Chapter 076 1552 Haunted House (08)
Everyone's face changed suddenly.
"Rubbish APP." The newcomer Lu Ming had a bad temper and cursed out loud.
Xie Chi was only surprised for a moment, and then his expression returned to normal. APP always pushes the plot.
After Xia Yao sat down, she subconsciously looked at Xie Chi. After seeing him, she looked away guiltily and sat silently beside You Jing.
"Shall we have some vegetarian food?" Lu Wen asked in a low voice as he sat next to Xie Chi.
Before Xie Chi could answer, Ren Ze on the other side muttered, "Playing with probability? See who gets unlucky?"
After all, there were nearly twenty dishes served yesterday, and it is estimated that there will be no less today. With so many dishes, even if you have to pick three, the probability of eating problematic dishes is greatly reduced.
Xie Chi lowered his head and played with his fingers: "It won't be that simple."
"What do you mean?" Ren Ze looked at him.
Xie Chi just smiled and said nothing.
After the fat chef served all the dishes, Ren Ze finally understood what Xie Chi meant.
There were only seven dishes in total, and they were all meat. The portions were extremely large and they were all served on oversized plates, as if they were afraid that they wouldn't have enough to eat.
Everyone's faces instantly became extremely ugly.
Xie Chi took the opportunity to glance at You Jing again. He saw that he raised his chin slightly, glanced at the dishes, raised one eyebrow slightly, and curled the right corner of his mouth, but there was no emotion in his eyes.
Complacency, understanding, contempt, gloating. These are the emotions revealed by You Jing's micro-expressions.
You Jing seemed to know information that he didn't, and most of it was related to the dishes.
Xie Chi looked at Xia Yao again, confused, horrified, and pale.
So Xia Yao did not lie to herself or hide any information from herself, and You Jing and Zhao Jinhua did not tell her.
[This is too bad. There is a 3/7 chance that you will get a dish with a problem. That menu is so disgusting! ]
[I was wrong earlier. That was when there was only one dish with a problem. Who knows how many dishes there are today? ]
【Fuck, that’s too cruel. 】
[Ah, this is so unfair. You Jing has obtained so much information with the help of props and knows how to avoid it reasonably. What about the others? ]
[I feel sorry for Chi Wo Ze. It's so hard. It's also thanks to my Chi Zai that he's thoughtful. ]
[Chi Zai really took advantage of everything he could, even You Jing's girlfriend. ]
The fat chef began to introduce the dishes : "We had Japanese food yesterday, today we will have wild and primitive Chinese food. Today's dishes mainly focus on grilled, fried and deep-fried meats."
The fat chef walked up to Xie Chi and pointed at a fragrant chicken in front of him and said, "You must have seen this dish in martial arts novels. It's called beggar's chicken. I wrap the processed chicken in lotus leaves, apply yellow mud on the outside of the lotus leaves, and then put it in the fire to roast."
Everyone looked at the chicken, which was bright red and juicy, and oozing with oil.
The fat chef used scissors to cut the string wrapped around the chicken, and the chicken's belly instantly burst open. The delicious juice bubbling with oil flowed out through the gap underneath, and in an instant it covered the bottom of the plate, just like a steamed dumpling.
The stuffing in the chicken's belly was exposed, yellow, red, and black, with rich colors, fragrant smell, and so delicious that it made people's appetite whet.
The fat chef smiled and said, "I stuffed shrimp, minced meat, mushrooms and other ingredients into the chicken's belly. They absorbed the chicken juice, expanded and blended together. The taste is very good. You can try it."
[I thought it would be disgusting, but actually... I'm hungry. ]
【1555551This year on the Ghost Festival, I want my mom to cook me a beggar’s chicken.】
"Fuck." Ren Ze swallowed his saliva and got angry. He hadn't eaten last night, almost two days and one night, and now he was starving, but he was still tempted like this.
"Oh, right." The fat chef changed his angle and pointed to a group of yellow balls hidden in the chicken's breast. "This is a hen. These are all chicken eggs. In other words, they are egg yolks. They are very nutritious."
Xie Chi looked at the egg. It was yellow in color and wrapped with a network that looked like an egg membrane. The network was basically transparent and had some blood wrapped around it.
Chicken blood is red, and turns ochre brown after being cooked. The blood on the chicken eggs is also ochre brown at this time.
You Jing secretly glanced at Zhao Jinhua and asked if there was any problem with the dish. Zhao Jinhua compared it carefully in his mind and shook his finger under the table.
This is a bit like a variation on the charcoal-grilled suckling lamb, one of the six dishes on the menu.
The charcoal-grilled suckling lamb is actually a whole adult ewe served on the table, but what you eat is basically not the ewe's meat, but the delicious lamb in the ewe's belly.
The ingredients of charcoal grilled suckling sheep are comprehensive. In fact, they are ewes that are about to give birth. Such ewes are killed and hairless, and then grilled on charcoal fire. They don’t even need to be wrapped with lotus leaves or other materials to keep warm and lock in the flavor like beggar chicken, because ewes are the best ingredients to lock in the deliciousness. During the charcoal grilling process, the flavor of the ewes will penetrate into the suckling sheep in the stomach, and the suckling sheep meat is tender and delicious.
This beggar's chicken dish looks similar no matter how you look at it, both have something in their stomachs and are baked.
The fat chef introduced another six dishes, all of which were charcoal-grilled, hand-torn, and fried dishes. They were full of meat, greasy and fatty.
After the explanation, everyone looked at each other with different expressions.
"Please start eating now. It won't taste good if it gets cold. We have to finish eating before nine o'clock and go to bed." The fat chef looked at everyone expectantly.
No one picked up their chopsticks first. They all looked at Zhao Jinhua and You Jing, with suspicion and vigilance in their eyes, but expectation and friendliness on their faces.
They had heard Xia Yao's screams before and knew that something unusual must have happened, but now Xia Yao was fine, which meant that they must have overcome the difficulties and might have made some discoveries.
Putting this aside, Zhao Jinhua and You Jing have so many means and they must have much more information than them. They can definitely survive by eating whatever they eat.
[A bunch of poor students want to copy homework, hahahaha. ]
[Yes, just follow them and eat. ]
When You Jing realized this, his face turned a little ugly, with disgust in his eyes.
[The top student You Jing doesn't want his homework to be copied, fearing that the poor student will surpass him. ]
"What should we do?" Lu Wen leaned closer and asked in a low voice.
Xie Chi thought for a moment and lowered his voice: "They may have learned something from the fat chef's body, so they know how to avoid eating the wrong dishes."
Their subtle movements hinted at this.
Lu Wen was surprised and whispered, "Then are we going to eat with them?"
Xie Chi laughed and shook his head, "No, this is a paradox. To put it bluntly, it's a game. Let me give you an analogy. Let's play rock-paper-scissors. You know that I'm used to playing paper, and I also know that you know that I'm used to playing paper. You think that I'll definitely play paper according to my habit, so you want to play scissors to beat me. But if you think about it carefully, I know that you know that I'm used to playing paper, so I might have predicted that you would play scissors to beat me, so I played fists, hoping to win against the scissors you predicted I would play later. But you might have predicted that I would be on guard against you guessing that you would play scissors and wanted to play fists to win you, so you played paper instead, hoping to win against the fists you predicted I would play twice..."
Lu Wen felt a little dizzy, and after a long time of thinking, he came out: "Hmm...it seems to be like this."
“It’s a vicious cycle.”
"So?" Ren Ze felt itchy from listening to this, and couldn't help but ask for the result.
Xie Chi laughed, seemingly unaffected by the fact that he was about to eat food of uncertain safety. He glanced at Zhao Jinhua and the others and whispered, "So, we want to eat like them, and they know we want to eat like them, but because actors are in competition with each other, they don't want us to eat right. They want them to eat right, and if we eat wrong, we'll end up in the same vicious cycle."
"Ah, I think I understand." Lu Wen said.
Ren Ze was suspicious: "You mean, we thought they were eating the right food, but in fact they might have misled us into eating the wrong food, because they are not afraid of eating the wrong food. They are strong, and we are the ones who are afraid of eating the wrong food. We might have predicted that they would mislead us into eating the wrong food, so we ate the right food instead. But they might also have predicted that we would know that they would mislead us into eating the wrong food, so we ate the right food instead. We ate the wrong food because of our prediction?"
Xie Chi's eyes showed some approval: "Yes."
Lu Wen looked like he had lost all hope in life and couldn't get a word in for a long time.
[Lu Wen: What are these two talking about? I don’t understand who I am or where I am.]
【Lu Wen: I felt excluded.】
After a while, when they finished their whispered conversation, Lu Wen said silently: "What's the conclusion?"
Xie Chi: "Think about the information given by the fat chef yourself, don't be led by others."
Lu Wen touched his nose and said embarrassedly: "What if I can't think of it?"
Xie Chi spread his hands innocently: "Then eat whatever you want. Anyway, the probability of winning is about the same as you scheming and copying other people's homework."
Lu Wen: “…”
【Hahahaha??? I thought it was the poor student Xie Chi who wanted to copy the small-minded top student's homework, but it turned out to be the stupid student Chi who decided to write it randomly?】
"You don't believe it?" Xie Chi raised his eyebrows.
Lu Wen was exhausted and had no idea what to say.
"If you don't believe me, I'll show you."
Xie Chi was clearly smiling, but Lu Wen felt that his smile was full of malice and a bit of teasing.
"Demonstration?" Ren Ze's curiosity was aroused.
The stalemate at the dinner table continued, no one picked up their chopsticks. There was a strange look in You Jing's eyes, his mind was racing, and he exchanged glances with Zhao Jinhua.
Xie Chi put down his crossed legs, moved his chair forward, and was the first to pick up the chopsticks.
The two unfamiliar actors opposite noticed and immediately looked at him.
Xie Chi acted as if no one was around and washed the dishes slowly and at a leisurely pace, deliberately making some sounds of water and the chopsticks tapping on porcelain.
This time, everyone, including Zhao Jinhua and You Jing, looked at him.
Xie Chi picked up a piece of honey-roasted goose meat and put it in the bowl, then raised his head and deliberately met You Jing's gaze.
You Jing was stunned for a moment, and noticed the temptation in his eyes. He knew that he wanted to determine whether there was something wrong with the dish based on his expression. He felt slightly proud and immediately made an expression of smug joy. Then he felt that his acting was over the top, so he avoided his sight and stared down at his bowl.
You Jing glanced at Xie Chi and saw him hesitantly pick up the honey-roasted goose meat from the bowl and stuff it into the garbage plate.
You Jing thought to himself, "As expected, he really wants to eat with me!" What a wish!
Xie Chi picked up another piece of beggar's chicken and put it in the bowl, then secretly glanced at You Jing again.
You Jing's heart skipped a beat. He knew that there might be something wrong with the beggar's chicken, but he thought that Xie Chi might have noticed his overly exaggerated expression before, and might have become suspicious of him and knew that he was lying to him.
You Jing thought that Xie Chi was the smartest person, and there was a chance he wouldn't do the opposite of what he did.
So You Jing made a smug expression again, this time even more exaggerated, as if he was afraid that Xie Chi didn't know that there was something wrong with the dish.
You Jing thought Xie Chi would eat it, but Xie Chi strangely stuffed the food into the garbage plate.
You Jing was confused. Why didn't he eat it? Shouldn't he eat it the other way around? Xie Chi was obviously so suspicious...
Xie Chi leaned forward again and picked up the fried chicken. You Jing tried to keep a straight face, but Xie Chi stuffed the fried chicken into the garbage plate.
You Jing was completely confused and tried to make misleading expressions.
Xie Chi took one.
Ren Ze and Lu Wen, who were sitting next to Xie Chi, saw that You Jing's face opposite them was like a traffic light, sometimes happy and sometimes expressionless, and the changes were so fast that their faces were almost distorted.
Ren Ze was laughing secretly in his chest, and his expression was distorted. Lu Wen twisted his thigh to barely hold it back, and his face turned red.
Now they finally understood what Xie Chi meant by "demonstration".
Undercurrents were surging as Xie Chi and You Jing were fighting back and forth. You Jing was acting as if he was facing a formidable enemy in the game with Xie Chi, reacting quickly, hoping that Xie Chi would lose and eat the wrong dish.
Everyone at the table was stunned as they watched this strange scene.
It was not until Xie Chi picked up every dish and stuffed each dish into the garbage plate that You Jing saw the strange expressions of Ren Ze and Lu Wen and realized that he had been fooled by Xie Chi.
