Chapter 115
"System," Shen Zening sat on the stall in Zaizai's game room, staring at the fox felt in front of him that had already taken a prototype, but was not yet perfect, and was still improving, as if facing an enemy, and asked anxiously, " Is Yangyang back?"
"No, no, no, don't worry, Mr. Shen, I'm keeping an eye on it for you!"
The system is helping him pay attention to Bai Yang's movements, so that he can have time to complete the half-finished task.
After the three of them finished the steamed hairy crabs, Shen Zening bought some more from the system mall, steamed a large pot, and distributed them to the employees, Xu Xiaoyan, Mingxuan and Si Jin, as well as his brothers-in-law Bai Ying and Rong. green.
Bai Yang's evaluation of the hairy crabs was pretty good, but it was a bit troublesome to remove the crab meat, although he had never done it himself.
Shen Zening thought that this was all a trivial matter. If other people also thought that hairy crabs tasted good, breeding could be put on the agenda and arranged as soon as possible.
Shen Zening prepared a lot of hairy crabs for the employees, two for each person. They had already divided them according to the number of people. Ordinary soup bowls couldn't fit them, so he simply took a big soup pot and took them to the employee cafeteria when the employees were having lunch. Let everyone divide it.
Xu Xiaoyan, Si Jin and Mingxuan, as well as Bai Ying and Rong Qing need to share more. They are calculated as three per person. Xu Xiaoyan, Mingxuan, Si Jin and others were also taken by Shen Zening, and they are all attached. Tools and crab vinegar.
When it comes to Bai Ying and Rong Qing, Bai Yang said that he would go and see them off, and that he would go sit in Bai Ying's room and talk to him about some things.
It's probably about the Yaozu and Rong Qing, Shen Zening thought, watching the little fox leave the small building with a pot of hairy crabs, and then -
quickly ran up to the second floor, got into Zaizai's game room, and walked from there. He took out the unfinished fox felt from the system space and planned to take the time to finish it while Bai Yang was away. He also enlisted the system as a strongman to help him pay attention to Bai Yang's movements.
System was squatting in front of the window facing Bai Ying's room, like a security guard watching the door, while watching the movement in the yard and taking out the unfinished drama.
Fox fur is fluffy and soft, not as hard as wool, and a bit difficult to poke.
There was still a teaching video on the small table. Shen Zening followed the movements in the video. It took him a long time to poke the little fox's head out, and then he was ready to poke the body.
By the time the body had taken a rough shape, more than half an hour had passed.
The most troublesome thing about fox felt is to poke the soft fur into the solid core. For this reason, Shen Zening was in a hurry and because he was a novice, he broke several needles that poked the fox felt, and bought them from Shuowang City. He broke all the tools, so he had to buy a bunch more from the system store.
Shen Zening picked up the needle again and continued to poke at the fox felt. He also asked the system: "Tong'er, did Yangyang come out from Bai Ying?"
"Well, wait a minute, let me take a look..." The system did. The drama was reaching its exciting moment. He hurriedly looked away from the screen for 0.5 seconds and glanced into the yard. "He didn't come out. Just keep poking." Shen Zening breathed a sigh of relief. "Yeah."
But while he continued to poke at the fox felt, he took the time to look at the time in his busy schedule.
It's been almost two hours, why hasn't the little fox come back yet?
"Mr. Shen, didn't you just poke the fox felt while Bai Yang was away and give it to him on tomorrow's anniversary? Why are you still thinking about why he didn't come back at this time?" The system watched him poke and leave.
God, he couldn't help but wonder.
What's going on? Are you really a wife slave? Everything feels wrong after your wife has been away for a few hours?
"No, I'm just curious." Shen Zening replied casually, shook his head, calmed down and poked the little fox's body, preparing to adjust its shape again.
Bai Yang didn't come back until an hour later. Counting the previous two hours, he went to talk to Bai Ying for more than three hours, and his throat was almost smoking.
After he returned to the small building, he hurriedly closed the door and ran to the kitchen to drink a large glass of water for himself.
"Why are you so thirsty? Didn't Xiaoying give you water?" Shen Zening laughed. After he finished drinking, he hugged him from behind and kissed his crab-scented hair, "It smells so strong of hairy crabs, Baby, are you going to deliver hairy crabs to Xiaoying, or are you secretly finding a place to eat them yourself?"
Bai Yang leaned on him and said lazily: "Rong Qing has no body, so he can't eat it, but you made six As for the hairy crabs, Xiaoying and I parted ways while chatting."
After saying that, he reached out and touched his belly.
Bai Ying had trouble opening the crab meat first and ate less. He only ate two and didn't want to eat anymore. He said he would wait until Shen Zening made a dish of crab meat without shell before eating it.
Bai Yang actually doesn't like to take apart crab meat. When he and his brother were sitting at the table to eat together, he studied the crab shells and tools for a long time before taking out the crab meat.
However, he did remember what Shen Zening told him about where he could and could not eat, and he did not eat the wrong thing.
"Xiaoying, what do you think of the hairy crabs? Are they delicious?" Shen Zening asked, her warm palm covering the little fox's hand on her belly, "I touched it... Well, it seems to be a bit bigger. It seems I'm going to give birth to a younger brother and sister for my son."
"What are you talking about?"
Hearing this nonsense, Bai Yang smiled and slapped Shen Zening's hand away, "He said the meat was okay, and it was quite delicious. It was too troublesome to take out the meat, so I said I would call him later when I had shelled crab meat. "
Shelled? " There really is.
Tomorrow is their 100-day anniversary, and he has already thought about the menu. One of the key dishes is crab-stuffed orange.
If the little fox thinks it's good after eating it, he can add it directly to the restaurant's menu.
Bai Yang got out of Shen Zening's arms and looked around, "By the way, where is Zai Zai? Is he in his own room?" "Well
, he's still asleep," Shen Zening said.
"Then I'll go up and take a look."
At the same time, Shen Zening was talking to the system in his head, "Tong'er, where's the cub? Have you sent it back to the room?"
System: "Yes, yes, Mr. Shen. Don’t worry, the task was successfully completed!”
The system has been addicted to watching TV dramas. In addition, no one was walking around in the backyard in the afternoon. There was also a waiter in the back kitchen who was busy serving dishes and bringing back plates. It was staring at the window. It’s been almost three hours, so it’s inevitable that I’m slacking off.
So they accidentally missed Bai Yang leaving his brother's room. It wasn't until there was movement from the door downstairs that Shen Zening and it were shocked to realize that Bai Yang was back.
Shen Zening didn't even have time to complain about the unreliability of the system. He quickly put away the fox felt that was mostly poked, and then hurriedly put the table he had moved from Zaizai's room back to its original position.
He could have poked the wool felt in Zai Zai's room, but the window of the playroom could better see the location of Bai Ying's room, and Zai Zai was rolling on the carpet in the play room, so he simply moved the table over. While looking at the cub, he poked the fox felt.
At that time, Bai Yang could be heard downstairs opening the door and entering. Shen Zening stuffed the table back into Zai Zai's room, but it was too late to carry Zai Zai back to the crib, so she had to ask the system for help.
The time card was just right. He rushed downstairs and saw the little fox frantically drinking water in the kitchen. Before he thought of going upstairs to take a look, he immediately breathed a sigh of relief and went up to talk to the little fox, fighting for the system. time.
"Baby, are you awake?"
As soon as Bai Yang opened the door to the room, he saw Zaizai, who was supposed to be sleeping in the crib. He stood up at some point. The milky-white eggshell was leaning against the light-colored crib railing. He came back and said "嘤" in a hurry.
Zaizai is confused: What is OvO daddy talking about? I didn't sleep. I had just been watching my father poke the little fur ball.
Shen Zening leaned against the door and felt relieved when he saw that the little fox didn't find anything unusual.
...Fortunately, Zaizi can’t speak now.
That day until before going to bed at night, Shen Zening could not find a chance to avoid Bai Yang and poke the fox felt.
The fox felt already looks like a little fox, missing ears and a tail, which have not been poked out yet, and there are still some details that need to be improved.
It seems that I am destined to stay up late.
Shen Zening thought that she would go out of her way to tease the little fox so that he could use up some energy so that he could sleep more soundly later and not find him secretly getting up in the middle of the night to prepare anniversary gifts.
"...Shen Zening, wait..."
He had done it for a long time yesterday, and if he did it again today, his waist would really be too much to bear. Bai Yang pushed Shen Zening's shoulder, trying to get him up. It's a pity that he couldn't push away at all. Instead, as if he wanted to resist in return, the man grabbed his hand and pushed him down on the bed.
This trick worked as expected. When Shen Zening took the little fox to clean it, he was already too tired to open his eyes. He was carried to the bathroom in a daze and had a good wash. It was only when he was washed inside that he felt He frowned and struggled for a moment. When Shen Zening sent him back to bed, the exhausted little fox had no strength left in his fingertips and fell asleep as soon as he touched the pillow.
Shen Zening pressed the corners of the quilt for him, then quietly walked out and went to Zai Zai's playroom to stay up late.
When there was a faint light outside the curtains, he had just poked and corrected the small flaw on the last fox ear.
The first ray of sunlight in the morning shines into the room and shines on the little fox on the table.
Although the shape and appearance of this fox felt are not particularly perfect and there is room for improvement, overall it looks pretty good. It is a cute little white fox sitting in a squatting position, with a big tail and triangular pointed ears.
The tops of the ears were poked with pink inner walls, and even the four claws below were added with pink flesh pads.
The pink fur was wool that Shen Zening temporarily bought from the system mall. The texture was different from that of fox fur, but fortunately it was small and didn't look particularly obvious.
"It's finally done." Shen Zening reached out and pressed his sore shoulder, stood up and stretched.
After staying up all night to prepare the anniversary gifts, Shen Zening felt that his neck and shoulders were almost no longer his own. He was in good spirits, but just a little sleepy.
But it's all worth it.
He picked up the little fox, faced the light, and looked around carefully.
Ears, uniform in shape and size, symmetrical in position.
The tail, body, and head are all firmly stamped, not limp and loose.
Just barely getting by...
Although Shen Zening feels that she is not as cute as her little fox, this is a fact. How could there be anything or someone cuter than a little fox? Even a smaller version of the little fox can't compare, and he's still a novice, so it's already pretty good.
This is what the system told him.
It yawned loudly, as it stayed up all night watching TV dramas, "Mr. Shen, just rest assured, your fox felt is so cute, Bai Yang will definitely like it." The fox felt couldn't do it
. If you just take it out like this, there will be no surprise in opening the gift.
Before it fully dawned, Shen Zening opened the system mall and browsed for a while, picking and choosing, and bought a quite exquisite gift box. She wrapped it by herself, tied it with a bow, and then put it away in the system space. It’s time to find a suitable opportunity and take it out.
The most urgent thing is to go back and catch up on some sleep. There are still a lot of things to do today.
With this thought in mind, Shen Zening returned to the master bedroom, set the alarm clock, and gently got on the bed before the little fox woke up, hugging someone to catch up on his sleep.
Shen Zening's anniversary plan is as follows: get up, prepare breakfast for Bai Yang, take him out to play, then go home, cook dinner for Bai Yang and give him gifts.
Five hours later, at 10:30 in the morning, the alarm clock rang on time. The little fox, who had gotten enough sleep, was woken up by the alarm clock at this time. He opened his eyes in a daze, with his long hair scattered, and subconsciously rubbed against Shen Zening's shoulder. Come on.
"Good morning, baby." Shen Zening woke up quickly and kissed him on the face, "A hundred days of happiness."
"Hmm... what a hundred days?"
Bai Yang yawned, confused. road.
"One hundred days since we met." Shen Zening said, taking out the beautifully wrapped gift box from the system space. "Open it and take a look?"
Bai Yang hadn't fully woken up yet, so Shen Zening sat up with him in his arms and stuffed a square box with a bow into his arms.
The box was very light and weighed nothing. The little fox's reaction was still slow at this time, so he slowly pulled away the bow, opened the box, and then saw a miniature version of himself in the box.
It's a little fox poked out of fur.
"This is..."
Bai Yang's sleepiness and sleepiness suddenly disappeared. He picked up the little fox and said in surprise: "This is... my fur?"
He remembered that he had lost his memory before. , when he could only show others his true form, Shen Zening secretly saved a lot of the hair he lost. At that time, he thought that Shen Zening was keeping it to make fun of him. Unexpectedly, it was actually given to him. Prepare gifts.
This little white fox is only as big as one hand, squatting obediently in Bai Yang's palm. From the demeanor and details, it can be seen that the person who made it is still a novice, but he is very careful.
"You did it yourself..." the little fox murmured.
"Well, do you like it?" Shen Zening hugged Bai Yang and cut his hair back, asking with some anxiety.
"I like it! Of course I like it!"
Bai Yang gently touched the little fox, turned his head and chirped on Shen Zening's lips, "Thank you."
He had received many gifts from others since he was a child. .
Most of those gifts were expensive utensils or luxurious accessories. No one had ever taken such care to make him a gift that was unique to him.
"This little fox is not perfect yet." Shen Zening put her arms around the little fox's waist and deepened the kiss.
"I will continue to be a cuter little fox for you in the future." After a long time, the two of them separated, and Bai Yang calmed down his breathing, "...you have done a good job." After he finished speaking, he held the little fox in his hands
.
Fox leaned into Shen Zening's arms and said with some annoyance, "I didn't even prepare a gift for you..." "
This was the surprise I wanted to give you. Meeting you is the best gift I have ever received. ." Shen Zening said.
Shen Zening didn't care if there were any gifts, but Bai Yang secretly remembered the key word "one hundred days".
The little fox thought that in the next hundred days, he would prepare surprises and gifts.
All day today, Shen Zening didn't ask Bai Yang to help with cooking.
"Just watch from the side." Shen Zening smiled and held his hand that was trying to help, "Let me do this."
After getting up, he originally wanted to take Bai Yang to visit Shuowang City.
It was autumn, and there were a lot of fresh seasonal fruits in Shuowang City, many of which Shen Zening had never seen before. They also went to Shuihua Temple and brought hairy crabs to You Xueting.
But this time, Bai Yang only swam in the lake, admired the autumn scenery of Luoyun Lake, and then went shopping with Shen Zening before urging him to go home.
After staying in Shuowang City for so long, there is actually nothing interesting here. I have been to all the places I can go, so I might as well stay at home with Shen Zening.
Shen Zening originally told the shopkeepers of the cloth shop to send the clothes that had been made in a hurry to the restaurant, but now the plan changed, so he went to get them with Bai Yang and asked Bai Yang to go back in new clothes. Home.
What he ordered was a set of white clothes, trimmed with silver thread and embroidered with nebula patterns. The little skirt that Bai Yang wore when preparing the prototype was also of the same style.
"You have already bought me a lot of clothes." Bai Yang touched this piece of clothing that was worth a lot at first glance. "The wardrobe can no longer fit in it."
Bai Yang was talking about one of the cabinets in the cloakroom. Shen Zening helped him straighten out the wrinkles on his collar and said with a smile, "Then put it in the next closet."
He also felt that he had bought too few clothes for Bai Yang, so he had to use a specially designed cloakroom. Just fill them all up.
In addition to crab-stuffed oranges, dinner also includes fox claw jelly, sweet-scented osmanthus and taro soup, chicken stewed in garlic rice wine, pumpkin and duck leg soup, chestnut yokan, and milk-flavored pumpkin pie.
Four of them are desserts, and Shen Zening specifically asked the system to customize a fox claw mold to make the fox claw jelly.
They went out for a trip and it was still early when they returned to the small building. Shen Zening went straight into the kitchen to prepare for today's dinner.
Bai Yang wanted to help but couldn't help. Shen Zening thrust a novel into his hand and asked him to read it on the sofa.
"No." Bai Yang closed the novel and placed it on the kitchen island. "I don't want to read it. I just want to watch you cook. Do you really not want me to help?"
Shen Zening had originally made up his mind not to let him. The little fox did it, but before he could refuse this time, he saw the fluffy snow-white fox tail behind Bai Yang wagging slightly, and those beautiful eyes looking at him expectantly, and he was instantly defeated. , backed down and said: "Okay, come here."
Among these dishes, the most troublesome thing is to remove all the crab meat from the hairy crabs.
Shen Zening was preparing to make garlic rice wine stewed chicken. He had just cut the chicken into pieces. Seeing that the little fox insisted on helping, he stuffed the white jelly cooked earlier, the mold, and the little ones with the coloring into his hands. Bowl of white jelly.
"Come and try this?"
Bai Yang took the mold and took a look and realized, isn't this his own claw?
...Where did Shen Zening learn all this?
But it's really cute...
"First drop the pigmented pink onto the pad of the mold, wait for it to take shape, then pour the colorless jelly into it, and wait until it cools to room temperature to demold." Shen Zening said to he said.
Fox claw jelly is the simplest dish among today's dishes. It's not really a dish, it's just a little dessert to make Bai Yang happy.
Bai Yang suddenly hugged his waist and rubbed it. Without saying anything, he picked up the tray with the mold and white jelly and ran to the island table to start making fox claw jelly seriously.
The two of them divided the work and worked together. Of course, Shen Zening did most of the cooking. After working in the kitchen for almost two hours, they finally prepared all the dishes except crab-stuffed orange.
"I didn't expect cooking to be so hard..." Bai Yang said while washing his hands.
There was a lot of pumpkin puree on his hands, which he got when he helped Shen Zening prepare the milk-flavored pumpkin pie.
"Yeah, cooking is really hard." Shen Zening took the opportunity to say, "So you have to make it up to me."
Bai Yang: "...?"
He turned off the faucet and deliberately threw it in Shen Zening's face. There was a lot of splashing, "You're too glib to talk right, so I won't help you cook."
Shen Zening wiped his face with a tissue and said with a smile, "Then sit next to me for a while
." He didn't intend to let Bai Yang continue to help. There was only one crab-stuffed orange dish left, and it was not easy for the little fox to help. After all, he could dismantle the crabmeat himself quickly, and he also had to carve the oranges.
The ten hairy crabs in the steamer have just been steamed. Shen Zening plans to make four crabs stuffed with oranges this time, as he is afraid of getting tired of eating too many.
The hairy crabs that had just come out of the pot were hot to the touch. Shen Zening put them aside to wait for them to cool down before tearing apart the crab meat. He picked up the oranges on the side and hollowed out the orange flesh inside, preparing to carve some patterns on the outside of the oranges.
But unfortunately, this is also an area that he is not very good at. After scrapping an orange, he simply cut the wavy pattern on the top of the orange and finished it. He should learn other fancy things later.
After preparing the oranges containing the crab meat, the hairy crabs had also cooled down a lot. Shen Zening took them over one by one, quickly removed all the crab roe and crab meat inside, and then put some ginger slices and crab shells into the pot to cook. Fry until the crab oil comes out, then take out the ginger and crab shells and throw them away, replace with crab meat and crab roe and stir-fry until fragrant.
When frying crab roe and crab meat, Shen Zening added some rice wine, a small bowl of freshly squeezed orange juice, and some salt. Once it was boiled into a soup, he could put it into the orange and prepare it for steaming.
While steaming, Shen Zening remembered the recipe he had seen before and deliberately added a few dried golden chrysanthemums to it.
Ten minutes later, the crab stuffed with orange was steamed. The aroma of crab and the fruity aroma of orange perfectly blended together, and the fishy smell of crab was completely dissipated by the orange aroma.
Shen Zening also added a lot of orange meat to the crab vinegar that was paired with it. When the last dish was served, Bai Yang had already picked up the bowls and chopsticks and was waiting to start eating.
The small cap on the orange was gently removed, and the alluring aroma of crab meat and orange came to my face and penetrated the tip of my nose.
The little fox took a deep breath of the fragrance, then scooped out some crab meat with a spoon, poured it on crab vinegar with orange meat, and put it into his mouth.
"How is it?" Shen Zening looked at him expectantly and asked.
Bai Yang didn't answer him, but scooped out another spoonful of crab meat and fed it into his mouth, with a crooked look on his face, "It's delicious."
Chapter 116
That white, luxurious dress that Shen Zening gave to Bai Yang as an anniversary gift was worn on Bai Yang all night.
It's just that the clothes are not very neatly dressed, and there are always places that are exposed.
A portion of the big fluffy and soft tail poked out from the messy clothes, and the rest of the fluff was buried under the quilt.
The clothes were loose, and the porcelain white and delicate skin was hidden in it, and was torn apart roughly by a calloused hand.
The belt that was originally tied around the waist was also pulled out, and the two white wrists were tied tightly together.
The other end of the belt was tied to the bedside.
"Shen Zening, did you have a plan for buying this bed?"
Bai Yang panted slightly and struggled a little with his hands.
They actually have several beds, some with cowhide headboards wrapped in latex, some with carved wooden boards, and some with hollows.
And recently they are using this bed with a hollow headboard.
The belt is fastened securely, but because the material is soft, it won't hurt your wrists.
Shen Zening smiled but did not answer. He moved his fingertips slightly and used his spiritual power to extinguish the lights in the room, leaving only a floor lamp in the corner.
The light of the floor lamp was also dimmed, illuminating the room with a warm yellow hazy halo.
The sound of some fabric being rubbed came from the dim room. The dress could no longer be said to be worn on the body, but could only be hung on the shoulders.
"Turn off the light... Why did you still leave one..."
The tail of the little fox's eyes turned red, and the beautiful eyes were filled with water. His voice was also trembling, and he finally managed to say a complete sentence.
"Keep the light on, look at you."
Shen Zening whispered in his ear. The fox ear shrank back because he felt the warm breath, and was bitten lightly like punishment by the man who pushed forward. .
It's not that the two of them don't have night vision. Even without the lights, Shen Zening can still see his little fox clearly in the dark night.
This was just...
He watched with satisfaction as Bai Yang's skin gradually turned crimson, and even his tail curled up in shame under the weak warm light.
"Yangyang, I'm going to open the gift."
...
It wasn't until noon the next day that the floor lamp that had been on all night was wrapped around the switch by a trace of golden spiritual power and turned off.
After fooling around all night and morning, Bai Yang didn't even have the energy to lose his temper. He was so dizzy from being made that he was doing it. When Shen Zening carried him to clean him up, he subconsciously wanted to struggle, but he only managed to move a little. give up.
It's so tiring.
The extremely tired little fox planned to wait until he recovered before settling the score with Shen Zening.
There was also a circle of red marks on his hands and wrists, which was particularly eye-catching on his jade-like skin.
Shen Zening knew that he had gone too far. As soon as the little fox woke up, he kissed him flatteringly and said that he could make amends in any way he wanted.
Once the words have been spoken, they cannot be changed.
So the little fox gave him a cold look and ruthlessly punished him by sleeping in the study for a few days.
Today is already the third day of sleeping in the study room.
In the planting and breeding yard, Shen Zening stood in the remaining open space, thinking about how to breed hairy crabs.
There is a place, but it's not big. You can dig a pond, but it's just one.
Shen Zening originally thought that raising hairy crabs did not require much space, but after asking about the system and looking at the breeding requirements for fish, shrimp, crabs and other aquatic products in the breeding system, she found that it would be best to use a large pond, but obviously the yard There wasn't enough space left for him to dig two ponds out.
He looked at the experience value progress bar on the restaurant's information panel. Coupled with the experience value bonus from the autumn activities in the past few days, he expected to reach level 40 the day after tomorrow.
In fact, there is no need to rush to dig the pond, but...the two can't be dug now, so we can dig the hairy crabs first.
Shen Zening remembered that the breeding period for hairy crabs takes one to one and a half years. It is best to start breeding in April every year. It has already passed now. If you wait until April next year, it will be too long.
Will you miss the new hairy crabs on the menu this fall?
No, no.
Shen Zening rummaged through the aquatic products options in the breeding system. There were also crabs among them, but they looked different from ordinary crabs, and he didn't know what the quality of the meat was.
From the description of the species, it seems that except for the special appearance of the shell, the texture of the meat should not be much different from that of hairy crabs.
This type of crab is a freshwater crab, and its maturity period takes four to six months, which is nearly one-third shorter than hairy crabs.
Crab seedlings are not very expensive, why not raise some first?
Shen Zening decided to give it a try and immediately set the length, width and depth of the pond to be dug in the construction system. After determining the location, he paid the spirit stone and the construction system started construction.
The excavation of the pond includes leaving a few mounds inside and planting some aquatic plants such as reeds, wild rice, calamus, etc. to serve as one of the food sources for the crabs.
Construction of the entire pond took ten hours.
This time he did not choose to speed up the construction, but waited for the NPC workers sent by the construction system to dig the pond at normal speed.
After all, there are many things that need to be prepared before starting farming.
In addition to buying feed and reading crab breeding instructions and teachings, adding one more product that needs to be cultivated will increase Xiao Yang's workload.
Xiao Yang is not a puppet. There are too many things he needs to do every day, so he has to let the little fox draw cards first.
As for why the little fox drew cards instead of telling Shen Yi and Xue Yun that they needed to recruit people...
of course it was because no one in Shuowang City raised crabs, and it was impossible to recruit anyone who knew how to raise crabs.
I hope my precious little fox will have better luck.
After a while, the worker NPC sent by the construction system had arrived in the yard. Shen Zening and Xiao Yang, who was busy checking the status of the spiritual grass, said that a pond was going to be dug here, and then left the yard to find Bai Yang to draw cards. .
In the small building, Bai Yang and Zai Zai were sitting in the game room, working on puzzles - Bai Yang was doing it while Zai Zai was watching.
This puzzle was an advertisement for a difficult puzzle that appeared on the homepage of the system mall when Shen Zening was buying ingredients from the mall yesterday. Zaizi happened to see it and acted coquettishly for a while to get him to buy it.
Shen Zening originally wanted to leave the puzzle until Zai Zai broke out of his shell and then let him play with it. Unexpectedly, only the next day, the father and son took apart the puzzle in the playroom.
The puzzle is very big, it is a landscape painting. Once put together, it will be about the size of the carpet where Bai Yang is sitting. It would take several adults several days to put it together.
When Shen Zening arrived at the game room, she did not directly tell Bai Yang about the card drawing. Instead, she watched for a while and then joined them.
The little fox has not completely calmed down yet. When he saw Shen Zening coming, he didn't even raise his eyes, as if he didn't see anyone coming at all. He just held the puzzle and interacted with Zai Zai while putting it together.
It's just that he didn't refuse Shen Zening's offer to join him in putting together a puzzle, and he would take the puzzle pieces handed over by Shen Zening with a cold expression.
After the couple finished putting together a small corner of the puzzle in silence, Bai Yang felt that his eyes were a little sore from staring at the puzzle all the time. He planned to take a rest and stood up with his son in his arms.
"Yangyang." Shen Zening stopped him, "Where are you going?"
"I don't know." Bai Yang said.
He was holding Zai Zai in his arms. As he moved, his wide sleeves slipped down, revealing some red marks.
"Baby, I'm sorry."
Shen Zening moved forward pitifully and carefully tested it. Seeing that the little fox didn't respond, she boldly hugged him around the waist, "I was wrong. I really know I was wrong. , don't ignore me."
Bai Yang's feelings about that night were actually more shame/happiness than anger, and he just couldn't get over it for a while.
The feeling of having his hands tied was really...
The little fox's face was slightly red. After all, he did not pull away from Shen Zening, but acquiesced to his clinging. The two of them were like conjoined twins, and the two of them gave away the cub as sticky as Siamese twins. Went back to his room.
Seeing that the little fox's attitude had softened a lot, Shen Zening quietly breathed a sigh of relief. After settling the cub, she talked to him about drawing cards.
"Smoking now?" Bai Yang asked.
Shen Zening nodded.
You may not be able to draw any occupations by drawing cards. Before the pond is built, you still have to assign jobs to the new NPC employees and arrange accommodation. The time is actually quite tight.
The system's card pool now has a new function. Each time you draw a card, you will get 10 card drawing points. After the card drawing points are accumulated to 10,000, you can choose to summon any NPC in the illustrated book to work in the restaurant.
However, the exchange value is too high, and you have to draw it a thousand times.
Shen Zening thought, since the game system has opened up farming, there should be NPCs responsible for related work in the card pool corresponding to the management system, right?
With a feeling of apprehension, Shen Zening let the little fox hit him several times.
However, this time their luck was not as good as the previous times. Most of the items they pulled out were permanent props. Although the level of these props reached the SSR level, they were not the ones they urgently needed.
Only during the third ten rounds did an NPC finally appear.
The magic circle was emitting white light, and it seemed that what Bai Yang had drawn was an SR-level NPC. After the NPC completely came out of the white light, Shen Zening and Bai Yang discovered that this new NPC turned out to be a young man. juvenile.
The two looked at each other.
This...is this considered child labor? !
This NPC must have encountered many situations where he was doubted about his age. He seemed to be furious. He puffed up his cheeks and said angrily, "I'm not young, I'm an adult! I just turned eighteen before I died." Here!"
...Death?
Catching the whole word, Shen Zening hurriedly asked: "Death? What do you mean by death?"
Are these NPCs not what he thought, coming from the main system like the system, and are they existences similar to artificial intelligence?
Are they actually real people?
"That's when I was alive." The young man said impatiently.
The boy's name was Xie Yu. Shen Zening held him and asked him for a long time before he figured out that they were indeed normal human beings before. However, after their death, they received an invitation from the game system, asking if they would like to become Kachili. NPC.
Xie Yu shrugged and said nonchalantly, "You have never died and you have to wait in line for a long time to be reincarnated. Instead of wandering around with nothing to do every day, we might as well find something." Things are done. And the pay in the main system is pretty good. Every time you work in a plane, you will get corresponding points. If you accumulate enough points, you can go to the fast lane to reincarnate, or you can continue to stay in the mission hall." "I don't want to
reincarnate . Well, this thing depends too much on luck, so it's good to just keep it this way."
In fact, if Shen Zening encountered Xie Yu's situation, he wouldn't want to give up the invitation from the main system.
After all, working as an NPC in the mission hall is no different from being alive. You can also travel (work) to various planes, and there is no lifespan limit. It seems to be quite cost-effective.
However, Shen Zening thought about it carefully and realized that Xie Yu's invitation to the game was also related to his expertise during his lifetime.
According to Xie Yu, he knew how to raise small animals. Whether they were cats, dogs, or the geese in his grandma’s yard in the countryside, they all liked him very much, and they were all fat and fat. Strong and growing well.
Many children who grew up in rural areas have the experience of being chased by house geese, but Xie Yu has no such worries at all.
Every time his grandma's goose saw him, he would come up to him and nuzzle him with its feathers.
From this point of view, Xie Yu is a person who is very friendly to small animals.
Shen Zening patted him on the shoulder, "Great, you are the talent we need!"
With such special skills, it would be a waste not to come to him to raise chickens, rabbits, and crabs!
Shen Zening told him about the new job and took him around the yard dedicated to breeding and planting.
For Xie Yu, this courtyard is simply paradise.
Not only are there rabbits to move around, there's also a majestic black wolf!
After all, Xie Yu was still young and still had a kid's heart. She couldn't help it when she saw the furry animals. She flew in front of Xiao Hei and picked up Xiao Hei, who was several dozen kilograms taller and weighed almost a hundred kilograms. , buried his face in its thick black and shiny hair, and rubbed it hard.
Xiao Hei: "Ouch!???!!!"
Help, what's going on with this guy!
Xiao Hei should have howled at the stranger who suddenly appeared in the restaurant, but for some reason, looking at Xie Yu, he just wanted to ask Xie Yu to move his fur and rub his belly? !
——It’s so scary. What kind of magic power does this human have?
Xiao Hei has been in the restaurant for almost two months, which is long enough for him to grow up to adulthood. His current size is not much different from that of an adult wolf, but he is so short and still carrying a minor. The childish Xie Yu picked it up directly.
Xiao Yang is quite interested in this new little colleague with strange powers.
Of course it wasn't because of his face or anything else, the main reason was that
Xie Yu was so strong that he could finally rest for a while without having to carry heavy objects in the yard alone.
Shen Zening thought so too. The little fox was really lucky and could always draw suitable NPCs in the restaurant.
"There are 30,000 points. Can the NPC here be good?" The little fox sighed, feeling a little sorry for Shen Zening's dwindling points.
Based on his previous luck, with 30,000 points, he could draw at least three NPCs. It's better now, only one was drawn.
Shen Zening smiled and pinched the tips of the little fox's soft ears. "It's okay. Those points will be earned back sooner or later. Moreover, your luck is much better than that of ordinary people. Some people spend millions of points and can't get even one."
"...Really?" Bai Yang was a little confused. He remembered that the card pool is indeed not guaranteed. It all depends on the face to draw the NPC. It is indeed possible that you can't draw it all the time, but millions of points will not That would be too exaggerated. Are there really players who are so rich but still so unfair?
"Of course..."
Of course Shen Zening didn't know, he was just making up random things to make the little fox happy.
Even if they are non-chiefs, they usually just can’t draw it after dozens of times. Hundreds of times are indeed...
well, it is indeed a bit too extraordinary, but the world is full of wonders, so let’s just treat it as if there really is such an extreme person. Players.
At the pond, the worker NPCs sent by the construction system were still constructing silently and orderly. Shen Zening took Xie Yu to take a look at the rabbits and gray-feathered chickens they were currently raising.
There was nothing interesting about the gray-feathered chickens. Apart from the special color, they were not much different from ordinary chickens. However, it was the Bounce Rabbit that aroused Xie Yu's interest.
"Wow -"
Xie Yu looked at the bouncy rabbit that was about to jump to the roof, and sighed, wiping the saliva from the corner of his mouth with his sleeves, "This jumping ability and these muscles will definitely be very good when made into spicy rabbit legs." It’s delicious, suck it up.”
Rabbit is so cute, but he wants to eat Rabbit!
Xie Yu stayed in the rabbit house and moved the bouncing rabbit around for a while before reluctantly following Shen Zening to the edge of the pond under construction.
"Okay, wipe your saliva. Those rabbits grow fast and you can eat them in winter. Don't worry." Shen Zening said with a smile, pointing to the corner of Xie Yu's mouth.
Xie Yu was stunned, thinking that he had not wiped it clean just now, so he quickly raised his sleeve and wiped it hard again.
"Ignore him, he's teasing you." Bai Yang said helplessly, stopping Xie Yu from looking for tissues to wipe his mouth.
"...Hmph."
Xie Yu hummed softly.
The pond had just been dug out. Shen Zening and Xie Yu said that the pond was specially used to raise crabs. They also handed Xie Yu a booklet about the crabs that he asked the system to print out from the breeding interface. Planting and care tips.
Xie Yu's innate skills were used to raise small animals that could run and jump on land. He had never raised an animal that could swim and crawl in the water. He was still a little worried about what to do if he couldn't raise it himself.
"It doesn't matter. If it doesn't work well, just try again."
Shen Zening wasn't so worried about this.
Xie Yu's ability can't only be used on those with fur or feathers. The same applies to those in the water. Besides, even if Xie Yu can't be raised well, they have no one else to use.
"Okay." Xie Yu scratched his head and read the booklet intently.
His dormitory was quickly packed out, and Shen Zening sent him some daily necessities, sheets, quilt covers and other items as usual.
Regarding employee uniforms, Shen Zening has not unified them yet.
He had spent a lot of time on a business trip to Yaoying City before, and had accumulated a lot of things in the restaurant, including a series of plans after he was about to reach level 40. He had not yet finished it. Now he just asked Shen Yi and Xue Yun to measure each item. I only gave them two sets of changes of clothes according to the size of each employee.
The new employee's crab breeding can be put aside for the time being. He will wait for the pond to be completed and buy a batch of crab seedlings from the breeding system tomorrow morning to see the effect.
As for now... Shen Zening decided to find a system and contact the mall's supplier to get the goods first this year.
The errand fee required by the system has been paid, and it quickly brought good news to Shen Zening.
The system helped Shen Zening contact a dimension whose technological development was similar to that of Shen Zening's world. After bargaining with the merchants who breed hairy crabs there, they ordered a large number of hairy crabs by paying in gold instead of spirit stones.
Gold in the world of cultivation is not too expensive. According to the prices at merchants, the price Shen Zening bought is actually very cheap, 30% to 40% cheaper than the hairy crabs he bought in modern times. It's a good deal.
This order lasted for two months, and a certain number of live hairy crabs had to be delivered through the system every day. However, after finalizing the shipping fee and the handling fee and labor fee for transferring between planes, Shen Zening quickly signed a contract with the merchant. Placed this order.
The hairy crab thing is settled, now it's just a matter of studying the menu with the chefs.
This batch is new in autumn. In addition to the famous dish of crab stuffed with oranges and several ways to eat hairy crabs, there is also chestnut yokan that Shen Zening made for Bai Yang.
Like the hairy crabs, Shen Zening has never seen this kind of dessert here in Shuowang City.
There are many frozen ones, but none of them have both red beans and chestnuts in them.
He asked the system and found out that the chestnuts in the cultivation world were all wild and unimproved varieties. They were small, dry, tasteless, and not as big, sweet, and glutinous as the ones he bought from the system mall.
...Good guy, he’s not going to start studying how to grow chestnuts again, is he?
This Xie Yu can't be responsible. He only knows how to raise animals. If he grows a batch of fruits and vegetables, wouldn't he have to recruit some NPCs?
"Let me see..." The system flipped through the planting interface. "It seems quite easy to grow chestnuts. Why don't you give it a try?" "
Just try it, but not now." Shen Zening said, "Grow it now." It's too late. Even if the growth period of the varieties sold in the planting interface is much shorter than ordinary ones, they still can't catch up with this menu." The system
closed the planting interface, "You are right, so you still want me to help you. Do you want to contact the merchant to purchase goods?"
Shen Zening: "...Contact me."
Ahhhh, he must prepare the required ingredients in advance before the new winter menu is released! ! !
Chestnut yokan is very easy to make. You only need to soak the chestnuts in agar for ten minutes, boil the chestnuts, peel the shells, put the red bean paste or mung bean paste in a pot with water and sugar, and add the peeled and chopped chestnuts. Mix well with the agar, pour into the mold and wait for cooling.
Regarding the sweetness, Shen Zening and the chefs studied it carefully. After making several versions of chestnut yokan, they finally selected one of the menus with moderate sweetness and settled on it.
There have been a lot of new desserts recently. In addition to chestnut yokan, there are also sweet-scented osmanthus and taro custard. In addition, there is a dessert area on the first floor. It seems it is time to draw a dessert chef NPC.
The days of preparing the autumn limited menu passed day by day. In the afternoon two days later, Shen Zening suddenly heard the familiar upgrade sound effects, and his eyes were filled with fireworks released by the system.
[Ding dong - Congratulations to Mr. Shen for successfully reaching level 40 after unremitting efforts! 】