Chapter 158 Excellent Tasting Guest
The feeling of being favored is wonderful, and the boy immediately stopped being angry. He peeled a shrimp and put it into the girl's mouth, saying, "It is impolite not to reciprocate, little butterfly. Brother will treat you to shrimp."
The shrimp were chewy and became more and more delicious the more you chewed them. Yunxia smiled as she picked up her chopsticks and started eating the cold noodles.
Looking at the harmonious scene, Wu Lifang was overjoyed. She put a chicken leg on each of her two sons' plates and happily ate her dinner.
Time flew by, and when Yunxia saw the sesame-sized mycelia on the linden wood, she jumped up and down excitedly. She quickly snapped out of her daze and shared the good news with Jiang Chao.
"If only I could enter the spatial fields and see the magnificent sight inside, how wonderful that would be." There's always a difference between hearing and seeing with one's own eyes. The boy put down his ballpoint pen and sighed.
Yun Xia had never tried putting live creatures in before. Hearing this, she blinked slightly, "Sigh, we haven't figured out what's going on yet. Going in rashly might be dangerous."
"Hmm, why don't we go to the market and buy a few chicks to try?"
The girl rubbed her chin with her fingertips, considering the feasibility of the suggestion. Finally, she nodded and said, "Okay, let's give it a try!"
The girl was a woman of action; once she said she would do something, she did it. She dragged the boy to the market, bought four hens and some bamboo strips, and after returning home, she went straight to bed to catch up on sleep, while her consciousness drifted into the spatial field.
At a time flow rate of 10:1, about a day passed in Liangtian. The little yellow chicks in the cage, seeing someone coming, chirped incessantly, full of energy and showing no signs of weakness. It seems that it is possible to keep living things in Liangtian.
She used bamboo strips to build a chicken coop about half a person's height, lined it with a layer of dry grass, put in three little yellow chicks, and scattered a handful of cooked and cooled rice grains. Watching the chicks frantically pecking at the rice, the girl's face was filled with a happy smile, because she imagined countless eggs waving at her.
"Tsk tsk, little chicks, grow up quickly! I'd love to try the eggs from Liangtian."
After saying that, she withdrew her consciousness from her body. For the next few days, she tried to enter the space field every half hour to feed the chickens. This led Li Chen to misunderstand that the girl had narcolepsy, since she always used the excuse of dozing off.
"Xiaxia, the final exams are in less than a month. It's not good for you to keep dozing off like this. How about... Aunt Wu takes you to the hospital to get checked out?" The boy's eyes, as blue as the sea, were filled with worry.
"No, it's just drowsiness, nothing serious. I'm like this every summer, it'll be fine by autumn."
The boy stared wide-eyed at her face, as if trying to discern the truthfulness of her words from subtle facial expressions.
"Relax, I know my own health better than anyone. You promised to bring me a strawberry cake."
After this incident, Yunxia completely abandoned her plan to raise animals in the space. Damn, she had to feed them more than ten times a day. Wouldn't anyone suspect that they were sick?
Li Chen loves making desserts, but Liu Yunjuan, who has revived her career, is afraid of gaining weight and refuses to try them. Even after much pleading, she only takes a small bite. Therefore, Yunxia, who loves sweets, becomes the best taster for him.
Upon hearing this, Yunxia quickly pulled out a strawberry cake from the table drawer. She took the fork and ate it in small bites, treating it as a dessert after lunch.
"Wow, it's delicious! The sweetness is just right, the cream is smooth but not greasy, and the bread is soft. The only downside is that the jam filling is a bit too watery, with high acidity and low sweetness. Overall, it's pretty good."
The other students in the class also volunteered to be taste testers, but their evaluations were just empty praise, which was of no value and wasted their effort in making the cake. Yunxia was different; she spoke nicely and her suggestions were very pertinent. With each improvement, there was progress.
During this time, some tactless people secretly mocked the girl, saying that she had no bottom line in trying to climb the social ladder. Li Chen overheard this and was so angry that he disregarded all manners and directly confronted her, using sarcastic and vulgar language that left everyone speechless. From then on, no one dared to speak ill of Yun Xia about the food tasting.
"Sigh, making jam has always been my weakness. I'm lucky if I succeed once out of ten times. Buying ready-made jam from outside has too many additives!"
Is it difficult?
Simmer over low heat, adding white sugar gradually, and adding a spoonful of water every now and then. It's quite simple!
"Hmm, how about I make a few jars of jam and send them to you!"
The boy stubbornly shook his head. "No, it's better to teach a man to fish than to give him a fish. Xiaxia, come to my house this weekend and teach me how to make jam. My uncle from afar sent some coconuts, they're so sweet, I'll kill one and try them."
Upon hearing the word "coconut," the girl thought of coconut chicken. She nodded, agreed on a meeting time, cleaned up the mess on the table, and took advantage of the last bit of her lunch break to catch up on some sleep.
Looking at the girl's curled eyelashes, the boy smiled helplessly, thinking to himself that she could really sleep. He then opened the book of math problems that looked like gibberish and buried himself in writing.
On the weekend, Yunxia carried a large basket on her back and rang the Liu family's doorbell.
"Good boy, are you carrying so many things? Come in and sit down, Auntie will get you a drink."
After the basket was taken off, Liu Yunjuan wanted to help carry it, but alas... she was too weak. She tried three times with all her might but still couldn't lift it. The young girl easily lifted it with one hand. "Aunt Liu, the basket is heavy, let me do it!"
Watching the girl's steady steps, the beautiful woman sighed, thinking to herself that when you get old, you can't be stubborn. Back then, she also carried dozens of kilograms of equipment and climbed mountains as if walking on flat ground.
"Xiaxia, why did you bring so much fruit?" Li Chen asked in surprise.
"Making jam requires raw materials, right? Look, scroll down, there's brownish-yellow rock sugar, that's a key to making delicious jam."
Li Chen had been pampered since childhood, and everything he saw and used was of the highest quality. He had never even heard of the humble rock candy, let alone seen it. Upon hearing this, he tore open the plastic bag, examined it curiously, and finally, dipped his fingertip in some sugar crumbs and put it in his mouth.
"Wow, the sweetness is just right, and there's a subtle sugarcane flavor when you taste it. It's delicious!"
"Ah Chen, when are you going to break your habit of putting everything in your mouth?" Liu Yunjuan said helplessly as she brought over a few bottles of juice.
Ever since she learned that the reason for her poor health was poisoning, the woman has been extremely careful about what she eats.
"Mom, the things Xiaxia sent are the best of all. Here, rock candy, have you ever tried it?"
"When I was young, I stayed at a fellow villager's house and drank some rock sugar water. It tasted alright. You two get along well. I'm going back to my room to deal with some documents."
After the divorce, Liu Yunjuan started her own business and had many documents to review every day. After she went upstairs, Li Chen pulled the girl into the kitchen.
"Xiaxia, I'll make strawberry jam once. You can observe from the side and point out any mistakes after I'm done."
Seeing the girl nod in agreement, Li Chen turned around and got busy. He removed the stems from the fresh strawberries, washed and dried them, chopped them, sprinkled them with white sugar, and after they had released their own moisture, he poured them into a clay pot, skimmed off the foam, crushed and stirred them with a spatula until they became thick, then added a few drops of lemon juice and served.
"Alright, all done. Every step was done exactly as written in the recipe book."
The boy's eyes lit up, looking for praise. Yun Xia remained expressionless, picked up a large strawberry, found it sweet at the tip and sour at the bottom, with a crisp texture, and thought to herself that it was just as she had imagined.
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