Dare to cook

Chapter 238 New Mission—The Drunkard's Past
After hearing this, Yao Yu immediately said:

"Oh, so it's like this? That's really costing you money, Deacon Yuan."

"Then, Shen Qiuming, don't rush to buy two bottles of supplies for Deacon Yuan."

Shen Qiuming said contemptuously:

"Yao Manzi, can you please restrain your baseness? Look at Deacon Yuan, how righteous he is, like someone who can't afford two bottles of mulberry wine?"

Listening to the conversation between the two, Yuan Peng couldn't laugh or cry:

"I don't need to buy wine as a gift. As Shen Qiuming said, I can still afford two bottles of wine."

Saying that, Yuan Peng laughed again:

"I'm not much older than you. When you enter the second team of Green Kitchen, I will be the team leader assistant. If you want, you can call me Lao Yuan, don't call me a deacon or not a deacon."

"There are a lot of deacons in the headquarters. To put it bluntly, they are all handymen."

"Haha! Lao Yuan speaks quickly, I offer you a toast!" Seeing Yuan Peng being so forthright, Yao Yu raised his glass with a smile.

Yuan Peng, Lu Chenyu, and Shen Qiuming raised their glasses to each other when they heard the words.

After everyone ate some dishes, Shen Qiuming gossiped:
"I heard that this mulberry wine was improved and brewed by a chef named Li Cheng. Li Cheng used to be the head chef in the headquarters cafeteria for several years."

"Could it be that no one in the Culinary Association tried to get him drunk with the secret recipe for routine wine making?"

Yuan Peng said:

"Yes, he himself is unwilling to expand production. Because of this matter, there are many people who want to trick him into asking for the secret recipe."

"But none of them made it."

"I'm not joking. If anyone can crack the secret recipe of his mulberry wine, there must be many people in the Headquarters of the Kitchen Association willing to set up a longevity tablet for him."

"Pfft...is that an exaggeration?" Yao Yu almost laughed.

But at this moment, the sand sculpture system, which had been silent for a long time, suddenly jumped out to do something.

[Ding, AA-level random mission detected - the past of the alcoholic]

[Task requirements, please gain Li Cheng's favorability within a week, learn the brewing method of 'mulberry wine' from him, or persuade him to expand the production of 'mulberry wine']

[Task reward, unknown]

[Note: If you just want to persuade Li Cheng, the reward for this mission can only be settled according to the A-level difficulty]

Looking at the message displayed on the system panel, Yao Yu was stunned.

Ever since he ran into Zou Yu at Gu Qingzhou's that day and activated a random S-level task [Famous Chef's Variety Sense], this sand sculpture system has not had any new actions.

Yao Yu thought that the system was discovered by his conscience, and he no longer assigned himself strange tasks.

But I didn't expect that another task with no beginning and no end would suddenly pop up today.

Want me to brush Li Cheng's favorability?

I can't even recognize Li Cheng, how can I brush it?

And the time is so tight.

Yao Yu complained in his heart.

However, he casually began to inquire about the information about the mission NPC:
"This Li Cheng, does he only specialize in wine making now? Didn't he hold any other positions in the Kitchen Association?"

Yuan Peng was startled, thought for a while and said:
"I've heard people say that in the second year after he brewed mulberry wine, for some reason, Li Cheng, who was originally optimistic, suddenly became depressed."

"Then he resigned, rented an old factory in Huairou, and concentrated on making wine from then on."

"The mulberry wine made by Li Cheng is not sold outside. Except for drinking it himself, the rest is sold to the General Kitchen Association. As for whether there are other reasons for this, I don't know."

Yao Yu thought for a moment and asked, "Do you know the address of Li Cheng's winery?"

Yuan Peng was stunned again, and said, "You don't really want to go to Li Cheng to crack the secret formula, do you?"

Seeing how surprised they were, Yao Yu nodded:

"I have this idea. When I come to Yanjing this time, in addition to reporting to the headquarters, I also plan to go around the capital. It would be a good thing if I have the opportunity to meet some seniors."

Yuan Peng said:

"That's right. Then I'll go back and ask the person in charge of restaurant purchasing. They should know where Li Cheng's winery is."

Drinking mulberry wine, a few people ate and chatted, and it didn't take long for them to fill their stomachs.

After having a full meal, Yuan Peng took all the designated personnel and reserve members of the Second Green Kitchen Team to the No.11 floor of the Kitchen Association General Assembly.

There are many well-equipped cooking classrooms on the No.11 floor of the Kitchen Association General Building.

Four years ago, when Yao Yu was selected for the national team for the first time, he trained here for two months.

The reason why the Culinary Association puts the training place of the national team in the headquarters building is because there are the most senior chefs coming and going here.

Sometimes, some chefs come to the headquarters to work and visit friends, and the Kitchen Association can ask them to give pointers to the members of the National Kitchen Team.

Yao Yu and his party consisted of 21 people.

Except that he and Lu Chenyu are the default team members and do not need to participate in the competition, the rest, including Wu Zhongliu and Ling Zhaochi, have to go through a cutscene.

Only after participating in the competition and being recognized can they become official national players.

Yuan Peng took them to a spacious and bright cooking classroom, opened the door and said, "Everyone can go in first and wait. The question maker and judges will be there within 15 minutes."

After finishing speaking, Yuan Peng and others filed in, then turned and left.

As soon as Yuan Peng left, the group of chefs started discussing immediately.

Ji Xun looked at Yao and Yu who had nothing to do with him, and said with envy and hatred: "It's better for you, you don't have to participate in boring competitions."

"You're here, just play with the children." Yu Mengdong glanced at the very young chefs next to him, only [-] or [-] years old, and his tone meant something.

Shen Qiuming had no complaints about participating in the competition, and leaned against the table with a relaxed face: "I don't know what kind of questions the questioner will come up with."

Wu Zhongliu glanced at him, then looked at Yao Yu in the distance, and said, "The Second Green Kitchen Team is going to participate in the Olympiad and World Youth Championships, and the competition must be European and American dishes."

"Not necessarily, maybe it's Turkish food." Ji Xun guessed, "Isn't this year's Orphan competition held in Istanbul?"

"Do Turkish food? Damn, it's impossible. Don't talk about cooking Turkish food, can you tell the difference between European and American cuisine, Eastern European cuisine and Turkish cuisine?"

As soon as Ji Xun said this, the others were immediately blown away.

Seeing that everyone was talking about it, Wu Zhongliu suddenly said to Yao Yu: "Yao Yu, what do you think? What questions will they ask?"

Yao Yu's impression of Wu Zhongliu has not improved much.

He still remembered the day when Wu Zhongliu teamed up with Chen Li, but dumped Chen Li's cooking into the trash can in public.

But, thinking that from today onwards, Wu Zhongliu will become teammates with himself in overseas battles,

Yao Yu didn't behave too badly, he just said lightly:

"It won't be Turkish cuisine. There is no need for the Kitchen Association to embarrass you with dishes that you don't even know."

"Actually, it doesn't matter what the test questions are."

"The important thing is that once you are selected, you have to be mentally prepared to learn foreign dishes from scratch."

(End of this chapter)