Chapter 126: Acquaintance
The next morning, Mo Qingyan got up, washed, changed her clothes, and prepared to go to the back garden for a run.
Unexpectedly, as soon as I opened the door of the room, I saw Butler Li standing at the door.
Mo Qingyan immediately frowned, "Butler Li, didn't I tell you last night that there's no need for anyone to guard my door?"
"Besides, you are so old, staying up late is very harmful to your health."
Mo Qingyan's tone was not good, but her words were full of concern, and Butler Li was filled with joy.
"No, no, don't worry, sir. I slept well last night. It's just that I'm old, so I can't sleep for long, so I got up early in the morning. I just arrived and you woke up."
Butler Li felt that last night was the best night of sleep he had ever had.
Maybe it was because Mo Qingyan came back that the hopes in his heart finally found a home.
Finally being able to serve the Mo family, Butler Li felt that he had no regrets in his life.
"That's good. Remember not to have anyone guarding my door at night. I'm not used to it." Mo Qingyan always felt like there was someone guarding the door, as if she was being monitored.
"Okay, I understand sir." Butler Li quickly agreed, looking at Mo Qingyan with bright eyes, "Sir, are you going to go for a run?"
Butler Li had also been watching Mo Qingyan's live broadcast before.
So, I know that Mo Qingyan has the habit of running in the morning and at night.
When I saw Mo Qingyan changed into sportswear, I knew that he wanted to go out for a morning run.
"Yes, let's go for a morning run." Mo Qingyan put the towel around her neck and then adjusted her wristband.
"What would you like to eat for breakfast, sir? Would you like Chef Zhang to make it, or would you like to try the local specialties of Shangjing? The chefs in our General's Mansion all came from five-star hotels. Their cooking skills are definitely not as good as yours. However, they are also quite good at making local dishes."
Knowing that Mo Qingyan was a good eater, Butler Li replaced all the previous chefs with a team from a five-star hotel.
Mo Qingyan said: "Then let's have Beijing's special breakfast today."
After saying that, Mo Qingyan ran towards the back garden.
Butler Li looked at Mo Qingyan's departing back, and a smile appeared on the wrinkles on his face.
Afterwards, he instructed the kitchen to bring out their best cooking skills.
We must make sure that the gentleman enjoys his first breakfast at the General's Mansion.
Last night's dinner was prepared by Chef Zhang.
The reason is that Song Beichen and others wanted to eat cold noodles.
They really love Liangpi.
Therefore, today's breakfast can be said to be the first real breakfast prepared by the General's Mansion.
Therefore, it is necessary to leave a good impression on Mo Qingyan.
At this time, Butler Li was even thinking about what would happen if the breakfast in the kitchen was not to Mo Qingyan's liking.
Just replace it with a state banquet level chef.
With your status, you should be qualified as a state banquet chef.
It’s just that we haven’t been able to recruit state-banquet-level chefs recently because they all have to participate in competitions.
When the competition is over, you can naturally attract them by offering a high price.
I have to say, it’s really great to run in this big back garden.
Birds are singing, flowers are blooming, strange rocks stand in rows, the lake is sparkling, and occasionally you can see colorful koi chasing and playing in the water.
The environment alone is incomparable to the villa area in H City.
Mo Qingyan jogged five laps around the large garden.
It took about an hour to run.
Then I went back to the room to take a shower.
After taking a shower, Mo Qingyan saw someone standing outside her door. While wiping her hair, Mo Qingyan walked over to open the door and saw that it was Butler Li standing at the door again.
Seeing Mo Qingyan open the door, Butler Li immediately smiled and said, "Sir, breakfast is ready. Young Master Sun and your friends are already waiting in the restaurant."
Mo Qingyan: "Okay, I'll change my clothes and go over."
After changing her clothes, Mo Qingyan went to the restaurant and found that Song Beichen and others were sitting straight in front of the restaurant, not saying a word.
A row of servants stood behind them, trays in hand. On the tray was a bronze dish filled with clean water and a white towel.
Seeing Mo Qingyan coming, Song Beichen and others stood up immediately.
He greeted neatly, "Good morning, Mo."
This scene, to Mo Qingyan, felt very much like military training.
Mo Qingyan didn't know whether to laugh or cry: "What are you doing? Military training?"
Song Beichen raised his head and chest and replied: "Brother Mo, we are waiting for you to come and have breakfast together!"
"Just eat breakfast, why are you making it so awkward?"
Mo Qingyan walked to the seat at the top, and Butler Li immediately stepped forward and pulled out a chair for Mo Qingyan.
After Mo Qingyan sat down, he saw Song Beichen and the others were still looking at him, and immediately said, "What are you still standing there for? Sit down and have breakfast!"
After hearing Mo Qingyan's words, everyone sat down.
Mo Wen'en, who was sitting on the left side of Mo Qingyan, said to Mo Qingyan, "Little Ancestor, please start eating first."
"What's wrong with you guys today? Why are you all so reserved and polite? This isn't your style!"
As for Mo Qingyan, he just doesn't like too many rules.
He likes to be casual.
The kind that comes in whatever way is comfortable for you.
Yin Yiyi replied: "It's because we are in your general's mansion, Brother Mo, and we want to avoid embarrassing you. We have to behave ourselves."
Tao Zui also said: "Yes, after all, Brother Mo, you are from a big family. If we are too casual, it will seem that you are not careful in making friends. It is better to behave yourself."
After they guessed yesterday that Mo Qingyan was a member of an old noble family, they immediately felt the gap between themselves and Mo Qingyan.
Although they are all rich second-generations, they are just ordinary rich second-generations.
The family's fortune only lasted a few decades.
And the old nobles are all thousand-year-old families!
How can the wealth they have accumulated over decades be compared with the wealth accumulated over thousands of years?
This is the amount of wealth accumulated after so many years, it is simply unimaginable.
The most important thing is that for a thousand-year-old family like this, there are many rules.
You can do whatever you want outside, but when you go to someone's home, you still have to follow some rules.
Therefore, just now, they all asked Mo Wenen about the rules of eating breakfast in this big family.
So, we had the scene just now.
What rules? Mo Qingyan just felt confused.
"Don't do anything unnecessary. It's disgusting. It's the way it was before, and it's the way it is now. I'm not an emperor or a prince, so there are no rules."
"Really, Brother Mo?" Song Beichen was the first one to hold back this kind of well-behaved feeling.
Too restrained.
"Okay, stop pretending. Don't I know what kind of people you are? Just do what you have to do."
As soon as Mo Qingyan spoke, everyone felt relieved.
All kinds of things are tilted here and there.
"Oh, I'm so tired." Yin Yiyi leaned back in her chair as if she had no bones. "It's too much effort to pretend to be serious."
"That's right, my legs are about to cramp." Zina couldn't help but rub her already tense thighs.
"Brother Mo really understands us and knows that we are not serious people." Song Beichen smiled.
Then the group of people ate breakfast while chatting and laughing, just like before.
Mo Qingyan looked at Butler Li who was still standing behind her and said to him, "Butler Li, sit down and eat together."
Butler Li refused, "No, sir, this is against the rules."
Mo Qingyan put on a stern face and said, "Here, I am the rule. If I tell you to sit down and have breakfast, then sit down and have breakfast together."
Mo Qingyan really couldn't let an old family member in his seventies with white hair stand by her side and serve her breakfast.
It doesn’t matter about the others, but the old butler was a former surrogate son of the Mo family and is extremely loyal to the Mo family.
"Yes, sir." The old butler knew Mo Qingyan's good intentions and sat in the back seat with a smile on his face.
Mo Qingyan asked Butler Li, "Butler Li, can you eat spicy food?"
Butler Li said, "Of course, sir."
"Forget it. Eating spicy food this early in the morning is bad for the stomach." Mo Qingyan turned to Chef Zhang and said, "Uncle Zhang, give Butler Li a portion of three-fresh dumplings and a cup of soy milk. Don't make the soy milk too sweet."
After hearing Mo Qingyan's words, Butler Li was immediately moved.
How can a host be so concerned about his own children?
He met a good master.
"Okay, sir." Chef Zhang went to the kitchen and quickly took out breakfast.
Looking at the three-fresh dumplings in front of him and smelling the fragrant aroma, Butler Li said, "Is this the three-fresh dumplings? They are so beautiful."
Chef Zhang said, "My dumplings are nothing. The three-fresh dumplings made by Mr. Zhang are really beautiful. Moreover, they taste much better than mine."
Butler Li nodded in agreement.
Although he had never eaten the three-fresh dumplings made by Mo Qingyan herself.
However, I have watched Mo Qingyan’s live broadcast.
I know that Mo Qingyan’s three-fresh dumplings are so delicious that they spread for ten miles and make people linger.
The three-fresh dumplings made by Chef Zhang inherited Mo Qingyan's true skills. With the same ingredients, the taste is 80% close to that of Mo Qingyan's.
After eating Chef Zhang’s three-fresh dumplings, Butler Li was surprised by the taste.
These dumplings are so delicious!
After all, Butler Li is old and his sense of taste has deteriorated a little, so he always feels that the food he eats is not as delicious as before.
But the three-fresh dumplings were really delicious to him.
His sense of taste seemed to have returned all of a sudden.
He suddenly understood why so many people were crazy about the dumplings made by his husband.
If the dish cooked by this chef tastes so good, how delicious would the three-fresh dumplings cooked by the gentleman be?
After breakfast, the live broadcast started.
The audience in the live broadcast room kept shouting that they wanted to see the General's Mansion again, after all, the time yesterday was too short.
Mo Qingyan and the others just took a quick tour.
In fact, there are still many places that I haven’t visited.
So, continue the tour today.
At two o'clock in the afternoon, you need to arrive at the venue of the Level 3 State Banquet Chef Competition to sign in and draw a number.
After lunch, Gao Moqi and Xu Yi came to the general's mansion.
Xu Yi stayed in the general's mansion to visit, while Gao Moqi took Mo Qingyan to the venue of the third-level state banquet chef competition.
The venue for the Level 3 State Banquet Chef Competition is located at the headquarters of the Second Ring Food Club.
The Food Club is an independent building with more than ten floors.
It provides venues specifically for various food competitions and chef competitions.
Gao Moqi and Mo Qingyan came to the lobby on the first floor of the Food Club Building.
When several staff members saw Gao Moqi, they immediately greeted him respectfully.
"Hello, Judge Gao."
"Judge Gao, you are here."
Of course, they also recognized Mo Qingyan.
"Is that Brother Mo?"
"It's him, it's him. I was wondering when Brother Mo would come to sign in, but I didn't expect him to come so early."
Gao Moqi nodded at them and asked, "Where do we sign in?"
"Here, here." A staff member immediately took out a tablet, opened the sign-in page, and then pulled out a pen from the side of the tablet and handed it to Gao Moqi, "Judge Gao, please sign your name here."
Another staff member also handed another tablet and a pen to Mo Qingyan, "Brother Mo, please sign your name here."
"Thank you." Mo Qingyan took the pen and quickly signed her name.
The staff member glanced at the photographer and security personnel behind Mo Qingyan and said, "Brother Mo, non-contestants and judges are not allowed to enter."
Mo Qingyan turned around and glanced at the cameraman, who immediately took out a work ID from his pocket and handed it to the staff member.
Knowing that Mo Qingyan was going to take part in the competition, the program crew contacted the organizer of the state-level chef competition in advance and obtained the live broadcast rights and staff certificates.
The staff checked the work ID and then called to confirm. Just let him go.
However, only cameramen are allowed to go in; security personnel are not allowed to enter.
Then, under the guidance of the staff, Mo Qingyan, Gao Moqi and the cameraman took the elevator and came to the door of a contestant lounge on the top floor.
The staff member said to Mo Qingyan, "Brother Mo, this is the lounge for the Level 3 National Banquet Chef Competition contestants. Please wait here for a while. Judge Gao, please come this way."
The judges' lounge was in another place, and the staff prepared to take Gao Moqi there. But Gao Moqi rejected it.
"Don't bother. I know where the judges' lounge is. I can go there by myself."
Then, Gao Moqi said to Mo Qingyan: "If you have anything, come to me."
"Okay." Mo Qingyan nodded. The door of the lounge was open, so Mo Qingyan walked straight in.
There is still about half an hour before the draw.
Mo Qingyan and the others arrived quite early, but there were people who arrived earlier than them.
When Mo Qingyan walked in with the cameraman, many people were already sitting in the lounge.
The entire lounge is very large, at least three hundred square meters.
The lounge is filled with chairs and tables.
When Mo Qingyan walked in with his hands in his pockets, everyone's eyes in the lounge instantly focused on him.
After seeing that the person coming was Mo Qingyan, the people in the lounge started whispering to each other.
"Isn't that Mo Qingyan?"
"It's him. I didn't expect that he would actually come to participate in the competition. I thought he was just talking."
"An amateur chef dares to participate in the state banquet chef competition? How confident is he in his cooking skills?"
"After all, it has been approved by the senior judges, so it must have some strength."
"No, isn't this the prodigal internet celebrity? Why is he here? He even brought a cameraman with him."
"Don't you know? The senior judges recommended him to participate in the Level 3 State Banquet Chef Competition."
"What? An internet celebrity is participating in the Level 3 state banquet chef competition? And he was recommended by the senior judges? What a joke! Did the senior judges give him a backdoor?"
…
Mo Qingyan ignored the man's discussions.
He walked straight to the empty seat in the back.
Unexpectedly, I saw a familiar face.
Mo Qingyan walked directly to the empty seat next to the other person and sat down, smiling and greeting him, "Uncle Li, long time no see."
Mo Qingyan didn't expect to meet Li Zhenmin here, with whom she had participated in the food competition before.
He was participating in the competition at that time, but he had to give up and leave because he had to complete a task.
I originally thought that the champion of that competition would be Zhou Ningren, the former third-level state banquet chef.
Unexpectedly, Zhou Ningren also gave up the competition.
In the end, Li Zhenmin got a big bargain. Won the championship.
In fact, it’s not that Li Zhenmin’s cooking skills are bad, it’s just that his cooking skills are indeed not as good as Zhou Ningren’s.
Although Zhou Ningren has an arrogant personality, he is indeed capable.
"Long time no see." Seeing Mo Qingyan, Li Zhenmin was filled with emotion, "I didn't expect that you would also come to participate in the competition."
Mo Qingyan smiled and said, "I'm just here to join in the fun."
Looking at the smiling Mo Qingyan, Li Zhenmin said seriously, "You won't give up halfway this time, will you? This is a state-level chef competition. Since you are here to participate, you should compete well. Do you know how many chefs want to participate in the state-level chef competition but are not qualified? If you are still so casual, don't participate in the competition."
He was still upset about Mo Qingyan's withdrawal from the competition halfway.
After finally finding a young man with excellent cooking skills, Li Zhenmin had already determined that Mo Qingyan would win the championship.
However, unexpectedly, Mo Qingyan gave up the competition halfway.
Although Li Zhenmin wanted to win the championship and participate in the state banquet chef competition, he didn't want to win it in this way.
Many chefs wanted to participate in the state banquet chef competition but were not qualified, but Mo Qingyan got the qualification. If he gave up the competition again, Li Zhenmin felt that he would explode with anger.
Facing Li Zhenmin's harsh words, Mo Qingyan touched her nose with a guilty conscience and said, "I'll try my best."
Mo Qingyan felt innocent in his heart, and he didn't want to give up the competition halfway.
However, once this system task came, he had no choice but to give up the game.
After all, in the current mission, the system doesn’t ask for his money, but his life!
Compared with your own life, when it is time to give up the game, you must do it without hesitation.
Therefore, Mo Qingyan could only try her best.
"What do you mean by try your best, you..."
Li Zhenmin was about to say something when suddenly, a young man walked in surrounded by a group of people.
Suddenly, everyone's eyes shifted from Mo Qingyan to the young man.
Mo Qingyan was immediately happy when she saw the person coming.
Oh my god, another familiar face came.
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