Chapter 3 Cooking Recipes

When Tang Li returned to the camp, the wheat was ripe. She used her skills to harvest it directly, which consumed another 6 points of physical strength.

After planting a new round of seeds, Tang Li put the 6 harvested wheat into the stone mill, consumed 6 points of physical strength, and obtained 6 portions of snow-white flour. She placed one portion of the flour on the magic campfire. Level 0 cooking only lit up the recipe for steamed buns. Tang Li had no choice but to follow the system's guidance and consumed 1 point of physical strength to obtain 1 steamed bun.

Next, she continued her efforts and used up all the remaining five portions of flour.

After all the hard work, I finally got 6 steamed buns and 6 cooking proficiency. It's really a cause for celebration and a moving story...

After doing all this, Tang Li's physical strength has been depleted to 94. When the physical strength is reduced to the last 10%, the character's movements will slow down, and when the physical strength reaches zero, the character will die and lose a level.

The game perfectly simulated the state of a person who was so hungry that his limbs became weak. Tang Li tremblingly took out a steamed bun given by the system from his backpack and took a big bite.

The steamed buns are not big, and are very convenient and quick to eat. The taste is very ordinary pre-made steamed bun taste.

After eating two or three bites with a frown, Tang Li's physical strength recovered to 56 points.

"A little choked."

Tang Li reasonably suspected that the reason why the steamed buns were made so small was not only for convenience, but also because the taste was not so good.

"I'm so exhausted," Tang Li said after recovering. She looked at the six freshly baked steamed buns and began to review her energy consumption. "It's too much. If I do it a few more times, I won't be able to cook enough steamed buns for myself."

Fortunately, there is still harvest from logging, and selling timber can also generate income.

“It’s too hard to make money in the early stages of the game.”

But this is actually normal. If it were easy to make money from the beginning, everyone would have flocked to become life players.

If she wanted to save money, she had to consider meditating to restore her strength, but it was difficult to maintain a meditative state. As for putting aside other things and sitting down to concentrate on meditating, Tang Li had never thought of this option. Every second counted in the early stage of development. Once she lost the early advantage and was left behind by the main force, she really couldn't think of making any money.

Although... it's okay to earn less, but compared to lying down, she feels that she can still save herself.

You have to have fun playing games.

In short, the next step is to continue working hard while meditating to recover.

It was okay to just walk at the beginning, but once she got busy it was easy to forget about meditation. Cultivating the land certainly required a lot of physical effort, but if she could keep meditating, she wouldn't have been so embarrassed before.

Fortunately, the most difficult time has passed. From now on, she just needs to plant, cut down trees, harvest a dragon step by step, and pay attention to meditation, and everything will be on track.

Tang Li wanted to try the taste of the steamed buns she made, but after eating another one, she would run out of energy. That was all money.

In order to prevent waste, Tang Li chopped trees for about ten minutes as planned to use up her energy, and then went to get the steamed buns that she had deliberately not put into her backpack after making them.

"It tastes the same as the one the system gave me." Tang Li was not surprised.

After all, whether it is seeds or cooking methods, they all use system skills, so it is natural that the taste of the products is the same as the system.

The steamed buns made in this way are not particularly unpalatable, but the pre-made flavor is too strong, and Tang Li is not used to it.

I don’t know whether the official thinks that there is no need to put too much effort into a basic cooking product, or whether the world outside the game is the same as her previous world, where the market is dominated by pre-prepared meals.

Speaking of pre-prepared meals, that is really a pain in Tang Li's heart.

Tang Li has always felt that food can carry the beautiful memories of a city, just like when she thinks of her hometown, the first thing that comes to mind is often the food of her hometown.

She had always believed that the foodies in the Great Foodie Empire would never give up their pursuit of delicious food, so she scoffed at the interstellar nutrient solution mentioned in many novels. Who could have imagined that pre-prepared meals would develop so rapidly, especially breakfast, which was a disaster area for pre-prepared meals. By the end of the world, it was difficult for her to find a breakfast shop selling handmade buns.

Things in this world are unpredictable, which shows that there are many things she really can't help but believe.

Judging from steamed buns, the food culture of this era is probably not very optimistic.

As a person who particularly loves food, although Tang Li is not satisfied with the current situation, it does not prevent her from finding business opportunities in it. Steamed buns are extremely easy to cook. If she wants to stand out among a group of life players, it is necessary to improve the taste. So she plans to try to use her supernatural powers to improve wheat seeds and make more delicious steamed buns.

Even steamed buns have different levels of deliciousness. Tang Li happened to have eaten and could make a very delicious steamed bun, and she didn't think it was not worth it to improve the seeds for the sake of steamed buns.

In the foodie empire, pasta alone can be different 365 days a year. Steamed buns are just the beginning. There are so many delicious foods waiting for her in the future. It is very necessary to improve the seeds.

And there is a saying that goes, high-end ingredients often only require the simplest cooking. If the quality of the raw materials is good, steamed buns may not necessarily become high-end cooking ingredients.

With beautiful wishes in mind, Tang Li harvested the ripe wheat in the field, then held a new batch of six seeds in her palm and tried to use her supernatural powers.

She only had 20 seeds in total, and after planting this batch, only two were left.

Before trying, Tang Li was a little nervous.

She had already prepared for failure and thought that if the raw materials could not be changed, she could improve the cooking steps, which was also a method.

Fortunately, she got what she wanted in the end.

Looking at the faint green light coming out from the brown seeds, Tang Li knew that she had succeeded. It was a pity that the seeds in the game could not be saved, otherwise she could have continued to reproduce them step by step.

After planting the improved seeds, Tang Li cooked the next batch of steamed buns.

There were not enough seeds for planting anymore, so they had to find a way to make money. Tang Li thought of the wood that she had originally planned to keep for upgrading the tent.

She had been dissatisfied with this simple tent for a long time. Upgrading the tent required 100 pieces of wood, and it would take a lot of energy to chop them all by herself. She wanted to save them, but unfortunately she was short of money and money had to be spent wisely. After hesitating for a moment, Tang Li sold the cut wood through the shipping box and recovered 50 coppers.

Although Tang Li felt a little sorry that she couldn't upgrade the tent after selling the wood, in addition to the wood, upgrading the tent also required 30 stones and 5 iron ores. Both of these required the [Mining] skill, and the skill book that cost twenty copper coins made Tang Li hesitant.

It seems that there is no way to upgrade the tent in the short term. Tang Li, who feels that there is still a long way to go to improve the living environment, only sighed for a short while and rushed to the grocery store with the 50 coppers he had worked hard to earn and exchanged them for wheat seeds.

You can earn 50 coppers in two trips. From this point of view, logging makes much more money than cooking. The slogan "If you want to be rich, cut down trees first" is not shouted in vain.

However, whether from the perspective of long-term development or personal preference, it is unlikely to focus on logging. If you really want to make money, wouldn’t it be more cost-effective to kill monsters and open up new land?

After successfully clearing the assets, Tang Li hurried to the forest farm outside the camp.

Because I kept meditation in mind at all times, the physical strength I had consumed was automatically restored to some extent.

"Not bad, not bad. If I try harder, I can successfully save a steamed bun." Tang Li was very satisfied with this.

Because she was curious about how the system would display the improved wheat, she went back a full minute earlier this time.

After waiting for a long time, the moment the wheat was ripe, Tang Li, who couldn't wait, chose to harvest it immediately.

System [You have obtained high-quality wheat x 6]

[You harvested high-quality crops and received 6 bronze treasure chests]

"Huh?" Tang Li was a little surprised. She changed her original plan to check Xiaomai's status and logged into the official forum to start looking for the game settings released by the official.

Soon, she understood the reward mechanism of the treasure chest.

It turns out that in the game settings, activities such as gathering, planting, logging, mining, fishing, etc. have the chance to obtain higher quality items. In order to enhance the fun of the game, the system will give special rewards to players who trigger the settings.

Similar easter eggs include treasure chests scattered in the wild, NPC's adventure gifts, etc.

For others, treasure chest rewards are random events that test their luck, but Tang Li's cheating can make the success rate of randomly harvesting high-quality crops 100%.

In other words, as long as she continues to improve the seeds, she will be able to obtain treasure chests steadily with her hard power.

"Life is getting better." Tang Li rubbed her hands excitedly. After being unlucky for so long, she almost forgot what it felt like to be lucky. It seemed that the name Lucky Star was right.

She wanted to see what the treasure chest would give her, so Tang Li couldn't wait to open it.

System: [You opened 6 bronze treasure chests, obtaining 5 Life Essences and 1 High-Quality Wheat Seed.]

Tang Li went to look up the official settings again.

[Life Essence] is an essential neutralizer for refining potions. It can stabilize the efficacy of potions. This thing has a very high-sounding name and its function is also very good, but unfortunately it is not rare. You can harvest a lot of it using the collection skill.

In other words, Tang Li is European, but not completely European.

But it doesn't matter, at least she has a high-quality wheat seed, which is enough to provide her with spiritual comfort.

She had previously regretted not being able to save seeds from crops, but now she can finally continue to iterate the seeds. However, she only has one high-quality wheat seed at the moment, so she may need to save more if she wants to iterate.

After coaxing herself into a good mood, Tang Li began to check the harvested wheat. She did not forget the description of superpowers in [Personal Characteristics].

[High-quality wheat: The taste has been improved to a certain extent, but it seems to be lingering with an ominous aura.]

As expected, using supernatural powers would bring bad luck. Tang Li sighed and temporarily stopped thinking about improving the seeds. She planned to cook this batch of steamed buns first and see how it goes.

After grinding the wheat into flour, Tang Li did not use the cooking system, but started making steamed buns according to her own recipe.

She learned her secret recipe for steamed buns from a master chef in her junior high school cafeteria. The master chef had great skills in steaming buns. Unlike the soft buns we have now, the buns steamed by the master chef were fragrant and firm. Not only could they be torn into chewy strips, they also had the aroma of the food itself. You could eat two big ones without the side dish of Tang pear.

Before entering junior high school, she never knew that steamed buns could be so delicious. Not only did she eat them for three years in a row without getting tired of them, but she even kept thinking about them after graduating from junior high school.

Later, the end of the world came, and Tang Li met the master chef at the base. The master chef looked much older, and his face was no longer as cheerful as before. Tang Li sighed and took the time to help improve the wheat seeds, helping the chef to reproduce the delicious food of the past. In return, the chef also taught Tang Li his exclusive secrets.

System: [You have customized a cooking recipe. Do you want to replace the system recipe with this recipe?]

Tang Li clicked to confirm.

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