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Zhao Shengyan drove him almost all the way to overtake and arrived at the Lido Building in the last 5 minutes.Zhao Shengyan still has something to do in the store, so he can't accompany him.The organizer rented the lobby on the first floor of the building, and Li Mu arrived panting, while the staff were cleaning up the table.

"Sorry, sorry, please wait..." Li Mu frantically took out his phone from his pocket, "I'm here to compete."

"Competition?" The beautiful sister in a small suit looked at him hesitantly, "What competition?"

"Huawu cup?" Li Mu's cold sweat "shua" fell, "I signed up."

She and her companion looked at each other, "Have you heard of this competition?"

It's over.Wrong place.Li Mu only felt that his hands and feet were cold.He quickly confirmed the location, yes!It is the first floor of the Lido Building.

"Our side is an exchange meeting for ophthalmology experts," said the beautiful sister, and she pointed to the other side hesitantly, "I don't know what Huawu Cup is. Maybe you can ask those people, they may be what you are looking for."

Survival from a desperate situation is about this feeling.

Li Mu finally caught up in the last minute and became the last contestant to arrive.

"You should come early to participate in the competition." The front desk staff was a little dissatisfied. If Li Mu was not handsome, he would have rolled his eyes at him a long time ago. He threw a round card into Li Mu's arms, "Here, you don't have to come late." The lottery has been drawn, the third place in Group B. The opening ceremony will start 15 minutes later, and the preliminary match will be at [-] o'clock tonight."

Li Mu hurriedly expressed his thanks.

"Li Mu?" Someone called his name behind his back, Li Mu turned his head and saw that it was Zhu Zhu.

Long time no see, Zhu Zhu has become a little bit more.The original long hair was cut short, very neat and crisp.The chubby baby lost a lot of fat, and the lines of the face became a little sharper.She put on makeup, put on thick eye shadow, wore a black dress, and deliberately modified the lines of her shoulders. When the hotel's magnificent lights illuminated her, she had a sense of majestic architecture.

She stepped forward with a smile, and stopped a few steps away from Li Mu, "How long has it been since I saw you? Half a year?"

"Yes." Li Mu looked at the sign in her hand, "Are you also in Group B?"

"Yes," Zhu Zhu smiled, "I'm the first player in Group B."

The staff ignored them and were just busy clearing the table.

"The opening ceremony is on the second floor, let's go together," she said familiarly, and led Li Mu to the elevator. The hotel was full of men and women dressed in beautiful and trendy clothes.Li Mu came in a hurry and did not deliberately dress up.He was wearing the most common suit——Yue Renge had someone customize it for him. It was a bit more everyday, but it was made of good material and fit well. Li Mu was tall and long-legged, so it was hard for him not to attract people's attention when he wore a suit.

"Ouch, I thought who this was." A voice came from afar, sounding a bit exaggerated.Zhu Zhu frowned, "I really don't want to meet this guy."

Li Mu followed the voice and saw a young man.Wearing a suit with narrow lapels, the already big head was as big as a watermelon.The trousers were also cut too short, exposing his thin ankles. Li Mu followed Yue Renge and developed some aesthetics. For this young man with at least one kilogram of heavy hair oil on his head, he could only think that the other party was not good at dressing. There is a lot of room for improvement.

"Isn't this Zhu Zhu? Don't tell me, I really can't recognize it." Watermelon head looked at Zhu Zhu, showing a playful smile, "Oh, I said this is a bartending competition, why are you here to join in the fun? Didn’t you just come to see me when you found out about my game?”

Zhu Zhu frowned and didn't want to talk to him.But Watermelon Head followed them into the elevator.Li Mu saw his small body of about 1.7 meters, and the soles of his feet were estimated to be [-] centimeters thicker.

"You still wear makeup today?" Watermelon Head said again, "Actually, you look better without makeup. This makeup is like a witch—"

"Xu Jing." Zhu Zhu glanced at him coldly, "Did you eat shit just now? Why did I smell a bad smell?"

Xu Jing changed his face, with a smile on his face, he leaned forward, "How do you talk? Old friends meet to catch up, you just talk like this? Uh——" Li Mu raised his arm to block him.Xu Jing looked up, Li Mu's face was as cold as ice, "She doesn't want to talk to you, didn't you notice?"

"Who are you, who are you?" Li Mu was a full head taller than him, his thick eyebrows were furrowed, and his expression was even more dignified.Xu Jingben is the kind of man who believes in people—maybe he has a little bit of expertise in bartending—and he is naturally afraid of men who are obviously superior to him in all aspects.

"I'm his friend." Li Mu said in a deep voice, "If you can't learn to speak well, don't speak."

The elevator opened in good time, and the people waiting for the elevator were a little dazed when they saw the scene inside.Li Mu put down his arms, escorted Zhu Zhu out first, then turned his head and glanced at him again.

"Will you go?" The newcomer looked at Xu Jing with dissatisfaction.Xu Jing came back to his senses, as if he had seen a ghost, he fled the elevator hastily.

Zhu Zhu's mood obviously dropped a lot.Li Mu walked beside her and followed into the venue.The Huawu Cup is a regional competition, mainly bartenders in South China, with a small scale and a relatively tight schedule.The venue has been properly arranged, many people are standing and chatting, the seats on the rostrum are empty, Li Mu thought, if it is Yue Renge's level, it should be a good place to sit.

Zhu Zhu found a place to sit down, took out the powder and the small round mirror from her bag, and began to touch up her makeup.Li Mu didn't know anyone here.He wasn't the type to go crazy, but thinking about the competition coming up soon, he didn't have the heart to socialize with others, so he sat down beside Zhu Zhu.

"...He is my ex-boyfriend." Zhu Zhu said while patting her face with powder, "We knew each other when we were studying."

"..." Li Mu didn't expect to hear some emotional gossip at this time. He is worried about his game now, but he can't directly tell his friends that he is not interested, so he can only silently listen to Zhu Zhu complaining about his failed relationship. Life.

"When you are looking for a man, you must keep your eyes open. When he chases you, of course he is good at everything. He is obedient, well-behaved, and obedient. Once he gets it, his true colors will be revealed immediately, and his desire to control will come up. Say. What a bitch, idiot, my sister, I am not a vegetarian, so I kicked him immediately." Zhu Zhu put away the powder cake, "Where do you guys get your self-confidence? Why do you always treat women as your own? thing?"

Li Mu wanted to say that I didn't have it, but he knew that Zhu Zhu was not targeting him.

"That's all feudal thinking," Li Mu said.

"That's right, I don't even look at what he looks like, it's at most 8 centimeters, and he has the cheek to tell me that this is the average value of a Chinese man. My mixing spoon is even longer than this."

Li Mu nodded, "He hasn't seen anyone else's, right?"

"Exactly!" Zhu Zhu puffed her chest out and raised her head, "I still slander my appearance all day long. I'm not very good at makeup, but when will it be his turn to talk? Anyway, seeing him feels bad luck."

"Good luck is to come." The surroundings became quiet for a while, and Li Mu concluded her speech for her, pointing to the stage, "The opening ceremony is about to begin."

The lights on all sides were bright, and several men in suits and leather shoes walked up to the rostrum.Li Mu was far away, so he couldn't see clearly, only one was tall and thin, one was chubby, and the other was ordinary.

The tall and thin one was the host who also served as a translator, probably the owner of a well-known bar. After a short opening speech, he invited the chubby guy—the owner of the sponsor of the Huawu Cup Competition to give a speech to everyone.

People applauded loudly, Li Mu stretched his neck, but he still couldn't see clearly.

"Come on, I must be talking about that." Zhu Zhu has participated in the Laurel Cup before. Unlike Li Mu, who is purely new, he has an understanding of the rules and routines of the competition. "It's nothing more than talking about the concept of the brand. The theme of the competition is the same."

The competition has lost its sense of sacredness in her eyes, Li Mu glanced at her, "Then why did you come to participate in the competition?"

"You don't understand now." Zhu Zhu smiled, "I came to participate in the competition to get investment."

"Take investment?"

"Didn't I tell you before? Before the age of 25, I want to be the keynote speaker, and at the age of 27, I want to open my own bar." Zhu Zhu is very ambitious, her eyes with heavy eye makeup are under the light Shiny, "Flowers are not good, the shop rent is too expensive, I want to go back to my hometown to open."

"go back home?"

"Well, although it's only a small second-tier city, I can afford everything, and there are many young people, so I don't have to worry about no business." Sitting among the crowd, Zhu Zhu began to imagine the future, "The city center of our home There is a lake, it’s beautiful. I’m going to open a bar there and make my favorite cocktails. Then... try to be as regular as possible.”

Li Mu laughed, Zhu Zhu may be a good bartender, but he is an inexperienced operator.I don't know anything about the location and operation of the store.Also, Zhao Shengyan is not Yue Renge after all, he will not tell his employees how to run a store-in fact, this is beyond the outline for many people, they don't need to be the boss, they just need to make money.

But once you want to become a boss, this problem becomes serious.

"Then how much investment do you hope to get?" Li Mu asked.

"Three and five million yuan is definitely needed," Zhu Zhu said, "If there are more, of course it would be better."

Li Mu nodded and remained silent.This is not something he can discuss.He is still a newcomer who is participating in the competition for the first time and has just opened a new copy.

The organizer's impassioned speech shook the venue, "...the theme of this Huawu Cup is innovation, breakthrough, and return. I hope that all contestants will compete in style, level, regain their original intentions, and pass on the true spirit of cocktails. "

"The competition will start in an hour." Zhu Zhu said next to him, "First the speed adjustment, and then the creative bartending competition."

Li Mu glanced at her, and the adrenaline surged again, and his heart was beating wildly.He squeezed his palms and nodded, "Come on."

Zhu Zhu smiled, "You too."

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