msmithbooks The battle of Chapter 1 begins today.
The battle of Chapter 1 begins today.
After the match with Tachibana, the winning strawberry team rushed to the two-one competition venue.
Xiaocheng Combination VS Tennoji Combination
Compared with the modern-style team uniforms of Xiaocheng Group, the team of Tennoji Group today is very eye-catching.
"What kind of clothes are those? It feels a little familiar. Look good!" Amano's gaze stayed on the Tennoji group.
"That's Chinese Hanfu." Hanfang explained, "The kimono we wear is also called Wufu. It was originally passed down from China, so you will feel familiar with it, Little Berry."
"I see." Amano nodded.
"The theme is ya, then, please begin!"
At the beginning of the game, the Tianwangji team took action spontaneously, and they had already clearly divided their responsibilities before the game.
Seeing that Saeki made a lot of cake liquid and poured it into two large baking pans, Amano asked suspiciously, "Is this for cake rolls? But is it too thin?"
"Probably not? Look, he made another batch of cake liquid." An Tang said.
Saeki made the cake embryos three times in total, all using large square baking pans.
During the baking stage of the cake embryo, he started to process the cream. He poured a bowl of bright green stuff into the cream and whipped it.
"The color doesn't look like matcha, does it?" An Tang held his chin and looked over, "Could it be matcha crushed?"
Amano sniffed his nose, "It's cool, ah, it's mint sauce!"
"How did you smell it so far away?" Kashino looked at her in surprise, Amano's five senses were amazing when it came to pastries.
"Hey." Amano touched his nose and continued to look at the venue.
At this time, the Xiaocheng group also began to exert their strength. They squeezed juice with the highest-grade fresh fruit, and the tangy fruity fragrance spread across the entire venue in an instant.
But not long after, another smell appeared in the venue.
"It's tea!" Toffee was the first to say.
An Tang also nodded and said, "Such a strong tea fragrance is the best Tieguanyin."
"Tieguanyin?" Amano, who knew nothing about this kind of knowledge, asked in a daze.
"Idiot, that's the name of the tea." Kashino said sitting next to him.
"Hmph, of course I know." Amano turned his head away, "President Tianwangji's movements of making tea are so elegant!"
At this time, Tianwangji was kneeling and sitting in front of the judges, making tea unhurriedly, with a sense of leisure and elegance in his demeanor, as if this was not a competition, but an invitation to friends.
"That technique!" Kashino suddenly looked to the other side.
Haitang is making chocolate. He has already made white chocolate and is currently making dark chocolate.
"Such a skillful technique, as powerful as you, Kashino." Hanafang sighed.
"Maybe still above me." Kashino said seriously.
"Senior Tongchuan is also very good." The flower house said looking at Tongchuan who was making sugar sculptures.
Just as they were amazed at the skill of the members of the Tennoji group, Saeki had completed two slender cake rolls.
"Is it really a cake roll?" Amano asked in surprise, "But it's so thin, could it be a pillar?"
Saeki put the two cake rolls on the shelf, then picked up the white chocolate made by Haitang just now and poured them on.While waiting for the chocolate to dry, he started working on the remaining four cake embryos.
The four cake embryos were thinner than the two cake rolls. He spliced two of them horizontally, then spread green mint cream, and covered the two horizontally spliced cake rolls for a little shaping.
"So it's Ji Ji." Amano and the others suddenly realized.
After assembling the cake embryo, Tennoji and Saiki switched seats. Tennoji came over with a pot of white chocolate and a rectangular stainless steel bottomless mold.
He placed the mold in the center of the base, coated the circled area with a thin layer of cream, and drizzled a circle of white chocolate on the outside of the mold.After the chocolate was dry, he took off the mold and squeezed honey around the circle where the mold was originally with a piping bag.
When Saeki made the base, he was already on an independent stand, which means that their final product will be displayed on this stand.
Tianwangji picked up the two cake rolls and placed them on both sides of the base. Because there were bevels on both sides of the base at the beginning, it was very convenient to put them together. After the cake rolls were stable, Tianwangji took four from Haitang. Dark chocolate is not made of parts, but assembled.
"Ah, it's a picture scroll!" Amano finally understood.
"Little Berry, look, there seems to be a chessboard there." Vanilla pointed to the direction where Haitang was.
Begonia was removing black and white chocolate squares from the molds while Saeki next to him was handling a square cake.
"Huh? What are they going to do this time?" Rumi on the other side of Amano looked at Tennoji suspiciously.
At this time, Tennoji was holding a brush, dipped in edible gold leaf, and began to draw freehand on the white chocolate part of the picture scroll.
"It's amazing, he's painting with his hands!" Amano exclaimed.
Rumi nodded, "If you don't have an excellent sense of art, you will never be able to do such a bold thing."
The golden lines gradually spread on the edge of the picture scroll, and the grade of this ordinary picture scroll suddenly improved. Although the pattern is golden, it matches the creamy yellow color of white chocolate very well.
Tianwangji had just finished the last stroke, and when he took a step back, Saeki and Tong Chuan came over with the chessboard and the short table on which the chessboard was placed, and they put these things in the place of the white cream.
The Begonia, which was originally made with Saeki, was changed to the location of Tongchuan.
The fittings are all done and they're on to the most important parts.
***
The two sides completed the works almost at the same time, but Amano felt that he could not take his eyes off the works of the Tennoji Group.
Based on an unfolded picture scroll, the white drawing paper that should have been flat has become three-dimensional. A man in a white Hanfu sits there with a slightly curved mouth. He holds a white tablet in his hand. pawns fall on the board.
The black and white chess pieces on the chessboard and in the dark green chess jar are extremely smooth, and they are even more beautiful under the light, as if they were made of beautiful jade.
The whole work is lifelike, if it is not the body shape, it seems to be a person who really walked out of the painting.
Paintings, gentlemen in white clothes, jade.
This is obviously a static work, not even a photo of a real person, but the first time people see this work, people seem to feel the temperament of a gentleman in white.
Playing chess is a very common movement, but in this work, it looks so elegant, as beautiful as a painting.
There is also the smile of a gentleman in white. This smile makes people feel like spring breeze.
In addition, although the movements of the gentleman in white are simple, it can be seen that he has a good upbringing. His sitting posture is a kind of etiquette. His back is straight, but it is not stiff like a poor imitation. Kind of just right.
The previous Tennoji Group's understanding of elegance was fully demonstrated by the people in the painting.
"Then, let's start scoring."
The judges began to taste.
In addition to the cake roll in the painting scroll, they also tried the chess pot, which is a mirror cake, the main material is Tieguanyin, and the black and white chess pieces are also mirror chocolate, so they are so smooth and bright.
"Then we are publishing the scoring results now—" the chairman announced.
"Small Town Combination: 90 points for taste, 91 points for technology, 90 points for theme, 93 points for artistic expression, 90 points for performance, a total of 454 points."
"Tennoji Group: 94 points for taste, 96 points for technology, 97 points for theme, 98 points for artistic expression, 95 points for performance, a total of 480 points."
"Therefore, the Tennoji combination wins this match!"
The author has something to say: The perspective of this chapter is relatively scattered, because I think this kind of competition is more powerful when written from the perspective of a bystander.
The inspiration comes from the character design that Guruma of BS gave me in the Three Kingdoms article a few days ago. It is in the copywriting of the Three Kingdoms. If you are interested, you can go and have a look.
Since I saw those real pastry art works yesterday, I feel that I can write unscrupulously without thinking about load-bearing and other issues!
Thank you very much [Ji Shui] for throwing a mine!
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