None of the restaurants in the capital expected that Liu Angxing would eventually stay at Deyun Club and become the chef of Haidilao.
In this way, Deyunshe, as the organizer, became the ultimate winner. Not only did it make a lot of money, but it also gained fame.
All the restaurants complained that the routine was too deep. After working for a long time, the clown turned out to be me...
The Chef Fairy Competition has become famous far and wide, and it is foreseeable that when the next one is held, chefs from all over the world will participate.
Everyone thought that Deyun Society would seize the opportunity to hold the next Chef Fairy Competition.
However, Chen Jinwen announced through a notice posted at the door of the theater that the Chef Fairy Competition would not be held in the short term.
Such a decision also made the forces in the capital have different ideas. Soon some restaurants tried to hold cooking competitions to attract chefs to participate.
It's a pity that they don't know how to run a variety show well.
Without a huge venue, it is difficult to attract attention. If it is small-scale, it will lose its flavor and become more like a job fair.
Qin Bai plans to wait until Liu Angxing has a certain reputation before trying the second Chef Fairy Competition, otherwise it is likely to start high and then go low.
As time went by, the popularity of the Chef Fairy Competition also declined.
In such a rapidly changing environment in the capital, people's attention was quickly attracted by other things.
They are now more discussing the new drama from Deyun Club.
Although the plot of "Liao Zhai Lu Pan" is a little weird, in a sense it tells the story of a poor scholar's counterattack, which naturally attracts attention.
Even hawkers walking in the countryside have heard of it.
Two sellers, an old man and a young man, purchased some sundries from the market. They led the old donkey and walked out of the city.
It is early spring now, and fields need to be plowed and sown everywhere. As long as these common goods are transported to remote mountain villages, you can exchange for a lot of local products.
The two quickly set off on the mountain road. Unfortunately, the original path was covered with weeds and thorns, otherwise the speed would have been much faster.
They fought through thorns and thorns, and only just climbed a mountain in a few hours.
"Third Uncle, if we keep going like this, we can reach Nigou Village in the Year of the Monkey and the Moon..."
The younger salesman couldn't help complaining, but before he could finish his words, he was hit hard on the head.
"Awu, if you want to leave, turn back immediately."
The third uncle took a puff of dry cigarette, glanced at him coldly, turned around and continued to chop off the weeds with the long knife in his hand.
"You're just kidding, Third Uncle."
Avusa smiled and spat into his palm, and had no choice but to pick up the long knife to help clear the way.
The third uncle also murmured in his heart. Although he had not been to Nigou Village for a while, it was still incredible that the weeds had grown so lush.
It took the two of them half a day to walk through the overgrown thorny land, and their vision suddenly broadened.
The remaining section of the mountain road was full of gravel, so there were only some strange and gnarled trees growing on them. There were no green leaves on the branches, and the sound of ghosts crying could be heard when the wind blew.
Although Awu was not here for the first time, he was still sweating from behind.
The main reason is that the mountains are only fifty meters apart, so the greenery stops abruptly, and it is not like it can be formed normally.
"Come on, you understand the rules."
The third uncle calmed the frightened donkey, then took out the incense and went to a huge stone, where an earthen clay statue was hidden.
The two placed incense in front of the clay statue, then bowed respectfully before leaving.
After waiting for them to go far for a long time, something suddenly changed.
The cry of crows suddenly sounded, and a few dead leaves fell from the branches.
The incense was extinguished, and a gap opened in the clay statue.
The two salesmen marched for a long time, and finally saw the village in the distance when it was getting late. Awu couldn't help but yawn.
After all, because he had to take turns to watch the night, he never had a good night's sleep at all, so he would naturally feel mentally exhausted.
Just when Awu was about to speed up and rush to the mountain village, his third uncle grabbed his arm.
"Ah...it hurts, it hurts..."
The third uncle said with a gloomy face: "You don't know how your kid died."
"What's wrong?"
"Take a closer look for yourself."
Awu found a big rock and stood on it, then looked towards the mountain village.
There was silence inside, and the sound of cockcrow could still be heard faintly.
He was about to retort when he suddenly realized that it was dinner time, but there wasn't even any smoke.
The two of them stayed ten meters away from the mountain village for a long time, and they didn't react until the sun was about to sink into the horizon.
"Uncle Third, what do you think..." Awu hesitated for a long time and said at a loss.
The third uncle frowned and took a puff of dry cigarette: "You can't go in. Even in the capital, you will inevitably encounter monsters. You have to be more careful when you go out."
"Well, let's go back the way we came?"
Awu felt that the donkey he was holding was making more and more noise, and he became uneasy.
"It's too late. Let's talk about it tomorrow morning. Let's stay here first."
"..."
Awu shrank his neck and was about to say something when he saw that his third uncle was already making preparations.
The donkey was tied to the tree trunk, and then he took out the simple sheepskin tent, found a flat piece of land and started to build it.
A Wu had no choice but to step forward to help. By the time the bonfire was raised after finishing his work, the world was already plunged into darkness.
There was no light at all in the mountain villages in the distance, and only a few cock crows could be heard intermittently.
So much so that except for the location of the two people, the rest of the place couldn't be seen clearly. The darkness was like a man-eating beast peeping in the dark, which made people's hair stand on end.
The third uncle asked Awu to go to bed first, and he sat by the bonfire with a long knife and kept vigil.
I don't know how long it took, but the temperature continued to drop, and the humidity increased, so that the smoke from the bonfire was a bit choking.
The third uncle's brows were still furrowed. He stood up and moved around worriedly for a moment, then kicked the tent hard, waking up Awu who had fallen asleep.
"ah!!!"
Ah Wu hurriedly got out of it. He was aroused by the cold air and his whole body immediately became energetic.
"Third uncle..."
The third uncle said in a low tone: "There is no more firewood."
Awu breathed a sigh of relief: "It turns out there is no firewood. I thought it was something."
He immediately reacted: "Wait a minute, I remember that I saved enough firewood to last three nights. How could it be used up so quickly?"
The third uncle didn't reply. No matter what, the biggest problem now is that once the firewood is exhausted, you have to go deep into the darkness to search for it. This is really too dangerous.
And what frightened him was more than that. The cockcrow in the direction of the mountain village never stopped. What did this mean?
"Let's use some debris as firewood first." As soon as the third uncle finished speaking, his pupils suddenly dilated and he was stunned.
He was shocked to find that the rooster's crow seemed... closer than before...
Awu also realized it, and their thick cotton clothes couldn't help but get soaked.
The third uncle has been traveling around the world for so long and has seen weird things. If it was just a ghost breaking a wall, it wouldn't be difficult to deal with it.
But the current situation he encountered could be said to have exceeded his expectations, so much so that it took him more than ten breaths of thought to react.
In a short period of time, the sound of the cockcrow had reached within ten meters, and what frightened the two most was that the sound came from above their heads.
"Demon...demon..."
Ah Wu trembled all over, blood rushed to his brain, and he ran into the darkness in a panic, and soon he lost sight of him.
"Gua Wa Zi!!!"
The third uncle couldn't help but cursed. He gritted his teeth and chased after him with a knife.
As they disappeared into darkness, a huge shadow covered the bonfire, and then the light went out.
The rooster's crow was still there, but it didn't move away at all because the two were running. Instead, they seemed to be getting closer and closer.
Awu didn't run for long before he felt out of breath. At this time, he also calmed down. He knew that he was too reckless.
The dark mountain forest is full of natural traps, making it impossible to go far.
At this moment, his eyes suddenly widened, and a colorful light seemed to be approaching him not far away.
Just in a daze, the light was right in front of him, and Awu bumped into it before he had taken a few steps.
His legs were weak and he fell to the ground. He subconsciously looked up and saw a tall figure appearing in front of him.
The figure's face flickered in and out of the flickering light, and the evil aura revealed inadvertently made the figure seem to have stepped out of a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood.
Ah Wu's face turned pale with fear. This was probably the rumored man-eating monster, otherwise it wouldn't be so terrifying.
It seems that my life is about to be decided here...
However, Awu didn't realize anything at all. After this person appeared, the cockcrow in his ears disappeared instantly.
Qin Bai glanced at the man at his feet speechlessly, and the smell of urine penetrated his nose.
He lifted the other person up and walked quickly towards the place where the noise was coming from.
After the catastrophe, Awu became more courageous. He quietly opened his eyes and used the light to see clearly the general appearance of the man in front of him.
The other party was wearing a Taoist robe, with a monkey the size of an arm squatting on his shoulder. Although his appearance was a little different from ordinary people, it seemed that he was not a monster based on the strong aura he exuded.
And those light sources turned out to be flying swords. It seems that he is still an immortal...
"There's something interesting about this demon."
Qin Bai's eyes showed an interesting look, and he couldn't help but say.
Tiaotiao pointed in the direction not far from the mountain village and neighed anxiously, which showed that the place where the donkeys' accident occurred was nearby.
Qin Bai's index finger pointed forward, and the light emitted by the flying sword was bright, and the surroundings suddenly seemed like daylight.
A deformed demon that was more than ten meters in size appeared in front of him. It looked similar to a bird, but its body was covered in scales, and many of the characteristics of animals could be seen.
For example, the eyes of a lizard, the horns of an ox, and human features can be faintly seen on the face.
The demon pecked at the third uncle's head with its beak. Qin Bai thought slightly and blocked the attack with his flying sword.
However, this monster was more difficult to deal with than he thought, and the bird's beak still had enough energy to peck its thigh.
After the demon took out some flesh and blood and ate it, its human characteristics became more and more obvious.
Qin Bai felt that the demon itself was extremely weird and unstable, and seemed to be changing at any time.
"Third uncle!!!"
Awu couldn't help but exclaimed, but then he thought of the immortal beside him, so he wisely closed his mouth.
Before he could relax, he saw Qin Bai suddenly open his mouth, and dense blood-red mosquitoes flew out of it.
For a moment, the sound of flapping wings was deafening.
Under the dumbfounded gazes of the two people, the huge demon turned into withered bones for a moment, and it took half a breath before the white bones scattered on the ground.
Qin Bai opened his mouth again, and the blood mosquito returned to the aquarium, and then he grabbed the remaining evil spirit out of thin air with his palm.
The demon struggled crazily, trying to escape from Qin Bai but to no avail.
It's strange to say that this demonic energy and the one on Tiaotiao should have the same origin, as if they both have life.
Qin Bai held it in his hand and played with it for a while, then continued to swallow the aquarium in his belly.
The demonic energy hovered in it for a long time, and finally fell into the desert island and disappeared in the blink of an eye, not knowing where it went.
Awu's whole body was shaking more violently than when he was groping forward in the dark before, and his heart was filled with fear.
This is an immortal, he is clearly a peerless demon...
At this time, the faint smile on Qin Bai's face looked so ferocious to him, as if he was about to kill someone in the next second.
The third uncle was much calmer. He first looked around and found that the donkey he tied to the tree trunk was dead. He immediately covered the wound and stood up.
"Thank you, Immortal, for coming to the rescue."
"It's okay. He's not an immortal, just a practitioner."
Qin Bai waved his hand. He didn't intend to pay attention to the two of them. He just wanted to go to the destination as soon as possible.
The third uncle hesitated to speak. He knew that in the barren mountains far away from the human habitation, it would be almost impossible to move without the donkeys and without enough dry food and water.
He didn't dare to say anything. After all, for the ruthless demonic monk, he might just be slightly annoyed, but the lives of the two of them would be at stake here.
Qin Bai walked towards the mountain village. At the same time, he reached out and groped in his arms, and then he threw out a piece of yellow paper the size of a palm.
The yellow paper swelled in the wind and soon formed a lifelike paper horse, and its skin also had a faint metallic sheen.
"It's enough to return to the capital..."
Qin Bai's voice gradually faded away. He didn't know why but he walked quickly and soon disappeared.
Ah Wu was overjoyed. He carefully came to the paper horse and tentatively touched the horse's body, with residual heat still in his palms.
But when he looked at the horse's face, his expression looked like he had seen a ghost.
"What's wrong, Wu?"
Seeing this, the third uncle quickly stepped forward. He followed Awu's gaze and looked over, and the scene fell into silence.
I saw rough graffiti painted on the horse's face. Why does it look less and less like a horse...
(????)
Qin Bai looked back and saw the two of them leaving on paper horses. He pinched the bridge of his nose with a slight headache.
With the large amount of materials he provided, the paper man made a large number of paper horses and paper men. The craftsmanship was not exquisite, but it was barely enough.
But the painting style of these paper horses and paper figures is like children’s doodles, and there are hundreds of them.
Although Qin Bai is not a true immortal, he thinks that his temperament is beyond the realm of mortals, so he should give this paper horse to those in need.
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