Chapter 25: Cooking Competition

  In order to get the divine brush, I agreed to the cooking competition proposed by the man in green shirt.

  However, although they were talking big at the time, how to win was indeed a major problem.

  The next morning, I dragged Xiong Xiaotu to the vegetable market, but he was so excited that he wanted to sell everything, which really made me angry.

  "Xiao Tuo, be serious! We didn't buy it to eat, we bought it for the competition!" To make Xiao Tuo wake up a bit, I still gave his big head a hard knock, and my tone was much stricter than usual. Alas, what a headache!

  "There's a match tonight, I know that, but eating is important too!" Xiong Xiaotu rubbed the sore spot on his forehead, saying with a helpless expression.

  Or maybe Xiong Xiaotu really doesn't have any sense of crisis at all, but it's also true that I'm the one who wants a stroke of genius, not him.

  "Don't you forget..." A glint flashed in my eyes, and I deliberately dragged out the tone, saying slowly: "Didn't you say you wanted to eat something I made? If you lose, then you won't have that good fortune!"

  Although I don't have such great culinary skills, as long as I can temporarily deceive Xiong Xiaotu into letting me participate in the competition, it's still much better than serving that unimpressive vegetable dish of mine, which is not even worthy of being served at a grand banquet!

  "But if we're just going to have a barbecue, wouldn't it be better to go directly to the woods? Why come to the market?" Xiong Xiaotu blinked his eyes and pointed around.

  Right, if it's about doing what Xiong Xiaotu is good at, roasting meat, or going into the woods to catch some animals and make game dishes, wouldn't that be more suitable? If he has never done pork or chicken dishes before, won't he perform poorly and disappoint everyone?

  "It's really your fault, you didn't say anything earlier!" I spread my hands out, making it clear that all the blame should be placed on him. The corners of my mouth curved up in a gentle smile as I said slowly and deliberately: "Because, you're the great chef, if you don't even say where we're going, how can I do anything but wander around aimlessly?"

  "It's great to wander around, I didn't know there were so many delicious things!" Xiong Xiaotu seemed to be infected by my smile and also smiled brightly. Then, he took a glance around and couldn't help but stick out his tongue to lick the corner of his mouth. Looking at his expression and action...he's too easily satisfied, right? These vegetables and radishes can actually stimulate his appetite?

  Would he like the simple and plain food I made? This thought flashed in my mind, but was quickly denied by me. He's just a foodie, although I don't know if he's picky or not. Since he can make such delicious roasted meat, how could he possibly like the dishes I cook?

  My heart suddenly surged with a faint sense of loss, or maybe I should learn from Xiong Xiaotu how to do barbecue! Although girls generally don't like eating meat, but I think it doesn't matter, balanced nutrition is more important. I've never been obsessed with those greasy foods, nor will I deliberately avoid them and quit eating meat on purpose.

  Then we went into the woods and luckily, Xiong Xiaotu caught a big fish and several wild rabbits.

  "Wow, what a big fish!" Jin Hongbao exclaimed excitedly. Because Xiong Xiaotu's fish was dragged in, and the fish was about 5 or 6 meters long. I didn't know what kind of fish it was, so I just called it a big fish.

  Such a big fish, shouldn't be poisonous, right? I don't want to do anything against my conscience, so I took out a small knife, cut off a small piece of fish meat, and prepared to feed the little dog.

  "It's such a waste to feed the dog, I can just eat it." Xiong Xiaotu immediately snatched the fish meat and performed eating raw fish in front of me.

  Ugh... I was taken aback, this Xiao Tuo is really a foodie, even daring to eat raw fish. Although I've heard that Japanese people also like to eat sashimi, but personally, I've always been a bit bothered by the smell of fish, so I've never had it before.

  Some ideas flashed through his mind again. If Xiong Xiaotu could make both barbecue and sashimi at the same time, wouldn't it be especially impressive?

  Anyway, with more than half a day's time before the competition, I told Xiong Xiaotuo about my thoughts.

  In order for the raw fish slices to pass smoothly, I also asked Jin Hongbao and his fiancée Yu Xiangqin to taste them.

  "This sashimi is delicious!" Jin Hongbao gave a big thumbs up and great praise.

  "It's still the first time I've had this, and it tastes pretty good!"

  Seeing Xiong Xiaotu being praised by them, I couldn't help but think that if Xiong Xiaotu wasn't a beastman, he would be a good partner. Because for someone like me who isn't skilled in cooking, maybe finding a man who can cook would be better!

  Night falls, stars twinkle and fill the sky.

  Same place, same scene, but different content.

  Today is the day when Xiong Xiaotu and the green-shirted man compete in cooking skills. Although, it may be unprecedented for a beastman to compete with a mature handsome man, but I have confidence in Xiong Xiaotu.

  The game officially started, and we invited the mayor of Huaiyu Town, Guo Yiyuan, to be the referee, as well as four foodies who came to serve as judges.

  Of course, there are also some onlookers who are ready to feast their eyes and taste buds.

  "It's a great honor, today we can hold such an interesting competition, now please welcome the players from both sides to enter the field."

  "On the left is Min Xi, on the right is Xiong Xiao Tuo. The competition rules are simple, with scores divided equally between the judges and the diners, the highest score wins the championship."

  The man in a green shirt was still alone, but his expression was very relaxed. Because he didn't need to prepare anything, as long as he had that brush that could paint mantou (steamed buns).

  But I and Xiong Xiaotu are different, we still need to prepare some ingredients and so on.

  Although I'm not good at cooking, I can still help Xiong Xiaotu wash and chop vegetables, wash meat, cut fish slices, and make some shapes.

  Time flies by every minute and second, and Minxi has drawn many buns in an instant.

  And I was helping Xiong Xiaotu cut fish slices, and his roasted meat was also very challenging, in order to roast out some flavor, so he had to slowly roast it.

  However, Xiong Xiao's technique was still very familiar, and at a glance, the rabbit meat was roasted to a deep red color.

  The air is filled with the aroma of roasted rabbit meat. Just smelling that smell makes me feel like I want to eat it!

  When our finished dishes were placed on the table, Min Xi looked at the dishes we made and couldn't help but change his expression, but he didn't say much.

  Many diners came to taste, looking at those who were surrounded by the dinner table eating food, my heart couldn't help but tense up.

  No matter whether Xiong Xiaotu can win or not, at least we all did our best!