Thinking about things, Jiang Xu wandered back to a street that had a sense of the times. Only then did Jiang Xu slap his head. He forgot to eat that Chinese summer restaurant that smelled so tempting.
Now turn around and go to the nearest Xinjie. It takes at least 15 minutes to walk, and the round trip takes 30 minutes. Plus the time for waiting for food, it takes at least an hour.
Well, none of those are the main reasons.
Jiang Xu sighed, there was still a daily task waiting to be completed at home.
After walking forward for a few minutes, Jiang Xu saw the typical Sakurajima one-family house where he was staying temporarily.
The two-story structure, with gray-brown exterior walls, looks a bit dilapidated from the outside. More than ten pots of stubbornly blooming flowers placed beside the steps at the door dilute the dilapidated atmosphere.
Jiang Xu took out the key, unlocked the door, paused for a while, then pushed the door open and entered.
"Welcome back, thank you for your hard work, Jiang Xujun."
With the expected greeting, the girl put down the cooking book in her hand and stood tall.
"Thank you, Aoba."
The corner of Jiang Xu's mouth twitched slightly. Just looking at this posture, he knew that he would definitely not be able to escape today.
"Then let's start preparing today's dinner."
Without waiting for Jiang Xu to refuse, Qingye walked straight to the back of the house.
A typical one-family house usually has a small vegetable garden in the backyard.
Sighing, Jiang Xu had no choice but to walk into the kitchen first and start making preparations.
Why did it become like this?
He was obviously just invited to have a meal together, and then he couldn't help but made some complaints, so he was forced into the kitchen. He couldn't help but improve his cooking skills, and the food he made was indeed more delicious than Aoba. Dian Dian was forced to cook a dish each day when he came back and compare them.
Why did it become like this?
Probably it can only be attributed to the fifteen-year-old girl's inexplicable desire to win.
Aoba, the full name is Hagiwara Aoba.
Her mother is a high school teacher, yes, the same high school where Jiang Xu is about to attend.
Her name is Daiko Hagiwara, and she is a strange woman with a generous and free-spirited personality.
As the school's grade dean, she takes the lead and sets an example by providing family accommodation to exchange students from Natsu Kingdom to Sakurajima.
Jiang Xu was lucky enough to be selected.
Aoba's father is a chef named Hagiwara Xiang. It is said that he is currently studying in a famous restaurant in China.
Therefore, the Aoba family actually has good intentions towards the people of Xia Kingdom.
Ten minutes passed.
Aoba came in carrying a small basket.
"Cabbage, green peppers, potatoes."
She placed the basket in the sink, then walked to the corner of the kitchen and opened the refrigerator.
"Pork, beef and tofu. These are today's ingredients. Have you decided on what to cook? There are two dishes for each person. You choose one first, I choose another, and then you choose again."
"Hmm..." Jiang Xu pondered for a moment. They were all home-cooked dishes, and they were pretty much the same.
He casually ordered green peppers and pork.
"Stir-fried shredded pork with green pepper."
Aoba stared at the pork, looked away dully, and pointed at the potatoes and beef.
"Goulash with potatoes."
Jiang Xu narrowed his eyes and smiled. He saw Qingye's idea of wanting to make hamburger steaks from the beginning.
Unfortunately, he was tired of it.
With two vegetarian dishes left, Jiang Xu suddenly thought of the spicy aroma of Chinese summer cuisine that he smelled at noon, and his mouth watered.
"For the rest, I'll choose tofu. Give me a little beef. Mapo tofu, a famous Sichuan dish. How about it? Isn't it a surprise?"
Qingye frowned, "Ma Po Tofu? Is it a Chinese cuisine? Why haven't I heard of this dish?"
"Have you never heard of it?? Well, this is a home-cooked dish from my hometown. It is very famous there. It may not have spread to Sakurajima yet."
Jiang Xu almost forgot that Mapo Tofu only appeared in the late Qing Dynasty. Due to the differences in the world, it may not have appeared in this world.
"Sichuan cuisine, my hometown, but aren't you from the Chu family?" Qingye glanced at him suspiciously.
Jiang Xu almost choked.
Damn it, how come you, a Sakurajima native, are so familiar with Xia Kingdom’s geography!
"Although I am from Jingchu, people in our area like to eat Sichuan food. Is there any problem? You have never been to the mainland."
Qingye frowned, but couldn't find any reason to refute for the moment, and Jiang Xu's last words convinced her.
"Anyway, you should make it first and then talk about it. There is a meeting at school today and mom will be back in a while."
"Aunt Daizi is so lucky. She has to work overtime during the summer vacation." Jiang Xu sighed.
Qingye didn't appreciate it at all, "Whose problem do you think you are dealing with? It wasn't caused by you guys."
Jiang Xu smiled coquettishly, and just as he lowered his head to wash the vegetables, he suddenly thought of something and raised his head again and said to Qingye.
"Qingye, do you have any competitions in the culinary world, similar to the Tianfeng Battle?"
"Of course!" Qingye's eyes bloomed with a different look.
"The Battle of Tongues is the world's top gastronomy competition initiated by Xia Guo. It is the most watched and watched cooking competition in the world. Chefs from every country dream of being on the top stage!"
"Father, he went to the mainland to further his studies just to be selected for the tongue-in-cheek competition."
"Of course I know about the tongue war. What I'm asking is, are there any great cooking competitions in Sakurajima?"
Jiang Xu's face didn't turn red and his heart didn't beat. He kept the two rankings of 'Tongue Battle' and 'Gourmet King Battle' in his mind, and prepared to search them later.
"In Sakurajima, the most watched competition is probably the Soul-Eating Battle, with nearly 10 million levels of attention. However, although the Soul-Eating Battle is a local event on Sakurajima, most of the contestants choose Chinese cuisine. Compared with chefs from Western and French cuisine, there are not many contestants from Sakurajima’s local cuisine.”
As she talked, Qingye's mood fell inexplicably, but after a while, she cheered up again.
"My father won the Food Soul Jade Medal with Sakurajima cuisine in the last Food Soul Competition. I believe that he will definitely win the Food Soul Medal with Sakurajima cuisine contestants in the next East Continent Food King Competition, and then he can do it all in one go. , enter the decisive battle at the tip of the tongue.”
Aoba waved his little fists, with little stars in his eyes, as if he had seen his father standing on the world's largest tongue war finals stage.
"Yeah, I believe it too." Jiang Xu said perfunctorily, but what he was thinking about was that the competition in the Dongzhou region was ranked behind Xia Kingdom.
Sure enough, this is very Xia Kingdom.
Jiang Xu suddenly thought of something, "By the way, Qingye, since you have always wanted to catch up with your father, how about starting today and making the competition between us a little more formal?"
"Are you talking about the Shogun?!" Qingye's eyes suddenly lit up with a strong light, as if he was ignited with endless fighting spirit.
"Well, probably." Jiang Xu felt as if he had made a mistake, but he wanted to do a test, so he did not refuse.
"Okay, I agree."
Aoba agreed loudly.
As she finished speaking, a line of words slowly appeared in the record column of the system panel in Jiang Xu's peripheral vision.
[You are participating in a two-person Shoji duel, which is in progress...]
It works.
