Chapter 7: Marrying a 90s Girlfriend
Compared to Ye Shiying's simple question, the system felt a sense of foreboding and cautiously asked, "Host, how do you have the secret recipe for brewing wine?"
Ye Xiqing tilted her head to look at the system, and slowly smiled as the system grew increasingly anxious: "System, why would you ask me? Whether I have a secret brewing recipe or not depends on you, doesn't it?"
"As the pinnacle of technological achievement, brewing data should be a very simple matter for you, right?"
"I need your help right now, will you help me?"
The system froze in place, stunned for a long time before suddenly realizing—it had been outmaneuvered by Ye Xiqing!
Is a secret brewing recipe considered a huge advantage?
Of course it counts! How can we not count it when it's the biggest asset of a liquor company?
But in the system shop, is it considered a very valuable item?
Of course not. Didn't they just sell Ye Xiqing all the textbooks and practice materials from the three years of high school, which could almost be piled up like a mountain, for 10 points?
So many books, covering a wide range of topics, were sold for only 10 points.
So how could a book that merely records knowledge about winemaking be so valuable?
The system was furious, but its fury stemmed from its powerlessness.
It could, of course, refuse Ye Xiqing; it could, of course, use any reason to thwart Ye Xiqing's plans. But it couldn't, because the audience's feedback was pouring in like a tidal wave—
"Wow, has the system been tricked by this tasker?"
"Hahaha, you read that right. This brewing recipe shouldn't be given away so easily, but this mission taker named Ye Xiqing used a feint to trick them into revealing the rules!"
"Hahaha! This is interesting! This is interesting! To be honest, I'm getting a little tired of the same old plots. This kind of confrontation between the mission takers and the system is much more interesting to watch!"
"Go, mission taker! Defeat the system! You crush the system, and I'll spawn an aircraft carrier for you! [Donation x1] [Donation x1] [Donation x1]"
"Don't get too excited yet. What if the system just won't give it to you? The final interpretation right belongs to the system."
"What's wrong with giving it to me? It's not some amazing cheat code. I'm just being tricked. You can't be that sore loser, can you?"
...
The constantly scrolling bullet comments almost completely overwhelmed the system's background, which is why it couldn't refuse them.
If they give it to you, it's like you've suffered a loss in silence, only adding to the comedic effect of the show.
But if it refuses, the confrontation will escalate instantly, and the momentum will directly target it.
It's not a system that takes a black-and-red approach; it has always carefully managed its image and doesn't want to damage its reputation because of this.
So even if you've lost your teeth, you can only swallow it down and force a smile, saying, "Ah, so that's how it is. I thought there were some hidden plots about the host that I didn't know about."
"Since there isn't one, and it's up to me, then please tell me what kind of brewing books you'd like, host..."
hehe.
Ye Xiqing smiled happily.
In fact, according to the usual "system novel" format, if she wanted a winemaking secret recipe, she could have just asked the system directly; there was no need to resort to such petty tricks.
She did this not because she thought this cheat was rare or hard to come by, but because she knew the system definitely wouldn't give it to her.
If you think about it carefully, if you could travel back to a day earlier, you wouldn't have made the same mistakes on the questions you got wrong.
If you could travel back 30 years, you could avoid making the same mistakes in life.
The system sent her back to the 1990s with over thirty years of information gap. In this era full of business opportunities, she didn't even need to do anything; she could reach the pinnacle of life and become the heroine of a wish-fulfillment novel just by picking up trash. However, the system only wanted her to marry the male lead.
So, is a brewing recipe a rare and valuable cheat code?
Of course not. How could a cheat code that helps save the male lead's career be so rare?
If she were already married to Lu Jing'an, even if she didn't want it, the system would find a reason to give it to her for free.
Would the system willingly give her such a simple cheat code?
Of course not. It's only natural for the male lead to use the cheat ability that helps his career. If the female lead doesn't give it to him and wants to use it herself, how can that be allowed?
Ye Xiqing didn't want to speculate whether the system had a rigid mindset or a psychological problem, but in fact, it was very clear that it didn't want to give her any cheat codes that might allow her to escape the male lead.
That's simple, just treat the system as an enemy too.
Going against the system does make her seem overconfident. Fortunately, she wasn't really born in the 1990s; she was born in an era of information overload, so although she was ordinary, she wasn't unsophisticated.
Is this a live-streamed life show, or a variety show set in a higher dimension?
So for a variety show, shouldn't the biggest force be the audience?
Regardless of the nature of this live stream, it shares some similarities with real-life variety shows: it broadcasts the lives of the guests, not the behind-the-scenes operators, and it will never escalate the program's effect to a confrontation between the guests and the production team.
Since she has weaknesses, she has opportunities.
Ye Xiqing gently tested the system's limits and received a satisfactory answer.
She won this round.
...
After getting the system sorted out, all that was left was to deal with Miao's mother. Sure enough, Ye Shiying was also a little puzzled: "Where did you get the prescription?"
This was quite simple, Ye Xiqing continued to overdraw the original owner's credibility: "When I was working at the winery before, it was that guy... that guy in the technical department..."
"Technician Wang?"
"Yes, yes, it's him. He wanted to date me before, and then he told me a lot of things."
"Huh? Why didn't you tell me? Technician Wang has a good job, marrying him wouldn't be a bad deal. If I had known, I wouldn't have let you marry that ungrateful bastard surnamed Gu!"
“I didn’t like him and didn’t agree at all, but I didn’t expect that the more I refused, the more he would fawn over me, and then I found out a lot of things.”
"Oh, that's how it is with men. The less you care about them, the more they pursue you."
"Right?"
...
They chatted for a long time, and finally Yip Sai-ying shifted the topic from "you love me, I love you" to her niece having a "secret recipe" for brewing wine.
But this wasn't as simple as gossip, and Yip Sai-ying still had doubts: "Are you really sure? Have you done this before? Is it really going to work?"
For Ye Xiqing, as long as Ye Shiying accepted that she "had a secret recipe," that was enough; whether it would work or not was another matter entirely.
"Auntie, let's cook a pot and try it first."
Yip Sai-ying is not a very opinionated person, and her family's poverty makes her even more afraid of making mistakes.
However, Ye Xiqing's talk of "secret recipes" and "selling wine" was just too tempting.
So, is it worth it to try using a bag of sticks?
...
Ye Xiqing pulled off the pen cap; the nib was covered in ink stains, indicating it hadn't been used in a long time.
She wiped the nib clean and dipped the pen into the half-full bottle of ink to saturate it. She didn't use fountain pens often, but based on her understanding of this fragile type of pen, it would break very easily unless she paid for extra ink.
Fortunately, after scribbling on the paper a few times, she found that although it was difficult to use, it was still usable. So she spread out her notebook and fluently recorded what she had seen and learned.
Ye Xiqing was no stranger to the principles of brewing, after all, it was a very classic lesson in organic chemistry.
What appears to be a simple string of knowledge points in a book becomes the starting point of an entire industry when viewed in the macro world. Thinking about it, it's quite romantic.
However, the real world is never the same as the simple equations in a chemistry textbook, and the actual brewing process is far more complex than the knowledge in books.
Although the system had no choice but to give her the brewing books, it was also happy to cause her trouble where the audience couldn't see. When it took out the two brick-thick books, Ye Xiqing could even feel the system secretly laughing.
"To better assist the host, the system has compiled the top brewing knowledge from countless worlds into a book, but there's quite a lot of content. Does the host need the [Memory Imprinting] cheat?"
"The [Memory Imprint] cheat can directly convert the information you want into data and send it to the host's mind, which is very convenient."
"As a high-level cheat system, it costs 4888 points. The host might not have enough points~"
Listening to the system's arrogant voice, Ye Xiqing could imagine how smug it was.
But it forgot that she was a senior in high school. A qualified senior in high school should not only have an insatiable desire to read, but also the ability to accurately extract key points.
Ye Xiqing glanced at the table of contents of the thick book, flipped through a few pages at random, and then looked up.
"I've finished reading it. No matter which world it is, the brewing techniques are all pretty much the same, it's all about the materials and the process."
"But at this stage, with my limited resources, I can't control the materials and processes very precisely."
"So if you want to stand out, the only direction to work on is the smaller, simpler, but more effective 'fermentation starter'."
"System, I am very satisfied with the wealth of knowledge about the wine industry that you have provided me. Now, please provide me with even more knowledge about 'wine yeast'."
system:……
In this way, Ye Xiqing not only gained extensive knowledge of the wine industry, but also extensive knowledge of wine yeast.
Yeast, as a fermenting agent for fermenting grains, is used in small quantities but is crucial.
Ye Xiqing read and filtered through the information, eventually compiling it into a single sheet of paper, which became known as the "secret recipe."
What should this secret recipe be called?
Ye Xiqing thought for a moment and wrote down:
Corn 90 — by Ye Xiqing.
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