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Fanlan has retained many of the habits that were once developed on Earth, which seem a bit strange in today's society.
One of them is diet.
The food culture of Insect Planet is generally similar to that of Earth, but the variety of ingredients is richer and more diverse, and it is also far ahead in the development of convenience and efficiency. For example, all kinds of pre-prepared dishes and ready-made bento are the most commonly available ingredients in insect families today.
In addition to various food bento boxes, whose target audience is most Zerg people living a normal life, the Zerg also has a popular food system, which is a variety of nutritional supplements and life-support solutions with different flavors. This completely sacrifices the pleasure and time of eating, and instead satisfies efficiency and physical needs infinitely. The target audience is naturally workaholics like Lester and Ellie who have no appetite.
Fanlan is not too interested in either of the above two options.
In his opinion, cooking can also be regarded as one of the rituals of life.
So whenever he is alone at home, rather than ordering a fancy takeout or a lunch box that can be heated up and eaten directly, he prefers to fill his refrigerator with raw ingredients now called "primary agricultural products" and "primary red meat", and then make a simple meal that suits his taste by himself.
"A time-wasting lifestyle" - an apt comment from straight female cancer Eli Walsh.
He had insisted on maintaining this eating habit when he was still in the Chirasos' house. Of course, the Chirasos' family had no shortage of chefs. When the family was not dining together - which was the vast majority of the time, normally there would be servants coming to set up the dining room and deliver the meals. But this arrangement was soon cancelled by the two little bugs in the Chirasos' family. Lester began to dislike eating because it was troublesome and time-consuming since he was a teenager, while Vanlan felt it was unnecessary and uncomfortable. After he became familiar with and at ease in the Chirasos' house, he chose to equip his suite's dining room with kitchen utensils and tools, and told the servants that they did not need to do any extra work except helping to refill the refrigerator.
From this point on, the young male insects begin to prepare their own food.
Lester said what kind of behavior is this...I don't quite understand it, but as long as you are happy.
He found that the food that Fanlan cooked was often... different. As for the taste, it was just so-so for Lester, who was used to eating chefs' food, but it was definitely not bad. However, the combination of ingredients was very strange. For example, Fanlan was keen on taking a piece of carbohydrates, putting a piece of meat, and then a piece of vegetable or eggplant, and squeezing different sauces on it according to his mood. This made a dish that Lester thought was not easy to eat and the taste did not blend, but Fanlan was very satisfied with it.
Of course, this is not to say that the combination of carbohydrates, protein and vitamins is so rare. After all, whether it is humans or Zerg, the nutritional formula required to maintain the body is basically the same, and the Zerg's nutritional supplements provide exactly such ingredients. But in other words, if food intake must be so strictly based on nutritional ratios, then why not just drink the nutritional supplements?
There are also some common dishes, such as noodles, rice, soups and the like. Fanlan's combination is always unexpected. He likes to add some ingredients that normal insects would never think of. For example, the so-called "creamy mushroom pasta" is made with the milk of horned beasts and the head of cloud vegetables with high-gluten noodles, "North African eggs" is a hodgepodge of egg products, eggplants and lantern fruits, and "sweet and sour pork tenderloin" is fried red meat with sweetener and coated with a layer of sugar and wheat flour. It looks strange, but tastes surprisingly good.
Lester had been with him for a long time, so he naturally knew how to combine most of the foods that Fanlan liked to cook. Sometimes when Fanlan was lazy, or was absorbed in drawing or watching things, and Lester happened to be there, the female insect with a brotherly spirit would choose to follow his cooking method, recalling and replicating the steps, and tinkering with a meal that was purely Fanlan's taste like completing a chemistry experiment to feed the male insect, to prevent the delicate male insect from starving to death in the room, and then perfunctorily taking a tube of basic-flavored nutrient supplement beside Fanlan while he was eating.
This pair of adopted brothers who grew up together are so different in every aspect and have such different styles.
But Lester never said that what he did was a waste of time and meaningless - it was obviously not as delicious as what a professional chef would cook, and doing it himself was just a brain disease for bugs of their status. Fanlan also did not say that bugs who did not understand the joy of food were boring. He rarely asked Lester to sit down and spend half an hour dining with him. Although savoring life does sound more interesting and high-quality, who can take it for granted that the lifestyle they prefer is superior to others?
Of course, fitness goes hand in hand with diet.
The fitness behavior of male Zergs is even more puzzling to Zergs. Zergs naturally also have the concept of fitness, which is common among female Zergs who are not military females or other female Zergs in the army. They do not need to fight, but their martial instincts are still there, or they simply pursue the strength of their physical strength, so they like to maintain and enhance their physical functions, and they will choose to keep fit and learn one or more fighting techniques on a daily basis.
Of course, male insects don't have such needs. Even if they do, they will go to gyms that provide professional services to male insects, and they are definitely not like Fanlan... who gets up early every morning, puts on a hairband, and runs slowly around the garden twice.
As for intensity, running so slowly and without any weights, it doesn't seem to have much to do with physical fitness.
Lester: I don't understand.
Especially in today's society where means of transportation are extremely advanced, people's opportunities to walk have been drastically reduced. Except for shopping or sightseeing, few people would waste time walking, not to mention the situation where they need to run urgently - well, in that case, why not use public transportation?
Therefore, the behavior of "running" is completely unexpected in a non-military training and daily life society.
However, even after moving to a small villa and losing his luxurious garden, Vanlan still asked Lester to get him a so-called treadmill and placed it next to the floor-to-ceiling window.
Lester: ...Ah, as long as you are happy.
However, the above two are nothing compared to the "sports" that Fanlan likes.
Lester had always known that Vanlan was interested in his training equipment. Although it was rare, it could be barely explained as the curiosity of the little male insect.
Fanlan asked for a treadmill... That's fine, it's strange, but it doesn't matter.
But when Fanlan left his cub stage, turned fourteen, moved out of the Chilaso master's house, and began to go out to explore, the way he played some natural activities was really confusing to Chong, and seemed quite unusual and inappropriate.
One time, they were planning to travel to a planet that had an icy climate as shown by detection. Vanlan suggested skiing, and Lester did not show any surprise, even though skiing was a relatively exciting entertainment activity that was not suitable for male insects. But since he was there, Vanlan could do whatever he wanted.
But the morning before the trip was decided, Vanlan suddenly ran into Lester's room with his electronic painting screen and asked if he could make a skateboard for him.
Lester didn't ask why he didn't just buy it, he just said okay, what kind do you want.
Fanlan handed over the design diagram that he had drawn in advance, as well as the text requirements listed next to it.
Lester took the screen and glanced at it, finally showing a trace of confusion on his face: "A bare board?"
Fanlan blinked and did not deny it.
Lester frowned.
It was completely acceptable to not have the accelerator and the impact cannon, but the skateboard that Vanlan requested clearly did not even have protective flanks or protective ammunition bags.
So Lester opposed him for once and insisted on installing reasonable security features.
Vanlan said no, he wanted a skateboard exactly as he had drawn it.
"Don't worry, Lester. I'm not that easily injured. Trust me, okay? Even if I'm injured, it's hard to cause fatal damage in the snow. Just use a tube of repair agent. The wound can't even stay on my body for more than ten seconds, right?"
"What does this have to do with me not wanting you to get hurt?"
Lester was totally unmoved.
Fanlan was not very happy that he did not get approval. He pursed his lips and kept silent.
The red-haired female insect glanced at his little expression and clicked her tongue: "I know you like to play, but you can't joke with your physical safety."
"You don't believe me."
"I am not."
"Who are you."
"no."
"Who are you."
"...Whatever you say, there's no way this is going to work."
Vanlan was choked for a few seconds, thought about it, and gave up being angry. He looked at Lester seriously and said, "I want to ski the way I expect, otherwise I will be unhappy on this trip. At the same time, I know what I am going to do and whether my body can bear it. Before I feel that I may not be able to bear it, I will definitely stop in time. So, Lester, believe me - okay?"
"Besides, you'll be by my side."
"......"
In the end, Lester Chirasuo gave in.
He made the skateboard according to Fanlan's request, which was a mockery of his manufacturing level - even though the female insect, who was not yet an adult, had just finished the second-level manufacturing course. After that, he made mountaineering buckles, paragliders, surfboards of different colors, and mountain bikes with various spray paintings for Fanlan under the same rhetoric...
Every tool or equipment that he created based on Vanlan's "inexplicable" ideas had a scribbled LesQ logo on the corner.
It is done both out of convenience by the maker and as an implicit declaration to the user.
Later, Lester quickly developed a new habit, which was to give Vanlan jewelry.
It might be hard to imagine how a female insect like Lester Chiraso would choose jewelry, but he did become keen on giving Vanlan jewelry, and did so quite frequently.
And Fanlan knew that these jewels were not only expensive...but not all of them could be called beautiful. Some of the designs were quite abstract and confusing - another more important feature was that all of them had special safety devices installed by Lester.
Vanlan knew this very well, and Lester also knew that Vanlan knew this very well.
Although neither of them said it explicitly.
Fanlan looked at the luxury goods express boxes piled up in the aisle at her feet, silently opened them, categorized them, put them away, and honestly accepted them.
Well, considering that Leicester respected his sports hobbies and equipment needs "humiliatingly", Vanlan decided to satisfy his good brother who suffered from Lan-style security anxiety for this kind of secret compensation behavior, and no longer challenge the female insect's particularly "delicate" nerves in some aspects.
From then on, Fanlan would always wear at least one piece of jewelry given by Lester.
Even if some styles are indeed uniquely ugly.
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