Rebirth: I became rich by farming

Chapter 695: Chapter 695 Making Seafood (1/25)

Mei Mengzhen immediately changed her shoes, and as soon as she walked in, she saw Mei Mengchen sitting on the sofa, watching cartoons while woefully covering her nose with her hand. Mei Mengchen was exasperated, finding the scene all too familiar, especially since no matter how much she tried to persuade her, it was futile. Seeing Mei Mengzhen, she pitifully cried out, "Sister."

Mei Mengzhen quickly responded, "Sister is going to cook, Chenchen, go turn off the air conditioning, and then open all the doors and windows."

Mei Mengchen immediately went to do as she was told, and Mei Mengzhen also opened all the windows in the kitchen. When she arrived at the stove, Mei Mengzhen was speechless. Not only was there a thick layer of some indeterminate substance crusted on the pan, but there was also a large lump of black matter inside. What on earth was that?

Mei Mengzhen asked, "Brother Tianyu, what were you planning to do?"

"Oh, Braised Ribs, don’t you love sweet and sour ribs?"

Mei Mengzhen was very grateful that Fan Tianyu remembered her favorite dish, but then she asked, "Brother Tianyu, are you sure that lump of charcoal in the pot is ribs?"

"I... am certain."

In the span of a few sentences, the air in the room started to circulate, and the smoke had dissipated quite a bit. Fan Tianyu could now see the chunk of charcoal in the pot that Mei Mengzhen had just described. Indeed, it looked very much like charcoal.

But that wasn’t the end of it. After dumping the ’charcoal’ from the pot into the sink, Mei Mengzhen was astonished to find that her pot seemed to have sprung a tiny hole. Mei Mengzhen asked, "Brother Tianyu, what exactly did you do to my pot?"

"I made ribs once before, and when it all stuck to the pot, I just dumped it out. I scrubbed the pot a bit, didn’t do anything else."

"May I boldly ask, what did you scrub it with?"

Fan Tianyu took down a steel wool pad hanging on the wall, and also picked up a knife from the side, saying, "I started with the steel wool pad, but when I couldn’t scrub it off, I switched to using the knife to scrape it. I barely managed to get it off."

"Not only did you get that stuff off, but you also managed to remove a chunk of the pot. Brother Tianyu, didn’t you realize the pot is leaking?"

Of course, the hole couldn’t have been very large, otherwise, he couldn’t have cooked at all, but a leak is a leak, and it certainly couldn’t be used afterwards.

Fan Tianyu couldn’t believe his own destructive power, saying, "Impossible, impossible, how could that be?"

"Brother Tianyu, promise me you won’t enter the kitchen again, no, that you won’t cook anymore, alright?" Mei Mengzhen handed the pot to Fan Tianyu, saying, "Here, Brother Tianyu, throw this pot away along with the rest of the kitchen trash. I’m going to order takeout now."

Fan Tianyu wasn’t particularly fond of takeout. He said, "Why order takeout? Let’s have Sister Tianhua bring something home."

Mei Mengzhen glanced at the time, "Sister Tianhua must be back by now."

It was already after 6 o’clock. The office had not only closed for the day but it was also past dinner time. Calling her now to bring food would be such a bother.

Mei Mengzhen suggested, "Chenchen loves shrimp. Let’s go downstairs and have some crayfish. It seems like they’ll be out of season soon."

Upon hearing ’crayfish’, Mei Mengchen was more than happy, "Great, great, I want noodles too, crab leg noodles."

In the end, after tidying up the kitchen, they went straight to the restaurant downstairs to solve the dinner dilemma. Hence, eating out really was nice. Worried that Fan Tianyu might want to cook again tomorrow, Mei Mengzhen said, "Brother Tianyu, let’s not cook at home, okay? It’s too frightening."

Fan Tianyu replied, "Isn’t it just because outside food isn’t healthy? Chenchen is still growing, and it’s always better to eat at home. It seems you don’t appreciate my good intentions."

"That’s not true at all. If you could cook, I definitely wouldn’t say anything, but since you can’t, and I don’t have the time. If I had the time, of course, I would do it myself." Mei Mengzhen was trying to reason with him when Fan Tianyu agreed on his own, "Alright, I won’t cook by myself anymore. If you come home late, we can just eat dumpling soup or noodles, which I can manage to cook now. Eating noodles should work, right?"

"That would be fine."

Mei Mengchen also eagerly agreed, "Noodles are delicious, and the dumpling soup too."

But when it came to dumplings, both Mei Mengchen and Mengzhen loved fried dumplings. Chenchen also offered her little suggestion, "Brother Tianyu, fried dumplings would work too."

So, there were plenty of favored and simple dinner options. Why make things hard for oneself and waste a pot at home?

Speaking of pots, Fan Tianyu said, "Let’s go to the Supermarket across the street to buy one later, we’ll still need a pot even just to boil noodles."

"Okay, let’s buy a set. We arguably need a separate pot for frying dumplings and buns, and it would be great to have different pots for boiling noodles and stir-frying."

Fan Tianyu didn’t interrupt Mei Mengzhen, and after they finished eating, the three of them went to get a set of pots for the home. But when it came to cooking, Mei Mengzhen was determined not to let him try his hand again.

Two days flew by, and in the evening, Mei Mengzhen slipped into her space to check on the seafood cultivation area. In just one week, all the seafood in the pond had grown more than fivefold.

If originally the abalones were not even as long as her thumb, now, after a week, a single abalone was too big to fit in her palm.

Standing at 172 cm tall, Mei Mengzhen naturally had large hands. If she couldn’t hold them, one could imagine the growth rate of this seafood. Not to mention the crayfish. Although she didn’t know what species they were, the crayfish that had been the size of a palm before were now longer than her forearm. This meant that the growth size of the seafood after one week was already enough.

This made their growth cycle very easy to remember, since, like the medicinal herbs in her space, they also took a week to grow.

Mei Mengzhen harvested all the seafood, then tossed a new batch into the pond. She divided the previous batch of seafood in two, sending half to the Warehouse and keeping the other half in the space. Wanting to enjoy fresh seafood, Mei Mengzhen specifically sent it over on Friday and instructed Fan Tianyu to let Mei Mengcheng pick up the goods later.

However, when Mengcheng received this batch of products, not only was he amazed, but so were the chefs at Xiyuan after returning to the kitchen. The freshness of the seafood was exceptional, which was a rare delight.

The chefs, oh, and Grandpa Pei, all had their own ideas about this batch of seafood. But no matter what these people thought, Mei Mengzhen made her instructions clear, "Such a batch will be delivered once a week. Go ahead and deal with it as you like. Mmm~, you can eat today’s batch yourselves. Try cooking with these ingredients to see what tastes good. After you’ve prepared them, we’ll all try them together."

Being able to enjoy such top-quality ingredients was certainly a pleasure for them, as such fine seafood was usually hard to come by. But amidst all these people, it was Grandpa Pei who had a particular fondness for abalones.