Chapter 229 Test
Cheng Peng came to the end of the team. Seeing his frustrated face, the person in front of him asked, "Are you from out of town?"

"Yes, I came from Hunan."

Cheng Peng made up something random.

The person in front said, "I am also from another place, but I am from Sichuan. It took me a long time to get there. I hurried and hurried, but in the end I was still at the end of the line."

Cheng Peng asked: "Sichuan, that's really far away. Why did you come all the way to Guangzhou?"

"why?"

The person in front tilted his head to look at Yangquan Restaurant and said expectantly: "Isn't it to learn skills at Yangquan Restaurant? The most important thing is to learn under Chef Xu Qing."

Chef Xu Qing?

This name sounded harsh to Cheng Peng.

Generally, those who are called chefs are older masters.

Xu Qing is just a twelve-year-old boy. No matter how capable he is, he cannot be called a chef.

Cheng Peng was embarrassed to call himself a chef. How could a mere child...

The jealousy in Cheng Peng's heart was like a bunch of small flames, burning his throat.

Cheng Peng pretended to be casual and said: "I heard that Xu Qing is just a twelve-year-old child."

The person in front looked at him with dissatisfaction and said, "What's wrong with kid? There are few people as amazing as Chef Xu Qing in history. Apart from other things, just the fact that he cured the terminally ill imperial envoy with just one dish is simply amazing! If I could learn even a little bit of tricks from Chef Xu Qing, I would be satisfied."

Cheng Peng looked at him in surprise.

He came here with a purpose. In order to successfully seize the Eternal Spirit Sword, he could endure learning from a child.

But the person in front of him actually came here to learn from Xu Qing.

Doesn't he feel ashamed to be an apprentice to a child?

This is absolutely crazy!
Cheng Peng really couldn't understand.

The team moved forward slowly.

A few sharp-eyed people saw someone leaving through the side door and immediately started talking in low voices.

"Isn't that Yang Lin from Tiansheng Tower? He didn't even pass."

"It is said that Yang Lin is already a senior chef, and he is probably close to being a top chef. He is fully qualified to be a chef in a restaurant outside, but he can't even be an apprentice here? This is too outrageous!"

"Alas, it seems that this test is really too difficult. I feel that there is little hope."

"It is worthy of being called Yangquan Restaurant. Only such a difficult test can be worthy of the name of Yangquan Restaurant! After all, there is a golden plaque bestowed by the emperor here, which is unique in the world. Not just anyone can enter!"

"You sound nice, but you'll cry when you're eliminated."

Yang Lin’s failure made many people discouraged, and they immediately left the team and went home.

Anyway, standing in line here will only end in failure, so it’s better to save some time.

In the blink of an eye, the long line was reduced to half.

Among the rest, there were those who were confident in their own abilities, as well as a few stubborn ones who lined up persistently, thinking that it would be good to see Xu Qing at least once.

People kept going in and coming out.

People came in and out, but no one got through.

This made everyone very anxious.

The remaining few who were still wavering in their hearts could only sigh helplessly and turn away.

Cheng Peng was calm and composed. He knew that with his strength, he was definitely superior to these people.

If even he can't pass, then there is no way anyone can pass.

It was gradually getting dark, and finally only three people, including Cheng Peng, were left in the team.

Everyone who came after Cheng Peng was persuaded to leave by the waiter, who told them to come back tomorrow because they would definitely not make it in time today.

At this time, a waiter came out and said, "Three chefs, please come in."

Cheng Peng and the other two entered one after another and followed the waiter to the kitchen. They saw that the kitchen was full of people. All the chefs of Yangquan Restaurant were present, and standing in the center were an old man and a young man.

The old man was naturally the former chef of Yangquan Restaurant, Master Luo Tian, ​​who was now lazily leaning against the stove, drinking wine leisurely.

And that young man must be Xu Qing.

This person is regarded as a great enemy by the dark culinary world.

Cheng Peng looked closely and saw that it was a handsome young man with a calm and composed temperament. From his appearance, you couldn't tell that he was only twelve years old. Instead, he looked like fifteen or sixteen years old.

But apart from his outstanding looks, he is no different from an ordinary teenager.

Even though Cheng Peng knew that the person in front of him was a powerful figure, the dark culinary world had fallen into his hands twice and suffered heavy losses.

But now that he saw the real person with his own eyes, he couldn't help but feel a little contemptuous.

But a child...

Xu Qing has grown very fast in recent days. After all, this age is the time when the body grows rapidly. In addition, he eats the best food in Yangquan and gets enough nutrition. His height increases a little every day.

Xu Qing said, "I am Xu Qing, the chef of Yangquan Restaurant. I'm sorry to have kept you waiting for so long. Let's start the assessment now. Where are you three from?"

"I'm the chef of Shangtong Restaurant in SD Province, my name is Chen Guanghe."

"I'm the chef at Jixianglou in SC Province, my name is Xia Yi."

"I'm the chef at Lujiayuan in HUN Province, my name is Cheng Peng."

The three of them said in turn.

There are actually people coming from Sichuan?
Xu Qing looked at Xia Yi in surprise. He knew that the journey from Sichuan to Guangzhou was very long and difficult to travel.

The word "Sichuan" brought back Xu Qing's homesickness, as he hadn't been back for a long time.

However, even if they came from Sichuan, Xu Qing still treated them equally.

A chef speaks only through the dishes in his hands.

Xu Qing greeted the three people one by one, and then said: "You can use all the ingredients of Yangquan Restaurant as you like. The theme of this test is rice, and the time is one stick of incense. When the incense is burned out, those who fail to finish the dish will be regarded as giving up. Please start."

Cheng Peng thought to himself, this test is quite simple.

It wasn't as deliberately difficult as he imagined.

They couldn't even pass such a simple test. It seems that all the people before them were good-for-nothings.

There is only one theme, rice.

There are many ways to cook rice. It can be cooked into rice or made into noodles, such as rice vermicelli and rice noodles.

As for cooking methods, frying, stir-frying and deep-frying are all possible.

But the most important thing is to highlight the taste of rice.

Cheng Peng thought carefully and decided to set the test duration to one stick of incense. If it was steaming rice, there would not be much time left after the rice was cooked.

And simply steaming rice cannot reflect his superb skills.

In order to stand out from the three, he had to leave a deep impression on Xu Qing and finally enter Yangquan Restaurant smoothly.

Cheng Peng needs to find a new way and create something different.

I just don’t know if Yangquan Restaurant has what he needs.

Cheng Peng was walking and looking in the food warehouse when suddenly his eyes focused on a porcelain basin in front of him, which contained water as white as jade. He lowered his head to smell it, and was filled with the fragrance of rice. He couldn't help but feel overjoyed.

As expected, Yangquan has what he needs.

Cheng Peng immediately picked up the porcelain basin and walked carefully to the stove.

Master Luo Tian saw Cheng Peng's actions, turned his head and said, "Finally someone noticed what you prepared."

Xu Qing nodded. It seemed that this person's strength was indeed extraordinary.

(End of this chapter)