Zongman: My days as a chaebol in Japan

This duel is not an uncommon event in Totsuki Street. There are several such duels every month. However, because it is a Totsuki chef, it always attracts a lot of people to watch, including spectators and chefs who come to learn.

As mentioned before, all Totsuki’s graduates are at least three-star chefs. The levels of chefs in the world range from beginners, one to five stars, special grade, Lin, Long, Xian, and Shen.

The special grade and above are levels that ordinary people cannot reach. The five-star chefs on the market are the highest standard threshold, so students graduating from Totsuki are very popular with catering groups. Every year at Totsuki graduation ceremony, representatives of Totsuki students are invited from all over the world to recruit students.

After listening to Li Xuan's introduction to the chef levels, Asuna looked at the levels of the two people who were competing according to Li Xuan's method.

The tie on the neck of Isamu Fukada on the left has four silver stars, and the tie on the neck of Yamagami on the right also has four silver stars, which means that these two people in this competition are close to the top of the chef world.

This match is a showdown of skills and wills between the two.

After more than a minute, the chefs on both sides finally reached the finish line of the competition.

It seems that the confrontation between the two sides is very exciting, but in fact, because it is a pasta game, it does not take much time. After Li Xuan and Asuna joined together to watch the game, only about five minutes have passed.

Pay attention to the time and temperature when cooking pasta.

The two parties opened the lid one after another, scooped out the noodles, and then poured in the prepared noodle soup seasoning.

This step is also very fast, taking less than thirty seconds.

However, the noodles taken out during this process need to be cooled to maintain their shape. Li Xuan saw Fukada Yong open the wooden barrel behind him with a few ice cubes in it, and poured a large bowl of water on the noodles; on the other side, Yamagami Ya directly poured the noodles into a container, and then poured in the ice cubes.

The noodle soups on both sides were cooked at almost the same time. The fastest one was made by machine, Yamagami. He scooped up the noodle soup with a spoon, picked up the noodles and put them in a ramen bowl, poured the noodle soup on top, and a rich aroma spread. The onlookers praised, "Wow, what a delicious soup. I feel a little hungry just by smelling it."

When Yamagami heard the praise from the nearby audience, he looked very proud, as if all this was natural.

On the other side, Isamu Fukada also opened the lid of the pot and poured out the noodle soup. He also scooped up the noodles and put them into a ramen bowl, pouring them on the noodles.

"Wow, Xuanjun, the noodles made by both of them smell so good. Who will win?" Asuna was looking at the two people who had prepared the noodles, and it was difficult to judge who would win.

"If there are no accidents, Fukada Yong" Li Xuan also gave his opinion.

"Ah? Why? Xuan-kun?" Asuna was a little confused.

Li Xuan told Asuna that, in fact, from a business point of view, Yamagami A is the best solution, because what capital needs to pay attention to is the cost. As long as the difference is not too big, Yamagami A's cost will be lower than Fukada Yu's.

But this time the competition was not about who could cook faster, but about the taste. Just now Li Xuan noticed several details of Fukada Yong. The cooling step was not only with ice, but also with water, and it should be spring water from the mountain. Then there was the noodle soup. Shan Shangya's noodle soup had a strong and heavy taste, which was ok at the beginning, but would affect the appetite after a long time. Fukada Yong's noodle soup was light, and the fragrance was not too strong at the beginning, and it would not be greasy after a long time.

After hearing Li Xuan's evaluation, Asuna immediately knew who the winner was. Looking at the elegant young man who was willing to let her ride on his shoulders, the love in her eyes became more and more intense.

At this time, the two people on the field have already prepared their finished products.

"The surface of the crashing waves" and "the surface of the flowing water of the moon spring"

This is the work of Yamagami Ya and Fukada Isamu.

After the two men finished their works, a woman in a slim-fitting suit came out from the half-covered door in the middle and brought their works in.

The moment the curtain of the woman in the suit was lifted, Asuna, who was sitting on Li Xuan's shoulder, made a surprised sound when she saw the person inside.

"Erina!?"

Chapter 19: Noodle Duel and Erina Nakiri

Asuna's voice was a little loud and was heard by the blonde girl sitting behind the curtain.

Erina Nakiri went out today to look for food that could fill the taste buds on her tongue. Unexpectedly, she happened to encounter a duel between Totsuki students. Erina Nakiri was recognized and was invited to be a judge.

After watching the duel between the two, Erina Nakiri wanted to leave her assistant as a judge and just slip away. The conventional steps really made Erina Nakiri a little drowsy.

Fortunately, it was a pasta competition, which did not require much time, and the two had good basic skills at the four-star level, but this was the only point worth praising.

The dishes for both of them were ready quickly. Erina Nakiri almost vomited when she smelled the two smells, one strong and one light.

Seeing her assistant Hisako bringing in two bowls of noodles, Erina Nakiri was ready to let Hisako finish eating and give her comments, but she didn't expect that when Hisako lifted the curtain and came in, she heard a familiar voice calling her name from outside.

"Ah? The judge is Ms. Erina Nakiri?"

"The granddaughter of the food devil?"

"Ms. Erina, please come to our shop for guidance."

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Hearing the surging sound outside and seeing Hisako looking at her with questioning eyes, Erina had no choice but to wave her hand and said, "Open the curtain." She sighed in her heart, it seems that she will have to try two pieces of unpalatable things today.

As Hisako Arato pulled open the door curtain, people outside the shop saw the blonde girl inside. She was well-mannered and dressed in the uniform of Totsuki Academy. Immediately, many of Erina's fans and the shop's chefs cheered.

Erina also saw Asuna riding on Li Xuan's neck. When she saw Asuna, Erina's heart flashed with surprise, but she felt a little depressed when she thought that because Asuna revealed her identity, she had to eat the two bowls of hard-to-swallow food in front of her.

As for why she didn't refuse directly, Erina Nakiri would still try her best to maintain the family reputation of the Nakiri family when she was outside.

He nodded to Asuna, indicating that they would talk about other things later, and then he saw Li Xuan at Asuna's thigh.

So handsome, is there such a good-looking man in the world? This was Erina Nakiri's first impression of Li Xuan, and judging from the way they looked, they seemed to be in a relationship. Wow~ This made Erina, who had been trying to solve her own problems, envious.

Assistant Hisako reminded the absent-minded Erina Nakiri, and when she came back to her senses, facing the two bowls of food in front of her that ordinary people would think were delicious, Erina Nakiri was already recalling the happy things in her mind to fight the impending nausea.

However, although she was very reluctant in her heart, Erina Tsunakiri still looked serious on the outside. She first tasted the Tsukiyomizu-ryu noodles made by Isamu Fukada. "I'm starting," she said after saying the pre-meal etiquette of the cherry blossoms, picked up the noodles with chopsticks and put them into her mouth and took a bite. The next moment she immediately put down her chopsticks, drank a mouthful of the noodle soup, and swallowed it with difficulty without even chewing it.

"The noodles are prepared very well. The clear stream from the upper reaches of Totsuki Spring has particles that enhance the flavor, and the noodles are kept chewy by being chilled. The noodle soup is not too soupy, it's like encountering a naked hippopotamus in a hot spring, it's unpalatable." This is Erina Nakiri's evaluation of Tsukiseki Clear Stream Noodles. After hearing the evaluation, Isamu Fukada suddenly fell into self-doubt.

"I'm starting." After evaluating Fukada Isamu's dishes, Erina Nakiri's expression immediately returned to seriousness. She clasped her hands together and bowed again, then started to eat Yamakami's usual Jingtaopai Wa noodles. Just like before, she picked up the noodle with chopsticks and took a bite, then quickly put down her chopsticks and took a sip of the noodle soup. This time, Erina Nakiri did not swallow it, but spit it back into the ramen bowl.

"It's a standard industrial product, with mechanized standard matching. An ordinary three-star hotel can handle this. It's like encountering a hairy chimpanzee in a hot spring." After hearing what Erina Nakiri said, Yamagami's expression became petrified. If there was a background, it would have turned gray now.

These are two failed works. If we have to compare which one is better, Mr. Fukada's is slightly ahead of Mr. Yamagami's.

After saying that, Erina Nakiri walked out quickly with her assistant Hisako as if there was a wild beast chasing her. She greeted Asuna and took Asuna to a restaurant in the center of Totsuki Street that was decorated in the style of ancient Daxia.

After Erina Nakiri finished her evaluation just now, Asuna got off Li Xuan's body. Seeing Li Xuan sniffing on both sides of her shoulders, Asuna blushed, raised her little fist and gently hit Li Xuan's arm, then took Li Xuan's arm and followed Erina Nakiri to this restaurant called Yu Yue Long Men. The restaurant has three floors. After the waiter saw Erina Nakiri, he took the four of them to the third floor.

The third floor is the private room, there are only four rooms in total, Tiandixuanhuang, and the other three rooms are occupied at this time, only the last room Tianzi is empty. Erina Nakiri led the three of them into the Tianzi room with familiarity.

Although the private room is not big, the decoration is quite good, although it is still far inferior to that of the Zhonghua Building.

Erina Nakiri, who had just come in, sat down and immediately washed the cup and poured a cup of tea. The fragrant tea flowed through her mouth, and only then did Erina Nakiri breathe a sigh of relief.

"Asuna, I didn't expect to see you here. We haven't seen each other for almost a month, hehe." Erina Nakiri sat down and smiled at Asuna and poured her a cup of tea.

"Thank you, me too. I didn't expect to see Erina here." As Erina Nakiri handed her the tea, Asuna smiled happily.

"Hey, let me introduce you to Erina. This is Li Xuan-kun, he's mine... mine..." Asuna got a little stuck when she was introducing Li Xuan to Erina.

Seeing this, Li Xuan continued the conversation, extended his hand to Erina Nakiri and said, "Hello, the eldest lady of the Nakiri family, my name is Li Xuan, and I’m Asuna’s boyfriend and future husband."

Asuna, Erina Nakiri and Hisako Arato were all shocked when they heard Li Xuan's words. Asuna even stood up and threw herself on Li Xuan, her face flushed with shame. She stretched out her jade hand and quickly covered Li Xuan's mouth, saying, "Ah, you bad guy Xuan-jun, I haven't agreed to marry you yet."

However, the shyness on her face and the joy overflowing from the corners of her mouth showed that she didn't think so in her heart.

Erina Nakiri and Hisako Arato, who were sitting on the other side, were surprised that given Asuna's background, she would actually like Li Xuan. So Li Xuan should not be from a simple family. Moreover, the name Li Xuan seemed very familiar to them. Where had they heard of it before?

While Erina Nakiri was still thinking, Hisako Arato had already remembered Li Xuan's information, so her face suddenly changed, and she became a little nervous for a moment. She hurriedly said to her eldest daughter, "Miss Erina, could it be the young master that the head of the Great Xia Family, Senzaemon, mentioned?"

After hearing what Hisako said, Erina Nakiri also remembered it, and her expression suddenly became a little nervous, but she still calmed down her inner restlessness, took a deep breath, and asked the handsome man who was sitting on the other side of the table and was playing with Asuna.

Chapter 20 Erina's Talent and Unparalleled Taste

"Wow, I'm so envious of you guys. Hello Li Xuanjun, I'm Erina Nakiri from the Nakiri family. You can call me Erina, can I call you Xuanjun?" Erina Nakiri asked.

Li Xuan also grabbed Asuna's two jade hands and reached out to hug Asuna in his arms. After hearing what Erina Nakiri said, Asuna came back to her senses, let out an "ah", left Li Xuan's arms, stood up, tidied her hair and clothes that were messed up by the play, and then sat down next to Erina Nakiri.

When Li Xuan heard Erina Nakiri's voice, he smiled and reached out his hand, holding Erina Nakiri's white and soft little hand, and replied, "Okay, then I will call you Erina."

Being looked at by Li Xuan's smile, Erina's heart suddenly beat rapidly and her face felt a little hot, but Erina had more social experience than Asuna, and she quickly calmed down her beating heart, but she just stopped looking directly at Li Xuan.

After about ten seconds, when her heart was almost jumping for joy, Erina continued to ask, "Well, is Xuan-kun from the Great Xia family?"

When Li Xuan heard what Erina said, he admitted it directly with an expression of no surprise on his face.

The Nakiri family is a quasi-second-rate family. There is a Nakiri Senzaemon in the family, a man whose strength is almost comparable to that of a small country. However, the next generation of the Nakiri family seems to have average talent. Nakiri Soemon's son, has no intention of following in his father's footsteps, but instead wants to set up his own business. It can be said that the men of Sakura are worthy of being like them, and the idea of ​​overthrowing the powerful is always whipping them in their minds.

It was normal and natural for a quasi-second-rate consortium to guess his identity.

Looking at the pretty Erina Nakiri who didn't dare to look him in the eye, Li Xuan suddenly wanted to tease this serious golden-haired girl, so he said, "What's the matter, Erina, do you think I'm ugly?"

Hearing Li Xuan's words, Erina immediately refuted, "How could it be, Xuanjun is the most handsome boy I have ever seen since I was a child." After saying this, Erina realized what she had said, but the words had already been said, so she lowered her head to look at the table, wondering in her heart, is the air conditioner in the Tianzi No. 1 private room not turned on?

Li Xuan looked at the golden-haired girl's lowered head and found it even more interesting, so he continued to ask, "Then why doesn't Erina even look at me?"

Erina thought so too, so she took a deep breath in her heart, raised her head and saw Li Xuan looking at her with a smile. His short black hair was neatly scattered, and his clear black eyes looked at her and she was stunned. Is the air conditioner broken?

At this time, Asuna, who had looked through the menu, glanced at her blushing best friend, took the initiative to help out, and at the same time gave Li Xuan a nice eye roll.

"Erina, don't worry about this bad guy, let's pick out what to eat today?" At this moment, Asuna's voice sounded like an angel saving Erina's ears.

"Oh, oh, okay, let me recommend something to you. Today is the time when Manager Liu is in the store. We can try the dishes of the top chef later. It will delight your taste buds." Erina quickly recommended a few dishes, and then asked Asuna and Li Xuan about their tastes.

After Asuna's rescue, Erina gradually calmed down and started chatting with Asuna, occasionally talking to Li Xuan. Li Xuan also used some humorous words in this, making the two girls laugh, and even the serious-looking Arato Hisako smiled slightly.

Li Xuan also learned some information from the two girls' words. Asuna and Erina are in the same middle school, which is the same as Erza and Rin before. In fact, it can be figured out. Kyoto International School has junior high school and high school campuses, and there are only three branches in the Asia and Europe region. Countless consortiums want to send their children in, not for learning, but for future connections. If you can get close to someone like Li Xuan in the school, it is much more important than your own efforts.

Asuna was not qualified to enter, but Li Qinghe liked this girl so much that he just gave her a few instructions.

Moreover, Sakura has a geographical advantage, so many local consortiums can still send their children to Kyoto International Academy if they try hard.

However, from the conversation between the two girls, Li Xuan also learned about Erina's own problems. They were not as exaggerated as he remembered, but they were going in that direction. Erina started to be picky about food when she was two years old. When she was three years old, she could no longer eat the food prepared by the ordinary chefs at home, so they had to hire more advanced chefs.

By the age of ten, Erina had already rejected Totsuki's graduate-level food. Only five-star cooking could make Erina eat. By the last year of junior high school, even the food prepared by five-star chefs was sometimes impossible for Erina to eat.

Erina's family originally thought that this was a disease, but with the return of her grandfather Nakiri Senzaemon, Erina's talent was developed, and she could fully detect all information about the food she had eaten through the dry perception of her tongue. This is the special feature of Erina, and it is also accompanied by a huge crisis.

After Nakiri Sen'emon took Erina to the eastern suzerain state, the Liu family, for advice, he learned about Erina's problem and solution.

The Liu family has records of Erina's problem. Taste evolution is an ability born for delicious food. As long as you keep eating delicious food, you will eventually be able to unlock the secrets of the human body. Nakiri Uemon, who is already at the half-step immortal level, certainly knows what the secrets mean, but he does not have this ability to ensure the growth of his genius granddaughter.

So finally the Liu family came up with two solutions. The first was to keep eating, and the second was to go to the Xia family and find someone who had mastered the Sun Dao Sutra and marry him.

However, the second method is more difficult than the first. The whole world knows that the Xia family in Great Xia is very small, and the men in each generation are infatuated and loyal to a terrifying degree. If it weren't for the fact that the members of the Xia family are all extremely talented and their lifespan after cultivating the Sun Sutra is comparable to that of a water bear, no one would be surprised if they killed themselves one day.

Although he knew it was difficult, Nakiri Senzaemon still asked the Liu family to ask for help for the sake of his genius granddaughter. Of course, he returned empty-handed. However, Nakiri Senzaemon had a good family relationship with the Liu family, so he suppressed Erina's taste evolution. However, this was only a temporary solution, and he had to go back to the two methods in the end.

Originally, Nakiri Zaemon had already prepared for the worst, but with the news that Li Xuan was going to school in Sakura, the extinguished flame was suddenly rekindled.

So he called his granddaughter Erina over and told her many secrets. The most important thing was to find a way to date Li Xuan and let Li Xuan solve Erina's physical problems.

After returning from Daxia with Nakiri Senzaemon, Erina fell into confusion, but she also knew that it was her own problem, so she began to learn cooking from her grandfather. In less than three years, she had become a quasi-top chef, but the problem of taste evolution continued to bother her.

When Erina met Li Xuan today, she was still a little confused, until she shook hands with Li Xuan just now, the taste buds that had been bothering her suddenly became very smooth. Normally, her taste buds seemed to have its own will, and any dishes that were not so good would be rejected. Moreover, when Erina felt that when she was next to Li Xuan, a warm and gentle breath enveloped her, and her tongue became obedient, so Erina was certain of her grandfather's message.

But then came the trouble. Grandpa had told her that the man from the Xia family was a romantic man. Li Xuan had just said that Asuna was his future wife. Wouldn't that mean that her problem would never be solved? Thinking of this, Erina became distressed again.