Chapter 104: Dragon Palace Banquet (I)
With the idea that "we shouldn't stay here for long", Lu Ren took Jun Fang to the cashier as quickly as possible.
But life is not all about bad things. When checking out, Lu Ren felt his tired heart was instantly soothed: since Lu Ren was buying human food in a monster supermarket, the total price at checkout was shockingly low, almost half-sold and half-given away. On the way home, Lu Ren smiled all the way while looking at the bill.
I laughed so hard that I couldn't even close my mouth.
However, the water monkey who helped carry things was unable to follow the two home.
It’s not because the supermarket is reluctant to part with the water monkey, but as a water ghost, once the water monkey follows the owner back to the house, it is very likely to secretly find a way to drown the owner of the house while he is taking a bath, and then capture the unjustly killed owner as a substitute.
Junfang and Lu Ren had no choice but to say goodbye to this very convenient cart with tears in their eyes.
Fortunately, although we bought a lot of ingredients today, we had Junfang with us, and he was an expert at carrying bags. Junfang carried all the bags in one go, without changing his expression or even blinking.
"It doesn't seem to be heavy." Junfang commented.
However, Lu Ren, who had just tested the weight, knew that this was just Jun Fang's natural strength. After all, it would be very difficult for an adult to carry the bream alone for a long time.
Because Lu Ren and Jun Fang spent too long in the fresh food supermarket, the hot pot that was originally scheduled for lunch that day ended up being reduced to dinner.
As soon as Lu Renfu got home, he went into the small kitchen and busied himself with washing, cutting and seasoning vegetables.
Junfang knew that he could only make things worse, so he sat on the sofa with Qilinzi and watched SpongeBob SquarePants.
Lu Ren worked hard and finally managed to prepare all the ingredients for the hot pot before dinner time.
Spicy hot pot is specially used for shabu-shabu meat. The red soup base makes people start to saliva just by looking at it, and the spicy smell penetrates into the nasal cavity, making people unable to help but salivate.
Because it was a duo-style pot, only half of the spicy hot pot was filled, and the other half was the clear soup pot carefully prepared by Lu Ren: raccoon meat, king crab legs, sliced matsutake mushrooms, and the remaining tofu in the refrigerator were put into the pot first. When the lid of the pot was opened, the delicious aroma of the broth almost made Lu Ren's head burst.
The carp meat was sliced into fish and chicken slices, and neatly placed aside with the sliced beef. This is an important ingredient for hot pot later, and the absolute protagonist of tonight.
All the vegetables sold by Little Squirrel were carefully washed by Lu Ren, and then neatly arranged on plates. The green vegetables with water droplets looked lush and green, making people salivate.
The four chicken heads of the carp were also brought back by Lu Ren and fed to A Bing.
Currently, A Bing stays in his teddy bear every day, eating and sleeping, and he looks like he is never full and never wakes up.
It might be because as a ruin he was naturally not used to the climate and environment of the human world, or it might be because A Bing missed his tentacles too much and became depressed. In short, A Bing looked listless recently.
Lu Ren specifically asked for the chicken head back because he heard that the carp head was also rich in spiritual energy. Lu Ren thought he could take the opportunity to replenish A Bing.
The unicorn cub at the side looked at it with envy, but Lu Ren said to him: "A Bing seems to be uncomfortable. Our Yang Yang is a good boy, so let's give the carp head to him."
In order to be a good boy, the Qilin cub had to nod with tears in his eyes.
So, when watching SpongeBob SquarePants, A Bing seemed to be deliberately showing off Lu Ren's love for him. He could have directly rolled the four chicken heads into the teddy bear and swallowed them whole, but he chose not to do so.
He stretched out four tentacles, each of which was wrapped around a chicken head. At the end of each of the four tentacles, a crack evolved, like four mouths, and Ah Bing used these mouths to slowly nibble on the carp head like a human, and occasionally made a smacking sound.
Since four mouths were making sounds at the same time, it was like 3D surround sound to Junfang and Qilinzi who were also sitting on the sofa. Gradually, the two of them lost the mood to continue watching cartoons, and instead stared at A Bing eating the carp head and drooled.
Despite being coveted by two rare and powerful monsters, A Bing continued to gnaw on the chicken head fearlessly.
Qilinzai and Junfang's eyes were so red that they almost bled. They couldn't help but lick their lower lips and prepared to start grabbing.
Q: What would happen if a Qilin, a Hanba and a Xuhai fought each other?
A: The entire city will be razed to the ground.
Fortunately, at the critical moment, Lu Ren in the kitchen finally finished all the preparations and brought out the hot pot, calling everyone to eat: "It's time to eat!"
When these words reached the ears of Qilinzai and Junfang, they sounded like heavenly music. They cheered, "Great!" and then sat down at the dining table like a gust of wind.
Lu Ren, who was busy setting the table, would never know that his order to start dinner had successfully saved the city from becoming a ruin because of four chicken heads.
The unaware Lu Ren served a bowl of king crab and matsutake soup to each of the three people who had already sat down, and told them to drink the soup to warm their stomachs first, and then went into the study to call the mountain ghost out for dinner.
Shan Gui is editing a video. She has recently started her own media career and goes to the park every day to carefully photograph a plant and then share the story behind the plant with the audience.
"This is a camellia. It was planted here fifteen years ago. It is most afraid of high temperatures and scorching sun. It said it remembers a little boy many years ago..."
When Lu Ren walked in, Shan Gui's voice came out from the computer audio - she had just finished editing the film and was reviewing it.
Because Shan Gui is good-looking, has an interesting way of popularizing science, and with the help of Zong Yi, in less than two weeks, Shan Gui has become a rising star. Lu Ren also subscribed to Shan Gui's channel and knew that the videos she posted had a lot of comments and good reviews:
Tao Yaoyao: [The story of the up master is really interesting. Although I know it is fake, I still sincerely hope that the camellia can see the boy again. ]
Exquisite Pig Boy: [The up master is so piu , the screen is dirty, prpr! ]
Hu La Tang Hu La: [I got a new knowledge point again, very happy, thank you for sharing~]
Donghuang Taiyi: [Third floor guy, you are just a small human, and you dare to covet Ali, prepare to die! ]
...It seems like there's something strange mixed in.
unimportant.
In short, Shan Gui has now become a successful career woman.
Lu Ren knocked on the study door, interrupting Shan Gui's hard work: "Ali, it's time to eat. Let's continue working after dinner."
The mountain ghost didn't keep anyone waiting. He responded and came to the living room.
At this time, A Bing, Qilinzai and Junfang had finished their soup and were staring at the hot pot in front of them with eager eyes, like three hungry wolves looking at lambs.
Lu Ren moved the chair and said to them, "If you are hungry, eat quickly. You don't have to wait for us."
The Qilin cub was very sensible. He wiped the saliva from the corner of his mouth and said, "No, I'm not hungry."
However, if he could take his eyes off the hot pot in front of him when he said this, it might be more convincing.
Seeing this, Lu Ren quickly picked up a piece of king crab leg with chopsticks for Qilin cub.
"Okay, then I'll trouble Yangyang, who's not hungry, to help me taste the crab legs I made today, okay?"
After the unicorn cub responded vaguely, he couldn't wait to gnaw on the king crab's leg, saying, "There's really nothing I can do. Since Ah Ren has asked me so sincerely, I'll just give it a try."
Seeing his cute look, Lu Ren couldn't help but smile knowingly, then he picked up a piece of king crab leg with his chopsticks and gave it to everyone present, starting this sumptuous dinner.
During the meal, Lu Ren told Shan Gui about his encounter with the Dragon King in the supermarket today.
After listening to Lu Ren's description, Shan Gui pondered and said, "Dragon clan? That's quite troublesome."
The mountain ghost's comment made Lu Ren's originally calm mood become chaotic again. He asked with some concern: "Is it bad?"
The mountain ghost nodded and said, "The dragon clan is stubborn and holds grudges. I remember two thousand years ago, Taiyi once passed by the Wei River and felt hungry. He saw some tributes on the bank of the Wei River and picked up a peach to eat.
That tribute was what the villagers presented to the Dragon King.
When the Dragon King came ashore , he found that his peaches were eaten by Taiyi. He was so angry that he jumped up and down, shouting that he would never coexist with him. Taiyi apologized and begged for mercy in a gentle manner, and later took peaches from the heaven as compensation, but the dragon clan refused to acknowledge it.
The Dragon King said: "As long as the peach is eaten by the Emperor Dong."
Of course Taiyi couldn’t take it out.
After that, Taiyi was hunted by the water creatures for two thousand years. Last time I asked him, he still didn't dare to go near the water, or else a fish would jump up and slap him in the face with its tail.
The mountain ghost's words immediately chilled Lu Ren's heart: "Even Taiyi can't convince the dragon clan, so I can forget about it."
Shan Gui then analyzed Jun Fang's idea and said, "Yinglong has been a respected member of the dragon clan for generations. If he is willing to come forward to help, it shouldn't be a problem."
After hearing this, Lu Ren's originally anxious heart finally felt hopeful again. He calmed himself down and planned to eat some king crab to calm his nerves.
"However," who knew that just as Lu Ren picked up his chopsticks, the mountain ghost continued to speak, "Yinglong rarely wants to meddle in other people's affairs. I remember the last time he agreed to help someone was during the Battle of Zhuolu, when Huangdi personally went to ask him to do so."
Lu Ren: “…”
Lu Ren was absent-minded while eating hotpot, silently thinking about how to get Yinglong to agree to help on Monday.
Time quickly came to Monday.
Lu Ren, who was asking for help, felt embarrassed to go empty-handed, so he used the air fryer given by the supermarket the night before to make a caramel pudding for Yinglong.
Speaking of which, the air fryer is indeed extremely easy to operate. Not only does it not require electricity, but it is also voice-controlled. After putting the ingredients in, just say what you want to cook , and the fryer will start to run on its own, quickly rotating for 49 full revolutions. When it's done, it will make a "ding" sound to remind Lu Ren.
If Lu Ren didn't get the air fryer in time, it would automatically keep the food warm to prevent it from getting cold.
The disadvantage is that every time the pot is opened, there is a fairy air lingering around for some reason. I thought I was refining an elixir. Lu Ren was still a little distressed about this: "That Li Boyang really lied to me. This is an alchemy furnace."
But apart from the problem of the fairy air, there didn't seem to be anything special about this air fryer, and it was free, so Lu Ren never thought of returning it.
At this moment, Lu Ren, carrying caramel pudding, stood at the door of the office of Combat Group 2 and happened to see Ying Long sleeping during working hours. He brought a pillow, placed it clearly on his desk, then rested his head on the pillow and fell asleep peacefully. He even wore an eye mask as a precaution.
