Brush Up Your Proficiency

On the day of the finals, the morning sun streamed through the curtains into the room, and Wang Hao slowly woke up.

After carefully checking, he was pleasantly surprised to find that his reading proficiency had increased by 2 points.

Looking at the Advanced Reading skill again, it had reached 4850 / 10000. It was now more than halfway to reaching its maximum level.

Seeing such gratifying results, he couldn't help but nod in satisfaction, the corners of his mouth slightly raised, revealing a hint of a gratified smile.

"Not bad, not bad, it's not easy to achieve such results, I must continue to maintain it!" Wang Hao thought to himself, and couldn't help but sigh:

"When I first started, the progress of this reading skill was extremely slow. Who would have thought that because of 'Lao Zhuang', it would now surpass others and develop so rapidly."

Just as Wang Hao was immersed in this joy and emotion, suddenly, a crisp and urgent knock broke the silence in the room.

Immediately after, a familiar voice came from outside the door—it was Tang Guoliang.

"This Uncle Tang is really worrying too much!" Wang Hao thought, while quickly responding, then hurriedly got out of bed.

He quickly put on his clothes, tidied his slightly messy hair, and hurriedly opened the door to meet Tang Guoliang.

Afterwards, the two walked side by side, heading towards the finals venue together. They talked and laughed along the way, and the atmosphere was quite harmonious.

Before long, the two arrived near the finals venue. Tang Guoliang stopped, looked at Wang Hao with gentle eyes, and said softly:

"Xiao Wang, good luck! Uncle Tang believes that you will be able to perform at your best!" After speaking, he smiled and waved to Wang Hao, signaling him to enter the venue quickly.

Wang Hao also returned a smile, reassuring him: "Uncle Tang, don't worry, I won't let you down!"

Then, he took a deep breath, adjusted his mindset, and after completing the relevant checks, slowly walked into the arena with a calm and unhurried pace.

This National Culinary Competition final can be described as highly anticipated, and its judging panel members are ten highly respected people from the association's general management office.

When Wang Hao and the other five contestants stood spiritedly in the center of the competition venue, the judges also stepped onto the stage one after another with steady steps.

Each of them was high-spirited and solemn, as if they were shouldering the important mission of determining the outcome of this event.

After delivering a passionate speech to the many cameras and live audience, the long-awaited final officially kicked off.

Among the five contestants, the young man from Sichuan Province seemed particularly eye-catching.

In the eyes of this young man from Sichuan, although those experienced old chefs were skilled, he was confident that he could easily defeat them with his unique cooking skills and innovative thinking.

What's more, Wang Hao, who has stolen a lot of the limelight?

Even if the other party can make it all the way here, it shows that he does have some strength, but so what? He firmly believes that the final victory will belong to him!

Having grown up in a privileged environment since he was a child, he has always been smooth sailing and has never encountered any setbacks or hardships.

This has gradually made him develop a blind confidence, believing that he has enough capital to stand above the crowd, and even began to be arrogant, completely forgetting the ancient proverb: there are people beyond people, and there is heaven beyond heaven.

At this moment, Wang Hao, who was sitting under the stage, was concentrating on listening to the speeches of the leaders in front.

However, inadvertently, he keenly captured the strange gaze from the young man next to him—it was a hostile and undisguised look.

Wang Hao couldn't help but think to himself: "Looking at this young man's arrogant appearance, he must not have truly experienced the cruel baptism of society yet? Otherwise, why would he show such an unfriendly expression for no reason?

To rashly show such an attitude without knowing anything about the competitors, I am afraid that the final outcome will only end with a severe slap in the face!"

Thinking of this, Wang Hao shook his head slightly and let out a sigh.

However, he quickly refocused his attention on the leaders who were speaking on the stage, after all, for him, who was well-informed, such youthful and frivolous behavior was not worth paying too much attention to.

After all, the road of life is long, and life will always teach everyone how to behave properly in its own unique way. Isn't the young man in front of him, who exudes a sharp edge, also the same as himself when he first entered society?

As time passed, the speeches of the leaders on the stage ended one after another.

Immediately afterwards, the host walked onto the stage with a smile and solemnly announced the detailed rules of this final to the audience.

As Tang Guoliang had revealed before, this competition covered multiple items.

Including exquisite knife skill display, cooking skill competition, pastry making, cold dish arrangement, and fruit and vegetable carving skills, etc.

Unlike the first and second stages of the competition you have experienced, the competition design of the final can be described as extremely meticulous.

It is no longer limited to a single test of the chef's cooking skills, although cooking still occupies a vital position, it is by no means the only standard for measuring a chef's ability.

Faced with such complex and diverse assessment dimensions, Wang Hao's reaction seemed unusually calm and composed, as if all this was just a common matter that required him to spend a little more time to deal with.

When the host announced the start of the first knife skill competition, a piece of fresh ginger and a whole duck were neatly placed in front of Wang Hao and the other five people respectively.

The scoring criteria for this knife skill are quite strict and comprehensive: the shredded ginger section requires the contestants to complete the task within a short 10 minutes, and the evaluation criteria cover the speed of shredding, the quality of the ginger shreds, and the techniques used;

The deboning of the whole duck needs to be achieved within a more intense 15-minute time limit, and the scoring points not only include the operating speed and product quality, but even involve the hygiene during the processing.

However, even in the face of such a challenging basic knife skill project, the five contestants present showed confident expressions on their faces.

As soon as the host's voice fell, they acted quickly almost without hesitation, and the knives in their hands flew up and down on the cutting board, making crisp and rhythmic sounds.