Zongman: My days as a chaebol in Japan

"Ha? Stop kidding, even if it's you, I have no intention of giving up the victory. Besides, I am so strong now, the victory can only be mine." Erina had just finished speaking, but Asuna and the others beside her were not happy. They had already thought of the championship speech before the game even started, right?

So the group went to a shop that was relatively centrally located on Yuanyue Street while having fun. The shop was relatively clean, and although there were no signs of anyone using it, someone came to clean it every day.

The shops on Totsuki Street are very popular. Erina was able to get this shop because of her status. She and her good sisters Asuna usually conduct culinary research here.

After entering, Alice Nakiri ordered her subordinates to start moving her molecular cooking equipment in. There was no space planned for customer tables in this shop, but after the design of Erina and Asuna, all of them were converted into kitchens, leaving only the hall and some tables and chairs.

Looking at the clean kitchen and well-maintained kitchen utensils, even the picky Alice Nakiri did not find fault with it, but she changed her mind and came up with an idea.

"Since it's a competition, are there any restrictions on the cooking themes?" Nakiri Alice asked.

However, Erina responded the next second, "We have already discussed it and decided to use food that represents love as the theme."

"Love? An innovative theme. I've already thought of how to win," Nakiri Alice showed a confident expression.

As for the ingredients, Li Xuan had already asked the people at Zhonghua Building to prepare them. There was also a farm in Yuanyue, but many of the ingredients required training to be fully processed, so Li Xuan simply asked the people at Zhonghua Building to process them before sending them over, and they were preserved in a special way on the way to ensure that they looked as good as if they had just been slaughtered.

Chapter 106 Happy Egg Fried Rice

Under the command of Li Xuan and Altria, the delivery staff from Zhonghualou delivered all the ingredients into the cold storage.

Looking at Erina and the others who had already started selecting ingredients, Li Xuan and Altria went out for a walk first. Speaking of which, Tokisaki Kurumi and the Irene sisters were also going to go together, but after they heard what Nakiri Alice said about culinary innovation, the few remaining creative ideas in them burned in them again.

They decided to give it one last try in this competition, this time betting on the name of the Food Girls Group. Of course, there were already special cart pushers waiting outside. These people were to be the mobile salesmen waiting for Erina and the others to cook. As for letting Erina and the others sell the food themselves, sorry, they are a bit famous and many people don't come for the food itself.

Li Xuan and Altria looked at the three beautiful girls who seemed to be full of energy, and looked at each other. It seemed that a group of people were going to become unlucky people soon.

But these have nothing to do with Li Xuan. Respect the fate of others and live a free life.

Thinking of this, Li Xuan took Altria's hand and went out shopping.

Choosing the food court when shopping with Altria was a great choice. Li Xuan and Altria only spent about half an hour shopping, and basically spent the time eating. Every time they came to a store, Altria would pull Li Xuan in to taste the signature dishes.

Li Xuan even saw a boy with a red hedgehog head in a store. Wow, isn’t this the Fried Rice Boy?

Now I think about it, this guy should have been tricked into coming to Totsuki by his own father. However, now it should be a little different from what I know. After all, looking at the expression of this kid, it seems that he has adapted to the situation only after being here for a long time.

Since he was already there, when Li Xuan saw Happy Egg Fried Rice on the menu, he ordered one to see how happy it was.

Today is the second month since Soma Yukihira opened a store in Totsuki Street. After promising his father, he finally earned the qualification to open a store in Totsuki Street through his own strength.

Unfortunately, he won not by his masterpiece Happy Egg Fried Rice, but by the rare ingredients left by his father. Until now, although he has been absorbing the culinary skills of chefs from various stores every day, no one has ordered his original works.

It is difficult to make great progress by tasting food on your own, and now I have reached a bottleneck. I need a gourmet of sufficient stature to help comment on my original works. Only by improving my original works can my cooking skills be improved and I will be more confident in passing the entrance examination.

It happened that the store had just opened today, and Soma Yukihira heard the menu handed over by the waiter, and on it was the name of his masterpiece, Happy Egg Fried Rice.

Soma Yukihira suddenly became excited. After more than two months, a customer finally came to order his original work. Following the waiter's instructions, Soma Yukihira also saw Li Xuan playing with Altria. His otherworldly appearance made Soma Yukihira stunned. From this appearance, Soma Yukihira knew that this man was not an ordinary person.

Moreover, he chose his only original creation from among so many dishes, which shows that this man has a unique vision. Soma Yukihira immediately became motivated and used his best cooking skills. This fried rice must make the guests look happy.

Li Xuan, who was playing with Altria, did not think as complicated as Yukihira Soma thought. He simply wanted to try it because he had seen the exaggerated expressions of the people in the show when they ate Yukihira Soma's Happy Egg Fried Rice.

As for playing around, because I just smiled when Altria asked me if I was a big eater after finishing the seventh meal, I was not happy.

The two of them had already sat down at this time. Altria immediately turned her face away like a little hamster, but was forced to turn back by Li Xuan and kissed until her face turned red before she let go.

The customers in the store smiled knowingly after seeing what Li Xuan and Altria did. Some women even showed fascinated expressions after seeing Li Xuan.

Altria also remembered that they were now inside a store, so she threw herself into Li Xuan's arms with a blushing face and played around until the waiter brought the dishes.

Compared to Li Xuan's Happy Egg Fried Rice, Altria ordered a little more, including king crab roe noodles, wind-fried fish, grilled deep-sea octopus, and grassland yak thighs.

When the waiter opened the lid of the fried rice, a rich aroma spread out, which was much more fragrant than the four excellent-looking dishes here in Altria. Many diners were attracted by the aroma, and finally found that the source was a stack of egg fried rice, so they placed orders one after another, wanting to try this fragrant egg fried rice themselves.

Soma Yukihira was originally planning to come out and ask Li Xuan how he felt after eating, but the orders from so many customers completely occupied his free time, so he finished the things at hand first.

When Artoria smelled the egg fried rice in front of Li Xuan, she suddenly felt that the dishes in front of her that looked good were not fragrant anymore. She looked at Li Xuan eagerly. Li Xuan was speechless, picked up the spoon, scooped up a spoonful of egg fried rice, blew it gently at the corner of his mouth, and handed it to Artoria's mouth, "Try it, be careful of the burnt mouth."

When Altria saw Li Xuan's actions, she was filled with joy, her face flushed and smiling, "Ah", she opened her mouth and ate the fried rice, and was surprised by the wonderful taste of the fried rice. When Li Xuan saw Altria's look, he knew that this fried rice was quite good, so he continued to scoop a few spoonfuls over. Altria felt Li Xuan's thoughtfulness, and her heart was satisfied and happiness was growing.

Li Xuan scooped it up and tasted it himself. Well, except for the first two bites, it was full of the taste of Altria.

In the next few spoonfuls, Li Xuan tasted Soma Yukihira's cooking skills. Generally speaking, he has begun to prepare to forge his own path, but he is still a little immature. His five-star cooking skills are quasi-special grade, but still inferior to Erina's.

After eating a few bites, Altria saw Li Xuan using the spoon that she had used to eat fried rice and was stained with her saliva to eat her meal without any hesitation. Her face became more red with shame and she felt even happier. She quickly turned her head and worked hard on the dish in front of her.

Li Xuan smiled, leaned over, and whispered gently in the girl's ear, "Liya, this one looks good too."

Seeing the smile in Li Xuan's eyes, Altria hurriedly fed Li Xuan a bite. Unexpectedly, Li Xuan did not take it back after eating. Altria looked up and saw that Li Xuan pointed at his mouth and then pointed at his own mouth.

Altria understood everything at this point, and quickly reached out to push Li Xuan's handsome face back. It was too embarrassing. But at the same time, she whispered, "Bad guy, there are so many of us, no, we can talk about it when we get back."

Chapter 107: Gourmet Girls Group Achieves Another Success

Li Xuan understood and tapped the girl's palm, which startled the girl so much that she retracted her hand. She rolled her eyes at Li Xuan in annoyance, then met his smiling eyes, and the two of them laughed in tacit understanding again.

Soon, Li Xuan and Altria finished their meal. When they paid the bill and were about to leave, a young and somewhat hurried voice came from behind them, "Please wait a moment, two guests."

Li Xuan and Altria stopped after hearing the sound, turned around and saw Soma Yukihira coming out of the kitchen, a little out of breath, and running towards them.

"Is there something wrong? We don't seem to know each other," Li Xuan was a little confused as to why Soma Yukihira came out to stop them.

"It's like this, my customers. I'm the chef of this restaurant. You are the first customers to order Happy Egg Fried Rice. I just want to know your opinions," Soma Yukihira quickly stated his reasons.

Li Xuan then looked at Soma Yukihira and began to comment, "The quality of the fried rice is good. The rice, the heat and the time difference of the fried rice are well controlled. There is not much that can be improved. After all, if you use extraordinary ingredients, you will not be able to master it at all at the moment. You should also feel that your cooking skills have reached a bottleneck."

"If you want to break through and go your own way, find a chef who is much better than you. If he is willing, you will know how to break through the current bottleneck. As for whether to go your own way, the choice is yours," Li Xuan said, and before Soma Yukihira could recover from his shocked expression, he turned around and left the restaurant with his girlfriend.

On the way, Altria was a little curious about what Li Xuan said, "Mr. Xuan, you just said that the chef's cooking skills have reached a bottleneck. Why does he need a chef who is much better than him to help him break through? Can't he study it himself?"

Seeing Altria's curious look, Li Xuan explained, "That chef is already at the five-star standard of a normal hotel, and has reached the top. There is no way to go any further. He needs a breakthrough to be exposed to another world."

When a chef reaches the special level, his cooking skills are no longer normal. He will create many special dishes. The most classic one is that he will add his own "intentions" to the dishes.

Five-star chefs themselves cannot come up with “intention” because they themselves do not know it and cannot continue to understand it. Only when their spirit is at an extreme state at certain times, will the dishes they cook have a bit of “intention” in them.

Like the day when Li Xuan and Asuna first met, at the Zhonghua Building, the dishes made by Liu Quan were all made with supernatural ingredients. Coupled with Liu Quan's "intention" and internal energy as a dragon chef, as soon as Asuna ate the food, she had a vision of a mermaid in front of her eyes, and her potential was activated, causing her clothes to explode physically.

According to Soma Yukihira's cooking skills, he has already reached the limit of mortal cooking. Going on, as Li Xuan said, he has to use extraordinary ingredients, but Soma Yukihira's current level is completely beyond his control. If he uses them forcibly, it will just be a waste.

Because obtaining and processing extraordinary ingredients requires the chef to reach a special level, giving birth to the chef's own "intention", using his own culinary skills to conquer the "intention" of the ingredients themselves.

After listening to Li Xuan's words, Altria also understood. In other words, if the young chef wanted to improve, he needed to find a very strong extraordinary chef to teach him how to guide his own "intention".

However, Li Xuan soon walked into another restaurant under the leadership of Altria, and the two forgot about Soma Yukihira. After all, he was just a small chef who had nothing to do with them.

After nearly two hours, Li Xuan carried Altria back to where Asuna and the others were. At this time, the aroma of food began to waft out of the store, and Asuna and the others' cooking competition had begun.

The salesmen outside were already packing the finished dishes. There were several people's initials or surnames on each cart. Li Xuan and Altria had also seen their finished products. Generally speaking, the degree of completion was very high and the smell was quite good. The aroma of the dishes emanating from three of the carts even surpassed that of Soma Yukihira, and the remaining two were comparable to Soma Yukihira.

Li Xuan looked at the appearance and name of the dishes and knew who created them. First of all, the first one was Erina's work. The oden dishes exuded the blazing heat and fragrance of a volcano. As for why, Li Xuan could tell at a glance, it was because these oden dishes had Erina's inner energy in them, and these inner energy were actually Erina's "intention".

The other two, one is a Western pastry, and this one is from Alice Nakiri. Although there is no internal energy on it, the arrangement and size of each pastry are exactly the same, without any difference. Except for Alice Nakiri who uses technological equipment, no other beautiful girl can do it like this.

The last one left is a rice ball, but it is decorated with many patterns. It can be clearly seen that it is a cute monster avatar in SAO, with gusts of wind element's swift and swift "intention" on it. Currently, among Li Xuan's girlfriends, only Asuna has the wind element attribute, so the all-round attribute is excluded. Moreover, many animal patterns are unique to the Floating City of Aincrad. Only Asuna, who has been collecting materials and making clothes in Aincrad with a group of sisters every day during this period, has this brain.

Li Xuan could also tell who created the other works based on the residual internal energy on them, but the masterpieces of these beautiful girls were not as outstanding as those of Erina and the other three. Li Xuan also discovered something strange, which was that he did not see the creative works of the Gourmet Girls Group.

I looked back again, but still nothing. This was a bit strange.

Then Li Xuan had sharp ears and heard the signal of an ambulance from a long distance away, as well as the sound of a cart being pushed away quickly and the sound of someone chasing behind him. He didn't hear the details, but vaguely heard something like durian, canned herring, stinky mandarin fish stew, or something like that.

Anyway, seeing how bloodshot the salesman pushing the cart was and the person chasing him from behind who was vomiting while chasing, Li Xuan decisively made way.

Then, after the cart salesman passed by, he used his internal energy to slightly increase the gravity of the area behind the road that he had to pass through. In this way, the cart salesman successfully escaped from the pursuit.

Li Xuan looked at the people who were still retching after stopping because they lost their target, and kindly called an ambulance so that they could leave this sad place as soon as possible.

This group of people were in bad luck today. The stew that looked harmless was like falling into a garbage dump as soon as they took a bite. It exploded only after entering their mouths, and it didn't smell or look suspicious at all from the outside.

Li Xuan can explain this point, because Erza used her internal energy to create a small space in each packaging box, and all the odors floated there, and when they entered the mouth, the contents of the space would be released.

I was wondering where the creative dishes had gone, and it turns out they were directly put on the shelves. I can only say that the food court is not all about delicious food.

Chapter 108: Exhausted Alice Nakiri

Li Xuan's behavior earned him the solemn thanks from the seriously injured man, which made Li Xuan feel embarrassed for a second.

After watching them all get on the medical vehicle, Li Xuan hurried into the kitchen.

Altria, who had been watching the show on the side, hurriedly followed him in. After entering the shop, the two looked at each other and couldn't help laughing out loud.

Afterwards, Altria went to the kitchen of Asuna and the others. This blonde girl seemed to have a bottomless stomach. She had already eaten a lot just now, but when she came back here and smelled the fragrance from the kitchen, she started to want to eat again.

Li Xuan went straight into the kitchen of the Gourmet Girls Group, and brought the three of them out with kisses and coaxes despite their reluctant expressions, because he couldn't wait for others to find the group.

After hearing what Li Xuan said and the dusty description of the cart salesman who finally came back after a long detour, the Gourmet Girls' group finally felt relieved.

However, their obsession with cooking still made them walk into Erina and the others' kitchen.

Li Xuan looked at his cousin Erina and Alice Nakiri who were busy preparing dishes.

Although modern instruments are used, many processes still need to be done manually, especially when producing in large quantities. Nakiri Alice has not yet mastered her own "intention", so although her physical fitness is slightly better than that of normal people, it is not much better, and she is even more incomparable to Asuna and the others.

Alice Nakiri, wearing a white close-fitting chef's uniform, had already made four rounds of cakes. After finishing the final fifth round, she was about to stop and see the reaction when the cart salesman came back.

After making cakes continuously for more than two hours, the high-intensity work has exhausted Alice Nakiri's physical strength. Her white chef uniform has been soaked with sweat, revealing her graceful and exquisite figure.

Li Xuan took in the beautiful scenery at this moment. There was sweat on Alice Nakiri's face, but she ignored it and focused on watching the machine that was making the cake.

Li Xuan admired it for a while, walked to the bathroom outside to get a new towel, and returned to the kitchen where Alice Nakiri was. At this time, the machine had already started cutting the cake.

Seeing that the last round of cakes was completed, Alice Nakiri breathed a sigh of relief. Then, she felt a sense of weakness from inside to outside and could not even stand, so she fell to the ground.

When Alice Nakiri was about to greet Daichi, a strong arm wrapped around her slender waist and held her firmly. A brand new, dry towel was used to wipe her sweaty forehead and cheeks. At the same time, a gentle voice sounded in her ears, "It can be seen that you take this competition very seriously, but you still have to take care of your body."

Hearing the gentle voice, Alice Nakiri knew who it was. She was hugged by the other person, and a warm and comfortable breath enveloped her. The action of the person wiping the sweat off her head made Alice Nakiri rub it comfortably involuntarily.

After dozens of seconds, the sweat on Alice Nakiri's face and hair had been wiped dry and she felt her body being slightly released, but the man's hand was not completely released.

She staggered a little, but was able to stand. Nakiri Alice looked up at Li Xuan's handsome face slightly. In addition, she thought about the danger he had just eliminated for her. And because Nakiri Alice leaned her whole body on Li Xuan, she also felt Li Xuan's perfect figure hidden under his luxurious clothes.

This appearance and background conditions are just like the fairy-tale prince that she imagined when she was sleeping. Alice Nakiri couldn't help but look at Li Xuan with a somewhat pink and misty look in her eyes.

Li Xuan saw that Alice Nakiri was looking at him with a somewhat hazy look in the eyes, a very familiar expression. He put the towel around the white-haired girl's neck and said, "Have you recovered? Finish your things first and then look at it. There's plenty of time."

The cool touch of the towel around her neck cheered up Alice Nakiri. After hearing what Li Xuan said, she realized that he had discovered her fascinated expression on his face, so she blushed slightly and the alarm bells in her heart turned into a deer jumping around.

"Thank you for what you did just now, Master Li Xuan, otherwise I would have fallen down. But now my strength seems to have not fully recovered yet," Nakiri Alice was very grateful to Li Xuan for his timely rescue.

Li Xuan nodded, indicating that he accepted the thanks, "Well, are your cakes finished? I'll have someone come in and pack them up."