Shokugeki no Imitation Chef

"I'm back." When Liu Maoxing returned to Jixing Liao, it was already after 11 o'clock in the evening, but he believed that Chuangzhen and the others must still be playing cards, flying chess, and drinking "juice" in Marui Zenji's room. I have never had the habit of sleeping in the first half of the night.

After a sound of door opening and footsteps sounded on the second floor, on the railing of the corridor on the second floor, Chuangzhen, Xiaohui, Yu Mei... all the students from Jixing Liao crowded upstairs and looked in Liu Maoxing's direction.

"Uh, you don't need to welcome me so grandly, do you?" Liu Maoxing asked suspiciously.

"Hmph! The ghost welcomes you!" After Yu Mei said angrily, she turned and went back to her room, closing the door heavily.

"Ah Xing! I heard...you went to a hot spring hotel with Erina for a three-day date?" Dawu asked excitedly.

"Eh? A hot spring hotel? How did I hear that I went to Mount Fuji?"

"No, no, I have real news, it was Ah Xing who took Erina home..."

"How is it possible? It's only been three days!"

Liu Maoxing listened to the different versions of the legend speechlessly, and sure enough, there was a drama of "Erina was forced to marry by the commander-in-chief, and eloped with Liu Maoxing in anger"!

"I said, where did you hear the news? It's just that the little secretary was in a bad mood after losing and caused some troubles. Erina asked me to solve it together." Liu Maoxing said helplessly.

"That's it? Really... I thought the information Alice told me would be more accurate..." Yuki said regretfully.

It was the scene where she was yelling about "forced marriage and elopement"...

"That guy Alice..." Liu Maoxing suspected that this was revenge, revenge on Erina for going out to "play" with him, but not taking her along!

Liu Maoxing suddenly thought of something, and said in shock: "Wait! That guy Alice, did he just tell you, or..."

"No, the whole academy is discussing this matter." You Ji said.

"What about the boss?"

"Since he didn't really elope, how could the commander-in-chief come forward for such a trivial matter." Liangzi said in a reasonable tone.

"However... Ah Xing, I have not been idle these few days when you are helping others. If you haven't prepared before the game these few days, don't blame me for taking advantage." Chuangzhen said.

"Don't worry, I've also figured out the recipe in the past three days. If I want to win, I have to practice for a few more years... Maybe when I win the first laurel crown in Yuanyue, you will be able to beat me now."

Although the atmosphere between the two seemed tense, it was pure "competition" without any resentment.

So the two had just finished provoking each other, and Chuangzhen brought out his stewed beef. First, he made it for Liu Maoxing who hadn't eaten, and second, he also invited him to taste it...

"Eh? This is the dish you plan to use to defeat me?" Liu Maoxing tasted it curiously.

Seemingly very satisfied, I finished a small bowl in a short while, and then used it to fill a bowl...

Yuuhime couldn't help but said: "Hey, the next match will be between the two of you, right? Is it really good to reveal your cooking like this?"

"It doesn't matter, with this level of cooking, it doesn't matter if you don't reveal it." Liu Maoxing taunted, and filled the third bowl, muttering, "Can't you find a bigger bowl?"

"Then you still eat so vigorously!" Chuangzhen looked at Liu Maoxing speechlessly.

"But it's good for filling your stomach."

"... Do you have any frank opinions?" Chuangzhen asked seriously.

Liu Maoxing also put down the spoon when he heard the words, and after thinking for a while, he said: "If you really use this dish to compete with me, I think I will wait for you to present the dish first, and then after the judges have tasted the first bite, immediately Serve dishes, or interrupt the judges' tasting with an explosion of aromas."

"After the first bite...?" Chuangzhen easily grasped the key words.

That's right, Chuangzhen's beef stew perfectly fits the theme of "Western food main dish" in terms of texture and taste. The prototype is the recipe of the first class that Liu Maoxing and Chuangzhen passed together on the first day of school... …French Burgundy Beef Stew!

And Chuangzhen also used white miso for seasoning, which has improved the mellow taste, but it also made the beef stew, which was not sharp enough in flavor, more blunt...

The judges have to eat at least three mouthfuls to taste the peak delicacy of Chuangzhen beef stew. If they only taste one mouthful, the score will be 20% off.

That's why Liu Maoxing said, if it was really a competition, he would definitely interrupt the judges' tasting after the first bite.

Whether it's a food halberd or this kind of cooking competition, it's completely different from the cooking in your own small restaurant. Either it will firmly attract the judges at the first bite, or it will reach the peak of deliciousness at the first bite!

The first type is more difficult and complicated than the second type, but since the topic is "Western food main course", it is actually the most ideal to achieve "the first bite firmly attracts the judges". After all, the main course takes the longest time to rule the banquet "The first bite reaches the peak of deliciousness" means that there is no expectation in the following time...

After filling his stomach with the dishes made by Chuangzhen, Liu Maoxing tiptoed to knock on Yu Mei's door again.

She seemed to be angry before, but after Liu Maoxing came back, she went back to the room directly.

"Who? Already asleep." Yu Mei's tone was not sleepy at all.

"Then can I come in?" Liu Maoxing said illogically.

"...What do you think!" Yu Mei roared as she opened the door.

I saw that Yu Mei had already changed into the tight-fitting vest that she only wears when exercising, and the tight-fitting cropped pants, her waist around her navel was exposed...

"Why did you change it to exercise at night today? Isn't it usually morning?" Liu Maoxing said and had already entered the room and sat down.

Regarding Liu Maoxing's "consciousness", Yu Mei rolled her eyes helplessly, then closed the door, put on her fist gloves and continued hitting the sandbag, and asked, "Is there anything wrong?"

"Are you... angry?"

"No!"

There was only a "bang", and Yu Mei's whip kick caused the sandbag to rise nearly forty-five degrees!

"Actually, Erina and I just went to help Fei Shazi, because it involves some rules of the new household, so I don't have a mobile phone to contact you." Liu Maoxing explained.

"Why, why do I have to listen to this!"

"It's nothing, I just feel that you seem to care a little bit."

Looking at Yu Mei's staring eyes, Liu Maoxing changed the modifier.

"Then...do you care?" Yu Mei suddenly came over, forced Liu Maoxing into a corner, and at the same time punched Liu Maoxing on the wall next to his ear and asked.

Liu Maoxing stared at Yu Mei's lips that could control the high temperature and accurately judge the temperature, and said after three seconds: "Of course, you are my maid and sponsor, aren't you?"

"When did I become your sponsor?"

"The next game..."

Yu Mei let out the aura she had accumulated with great difficulty, and said weakly, "Isn't that the main reason why you came here?"

"Of course not, the main purpose is to appease my fleshy little maid, and the secondary purpose is to get sponsorship!" Liu Maoxing said as a matter of course.

"Tch, I'm so dishonest in soliciting sponsorship! But I was the one who provided the beef ingredients for the Reality Creation Competition, so you can barely get the same treatment! Just tell me what kind of meat you need on Saturday." Yu Mei said The active aura has dissipated, and she has become arrogant.

Seeing that Liu Maoxing still didn't speak or move, Yu Mei couldn't help asking: "Why don't you leave? It's already very late, I have class tomorrow..."

I saw Liu Maoxing talking coyly about to unbutton the button: "Well... in order to show the sincerity of the sponsorship, do you need unspoken rules or something? Hey, if you have something to say...how can you hit someone? I'm not a sandbag..." Liu Maoxing was kicked out by Yu Mei as he spoke.

After Yu Mei drove Liu Maoxing out, she was still a little unhappy, and suddenly found that Liu Maoxing had been sitting on the bed before, and she seemed to have glanced at something small.

Yu Mei curiously picked it up to have a look, but found that it was a small clay ornament, with a cartoon-like image, a big head and a small body...

Although from the point of view of craftsmanship, it is obvious that he kneaded it by himself in a homemade clay shop, and it is not very delicate, but the short blonde hair on his big head, his slightly dark skin, and the small barbell in his hand make him feel so beautiful. Yu Mei knew the identity of this small clay ornament.

It was the "souvenir" gift that Liu Maoxing brought back when he went to a tourist town.

It turned out that when Liu Maoxing pretended to unbutton it, he took out this item from his inner pocket.

"Pfft, this guy...can't you give it to me properly!" Yu Mei couldn't help laughing, the only thing that made her want to complain was why the lips of "myself" on the clay ornaments were extra thick?

"Is it really that thick? No... Could it be his lips that he pays special attention to?" Yu Mei looked in the mirror with some concern.

Then I suddenly remembered something, and muttered: "Isn't it true that everyone has it? Well... find a way to look at other people's gifts tomorrow. If not everyone has them, this time I will reluctantly forgive him for losing contact!"

The next day, after Yu Mei tried every means to inquire about everyone's gifts, the result made her "sad and happy"...

Because I found other people's gifts, most of them were just standard clay ornaments, and the craftsmanship was much better than hers. It was obviously made by the store according to the photos, not by Liu Maoxing himself... But! At the same time, Tian Suohui's trinkets are as ugly as his own! Apparently someone who's a clumsy terra cotta made it!

In addition to the people from Jixingliao, Alice, Ryo Kurokiba, and Ryo Hayama also had gifts, and indeed, Alice's was also a white mass of "defective products" whose facial features could not be seen clearly!

"Although not everyone has it, why am I even more upset?" Yu Mei was confused...

Takmi was even more entangled than her, complaining to Yisami all day long: "That guy Liu Maoxing didn't regard me as an opponent, did he? Right? I didn't really care, did I?"

"Uh, brother, I think maybe he only prepares gifts for people who have partnered with him..."