After crossing, I surrounded the capital from the countryside

“Of course I am happy!”

"Then study hard. If everything goes well, you will be able to put your skills to good use soon!" Xu Qingqing looked at them and smiled proudly.

Xu Xi and the others couldn't help but slightly widen their eyes: "Really?!"

"Hmm" Xu Qingqing nodded.

"Great!"

"I will definitely study hard and not embarrass the Sect Master when the time comes!!"

"Me too, me too!"

……

Xu Qingqing looked at Xu Xi and the others, all excited and almost dancing with joy. She smiled even happier and felt that everything was getting better, really better...

Three days passed in a flash, and the God of Cooking competition went very smoothly. The last round of eliminations just ended, and the finals are about to come.

Jinyanlou

“In these competitions, I’ve seen that Lun Xiaoyao’s guys have pretty good cooking skills. They’re a worthy rival.” Chef Li, who was sitting below, said to the shopkeeper who was sitting in the main seat.

Shopkeeper Chen gently turned the emerald green ring on his thumb without saying a word.

The air gradually froze. Seeing that Shopkeeper Chen's face was becoming increasingly gloomy, Chef Li lowered his eyes and dared not look at him again, for fear that he would attract his attention and then he would be the one in trouble.

"Are you sure you can win first place?"

When Chef Li heard Manager Chen's question, his heart skipped a beat.

In fact, if he were to compete with only the same dish, he would have more than 60% chance of winning, but the key is that according to the competition process, the final final requires preparing a unified dish and one of his own specialties or creative dishes.

This way, I won't be sure.

The cooking skills displayed by Lun Xiaoyao and his friends recently are all varied, but they all taste amazing.

I don't know where they got the idea or recipe, it's totally unheard of.

When Shopkeeper Chen saw that Chef Li was silent, he frowned impatiently, "Why aren't you talking? Are you mute? Are you trying to tell me that the chef at Jinyanlou is no match for the humble guy at Lunxiaoyao?!"

Chef Li didn't dare to look Shopkeeper Chen in the eye. He lowered his head, with cold sweat on his forehead.

'boom'

Shopkeeper Chen slammed his palm on the table, and the deafening sound scared Chef Li so much that he shuddered.

"Speak!" Seeing that he still didn't speak, Shopkeeper Chen became even more angry and shouted.

Chef Li stood up, hunched over and not daring to stand up straight: "Manager Chen, I'm... I'm really not 100% sure..."

'boom'

Upon hearing this, Shopkeeper Chen slammed his palm on the table again: "This is ridiculous! The chef of Jinyanlou actually said that he can't beat Lun Xiaoyao's guys?! If you tell others about it, it will make people laugh!"

"I'm telling you, Li Tian, ​​you have to win this match no matter what! If you lose, don't come back. Jinyanlou can't afford to lose this person! Get out of here!"

"Yes, yes, yes..." Li Tian remained bent over, bowed several times to Manager Chen, and hurried out of the room.

After leaving the room, Li Tian looked very unhappy. Thinking of the people who had performed brilliantly in the recent games, he gritted his teeth and said, "Lun Xiaoyao... just wait..."

in the room

Shopkeeper Chen sat in the dim room, stroking his ring and thinking.

Faint light filtered into the room through the gaps in the tightly closed windows, making Shopkeeper Chen's expression look particularly grim and cruel.

The look that flashed across his eyes from time to time made it clear that he was not holding his fart well.

No matter how reluctant Li Tian was, the final of the Master Chef Contest had finally arrived.

Early in the morning, Lun Xiaoyao received bad news.

Of the three people who participated in the finals, one was missing.

"When did it happen? Why did he disappear?" Upon hearing the news, Xu Qingqing immediately stood up from her chair and asked.

"Master, today when we were making the big bull, he said he was nervous and wanted to go out to relax. As a result, he hasn't come back until now. I wanted to go out to look for him, but Dasheng stopped me and said that this matter was not simple, so I came to find you first."

"Well, you did the right thing. This incident was probably aimed at you... I just don't know which family it is from..."

Xu Qingqing nodded and said, "Xu Xi, find some people to go out and look for them first. You two should stay in Lun Xiaoyao now. We will send you directly to the competition when it starts."

"Yes, Sect Master"

"Okay, Master."

Xu Xi quickly took the patrol team and started searching along the streets, but unfortunately, they searched several streets and still couldn't find the person.

"Master, we didn't find the person." Xu Xi came to report with sweat all over his forehead.

Xu Qingqing was so angry that she almost laughed: "Xu Xi, you and Xu Li will take turns and lead two groups of people to continue searching. Xu Tong will stay in Lun Xiaoyao and manage Lun Xiaoyao together with Xu Xiao."

"You two come with me, we're going to report to the police!" Xu Qingqing took Dali and Dasheng out the door.

"Master, do you need to arrange guards?" Xu Xiao saw that Xu Qingqing was planning to report to the police with two chefs by herself, and was worried that something might happen on the way.

Xu Qingqing led the two of them on their way without looking back: "Humph, I'm waiting for him to come and kidnap someone in front of me!"

Seeing Xu Qingqing leading the two people away, Xu Xiao turned to look at the other three people: "Aren't you worried?"

Among the three, Xu Xi was the first to come to her senses. She didn’t know what expression to use to answer: “Well… this…”

Xu Li took over the conversation: "I don't know who is miserable...right?"

"Well, that's true! Don't mess with the sect leader no matter who you are!" Xu Tong shuddered at what he was thinking about.

The reactions of these people made Xu Xiao a little confused, "Huh?"

"I'm sorry, you don't blame me for not knowing it. After all, you have never seen the scene of the sect leader beating someone. It's so miserable... so miserable... "Xu Xi touched his chin and said.

"It's really tragic..." Xu Tong and Xu Li said in unison.

Seeing the reactions of several people, Xu Xiao roughly understood what was going on. If she could successfully report to the police, it would be fine. But if...hiss...why did she still feel a little sympathetic towards that person? This was not right.

Xu Qingqing led the two of them walking on the street. It was still early and there were not many people on the street.

Dasheng and Dali had never seen Xu Qingqing beat anyone, but as members of the Xiaoyao Sect, they believed that they had an obligation to protect their leader.

So the two of them walked on both sides of Xu Qingqing, one on the left and one on the right, as if they had discussed it beforehand, with very serious expressions.

Xu Qingqing was sandwiched between the two people. She felt that the scene at the moment could be described very vividly with one sentence: that is, a sentence that the geography teacher often said in class.

Three mountains and two basins...

It’s just that now there is a basin between two mountains!

Xu Qingqing had a wooden face and quickened her pace to walk in front of the two people.

Seeing this, Dasheng and Dali also accelerated. Maybe it was because they were going too fast, they were unable to brake after getting close to Xu Qingqing. It could be said that Xu Qingqing only felt her feet leave the ground in a split second.

That's right, she was caught between the two of them.

Xu Qingqing only felt a crow flying over her head: "Stop! Both of you, walk properly!"

Seeing Xu Qingqing was a little angry, Dasheng hurriedly explained: "I'm sorry, Sect Master, we didn't mean it, it's just... we didn't brake in time... and we also wanted to protect you!"