[Rebirth] Born ordinary

A day in mid-October, which was just an ordinary day, became not so ordinary because of an international chef competition.Originally a well-known game in the industry, but still low-key to the public, it became less low-key because of the intervention of the H city government.

This is a rare international competition. Only a small number of participants participated in individual teams. Most of the participants were selected by some internationally renowned hotels and catering industries under their own banners through various means. A representative team of elite chefs.

Obviously, the H city government also has a very deep understanding of this. After all, there is an international competition final that will be held in H city. win?

Any government without such ideas is definitely not a good government!

Therefore, under the intervention and operation of the municipal government, an international industry competition has turned into a grand food festival and investment exhibition.

The final venue of the competition was won by Hengyu Viewing Hotel - the top floor of Xinmao Building. Not far below the hotel is City H, which was built and put into use this year. It is known as the largest square in City H - Tianfu Square, which is just suitable for use Carry out international food festivals and cultural exhibitions.

On the day of the competition, in this non-yearly and non-festive day, because of this grand event, related promotions and advertisements can be seen in every corner of H City.

As the old saying goes, food is the most important thing for people, and it is indeed worth passing down the true meaning of the ages. Because of such a competition, such a grand international food festival, coupled with the creation of the superior and the trend of the mainstream, in October, A day that is neither a year nor a festival, is thus turned into a day of joy and excitement.

Sun Shao and Yi Hui were sitting in the car going to the competition venue early in the morning, watching the lively "universal celebration" in H City through the car window, and couldn't help but feel a sense of depression in their hearts.

Because on this same day, a closed case trial is about to take place. A person who has been flying in this world for more than 30 years will be judged today for the rest of his life.

Even after the trial is over, the life of this person's ruling will not be known to the public. Even if it is known, it may be just a sentence of "deserved" or "deserved".

However, only they know that this person will be a relationship that they will never want to cut off in this life.

Sun Shao and Yi Hui took the bus provided by the organizer. The two sat in the last row, and there were three Yi Hui's teammates in front of them. They were basically people he had cultivated over the years.

It was the first time for the three of them to participate in this international competition with Yi Hui this time, and this first time, because of Yi Hui's ride, they walked so smoothly all the way, until today. In the finals, they were all excited like chicken blood. They kept bragging and chatting with each other, and each happily exchanged their various importance and the great role they played in the previous few games. .

After a long while, they sensed the silence between Yi Hui and Sun Shao, and after watching them carefully for a while, Gao Yang's voice suddenly dropped:

"Look at our master, as expected, seeing the world is seeing the world. Master doesn't care about this kind of competition!"

"That's right, we have to learn this attitude. We've already made it to the finals, so we don't have to lose face."

"It's time to learn."

Saying that, the three of them imitated Yi Hui and Sun Shao's sitting attitude, all straightened their backs upright, sat in their seats, with their lips tightly closed, their eyes burning like torches, they never talked nonsense, and their faces were serious and solemn - no Wrong, we call it low-key bearing!

Sun Shao witnessed the whole process of the transformation of the previous three big fools, and couldn't help laughing out loud.

Yi Hui also recovered from a trance, and met Sun Shao's smiling eyes sideways, with question marks in his eyes.

Sun Shao shook his head while laughing and said nothing, "Is the game tense?"

Yi Hui propped his chin and thought for a while, "I don't know."

"!" Sun Shao was stunned for a moment, seeing Yi Hui's low interest, remembering that since Yi Hui participated in the competition, he almost never asked him what he thought about this competition, so he couldn't help but feel a little interested, and asked eagerly. Said: "How do you not know?"

Yi Hui finally had a smile in his eyes, "Because I'm not sure yet."

"uncertain?"

"Yeah." Yi Hui lazily replied, "Because I still don't know what answer I should use to submit the questionnaire to my eldest brother, so I don't know what mentality I should use to face this competition, whether I am nervous or not. It seems like there’s nothing more to say.”

Sun Shao nodded understandingly.On this point, Sun Shao felt that he couldn't get in the way, no matter from the professional level or the tacit understanding between the two brothers, so he just smiled at Yi Hui, and then lowered his head and played with Yi Hui in his heart. Fai's hand.

Yi Hui's hands are probably the roughest hands he has ever seen in his life. Although men's hands are rough, Yi Hui has to deal with cold water and oily smoke because of cooking all the year round, no matter in season, summer, autumn or winter. , not only the pads and joints of the ten fingers, but also the palms have calluses, probably because the calluses are too thick, so as long as Yi Hui doesn't dip himself in the water, his palms will always be dry and rough to the touch. Even the skin on the back of the hand is rougher than dry bark.

But with such hands, every time they shake hands with him, there will always be an indescribable sense of power conveyed, which makes people feel at ease from the bottom of their hearts.

Time passed in a car of silence. When they arrived at the competition site, they found that the other contestants had arrived almost in sevens and eights, and were gathering together waiting to change the competition uniforms, and to see the distribution of the competition venue and the final competition Rule changes.

When no one was looking around, Sun Shao quickly kissed Yi Hui on the mouth with a fast camera, and then looked at him with bright eyes: "You go to the competition, I will wait for you outside. Then , let’s go see Big Brother together.”

After the final verdict, no matter what, they had to go in to see Yi Yu and tell him that they were waiting for him to go home.

Yi Hui nodded, and took Sun Shao's breathless kiss before letting him go. As soon as he let go, several foreign players who passed by beside them whistled a few times as if cheering on, in a lame manner. He praised in full Chinese: "The kiss of blessing is very good."

Sun Shao and Yi Hui looked at each other, smiled slightly, and nodded their thanks to them.

After breaking up with Yi Hui, Sun Shao quickly went downstairs and walked to Tianfu Square. There was a large open air in the square, and the whole process was broadcast live.For this culinary competition, this is the only way to know Yi Hui and the others' situation in the first place.

Because on the tables of the entire Hengyu Viewing Hotel, there are two hundred judges carefully selected for fairness. These judges are not well-known food critics or gourmets, or veteran chefs who have been famous for many years and have won various awards. .

The rest of the people are unable to enter this kind of occasion to watch the game up close. After all, this is a hotel, not a large auditorium. There are no seats for spectators and onlookers. Those who have seats are those who can express their expertise on food. Everyone or gurus for advice.

As for someone like Sun Shao who is "superficial" and has absolute blind support for his own man, it is obvious that no matter how he operates, he will not be able to get this kind of seat privilege.

When Sun Shao arrived at the square, the game hadn't started yet, but the host of the game was already trying to liven up the atmosphere on the big screen, explaining the game process and rules.

The competition process is not complicated. The twelve groups of contestants will complete a large-scale feast together today, treating all the judges present as customers, each showing their abilities and winning with their craftsmanship.

There are three rounds of the competition, each side has two dishes, before serving, the names of the dishes and the team are covered up, and only the waiter announces the names of the side dishes and ingredients, and then the judges vote to score.In the end, the one with the highest score wins.

To put it bluntly, the so-called cooking skills and gourmet food production are actually a technical job to reconcile the crowd.Who doesn't have any preferences when eating?Only under limited conditions, if you reconcile more flavors, you will have a chance to win.

Sun Shao looked at the square for a long time. When the competition officially started, the twelve teams appeared together and introduced themselves. Food stalls were set up everywhere in the square, and the flow of people was increasing, but Sun Shao still looked like Standing in the center of the square, looking up at the man on the big screen.

"My name is Yi Hui, I am Chinese, and my team and I are representing China's Yetengma Catering Group today."

Sun Shao narrowed his eyes, and there was a deep obsession in his expression——Brother Chef turned out to be quite photogenic.

Afterwards, the twelve groups began to select the ingredients and ingredients, and then entered the kitchen to start the countdown to the serving time.

Although it is said to be a live broadcast, it will broadcast the preparation process of the twelve groups of contestants in the back kitchen, but the time from entering the back kitchen to serving the food in the first round is only 45 minutes, but there are twelve groups of contestants. Some introductions and interviews from judges from all over the world were added, so in the entire 45 minutes, Yi Hui only swayed in the camera five times from beginning to end, and each time did not exceed 30 seconds.

But Sun Shao still didn't blink his eyes. For the fairness of the competition and to prevent people from cooperating with each other, the photographer skillfully did not take pictures of the final food products of each group, and only showed everyone some shots during the preparation period. By the way, I would like to ask a few words It looks professional, but it's actually a matter of water.

45 minutes later, the serving bell rang, and all I could see on the big screen were rows of handsome waiters carrying covered plates on the table, and then reported the ingredients and ingredients used in each dish one by one. It is a special cooking method. In the end, each critic will pick out a little bit of each food, and chew and taste it slowly with an extremely picky taste.

Finally, at the end of the first round, vote for the best dish, and at the same time, in order to show the level, also pick out the worst dish and indicate the reason.

The moment all kinds of dishes were uncovered, there was the sound of drooling around Sun Shao. Sun Shao came back to his senses slightly, looked around and found that the crowd gathered in the square were all staring at the food flow on the big screen. saliva.

It's a pity that no matter how complete the narrator's description of the color, fragrance and flavor of those foods, these people can't taste them. Simply, there are various food stalls beside them. The embrace of gourmet stalls.

Only Sun Shao was still standing there in a daze, frowning slightly in distress—because Sun Shao felt that the food ingredients for each dish reported by the narrator were quite strange, and even, to put it bluntly, there were a lot of food in it. He hadn't heard much about the ingredients.

In this case, how can he tell which one is Yi Hui's?

His man has always been divided. In this competition, he chose a wonderful personality, so every dish reported by the commentator above seemed to be produced by Yi Hui, but another voice in his heart told him that these were not. Produced by Yihui.

At least, it wasn't a dish that Yi Hui in his mind would like to cook.

Just when Sun Shao was struggling, the results of the first round came out quickly, and a table popped up on the big screen, showing the scores of each group. Sun Shao took a closer look and found that Yi Hui's group was firmly ranked first with an absolute advantage.

So, are the tastes of people all over the world biased towards this level of exoticism?Sun Shao was even more entangled.

In Sun Shao's various entanglements, the first two rounds passed in a blink of an eye. After the second round, the score of Yi Hui's group was tied by the other two groups. The three groups are currently ranked third .And it's time for the food to be served in the last round of competition. Every time the waiter lifts a cover, the narrator will explain the dishes with a voice-over.

After the cover of the food in the middle was lifted, the narrator obviously paused, not sure whether he had doubts about the commentary he got or complained about the food.

Sun Shaoze's eyes lit up in the square - he finally saw the same familiar food - Caotou Qingsi Noodles.

At the same time, after the narrator once again introduced the main ingredients and ingredients, other people in the square finally got excited—fuck, there is finally a food that they can find ingredients to make and taste when they go home.

The three rounds of competition ended quickly. The contestants in the back kitchen were making the final touches, and the judges in front also handed over their last score sheets.

Before the final game result is announced, the results of the current round are announced as usual.

The excellent dish with the highest number of votes read a long list of ingredients and ingredients, which made Sun Shao feel dizzy, while the worst dish with the lowest number of votes made Sun Shao's dizzy head instantly roar—the lowest number of votes The main dish is Caotou Qingsi Noodles.

Then came random interviews with the judges, first asking them to talk about the advantages of the best dishes, and then asking them to talk about the disadvantages of the worst dishes.

Almost random judges can tell a bunch of reasons why this dish was selected as the worst dish:

This food can only be said to be a staple food, and it is not suitable for such a large-scale competition. First, it cannot reflect the chef’s creativity; second, it cannot show the chef’s harmony and grasp of the taste of various ingredients; ...

At the same time, the onlookers in the square didn't care much about what the judges said.

"When will the result of this competition come out? A bunch of judges are talking nonsense over there. What the hell is going on?"

"That's right, idiot judges, hurry up and finish. I think this noodle dish is good. It's easy to use, and I'm very hungry. The other ones, what are they? I don't know where to start."

"Tsk tsk, with your level of appreciation, it would be useless for you to eat those dishes that look like works of art."

"Fuck you! I call it real... Hey, you can make one for me when you get home."

"Who are you? I'll fix it for you? Why didn't you fix it for me?"

"I can fix it for you, who made you my wife, hey..."

Sun Shao overheard these kinds of conversations, and suddenly felt that this dish was evaluated by these "first-class" "masters" in this way, and the strange feeling in his heart disappeared, and the corners of his mouth curved up unconsciously.

Finally, just before the announcement of the results of the competition, the organizer played suspense again, not to mention the final score, but announced the six dishes prepared by each group in the three rounds on the big screen one by one.

As long as those who are willing to watch the show from beginning to end, and have a memory and mental arithmetic speed beyond the average person, they can basically calculate the scores of each group based on these dishes.

Ordinary people like Sun Shao naturally don't have this kind of ability, and he didn't pay attention to others. He just watched the six dishes made by Yi Hui's group carefully, and then recalled them from memory, and saw the pictures of the last two dishes. At that time, I froze for a moment.

The dishes with the highest and lowest scores in the last round were all from Yi Hui's group.

For a moment, Sun Shao didn't know what emotion was floating in his heart.

While he was still in a daze, the final result of the competition was finally announced-"It is a miraculous coincidence that the highest score in the final of this competition is actually a tie between the two groups. There will be no rematch, and these two groups will share the sweet fruit—Michel from Caesar Hotel in France, and Yihui team from China’s Yetengma Catering Group.”

When the people in the square heard that the Chinese representative team had won the competition, they thought again, this is an international competition, and we Chinese have lost face this time. Immediately, as if they had recovered, they began to applaud enthusiastically together.

Sun Shao's eyes were slightly wet. Looking at Yi Hui who finally took a close-up shot on the big screen, there was a relaxed smile on the corner of his mouth.

Unable to restrain himself, Sun Shao clapped along with the people around him, his heart filled with strong surge and pride - the man above belonged to his family.

On the big screen, the host began to give a speech on the successful conclusion of the competition, and the atmosphere in the square reached its peak. Sun Shao ran through the crowd to the hotel with difficulty. Just as he ran into the building and walked to the elevator, the elevator had already started. Yes, Yi Hui walked out of it.

Sun Shao stumbled, went up to hug him.

At this moment, Yi Hui's phone rang, and Yi Yu's voice came from the other end of the phone:

"Good boy, I know you can do it."

After hearing this, Yi Hui couldn't help but raise the corner of his mouth proudly, and suddenly remembered what happened on Yi Yu's side: "Brother, you can call us now, then your side..."

"Last family call."

"..." Yi Hui choked.

Yi Yu on the other end of the phone smiled lightly, and his voice was relaxed like never before, "15 years."

"Bought out a past in 15 years, I think it's worth it. It's just that after I come out, I'm a bad old man with no skills. Do you support me?"

"Nurture!" Yi Hui said firmly.