Chapter 135 The Competition Begins
She came out to eat Peking duck, but her clothes were ruined, her watch was ruined, and she had to disgust that family of three for such a long time. To be honest, Mo Qingyan was already depressed.
Fortunately, nothing happened again after returning to the General's Mansion.
Mo Qingyan let Gao Moqi and Xu Yi live together in the general's mansion. After all, Gao Moqi's arm was burned because he saved him.
But Gao Moqi politely declined, and then Gao Moqi left with Xu Yi who was reluctant to leave. Before leaving, he did not forget to tell Mo Qingyan to go to the competition venue early tomorrow.
In the evening, Butler Li brought ten account books to Mo Qingyan's room and handed them to Mo Qingyan.
"Sir, this is the expenditure item of our General's Mansion in the past ten years. Please take a look."
Today, Steward Wang and others who were originally in City B also arrived. When they learned that the general's mansion belonged to Mo Qingyan, they were so shocked that they were speechless.
They all knew that they were following a second-generation man who was rich, willing to spend money, good-tempered and easy to serve.
However, no one expected that this second generation would be so awesome and actually be the owner of the Shangjing General's Mansion.
Seeing the arrival of Mo Qingyan's butler, Butler Li was very tactful and readily handed over the butler's power.
In his opinion, although he was a family man, he had not spent much time with Mo Qingyan.
Mo Qingyan must have more trust in the butler Zhang who has always followed him.
However, what he didn't know was that Zhang Butler and others had only been following Mo Qingyan for a short time.
Compared with Butler Li, who has been managing the General's Mansion for ten years and knows everything about it, this Butler Zhang is no match.
Of course Mo Qingyan would not ask for trouble by replacing Butler Li.
However, as the host, you can't be too lax.
Therefore, Mo Qingyan did not refuse to check the accounts.
Completely letting things go will only make people who originally had no ambitions develop ambitions that they shouldn't have.
The art of controlling people is to use both kindness and severity. Let the people below you know that you can delegate power but you won’t indulge them.
Mo Qingyan picked up the account books for the past ten years and looked through them one by one.
Butler Li sat opposite Mo Qingyan, quietly waiting for Mo Qingyan to check the accounts. Whenever Mo Qingyan had any questions, he would answer them one by one.
Although Butler Li is old, the account book he made uses the current accounting method.
Every expenditure is recorded clearly.
Basically, the monthly expenses are the same, except that there will be some additional maintenance costs for the General's Mansion occasionally.
For example, if a few fish died in the lake of the general's mansion, you could buy back the same species and put them back in.
For example, one of the houses in the general's mansion was leaking and needed to be repaired.
The account book is simple and clear, and everything is recorded clearly. Even the smallest detail will be recorded in it.
This is enough to show the intentions of Butler Li.
Butler Li looked at Mo Qingyan who was checking the accounts seriously, with a smile on his face.
Mo Qingyan's careful checking of the accounts made it meaningful for him to manage the General's Mansion diligently for the past ten years.
Even if Mo Qingyan was going to change the steward and ask him to hand over the stewardship of the general's mansion, Steward Li did not have any dissatisfaction. In his opinion, he had waited for Mo Qingyan, the owner of the general's mansion, and he had no regrets in this life.
There wasn’t much recorded in the account book for one year, so Mo Qingyan finished checking it quickly.
After Mo Qingyan put down the account book, she expressed her approval to Butler Li, "Butler Li, you have managed the General's Mansion very well over the past ten years."
Hearing Mo Qingyan's words of approval, Butler Li's eyes instantly became moist.
"No, this is what I should do."
Mo Qingyan smiled and said, "I will only be in the capital for about a week before I go somewhere else. Therefore, I still need to trouble Steward Li for this general's mansion. I wonder if Steward Li is still willing to manage such a large family?"
"Yes, I couldn't be more willing." At this time, Butler Li had already forgotten the promise he had made to his son not long ago that he would resign and retire.
"Sir, since you are back, why don't you just move back to the General's Mansion? After all, you are the owner of the General's Mansion now. It is not good for the General's Mansion to be empty without an owner."
In the past, when the general's mansion had no owner, Steward Li always felt empty inside. Now that his master Mo Qingyan has returned, Butler Li feels that life is becoming more and more hopeful.
He thought that he must live as long as possible so that he could see his husband get married and have children, and even watch the young man grow up, get married and have children.
He will have no regrets in this life.
"Well, I'll think about it. But I'm currently recording a live variety show. I'll take a look after the show is over."
The original owner no longer had any relatives. If one had to count real relatives, Mo Wenen’s family would be considered non-blood relatives.
Speaking of friends, Gao Moqi, Song Beichen and others are all friends.
For Mo Qingyan, it doesn't matter where she lives.
Anyway, transportation is so developed now, I can come back to Beijing at any time.
However, Mo Qingyan also felt that what Butler Li said made sense.
After all, the right to use this general's mansion was purchased at a huge price.
If you don't live in it, it would be a pity to leave it there.
"Okay, okay, no rush, sir, just take care of your business first, and it won't be too late to think about it later."
Butler Li did not continue to persuade Mo Qingyan.
He knew his identity. Where the master lived was not something he, a butler, could decide.
The next day, Mo Qingyan got up early.
Song Beichen and others also got up early. They planned to send Mo Qingyan to the competition together.
Today is the opening day of the Level 3 State Banquet Chef Competition.
The game started at ten o'clock sharp.
All contestants must arrive at the competition venue before 9:50.
The traffic in Beijing is very congested in the morning.
Because seven to nine o'clock is the peak working hours.
Therefore, you must leave home at least an hour earlier so as not to be late.
In order to have enough time, Mo Qingyan went out an hour and a half earlier.
The program team had already discussed the time of the live broadcast with the food festival and the organizers of the third-level state banquet chef competition.
The program team obtained temporary live broadcast rights in the form of sponsorship.
After all, the official side also has a dedicated live broadcast room.
The program crew spent a lot of money to get this live broadcast room.
Of course, the program team’s current live broadcast traffic is also very large, so it would be a good idea to promote the third-level state banquet chef competition. That's a win-win for both parties.
Fortunately, Mo Qingyan and others set out early. The traffic jam from the first ring road to the second ring road lasted for more than an hour.
Mo Qingyan left home at eight o'clock and arrived at the competition venue at half past nine.
Song Beichen and others cannot follow Mo Qingyan into the competition venue.
However, they can watch the game in the lounge provided by the food festival.
When Mo Qingyan arrived at the scene, most of the chefs had already arrived.
This was Mo Qingyan's first time participating in such a large-scale chef competition.
The competition venue is set up on the first floor of the Gourmet Club Building.
More than 500 chefs were divided into six competition areas.
Mo Qingyan is in the fifth competition area.
The news that Mo Qingyan drew the death number yesterday had already spread.
Therefore, when he arrived, the chefs in the fifth competition area all looked at him with sympathy.
Li Zhenmin was not in the same competition area as Mo Qingyan.
Instead, Zhou Ningren and Chen Kang were drawn into the same competition area as Mo Qingyan.
In addition to the two of them, there are five level 3 state banquet chefs from last year in Mo Qingyan's competition area.
One of the state banquet-level chefs happened to draw number 445, and was right next to Mo Qingyan.
The state banquet-level chef was a girl in her twenties, and she was quite pretty.
After seeing Mo Qingyan coming, he nodded and greeted Mo Qingyan.
However, the sympathy in his eyes when he looked at Mo Qingyan was overflowing.
After all, the death number 444 is too famous in their circle of state banquet chefs.
Faced with so many sympathetic looks, Mo Qingyan pretended not to see them.
He was actually not worried about the death number.
What he was more worried about was the system.
What he was afraid of was that the system would suddenly give him an emergency task or something while he was competing.
Just like last time.
Then he came to this game in vain.
I hope the system won't be so stupid this time.
At 9:50, all the chefs participating in the competition had arrived at the competition venue.
The judges of the competition have also arrived.
Each competition area is staffed with five judges.
After the five judges came on stage to give their speeches, the host came on stage and began to explain the rules of the competition.
"Welcome everyone to participate in this Level 3 State Banquet Chef Competition. The rules of this competition are the same as in the past. All contestants need to use all the ingredients provided in this competition within the specified time to prepare competition dishes related to the competition topic."
"The dishes of each contestant will be scored by the five judges present here. Only contestants with the top 100 scores will advance to the second round."
"Now let me announce the topic of this competition."
The word "fish" appeared on the big screen.
This is the topic of this competition.
Then, it was time for the game again.
This competition is limited to two hours.
A group of staff brought up the seasonings and ingredients needed for the competition.
Two boxes were placed in front of each contestant.
A box containing various seasonings, side dishes, etc.
The other box contained three fish: grass carp, black carp, and sea bass.
All three fish are freshwater fish, and they are all very fresh and live fish.
Of these three fish, the contestants can only choose one to keep.
Most people at the scene chose sea bass.
After all, compared to grass carp, sea bass has more delicious meat and fewer bones.
Of course, black carp has fewer bones, but in terms of the deliciousness of the fish meat, it is actually not as good as that of sea bass.
Therefore, most chefs choose sea bass.
Mo Qingyan originally wanted to choose sea bass, but when he saw that there was sauerkraut among the side dishes provided. Suddenly changed his mind. I chose black fish.
The third-level state banquet-level female chef next to her was slightly stunned when she saw Mo Qingyan choose black fish.
After taking a careful look at Mo Qingyan, he chose the black fish just like Mo Qingyan.
After all the ingredients and condiments were distributed, the host announced the start of the competition and the countdown on the big screen began to tick.
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