[You rank first in a Shokoku duel, winning points +3]
After Daizi announced the winner of the battle, Jiang Xu glanced at the system panel.
Add three points at a time, and it's still a one-on-one eating halberd.
It seems that Hagiwara Sho's realm is really at least one level higher than his.
When he was playing cards with some old friends from Quezhuang before, he could get a little winning points every time he won at first.
Later, as I became more proficient, winning one digit in a poker game would become like +0.75 or +0.5 win points.
It's just that I don't know what the next level of the first level of cooking is, 'heat'.
Jiang Xu feels it has something to do with the overall design of the dishes.
The focus may not only be on a single dish, but also on the unity and theme of a set meal or an entire table of dishes.
This realm is still a little far away from him for the time being.
After dinner, clean up the kitchen.
Aoba was ready to start experimenting according to the prototype formula given to her by Hagiwara Sho.
"Jiang Xu, do you want to come over and help?"
Qingye acted as if nothing had happened, as if he just asked casually, it didn't matter whether he came or not.
"Okay."
Jiang Xu also agreed casually.
Just when Aoba breathed a sigh of relief.
The corner of his mouth curled up and he asked softly.
"But you have to tell me first, what do you think of the name Saliva Chicken?"
"Uh?! Aoba's expression was stunned for a moment, and he suddenly recalled his actions at the dinner table just now.
The top of the neck was instantly dyed with a layer of pink cherry color.
Just ten minutes ago, she dipped a piece of chicken in the sauce and tasted it with a hint of doubt after Daizi's comment.
With a gentle chew, the chicken hits the meat randomly. The tender chicken skin wraps the chicken shreds and slides across the tip of the tongue. The delicious mixture of sauce and chicken bursts out.
She had no control over her hands and picked up the chicken piece by piece and put it into her mouth.
What she didn't want to admit even more was that she was indeed drooling over this dish.
In the end, she reluctantly said in a very small voice and very quickly: "It's appropriate."
After finishing speaking, Qingye immediately put on a straight face and pointed at the kitchen, signaling Jiang Xu to go in quickly.
She was afraid that she would hit someone if she couldn't help it.
Jiang Xu smiled slightly and stopped irritating Qingye.
The reason why Aoba insisted on Jiang Xu to study Hagiwara Sho's experimental formula.
The reason is that the original concept of Sho Hagiwara's dish has something to do with the sauce.
It was an inspiration that came from his experience in Xia Kingdom and learning many dishes.
After trial-making salted duck in Jinling, he embodied this inspiration into a preliminary recipe.
We wanted to develop a marinade-like sauce that would suit the taste of Sakurajima people.
But the overall taste should be sweet and salty.
The saliva chicken sauce Jiang Xu made today has an excellent balance between sweet and salty.
And while Jiang Xu was making food.
There is an old residential building complex a few streets next to him.
"Get out, get out of here!!"
"Mahjong, still mahjong! I treat you as my son. Why can't you learn from your elder brother and find a serious job and hang out in the mahjong parlor every day?"
The roaring sound echoed throughout the entire building.
"Being a professional scholar is what you can hope for? Why don't you take a good look in the mirror and think back to how many times you have passed the math test since you were a child?"
Matsuo Jiro ran out of the door in embarrassment.
"Hmph, old man, just leave. Don't you just think that brother can make money?"
He turned back and yelled towards the door.
He patted the footprints on his black leather jacket and rubbed the redness on his face.
Matsuo looked back as if nothing was wrong, spat with disdain, then turned around and left without looking back.
However, no one noticed the deep despair flashing in his eyes.
Rubbing his hands, feeling the cool night breeze, Matsuo looked around.
I am going to find a mahjong parlor, play mahjong all night to make the hard night pass, and I can sleep on the sofa in the mahjong parlor in the middle of the night.
Not only is it much cheaper than staying in a hotel, but you might also be able to earn a bit more.
He passed by a house with a white wreath at the door.
His ears suddenly moved, and he heard the sound of mahjong inside.
'This is the wake! '
For white matters, a three-day wake is usually held.
Generally, if there are many family connections, there will be a lot of people attending the vigil, but they may not necessarily know each other.
After all, the relationship is more complicated.
But the night is tough, and most people have to rely on a mahjong table to refresh themselves.
Even then, there are shifts.
Matsuo remembers that in this situation, Happy Beans will come to Mahjong.
Moreover, it is neither too big nor too small.
And at this time, most people don't care about winning or losing, just treat it as a game of time.
What's more important is that these people are usually office workers, mahjong is just a pastime, and they can't be very skilled.
And he, Matsuo, after all, was someone who had played against players who had entered the realm of root building.
Winning against these people is not a piece of cake.
Matsuo took another look at the eye-catching white wreaths placed outside.
Gritting his teeth, he still walked into the door covered with white bracelets.
Six hours.
Matsuo's eyes were red and he couldn't stand it any longer. After finishing the last four games, he waved his hands to indicate that he would not come.
Although the other three people at the table wanted to play two more games because they lost money, they couldn't stand it anymore.
Walk out the door of this home.
Matsuo managed to gather his energy, took out a handful of Happy Beans from his inner pocket, counted them, and found that there were about three thousand.
After all, it is just for playing time, and the card games are not big.
It is already very good to have this harvest.
There were actually three thousand.
Matsuo felt that his sleepiness had suddenly dissipated a lot.
Now that he was confident enough, he was ready to find a slightly less bad hotel, get an hourly room, and sleep for a few hours.
Walking on the cold road in the early morning, Matsuo thought of the cruel words he had said before going out, and it seemed that there was no hope.
"One hundred thousand."
Matsuo recited this number silently in his mind again.
"I'll show you how much I earn. I'm definitely no worse than my eldest brother."
The next day.
Jiang Xu, who looked tired, rubbed his eyes and walked out of the room.
In order not to waste ingredients, after yesterday's cooking experiment, he decided to stew the remaining chicken and duck separately.
I ran several times in the middle of the night to adjust the temperature and add supplements.
So, today’s breakfast is still noodles.
When the fragrant chicken soup boiled, Jiang Xu sprinkled a handful of noodles into it.
Stir twice with chopsticks to spread the noodles evenly.
After the noodles are cooked, there is no need to add other seasonings. Simply sprinkle with salt and pepper, then turn off the heat and put it into a bowl.
Putting the three bowls of noodles on small trays, Jiang Xu took a deep breath of the mellow aroma of the chicken soup, couldn't help but smile, and walked out of the kitchen.
"Haha, here comes the chicken noodle soup!"
After breakfast, Jiang Xu still took Daizi's car and went to school with her.
Arrive at school and walk into class.
The person sitting near the door has already arrived.
Seeing Jiang Xu come in, he said hello.
"Good morning, Jiang Xujun!"
"Morning, classmate A."
"Morning, Jiang Xujun!"
"Morning, classmate B"
Jiang Xu responded one by one with a smile.
The students in this class, after yesterday’s self-introduction and collective cleaning, everyone has a preliminary understanding.
He is the only exchange student from Xia Guo in the class. After introducing himself yesterday, basically everyone in the class remembered him.
Jiang Xu remembered their names and could match faces with names.
The classmate next to his seat also said a few words briefly.
"Hey, Jiang Xu, you are considered a new student. Did you join the club yesterday? If not, would you like to come to our table tennis club?"
The speaker was a tall and thin boy named Chuanshan sitting in the front row of Jiang Xu.
When he spoke, the girls sitting around him couldn't help but slow down and turn slightly sideways.
Jiang Xu smiled and said, "Thank you for the invitation, but I want to go to the Mahjong Club today."
"Sparrow? That thing has..."
Before Kawayama finished speaking, a voice sounded.
A girl sitting in the second row suddenly turned around, stood up, and said with a surprised look on her face.
"Really? Mr. Xu, I am an official member of the Sparrow Club. If you are interested, I can take you there after school in the afternoon!"
"Oh, what a coincidence, thank you in advance, Yuri Banno." Jiang Xu smiled.
"Yeah, you're welcome."
Yuri Banno's eyes lit up. She didn't expect that Jiang Xu actually remembered her name.
In the afternoon, the class held a class committee election.
Jiang Xu just watched the excitement, but no one participated.
However, that classmate Yuri Sakano was elected as a study committee member and turned out to be a top student.
Time flies and it’s afternoon.
After class.
Classmate Yuri Sakano sorted out the information in three strokes, five divided by two, then happily picked up her schoolbag and trotted to Jiang Xu's desk.
"Classmate Jiang Xu, let's go to the Mahjong Club now."
"Okay. Thank you, Yuri Sakano."
Jiang Xu nodded and followed her downstairs, heading towards the club building.
"Jiang Xu, you are from the Xia Kingdom. Do you know anything about Sakurajima Mahjong?"
"I know a little bit, a little bit." Jiang Xu said with a smile.
"One thing, Jiang Xu, if you want to become a formal member of the Mahjong Club, you must first take an entrance examination. There is no way to avoid this."
After Yuri Sakano said this, he immediately added another sentence.
"Of course, if you become a probationary member, there are no requirements. You just need to sincerely love mahjong."
But what she didn't say was that preliminary members need to pay a club fee of 20 yuan a month to use mahjong machines and so on.
Because she has decided that if Jiang Xu is really interested and wants to join, the 20 yuan a month will be treated as a treat to drink milk tea.
"You're talking about that test paper, right? I've already passed it, and my score should be passable."
Jiang Xu smiled.
"Really! Then let's go directly to the club." There was a trace of sincere joy in Yuri Sakano's tone.
In this way, she can save 20 yuan every month and treat herself to real milk tea.
The Sparrow Club is also in the club building, but on the fifth floor of the top floor.
Well, there's no elevator.
They can only climb stairs.
Not only the Mahjong Club, but also some clubs such as chess and painting that do not require physical strength have been arranged on the fourth or fifth floor.
The reason is to let students in these clubs take more stairs and exercise well.
Wait until you climb up to the fifth floor in one breath.
Yuri Banno was breathing heavily, but Jiang Xu was still fine.
"Classmate Jiang Xu, you have great physical strength."
Yuri Banno glanced enviously at Jiang Xu, whose face was not red but whose heart was not beating.
"Really? I should be at the level of an average person. Yuri Sakano, you should exercise more."
Jiang Xu said with a smile.
"Well, I also think I should exercise more."
After listening to Jiang Xu's words, Yuri Banno actually nodded.
Suddenly, I felt that it made sense for the school to place the club on the fifth floor.
They really need to exercise more.
Yuri Sakano opened the door. However, the scene inside the club was a little different from Jiang Xu's imagination.
The entire Mahjong Club is roughly divided into three areas.
In the area near the door, there are more than a dozen tables and chairs, and a whiteboard is placed directly in front. It looks like a place for classes.
In the innermost area, ten mahjong machines and five hand-rolled mahjong tables are evenly placed.
Jiang Xu turned his attention to the middle area.
It was a stage, raised on a square platform.
In the middle of the entire stage, there is a mahjong table.
A square light set is also installed on the ceiling.
This style...
Jiang Xu raised his eyebrows and asked, "Is that during the simulated competition?"
"Well, yes, I remember it was when I was still in the first grade. Many students stepped onto the competition stage for the first time. With cameras and spectators around, they were too nervous and failed to show their strength at all. .”
"If the minister hadn't been stable and capable of turning the tide, our results that year would have been dismal."
"After returning, the minister applied for a fund and renovated the stage based on the good results of the Ayakawa Mahjong Club reaching the top 16 for the first time."
Since school had just ended, there were not many people in the club yet.
Yuri Banno waved to Jiang Xu, jumped in and greeted the members she knew.
Jiang Xu was brought all the way into the innermost office.
Several students are counting something.
Jiang Xu saw that Koda, whom he had met yesterday, was among them.
Classmate Yuri Sakano walked in without any pretense and asked with a smile: "Guys, have the results of yesterday's newcomer assessment come out?"
"Oh, it's you! Sakano."
Someone pointed at the pile of test papers next to him and said, "The qualified ones are all over there. They have been arranged according to their rankings. I have already registered. You can take a look if you want."
"By the way, there is actually a perfect score this time. According to Koda and others, this newcomer actually finished the entire content in five minutes. Do you believe it?"
"Five minutes, full marks? I don't believe it!"
Yuri Banno shook her head.
"By the way, one more thing. This person is actually in the third grade. He seems to be in Class 7. Hey, Sakano, aren't you also in Class 7?"
As he was talking, the man suddenly remembered something, raised his head and said.
At this time, Yuri Sakano had already got the paper in his hand, and at a glance, he saw the top paper.
Grade 3 Class 7-Jiang Xu-100
Three pieces of information came into view in an instant.
Yuri Sakano was stunned.
She stiffly turned her head little by little and saw Jiang Xu with an innocent look on his face.
In my heart, I wanted to slap the paper on his face and ask loudly.
"This is what you call just being interested in mahjong, knowing a little bit, and barely passing yesterday's paper!!! Ah! Liar!!"
At this time, Koda also looked up and saw Jiang Xu, who had been standing behind Yuri Sakano.
He couldn't help but stood up and shouted to him.
"minister!"
Jiang Xu: "?"
But he reacted immediately, looked back, and happened to look into the eyes of a man who could be called a sword-eyed and star-browed man.
Director of the Mahjong Club, Kobayashi Yuan!
