"You, a tiger, are quite self-aware." Liu Qinghuan patted Ye Heng's shoulder.

Ye Heng looked down at Liu Qinghuan's expression and thought to himself, this isn't a fox at all, he's clearly a tiger trainer.

Liu Qinghuan looked at the answers and found that some people did not get any points even after writing five pages.

"This is obviously just a matter of luck." Liu Qinghuan looked at the names of the condiments and guessed that several people had come together to write down all the names they could.

This is just like doing homework in high school. The teacher tells you that if you don’t know the answer, just write down everything you can remember, and the examiner will give you points based on the steps.

"We just wanted to try our luck," Yan Xu said, good-tempered, and offered to explain. Since the Happy Restaurant had been closed for several days, all staff had become employees, and Yan Xu was in charge of keeping score.

After the second group finished the competition, Yu Tang and Yan Xu, who got the answers, quickly counted them and soon the scores were ranked.

After Shen Mo got the final ranking, he struck the gong again: "The results of the preliminary round are out. According to the competition rules, three-quarters of the teams will be eliminated and the next round will begin."

"Three quarters, so many have been eliminated!"

"I guess there are too many people competing..."

The people below were whispering, some were nervous, some were excited, and some were not convinced.

Shen Mo saw all of this, but ignored it.

"Now, I'm announcing the tenth-ranked groups. Three odd-numbered groups!"

Wang Shugen was so excited when he heard this: "Odd group three! Odd group three! I'm in odd group three!"

For a moment, the four friends were as happy as children: "Even though our group is short of one person, we are still ranked tenth!"

"Brother Wang, thank you so much this time."

"You guys are not bad either. I was just guessing." Wang Shugen scratched his head and saw his little apprentice at the door of the store giving him a thumbs up. He coughed twice and pretended to be serious.

"Next is the ninth-ranked group..." Shen Mo read out the final results according to the list handed over by Yan Xu. "These are the groups that have advanced from the preliminary round. Please come here at noon in two days for the second round of competition."

"I want to see the answer!" A discordant voice came from the crowd. Shen Mo glanced at him and then looked at Liu Qinghuan.

Liu Qinghuan nodded.

Shen Mo said, "Just announce the answer. Hand over the answer."

"The ingredients for lion's head are: pork, eggs, starch, tofu, green onions, ginger, sugar, salt, cooking wine, chicken essence and peanut oil."

"So there was tofu in it, but it must have been chopped into small pieces. We didn't even notice it."

"They didn't even add light soy sauce! Oh my god, this is so infuriating. We almost got into a fight over whether it was light or dark soy sauce."

"This egg is not appropriate, it should be egg white."

Upon hearing this, Liu Qinghuan glanced at the speaker, who was the fat man who claimed to be the direct disciple of the imperial chef.

Not only Liu Qinghuan looked at him, but everyone looked at him as soon as he said this.

"Awesome, brother..."

Qi Mao snorted: "It's just a trifle."

"The ingredients for braised chicken are: chicken thighs, mushrooms, green peppers, chili peppers, garlic, oyster sauce, light soy sauce, dark soy sauce, salt, rice wine, and peanut oil."

"This one is quite standard and written correctly, haha."

"Chicken thigh? Do you deduct points for just writing chicken?"

"Oyster sauce! I knew it was so delicious! Hey!"

"The braised fish with sauce uses Spanish mackerel, broad bean paste, green onions, ginger, garlic, and peanut oil."

"Is that all?"

“There’s not even any salt.”

"You don't understand. Bean paste adds color, and that dish of fish with soy sauce obviously has a lot of sauce in it. If you add salt, it will be choking."

"That's right."