Chapter 16 Bottle Cap and Strawberry Mousse Just Look Bad-tempered...

This kitchen special is bigger than the last one. The company rented a small house for them and let them live in it for two days. The first day is for the competition, and the second day is for daily filming. It will be broadcast in two parts.

The first day of the competition started with shopping at the supermarket. Procurement requires funds, and the funding levels are divided into five levels: 500, 300, 200, 100 and 50. The production team has not yet told them how to form groups, and asked them to first play a bottle cap bouncing game to decide who gets how much money. The rules of the game are very simple. Everyone flicks the bottle cap on the table with their fingers to see who can flick it the farthest, but not too hard to make the bottle cap fall. This was not the first time they played this game, but it was the first time for Li Xi. He considered himself not good at this kind of game and could only rely on luck.

Yuan Zhiyan, who was the first to go up, didn't know whether it was because of his extraordinary strength or just luck, but he flicked his finger and the bottle cap slid out smoothly and stopped only two centimeters away from the edge. Everyone screamed in shock. Yuan Zhiyan himself was also shocked. After a moment of stunned silence, he jumped up high, raised his hands and laughed, "I'm so awesome! I'm a genius!!"

He said arrogantly to the camera: "Don't cut even one second! The whole process must be broadcast in its entirety, hahahahahaha!"

Li Xi is the second one. He had no confidence to begin with and now he is even less confident. He squatted in front of the table and thought for a long time. Maybe he was too careful, the bottle cap stopped before it was pushed very far, and he and the bottle cap looked at each other.

He turned around and asked the production team eagerly: "Can this be considered practice?"

"Okay!" The director was very easy to say. "I'll give you another chance."

Once again, Li Xi felt something was wrong as soon as his fingers loosened. He failed to control himself well, and the bottle cap slipped off the table and fell onto the carpet.

"It's okay, it's okay. Brother, come and join me. I have 500!" Yuan Zhiyan said optimistically.

"There are still three people here who haven't played yet!" Rong Xiao said, pinching his fingers to show a distance, "What if you are overtaken by just a millimeter?"

"Impossible!" Yuan Zhiyan pointed at his impressive bottle cap and said confidently: "If it was a little further forward it would have fallen off. How can you guys be so amazing?"

It was expected that neither Rong Xiao nor Wu Xingye could surpass him. The last one was Tang Ruining. He squatted down, with his fingers suspended in front of the bottle cap, his eyes fixed on the edge of the table, as if measuring the distance.

Seeing Tang Ruining's attitude, Yuan Zhiyan began to try to interfere with him: "Hey brother, hurry up, you can't surpass me without falling down anyway."

Everyone else stood quietly. Although it was just a simple game, they were made nervous by Tang Ruining's serious attitude. Yuan Zhiyan even held his breath and waited for the moment when his fingers released.

Tang Ruining loosened his fingers, and the bottle cap slid out and hit the bottle cap closest to the edge. With a crisp sound, Yuan Zhiyan's bottle cap was knocked away and fell from the edge of the table, while Tang Ruining's bottle cap stopped on the edge about to fall.

There was a second of dead silence, and then the scene became lively, with everyone except Yuan Zhiyan exclaiming and laughing. Yuan Zhiyan wailed behind him. Tang Ruining smiled slightly at the camera and repeated Yuan Zhiyan's words: "Don't cut it for even a second. Broadcast it in its entirety."

"You are so amazing!" Li Wei praised, saying that the variety show effect could not be achieved even by acting.

Tang Ruining turned his back and raised the corners of his mouth even higher.

The program team kindly retained Yuan Zhiyan’s results before the bottle cap fell off, so he was still second, Rong Xiao was third, Wu Xingye was fourth, and Li Xi was last.

"How do we divide into groups?" Although he was second, Yuan Zhiyan still asked listlessly.

"We won't be divided into groups this time," the director said. "We'll have an individual battle."

"……ah?"

Yuan Zhiyan was completely discouraged. He only knew how to eat. If he relied on himself without being divided into groups, it would be useless even if he got 300 yuan or 3,000 yuan.

Tang Ruining's face didn't look good either, and Li Xi was already thinking about what he could buy with 50 yuan.

"There are no restrictions on ingredients. You decide what to buy and what to cook. As long as you can make a complete dish, it doesn't matter if you have one dish or several dishes. It's all up to you." The director continued, "We will find other judges. They won't know which of you made which dishes, so it can be relatively fair."

Now the five people no longer care about the judges and are all thinking about what they can do.

"Brother Wuwu." After the camera was turned off, Yuan Zhiyan came to Li Xi with a sad face, "I was thinking about being in a group with you and helping you. How can I finish a dish independently?"

"You can look up the recipe and follow it. Think about what you want to make first. If you can't figure it out, I can teach you secretly."

"It's not a big deal if we lose, the main thing is that it's so embarrassing." Yuan Zhiyan whispered to him. Although being stupid in variety shows is very effective and fans may find it cute, but Yuan Zhiyan also feels that he is a bit annoying for still trying to distinguish sugar and salt in the kitchen.

"Brother, you only have 50, what are you going to do?" he asked.

"I was thinking, why don't I make a dessert? 50 yuan is enough for a home-cooked meal, but making a small cake would be more creative and look better."

"Desserts are great!" Yuan Zhiyan leaned his chin on his shoulder and became interested. "What kind of dessert?"

"Make a mousse cake? I've made strawberry mousse before, but I don't have enough money to buy strawberries, so let's just make a pure mousse cake."

"Mousse cake is great!" Yuan Zhiyan suggested: "If you don't have enough money for strawberries, you can buy a bag of Oreos. I like Oreos!"

"Yeah, that's fine." Li Xi just responded when Yuan Zhiyan said "Ouch" and leaned back a little against his body. The hood of his hoodie was pulled by someone from behind. Li Xi and Yuan Zhiyan turned around and saw Tang Ruining standing behind them: "It's time to go to the supermarket."

"Oh." Yuan Zhiyan still had some resentment towards him. After he was pulled by his hat, he muttered to Li Xi behind him: "He is really difficult to get along with! It was understandable that you didn't get along with him before!"

Li Xi smiled, "I think Rui Ning is easy to get along with, but he just looks bad-tempered."

"How is this possible?!" Yuan Zhiyan screamed, and Tang Ruining turned around and glared at him, as if he was annoyed by his noise.

"Hehe." Yuan Zhiyan grinned at Tang Ruining, and waited until Tang Ruining turned around before leaning close to Li Xi's ear and whispered in a low but resentful tone: "He doesn't just look bad-tempered, he really has a bad temper! No one can do anything about him. Alas, I am just too good and kind to tolerate him and treat him well. But! Look at him, he is getting more and more unreasonable! He is getting more and more excessive to me!"

"Well, he is wrong about this. He always bullies you, which is not good." Li Xi nodded in agreement, his voice was very low, but Tang Ruining turned his head again, not looking at him like he looked at Yuan Zhiyan, but just looking at him simply.

Li Xi tilted her head slightly and asked, "Hmm?"

There was an elevator in front of them. Li Wei took two steps forward, supported his arm, and reminded him: "Watch the road."

"……Know."

The production crew drove the group to a large supermarket, with each photographer following one person. With the only 50 yuan in his pocket, Li Xi quickly bought everything he needed, including biscuits, butter, gelatin, whipped cream, milk... He checked each item on the list to make sure there was nothing missing. He pushed the cart around casually and when he passed the fruit section, Li Xi couldn't help but stop.

"What beautiful strawberries." He said to the camera with a little regret, looked up at the more attractive price, closed his mouth, nodded, and left.

On the other side, Tang Ruining had also finished shopping and was waiting at the checkout counter.

"So fast, have you used up all the 500?" Li Xi looked down at his shopping cart, which contained beef, red wine, and some vegetables.

Tang Ruining didn't have much cooking experience, so he only needed to spend 500 yuan to buy a bottle of red wine and better quality meat. He couldn't make a delicious meal with four dishes and a soup, so he might as well make the dishes look more upscale.

"Almost." Tang Ruining replied, and also glanced into Li Xi's shopping cart, and looked around the supermarket, as if looking for something.

When they were about to leave, Tang Ruining delayed for some time before coming. Yuan Zhiyan returned with a big bag full of various vegetables. Since he didn't know what to cook, he just bought more. He could always come up with something different.

"I bought some ice creams." Yuan Zhiyan said as he pulled out his large plastic bag and took out the ice cream from the bottom. "Let's share!"

The last time I made mousse, I didn’t put enough gelatin and the mousse wasn’t set enough. This time, Li Xi looked through the recipe again and confirmed the quantities.

The mousse cake was actually very simple, but it was delicious and beautiful. It was a pity that he didn’t have enough money left to buy beautiful strawberries as decoration. Li Xi placed the ingredients and the molds prepared by the program team on the table and was about to start cooking when someone approached and put a box of something on the table.

Li Xi's eyes rolled and opened wide in an instant.

The big, beautiful strawberries he had spotted in the supermarket were neatly arranged in a gift box, right next to his mold.

"I have a lot of money, it would be a waste if I don't use it." said the kind-hearted man who sent the strawberries, his eyes fixed on the fresh and plump strawberries without looking at the people around him. "You said you wanted to make strawberry mousse, and the rules don't prohibit giving away ingredients, right?"

"Yes!" Li Wei put his hand on his shoulder and said in surprise, "Thank you, Rui Ning!"

He then said to Tang Ruining: "It doesn't matter if you can't eat this. I'll go back and make something more delicious for you."

"Oh, yes, I didn't say I can't give it as a gift." Yuan Zhiyan saw it and said with sudden enlightenment, "If I had known earlier, I would have bought some for you. I have a lot of money, so I bought some ice cream as well."

"The ice cream is also a gift for us to eat." Li Xi said, and asked Yuan Zhiyan: "What kind of cake do you want to eat? I will make it when we get back to the dormitory."

"Shouldn't you ask me first?" Tang Ruining suddenly said, "I sent you the strawberries."

Li Xi was stunned. His hand was still on Tang Ruining's shoulder. He squeezed it and asked with a smile, "Yes, what do you want to eat?"

It was unclear whether he was thinking or distracted. After five seconds, Tang Ruining said, "...anything is fine."

"You can do it all, why do you want to interrupt me?" Yuan Zhiyan asked loudly, and then said: "I want to eat Oreo, mango is also fine, brother. And the egg tarts you baked last time were also delicious! This one, Rui Ning doesn't eat it, so I'll eat it."

Tang Ruining immediately replied: "Who said I don't eat?"

"My stomach said that because it all went into my mouth."

"Are you still controlling your sugar intake? Don't eat so much and you'll gain weight and get acne."

Ignoring the two of them, Li Xi had already started unpacking the boxes of strawberries and putting them into the basket to wash.

He picked out the two reddest ones, stuffed one into each of their mouths, and said with a smile: "Use your mouth to eat, and talk less."

“…”

Their bickering wasn't a serious quarrel, but it was still edited out by the production crew, leaving only the shot of Jiang Yilan feeding two people strawberries.

Barrage: [A big hodgepodge, I’m going to eat a lot of it! 】

[Eating everything will only give me a balanced diet~]

[Wait, where are the strawberries coming from? ? 】

[Yanyan must have bought it. He has such a big bag of stuff.]

After the strawberries appeared, the editor used flashback to release the clip of Tang Ruining buying strawberries.

The other four people walked out of the supermarket and prepared to get in the car, but Tang Ruining turned back alone, headed straight for the fruit section with a clear goal, picked up a box of strawberries and went to check out.

When checking out, he even asked the camera, "Didn't they say you can't give away gifts?"

The camera shakes left and right, indicating a shake of the head, but it is unclear whether it is saying "I didn't say" or "I don't know either!"

[WTF TF TF]

[At this moment, I completely understood... why Tang Ruining was so focused on playing the bottle cap game as if he was going to win 5 million...]

[In order to buy a box of strawberries for my wife, I used all my strength and means (category)

[I just don’t want to waste the extra money. . 】

[Be good in front, go play on the side^_^]