Chapter 119 What's the matter?
"No, it's more like glutinous rice balls, soft, sticky and delicious." Song Ci's dimples flashed on her cheeks. She stretched out her arms to hook Qi Huan's neck and pretended to take a bite of his round cheek.
Tang Si and Jiufang Yu at the back both froze in their eyes.
"Go away~" Qi Huan put his hand on Song Ci's chin.
"Dare to attack?" Song Ci grabbed Qi Huan's wrist with his backhand. His physique had been reborn, and he had been 'tortured' by the mecha department and the brothers Tang Xia and Tang Xuan for a long time. He was no longer the 'weak and vulnerable' him. "Do you believe I can beat you until you call me daddy?"
“Let’s see who will kneel down and sing “Conquer” later!” Qi Huan, who had been dismantling the stone beasts for most of half a year, showed no sign of weakness and said he was not afraid at all.
"Brother, brother, don't fight." Zhang Chi rushed over and hooked one of them with one hand to try to make peace.
"Shut up." Two hands covered his face at the same time, one on the left and one on the right.
Jiufang Yu and Tang Si looked at each other, and tacitly took a step back at the same time to avoid being implicated.
The people in the front were in chaos, and the only ones left in the box were Diwuyuan at the door and Xia Tianwu who got up a step late.
"Let's go?" The young master called out to the hesitant Xia Tianwu, and then turned his head to look behind his chair, "Is there something behind your chair?"
"This is for you." Xia Tianwu reluctantly took out the stuffed bear hidden behind the chair. He had originally planned to take it out after dinner to surprise Diwuyuan, but now the surprise was forced to be exposed in advance.
The teddy bear was more than half a person's height, with curly milky brown hair and was plump. There was a bow tied with a milky white ribbon around its neck. It looked 90% similar to the prop bear that Diwuyuan had asked him to buy in the game.
"It looks quite similar." Diwuyuan happily took the bear and looked it over. "Did you find it specially for me?"
"No, I happened to see it when I passed by the mall a few days ago. I thought you might like it, so I bought it." Xia Tian Wuyun waved his hand calmly.
"Thank you." Diwuyuan patted Bear's belly to feel the texture, expressing his satisfaction with this new member joining his Bear family.
After Diwuyuan accompanied Xia Tianwu to complete the cancellation procedures at the restaurant and left, the red aircraft parked at the door opened its door to them, and Tang Si and Jiufang Yu sat quietly inside.
"Where is Huanhuan?" Diwuyuan asked puzzledly.
"He and Song Ci and the others left first in another aircraft." Seeing that he was holding a big doll, Jiufang Yu gave up the back row to him and Xia Tianwu and sat in the front row with Tang Si.
The aircraft took off in autopilot mode. The young master, who was sitting firmly, looked at Tang Si, then at Jiufang Yu, and said, "Did Huanhuan and Song Ci play other games together? Why do they look so familiar with each other? I seemed to hear the person next to him call him brother?" Although Diwuyuan used the system translation when playing the Library of Death, he was very talented. After playing one secret room after another, he also learned a lot of Chinese.
He always thought that Qi Huan liked Tang Si, but now it seems that it is actually Song Ci?
The two handsome guys were silent for a second at the same time. In fact, they didn't fully understand the situation yet.
"Probably." Jiufang Yu responded vaguely to the young master.
"Yes, Zhang Chi likes to call everyone he meets brother." Xia Tianwu tried to smooth things over. With the help of a translator, the communication between them was relatively smooth.
"I see." The young master nodded seriously.
Should we say that this young master is too young and too naive, or that he has had too good a life since childhood and cannot read people's expressions at all? Xia Tianwu sighed silently, pushed his glasses and turned his head to pretend to appreciate the scenery. The aircraft fell into an eerie silence.
Seeing that Tang Si and Jiu Fangyu both had cold faces, the young master patted the backs of their chairs in a considerate manner and said like a little adult, "Don't worry, you two are so handsome, you won't have trouble finding a husband even if you are both abandoned."
Jiufang Yu & Tang Si: ...
There is no need to support your forehead in summer. What's the point of bringing up something that is not open? This little ancestor, you just pour water on whatever pot is open!
In contrast to the chilly atmosphere over there with Jiufang Yu and the others, Qi Huan, Song Ci and Zhang Chi were chatting very lively in the aircraft.
Zhang Chi prefers manual driving, so he sat in the front driver's seat, while Qi Huan and Song Ci leaned comfortably in the back seat with two pillows each.
"You two can be said to have turned a disaster into a blessing." After listening to Song Ci's introduction of their experience of 'a thousand years of dream' after being infected, Qi Huan couldn't help but feel a little emotional.
No wonder the game officials didn’t allow any contact. It turned out that they were still lying in the medical cabin at that time and couldn’t be contacted even if we wanted to.
"Brother, what about you? Didn't you encounter the explosion?" After calming down, Zhang Chi also remembered what happened to Qi Huan.
Qi Qing disappeared after joining the Tianma research team. A year and a half later, Qi Huan accidentally encountered a gas explosion in a street shop on his way to a bookstore. It was Zhang Chi's mother, Qi Huan's aunt, who helped arrange the funeral.
"When I woke up, I was also lying in the medical cabin on the Alliance's abandoned planet No. 7. But this body was not my own." Qi Huan recounted his experience when he first woke up to Song Ci and Zhang Chi.
"Let me tell you, it's a good thing that I have a good mentality, otherwise I would have fainted from fright when I saw a living person turned into an octopus." Speaking of Quan Hai's transformation, Qi Huan patted his chest with lingering fear.
"After traveling through time and space and encountering orcs, your experience is more exciting than the movies!" Zhang Chi was full of envy. He took a can of drink from the small refrigerator and handed it to Qi Huan to moisten his throat. Qi Huan's complaints were actually his interests.
"Are there only drinks and nutritional supplements in the refrigerator at home?" When Song Ci saw the drinks handed over by Zhang Chi, he thought of a serious problem.
Zhang Chi nodded belatedly. Although Tang Si and Song Ci were at home during this period, none of them knew how to cook. The kitchen at home was cleaner than the living room, so they couldn't even start a fire.
"Let's go to the supermarket to buy some groceries first." Song Ci patted the back of Zhang Chi's chair.
Zhang Chi was about to control the aircraft to turn, but Qi Huan said, "It's okay, I brought food with me. I knew I had to feed two greedy cats before I came here, so I prepared a lot."
"Brother, you are so kind." Zhang Chi was touched and complained, "You don't know how bad the food in the restaurants here is."
"That's right, it's not as delicious as nutritional supplements." Song Ci agreed.
"How about having some snacks to fill your stomach first?" Qi Huan took out a spare snack box for Xingqi Ba from his storage ring. He also discovered that Zhang Chi and Song Ci's jaw lines were sharp enough to cut vegetables, so it looked like their diets were not that good.
The Alliance's cooking skills were also poor, but the aristocratic families would at least hire a chef or something. A three-star chef wouldn't cook worse than a nutrient. What was wrong with Tang Si? He was in such a high position, but his family couldn't even afford a chef? He was so uncaring!
Qi Huan felt sorry for his good brother and younger brother, and silently deducted a point from Tang Si.
Inside the box were eight kinds of snacks that had been put in before leaving the small starship. Except for the salted egg yolk boneless chicken wings, the other seven kinds of homemade sausages, spiced braised animal tripe, custard lava buns, flower cheese cakes, fish roe steamed dumplings, yogurt pastries, and barbecued pork buns were all new snacks that had just been updated by the human restaurant recently.
As the box was opened layer by layer, Song Ci's eyes lit up immediately and he reached out to take a piece of flower cheese cake.
"That's the taste!" He narrowed his eyebrows and smacked his lips in enjoyment. He couldn't wait to take another bite. Silky-smooth cheese overflowed from the soft pastry, and the pickled petals were fragrant and sweet. His mouth was full of the taste of happiness and sweetness.
Smelling the fragrance, Zhang Chi in the front row couldn't resist it anymore and quickly switched to automatic driving mode. He didn't even use a silver skewer and directly picked up a fish roe steamed bun and threw it into his mouth.
The food box has an insulation function, so the siu mai is still slightly warm, and the salty and fragrant fish roe bursts between the teeth, echoing the fatty aroma of the meat.
Zhang Chi held a half-mouthful of siomai in his mouth and praised it in a vague voice, "It smells so good that I am dizzy."
Song Ci finished the flower cheese cake in his hand in a few bites, then picked up a piece of spiced animal tripe with a silver skewer. Zhang Chi pinched a half-finger-long sausage and threw it into his mouth.
"Delicious~" Song Ci's tail tone bounced happily.
"How delicious is it?" Qi Huan raised his chin, expressing his dissatisfaction with the brief two-word review, "There is no 'return dish' reward for reviews with less than 50 words."
"The top flavor is the woody spicy aroma of cinnamon and star anise, the middle flavor is the salty aroma of soy sauce and the fatty aroma of animal tripe, and the base flavor is tangerine peel and some medicinal spices. It has both a bitter medicinal aroma and a sweet aftertaste. The layers of fragrance blend perfectly with collagen, and finally the ultimate blow of melanoidin, which makes people indulge in its delicious taste and can't extricate themselves."
Song Ci followed suit and immediately wrote a hundred-word praise to Qi Huan with the piece of five-spice tripe he had just eaten to show his sincerity in wanting the 'return dish' reward.
The first taste, the middle taste, the after taste, is this perfume or brine? Zhang Chi was stunned.
Qi Huan also frowned in confusion, "What is melanoidin?"
"A class of complex macromolecular compounds formed in the late stage of the Maillard reaction between carbohydrates containing hemiacetal hydroxyl groups and nitrogen-containing compounds with free amino groups..."
Qi Huan couldn't help but kick Song Ci's heel, interrupting his endless explanation, "Speak human language."
"The ultimate product of the Maillard reaction between sugar and protein," seeing Qi Huan's eyebrows rising again, Song Ci had to try to translate it more directly, "It's the dark brown stuff when you put the animal's stomach into the pan and fry it until it's slightly burnt. You can think of it as a umami substance."
Now he understood, Qi Huan nodded, thinking it would have been better if he had said this earlier.
Zhang Chi was already confused when he heard the word "hydroxyl", so he simply turned a deaf ear to it and ate two pieces of spiced animal tripe directly. He didn't care whether it was melanin or MSG, he just ate it.
"Leave some for Tang Si and Xia Tianwu in the back." Song Ci finally remembered her 'abandoned' fiancé and planned to comfort him with delicious food later.
"Let me try it." Zhang Chi responded and took another barbecued pork bun.
The top of Song Ci's villa is a hemispherical dome, which is full of futuristic shape. The outer wall is milky white, and it sparkles like crystal in the sun. Song Ci said that it is a new material from the empire, which can resist radiation and absorb solar energy to convert it into energy for the basic operation of the villa, which is energy-saving and environmentally friendly.
"Cool." Qi Huan looked up at the 360-degree panoramic dome on the top floor. He had to admit that the architectural style of the Empire was more in line with his imagination of the interstellar era and was full of technology.
As soon as they entered the door, a round-headed household robot came to greet them and brought slippers to the three of them.
The living room is like an exhibition hall, with an extremely spacious space. There is a huge floor-to-ceiling window covering half of the wall, a milky white shag carpet, and a soft leather sofa that gives a feeling of being so spacious that it seems boundless. There is also a teddy bear doll the size of a single sofa next to it. The furniture is basically white and made of logs, with a warm texture in the sunlight, and the tones are soft and comfortable.
"It feels really good." Qi Huan nodded repeatedly.
"They are all designed by my idol according to my senior's preferences." Zhang Chi grabbed a cushion and threw it into the air and caught it again, then 'threw' himself on the sofa with familiarity, his lively and active spirit was the same as before.
Male god? Qi Huan paused, then realized that Zhang Chi was referring to Tang Si. Handsome and good at fighting, Zhang Chi used to choose characters in games in the same way.
"He is a cold-faced person with a warm heart. He is actually very caring towards people." Song Ci also said.
"How could I make you two so thin?" Qi Huan asked, expressing his confusion.
"We usually live in the dormitories of our respective schools and eat in the cafeterias there." Song Ci sighed, "The food in the restaurant here tastes terrible, not to mention the quality of the Ninth Cuisine. In comparison, the nutritional supplements taste much better."
"My idol is usually on the front line, and he eats worse than us." Zhang Chi took out a box of nutritional supplements and gave them to Qi Huan for 'tasting'.
The flavors of the Empire's nutritional supplements were as varied as snacks. Qi Huan casually took out a tube of cantaloupe flavored ones and tasted them. They were indeed better than those of the Alliance. Okay, he nodded and reluctantly added back the one point that was subtracted from Tang Si.
"Is Jiufang Yu good to you?" Zhang Chi turned to care about his cousin. I didn't have time to take a closer look just now, but I remember that he was a handsome guy with silver hair.
"You're rude. Call me brother-in-law!" Qi Huan hit Zhang Chi on the head with his finger, then realized that something was wrong and quickly corrected him, "Sister-in-law."
After thinking about it, he still felt it was not right. Before Zhang Chi could speak, he changed his mind and said, "Why not just call him Gefu?"
"How did your brother-in-law treat you?" Zhang Chi covered his forehead and tried to hold back his laughter as he said 'cooperate'.
Qi Huan raised his chin proudly, "If Tang Si is cold on the outside but warm on the inside, Jiufang Yu is actually more like warm on the outside but cold on the inside. On the surface, he is polite and courteous to everyone, but in fact, he keeps everyone at a safe distance. But after getting to know each other, if he can really let you into his heart, he will treat you well with all his heart, the kind of thing that he will give you with all his heart."
"So corny." Song Ci pretended to rub the goose bumps on her arms, "Remember to introduce us to the people when they come. I was so excited to see you just now that I didn't have time to get to know you properly."
"Of course not..." Qi Huan suddenly stopped talking halfway through the question, and looked at Song Ci and Zhang Chi belatedly, "There is a problem, oh no, did Chi Chi just call me brother? I never mentioned this to him before."
"What should we do?" Qi Huan grabbed Song Ci's arm for help, asking him to help him think of an excuse.
"Then what did you say before?" Song Ci patted the back of his hand, signaling him not to be anxious.
Qi Huan repeated his excuse of liking games and regarding him as his idol, his previous explanation of the dream, and the general circumstances of the conversation at that time.
Song Ci recalled Jiu Fangyu's expression at that time and raised her eyebrows towards Qi Huan, "Don't worry, you can explain it any way you want."
"Won't it be exposed if I explain it casually?" Qi Huan looked at Song Ci suspiciously.
"If I guessed correctly, you should have revealed the truth long ago." Song Ci smiled mischievously, "So it doesn't matter what you say."
"No way?" Qi Huan scratched his Adam's apple with his fingers, thinking that he had concealed it quite well before. "He never asked me about this matter."
"He doesn't ask the truth, so he probably doesn't mind and respects your right to privacy." Song Ci smiled and patted Qi Huan's shoulder, "This person can be 'married'."
"Bah! It's marry!" Qi Huan corrected immediately, and then looked at Song Ci in confusion, "He really guessed everything? Are you sure?"
"I may not be able to guess everything, but I'm sure I have guessed most of it." Seeing that Qi Huan didn't quite believe it, Song Ci gave an example, "You said before that Waste Planet No. 7 is a remote and desolate garbage planet. Your friends can't even recognize the menu on the wall of a restaurant on earth, right?"
"Um."
"From the moment we met until now, you have been speaking Chinese to us. How did you, a kid born and raised on a waste planet, master the language of the Empire? Did you learn it by watching live game broadcasts?"
Qi Huan: ...
On the way to find a restaurant, he seemed to ask for directions in Chinese. So, I am afraid that I am also full of loopholes in my daily life, right?
When Tang Si, Jiufang Yu and others arrived home, Qi Huan was already busy in the kitchen.
Zhang Chi and Song Ci are both ignorant of the different types of food. The quality of their helpers is not even as good as that of kitchen utensils, not to mention Butler Xiong who can now be considered a professional kitchen helper. He can only help find things and provide companionship.
"Come and try Huanhuan's cooking." Hearing the noise in the living room, Song Ci came out of the kitchen, took out the snack box with a guilty conscience and placed it on the coffee table.
According to his idea, he was going to leave half for Tang Si, Xia Tianwu and the others, but he and Zhang Chi couldn't help it on the way and ate two-thirds of it, so now the dim sum boxes are all presented in the style of three-star Michelin - only the little bit in the middle of the box is left.
"It's really good." Tang Si tasted a piece of salted egg yolk chicken wing and couldn't help but nodded.
"Really?" Xia Tianwu pushed his glasses. The only thing he doubted about Tang Si was his taste in food. He had been through a lot of hardships on the front lines and had a very low standard for food. He thought hot pot was a heavenly delicacy.
"Really? Huanhuan's cooking skills are top-notch." Diwuyuan handed him a custard bun and took a barbecued pork bun for himself.
Xia Tian took it with some doubt. Half a second later, the rich milky aroma on the tip of his tongue dispelled his worries. Because it was not just out of the pot, the smooth lava filling had turned into a semi-thick state. When he took a sip, the slightly sandy taste of the salted egg yolk came with a salty and fragrant taste. The balance between salty and sweet was perfect.
"Top level." Xia Tianwu gave Diwuyuan and Song Ci a thumbs up. After living here for a few months, he was almost desperate and thought that the food would only appear in his memories. He never expected that Song Ci had a friend who was such a good cook.
"Of course." Diwuyuan raised his chin proudly. Huanhuan was going to open the first gem level seven restaurant in the entire alliance.
"The meal will take a while to cook. Why don't you play some chess or go downstairs to practice some chess and kill some time." Song Ci instructed Tang Si to entertain the guests and turned back to the kitchen.
Jiufang Yu was originally thinking about going to the kitchen to help Qi Huan, but before he could even open his mouth, Song Ci had already gone back. Qi Huan was in the kitchen with Zhang Chi on the left, Song Ci on the right, and a housekeeper named Xiong, so there was no place for him to stay.
Jiufang Yu sighed, and then turned around to see Tang Si pointing downstairs and inviting him, "Go downstairs and practice?"
"I'll go too." Diwuyuan stuffed the last half of a barbecued pork bun into his mouth and joined in the fun with great interest.
Tang Si is an SS-level sentinel, the strongest fighter in the empire, and he actually took the initiative to invite people to compete with him. Xia Tianwu also became interested, and finally the four people in the living room all went to the private mecha training base under the villa.
When the four of them returned to the first floor, the long wooden table in the restaurant was already fully stocked.
Braised pork, sweet and sour spare ribs, beer duck, sweet and sour pork with pineapple, beef stewed with potatoes, curry chicken, lion head, dry pot shrimp, honey chicken wings, beef and enoki mushrooms, and cured meat clay pot rice. Except for the lack of Hun Yang Mi Hu, all of Song Ci's orders were met.
Taking the spiritual bodies into consideration, two sets of tableware are specially prepared for each seat.
Song Ci's usually lazy spirit body Si Mu had been attracted by the aroma of the food long ago, and was squatting beside the plate, eating the braised pork slowly.
Si Mu's true form is Bai Ze, who knows everything. Song Ci originally wanted to let it show it to Jiujiu to help Qi Huan explain what snow ginseng is. As a result, Si Mu leaned over, touched Jiujiu's forehead, and only said four words to them [Great Benefit to the World], and then ran to the braised pork on the table.
Qi Huan looked at Song Ci, "Does this mean that the secret of heaven cannot be revealed?"
Song Ci looked up at the sky in silence. It might simply be following its own nature, being lazy.
After not eating for a long time, he still sat on Qi Huan's head out of habit. When he saw Tang Si coming up the stairs first, the little guy suddenly widened his eyes and pounced on him with starry eyes.
Seeing a little white ball flying towards him from above Qi Huan's head, Tang Si was hesitating whether to dodge, when a hand reached out from behind and grabbed the little guy by the collar.
Jiujiu looked up in confusion and saw Jiufang Yu's handsome face smiling faintly at her.
The little white ball immediately abandoned Tang Si, moved closer with suspicious eyes, and sat down close to Jiufang Yu's collar.
Qi Huan turned his head silently, pretending not to see what happened just now. Jiujiu, this guy, was bewitched by Jiufang Yu's smile.
As soon as Xingqiba smelled the fragrance, he rushed out as well. Tang Si's spiritual body Qilin Sanchao and Xia Tianwu's nine-tailed fox Daji also couldn't resist the temptation and showed up one after another.
Suddenly, the dining table was crowded with all kinds of furry mythical beasts.
"Can you block out your empathy temporarily?" The fluff control guy looked at Tang Si and Xia Tianwu with starry eyes.
The two looked at each other, then looked at Song Ci, and seeing Song Ci nod, they had no choice but to do as he asked.
Qi Huan hugged this one and touched that one, and was extremely happy. Finally, Hei Tuanzi became jealous and stopped eating. He ran over and threw himself into Qi Huan's arms, refusing to leave no matter what. Qi Huan finished the meal while holding Xingqi Ba in his arms.
Everyone enjoyed the dinner very much. When the housekeeping robot cleared the table, Song Ci, who had eaten and drunk a lot, stretched lazily like a cat and said to Tang Si, "Let's discuss it. Huanhuan, Chichi and I will have a candlelight chat tonight. You and Jiufangyu can sleep in the guest room on the second floor."
He was very interested in the situation in the alliance. He had just heard Qi Huan talk about it on the way and in the kitchen, and he couldn't wait to continue listening.
Is this called negotiation? This is called notification. Tang Si nodded helplessly.
"How about we go down and fight again?" Jiufang Yu was still not satisfied with the fight just now, so he suggested to Tang Si.
"Let's go." Tang Si readily accepted the challenge.
At two o'clock in the morning, in the basement of the villa, two mechas were fighting each other passionately. In the living room on the first floor, Diwuyuan and Xia Tianwu teamed up to bully the "newbies" in the game. In the master bedroom on the third floor, Qi Huan, Song Ci, and Zhang Chi were also chatting animatedly.
"It's so funny, isn't it?" Hearing the spirit bodies of Bufan and Jiufang Yu fighting into an invincible whirlwind, Zhang Chi patted his pillow and laughed.
"And then?" Song Ci handed Qi Huan a can of drink, signaling Zhang Chi not to interrupt, "Go on."
Qi Huan took a sip and continued speaking.
When he talked about Qi Qing again, Zhang Chi and Song Ci were all stunned.
"Since you and Sister Qing both came from other times, why is there a difference of more than 500 years between you and them?" Zhang Chi was puzzled.
Song Ci shook her head and said, "Sister Qing may not have traveled through time."
"Then how did she get here?" Zhang Chi was puzzled.
Song Ci did not answer, but turned to Qi Huan, "Regarding Sister Qing, besides the recipe book, is there any other data left by the Qi family?"
"Yes." Qi Huan thought for a moment, took out a notebook from his storage ring and handed it to Song Ci.
A few months ago, Qi Yuan packed up a pile of clothes, supplies, books and letters from the small courtyard of the original owner's parents' ancestral home and sent them to their private residence.
The agent was very careful in his work. He took photos of each application and kept them for record, and also sent a copy to Qi Huan as a backup.
Qi Huan was busy sorting out Jiu Fangyu's mental images at the time. He took a quick look and found that the notes were research data left by Qi Qing. Probably because they were not recipes and were written in Chinese, no one in the Qi family could understand them, so they were passed down in the study of the head of the family from generation to generation and were not put in the safe. Qi Yuan didn't recognize them at all, so he directly sent them to the private residence as the private property of the original owner's parents.
The contents were messy, obscure and fragmentary, and looked like fragments of inspiration from some research. Qi Huan couldn't quite understand it, but he was very happy to have unexpectedly obtained something left by his sister, so he asked the agent to arrange for it to be sent to the Waste Star and kept by himself.
Song Ci took the notebook and flipped through it quickly.
Qi Huan and Zhang Chi were still eating buttered melon seeds and waiting. Seeing his face becoming more and more serious, they also became serious, "What's going on?"
"I think I roughly understand what happened with the Tianma incident." Song Ci sighed.
"Sister Qing's time travel is related to the Tianma incident?"
"Rather than time travel, it's more like kidnapping." Song Ci gently stroked his palm with the notebook. "The essence of the Tianma incident is a cruel and inhumane experiment disguised as a friendly guise."
"No, why am I getting more confused the more I listen?" Zhang Chi scratched his head, "What kidnapping, what experiment?"
"You mean to say that my sister disappeared and was kidnapped to the alliance?" Qi Huan also became anxious, "Don't just think about it yourself, explain it to us too?"
Song Ci frowned, as if thinking about how to explain to them, "Have you heard of the Lunbo Boat?"
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