After the scores came out, the game was coming to an end. After the host finished his concluding speech, Jiang Ci and Wang Jianian met up and followed the guidance to leave.

Wang Jianian's expression was not as shocked as other people's, but his tone was quite surprised: "Boss, you are actually number one."

Jiang Ci raised her eyebrows: "Are you surprised?"

"Then, those people are..." Wang Jianian didn't know what to say, it was obviously a very surprising thing, but Jiang Ci's expression was too casual, as if he had never seen the world.

But he has never seen this kind of world, has he?!

Jiang Ci smiled: "Congratulations, you also passed. The next round will be after the Mid-Autumn Festival. Do you want to take a few days off to prepare?"

According to the schedule of the organizing committee, after this round of competition, there is only a ten-day gap before the second round of rematch.

Wang Jianian sighed and shook his head: "No need, the current results are already very good. This time I passed the bottom line, and next time will be the last round."

"Have confidence in yourself." Jiang Ci comforted.

Wang Jianian scratched his head: "It's not that I don't have confidence, it's just that I know myself well, and the current Chinese food is at this level."

The two said, walked through the backstage aisle of the venue, followed the signs to the exit.On the road, many people wanted to talk to Jiang Ci, but Jiang Ci declined them all. Only when Feng Lu came over to congratulate her, she stopped to chat for a few words.

Feng Lu: "I know your craftsmanship is good, but I didn't expect it to be so good! I haven't seen such a high comprehensive score from the judges, I really want to try it!"

"You can come to Feng Qianguan, if you want to eat, I will make it again." Jiang Ci invited.

"Really?" Feng Lu was surprised.Generally speaking, chefs of this kind of top dishes have to hide it, for fear of being learned by others, not to mention that they are still competitors now!

The ears of those passing by also pricked up.

"Really." Jiang Ci didn't mind too much.Feng Lu invited her, and she reciprocated, and without her advice, most people really couldn't reproduce this dish.

"Then I'll cook some good dishes for you too." Feng Lu was so excited that she quickly made an appointment, and when she caught sight of the eavesdropping eavesdropper, her smile suddenly disappeared.

Several people stood shyly near them, they were contestants they didn't know, their faces were full of eagerness to try.Hong Lang stood behind them.

"Chef Jiang, can we try it too?" Several chefs asked expectantly.

Feng Lu looked straight at Hong Lang who was hiding behind them: "You want to come?"

Jiang Ci followed suit.

Hong Lang met her eyes, dodged his eyes for a moment, then blushed, turned around and walked away.

"Hey, Chef Hong, why are you leaving?"

"Chef Hong, don't you want to try Feng Qianguan?"

Several chefs looked blankly at the back of Hong Lang leaving.

"I was thinking shit, I didn't say anything." Hong Lang quickened his pace, and his back looked like he was running away.

Several chefs stood there dumbfounded, and Jiang Ci could tell now that Hong Lang was the leader of these chefs.As soon as Hong Lang left, they were too embarrassed to keep it, with embarrassing expressions on their faces.

"Sorry, I'm only entertaining friends for the time being." Jiang Ci refused them with a smile on her face, "If this dish is served in a restaurant one day, let's make a reservation."

Several chefs sighed regretfully, number?When today's competition is reported, no matter what kind of restaurants can be bombed, what kind of koi must be to eat it?

And the food is not necessarily made by Chef Jiang himself!

...

Outside the arena, the shock was still spreading.

"The number one is actually the girl on the 18th, I really didn't expect it!"

"That's right, even Zhao Zeming's dishes have been overwhelmed! It is said that Dinghu Shangsu was learned after a lot of effort when he went to the temple to find famous teachers."

"Is it because the girl was lucky that she happened to come across the dishes she is good at?"

"Is there anyone here who chooses a dish that he is not good at?"

"It's true that one generation is better than another! Four years ago, Zhao Zeming won the 'Fairy Chef'. It was shocking enough. This girl looks much younger than him at that time."

"Zhao Zeming is the so-called youngest winner of the fairy chef. He has won a lot of fame with this title! Is this halo going to be broken?"

"I don't know if Jiang Ci is a flash in the pan, or if he really has a hand."

Several spectators whispered, not noticing a man in a hat passed them by.

With a sullen face, Zhao Zeming hurried back to his car, and took out his vibrating cell phone after getting into the car.

The caller was his "master" in Honglou, who was also the chef who introduced him back then, and is currently managing Honglou for the director.

Zhao Zeming took a deep breath and pressed the call button: "Master."

The news of the competition spread faster than he expected, and he said to the other side: "Jiang Ci is the first one? Why is the score higher than yours? Did you make a mistake?"

Zhao Zeming pursed his lips. He didn't make a mistake, but he would rather cover it up with a mistake at this time: "I'm a little nervous, and the fire is almost there."

The old man: "Why are you nervous at this time? It's so unlike you."

Zhao Zeming was silent.

The old man sighed: "Adjust and adjust, don't let this kind of thing happen again next time."

Zhao Zeming heard a little comforting tone and hummed, but the next sentence on the opposite side made his heart hang again.

The old man: "Director Liang is very dissatisfied. The first Jiang Ci, you must not be overwhelmed by her again. I didn't let Director Liang know about the preliminary round. It's not like you don't know that he wants to poach someone.If you really dig it, don’t even think about the investments you have now. Can you get those opportunities by yourself?”

The old man was talking, Zhao Zeming rubbed his temples, and finally interrupted the conversation: "I understand. Master, don't worry."

...

The game process recorded by the organizing committee still needs to be edited, and it will be broadcast as a program after a while, but the information about the result of the game has already been spread from the arena.

After Jiang Ci returned to City A, the number of fans on Feng Qianguan's account increased by tens of thousands that night, and the next day, Feng Qianguan's reservations experienced an unprecedented frenzy.

Jiang Ci kept emphasizing on the account that only customers who had already grabbed the number were accepted, so as to avoid the situation of a spectacular long queue at the scene.

At the same time, Chairman Zhao and some familiar suppliers also called congratulatory calls beamingly - Boss Jiang's winning the award is a matter of honor for them all.

These days, Feng Qianguan's business is getting more and more prosperous, and Jiang Ci is a little bit overwhelmed, thinking about changing to a bigger store to meet the needs of as many customers as possible.

However, the problem now is not funding or anything else, but a lack of manpower.Other than her, there are only Mi Ting and Wang Jianian left in the restaurant who can really be called chefs.He Mingcan is considered very talented, but there is still a long way to go before he can really master it.

So in the past few days, Boss Jiang has been stricter on his employees, while still thinking about finding newcomers, he is full of enthusiasm to quickly bring out the experienced ones.

Jiang Ci is very good at cooking, and opening a small shop is easy, but when it comes to business expansion and leading a large team, she is a little bit blind.

In her previous life, she traveled far and wide, visiting chefs everywhere, and never stayed in one place for too long, nor did she really open a particularly large shop.

Jiang Ci thought about it for several days, but before the Mid-Autumn Festival, she temporarily pulled herself out of this problem.

The first round of the rematch of the Immortal Cooking Competition was held in early September, and there was exactly one Mid-Autumn Festival between the second round of the competition.

Before the festival, Jiang Ci suspended the business of Feng Qianguan, and asked the employees to go back to their respective homes during the festival.

The Mid-Autumn Festival market is one of the battlefields in the food industry, but this day is also a very meaningful day to spend with your family.Under the choice between the two, Jiang Ci decided to take a vacation without much hesitation.

However, before the holiday, Jiang Ci has another activity.

"I'm not open today, so I just make mooncakes?" Wang Jianian was surprised.

"Is it going to be a holiday gift for the restaurant? Give it to customers during the festival?" Liang Hui speculated.

"The business is closed, what moon cakes are there?" He Mingcan was puzzled.

"Just tell me if you want to eat mooncakes!" Jiang Ci ended the conversation with one sentence.

The restaurant immediately "thought" into one.

Even if he didn't have much interest in mooncakes before, as long as he thinks... this is a mooncake made by Boss Jiang.

The saliva flowed down rationally.

"Boss, what kind of mooncakes are you making? Salty and sweet?" He Mingcan said expectantly, "I like fresh meat mooncakes."

"I make lotus paste, the lotus paste is delicious!" Although Wang Jianian was born in Sichuan, he is a firm Cantonese-style mooncake pie.

"What kind of lotus paste mooncakes do you eat in City A? It's not good, it's better to eat fresh meat mooncakes!"

"Boss, why don't you make some five benevolent ones?"

"Recently Liuxin durian is also very popular in the market, or is it fruit-flavored ice skin?"

For a while, there was a lot of chatter in the store, until a few seconds later, Jiang Ci decided to make two more popular flavors: "Make fresh meat mooncakes and lotus seed paste mooncakes. Forget the rest for the time being, because there is a shortage of raw materials."

Now the salty and sweet parties are satisfied, and the taste dispute ends here.Jiang Ci began to explain the demonstration method and carry out the ratio of various materials.After half an hour, everyone began to divide the work into production.

Kneading dough, making pastry, mixing stuffing, and making cakes... Everyone worked hard for a long time, and made hundreds of small mooncakes the size of half a palm.

Looking at the pancakes coming out of the oven, the eyes of the employees are so sticky that they seem to have substance.

"Can you eat it? I can't control the boss anymore!" He Mingcan wailed.

Jiang Ci smiled and said, "Pack up six servings, and each person will take two servings home."

A burst of cheers erupted in Feng Qianguan.Everyone took out the boxes and started packing quickly.Among the hundreds of mooncakes, the staff first divided half of them, and then, Jiang Ci packed a few more boxes and prepared to give them to Zhao Sulan, Pan Xingchang, Zheng Kun and others.Well, still have to give it to Qi Yan.

After such a carve-up, there are... two hundred mooncakes left!

The two hundred were not packed into large boxes, but packed in small cartons.

"Ah, did you make too much!" He Mingcan said with regret on the surface but secretly pleased, "Boss, why don't we each get some more and help solve it? This mooncake can't be kept for too long."

"Yes, yes, yes." Feng Qianguan said "yes" again.

Jiang Ci took out her phone and sent a message: "This time it's over, these mooncakes are useful."

Two minutes later, a girl with short hair and short ears dragged a basket into Feng Qianguan, and everyone recognized that she was a property employee in the commercial street.

"Boss Jiang, thank you so much!" The girl saw the mooncakes, her eyes lit up, and she quickly moved the mooncakes on the table into the basket, "We will definitely promote it for you!"

"You're welcome, happy Mid-Autumn Festival." Jiang Ci smiled.

"What's going on here?" He Mingcan looked at the mooncakes on the table reluctantly.

Jiang Ci explained: "Tonight there is a garden tour in the commercial street, which is at the square at the end of the street. The organizer ordered a batch of mooncakes from us as one of the prizes for the garden tour. Although we are not open, we can also participateLet's join in the fun!"

...

Every Mid-Autumn Festival, there will be activities in the commercial street of City A.A long street, full of lanterns erected on both sides, colorful and radiant, many young people will come to check in in Hanfu, and even the old people will come to stroll around, looking for the taste of the festival.

Lao Deng was an old resident of City A. At seven o'clock in the evening, after he had dinner and had a phone call with his daughter who was out of town, he was dug out of the house by his wife.

"I'm an old man, what street do I go to?" Old Deng frowned as he saw the crowds in the commercial street.

"Didn't you like to join in the fun when you were young?" His wife teased him, "Why don't you leave your room alone and I can go shopping by myself."

Thinking of the empty home, Lao Deng sighed: "Hey, my daughter has developed so well in other places, so she won't come back?"

"Leave her alone." The old lady sighed and dragged the person forward, "I heard there is a garden party ahead, let's go, let's guess the lantern riddles."

"Since when did you fall in love with guessing lantern riddles?" Old Deng wondered.

"It's mainly to get the prize. It's a good thing, and this is inside information!" The old lady winked, "It's too late!"

"Return the inside information." Old Deng Zhuangruo gave her a disgusted look, but walked quickly as he said.

Both sides of the commercial street were brightly lit, and merchants took advantage of this day to hold a lot of activities, and citizens with their families going out to play could be seen everywhere.Lao Deng and his wife struggled through the crowd of tourists, and after more than ten minutes, they squeezed into the square at the end of the street.

After nightfall, many small sheds with colorful lights were erected on the square, some stalls pitched pots, some made rings, some sold paper lanterns, there were parades of floats, and the folk band played music, attracting a group of tourists to stopOnlookers.

The old lady had a clear goal, and quickly found a place to guess lantern riddles among the stalls.On the lantern riddle booth, there are elevated shelves erected on three sides. Each elevated shelf has eight horizontal bars, and the horizontal bars are covered with notes written with lantern riddles.

Not long after the stall was set up, there were a few people scattered in front of it, and the atmosphere was not as high as that of throwing pots and rings, let alone a parade of floats.

Seeing this scene, the old lady laughed immediately: "Oh, the news hasn't been revealed yet!"

"Expose what?" Lao Deng was puzzled, but his wife didn't answer, and walked quickly to the stall with a mysterious face.

In order to ensure the difficulty, the lantern riddles cannot be chosen by oneself.The old lady quickly got a note, which read: Play Go (play a food) ①.

"You love playing chess the most. This is a good occasion." The old lady first smiled, then frowned, and remained silent for a long while without guessing.

The game stipulates that technology cannot be used to search for answers. His wife looked anxious. Seeing this, Lao Deng couldn't help reminding: "Play Go, chess pieces surround chess pieces, what is that called?"

"Baozi!" The old lady came to her senses, raised her head and asked the staff, "Isn't the mystery about 'Baozi'?"

"Congratulations, you guessed it right!" The staff smiled, "Come here to draw a prize! I wish you a happy Mid-Autumn Festival!"

There was a box next to the staff, the old lady reached in, grabbed out a small mooncake, and looked at it carefully: "Fresh meat mooncake!"

Seeing his wife's expression, Lao Deng reacted: "You didn't come here just for this mooncake, did you?"

"So what," the old lady urged, "Quickly guess one, and you'll regret it if you don't!"

"Guess it." Old Deng also got a note. He had a good brain and guessed it after a few seconds of thinking, and then he also received the moon cake smoothly.

"It's stuffed with lotus seed paste." Lao Deng held the mooncake up to his eyes for a closer look. Under the light of the lantern, the skin of the mooncake was reddish-brown, oily and shiny, smooth and delicate, with a faint sweet fragrance.

Lao Deng: "It seems that the workmanship is really not good, and the appearance is quite beautiful."

But the old lady became greedy when she saw it: "We have different tastes, so we will taste it differently."

"Try it, you want it so much? Give it to you." Lao Deng is not a stingy person, he is just a piece of moon cake.Every year when the juniors visit them during the Mid-Autumn Festival, they always bring mooncakes, and they can't finish them.

The old lady was silent for two seconds, as if after a battle between heaven and man, she said with difficulty: "No, let's try something else, I'm afraid you will get angry with me later."

Old Deng was inexplicable: "How can I lose my temper?"

"Don't get entangled, you two, here are paper plates, share among yourself." The little brother at the lantern riddle stand smiled, and handed over the disposable paper plates for cakes, obviously prepared for a long time, and then dutifully publicized,"Today's mooncakes are provided by Mrs. Feng Qianguan Jiang. Her shop is at the end of the commercial street. If you like it, come to the commercial street more often in the future."

Ten seconds later, the two mooncakes were divided on the spot. Lao Deng picked up a paper plate and looked at his own half of the lotus paste mooncake.

After the reddish-brown cake skin is cut open, inside is light yellow-brown lotus paste, and inside is half a golden and moist salted egg yolk.

The faint sweet fragrance became evident, and it seemed to dye the surrounding air with sweetness.

Lao Deng used to think that lotus seed paste mooncakes were sweet and greasy.But at this moment, looking at the lotus seed paste mooncake in front of him, he suddenly felt a bit of appetite.

It looks...seems tastier than the old ones.

Lao Deng carefully put the moon cake into his mouth.

The crust on the outside was thick and soft. After biting it, it was full of light oily aroma and mellow milky aroma. Then, he tasted the lotus seed paste which was the main character.The degree is just right, the sweetness is rich, but not greasy, and there is a very fresh lotus seed aroma, which is refreshing.

"...!"

Old Deng stared at the mooncake in his hand with wide eyes, surprised: "This is... lotus seed paste?!"

Why is it different from the sweet and greasy sugar cake he ate in the past?!

"Yes, this is lotus paste made from fresh lotus seeds! It's not full of sugar and oil, it's real lotus paste!"

The old lady tasted it very intoxicated, and only bit a little bit at a time, as if this half of the cake could last forever.

Lao Deng suddenly regretted it, he just bit off a good piece, who knew it was so delicious!This is the first time he realizes that lotus paste can be the main character in lotus paste mooncakes!In the past, he might even just dig out the salted egg yolk and eat it.

By the way, salted egg yolk.

Although at this moment, Lao Deng has been conquered by lotus paste, but he has not forgotten his favorite part of the lotus paste egg yolk mooncake.

Under the mellow and sweet lotus seed paste, there is a golden yellow round slice, which is as beautiful as the moon in the sky.After biting it, the mouthfeel is soft and sandy, and the incomparably attractive mellow aroma seeps out with the oil, overflowing into the mouth...

Sandy, moisturizing, salty and fragrant.

Mixed with lotus seed paste with a light sweet aroma.

Simply - delicious to ascension to heaven!

Old Deng suddenly raised his head: "Can you guess again?"

The staff lamented: "It's possible, but... it may not be able to be ranked."

Old Deng was puzzled, and after looking at the staff for two seconds, he followed his gaze and looked behind him.

I saw the sparse flow of people just now... suddenly turned into a long queue of tens of meters!

There was a lot of talk in the team——

"Did I hear correctly just now, the organizer gave away Feng Qianguan's mooncakes?!"

"Did Boss Jiang do it?"

"Looking at the way the uncle eats, he probably hasn't run away!"

"Brother, who is Boss Jiang? Is he famous?"

"Hey, you don't know? She owns the Feng Qianguan on the corner of the street that is not ranked every day. Anyway, you know that the food she makes will definitely pay off if you try it!"

Lao Deng was stunned. Feng Qianguan, who makes mooncakes, is so popular?And when he heard others mention eating, his old face blushed immediately, and he wanted to leave without turning his head.

"Hey, there are fresh meat moon cakes!" His wife stopped him.

Lao Deng turned back, took away the paper plate containing fresh meat mooncakes, and urged: "Let's go, let's take it with us."

He wants face, but also moon cakes!

"Okay." The old lady also left with fresh meat mooncakes, and the eyes of the tourists around her made her back feel a little hairy.

The mooncakes as prizes are actually not big, about five centimeters in diameter, and those with a larger mouth might be stuffed whole. Old Deng looked at the remaining half of the fresh meat mooncake, but he was reluctant to eat it.

Compared with lotus paste mooncakes, he himself prefers fresh meat mooncakes. His hometown produces this kind of salty mooncakes, and he is more accustomed to eating them.

The moment when fresh meat mooncakes are the best is when they are just taken out of the stove. They are hot and fragrant. When you break them with your hands, the crispy pastry is pressed out of small pits by your fingers, and then the pastry is separated layer by layer...…The hot steam rises from the mooncake in vain. When you squeeze it hard, you can still see the gravy in the meat filling.

The fresh meat mooncakes in front of me, although it has been out of the oven for a while, are still very fresh after being kept warm. The whole cake is full of warmth.

The meat stuffing inside is moist and plump, and the pork leg is fat and thin, showing a charming tender pink color. When you sniff carefully, the charming meaty fragrance with the noodle fragrance of the cake skin travels down the nasal cavity to the olfactory nerve, which makes people feel refreshed.one shake

Meat!

Tender, salty, plump meat!

After one bite, the crust is so crispy that you have to hold it with your hands so as not to eat it all over the floor.The meat filling is delicious and salty, with the mellow meaty aroma of pork itself.

So delicious!

Standing in the autumn wind, Lao Deng couldn't help feeling warm in his heart.

In front of him, his gray-haired wife was so amazed by the half mooncake that she couldn't help stamping her feet a few times. She was so excited like a child that she almost jumped up on the spot.And he himself burst into laughter in the night wind.

Although the daughter is far away, the child will always leave home when he grows up.But being in this bustling street, accompanied by my wife, and tasting extremely delicious mooncakes, it seems that this Mid-Autumn Festival is not so sad.

...

And in places that Lao Deng didn't know about, the discussion on #灯秘池月饼# is rapidly rising in the same city.

[The mooncakes given away at this event in the Commercial Street of City A are simply amazing, and now there are hundreds of people queuing up here to grab the lantern riddles!My sister was crying and wanted to eat the sugar man, but after one bite, she became quiet.[Image] [image]】

[Boss Jiang abandoned us not to open a shop, but secretly made mooncakes??】

[I'm nearby, I'll come quickly!!】

【AhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhWhat kind of brains does the organizer have, why did they release the news on such an important matter in the end QAQ!】

[It turns out that the mooncakes sent by the stall were made by Boss Jiang!I just said, it seems that everyone's cultural level has improved tonight, and everyone is crowded to guess riddles!】

...

After the Mid-Autumn Festival, more than half of the gap between the two games has passed.Two days later, Jiang Ci received a notice from the Immortal Kitchen Organizing Committee.

The second round of the rematch was not held in City B, but in City S where Feng Lu was located, another bustling metropolis in China.

This is not surprising. The venue of Xianchu is not fixed. In previous years, it was also held in other places where delicious food is gathered. Over the past few decades, its footprints have spread almost all over the major cities in China, and even went to overseas Chinese gathering places several times..

but……

Jiang Ci silently looked at the address on the notice.

The competition venue this time was actually in a university.

The author has something to say:

① Lantern riddles come from the Internet.

Huh, want to eat delicious mooncakes, bought several kinds of mooncakes that are popular this year, but didn’t fall in love with them... QaQ