Su Zifang looked at the man in front of him.

Bald head! Thick eyebrows, big eyes, and muscles in both arms!

He wears a long white towel around his neck, a yellow T-shirt, and a pair of red rubber gloves on his hands. He looks a bit like Mr. Saitama in XL size.

Looking at Su Zifang and Zhao Xiaoman, his hands kept moving, and in a few seconds a crucian carp had been processed.

"I'm Peng Chenglong, you two are Xiaodong's friends, right?"

"Hello Uncle Peng!"

The two greeted each other in unison, and then introduced each other one by one.

"I'm Su Zifang, junior chef."

"Zhao Xiaoman, intermediate chef."

Peng Chenglong's eyes fell on Zhao Xiaoman, with some approval, and then he looked at Su Zifang: "If you can't do it, you might as well be a girl."

Su Zifang:......

He felt that Peng Chenglong was prejudiced and said that he was not as good as Zhao Xiaoman before he tasted his own dishes!

Can’t junior chefs challenge themselves beyond the next level?

He decided to show Peng Chenglong his true strength and prove that he was not what Peng Chenglong thought.

Zhao Xiaoman felt Su Zifang's fighting spirit and turned his head slightly: "Do you need me to play you?"

Su Zifang:???

Just when he was about to agree, the dignity of a junior chef prompted him to shake his head.

"No, I can do that."

Zhao Xiaoman raised his eyebrows and said "Oh" without saying anything.

The system suddenly popped up a task prompt.

[Side mission (Peng Chenglong’s approval): Ask the host to obtain Peng Chenglong’s approval before the village banquet is completed.]*

[This task is based on a points system. The initial points are 10 points. You must reach 80 points to be recognized. The task rewards will increase as the points increase. Please work hard to increase the points! 】

Su Zifang looked at the task prompt and blinked.

It seems that this is the first time that real-time interactive tasks have appeared.

It's a bit like the wood-cutting mini-game that was suddenly added to the role-playing games I played in the past. You have to earn a certain score to get rewards.

However, looking at his initial points, Su Zifang couldn't help but complain in a low voice.

10 points!

Is it too low?

Peng Lidong noticed that Su Zifang's mood dropped for a moment and explained to Peng Chenglong with a smile.

"Uncle, Boss Su just didn't take the exam. He is very capable. He won the Huaiyang Cuisine Competition and his cooking skills are about the same as mine!"

[The current points have been increased to 40 points.]

A system prompt made Su Zifang instantly excited. Peng Lidong is a good person!

This comment tripled his points, rounding off the progress to half.

If I could just say a few more words of praise, wouldn’t it be possible to finish it right away!

Looking at Peng Lidong helplessly: "Master Peng, tell me more?"

"What did you say?" Peng Lidong didn't understand what Su Zifang meant and wanted to ask questions, when he heard Peng Chenglong yell.

"Okay, now that we're here, let's stop talking nonsense and start working quickly. People will be here soon and we won't have time."

Peng Chenglong glanced at the three of them and immediately started arranging work.

"Xiaodong, you have been with me for a long time. You know what is going on. You will be responsible for arranging the work with the village kitchen helper later. You will be responsible for all the ingredients, plating, and serving!"

"Okay!" Peng Lidong responded, and naturally took out a notebook from the side of the stove to read the dishes.

"Xiao Su, let's call you Xiao Su. If you look at Xiaodong's dishes and see what you can do, tell me. You can be responsible for two dishes."

"And Xiao Zhang, you can also cook two dishes. If you have time, you can cook three more dishes!"

Su Zifang nodded after listening to the arrangement.

After all, the two dishes Peng Chenglong mentioned are enough for ten banquets. If calculated in portions, it would be twenty portions. If you work slowly, you won't be able to cook them within an hour.

After Peng Chenglong finished speaking, he explained sheepishly.

"It was originally agreed that people from the village would come to help, but it suddenly rained yesterday. Today, many people went to the fields to help and they haven't come back yet, so I had to call a few people from my family to come over."

"Thank you."

Su Zifang heard this and immediately said: "Uncle Peng is too polite. We are all old friends, so we should help."

"Old friend?" Peng Chenglong frowned, not understanding what Su Zifang meant.

"My grandfather knew your father."

"Su Xingchao, Uncle Peng, do you have any impression?"

Su Zifang knew that this wave of favorability must be improved well, so without any hesitation, he started to use the tactics of attracting family members.

"A bit, but I was still young at that time. I didn't expect you to be so old now!"

"Your grandpa cooks delicious food, you must be good at it!"

[The current points have been increased to 50 points.]

Su Zifang is full of smiles!

Zhao Xiaoman stood aside stunned.

She never knew that Su Zifang actually had such a relationship with Peng Lidong!

After searching carefully, I suddenly felt a little surprised.

"Xue Yi is Su Zifang's master, his father is Su Zifang's uncle, Mei Yuanbai is also Su Zifang's uncle, Xia Hanqiu is Su Zifang's grandfather's old friend, Qiao Xin is his nephew...

…Now we are quietly building up an old relationship with Peng Lidong.”

Unknowingly, Su Zifang's connections have spread all over Jingling!

Zhao Xiaoman suddenly felt that the luckiest thing for him was to hug such a thick thigh.

If nothing unexpected happens, I can retire in Shibuyu.

Well, but now we have to put aside the pension matters for a while. Peng Lidong came over with the menu and checked the dishes with the two of them.

"This time there are more meat and vegetables, please see how you are responsible."

Su Zi took a closer look and sneered at what Peng Lidong just said!

"Braised mutton, braised beef with vegetables, fried prawns in oil, June yellow, pork skin chowder, braised glutinous rice balls, braised chicken vermicelli, and puffed cake."

This list of dishes is the same as Guankou, which one is considered a vegetarian dish?

Seeing Su Zifang's confusion, Peng Lidong spoke softly.

"The village banquet here only has eight bowls. It was originally a very routine dish, but the family just wanted a change, so they changed the menu."

"You must have eaten it before, right?"

"No!" they both replied honestly.

Peng Lidong's face was startled, a little embarrassed. He just thought that the two of them were from Huaiyang cuisine, but in the end he forgot that he had never done a village banquet.

I hurriedly found Peng Chenglong and told him.

Peng Chenglong had just poured a large bag of shrimps into the basin. When he heard Peng Lidong's words, he frowned and looked at the earth stove beside him with his lips pursed: "Will this be used?"

"Yes!" Now the two of them nodded at the same time.

"When I was at my grandma's house, I used to cook in earthen pots." Zhao Xiaoman explained.

"I used it when I was working part-time in the school cafeteria!"

Zhao Xiaoman and Peng Lidong both cast surprised glances: "Do the kitchens in the Old South still use this kind of stove?"

"No...it's mainly fried pig food."

When Su Zifang explained, he thought of Jia Xibei's pig named Dabai.

A bit of longing flashed through my heart.

I don’t know if that Dabai is delicious!

Back then, the whole class had been looking forward to making a meal with Dabai for graduation.

Unfortunately, before they graduated, Dabai and his other siblings were included in the school's key protection targets and applied for an experimental project that sounded awesome but was actually very low-end.

Su Zi still remembers the name of this experiment!

"The Possibility of Using Biology to Realize Food Waste Treatment and Compost Planting"

Translated into vernacular: "Use the leftovers to feed the pigs and use the compost to plant trees."

The key point is that this lifestyle, which is used in all rural areas, actually applied for research funds.

It is said that there are five million!

Now that I think about it, I really did say yes.
Chapter completed!