Chapter 719 - Did You Excavate Their Spring? (1/2)

Chapter 719: Did You Excavate Their Spring?

The silence didn’t last long. Yuan Zhou hadn’t opened the book when Chu Xiao suddenly spoke.

“Why didn’t you speak last time?” Chu Xiao said all of a sudden without any sense.

But Yuan Zhou understood him immediately. He said calmly, “It cost me nothing to answer the phone.”

Yuan Zhou said that so straightforwardly that even Chu Xiao became stupefied and answered, “It costs me nothing to make the call, too.”

“According to my phone package, the telecommunication company will offer me one more hour of chatting time as long as I spend no less than 40 Euro every month. Coincidentally, I still have one hour of talk time left,” Chu Xiao paused for an instant and then continued, “It doesn’t cost me anything, either.”

“Um,” Yuan Zhou answered vaguely and simply and didn’t say anything else.

“Goodbye,” said Chu Xiao abruptly.

“Bye.” This time, Yuan Zhou still waited for Chu Xiao to hang up the phone first.

Yuan Zhou indicated that he would like to offer help to Chu Xiao to consume this one-hour free talk time very much. As a result, he could make collect calls as long as he wanted to.

However, Chu Xiao always hung up the phone very quickly. He did that almost at the same time Yuan Zhou finished speaking.

“He’s really swift,” Yuan Zhou muttered to himself.

“Speaking of which, I’d like some tofu pudding this evening.” After Yuan Zhou hung up the phone, he decided what to eat for supper today on a whim.

There was a dish named Spring Water Tofu Pudding in the Sichuan Cuisines of the Chengdu School. It was an extremely common but also a high-class dish.

The reason why it was extremely common was that everybody in every family could do it on their own. And the reason why it was extremely high-class was that a great master of Sichuan Cuisine won a gold medal once with this dish, which outclassed a dish whose main ingredients were edible bird’s nest, abalones and shark’s fin.

“System, are the soybeans that you provide in season?” As it was spring, Yuan Zhou asked that.

The system displayed, “The system doesn’t provide vegetables, meat, poultry or any other food ingredients that are not in season.”

“All the food ingredients provided by the system are cultivated scientifically. They are all sown and mature during the proper seasons. Host, you don’t need to worry about that.”

“So all your ingredients are from all over the world, right?” Yuan Zhou suddenly thought of those different kinds of seasonal vegetables in different cabinets.

The system displayed, “Host, you are unqualified to know that with your current level.”

“All right. The next words will be ‘You must work hard.’ I know that.” Yuan Zhou was fairly helpless.

The system displayed, “The soybean is an annual herbaceous plant from the glycine max of the bean family. It’s about 30-90cm tall. Its stalk is thick and strong and it grows up vertically. It’s covered with long brown hard hairs. The leaves usually have three smaller leaves while the stipules have veins and are covered with yellow soft hair. Its flowering phase is from June to July and the fruit-bearing stage is from July to September.”

“China is the native habitat of soybeans. The breed selected and used by this system comes from the original local soybeans grown in the black earth of Northeast China.”

“Only the middle soybean is taken from each bean pod and the others are kept different purposes to make sure each shade-dried soybean is a light yellow, oval-shaped, slightly flat, 1cm-long, 8mm-wide, and a light brown navel bean.”

“Stop it. I don’t wanna know what fertilizers a soybean takes. I need a quiet atmosphere to cook.” Yuan Zhou stopped the system in time. He definitely didn’t want to have the misconception that he didn’t even live as well as a soybean.

The system displayed, “Okay.”

Yuan Zhou didn’t know why, but he felt a sense of pleasure from the system’s answer. Of course, it might be his misconception.

Spring Water Tofu Pudding was really very simple. There were only three ingredients for this dish, the spring water, soybeans, and brine water.

The soybeans were provided by the system and so was the spring water. It wasn’t any kind of existing water.

“The water tastes good.” Yuan Zhou took a cup of water and then tasted it.