Futuristic Gourmet’s Spoiled Marriage Chapter 91: The Charm of Mala Tang
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Time flies quickly. Soon, it was the day of the finals of the auxiliary therapy competition.
The first day was the final of the music therapy group. Beautiful men and women sang and danced, and their ingenious performance attracted a lot of audiences. The most important thing was not the curative effect but which idol was more likable.
The next day was the final of the pharmacotherapy group. Su Qinghe was the veritable number one most popular.
However, because of her status as a commoner, many people are not very convinced and secretly hate Su Qinghe. Many powerful people want to win Su Qinghe by coercion and seduction.
For example, Xiao Ming also had such a plan. However, compared to other powerful people, he had already quite reserved. He only planned to make another move at the end.
He was upset that a mere civilian woman dared to refuse his favors again and again!
With Su Qinghe's background, it is impossible to live in peace without finding a strong backing. Since she is looking for a backer, of course, he is the most suitable. Just look at the entire Huanuo First Military Academy, who is nobler than him, the second prince? Even Xiao Zhen, the third prince, had to respect his elder brother on the surface.
The third wave of Zerg attacks will be a bit far away, but as long as it comes... it will not be the same as the last time, "sending food" to humans!
Meschel already has a way to contain Ling Xuan, who always likes to grab credit from him.
Therefore, Xiao Ming had to bind an exclusive pharmacist as soon as possible. He can't trust medicine distributed by the royal family 100%.
In addition, Xiao Ming also secretly checked that his spiritual match with Su Qinghe was 90%. Su Qinghe would be a ready-made medication if he fell into a mental mania.
However, he was unhappy that Ling Yaoyao's match with him was less than 50%! Even though Xiao Ming had originally had some thoughts about Ling Yaoyao, those thoughts suddenly became much colder.
Ling Yaoyao advocated for people in the capital to eat Zergs, thus indirectly ruining his plan. Xiao Ming became more and more dissatisfied with Ling Yaoyao! More importantly, Ling Yaoyao has become extremely talented now, but she has never looked at him again. This feeling of being abandoned really makes Xiao Ming annoyed!
But recently, there has been news gradually revealing that in addition to being the adopted daughter of the Ling family, Ling Yaoyao is also the long-lost child of the Wei family. She is the biological daughter of the missing former commander of the Thorns Corps, Wei Ling!
Whether Xiao Ming was thinking about Ling Yaoyao or full of resentment, he could only hold himself back.
The Ling family is not easy to provoke. Now adding another Wei family who also protects their family... will be even more irritating.
Unless Meschel's plan can really kill Ling Xuan, the biggest reliance of the Ling family...
When the time comes, he could plan slowly to pull out the minions of the Ling and Wei family little by little...
Xiao Ming's various selfish thoughts are almost the same as in the original novel and even darker.
However, shortly before Xiao Ming planned to invite Su Qinghe to be his exclusive pharmacist, the civilian marshal, Zhao Bohai, suddenly made a high-profile public statement. Su Qinghe is his granddaughter, and no random cats or dogs can bully her.
Su Qinghe also announced on Weibo that she has agreed to join combatant Zhao Qingyun. She will no longer accept any invitation to cooperate with any other combatants!
Zhao Qingyun also transferred from Thunder Military Academy to Huanuo First Military Academy for Su Qinghe, the twin sister he had recently recognized!
Xiao Ming was extremely choked. He thought he would be able to catch Su Qinghe, but suddenly she had an extraordinary life experience. Once again, his plan fell through.
The identity of the second prince is very noble, yes. However, there is no real power behind him! He even had to give Zhao Bohai, a civilian marshal, some face. Xiao Ming did not dare to confront him.
No, it shouldn't be like this... He clearly dreamed that he would sit in that position... But the reality is not going well!
What went wrong?!
The third day, which happened to be Saturday, was the final of the food therapy group.
This period is the most popular time for the people in the capital to eat Zerg meat. With the main theme of "delicious and novel Zerg meat," the food therapy group has become the finale of the auxiliary therapy competition! This has never happened in so many years! They also got a lot more attention than the sound therapy and pharmacotherapy groups!
The audience can only watch and not taste the product on-site in the finals. They will have to wait one day after the game to try the virtual versions of the top ten works in the Star Network. However, this does not detract from everyone's enthusiasm for watching the live holographic broadcast. If they can't eat it, it's good to smell the aroma.
There is also the strongest contestant in the food therapy group, the food assistant therapist Ling Yaoyao who would be on the show for the first time! As a foodie, how can they not support her?
After all, Ling Yaoyao is the reason everyone can eat delicious supplementary foods and develop the horrifying Zergs into food ingredients! Ling Yaoyao's current national status is no lower than Ling Xuan, the undefeated God of War.
Before the finals, everyone was looking forward to Ling Yaoyao, and there were a lot of discussions...
"I don't know what novelty and delicious my goddess Yaoyao is going to make?"
"The pocket rice last time looked really inconspicuous, but there was something great inside it! It was so delicious that we couldn't stop talking about it! But this time we can see the production process. The appearance of the finished product won't mislead us."
"I really want to eat the food made by the beautiful girl Yaoyao soon. Even in the virtual version, if I can have a mouthful, I will be happy!"
The camera followed the sight of the majority of foodie fans and entered the finals of the food therapy group.
At this moment, Ling Yaoyao was wearing a mask and medical-grade gloves, swiftly making skewers on the cooking table.
The skewers made the meat cut much smaller than the ordinary Mala Tang. Considering that the judges and gourmet connoisseurs only have one stomach, they could not eat too much of each contestant's food even if there is a digestion-promoting and energy-consuming medicine.
There is a big pot on the stove next to her, and inside is the spicy soup base.
The preparation of the soup base was fully supervised by staff sent by the auxiliary therapy competition. It is prepared in advance and kept in the heat preservation pot. Now, it is ready to be boiled. Because the pot is covered, nothing can be seen in the live broadcast. Only the staff responsible for supervising the preparation process know how much essence is contained in it.
It does not take much time for the pre-prepared soup base to boil. The other ingredients have also been washed clean long ago. At the venue, Ling Yaoyao only needed to process each ingredient mentally, cut them into small pieces, and skewer them.
For some skewers that need to be boiled for a long time to be delicious, such as buzzing Zerg meat fillet, sliced furry caterpillar, winged Zerg meatballs, mushroom, radish, lotus root, potato, kelp, etc., Ling Yaoyao has already half-cooked them ahead of schedule. At the venue, she just needs to reheat it. When she saw a few little bee cameras fly next to her, Ling Yaoyao raised her head and glanced at the camera. She habitually pretended to be cold and faintly greeted the audience, "You will be able to eat soon. Everyone, please wait!"
Ling Yaoyao's light blue suspender jeans, white T-shirt, and little bun hairstyle looked very neat and refreshing. It was a pity that most of her beautiful face was covered by a mask.
The audience immediately posted real-time barrage messages. They strongly hoped that Ling Yaoyao would change the mask into a transparent mask.
They finally had the opportunity to see their Goddess Yaoyao cooking up close... They couldn't understand the cooking process anyway, and they couldn't eat the food. What they wanted to see was Ling Yaoyao's beautiful face.
Ling Yaoyao rubbed the Zerg meatballs, glanced at the audience barrage on the screen next to the cooking table, and calmly said, "No. I'm afraid you just look at my face and don't care about the dishes I cook anymore."
Everyone immediately licked the screen more powerfully. The number of barrages completely covered up the huge holographic screen! Sometimes some local tyrants were willing to spend a lot of money to lit fireworks or fancy effects... Ling Yaoyao had to turn off the holographic screen with a headache and gave up interacting with the audience.
She has beauty, money, and special strength. She is allowed to be willful!
After ten minutes or so after the opening of the final, Ling Yaoyao pressed the button for the representative to start the tasting. The host in charge of the commentary in the live broadcast room was stunned! Isn't this too fast?
After all, there are at least one hundred and fifty tasters. Contestants have to make a lot of dishes. Even if a lot of the work can be prepared in advance, it should not be so fast!
The judges and the tasters came over and took a look. Ling Yaoyao introduced everyone to the "dishes" to try.
'Huh? A pot of soup divided into spicy and non-spicy? Freshly boiled ingredients? Isn't this hot pot?'
But this method of meat in skewers does not require dipping sauce, which is really novel!
Ling Yaoyao smiled and said, "Only five tasters can come in at a time. Please line up. Each one can choose the ingredients you want to eat, but you can only choose eight kinds. Zerg meat is a must. At least you should take three! If you don't know how to choose, you can let me choose randomly for you."
Everyone took a look at the bowl Ling Yaoyao provided for everyone.
The first person who came in first was an auxiliary therapy master from the Imperial Food Research Center. Because he had eaten the auxiliary therapy food made by Ling Yaoyao several times with Mr. Cai, he was dissatisfied when he saw this small bowl. "Miss Yaoyao, can you change it to a big bowl?"
The food produced by Ling Yaoyao must be delicious! Just by smelling the spicy aroma, he knew that the taste was definitely not bad!
The judges in the final must try all the entries of the contestants. They will eat a few more bites for the delicious ones. Otherwise, they just poke a small piece with a toothpick and give a score after eating.
Ling Yaoyao's entry was the first one they wanted to try, not only because they were still hungry, but the food was guaranteed to be delicious. Of course, everyone wanted to eat more.
Ling Yaoyao explained patiently, "No, this is to let you save space in your stomachs and continue to try other contestants' works."
With that said, Ling Yaoyao quickly chose some buzzing Zerg meat fillet, winged Zerg meatballs, runner Zerg meat slices, and mung bean sprouts, kelp slices, radish slices, and mushrooms for those who asked for random ingredients.
Each portion is very small, just enough to fill a half bowl. After adding a little spicy soup, she dripped a few drops of sesame oil and put white sesame seeds, coriander, and a small spoonful of fried peanuts. A bowl of Mala Tang soup is ready. Ling Yaoyao also got the judges to take a small cup of ice-cold herbal tea to eat together with it.
"Wow, this one called Mala Tang is super delicious! It's hot, spicy, and numbing. It has a nice name!"
"It feels completely different from a hot pot! More convenient and more casual!"
"I want to try all the ingredients. If you don't give it to me, I won't leave!"
"It's just that the portion is too small! Just after a bit of taste, it is gone. I feel I can eat ten more bowls..."
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[T/N: Malatang literally means "hot spicy soup." Usually, the diners could choose what they want to eat, and the shop will cook it on the spot.
In the below video, you can go to 6:55 for the actual Malatang.]
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