Chapter 55
On the way, Yu Sheng took out the freshly fried vegetables, cleaned the iron pan briefly and started to prepare the staple food.
Heat oil in a pot, add the minced meat that Tang Zeyu has just chopped, stir-fry until the fat is released, then add cooking wine to remove the fishy smell, cut the soaked mushrooms into cubes and put them into the pot and continue to stir-fry for two minutes, then add minced garlic and chili peppers and continue to stir-fry until fragrant, add light soy sauce, dark soy sauce, oyster sauce, sugar, pepper, starch and water into the pot, cook over high heat until thick and the meat sauce turns reddish-brown, then serve in a bowl and set aside.
After the noodles are cooked, they are taken out and rinsed with cold water twice. The large pot of noodles is divided evenly into six large bowls, with a pot of meat sauce and a few plates of stir-fried vegetables in the middle.
"You're eating so early today, but I'm also hungry."
Shaoxing Yang was about to sit down when Lu Shiyu stopped him.
"Go call Professor Chen and Chen Yunliang back," Lu Shiyu said, wiping his hands with a rag. "We can eat after everyone is here."
"Ah...it's different if you eat it first or later."
"Hurry up, the food will get cold if you're late."
Under the temptation of lunch, Shaoxing Yang and Yan Hong had no choice but to go out again under psychological pressure.
"Yanhong, do you think Chen Yunliang will hang us up and beat us?"
"Don't worry, I run pretty fast, and you'll probably be the only one who gets caught."
“…”
The camp was not far from the open space, and even if the two of them dawdled, they would still arrive soon. To be on the safe side, they decided to observe the situation secretly first.
"It's actually a double uterus, but one is hidden," Professor Chen said, pulling out the smaller uterus that was squeezed under the other organs. "Why do you think that's happening?"
"Generally speaking, the physiological structure of a double uterus allows organisms to conceive and reproduce continuously, allowing them to prepare for pregnancy while simultaneously being pregnant. However, judging by the situation of this... Sheep King, one of its uteruses appears to have shrunk and is significantly smaller than the other."
Wearing double protective gloves, Chen Yunliang turned over the sheep's cut-open belly and examined the two rows of uterus. He said, "This one must have given birth, but its other uterus shows no signs of having been used."
"I suspect the other, smaller uterus is a 'spare' uterus."
"Spare?" Professor Chen began to become interested in Chen Yunliang's analysis.
"I haven't specifically studied distorted creatures; this is just my personal guess." Chen Yunliang continued after issuing a disclaimer.
"Just like snakes have two genitals, this is because the male snake's genitals may be injured during mating, so they were forced to evolve. Snake genitals are very fragile, and they may even be unable to retract due to excessive blood flow during the first mating. In the end, they can only wait for the necrotic genital to fall off naturally, and then the other genital will come in handy."
"So I suspect the Yang Kui's double uterus might be similar to that of snakes. Perhaps because the uterus is easily damaged during reproduction, a second uterus grows as a backup. Until the original uterus fails, the backup uterus maintains its size, taking up less space. When needed, it will grow larger and take over."
Professor Chen nodded in satisfaction after hearing this: "Yes, that is indeed a possibility."
"But we need to catch a few more female sheep to see if this is the case all the time," Professor Chen said, scribbling something quickly in his notebook. "I've noted your hypothesis. I'll dissect a few more later. That's all for today."
Chen Yunliang secretly breathed a sigh of relief. It was finally over.
Being with Professor Chen made him feel as if he was back in school when the teacher called on him to ask questions in class.
"Let's bury this sheep," Professor Chen said, not looking up from the autopsy. He recorded the information he had obtained, tilting his head and saying, "There's a shovel under the tree over there. Just dig a hole and bury it."
Professor Chen took a pen and scribbled down his findings. Out of the corner of his eye, he noticed Chen Yunliang hadn't moved. He looked up and asked, puzzled, "Why aren't you leaving yet? Is there something wrong?"
"Um, there's something going on," Chen Yunliang said with a shy smile. "This sheep is probably useless now, right? Can I take it back?"
"Well, it's useless. If you want it, take it." But Professor Chen still asked, "What do you want it for?"
"Eat it," Chen Yunliang said naturally, "This lamb has been cleaned very well. It can be used as food after a little processing. And when I dissected it, I found that the texture of the lamb meat..."
"Stop, stop, stop." Professor Chen's favorable impression of Chen Yunliang, which had just risen, suddenly dropped a little. "I'm not that obsessed with eating deformed creatures. You don't need to tell me that. Just take them back."
"Can I ask, if you're not that interested in eating aberrant creatures, why would you try to eat them?"
The deformed creatures that were not eaten in the pot are irrefutable evidence. First of all, Professor Chen was definitely not forced to eat them. Even when there was enough food, Professor Chen still chose to eat the deformed creatures, but said that he did not have such a strong obsession. Why?
"I'm just curious," Professor Chen said as he put away his tools. "Although some of these deformed creatures are poisonous and look unappetizing, if you examine them carefully you can still find edible parts, though they'll taste terrible."
"It was just an attempt out of curiosity. Don't make it sound like I'm greedy."
Does it taste bad?
Chen Yunliang recalled that he didn't seem to find any deformed creatures that tasted terrible, but it was true that they looked unappetizing.
Chen Yunliang untied the rope used to fix him, and stood up holding the long-dead Yang Kui. Looking back, he saw the two treacherous teammates who had escaped standing not far away.
"..." Shaoxing Yang forced a smile and raised his hand stiffly to greet: "Hi~"
Chen Yunliang responded with a gentle smile, then picked up the crossbow, aimed at Shaoxing Yang and shot it over in an instant.
"Damn!" Shaoxing Yang hurriedly dodged the oncoming arrow, and then another one broke through the air and attacked. Chen Yunliang placed the arrow without any hesitation, and his eyes were full of revenge against his teammates.
"I'm leaving now! Good luck to you!"
After saying that, Yan Hong jumped onto the branch above, preparing to jump onto the tree next to her, using the cover of the tree canopy and the terrain to escape. However, just as she jumped into the air, a flying rope wrapped around her ankle and she fell heavily to the ground.
Chen Yunliang retracted the rope little by little and dragged Yan Hong towards him. Yan Hong struggled to grab the weeds on the ground, but was ultimately dragged away.
"ah--!!!"
“Nooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!”
Screams came one after another. While preparing tableware in the camp, Lu Shiyu felt as if he had heard some sound just now.
"Don't worry, the water is just boiling."
Tang Zeyu took the kettle off the stove and placed it on the ground, then covered the stove with a lid with holes to reduce the waste of coal as quickly as possible without letting the fire go out.
"But why haven't they come back yet?" Lu Shiyu was a little worried: "Could something have happened to them?"
As they were talking, four people had already lifted the cover and walked in.
"You guys are back... Hey? Why are your clothes torn?"
Lu Shiyu immediately noticed the holes on Shaoxing Yang and Yan Hong's clothes and pants, which were clearly not there when they went out just now.
"I accidentally fell while walking just now, haha." Shaoxing Yang laughed dryly to hide his embarrassment.
"You could fall while walking?" Lu Shiyu walked over to check the holes in their clothes: "It's not serious. I'll help you sew it up after dinner."
"But why aren't there any wounds?"
Logically speaking, the clothes were torn, so there would be wounds, but now we only see the clothes and no wounds at all.
"Chen Yunliang has already cured us," Yan Hong turned Lu Shiyu and pushed him towards the dining table. "Don't worry about it, let's eat first."
Lu Shiyu glanced at Yan Hong's black shirt and saw that there seemed to be a large area soaked in blood. Could so much blood be caused by falling?
However, the two of them kept their mouths shut, and Lu Shiyu couldn't get any information from them.
"Lu Shiyu, this is for you."
Chen Yunliang handed the mutton to Lu Shiyu, who was surprised at first and then delighted.
"Wow, isn't this the deformed creature from before? And it's already been dealt with."
"Well, this deformed creature has a name. It's Yang Kui."
"Yang Kui?" Lu Shiyu asked in confusion, "Why is it called that? Did you choose it?"
“No, I don’t know why it’s called that.”
Professor Chen, who had been silent for a long time, looked at the amiable Chen Yunliang and Shaoxing Yang and Yan Hong who had forgotten the pain after their wounds healed, and suddenly felt that this exploration team was deeply unreliable.
It is hard to imagine that this softly and gently speaking person was just "abusing" his teammates, and that the two who were crying and shouting when they were beaten are now only thinking about eating. How can this be a serious team?
It’s unreliable, too unreliable, and the captain of this unreliable team is currently... arranging the dishes.
Professor Chen sighed tiredly, and suddenly his nose detected a wafting fragrance.
Professor Chen's eyes suddenly widened and his stomach rumbled.
"It's getting late, let's come and have dinner." Lu Shiyu said.
Professor Chen walked quickly to the dining table and looked at the dishes, feeling both surprised and delighted.
"Did you do all this?" Professor Chen asked Lu Shiyu.
"Not entirely. Tang Zeyu also helped."
Professor Chen's eyes were fixed on the bowl of noodles in front of him that had not yet been topped with any toppings. Lu Shiyu instantly understood what he meant, stirred the mushroom and meat sauce with a spoon, and then scooped up a large spoonful and poured it on the noodles.
The sticky mushroom and meat sauce slowly flows down from the top of the noodles, wrapping the noodles. Hot air continuously flows out from the mushroom and meat sauce, carrying the aroma into the human nasal cavity, arousing people's most primitive appetite.
Professor Chen swallowed unconsciously. He was a person who loved eating noodles, so he also brought a lot of flour. But he forgot that neither he nor his apprentice Yan Ning were good at cooking, and the food they made was only edible. Yan Ning tried to learn the difficult operation of pulling noodles several times but failed, not to mention himself. Neither of them knew how to pull noodles, so naturally they couldn't eat noodles.
Now that I think about it, it has been a long time since I last had noodles. The desire that had been buried for a long time was gradually aroused. This time, Professor Chen didn't care about his airs or face anymore. He just sat down, picked up the chopsticks and started to stir the noodles.
The chopsticks picked up the noodles again and again, and the plain noodles gradually became oily in color. The meat sauce mixed with the noodles, and the meat sauce seeped into each noodle. It made a rustling sound when stirred. The meat sauce had been fully absorbed by the noodles, and then you could start eating.
Professor Chen picked up the noodles and was about to stuff them into his mouth, but he was so burned that he immediately let go. He had to restrain his impulse, patiently blew on them to cool them down, and stuffed them into his mouth again.
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