He's not what I thought

Help Lu Jinze put away his luggage, Jiang Qi is going to buy materials.

But Lu Jinze, who clearly said that he came to the meeting, was not busy at the moment, and said that he would go shopping with Jiang Qi.

Jiang Qi said deliberately: "Are you really not busy? I'm going to the vegetable market. There are many people there and it's dirty..."

He looked at the expensive suit on Lu Jinze.

Lu Jinze immediately took off his suit jacket.

"Is it over?" Jiang Qi asked.

Lu Jinze looked at him suspiciously.

Jiang Qi pulled his shirt collar and approached him: "Mr. Lu, I have to go to the seafood market, and your shirt will also smell fishy. Don't you mind?"

"I don't mind, you don't mind, what do I mind?"

【When the time comes, you will have the same smell as Qiqi. 】

Jiang Qi: "..."

He took the room card and went downstairs with Lu Jinze.

In the elevator, Jiang Qi couldn't bear it anymore and asked Lu Jinze, "Why did you call me Qiqi?"

Lu Jinze asked in confusion, "Isn't your nickname Qiqi?"

Jiang Qi was even more confused: "No one calls me Qiqi, my mother calls me Xiaoqi."

Lu Jinze: "..."

The roots of his ears were reddish.

Understood.

It turned out that this was a nickname given to him by Mr. Big Dog Goulu himself.

Jiang Qi smiled: "Thank you, Mr. Lu, I like this nickname very much."

Whether it is a friendly match or an award selection, Jin Manyu pays more attention to whether the dishes are original by the chef. If you are not original, you can also improve on the basis of traditional dishes.

This time the friendly competition requires that Chinese dishes must be made, and they need to have innovative and unique tastes.

This is actually very difficult, because the taste of traditional Chinese dishes is deeply ingrained in people's minds. If you want to make innovations, you must let the tasters accept it. If you can't accept random creations, it is easy to become dark cuisine.

Of course, if it is too conservative and lacks new ideas, it will be difficult to win among many outstanding contestants.

It is said that most of the judges of the friendly competition are not professional, but randomly select a few lucky passers-by from the applicants on Jinmanyu's official website, and come to judge the cooking skills of the participating chefs on the spot.

In this way, there are more uncertainties.

Jiang Qi's current plan is to make a dish where fish is not fish and noodles are not noodles.

These are actually two dishes. Yufeiyu refers to the use of old tofu mixed with seafood soup to make the tofu taste like fish, and Mianfeimian uses minced fish to make noodles.

In addition, he also plans to make a not-so-simple fried rice with eggs.

Yes, two of the three dishes he entered seemed to be staples.

When they came to the vegetable market, Jiang Qi and Lu Jinze went straight to the poultry area.

"I used to go to the imported supermarket to buy vegetables, and then I went to the vegetable market with Aunt Zhang, and I discovered a new world," Jiang Qi explained to Lu Jinze excitedly, "It's just that we came too late today, and the food in the vegetable market is only four or five in the morning. One o'clock is the freshest, but fortunately, the dishes for tomorrow's friendly match are all prepared by the organizer."

Jiang Qi picked out an old hen with the help of an enthusiastic stall owner.

The old hen needs to be killed now. Jiang Qi paid the money first, and went to buy some other meat and vegetables. When he came back from a stroll, he brought back the old hen from the poultry stall. Jiang Qi and Lu Jinze went straight to the seafood market .

Picking up some cod, squid, and some dry goods from the seafood market, Jiang Qi hurriedly took a taxi with Lu Jinze to the supermarket.

When I came back from the supermarket, it was already past five o'clock in the evening.

Fortunately, Jiang Qi also bought some other home-cooked ingredients, and was going to go back and make dinner first, and then start preparing for tomorrow's game after eating with Lu Jinze.

The time is really tight, and it takes a lot of time to make these three dishes, especially the high soup, which takes at least two or three hours, so Jiang Qi has to stew the ingredients of the high soup first, or else he won’t know how to cook the soup after it’s done. What time is it.

Fortunately, cooking sometimes requires inspiration and on-the-spot performance. It doesn't mean that if you are well prepared, you will be able to give full play to your advantages on the spot, so Jiang Qi is not too nervous.

What's more, Jiang Qi has studied these dishes in private before, so he is not familiar with them.

Lu Jinze knew that Jiang Qi would be very busy tonight, and after helping Jiang Qi bring all the materials into the kitchen, he rolled up his sleeves and prepared to help him.

Jiang Qi was "overwhelmed by flattery", and shook out two aprons, and put them on respectively for himself and Lu Jinze.

The two exchanged a kiss tacitly, and they didn't have time to have other charming thoughts, so they immediately started to get busy.

Jiang Qi prepared to make soup, and Lu Jinze helped him cut the dinner ingredients under Jiang Qi's command.

Seeing Lu Jinze holding a kitchen knife in one hand and clumsily cutting shredded potatoes into potato cubes, diced radish into radish cubes, and sliced ​​meat into meat cubes, Jiang Qi felt a little funny.

While skimming off the foam from the chicken soup, he reminded Lu Jinze: "Slow down, be careful not to cut your hands."

Lu Jinze, a business tycoon and domineering president, has no temper when facing a mess of vegetable dice on a chopping board: "I chopped them all up."

"It's okay." Fortunately, Jiang Qi can rejuvenate. "These dishes can be stewed with curry sauce together. Fortunately, I bought curry sauce. Let's eat curry rice at night."

Plan pass!

An excellent chef must know how to plan ahead, Jiang Qi has to admire himself.

The steps of stewing curry are very simple, Jiang Qi has been guiding, Lu Jinze is in charge of the operation, Jiang Qi is responsible for controlling the amount of seasoning when necessary, and soon a pot of curry stewed beef is ready.

Jiang Qi said: "Okay, let's eat first!"

He put the snow-white rice in a small bowl, put it on a round porcelain plate, poured thick and rich curry sauce around the rice, and asked Lu Jinze to take it out for him: "Let's taste Mr. Lu's tonight. craft!"

The two took off their aprons and sat down at the table.

Lu Jinze also seemed a little nervous, like a student waiting for the results to be released, with both hands on his knees cautiously, looking expectantly at Jiang Qi scooping up the rice dipped in sauce with a spoon, and took a bite.

"How is it?" Lu Jinze couldn't maintain his aloof personality, so he blurted out.

"It's delicious!" Jiang Qi gave a thumbs up, "Mr. Lu, I didn't expect you to have a talent for cooking!"

[Of course, I don't look at whose "Mr." 】

"Cough cough!"

To be honest, I am a little carried away, Mr. Lu.

Jiang Qi smiled and said: "Okay, don't be complacent, let's eat quickly."

The two finished their meal quietly, Lu Jinze went back to his room to have a video conference, and Jiang Qi continued to prepare for tomorrow's game.

It's a pity that Lu Jinze really has to start again tomorrow, otherwise he would probably accompany Jiang Qi to the competition.

But it just so happened that after Jiang Qi finished the game, Lu Jinze's work also ended, and then they could have a peaceful dinner together.

Jiang Qi got up early the next day.

The game time is not limited to half an hour for each dish, and processes such as hanging soup can only be completed at the game site in advance.

When he got there, the temporary stoves were placed in the center of the venue. Jiang Qi found the table with his name and the serial number on it, and went to the material warehouse at the back to get the pre-ordered ingredients. He got acquainted with the kitchen utensils and gas. Stove, began to prepare hanging soup.

He was busy, and the contestants from the stove next to him also arrived. Seeing Jiang Qi making soup, he smiled and asked, "Hey, what are you going to do today?"

Jiang Qi returned him with a kind smile: "I won't tell you."

When he smiled, the coldness on his face disappeared, the end of his eyes lifted up slightly, and the small mole at the end of his eyebrows seemed to fly up, which was gentle and made people want to get close.

The other party looked at Jiang Qi a few more times and recognized him: "Are you that 77 gourmet?! What a coincidence?! I like watching your videos!"

The man seemed to be in his early 30s, with a short beard on his face, and a "Z" logo on his apron, which seemed to be customized by himself, and this time they participated in the competition, the host Fang will distribute aprons for free.

Of course, whether to wear the organizer's or your own during the competition, there is no express rule, it all depends on the wishes of the contestants.

Jiang Qi felt that the logo on his apron looked very familiar. After thinking about it for a while, he suddenly remembered where he had seen it: "You are Zheng Laojiang?"

The other party laughed "haha": "So you know me too, it's a pleasure to meet you."

Jiang Qi shook his hand shyly.

Zheng Laojiang is a food blogger on another platform, with more than 600 million fans, more than twice that of Jiang Qi.

Jiang Qi will watch Zheng Lao Jiang's videos when he has nothing to do. His style is completely different from Jiang Qi's. People are very envious of the quiet life away from the hustle and bustle of the big city.

Zheng Laojiang is a full-time blogger. I heard that he used to be an interior designer, but for some reason he suddenly switched careers and started making food videos. He sold a house in a big city, and resolutely returned to his hometown to set up his own blog. studio.

Jiang Qi admired him very much. If his mother hadn't passed away and he hadn't been brought to Jiang's house by her mother, Jiang Qi might choose to be a full-time food blogger now.

But rural life is really not suitable for Jiang Qi.

Jiang Qi is very lazy in his bones. The rural life looks very romantic. In fact, many things can only be solved by himself. Jiang Qi still likes to live in the city. He can go to the supermarket to buy whatever he wants to eat, and go to the supermarket if he doesn’t want to cook. In the restaurant, aunts usually help to clean the house, which is already very happy for Jiang Qi.

Of course, the most important thing is that there is no Lu Jinze in rural life.

His Lu Jinze would just wait for him at home with his cat in his arms.

Thinking of this, Jiang Qi couldn't help but raise the corners of his mouth and laughed.

Zheng Laojiang watched Jiang Qi smirk while hanging the soup, couldn't help shaking his head and said with a smile: "Hey, married people are really fools."

The competition didn't end until the afternoon. Jiang Qi came out of the venue at three o'clock in the afternoon. He thought that Lu Jinze hadn't finished his work, and planned to go back to the hotel to change clothes and wait for him. Unexpectedly, there was a burst of noise from the roadside not far away. "Didi" sound.

Jiang Qi followed the sound and found that it was Lu Jinze who was driving a car parked by the side of the road.

Seeing that Jiang Qi noticed him, he quickly got out of the car and waved at Jiang Qi.

"Wow, where did you get the car?" Jiang Qi ran over and looked around at the Maybach.

It's not new, it should be rented, not bought.

"Ask colleagues in a meeting to borrow it, let's go, get in the car first."

"What colleague? It should be a subordinate of your company, right? Good guy, a luxury car was brutally expropriated by the boss. Doesn't your subordinate feel distressed?"

"I don't feel bad," Lu Jinze said flatly, "Because I told him that I borrowed the car to please my wife."

While speaking, Lu Jinze had already opened the co-pilot's door for Jiang Qi.

Jiang Qi sat up and asked him, "Then where are we going?"

Lu Jinze returned to the driver's seat, fastened his seat belt, started the car, and uttered two very short words: "Elope."

"..."

This fellow Lu Jinze...is getting better and better!