The next day, because Yan An had gone to bed very early the previous day, he did not stay in bed the following day.
“Miss, An Si came twice yesterday. The first time he brought you a pair of chopsticks, saying they were used by Prince Yan Guoheng.”
Ever since Bai Tao received these chopsticks yesterday, it's been like a curious little cat has been tickling her heart.
"The second shipment brought a lot of sea cucumbers, saying they were a tribute from the Lu Kingdom for the Emperor's wedding day. They are said to have beauty and health benefits, and I have already put them in the ice cellar."
Upon hearing this, Yan An was surprised to find that there were sea cucumbers in this place; these were truly valuable.
Sea cucumbers can not only nourish the kidneys and replenish essence, remove dampness and strengthen yang, nourish blood and moisturize dryness, and promote bowel movements and urination, but also prevent high blood pressure, high blood lipids, and coronary heart disease, enhance human immunity, and beautify the skin.
The key point is that sea cucumber is the best supplement for surgical patients. Sea cucumber is rich in arginine, which has a special effect on the repair of the body after injury and can significantly shorten the recovery time.
"This is good stuff! How much do you have? Bring me a few so I can cook some porridge."
"Oh? Such good stuff is used to cook porridge, Miss."
Yan An's words terrified Bai Tao. An Si had told her that this thing was a rare treasure, something that even royalty rarely saw, let alone ordinary people.
I never expected that I would be made into porridge by my own young mistress...
"The freshest ingredients often require the simplest cooking methods. You don't understand? Come on, go and learn."
Yan An took the chopsticks from Bai Tao, returned to the room, locked the door, and entered the laboratory with a flash of his consciousness.
Just like yesterday, Yan An used the chopsticks that An Si brought to conduct a paternity test on Yan Shaoheng and Yue Zhixiao.
As expected, the appraisal report clearly stated:
Parentage confirmed: conforms to the laws of heredity, with a probability of parentage greater than 0.9999.
In other words, Yue Zhixiao is Yan Shaoheng's biological son.
When Su Jingzhan heard Yan An enter, he also came to the laboratory. Upon seeing the identification report in Yan An's hand, he was stunned.
"I never imagined that Chen Jingshu really had an affair with Yan Shaoheng of the Yan Kingdom!"
"Does Xiyuan know?"
"We don't know the report yet, but since we're going to do a paternity test, we must have already made up our minds. Since Yue Zhixiao isn't the late emperor's son, what does it matter whose father he is? Anyway, we can't let Chen Jingshu and Yue Zhixiao live."
Yue Zhixiao has already been poisoned by his own poison. If someone comes to his rescue, the poison will take effect even faster, which can be considered revenge for them.
However, she still needed to think carefully about how to deal with Chen Jingshu. If she simply let her disappear from this world, how could she be worthy of the poison she had inflicted on Yue Xiyuan?
"Sister Nianxia, is your gas being released?"
“We already arranged it last night, and this morning I prepared rice porridge for her, and she drank a little bit of it.”
"Okay, I'll bring you some drinks later."
Su Jingzhan's eyes lit up at the mention of food and drink.
"Did my junior sister make this?"
"Yue Xiyuan had An Si deliver some sea cucumbers. I've made some sea cucumber porridge for you to take to Sister Nianxia."
Su Jingzhan's eyes twitched when he heard that sea cucumbers were used to make porridge.
Normally, my junior sister can't stand wasting delicious food, so why would she use such good ingredients to make porridge?
The key point is that Yue Xiyuan had An Si deliver it. It's obvious that Yue Xiyuan was trying to help Yan An recover. Even if Yan An made it, how could he dare to drink it?
Su Jingzhan wanted to ask Yan An if she could make other delicacies from sea cucumbers, but after looking around, Yan An was nowhere to be seen.
"That person is really something, coming and going in a flash."
After leaving the space, Yan An went to the small kitchen, where ten sea cucumbers were already neatly placed on the table.
“Miss, yesterday An Si said that Lu Kingdom had sent twenty as tribute, and ten of them were delivered to you. I have brought them to you.”
Yan An looked at the palm-sized sea cucumbers on the plate. They were quite large and looked very fresh. They were indeed quite good.
Yan An took out an old hen, placed it in a pot, poured in plenty of water from the Tianshan Mountains, and began to simmer it over low heat.
While the chicken was stewing, Yan An blanched the sea cucumber, gutted it, and rinsed it clean. She thought she should let Sister Nianxia try it, and felt it should be softer.
Then the sea cucumbers were steamed for an incense stick's time until they were soft and tender, and then cut into strips.
Once the old hen has been stewed until tender, remove it from the pot. Because it was stewed with water from the Tianshan Mountains, the chicken soup has no oily smell at all, only the delicious flavor of chicken broth.
Yan An washed the millet, cooked it into porridge with chicken broth, and finally poured the millet porridge and sea cucumber into a stewing pot. After adding salt, he stewed it for another half an incense stick's time.
Yan An lifted the pot lid, and a fragrant aroma wafted out.
"Miss, it smells so good! So this is the simplest cooking method."
It turns out the young lady wasn't lying to me after all; delicious food really does taste best when prepared in the simplest way.
Bai Tao turned her gaze to the old hen.
Looking into Bai Tao's eyes, you can tell what this guy is up to.
This girl is really unusually simple-minded.
Yan An tore off a piece of chicken and put it in Bai Tao's mouth, intending to tease the girl.
The four sisters were used to this with Yan An, so when Yan An handed Bai Tao the chicken, Bai Tao naturally opened her mouth and ate it.
"Oh? Miss, why does it have no flavor at all? Didn't you say that the most delicious ingredients should be cooked with the simplest methods? How come this chicken tastes so bad?"
"Haha, because that chicken wasn't even salted, so it definitely had no flavor at all."
"Miss, you're so naughty."
Yan An served a bowl to her father, mother, and eldest brother, and another bowl to Bai Tao and the other three.
After taking a bite, Yan An said, "Every grain of rice is coated with the delicious flavor of chicken soup and sea cucumber. It's really good."
While drinking the porridge, Yan An turned the old hen into roast chicken. Finally, after finishing the porridge, the chicken was ready too.
Yan An, carrying three bowls of porridge and a chicken, arrived in the space with a flash of his consciousness.
Upon smelling the fragrant porridge, Su Jingzhan immediately decided that even if he got beaten up, he would still drink this bowl of porridge.
Xu Nianxia, who originally had little appetite, actually finished the whole bowl of porridge after smelling the aroma of Yan An's cooking.
Besides medicine, cooking is one of Yan An's favorite things. Watching the delicious food she makes being eaten by the people around her gives her a particularly fulfilling sense of happiness.
"You guys enjoy your drinks. I'll go and take some to Yue Xiyuan to try."
Xu Nianxia looked at Yan An, who was so carefree, and her eyes revealed great envy.
“An’an and the Regent are really good together, a perfect match. In this world, the only one who can be worthy of An’an is probably the Regent. It is a blessing to have such a lovely person in one’s life.”
"It is my great fortune to have you as my match in this life."
While drinking his porridge, Su Jingzhan muttered to himself: You're lucky, he's lucky, but I'm just a single dog.
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