Chapter 21 This is practically magic! Oh, this really is magic...
A glimmer of light appeared on the bare branch. As the light shifted, translucent, illusory leaf buds sprouted from the branch. In the blink of an eye, the buds stretched and grew. When the light faded, a green leaf emitting a soft glow drifted down gently.
Meimei opened her bright blue eyes wide. She looked at the leaf slowly falling from the sky, then at the thoughtful flower fairy. She twisted her hands together, not daring to catch the leaf.
Shu Xin snapped out of her daze and gestured for her to catch it. The blue-haired flower fairy then reached out and caught the slowly falling leaf.
The emerald green leaves had barely fallen into the flower fairy's palm when they vanished without a trace.
Meimei clenched her fist, her eyes brimming with excitement: "Flower Fairy! I know how to make noodle soup now!"
This morning, Shuxin ate the noodle soup made by Meimeilin.
The soup base is very clear and tastes light and delicious. Of course, this is also because there are no side ingredients to add. However, it is still commendable that it is not as sweet as sweet jelly soup. The cooked round noodles slide into your mouth with the soup, and they are surprisingly chewy and elastic, unlike the soft and mushy sweet jelly soup.
After finishing a whole bowl of noodle soup, Shu Xin was completely satisfied. Putting everything else aside, the feeling of fullness on a psychological level was really strong. As for the physiological level, the magic contained in the noodle soup was actually much greater than that of sweet noodle soup.
Nonoli and Pengpengan were very enthusiastic about the new dishes, but Shuxin glanced at them and saw that the two officials' bowls only contained a single round noodle. She thought to herself that the dwindling grain in the warehouse was probably all going into their mouths.
Shu Xin's gaze inadvertently fell on the Tree of Life outside the window, and her mood became somewhat complicated. She thought of Xi's sour remark earlier that the Tree of Life was left behind by the gods who favored elves, "a magical plant of this level."
Shu Xin thought she already understood the power of the Tree of Life, but it wasn't until she clearly witnessed the entire process of the Tree of Life giving the cook Mei Meilin the recipes that she realized the power and wonder of the Tree of Life far exceeded her imagination.
Before the leaf carrying the recipe information grew and took shape, a faint light shone from the branches of the Tree of Life. As the light flickered and shifted, Shu Xin saw scenes flashing through her mind:
Human women wearing aprons and holding children were stirring soup; orc men wearing cloaks and carrying baskets were picking tender leaves; and naked, bald flower fairy slaves were turning flint...
She even saw her father shirtless, smoking a cigarette, and kneading dough!
Shu Xin was greatly shocked.
As she watched those incredibly vivid scenes flash by in the light, Shu Xin had a fleeting illusion that she was watching a cooking compilation.
At first, Shu Xin could still see the images flashing in the light, but as the light dimmed, the images flashed faster and faster, and she could no longer see anything. When the light completely dimmed and disappeared, the leaf carrying the recipe was formed.
This helped Shu Xin roughly understand the operating mechanism of the Tree of Life.
The scenes that flashed by were all, without exception, either cooking or preparing ingredients. Clearly, the Tree of Life extracted the necessary parts, integrated and modified them, and finally provided a "noodle soup" recipe that could be perfectly replicated even in the Land of Sin. "Sweet powder soup" was probably also compiled in the same way.
The problem is that the main characters in the picture come from all races and backgrounds, and even Shu Xin's father appears in it!
At least the image of her father slapping dough could only exist in her memory. Shu Xin recalled for a long time before she remembered that the scene was when she was video chatting with her mother in the summer, chatting about what to have for dinner. Her mother said that her father was making hand-pulled noodles and held up her phone to show her.
Shu Xin barely remembered the scene she had just glimpsed, but the Tree of Life captured it and presented it in a restored, ultra-high-definition version.
The Tree of Life, truly an omnipotent Tree of Life, can even grasp memories from people's brains while suspended in mid-air!
That said, at what level does the resource retrieval before the Tree of Life generates recipes take place?
This is truly something that makes one hesitant to think deeply...
In any case, after that, sweet rice noodle soup was no longer served at every meal.
However, noodle soup—which Shuxin prefers to call round noodle soup—appears on the table far less frequently than sweet noodle soup, so Shuxin took some time to go to the kitchen to see how the cook, Meimeilin, prepared the dishes.
In order not to frighten the somewhat timid and crybaby flower fairy, Shu Xin cast a concealment spell on herself every time she went to the kitchen. However, she went to the kitchen five times, and Mei Meilin was cooking sweet rice noodle soup four times.
The steps Meimeilin took to cook the sweet powder soup were quite simple. First, she sprinkled flour into the pot, then added water to dissolve the flour. After stirring it a couple of times, she used a leaf from the Tree of Life to light a flint and began to heat and stir it until the thick soup in the pot boiled and bubbled. The sweet powder soup was then ready.
For the sweet rice noodle soup made for Nuonuo and Pengpengan, Meimeilin only sprinkled a handful of flour. But for the sweet rice noodle soup made for Shuxin, Meimeilin sprinkled at least five handfuls of flour. She didn't just throw it all into the pot at once, but sprinkled a handful of flour, added a bowl of water, stirred it, then sprinkled another handful of flour and added another bowl of water.
Moreover, the wooden bowl that Shuxin used was much bigger than the ones used by the two flower fairies, Nuonuoli and Pengpengan. Meimeilin cooked several pots of food before she could fill such a large bowl.
To be honest, the time it takes to cook one bowl of sweet rice noodle soup for Shuxin is enough to cook a dozen bowls for Nuonuo Lipeng and the others...
The freshly cooked sweet noodle soup was still grayish-blue, looking like it contained some kind of poison. Then Shu Xin saw Mei Meilin rub her hands together, and a blue water ball materialized out of thin air. She raised her hand and threw the water ball into the bowl. In the blink of an eye, the grayish-blue noodle soup turned snow-white.
Shu Xin: This is just like magic! Oh, this seems like magic, then it's okay.
If you compare how to make sweet rice noodle soup and bitter wheat soup, the biggest difference is that one adds water first and then bitter wheat, while the other adds flour first and then water.
As for the round slice soup, Shu Xin had only seen Mei Meilin make it once, and she had to admit that making round slice soup was much more complicated than making sweet jelly soup.
Both involve sprinkling flour into the pot first, and adding water in the same way. However, for sweet rice noodle soup, it's one handful of flour and one bowl of water, while for round rice noodle soup, it's three handfuls of flour and half a bowl of water.
Then Meimei started stirring laboriously until she had mixed the water and flour into a batter. She took out a second bowl and started sprinkling flour and water again, stirring it into a batter. She continued until she had made five bowls of batter before stopping to rest for a while.
After resting for a while, the blue-haired flower fairy started making water balls. This time, she also threw the water balls she made into the bowl, but after the water balls were coated with the batter, she took them out.
Shu Xin watched as Mei Meilin raised the water ball covered in batter high and began to slam it down—just like Shu Xin's father did in the flashing image of the Tree of Life.
After repeatedly slapping and kneading all five bowls of batter into a firm dough, Meimei took a break. Once she was rested, she began sprinkling flour into each water balloon, then slapping and kneading it again. She repeated this process several times until the water balloon was completely incorporated into the dough. By then, Meimei was panting heavily.
After resting for a while and catching her breath, Meimei stared intently at the dough. The next second, the large dough automatically and spontaneously broke into a dozen or so smaller dough balls—like a large drop of water breaking into a dozen or so smaller droplets, incredibly smooth, incredibly fluid, and incredibly magical.
After turning all the large dough balls into smaller ones, the little flower fairy turned pale...
Now Meimeilin finally started adding water to the pot, striking the flint, and heating it up.
Once the water boiled, Meimei flattened a small dough ball into a small round piece and threw it into the pot to cook. When the dough was cooked and started to tumble in the boiling water, she scooped it out and put it into a huge wooden bowl.
This process was repeated until only two small dough balls remained. Meimei flattened the dough balls, cooked them, and then scooped them out and put them into two other small wooden bowls.
Shu Xin knew without being told that the super big wooden bowl was hers, and the other two bowls, each with only a round piece of dough lying alone, belonged to Nuonuo Li and Peng Peng An.
Add some flour to the pot where the noodles were cooked, stir it, bring the water to a boil again, and pour it into two small wooden bowls. Nonoli and Pengpengan's meal is now ready.
As for the Flower Fairy's noodle soup, Meimeilin specially cooked it like a simplified version of sweet jelly soup. Because the pot was too small and the Flower Fairy's special wooden bowl was too big, she cooked several more pots.
After making three bowls of round slice soup (two large and one small), Mei Meilin was so exhausted that her face turned deathly pale. She couldn't even fly anymore!
The reason why Meimeilin only makes round slice soup every few days is probably not because she doesn't want to, but because the poor flower fairy cook has used up all her magic and has no strength left to make it!
This is all thanks to eating only one meal a day. If it were three meals a day, Shu Xin really felt that Mei Meilin would be exhausted to death in the kitchen!
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