Chapter 29: First Eat in the League
After removing the skeleton support, Qi Huan happened to pick up the cookware. He calculated the time and tentatively decided to start the live broadcast ten days later.
After finishing his work of breakfast and unloading the site every day, he spent all his free time preparing dishes for the previous live broadcasts.
There are many recipes in my mind, but I still need to screen which one to take out, especially for the first broadcast.
First of all, it has to be eye-catching and have gimmicks. Even if it doesn’t create a sensation, it should at least amaze the audience in the live broadcast room.
Secondly, the conditions on the waste planet are limited, and the ingredients or substitutes used cannot be too difficult to find.
Secondly, he was short of money and the cost of ingredients could not be too high.
Secondly, the taste must be acceptable to the public and not too bizarre.
Judging from the current food live streaming channels, sweets account for the largest proportion, and people's acceptance of desserts is obviously higher. After much deliberation, Qi Huan finally chose the Lion Cake.
When this dish first appeared, it became an instant hit on the Internet, and he also followed suit and made a replica of his chubby orange cat pastry.
The essence of the Lion Dance Pastry is actually a Chinese pastry pastry. The filling is the more traditional lotus paste flavor. The appearance design uses a very Chinese-style lion dance. The style is unique and eye-catching, and very pleasing.
Unfortunately, after checking, I found that there was no custom of lion waking in this era, so the shape needs to be reconsidered.
The Alliance does not have popular pets like cats and dogs, nor does it have national treasures like pandas that are universally favored and extremely popular. How should I put it? It is probably because most tribes have various animal fragments in their genes. Their preferences for animal appearance are strongly subjective and surprisingly inconsistent. If you are not careful, you may even step on a landmine. It is a typical case of honey to one person and poison to another.
It is particularly difficult to choose a beautiful animal that has high national popularity and resonance.
Later, Quan Hai gave Qi Huan an idea to choose from the ranking of mythical beasts.
When Quan Hai first heard that Qi Huan wanted to find something that was popular with the public, he immediately recommended mechas.
Qi Huan said with a smile that what he needed was an animal with fur. It's not that puff pastry can't be made into a mecha shape, but the finishing touch of the Lion Cake is the furry texture of the multiple layers of puff pastry after being fried in hot oil, so it is most amazing to use it to make furry animals.
The ranking of the mythical beasts list itself represents the public's popularity and popularity. The mythical beast currently ranked first is called Pengniu. Although its name contains the word "cow", it looks more like a combination of a rhinoceros and a crocodile, with a green back and a white belly, a mouthful of fangs, a short hooked horn at the tip of its nose, and hard bone scales covered from its head to its tail. It looks like a creature with both maximum attack and defense capabilities.
The second is Xuanwu. Qi Huan's original impression of Xuanwu was that of a snake entwined with a turtle, but the Xuanwu here is more like a giant black snake crawling into a red turtle shell. The turtle shell is covered with durian thorns. The contrast between the black snake body and the flaming turtle shell is sharp, which gives off a murderous aura.
The third mythical beast is called Kongjing. It looks like a giant jellyfish floating in the air. Its translucent body emits a light pink glow, its umbrella-shaped edge gently undulates, and its countless silk-like transparent tentacles sway in the wind. It is soft and beautiful, yet also a bit mysterious and dangerous.
The fourth one is called Tuntian. From Qi Huan’s perspective, it is a dragon or a flooded dragon with only a skeleton left, without any flesh and blood. It is very weird and intimidating.
When he saw the fifth nine-tailed fox, he breathed a sigh of relief. He finally found something fluffy, and it was a beautiful white fox. He immediately decided to make nine-tailed pastry.
The inner edge of the ears and the tip of the nose are pink, the eyes are black, the tail should be furry, the color transitions from white to pink and finally to red at the tip, and there should be beautiful long hair on the ear edges and cheeks... Four or five versions were designed based on the appearance of the nine-tailed fox, but Qi Huan was never satisfied. Although the shape was very beautiful and pleasing, he always felt that something was missing. It was too cute but not divinity enough.
How to add some "feeling" to it? After pondering for a long time, Qi Huan suddenly thought of Si Han's beast mask, and the mysterious and precious inlaid gold patterns on it suddenly flashed before his eyes.
Yes, or add some "divine patterns". He immediately began to add a few delicate and slender light golden decorative patterns on the fox's forehead, the bottom of the corners of the eyes, and the outer edge of the ears.
Perfect! Looking at the finished draft, Qi Huan gave himself a thumbs up with satisfaction. Since it was still early, he decided to give it a try.
One of the most important steps in making puff pastry is to open the puff pastry.
To make puff pastry, you need to prepare two parts of dough: water-oil dough and oil-puff pastry. The former is mainly flour, while the latter contains a large proportion of fat. Wrap the oil-puff pastry with the water-oil dough, roll it out evenly, fold it, and roll it out again. The more times you repeat this process, the thinner the puff pastry will be and the more layers it will have. After high-temperature baking or frying, the fat in the oil-puff pastry layer melts, and the water-oil dough on the upper and lower layers also "dehydrates" and becomes crispy, forming the puff pastry effect.
In principle, Chinese and Western pastries are actually the same, except that the Chinese prefer lard while Western pastries use butter.
The process of opening the pastry sounds easy, but it is extremely demanding on your skill level and patience.
If the dough is not relaxed enough or the force is uneven when rolling it out, the dough will be broken. If the room temperature is too high, the pastry will melt and leak oil. In short, there is the possibility of failure everywhere.
Qi Huan had put a lot of effort into making the puff pastry in the beginning and was confident in his skills. However, his hands were not very convenient at the moment, so he could only use a machine to knead the dough and make the puff pastry. Although it was much more efficient than making it by hand, the puff pastry was obviously not as uniform as that made by hand. You could tell that the taste was much worse without tasting it.
Now the main focus is on practicing body shaping, so Qi Huan just makes do with it.
There are five colors of fox in the design draft. Fruits and black sesame are used for dyeing, making white, pink, red and black pastry. There is no suitable ingredient at home for the golden part, so I can only use white egg yolk liquid instead when kneading it. The filling is okay, lotus seeds can be found, and the taste difference is not that big.
He needs to use four-color pastry dough to pinch out more than 30 small parts such as eyes, ears, nose and tail, and then brush them with egg liquid to restore and assemble them into a nine-tailed fox.
The opened puff pastry is very delicate, and a slightly higher temperature will damage the middle crispy layer and affect the final effect.
The process of kneading parts requires high skills and speed. If the time is too long, the temperature of the fingers will melt the grease, so you can only keep cooling your fingers with ice water. After kneading, you have to quickly put them in the refrigerator to relax and cool down. In addition, the eyelashes, nose tip and other things are too small and delicate. Qi Huan, who currently has only 1.5 hands, has limited flexibility and has failed many times.
When it came to the frying stage, we encountered various problems such as the crispy skin not opening, the bubbles were too big, and the tails were scattered. It is extremely important to control the constant oil temperature in this process. If the oil temperature is too high, it will be fried into a "yellow-haired" fox, and if the oil temperature is too low, some parts will fall apart. After several nights, we finally found the right oil temperature range and made two satisfactory products.
After putting the fried Nine-tailed Pastry on the rack to drain the oil, Qi Huan realized that it was already getting light outside.
Just as he was yawning and hesitating whether to stay awake this morning instead of opening the store, there was a knock on the door.
"Brother Man said that a garbage ship is coming this morning. Do you want to go?" Quan Hai was standing at the door with a big bag on his back. The morning light stretched his shadow into a long and thin line.
"Go." Qi Huan's sleepiness was immediately suppressed by the excitement. The feeling of picking up bargains was too addictive, gold coins bursting out of the metal pile, that kind of thing was simply unstoppable.
"Do you still have time for breakfast?" Qi Huan thought of the Nine-Tail Pastry that had just been made in the kitchen. It would be better to arrive at the right time than to arrive early. This would be a good opportunity for Quan Hai to try the flavor.
"It can be done in five minutes." Quan Hai glanced at the time and teased Qi Huan, "I knocked on your door for five minutes last time, but this time it was only ten seconds, which is enough time to eat."
"I was in a hurry to open the door for you today, so I forgot to install the antenna on my head." Qi Huan, who was leading him to the kitchen, pretended to stroke his smooth hair, which had no alopecia today. "The work will take exactly five minutes."
"I've already had breakfast," Quan Hai declined. When his eyes fell on the two stunningly beautiful nine-tailed foxes on the oil drain rack, his eyes suddenly widened in shock. It was as if his language function had crashed, and he was unable to speak. "This, this, this..."
The fox on the shelf has a slender figure and graceful contours, with narrow and deep eyes with a faint light flashing. It has two parts of charm, three parts of cunning, and five parts of a domineering aura. Nine fluffy tails stretch gracefully behind it, and the red tail tips have a smart arc, as if they will ignite a sky-high flame in the wind in the next second.
"This is called Nine-Tail Pastry, please try its flavor." Qi Huan raised his eyebrows proudly and smiled like a proud little fox. It was worth the effort he had put in for several nights in a row, and it seemed that the finished product would be amazing.
"Can it really be eaten?" Quan Hai looked at the lifelike and exquisite nine-tailed fox on the shelf, then looked at Qi Huan, and was at a loss as to where to start.
"Of course you can, and you are the first one to eat in the entire alliance." Qi Huan found a bamboo stick and inserted it into the nine-tailed fox.
"Hey..." Quan Hai subconsciously wanted to stop the bamboo stick, reluctant to let him destroy such a delicate and beautiful dessert. Unfortunately, he was a step too slow. With a crisp sound, the bamboo stick had already pierced into the back of the beautiful nine-tailed fox on the left.
"Try it quickly." Qi Huan handed the Nine-Tail Pastry to Quan Hai.
Quan Hai looked left and right for a long time before finally biting the tail of the one on the far right.
"Crack." With a little force, the tail broke off from the root. The crispy skin broke into pieces in the mouth. The aroma immediately filled the lips and teeth. Quan Hai squinted his eyes in ecstasy.
"It's delicious." He nodded vigorously, holding up the remaining eight-tailed cake and said, "Can I take it back for Quan Yu to try?"
"You eat that one, and take this one back to your sister." Qi Huan neatly inserted another nine-tailed fox along the abdomen onto the bamboo skewer.
"You don't want to eat?" Quan Hai was stunned.
"I'm full a long time ago." Qi Huan rubbed the tip of his nose with his fingers. In order to adjust the taste and texture, he ate a lot of bad food and now he couldn't eat anything.
A few minutes later, Quan Hai carefully held a bamboo stick with nine-tailed pastry sticks and walked on the road. In the end, he left the eight-tailed pastry to Quan Yu, and prepared to take this complete one to Man Ge to try.
"Why don't we invite Brother Man to our restaurant for dinner next time?" Qi Huan couldn't help laughing.
Puff pastry is easily damaged, but he really didn't expect that Quan Hai would specially change into a beast form to protect this piece of Nine-tailed Pastry. The tentacle holding the bamboo stick and the other five tentacles surrounding it in layers looked like a 360-degree pure beast meat shield.
"That's different. In the store you can only taste the flavor yourself, but if you eat it on the airship you can make the guys next to you crave it to death. The taste is doubled." Quan Hai said with a smirk.
6. Qi Huan silently hooked his finger for him.
This time they arrived earlier than last time. On the airship parked on the street were only Brother Man and the tall and thin guy who had bad luck last time.
Recognizing Qi Huan in the dim light, the tall and thin man immediately stepped off the airship and came over to him. He stretched out his hand and rubbed his arm like kneading dough, "Let me rub it for your good luck."
Will this work? Qi Huan looked up at the sky in silence.
Standing closer, the tall and thin man saw the 'Nine-Tailed Fox' that Quan Hai was holding, and couldn't help but tease, "How old are you, still playing with toys?"
"What kind of toy is this? This is a dot! Heart!" Quan Hai solemnly emphasized the last two words.
The thin tall man who was rubbing Qi Huan's arm paused and looked at the fluffy fox on the bamboo stick in disbelief. He looked around and said, "Snack?"
"Yes, it's delicious." Quan Hai proudly stretched out the Nine-Tail Pastry to the thin tall man's nose and shook it in a circle. When he smelled the fragrance, he quickly retracted it, took two steps forward to the driver's seat, and handed it to him attentively, "Brother Man, I brought you breakfast."
Man Ge was originally half leaning on the armrest watching Quan Hai and the tall and thin man laughing and joking. When he saw clearly what Quan Hai handed to him, he couldn't help but be stunned. Such an exquisitely made thing turned out to be food?
"Ahuan just made it, it's very delicious. There are only two. The first one is shared by my sister and me, and this one is specially brought for you." Quan Hai shook his tentacles and turned back into human form. He put on his clothes and helped Qi Huan to curry favor with Man Ge.
"What delicious food? Two?" The black-haired guy who had just arrived came over and saw the Nine-tailed Pastry in Man Ge's hand. His eyes widened. "This, is this food?"
"Yes, it was done by Ahuan. There are only two people in the entire alliance who can do this." Quan Hai jumped onto the airship with the help of the handrail and raised his arms proudly.
Qi Huan also sat in the second row, where there were finally seat belts.
"Brother Man~ Please share some~" The black-haired man immediately put on a pitiful expression.
"That's right, give me some, I just want a tail." The tall and thin man also asked for sharing.
Brother Man was bewildered by the way they acted like spoiled brats. He kicked each of them in disgust and told them to get away. In the end, he couldn't stand their unreasonable demands and split his two tails and sent them out.
"Ah Huan, will you sell this snack in your store in the future? How much is it?" The tall and thin man licked the remaining puff pastry residue on his fingers, still enjoying the meal.
The puff pastry has a rich aroma, and it is easy to get sick of it if you eat too much. A piece of nine-tail puff pastry is just the right amount, and it is certainly not enough for three people to share.
Explaining that this was a live broadcast of 'selection of products' and that the store might not be selling them for the time being was a bit troublesome. Qi Huan was just thinking about how to finish the conversation when Quan Hai made a loud offer, "One thousand silver coins each, limited pre-order."
"One thousand, you might as well go and rob!" The tall and thin man glared at Quan Hai angrily.
"I'll snatch it from you later." Quan Hai laughed.
"Get lost." The tall and thin man punched Quan Hai's shoulder with his backhand.
"Erhei, this way." While the two were playing, the black-haired man waved to a figure running over from a distance. Lao Pi was kicked out, and there was a vacancy in the picking team, so he recommended his friend to Brother Man.
The man was wearing a flowered shirt and smiled apologetically at everyone on the airship. When he saw Qi Huan, he was slightly stunned, "Have we met somewhere before?"
Qi Huan: ???
"Hey, don't get close to someone just because he's pretty!" The black-haired man patted the back of the flowered shirt, "Hurry up and sit down, we're about to leave."
"No, I seem to have really seen him somewhere." The man in the flowered shirt explained as he got on the airship.
"I'm sorry, I was injured some time ago and can't remember some things." Qi Huan was not sure whether this person had dealt with the original owner, so he explained.
"We all live in the base, so it's normal to have met each other before." The black-haired man disagreed.
The seats were full, and the airship instantly soared into the air and flew towards the north of the base.
When they arrived at the metal pit, after Brother Man had chosen a spot, several teams gathered around. Quan Hai pushed Qi Huan to the inside as usual, and stood at the outside.
Faintly feeling that there seemed to be a strange gaze staring at him, Qi Huan glanced around and unexpectedly found that Lao Pi was also in one of the teams. Perhaps the team he was in was relatively weak, so he couldn't get a close position and could only stand at the outermost of several teams. Seeing Qi Huan looking at him, Lao Pi stared back, not wanting to be outdone, with a look full of resentment.
"Laopi is in the team on the far right, be careful of him doing something weird later." Qi Huan called Quan Hai over and reminded him quietly. There was no way to be sure if Lao Pi did it last time, so he had to be careful.
"I saw it." Quan Hai frowned, paused and asked, "What's the matter?"
"Uh," Qi Huan scratched his cheek, speechless for a moment, "It's just making trouble out of nothing, using shady tricks to cause trouble to others."
Quan Hai suddenly realized, "I thought it was a stone beast like the Wind Breathing Insect."
"Wind Breathing Bug?"
"One of them is only the size of a mosquito. When it flies onto a person, it will bite a bloody hole. If a whole group gathers together, it can chew a person to pieces in just ten minutes. In the past, people in the base would often use empty nutrient bottles to raise a few of them and carry them with them, and release them to bite people when fighting."
He was simply a man-eating version of termites. Qi Huan felt so uncomfortable after hearing what he said that he couldn't help but touch the goose bumps on his arms.
At dawn, the starship finally appeared on the horizon. It flew over the metal pit at lightning speed, unloaded the things and left. After a long whistle, everyone who had been waiting for a long time immediately rushed up.
Brother Man is really familiar with the berthing habits of those starships, and their group and the two nearby groups are the closest to the pile of metal garbage.
Unfortunately, good luck did not always seem to favor them. Although the distance was close, at a glance they saw only broken metal pieces and nothing valuable. They had no choice but to kick and stomp on various odds and ends to climb up to the other side of the "metal mountain".
After climbing up to the "halfway point" with one foot deep and one foot shallow, Qi Huan stopped and did not follow the others to climb up. He was not used to walking on such a garbage mountain, and was afraid that if he climbed too high, he would not be able to run back when the time was up, so he simply sat down, grabbed a piece of metal plate as a shovel, and dug down one shovel at a time, hoping to find out if there were any good things buried underneath.
After digging for a long time, they dug out three machine fragments with energy boxes, two of which were still empty.
The edge of the metal plate was quite sharp. Although it was padded with the sleeves, it still hurt when he grabbed it hard. Qi Huan put down the board and shook his hands. Suddenly, he felt as if someone was looking at him, but when he looked around, everyone was busy picking up the trash. Even Lao Pi was nowhere to be seen.
Could it be that he was too sensitive because he hadn't slept? Qi Huan moved his right hand, and his eyes happened to fall on a square metal box not much bigger than a palm lying not far away.
The box had been crushed and deformed, with a corner of the lid lifted up, and one could vaguely see that there seemed to be something inside.
He reached over, grabbed the box and opened it.
There were a bunch of old photos in it. Flipping through a few of them, the pictures were all different planets. Some looked like lemons, dazzling yellow, some looked like half-peeled lychees, half white and half red, and some looked like chocolate Napoleons, with layers of coffee and cream, clearly distinguished. Unfortunately, due to poor preservation, the photos were not only yellowed and faded, but also moldy and stuck together in some places.
Qi Huan had seldom seen photos of planets from this kind of space perspective before. When he saw this for the first time, he couldn't help but have an idea in his mind. He thought that maybe he could imitate these appearances and make a planet series of snacks.
He must have been obsessed with studying pastry recently. He hit his head with the box to complain about himself, but he still put the box into the backpack on his chest, intending to take it back as inspiration.
He dug for a while but his time was almost up, and in the end he found only a few things.
Just like last time, the six of them went back to Brother Man’s repair shop to inspect the goods.
Everyone's harvest seemed to be rather average this time. In the end, Man Ge only had three parts, a piece of gray iron and an F-grade energy stone with 80% energy remaining. Quan Hai had four parts, a piece of E-grade energy stone with 10% energy remaining and two F-grade energy stones with less than 30% energy each. The black-haired man lost zero, and the guy in the floral shirt he just brought found an E-grade energy stone with 90% energy remaining. Qi Huan only had two energy stones with residual energy, one E-grade with 3% remaining, and one F-grade with 40% remaining. But the tall and thin guy had unprecedented good luck, as he brought back a half-broken household robot that was too damaged to be repaired, but he found three star coins in the robot's junk box.
No one knew whether these three star coins were sucked in as garbage or just thrown in casually. After all, 3,000 silver coins were just small change in the eyes of many wealthy people in developed star fields, but for the tall and thin man, it was truly an unexpected fortune.
"It turns out that your good luck works. Last time I got a tip for it, and this time I got three star coins directly. It's amazing." The tall and thin man excitedly grabbed Qi Huan's arm and shook him.
Quan Hai scratched his head and asked Qi Huan, "So you didn't pick up anything good today, is it because your luck was 'sucked' away by him?"
How could such an unscientific thing happen? Qi Huan was speechless.
"Hey, this won't do. We should at least show some appreciation for someone else's good fortune," the black-haired man said.
The tall and thin man looked at Qi Huan, then at Brother Man, "How about I treat everyone to breakfast nutrition today?"
"How can there be enough nutritional supplements? Doesn't Ahuan run a restaurant? You should at least treat us all to a meal at his place and take care of his business." Brother Man said with a smile.
The tall and thin man hesitated for half a second, then agreed, "Okay, then tonight, I'll treat everyone to a meal at Ahuan's restaurant."
"How generous! The last time I ate in a restaurant was a year ago." The black-haired man clapped his hands.
"Me too. Every time I pass by those restaurants, I have to speed up my pace because the food is so delicious." The tall and thin man said with a silly smile.
"Is it okay?" Quan Hai turned to look at Qi Huan. Everyone was not clear about the business situation at the restaurant. Only he knew that it was only doing breakfast business.
Qi Huan nodded. Dinner for six was no problem.
This time he came back earlier than last time, and he could catch up with the breakfast business. Qi Huan took half a day off from the unloading yard, took a nap in the morning, and rushed there in the afternoon just before the lunch break. As a result, he heard the Wan couple sighing as soon as he entered the door.
"What should I do..."
"Don't worry, I'll try contacting a few more companies later."
"It's all my fault. Why didn't I do more? It's such a low-level mistake!" Aunt Wan's face was full of regret, tears welling up in her eyes.
"It's okay. At worst you can just give it to your friends and neighbors." He patted the back of Aunt Wan's hand and whispered to comfort her.
Hearing the word 'eat', Qi Huan thought it must be related to the ingredients, "What happened?"
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