Shokugeki no Imitation Chef

"Liu Maoxing! What's the matter with you? You let me down!"

Listening to the voice coming from the mobile phone, Liu Maoxing was inexplicable for a while. If it wasn't because the other party came up and called out his name, Liu Maoxing even suspected that she had dialed the wrong number...

"Huh? What's going on? You won't remember the date wrong, right? Didn't I say that I will go to Liu's house only after a holiday? I don't mean to break the contract..."

That's right, it was Liu Maoyuan from the Liu family who called Liu Maoxing!

If it was before, Liu Maoyuan blamed himself so endlessly, Liu Maoxing might have hung up the phone with a wave of his hand, but the Liu family had just contacted the "Dragon Chef Alliance" for him, and it was not just a recommendation, but a promise There are many additional conditions, such as self-selected time, such as one-star and two-star assessments to be carried out consecutively...

So although Liu Maoxing was blamed for "no reason", his tone was still gentle.

"Whoever told you about coming to Liu's family, don't avoid the important and take the light... By the way, be careful! I think it will be more troublesome after you come!"

What Liu Maoyuan said made Liu Maoxing feel dazed for a while, and thought to himself: How do you hear this, not only Liu Maoyuan is dissatisfied with me, but the entire Liu family? Have I offended them?

After hearing that Liu Maoxing really didn't know what was going on, Liu Maoyuan sighed and said, "Did you plan to promote intelligent cooking at the 'exhibition' held by Yuanyue earlier? And you led it? I heard that you have become the ninth seat of the Ten Elites, and you are considered a management team at Yuanyue Academy. I haven't congratulated you yet...

But you should play a more positive guiding role in universities like Yuanyue College...cough cough, I mean universities that are about to go astray! This is what an 'orthodox' cook should do! "

Although Liu Maoxing is also learning cooking skills from all over the world, and is good at using various new technological cooking equipment, but because of his solid basic skills, Liu Maoyuan also counts him as a so-called "orthodox" cook.

The Liu family is only too fancy about the "sense of food". In fact, if conditions permit, that is, after comprehending the heart of cooking, the Liu family will also start to get in touch with some "new" things in their opinion...

But in Liu Maoxing's view, it's too late, the thinking has already solidified!

It is true that once you understand your "cooking heart", you will not be easily influenced by "foreign" cooking skills, but it also means that the cook has passed the best promotion period, and there is not much "inference" effect at all. It's just to make up for the weakness that my cooking skills can't keep up with the trend of the times!

What Liu Maoxing noticed at this time was something else, and he couldn't help but said in a strange tone: "'Before' the exhibition at Yuanyue College? It seems that the exhibition is over, and it has been less than an hour?"

"What, what's the matter? Don't we allow the Liu family to be well-informed?" Liu Maoyuan said with a guilty conscience.

"..."

Liu Maoxing was speechless at once. It seems that the Liu family did not inherit "Liu Maoxing"'s spirit of pioneering and innovation, courage to try, and being able to embrace all skills, but they inherited all of "Liu Maoxing's" arrogance!

This kind of "exhibition", the people of the Liu family want to participate, and Senzaemon will not stop it. After all, the culinary world of the island country is also subordinate to the culinary world of East Asia. The influence here is relatively small, but with the status of the Liu family in the Dragon Chef Alliance, it is normal to attend this kind of exhibition.

However, the Liu family put on a look of disdain, and didn't intend to take a look at it at all...

But the facts proved that they actually cared a lot. Even the juniors of the Liu family learned the specific news of the meeting an hour after the exhibition, and came to "excuse the teacher".

It's really honest...

As if hearing the exclamation in Liu Maoxing's heart, Liu Maoyuan said unhappily: "It's not that we didn't go, but your commander-in-chief didn't send us an invitation card at all!"

"Huh? Wasn't it sent to the Dragon Chef Alliance? Did it get detained?"

If Liu Maoxing wasn't one of the ten masters, he might still question Senzaemon's disrespect, but because he is one of the ten masters, he had read the list of invitees before the meeting...

"Yes! But it didn't specify to send it to us, so should we take the initiative?" Liu Maoyuan said confidently.

But Liu Maoxing felt a little strange, because of the scale of the invitation this time, normally the invitations for designated candidates are only issued in the island country, but in the whole world, it must be only for the three major culinary organizations, and there are some authorities Sexual groups have issued a collective invitation letter, expressing that everyone is welcome to send representatives to come...

Otherwise, it is like the Liu family. Although their status in the Dragon Chef Alliance is not low, they are still in the alliance. There are more than a dozen of them. If there are hundreds of them in the world, how can they post them one by one? ?

Could it be that the Liu family's self-awareness is too strong? Liu Maoxing vaguely felt that there should be other reasons...

But Liu Maoyuan obviously didn't intend to talk too much, and didn't give him a chance to ask questions, and said directly: "Let's not talk about this now! You'd better think about how to explain it to the clan elders later!"

"What do you want me to explain?" Liu Maoxing said with a vague understanding.

"Of course it is why you are advocating intelligent cooking! Wouldn't there be fewer opportunities for cooks to get to know the ingredients at close range? You should understand that if you do this, although it seems to be helpful for improving your cooking skills in the short term Help, but in the future, it will be more and more difficult for cooks who are accustomed to using intelligent cooking equipment to understand the 'sense of food'!" Liu Maoyuan said.

This is obviously not just Liu Maoyuan's opinion, but the overall will of the Liu family, and maybe even the overall will of the old school...

Of course, in today's "world fusion of cuisines", this kind of will is useless, because even if all the conservatives unite, they dare not prohibit other cooks from using reasonable and legal tools. After all, the times have changed!

However, it can also be seen that the Liu family is still very responsible. Their views may not be correct, but they are indeed concerned about the development of the culinary industry.

Otherwise, they can't control others, can't they control themselves? The big deal is that the members of the Liu family don't need it. Isn't that what they are doing now? Why bother about others?

"I thought about this question before, but...Liu Maoyuan, you are also a smart person, you should have discovered it too? The so-called 'intelligence' has not started from time to time, more convenient kitchen knife style, constant temperature electronic frying pan, electronic Oven... even a small and convenient peeler, can it be regarded as a kind of intelligence?

But the culinary world is indeed making progress...Of course, the overall decline in the "sense of food" does exist, so I think... Maybe the trend in the culinary world is that it is becoming easier and easier to improve the cooking skills, and the natural sense of food is replaced. Get rid of it gradually! "

"You mean elimination?" Liu Maoyuan said in disbelief.

"I'm just talking about the trend...Of course, if you don't have a sense of food, you won't be able to reach the tiger level. Maybe after the culinary world develops to the next stage, the sense of food will become the threshold for culinary skills to break through the tiger level." Liu Maoxing said.

The current mainstream is the super three-star or so to comprehend the sense of food, while the old-fashioned like the Liu family comprehend the sense of food when they were advanced. This can also show the difference between ancient and modern times.

However, according to the theory Liu Maoyuan told himself, if there is no sense of food, a cook can only reach a super five-star at most. Liu Maoxing accepts this statement, because when Mr. Joichiro did not use the sense of food, he was five-star.

"Elimination... the sense of food... the trend..." Liu Maoyuan obviously belongs to the reformist group of Liu's family, and after hearing Liu Maoxing's remarks, he was still thinking.

If it were the elders of the Liu family, if someone drove them away after they said such things... what outsiders said, and put the label of "difference in ways, no conspiracy", if it was a member of the Liu family... Shut it down first Let's talk about the small black house for a month!

"Hey, let me try my best to help you explain it in front of the clan elders, so that you won't be greeted coldly the moment you walk in a month later..." Liu Maoyuan said.

Liu Maoxing also heard it. Liu Maoyuan called himself, it seemed that he was very dissatisfied with himself, but in fact, it was more to remind him that some clan elders were dissatisfied with his current behavior, and at the same time, he wanted to know why Liu Maoxing wanted to do it.

Because of the long-term inculcation of the Liu family's theory that "you are not worthy of being a cook if you don't have a sense of food", even if Liu Maoyuan wanted to "seek knowledge", he couldn't say it instinctively for a while, so it became a blame...

If this thirst for knowledge can be maintained, perhaps Liu Maoyuan will make the Liu family get out of the shadow of "Liu Maoxing" in the future and take a more powerful and crucial step!

Liu Maoxing thought about it, and when he went to the Liu family, he felt a little unsafe if their clan elders were still dissatisfied with him...

So he gritted his teeth and said, "If the clan elders don't accept this statement, you can tell them..."

Liu Maoxing told about the puppet chef who cut thistle.

"... Well, in short, I have to come up with this expedient measure in order to stop his conspiracy!"

In this way, maybe the elders of the Liu family will still regard themselves as "heroes"!

After all, no matter how you look at the practice of cutting thistle, it is even more excessive than Liu Maoxing...

Anyway, the favorability with Nakiriji is also negative...Anyway, there are more people who hate Nakiriji......

Liu Maoxing resolutely blamed it, and at the same time secretly rejoiced: Fortunately, the relationship between Erina and her father is also extremely bad, otherwise I would not dare to blame it like this now!

"Then what is your purpose?" Liu Maoyuan said speechlessly.

"You have both, you have to learn to be flexible!" Liu Maoxing said without shame.

After hanging up the phone, Liu Maoxing checked the time, and took a break from his busy schedule to visit Guihezi and Meihezi, the ordinary students of Yuanyue, who had already finished the "exhibition" and boarded the bus back to the academy.

Of course, there are also some students who are leaving Yuanyue.

However, Liu Maoxing and the other ten heroes still have some finishing work to do. After all, they are the official representatives of Yuanyue Academy!

Why does Liu Maoxing have time to wander around?

Because Erina has a capable secretary, and Liu Maoxing shamelessly shared a secretary with her...

Of course, Liu Maoxing also left Mito Yumei behind, let her and Fei Shazi study hard, and strive to become a teacher as soon as possible and become a capable secretary like Fei Shazi!

As for whether it will delay Mito Yumei's time? Liu Maoxing obviously doesn't think this is a problem. Mito Yumei is the only daughter of the boss of the Mito Group, and her family background is not as good as that of Erina and Alice. However, the Mito Group is also a large-scale sales group of meat ingredients. Let her get used to it in advance. For management work, it is obviously beneficial and harmless to have more contact with those directors and partners.

...After Liu Maoxing comforted himself in this way, not long after he was promoted to the ninth seat of the top ten, he lived a life similar to that of Erina - if there is something to do as a secretary, it's nothing...to delve into cooking!

In the blink of an eye, the "exhibition" has ended for a week. During this week, there will be a meeting of the ten masters almost every day, and every time there is a meeting, in addition to the ten masters, the general manager and the general counsel will also be present.

Although Ruishan Zhijin was kicked out of the ranks of the top ten, he was able to appear at the meeting of the top ten again, but he changed from sitting to standing, because he is now an assistant to the general counsel. Attending a meeting.

Just like Fei Shazi standing behind Erina, and Mito Yumei standing behind Liu Maoxing, standing behind Nakiriji and taking meeting minutes, only when Nakiriji asked him to speak, otherwise Liu Maoxing would definitely add a sentence "Do you understand the rules"...

It was also expected that Lary Yamaezu, who was attending the Nagini Cutting Club, was also in attendance. After all, although he failed in cooking, his mind was still top ten.

And because now Nakie Ji failed to seize the position of commander-in-chief at the first time, and because of Liu Maoxing's "disturbance", the subsequent exhibition was not going well, and he was dragged away by some intelligent cooking research institute in a daze. popularity!

At this time, in the Yuanyue system, Ruishan, who had many contacts, was not among the top ten, but his importance in the Nakiriji Group was even higher.

Of course, there are also some directors and partners, who are not affected by Liu Maoxing's nonsense, and still think that the education method of cutting thistle is very good...

They don't agree with Naki Jiji's approach, which can lead to a better future for the culinary industry, but believe that he will reform Yuanyue, and there will be better benefits!

However, because the number of people who supported him was far less than expected, Nakiri Ji couldn't push forward many things by force, and could only argue with Senzaemon, who was still the commander-in-chief.

And now this kind of mutual probing and compromise has finally passed the first stage!

At this meeting, the arrangement for the next half month will be announced... Half a month later, the "promotion exam" will begin.

Although Nakiriji has now integrated the "Central Gourmet Organization" into Yuanyue College as he wished, it has not become the highest executive body in the college as he envisioned. Slowly win over the original staff of Yuanyue Academy and gain some management rights...

In addition, five out of the top six seats of the top ten have announced their participation, so they have a certain influence.

The main reason for agreeing to the merger of the central gourmet organization is that many directors who support Senzaemon and the veterans of the academy also hope to see the students of the central gourmet organization join Yuanyuezhong!

After all, only a small number of people can see the disadvantages of those "puppet chefs". What more people see is that Yuanyue Academy "picked up" many excellent students for nothing.

Moreover, among the few people who saw the disadvantages, quite a few believed that these "puppet chefs" could be saved, and Liu Maoxing even suspected that Senzaemon himself might want to challenge whether these people could be restored and become A real cook!

Apparently, these quick-started "puppet chefs" from Nina Cutji are not generally competent. Like the core fifty people, their own talents are no worse than the one-year students who can still stay in Yuanyue now...

Nakie Ji obviously didn't want to let the last half month pass quietly, and actually vigorously promoted the "students' independent research organization reform"!

Starting from next week, research institutes and research associations will implement a new policy, that is, they must go through a "review" every week. If they fail to pass, their funding will be cut by 10%, and if they are passed, their funding will be increased by 10%... …

If this policy can be implemented fairly, Liu Maoxing actually thinks it is quite reasonable. In the end, the funding of each research institute can be kept at a level commensurate with its strength.

But the key is that the executor of this review is the "Central Gourmet Organ", and the Food Halberd Administration and the Academic Affairs Office are responsible for supervising...

And there is only one method of review, and that is "food halberd"! However, the topic of "eating halberds" is still biased towards the research club, that is, eating halberds with the research scope of the research club as the theme.

This is already the best result achieved by the commander-in-chief. It is much better than in the original plot, where the "eating halberd" must be accepted. If you lose, you will directly abolish the club.

The reason why it was so easy to promote this matter is because the directors originally felt that the funds of these research societies and research associations were too abundant and had reached the point of wasting.

In the past, Nakiri Senzaemon was able to fight against all opinions, but now Nakiri Ji takes the lead and five other ten heroes support him. Immediately, many directors who do not support Nakiri Ji are also willing to support this decision alone...

"I think that after the start of the new policy, the students may have a lot of doubts. At this time, there needs to be a research institute that can serve as a demonstration... For example, among all the research institutes, the only Chinese cuisine research institute has two top ten. !” Nakie Ji looked at Liu Maoxing and said.

Liu Maoxing was slightly taken aback when he heard the words, as if he hadn't expected that Nakiri Jiji would attack the current strongest research institute as soon as he came up, and have a hard anus with him...

However, he said immediately: "Of course, I just happen to want to make some reforms to the Chinese Cuisine Research Institute, and the funds are somewhat insufficient. Of course, it would be great if someone is willing to donate money!"

That's right, if the funds increase, it will come from the funds of the "Central Gourmet Agency", and the funds of the "Central Gourmet Agency" are all sponsored by the sponsors of thistle, so it can be said that they bring their own dry food... No wonder those The directors support him in reforming the student self-directed research organization.

Liu Maoxing did not lie. Since the "Chinese Cuisine Research Institute" wants to get back to its roots and develop the various cuisines of Chinese cuisine in a balanced manner, it is natural to purchase a batch of kitchen utensils and equipment. Originally, the "Chinese Cuisine Research Institute" only had Sichuan cuisine kitchen utensils and equipment. ...