Chapter 388: Shengzai: Girl, are you a master of overthinking!

Hearing Minezaki's words, Shengzai was obviously stunned for a moment.

Indeed, because of his preconceived notions, his words sounded a bit like someone talking without knowing the pain of standing.

Whether it was him or Yukihira Soma, it was because their parents were powerful chefs that they could teach them without reservation from a young age.

But if it were a stranger, why would they do that? No matter what world it is, it's profit-first. Everyone is unrelated; if I teach you my way of making a living, do I retire myself?

Even at Totsuki Academy, those mentors will only give you guidance and evaluations to let your culinary level advance a step further, but if you say you want them to teach you their own secret skills, that is obviously impossible.

This is also why Totsuki Academy has an entrance exam; because they want students who have a certain culinary foundation and potential, not laymen who don't even know how to use a kitchen knife.

"Then let me change the question. Miss Minezaki, are you willing to try learning cooking from me?"

"Cough, cough, cough... cough, what did you just say? I didn't hear clearly?"

Perhaps because she didn't expect Shengzai to suddenly ask such a question, Minezaki, who was still sweeping up the leftovers, started coughing violently because she choked.

"I said, do you want to learn culinary skills from me? Of course, if you don't have the idea, I won't force you."

After confirming she hadn't misheard, Minezaki looked at Shengzai seriously, and after sizing up her own body, she suddenly said: "Although I don't reject partners younger than me, and even like them a bit, isn't it too early for you to get married at your age?

And for this kind of thing, wouldn't it be better to notify our respective mothers and get their consent?

Of course, as for my mom, even if she has an opinion, I will try my best to persuade her. It's mainly your mom..."

Shengzai: "(Д)"?? Stop, stop, I asked if you want to learn cooking from me. Where did your train of thought go?"

Looking at Minezaki, whose face was flushed red and even had a coy attitude, Shengzai was speechless.

He just felt that the shop was too busy now. If Minezaki also knew some culinary techniques, he could not only be much more relaxed but sometimes even leave the shop to do other things. As a result, what was wrong with this big sister's brain circuit? Where did she take him?

"If you don't want to marry me, why would you suddenly want to teach me cooking?"

"No, let's just say, can this teaching you cooking be equated to marriage?"

Facing Shengzai's counter-question, what made him even more speechless was that after a brief moment of thought, Minezaki actually nodded seriously and said: "In my view, this is actually about the same as a marriage proposal."

"Did you forget what I just said? I also thought about being a chef before, but most powerful chefs, unless they are their direct disciples or blood relatives, usually have the habit of guarding their secrets jealously.

The Chinese cuisine in your family restaurant should all belong to family inheritance, right? Now you are willing to teach me, an outsider, doesn't that mean you don't treat me as an outsider..."

Hearing Minezaki's magical brain circuit, Shengzai was speechless on the spot, but soon he understood the other party's meaning and said: "Actually, it's not as exaggerated as you say...

Although our family does have special secret culinary techniques, without my mother's consent, I indeed wouldn't teach those skills to others.

But if it's just some simple Chinese cuisine, even teaching you some is nothing. It mainly depends on whether you are willing..."

"Of course I'm willing! Also, may I ask when Aunt Wenren will return?

If I really have the talent and potential in this area, I wonder if I can gain her recognition?"

Before Shengzai could finish speaking, Minezaki had already excitedly held his hand and said.

"What kind of recognition do you still want to gain from her?" Shengzai was a bit puzzled. He thought that teaching a novice like Minezaki was already more than enough, and he didn't understand why Minezaki was still asking about his cheap mother.

"Of course, the recognition as a daughter-in-law... cough, cough, of course, the recognition to become her direct disciple."

Being able to be a chef in this world full of delicious food, Minezaki naturally wouldn't refuse, not to mention she was originally a woman with strong career ambitions.

Shengzai didn't know what Minezaki, who had been full of worries, had suddenly figured out. In short, her mood had become quite good now.

Even after finishing dinner, she was extremely virtuous in cleaning up the table and tidying up the shop thoroughly before happily going upstairs to take a bath.

Minezaki, who had been fired by the company a few days ago and had lost a lot of money because she was the scapegoat, thought she had reached the low point of her life.

But no one expected that the turning point of her life would come so quickly.

In the steam-filled bathroom, the hot-bodied Minezaki was soaking in the bathtub in a good mood, her brain couldn't help but start to drift, and she began to mutter to herself: "When did that little guy Shengzai start to like me?

Was it when I came to smash the shop last time? Or is it because he saw my body this morning, so he..."

Minezaki said while lazily stretching, making her tempting body even more curvaceous.

"But in any case, this lady's charm is indeed not just for show."

That's right, regarding Shengzai's proposal just now, although Shengzai explained it, Minezaki, this master of overthinking, ultimately misunderstood it, and she even felt that Shengzai was shy, so he didn't admit it directly...

Although Minezaki didn't know much about the culinary world, Chinese cuisine viewed inheritance even more heavily than the culinary world on their side.

Before, she felt that Shengzai was willing to give her 10% of the shop's shares, which was too good to be true.

And tonight, Shengzai was willing to teach her the family's Chinese cuisine, which made Minezaki even more convinced that the other party didn't treat her as an outsider at all!

Didn't you hear what Shengzai said? His family indeed has powerful culinary inheritance, but he doesn't have the authority to teach it to her, and he needs the consent of his mother, Wenren Qingying.

In Minezaki's ears, doesn't this sentence mean that she, Minezaki Yae, needs to gain the mother-in-law's recognition before she can truly learn the Wenren family's cooking?

Looking at it now, Shengzai isn't unwilling to go to Totsuki Academy; he stayed specifically for her!

Shengzai didn't know how Minezaki was overthinking, but while he was watching TV in the living room waiting to use the bathroom, he kept sneezing.

"Damn it, I don't know if that bastard Soma is badmouthing me again.

And this weather is so hot, I'm covered in sweat after a busy day. I don't know why that guy Minezaki takes so long just to take a bath."

Heaven have mercy, if he knew the content of Minezaki's overthinking at this moment, he would definitely shout that he was wronged. Whether it was giving shares or teaching cooking, his purpose was just to be a hands-off manager and be a little more relaxed...

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 389 =====