Chapter 101: Dried Tangerine Peel Tea

By the time Qin Huai came back to his senses, opposite him were Luo Jun, who was still drinking the white fungus and lotus seed soup, and Chen Huihong, who was already eating melon seeds.

Looking at the white fungus and lotus seed soup in front of Luo Jun, Qin Huai subconsciously wanted to "heh" out loud.

Fortunately, he held it back.

"Finished watching?" Luo Jun glanced at Qin Huai. "Did you see it?"

"I saw it." Qin Huai said honestly. He had seen quite a lot; everything he should have seen and everything he shouldn't have seen, he had seen it all.

He had even seen that arrogant yet affectionate confession of his. He had eaten melon seeds on the spot, at close range, watching from right between the two of them. It was super close, and every person's expression and demeanor could be seen clearly.

"I have a question I want to ask. How long did it roughly take while I was watching the memory?" Qin Huai asked.

He could roughly feel that time was flowing while he was watching the memory, but it was flowing so slowly that it could be ignored.

"Less than a minute, I think." Chen Huihong said while eating melon seeds. "I just went to get a handful of melon seeds, and you woke up before I had even eaten two."

"Xiao Qin, what did you see?" Chen Huihong opened fire right in front of Luo Jun.

Qin Huai thought for a moment. "If nothing goes wrong, it should be Mr. Luo on a movie date with his wife."

"Cough, cough, cough." Luo Jun coughed heavily a few times, almost choking himself for real, and said somewhat hoarsely, "Don't waste time talking about such irrelevant things. Can't you obtain recipes when you watch memories? What recipe did you obtain?"

Only then did Qin Huai click open the game panel, find the illustration section, and prepare to check Luo Jun's illustration. After clicking open the game panel, Qin Huai discovered that he hadn't looked at the specific content of 【Qu Jing's Affirmation】, which he had obtained by completing Qu Jing's side quest.

【Qu Jing's Affirmation】: The affirmation of the dedicated physician Ms. Qu. Obtaining this title means you have gained Qu Jing's recognition and are one of her few friends. There is a very small probability that she will open her heart to you, allowing you to peek into the secrets she has hidden for many years.

Qin Huai was stunned as he looked at the content of 【Qu Jing's Affirmation】.

Peek into the secrets she has hidden for many years?

What secrets could Qu Jing have? That she isn't human? He already knew that, and this secret was likely known by Qin Huai, Luo Jun, and Chen Huihong, but Qu Jing herself didn't know it.

And it had been hidden for many years, which meant this secret hadn't appeared just in the last year or two.

The very small probability of opening her heart meant this secret was indeed very big.

What secrets could Qu Jing have?

Could it be that Dean Qu was right, and Qu Jing is superficially an unremarkable neurologist, but privately a serial killer who wanders outside in a raincoat on rainy nights, searching for prey?

That's not right. Qu Jing had stayed in Shanshan since graduating with her doctorate and had never left. The public security in Shanshan had been very good all these years, and there hadn't been any reports of serial murders. Not to mention that there were surveillance cameras everywhere now, and the success rate of being a serial killer in the middle of the night was very low.

Then what unspeakable secrets could she have?

"I told you to look at the recipe, not the Classic of Mountains and Seas. Why are you stunned here while looking at a recipe? Don't tell me you really have reading difficulties?" Luo Jun couldn't help but complain.

Qin Huai hurriedly read out the content of 【Qu Jing's Affirmation】.

Luo Jun looked unsurprised. "Isn't it normal to have secrets? Who doesn't have secrets?"

Qin Huai:... To be honest, ordinary people like me don't have any secrets that need to be hidden for many years.

Chen Huihong patiently explained to Qin Huai, "It's actually a good thing that Xiao Qu has secrets. This shows that her obsession has already manifested concretely on her. As long as we find her secret, we can likely see where her obsession lies, so we can better help her wake up."

"Under normal circumstances, the way spirits want to help the other party wake up is like this. Like you, Xiao Qin, the method of directly watching other people's past-life memories..." Chen Huihong paused, unable to find a suitable adjective for a moment. "Is quite unique."

Qin Huai:...

You might as well just say I'm a cheater with a system.

"Stop talking about this nonsense, read the recipe." Luo Jun urged.

Qin Huai found the illustration section and clicked it open.

3.

Name: Luo Jun

Species: Bifang

Status: About to lose memory

Memory: 1/3

Recipe: Dried Tangerine Peel Tea (Click to view details)

Gift: None

Click on Dried Tangerine Peel Tea.

【Dried Tangerine Peel Tea, Grade D】 Creator: Seeing Liu Tao

Recipe Details: The dried tangerine peel tea meticulously cooked by Luo Jun's wife, Seeing Liu Tao, before their first date. The true name of this dish should be Dried Tangerine Peel, White Fungus, and Lotus Seed Soup, but due to Luo Jun's misunderstanding and Seeing Liu Tao forgetting to explain, this dessert was renamed by mistake. Even after knowing the true name later, the couple felt the name "Dried Tangerine Peel Tea" suited it better. For Luo Jun, even though the dried tangerine peel tea Seeing Liu Tao cooked later with improved culinary skills was more delicious, this bowl of dried tangerine peel tea, which was already lukewarm and seasoned with wind and sand, drunk on the roadside during their first date, would forever be the most delicious bowl of the thousands of bowls of dried tangerine peel tea he had drunk in his life. After consuming this dish, it can warm the consumer for a whole day.

Number of times it can be made per day: (0/1314)

Qin Huai: Tsk tsk tsk.

The number of times it can be made per day is 1314.

Tsk tsk tsk.

Qin Huai didn't read the recipe details, just told Luo Jun that the dish was dried tangerine peel tea, and prepared to type out the recipe details and send them to him via WeChat after returning tonight.

Luo Jun was silent for a long time after hearing that the recipe obtained was dried tangerine peel tea.

Then he didn't speak, just took out his phone and silently transferred 100,000 yuan to Qin Huai.

Qin Huai:!!!

"Find a professional painter online." Luo Jun said. "Have him draw the appearance of Seeing Liu Tao you saw. The more like her, the better."

Qin Huai understood. Labor fee.

"Didn't you and Seeing Liu Tao take photos back then?" Qin Huai couldn't help but ask.

With Luo Jun's financial strength, taking a photo should have been easy.

And even if he didn't like taking photos on normal days, they must have taken wedding photos.

"We did, but they were lost." Luo Jun said indifferently. "At that time, I always felt there was plenty of time, and since the person was right by my side, there was no need to care about a photo."

"Facts have proven that being human is indeed too troublesome, and human life is even more fragile than that of plant and animal spirits."

Chen Huihong:... There's no need to cue plant and animal spirits at a time like this, right?

Qin Huai immediately expressed his stance: "Don't worry, I saw it very clearly in the memory. I observed it carefully and remembered it firmly. I'll go back now and find a painter online. I'll definitely get it drawn for you!"

Luo Jun waved his hand, signaling Qin Huai not to dawdle and to go back and find one now.

Qin Huai obediently went home.

Of course, he didn't go back to his own house, but to Qin Luo's side.

Qin Huai wasn't very good at finding painters online. He usually just scrolled through short videos when surfing the internet and didn't read Weibo much. Qin Luo used Weibo and had some fans, so Qin Huai prepared to let Qin Luo help her find one together.

When Qin Huai arrived, Qin Luo was hiding in her room secretly playing on her phone and was caught on the spot by Qin Huai, who deducted a week's worth of three-diced baozi and five-diced baozi.

Qin Luo almost cried out "waa," helping Qin Huai find a painter while feeling sad.

"Brother, why do you want to find a painter? To draw promotional pictures for our family's baozi?" Qin Luo asked.

"Don't worry about it. Remember to note that I'm looking for a painter who specializes in portraits and can draw specific appearances based on my description. It's very urgent. Bring past works and a resume. The salary is tentatively... 80,000 yuan."

Qin Luo was stunned.

Her brother got rich?!

She became the sister of a first-generation rich person?!

Could she just mix and wait for death, not have to go home to inherit the breakfast shop, and sit back and enjoy the dividends?!

"You've finished your English workbook, but you haven't really touched your math workbook. I've joined your parent group. For your course selection, math, advanced math, physics, and computer science are all very important. Don't be lazy and just scroll through your English workbook every day; learn more math."

"If you learn well, Brother will make you a Dream-Fulfilling Shaobing."

Qin Luo felt that she hadn't eaten a Dream-Fulfilling Shaobing, but it seemed she had eaten the pie her brother had drawn for her in advance.

After checking Qin Luo's homework, Qin Huai left satisfied.

That night, Qin Luo found several relatively qualified painters. After screening, Qin Huai picked one who was still studying at the Art Academy, was standardly trained, and specialized in taking orders, and added her on WeChat.

Bing Bingzi: Okay, Boss. Are those the requirements mentioned above? I'll pull an all-nighter tonight to draw a few sample drafts for you. Take a look and see if you're satisfied. If there's a need for modifications, we'll continue to discuss tomorrow. Can the deposit here be...

Qin Huai: 【Transfer - 2000 yuan】

Bing Bingzi: Okay, Boss. Thank you, Boss. I've already received it here, Boss. Hope we have a pleasant cooperation~

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 102 =====