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Tian Fangli didn't let Shao Yan cook by himself after getting the star review, saying that Shao Yan's precious hands should be used to teach his apprentices.The daily teaching was supposed to leave at seven o'clock, and he was ordered by Tian Fangli to go back to rest at six o'clock.Before leaving the kitchen, Tian Fangli called Shao Yan to stop, and turned out the newly bought mask for him to put on.

Reporters are always ambushing around Yumenxi these days. People are afraid of being famous and pigs are afraid of being strong. I don’t know how many people want to grab exclusive headlines.Shao Yan had a very bad impression of the media in Province A because of the fact that the food alliance in Province A excluded the imperial gate seats. In addition, he has been busy these days, so he has no plans to accept interviews, and he has to be fully armed every day when he goes home.

The mask was a bit big, and Shao Yan's face was too small, so he almost covered his eyes.Tian Fangli looked at his movement of pulling the edge of the mask with a bit of worry, thinking how this man looked like he was not wearing a mask, and it was shining brightly in the crowd at a glance.

All the way from the kitchen to the imperial banquet, Shao Yan was stopped four or five times. He skillfully said goodbye to these old customers who came forward to congratulate him. After leaving in a hurry, the shop was still full of discussions about him.

Because the imperial gate seat that won the three-star Gumei is located in City A, the passenger flow in City A has almost doubled in recent days. Many people come here from thousands of miles just to taste the delicious food that the Gumei reviewers are full of praise. These people Most of the people in the movie really haven't seen Shao Yan's real face.Knowing that this young man with a gentle and delicate temperament who can't see his face clearly is officially commented by Gumei as a "ghost" super chef, many people are quite surprised——

——"He doesn't look like a chef, he's almost a student!"

"He is indeed a student, and his temperament does not look like it. But I heard that he is also a calligraphy lover besides cooking. It's no wonder."

"It's not as simple as a fan. Don't look at him because he is young. The most expensive painting in S City has been sold for 35."

"Tsk tsk, what a nuisance. When I was his age, I was racing and playing with women."

"If you want to get tired of it, go get tired of it, then don't order passion fruit wine if you want to get tired of it, just give it to me."

"roll!"

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It's already early spring, but it's still cold outside after the sun sets in the south.Shao Yan lives nearby now, and he didn't bring his driver back to city A, so he runs home these days.Because of the body protection with internal strength, Shao Yan didn't find it unbearable when the cold wind hit his face. He stretched his hands and feet, jumped two steps in place, and started running briskly.

Many people hiding in the dark quickly appeared, carrying cameras and camcorders to catch up. Shao Yan ran slowly and expressionlessly, when he heard gasping questions in his ears: "Hello, Shao! Sir! I am a reporter for Tomorrow Evening News..."

"I'm a reporter from TV Station News Thirty in Province A..."

"What do you think about Yumenxi becoming a three-star restaurant in Gumei?"

"Do you have any impression of Gumei's judges?"

The cold wind carried the noise, Shao Yan's footsteps were steady, his breathing was even, and he looked straight ahead.He didn't raise his hand to take it until he felt that the microphone was about to poke his mouth, and then put it in the jacket pocket of the reporter who was chasing after him.

He didn't seem to be running fast, but the photographers and reporters who were accustomed to chasing the news quickly couldn't keep up.There were no questions answered along the way, and everyone was unwilling to give up and exhausted. They panted from parallel with Shao Yan to suffix behind him. While carrying the machine and running wildly, they raised their hands and shouted: "Run!" Slow down! Slow down! Slow down! Slow down..."

After less than a street away, they pulled away. Shao Yan dumped them several times. After throwing away the annoying tail, he was in a good mood. Before disappearing, he even waved to them to say goodbye.

Everyone watched helplessly as the thin figure was getting further and further away from them.

"Oh my mother! I lost it again!" The TV reporter turned around and sat down on the ground, putting the microphone aside to wipe off his sweat.

"Next time I have to drive to get in traffic. This Shao Yan is simply not human, he runs as fast as a rabbit." The photographer casually threw the machine into the flower garden, panting and waving his hand, "No, no, no, next time there is news Come on someone else, I have been chasing him for four days, and I haven't caught up with him once. I have followed so many times for shooting, and this is the first time I have encountered such a wicked person."

"I don't think he's running fast. Why did he disappear immediately?" The observant reporter flipped through the photos of him chasing after Shao Yan just now, and couldn't help frowning in confusion, "He feels so light when he runs. He landed on tiptoes, as if he was floating. You can see that his toes seemed to slide forward for a certain distance before stepping on the ground... How can anyone run like this?"

The photographer rolled his eyes: "He is handsome and has a halo. You don't mean to say that he has practiced martial arts, right? Limbo microsteps or floating on water?"

"I'm just saying that. How can there really be such a wicked light work in this world." The reporter also laughed at what he said, and instantly put aside the outrageous guesses in his heart.It's not that he has never seen a fast runner in his life. Although Shao Yan's speed is a bit unusual in any group, this unusualness is nothing compared to his cooking and calligraphy skills that are not proportional to his age. What counts?Thinking of the fact that I have always failed to shoot with the group these days, the reporter couldn't help but sighed and complained, "The leaders in the station are really annoying. When I cooperated with the Shao family, I offended Yumenxi so much. Miserable, now I want to pretend that nothing happened. In the end, it was us little shrimps who suffered.”

"Hey! Look at that car!" The cameraman ignored his self-pity, and kept his eyes on the direction Shao Yan was leaving, when he suddenly saw a black van parked next to their hiding place just downstairs from Yumenxi .This car did not know when it followed, it drove straight in the direction Shao Yan left, turned a corner and disappeared.

The sensitivity of his profession made him feel that this coincidence was a little unusual, but with so many cars in province A, the probability of a coincidence is relatively high.The photographer was hesitating, but when the reporter raised his head, the car had disappeared, and asked him, "What's wrong? Which car are you looking at?"

"...No, maybe I'm thinking too much." The photographer looked away and shook his head, and smiled, "After staying on stage for a long time, I feel that my nerves are so thin that it's not normal."

Shao Yan ran to a place where no one was around and jumped directly onto the tree.He has been practicing qigong all the time, and now, among other things, his lightness gong has recovered to [-] to [-]% of what it used to be.It is impossible to float on the water or run vertically up the outer wall of the building like in foreign blockbusters, but now Shao Yan can also jump up the branches of ordinary trees with his excellent physical strength. City A is well-greened, and there are enough street trees along the way for him to practice. Shao Yan happened to find a sycamore tree with good branches. After jumping on it, he found that the surrounding night scene was not bad, so he sat down cross-legged and practiced his mind to consolidate his realm. .

He is quite used to the life of this era. Although the current living conditions are not very good, relying on technology, the daily life of people with small income here may not be inferior to that of the former emperor.People here can take a bath every day, take affordable cars for travel, and have time to take a bath after work. The key point is that most people can get education.Needless to say, among these conditions, there is only one item of taking a bath every day. In the past, not all young ladies from wealthy families could do it.So until now, apart from the expected property that has not yet been purchased, Shao Yan is quite satisfied with the rest of his life.

After work was over, a thin layer of sweat broke out on his forehead. Shao Yan let out a long sigh of relief, and lightly jumped to stand on the top of the tree. He was satisfied to find that the slender branches just swayed a few times before returning to normal.

He was about to jump onto another tree when suddenly a burst of high beams came on, brakes screeched, and a large black van stopped not far away.

Shao Yan subconsciously stopped his movements, and saw the car door open, and a few young men in ordinary clothes came down from it.One of them ran around the car with a camera in his arms, and cursed, "How did you drive! You lost your fucking footsteps again!"

The car horn blared, which was particularly piercing in the silence of the night. The driver's window was rolled down, and a strong man with a crop-shaved head scolded the camera man: "Damn, who do I ask? Every day I lost track of this place, and I still have to ask you how your people investigated the route! Is this Shao Yan a ghost? He disappeared after turning a corner, and he couldn’t even fly so fast!”

"He didn't notice us, did he?" A man in a black padded jacket next to the camera man suddenly said weakly.

"How is it possible!" The flat-headed driver raised his hand and patted him on the head, "I kept a distance of at least half a street from him! You can't find it even if you open your eyes. It's your people's fault! "

They had been following Shao Yan for many days, and they didn't think of driving here at first, but Shao Yan ran so fast that the follower usually ran behind his butt for a few minutes before being thrown away.After a few times they had to change their mobility tools, but that didn't work out for days.Shao Yan always ran halfway without knowing where he went, and disappeared in a blink of an eye like a ghost.It's not the first time that today's inexplicable abandonment has happened. There has never been a case where it was so difficult. Everyone was a little angry.

Everyone was angry and unwilling, crossing their hips and complaining to each other, when suddenly they heard a faint question from nearby: "Why do you want me?"

Everyone was taken aback when they heard this strange voice. The night was chilly, and cold sweat began to break out from everyone's back.There is no one around except them, and there are no insects making noise in the bushes in early spring. The surrounding is quiet, and the cold wind is blowing, making one's hair stand on end.

Everyone slowly turned their heads with their shells stuck like robots, and suddenly met a face wearing a mask with only a pair of eyes exposed!

"Wow!!!" The camera man was so frightened that his legs went limp, he yelled and wanted to back away, but Shao Yan quickly grabbed his hair and pulled him back.The camera man's friends looked at each other for a moment, panicked and frightened, they gradually gathered together and retreated slowly, asking, "When did you climb into the car!"

Shao Yan squinted his eyes and looked at the person who spoke for a while, raised his hand and pulled off the mask, beckoning: "Come here."

Seeing Shao Yan's unusual behavior, the man was almost scared to pee, and he was not obedient, so he shook his head quickly to show his rejection with tears in his eyes.

"Tsk!" Shao Yan became impatient, raised his eyebrows and increased his movements, and his tone became cold, "Let you come over! Didn't you hear that!"

The burly man in the car quickly closed the windows and started the car, and was so frightened by the camera man who was pulling his hair by Shao Yan that he slapped the window repeatedly, cursing: "Trash! You fucking want to run alone!"

The brawny guy with the flat head obviously didn't intend to talk to him, and he was about to start the car after the gear was shifted. It is not known whether Shao Yan, who was sitting on the roof of the car, would be thrown off after the car drove fast, but he was stuck to the wall of the car by his hair The people who are here will definitely suffer a lot.The camera man was almost scared to pee, and suddenly heard a numb cracking sound from the back of his head. He leaned his face against the car window and didn't know what happened behind him, but he saw with his own eyes the sprinkled water on the driver's seat. There were countless pieces of broken glass, and then the flat-headed man collapsed limply in the car without knowing what kind of blow he had received.

After Shao Yan smashed the car window and knocked out those who wanted to escape, he slowly retracted his arms through the hole in the car glass, looked at a group of people not far away who were calling their mother with expressions, and beckoned again: " come over."

Everyone: "QAQ mother help!"

-

When Shao Yan arrived at the door of his house, he realized that his fist was stained with blood. He took out a few paper towels in the elevator room and wiped it casually. came back so late?"

"Something happened on the road." Shao Yan threw the paper towel that wiped his fist into the trash can, raised his head and looked around, and asked with some doubts, "Why are there so many lights on?"

"Oh! Why is there blood on this paper? Yanyan, are you injured? Did you fight outside?!" Aunt Liu saw the bright red color on the waste paper in the trash basket with sharp eyes, and was so frightened that she immediately rushed forward to grope Shao Yan, " How can you fight alone! Show my aunt where the injury is, there are medicines and bandages at home, the wound needs to be disinfected, and it will be infected if you put it there!"

Shao Yan stretched out helplessly and let her check, saying, "I'm not injured, but another voice suddenly sounded in the room: "What's going on?Shao Yan, what's wrong with you? "

"Yan Daichuan?" Shao Yan looked at the man who came out of the wine room by the kitchen with a wine bottle in his hand, and couldn't help calling him in surprise, "Why are you in City A at this time?"

Yan Daichuan looked at Shao Yan with a serious expression, put down the bottle and walked over.He picked up the blood-stained tissue in the trash basket and unfolded it. An angry expression appeared on his face immediately. He asked Aunt Liu to stop first, and he grabbed the parts that were most likely to be injured during the fight and looked at them. No wound was found, and the stern breath faded a bit.

Shao Yan pulled his fist out from his palm, with a faint smug expression on his face: "I still don't believe it when I say I'm not injured. Why don't we just fight, how strange it is. This is someone's blood .”

He frowned as he said, and stared at his fist with a disgusted expression: "I don't know where the blood is, it's so disgusting, I'm going to wash my hands."

The worried Aunt Liu and the helpless Yan Daichuan looked at each other and made a please-please expression. Yan Daichuan sighed softly and followed Shao Yan into the bathroom.

Shao Yan saw him approaching from the mirror, and glanced at him: "Why did you follow here, by the way, how did you get to City A?"

"Come here and transfer the entertainment cities that my dad opened in City A before, let's dismiss the staff." Yan Daichuan found a thick dry towel and hugged Shao Yan's wet hands, his eyes swept across the other's face, making sure there was nothing wrong After the wound, he said, "If you have something to talk about, try not to fight if you can. Who did you have a conflict with today? A classmate? Or a gangster on the street?"

"I don't know. I asked them after I caught them, and they all said that they were paid for their work, and someone gave them money to let them follow what I do every day." Shao Yan let Yan Daichuan hold his hand and one finger at a time. rubbing one finger, squinting his eyes comfortably, enjoying it lazily, "It seems that if there is a chance to beat me up, I will get another money. They are all young people, and I don't know who gave the money. I learned a lesson and tied it there, so I didn’t bother much.”

Things were more serious than expected, Yan Daichuan frowned immediately.In an instant, he began to analyze which side would spend money to buy people to teach Shao Yan a lesson, and he was surprised to find that Shao Yan had offended quite a few people during this period of time.Because there are too many motivated people, he can't immediately lock in on which object.

Yan Daichuan asked calmly, "Did you tie them up? Where are you tied up?"

"Just behind the park on Jiuqu North Road, there is an artificial lake. I tied them to a tree." Shao Yan rubbed his stomach and felt a little hungry. He yawned and walked out slowly, and went into the kitchen to start cooking. Looking at the refrigerator, I found that today's meat had already been delivered.

I don't know if he is still growing. Shao Yan feels that his appetite has increased recently. If the dining environment is good, he can eat several bowls of rice.A large piece of lamb meat in the refrigerator was very smooth. Shao Yan cut the meat into thin slices and marinated it there with seasoning.Stir the spices in the pot over high heat, remove the spices after a while and leave the base oil, stir-fry the mutton for a while, then pour in the finely chopped onions, carrots and potatoes.After stir-frying evenly, he found the leftover rice at noon at home and poured it in. Stir-fried until the rice was shiny and shiny, and then sprinkled a handful of cumin, poured the broth thoroughly, and the rice grains immediately showed a taste of eating through. slightly yellowish.Lamb and onions mixed with cumin immediately present an exotic aroma.

While chewing, Shao Yan opened several jars of pickle jars on the counter, and picked out a bundle of vinegared celery and a piece of sour bamboo shoots. The sour aroma immediately broke through the rich fried rice and spread, making the mouth salivate.Vinegar celery and sour bamboo shoots are cut together on a large plate, mixed with bone soup and oil, chili and mature vinegar, and served with fried rice. Aunt Liu, who has long been accustomed to eating Shaoyan's cooking, immediately got up to find a bowl.

Yan Daichuan was not hungry at first, but when he saw the shiny fried rice, he couldn't help feeling a bit greedy. After Aunt Liu brought the chopsticks, he picked up a piece of vinegar celery and chewed it in his mouth. Immediately I couldn't stop talking.After eating half a plate in a row, he changed from standing to sitting, and there was an extra bowl of rice prepared for him by Aunt Liu in front of him.One bite of fried rice and one bite of pickled vegetables. The cumin aroma of the mutton rice is endless aftertaste. If you eat too much, it will be a bit greasy, and it will be digested immediately after chewing half a piece of celery.The combination of sourness and richness can be called a match made in heaven.

It was the first time for Yan Daichuan to eat fried rice with such a rich taste, and couldn't help asking: "Is this vinegared celery and sour bamboo shoots? Why is it different from the ones I ate in other places?"

Shao Yan picked out the mutton slices and onions from the fried rice and ate them, and replied: "I figured this out by myself after reading the recipe in the book. After the celery was soaked in water, it was tied together with leeks and fresh bamboo shoots and fermented in the noodle soup. Take it out after a day and separate it from the fresh bamboo shoots for chicken soup. After the noodle soup is boiled with seasonings, seal the bamboo shoots and celery that have finished the chicken soup. The taste is not as sour as ordinary sauerkraut. Greasy is very useful."

Yan Daichuan didn't understand these things, he just thought celery was delicious, and the chilli oil in it also had an aroma that couldn't be tasted elsewhere.He didn't know how popular these pickled products that Shao Yan launched on a whim were popular in Yumenxi these days. The customers who came to the old restaurant in City A spread the word, and almost every table ordered a piece to try.Some are really greedy, and when they check out, they will ask the front desk for chili oil. The production process of this chili oil is not simple. Just the dried chili as the raw material has been tried and tested many recipes.The chili powder inside is a mixture of four kinds of chili peppers in precise proportions. The white sesame seeds must be fried until half-cooked before being mixed in. The hot oil poured on top must also be stir-fried in advance before use.With such ingredients, not to mention the vinegar celery bamboo shoots with extremely complicated production process, even the ordinary bean curd can be mixed with an unusual flavor.

There were too many customers begging for chili oil, Shao Yan simply taught the method of making chili oil to Tian Fangli's apprentice, the little girl named Tao Xi.The little girl is young and soft-tempered, but she is hardworking and smart, and she can quickly learn what Shao Yan taught.With her in full charge, the chili oil in Yumenshi has become a special gift just like pastries.

From a gourmet restaurant to a... gourmet restaurant where you can buy seasonings, Tian Fangli has expressed his complicated feelings more than once.

Seeing that Shao Yan likes to eat mutton, Yan Daichuan picked out the mutton and onions from his bowl and gave them to him.Shao Yan was not used to this in the past, but in modern times, Shao’s parents often take care of him like this. After getting along with Yan Daichuan, he didn’t think there was anything wrong with eating the food brought by him. Over time, he didn’t feel much .The taste of this fried rice is somewhat similar to pilaf rice but not the same. Even if the mutton is removed, the rich taste of the gravy and ingredients has already penetrated into the rice.The hot rice is mixed with the slight sweetness of carrot paste, and the cumin that was bitten off while chewing. Even Shao Yan couldn't help eating two big bowls. The last bowl was really delicious after eating the mutton. When it couldn't fit anymore, Yan Daichuan took it quite naturally.

The food in Shao Yan's bowl tasted more delicious than his own. Yan Daichuan ate up the celery and bamboo shoots in the cold dish, and thought of the sponsorship given to the Global Food Competition before, so he asked Shao Yan for more Don't go.

The purpose of getting this quota before was to save Yumenxi from the storm of public opinion.But now that Yumenxi has been rated as three stars in Gumei, the crisis has been resolved, and the meaning of this competition is not so important to Shao Yan.

Shao Yan’s time is indeed very tight, but the food exchange has a different meaning to him. The reason for agreeing to participate in this competition before is not all for the imperial seats. Hearing Yan Daichuan’s question, he took advantage of the opportunity to inquire: Where are the chefs for this competition? Are they capable?"

In order to get a place, Yan Daichuan also made up some common sense of the food competition: "The global competition must be attended by chefs from all over the world. If a chef like you who has been rated as a Gumei star wants to participate, you don't need to participate in the early stage." You just need to wait for the official competition. There are many themes in the competition, and no one knows about it before it is announced. Those who can enter the finals like you are definitely not ordinary people, let alone have special skills."

"All over the world?" Shao Yan was a little moved. The culture of Chinese cuisine has a long history, but he is also very curious about the cuisines of other countries that he is not familiar with.After coming to modern times, he has learned things that he has never been exposed to before, such as curry and pastry, through various channels. The food presented by different flavors and cooking methods has its own characteristics. For Shao Yan, who is keen on innovation and learning, is extremely attractive.

"Go, why don't you go, the sponsorship is all given." Shao Yan watched Yan Daichuan finish his bowl of rice, and for some reason he became in a good mood, and asked with a smile, "By the way, you sponsored this competition How much?"

Yan Daichuan said a number, and Shao Yan immediately felt a lingering dark cloud floating over his head, which made his face darken a lot.

Yan Daichuan, who didn't understand why Shao Yan was in a bad mood, didn't dare to ask more questions, and offered to help Aunt Liu clean up the bowl after eating.After waiting for Shao Yan to take a shower and go to bed, Yan Daichuan sat on the edge of the bed quietly admiring the other party's sleeping face. After a long time, he took out his mobile phone and called his subordinates, asking them to go to the park on Jiuqu North Road to find him. People, by the way, use professional means to torture the origin and purpose of this group of people.

The subordinates quickly called him back. After hanging up the phone, Yan Daichuan was in a more complicated mood. He leaned against the door frame and watched Shao Yan's peaceful expression when he was asleep, but he couldn't think of an adjective to describe him.

The group of people had their trousers stripped and their torn clothes tied to the branches of a tree for a walk. They didn't know how Shao Yan tied them up. Yan Daichuan's people took a long time to untie them before they were rescued from the tree.It's pitiful for a group of big men to cry like that. Yan Daichuan's subordinates couldn't bear to start asking again, saying that they took them to the car to warm up first, and they would be stupid if it was really cold in the morning.

"..." Yan Daichuan closed the door quietly, thinking that if he met such a person, he would have nothing to reason about except that he was unlucky.