Chapter 445: Really Onion
"The small handful he is washing." Zhao Xiaojing added.
The three of them turned their attention to the small bunch of green onions in the pool, which the contestant on the left was carefully washing.
"Such a small handful, chives? It doesn't look like it... It's wild onions? Do wild onions grow this well?"
"Was this bunch of green onions just laid out? Didn't he also give some to the person on the right? Didn't he see this one?"
Wen Xinyuan and the fat man looked at it but couldn't figure out what it was.
"Both teachers have focused their attention on him." Guan Yingxia said, glancing at the judges.
The three of them turned their heads and saw that although Nan Rongquan and Dang Yongge's eyes kept shifting, most of their attention was actually on the contestant on the left, especially on the green onions. They even watched him wash the green onions very carefully.
"It seems that this onion is indeed special. How did you know that, Sister Mirror?" Wen Xinyuan asked in confusion.
"Just now, after the contestant on the right had distributed the ingredients and left, he took out this bunch of green onions from under a pile of green onions. He hid these green onions at the bottom from the beginning. You can't see them at all from the surface, and no one else would check the ingredients for a pile of green onions." Zhao Xiaojing said in a low voice.
"Are we watching a game? I saw him washing green onions and didn't notice anything wrong with it."
"I watched him pick up the onions and even saw him digging them out from underneath. I was wondering what he was picking up. What was there to choose from among a pile of onions? But I didn't think of them as premium ingredients at all!"
“Who in their right mind would have thought that the premium ingredient was a bunch of green onions?”
“Details, all details!”
Fatty and Wen Xinyuan gave Zhao Xiaojing a thumbs-up with admiration.
"What a sharp eyesight." Guan Yingxia also praised softly.
Zhao Xiaojing smiled embarrassedly and said nothing.
Although she saw the details, she was able to confirm that the onion was of special grade only because of the system cheating.
As soon as the two of them took the ingredients, she became curious about the quality of the ingredients. She had a similar opinion to the fat man, thinking that sea cucumbers and Australian lobsters were high-end ingredients. At that time, she thought about trying whether the quality identification module could identify them.
After all, it is about six or seven meters away from the table. Although the ingredients can be seen clearly, I don’t know whether the distance is far for the quality evaluation module.
As a result, when I opened the module, I found that it could really be identified.
Moreover, the identification results floated in the middle of each ingredient like a barrage of words, which made Zhao Xiaojing stunned when she saw the dense text for the first time. It took her a while to read them one by one.
At that time, the contestant on the right seemed to have a lot of good ingredients, but when he looked over, he found that except for Australian lobster and sea cucumber, which were level two, the others were all level three and level four.
Looking at the contestant on the left, there was a bunch of level three and level four ingredients mixed together, but among the level three green onions, there was suddenly a level one ingredient identification barrage hidden in it.
It is a wild onion that grows beautifully and has a rich, natural onion flavor.
Zhao Xiaojing was fascinated at that time.
A bunch of seafood and wild delicacies, but green onions are the legendary premium ingredient? What kind of deception is this? A handful of good green onions can enhance the flavor to a certain extent, but it can't play a decisive role, right? And the production team is really good at making things up!
But calming down makes sense. After all, if seemingly high-end ingredients are truly premium and high-quality, then the answer is literally written on the surface. Those who are slow to grab the items, or whose physical strength is weak, are simply out of luck. It's better to use a surprise attack like this, hiding the premium ingredients among the more inconspicuous ones, requiring patient identification to discover them. That's actually fairer.
Moreover, this also weakens the role of premium ingredients. It is not really like what other contestants say, that whoever has the premium ingredients will definitely win.
However, the premium ingredients mentioned by the program team were only ranked level one in the system's appraisal, which made Zhao Xiaojing a little happy.
After all, the system has said that although the identified top-grade ingredients exist on Earth, they are difficult to discover and are extremely rare, so they can basically only be obtained through the optimization of the identification module.
Precisely because she knew the answer in advance, Zhao Xiaojing paid special attention to the pile of onions, and naturally noticed the small movements of the contestant on the left when exchanging ingredients.
"Oh my god, I know why he was so calm just now!" The fat man suddenly slapped his thigh. "It's not that everyone saw him grab a bunch of seasonings. Even if he made a complete dish of stir-fried pork with chili peppers, it would be better than the one next door who had good ingredients and couldn't make it. It's because he really wasn't panicking! He has this bunch of green onions. Even if he made fried eggs with top-grade green onions, it would be better than the one next door who couldn't remove the fishy smell or enhance the fragrance and served up a mediocre, wasteful dish! And he doesn't worry about not having enough time. He definitely has enough time!"
"So he has two backup plans, right? When the person behind him came to find him, he just raised two fingers and specifically asked for sea cucumber and chicken! It's obvious that he has a plan." Wen Xinyuan also reacted.
"So what he is making now is braised sea cucumber with scallions." Guan Yingxia narrowed her eyes.
"Great..."
"Great! The premium onions played a decisive role." Zhao Xiaojing widened her eyes, watching the contestants who had already stewed the chicken on one stove and started frying onion oil over low heat on another stove.
The contestants in the audience probably didn't expect that the premium ingredient they had guessed would end up being used to fry scallion oil.
The scallion oil fried with premium scallions must be very fragrant, right?
but……
"Isn't braised sea cucumber with scallions a very difficult Shandong dish?" Zhao Xiaojing wondered, "But you haven't heard anyone mention this person?"
"It is very difficult. Even experienced chefs can easily make mistakes. I don't know this person." Guan Yingxia said.
"That's true. Is this the apprentice of some chef? I've never seen him before. Have you?"
"No." The fat man shook his head.
"Grandpa Nan is a master of Shandong cuisine. Isn't his apprentice here?" Zhao Xiaojing glanced at the judges' panel and saw Nan Rongquan staring at the player on his left with a slightly frown, and he didn't seem very happy.
"No, if he were to be a judge on a show and invite his own apprentice to compete, that would only lead to gossip. The old man wouldn't do such a thing."
"Too."
As they were talking, the second group of contestants came on stage. At the same time, a staff member, pad in hand, trotted over to Zhao Xiaojing, "Zhao Xiaojing, group three, is that you?"
"It's me."
"Get ready backstage, your turn will be here soon." The staff member pointed to the backstage on the left side of the studio, and then continued to bend over and go to the audience seats at the back.
"Come on, Sister Mirror, make that wretched guy look good!" Wen Xinyuan whispered.
"Don't let him go!" The fat man gave Zhao Xiaojing an encouraging gesture.
"Be careful." Guan Yingxia showed a hint of worry in her eyes.
"I will." Zhao Xiaojing answered in a low voice. Seeing that the wretched man behind her was also walking towards the backstage at the signal of the staff, she hurriedly bowed, gave the three people a reassuring look, and trotted towards the backstage.
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