A Mouthful of Sky-high Fried Rice, Lao Tang Apprenticed on the Spot

Chapter 863 Li Yi is the God of Cooking!

 “The championship team is back!”

Someone in the crowd shouted, and the reporters surrounding the exit rushed forward to take pictures of Li Yi and his group.

Behind the reporter, there were many curious onlookers stretching their necks to look.

They obviously didn’t know who so many reporters were photographing, but when they saw Li Yi and his entourage appearing, they suddenly realized that they all took out their mobile phones and joined in the filming.

In the past half month, the topics of the World Culinary Olympiad and the Chinese Team have frequently been on the hot searches, and their popularity is unprecedented.

At this moment, the topic of the Chinese team returning home with great honors is still on the hot search list, and its popularity continues unabated.

 For the Chinese people, Li Yi and his team are just like the Olympic champions, they are heroes who have brought glory to the country.

Facing a row of cameras like a city wall and an overwhelming flash of lights, the chefs were all caught off guard.

Although they knew that this competition was being discussed in China before coming back, they did not expect that the popularity would be so high.

The number of media at the scene was even greater than that at the competition, and the media in Stuttgart gathered from all over the world, but there was not such a large formation.

As they pushed their luggage out of the exit, Li Yi and his party were surrounded by media reporters.

 Li Yi’s surroundings were surrounded by microphones and recorders, and all he could see were cameras and reporters’ faces.

Although other chefs are not as popular as Li Yi, they are also surrounded by reporters and are busy conducting interviews.

Li Yi knew very well that the group of them had returned with great success and popularity, which itself represented a lot of traffic, so the media would naturally not let them go.

 But this is an airport, so many people are crowded here, which will affect public transportation.

So he raised his hand and told reporters on the scene that the Chinese team would hold a press conference tomorrow morning specifically to answer reporters' questions.

 The reporters heard what he said, but refused to leave. It was not until the airport police came to maintain order that Li Yi and his group were allowed to leave.

 After leaving the siege of reporters, Li Yi saw Liu Xiaoli waiting outside.

 She was the one who found the airport police.

Following Liu Xiaoli to the parking lot, everyone from the Chinese team boarded the bus arranged by Liu Xiaoli, while Li Yi came to the guard in front.

 After opening the car door and getting in, he saw Liu Yifei smiling coquettishly inside.

"Welcome back!"

 Seeing Li Yi, Liu Yifei turned around and took out a bouquet of flowers from behind and handed it to Li Yi.

This was the first time Li Yi received flowers from a girl. He was slightly stunned before taking them in his hands with a smile.

 “Why isn’t it a rose?”

Li Yi sat next to Liu Yifei and asked with a smile.

 “You are a hero today!”

Liu Yifei giggled: "When the hero returns, of course he will give you lilies!"

　　"If you have a good heart, no wonder the hero has a hard time with beauty. The only one who can defeat the hero is beauty."

Li Yi made a joke, stretched out his hand to hug Liu Yifei into his arms, and kissed her twice deeply.

 Having not seen each other for half a month, he was really hungry for this bite.

Hold Liu Yifei in his arms, Li Yixiao asked, "Why didn't you go up to pick me up?"

 “Don’t want to be too high-profile!”

Liu Yifei put her arms around Li Yi's neck, looked up at him, curled her lips, and said with a smile: "You are the protagonist today, and I don't want to steal your limelight."

 “What’s the point? Do I miss this little limelight?”

Li Yi made a joke, hugged Liu Yifei again, and kissed her twice.

The car door opened, and Liu Xiaoli, who had settled the members of the Chinese team, got into the car. Liu Yifei quickly shrank back shyly.

Liu Xiaoli saw it clearly, but pretended not to see it, and asked Li Yi: "Then let's go directly to the hotel?"

"Can."

Li Yi nodded and asked, "Did you bring the contract?"

“I have brought them all, including the contract and seal.”

 Liu Xiaoli asked the driver to drive, took out the contract seal from her bag, and looked at Li Yi. "That's good."

Li Yi nodded, lowered his head and scratched Liu Yifei's palm.

The car drove out of the parking lot. While fastening her seat belt, Liu Xiaoli reported to Li Yi: "The orders for work clothes are booming. More than 1.3 million sets have been ordered. The net profit just exceeded 50 million yesterday."

 “Is there a copycat already?”

 Li Yi asked smoothly.

"Yes, I sent a lawyer's letter, and the other party stopped. It's still under control for the time being."

 Liu Xiaoli always acts vigorously and resolutely when it comes to work.

 “Just give me a warning, and peace will bring you wealth.”

Li Yi reminded: "Split the list so that everyone can make a profit, and it won't be so ugly."

"I know."

Liu Xiaoli explained sternly: "The main reason is that our quantity cannot increase. For the time being, only this single product has exploded. After this wave of popularity passes, without orders, talking will be useless."

Li Yi also knew this. After thinking about it, he asked, "Have you contacted the textile machinery factory?"

“I contacted three companies, the top three in the industry, and I’m waiting for you to come back and inspect them.”

Liu Xiaoli responded and then asked curiously: "Can Yun brocade really be made with a modern jacquard machine?"

“Only woven gold and simple styles like Ku brocade can be used, and makeup and flowers have to be made manually for the time being.”

Li Yi explained: “But these two are enough. Once the finished product is produced and the brand becomes popular, we won’t have to worry about running out of orders.”

 Since he opened the Yunjin brocade weaving profession, the plan to weave Yunnan brocade on a large scale has also been put on the agenda.

However, because of the special nature of Yunjin brocade, he needs to design and manufacture modern weaving machinery and equipment unique to Yunjin brocade, which requires cooperation with relevant manufacturers.

This matter cannot be solved in one or two years. He just mentioned it and didn't ask any more questions.

Liu Xiaoli also took advantage of the situation and turned the topic to catering companies and food festival projects.

Ever since Li Yi led the Chinese team to participate in the Culinary Olympiad, the number of tourism departments from various places who have contacted Liu Xiaoli has doubled.

After the Chinese team won the first gold medal, Liu Xiaoli’s phone was almost flooded with people wanting to invite Li Yi and the Chinese team’s chef to go to the local area to help organize a food festival.

After this round of Culinary Olympiad, Li Yi and the chefs of the Huaxia team are already at the pinnacle of domestic culinary skills.

 And Li Yi's title of Chef God is no longer a joke, it has been accepted by everyone.

 In the minds of Chinese people, Li Yi is the God of Cooking!

 With this kind of appeal, the influence of the food festival he organizes will naturally reach a higher level.

Tourism departments in various places are eyeing this wave of terrifying traffic and want to get a share of the pie.

 This is also a huge business opportunity for Li Yi and Yifei Catering Company.

If we can seize this opportunity and monetize this wave of traffic, then the national chain food festival project previously planned by Li Yi is likely to be completed ahead of schedule.

Liu Xiaoli also knew the key, so she suggested to Li Yi that it would be best to sign all the chefs of the Chinese team to the catering company to completely capture this wave of traffic.

Li Yi also had this intention, but he said that it all depends on the chefs' voluntariness and will never be forced.

However, he still underestimated his status in the minds of chefs.

At the hotel dinner, after Liu Xiaoli made her proposal, all the chefs present readily agreed to cooperate.

 After this round of cooking Olympiad, they have a deep understanding of Li Yi's cooking skills.

Faced with Li Yi's cooking skills, even if Liu Xiaoli didn't mention cooperation, they still planned to find a way to stay with Li Yi so that they could learn more cooking skills.

Seeing that they all agreed to cooperate, Li Yi was in a good mood and immediately signed a three-year cooperation agreement with them.

During the agreement, the chefs will work with Li Yi to promote food festival projects across the country.

 And Li Yi would not let them work for free and directly offered them an annual salary ranging from 1 million to 3.5 million.

This salary is already more than three times their original salary in various offices, and the chefs are very satisfied.

So, with everything in place, Yifei Catering’s food festival project was launched in full swing across the country.

 (End of this chapter)