Chapter 5: That's My Egg Pancake
Headquarters of the First Army of the Blue Star Empire.
"Adjutant Li, there is a courier for you."
The communicator in the office rang, and Li Kai replied in a calm voice: "Okay, I'll be right there." Then he walked out of the office quickly. He met people who greeted him on the road, and he responded one by one, then entered the elevator and pressed the first floor.
Li Kai is the adjutant of He Yunchen, the youngest major general in the empire. It is said that the seventh-rank official in front of the prime minister's gate, although he is Major General He's adjutant and enjoys the rank of lieutenant colonel, his status in the base is second only to the major general.
The elevator opened with a "ding", and Li Kai stepped out, making sure that no one was around before he dared to go over.
The interstellar express delivery cannot directly enter the military headquarters building. All the express deliveries sent to the military headquarters will be checked and accepted by the security department, and then the individual will go down to pick up the package.
When the sergeant of the security department saw Li Kai appearing at the door with a serious face, he delivered his courier immediately before he could open his mouth, "Adjutant Li, this is your courier!"
"Thank you." Li Kai said he nodded and left with the courier.
"Did Lieutenant Li laugh just now?" The non-commissioned officer of the security department whispered to his companion, "It seems that he is receiving a courier for the first time. He is so happy. Could it be that he is in a relationship?"
"Hush!" The companion Startled, he looked towards the door vigilantly, only to breathe a sigh of relief when he saw that Lieutenant Li had gone far away, "Can you arrange the affairs of the chief at will? Do you have any professionalism!" Saying this, After staying in the security department longer, he still showed a teasing smile to his companion, "The content of the inspection said 'food', I guess it was a bento made for him by his partner, hehehe."
Li Kai holding the courier in his hand, he walked back with a cold face, looking the same as usual. Some familiar military officers passed by on the road, and seeing him holding a courier, they all felt a little unrealistic. Li Kai was a loner with a serious personality. They had never seen Li Kai receive any courier after so many years in the military.
"You can also receive courier? What is this?" The other party was obviously surprised, and then suddenly said, "Oh-is it the courier from the major general? Is it a gift from those fanboys and girls to the major general? But isn't the major general always. Do you want to accept it?"
Li Kai glanced at him, stretched out his hand to press the courier tightly, and said lightly: "It's mine, I left some documents at home, and the smart housekeeper sent them here." Just as the elevator came down, he immediately said goodbye to his colleagues, walked in with the courier in his arms, and when the elevator door closed and he was the only one left, he couldn't wait to unpack the outer package of the courier, revealing the transparent crisper inside, a golden egg pancake and a small serving of sweet bean sauce is lying quietly in it.
Li Kai, or rather flying over at low altitude, remembered the wonderful taste he had tasted on the live broadcast platform, and Li Kai couldn't help swallowing his saliva.
Now that the situation is stable and the military department is free, Li Kai has a new hobby that no one knows about-watching live broadcasts on the Jinjiang live broadcast platform. In fact, he usually watches live broadcasts of mecha battles, but today he clicked into the food live broadcast room, he clicked in purely because he saw the recommendation on the home page, unexpectedly, he ate food that he had never tasted before!
This courier was one of the three omelettes that Ruan Tang gave out by lottery just now.
Ding--
The elevator stopped on the eighth floor. Li Kai glanced at it and didn't pay much attention. Until the elevator door slowly opened, a tall and straight figure appeared at the door.
"Hey, hello, Major General He!"
Li Kai held the fresh-keeping box and saluted the visitor, then watched him walk in and pressed the button on the twelfth floor.
He couldn't help but hide the crisper behind him, and carefully glanced at the young man in military uniform with a tired and serious expression from the corner of his eye.
He Yunchen, the youngest major general in the Blue Star Empire, is just 48 years old this year. He is still very young by the standards of today's human beings who reach adulthood at the age of 30 and have an average life expectancy of 300 years. His physique and mental strength are double S rank. After graduating from the military academy, he started to fight the enemy on the battlefield. However, such a perfect person is very disgusted with natural food.
The elevator door slammed shut, and Li Kai's heart skipped a beat. He could only pray that the fresh-keeping box was sealed tightly enough so that no smell would leak out, which would arouse the resentment of the major general. But his wish obviously came to nothing, and within half a minute, he heard He Yunchen's deep and cold questioning.
"What are you holding?"
Li Kai's forehead was covered with cold sweat, and then he replied honestly: "Reporting to the major general, it's an egg pancake."
"Egg pancake?" He Yunchen frowned even more, "It's the chef again. A new product sent by the association?"
The empire is currently vigorously promoting the use of natural food instead of synthetic nutrient solution. The use of nutrient solution was a last resort. Humans sacrificed their appetite in response to the long war, but there will be subtle psychological effects. Adverse effects, such as depression, mood swings, irritability, and insomnia, to name a few. Now that we have entered a time of peace, human beings no longer need to sacrifice their appetite for war.
But in He Yunchen's view, this is a waste of time. As a Mech Warrior with S-level physique and mental strength, these nutrients have no way of affecting him at all. Moreover, his five senses are several times stronger than that of ordinary people, and his sense of taste is also very sensitive. The ingredients carefully cooked by the Chefs Association taste like nothing to him, and he even feels sick. It is better to drink a tasteless nutrient solution, at least the nutrient solution will not make him want to vomit.
Moreover, if natural ingredients are used, the army will not only waste manpower to build a canteen, but also waste an hour a day to eat. Sailing against the current, if you don't advance, you will retreat. Although they have repelled the invaders now, if they think that they can sit back and relax, it is a big mistake.
Having said that, it is impossible for him to ignore the psychological hidden dangers and personal wishes of his soldiers. He does not object to his subordinates eating natural ingredients, but he definitely does not want these things to come to him.
However, in order to better promote natural ingredients, the Academy of Sciences has invested a lot of manpower and material resources in food restoration, and has teamed up with the Chefs Association to introduce new foods from time to time. Every time there is a new product launched, they will send a copy to the royal family and the homes of the big dignitaries, and the He family is naturally on the list. It's just that they didn't expect that this time they actually sent the things directly to the military headquarters.
"Take it and throw it away." He frowned tightly, "In the future, if there is such a courier coming over, don't send it to me and ask me, you can deal with it yourself."
"Ah, but..." Li Kai was taken aback, the major general seemed to be concerned the recipient of this courier has some misunderstanding? He exerted a little force unconsciously with his fingers, "Major General, this is my-"
There was a crisp "cracking" sound from the crisper, which was still clear in the closed elevator room. Its thin lid was actually pinched with a crack by Li Kai, whose physique was A+.
"What that smell-" He Yunchen frowned, feeling a strong fragrance instantly sweeping the entire elevator room, looking down, he saw a crack in the crisper box pinched by his adjutant, and the fragrance came from there passed out.
What was rare was that the smell of food this time was different from the previous ones. It didn't have the smell that disgusted him, but an attractive and strange smell.
He felt that his stomach, which had been silent for decades, seemed to be waking up, and the rubbing of the stomach wall brought out an unspeakable sense of emptiness.
"Wait." He raised his hand and finally changed his mind, "I accept this delivery."
"Ah...?" Li Kai looked at He Yunchen in a daze.
He Yunchen's cold gaze also met his, causing Li Kai to give a terrific shock, and immediately handed over the fresh-keeping box in his hand.
Seeing the elevator doors close in front of him again, Li Kai finally remembered what he was going to say just now.
"Major General, that's my omelette..."
"My..."
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Ruan Tang didn't know that a certain omelette he sent out was taken away by someone. He took a good nap after eating and drinking. He didn't get up until three o'clock in the afternoon, and then he started to study the menu for the evening.
The potatoes I bought before are still there, piled up in a pile. Although the refrigerator can keep fresh, it will inevitably affect the taste if it is stored for a long time, and if the potatoes sprout, they can no longer be eaten.
Ruan Tang tapped his chin and decided to have potatoes for dinner.
As the saying goes, eat well in the morning, eat well at noon, and eat less at night, but now that the nightlife is becoming more and more abundant, eating too little obviously cannot support the late-night life of the majority of informants.
He still can only eat some easy-to-digest food at the moment, rice is excluded first, and he doesn't want to continue to drink porridge, so the rest is probably noodles.
After making a decision, Ruan Tang logged into the backstage of the live broadcast, preparing to withdraw another sum of money to purchase ingredients, and was surprised to find that he had earned a full 1900 common currency in the live broadcast in the morning!
--The future people is so cute!
In a good mood, Ruan Tang transferred all the proceeds to his account, and then logged into the shopping mall to make purchases. In order to repay the enthusiasm of the audience, he planned to cook another meat dish tonight. Nothing can replace the happiness brought by human beings. There are potatoes and meat, so the recipe for tonight can be decided, let's make potato sirloin noodles.
He chose a piece of beef belly, which is glutinous and oily, so that the meat with moderate fat and leanness will taste better, and then bought carrots, onions, flour and tomato sauce.
However, ingredients such as star anise, cinnamon, and cooking wine are not sold in shopping malls. In the absence of aniseed ingredients, he wants to use strong-flavored tomato sauce as the stew, which should taste good.
Soon after placing the order, the ingredients Ruan Tang bought were delivered to his home.
After making preparations before cooking, Ruan Tang put on the live broadcast glasses again, ready to broadcast live.
However, when he turned on the optical computer and was about to start the live broadcast, he noticed a golden light spot flickering on the upper left. He looked up and found that it was a news from the station. Worried about missing some important news, Ruan Tang hastily clicked on it.
There are two messages in the station. One is that because Ruan Tang made a dish using potatoes as the main ingredient, the live broadcast platform made a recommendation notice for him on the scrolling advertisement slot on the Food Channel page. This recommendation brought him A lot of popularity came.
The second message was to inform him that his streamer level had been raised to Lv2. The level of the anchor is closely related to the popularity value of the live broadcast room. The popularity value not only refers to the number of people online, but also related to the gifts rewarded by the audience.
Upgrading is a good thing for Ruan Tang. He remembered that it was stated in the tutorial that when the anchor level reaches Lv2, a follow function will be activated. After the audience follows the anchor, the anchor will automatically send a notification to the audience every time the broadcast starts. On the optical brain, it is a very beneficial function for accumulating popularity.
Ruan Tang started the live broadcast in a good mood: "Good evening everyone, I'm the anchor Ruan Tang, this time I'm going to make potatoes and beef brisket noodles for you." With the opening of his live broadcast, a large number of viewers who followed
Ruan Tang came after receiving the notification of the live broadcast, they rushed into the live broadcast room as quickly as possible.
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The author has something to say:
Li Kai: Major General- this is my bento, my egg pancake qwq!
He Yunchen: Huh? [Looks down at the sender, then points to the adjutant] Wife, mine.