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Second Master Bai’s mouth twitched, and he actually found Lin Yuan’s movements to be a perfect imitation, though her expression wasn’t quite right.

Just as he was about to correct her, Second Master Bai suddenly slapped his own forehead, "I’m really confused by you guys! Since you said so, fine, then I’ll take the ruler and measure again!"

With that, he pulled out the tape measure from his bosom once more, indeed lying down in front of the potato shreds Lin Yuan had just cut, and carefully selected two strands of varying thickness.

Lin Yuan was speechless at his nitpicking, but since he was so serious, she couldn’t fall behind, could she?

"Go, find me a tape measure. I’ll also see if Second Master Bai’s potato shreds are up to standard."

No sooner had Lin Yuan spoken than the prostrate Second Master Bai suddenly lifted his head, and with a swoop, he threw his ruler to her, "Why look for one? It’s so troublesome!

Just use mine! Hmph, even though I can’t find any flaws in your potato shreds, I’m confident you won’t find anything different in mine!

Don’t believe me? Just go ahead and measure! "

Second Master Bai was too confident in his words, which made Lin Yuan laugh.

She caught the ruler and immediately threw it back, "You’re so confident in what you say, I’m almost embarrassed to pick at you.

But if I don’t point out some flaws in you, it would be an insult.

Here, I’ll pick two at random. You measure them yourself so you can’t accuse me of bullying you. "

Lin Yuan spoke extremely fast, with even quicker actions. After tossing back the ruler, she lowered her head to glance at the pile of potato shreds in front of her and seemed to casually pick out two strands and tossed them onto a plate on the side.

"There, measure it yourself."

With a flick of her wrist, she tossed the plate, along with the potato shreds, toward Second Master Bai.

Second Master Bai had just caught the soft ruler and hadn’t reacted when he saw the plate coming towards his nose, instinctively reaching out to catch it. However, he realized that the menacing-looking plate was actually soft and non-threatening upon landing in his hands.

Looking at the two crystal-clear strands of potato on the plate, Second Master Bai finally caught on that he had been played by this young girl!

"You, you tricked me!" Second Master Bai angrily threw away the, to him, precious tape measure and snorted.

Lin Yuan raised an eyebrow, "Take it as payback for the trick you played on me the other day. Now we’re even, one for one."

"You." Second Master Bai was choked and lost for words, storming off to check his own potato cuts.

"Could my potato cuts be inferior? I’ve practiced for quite some time, really..." As he muttered to himself, he began measuring carefully. Then, all of a sudden, there was silence.

Lin Yuan watched with amusement as Second Master Bai, with a face full of embarrassment, couldn’t even lift his head to meet her gaze. "Well, anything else to say?" she asked softly.

After hanging his head for a long while, Second Master Bai lifted his gaze, once again resuming his usual indifference and arrogance, "I admit defeat in this round!"

Xia Zheng raised an eyebrow, this round?

Lin Yuan also laughed in exasperation. It seemed this guy still wouldn’t concede defeat and was angling for a second round.

Indeed, after tossing the potatoes aside, Second Master Bai raised his chin toward Lin Yuan, "This was just a single contest of knife skills. How could one be a chef without cooking? Come, let’s compete in cooking!"

No sooner had he spoken than, without waiting for Lin Yuan’s agreement, Lao Fan, who’d been nodding off, was the first to clap his hands in approval, "Good, good, let’s have a cooking contest!

I was wondering, what’s the point of all this slicing and dicing, after all, it’s still just a pile of raw food?

This old man’s appetite isn’t great, and I won’t eat raw! "

Lao Fan looked aggrieved; he was promised to act as the judge but found himself consumed in a mere chopping contest. To him, slicing potatoes was no fun at all; it lacked any appeal. He wanted delicious food, delicious food indeed!

After exchanging glances with Xia Zheng, Lin Yuan smiled and conceded, "Alright then, I’ve got nothing else to attend to today anyway, so I might as well play along with you. This time we..."

Before Lin Yuan could finish, Second Master Bai interrupted, "I’ll decide what we compete in!"

This time Xia Zheng disagreed, eyeing him, "How come it’s you who decides again? I say, Xiao Bai, whatever the case, you’re a man..."

"What Xiao Bai! I’m not Xiao Bai!"

"Oh, right, Servant!"

Second Master Bai was almost driven mad, pointing at the noses of Xia Zheng and Lin Yuan, he cried out, "You two, picking on people! Bullying!"

A couple?

Xia Zheng felt pleased with the term, and immediately decided, saying cheerfully, "Good, we’ll let Bai Xiaoer set the rules for this round!"