Making mushroom powder is as easy as Liu Ben expected. The sun is not strong enough in winter, so Liu Ben only needs to spread the mushrooms above the stove at home and roast them continuously at a place far away from the fire. As long as they are not exposed to open flames and the temperature does not exceed a certain level, the mushrooms will not be cooked, but will only absorb moisture.
Although the mushrooms were not cooked during this process, some of the spores, hidden under the cap, fell off due to dehydration and drifted into the oven below. As they burned, they exploded into a powder that drifted into the air. As Liu Ben prepared the dried mushrooms, the entire Liu family courtyard was filled with a fragrant aroma.
Whenever someone came to see the patriarch for business, they could smell the charming and unfamiliar fragrance in the Liu family courtyard as soon as they entered the door, and they couldn't help swallowing their saliva.
It smells so good!
This led to the Liu family always remembering the deliciousness of boiled mushrooms whenever they were at home. The aroma made the following meal, even without mushrooms, seem more delicious. And if pickled radish was included, it was even more amazing, with the combined appetite-boosting effects of both taste and smell making for a satisfying meal.
"This won't do. We need to make more round dishes in the future," Wang Caiqing said to He Mei while looking in the mirror. "I feel like my face has gotten rounder."
He Mei carefully studied her face for a while, then smiled and shook her head: "You're overthinking it. Your face is fine and getting more and more beautiful. Don't mention Yuanyuan dishes. We eat delicious dishes from Xiao Ben's every day. They are very nourishing!"
"That's true."
Last time, Liu Shuanghu boasted that none of the girls in the village had skin as good as our two sisters-in-law. Then Wang Fengjing scolded him, saying he wasn't serious enough and was disparaging the girls in the village. After all, the girls in their village were the best-preserved in the surrounding villages.
During the time when Liu Ben was developing Miaoxian Mushroom Powder, Liu Sen and Liu Rui, two children who were more obedient than Liu Lei, finally had their official vacation!
It was Liu Shuangying who drove to pick them up.
"No, no, uncle, we can just take it ourselves." After getting off the car, Liu Rui and Liu Sen each carried two large boxes and a large bag and walked home.
"Yeah, actually our two boxes are basically empty, hehe."
Liu Shuangying stood up straight: "Okay, then you can take it yourselves, but you guys have grown a lot taller."
"I think so too," Liu Sen said, very happy about his growth. "It must be because of the milk that Brother Ben sends me from time to time. The roommates in our dormitory who drink it seem to have grown a little taller too, haha, although not as much as me."
Liu Rui: "It's true. I also started to grow taller after drinking milk. A senior student who is a model bought a big bottle from me and drank it. She also grew taller."
Liu Sen: "Wow, you're still selling it?"
Liu Rui: "I sold her two bottles out of favor, but when she wanted more later, I didn't have any left."
Liu Lei emerged from the door, overhearing their conversation. He proudly said, "I only gave a few sips to my roommates, and drank the rest myself. I've grown a lot taller! Hehe, when I'm the tallest and most handsome in the class, I can chase the class beauty."
Liu Rui tilted her head to look at Liu Lei: "Where are your facial masks, conditioners, and other things?"
"I used them all too." Liu Lei stood up straight, touched his newly cut hair, and asked narcissistically, "Do you think I'm much more handsome than before?"
Liu Rui looked at him with disdain: "If you just give some of it to the class beauty, give her a bottle of milk occasionally, and care about her more often, the class beauty might already be your girlfriend."
"Ah..." Liu Lei was stunned. He didn't expect that he had to give gifts to girls. He always thought that boys liked beautiful girls and girls liked handsome guys, so as long as he was handsome, he could find a partner.
"I don't think you care much about the beauty in your class, otherwise you wouldn't enjoy all the good things for yourself." Liu Rui shook her head speechlessly, walked around him and entered the courtyard.
Liu Lei: "Ahh..." He just didn't think of it for a moment! Being single since birth means I have no experience with this, okay?
Liu Ben had just used a small wooden bowl to grind out a small bowl of Miaoxian mushroom powder with unevenly sized particles. It looked good, so he walked out of the room and was about to give it to Wang Fengjing who was cooking in the kitchen to try. He happened to see Liu Rui and Liu Sen coming in. Liu Lei was pulling Liu Rui to ask about her experience in pleasing girls. He was really youthful and full of energy.
"You're back?" Liu Ben said with a smile, "I have to make you something delicious today."
"What's delicious?" Liu Sen and Liu Rui were curious.
In recent months, there are more and more fruits and vegetables in Liu Ben's store. Since Liu Ben exchanged for a fresh-keeping machine, all kinds of delicious food in the store can be sent to their school. After testing, even fresh milk does not need to be processed into pure milk that can be stored for a long time, and can be sent to a few people for tasting.
Anyway, Liu Sen couldn't imagine that in such comfortable conditions, there was nothing they hadn't tasted before, and his mother didn't say anything.
"You'll know soon." Liu Ben said mysteriously.
Miaoxian Mushroom is not on the shelves in the store yet, and due to some logistical reasons, it has not been sent to Liu Rui and her family, so Miaoxian Mushroom is still a delicacy that only their family can enjoy.
Of course, family members include You Ying, so other people in the You family are also family members.
You Ying brought back a lot of delicious mushrooms. As usual, he gave some to his parents and grandparents, and You Guoguo also reluctantly gave some to him.
However, looking at the colorful and bizarre shapes of the wonderful mushrooms, the You family was afraid to even touch them, let alone cook them. These mushrooms didn't move, but they were even more terrifying than the moving devil kelp.
This thing is so brightly colored, won’t I be poisoned if I touch it?
However, at You Ying's insistence, the You family skeptically cooked it once. When they smelled that amazing aroma, who could still resist? They swallowed, filled a small bowl, and took a tentative sip. Ah, in that instant, their life felt complete, and all their concerns about whether it was poisonous were thrown to the horizon.
Facts have proved that as long as the taste is good enough, the appearance is not an obstacle. Anyway, now, the You family and the Liu family can drink the colorful Miaoxian Mushroom Soup without changing their expressions.
And Miaoxian mushrooms aren't just delicious in soup; eating them is a real treat. Even though they're all Miaoxian mushrooms, different shapes have distinct flavors. Some are like smooth, tender shiitake mushrooms, with a soft, springy texture; others are like fried tofu, with a flaky exterior and a tender, white interior coated in broth; and some are silky and chewy, like perfectly cooked enoki mushrooms.
A pot of Miaoxian mushrooms can have different textures and different flavors, but no matter which one it is, it will only leave people with one thought, that is, it is delicious!
Of course, the flavor of the Miaoxian mushroom soup is quite potent, so to avoid wasting other ingredients, I always prepare it in a similar way to hot pot, using mushrooms as a base and adding slices of meat, fish, vegetables, sweet potatoes, and various other staples. Unsurprisingly, Miaoxian mushrooms go well with just about anything; as long as they add a little flavor, the dish is truly delicious.
Liu Ben couldn't help but wonder, is it really possible to boil insoles? Should he give it a try?
Of course, this proposal was strongly rejected by other members of the Liu family.
So what is the effect of the powder made from the mushroom?
"Wow! What's that taste like?" Liu Rui covered her mouth while chewing, her eyes widened in surprise. What was in her mouth was clearly the devil's kelp she had eaten before, but how could it have such a special taste that made the devil's kelp's advantages even higher.
The other members of the Liu family also ate without raising their heads, but strangely, when they searched the dishes with their chopsticks, they didn't see any Miaoxian mushrooms.
Liu Yibiao asked, "Isn't there any mushroom in this? How can it be so delicious?"
The taste of the Miaoxian mushroom is very special, but it can only be easily distinguished when eaten alone. If it is added to a dish, you will only feel that the dish is particularly delicious, but you will not be able to taste the taste of the Miaoxian mushroom. It is very magical.
At least now the Liu family did not find any mushrooms in the dishes. Even though they felt that the taste of the dishes had improved, they could only guess that mushrooms were added.
"What is Miaoxian Mushroom?" Liu Sen scooped a spoonful of the sauce from the dish and poured it on the rice to mix it with. Wow, the rice tasted twice as good with the sauce!
"Yes, they did," Wang Fengjing, who was a cook, naturally knew. She smiled and explained, "But they didn't add whole Miaoxian mushrooms. Instead, they added the Miaoxian mushroom powder that Xiao Ben made."
"Did Xiao Ben succeed?" Liu Yibiao looked up at Liu Ben.
"It's very simple," Liu Ben said with a smile. "I just roasted the mushrooms to dry out the moisture, then crushed them and ground them into powder. How's that? Not bad, right?"
"Not bad, not bad."
"If I'm not mistaken, is this a new product you are going to release?" Liu Shuanghu asked with a raised eyebrow.
"That's a must."
"Of course, look at your factories, you're building them one by one, you're almost a big boss!"
Liu Lei: "Hey, Brother Ben has already been a big boss for a long time, right? Ordinary bosses don't make as much as he does!"
"really!"
Liu Ben also talked about his preparations for the next period of time: "First, mobilize the village construction team to build more houses for tourists to live in, but do not recruit tourists. The villagers must guarantee it." This will prevent people who come to live here from destroying the environment of Guixiangsong at will.
"Then there is the construction of the village's cultural landscape..." Liu Ben talked about everything he had written down in his little notebook. Of course, this did not delay his meal.
"I really want to see a village like that right away!" Liu Rui said with longing.
Liu Yibiao couldn't help but ask, "Can our village really do that?"
"Of course!" Liu Ben said confidently, "What I say will definitely come true!"
"Okay, okay, haha," Wang Fengjing was also very happy: "I think the village should make some big moves now."
"Hasn't it been moving for a long time? Look at how much Ben has built..."
The vision of the future was too beautiful, but no one in the Liu family had any doubts about it, because what Liu Ben said was true and he would definitely make it come true.
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[Host, do you really want to try this, meow?] The system squatted on its small blanket, staring down at the pot of food Liu Ben was tinkering with.
What kind of thing is that pot... Amidst the vibrant colors, a strange light occasionally flashes. Without anyone moving, those colors that don't blend together swirl around in the pot, turning into psychedelic whirlpools of varying sizes. Even the hot steam coming out of the pot doesn't seem to be pure white, and it's like mist, lingering around the edge of the pot for a long time.
"Of course, why else would I cook it?" Liu Ben took a deep breath of the aroma and felt that this smell was even stronger than the first time he cooked the Miaoxian mushroom. Especially after smelling it for a long time, people felt a little dizzy, which was very wonderful.
Liu Ben took out the tableware he usually used in his space and filled himself a large bowl.
The remaining juice on the spoon stretched into threads, and the soup hanging on the wall of the bowl took a long time to flow down. The soup in the pot seemed a bit sticky, and the small mushrooms in the soup just slowly sank and floated with his movements, as if growing in a swamp.
This was obviously not the delicious mushrooms that Liu Ben had cooked before, at least, not non-toxic.
That’s right, the suicidal Liu Ben cooked himself a pot of pure poisonous mushroom soup today. There were at least twenty or thirty poisonous mushrooms in the pot.
Even after being placed in the bowl, the magical colors of the poisonous mushrooms still did not blend together. Colorful was not enough to describe this pot of soup. The red was not just red, but also dark red, pink, and black red. The green was not just green, but also dark green, grass green, and moldy green...
All in all, it's a completely indescribable and strange collection of objects.
But Liu Ben was very calm. He had eaten everything when he was an orc, from small insects in the ground to large scavenger beasts in the wilderness. Compared to those disgusting things, at least this poisonous mushroom soup was fragrant and might even taste good.
Liu Ben scooped up a spoonful and put it into his mouth, and his pupils suddenly trembled violently.
This taste! It's a bit like the non-toxic Miaoxian mushroom, but even more intense. When you put a spoonful of the poisonous Miaoxian mushroom soup into your mouth, you can no longer feel anything else. Whether it's smell, taste, or touch, they are all dominated by this pot of soup. Every pore seems to be screaming "delicious, delicious, delicious, delicious..."
Liu Ben quickly devoured the Miaoxian mushrooms in his bowl in two or three bites, then sighed while holding the empty bowl: "It's so delicious..."
It tastes several times better than the non-toxic Miaoxian mushroom!
In particular, the taste carries with it a special and strange feeling that is hard to describe. It is like dancing on the edge of a knife or discoing in the crater of a volcano. It is a kind of thrilling feeling of facing danger.
Liu Ben couldn't help but turn around and recommend to the system: "This is really delicious, you should try it..."
Liu Ben stopped talking. He looked solemnly at the cat floating in the air in front of him.
The big cat was still the usual black color, but it seemed to be gradually and slowly starting to have more fur.
It should have been a large cat with eternally smooth fur, but when Liu Ben fixed his gaze on a tuft of hair on its paw, it slowly began to twitch, as if transforming into a small claw, grasping and grasping. Liu Ben shifted his gaze and noticed a similar tuft of hair twitching on the cat's ear. Then he saw the cat's whiskers moving, and the hair on its tail also moving...
As he watched, the hair on the system cat seemed to come alive, having its own thoughts and trying to break free from the control of the body.
The system saw that Liu Ben was staring at it, and looked down at itself curiously. There was nothing dirty on its body, so why was the host's gaze so strange?
Then the system saw that Liu Ben had not put down the bowl in his hand.
Oh! Big Cat understood.
[Host, are you starting to hallucinate, meow? ]
The system's words brought Liu Ben out of his concentration. He shook his head and said, "Well, it's okay. It's just that there seem to be some subtle changes in how I see things."
The system squinted its eyes and lay down, tilting its head to look at Liu Ben: "Don't let yourself be poisoned."
"Well, it's really okay. I don't think it has much impact on me." Liu Ben said nonchalantly as he filled another bowl of soup for himself.
【……】
"Slurp, slurp, tsk tsk..." Liu Ben finished another bowl of soup. It's amazing that this poisonous mushroom tasted really good and had an excellent texture. It was so smooth and delicious that it was addictive.
When Liu Ben raised his head again, the world in his eyes was different again.
The system was still lying on its blanket, but there were twice as many eyes staring at him. The four eyes seemed to have magical powers, staring at him.
Liu Ben shook his head:...burp.
Liu Ben looked around. He was sitting in an open space in the space, where he usually cooked. In front of him was a simple earthen stove he had built himself, and to the right was a pine forest with the fragrance of osmanthus.
But now in Liu Ben's eyes, the straight trunk of the osmanthus pine has begun to twist a little bit, as if dancing, and many small feet have grown out of the soil on the ground, seeming to be ready to move.
Liu Ben blinked and smacked his lips. Feeling that he was not full yet, he slowly lowered his head to fill a bowl of mushroom soup and gulped it down. Then he had another bowl, and another bowl... until he had gobbled up all the soup in the pot in front of him.
Liu Ben breathed a sigh of relief and patted his stomach with a feeling of unsatisfied satisfaction. At this time, he seemed to have completely fainted.
The surrounding trees rose from the ground, slowly moving on legs fashioned from their roots. The ground was crawling with insects fashioned from tiny clods of earth, each one scurrying swiftly. Liu Ben reached out to catch them, but couldn't catch a single one. The pot seemed to still have soup, yet it also seemed not. Liu Ben touched the bottom of the pot with a spoon with eyeballs, but all he heard was the clang of a bell.
The system was speechless at Liu Ben's suicidal spirit. It floated in front of Liu Ben, looked up and looked into his eyes: [Host, are you stupid?]
What Liu Ben saw with his wide-open eyes was: a dark, indescribable object floating in the air, with many twisting black tails and countless eyes and ears in the middle...
Liu Ben smiled foolishly: "Great, I gradually understand everything."
System: [This is too much. I am gradually unable to understand the host.]
Liu Ben curiously wandered around all the fields he had planted in his current space. He saw the white jade radish chattering away, the Wushuang rice that coiled itself into a grass dragon and tumbled across the fields, and the Devil Kelp that had grown so large it burst out of the pond and transformed into tentacles that grabbed everything in its path...
Liu Ben: “Wow!”
Finally, I walked to the edge of a circular cliff and looked down at it. It seemed like there was someone waving at me from below.
Liu Ben lowered his head and looked closer, and the figure became clearer as he thought about it. Oh, it was You Ying.
Liu Ben also waved towards You Ying: "Hey!"
Just as Liu Ben was about to walk towards You Ying, the illusion in front of his eyes gradually faded... and his mind gradually became clear.
Liu Ben blinked, stood up straight, and patted his chest: "That was a close call, I almost jumped down."
The system floated over, and now it is in its most normal state.
Big Cat said coldly: [Then just jump down. I can't wait for you, this suicidal host, to die quickly so I can find an obedient host.]
"Hey, it's easy to change an obedient host, but can you find a host as powerful as me? One who can cultivate so many fields, provide tribute to you, and even abuse the scum for you to watch, right?"
[Hmm]
Liu Ben smacked his lips. The taste in his mouth had dissipated, but he could still smell that alluring fragrance in his nose.
Liu Ben: "The hallucinations from this poisonous mushroom aren't that severe. I ate a whole pot and the hallucinations lasted less than half an hour."
"That's because you're an orc. Why don't you let an ordinary person try it? Meow!"
Liu Ben touched his chin. "Besides, it's quite interesting when hallucinations occur. I think a lot of people would like to try it."
[Host, please do not frantically test the boundaries of the law. ]
Liu Ben waved his hand: "Of course I won't sell this kind of hallucinogenic stuff!"
"But, hehehe..." Liu Ben smiled maliciously: "I can let some people try it out."
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On this day, Gou Qi's family was in trouble again.
Gou Er had last appeared a few months ago, and Liu Ben had specifically asked the system about it, since it had been a while since he'd fought. The system said Gou Er had taken refuge near the school, in the bustling student dormitories, making it difficult to attack him.
But now it was vacation, so Gou Er naturally returned home.
God knows, Gou Er actually wanted to go home for a long time. Last time, Liu Ben exposed his life experience that he had concealed for a long time in front of his classmates. Although Gou Er barely found an excuse at the time, the excuse was too bad and others could find out the truth by just asking around.
Not wanting to run into Liu Ben again, Gou Er rented a house near the school, but the unforeseen event still happened. The story of his past spread privately among the teachers and students at the school.
Gou Er felt very uncomfortable with other people's secret looks and whispers behind his back.
Gou Er hypnotized himself that those were all illusions, but one day he heard his classmates talking about his illegitimate background, his mother's mistress, etc. in a corner when they thought he was not there, which made Gou Er unable to deceive himself anymore.
Gou Er wanted to transfer schools, but it was not that easy. Besides, his father had spent a lot of money to get him into this good university, so how could he transfer just like that?
Gou Er pretended to know nothing and endured until the winter vacation, then he hurried back home and breathed a sigh of relief.
But there was no good news when he returned home. His father had a sullen face all day long. I heard that the company's business was getting worse and worse.
For some reason, dietary supplements became a trend among Gou Qi's wealthy clients, and many of them canceled all their company's products. When asked why, they said they were healthier. What made Gou Qi even shiver was that when he personally visited these clients, he actually found that they were actually healthier than before.
The old man who used to walk with crutches now walks with confidence. The old lady who used to have a sallow face and was covered with age spots now has a rosy, plump complexion and a smile. Even the young masters who were spoiled too much by their families and had little exercise and were weak in body, have become energetic when they are seen again, and even have gained some thin muscles!
It's really a ghost!
Could this be the effect of dietary supplements?
Gou Qi inquired openly and secretly and found out that they seemed to have bought high-end vegetables from a certain store, but he was not sure which store it was.
It should be information that is easy to find out, but Gou Qi just didn't ask. Even when someone mentioned that the vegetables in a certain agricultural product store on the commercial street were very expensive and said to be nutritious, and that the store even opened an online store, Gou Qi didn't take it seriously.
In Gou Qi's opinion, those rich and powerful people wouldn't go to the shopping streets or online stores. They'd order the freshest vegetables directly from high-end farms, flown in by air, or imported from abroad. They wouldn't be some ridiculous little farm produce store on the shopping streets, so he had to keep investigating.
However, at the end of the year, even if the company's performance this year is poor, it still has to hold an annual meeting and say something to make employees feel that the company still has a bright future, instead of not coming again after the New Year.
Gou Qi asked his secretary to make the best draft and practiced it several times himself. He felt that his performance should be good.
"Boss, Madam, and Young Master, you may go to dinner now." The assistant said respectfully to the Gou Qi family who were dressed in their best today.
Gou Qi waved his hand and said, "You guys go ahead. I need to go and say a few words first."
The long speeches were only given at the end of the annual meeting, while the few sentences before the annual meeting were more casual. After they were finished, he would immediately come back to have dinner together.
Zhu Qian worriedly instructed: "Then come here quickly!"
Even though Gou Qi became fat and ugly after middle age, Zhu Qian heard that there were several vixens in the company who were looking for opportunities to seduce him. Moreover, those vixens were young, beautiful and had good figures. If Gou Qi had not rarely gone to the company after he got power, he might have been seduced away.
"I understand." Gou Qi turned and left impatiently.
"Mom, hurry up, I'm starving." Gou Er said, but without waiting for her, he walked to the dining table, sat down and started eating.
"Hey, here I come."
This was not the first time they had come to this restaurant, but the food today tasted unexpectedly good. The two of them couldn't put their chopsticks down once they started eating, and kept picking up various dishes and stuffing them into their mouths, so they didn't notice at all that someone was staring at them from the curtains.
"System, why did Gou Qi leave without eating?"
He will show up first and then come to eat later.
"That's not safe," Liu Ben frowned. "By the time he returns, Zhu Qian and Gou Er might have already had their attacks. He definitely won't eat any more vegetables."
Liu Ben spent a lot of effort to sprinkle poisonous mushroom powder on the dishes without anyone noticing.
【so? 】
Liu Ben raised the corner of his mouth and said, "Follow him."
The author has something to say:
Liu Ben: I hold grudges like this
Eating wild mushrooms is risky, so be careful when eating them.
Thank you to the little angel who irrigated the nutrient solution for me~
Mo irrigated 2 bottles of Yangzhi Ganlu~ (*⌒v⌒*)
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