After Chen Wei returned to the hotel, he did not go to see Su Lanxin, nor did he go to find his fellow disciples. Instead, he locked himself in the room and has not shown up since.
The result of today's competition was obviously difficult for Chen Wei to accept.
It can be said that before the competition, Chen Wei really didn't care about the result
But after the actual competition, Chen Wei was more or less concerned about the outcome of the competition.
Especially since he lost the last two games, and they were evaluated by kindergarten kids who he thought he would not lose, but he only got 20 votes, which was a complete defeat.
Because in Chen Wei's opinion, he has spent a lot of effort in both selecting ingredients and cooking.
Moreover, he specially designed it to look like many children, using various tricks to attract children.
It turns out that it has achieved very good results.
As Tan Xueli said before, many children really like those buffets, and parents are also willing to let their children eat.
Tan Xueli even worried at one point whether the prepared buffet would not be enough for the kindergarten children and their parents.
But then the situation suddenly took a turn for the worse. The children suddenly stopped eating the buffet and all chose to eat Feng Yifan's parent-child rice bowl.
This was something Chen Wei had not expected, but he did not take it seriously at the time.
I think maybe everyone is tired of it, so they just want to try Feng Yifan’s Oyako rice bowl.
But the result was that all the oyakodon prepared by Feng Yifan was eaten up.
On the contrary, there was still a lot of food left from the buffet, so it had to be packed up and taken back for processing.
The final voting result was also an overwhelming victory for Feng Yifan.
Such a result was really hard for Chen Wei to accept.
If the two were almost evenly matched, Chen Wei would not feel anything even if he lost in the end, because he had never thought that he could really win from the beginning.
Moreover, Chen Wei didn't really want to win and didn't want Su Lanxin to continue to worry about the old plaque of Su's.
But now the two are not evenly matched, but Feng Yifan has won overwhelmingly.
Chen Wei really couldn't understand why those children didn't vote for him in the end, but instead voted for Feng Yifan
Is it just because you get sick of eating too much high-end ingredients
Did Feng Yifan take advantage of this and add salted sour plums to the rice to make the children like it more
Chen Wei does not agree with these. In his view, these are just superficial appearances.
He now really wanted to taste Feng Yifan's meal to see what the problem was.
Thinking of this, Chen Wei seemed to have thought of another way, so he quickly called Tan Xueli.
"Shirley, are there any leftover buffet items from lunch?"
Tan Xueli was somewhat dissatisfied with the result of this failure and didn't understand why Feng Yifan won in an overwhelming victory in the end
In Tan Xueli's opinion, the chef has an overwhelming advantage in selecting ingredients and cooking.
So Tan Xueli is also looking for problems.
I just happened to be thinking of trying their buffet, and was quite excited when I got the call from the chef.
"It hasn't been processed yet. It's in the hotel's kitchen."
When Chen Wei learned about it, he immediately said, "Okay, don't deal with it yet. I'll go down now. I want to see what the problem is. Why did we lose so badly?"
Tan Xueli quickly agreed: "Okay, okay, chef, I'll wait for you downstairs."
Chen Wei immediately stood up and went out. But when he opened the door, he saw his four fellow apprentices standing at the door.
Seeing Chen Wei leave, the four of them were stunned at first, and then almost said in unison: "Big Brother, I didn't vote for Feng Yifan."
After the four people said this in unison, they were stunned at first, and then looked at each other in disbelief.
After hearing what the four people said, Chen Wei also said helplessly: "I know, it's not you who voted for Feng Yifan. The reason why it's 4 to 4 is because Su Lanxin voted for Feng Yifan."
The eldest brother's words confused all his fellow disciples.
No one expected that Su Lanxin would actually vote for Feng Yifan.
The ninth brother, Sun Mingxing, couldn't help but ask, "But, isn't she the one who wants the old plaque the most? If she wanted to get the old plaque, why would she let you lose?"
The sixth brother, Lu Yongjun, followed up and said, "Could it be that all this is just a trick directed and performed by Su Lanxin herself?"
The fifth brother, Dai Feng, could not accept it: "Have we brothers been fooled by her all these years?"
Finally, the second oldest, Ma Wenjing, was even more direct: "No, I have to go find her. I must ask Su Lanxin why she did this? Could it be that we followed her and left the Master, and ended up like this, because she played us like this?"
Chen Wei reached out and grabbed the second brother Ma Wenjing: "No need to ask."
All the junior fellow students looked at Chen Wei. These junior fellow students who had spent most of their lives carrying a trace of guilt found it hard to understand why Su Lanxin voted for Feng Yifan in the end
Chen Wei looked at his fellow apprentices, hesitated for a moment and asked: "Let me ask you, do you really think that my dessert is better than Feng Yifan's, so you voted for me?"
This question stumped all four of his fellow apprentices.
When Chen Wei saw the four people hesitating at the same time, he already knew the answer
He was quite disappointed: "I never thought that after half my life of cooking, I would still need my junior brothers to use such methods in order for me to defeat a junior."
After hearing what Chen Wei said, the fellow disciples all felt helpless.
At this moment, the fellow disciples suddenly discovered that their eldest brother seemed to have aged all of a sudden.
That is a change brought about by the original vitality and spirit being released all of a sudden.
After a long while, the ninth brother, Sun Mingxing, spoke up again: "Big Brother, take it easy. Master used to say that the new generation will always push the old generation forward. There will always be talented newcomers in the culinary industry."
Chen Wei looked at Sun Mingxing and asked, "So, what do you think is the winning point of Feng Yifan's dessert?"
Sun Mingxing hesitated for a moment, but then he spoke directly: "His fake Yuanxiao looks fake, but in fact it is full of a different world. It is really a wonderful dish."
Lu Yongjun said directly: "Big Brother, if I tell you that when I bite open the Yuanxiao and look at the cross section, I see a dough-shaped fluid core, do you think you can still beat Feng Yifan?"
Chen Wei was stunned for a moment, and immediately recalled Feng Yifan's cooking process.
Finally, a scene emerged in his mind.
When Feng Yifan was filling the candied radish shells with stuffing, the tool he used seemed to be a piping bag, but the piping bag seemed to be rotating as it poured the stuffing in.
Chen Wei immediately thought that Feng Yifan should have mashed the two fillings separately and put them in two piping bags.
Then use a piping hole to pour the filling into it while rotating.
Therefore, after cooking, the filling becomes semi-fluid, so it appears to be rotating, mixing and flowing out.
When Chen Wei thought of this, he couldn't help but sigh: "Young people are indeed more creative."
Seeing this, the ninth brother Sun Mingxing said, "Big Brother, he might just be taking advantage of the situation. He may not be better at cooking than you."
Chen Wei smiled bitterly and said, "What about the kindergarten lunch? So many children chose him. Is it true that he cheated again? Do you really think you can cheat in cooking?"
The four fellow apprentices were stunned for a moment, and looked at each other, not knowing what to say.
Chen Wei continued, "No matter how good the food looks, the key is whether it tastes good or not. The taste is hard to deceive. If everyone thinks it tastes good, then it really tastes good."
After hearing what the eldest brother said, the four younger brothers also calmed down.
Ma Wenjing hesitated for a moment, but still asked in a low voice: "But why did Su Lanxin vote for Feng Yifan? Is it just because his cooking is delicious?"
In the opinion of Ma Wenjing and the other three, Su Lanxin probably didn't want Feng Yifan to win at all.
So even if what Feng Yifan cooked was really delicious, Su Lanxin should not vote for Feng Yifan.
But the current situation is that Ma Wenjing and his four fellow disciples all voted for the eldest brother regardless of the consequences.
On the contrary, Su Lanxin, the person who wanted to win the most, did not vote for Chen Wei.
The fellow disciples still don’t understand why.
Chen Wei had some guesses in his mind, but he didn't want to say it in front of his fellow students, or he felt there was no need to explain it to them.
Just at this moment, Tan Xueli called.
"Chef, please come down. There is indeed a problem with the dishes in our buffet."
Chen Wei hung up the phone and said to his fellow apprentices, "Well, losing is losing. In fact, losing is a kind of relief, isn't it? It will save us all from suffering in the future."
Without waiting for his fellow apprentices to speak, Chen Wei continued, "Okay, you all want to go back and rest first, and don't mention this matter anymore. Let's find a time later and go find Jinrong to pay respect to the master."
When the matter of paying homage to the master was mentioned, the four brothers were all stunned, and then they all nodded in agreement.
After watching his fellow apprentices go back, Chen Wei quickly took the elevator and went directly to the hotel's kitchen.
Tan Xueli had already prepared everything, and when Chen Wei arrived, she handed the prepared things directly to Chen Wei.
Before putting the fish fillet into his mouth, Chen Wei could already smell the flavor of the fish fillet.
Then, he put it in his mouth, took a small sip, and quickly spat it out because it was hard to swallow.
Chen Wei was somewhat helpless: "Sure enough, there was a problem. No wonder we lost so badly in the end. We used the wrong sauce. When seasoning, we forgot that children eat slowly."
The problem with Chen Wei's buffet is simple: when the ingredients get cold, they naturally become less delicious.
But Chen Wei overlooked one point at that time, thinking that he would be eaten quickly after going up.
But Chen Wei overlooked the fact that children always eat slowly.
Especially in an environment like a kindergarten, children's meal time will be extended a lot, which means that many foods that should be eaten fresh will change in taste because they have been stored for a long time.
Chen Wei smiled helplessly: "Sure enough, we overlooked too many things. We only thought about winning."
Tan Xueli said with a frustrated look: "It's me. I overlooked this detail and didn't make adjustments in time. It's all my fault. I really still lack a lot."
Hearing Tan Xueli's self-blame, Chen Wei shook his head and said, "If there is any fault, then it's all my fault, because I didn't think about winning from the beginning, so I ignored a lot of the cooking process, which led to such a result. It's true that I was too conceited."
Recalling the cooking competition in the kindergarten, Chen Wei had to admit that Feng Yifan was indeed very serious and took many details into consideration.
The key is that he is very confident. He is sure that he can win, so he is so relaxed.
Only with such a relaxed state of mind can Feng Yifan perform at his normal level.
Chen Wei thought about this and sighed helplessly: "I have to admit that Feng Yifan is indeed better than me, but I am already old and he is just over 30 years old."
When Tan Xueli heard this, she looked up at Chen Wei in surprise.
Just like Chen Wei’s four junior brothers upstairs, Tan Xueli also noticed at once that Chen Wei seemed to be getting older.
It really seemed like it happened in an instant. Chen Wei lost his former glory and gradually turned into an old man.
Tan Xueli was startled.
Chen Wei smiled and said, "Don't worry, I'm just old."
After saying that, Chen Wei turned around and walked out of the kitchen.
After walking out of the kitchen and coming to the hotel lobby, Chen Wei felt a little dazed.
Scenes from the past appeared before my eyes.
Finally, these scenes freeze at the first time he went to Su Ji to become an apprentice, and he even knelt down and kowtowed to his master in order to become an apprentice.
Later, in Su Ji’s kitchen, I did learn a lot of my master’s skills.
The scene changed, and Chen Wei seemed to see the graceful young girl again.
That was his master's daughter. When Chen Wei saw her for the first time, his heart was already moved, and he made up his mind to spend his whole life to take care of her.
The scenes changed one after another, and finally came to the scene where the two people had an argument abroad.
Chen Wei was dragged out to drink, and ended up drinking too much and sleeping in a hotel outside.
But when he woke up early in the morning, he saw a strange foreign woman lying next to him. Chen Wei hurriedly put on his clothes and fled the hotel room.
But Chen Wei never expected that the matter would eventually be discovered by Su Lanxin.
Su Lanxin didn't cry or make a fuss, she just asked the lawyer to give him a divorce agreement.
Chen Wei felt guilty, so he signed the divorce agreement with Su Lanxin.
After the divorce, for a long time, Chen Wei lived like a muddle-headed fool, wandering around in chaotic places abroad every day.
Chen Wei kept numbing himself with alcohol and women, but the more he indulged himself, the more difficult it was to erase the graceful figure in his mind.
He once promised his junior sister that he would help her get back the old plaque of Su Ji.
But now, he finally lost completely.
After a series of events, Chen Wei came to his senses and found himself at the door of the hotel. After hesitating for a while, Chen Wei called a car and left the hotel.