Chapter 75 Making Money in a Right Way
Jiufang Yu and Diwuyuan drove the airship back to the area where the starship landed. From afar, they saw the eye-catching long table set up next to it, with its back against the ruins and facing the desert.
The long table was built using local materials such as stones from the ruins. Several narrow and flat stone beams formed the table top, and the table legs were broken columns of different postures, each with its own shape and pattern. Because the height and thickness are basically the same, there is a strange sense of harmony that is both orderly and beautiful in chaos.
A lot of plates have been placed on the left half of the table, with a wide variety of dishes. The owner, Senior A Luan, No. 2, No. 4 and others at the table are all smiling happily and chatting lively.
On the other side, steam was rising from several stoves. Two medical team members were taking samples of two dishes that had just come out of the pot. Qi Huan picked up the little white dumpling who wanted to make trouble and gave him a lecture.
The sun was setting slightly, and the gray-black shadow of the castle's spire formed a carpet-like pattern beside the table. Against the backdrop of the water vapor rising from the table, there was an inexplicable sense of peace and tranquility.
"I feel so happy when I think about having something delicious to eat soon." Diwuyuan stuck to the boat window and looked down, looking like he was eager to go home.
Sure enough, he is still a child. Jiufang Yu glanced at the back of the little master's round head, chuckled and shook his head.
After Jiufang Yu and Diwuyuan sat down, Qi Huan started the meal at a precise time.
The skin of the cooked luang croaker is bright red, and the meat is as white as jade. The thin layer of oil at the bottom of the casserole is still bubbling and sizzling under the high temperature. The slightly burnt taste of several side dishes mixed with the aroma of the fish, adding a different flavor.
The seafood tofu pot is also steaming hot. The tofu is snow-white and square in shape, the shrimps are curved like crimson crescents, the blue clams are half-opened, revealing the plump and rich shellfish meat, the squid legs, crab claws and chopped plum fish meat are half-emerging from the milky white soup, as if vying to invite people to taste it.
A pot full of beans, animal meat and vermicelli. The cooked beans are bright green with slightly wrinkled skin, the animal meat is stir-fried into a beautiful caramel color, the wide vermicelli expands to the width of two fingers, crystal clear and soft, the fat from the stir-fried and stewed fat has soaked the animal meat, beans and vermicelli with a beautiful layer of oiliness, and the aroma is endless.
The Three Cup Chicken uses evenly sized pieces of boneless, skin-on meat. The skin is fried until golden brown and covered with thick, bright red sauce. As soon as you open the lid, the sweet aroma of wine mixed with the aroma of the sauce and chicken hits you in the face.
The shrimp ball and chicken skin soup is crystal clear and amber in color. Diamond-shaped chicken skin pieces and plump shrimp balls float on the swaying soup, with tiny droplets of oil gently blooming in between, reflecting a warm and soft water light.
The rolled pieces of taro mixed with crushed nuts are solidified in a bustling moment, wrapped in a transparent glass-like sugar shell. The thin and long sugar threads are crystal clear, with beautiful golden light in the twilight, sweet and tempting.
Diwuyuan's chopsticks went to the candied taro first, the owner picked up a piece of Luan fish, senior Aluan tried the bean stewed with animal meat, No. 2 picked up a piece of earthen pot ribs, No. 4 got a piece of chicken, and Jiufang Yu tasted his own Kunlun Baofu nearby. The medical team and the guards also picked up their chopsticks and reached for their favorite dishes.
After a while, sighs were heard everywhere, and everyone's expression showed enjoyment and satisfaction. It was so delicious.
After a busy and stressful work, filling your empty stomach with steaming delicious food is an ultimate enjoyment.
The small banquet over at the spirit's side was equally lively. Qiqi clearly monopolized the sweet potato with a clear goal. No. 2 the flame tiger and No. 4 the mountain leopard preferred animal meat and spare ribs. Zhou Ba ate everything and there was nothing he disliked.
Xiaobai sat on the lid of the wine jug a little further away, twisting his body to look at Qiqi, then turning around to look at Xingqi on the other side. Although he was still a little shy, he no longer had to hide in Diwuyuan's pocket.
It sat on the edge of the cup for a long time, with its feet on the cup handle, its chin supported by its hands, its eyebrows curved, and its white hair fluttering in the wind. It was very happy to see everyone enjoying the food.
After dinner, after seeing off No. 2 and No. 4 and cooperating with the medical team to complete the experiment, Qi Huan was about to return to his room to do some more guidance skills training when he was stopped by Jiufang Yu.
"Do you have time? I want to talk to you alone about something."
Something wrong? Qi Huan lowered his eyelids with a guilty conscience. Ever since he knew that his spirit body was connected to the sentinels' perception, he tried his best to avoid being alone with Jiu Fangyu, especially in the dead of night. When he thought about how his house had collapsed so thoroughly, he felt so embarrassed that he wanted to dig out another Base No. 3 with his toes.
He quickly went over the events of the past two days in his mind, but couldn't find anything worthy of Jiu Fangyu's private discussion with him.
"Is it urgent? If it's not important, let's talk about it in a few days?" In a few days, he might have recovered enough.
"It's not urgent, but I personally think the sooner you know, the better."
"Okay, where are we going, your room?" Qi Huan sighed lightly. It seemed that he could not escape. He would be stabbed if he stuck his head out, and he would be stabbed if he hid his head.
"Go see the stars?" Jiufang Yu's jawline moved slightly, and he pointed outside the starship, "Today I found a place with a good view."
"Yeah." It's not so cramped to stay in a place without a ceiling.
Jiufang Yu's airship landed on a shallow rooftop of the castle.
The night wind was blowing and the sky was full of stars. Qi Huan looked around and found that the view was indeed very broad.
The little ball was sitting on top of him, fiddling with a small golden object.
The black ball came over, lay beside him, and tilted his head curiously to watch him fiddle with it.
"What's in Jiujiu's hand?"
"It looks like a Qilin lock. The owner gave it to it to play with after dinner just now." Qi Huan touched his nose vaguely. How to put it, that 'Qilin' has two comma-like curved horns on its head. No matter how you look at it, it looks like it was made in the shape of Taotie.
"Time is a bit tight, so I borrowed a jar from your kitchen shelf." Jiufang Yu took out a dark blue wine jar and two wine cups, and gently filled them up. "This is also the first time we have had a drink together."
"You have a good memory." Qi Huan smiled and took the cup to smell it. It was sweet apricot wine. He had seen that the wine made with apricots was quite popular before, so he made a few more jars and tried several different fruits. In the end, the sweet apricot taste was the most popular.
"Wine must be paired with some side dishes." Qi Huan clinked glasses with Jiufang Yu and took a sip, then rummaged through the 'reserve food' prepared for Taotie in the storage space, and took out a portion of pickled animal offal, a portion of spiced beans, a portion of fried silverfish, and a portion of butter-soaked snails that he had just made tonight.
As soon as the black ball smelled the scent, it jumped off Qi Huan's head, sniffed left and right, and finally set its eyes on the butter-soaked snails.
"Eat it, eat it~" Qi Huan pushed the box of butter snails in front of Heituanzi. This thing has a texture similar to butter flower, which melts in your mouth. It was a popular dessert from the Song Dynasty to the Ming Dynasty, and was even mentioned in "Jin Ping Mei".
Jiujiu slid down the black ball's body, and the little golden unicorn lock on its neck made a crackling sound. It picked up a piece of gold with both hands and handed it to the black ball's mouth like offering a treasure. It also contributed to the making of this thing!
The black ball was unusually shy. It didn't swallow it greedily. Instead, it stuck out its tongue and licked it in small sips.
See how long you can pretend! Qi Huan couldn't help laughing, poked the corner of the black ball, drank the wine in the glass, and poured two more glasses for himself and Jiu Fangyu, "What's the matter, tell me."
"During the last beast wave at the base, I helped you sort out the box containing the jade token and buttons. I also saw the earring with your name on it that your parents left behind."
"Hmm." Qi Huan used a bamboo stick to pick up a piece of marinated animal tongue and threw it into his mouth. He remembered this incident. At that time, he remembered looking at another box of money and asked Jiufang Yu to help him put money in this box.
Jiufang Yu gently turned the wine glass in his hand. "I thought the writing of the word 'Qi' on the nail was quite special, like a specially designed font, so I asked a friend to check it out."
Qi Huan paused as he reached for the bamboo skewer of fried silver fish. "You're not going to tell me that you really found it, are you?"
"Well," Jiufang Yu nodded slightly, "that font was specially designed by a family with culinary skills."
Jiufang Yu roughly repeated to Qi Huan the information about the Qi family that he had just received in the afternoon.
"There has been no movement for nearly twenty years. They probably don't want to look for the child at all or they simply assume that the child is dead. I don't believe they really don't know that the direct heirs have a child." Qi Huan snorted coldly and picked up the wine glass and drank it all.
There are only a few waste stars, and the population is pitifully small compared to those planets in developed star fields. In addition, you can ask the star owners for data, or just spend some money to make a bounty announcement. It’s actually not that difficult to find a child with the surname Qi.
"If your parents are really the direct heirs of the Qi family, then the earrings in your hand that are engraved with the family's exclusive font are likely to be some kind of keepsake."
"It doesn't matter, just let it go." Qi Huan shrugged indifferently.
"Don't you want to return to your roots and take back the property that belongs to you?"
"No need. I didn't have these relatives in the first twenty years of my life, and I don't need them in the future." Qi Huan shook his head. He had watched a lot of TV dramas about intrigues for money and inheritance. He knew with his toes what a complicated, tedious and laborious situation it would be. What's more, he was not the real original owner, so there was no need for him to wade into this muddy water. "In short, I am very satisfied with my current life. I have no interest in the Qi family in the Eighth Star Region or their property. As for money, I can make it myself!"
Jiufang Yu's eyes softened. Qi Huan was actually more open-minded than he had imagined.
Qi Huan was drunk. He opened his terminal and logged into the Baifu platform. He displayed his balance in the backend. "Look."
Because Kunlun Baofu's ingredients are rare and hard to find, the ingredients for making the soup are all high-grade A-grade ingredients, and the cooking method is particularly complicated, he set the current highest selling price at 999 silver coins per serving. Adding the money from the Thirteenth Month Wontons and Peony Bird's Nest, his account balance has now become more than 12 million.
"You know how to make money. It seems your dishes are very popular on the Internet." Jiufang Yu nodded, and after half a second, he said, "If you don't need money in the near future, why don't you lend the base another 10 million?"
"No problem." Qi Huan nodded, and immediately signed a contract with Jiu Fangyu according to the last process, and then transferred 10 million to the base account. Jiu Fangyu also opened his personal terminal and left a few words to the secretary, explaining the purpose of the "loan".
Qi Huan thought about it, then opened the live broadcast interface of the Death Library and searched for Song Ci. Because of the partner binding, two people were displayed on the interface at the same time. According to the system prompt, they were about to enter the next secret room in half an hour.
Qi Huan transferred two million yuan without hesitation and bet on Song Ci to win.
"What are you doing?" Jiufang Yu turned off his personal terminal and saw the interface of the Death Library on Qi Huan's side.
"There is a way to make money." Qi Huan smiled and tapped the display screen, his eyes slightly red because of the alcohol. "I'll tell you a secret, bet on him and you'll win!"
"Are you sure?" Jiufang Yu's gaze swept across Song Ci and Tang Si, and finally fell on Tang Si.
"Sure." Qi Huan nodded.
Jiu Fangyu glanced at the data introduction of the secret room below, "The pass rate of this secret room is 4083:1, a probability of one in four thousand. If you don't take out the two million quickly, it may be wasted."
"Impossible, I believe he will win." Cici is the most reliable brother in the world. Even if he loses, he can afford it.
"Do you trust him so much?" Jiufang Yu's eyes dimmed.
"Yeah. He's the one I trust most in the whole world."
Jiufang Yu: ...
Jiufang Yu picked up the wine glass and drank it all in one gulp. The wine, cooled in the night breeze, had a special spicy taste that made his throat feel hot.
He opened his personal terminal and found the interface of the Death Library.
"What are you doing?" Qi Huan looked at him puzzledly.
"I'll bet with you." Jiufang Yu transferred in 10 million and bet on Tang Si and Song Ci.
"Didn't you say that the probability of winning is only one in four thousand?" Qi Huan was a little confused about what he meant.
"You believe him, and I believe you." Jiufang Yu smiled faintly.
Qi Huan's eyes widened, his nerves softened by alcohol turned, and he suddenly remembered another thing, "Wait a minute, the 10 million you just bet, couldn't it be the 10 million I just transferred to you?"
"I used a personal account." Jiufang Yu sighed and explained helplessly.
"Really?" Qi Huan looked at him suspiciously.
"24k innocence."
"Don't imitate me."
"By the way, it is said that the Qi family has a family recipe book that has been passed down through several generations of family heads. Have you seen it?"
Oh my god, the Qi family actually has a cookbook? Qi Huan choked on a mouthful of wine and coughed until tears came out, causing Jiufang Yu and Heituanzi, who was licking the butter-soaked snails, to look over worriedly.
"It's okay, it's okay." Qi Huan waved his hands, patted his chest and coughed a few times before he recovered.
"I don't know what family recipe it is. This is all I have." Qi Huan took out the recipe book that the original owner wrote when he was a child from his storage bag and handed it to Jiu Fangyu. The original owner didn't leave anything behind. Apart from the earring, there was only this handwritten recipe and diary, which he carefully kept.
Jiufang Yu opened the notebook and flipped through it. It was a handwritten recipe. The handwriting was crooked and very immature. It must have been written by a child.
“Did you write this when you were a child?”
Qi Huan threw a fried silver fish into his mouth and took another sip of wine. "If you want to find a recipe, this is the only one."
Jiufang Yu lowered his eyes and looked at it again. The first dish was called Scrambled Eggs with Tomatoes, and the second dish was called Kung Pao Chicken. They seemed to be dishes he had seen on the menu of a restaurant in the human world.
"Come to think of it, I don't think I've ever seen you cook these two dishes." Jiufang Yu shook the recipe page towards Qi Huan.
"I don't want to make them." Qi Huan curled his lips, took another sip of wine with a gloomy look, and looked up at the starry sky above his head. "Those are my sister's two favorite dishes. After she disappeared, I never made them again."
Sister? Jiufang Yu frowned slightly and glanced at Qi Huan indifferently. Didn't Lin Sen only have him as an adopted son and a disciple? Where did the sister come from?
Qi Huan was still unaware and was still staring at the starry sky in a daze.
"By the way, there is something else I want to discuss with you." Jiufang Yu returned the recipe book to Qi Huan, "The medical team now has two inferences..."
Jiufang Yu explained the medical team's concerns about the energy of his dishes and the possible role of the spirit in repairing the collapsed scene. "They have been looking up data whenever they have free time these days. They haven't found any clear records of similar medicine bodies. They only found a legend that the best ginseng can transform into a human. Many rare spirit bodies really can't be found. After all, many of our documents were destroyed in the war."
"Anyway, I will cooperate with the medical team if they have any needs. If it can be useful to everyone, that would be great." Qi Huan gently touched Jiujiu's head with his fingertips. No. 2, No. 4, No. 7, and No. 9 are all very nice people. If possible, he really hopes that everyone can live well.
"But you should be careful when cooking in the future. When cooking for other people and strangers, except for the beast team, the shop owner and No. 2, try not to use stone beast meat with energy, and don't let them touch the dishes for a long time, so as not to be discovered by others." Jiufang Yu warned. With the number of Qi Huan's fans he saw just now, someone might come to Feixing in the near future to eat the food he cooked, so it's better to pay attention as soon as possible.
"Yeah." Qi Huan nodded obediently, knowing that Jiufang Yu was protecting him and preventing the news from leaking out.
"When your spirit body grows a little more and can communicate with you consciously, we should be able to know its true nature and function."
"Then how long will it take?" Qi Huan sighed. It would have been better if he hadn't said it. Now that he said it, it really made people curious. What exactly is the true form of his little white dumpling?
"If you don't mind, maybe you could ask Jiujiu to cooperate with me in a few experiments. Maybe we can speed up the progress." Jiufang Yu turned his head slightly and let Qi Huan look at the side of his ear. There were two metal plates stuck there. They were somewhat similar to the ones Qi Huan had stuck on them, but slightly thicker, and the patterns seemed more complicated. They should also be the equipment used by the medical team to collect certain data.
"What experiment?"
"For example, let it stir it in this glass of wine a few times with its hair like I usually do when I cook with you," Jiufang Yu pushed his wine glass towards Qi Huan.
Without waiting for Qi Huan to speak, the little white ball cooperated by jumping onto the edge of the cup and stirring the liquid in the cup vigorously with her long hair.
Jiufang Yu picked up the wine glass and drank it all, then smiled faintly at Qi Huan, with the remaining wine still glistening on his lips, "Next, please give it a kiss."
Qi Huan: ????
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