Chapter 972: 972

Chapter 972: The Stories Are Lies

The next day, the sun appeared very bright and beautiful due to the rain the night before .

As usual, Yuan Zhou woke up early and went out for a run . With the increase of his restaurant’s popularity, his morning runs were no longer as peaceful anymore .

He thought of buying a treadmill, but after taking some meticulous measurements, Yuan Zhou concluded that the second floor was too tiny for a treadmill .

A lot of Yuan Zhou’s friends on his social media had a treadmill at home . It was at this moment that Yuan Zhou realized those pictures weren’t for the sake of showing off their workout results .

Rather, the pictures were for the sake of showing off their houses that were big enough to accommodate the treadmills .

“All these show-offs!” Yuan Zhou berated expressionlessly .

“Just you wait . When I buy a villa in the future, I will buy three treadmills . One for my own use, one as a backup, and one for Broth . Yes, Broth will have the chance to workout as well,” Yuan Zhou thought to himself, planning to let Broth reach the speed of a cheetah .

Usually, when he went out on his morning run, Yuan Zhou would be thinking about something as well . These two days, his thoughts were occupied by the extremely difficult side mission .

[Side mission] Recreating a fictional dish (Incomplete)

(Mission tips: To recreate a dish that only existed in either films or books . The completion rate and grade both need to be above 90 marks . As a future master chef, you must prove to the world that a chef has no limits, even when facing the imagination of storytellers . )

[Mission reward]: Of the leftover ingredients disposed of by the system daily, one set would be left behind . (Received)

[Mission period]: Fifteen days

(Mission hints: Countdown starts from the day the reward was given . )

[Mission penalty]: Daily disposal of leftover ingredients will be even stricter .

This was quite a weird mission . Yuan Zhou couldn’t help but frown when he received it .

As Yuan Zhou was an extremely cautious person, he asked for an extremely clear definition of a fictional dish . This cautiousness was something he nurtured with his experience dealing with the system .

And the system gave a clear answer . The dish must be one that nobody has made before . If it was a dish that existed in reality and had merely been modified by the storyteller, it would not count .

For example, Water Bamboo Shrimp and Longjing Tea Diced Chicken Meat would not count according to the system .

In Yuan Zhou’s opinion, if it was something fictional, it was definitely a result of unrestrained imagination and there would be some conditions to it that couldn’t be fulfilled in reality .

The essence of this mission was for him to use his skill to fill the gap of impossibility .

Here, we had to first exclude the phoenix meat or dragon meat in Chinese fantasy novels . Yuan Zhou had long asked the system for these ingredients . The system had also long told him that these ingredients were unavailable .

A dish like the Jade Flute Cherry Blossom in a wuxia novel cooked by Huang Rong using lamb bottoms, pork ears, cow kidneys, and so on was a dish with 25 flavors .

There were also other dishes like Twenty Four Bridges and Bright Moon, Frosty Three Friends, Fried Centipedes, and so on . When Louis Cha wrote about food, his descriptions were rather complete as the ingredients were all clearly listed .

However, these dishes could only be read . Those that could truly obtain a grade of 90 marks when cooked were very few .

The system was clear that not only must the dish be recreated, it must reach above 90 marks in both completion and grading .

As for the standard used by the system when grading, it did not need much explanation .

Yuan Zhou thought carefully in his mind, and the only dish that he thought could be recreated was Twenty Four Bridges and Bright Moon .

But… according to the novel, this dish required one to use the martial technique Whisking Acupoint Orchid Hand to cut the tofu into tiny balls . Where could Yuan Zhou learn this martial technique from?

The truly delicious dishes couldn’t be recreated, while those that could be recreated couldn’t reach 90 marks . Yuan Zhou seemed to have met a dead end .

Half a month was given for this mission . It might seem like a lot of time, but that might not be the case . No wonder the system was so generous this time, releasing the reward when the mission was issued .

So there was a trap waiting for him here .

The system seemed to have turned evil . Yuan Zhou wondered who the system had learned all these evilness from . It spent all its time tricking Comrade Yuan Zhou .

“Last night, before bed, I read many wuxia books . Louis Cha had complete descriptions while most of the dishes written by Gu Long are real dishes and very few are actual fictional dishes . As for Wen Rui’an’s dishes, it is like reading someone flaunting his wealth . ”

Yuan Zhou sighed repeatedly . It has been two days since he received this mission . He planned to change his line of thought tonight before going to bed and to stop focusing on wuxia novels .

“A one kilometer run is feeling easier and easier . Looks like I need to increase the distance tomorrow,” Yuan Zhou thought when his run was ending .

By the time Yuan Zhou returned to his restaurant, the nearby stores had all been opened . Most of them used Yuan Zhou’s restaurant as a point of reference for their operating hours .

This morning, there were customers asking if there were new dishes again . Yuan Zhou told them no .

So was that a surprise?

Steamed dumplings were sold for breakfast . Dough kneading and all other steps of food preparation progressed smoothly . No mishaps happened and breakfast time ended peacefully .

But during lunchtime, several unexpected incidents happened in succession .

First, a person who shouldn’t be here had arrived: Zhou Xi .

Wang Hong felt like Zhou Xi’s mouth was too powerful as he got tricked by Zhou Xi previously . Thus, he did not bother greeting Zhou Xi .

Meng Meng was the one to greet Zhou Xi . Today, she wasn’t streaming . She had just streamed at Yuan Zhou’s restaurant yesterday and today was her rest day .

“I thought you mentioned yesterday you were going outstation to attend an art exhibition?” Meng Meng asked directly .

“Mingyi’s art exhibition?” Zhou Xi opened his eyes wide . “Compared to Eaves Wu’s paintings, what is Mingyi’s art exhibition?”

Meng Meng felt like she had to give him a reminder, “But Wu Hai’s paintings will always be here . As for Mingyi’s…”

“People Passing by A Small Restaurant and This Is Life are both extremely deep paintings and one can never be tired of looking at them,” said Zhou Xi firmly with zero hesitation .

This rendered Meng Meng speechless . She then decided to not speak with an idiot .

Zhou Shijie was still away from Chengdu . Thus, nobody else was talking to Zhou Xi . He stood in line quietly, his gaze occasionally landing on the ceiling .

Meng Meng ignored him and started talking with Man Man while waiting in line instead . Only then did Meng Meng found out that from visiting Yuan Zhou’s restaurant frequently, Man Man managed to learn some intricacies of dough kneading . Because of that, her bread store’s business was getting better and better . She was now at a level where she was thinking of accepting apprentices . After all, the business of the branch she opened was getting better and better as well .

“Man Man, you are now a rich woman . Remember to give me a discount when I visit your store,” said Meng Meng joyfully .

“Yes, sure . A discount of 2%,” said Man Man generously .

This caused Meng Meng to be speechless . She found that Man Man had not only learned some of Boss Yuan’s skills, she had also learned some of his stinginess .

The second unexpected incident was Fang Heng . His father was hospitalized and as the only son of the family, he had to take care of the family during this period .

He had to take care of both the family business and the house .

His mother was rather lacking in tenacity . At her age, she would still get Fang Heng’s father to do simple tasks like opening the cap of a bottle for her .

They used to feed their own son dog food at home on a daily basis . It was no wonder that Wu Hai had mentioned that Fang Heng was looking more and more like a dog . Turned out it was because of the excessive amount of dog food he was fed . [1 . I believe many already know this . Feeding dog food = public display of intimacy]

Because of the hospitalization of his father, Fang Heng was very busy and no longer visited Yuan Zhou’s restaurant as much nowadays .

“I never knew this but a business is truly very complex,” complained Fang Heng to Zhao Yingjun .

“I have to read so many reports every single day . I feel like my eyes are turning blind soon,” said Fang Heng while rubbing his eyes .

Looking at how pitiful Fang Heng seemed, Zhao Yingjun finally reacted…

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