Chapter 55 Congratulations

"What?" Jiufang Yu's frosty brows froze for a moment. During those two seconds, he doubted his ears for the first time in his life. Did this human, who was not yet an adult, know what he was talking about?

"I want to take Xiao Ba to my place to sleep for one night." Qi Huan repeated his 'request' again, but his voice was a little weaker because he was guilty. Jiu Fangyu would not disagree, right?

Zhou Ba made a humming sound, wagged his tail happily, and nudged himself into Qi Huan's arms.

"No." Jiufang Yu refused sternly, with a red and warm state on his neck.

Although the empathy between the spirit body and the main body can be temporarily blocked for a short time, the group of people in front of him do not play by the rules at all. They have caught him off guard several times in the past. Sleeping in the same bed with him... absolutely not!

The black ball turned its head, glared angrily and waved its front paws to protest, but Jiufang Yu ignored it with a firm attitude, so its protest was ineffective.

Everyone at the table was depressed at the same time, showing disappointment.

Jiufang Yu: ...

What's with this subtle feeling of guilt?

"Then, let it go over and play with me for a while, and then let it come back later?" Qi Huan refused to give up and settled for the next best option.

Two pairs of eyes looked at him with resentment and innocence. Jiufang Yu sighed with a headache and softened his attitude. "Half an hour, and you have to promise me that you won't take it to bed."

"Yes, sir!" Although Qi Huan didn't understand the reason for this ban, he immediately responded obediently.

Jiufang Yu nodded, indicating that he could take Zhouqiba away.

"Thank you, Star Lord~" Qi Huan pinched the black ball's left front hoof and waved it towards Jiufang Yu like a windshield wiper, smiling happily.

He turned around and was about to leave, but then turned back and winked at the new Star Lord mischievously, "If you feel lonely, I can lend you the black cat doll temporarily."

Jiufang Yu: ...

My hands seem to be itching again.

After bringing Zhouqiba back into the house, Qi Huan put Heituanzi into his bed. In order to keep his promise, he took a cushion and sat on the carpet near the bed.

"Xiao Ba, do you want to listen to a bedtime story?" Qi Huan put half of his arm on the bed and poked the little guy's furry body.

Monday whimpered and rubbed the back of his hand.

"Then let's tell you a story about Sun Wukong conquering demons and monsters. Do you know what a demon is?"

The black ball tilted his head and looked at Qi Huan.

"Demons are big bad guys like the Star Beast and the Stone Beast. They also like to eat handsome guys, especially those like your master who are so handsome that they can make people dizzy at the first glance."

The black ball made a chuckle in its throat and opened its mouth, meaning that it would eat anyone who dared to come. Qi Huan was amused and laughed out loud.

Qi Huan said he was telling Hei Tuanzi a bedtime story, but he fell asleep while he was telling it. When he opened his eyes again, it was already the next morning. He was already sleeping on the bed, and the side where Hei Tuanzi had originally stayed was already empty.

He scratched his head, unable to remember how he got back to bed. He probably crawled up there in a daze when it was cold in the middle of the night.

Qi Huan was extremely busy as usual that day. He rushed to the canteen in Tongling Hall early in the morning, took a short rest after lunch and then rushed to Wan's unloading yard. In the evening, he returned to Renjian Restaurant to do dinner business. After closing, he was busy preparing for Quan Yu's birthday party.

For six people, his original menu was six dishes and one soup, sweet and sour pork ribs, mapo tofu, cherry meat, crescent shrimp, cucumber scrambled eggs, braised fish, dragon bone soup, plus a small cream birthday cake. Unfortunately, the cream at home was almost used up yesterday to make cake rolls, and the Wan family's cream was also sold out. Fortunately, birthday cakes were not popular here, so he changed his plan and replaced the birthday cake with longevity noodles.

After Rondo arrived, he said that he couldn't be left alone and rushed to help cook a few dishes. Qi Huan reported the four dishes that had not been cooked yet, and Rondo chose shrimps and fish. So the original crescent shrimps and braised fish became braised shrimps and braised fish.

Qi Huan had some extra time and baked some cookies as a birthday gift for Quan Yu.

The meal was somewhat awkward because of the two dishes made by Rondo.

Of the six dishes at the banquet, the four prepared by Qi Huan were eaten very quickly, but the braised shrimps and braised fish were almost ignored after everyone took a bite with their chopsticks.

Naturally, Rondo's face looked a little unhappy.

After realizing the low pressure around him, Qi Huan began to eat fish and shrimps desperately. Not long after, Quan Hai also reacted and followed him to "attack" the fish and shrimps. Rondo speechlessly slapped the back of the hands of the two people holding the chopsticks. The three of them looked at each other and smiled together. The tense atmosphere finally eased.

Just at this moment, a sound came from the oven in the back kitchen, indicating that the cookies were baked.

"Is there something else?" Quan Hai looked at Qi Huan in surprise.

Qi Huan's lips curled up happily, "It's a small gift I prepared for my sister."

"My~sister~" Quan Hai corrected jealously.

Everyone was amused.

Not long after, Qi Huan brought a plate of round biscuits the size of star coins from the kitchen.

The center of the biscuit is sunken, dotted with ruby-like candied red corals, bright and vivid in color, and the rounded edges are slightly bulging with similar but irregular fine cracks, like some kind of hand-woven lace, and the pattern of each piece is unique.

The biscuits have a hard texture, and they break with a slight "crunch" sound when you bite them lightly. They are crispy and fragrant, and melt on the tongue. The aroma of milk, egg yolk and rich butter interweaves and blooms between the lips and teeth. The sour and sweet taste of the candied red coral perfectly neutralizes the greasy sweetness in the aftertaste, making you unable to stop.

"What is this? It's delicious." Quan Yu's red-haired friend was immediately conquered by the cookie.

Quan Yu was also very surprised after tasting it. The taste seemed to be tailor-made for her.

"Its original name was Margherita biscuits. Oh, the full name should be 'Miss Margherita who lives in Stresa, Italy'." Qi Huan's eyes were filled with a gentle smile. "Legend has it that this is a dessert made by a pastry chef for the girl he loves. Every time he made this biscuit, he would silently recite the girl's address and name in his mind, and then press his fingerprint on the biscuit, so the fingerprint-pressing part was left in the biscuit making method. I made some improvements to the original recipe according to my sister's favorite taste and added candied red berries."

"My! Sister!" Quan Hai pretended to kick him and corrected him again "solemnly".

Several people burst into laughter.

"Wow, this dessert feels kind of romantic."

The red-haired girl clapped her hands and said, "Since you modified it according to Quan Yu's taste, shouldn't it be called Quan Yu Biscuits?"

"No," Rondo corrected with a smile, "According to what Ah Huan said just now, she should be called 'Miss Quan Yu who lives at No. 11 Jinwan Street, Base No. 3 of Waste Planet No. 7'."

"Ah, yes, yes, Miss Quan Yu who lives at No. 11 Jinwan Street, Base No. 3 on Waste Planet No. 7." The red-haired girl hooked Quan Yu's arm and smiled like a flower.

"Wow, a cookie named after you, this gift is so special and cute." Another girl also exclaimed to Quan Yu with envy.

"Eat more if you like it." Quan Yu smiled and stuffed a piece into each of his two friends' hands.

After the birthday party, Qi Huan packed a box of freshly baked "Quan Yu Cookies" for each girl, which made the three girls smile happily.

Quanhai and Rondo volunteered to stay and help Qi Huan clean up the store. Quanhai insisted on paying, so Qi Huan charged him the cost price of the ingredients.

"Did I delay your live broadcast?" Quan Hai looked at the time and felt a little embarrassed. It was only ten minutes before half past nine.

"It's none of your business. Whether it can be broadcast depends on whether the eggs are well braised." Qi Huan smiled and comforted him, opening the refrigerator.

"Qian Kun Eggs?" Quan Hai looked at the plump boiled eggs in the black and red marinade and felt that they looked familiar. "Didn't we make it before? Why didn't we broadcast it last time?"

Qi Huan raised his chin and proudly put his hands on his hips, "I adjusted the ingredients of the egg yolk, replaced four ingredients, and added three more ingredients. Now it's the Qiankun Egg PRO version."

"What version?" Quan Hai said he heard it but didn't understand it.

Rondo was even more confused. What is the Qiankun Egg?

"It's okay, you'll know after you try it." Qi Huan took out one and cut it into three pieces. He ate one first and smiled. It was perfect, and the taste was better than last time. It was exactly what he wanted. In fact, he was a little hesitant about whether to postpone today's live broadcast and take a break, but the taste of these eggs was just perfect now, and it would be a loss if he didn't put them on the shelf.

Quan Hai tasted a piece and smacked his lips in confusion, "Does this taste different from last time?"

Qi Huan was speechless and urged Lun Duo, "Try it."

At first, Rondo thought it was just a soft boiled egg, but after taking a bite, he found that the yolk inside was not an egg yolk, but a kind of semi-solidified soup with an extraordinary and delicious taste, which he had never tasted in his life.

"How is it?" Qi Huan and Quan Hai spoke at the same time.

"It's very delicious." Rondo nodded vigorously.

"Is it different from last time?" Quan Hai asked unconvinced.

"I didn't get to eat it last time, so I can't compare." Rondo spread out his hands with an innocent look.

Quan Hai: ...

Qi Huan smiled, the scene before him reminded him of the past.

The Qiankun Wanwu Egg was inspired by soft-boiled eggs and came from a bet he made with his roommates.

That time, Song Ci received a scholarship and treated his roommates to a meal. The head of the dormitory specifically asked for Buddha Jumps Over the Wall, so Song Ci made a reservation at the most famous restaurant in the city that serves Buddha Jumps Over the Wall.

During the meal, the eldest brother exclaimed that the food was delicious and promised to invite everyone to come again after the reimbursement was received. The second brother disliked that the store was too far from the school and said that it was better to let his own people make money. Next time, he would just buy the materials and let Qi Huan copy them, and use the extra money as wages. Song Ci joked that it was not difficult to just copy them, and pointed to the caviar soft-boiled egg on the table and asked Qi Huan to put Buddha Jumps Over the Wall into the intact egg. If he succeeded, he would give him the new set of equipment in the game. The eldest and the second brother also followed suit and said that they would also give it to Qi Huan if he succeeded.

How could Qi Huan let go of such a good opportunity to make money? He immediately accepted the challenge.

It was on the way back that he discovered that the instigator, Song Ci, looked dizzy and seemed to be drunk, but the four of them had clearly drunk Coke and yogurt that day. After thinking for a long time, he remembered that rice wine was needed in the Buddha Jumps Over the Wall. That guy actually got drunk after eating Buddha Jumps Over the Wall, and his alcohol tolerance was almost zero!

The next weekend, Qi Huan demonstrated the finished product to the other three people while live streaming.

The method is actually not complicated. Boil the eggs for six minutes, rinse with cold water, peel them, use a syringe to extract the unsolidified egg yolk, replace it with the boiled Buddha Jumps Over the Wall soup, and soak it in a marinade made with pure water, soy sauce, rock sugar, salt and various spices overnight, and you can get an almost perfect egg.

While his roommates were studying non-Newtonian fluid yolks, Qi Huan successfully got three sets of his desired equipment.

The second brother said that this egg contained a lot of secrets and its flavors included all kinds of delicacies from mountains and seas, and included everything in the world. He suggested calling it the Qiankun Wanwu Egg. Qi Huan thought it was a good idea and used it directly.

There have been different opinions on what exactly the "delicacies from land and sea" refer to. In the Qing Dynasty, they were usually divided into eight mountain delicacies and eight aquatic delicacies. In the Manchu and Han banquet, they were further divided into thirty-two items, namely eight mountain delicacies, eight sea delicacies, eight bird delicacies, and eight grass delicacies. However, most of them include ingredients such as bear paws, camel humps, leopard fetuses, monkey heads, abalone, sea cucumbers, shark fins, and fish maws, which are both "precious" and "expensive."

As a new anchor, Qi Huan naturally did not have the ability to use all these things. At that time, the soup was made according to the recipe of Buddha Jumps Over the Wall. In the end, more than 20 ingredients were used, including chicken legs, duck legs, duck gizzards, pig's trotters, pork tripe, lamb chops, beef tendons, ham, abalone, sea cucumber, scallops, fish lips, fish maw, cuttlefish, skirt edges, flower mushrooms, winter bamboo shoots, quail eggs, etc.

To remake this dish now, he could only make adjustments and substitutions based on what was available at the food store. Qi Huan tried several times before he found ingredients that satisfied his color, texture and taste, and finalized the list of ingredients.

He also specially selected smaller blue eggs from the outside. This kind of egg is a Grade B ingredient, similar in size to duck eggs, and can be basically eaten in two to three bites.

"Okay, now that the thing is successful, let's prepare for the broadcast." Qi Huan came back to his senses from the past and began to tidy up the kitchen sink and set up the signal device. Quan Hai also followed suit to help in a familiar manner.

Rondo had never seen such a situation before and wanted to help but didn't know where to start.

"Just put a few things on display, not much to do. If you're bored, the signal device here can connect directly to the Star Network. You can watch my live broadcast online, or watch the live broadcast of your favorite game." Qi Huan asked Rondo to open his personal terminal and helped him connect to his own signal device. Although it can't achieve the immersive effect of a game cabin, it can still kill time.

Before the live broadcast started, Qi Huan checked the number of fans in his live broadcast room as usual, which was 799.

【Waiting for today’s new dishes】

[Are you okay, host? I checked what the stone beast is. It looks scary.]

[The host must pay attention to safety, the food you cook is so delicious]

[I hope I won’t be offline again today]

[Linlin Ai Qiqi gave the anchor, the world's third best chef, a three-star kitchen knife! ]

"The stone beast has been dealt with, don't worry. The dish I bring to you today is called Qiankun Wanwu Egg. Because the stewing process takes a long time, it needs to be braised overnight before it can be eaten, so the chef made a few finished products in advance." Qi Huan showed the braised eggs on the plate to the camera, and then cut one with a knife. "The finished products will be put on the shelves first. It is also 500 experience products, 699 silver coins each."

[The anchor has learned his lesson and put it up first, hahaha. ]

[Isn't this just a soft-boiled egg? It's sold for 699 after braising it? It's even just a trial product. Are you trying to rob me? ]

[Looking at the size of that egg, it seems to be a blue beast egg. I remember that blue beast eggs are B-level ingredients. Buying one alone won't cost more than 100 silver coins. Why is the marinade so precious? ]

[Ahhhhhhhh, what kind of supreme thing is the Qiankun Wanwu Egg? My tongue is flying off with it.]

[After eating the Nine-Tailed Cake, I just bought a Wanwu Egg to try. It’s absolutely amazing.]

[What kind of divine craftsmanship is this! I kneel down to the anchor! ]

[It's so delicious that I want to cry. I've never eaten eggs like this before. It looks like an egg, but it doesn't look like an egg.]

[Longlonglong gave the anchor the world's third best chef a five-star kitchen knife]

[Are all those above fake? It's just an egg, and it's just a B-grade ingredient. Is it necessary to exaggerate it like this?]

[It’s so funny, I guess it’s because I live in a remote area and have little experience and haven’t tasted any good food]

[A bunch of country folks, they must have never eaten high-quality ingredients]

[Do you have the knowledge but can't afford 699 silver coins to try it yourself?]

[How does the saying go? Respect every frog and his well]

"It seems that some people have already bought the trial version of the Qiankun Egg. The basic ingredient is of course the blue beast egg, but friends who have tried it may find that the taste of this egg is very special. Its yolk is not actually a real egg yolk, but a substitute made by boiling and stewing many kinds of ingredients. 'Qiankun' means that it has a lot of things in it," Qi Huan glanced at the quarreling comments and calmly brought the three trays of ingredients next to him to the camera.

Quan Hai was just about to call Rondo outside to come into the live broadcast room to delete the quarreling comments when a series of flashes appeared on the display screen.

[The beast armor is given to the anchor, the world's third-ranked chef, the luxury starship X9! ]

[The fierce beast Ding gave the anchor the world's third best chef luxury starship X9! ! ]

[The fierce beast C gave the anchor the world's third best chef luxury starship X9! ! ]

[The fierce beast Wu gave the anchor the world's third best chef luxury starship X9! ! ]

…

The barrage of comments was flooded with gifts from the Fierce Beast Family ID, and the news of the quarrel was completely invisible.

The whole sea was stunned.

Qi Huan looked at those familiar IDs and raised the corners of his lips slightly. "Wanwu means that it is extracted from the essence of dozens of delicacies from the mountains and the sea, and includes the taste of all things. A total of fifty-seven ingredients are used, twelve of which are used to prepare the marinade, and forty-five are used to make the egg yolk inside."

【Fifty-seven kinds of ingredients! 】

[I knew it was not simple. What about those people who said it was a B-grade egg? Does your face hurt?]

[Such an abstract statement, egg yolk is not egg yolk but a substitute]

[Am I blind? Wasn't the egg cut intact in front of me just now? How did you replace it? ]

[Stop cooking and start playing magic? 】

[Hahaha, I just want to know how the host will go offline today]

"First, we need to cook a few soft-boiled eggs at the right temperature. You can control the degree of doneness according to your preferred taste. I personally recommend that you cook the egg whites to be 90% cooked and the egg yolks to be slightly coagulated. In addition, you need to prepare a pot of broth as the base soup. I recommend using air-dried chicken and two or three kinds of animal bones." Qi Huan opened the soup pot next to him and showed the broth inside. He then picked up a piece of sunflower beast tail, put it in front of the camera and shook it with a little pride. "Next, we will start processing the ingredients. The cheapest ingredient we are going to use is the sunflower beast tail. It was given to me for free by a familiar food store owner."

The two eel nails spun around between his slender fingers, the sharp nail tips glowed coldly, and they nailed the tail of the sunflower beast easily and neatly. Qi Huan grabbed a boning knife, cut long and short, and shaved off all the scales with a few passes. In the blink of an eye, the rinsed sunflower beast tail was already in the pot for blanching. The rest of the ingredients were handled in a similar way, scaling, plucking, shelling, cleaning, changing the knife, and cutting. Every movement was smooth and silky.

Although there were many types of ingredients, the quantities used were not large. After half an hour, the ingredients on the tray were blanched, steamed, and processed. Finally, he showed the camera several ingredients that were almost soaked and began to process them one by one.

[Give me this pile of stuff. I feel dizzy just looking at it.]

[The host processed the ingredients so quickly that it dazzled me]

[The method is too complicated, I don’t recommend it, but it’s edible]

[Did you see the knife pattern he made when he cut the mushrooms just now? It was quite cool! ]

[The A-grade peak angle glue just now looks really good]

[How many A-grade ingredients are there? Is anyone counting? ]

[Seven A-level, twenty-five B-level, ten C-level, fifteen D-level]

【Counting Party is never absent】

[The host is really willing to spend a lot of money for us. Not counting the marinade ingredients, the cost is already over ten thousand silver coins]

[No, he used a small amount, the actual cost is about three to four thousand, it should be cheaper to buy it from the food channel]

[The quantities you see now need to be multiplied at least several times. The ones you can see need to be made twice, and such a complicated dish will definitely require many attempts.]

[If you calculate it this way, the price of 699 is actually very worthwhile]

Qi Huan in front of the camera has already started taking the blanched and steamed ingredients out of the pot for the third step of processing. While explaining, he frys and stir-fryes them step by step, and then spreads them into the stew pot layer by layer.

[So complicated]

[What's the cost? The host's cooking skills are what's valuable. Even a celebrity chef with only three or four skills has never been able to cook the dishes he shows on the live broadcast.]

[Could it be that the host is a five-star chef who lives in seclusion on a waste planet? ]

[What a joke, there are only two five-star chefs. If they really move in to Baifu to do live streaming, the platform will have to promote it in the main square for a week]

[It is even more impossible for Sidao's eight star chefs to do this, as they are all very busy]

[Didn’t the former president of the Kitchen Guild, Grandpa Pozhan, go on an interstellar trip? Could it be that he was just having fun because he was bored during the trip? And the anchor used a virtual image, so was he worried that he would be recognized if he showed his face? ]

[Impossible]

[I originally thought it was unlikely, but to achieve such an amazing taste, it must cost at least four knives. I can't think of any other explanation.]

[Wow, is this really the craftsmanship of a five-star chef? ]

[It's over, the Qiankun Wanwu eggs are also sold out! ]

[No way? Didn’t you complain about it being too expensive just now? ]

[It’s really gone, everything is gone on the shelves! ]

[There are only about 300 people online in our live broadcast room right now. Someone must have bought several copies without any moral integrity! ]

"After stewing for three to three and a half hours, you will get a pot of thick soup rich in gelatin. After cooling, the texture will be closer to egg yolk. We can use a syringe to extract the runny yolk from the soft-boiled egg, and then suck the soup into it. Due to the limited time of the live broadcast, I will directly demonstrate it with another soup prepared in advance." Qi Huan put on gloves and took out a syringe, and actually demonstrated the process of egg yolk extraction and replacement in front of the camera.

"That's all for today's live broadcast. See you next time, my friends who love food." Qi Huan smiled and shook the egg in his hand towards the camera.

[Wow, what day is today? I'm not offline! ]

【Safe End of Broadcast】

【Congratulations】

…

Qi Huan looked at the exclamations in the barrage and silently closed the live broadcast room. There was nothing to celebrate. It was normal to end the broadcast normally. All the previous things were accidents!

Quan Hai and Rondo still wanted to help Qi Huan clean up. Qi Huan pointed to the robot bear butler in the corner and said, "It's okay. We still have it. It's too late. You should go back and rest."

"Can I stay at your place tonight?" Rondo, who was halfway through the game live broadcast, couldn't stop.

"Of course." Qi Huan nodded readily. When he took Rondo to the attic, he sent a message to Jiu Fangyu, "Rondo wants to stay up late at my house to watch the live broadcast, so I won't be there tonight."

The two were halfway through making the bed when a message popped up from the other side: [! @%#&（]

Qi Huan was tilting his head to look at the mess of codes when Jiufang Yu sent another message, "Xiao Ba was the one who poked at me just now."

Thinking of the scene in the room next door where Jiufang Yu and Xingqi Ba were fighting for the keyboard, Qi Huan couldn't help but smile, "Thank you for helping me clear the screen in the live broadcast room today."

[It's just a piece of cake. Chen Ye and Kong Hu bought the Qiankun eggs on the shelf and tasted them, and they were even more greedy. They said they were tastier than the last time, and they screamed at the display screen. ]

[I still have a few Qiankun eggs here. Do you want Xiao Ba to come and get some and share them with everyone when I get back? ]

【*%*】

This time Qi Huan knew it was Xiao Bahui's words again. Sure enough, within a few seconds, another message came over, "It's already running towards you with all four hooves on fire."

Qi Huan patted Rondo's shoulder and said, "I'll go downstairs to pack some things for people and wash up at the same time."

Rondo waved his hand, signaling him to go and not to worry about him.

Before Qi Huan reached the last step, the black ball had already thrown itself into his arms.

"Greedy cat~" Qi Huan reached out and scratched Heituanzi's nose affectionately. Zhouqiba buried his head in his arms a little embarrassedly, rubbed it twice, and looked soft and vulnerable.

After packing up the Qiankun eggs, Qi Huanshun packed the remaining cookies in the baking tray into a box and told Zhou Qiba, "Remember to share some with Haidai Qingxiao and the others when you go back."

Monday turned his head away and pretended not to hear.

"You take half and we divide the remaining half among them, is that okay?" Qi Huan held its furry little face in both hands and discussed quietly.

The black ball hesitated for two seconds, and finally nodded reluctantly.

"So good." Qi Huan kissed it on the forehead.

Wednesday: !!!

In the next room, Jiu Fangyu was caught off guard and was once again touched:...

After seeing off Monday, Qi Huan took another shower. When he went upstairs, Rondo was already hugging his pillow and watching the live broadcast again.

"Ah Huan, come on, come and watch it together!" Seeing Qi Huan coming upstairs, Rondo lifted the shielding mode and waved at him eagerly, "I tell you, this scene is very interesting!"

"Is it the live broadcast of the game of the Library of Death?" Qi Huan smiled and sat next to Rondo with a towel in his hand.

"Um."

When Qi Huan saw the figure on the screen, he was stunned for a moment.

The two in the middle seem to be Zhang Chi and Song Ci.