Chapter 79: Hard to Get a Seat
"Is there anything we can do?" Jiufang Yu tapped the table lightly with his fingers.
"It must be there." Qi Huan picked up the pen he had just used, took out a piece of white paper and wrote quickly for a while, then showed it to the two of them.
"Please ask the Star Lord to find someone to help plan the tourism reception for the Waste Star." Qi Huan circled the word "itinerary" on the left with a pen, "I suggest making it a two-day tour. After getting off the starship, arrange a half-day tour, such as the No. 3 base destroyed by the beast tide, and then send them to the dinner venue. After the dinner, send them to the accommodation. On the second day, arrange a stone beast hunting experience. It would be best to have a session of purchasing souvenirs from the Waste Star, and finally send them back to the starship station on time.
The itinerary can be adjusted in more detail later, but the cost budget and expected price must be given to me before 2 pm tomorrow, and then it will be directly added to the price of the dinner seats. "
"Okay." Jiufang Yu nodded slightly, "Do you have any ideas about the types of souvenirs?"
"For food, you can consider making some lucky cakes. The prints can be upgraded to ones with more characteristics of the Waste Star. You can leave this to Ah Tu and the others. They were very skilled in making it last time, so it's no problem. You can also consider making some Waste Star scenery or the words 'Human Restaurant' and menu-like embroidery pieces, which can be made into hanging painting cores, ornaments, handbags, aprons, etc. It all depends on what everyone likes more." Qi Huan thought of Quan Yu's craftsmanship.
"Then we can get some of those black stones that people use to smash and bring bad luck, and sell them as the special product of Waste Star, 'Disaster Relief Stone'. Don't make them too big, just a small piece will do, and the more exquisite the packaging, the better. Also, pick some good-looking tusks, scales, and hides of the stone beasts and star beasts from a while ago, and make some bracelets, ornaments, pendants, and dagger covers, mark them with energy values, and increase the price by 15% over the same-level beast cores. In short, the general principle is to have characteristics of Waste Star. The above are just a few examples, and the secretaries are welcome to use their imagination for the rest."
"I think we should let the secretary give you the salary." Diwuyuan interrupted. Qi Huan casually planned a bunch of souvenirs, which made him want to buy some. For example, the auspicious cake and the stone for warding off disasters and misfortunes, they felt like they would be great as souvenirs for Baifu's employees.
"I need your help with three things from afar," Qi Huan turned to the young master, "The first is the profit-sharing issue of the dinner seats. This is a special product that is different from the original product. It is not very dependent on the platform and program, so I hope to get a low profit-sharing discount for the sale of this seat alone. Second, I would like to ask the platform to help draft a service agreement. It would be best if we can work with the secretary of Feixing to take into account various security exemption clauses and risk avoidance issues."
"No problem." Diwu Yuan nodded, "What is the third one?"
"Third, I would like you to help monitor public opinion. Those who curse me don't matter, but those involving two keywords must be paid special attention to. One mentions 'recipe', and the other mentions my real name."
"Okay." The young master clenched his right fist, indicating that he left it to him.
"As for myself, my main task is to prepare for tomorrow's 'Q&A session' and adjust the menu for the Clear Sky Banquet, adding a few dishes that have been on the shelves before." Qi Huan circled the words 'live broadcast content' as a finishing touch.
Diwu Yuan held his chin and sighed, "Huanhuan, you are more like an adult than I thought."
"What are you talking about? Compared to you, I am an adult, okay?" Qi Huan protested.
"I thought you would be scared." The young master said with a click of the tongue, "But Huanhuan handled the situation very coolly."
"Thank you for the compliment." Qi Huan rubbed his head with a smile.
In his previous life, he often encountered malicious things like picking faults and screen-sweeping attacks in the live broadcast room. It was nothing new to him. The other half of the reason was that he came from another era. When he watched this incident, he would subconsciously distance himself from it. He had a natural shield against those offensive words, so he could naturally remain calm and rational when dealing with them.
"Okay, the meeting is over. Everyone can go back to your rooms and get busy." Qi Huan stood up and glanced at Diwuyuan. Unexpectedly, the other party waved his hand and motioned for him to leave first. "Jiufang Yu and I will discuss something else."
Something was definitely wrong. Qi Huan frowned, looking at Diwu Yuan, then at Jiufang Yu. What was going on? In the past, at such times, shouldn't Diwu Yuan have left immediately after finding Jiufang Yu annoying? Why would he stay now?
He walked out of the room full of doubts, and when he returned to his room, he couldn't help but send a message to Jiu Fangyu, [Is there something I don't know? When did you two become so close? ]
The message was probably blocked and there was no reply, so Qi Huan started to think about the menu.
Half an hour later, Jiufang Yu's reply came, [It probably started from when he cracked the signal device and helped us locate the stone beast's enclosure through anti-tracking.]
[Is the young master so powerful? ]
[He is truly a genius in technology. It is said that he had explored all the official systems of the alliance before he was ten years old.]
【6~】
The next morning, just as the topic of 'genius chef deceiving the world and stealing fame' was raging on Star Internet and public outrage had almost reached its peak, a brief live broadcast announcement was posted in Qi Huan's live broadcast room, [Today's live broadcast time: 3 pm. Everyone is welcome to visit the live broadcast room for communication].
Countless people were already keeping an eye on the movements of Baifu's official platform and [Renjian Restaurant]. Once the announcement came out, it spread throughout the entire star network within a few minutes.
Qi Huan ignored the commotion. He stayed in Jiufang Yu's room, waiting for the quotation and itinerary plan from the secretary while busy making a hand-drawn menu.
He basically did not touch the original dishes of the Clear Sky Banquet, and only planned to remove the Golden Jade Egg Yolk Pastry. This dessert was specially designed to incentivize scoring, and it would only be used as a surprise gift for scoring and would not be included in the menu, so the dessert would be replaced with Nine-Tail Pastry, and then two other dishes made in the live broadcast room would be added, which would ultimately be equivalent to twelve dishes plus a staple food.
Two little black and white balls sat at the upper left and upper right corners of the menu like paperweights, watching him draw attentively.
Golden minced meat, crispy yellow radish, gourd chicken, Yunmeng meat wrapped with flowers...
It was probably because Qi Huan’s paintings were quite lifelike that every time he finished one, Zhou Ba would drool.
When he was drawing the Nine-tailed Pastry, the black ball suddenly stopped working, rushed over and covered the half-drawn fox on the paper with its front hoof.
"Be good, Xiaoba. I'll make you something delicious later." Qi Huan tried to coax it to leave, but the little guy was not only stubborn but also went even further and lay down on the bed with his entire smooth and shiny body.
"What's wrong with it?" Qi Huan didn't understand why Hei Tuanzi was angry for no reason, so he had to ask Jiu Fangyu on the opposite side for help.
"I'm angry. I won't let you become someone else's spirit body. I want you to become its appearance instead." Jiufang Yu was communicating with others while acting as a translator for Qi Huan.
The black ball raised its head high as if in agreement and wagged its tail happily, Yes, be me, be me!
Qi Huan looked at Zhou Qi's appearance, shook his head helplessly and lovingly, and tapped its nose lightly with the pen, "Okay, I'll be you and change into your appearance."
When I made Nine-Tailed Cake before, I just wanted to take advantage of the popularity and goodwill of the popular mythical beast. With the current popularity of the live broadcast room, it is natural to make it into any shape, but it is just a matter of redesigning the dough structure and assembly method. If Black Tuanzi likes it, then just make it according to his preferences.
In addition, you can also take the opportunity to make some improvements to the filling, consider adding some flower petals or something. Qi Huan was amazed by the taste of nine-leaf chrysanthemum in soup yesterday, and thought of the flower cake, so he couldn't help but think about it.
"There is one thing you have to know. This snack is meant to be eaten by people. It's made in your shape so that people can eat it. Is that okay?" Qi Huan poked the tip of the little guy's nose again to remind him.
Sure enough, when Black Tuanzi heard that he was going to be eaten by someone, his tail, which was originally flapping, immediately froze. He looked at Qi Huan with his big black eyes and whimpered twice.
"No room for negotiation. These are the snacks for the Clear Sky Banquet. Each guest attending the banquet will be given a portion and must eat them. You decide for yourself."
A look of struggle appeared on the black ball's furry little face. After hesitating for a long while, he whimpered towards Qi Huan in grievance.
"It agrees and allows others to eat it." The simultaneous interpreter across the table said.
"Baby is so good~" Qi Huan kissed the black ball on the head as usual, and then he remembered the connection between the spiritual body and the physical body's senses.
Jiufang Yu: ...
Qi Huan cleared his throat awkwardly, poked his hot and itchy cheeks twice with the pen, and pretended to be busy drawing the menu with his head down, not daring to look at Jiufang Yu at all.
The whole room suddenly fell into an eerie silence.
At three o'clock in the afternoon, Qi Huan sat at a long table, with his back to a large area of ruins, and started the show on time.
"First of all, I have to ask for your forgiveness. The star network signal on the waste planet is not very good. In addition, the base encountered a beast tide a few days ago and there are many things to deal with. Therefore, I basically don't go online during non-live broadcast time. It happened that I was researching new recipes yesterday and set up message do not disturb. I didn't see the platform's contact information in time. I didn't know that everyone had so many questions for me this morning. So, let's not cook during today's live broadcast time. Just do two things. First, answer the questions raised by everyone."
Qi Huan in front of the camera explained sincerely that he was in a backward place, which led to the delay in information. Diwuyuan was dumbfounded. If he didn't remember dragging Qi Huan to read the post yesterday, he would really believe it.
The young master looked at Qi Huan, then at Jiu Fangyu, and said firmly, "It's all because of you. After being with you for so long, Huan Huan has also learned to lie."
Jiufang Yu: ...
Children just like to make trouble.
"So what was he like before?"
"He's gentle, innocent, and harmless. He doesn't talk much and is very shy. I asked for his contact information three times in the game before I added him as my friend."
Jiufang Yu's eyelashes moved slightly as he looked towards the long table at Qi Huan who was facing the camera with ease.
"Slow down, slow down, everyone's comments are scrolling too fast, I can't see the content clearly." Qi Huan smiled bitterly and spread his hands towards the camera, "I can't answer the questions like this."
Someone couldn't help but swipe the gift screen, and a line of large words slowly floated across the screen of the live broadcast room, [Did you make all the dishes you broadcast live before? ]
"Of course I did it myself, who else could have done it?" Qi Huan immediately stated firmly.
The second gift floated across the screen, [But the dishes you cooked before were terrible, and they are completely different from what you show in the live broadcast room now. ]
"Thank you for your affirmation of my current cooking skills. I didn't perform very well when I first took over the restaurant. I was in a trance and felt very bad because of the death of a family member. Later, I took advantage of my injury to practice and adjust for a period of time. Now I have adjusted myself."
Everyone discovered the trick and started to refresh the gift screen. [Every time the live broadcast is disconnected, is it a deliberate design? ]
"It's such an injustice. I want to emphasize that it's not 'every time', there were just a few unexpected coincidences. I'm very happy that my unhappiness can bring happiness to the viewers in the live broadcast room, but if I had to design it, I would rather design myself as a lucky koi, a character who brings good luck to others as well. Who wants to be an unlucky guy?" Qi Huan gave a helpless smile to the camera.
[Are you really living on a waste planet? ]
"24K Innocence. I would really like to visit other star regions, but I heard that I have to apply for qualifications first and get approval before I can go."
【Why did you suddenly show your face? 】
"I just didn't bother to set up the default mode. The virtual live broadcast room defaults to a virtual image. The base was destroyed, and I suddenly wanted to do a live broadcast, but I didn't notice that the default for live broadcasts is the real image. I can show my face if I want, it's not like I can't see anyone anyway."
"Is he making a veiled attack on someone else?" Diwuyuan asked Jiufang Yu beside him uncertainly.
Jiufang Yu said with a straight face, "You think too much."
[Why choose such an arrogant name as the third best chef in the world? 】
"I created this account when I first went online at the age of ten. I was young and ignorant at that time. Of course, I still don't fully understand now. After all, I am not yet an adult." Qi Huan showed his registration interface to the camera. There has been no record of changing his name since registration.
"By the way, I will ask the platform to use all the money from everyone's gifts today to buy nutritional supplements and send them to the waste planet to donate them to the children in the nomadic base." Qi Huan took out a photo. It was a photo he took of the children in the nomadic base in the morning after he asked the guards to communicate with Hong Lin.
In front of the ruins, there were about twenty children of different heights standing, and they were shockingly thin.
The audience in the live broadcast room were shocked. What era is this? Are there still people who can’t even take nutritional supplements?
After answering the hot controversial questions, Qi Huan sent a secret signal to No. 2, who was the assistant broadcaster across the long table. No. 2 immediately sent out the message he had typed out using the gift screen, [Besides answering the questions, what is the second thing to do? ]
"The second thing is to list the seats for the Clear Sky Banquet."
【What is the Clear Sky Banquet? 】
What does banquet seat mean?
[Wait, this isn't what I thought it was? ]
"The Clear Sky Banquet is the banquet shown in the live broadcast where I showed my face before," Qi Huan took out the hand-painted dinner menu he had prepared and said earnestly, "Hearing is believing, seeing is believing. Although I have answered many of your questions just now, you may not believe what I say. In this case, why don't you buy a starship ticket and come to Feixing to have a Clear Sky Banquet and taste the real cooking skills of the chef."
【！ ！ ！ ！ ！】
【How much? 】
How many seats?
[Can I eat all the dishes on the menu? ]
[Can you bring back the dishes you cooked in the previous live broadcast room? 】
"There will be a Clear Sky Banquet every Wednesday and every August, with twelve seats each. It will be on sale for three weeks, a total of six. The first one next Wednesday is the first one, with a 50% discount, 60,000 silver coins per seat. Starting from the second time, the price will return to the original price, 120,000 silver coins per seat.
There will be a total of twelve dishes on the banquet, plus a staple food. Two of the dishes will be dishes that have been served in the live broadcast room before. The specific dishes will be decided by everyone. I will post a vote later, and after 24 hours, the two dishes with the highest votes will be added to the menu. "
After Qi Huan finished explaining, the entire live broadcast room exploded with comments, some complaining that the price was too high and that it was a steal, some complaining that it was too far away and that it was unsafe, and some asking about the dishes and specific details of the banquet, all filling up the screen. But he successfully brought everyone's attention to the Qingkong Banquet, and no one paid attention to the personality or the authenticity of the banquet. He was right, whether it was true or not, wouldn't we know when we went to see it and have a meal?
"Do you think it can be sold?" Diwu Yuan looked at Jiufang Yu.
"It will definitely be sold out." Jiufang Yu's face was confident. Qi Huan had discussed this price with him, and also referred to the price of the Four Star Chef's restaurant. Considering Qi Huan's cooking skills, it was not outrageous.
Sure enough, while the two were talking about these two sentences, the six tables of dinner seats were sold out in seconds.
Qi Huan smiled at the grayed-out page. He knew it would work! Although many people complained, the few dozen seats were too few compared to the hundreds of thousands of people. It was an absolute hunger marketing, with supply exceeding demand.
"Okay, let's stop here for today's live broadcast. Don't worry if you didn't take the photo. We will still broadcast live during the dinner and serve the original flavor to everyone. Friends who haven't tried it before can wait and see."
As soon as Qi Huan turned off the live broadcast, Jiufang Yu's personal terminal started vibrating.
[Can I ask for your help? Is the young chef you told me about last time planning to host a sky banquet? My great-grandfather and great-grandmother heard about it and wanted to try it, but they couldn't get a seat. You must have a way, right? ]
Broken Blade's great grandfather, isn't that the former president of the Kitchen Guild? Jiufang Yu's eyes lit up slightly, and he quickly replied, "Leave it to me."
After the live broadcast, the news that the Third Best Chef in the World will open offline dinner seats next Wednesday to dispel rumors once again spread all over the Star Network.
With a clear "identification" time point, many people who followed the trend have temporarily taken a break. We will know what will happen next Wednesday.
"It should be considered a temporary solution, right?" Qi Huan stayed in Jiufang Yu's room and searched the Star Network. Seeing that all the noise had died down, he heaved a sigh of relief.
"It's only temporary." Jiufang Yu said lightly.
"You mean, the people who want the recipes might just keep messing around?"
"Yes." Jiufang Yu nodded, "If you are willing to trust me, I hope you can tell me the real reason. This way we can find a way to completely solve the problem and prevent future troubles."
Qi Huan's eyebrows knitted together in confusion. After a moment of silence, he said, "Are you brave enough?"
Jiufang Yu: ???
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