Futuristic Gourmet’s Spoiled Marriage Chapter 4
Translated by Serena Love
Chapter 4: Stir-Fried Cucumber with Perilla
Ling Yaoyao returned to the room and was about to continue to lie down in the virtual cabin to become an internet addiction girl in the interstellar era. However, her wristwatch-type communicator on the table rang.
The smart assistant reminded her, "Master, it's your friend, Yan Yifei's video request. Will you connect?"
Ling Yaoyao was deeply impressed by this name. She arrived when the original owner died when playing on the air hoverboard, which this friend, Miss Yan Yifei, invited. Later, the original body suffered a heart shock and fell into a coma, and Yan Yifei also sent her back.
Compared with the Ling family's parents, who usually rely on video contact or meet her in the star network and spend very little time at home, or her eldest brother, who has very little voice communication and only goes home once in a few years, Yan Yifei is the original owner's best friend, the person who gets along with with the original body the most.
In "Legend of Huanuo," as a friend of the coquettish villainess Ling Yaoyao, Yan Yifei can only be regarded as a cannon fodder female supporting character.
Yan Yifei supported her on the surface, but she had been secretly in love with the third prince Xiao Zhen, but what Xiao Zhen liked was her friend Ling Yaoyao. Out of the girl's strong self-esteem, she didn't want to admit that she had lost to her friend. Yan Yifei kept hiding the matter well and never told anyone.
The original body likes Xiao Ming, the second prince, the male protagonist of the original novel, but the female protagonist, Su Qinghe, who has the grassroots background, is the one whom Xiao Ming likes. He has nothing but a mere stubbornness to Ling Yaoyao. He deliberately hangs her without agreeing or rejecting, because he wants to use the power of the Ling family behind her.
For her own selfishness, Yan Yifei also hopes that the original owner can be with Xiao Ming, lest Ling Yaoyao robbed her of Xiao Zhen.
So the original owner would make all kinds of trouble to the heroine, Su Qinghe, and entangled Xiao Ming. Yan Yifei followed her to fan the flames, igniting the matter and making bad ideas.
Until Xiao Ming was disgusted by the original owner and spoke coldly to her.
The original body was rejected, and her heart was ashamed. She retreated and agreed to the proposal of Xiao Zhen, the third prince, who had always liked her.
This incident caused Yan Yifei, who had been secretly in love with Xiao Zhen, to turn her face from Ling Yaoyao. It was also the fuse for the miserable end of the Ling family!
Because he was afraid that Ling Yaoyao and Xiao Zhen would marry and the entire Ling family would support Xiao Zhen's succession to the throne, the second prince Xiao Ming, cooperated with his rival, the first prince Xiao Rui, to deal with the Ling family together...
Ling Yaoyao recalled the way the original owner and Yan Yifei's silent ending of friendship and parting ways because of a man and then sighed.
Girl, if you like Xiao Zhen, go after him! Did you know that your reserved tweak indirectly caused the destruction of your good friend's family?!
In this life, she became Ling Yaoyao. In order to protect her parents and elder brother, who loved her, she must stay away from Xiao Ming and Xiao Zhen, these two great disasters.
And Yan Yifei, who has a crush on Xiao Zhen, she also plans to reduce contacts with her.
It wasn't until the intelligent assistant repeated the question that Ling Yaoyao answered: "Connect."
In the holographic projection, Yan Yifei's current appearance quickly appeared.
She is a pretty hot busty beauty with burgundy long wavy hair and bright facial features.
Yan Yifei wore a very sexy sports vest and short shorts, exposing large areas of her skin that had been lightly tanned by the sun. She sat on the sofa and ate fruit.
After several calls, the communication was finally connected. Yan Yifei questioned Ling Yaoyao like a machine gun. The same sentence was repeated over and over again. "Little girl, what are you up to? How dare you not take the communication from this Auntie?"
She looked at Ling Yaoyao's fresh braids and plain aqua-green dresses. Yan Yifei did not wait for Ling Yaoyao to answer but continued to question her, "Isn't it okay to be a coquettish girl together, to fascinate thousands of boys? Why did you suddenly change the style!"
Ling Yaoyao's facial features are clear and beautiful, and she is very outstanding, but her figure can only be considered okay... She usually wears a coquettish style, mainly relying on rich makeup and gorgeous dresses.
Ling Yaoyao pressed her temples with a headache and simply said, "My eldest brother is back."
Yan Yifei knew that her friend is most afraid of her brother. When Ling Yaoyao first started to learn makeup three years ago, Ling Xuan caught her, and he severely criticized her. He said that she knew how to dress up all day when she was too young. It is better to study well.
From then on, every time Ling Yaoyao went home to see her elders, she only dared to wear light makeup. If she saw her brother, she could only show her bare face.
Yan Yifei sympathized with her and said, "Your brother is indeed terrible! You were scolded again?!"
She immediately understood why her friend didn't answer her communication device and dressed up like a good girl.
Ling Yaoyao couldn't explain that it was inconvenient for her to cook and take a bath with the communication device on her wrist. She forgot to wear it after taking a shower because she didn't have anyone she wanted to contact in this era.
Fresh and elegant dressing style and light makeup are her habits now.
In order to find a reasonable excuse for the change of dressing and makeup style in the future, Ling Yaoyao continued, "My brother doesn't like me to dress like a monster. He will soon move back to the Imperial City. I have to maintain this style in the future. The important task of fascinating thousands of young boys can only be entrusted to you!"
Yan Yifei was shocked, "Ha?! No, didn't you vowed before that you must get Xiao Ming in your hands when you go to college? If you dress like this, breast but not breast, butt but not butt, you have nothing to look at. I will tell you, you can't attract men like this!"
Ling Yaoyao directly ignored Yan Yifei's contempt for her figure. She didn't intend to attract people with her figure. Besides, she is still young... She is only 18 years old, and there is still room for development!
Ling Yaoyao's headache is only that Yan Yifei knows that she likes Xiao Ming... In fact, the original owner was in love with Xiao Ming at first sight at the second prince Xiao Ming's 20th birthday dinner last summer. She has not concealed it in front of her classmates and friends. However, not many people know this because Ling Yaoyao was still a high school senior with heavy academic pressure.
Xiao Ming was studying at the Huanuo First Military Academy, which was strictly managed, so they didn't even have a chance to meet. The original owner can only speak in their circle, intending to use her identity as Miss Ling to scare away those women who have thoughts about Xiao Ming, and prevent him from being caught before she starts her chase.
'Oh boy, this pot that she likes Xiao Ming must be thrown away as soon as possible!'
Ling Yaoyao said with a bitter face, "My brother won't let me fall in love in college unless that person can last half an hour with my brother... At a glance, Xiao Ming can't last for even three minutes. He is much weaker than my brother. I decided not to like him."
Ling Yaoyao suddenly felt that the strict discipline of God of War was really great!
Yan Yifei was shocked, "Gosh! Your brother is really terrible! My sister is the captain of the Scarlet Rose Army, but she never cares about me... Of course, it may be because she herself is romantic. Her little boy toy boyfriends change day after day."
'Uh, Yan Yiman, commander of the Scarlet Rose Army, is indeed has a personality of a lover!'
After talking about family affairs, Yan Yifei began to talk about business, "In order to celebrate the graduation of the three princes, Xiao Zhen, the Queen plans to hold a skating, skiing and hot spring party at Xuelan Little Holiday Star the day after tomorrow. They invited all our classmates. There would be many younger generations in the circle of imperial capital stars and nobles similar to our age. Are you going?"
Xiao Zhen is their classmate in high school. In "Legend of Huanuo," about Xiao Zhen's love of Ling Yaoyao, the author didn't write much about it. It was only said that he had a crush on Ling Yaoyao in high school. However, as mentioned briefly later in the novel, Xiao Zhen confessed to Ling Yaoyao for the first time at his birthday party in Xuelan Stay. Needless to say, it was naturally rejected.
Yan Yifei also learned at this time that her crush, Xiao Zhen, actually liked her good friend Ling Yaoyao. Ling Yaoyao immediately shook her head. "No, I want to stay with my brother at home. I haven't seen him for three years."
'Brother is really an omnipotent shield!'
Yan Yifei was suspicious. "Since when did you stick to your brother so much? Besides, didn't you say that your brother will be transferred back to the Imperial Capital soon? He would have some opportunity to see you."
With that said, Yan Yifei began to act like a baby, "Yaoyao Baby, just accompany me! If you don't like Xiao Ming, you can also hook up with a beautiful little handsome guy, and your brother doesn't need to know. It would be boring to go alone without you."
Ling Yaoyao is determined to refuse, "They are all stinky boys, and there is no one who is handsome, so I won't look at them. Can't I suddenly start to like my brother!"
Ling Yaoyao knew that Yan Yifei was not bad-hearted. As a friend, she had always been sincere.
But love makes people blind, so she should keep a little distance from this girl. It's better than getting a pig teammate and let her turning her face in the end!
When the call is over, the room's intelligent system prompts a voice message from the Ling family's parents.
They had returned to the military star in advance and asked her to return to the Ling family's old house for dinner with Ling Xuan in the evening.
Ling Xuan hadn't been home for a long time, and he was going to the front line again in two days. It was indeed time for him to go back and have a meal with Grandpa Marshal.
Ling Yaoyao set a reminder alarm for four o'clock in the afternoon and then entered the virtual cabin.
In reality, Ling Yaoyao can't do mental release yet, so she can't make supplementary food in real life, but it can be done on the Star Network because the spiritual connection device of the virtual cabin has the role of guiding mental output.
The supplementary medicines and supplementary foods made by the medicine and food materials in the Starnet are based on virtual data. But because the mental power injected is real, these products also have certain curative effects. However, because there are no physical objects, they can only exert a 10-20% curative effect of normal food or medicine in real life.
In order to avoid wasting mental energy, apart from a novice who exercises and tried new products, only a few auxiliary therapists will make supplementary medicines and food on the Starnet.
Complementary therapy music is inherently non-physical, so it will be limited to a slight reduction on the star network, about 70 to 80% of its original effect. Therefore, supplementary music therapy is more popular on the star network.
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Ling Yaoyao rented an apprentice-level assistant therapist practice room for pharmacy and food and learned how to deal with the simplest first-level medicinal materials and first-level food materials with her mental power.
The main way to treat medicinal materials is to extract their essence with mental power.
The main method of food processing is to expel the impurities in it with mental power.
After a few days of training, Ling Yaoyao felt that she was able to get started. She planned to use the processed medicinal extracts and ingredients to make a simple supplementary food to practice her hands.
The adjuvant products that combine medicine and food were never done. This method often causes serious loss of the efficacy of the medicine during the cooking process and causes the taste of supplementary food, which usually already has a strange taste, would be even more indescribable.
It was also the first time for Ling Yaoyao to try. She cooked stir-fried cucumber with perilla.
Perilla is a medicinal material as well as a food material. In order to achieve the expected taste, Ling Yaoyao added a few pieces of untreated perilla leaves and added a small amount of perilla extract.
As for the cucumber processed with mental energy, Ling Yaoyao took a bite to compare it to the unprocessed cucumber. She felt that the taste was more sweet and crisp, without any astringency.
She cut the cucumber into 8mm thick slices, heat oil in a pan, fry the cucumber until both sides are slightly browned, and then set them aside. Then she heats the oil in a wok to sauté the garlic, perilla, and peppercorn over medium heat until fragrant, then adds the cucumber and stir-fry evenly. Finally, she adds the perilla extract, salt, and oyster sauce.
A simple first-level supplementary food, fried cucumber with perilla, is ready quickly.
Ling Yaoyao tasted it herself, and it felt that the taste was not bad. It is even more fragrant and crispy than she expected, but it was still a bit worse than the authentic taste.
She adjusted the proportion of perilla extract. Sometimes she puts perilla leaves, and sometimes not. Ling Yaoyao made several more copies.
But which of the specific adjuvant therapy effects is the best is not her decision. It needs to be scored by a combatant's taster.
Ling Yaoyao relied on the guidance of Starnet's assistant to open a small personal store on Starnet's largest online shopping platform for supplementary foods. She was too lazy to name the store and use a default name, which was a string of numbers.
Ling Yaoyao chooses the "Virtual Auxiliary Food" section and puts the cooked perilla fried cucumbers on top. Each cucumber is one portion, so in total, there were 100 small portions.
The so-called online shopping platform was like scouring the sand on the beach. Whether the food is a dreg or delicious food, it is pure luck.
Everyone will not spend too much money on virtual supplementary therapy food. For the work of novice food supplementary therapists, people may not be willing to pay for the money.
Ling Yaoyao strolled around the works of other food assistant therapists on the shopping platform. Many of them were lumps of black, lacquered, or mushy strange things, which looked like dark cuisine! There is often the label with a reward, which means they would pay money to invite someone to try it.
[T/N: Dark cuisine is a term for failed food in anime or video games, or just food so unappetizing and looks hard-to-swallow.]
It seems to be a little okay. Many people tried it and also expressed their opinions. People would give scores and comments on the taste and the effects.
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After some comparisons, Ling Yaoyao was very confident. She set a price for her delicious perilla fried cucumber at a price that was so high—100 credits per serving, and only one cucumber per serving!
Cucumber is still the most common first-class ingredient in the interstellar age. You can buy a cucumber with 2 credits, and the virtual one is even cheaper, as cheap as 1 credit!
For virtual supplementary food, only first-level supplementary foods or supplementary foods with a master-level certification mark were only sold for 100 credits.
Did Ling Yaoyao do this because of lack of money, or did she not want to sell it at all?
Of course not.
It's because if she sets an ordinary price, everyone can't notice it. If she gets the highest price in the first-level supplementary food, it is easy to be seen.
Because the buyers could choose to sort from high to low, then this category of guests is definitely not bad at money. Therefore she specifically targets the curious and early adopters!
Ling Yaoyao didn't expect to sell them all. She only hoped that one or two fools would come to try it. If no one bought it for the whole day, she would change it to pay a reward for someone to eat.
Soon at four o'clock in the afternoon, Ling Yaoyao's preset alarm rang.
She came out of the virtual cabin and ran up to the fourth floor, planning to ask her brother when he would go back to his grandfather's house.
In the Interstellar Era, Ling Xuan can be contacted very conveniently with a practical communication device or home intelligent voice system.
However, Ling Yaoyao felt that she couldn't let go of any opportunity to hold her brother's "arm/thigh" as a bro-con. Face-to-face communication was the only way to deepen the relationship between brother and sister!
Soon after, Ling Yaoyao knocked on the door of Ling Xuan's room. She slapped the door and shouted vigorously at the smart sensor area on the door, "Brother, have you gotten up? It's me, your most beautiful and lovely sister! Hurry up and open the door!"
Ling Xuan hadn't slept well for three or four days and was catching up with sleep. Because he was at home, he chose to sleep naked, but the noisy little girl suddenly awakened him.
'...Sister or whatever. She is not cute at all!'
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