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Chapter 189: Hidden Murder

As time comes to mid-December, "Eleven-Park" has also begun to be officially promoted.

Not only local TV stations, but also on the subway and buses, they began to promote this restaurant, and part-time workers who were sending leaflets in the cold wind could be seen everywhere. Obviously, Adam Lucas was working hard and planned to make a try on Christmas Day.

So, on this day, Bai Renzong asked Yang Hua and Lu Yao to have a "double date".

However, Bai Renzong did not go to Yijiaxuan or Lanwafang, but met at Yangliuzhai, and also notified the boss and his wife about his engagement with Han Jiayi.

"Brother Xing." Bai Renzong led Han Jiayi and pushed open the restaurant door and said to the boss happily: "We are engaged!"

"Oh!?" The boss lady smiled happily with her face, "Really!? Congratulations! I didn't expect that it was so soon, it's only been two months since you started dating?"

"It's like living together, it's equivalent to being together for twenty-four hours." The boss knocked her on the head and scolded, "This kind of cohabitation life is quite a test of the details of the relationship between two people. If you don't feel any discomfort after living together for two months, but your relationship gets better and better, then there will definitely be no problem with getting married."

"This is all introduced by Sister Xiaoxiao." Han Jiayi said with a bright smile, "When we get married, Sister Xiaoxiao, you must come with Brother Xing? Without the introduction of you two, Lao Bai and I will definitely not be able to do it."

"Hmph, who always complained that he was not good at the beginning?" The proprietress glared at her and joked.

"Oh, then, that's not, he, he was..." Han Jiayi stammered in grievance.

At this time, Yang Hua suddenly brought Lu Yao to push the door and come in.

As soon as he entered the door, Yang Hua looked around, then nodded with satisfaction and said, "It's worthy of being Xiaobai, the taste of this store is really good."

"Xiaobai..." Lu Yao waved to him happily behind, then threw a look of "Thank you for helping us match us" and Bai Renzong replied with a plain expression with a "small meaning" in his eyes.

Han Jiayi stepped on him under the table with dissatisfaction and threw an expression like "I am your woman".

"Let's order the dishes first." The boss handed the menu in time and smiled.

"I want a daily set meal." Bai Renzong replied cheerfully.

"Hainan chicken rice." Han Jiayi also said without hesitation.

Yang Hua and Lu Yao watched it for a long time and ordered the Mapo tofu set meal and the braised fish set meal.

After ordering the meal, Bai Renzong said seriously: "I'm here today and I'm going to tell you something." As he said that, he looked at Yang Hua, "You have Mumu and two others."

As he said that, Bai Renzong slapped a flyer on the table, which was the flyer of "Eleven-Park".

"Look at the above content and tell me what you thought of." Bai Renzong said seriously.

"The exclusive Christmas package of the world's No. 1 chef Adam Lucas..." Han Jiayi muttered.

"Ordinary package A, B, 488, luxury package A, B, 1,288..." Yang Hua looked at the two grade packages above and frowned: "This price..."

"Is this targeting us?" Lu Yao asked dissatisfiedly, "Isn't Yijiaxuan's per capita consumption only three or four hundred? The per capita consumption of Lanwafang is about one thousand... This person specially ordered these two sets of packages, which is obviously to grab our customers!"

"I think so too." Bai Renzong nodded.

In fact, for Western restaurants, Christmas sets are a major gimmick every year.

After all, Christmas is the same as the New Year for foreign countries, and many countries have their own unique Christmas dinners.

Even Western fast food restaurants like Golden Arches and Pizza Hut will take advantage of Christmas to market. How could Michelin-grade Western restaurants like Yijiaxuan and Lanwafang miss this good opportunity? This period is also the highlight of the year.

Previously, when Adam Lucas set the opening time on December 24, Bai Renzong actually had a bad premonition, and after he got the flyer, he also verified that his idea was indeed right.

But what he didn't expect was that Adam even planned to enter Yijiaxuan.

After all, the per capita consumption gap between Yijiaxuan and Lanwafang is quite large. Bai Renzong guessed that he would only target one of them. Who knew that Adam Lucas' ambition was much greater than he thought.

"So, the situation is not good now." Bai Renzong frowned, "The gimmick of the world's No. 1 Michelin restaurant is really amazing. At that time, there will inevitably be many customers to try it out."

"You mean, we..." Yang Hua frowned.

Lu Yao suddenly realized and said, "Send someone to his kitchen to make trouble!"

"We can't stop customers from going to his place to taste the Christmas set meal." Bai Renzong ignored Lu Yao, "But after they eat, they will definitely find ways to compare with other Western restaurants, especially two ready-made restaurants with similar prices. So at that time, Yijiaxuan and Lanwafang will also usher in a climax of dining."

"Where is the double-edged sword..." Han Jiayi said uneasyly, biting her thumb.

"Yes." Bai Renzong nodded and sighed, "If your package can be better than his, it will naturally bring you a large amount of popularity and will make other customers feel that 'the world' is the best'; but if your package level is worse than his, it would be bad... Everyone will think, 'It is worthy of being the world', and the delicious price is not much more expensive than others'."

"Next, he set two levels of per capita consumption of Lanwafang and Yijiaxuan in the future. In this way, all the guests of Lanwafang and Yijiaxuan will be poached..." Yang Hua frowned, then spat fiercely: "It is disgusting as always, but it is helpless to deal with him."

"Yes, after all, they rely on strength." Bai Renzong sighed, "So, now do you know how important this matter is, right? We must gather the strength of the three of us and find a way to develop a better set for the two restaurants than Adam Lucas' Christmas package. Otherwise, the cakes from the two restaurants will be stolen."

"Hmph, as long as you have a close friend, this is not a problem at all!" Yang Hua said with a confident smile.

"I was very moved that you could believe me so much, but to be honest, I didn't have much confidence. After all, the other party's knowledge and my knowledge are not on the same level." Bai Renzong said helplessly, "That's why the power of three people is needed... to bring out your best ideas, and then let's improve them together."

"But it's less than two weeks..." Lu Yao said nervously, "Is it too late? Time is in a hurry."

"Yes." Bai Renzong nodded, "So, now you two need to put down other things in the kitchen for the time being and concentrate on preparing the Christmas set. Starting today, we will meet in the kitchen of Yijiaxuan or Lanwafang from 2:00 to 5:00 in the afternoon."

Lu Yao patted her chest proudly: "Come to Lanwa House. If you don't say anything else, our kitchen must be better than that of the small and broken shop."

"Why do you say that to other people's restaurants?!" Han Jiayi said angrily.

"That's it." Lu Yao rolled her eyes, "Our kitchen is almost bigger than your store."

Han Jiayi was about to refute, but Bai Renzong interrupted them: "This has nothing to do with whether the kitchen is big or not. The key is to keep it confidential enough. You Lanwa House has many people, so it is better to go to Yijiaxuan. Yijiaxuan's kitchen has been full of old employees for several years, so there shouldn't be an undercover agent..."

"Well, that's fine." Yang Hua nodded, "For the sake of my close friend, I reluctantly couldn't agree."

Han Jiayi was about to roll her eyes when the boss and the boss lady put the meal in front of them.

"Why are young people so angry? Eat and eat." The proprietress said with a smile, "I will be out of anger when I eat enough."

Yang Hua looked at the Mapo tofu in front of him, with a slight gaze in his eyes, and then took a bite with a proud taste, as if he felt that such a small shop could not make any authentic Mapo tofu.

As a result, after eating this bite, Yang Hua's face turned red little by little, and it was not because of the spicy food.

"Well..." Yang Hua cleared his throat, "The boss's skills are pretty good, and Mapo tofu is very authentic."

"Just like it." The boss smiled and wiped his hands, then pulled the boss's wife to the other side.

After dinner, everyone came to Yijiaxuan and prepared to discuss the Christmas package.

"So, as far as I know, the traditional foods in Christmas dinners are available in every country, such as roasted turkey and Christmas pudding..." Bai Renzong said, but Yang Hua interrupted him: "Not every place has roasted turkey."

"For example, some places in the UK are roasted geese." Han Jiayi also echoed, "There are still quite different countries."

"But Adam will definitely use roasted turkey." Bai Renzong frowned, "You should focus on turkey, and you will play the rest freely. This afternoon, you two each prepare a Christmas dinner for me to taste. After that... according to the actual situation, the three of them will discuss how to improve."

"What about me?" Lu Yao pointed at herself with some dissatisfaction, "I am the only one who has a lot more..."

"Hurry to inform the kitchen and ask them to prepare more materials for Christmas sets." Bai Renzong reminded, "Not to mention cooking skills, at least in terms of logistics reserves, we cannot lag behind Eleven-Park."

"Okay..." Lu Yao muttered dissatisfiedly, grabbed her phone and went to the side.

"Come on." Bai Renzong sighed and extended his hand to Han Jiayi and Yang Hua, "This time, we need the three of us to work together."

"Yeah!" Han Jiayi and Yang Hua held his hand and nodded, then started to get busy in front of the stove.

Soon, the two of them placed a traditional Christmas dinner in front of Bai Renzong.

Because it was a Christmas dinner, it was quite large and there was a full table.

Bai Renzong roughly examined the fact that turkey, Christmas pudding, Christmas cake, mashed potatoes and ham are the common points of the two people's set meals. The difference is that Han Jiayi's Christmas set meal includes gingerbread, German sausage platter and German fried pork elbow, while Yang Hua's set meal includes trunk cake, oysters and smoked salmon.

It looks very distinctive in personal style at first glance. Han Jiayi's package is sufficient and affordable, while Yang Hua's package is exquisite and has excellent visual effects.

"Come and try it." Bai Renzong grabbed the knife and fork and said.

First, we started with the turkey in the set meal for two people. This thing is not popular in China because the meat is too tiring, just like a chicken with chicken breasts all over the body. The meat is dry and hard, and it tastes very dry.

Therefore, Han Jiayi's roasted turkey is the position of the chicken legs that you choose, which is the easiest part of the whole body of the turkey.

Bai Renzong cut a small piece and tasted it. The taste was rich in bilberry sauce, followed by the aroma of various spices and vegetables, which tasted very much like stuffed turkey.

"I roasted it on charcoal fire. When roasting, I put a layer of vegetables under it and then drizzled it with olive oil to roast it together so that the aroma of vegetables can be soaked in the chicken." Han Jiayi explained with a smile.

"Not bad." Bai Renzong nodded with satisfaction, "It has greatly alleviated the dry mouth of the turkey, and it tastes similar to chicken."

Then, Bai Renzong turned to the turkey made by Yang Hua.

Yang Hua's turkey looks very strange. Its color and size are a bit like ordinary fried chicken wings, but its shape is a bit like dumplings.

Bai Renzong slapped and tasted it together, and immediately raised his eyebrows: "Well, this is really good!"

The outer part of this "turkey" is covered with turkey skin, and the bottom is the turkey chicken leg meat. The meat filling inside is turkey meat made into a paste. After biting it, the crispy chicken skin is like the paste of fried dumplings, followed by the flexible and tight chicken leg meat, and finally the soft and dense chicken puree, exuding the fragrance of sage and bilberry.

"I think Yang Hua's is slightly better in terms of turkey practice." Bai Renzong nodded with satisfaction.

"Hmph." Yang Hua threw a victorious look at Han Jiayi.

"However, the portion is too small and it is not suitable for Yijiaxuan's style." Bai Renzong added, "Mumu, you can consider learning from Yang Hua's turkey dumplings."

"I understand..." Han Jiayi muttered a little dissatisfied.

Then, Bai Renzong tasted other side dishes.

"Mumu's pork elbow is very good." Bai Renzong pointed to the pork elbow and said, "It's quite large. The German kimchi inside is very well matched with the whole set, and the gingerbread also has a more Christmas atmosphere. And Yang Hua's French Christmas set... To be honest, I don't feel that there are many highlights, and it's not much different from the sets in the store. In terms of overall creativity, I think Mu Mu's style is more distinctive. Yang Hua, you need to change the style more obvious."

"Tsk..." Yang Hua spat unhappily, while Han Jiayi smiled proudly.

"Then, let's summarize it..." Bai Renzong said, looking around the two sets in front of him, and then sighed: "The road is still long..."
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