Chapter 317: Three-Legged Golden Toad

Just as Qin Huai left the dream, the game prompt sounded in his mind.

"Ding, congratulations to the player for discovering a new main quest 【Striving for Perfection】, please check it on the task panel."

Qin Huai:...

Right, after completing the previous main quest, theoretically, the next main quest would be triggered directly. It had always been like this before, but this time the task was a bit delayed, and Qin Huai was too excited to see the spirit's memory because he hadn't touched it for too long, almost forgetting that there was a new main quest.

Without any hesitation, Qin Huai clicked on the game panel to check the newly obtained main quest.

Main quest:

1. 【Striving for Perfection】: As a famous pastry chef, how can you not have a signature pastry that you can really take out? B-level signature pastry is too low, A-level is not enough, A+ level is just right. Please make at least three different A+ level pastries that can trigger buffs, striving for perfection.

Task reward: 【A segment of An Youyou's dream】 (Can be claimed: Yes/No)

The task reward was An Youyou's dream again.

Qin Huai studied the main quest shallowly and found that it couldn't be completed in a short time at all.

Qin Huai had made A+ level pastries before—the super-performed Guo'er eaten by Xu Cheng (Qin Huai felt it was mainly Huang Shengli's super-performance).

But the task progress after accepting the task was still 0/3, indicating that the super-performed Guo'er that time didn't meet the standard.

Qin Huai guessed that the A+ level pastries required by this main quest must be pastries made independently by him, and those helped by others didn't count.

This requirement was very high.

Based on Qin Huai's current level, he felt that only crab roe shumai had the possibility of super-performing to A+ level. Unfortunately, crab roe shumai was a seasonal dish, and it wasn't the season for crab roe to be fat and beautiful yet, so he couldn't make this pastry.

For the remaining pastries, even for the Four Joy Tangyuan, Qin Huai had never hoped that it could explode to A+ level.

Through this main quest, Qin Huai only saw four golden words.

Practice more if you are bad.

The kind that is bolded and darkened.

It seemed that most of the tasks issued by this game system flashed these 4 words.

Qin Huai:...

No longer thinking about the main quest, after all, thinking wouldn't come up with anything, and if it couldn't be completed, it couldn't be completed. This was a technical problem, and technical problems could only be solved by practice, not by thinking. If good dishes could be made by dreaming, chefs wouldn't need to practice diligently, just sleep more and dream.

Qin Huai slid the game panel down to the illustrated book to check the newly obtained recipe.

An Youyou's illustrated book also had some changes.

Name: An Youyou

Species: Three-Legged Golden Toad

Status: Awakening

Memory: 1/?

Dish: Vegetable Meat Diced Baozi (Click to view details)

Gift: None

Discovering that An Youyou's species was actually displayed, Qin Huai was stunned for a moment.

Three-Legged Golden Toad, he knew this kind of spirit!

It often appeared in film and television dramas, especially in fantasy and strange-tale film and television dramas, acting as a wealth-gathering tool for major villains, a huge toad flashing with golden light that loved to swallow money.

Out of caution, Qin Huai also opened the browser and searched for Three-Legged Golden Toad.

He found that it was similar to what he remembered. In legend, the Three-Legged Golden Toad was originally a spirit, later subdued by Liu Hai, a disciple of Lü Dongbin, and helped to give alms to the common people, so it could barely be called an auspicious beast, considered to be able to attract wealth and treasure, symbolizing wealth and good luck.

As for why an auspicious beast ended up like this...

Qin Huai could only say that perhaps An Youyou's brain circuit was different from other spirits. She also looked quite capable of fighting. As an auspicious beast, even if the Three-Legged Golden Toad couldn't fight, theoretically, its defense shouldn't be low, but An Youyou just loved to beg for food.

From the dream, An Youyou's begging was also quite successful, and her income wasn't low.

Perhaps in the eyes of An Youyou at that time, begging was just a job like other jobs, not divided into high or low, and making money was the hard truth.

After all, a job that earned two pounds a day, in An Youyou's cognition, was either begging or robbery, and An Youyou didn't have the conditions for the latter.

Qin Huai planned to wait until he finished reading the recipe and then call Luo Jun to ask why the Three-Legged Golden Toad liked begging so much, and whether the toad-like spirits had this tradition.

The current priority was to check the recipe.

Qin Huai clicked on the recipe.

【Vegetable Meat Diced Baozi C-level】

Producer: Jiang Weiguo

Dish details: Jiang Weiguo, a retired head chef of a state-run restaurant, left his hometown due to war when he was young. This was a pastry not worth mentioning that he made while he was a beggar. Although Jiang Weiguo still didn't understand the brain circuit of the boss he begged with back then, he was grateful for the boss's life-saving grace. Jiang Weiguo never had any slack when cooking for the boss. Whether it was salted fish porridge or vegetable meat buns, he went all out, striving to make the boss eat happily and no longer persuade him not to be a chef but to be a beggar. If you eat this dish after nightfall, you can get double the satisfaction and happiness. In the boss's words, begging for a day was just to eat a delicious vegetable meat bun at night.

Number of times can be made per day: (0/999)

Qin Huai:...

C-level vegetable meat buns were easy to make. Qin Huai saw Jiang Weiguo's cooking level very clearly in the dream. His knife skills were far superior to his, and his seasoning level wasn't bad, but kneading dough wasn't very good. It was the level that a pure savory chef should present after doing pastry work.

Not to mention that Jiang Weiguo in the memory looked only thirteen or fourteen years old, just a teenager.

Being a chef was a profession that required experience and accumulation. Even the most talented teenager couldn't compare to a seasoned middle-aged person.

Except for that kind of very talented cheater.

The vegetable meat bun itself was only C-level, and the buff was also very good. It was extremely suitable for workers, the production method was simple, the raw materials were cheap, the quantity was large and the shipping speed was fast, which was very suitable for the Cloud Canteen.

The most important thing was that selling at night didn't require getting up early.

Qin Huai was generally quite satisfied with this recipe.

It's just...

Who was the buff amount of 999 per day trying to tire to death?

Qin Huai felt that he had discovered that the amount of recipes he touched out was more exaggerated than the last. Before, when he touched Chen Pi tea, Qin Huai already felt that the amount of 1314 times a day was very large. Of course, Qin Huai didn't expect that Chen Pi tea would be in short supply every day in the end.

Waiting for Guo'er, 520 a day, Qin Huai thought he was challenging the impossible at first, but when Huang Ji's business was at its best, let alone 520, Qin Huai had made more.

The 999 of Tianma Stewed Pigeon was even more outrageous. This dish was basically equivalent to food therapy in Qin Huai's place now. Eating it wasn't for the taste but for the buff. Since returning to the Cloud Canteen, he had to prepare a stew for Chen Huihui every day, which was a little bit of Qin Gege's heart for Huihui.

Now the child had a lot of study pressure, so eating some food therapy would brighten the eyes and calm the mind. As for why Qin Huai didn't prepare a stew for Qin Luo every day...

Qin Huai had confidence in his sister. With Qin Luo's daily study intensity, she definitely didn't reach the point of needing to brighten her eyes and calm her mind by eating Tianma Stewed Pigeon. Doing some eye exercises would be enough.

If she really used her eyes too much, it could only mean that Qin Luo must be secretly playing with her phone, and she was secretly playing in the quilt in the middle of the night.

The crab roe shumai and three-ding buns touched out later were all S-level. Qin Huai couldn't even make the buff, so he didn't care about the amount at all.

As for the 555 servings of rice cake soup and 120 servings of Jiang Mi rice cake touched out from Qu Jing's memory...

The video tutorial for the former rice cake soup was too scary, so Qin Huai didn't watch it much, so he didn't make it much. The latter was too difficult to make, so Qin Huai only watched and didn't practice.

Other dishes similar to Four Joy Tangyuan and mung bean cake would not be listed one by one, and listing them again would be suspected of padding the word count.

Although the amount of previous dishes wasn't low, Qin Huai could basically make enough as long as he could make them. Three-ding buns were also buns, and they gave a super large amount of 1111 servings (one serving of buns is one steamer), and Qin Huai didn't feel anything.

Only this 999 of vegetable meat buns made Qin Huai feel that the game system was pointing at him.

The game system seemed to be disgusted that he had been slack and lazy during this time, and the amount of pastries he made after not being a breakfast chef had gone down, not like before, practicing hard to make pastries every day.

So he was given a vegetable meat bun that was easy to make, produced a lot, and had a good buff, which was very suitable for sale in the canteen. Reminding him not to forget his original intention and not to forget that he was once a breakfast chef.

Four Joy Tangyuan was good, but simple big meat buns were his main battlefield.

Regarding this, Qin Huai...

Qin Huai didn't click on the video tutorial of the vegetable meat bun at all, directly took out his phone, found 【Family of Love】, and initiated a video call.

Qin Huai learned this trick from Chen Huihong. Before knowing Chen Huihong, Qin Huai didn't know that there were people in this world who could initiate a video call to you anytime, anywhere. After knowing Chen Huihong, Qin Huai was very used to people initiating video calls to you anytime, anywhere.

Luo Jun answered in seconds.

Luo Jun in the video was clearly sitting on his own sofa, presumably watching TV. Seeing that the person who initiated the video call was Qin Huai, not Chen Huihong, Luo Jun frowned and asked speechlessly, "What's bad about learning from Chen Huihong, learning this broken thing?"

"Why do I feel like you're in the toilet?"

Qin Huai nodded. "I just finished watching the dream, and now I'm in the toilet stall of our canteen."

"Staff-only toilet, the people in our canteen are very sensible, no one came in when I was in the toilet."

Luo Jun's silence was deafening.

When Qin Huai was speaking, Chen Huihong, who joined the video call, said happily, "Watching the dream? Watching whose dream? Old Wang's? You completed his side quest, did you make that what-what bun?"

"Not Old Wang's, it's An Youyou's."

Chen Huihong & Luo Jun:?

Luo Jun: "Who is An Youyou?"

Chen Huihong: "Little An is also a spirit?!"

Qin Huai could only tell the dream he just saw briefly. In the process of his telling, Qu Jing and Chen Gong also joined the video call one after another. Now the spirits in the group were all there.

After finishing, without waiting for others to speak, Qin Huai continued, "Mr. Luo, I remember you told me that Master Jiang Weiming has been looking for his brother. Master Jing Lixiang, that is Jiang Weijin, is his second brother. Does he have a younger brother named Jiang Weiguo?"

Although Luo Jun failed to cross the tribulation and his divine power disappeared, becoming an ordinary person, and sometimes his memory wasn't very good, he would never forget what he could remember.

Luo Jun nodded. "His younger brother is named Jiang Weiguo, I have an impression of the time you mentioned."

"Jiang Weiguo rented a house from a Chen family at that time. The farmer you mentioned is surnamed Chen, and his profession is a carpenter. They moved to Shanghai, which I introduced, and that house was also mine."

"At that time, the conscription in Shu hit the Chen family. At that time, Tao'er had already found out that his parents had moved to Shancheng, and Tao and I were preparing to leave Shu for Shancheng. The Chen family planned to move the whole family to escape the disaster of conscription. To thank Master Jiang for the dishes and pastries he made for me during those days, I bought the Chen family's house and fields and gave them to Master Jiang."

"Tao'er and Mrs. Chen had a good relationship, and she thought Shanghai was safe, so she wanted me to help the Chen family get their household registration and move to Shanghai. It was just a small favor, so I let others handle it. Just at that time, I had a property in the suburbs that someone gave me, so I gave that house to the Chen family together."

"As for the farmer delivering vegetables, I don't know. After the Chen family moved to Shanghai, they lost contact with us. Originally, it was just a chance encounter."

"According to the time, the Jiang Weiguo you saw in your memory should be Master Jiang's younger brother, and the age matches."

Chen Huihong sighed, "It's so coincidental, Little Qin, you've touched all the recipes of their Jiang family. From Jiang Chengde to his several sons, many of your recipes are from their family."

"Isn't this very normal?" Luo Jun said. "Jiang Chengde is a famous chef in Beijing. You should know his skills best after mixing and eating in Beijing for so many years. That era wasn't popular for opening classes to teach, they were all passed down from father to son, master to apprentice, skills were basically family-inherited, and famous chefs were basically related."

"The recipes Qin Huai touched are of high level, isn't it normal to come from the same clan and vein?"

Chen Huihong was convinced.

Qin Huai sighed, "This is indeed quite coincidental."

"I felt a bit familiar when I heard the name Jiang Weiguo in the dream. Seeing his knife-cutting movements basically determined that he should be Master Jiang's younger brother. That knife-holding technique and the angle of the knife are exactly the same as Master Jiang Weiming, absolutely passed down in one vein."

Luo Jun interrupted impatiently, "So what? You specially made a video call in the group just to tell me that you helped Jiang Weiming find his brother? If you had seen this memory 60 years ago, I might have been able to tell Jiang Weiming. How many years have passed, I found that private detective and still haven't heard any news, it's simply useless."

Qu Jing spoke weakly for the private detective, "Actually, it's still quite amazing."

"No, no, no. I'm looking for everyone mainly to ask everyone what the characteristics of the Three-Legged Golden Toad are. I feel that the Three-Legged Golden Toad should be an auspicious beast, but how did An Youyou live so... in her first life?"

Chen Huihong interrupted Qin Huai directly, "Because the Three-Legged Golden Toad is like this!"

Qin Huai:?

"Maybe in the human worldview, begging is very indecent, but the Three-Legged Golden Toad originally lives in a pond, and the thing they like to do most is to wrap mud on their bodies and bask in the sun, searching for some gold and silver treasures they think are valuable and swallowing them into their stomachs, and usually raising some frog underlings, lying in a row to bask in the sun."

"Begging is the most comfortable and most suitable profession for them."

"And it's also very easy to collect underlings."

"Three-Legged Golden Toad crossing the tribulation basically means begging, collecting a bunch of underlings to form a gang to beg. An Youyou's scale is considered small, mainly because the era is not good and it's not easy to develop, it's too dangerous." Chen Huihong, whose first life was shot to death by horse bandits, felt that An Youyou's worry was very correct, ordinary spirits really couldn't dodge bullets.

"It's like this, I've also heard a little bit, frog spirits crossing the tribulation prefer to be beggars. They especially like to transform into half-grown boys and girls, with a ragged appearance, which is convenient for begging," Qu Jing echoed.

Chen Gong also nodded, "Indeed so."

Luo Jun asked expressionlessly, "So, you just have this question?"

Qin Huai:...

Qin Huai only felt that his head was full of question marks.

No, you spirits are really...

Rich.

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 318 =====