Chapter 869: Chapter 868: A Pot of Porridge Chapter 869: Chapter 868: A Pot of Porridge Even though Rolan was working extremely hard, the speed at which he kneaded the dough couldn’t keep up with the porridge cooking on the opposite side. The 5 buckets of porridge at Taifeng Building were quickly put on the stove, and the ingredients for Jiang’s Sea Cucumber Soup broth had all been prepared.

Chef Arno, while resenting his junior’s lack of competitiveness, didn’t dare to speed up the processing of ingredients on his own. He kept to his usual pace, which, being a step slower than Jiang Feng, made the top-floor restaurant seem a lot slower compared to Taifeng Building.

Of course, Sun Maochai, who was leisurely handling the seafood, was directly overlooked by everyone.

The competition had already passed half an hour.

Some of the audience in the spectator seats were becoming restless.

To put it bluntly, the audience watching the live broadcast actually had a better viewing experience than those present at the venue. At least those watching the broadcast had a commentator who rambled on, although he hardly provided any useful information out of ten statements, but at least there was a commentator. The onsite audience was worse off, without even a commentator, they could only blankly stare at the stage, and those sitting far away couldn’t see clearly.

Mrs. Wang Xiulian was also feeling quite bored. She turned her head to glance at Wu Hanxue and Mrs. Wu in the row behind, and found her future in-laws staring intently at the stage, one smiling and the other looking serious. This made her feel the need to avoid embarrassing herself in front of her future in-laws, so she harshly stepped on Jiang Jiankang, who had already started dozing off.

“Ow–” Jiang Jiankang instinctively cried out but covered his mouth before he could finish, turning it into a full stop.

He still had some sense of propriety.

“Sleeping? Your son is still competing! How can you dare sleep at such an important moment? Didn’t you see the serious expressions of your in-laws behind us? Snap to it and sit up straight!” Mrs. Wang Xiulian rebuked in a low voice, and Jiang Jiankang immediately straightened his chest.

“Wife, what time is it?” Jiang Jiankang returned to the feelings of his school days.

“Half-past ten.”

“Great, just an hour more until lunch.” Jiang Jiankang silently encouraged himself.

Actually, they didn’t need to wait an hour. Fifteen minutes later, the first batch of porridge was ready.

Before the porridge was ready, Wu Minqi and Sun Jikai had already started preparing the ingredients for the second and third batches of porridge, never stopping for a moment. As soon as the first batch of porridge was ready, and with Jiang Feng’s nod of approval, the staff took it backstage for plating and distribution, and the second batch was quickly put into the pot, seamlessly transitioning without even turning off the heat.

The audience on-site immediately erupted.

If this were to be compared to a movie, the serving of the first batch of porridge represented a small climax.

The commentator got instantly excited. He had already started introducing Chef Arno’s illustrious achievements over the years, given that the competition had just passed 40 minutes, which really shows he had nothing left to say.

“Okay, I believe our audience watching the live stream can see, the first batch of porridge personally stewed by Taifeng Building’s chef is now ready. This batch contains five buckets of porridge, each of maximum capacity, and all five are filled with preserved egg and lean pork porridge.”

“This is actually a perk for the live audience during the competition, as both Taifeng Building and the top-floor restaurant will continuously serve dishes for the audience on-site to taste. Okay, we can now see the staff have started to distribute to the live audience, clearly starting from the first row, and noteworthy is that the first three rows are all friends and family of the contestants, let’s see their reactions to the preserved egg and lean pork porridge prepared by Taifeng Building.”

“Hey, the elderly gentleman captured by the camera a moment ago needs a special introduction. He is Jiang Weiming, ranked second in the latest ranking of famous chefs, and he is also a senior relative of contestant Jiang Feng. Okay, we can see Mr. Jiang has already received his bowl of porridge, and from his expression, he seems quite satisfied with the preserved egg and lean pork porridge made by contestant Jiang Feng today. Clearly, he is very confident in today’s dish by the contestant.”

“Look quickly, the person next to Mr. Jiang, a friend of contestant Jiang Feng, has already started drinking. He is drinking the porridge very quickly. Two, three, wow, he finished a bowl of porridge in just three seconds, judging by his expression, he evidently wants more. But unfortunately, due to the high number of on-site spectators, each may only get one bowl of porridge…”
Of course, each viewer could not possibly get just one bowl of porridge, as the program crew had prepared the largest porridge pots that are specifically used in porridge shops. Moreover, unknown to whom it was suggested, the bowls of the friends and family in the first three rows were significantly larger than those behind, especially that of Han Guishan, which Jiang Feng could tell at a glance was bigger than Jiang Jianye’s bowl next to him.

What Jiang Feng didn’t know was that the largest bowl wasn’t Han Guishan’s.

It was Wu Hanxue’s.

The production team brought him a big bowl of porridge.

The kind of bowl you’d usually serve pork rib soup in.

Looking at the bowl of porridge, Wu Hanxue was speechless.

Honestly, he didn’t know whether the production team was targeting him or treating him well.

As a seasoned Sichuan cuisine chef with decades of experience, he could easily tell that the bowl of porridge weighed no less than two kilograms.

Wu Jialiang, standing next to Wu Hanxue, was stunned. He thought to himself that he had only sent a message to his cousin telling her their uncle wanted some porridge, not a whole bowlful.

Wu Jialiang, holding his bowl, looked at the Jiang family members slurping porridge voraciously and suddenly understood why his cousin had instructed the staff to serve Wu Hanxue a whole bowl of porridge.

It must be because she had been in Beiping too long, influenced by the people around her.

Thinking this, Wu Jialiang took a sip of the porridge.

!!!

“Uncle Third,” Wu Jialiang, holding the bowl with much more reverence than before, grinned and looked at Wu Hanxue, who was still staring doubtfully at the bowl. “If you really can’t finish it, I can help you with a bowl.”

He even lifted his spoon as he spoke.

Wu Hanxue: ?

Jiang Jiankang, who had been restless since the staff handed that bowl to Wu Hanxue, suddenly perked up, no longer resenting his son for forgetting his own father after getting a father-in-law and instantly forgetting the several admonitions Mrs. Wang Xiulian had given earlier. He turned his head.

“Future relative…”

Wu Hanxue: ??

“Oh, no, no, not that, not yet, not yet, Master Wu, can you finish all this porridge? If not, let’s swap. I haven’t touched mine yet.” Jiang Jiankang said with enthusiasm.

Wu Hanxue: ?

Wu Hanxue, his face full of question marks, switched porridge with Jiang Jiankang, not for any other reason but because he really couldn’t drink any more.

Jiang Jiankang, delighted, held up a full bowl of porridge, ready to gulp it down fervently when Mrs. Wang Xiulian smacked him on the thigh, leaving him stunned.

“Aren’t you embarrassed, swapping porridge like this? Have some shame, when has your son ever told you to drink less or eat less?” Mrs. Wang Xiulian scolded as if chiding a disobedient child.

“Wife, I saw that our future relative really couldn’t finish it, I was just trying to help. Let the capable eat more, right?” Jiang Jiankang said with a pitiful look.

“Always with your twisted logic!” Mrs. Wang Xiulian glared fiercely at Jiang Jiankang, then turned back to give Mrs. Wu a bright and friendly smile, whispering, “Save half a bowl for me.”

“Did you hear that? Don’t drink too much!”

“Oh.”