The Urban Successor Of God Of Gluttony - Chapter 10 If You Want it Done Well, Do it Yourself

Chapter 10   If You Want it Done Well, Do it Yourself

Yet another test, he shouldve known. This Immortal pellet wasnt too amazing and this Fried egg Cooking Skill wasnt easy to learn either.

Gu Zheng somewhat understood the device spirits reasoning. If he wanted to receive benefits from it, it wouldnt be so easy. Just the test for opening the Great Desolate Space left him half dead. If he knew in advance that he wouldve received another test, he definitely wouldnt have agreed to this additional reward.

He couldnt reject the test, which basically didnt give Gu Zheng any choice but to participate. It gave him a little bit of comfort that this time his life wasnt on the line, however that punishment of suffering a hundred strokes from a whip? Would he have to whip himself?

Flogging is a punishment that has been used for a long time in the Great Desolate. Ill give you a taste what it feels like to be whipped by an Immortal whip!

Noway!

Gu Zheng suddenly screamed. When the spirit device spoke of sampling he had a bad feeling, unfortunately it didnt wait for him to say dont try! He felt a burst of pain from his behind that felt like dozens of blades cutting into his behind at once.

Gu Zheng bent over from the pain, with cold sweat exuding from his forehead.

You bastard!

Gu Zheng couldnt help but curse. It was an awful feeling and felt as if a knife was cutting into his flesh. In fact, it felt like more than one knife, but more like dozens of knives.

Think about it, from just one hit it felt like dozens of knives cutting him. Not to mention that the punishment included one hundred of these strikes. He couldnt imagine what he would be like if he was whipped one hundred times. Gu Zheng once again felt that if he was whipped a hundred times, he might as well just have died.

No matter how Gu Zheng cursed, the spirit device didnt respond. He could only return to his bedroom, and lie down on his stomach to rest. He still felt the burning pain and didnt dare to lie face up or sit down.

While lying on his stomach, Gu Zheng began to consider this times test.

Fifteen days was not a lot of time. However, Gu Zheng can accept it. He didnt like remaining in one place for too long, nor did he like to stay with one job for too long. Otherwise, he wouldnt have chosen to work as a food critic. Although his cooking skill was less than his fathers, with his fathers influence, being a general chef at a hotel was no problem.

A chefs income was much higher then one of a gourmet food critic. However since the job of a chef was too restricting, while a gourmet food critic had more freedom, he chose to be a food critic in the end.

Fifteen days was an acceptable amount of time, however, how would he find a place in that amount of time. Was it even possible to sustain a stand on the main street? Just directly selling omelettes? He wasnt scared that other people wouldnt buy it. In fact, perhaps even the city management uncles would quickly become his most faithful clients, and chase after him daily.

He couldnt sell it on the main street. What about opening a shop? That was even more impossible.

What kind of shop would only sell fried eggs. Besides, Gu Zheng had no idea how to open a show, and he didnt like to be restricted. Furthermore, he didnt have any funds to open a shop.

The moment he thought about money, Gu Zhengs eyelids once again twitched.

In order to complete the test from earlier, he had been forced to spend a lot of money. With the price of the honey, sorghum rice, and wild ginseng he hadnt used up too much, however with everything else combined, he had spent somewhere around 5,000 RMB. Luckily, he still had a case of water, as well as decent amount of sesame oil remaining.

Even so, the cost for making that mean should be around 5,000 RMB. Gu Zhengs monthly income was only 5,000 6,000 RMB, so this was far from a small sum of money.

For creating the fried eggs, he didnt know how much money he would have to spend. The ingredients were limited to second-class. Essentially, he couldnt use any ingredients below second-class quality. With his water, the thought of having to use his 18 dollar imported mineral water to clean plates, Gu Zheng really couldnt help but feel vexed.

He had water, he also had oil. The sesame oil was perfect for fried eggs, but where would he find eggs?

Not mentioning other eggs, just using the most common eggs, they had to reach the God of Gluttonys requirements. These eggs must be from a chicken that wasnt  agriculturally farmed or impacted by any form of pollution. For these types of eggs, not talking about the price, even finding them would be difficult. Thats how stringent the God of Gluttonys standard was. He feared that if the hen even ate a small bit of feed, it would directly affect the eggs quality.

Gu Zheng could remember that silkie, first of all it had grown up on the mountain. Second, it had eaten some second-class ingredients, in the end it only reached second class.

After thinking to this point, Gu Zheng once again cursed the spirit device. Unfortunately, he couldnt touch the spirit device, he felt like beating it up. If only he could interact with the device.

After cursing for half an hour, he felt that his behind no longer hurt as badly. Gu Zheng struggled to get up, and cursed ruthlessly. However, he couldnt ignore this test. The spirit device had allowed him to taste what the punishment, something called flogging. He definitely didnt want to experience such a thing for a second time.

Gu Zheng took out his phone and began to call: Wang Zong, this is Gu Zheng. Right, right, its me who wrote that article for you. I wanted to ask you something, hey

The person he called was a manager of an agricultural villa. That villas owner had primitive agricultural. It was completely green, with no pollution. The food was all planted and cultivated by themselves, there was once a time where they invited Gu Zheng to write an article about them, they even offered Gu Zheng additional payment. (T/N: *cough* that sounds kinda like bribery >.>)

Gu Zheng didnt want the bribe, but he still did wholeheartedly write about their ingredients. The ingredients were decent, however the cooking skills were so-so. He evaluated according to what the peoples opinions would be. This kind of assessment towards the agricultural villa was as if saying it might as well not exist. Obviously, they didnt have any good impressions towards Gu Zheng.

Boss, Im Gu Zheng. That Gu Zheng? Last times articles

During the second phone call, fifteen seconds didnt pass before the other side had hung up. This was chef of a large hotel and the large hotels had a relatively large channels to acquire stock. He had only wanted to casually ask, however, in the end, after the other party  learned of his identity, they directly hung up.

Gu Zheng held some suspicions. He didnt remember offending the boss, he also seemed to have written positively about them so why did he hang up?

He knew that he had written decent comments about them, their food was also decent. However, he had added a single final sentence. When they were talking about their dishes, he thought they were being too prideful. As the saying goes, culturally, a first ranked officer was not lacking compared to second ranked officer. Ones conduct as a chef should be equivalent as well. However, due to that sentence, they hated him at the moment. They thought that he was too wordy.

Zhu Zong

Old Zhao

Captain Guo

After calling several times, there was only one positive response. However, he didnt know who he was, in fact, he asked if he was unemployed as whether or not he was looking for work.

My popularity is so bad? this shouldnt be possible!

Holding the phone, Gu Zheng was quite confused. Typically he didnt accept others bribes and only wrote his honest opinions. Although he received less royalties, he held a clear conscience. However, he didnt know that because of these additional comments didnt make the businesses happy. They had wanted to be praised, thus, he ended up offending quite a few people.

However with both magazines and online sites, the food reviews cant be blindly positive. There were always differences. Gu Zhengs controversy is precisely this kind of subtle difference. He was quite law abiding, people also wouldnt think that he had been bought out,so Gu Zhengs manuscript would be published from time to time.

Lala, Im a spinach, veggie, veggie, veggie, veggie

Gu Zhengs phone suddenly sounded. He had used this ringtone for several years. Wang Tao had told Gu Zheng before that he ate only good food, even his cellphone ringtone had food.

He quickly picked up the food, however Gu Zhengs face immediately revealed disappointment. He had that that the people he had called before had replied to him. However, he hadnt thought that it would be his old classmate, Hu Yue Yues phone.

Gifted Gu, have you been busy recently?

Hu Yue Yue was a classmate from University, she was a masculine woman. She was always somewhat crazy. After graduating from university, Gu Zheng rarely contacted his fellow students. He was a little introverted, and didnt like to take the initiative to contact others. Only Hu Yue Yue would call him for nothing.

Everythings alright, whats up? Gu Zheng replied to the question.

Gifted Gu the gourmet, whats going on? You seem dispirited, is it difficult to work so hard in the middle of the afternoon? Hu Yue Yue joked with a strange voice, then spoke: I was looking for you to ask where we can eat something delicious. Also, to inform you that our classmates are gathering the day after tomorrow. You promised me youd come last time, so you have to come!

Hu Yue Yue was talking about the student meet up. After graduating, there were some other university students who had stayed within the city. It was a small number, around twenty people. Hu Yue Yue and the others often organized some kind of gathering. Each time, they would ask Gu Zheng which hotel was good to eat at, and then meet up there.

Gu Zheng had participated a couple of times before, however, he had gradually lost interest. Last time, Hu Yue Yue had invited him and he didnt go. But, in order to not get entangled with Hu Yue Yue, he promised to attend the next meeting. It seems he couldnt dodge it this time.

Qichuan Roads Full Moon House should be alright, that places honey chicken is decent!

Gu Zheng thought for a moment, then made a sound of agreement. He had not eaten enough of the honey chicken earlier. Although he knew someone elses wouldnt be nearly delicious, after she mentioned eating, he immediately remembered honey chicken. Thus, he recommended a restaurant whose special dish was honey chicken.

Alright, Full Moon House. Ill see you the day after tomorrow at six oclock, you better show!

Hu Yue Yue quickly hung up the phone. This phone call had reduced Gu Zhengs bad mood somewhat. If he wanted it done well, he would just do it himself. So what if others didnt want to help him, he would just search for it himself.