Life is a Game

At the moment when Chef Arnold exclaimed, everyone's first reaction was: here we come, finally here we come.

Chef Arnold finally made a move.

Chef Arnold didn't care about everyone's gaze at all, he turned his head to look at Peng Changping, with a disbelief on his face, and asked in English: "Is he your apprentice?"

"Of course." Peng Changping nodded, "Is there any question?"

"Is he the apprentice you mentioned on the phone yesterday?"

Peng Changping nodded affirmatively.

"Who is he?" Chef Arnold's faith collapsed, like an ignorant girl who was deceived by a scumbag, stretching out her hand.

Weekly: ...

Although his cultural level is not high, his English is not good and he has not passed CET-4, but he can still understand the cadenced "Who is he?"

"I'm Zhou Shi." Zhou Shi said.

A Nuo glared at Zhou Shi, he didn't care who Zhou Shi was, he was now a irascible girl who had been cheated by a scumbag for several years, and only wanted to ask for an explanation from the scumbag who cheated him.

"What about Jiang Feng? Isn't Jiang Feng your apprentice?" A Nuo asked loudly.

His question confused Peng Changping. Peng Changping said, "Of course not. When did I say that Jiang Feng is my apprentice?"

"I've heard of him before..."

Seeing that a quarrel was about to start, Lu Sheng hurried out to smooth things over: "Oh, it's almost nine o'clock, and Master A Nuo and Master Peng obviously have business to discuss. How about, Master A Nuo and Master Peng go to my office to talk, Let's drink tea and chat here, and if you have something to do, you can go first."

Everyone: ...

Although A Nuo and Peng Changping spoke English just now, they were all simple conversations that elementary school students could understand. All the people present except Ji Xia could understand, even Han Youxin could understand.

What they are doing is all human beings, and they know the elegance after hearing the stringed songs. As soon as Lu Sheng finished speaking, Han Guishan's family said that it was too late, and Han Youxin had to go home to do his homework before he finished his homework. Although Lu Sheng's parents and wife didn't understand the situation, they also thought that the child didn't write homework, so they took the child to prepare to withdraw.

Wu Minqi looked at Jiang Feng, then at Ji Xia, and finally at Chef A Nuo, with a decision in her heart.

"Xia Xia, you haven't finished your homework today, have you?" Wu Minqi asked with a smile.

Ji Xia:? ? ?

Homework, what homework?

Seeing Ji Xia's confused eyes, Sun Mao knew it was time to show his acting skills.

"Yeah, it's getting late, Xia Xia has to go to school tomorrow, right? I'll drive you back, Jiang Feng, should you go now or sit down for a while before leaving."

Ji Xia:? ? ?

"Huh?" Jiang Feng actually wanted to slip away now, but the way Chef Arnold looked at him let him know that he might not be able to slip away now.

Most importantly, he also wanted to know what happened to him today!

Obviously he was only here for dinner, and he paid all his private money for this meal, but he became the protagonist after eating.

Before Jiang Feng could make a decision, Chef Arnold helped Jiang Feng decide: "He can't leave, I have something to ask him."

Sun Maocai smiled at Jiang Feng, and led Wu Minqi and Ji Xia away heartlessly.

Soon, the people in one box almost left.

Seeing that everyone had left, Xu Cheng felt that it was not right for him to stay and eat melons. He was about to get up and run away when Chef Arnold left him.

"Mr. Xu, please wait a while before leaving. I have something to ask for your help." Chef Arnold said.

Now, I don't need to go to Lu Sheng's office to talk. Jiang Feng, A Nuo, Zhou Shi, Peng Changping, Xu Cheng and the confused Tao Shu were all...

Wait, why is Tao Shu still here?

Zhou Shi also realized that it was not suitable for Tao Shu to stay, so he reminded in a low voice, "Don't you still have to go shopping? It's getting late now, why don't you go shopping first?"

Tao Shu seemed to be awakened suddenly, and said again and again: "Yes, yes, I have to go shopping. I'm going to go first, no, I'm going first, I'm going first, everyone, chat slowly, chat slowly."

Tao Shu got up, bowed his body like a thief, grabbed his mobile phone and was about to slip away, but Chef A Nuo stopped him.

"Wait, I remember your name is Shu... what book." Chef Arnold looked at Tao Shu.

Tao Shu murmured that it was not good. Unexpectedly, Chef Arnold not only remembered himself but even remembered his name. He felt that his life was not long, and he was afraid that he would be fired today.

"You go back to the restaurant now."

Tao Shu lowered his head in despair.

"Tell them I'm going back to work tomorrow and ask them to add my menu, and the chef's set menu will be sold normally."

"Ah?" Tao Shu thought that Chef A Nuo told him to go back to the restaurant to pack his things and get out.

"Is there any problem?" Chef Arnold said clearly.

"No, no, I'm going back now, I'm going now." Tao Shu left as if fleeing for his life, not only closing the door.

Peng Changping picked up the teacup, took a sip of the apprentice tea brought by Zhou Shi, covered the cup, and looked at Chef Arnold.

"Tell me, I felt on the phone yesterday that you have something to tell me today."

Chef A Nuo took a deep breath, and looked back and forth between Peng Changping, Zhou Shi, and Jiang Feng. It was obvious that they hadn't come out of the shadow of being deceived, and their expressions were a little complicated, but they still spoke.

Still use Chinese.

"I'm here to invite you to participate in a competition." Chef Arnold looked unhappy.

Jiang Feng suddenly realized that he was inviting us to participate...

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Participate in the competition?

Jiang Feng thought he had heard it wrong. Chef Arnold had just pretended that he had cheated him of his feelings and cheated him of 50 million yuan, so he ended up inviting him to participate in the competition.

"What game?" Lu Sheng looked at Jiang Feng subconsciously, and asked first.

Chef Arnold still had a displeased expression on his face. Not only was he displeased, he even didn't want to talk. Everyone could tell that his mood at this time should be very complicated. In fact, everyone's mood was very complicated. Even Peng Changping, who is well-informed and has experienced many storms, still doesn't understand what Chef Arnold wants to do.

This kind of feeling is like, a powerful opponent is aggressive, he is not good, and he deliberately dismisses everyone to talk to you alone. You are ready to fight with the opponent if you disagree, but he tells you He just wants to treat you to afternoon tea.

Although he was very upset, Chef Arnold explained that the English was mixed with Chinese, which made Jiang Feng a little tired, but he finally understood.

This matter started with Chef Arnold running away suddenly after the summer banquet.

Chef Arnold left so suddenly that even the people in the restaurant on the top floor were unprepared, let alone outsiders. They didn't know the reason, and the timing was too coincidental. That's why they joked that Chef Arnold had run away.

In fact, Arnold has business to do.

As we all know, Chef Arnold became famous all over the United States because of a cooking reality show many years ago. In that reality show, Chef Arnold relied on his superb cooking skills and violent temper to gather and publish books. Cursing quotations, and absolutely unflattering true temperament shine brightly, becoming one of the most popular chefs in the United States in one fell swoop. Even after many years, some viewers still said that watching Chef Arnold swearing at people in that reality show was his happiest thing.

But what everyone doesn't know is that the reality show has been going downhill over the years.

After being brilliant in the first season, the program group also thought of many ways to attract the audience's attention, fierce competition system, exciting competition, and even found many handsome men and women to be apprentice chefs, but no matter how hard the program group worked, how Innovation, how popular it is, the ratings of this culinary reality show, which can be called the originator of the reality show, is still getting lower every year, and it is even on the verge of being cut.

The program group has no choice but to break the boat and ask Chef Arnold to come out to save this precarious reality show.

Of course, Chef Arnold didn't want to participate. It is true that he was very happy when he was recording the show, and he was scolded for being rich. It was his dream life. But now he has more important things than making money and swearing, so when the program team called him for the first time to invite him, he directly refused.

But the program group definitely won’t give up after being rejected once. The ratings of their program last season had dropped to a very terrible figure. If the program group hadn’t proposed that they would invite Chef Arnold to participate in the program again, they wouldn’t even have the most basic The funds will not come.

So to speak, Arnold Chef = funding.

How could the program group easily give up the easy-to-get funds?

So the program team spent another half a month of research and investigation, and came up with a brand new variety show model.

If you want to play, you can play big.

They are going to engage in a Sino-US chef competition.

The name is very vulgar, and this is a literal translation, but the general competition system is like this.

At the beginning, this program was competitive. Some well-known young chefs were invited to participate, and an attractive prize was set up, coupled with a powerful poisonous snake mentor. After months of devil learning and competitions, the winner was decided The final winner, with a hint of nurturing color.

According to the original plot, the focus of this reality show should be those young academies. However, because Chef Arnold was hired, an awesome mentor who didn’t take the usual path and didn’t follow the script, the first season of this reality show The protagonist has become Chef Arnold, and the young chefs who should have been one of the protagonists have all become supporting roles and even background boards.

Later, after constant adjustments, the style of this reality show has also continued to change. The young chef has become a handsome amateur, the instructor has changed from one mentor to several, the competition class has become a cultivation class, and the gameplay has become more sophisticated. diversification. As the audience's tastes changed, the program changed from nurturing to competitive, but the ratings continued to slump, perhaps because it didn't reach the audience. Even though the program team thought of many ways, such as inviting celebrities to dinner, inviting well-known food critics, or creating an Arnold No. 2, it was useless, and it even aroused a lot of criticism.

It is precisely because of this that the program team tried their best to invite Chef Arnold back, and even played the international competition directly at the expense of playing tickets.

If you win and return to the top, if you lose, you will be cut off. No matter how you think about it, the final result will only be better and not worse. As long as they can invite Arnold back, they will have money to play this big game, and they will lose money as well. If they don't reach them, why not do it?

Chef Arnold's sudden return to China this time is to discuss the details of the China-US Chef King Competition with the program team.

In order to cooperate with Chef Arnold, the location of the final is not only set in China, but also the way of registration is to sign up for the competition in units of restaurants. Each restaurant can only have four chefs to participate. The specific competition system is still under discussion, and the general direction is like this.

This time Chef Arnold agreed to Peng Changping's invitation and came to Peng Changping's acceptance banquet as soon as he returned to China. Apart from making an oolong and thinking that Peng Changping wanted to accept Jiang Feng as a closed disciple, the main reason was to invite Peng Changping to participate in the competition.

Yes, it was not Jiang Feng or anyone else he wanted to invite, but Peng Changping.

He wanted to have a showdown with Peng Changping.