Eight Treasures, also known as Laba porridge or Buddha porridge, is a traditional Chinese festival delicacy.

It's actually just the "Laba porridge" that people often talk about.

The original meaning of "Eight Treasure Porridge" refers to porridge made by cooking eight different ingredients.

However, today, many "eight-treasure porridges" use more than eight ingredients.

The common method is to use japonica rice, glutinous rice or black glutinous rice as the main ingredients, and then add auxiliary ingredients such as mung beans, red beans, lentils, white lentils, red dates, peach kernels, peanuts, lotus seeds, longan, pine nuts, yam, lily bulbs, wolfberries, fox nuts, and Job's tears to cook into porridge.

People in different regions will choose different ingredients based on their own dietary preferences.

However, the raw materials are basically divided into four categories: rice, beans, dried fruits, and Chinese medicinal herbs.

It's not Laba Festival now, so Lin Zhou doesn't plan to cook anything too complicated for Laba porridge.

I made an eight-treasure porridge mix using my favorite ingredients.

Japonica rice, red beans, lentils, red dates, peanuts, lotus seeds, longan, Job's tears, dried osmanthus flowers, chestnuts, taro, and peach kernels.

Hehe, these are all his favorite foods.

Eight-treasure porridge requires a lot of time to cook because it contains a lot of beans and needs to be cooked until it is soft and tender.

Lin Zhou bought all sorts of ingredients, washed them, and started to put them into the pot to cook.

At first, no one needed to watch over them, because it would take a while for so many beans to cook.

Once it's softened and prone to sticking to the bottom, just keep an eye on it and stir.

Lin Zhou's breakfast was still very luxurious. The seafood he didn't finish yesterday was made into takoyaki and served with eight-treasure porridge. It was delicious.

He finally figured it out.

Since acquiring max-level culinary skills through the system, he has become increasingly focused on food, making sure to eat well within his means.

After satisfying my appetite, I felt great all day.

No wonder there's a saying that food is the most important thing for people; eating is truly important!

The alarm clock rang precisely at 3 o'clock.

Lin Zhou began preparing to go to Qinhuang Mountain. He loaded the cooked eight-treasure porridge onto the tricycle, tidied up the dishes and chopsticks from breakfast, and checked one last time to make sure nothing was left behind.

After confirmation, we departed at 3:20!

We arrived at the destination around four o'clock, which was right on time. By the time we reached the top of the mountain, it was almost six o'clock.

Lin Zhou carried the shoulder pole, climbing while mentally encouraging himself.

It's Friday already! Just hang in there, and the week's tasks will be finished in two more days!

Keep going! Hang in there!

......

Xie Hongjia.

Xie Hong got up at five in the morning again and went into the bathroom to wash up.

The sound of footsteps was particularly jarring to Xie's parents in the master bedroom.

This situation has been going on for many days.

Although our son is grown up and has gone to university, we parents shouldn't be too restrictive of him.

But what is this person doing getting up so early every morning?

Besides, it's summer vacation now. Whether it's dating or anything else, who gets up early every day, right before dawn?

Mr. and Mrs. Xie were really worried, so last night they discussed that if Xie Hong got up and went out in the early morning, they would get up and ask him.

At this moment, Xie's father and mother got up one after the other, turned on the living room light, and sat on the sofa waiting for Xie Hong to finish washing up and come out.

"roar!"

"Mom and Dad, why are you up?"

Xie Hong, caught off guard, tiptoed out of the bathroom, only to be startled by his parents' expressionless faces as soon as he turned around.

It's terrifying!

"Where are you going so early?" Xie's mother asked Xie Hong with a forced smile.

Mr. Xie nodded in agreement, "Confess and you'll be treated leniently; resist and you'll be punished severely!"

"Pfft, you're interrogating a criminal, what else could you be doing? I've made plans with my friends to climb Mount Qinhuang."

Xie Hong wondered what was going on, but it turned out they were just asking where he was going.

"Do you think we're stupid? Climbing a mountain in the morning is fine, but you've been getting up this early every morning to climb a mountain these past few days? You must be in great shape to be able to climb so much!"

Xie's mother didn't believe it at all.

"It's true, there's a porridge stall at the top of Qinhuang Mountain. Oh my god, the porridge there is different every day, and it's so delicious. We go to buy it every morning."

Thank you, Father and Mother: ......

The couple didn't speak, but their eyes clearly showed two words: disbelief!

"Really, I even took pictures."

Xie Hong realized that if he couldn't explain himself clearly today, he might not even be able to leave the house.

Luckily, I was so excited about eating seafood porridge yesterday that I took a lot of photos.

Xie's mother took the phone from Xie Hong.

Opening the album, I found it was full of photos of Qinhuang Mountain, as well as group photos with friends. A group of people, each holding a bowl of porridge, gathered together for a photo.

Judging from the time the photo was taken, it was indeed yesterday morning.

Mother Xie: ......

Although the photos proved that Xie Hong was not lying, she could not understand this behavior.

Who would go to the mountaintop to sell porridge so early in the morning?

His son really does get up so early every day to climb the mountain, just to have a bowl of porridge.

It's not that I don't want to complain.

Instead, there are flaws everywhere, and it's hard to know where to even begin complaining.

Especially since the person who did this was her son.

Xie's mother looked at Xie Hong with a complicated expression.

He opened his mouth, then regretted asking the question at this hour.

She worked overtime last night and didn't go to sleep until 1 a.m., so she got up at 5 a.m., she didn't get any sleep at all.

That's true, what bad things could her silly son possibly do? She's just worried too much and overthinking things.

Mother Xie rubbed her temples and waved her hand, "Go on, go on."

Father Xie, however, was quite interested in the porridge.

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