Zongman: My days as a chaebol in Japan

Not long after, a petite body with a fragrant smell crawled into his bed.

As soon as Li Xuan smelled the familiar scent, he knew who it was.

He reached out and hugged the blue-haired little maid Sakuya Izayoi, then lowered his head and tapped the little maid's forehead.

"Good evening, Sakuya."

"Good evening, master," Izayoi Sakuya stared at her own master with infatuation.

...

Tonight, two car gods are competing against each other in Akina Mountain. The appearance of their cars looks like one large and one medium. At the beginning of the No. 69 hairpin turn, both sides were evenly matched, but when they came to the straight road, the large-displacement car obviously had the advantage, and the medium-displacement car could not keep up with the speed and was soon left behind by the large-displacement car.

When overtaking, the large-displacement car sprayed windshield washer fluid on the body of the medium-displacement car in a show-off manner, and then instantly accelerated to overtake the medium-displacement car that attempted to challenge itself, thus maintaining its undefeated myth.

After reaching the finish line, it started to rain, washing away the two cars that had just finished the race.

. . .

The next day, Master Li got up early after being busy all night.

After washing up and saying good morning to his head maid, Li Xuan left the room and went downstairs to say good morning to Gui Yanye and several other beautiful girls who had gotten up early, and had a delicious breakfast.

Katsura Kotonoha and the other beautiful girls who woke up early were relatively quiet while eating.

Soon, the beautiful girls who were a little lazy in bed got up, washed up and went downstairs, and breakfast became lively.

After breakfast, everyone played around for a while and then went out and got into the car driven by Sakuya Izayoi.

Izayoi Sakuya responded to Asuna and the others' good morning greetings with a smile on her face, and finally looked at her young master happily and closed the car door for him.

After arriving at the university, even after almost a month, Li Xuan's charm still attracted the attention of countless beautiful girls in the school like a rare treasure.

Li Xuan also saw Rin Tsuchimi, a member of the team who completed the actual exorcism mission with him last night. At this time, Rin Tsuchimi was still surrounded by Ito Makoto and his group of best friends.

Seeing that Tsuchimi Rin looked full of energy, and then looking at Ito Makoto, Fujii Yafuyu and the other two who looked like they had been up for two days and two nights, Li Xuan felt it necessary to remind his teammates the importance of sustainable development.

However, the Cannon King combination deserves the title. Last night, Li Xuan saw the ferocious scene of Tsuchimi Rin fighting a group of people alone, and he beat that group of "people" to ashes. Ito Makoto and his group of three are only able to hold on until now, and they just look weak, with no sign of being ready to start a meal.

In the next few days, Li Xuan felt a little uncomfortable because this weekend was the end of the month and Totsuki Academy was about to start school. He had promised Nakiri Senzaemon to be a special guest judge, and the art club activities of Asuna and her friends were also at the end of the month for testing.

In recent days, Li Xuan has to serve as a food taster in the activity room every day. Asuna and the others’ cooking skills are okay, but there are still a few contestants with zero talent.

For example, Tokisaki Kurumi who steamed the fish last time, and the Irene sisters who used cooking as a testing ground for their internal energy.

The cooking skills of these three people are hard to describe. Even Altria, who is not picky about food, turned bitter when she saw their cooking. But these three people always like to innovate. The durian sardine cake is already a masterpiece of masters, and Altria actually saw her hometown masterpiece here, the famous Looking Up at the Stars.

They couldn't point out too directly that it tasted bad, but the result of not pointing it out directly was that the three self-satisfied contestants felt that their creativity still had a lot of room for improvement.

By the way, shouldn’t the chef taste the food first after cooking?

Li Xuan and Altria's intimacy during these few days is almost as close as Asuna and the others. Every time after trying the creative dishes of the three, they would hug each other and find mutual warmth and comfort in this cold creative workshop.

Finally, today is Friday. Li Xuan and Altria looked at each other, their eyes full of determination and the look of being out of the sea of ​​suffering. They ate the latest work created by Tokisaki Kurumi and Irene sisters, kelp shreds mixed with herring and stewed North Sea eel.

Wow, it was terribly salty, smelly, and extremely fishy, ​​all in one dish. When the dish was put into the pot, the smell was so intense that Asuna and Erina, who were studying the dish together, thought it was the smell of a sewer leak.

The smell even spread outside, and people passing by saw the kitchen exhaust fan in the activity room and were instantly horrified, shouting, "Someone is cooking rice in the field."

Now this difficult-to-evaluate thing has turned into a bowl of grayish-white soup and is placed on the dining table in the hall.

Li Xuan and Altria had already hugged each other and hid in a far corner, their eyes full of fear. The white smoke floating above was clearly the grievance of the eels being treated in their original state.

"Xuan-kun, Leah-chan, Erina-chan, you are the most knowledgeable gourmets here. Come and try the latest creative masterpieces of our trio of gourmet girls," Tokisaki Kurumi and the other two were quite polite.

I just looked at this bowl of grayish-white food, and the pungent aroma. How many spices were put in it to cover up the odor? Also, Asuna, Kotonoha, and Sekai, don't you usually like to taste each other's food? Why are you still in the kitchen?

Without bragging, after Li Xuan practiced the Sun Sutra and the Origin Sutra, he would not sweat no matter how intense the battle was. But now, there were slight drops of sweat on his forehead.

Seeing Altria and Erina looking at him with eyes asking for help, as well as Tokisaki Kurumi and the other two with confident and expectant eyes, Li Xuan decided that as their man, he must stand up bravely.

So Li Xuan carefully poked the eel with chopsticks. Hmm, it was well cooked, not bad. He added a little soup and put it in his mouth.

Li Xuan didn't know what the smell was, he just felt as if he was walking in a dirty and messy ruins. The ruins suddenly exploded and he was pressed under the ruins. The dirt, mess and stench attacked him together.

Chapter 104 I am happy, but I refuse

Li Xuan's whole body was instantly covered with golden-red flames, and the temperature of the Variety Art Club instantly rose to that of a scorching sun.

"Xuan Jun, please pay attention, we are in the Art Club now," Tokisaki Kurumi and others, who were overwhelmed by the high temperature, reminded them.

After a few seconds, Li Xuan finally recovered. Then, seeing the three gourmet girls waiting for their evaluations, he took a deep breath and subsided the flames.

Then he saw Erina and the others looking at him with pleading eyes, and also the person who quietly poked his head out of the kitchen and saw Li Xuan with the same pleading look in his eyes.

I understand. It goes without saying. After all, I am their man.

Li Xuan reached out and picked up the dish with steady hands. He poured it directly into his mouth. The moment it entered his mouth, the Golden Crow Divine Fire appeared in his mouth, protecting his sense of taste.

After finishing this "rare masterpiece" in just over ten seconds, Li Xuan decided in his heart that from now on, these three people would never be allowed to enter the kitchen.

After finishing his meal, Li Xuan breathed a sigh of relief, then looked at the three food girls who were still looking at him with expectant eyes, and Li Xuan slowly said, "The creativity is worthy of recognition. If you are more careful, you will make great progress."

After saying this, Li Xuan gave himself a full score in his heart. To be able to express and describe something so obscurely yet clearly, he must have been a man of quick wit.

Tokisaki Kurumi and the others were very happy after hearing Li Xuan's comments, and said that they would go back and show their cooking talents to their sisters and family.

I can only silently mourn for my future sister-in-law and father-in-law and mother-in-law.

After a while, the three gourmet girls pouted and were driven out of the kitchen by Asuna and the others, with three introductory teaching and theory books on cooking and ingredients in their hands.

Seeing the three people with aggrieved faces, Li Xuan and Altria looked at each other and realized that someone in the kitchen must have sacrificed his own family for the sake of justice.

Seeing that the three had temporarily put aside their dreams of becoming chefs, Li Xuan sat down with Altria to comfort them, telling them that they could shine in any field and not just focus on one dish.

Everything was back to normal after that. The skills of Asuna and Erina are still worthy of recognition, especially Erina. Because of her man, she has been studying the cuisine of Daxia during this period.

She really did learn something, and by going to the Chinese restaurant and the Zhonghua Building from time to time, her level has firmly entered the ranks of top chefs and is on the way to becoming a Lin chef. After all, she has a Long chef who is guiding her with all her might, and Erina herself is also extremely talented.

After tasting the delicious food, Tokisaki Kurumi and the others quickly gave up the idea of ​​cooking. Under the guidance of Li Xuan, they successfully came up with the idea of ​​just being responsible for tasting the food.

...

It was Saturday. After having breakfast in the morning, Li Xuan and his group waited for Xiaolan and Suzuki Sonoko to arrive in the Suzuki family's special car. Then they took some equipment, changed into casual clothes and set off for Totsuki Academy.

Erina said that many of the people present today are top students who graduated from Totsuki Academy, including the spice master Gin Dojima who has become famous in the world of cuisine, Kojiro Shinomiya who won the fierce battle in Gaul and opened his own restaurant, and Ryodan Kobayashi who has an unparalleled stomach.

Because Li Xuan agreed to be the special guest this time, many gourmet experts who were 50% to 50% in responding to Totsuki's invitation came to serve as judges.

The most famous among them are the Dragon Chef Liu Quan from Zhonghualou, the big eater Alu, the food craftsman Coco, the food artist Suni, the food radar Zebra, the commander-in-chief of Totsuki Nakiri Senzaemon, and finally the special guest Li Xuan.

The Totsuki Academy opening ceremony, which had already released a preview in advance, attracted the attention of many news agencies and newspapers. Every year, the Totsuki Academy's opening cooking competition is an event that the Sakura culinary world and many culinary families pay close attention to.

The solid teaching doctrine of Totsuki Academy ensures that the graduates have a certain level of strength. These are the talents that many culinary families and industrial groups urgently need. Those who can successfully graduate from Totsuki Academy do not need to submit a resume. Their ability to graduate is the best resume in the eyes of the culinary families.

Many Totsuki students will receive many recruitment letters from cooking families after the opening competition of their student stage. Rather than saying that Totsuki Gakuen was initially established by Nakiri Senzaemon to revitalize the culinary world of Sakura, it has now developed into a talent recruitment center for many gourmet cooking families and groups.

When Li Xuan and his group arrived at Yuanyue Street, the place was already crowded with people.

Xiaolan and Suzuki Sonoko, who had just got off the bus and walked not far, were surprised, "Wow, there are so many people here. Are they all students who came to attend Totsuki's opening ceremony today?"

Erina quickly explained to Xiaolan and the others, and they finally understood the difference between the existence of Totsuki Street and the cooking competition at the beginning of the school year at Totsuki Academy.

"So, Erina will also join the competition today?" Although they had lost sight of their own creative cooking, Tokisaki Kurumi and the others still had great interest in cooking and looked at Erina beside them.

However, Erina said a little embarrassedly, "I originally had this plan, but in the end I decided to go to Kyoto Academy with Asuna and I no longer planned to participate, because the competition is a competition among students within the academy, and I am not a student of Totsuki now."

"Oh, what a pity, Erina's unparalleled taste is very famous in the culinary world." Just as Tokisaki Kurumi and the others nodded to indicate that they understood, a crisp female voice came from behind them, with a hint of provocation and regret.

After hearing this, Erina turned around and looked at the source of the voice, a beautiful girl with short white hair and red eyes.

After seeing the person coming, Erina took the initiative to say hello, but her expression seemed very ordinary, "It's Alice, I didn't expect you to come to the opening ceremony this time."

After that, she introduced Alice Nakiri to Li Xuan and Asuna. She was Erina's cousin and was good at molecular cuisine. She used high-end instruments for cooking. However, her relationship with Erina was very ordinary because Erina once gave a bad review of the cake made by Alice.

"Erina, I came back this time to compete with you. Everyone is talking about how great your cooking talent is. Do you dare to compete with me in the cooking competition at the beginning of the school year?" Nakiri Alice held her head high and looked straight at Erina.

Erina just looked at it calmly, "So you still care about this, Alice. Although I'm happy that you want to have a cooking duel with me, cooking is no longer my only concern. I have found something more important, and my unparalleled sense of taste has improved. So, I reject your invitation to the duel. But if you want to compete, you can do so after the ceremony."

"Okay, then we'll decide it at the ceremony...Eh!? Wait, what did you say just now? Reject?" Nakiri Alice looked shocked and stunned.

Chapter 105 Nakiri Alice

"Are you afraid of losing to me, Erina? It's hard to improve your cooking skills if you don't dare to challenge your opponent," Nakiri Alice looked at Erina with displeasure and tried to provoke her a little. Unfortunately, Erina didn't pay any attention to her. She just smiled and read the message without replying.

Alice Nakiri was so angry at Erina's perfunctory treatment that she staggered around, which attracted the attention of Li Xuan who was standing next to her for a few seconds. They were worthy of being sisters.

Alice Nakiri never expected that Erina Nakiri, who regarded the path of being a chef as more important than her life a year ago, would now say calmly that being a chef is no longer the most important thing to her.

Looking back on his studies in cooking and even his efforts abroad, he finally found the path that suits him. He confidently awaits the first day of school in Totsuki, where he can avenge himself for the cake incident and defeat his cousin who is crowned as a genius.

Now the other party suddenly said that he no longer cared, and even said that he had found something more important, and even the unparalleled sense of taste that had troubled him was cured.

Wait!? Wushuang's sense of taste has improved? Only then did Alice Nakiri think of what Erina had just said. If she heard it correctly, her cousin was saying that Wushuang's sense of taste had improved.

Alice Nakiri covered her mouth and looked in shock at her cousin who was still smiling at her. She had not received any news about this.

But this is normal. The news that Erina Musou's sense of taste has improved has not been spread except for a few important people such as Arato Hisako and Nakiri Senzaemon.

Thinking of Erina's words, Alice instantly lost the motivation to struggle. Her efforts seemed to become worthless. Nakiri Alice instantly lost her spirit, and the outside world seemed to become so quiet.

Erina saw her cousin's absent-minded look and guessed part of the reason. She felt a little sorry for her, so she said, "Alice, we are planning to hold a cooking competition before the opening ceremony today. Do you want to come?"

Alice Nakiri, who was daydreaming, came back to her senses after hearing Erina's words. She knew that this was a chance Erina gave her, and her eyes regained their focus. "I thought you really didn't care. So you wanted to use this opportunity to test me? Well, I'll give you this chance. There are no flaws in my molecular cuisine."

Erina knew that her cousin had a bit of a tsundere personality like herself, but she had changed a lot after the series of things she experienced after meeting Li Xuan, so she did not expose Alice's tsundere. Instead, she walked over, took her cousin's arm, and took her to introduce her sisters and men.

Just now, because Alice Nakiri saw Erina, her mind was full of thoughts of defeating Erina, and she didn't pay attention to other people. Now she reacted and looked at Asuna and the others, she was extremely surprised. The girls here looked no worse than her. Except for her figure that was better than some of them, she had no other advantages.

Especially when she saw Erina introducing her man, Nakiri Alice was even more shocked. She knew Li Xuan. Her father and mother had shown her Li Xuan's photos. When she saw the photos, she felt that some kind of beautification method must have been used in the photos.

I didn't expect that the man my cousin was talking about was actually the young master of the Xia family. His appearance was perfect, just like my molecular cuisine theory, without any flaws.

When Alice Nakiri saw Li Xuan smiling at her and extending his hand, she blushed involuntarily. It was true that few women could ignore Li Xuan's appearance at first sight.

Alice Nakiri blushed and shook hands with Li Xuan. She felt the warmth from Li Xuan's big hand and seemed to be attracted by something. She didn't let go of his hand for a while. It was Li Xuan who woke Alice Nakiri up when he saw that they were in public and there were people coming and going.

After hearing Li Xuan's words, Alice Nakiri woke up and believed what her parents said. This was indeed a dangerous person who would be unconsciously trapped once she came into contact with him.

Alice Nakiri was a little dazed when she saw her cousin actually come over and hold her hand. It seemed like this was a scene that she had experienced when she was very young, before her unparalleled sense of taste appeared.

"So you guys are planning on putting your respective dishes up at small stalls to see how the audience responds and decide the winner?" As the group went to play in the place that Erina and Asuna had rented earlier, Nakiri Alice also understood the competition of their miscellaneous study club this month.

Alice Nakiri found it very interesting, thinking that she had already agreed to join Erina's competition, but she couldn't help but say, "Haha, then I'll have to reluctantly win the championship in this competition with my molecular cuisine."