canvassing for votes
Ye Miaomiao looked at the chili-stuffed...cake on the plate in surprise.
To be honest, at first glance she also thought it was a dark dish.
The top of the cake and the middle of the cake base are sprinkled with chili peppers.
If you look closely, they are not raw peppers, but peppers fried with a mixture of starch, glutinous rice flour, and sesame oil. They are probably also coated with some caramel. Each pepper has a crystal clear brown-yellow shell.
Ye Miaomiao took a bite hesitantly with a nervous mood.
It's surprisingly sweet, with no hint of spiciness at all! It even has a unique crispy texture.
A message popped up on the screen: "You have eaten the homemade food "Chili Crisp Cake": Restore 5 hunger points, ±5/100g based on your taste and mood, and keep warm at 5℃ for 3 hours (special ingredient: chili)."
Ye Miaomiao: “!” It actually works against cold and frost! As a homemade food, the 5℃ insulation is almost as effective as a set of cotton-padded clothes and trousers!
Another recipe for cold-resistant food in the territory!
She couldn't wait to see who created this food, but as a member of the public judges, Ye Miaomiao could only hold back her emotions and wait for the results to be announced.
In this way, we need to speed up the process of letting everyone eat the cake and rate it as soon as possible.
The cake was quickly distributed to everyone.
It would take some time for the NPC to compile the ratings, and Hu Mifeng had been so busy that he hadn't even had breakfast yet. Ye Miaomiao took the two of them to a restaurant for dinner, and she urged him to give a five-star rating.
Ye Miaomiao: Don’t let go of even a single wool!
As everyone savored the cakes, some members of Li Ru's "united" voting team suddenly felt that they couldn't do this after hearing the sarcasm just now.
"I say..." He hesitated, "Is it really okay for us to do this? Although it's good to support Sister Yuan, deliberately voting for her with a high score is not..."
Before he could even utter the word "unfair," Li Ru interrupted him with a sneer, "It's not like you're not giving me red envelopes."
The group slowed down their eating. Honestly, they weren't in it for the red envelope. They just saw Aunt Yuan was having an interview and wanted to show some support.
Although Aunt Yuan is not very reasonable, she is still a distant relative and neighbor after all.
To Li Ru, it seemed as if they came here just for the money!
"Sister Yuan is my eldest sister, and I'm doing this for her. When you told us to rate the winners, who wouldn't come right over?" One of them said solemnly, "Just tell me who you want to choose! Since we're all here, let's just vote for this one!"
The person who said it was unfair earlier curled his lips, was glared at by his mother, and returned to the crowd helplessly.
He said angrily, "Just tell me how unfair it is!"
When Li Ru was asked this question, her face immediately fell.
Isn't it normal for the public to canvass for votes? Before the apocalypse, she canvassed countless times for school clubs, teachers, and senior students. Otherwise, how could they win?
The public judges do not look at strength, but the ability to canvass votes.
Li Ru just thought these people were ridiculously stupid!
"Little kid!" His mother patted his head and asked again, "Aunt Yuan must have told you what kind of cake she made! Xiaoru, you decide, let's vote."
"Shh!" The man simply buried his head in the cake in the bowl. Tsk, I have to say, this chili-flavored cake... is really delicious!
"Let me think about it." Li Ru frowned.
As the person just said, unless they knew about the anonymous scoring in advance, how could they foresee and cheat? Now Aunt Yuan was locked in the cake shop, with no communication, so who knew what kind of cake she made?
However, Li Ru remembered Aunt Yuan once saying, "When the time comes, I'll just pick the more expensive ingredients. It won't go wrong if I put more."
Looking closely at these cakes, in addition to the cake base ingredients, the ingredients used include mango, vanilla, pistachio, meat filling, chili...
Which material is the most expensive...
Li Ru is a person who spends money without looking at the price, so how would she know which one is the most expensive?
However, even if I didn't pay attention to worldly affairs, I still heard about the "price increase" incident that was hotly discussed in the territory this morning.
According to people who came back from the border crossing after working the night shift, not only have the prices of wood and fur increased dramatically, but even chili peppers, which are used to keep warm, have become rare treasures.
From this point of view, this chili cake looks like it was made by my mother-in-law.
Thinking about it this way, it’s hard to say whether my mother-in-law happened to make some cold-proof food?
In an instant, this good news made Li Ru dizzy. She didn't want to think about other possibilities at all. She was so excited that she felt like she had won the first prize in the lottery.
The lord just praised this cake highly. Needless to say, my mother-in-law will be able to become a civil servant smoothly, and even have the same status as Zhang Jiajia!
Look at Zhang Jiajia, even level 3 monsters treat him with respect! Not to mention the good food and drink he gets every day. He has everything that other people in the territory have to eat and drink!
My mother-in-law became a civil servant, and not only did the family have more money, but she also occasionally brought in some "extra income" from the cake shop. Not to mention those snobbish security guards in the territory! How dare they look down on her in the future?
"Vote for the chili cake! Give it the highest score! Everything else... give it zero points, quick!"
She asked everyone to report their scores to the NPC, and looked at the cake shop eagerly and impatiently.
Her heart seemed to have flown to the near future. Would Aunt Yuan still dislike her then? She was a great contributor. Without her canvassing for votes, Aunt Yuan wouldn't have this job!
"Chili Crisp Cake?" The man muttered, "It's so delicious, could it be made by Aunt Yuan?"
He had no objection to the chili crisps getting the highest score, but he gave the rest all zero points... The man silently spitted, they really did everything they could to get what they wanted!
"Mom, don't give me zero, it's not fair!" he whispered.
"Mom knows," his mother said softly, "I know what favors should be done. I'll give high marks to the chili crisps, and I won't give zero marks to anything else. I won't accept her red envelope either."
The man finally breathed a sigh of relief and turned back with a smile to look at Li Ru who was looking forward to it.
"A random red envelope, and I only got 0.5 points?" At this time, a voice that was half surprised and half angry came from the side.
It turned out that Li Ru sent a red envelope in the group to thank everyone for voting. The red envelopes were randomly distributed in different amounts. Her luck was really bad, so it was not surprising that she only drew 0.5 points.
"Oh, bad luck, look at me..." Another one teased and turned on the light screen, pointing it directly in the direction of several people, making it clear.
He confidently reached out and clicked, then: "?"
"How come I only have 1.5 points!"
Then, he saw that in the red envelope receipt records, except for his highest value of "1.5", the rest of the people were hovering around zero tenths.
Only one person remained who had not received it.
But excluding this person, the remaining ten people only received a total of 8.5 points! They can't be that stingy...
Everyone glanced towards the cake shop not far away. Li Ru, who was indifferent to worldly affairs, looked at the man's mother with expectant eyes.
"Sister Zhang, you might be the winner of a big red envelope! Come and take a look!" someone encouraged her.
Sister Zhang smiled and shook her head: "I won't accept it. I didn't help much anyway."
No matter how many people tried to persuade her, she refused to accept any reward. Now, no one knows how many points Li Ru had given out in red envelopes.
But judging from the current results, it shouldn't be too much.
"If I had known this, I wouldn't have accepted it. I even voted with zero points against my conscience! It's just 0.2 points, it's really..." Another person muttered, and for a moment he wanted to return the money immediately.
But it's already been done, there's no turning back.
"Really..." someone murmured, "I really need to spend less time with them in the future."
No one objected, and I don’t know how many people had the same idea in their minds.
However, their idea was doomed to fail, as a security team was marching aggressively towards the cake shop. One of them walked straight towards Ye Miaomiao, who had just come out of the kitchen, while the rest rushed towards the voting team and surrounded them expressionlessly.
"What happened...what happened!"
The territory, which was bustling just now, suddenly became quiet. Everyone looked at these people, making them surprised and frightened, and quite puzzled.
Until Li Ru was dragged over and placed among them.
An absurd premonition arose in their hearts.
"There were illegal voting violations and we are checking them." The voice of one of them confirmed this premonition.
"Li Ru, you!" After receiving 0.2 points, she still had to endure this injustice. The man immediately frowned and was about to yell at her.
"Quiet! Cooperate!" The team member stopped him, "Otherwise it will be counted as a second violation."
The man immediately shut up, and even Li Ru, who was about to defend herself, closed her slightly parted lips. She didn't pay attention to the law, and she didn't know what a second violation entailed, but she knew it couldn't be a good thing.
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