Chapter 771 - Earth Tournament - Part 2 (1/2)

Tang Shaoyang strolled around his smart base. The twenty-five floors building had become the official building of the Tang Empire. The first floor for the lobby and the second floor up to the fourth floor became a cafeteria for thousands of people. The fifth and sixth floor had become the office for the Development, Infrastructure, and Human Resources offices.

The seventh floor was for the Healer and Medical Division office. The eighth and ninth floors were the office for the military's officials. The tenth floor was for the Agriculture Division. The eleventh and twelfth floors were TEIS or Tang Empire Internal Security Division. Kang Jiayi, as the head of TEIS had an office on the twelfth floor.

The thirteenth floor was general meeting rooms if the division wanted to have a discussion together with the other division. There were four small meeting rooms and one big hall on the thirteenth floor. The fourteenth up to the twentieth floor was still vacant for further development.

As for the twenty-first floor up to the twenty-fifth floors were an exclusive floor for the leader and his women. Only a few people had access to those floors as the control room was located on the twenty-fifth floor. Overall, the smart base was quite organized compared to a month ago. Tang Shaoyang looked at the layout paper in his hand and familiarized himself with his palace.

He noticed that the whole twenty-first floor was marked as a kitchen. With a ding sound, the elevator in front of him opened. Curious about the twenty-first floor, Tang Shaoyang tapped number twenty-one. He was alone as Zhang Mengyao recuperated after their long and fierce battle.

Tang Shaoyang arrived on the twenty-first floor, and the whole floor was open with no wall or anything. Of course, the place was not empty as shelves filled with spices and ingredients, and if he looked up, there were marks above that would help navigate the visitor. The freezer room was to his right, the tool room was to the back, and the actual kitchen was to the left.

Tang Shaoyang directly went to the kitchen as he could hear noise from that side. He listened to the sizzling noise from the frying pan as a good aroma of food entered his nose. He paused his steps when he saw the purple-haired woman was bustling in the kitchen on her own. There was no need for him to see her face as he recognized her.

Elinova seemed not to notice his arrival, so he approached with a light step. He hugged the woman from behind and whispered. ”What is my Chef cooking?” She was startled as someone suddenly hugged her, she calmed down immediately after hearing the voice.

”You-” Her words stopped as she realized something. She jerked around and looked toward Tang Shaoyang's face. Elin blinked her eyes in surprise as she could not believe to see her man was here.

Tang Shaoyang smiled and pecked her tall bridge nose. ”Be careful, your food will get burnt if you are looking at me too much.” Being reminded by Tang Shaoyang, Elin immediately turned around and started to stir her cook.

Tang Shaoyang hugged her from behind once more and put his chin on her shoulder. He looked at the frying pan. ”What are you cooking?” The smell was familiar to him. ”Is it pork? Crispy pork?”

Elin smiled and nodded. ”Yes, but it's not pork, but boar meat. Can you smell it? It smells stronger than the pork.”

”Hoo, are you learning my home cooking?” Tang Shaoyang remembered his regular place when he was still part of the gangsters. He remembered a stall opened by an old man who sold various kinds of pork menus, one of them was the crispy pork.

”Yeah. I try to learn it from Li Na's grandma. I am using her recipe.” Elin pointed at the steaming pot at the side. ”I am trying the boar belly too, and also the smoked ribs.”

”Hooo,” Tang Shaoyang was surprised to hear all the menus. All of them were his favorites, actually. ”What's the occasion? Why do you cook so many of them?” He looked at the window. It was past noon already, so the cook was not for lunch. ”Are you cooking for dinner? Isn't it too early?”

”This is just for my practice. I still can't make the same one that Li Na's Grandma made, so I am trying to make the same one.” Elinova shook her head while scooping the crispy pork with the drier from the boiling oil. Elin then put a new pain, scooping a little oil from the frying into the new pan.