I am reciting the Classic of Mountains and Seas in the interstellar

After Zong Ruoan hung up the call with Tantai Jinyu, he went to the bathroom to take a shower and change his clothes.

Just as they were finishing up, the doorbell rang outside the house.

It was the Zong family servant who brought him New Year's Eve dinner.

Zong Ruoan opened the door and let them in. After putting the delivered meals in the restaurant, he let them go back.

These people came on Zong's private interstellar spacecraft that could jump through space, so they were very fast.

Rushing back at this time, they still had time to reunite with their families and have New Year's Eve dinner.

In order to thank them for their service, Zong Ruoan also transferred a big red envelope to each of them, and then they were taken away in time.

After they left, Zong Ruoan sent a video call request to Xia Chujian.

At this time, Xia Chujian and his teammates were happily gathering in the kitchen and dining room to help Xia Yuanfang.

Hearing the beep from the quantum optical brain, Xia Chujian glanced at it and found that it was actually a video call request from Zong Ruoan.

She was a little surprised.

Today is New Year's Eve. Although it is not yet four o'clock in the afternoon, it is already dark outside and bitingly cold. Water dripping into ice is no longer enough to describe the cold outside.

At this time, if Zong Ruo'an is not preparing for a New Year's Eve dinner with his family, what video call request should he send her?

Xia Chujian pressed the connect button out of curiosity.

Zong Ruoan saw the busy people around Xia Chujian: "...are you at home?"

Xia Chujian nodded: "Yes, our team came to my house to celebrate New Year's Eve."

Zong Ruoan said with a smile: "Can I come and join you? I just finished my work today and I didn't have time to go back to my house to celebrate New Year's Eve. I am alone now."

Xia Chu didn't think much about it and said, "It's really miserable to spend New Year's Eve alone. Colonel Zong, where are you now?"

Zong Ruoan said: "It's in the community next to your home."

Xia Chujian exclaimed: "Colonel Zong bought a house in a well-decorated community! Colonel Zong is really rich!"

Zong Ruoan: "..."

The petrified people: "..."

To tell a person from one of the four noble families that you are really rich, I really don’t know whether it’s irony or ignorance.

But looking at Xia Chujian's behavior, it was neither sarcasm nor ignorance. She really thought so.

Li Fu came over and said seriously to Zong Ruoan on the video call: "Colonel Zong, if you can let us say 'you are so rich' when we first met, that is an out-and-out compliment. Most people don't get this kind of praise." Praise."

Zong Ruoan laughed: "I understand, thank you Li Fu for clarifying my doubts. By the way, because I can't go home to celebrate New Year's Eve, my family gave me a New Year's Eve set meal. I can't finish it by myself. If you don't mind, I’ll bring it to eat with you, okay?”

Xia Chujian smiled and waved his hands: "I don't mind! I don't mind! Of course I don't mind! Delicious food will taste better if we eat it together!"

Then she asked casually: "How many dishes did Colonel Zong's family send to Colonel Zong?"

Zong Ruoan glanced at the electronic food box on the dining table that had not yet been taken out and plated, and said: "...There are about thirty-two dishes."

Xia Chujian: "..."

When I saw the black rhino pork buns I was making, I suddenly felt that they didn’t taste good anymore.

But she quickly comforted herself that Zong Ruoan relied on quantity to win, while her family relied on quality!

Zong Ruoan said: "Then I'll come over now?"

Xia Chujian nodded blankly: "Do you need us to pick you up? With thirty-two dishes, will it be too much for one person to handle?"

Zong Ruoan thought for a while, "It would be nice if two of you could come over and help me get it together."

Li Fu and Song Mingqian immediately recommended themselves: "Colonel Zong, where is your address? We can come and help you!"

Zong Ruoan gave his address.

Li Fu and Song Mingqian immediately put on their coats and went out.

They did not use aircraft, but directly used the high physical strength of B-level genetic evolvers to jump between buildings and reach the neighborhood next door in five minutes.

However, after entering the neighborhood next door, it took another ten minutes to reach the first floor of the building where Zong Ruoan lived.

Because that community was much bigger than the old and backward community where Xia Chu met them...

Then he took the elevator to the top floor and arrived at the door of Zong Ruoan's top-floor duplex apartment.

After ringing the doorbell, Zong Ruoan opened the door for them, pointed to the restaurant on the other side and said, "The food box is still over there, let's move it together."

"There are five food boxes in total, each containing eight cold dishes, eight hot dishes, eight steamed dishes, four soups, and four staple dishes."

Zong Ruoan picked up the electronic food box containing four soups. The food box was almost half a person tall.

Song Mingqian carried two food boxes, containing cold dishes and hot dishes respectively.

The two food boxes Li Fu carried were steamed vegetables and staple foods.

The three people took the elevator from the top floor downstairs, then ran all the way, and finally arrived at the door of Xia Chujian's house.

Half an hour has passed.

Xia Chujian opened the door and said with emotion: "Actually, Colonel Zong lives quite far away..."

Zong Ruoan: "..."

If you use an aircraft, it takes ten minutes to get back and forth.

It's a pity that his aircraft is not here, and he can't always use his Xiaofang fighter.

When Xia Chu met, he just said it casually.

Li Fu and Song Mingqian followed from behind and placed the food boxes they brought over on the large dining table in the restaurant.

When Xia Yuanfang heard that Zong Ruoan was coming, he also came out of the kitchen and said politely to him: "Colonel Zong is welcome to come to my house to spend New Year's Eve together. I'll hold my hand here. Colonel Zong, you can do what you want."

Zong Ruoan didn't know anything about cooking and didn't ask to help in the kitchen.

But when Xia Chu saw their team members, they were either helping to pick vegetables in the kitchen or making buns in the restaurant.

So he also came over, put his hands in his trouser pockets, stood next to Xia Chujian, and watched her nimble fingers flying around, quickly wrapping up the white and fat buns.

He looked at the meat stuffing and asked curiously: "What kind of stuffing is this?"

Xia Chujian was very proud: "Black truffle and wild rhinoceros pork stuffing!"

Zong Ruoan was even more curious: "...I heard that the black rhino pork in Mulan City is out of stock everywhere. How did you get it?"

Xia Chujian: "..."

Careless.

I have forgotten the origin of this thing and cannot explain it to outsiders for the time being.

Ye Shijie smiled and patched up at this time and said: "Last time we went to the Alien Beast Forest for a mission, we shot two wild rhino pigs and brought them back. We were reluctant to sell them and kept them in my big refrigerator. If you want to eat, you can bring some over. , let Aunt Xia help with it."

Li Fu also said: "Aunt Xia's cooking skills are so good! Compared with Aunt Xia, the difference between ordinary people and a doctoral student is the difference between a primary school student and a doctoral student!"

Xia Chujian glanced at Li Fu sideways: "... Mr. Fu, your pun sarcasm is getting better and better. Who is a primary school student? - You can just give me my quantum optical brain number!"

Li Fu chuckled and said to Zong Ruoan: "Colonel Zong, I'm really not bragging. You will know after you eat the food cooked by Aunt Xia."

Zong Ruoan smiled slightly, but did not have high expectations.

He knew that in this empire, not to mention commoners and citizens, even many nobles did not have a good foundation in food.

However, these people do not include aristocratic families like their four nobles.

The food culture passed down from generation to generation by their four nobles could be written into a book.

He is confident that he is not comparable to the commoner aunt he met in Xia Chu.

However, when Xia Yuanfang finished cooking all the dishes and put them on the plate together with the dishes Zong Ruoan brought, Zong Ruoan realized that he had made a big mistake.

Xia Yuanfang only cooked four major dishes today.

A dish of unicorn beef stewed with taro and linden fruit, and a unicorn beef tofu that is so tender that it melts in your mouth.

A steamed wild rhinoceros pork meatball, and a pure meat version of braised wild rhinoceros pork.

However, each dish was served in three large bowls, and a small table was set up.

Then there were some snacks, such as the fried noodle nests made for the team last time, meat cubes and three fresh bean curds, as well as oil-flavored sugar cakes that they had never eaten before, white glutinous rice rice balls, and small sesame seed cakes with meat and vegetables.

The staple food is rice steamed with Tantai Yutian rice sent by Aunt Chen.

At first, Zong Ruoan was not impressed by Xia Yuanfang's cooking, because it only looked at the appearance, not the fine knife skills and exquisite presentation of his chefs.

But the pot of crystal clear rice that was served caught his eye.

Zong Ruoan has rarely eaten rice since he became an adult, even the best Tantai Yutian rice.

In fact, because his mother was the eldest princess, his family had no shortage of this kind of rice since he was a child, but after eating too much, he felt that it was just that.

But this time, when he took his first bite of rice, he found that the taste was absolutely amazing.

When you take a bite, the delicious aroma of the rice is like bursting with juice, filling all your taste buds instantly.

Chew it, the umami taste is strong.

Chew it again, and the umami taste becomes stronger again.

Chewing one bite after another, the umami taste seemed to be endless, with so many levels that he had never sensed before...

Zong Ruoan swallowed a mouthful of rice and then asked Xia Yuanfang: "Ms. Xia, what kind of rice is this rice? I have never eaten such delicious rice."

Xia Yuanfang smiled and said, "I also think this rice is delicious. This is Tantai Yutian rice."

Zong Ruoan was even more surprised: "...Tantai Yutian rice? I grew up eating Tantai Yutian rice, but it's not as delicious at all."

Xia Chu was confused when he saw it.

"Colonel Zong, can there be such a big difference between the same variety of rice?"

Zong Ruoan said: "If it is really the same kind of rice, there shouldn't be that big difference, it can only be the cooking method."

As he said this, he wanted to ask Xia Yuanfang how he did it, but he quickly realized that this was taboo.

Among the four nobles, the food culture passed down from generation to generation is a secret that is not passed down within the family.

Nobles who want to know other people's ancestral dietary secrets have to come secretly, because once discovered, they will break off the relationship.

So Zong Ruoan did not continue to ask, but just out of courtesy, he took another bite of the steamed meatballs made by Xia Yuanfang.

He didn't know what the filling was, but he thought the soup was very clear, with round pink meatballs floating in the clear soup, and dotted with some unknown green vegetables, which looked very artistic.

But after he took a bite, his eyes immediately trembled.

It’s really hard to believe that someone can cook meat and vegetables so well!

This is the second update. There will be an update at 05:00 in the evening.