Abnormal Gourmet Chronicle-Chapter 1142 - 550: Wang Gen Sheng’s Letter (2)

Xu Nuo said that this is a special snack that northerners must eat during the New Year. It is made by wrapping leftover vegetables with white dough, shaping them into crescents and then boiling them. If Second Brother and Sister-in-law have a chance to go home, please let the parents write to inform me, and I will take leave to go back and make this snack for the family.

Please continue to send a portion of the food, cloth, and money tickets mailed back with this letter to Second Brother and Sister-in-law. Before Sister-in-law gives birth, I will find a way to send some more cloth home as a gift of new clothes for the soon-to-be-born nephew/niece.

Wang Gen Sheng

1964.2.12

Qin Huai watched as Wang Gen Sheng finished writing the letter. Although Wang Gen Sheng seemed hesitant even after completing it, he thought for a moment and squeezed in another line of small characters at the end.

'Please also prepare a jar of normal-tasting pickled vegetables. I want to give them to my friend Xu Nuo.'

Qin Huai: ...

Qin Huai left the memory.

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After leaving the memory, Qin Huai sat on the sofa reminiscing about what he had just witnessed. Although the storyline within Wang Gen Sheng's memory spanned a few days, it was rather simple and not very memorable.

In his younger years, Uncle Wang was a pure workaholic, spending his days alternating between work, sleep, and meals, with no social interactions whatsoever. He not only completed his tasks but also did his coworkers' tasks, truly the light of his department.

Quite different from how he is now.

Now, aside from being a super connected person in Yunzhong Restaurant and being envied by the grandpas and grandmas, Uncle Wang actually has pretty good relationships.

You could see it from how he could sit at table number 9 for meals, a spot kept for him by Grandpa Qian and Xu Tuqiang.

In Uncle Wang's past where reminiscing never got updated, the jogging elders listened to his stories for at least seven or eight years, replaying the same words, yet no one told him to stop.

Despite Uncle Wang's remarkable 40-year streak without making any false or erroneous accounts, his candor often led people to doubt if he was senile, especially when he spoke bluntly, but he held great credibility.

When someone needed to speak the truth or judge a matter, the grandpas and grandmas would prefer Uncle Wang, who would confidently state his case, elevating his supported side to a moral high ground, leaving the opposition in disgrace.

Comparing the two, Qin Huai felt quite gratified.

Uncle Wang had grown.

Compared to his initial working status, the current Uncle Wang was completely transformed!

After a brief sense of gratification, Qin Huai opened the game panel and checked the newly acquired recipe.

Surname: Wang Gen Sheng

Species: Xiezhi

Status: Waking up

Dreamscape: 2/?

Recipe: [Lotus Root Powder Balls][Dumpling Family Feast] (Click to view details)

Gift: None

Qin Huai: ?

Dumpling Family Feast?

Dumplings made from leftover vegetables have such an impressive name?

With a head full of questions, Qin Huai double-clicked the recipe to view details.

[Dumpling Family Feast Level C]

Maker: Xu Nuo

Dish details: The first snack made by the one true friend of Wang Gen Sheng in his life. As a notorious spendthrift and scoundrel, very few know that Xu Nuo is actually a fairly skilled snack master, and Wang Gen Sheng, as one of Xu Nuo's friends, happens to know this secret. Though this snack is simply dumplings Xu Nuo made with leftovers from his home using easy seasoning, they are truly free dumplings because, theoretically, they can be made with any filling, as long as they bear the special meaning of a family reunion dumpling. For Wang Gen Sheng, Family Feast Dumplings are not just New Year's Eve dumplings sent by a friend, but a testament to his memories of a close friend and proof of the hard times in his youth. After consuming this dish within 24 hours, there is a high probability of longing for family, a very slight chance of sparking work enthusiasm, and if there is no family worth missing, a 100% likelihood of sparking work enthusiasm.

Friendly reminder: Family Feast Dumplings are free dumplings, so the maker need not worry about the filling, as long as it's a Family Feast.

Daily production maximum: (0/99) (no more than 12 per portion)

Qin Huai: ...

Qin Huai never expected that although Wang Gen Sheng's memory was quite ordinary, the resulting recipe was extremely abstract.

Qin Huai had anticipated the dumpling's C level; using leftovers as dumpling filling can't yield a high level. Qin Huai even thought that Xu Nuo's seasoning and cooking skills were quite impressive for achieving a C level.

But what does free dumplings mean?

Are these dumplings liberated?

The core of dumplings is the filling, and if Family Feast Dumplings don't care about the filling, then perhaps you don't even need to watch a video tutorial, you can just wrap them.

As long as there's a mix of flavors, then it's a Family Feast Dumpling, making the dish buff very easy to trigger. At Qin Huai's current level, he could probably make C-level dumplings with his eyes closed, literally and physically.

Yet Qin Huai felt this friendly reminder wasn't that simple. As long as it's a Family Feast, what does it mean? Does it refer to the dumplings themselves, or does it have another implication?

They're always riddles with side quests, and now even the dish details come with riddles. Is it really this free?

Qin Huai originally planned to sleep after watching the memory, but now he didn't feel sleepy. He wanted to make dumplings.

Family Feast Dumplings.

The only problem was there were no leftovers at home because the home had no dishes at all.

Before making dumplings, Qin Huai chose to briefly watch a video tutorial first. As he expected, it had no educational value at all, because Xu Nuo literally just turned leftovers from his home into dumpling fillings; even the tutorial wasn't as interesting as the one for potato dumplings.

When watching the potato dumplings video tutorial, Qin Huai could still pick apart Zhao Cheng'an's technique and play spot the difference. But Xu Nuo's technique had no problems; Xu Nuo's cooking skill was even a bit higher than Qin Huai's now, with no technical issues in Family Feast Dumplings.

All the problem lay in using leftovers for dumpling fillings, and the person making it.

Since the video tutorial offered no insights, Qin Huai felt it was better to gain true knowledge through practice.

No problem with having no leftovers at home, no problem even if Yunzhong Restaurant's leftovers were all thrown into the feed bucket, because Luo Jun's house definitely had leftovers.

To be exact, not leftovers, but dishes prepared by Zhang Shumei.

Luo Jun's meals were extremely irregular. Other than a consistent breakfast, where he would definitely get up before 9 a.m. to drink Dried Tangerine Peel Tea, the other two meals were unpredictable.

Sometimes snacks, sometimes dishes, Luo Jun seemed to eat by whims lately. In such cases, the golden babysitter Zhang Shumei ensured that there were always four re-heatable dishes ready within 20 minutes at home.

So, Quinn's call confirmed that Luo Jun's place certainly had food.

Qin Huai called Luo Jun, made his way there, and poor Zhang Shumei had to take a late-night stroll.

Qin Huai planned to make two kinds of dumplings. One was the Family Feast Dumplings, Nuo's version, using leftovers. The other was normal dumplings of various flavors, cooked together into Family Feast Dumplings.

The news that Qin Huai went to Luo Jun's house to make dumplings quickly spread in the group chat. Apart from Chen Huihong tutoring Chen Huixi and unable to attend, everyone else gathered at Luo Jun's house at 8 p.m.

Qu Jing even brought a pot.

She rushed over as soon as she heard the news, fearing any delay. After cooking rice cake soup, she took the whole pot directly to Luo Jun's house.

Forty minutes later, Qin Huai stared blankly at the two plates of dumplings on the table.

Lost in thought for quite some time, everyone was watching him, unsure whether to eat or not.

Luo Jun patiently observed Qin Huai's state for three minutes, finally reaching his limit and bursting out, "Qin Huai, are you infected by Chen Huihong and going crazy? Coming to my house at night to make dumplings without explaining, and after making them, you're just spacing out, what are you doing? Are these dumplings filled with gold, silver, or credit cards?"

Staring at the dumplings, Qin Huai said blankly, "I just feel like this plot development is too fast."

"Just finished watching one memory, now I get to see another."

Everyone: ? 𝘧𝓇ℯ𝑒𝓌𝑒𝑏𝓃𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘭.𝒸ℴ𝓂

Qin Huai looked at the dumplings on the table. He actually didn't even need to look because as soon as the dumplings were served, he heard the game notification.

[Family Feast Dumplings Level C]

[Family Feast Dumplings Level A+]

These Family Feast Dumplings were too easy to complete, as long as there were dumplings together, it counted as Family Feast Dumplings, literally Family Feast Dumplings.

With the completion of the Family Feast Dumplings, the previously daunting main quest was also finished.

"Ding, congratulations to the player for completing the main quest[Strive for Excellence], receiving the quest reward: [A Segment of An Youyou's Dreamscape]."