Chapter 108 Bloodline Suppression
"Wow, that's great." Si Liang cheered and ran over to hug Jiufang Yan's legs.
Jiufang touched his son's head lovingly, then looked at Qi Huan, "It's been such a long time since we met, but I didn't give you a formal gift. It was rude of me to begin with. Today is the perfect time, and it can be considered as putting an end to my worries."
"But this is too expensive, and many of the core machines of the medical team are here, and they are also needed for travel..." Qi Huan was a little overwhelmed, enumerating many inappropriate reasons in a scattered manner, and didn't understand how a joke he made suddenly became true.
"Don't worry about the medical team. They can move to my starship. The mainframe there has just been upgraded, and its performance is more suitable for helping them with their research." Jiufang Yan had already thought of solutions to various problems in just half a minute, leaving him no room for refusal. "Think about what other needs you have, and I'll arrange someone to help you follow up on the subsequent modifications."
Qi Huan was speechless and looked to Jiufang Yu for help, hoping that he could help him decline.
Jiufang Yu moved his jaw slightly and nodded, indicating that he should accept it.
“After the upgrade, I want to be the number one VIP of the Human Restaurant.” Si Liang cheered and raised his right hand high.
"That depends on your performance. The restaurant opened by Huanhuan must be full of admirers. You have to be obedient and satisfy Huanhuan, mom and uncle before you can get number one." Jiufang Yan gave Qi Huan a look asking him to cooperate.
After receiving the signal, Qi Huan nodded subconsciously.
"Okay, it's almost time for the fighting class, so let's go get ready. You promised me before you came that you would attend the class on Starnet on time."
Si Liang had no choice but to nod obediently.
"By the way," Jiufang turned to look at Qi Huan, "Huanhuan, please spare an hour for me in the evening. I will take you to do some adaptive simulation training on mental power combing."
Qi Huan nodded hurriedly.
Jiufang Yu's guide level is higher than Wen Liang's, and her skills and experience are more abundant. She is willing to personally guide Qi Huan, and Qi Huan is naturally very grateful. When it comes to Jiufang Yu's safety, the two of them have the same position on this point, and both want to be careful and cautious.
After getting the confirmation, Jiufang Yu showed a satisfied look on his face, then he took Si Liang's hand and walked towards the practice room. The little guy looked at Qi Huan and Jiufang Yu reluctantly, then followed Jiufang Yu away.
The control cabin fell silent. Qi Huan glared at Jiu Fangyu angrily and complained in a low voice, "Why didn't you help me say something just now? How could I accept such a valuable item?"
"It's not that expensive actually. You saved her son before, and now you want to save her brother, which means you saved two people who are very important to her. In her eyes, a starship can't repay this favor at all. If you keep refusing, she should consider buying you a high-end house in the most prosperous commercial district in the Jiuchong Star Domain to turn into a restaurant." Jiufang Yu was familiar with Jiufang Yu's personality, so he suggested that Qi Huan accept it.
Qi Huan choked, and understood the implication of Jiufang Yu's words. If he refused the small starship, Jiufang Yu would only think that he was dissatisfied with the gift, and a more valuable "surprise" would appear in a few days. In comparison, accepting the small starship was the "wise" approach.
"How about you help me negotiate later? This restaurant will be opened as a partnership between Mrs. Jiufang and I. She provides the location, I provide the technology, and we split the profits 50-50?" Knowing that he couldn't refuse, Qi Huan thought of a compromise based on the previous business model proposals and proposed weakly.
Looking at Qi Huan's expression and thinking about how he looked when facing Jiufang Yu just now, Jiufang Yu asked tentatively, "Are you afraid of my sister?"
"It's not fear, it's respect." Qi Huan rubbed his Adam's apple with his knuckles, obviously lacking in confidence.
"Didn't you say she was very kind to you?"
"Very kindly."
"Then what do you 'respect'?" Jiufang Yu was puzzled.
"You don't understand. This is a natural reverence for my sister's class." Qi Huan looked up at the sky. His blood was suppressing him and old habits were hard to change. He also had a strong and capable sister in his family. He had never been able to refute or resist her since he was a child.
Jiufang Yu: ...
"No, I have to hurry and think about the menu for tonight." Qi Huan took out a pen and paper from his storage bag and sat down at the floating table next to him.
Qi Huan had already received the right to use a small starship, and could also receive technical guidance from Jiufang Yan at night. He was filled with gratitude.
But Jiufang Xun's family was well-off, and he lived a life of luxury with almost nothing missing. He really didn't have any better way to express his gratitude, so he could only try his best to cook some fresh dishes according to Si Liang and Jiufang Xun's tastes.
Si Liang likes to eat meat, Jiufang Yu likes to eat fish and shrimp, so Qi Huan immediately thought of a dish known as the best dish in the world, Yang Fang Cang Yu. Legend has it that this dish was created more than 4,000 years earlier than when Qi Huan was born in his previous life. It was created by Peng Zu, who was known as the ancestor of imperial chefs. Even the word "fresh" comes from this dish.
As the name suggests, this dish is actually a kind of set dish. Fish needs to be mixed with mutton and cooked together. The collision of aquatic and terrestrial ingredients, the flavors of the two blend together and complement each other, perfectly interpreting the taste of "freshness".
There is no mutton here, and the meat with the closest texture and taste is long-faced beast, so Qi Huan quickly selected the ingredients.
Speaking of lamb, he thought of another dish made with roasted lamb ribs - roasted bones. It has a tender and delicate taste and the little guy Si Liang will definitely love it.
"What is the Shoufang Cangyu?" Jiufang Yu leaned over to take a look. These were two new dishes he had never heard of. He didn't know how many recipes Qi Huan had in his mind.
The fresh and cold metallic smell from Jiufang Yu enveloped Qi Huan, making him distracted and his mind immediately stuck.
"You'll know after you eat tonight." Qi Huan pushed the Star Lord out. It would be hard for him to concentrate on the menu if he was around. "Didn't you make an appointment with the secretary and the others to check on the construction progress of the base? You'll be late if you don't go now."
"Then I'll be back soon."
“It’s okay to go slow.”
Jiufang Yu paused and looked back suspiciously.
"What I mean is that the foundation is the most important. Don't be in a hurry. Check it carefully and make sure the quality is guaranteed." Qi Huan quickly made up for it.
Jiufang Yu nodded and left.
Qi Huan sighed and continued to think about the third dish. Not long after, he wrote down another name: Mixed Set.
The original main ingredients of the mixed set are eggs and chicken. First, you need to make a hole on the top of the egg to separate the yolk and egg white. Then, take the chicken and remove the fascia and scrape it into puree. Use the remaining chicken bones and chicken to make soup. The puree is mixed and sieved to make chicken broth. Mix the chicken broth with the egg white and then pour it back into the eggshell. Finally, cover the surface with paper and steam it in a pot. You can get a yolk-free egg that is as white as jade, healthy, low in fat, and extremely delicious.
Qi Huan planned to replace the chicken stew with fish stew to make it closer to the taste of Jiufang Xun and make it taste more tender.
Then he remembered another dish in Suiyuan Food List, lotus meat, the main ingredients of which are lean meat, shrimp and lard.
He had previously replicated this dish for several roommates in the dormitory to taste. When making it, the shrimp and lard need to be diced, then flattened and pressed onto the lean meat slices soaked in soy sauce to form double-layered slices of meat. In order to ensure that the dish lives up to its name and that the shape of the dish is more attractive, he also specially improved the method by trimming the meat slices one by one into the shape of "petals".
The final product did not disappoint him. The petals were layered and the shape was delicate and pretty. The cooked shrimp meat was pink, just like the delicate color of hibiscus, and it was as beautiful as rosy clouds. It had a full range of colors, aromas and flavors, which amazed his roommates.
This dish, from its appearance to its ingredients, is exactly what Jiufang Xian likes.
Jiufang Yu's food supplements also need to be considered. In addition to using rattan branches, the mucus cannot be "wasted". Qi Huan thought for a moment and decided to make three shrimps and green silk noodles.
These are actually two kinds of noodles. The original Cuilu noodles are made with locust leaf juice and dyed green. Qi Huan plans to replace it with rattan branches, and then mix the mucus into it to make a rattan branch version of Cuilu noodles. He then uses the method of three shrimp noodles, adding shrimp roe and soy sauce to the soup, and using shrimp meat and shrimp brain as toppings. It is light and delicious, and very much in line with the taste of Jiufang's siblings.
Gongdeng Qi Huan also plans to make another version. He made a sweet one yesterday, so today he will consider a salty one.
The problem also lies with the frame and the lamp gauze. Qi Huan thought about it and finally decided to use crystal jelly to cut out a square lamp frame, and then insert dried meat pillars into the four corners as the lamp frame. The patterns and decorations on the top and bottom of the palace lantern are also made of cut and pasted dried meat.
Qi Huan took out a new piece of paper and sketched the overall structure and shapes of each component of the palace lantern while thinking. As he was painting and revising, the whole piece of paper was almost filled with sketches.
"Are there still palace lanterns today?"
He was absorbed in painting when he suddenly smelled a familiar, cool metallic scent.
"Why so fast?" Qi Huan looked at Jiufang Yu in surprise.
"You are so engrossed in your writing that you don't even notice what time it is." Jiufang Yu gestured to look at the clock on the holographic display in the control cabin.
Qi Huan then realized that he had been so absorbed in his thoughts that more than an hour had passed without him noticing.
"Also," Jiufang Yu pointed at the sketch of the palace lantern on the paper, half jokingly and half seriously, "If you pay too much attention to my sister, my brother-in-law will feel pressured."
"What does that have to do with anything?" Qi Huan speechlessly pulled the sketch back from under his fingers.
"I have two more pieces of news to tell you," Jiufang Yu raised his chin slightly, "I just got the news that Jiufang Kuang suddenly fell ill while being escorted to the Alliance Arbitration Court and died on the spot."
Qi Huan gasped. It was almost exactly what Jiufang Yu and the shop owner had guessed.
"What's the other news?"
"The current head of the Qi family, Kaisen, all the people involved in the two kidnapping cases against you and the defamation case on the Star Network a few days ago have been temporarily detained and controlled. The trial is expected to start on the 3rd of next month. The Alliance Arbitration Court sent a notice asking if you are willing to go to the Nine Star Region to testify in court.
If you want to go, I will immediately arrange for someone to help you submit the application data for the relevant star fields. Don't worry about the time issue. It's completely in time to go through the emergency process. It just so happens that some media over there want to meet you. The Kitchen Guild has also been rejected twice by Broken Blade. If you go there, you can meet them together and accept some interviews.
If you don't want to meet those people from the Qi family, I can ask a lawyer to perform the protection regulations in your name as a minor and let them represent you fully."
Go to the Nine Star Region? If it was before knowing Jiu Fangyu's condition, Qi Huan was really interested in visiting the most prosperous star region of the alliance to see the various brilliant and splendid technologies and cultural charms of the interstellar era.
But at this moment, he was not in the mood. There would be plenty of opportunities to go to the Nine-Layered Star Region in the future, but Jiufang Yu didn't have much time left, so he had to hurry.
"No." Qi Huan shook his head firmly, "Please help me arrange for a lawyer to represent me."
"If you want to go, I can go with you."
"Not for now. If you want to go, we'll talk about it later." Qi Huan looked at Jiu Fangyu, "When the time comes, you have to accompany me to visit Lidu more, and stay for at least half a year or a year."
"Okay," Jiufang Yu lowered his eyelashes slightly, his eyes gentle and doting, "Then when the time comes, we will make the first stop of the Human Restaurant Alliance Star Region Parade in the Nine Star Region and kick out those restaurants run by Four Sword Star Chefs."
"My dear, you are very much in my heart." Qi Huan made a 6 gesture to him.
"Then I'll ask my secretary to contact a lawyer now." Jiufang Yu walked towards the door decisively.
The transfer door of the control cabin slid open silently. Jiufang Yu stepped out of the door, then suddenly turned around and leaned in, adding meaningfully, "I like mechas."
Qi Huan was stunned, not understanding what Jiufang Yu meant for a moment. It was not until the transfer door closed again that he realized that Jiufang Yu was asking him for a special custom dish, a mecha style one!
That's too difficult! Thinking of Qing Lu's sharp and complex shape, Qi Huan silently held his forehead.
At dinner time, everyone was once again impressed by Qi Huan's cooking skills.
The peeled mixed set is as smooth as jade, and as silky as silk when eaten, elegant and fresh.
The lotus meat is not only beautiful in appearance, but also tastes delicious. The first thing that touches your lips and teeth is the slightly crispy animal meat, which is as soft as cream on the inside. The sweetness of the shrimp meat and the fragrance of the animal meat are intertwined, complementing each other.
The taste of the Shoufang Tibetan fish is top-notch. The three-layered beast meat is as soft and tender as clouds, and the white fish meat is sandwiched between them like jade chips. The abundant juice oozes out when the chopsticks pass through it. The collagen is full of the mouth, and the amazing sight of water and clouds meeting mountains and rivers instantly turns into the ultimate freshness on the tip of the tongue.
Of course, the most visually beautiful one is naturally the square palace lantern.
The screen is made of crystal and the frame is made of ebony. The four walls are decorated with patterns of overlapping petals. Plum, orchid, bamboo and chrysanthemum are arranged on the four sides. The inside of the palace lantern can be seen from the top. The lamp is made of layers of fish paste in the shape of a lotus, and inside is still a pool of liquor with dancing flames.
The light and shadow are blurred and trembling, and the diamond-like light is layered on the outside of the plate, which is vivid and colorful.
Although also flavored with wine, the combination of aspic and minced fish is completely different from the dessert of the previous day. The hint of wine perfectly dissolves the fishy smell, making it soft and smooth on the tongue, sweet, chewy, elegant and refreshing.
Even Jiufang Yan couldn't help but take a picture of the palace lantern and send it to her husband to show off.
Shallow combing does not require very high environmental conditions and can be carried out in the dedicated quiet room of the Jiufang Huanxing ship.
Jiufang Yu had helped him with his mental combing before, and knew that his shallow mental picture was a forest picture, so he deliberately chose a simulated forest environment.
She showed great patience and took Qi Huan through the simulation scene step by step.
After the first round, Jiufang Yan was fine, except for sweat on his forehead. Qi Huan's heavy shirt was soaked with sweat, and he looked like he had been fished out of the water.
"In addition, you have to pay attention to one thing," Jiufang Yan wiped the sweat off his face, thought for a moment and reminded Qi Huan, "If a couple is mentally combing, the situation will be more complicated. His picture of you may be different from that of others."
"Different?" Qi Huan blinked, not quite understanding what Jiufang Yan meant.
"He may not be able to restrain himself... and disturb you. You must be careful not to be tempted or influenced by him."
Jiufang Xuan chose a more euphemistic way of saying it, but Qi Huan somehow understood what she meant.
"I'll go back and take a shower first. Goodbye, ma'am." Qi Huan's cheeks were burning and he ran away.
After taking a shower, Qi Huan didn't feel sleepy. After thinking for a while, he turned out everything in the storage brooch. When he was in the mine before, it had been rummaging around for a long time and it was a mess. He didn't have time to sort it out later. Today, he was not sleepy, so he planned to rearrange it.
He was putting them out in stacks, and during his movement he lost his balance, and a wooden box rolled down and hit the floor of the room.
Qi Huan was startled, and after looking carefully, he found that it was the box that Rondo had sent back containing the Second Knife Chef Certificate.
Oh no, Uncle Lin Sen’s chef certificate was not broken, was it? Qi Huan quickly put down his things to pick it up, and the box fell open, and a corner of the chef certificate hit the floor.
The backing plate under the chef certificate is made of metal. Qi Huan was relieved to see that the kitchen knife brooch on it had not fallen off and the backing plate had not been deformed. He picked it up again and saw that the corner that touched the ground was cracked, leaving a gap of about half a centimeter.
He sighed and planned to order a new backing plate to replace it another day. Just as he was about to put it back, he suddenly saw two thin corners of paper in the gap.
Qi Huan's heart skipped a beat, and then he used the tip of his pen to pry the gap a little wider. It was indeed paper, and it looked like there were more than one or two pages.
He made up his mind and changed to a razor. He pried open the lining along the gap, and a yellowed thin book fell to the ground.
The inside of the backing card must have been modified by someone, with a layer of padding and a square groove dug out in the middle. Judging from the size, it should be just enough to hold the thin book that fell out. I guess the gap was too big just now, so the book shifted and fell into the corner.
Qi Huan picked up the notebook and opened the first page. There were seven familiar simplified Chinese characters on it.
The best thing in life is simple joy.
That was his sister Qi Qing's handwriting.
Qi Huan stared at the seven words, and his mind went blank in an instant.
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