I'm a dragon sparrow in Tokyo

Chapter 3 Then let's have a food halberd!

Thinking about things, he wandered back to a very old street, Jiang Xu just slapped his head, and he forgot to eat the Chinese summer cuisine that smelled so tempting.

Now turn around and go to the nearest Xinjie, it takes at least 15 minutes to walk, and 30 minutes to go back and forth, plus the waiting time for meals, at least an hour to start.

Well, none of those are the main reasons.

Jiang Xu sighed, there was still a daily task waiting to be completed at home.

After walking forward for a few minutes, Jiang Xu saw the typical single-family house in Sakurajima where he lived temporarily.

The two-story structure, the gray-brown exterior wall, looks a bit dilapidated from the outside, and more than ten pots of tenaciously blooming flowers placed beside the steps at the door dilute the dilapidated atmosphere.

Jiang Xu took out the key, and after turning the lock, he paused for a while before opening the door and entering.

"Welcome back, thank you, Jiang Xujun."

With the expected greeting, the girl put down the cooking book in her hand and stood tall.

"Thank you, Aoba."

The corners of Jiang Xu's mouth twitched slightly. Just by looking at this posture, he knew that he would never escape again today.

"Then let's start preparing today's dinner."

Before Jiang Xu refused, Aoba walked straight to the back of the house.

A typical home is usually built with a small vegetable garden in the backyard.

Sighing, Jiang Xu had no choice but to walk into the kitchen first and start making preparations.

Why did it become like this?
Obviously, they were only invited to have a meal together, and then they couldn't hold back a little bit of complaints before being forced into the kitchen, unable to improve their cooking skills, and the food they made was indeed as delicious as Aoba's After a little bit, I was forced to cook a dish for comparison every day when I came back.

Why did it become like this?
Probably it can only be attributed to the inexplicable winning spirit of the 15-year-old girl.

Aoba, full name Hagiwara Aoba.

His mother was a high school teacher, yes, it was the high school that Jiang Xu was going to attend.

Her name is Hagihara Daiko, she is a wonderful woman with a generous and free personality.

As the school's grade dean, she took the lead in providing home stays for exchange students who came to Sakurajima from Xiaguo.

Jiang Xu was lucky to be selected.

Aoba's father is a chef named Hagiwara Sho, and it is said that he is currently studying in a famous restaurant in China.

Therefore, the Qingye family actually has goodwill towards the people of Xia Kingdom.

10 minutes passed.

Aoba came in with a small basket.

"Cabbage, green peppers, potatoes."

She put the basket in the sink, then walked to the corner of the kitchen and opened the refrigerator.

"Pork, beef, and tofu. These are the ingredients for today. Have you decided what to cook? There are two dishes for one person. You choose one first, I choose another, and then you choose again."

"Yeah..." Jiang Xu pondered for a moment, they were all home-cooked dishes, and they were pretty much the same.

He casually ordered green peppers and pork.

"Green pepper fried shredded pork."

Aoba stared at the pork, looked away sullenly, and pointed at the potatoes and beef.

"Potato goulash."

Jiang Xu squinted his eyes and smiled, he could see Aoba's idea of ​​making hamburger steak from the very beginning.

Unfortunately, he was already tired of eating.

With two vegetarian dishes left, Jiang Xu suddenly thought of the spicy aroma of the mid-summer cuisine that he smelt at noon, and couldn't help salivating.

"I'll choose tofu for the rest, and give me a little beef, a famous Sichuan dish, mapo tofu, how about it, isn't it a surprise?"

Aoba frowned, "Ma Po Tofu? Is it a Chinese summer dish? Why haven't I heard of this dish?"

"Haven't you heard of it?? Well, this is a home-cooked dish in my hometown. It is very famous in our country, and it may not have spread to Sakurajima."

Jiang Xu almost forgot that mapo tofu only appeared in the late Qing Dynasty. Due to differences in the world, it may not have appeared in this world.

"Sichuan cuisine, hometown, but aren't you from the Chu family?" Qingye glanced at him suspiciously.

Jiang Xu almost choked.

Damn it, how come you, a native of Sakurajima, are so familiar with the geography of Xia Kingdom!

"Although I am from Jingchu, people in our area like to eat Sichuan cuisine. What's the problem? You have never been to the mainland."

Qingye frowned, but couldn't find any reason to refute for a while, and Jiang Xu's last sentence convinced her.

"Anyway, you can do it first and then talk about it. There is a school meeting today, and mom will be back in a while."

"Auntie Daizi is really miserable. She has to work overtime during the summer vacation." Jiang Xu sighed.

Qingye didn't appreciate it at all, "Whose matter do you think it's dealing with, it's not caused by you guys."

Jiang Xu smiled mischievously, and was just about to lower his head to wash the vegetables, when he suddenly thought of something, he raised his head and said to Aoba.

"Qingye, do you have any competitions in the culinary world, similar to the Tianfeng battle?"

"Of course there is!" Aoba's eyes burst into a different kind of look.

"The Battle of the Tongue, the world's top food competition initiated by Xia Guo, the culinary competition with the highest attention and the largest audience in the world. Chefs and chefs from every country dream of being on the top stage!"

"Father, I went to the inland to study in order to be selected for the Bite of the Tongue Tournament."

"Of course I know about the tongue-in-cheek competition. What I'm asking is, does Sakurajima have any great cooking competitions?"

Jiang Xu's face was not blushing, and his heart was not beating. He silently remembered the two rankings of "Battle of the Tongue" and "Battle of the King of Gluttony" in his heart, and he was going to search for it later.

"Sakurajima, the most watched competition should be the Soul Eater Battle, which has nearly tens of millions of attention. However, although the Spirit Eater Battle is a local event in Sakurajima, most of the contestants choose Chinese cuisine. There are not many chefs from the local cuisine of Sakurajima compared to the chefs of Western cuisine."

As she spoke, Aoba's mood fell inexplicably, but before she waited for a while, she cheered herself up again,

"Father won the Food Spirit Jade Medal with Sakurajima Cuisine in the last Spirit Food Competition, I believe he will be able to win the title of Food King with Sakurajima Cuisine in the next Dongzhou Food King Competition, and then he will do his best , into the decisive battle of the tip of the tongue."

Aoba waved his small fists, with little stars in his eyes, as if he had seen his father standing on the final stage of the world's largest tongue-in-cheek battle.

"Yeah, I believe it too." Jiang Xu said perfunctorily, but what he thought in his mind was that the competition in Dongzhou region was ranked behind Xia Guo.

Sure enough, this is Xia Guo.

Jiang Xu suddenly thought of something, "By the way, Qingye, since you have always wanted to catch up with your father, how about starting today and making the competition between us a little more formal?"

"You mean eating halberds?!" Aoba's eyes suddenly lit up with a strong light, as if ignited with infinite fighting spirit.

"Uh, probably." Jiang Xu felt as if he had made a mistake, but he wanted to do a test, so he didn't refuse.

"Okay, I promise."

Aoba agreed loudly.

As her voice fell, in Jiang Xu's peripheral vision, a line of words slowly appeared in the record column of the system panel.

【You participated in a two-person halberd-eating duel, which is in progress.】

Sure enough.

(End of this chapter)