Chapter 38.
Having changed his mindset, Old Jin began to redefine Tang Yu's role. She, who had brought out that exotic dish, would no longer be placed on the table of the gods as a sacrifice.
She will be the great messenger leading this harvest celebration, and accordingly, the male companion she brings with her can of course be spared.
The sacrifice needs to be reselected.
Tang Yu was entrusted with an important task. She was to prepare a table of sumptuous food to please the gods of Guya Town.
That was an affirmation of her cooking skills by Guya Town, but Tang Yu was not satisfied with it. She even wanted to gain the recognition of the gods.
Lao Jin assured her that this harvest celebration would be grand and solemn!
Therefore, Tang Yu must put in his utmost effort to prepare for this celebration.
Perhaps it was because Lao Jin treated her as one of his own, so he revealed a lot of details about the harvest celebration.
On the day of the harvest festival, a messenger from the gods will come. The messenger from the gods represents the will of the gods. At that time, he will enjoy the sacrifices with all the townspeople, and those who have made contributions will eat more.
That is a supreme honor and blessing!
The gods will bestow blessings based on their satisfaction with each celebration, which is the hope and vitality of the entire Lonely Cliff Town.
Because of Tang Yu's arrival, these sacrifices can be prepared more carefully, and will definitely satisfy the gods.
In this way, the entire Lonely Cliff Town will usher in the greatest blessing in history!
I don't know if Lao Jin was being taboo when he said this, as he deliberately avoided many details.
Tang Yu only knew that Lao Jin was looking forward to the harvest celebration. In order to repay Lao Jin for staying with her for the past few days, she decided not to let Lao Jin down.
There were only three days left until the harvest festival, and she needed to prepare early.
As an excellent chef, if you want to make an excellent dish, you must have a good understanding of your ingredients.
Get to know the smell, shape, texture, and even character of the ingredients.
The cooking process is like an artistic communication, a joint participation of the chef and the ingredients.
When Tang Yu proposed to study the ingredients, Lao Jin said awkwardly that the main ingredients were not ready yet, and if she wanted, she could take a look at other ingredients first.
Tang Yu didn't know what the main ingredients were that Lao Jin was going to prepare. Guya Town was a remote and isolated town, and there were only a few edible things in the entire town.
Fish and shrimp in the sea, green leaves climbing everywhere, and mushrooms everywhere.
Green leaves and mushrooms are easily available. In order to prepare for the celebration, Lao Jin collected a lot of dried seafood from every household.
Those things piled up into a small hill, almost filling up the entire room.
Tang Yu didn't understand what other ingredients Lao Jin needed to prepare. When he asked, Lao Jin smiled mysteriously.
Following the principle of not thinking if you don't understand something, Tang Yu gave up thinking and prepared to devote herself to the cooking career she loved.
Dried seafood is readily available, but you need to pick things like green leaves and mushrooms yourself, after all, they taste best when they are fresh.
She found a basket at Lao Jin's house and prepared to go out. Tang En suddenly developed social phobia for some reason, so she didn't intend to force him to go with her.
When Tang Yu walked out of Lao Jin's house, he unexpectedly found Tang En standing outside.
He stood motionless on the bluestone path, the raindrops above his head drifting down and covering his entire body.
Judging from Tang En's wet and tangled chestnut curly hair, he seemed to have been standing in the rain for a long time.
Tang Yu was surprised that he was willing to go out. Could it be that his social phobia suddenly improved?
"What are you doing here?" she asked, walking forward.
Tang En was originally facing her sideways, but when he heard the voice, he turned around to look at her.
The constant rain in Guya Town makes the place always shrouded in a faint mist. Tang Yu stood three steps away from Tang En.
There happened to be a thin layer of mist at his location, so when Tang Yu looked at Tang En's face, it seemed a little blurry.
Tang En had a half-smile on his face. He had a pair of round dark eyes with slightly drooping corners. He looked a little timid when looking at people, like a puppy.
At this moment, he was standing alone in the rain, looking particularly pitiful.
"Sister Tang Yu." Tang En's voice was a little hoarse, as if he had just shouted at the top of his lungs, and he looked a little tired.
He said, "I, I seem to be a little bit abnormal. Have I been corrupted again?"
Tang Yu listened to him with a frown. Standing in the rain, Tang En was shivering slightly, not sure if it was because of the cold or fear.
Tang En said to himself, "Just this morning, when I woke up, I suddenly realized that something was wrong with my condition over the past few days. I actually wanted to stay in this hellhole forever!"
After saying this, Tang En's face turned pale. He was like a person who was indulging in a beautiful dream and suddenly woke up, only to find himself in hell.
"But you're awake now, aren't you?" Tang Yu tried to comfort him. She had always noticed that something was wrong with Tang En.
However, this kind of erosion that directly affects the spirit is invisible and intangible, and Tang Yu could not think of a good way to solve it.
She tried to remind Tang En, but to no avail.
For some unknown reason, Tang En was able to wake up on his own.
Tang Yu would not think too deeply about things he couldn't understand. Since Tang En could get rid of this erosion, it was a good thing.
But Tang En obviously didn't think so. He kept shaking his head nervously, his rationality seemed to be collapsing, and even his speech was a little incoherent.
"I, I am too useless. I have been influenced all the time. I told myself that I need to work hard to become stronger, but even God is playing a joke on me, making me awaken to an accident. My existence is an accident, and I will continue to create accidents..."
His lips trembled, his eyes filled with despair: "I once killed a teammate by accident. I don't know if this will happen again. I am a disaster..."
Tang En has always been an ordinary person, born in an ordinary family and living an ordinary life.
He was not tall, with fairly delicate features, but he had freckles on his cheeks, which often made him feel a little inferior.
He was not a smart kid. He was always criticized by his teachers for his unsatisfactory grades in school. His introverted personality made it difficult for him to make friends.
His parents also disliked that he was not good enough. His mother said that he was conceived because of an unexpected pregnancy, and his birth was not actually expected much.
Tang En felt that he was an unexpected, redundant and useless thing. Because he was redundant, he was despised. Because he was useless, he was hated.
Even now, his awakened skills are so in line with his own characteristics, so redundant and useless, that they may even have a bad influence on those close to him.
Tang En was like a chatterbox that couldn't stop once it was wound up, and he kept talking about his past like chanting a scripture.
He said these things not for the purpose of confession, but simply to prove his existence. He had existed in this world and left some insignificant and unnecessary traces.
However, even if the story begins from his childhood, Tang En's life is so unremarkable that even he himself finds it boring.
But Tang Yu listened carefully from beginning to end and did not make any sound to interrupt him.
When he said there was nothing more to say, Tang En stopped talking. He opened his mouth and wanted to say something, but he felt that anything he said would be redundant. He was even afraid that Tang Yu would think he was being long-winded.
Just as he looked at Tang Yu timidly, the girl standing opposite him spoke: "Are you hungry?"
The travel jacket seemed a little too big for her, and the bright red scarf around her neck didn't match the black jacket.
Her hair was long and messy, curled like seaweed, half of her face was revealed under the fluffy bangs, and her light gray eyes were slightly absent-minded when she looked at people.
The redness around her eyes made her look more like a patient.
Tang Yu did not express any opinion on Tang En's venting self-narration. She just asked Tang En after he finished speaking, as if it was a daily routine, "Are you hungry?"
Tang En, who was originally immersed in sadness and pain, was suddenly confused by this question. He even felt that his emotions were incoherent.
At that moment, there was a brief pause in his thoughts, and he was forced to think about Tang Yu's question, and then he couldn't help but nodded.
From the moment he regained consciousness in the morning, Tang En fell into great fear. At this moment, those emotions of fear and despair disappeared inexplicably, and he really felt hungry.
Tang Yu was also very straightforward. He took Tang En into the kitchen. Aunt Jin was not at home, so she personally cooked him a bowl of hot soup.
Lao Jin stockpiled a lot of food for the harvest celebration, and townspeople have been delivering various food over the past two days.
So Tang Yu indulged himself without hesitation and added sea fish meat to Tang En's soup.
Tang En sat on a small rattan stool, staring at Tang Yu's busy figure. His dark round eyes were slightly red from crying, and now he looked more like a puppy.
After Tang Yu's soup came out of the pot, he handed it directly to Tang En.
He held the bowl of steaming broth in his hands, but for a moment he could not make out the actual appearance of the broth through the rising mist.
Tang En held the soup in his hands to absorb the heat to dispel the cold. When the fog dissipated, he saw the bowl of broth.
The colorful juices are intertwined together and the original materials cannot be seen clearly. The soup has a slightly sticky texture and looks like a mosaic.
Tang En looked away with hurt eyes. He asked, "What did you put in here?"
Tang Yu said to him excitedly: "That's too much. I put all the ingredients that Lao Jin's family can use. You try it, it must taste very rich!"
Seeing Tang En burying his head and looking at Tang in silence, she scratched her head and said, "I'm not very good at talking, but the book says that when you're in a bad mood, eat something delicious, and you'll feel better."
"Yeah." Tang En nodded, his voice nasal, "Thank you."
He knew that this was Tang Yu's way of comforting himself.
The bowl of soup in his hand did not look like food, but Tang En felt an urge to drink it from the bottom of his heart.
Thinking this, he did it.
Since joining Li Jia's guild, he has learned about everyone's skills.
It is a recognized fact that Tang Yu's cooking is dangerous.
But no one had ever comforted him when he was sad, so even if this bowl of soup had problems, it was still precious to him.
The sticky soup was even a little scalding hot, burning Tang En's entire body from his mouth to his stomach, causing him to shudder.
It was only then that he realized that this messy soup actually tasted good!
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