Xu Yuehua listened carefully to the details that Manager Liu mentioned, and remembered them all.

"Thank you for the compliment, Manager Liu, but I feel that there are still many areas where I need to work hard and improve."

Not everyone is born a genius. If you don't continue to learn and improve in what you are good at, you will only regress.

She absolutely cannot stand still; she must absorb and embrace new things to enrich herself, and then train herself to improve her abilities.

No matter which track you're on, there's only this one simple principle.

If we don't actively move forward, we'll only fall behind and be beaten!

Xu Yuehuai is very clear about her shortcomings. She will never be arrogant or complacent, but will only keep improving and taking another step forward!

What Manager Liu liked most about Xu Yuehuai was her humility and eagerness to learn.

Xu Yuehuai is completely different from others. In her eyes, there is a love and yearning for cooking, rather than the pursuit of profit and skills.

In Manager Liu's eyes, no matter how the cooking competition goes, Xu Yuehuai will always be the only winner in his heart!

Xu Yuehuai then had a detailed discussion with Manager Liu, learning more about the three chefs.

After learning more about the situation, Xu Yuehuai noticed it was getting late and parted ways with Manager Liu.

After leaving East Street, we returned to the Tianxianglou branch.

Xu Yuehuai quickly wrote down all the details that Manager Liu had mentioned, because a bad pen is worse than a good memory.

So much has happened these days that Xu Yuehuai was worried she would forget the important things, so she wrote down all the key events each time.

For a period of time afterward, Xu Yuehuai continued to hone her skills in making hand-pulled mutton and other dishes.

Once she had mastered the skills, the cooking competition organized by Mai Ti finally began.

"Sister Yue! You will definitely win the championship!" Zhang Ting prepared the things Xu Yuehuai needed to bring.

Zhou Wan also cheered Xu Yuehuai on from the side, "Mother! Your cooking skills are the best I've ever seen. In this Mingyue Kingdom, there is absolutely no one who can surpass you!"

Xu Yuehua smiled and waved to them.

"I'm not as amazing as you all say. There are always people more capable than me, and there's always something beyond my understanding."

After chatting with Zhou Wan and the others for a while, a carriage came to pick them up and took them to an open-air building in the city.

The building was surrounded by a ring of vermilion high-rise buildings, while the center was an empty space, where banquets and dances could be held.

When they arrived at the building, a large crowd of people had already gathered around it. The people were holding banners with slogans that all encouraged the three great chefs of the Dark Moon Kingdom.

"Wu Yifan! Yifan, Yifan! Smooth sailing! You're the best!"

"An Quan! Forever number one! Defeat the princess from the Great Zhou Kingdom!"

"Master Situ Wen! Don't let everyone down!"

All of these people sided with the people of the Dark Moon Kingdom; no one believed Xu Yuehuai.

Seeing such a targeted scene in a foreign land, Xu Yuehuai couldn't help but feel a little sad.

Just then, Xu Yuehuai suddenly heard someone call her name.

"Miss Xu! You're definitely going to be the champion today! Go for it, Miss Xu!"

Xu Yuehuai recognized the voice as that of Liu's younger brother. She turned around to look, but couldn't find him in the crowd.

At this moment, more and more people gathered around. Xu Yuehuai could only smile at the crowd behind her to express her gratitude to the young man from the Liu family. Then, carrying her competition badge, she and Zhou Wan quickly entered the building.

This building is nearly a thousand square meters, and it takes a lot of time to walk to the center.

Some people directly hired people to carry them in sedan chairs to the central competition venue.

Xu Yuehuai wasn't going to be so pretentious; she strode straight towards the competition venue.

Upon arriving at the competition venue, General Maimaiti immediately ordered gongs and drums to be beaten and a giant incense stick to be lit for an hour.

"I hereby declare the friendly culinary competition between the Kingdom of Mingyue and the Kingdom of Dazhou officially open!"

"All participants need to prepare their most satisfying dish before this incense stick burns out, and then have the judges taste it."

Upon hearing this, those around couldn't help but ask, "Who are the judges?"

"Who are the judges? I can't see them anywhere."

Maimaiti waved to everyone, quieting them down.

After all the sounds around them had died down, Maimaiti said to them, "Our judges this time are very mysterious. They will only appear after everyone has finished preparing their dishes."

After he finished speaking, the surrounding people couldn't help but speculate: what kind of judge was so mysterious that the secret could only be revealed when the competition was almost over?

But since Maimaiti didn't say, they had no way of knowing and didn't ask any further questions.

Xu Yuehuai didn't pay much attention to that; instead, she started organizing the things she had brought.

A good cook naturally needs to have the most suitable tableware so that he can be more at ease when preparing food.

As the chefs immersed themselves in preparing their dishes, the surrounding crowd gradually quieted down, their voices fading as everyone focused on the competition stage.

Xu Yuehuai moved slowly and deliberately, following her own rhythm, gradually starting a fire to heat the pot.

Everything she did had been repeated countless times, and now she was extremely skilled at it, moving slowly and leisurely, as if she were not in a competition, but simply preparing a simple dish at home.

The people of the Underworld Kingdom, upon seeing this, suddenly burst into laughter.

"Is Princess Heyue out of her mind? Doesn't she know this is a competition? That incense stick is still burning there!"

"Is she here to play house, taking such a leisurely pace?"

"With an attitude like that, what can she possibly offer to our Mingyue Kingdom for barter trade? She'd be better off going back to the Great Zhou Kingdom and staying home to learn embroidery!"

Those people looked down on Xu Yuehuai, even though she had built the Tianxiang Tower in the capital of the Mingyue Kingdom, which was loved by everyone.

They looked at Xu Yuehuai and burst into laughter, the mockery growing louder and louder.

While resting in the area, Zhou Wan and the others heard people mocking Xu Yuehuai, and they couldn't help but worry that this would affect Xu Yuehuai's mood.

But when they looked up at Xu Yuehuai in the competition area and saw her calm and composed demeanor, they felt relieved.

Xu Yuehuai is no ordinary woman. Even if everyone in the world laughs at her and looks down on her, it won't affect her actions!