Chapter 21: Bad Behavior
More than an hour ago.
He Yunchen learned that Ruan Tang was going to participate in the assessment of the Chefs Association, and worried that he would be targeted, so he drove to the headquarters of the Chefs Association.
Although he knew that someone was deliberately targeting Ruan Tang, he didn't know who it was, let alone which examination room Ruan Tang would go to for the assessment.
The Chefs Association has always wanted to cooperate with the military to promote natural food to the army. As He Yunchen fell in love with Ruan Tang's live broadcast and experienced the delicacy made of natural ingredients, he didn't have the initial interest in cooperation resist. And now, that's clearly a good reason.
As soon as he entered the chef association, he was immediately recognized by the receptionist. Knowing that he was looking for the president, he warmly welcomed him into the reception room, and then quickly reported to the president.
Not long after, a kind-looking fat old man came in, his signature gray hair was neatly combed, and a kind smile appeared on his face.
"Why did Major General He come here today?" Gu Leji was a little surprised. He also knew about the anorexia of the young master of the He family. The other party has always hated natural ingredients, so why would he take the initiative to visit today?
He Yunchen nodded at him, "To be honest, I recently followed a food live broadcast on star network. I know that this anchor will participate in the assessment of the Chef Association today, so I want to take a look."
"Food anchor?"
Gu Le Ji was slightly surprised, and then thought of the new anchor who was in the limelight recently, and suddenly smiled, "Is that the one named Ruan Tang?"
He Yunchen nodded.
"I didn't expect that even Major General He would be impressed by his food. I think this kid's standard is even better than I imagined." Gu Leji knew how much He Yunchen resisted natural ingredients, and his ability was better than his father He Weiye. Even stronger, he is even more picky about the taste of food. Even the meals he cooks as a five-star chef are barely acceptable to this child, but he still doesn't want to eat more.
Now this rookie anchor named Ruan Tang was able to get his approval, which made Gu Leji look forward to him even more.
"Major General He wants to watch his assessment video?" The other party came here deliberately and mentioned Ruan Tang again. Naturally, Gu Leji didn't know what he meant, so he took the initiative to invite him.
Anyway, the assessment video will eventually be uploaded to the official website and made public for all citizens of the empire to watch. As long as the assessment discipline is not disturbed, it is no big deal to show him the assessment process. Gu Leji was more than happy to meet this small request of Major General He.
The two came to Gu Leji's office, Gu Leji turned on the optical brain projection, and through his president's permission, retrieved Ruan Tang's assessment information from the Chef Association's database, and found that his assessment had already started. It was directly connected to the surveillance camera in the examination room, so that he could watch his assessment process in real time.
In the video, Ruan Tang just finished drawing lots and got five kinds of ingredients.
Seeing those five ingredients, Gu Leji's expression froze.
Chili is a new ingredient that was just announced today. Although it is also within the scope of the assessment database, generally speaking, the probability will be adjusted to be extremely low, and it will basically not appear in the candidates' assessment content, let alone the two ingredients. All new ingredients have been drawn.
Moreover, Ruan Tang got more than two new ingredients. Except for an egg, which was a normal topic, the appearance of fish head and pork liver was even more outrageous.
Fish itself is already a very difficult ingredient to cook. Before Ruan Tang made fish live, it was even removed from the assessment database. It wasn't until Ruan Tang demonstrated how to handle the fish in the live broadcast that they added the fish to the assessment database again.
Usually the whole fish is given in the test. Unless it is a very large fish, it is possible to cut it into pieces. However, fish heads with no meat and fish tails full of thorns are unwelcome scraps. The assessment is to test the ability, not deliberately make people difficult, so this part of the materials will not be distributed to the candidates in principle.
And the appearance of pig liver is even more outrageous. Perhaps in the eyes of outsiders, fish heads and pig liver are parts of fish and pigs, and should also be a kind of food, but Gu Leji is very clear that these are leftovers. The viscera contained many bacteria and impurities, and were fishy and smelly. They were not edible at all, and should be disposed of directly instead of being used as ingredients for distribution to candidates!
Obviously someone tampered with the chef assessment!
The population of the empire is hundreds of billions, and there are countless candidates who sign up for the Chefs Association assessment every month, but there are very few candidates who can really achieve excellent results. The failure of the chef association has always been a matter of great concern to Gu Leji, and the chef assessment is an important channel for digging out good seedlings to cultivate, so Gu Leji attaches great importance to it.
In order to ensure the fairness and impartiality of the assessment, Gu Leji has formulated a regulation that all assessment content must be recorded in video and uploaded to the official website of the Chefs Association. In the holographic mode, all citizens of the empire can taste the dishes made by the candidates and express their opinions through scoring. If the evaluation score of the candidates who passed the assessment is too low, it will be verified by the supervision department of the Chefs Association. If it is indeed not worthy of the name, the chef qualification will be disqualified, and the chief examiner at that time will also be severely punished, vice versa.
If the candidates who will be able to pass the assessment insist on not passing, the punishment for the chief examiner will only be more severe. Therefore, such a thing has never happened in the chef assessment for many years.
Gu Leji never expected that someone would tamper with the ingredients in the assessment. Ruan Tang got these ingredients, which was tantamount to announcing his failure in the assessment in advance.
If he hadn't discovered it by accident, maybe this matter would have been covered up like this. Even if the video was uploaded to the official website later, the people of the empire would not be willing to taste ingredients such as fish head and pork liver. If you don't go, you will naturally not attract the attention of the supervisory department, and then this matter will be completely covered up.
Thinking of this, his face became even more frosty.
He Yunchen saw his expression, and then looked at the ingredients Ruan Tang picked up, so he naturally knew that he was deliberately targeted. But the one sitting next to him was the president of the Chefs Association. Out of consideration for the other party's face, he didn't speak rashly. He just watched Gu Leji quickly retrieve the information of the chief examiner of the examination room, and the name displayed on it was: Vice President, Qi Zhuo.
When investigating the group of people who went to Ruan Tang's live broadcast to make trouble, his mother Ran Jing guessed that this person was behind the scenes. Qi Zhuo is very ambitious, but at the same time does not have the matching IQ and ability. Qi Zhuo does have a certain talent in cooking, otherwise the previous old president of the Chefs Association would not accept him as a closed disciple, but he can only follow the scriptures and does not know how to innovate, so he is not competent for the position of president .
Qi Zhuo is dissatisfied with his current position, which is not a secret among several high-level circles. But President Gu has been concentrating on research and doesn't like to associate with powerful people. Because he came from the same school as Master Qi Zhuo, and has always trained him as his successor, he has been confused until now, allowing the other party to form cliques in the association for personal gain, and trying to evade him own.
But from today's perspective, Qi Zhuo's behavior has obviously touched the bottom line of this soft-spoken and kind old man. In recent years, Gu Leji has also realized that Qi Zhuo's limited qualifications are not the best candidate to inherit the post of president of the Chefs Association, and the fault of the Chefs Association in the younger generation of outstanding chefs has always been a heart disease of Gu Leji. He very much hopes to be able to a person with excellent talent and ability appeared, so as to lead the Chefs Association to continue to develop and grow, and also to spread the deliciousness of natural ingredients in the empire.
Now this person has finally appeared, but he is about to be under Qi Zhuo's secret operation, and will not be able to obtain a chef certificate.
How could he just ignore such a thing?
He has to intervene.
He took a deep breath, "I'm sorry, Major General He, I may need to go out, forgive me."
He Yunchen also stood up, stretched out his hand to help the old man who was trembling because of being too angry, "President Gu, my hoverboard is right outside. If you're in a hurry, why not let me take you there."
Gu Leji hesitated for a moment, but he let out a sigh of relief, and said heavily: "Okay."
If possible, he certainly hoped that his family ugliness would not be publicized, but obviously, due to his indulgence to Qi Zhuo over the years, his once cheerful and enthusiastic attitude. A fellow junior is getting more and more presumptuous, and has already changed beyond recognition. Today's Qi Zhuo is just a cancer of the Chefs Association. Together with his henchmen, it has become a quagmire that hinders the continued development of the Chefs Association, crowding out capable people and not thinking about the right way. Despite the pain in his heart, Gu Leji also had to clearly realize that now is the best time to get rid of this cancer and clean up the ethos of the Chefs Association.
Even under the witness of the people of the whole empire.
The two hurriedly left the headquarters of the Chefs Association, took He Yunchen's suspension speed car, and rushed to the branch examination room where Ruan Tang was.
However, the hovering car does not need to be driven manually, it can automatically reach the destination only by inputting the location, so Gu Leji and He Yunchen are still paying attention to the progress of Ruan Tang's assessment on the flying car.
Seeing him handling those tricky ingredients neatly without the slightest panic on his face, Gu Leji's evaluation of him was a little higher.
When their flying car reached the destination, Ruan Tang's three dishes were just finished. Looking at the three brightly colored and attractive dishes, Gu Leji suddenly felt that he might be too preconceived. The ingredients he thought were being used by Qi Zhuo to deliberately make things difficult for Ruan Tang might not be what he imagined. Generally useless.
He looked at Ruan Tang with brighter eyes, this kid might be the next five-star chef!
Thinking of this, he couldn't help but quicken his pace a little.
But in order not to disturb the examinees who were waiting for the assessment or who were being assessed, Gu Leji deliberately walked in through the back door of the branch. When they went up, Qi Zhuo was giving a speech. They stood at the door, watching him coldly demote Ruan Tang to nothing, and joined the other two invigilators to insult him.
The anger in Gu Leji's heart suddenly burned.
When he saw Ruan Tang argue hard and explain without being humble or overbearing, he felt even more distressed. When Qi Zhuo made it clear that he was going to bully others and directly judged that Ruan Tang had failed the examination, huge anger and disappointment hit him instantly, making his eyes go dark.
He Yunchen immediately reached out to support him, and at the same time pushed the door open completely, took a step forward, and announced in the same tone as Qi Zhuo: "Unfortunately, Vice President Qi, your qualification to invigilate has been revoked."
Seeing the other party still trying to quibble, Gu Leji took a step forward, and asked with a cold face: "Qi Zhuo! Do you know what you are doing?"
A guilty conscience flashed in Qi Zhuo's eyes, but he quickly covered it up. He squeezed out a smile and said, "President, I don't know what you're talking about. I'm afraid there's some misunderstanding in this matter..."
"Misunderstanding? What's the misunderstanding? I saw the whole assessment process clearly, do you want me to call the people from the Supervisory Committee to see what good things you have done?"
When Qi Zhuo heard the word "Supervisory Committee", Qi Zhuo's face suddenly changed, but the matter has come to an end, he must not just admit it like this, this is in front of the entire interstellar people, once admitted, not only will all his business for so many years be destroyed, but he may also be hopeless in the days to come! So he gritted his teeth and said, "President, I don't understand what you mean... I am doing things according to the regulations of our association..."
"Really? How dare you deliberately send ingredients that are not part of the assessment content to candidates?" Say it’s not you? Deliberately insulting the examinee’s results with words, how dare you say it’s not you? You said that their three dishes are disgusting, do you dare to touch your conscience and say, are these dishes really that bad?"
Qi Zhuo was President Gu's rare toughness made him speechless, "I..."
Gu Leji laughed back angrily, and shouted: "Since you can't taste it, then I will taste it for you!"
Qi Zhuo wanted to stop him, but He Yunchen's tall figure stood aside, and as soon as his cold eyes fell on him, he didn't dare to move rashly.
Gu Leji picked up the chopsticks and picked up a piece of chili grandmother's egg. The egg was soft and fragrant, and it did have a bit of spiciness, but it was very well neutralized by the taste of the egg itself. It actually brought some sweet juice, which is very surprising to eat.
He gave Qi Zhuo a hard look, then stretched out his chopsticks towards the green pepper pork liver.
After the thing entered, his eyes lit up immediately. The pork liver didn't have the stench in his memory at all. Instead, it was salty, fragrant and tender, and the green pepper was also crispy and tender.
As for the bitterness, it is even more nonsense.
He picked up the spoon again and tasted the fish soup. Not to mention the fishy smell, it was so delicious that one wanted to close his eyes and enjoy it.
Obviously, Qi Zhuo and the others just now were talking nonsense with their eyes open!
"Qi Zhuo, Guo Lin, Zhou Jian, what do you three have to say?!" Gu Leji looked at Qi Zhuo and the two people beside him with a serious expression.
When Guo Lin and Zhou Jian saw Gu Leji moving his chopsticks to try the dishes, they already realized that something was wrong. After all, they had personally tasted the three dishes and knew exactly what they tasted like.
Thinking of the punishment they were about to face, the two couldn't help but said, "President, we know that we were wrong, and Ruan Tang's dishes are actually very good." They couldn’t help but glance at Qi Zhuo, but Qi Zhuo When it is difficult to protect itself, how can you take care of them? The two regretted even more in their hearts, and couldn't help crying: "We are fascinated, President, please help us, help us..."
The matter has become very clear at this point, Qi Zhuo, Guo Lin and Zhou Jian used their power to Deliberately making things difficult for candidates has seriously violated the regulations of the Chefs Association.
Gu Leji closed his eyes, and said in a deep voice: "I announce that the three of you will be disqualified from the invigilation examination, and all positions in the chef association will be suspended, pending the investigation and further processing by the supervisory committee."
It's over. Qi Zhuo's heart turned cold, seeing that his many years of planning were about to be destroyed, he couldn't help shouting out of control: "No! You can't do this to me!"
He sneered, and miraculously calmed down at this time, "I am the four-star chef of the empire, and I am also the vice president personally appointed by His Majesty. You have no right to dispose of me. If you dispose of me, the empire will lose a precious four-star chef, without me, the development plan of the empire's natural ingredients will be greatly affected, Gu Leji, can you take on this responsibility?"
Qi Zhuo became more excited as he spoke, and couldn't help laughing," Speaking of it, I really thank you and the master for releasing the water at the beginning. Does this count as shooting yourself in the foot? Huh? Senior brother? Hahahahaha—— Gu Leji, you can’t find anyone to fill my vacancy, you can't dismiss me! You can't take this responsibility!"
"Who said he couldn't find anyone?"
Ruan Tang stood beside him for a long time, and he probably understood the grievances involved. To become arrogant, he couldn't help but take a step forward to interrupt his delusions.
"Isn't it a four-star chef? I'll do it."