When Gu Zheng said that she wasn't proper, the female customer's expression became very awkward. She opened her mouth to say something, but nothing came out.
"Do you still want me to cook the ingredients you brought?"
Gu Zheng asked again. If the female customer wanted to change her mind because of his words, he didn't care at all.
"Yes."
The female customer nodded. Her originally frivolous eyes became a bit fearful as she opened the box on the table.
"Is this all you have to offer?"
The thing in the box was a can of food. Whether it was on Earth or on Feng Lan Star, it was very 'infamous'. Its name was — canned herring.
"That's right, this is all I have to offer. Can you accept this kind of business?"
The female customer carefully looked at Gu Zheng. Just now, Gu Zheng's cold warning had really scared her.
"Okay, swear!" Gu Zheng said.
"Okay."
The female customer obediently swore. When she saw Gu Zheng take the canned herring into the kitchen, she let out a sigh of relief.
"Hmph, why don't you look in the mirror? You look like a pig and you dare to have ideas about my master!"
Die Ling angrily said as she followed Gu Zheng into the kitchen.
"If your sister didn't say anything just now, would you have scolded her as well?" Gu Zheng said with a smile.
"Of course! If she wasn't a customer of the shop, I would've taught her a lesson! "
Die Ling glared fiercely at the female customer who was looking into the kitchen, causing her to quickly lower her head in fear.
"Okay, don't be angry! There are all kinds of strange things in this world. There's no need to get angry over such a small matter. Besides, I don't have any improper thoughts about her. "
As soon as Gu Zheng finished speaking, he frowned slightly. He had learned from the restriction outside that someone was knocking on the door of shop number three.
"Go to shop number three and receive the customer. I'll go over after I'm done with this business," Gu Zheng said.
"Okay, today is really good. Business is coming one after another!"
Seeing that there was business, Die Ling forgot about her previous unhappiness. She immediately left the kitchen and went to the third shop to receive customers.
Gu Zheng had heard of canned herring before he became an Immortal Cultivator, but he had never really touched this kind of food.
Even though the canned herring smelled bad, when Gu Zheng opened it, the stench was beyond his imagination.
"If it weren't for the mission, I wouldn't have asked you to cook such a stinky, trashy ingredient!" The artifact spirit gritted its teeth.
"Most of the time, there is only a fine line between fragrance and stench. The stench produced by fermentation of certain foods is often diluted many times to produce fragrance. Smelly, in fact, is also a very high realm in food. It contains the Dao of the transformation of the essence of the ingredients! "Gu Zheng said.
"Really? Why haven't I heard Lord Gokusen mention this before? "The artifact spirit asked suspiciously.
"When you first followed me, there were many ingredients that you didn't like. I think this came from Lord Gokusen's influence on you! In my opinion, Lord Gokusen certainly knew this, but he disdained to cook this kind of food. Naturally, he wouldn't say much to you. "Gu Zheng said.
The artifact spirit thought for a moment and said, "That seems to make sense!"
"Speaking of which, it's just a box of stinky canned food without any ingredients. Is it difficult to cook this time?" The artifact spirit asked.
"The difficulty of cooking is not bad! If it wasn't difficult, the Taotie statue would definitely not agree. "Gu Zheng said.
"Compared to the previous three orders?" The artifact spirit asked again.
"It's more difficult than the previous three orders. It will also take longer to process."
After Gu Zheng said that, he poured the canned herring into a bowl and then placed it in the steamer.
Using the Fire Control Art, Gu Zheng carefully controlled the temperature. What he needed to do now was not to let the water boil, but to reach the right temperature.
The right temperature had been reached. Gu Zheng used the Water Control Art to control the changes of the herring meat in the bowl. This step was a preliminary transformation of the essence of the ingredient.
After a while, Gu Zheng took the bowl out of the steamer. The female guest also curiously approached the glass.
In the eyes of the female guest, the herring in the bowl was no different from when the can was first opened. But in Gu Zheng's eyes, the meat under the herring's skin was no longer the original white color, but had become a little beige.
There was a lot of soup in the bowl with the herring. This was the soup that came with it when it was made into a can. Gu Zheng left the herring in the bowl, poured the soup into the pot, and let it simmer on a small fire.
Since it had already undergone preliminary processing in the steamer, the soup of the herring was not as smelly as imagined during the simmering process.
As soon as the soup in the pot boiled, Gu Zheng scooped out the soup. Under the effect of the power of extreme cold, the soup immediately cooled down. Gu Zheng poured it into the bowl with the herring.
Once again, Gu Zheng placed the bowl with the herring on the steamer and began to process the herring with the Five Elements Immortal Art.
He steamed and fried the soup four times. Every time, he would take the herring out of the pot when the water boiled.
After steaming and frying four times, Gu Zheng poured the seven herrings in the bowl, together with the soup, onto the plate. At this time, the herring was beige in color, and the originally grayish-white soup had become milky white. Not only was the smell not smelly at all, but it also emitted a fresh fragrance similar to that of fish stew.
"This is the last time!"
Gu Zheng muttered to himself as he placed the plate of herring into the steamer basket. This time, he allowed the herring to enter the steaming process.
After a while.
The cooked herring appeared on the table of the female guest.
Looking at the beige herring and the milky white soup on the plate, the female guest's eyes almost popped out of their sockets.
"Is this still the canned herring I brought? Why doesn't it smell at all? "
The female guest muttered softly. She had never eaten canned herring before. She only knew that it smelled unbearably bad.
Gu Zheng did not say anything. He just watched quietly. After all, he had already cooked the canned herring without cheating. As for the female guest's doubts, he was too lazy to respond.
Seeing that Gu Zheng did not respond, the female guest felt bored. She picked up the chopsticks and began to stir the herring.
"Hmph, the more I look at it, the angrier I get. What's so great about cultivators? I've never been treated like this in my entire life! Swear? The vows I've made since I was young have never come true! "
The female guest cursed in her heart. She picked up a piece of herring meat and put it in her mouth. She chewed it fiercely as if she was chewing Gu Zheng's meat.
After eating a piece of herring meat, the female guest put down her chopsticks. She looked at Gu Zheng and said, "I've never eaten canned herring before, so I don't know how to evaluate something made from canned herring. I only know that not only does it not smell bad, but it has a different kind of freshness. The meat is very tender, and it melts in my mouth, but it's not greasy at all. I really didn't expect that a dish made from canned herring would be the best fish meat I've ever eaten! Compared to the unbearably bad smell of this dish, you've indeed made it into a dish that deserves to be called delicious! Congratulations, you've successfully closed a business deal! "
Gu Zheng frowned. When the female guest was about to speak, her expression was very calm, but after she began to speak, her expression became very painful, as if she was suffering! However, the painful expression did not affect the seriousness of her voice. In the end, she even congratulated Gu Zheng for completing a business deal, which made Gu Zheng immediately look at the Taotie statue.
"Yes, this bitch wanted to make a comment against her heart. The Taotie statue had an effect on her, so she had no choice but to tell the truth," the spirit said.
"Just telling the truth? I don't think it's that simple! "
Gu Zheng saw something unusual from the female guest's painful expression.
"The Taotie statue was given by Lord Gokusen. It's not a dead object, but a psychic object! Although Lord Gokusen didn't set the rules for swearing, after I perfected the rules, diners have to do things according to the rules. She made an oath but went against her heart. I don't think she'll live long! "The spirit sneered.
"Although the Taotie statue is psychic, won't it cause me unnecessary trouble by doing this?" Gu Zheng frowned.
"It should be. Anyway, this is not within the scope of the Taotie statue's consideration. It's just helping this bitch fulfill her oath!"
The spirit didn't care, but Gu Zheng couldn't just ignore it. After all, he still had a lot of business deals to do.
"Oh!"
The female guest suddenly let out a muffled groan. The painful expression on her face disappeared and was replaced by a blank look! There seemed to be a voice in her head reminding her that she was very tired now. She didn't want to say anything and didn't want to know anything. She just wanted to go home and sleep!
The female guest was very obedient. She followed the voice in her head and began to walk towards the door of the shop.
However, the female guest fainted before she could walk out of the shop. Gu Zheng used "Weaving" to tamper with the female guest's memory.
"Even if she dies, she deserves it. However, her death will affect the business, so I'd better spare her life!"
Gu Zheng used "Weaving" on the female guest's memory and dissolved the power left in her body by the Taotie statue, which could kill her in three days.
The female guest left the shop. She had a very clear memory of what had happened in the shop, but this memory was also a memory that Gu Zheng allowed her to have.
"The fourth business deal has been completed. I also hope that in the future, there won't be such reckless people!"
Looking at the female guest leaving, Gu Zheng shook his head. Then, he used the transmission immortal formation to go to the third shop, where the guest had been waiting for him for a while.
The guest in the third shop was more straightforward. Gu Zheng didn't need much time to make the ingredients he provided into a delicious dish, completing the fifth business deal since the opening of the shop.
However, Gu Zheng didn't have time to rest. Another guest knocked on the door of the first shop.
Gu Zheng hurried to the No. 1 Shop and welcomed the frail-looking male customer who was wearing glasses into the shop.
After the guest sat down, Gu Zheng stared at him and asked, "Are you a reporter?"
"No!"
The guest was very calm. He pushed up his glasses on the bridge of his nose and asked, "Why do you say that I'm a reporter?"
"Because you have a pinhole camera on you," Gu Zheng said.
"Didn't you tell other customers that you're just a cultivator? If you're just a cultivator, you wouldn't have known that I have a pinhole camera on me the moment you saw me, right? "
After being exposed by Gu Zheng, the reporter didn't panic. He dared to secretly take photos, so he still had a different mentality compared to ordinary people.
"To ordinary customers, I would say that I'm a cultivator, but to you …"
Gu Zheng dragged his words and stretched out his hand toward the reporter.
The reporter wanted to dodge, but the air around him was already tense. He could only feel Gu Zheng's hand pressing on his head in fear. After that, he lost consciousness.
It wasn't hard to imagine that a reporter would pretend to be a customer and secretly visit the shop. Therefore, Gu Zheng had already planned for this.
Gu Zheng searched the reporter's soul. He originally thought that the media behind the reporter was just a local media, but who would have thought that the media behind him was a very famous media in this country. There were many people who paid attention to this media.
After learning the results of Gu Zheng's soul search, the weapon spirit said, "That's good. The media behind him has such a big following. You don't have to change the shop anymore."
"Initially, I did plan to change the shop after the shops in these three cities were less popular. Now, it seems like there's really no need for that." Gu Zheng smiled.
The appearance of the shop had already caused a heated discussion on the Internet. However, how the owner of the shop cooked had always been a mystery to the curious netizens. Moreover, other than how the owner of the shop cooked, the netizens were also very curious about many things in the shop.
The task given to the reporters by the big media was to publish a video. Even if they couldn't publish a video because of some reasons, they still had to organize the details of Gu Zheng's cooking and the situation in the shop into a draft.
Although the shop would change some rules to attract cultivators in a month's time, it shouldn't be a problem to get customers. However, in this one month's time, Gu Zheng still wanted to complete as many business deals as possible. Therefore, he had to 'weave' the reporter's memory.
Gu Zheng began to 'weave' the reporter's memory. In the reporter's new memory, the shop wasn't as magical as the rumors said. The owner was a bit mysterious. As for the owner's identity, he was indeed just a cultivator.
"Weapon spirit, I want to lose in the reporter's memory. Can I have this?"
Gu Zheng, who was' weaving 'the reporter's memory, stopped.
"No. You are Gokusen's successor. Unless you really lost to someone, how could you say that you lost?" the weapon spirit said.
"Rules are dead, but people are alive! Moreover, the purpose of this mission is to test my cooking skills. If I lose in the reporter's memory, it won't affect my cooking skills. It will only increase the number of customers. Although Lord Gokusen has his own plans on how to increase the number of customers, the plan is one thing, and the execution is another! No one can be sure that when the time comes, there won't be any variables that will affect the plan! If the mission fails not because of my cooking skills but because of the number of customers, I don't think this is the result that Lord Gokusen wants to see, right? "Gu Zheng said earnestly.
The framework and some details of Gu Zheng's missions were set by Gokusen, but the details were too specific and were generally measured by the weapon spirit.
"Lord Gokusen didn't say that you can use this method to increase the number of customers," the weapon spirit said hesitantly.
"Lord Gokusen didn't say it, but you have the right to measure the details of some missions, don't you? It's true that I am Lord Gokusen's disciple, but the owner of the shop isn't Lord Gokusen's disciple! Moreover, he only lost because of the reporter's' fabricated 'memories and the resulting reports. It didn't really affect my culinary skills at all! After all, the ingredients provided by the customers are checked by the Taotie statue. Although the number of customers will increase, the quality of the missions I do will not decrease because of this! "Gu Zheng said earnestly.
The weapon spirit was actually very smart, but when it came to the rules set by Gokusen, it seemed a little stubborn. If it weren't for this, Gokusen wouldn't have set the mission reward that allowed Gu Zheng to summon the weapon spirit to vent his anger once.
Times were different now. The weapon spirit had changed a lot during the years it accompanied Gu Zheng. Gu Zheng's earnest persuasion didn't go to waste. The weapon spirit agreed to Gu Zheng's proposal.
"If I agree to let you do this, it gives me the feeling that I'm doing something bad behind Lord Gokusen's back!"
The weapon spirit rolled its eyes at Gu Zheng, then said with a smile, "You lost because of the reporter's memory, so the resulting reports will definitely increase your number of customers! At that time, those people will be misled by the reports and come to defeat you full of confidence, but in the end, they will leave with a depressed face. It's quite exciting to imagine! "
"Do you know what your smile looks like?" Gu Zheng asked.
"Like what?" The weapon spirit asked with wide eyes.
"Like a child who got away with a prank!" Gu Zheng laughed.
"Are you looking for a beating?!" The weapon spirit gritted its teeth and raised its small fist.
The reporter left the strange shop with one million, satisfied.
In the reporter's memory, the owner of the strange shop didn't use the ingredients he prepared to make delicious food that satisfied him.
The onlookers were a little excited. Although the reporter didn't say much to them at all, the extra password box in the reporter's hand still caused them to make wild guesses.
Gu Zheng could 'weave' the reporter's memory, and he could also change the content captured by the pinhole camera device, so the things the reporter brought to the media were very informative.
Seeing the reporter leave after winning one million, someone among the onlookers outside the shop immediately couldn't help knocking on the door of the strange shop.
The visitor brought ingredients, but unfortunately, the ingredients he brought were not considered difficult enough by the Taotie statue.
In the face of such a situation, the visitor didn't think that this was an excuse Gu Zheng couldn't handle like Han Zhe did before. He immediately left the strange shop to prepare new ingredients.
"I told you, the difficulty of this kind of ingredient is definitely not good!"
"This strange shop is really strange! Is it really not to make money? It actually didn't accept the ingredients that are not difficult enough! "
"Friend, go and prepare the ingredients again. Just prepare according to the few ingredients I just told you. I think those ingredients can definitely stump the other party!"
"Friend, can I discuss something with you? If you're afraid of losing, the two of us can just team up! One hundred thousand yuan, each of us will pay fifty thousand yuan. If we lose, we lose. If we win, each of us will pay five hundred thousand yuan. How about that? "
The onlookers said all kinds of things, but the guest only cared about finding ingredients and didn't pay attention to their enthusiasm at all.
Looking at the back of the guest leaving, the eyes of the person who originally wanted to team up with him suddenly lit up, and he immediately shouted excitedly, "Find four people to team up with, and each of them will pay twenty-five thousand yuan. As for what ingredients to use, let's all discuss, and finally sign a contract to share one million yuan equally!"
"Me!"
"Me!"
"Me!"
It could be said that all the onlookers were reluctant to pay one hundred thousand yuan per person, but there were still many people who were willing to give it a try! After all, if this was a gamble, then the odds were one to ten! And if everyone pooled their ideas together, there would definitely be some success.
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