[Comprehensive] On the possibility of food conquering the world

"From now on, I am the store manager, and you are my acting store manager. Pack up your things, and I will take you to see your restaurant tomorrow."

【I am dreaming...】

October woke up from sleep, sat up abruptly, and looked around her.It was the environment he was familiar with, the small rental house he had stayed in for six years, the flat house that the Akashi family subsidized the poor.

This small house of less than 30 square meters is full of the taste of life. Although he is a boy, the room is filled with all kinds of things, most of which are home-cooked recipe books and some Beautiful little ornaments, the kind you often see at street stalls.

Looking at the familiar room, October ruffles some messy black hair. "Sure enough, I'm dreaming." He said with a chuckle.

Shi Yue turned over and got out of bed, and walked into the only small space isolated by the second one, the bathroom.In this flat-panel room of less than 30 square meters, the isolated wash room is also extremely small, with the shoulder width of two adults, and the length of walking to the end in two steps, it is very aggrieved to install a bathing device. Sink and toilet.

October cleaned herself neatly, and carefully took care of her messy hair.

"It's grown again, cut it by yourself after breakfast." Rubbing the somewhat long tail of hair, he muttered while lifting up the broken hair on his forehead, picked up the blue hair clip placed on the sink and wiped his forehead With the hairpin lifted, the gentle boy suddenly looked a little playful and cute.

After tidying up, it is time to prepare the meals for today.There must be a sufficient breakfast, and the lunch box at noon must be prepared. Today he will be looking for a job outside, so it is impossible not to prepare well.

If there is anything in life other than being alive that is worth striving for in October, it is probably food.

Because of poverty, I hope to taste all kinds of delicacies, and because of extravagant expectations, I take ordinary food so seriously.

Fried a mackerel, full of rice, light tofu soup with chopped green onion, sweet and sour pickled radish, these are the breakfast in October, cheap and filling.There is also a bento box full of five rice balls on the small table, three of which are dotted with a few black sesame seeds on the triangular tips, which can be seen that they have been added.

Sitting down cross-legged in October, she reached out and brought from the bedside the recruitment newspaper she had read last night, which had been circled and drawn with a blue highlighter.

"Well... where do I start first?"

Just as his chopsticks were about to reach for the fried fish on the table, the window of the narrow rental room was opened.

"Oh, is this the breakfast you prepared for me because you knew I was going to visit early in the morning?" An unusually familiar voice sounded from his sleep.

Shi Yue stared blankly at the black cat squatting on the window, wagging its nine tails.

"Hei, Mr. Black Cat..." [What, isn't that a dream? 】

With a quick leap, Mr. Black Cat jumped onto the small table and squatted right in front of the fried fish, poking his paws. "The system that gave you yesterday already indirectly told you my name, call me Heisawa."

"Then...Mr. Kurosawa?" Shi Yue was still somewhat in awe of the cat demon with nine tails.

Kurosawa rolled his eyes indecently, wagged his tail, and circled the tofu soup in Shiyue's hand to his side. "You brat, forget it, it's up to you, I'm going to start!"

After finishing speaking, Kurosawa unceremoniously occupied the breakfast that belonged to October.Shi Yue opened his mouth, but still stretched out his chopsticks, choosing to pick up the rice balls in the bento box, the ones without sesame seeds.

October slowly finished eating two white rice balls, and Mr. Kurosawa also finished his breakfast, wiping his cheeks with his front paws and washing his face.

"Well, although it's a bit monotonous, your craftsmanship is still very good, about the same level as Liu Lizi."

"Liu Lizi?" It was the first time Shiyue heard someone else's name from Mr. Kurosawa. It sounded like a woman's name. What made him even more curious was what Mr. Kurosawa said about Liu Lizi's cooking skills.

After combing his hair, Kurosawa sat on the table with only scraps left, smiling and looking at the boy who still had traces of immaturity in front of him.

"Liu Lizi, I'm a short-lived chef. Although I can't cook high-end dishes, home cooking is a must."

Kurosawa's words could not hide his admiration for Liu Lizi.

This made October even more curious. He touched the back of his right hand, and the golden meow paw print appeared before his eyes again driven by his thoughts. "Since Mr. Kurosawa likes this Miss Liulizi more, why do you give me these things? Apart from giving Mr. Kurosawa a rice ball, it can be said that I have never known each other."

Kurosawa's smile faded. "Because Liu Lizi is a female ghost, although I am an old monster who has lived for thousands of years, and I can walk freely between yin and yang, but I can't bring ghosts from another world to people in this world. The rules of this world."

Kurosawa thought of something, and smiled again. "However, although Liu Lizi couldn't realize her wish of opening a restaurant, she continued her favorite cooking work in another place, so she is very happy."

"Really? I really want to meet this woman..."

"It won't be long, you will see." Heisawa jumped off the coffee table, jumped onto the bed again, stomped on October's pillow several times, and then lay down on his stomach.He squinted his eyes and scanned the room.

"Little ghost, I told you yesterday to pack up your things and go with me, didn't you forget..." The narrow room was still full of things, and it looked like it hadn't been tidied up at all.

"I'm sorry, I thought what happened yesterday was a dream, but I'm actually going to find a job today." Shi Yue bowed slightly and apologized, in today's atheism, whoever experienced what happened yesterday like October , would think it was a ridiculous dream.

Kurosawa wagged his tail, but he didn't look angry. "Well, forget it, just let you familiarize yourself with the functions of the little things given to you."

"Hey?"

Before Shi Yue's doubts came out, the transparent panel that suddenly appeared in front of him yesterday reappeared again. Yesterday he was too dazed to check carefully. At this time, Shi Yue, who was already sober, began to take a good look at the opportunities that belonged to him in front of him.

The entire interface of the transparent panel is similar to the usual computer interface, and the bottom row is divided into grids of equal size and different names.The first grid is the storefront information that October saw yesterday, and the second grid is the character attributes.

Like his classmates flicking and controlling their smartphones, he also tried the feeling of tapping on the cold glass.Click on the character attributes, the first one is the information of Mr. Kurosawa, but a series of data are displayed with question marks, scroll down, and the next is his own attributes.

【Name: Jin Shiyue

Position: Acting Store Manager, Chef

Management staff: no

Dishes mastered: none

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Seeing this, Shiyue was a little confused, and he turned to look at Heize who was lying on his pillow. "Mr. Kurosawa, is there something wrong with this thing? Although I don't know anything too complicated, I still know some small dishes."

Kurosawa didn't look at him, and lay there resting with his eyes closed, only his wagging tail could tell that he wasn't asleep. "Do you think that I gave you a chance just to open a simple restaurant? If you can make rice balls, fried fish, and soup, you really have mastered it?"

Speaking of this, Kurosawa opened his eyes, and his golden eyes looked straight at October, a little serious and a little cold. "Don't be so naive, go and see the rules of opening a shop in the third column, the second."

Open the rules of the third grid in October, ignore the first rule, and look at the second rule: Meals in the October restaurant are not allowed to be sold without the approval of the store manager or the system. The requirements for selling meals are [golden] quality.The quality grades from high to low are premium, gold, silver, black, and gray.

"Then, how can I know what level the dishes I cook are?" Seeing the classification of these five qualities, Shi Yue's self-satisfied self-satisfaction with his cooking skills suddenly felt empty.

"Look at the appraisal of the last frame." Kuisawa told him very straightforwardly, not at all afraid of completely hitting the child's self-confidence.

Shi Yue clicked on the very inconspicuous identification box, and a white light quickly scanned his only perfect food, rice balls, which is also one of Shi Yue's best home-cooked foods.The interface quickly displayed information.

【Name: Pickled Fish Rice Balls

Food Type: Rice

Appearance grade: silver

Odor grade: black

Taste Grade: Silver

Comprehensive grade: silver (low)]

Although the difference between silver and gold is only one level, but seeing the "low" in the comprehensive evaluation, it is not difficult to imagine that there must be "high" and "medium" in October. Anyway, it has always been pretty good. Confident cooking skills are under the system given by Mr. Kurosawa, and the evaluation is so ordinary, which is also very disappointing.

"What? You got hit?" Kurosawa said with a smile, wagging his tail. "So want to give up? Want to open a shop idea?"

Shi Yue shook her head fiercely, although her head was lowered, her eyes were stubborn. "No, I want to try!"

As soon as he finished speaking, the transparent interface in front of his eyes trembled a few times. Shi Yue raised his eyes in a panic to search for what happened on the interface, and saw a big "task" on the fourth grid with the word "task". Golden exclamation mark.

Shi Yue curiously clicked on the task grid, and at the top of the interface, a paragraph of words was written after the golden claw.

[Golden Mission: The October Pavilion officially opens.

Task requirements: Follow the store manager to the storefront of the October Pavilion, ready to open.

Task Reward: Pastry Recipe: Butter Bread. 】

"Mr. Kurosawa, this, this..." October panicked and pointed at the task display on the interface. "I haven't had a single meal that can reach the golden quality, so how do I open a store?"

Kurosawa stood up and looked down at the handsome young man in front of him, except for his slightly better cooking skills, he was somewhat ordinary in every way. "There is no conflict between opening a restaurant and opening a store. Rather than worrying about this now, pack up your things and go with me. The recipes for mission rewards are not just written recipes and cooking methods. They also contain a small part about Culinary knowledge in this type of cuisine.”

"Instead of trying to find a way to reach the golden grade on rice balls, the first step is to rely on the recipes given to you by the system to welcome customers."