Chapter 250 (1/2)

Chapter 250: Honey Tremella

“System, can the ingredient be used for desserts?” Yuan Zhou knew the royal jelly was required by many kinds of desserts or pastries.

The system displayed, “The royal jelly is from the secretion of the hypopharyngeal gland of the worker bees that attend to bee pupae in a honeycomb. It’s the food provided for the pupa that will become the queen bee and also the food for the queen bee in its lifetime. Its taste is dominated by sour, astringency and spiciness. After refining, the astringency can be removed.”

The system displayed very large characters this time, at the latter part describing the taste, in particular.

That was probably some sort of speechless ridicule. The dessert or pastry had to have the texture of both sour and spiciness at the same time. Furthermore, the sour texture was different from fruit acid due to the royal jelly being a secretion.

“Ok. Understood.” Yuan Zhou had originally intended to upgrade his title of “Master of Cooked Wheaten Food”, but presumably the idea failed temporarily.

While sculpting little animals one after another, Yuan Zhou was thinking swiftly at the same time. When he finished sculpting all the 12 animal zodiacs (mouse, cow, tiger, rabbit, dragon, snake, horse, sheep, monkey, chicken, dog and pig that are used for symbolizing the particular year in which a person is born in Chinese), Yuan Zhou likewise figured out an idea.

The royal jelly couldn’t be heated in high temperature and eaten along with scallions. It was better to eat it together with warm boiled water. Only in that way could its intrinsic nutrition be transmitted.

Yuan Zhou thought about the taste of each food carefully and tried to match them in his mind and then imagined the combinations of those tastes. That way, he could make the preliminary decision of which ingredients to be used.

“Pa”, Yuan Zhou set down the last zodiac, the pig, gently and then started to inquire the system.

“System, I need some ingredients to try their flavor,” Yuan Zhou said in a prim and determined tone.

The system displayed, “Host, you have collected totally 16.7 kgs of honey this time. Of them all, the royal jelly is 1.1 kgs and the propolis 2.0 kgs. After refining, there is only 0.97 kgs of royal jelly left.”

“So there are so little ingredients.” Yuan Zhou was rather speechless. He gave an imitation of dead fish eyes.

With so little amount, it was indeed improper to use it for experimentation. Suddenly, Yuan Zhou thought of a question, “System, what if I use up the honey?”

The system displayed, “I will provide the honey at intervals automatically.”

“What do you mean by intervals?” In Yuan Zhou opinion, the food ingredients of the system basically came out of the blue.

The system kept silent for a long time before answering Yuan Zhou, this time.

The system displayed, “The royal jelly is from the secretion of the hypopharyngeal gland of the worker bees and the food provided to the pupa that will become the queen bee.”

“I know that. I’m asking about why you can not provide the honey without limits,” Yuan Zhou asked curiously.

The system displayed, “That depends on the mood of the bees.”

“Haw?” Yuan Zhou felt the system must have travelled here from another space. What did the damn “depend on the mood of the bees” mean?

“The mood of the bees?” Yuan Zhou clearly knew every single character but found the combination hard to understand.

The system displayed, “The yield is scarce. So please use it cautiously.”

“Ho Ho. Isn’t the Xiangshui Rice scarce?” Yuan Zhou couldn’t help ridiculing the system.

Wasn’t such precious tribute rice also rare? Yuan Zhou indicated that he really couldn’t comprehend what the system was thinking.

Nevertheless, the system no longer answered him. Through the conversations, however, Yuan Zhou discovered the system might have its own breeding base. It wasn’t like what he had imagined before that the food ingredients came from the blue.

“How much can you provide each time?” Yuan Zhou was quite curious about that.

The system displayed, “That depends.”

“System, are you raising bees?” asked Yuan Zhou on a whim.