experts."
"Who said no?" Xiao Hansheng slightly turned and subconsciously glanced at Wang Xu, who was resting with his eyes closed, and a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.
If Wang Xu saw the smile on the corner of Xiao Hansheng's mouth, he would definitely guess that Xiao Hansheng's words just now were intentional. He took the opportunity to say something about Liang Qianru just to make Wang Xu feel guilty. In this way, if he has a good relationship with Wang Xu, and with the help of the Shen family's grandson, their Imperial House will be more stable in Kyoto.
Chen Shouyi naturally didn't know what Xiao Hansheng was thinking, and now he was even more curious about Wang Xu. This young man was becoming more and more mysterious in his eyes.
While sighing in his heart, Chen Shouyi and Xiao Hansheng looked at the ten chefs on the stage from time to time. They were different from Wang Xu and were both famous chefs themselves, so they could naturally see the tricks.
As the saying goes, laymen watch the excitement, and experts watch the tricks. As famous chefs of Xiao Hansheng and Chen Shouyi, even if they don’t taste the dishes, they can probably see some clues by watching the actions of several chefs cooking.
"Boom!" A gong sounded, and suddenly woke up Wang Xu, who was slightly asleep. When he opened his eyes, Wang Xu heard the host's voice: "Time is up."
Without the host's reminder, the sound of the gong sounded, and all the contestants knew that the time was up and stood aside. Wang Xu originally thought that it was time to taste the dishes below. Who would have thought that Chen Shouyi coughed gently and said: "A true celebrity chef should pay attention to the color, fragrance and taste of cooking. When cooking, knife skills, heat, seasonings, etc. are crucial. The No. 3 player was half a second late when he tasted it. He was eliminated. The No. 6 contestant, if the heat was not properly mastered, he would be eliminated. "
Chen Shouyi said three people in a row. The three contestants were ashamed when they heard Chen Shouyi's words and stood quietly. They naturally had some tricks to participate in the competition. Therefore, as soon as Chen Shouyi spoke, they knew where their mistakes were.
Wang Xu, who was sitting next to Chen Shouyi, was also slightly stunned, and then smiled bitterly. He was still dozing off just now and thought that this process was not good-looking. It turned out that there were so many tricks in it.