Chapter 462

After Qin Tian finished his work as a poop scooper with a look of disgust, he turned back and grabbed the dog that was being scolded by Xia Nuannuan, cupping its head in both hands and giving it a good rub.

"Oh, you're using too much force, stop rubbing its head."

Xia Nuannuan said, feeling a bit heartbroken, and stopped him.

"You, you're just too soft-hearted. A naughty kid needs to be disciplined properly."

Qin Tian said with a straight face, but his hands let go of the dog as requested.

The dog turned and ran away as if granted amnesty, standing not far away and looking at the two with an aggrieved expression.

"Come here, come to Mommy."

Xia Nuannuan beckoned with a gentle smile.

"Woof!"

The dog gave a soft bark, hesitated for a moment, but still obediently walked over.

Xia Nuannuan took it to the dog toilet and, following the method of that female shop manager, began to teach it to poop and pee in the dog toilet.

Qin Tian found the remote control and turned on the TV, watching with great interest as Xia Nuannuan educated the dog on the balcony.

Suddenly, he thought of something.

With a thought, the System Treasure Pavilion page appeared in his eyes.

Qin Tian quickly browsed through the various goods and, sure enough, soon found the one he had imagined.

【Beast Taming Technique Mastery: 5999 points】

The system's nature was just like this, trying every possible way to tempt him into spending points.

Exiting the Treasure Pavilion interface, he checked his system points, which were still the full eight thousand points he had left over.

Qin Tian was a bit conflicted about whether or not to redeem this skill.

It would certainly be useful, but was it worth spending so many points just so the dog wouldn't poop and pee everywhere in the house?

"Alright, from now on, just like this, you know to go to the bathroom here, okay?"

On the balcony, Xia Nuannuan said to the dog with a serious face.

"Woof!"

The dog tilted its head and barked; that wise look made one wonder if it had the bloodline of a Husky.

Qin Tian steeled his heart and chose to redeem the Beast Taming Technique skill.

To avoid being a poop scooper in the future, he would just spend the points.

Anyway, he wasn't short on points right now, and when the time came that he really needed to extend his life, he could just pay-to-win.

As a massive amount of information regarding the Beast Taming Technique flooded into his mind, it was as if Qin Tian were playing a Beast Tamer character in a game and had suddenly consumed a large amount of experience pills, causing his experience bar to skyrocket.

After the slight, throbbing pain in his brain faded away like a tide, he had effectively become a Beast Taming Master.

This wave was not a loss!

A slight smile appeared on Qin Tian's handsome face, as he believed his decision was correct.

The Beast Taming Technique didn't just include training dogs; it could be used on all sorts of other animals as well.

Having more skills never hurts, and there would definitely be times when it would come in handy in the future.

He chose to spend all of the remaining 2001 system points to redeem life countdown time.

The original countdown, which had been until the end of April, was directly increased by 2001 hours, which is 83 days; roughly estimated, it could last until around July 15th.

Now his eight thousand system points were back to zero, and he could only hope the next system task would be triggered soon.

Casting his gaze toward the dog on the balcony, Qin Tian put his right thumb and index finger into his mouth and blew a loud whistle.

Hearing the sound, Xia Nuannuan and the dog both turned their heads to look at him.

"Come here!"

Qin Tian made a gesture and then pointed to the spot in front of him.

In Xia Nuannuan's surprised eyes, the dog wagged its tail and obediently walked over.

"Sit!"

Qin Tian changed to a different gesture.

This time the dog didn't react, it just barked at him.

Qin Tian didn't find it strange; he continued to use various techniques from the Beast Taming Technique to communicate with it simply and give it simple commands.

Soon, the dog could understand and follow simple commands like "sit" and "spin."

Xia Nuannuan, who had already come to sit beside Qin Tian, saw all of this; her lips were slightly parted, her almond eyes wide, and her surprised expression was very cute.

"Right paw, shake!"

Qin Tian held his right palm out in front of the dog and gave the command.

The dog lifted its small right paw and placed it on his palm.

"That's amazing! Brother, how did you do that?"

Xia Nuannuan's eyes shone as she looked at Qin Tian with wonder.

"What's so special about that? It's not hard."

Qin Tian smiled quite smugly.

Just making Xia Nuannuan this surprised made the six thousand points well spent.

"No, no, that's not right, you weren't this good just a moment ago."

Xia Nuannuan shook her head and said.

"I suddenly had an epiphany, thought of a dog-training master I saw before, and just imitated it. I didn't expect it to be so effective."

Qin Tian didn't blush or skip a beat as he spouted nonsense.

"A dog-training master? Is that so?"

Xia Nuannuan showed a skeptical expression.

"That's not important, I'm going to go teach it to use the bathroom."

Qin Tian grinned, picked up the dog, and headed toward the balcony.

By the time he had taught the dog to poop and pee in its designated bathroom, the sky had gradually darkened.

After feeding the dog its dinner, Qin Tian prepared to make the candlelight dinner for himself and Xia Nuannuan.

Xia Nuannuan also followed him to the kitchen, prepared to learn how to pan-sear a steak.

Now that the house was all set up, they would definitely be coming over to cook for themselves from time to time, and they couldn't always let Qin Tian be responsible for it.

Xia Nuannuan had once aspired to be a virtuous woman like her mother and felt it was very necessary to improve her cooking skills.

At the very least, she had to learn simple dishes like pan-searing a steak quickly.

"I'll process the ingredients first, could you wash the tableware and then set up the dining table?"

Qin Tian said to Xia Nuannuan with a smile.

"Okay!"

Xia Nuannuan nodded obediently and agreed.

Afterwards, the two began to divide the work and perform their respective duties.

After preparing the side dishes needed for the steak, Qin Tian first made a vegetable and fruit salad, then prepared to start searing the steaks.

After returning from the supermarket earlier, he had placed the two pieces of filet they were going to eat tonight on a plate to thaw naturally at room temperature.

Now, more than two hours later, looking at the state of the meat, it had thawed perfectly.

Xia Nuannuan had also finished setting the table, brought the vegetable salad over first, and then came over to observe and learn how he seared the steaks.

"The first step in pan-searing a steak is to heat the pan. Note that the heat must be high; if the heat is low, it's easy for the meat juices to be lost."

Qin Tian carefully explained to Xia Nuannuan while heating the pan.

Xia Nuannuan nodded slightly, listening attentively to the teachings of Chef Qin.

"Is it okay to have it well-done?"

Qin Tian asked with a smile.

They had eaten Western food together outside before, and he remembered that Xia Nuannuan, like him, liked her steak well-done.

Some people might think that eating well-done steak would get you mocked, but in reality, in the West, such a thing doesn't exist at all; it's just that some people in China like to pretend to be high-end and pretend they know a lot.

In Western restaurants, many chefs will indeed recommend that you don't order a well-done steak, but that's only because well-done is hard to make, and if your cooking skills aren't good, it's easy to make the meat tough.

However, for Chef Qin, making a perfect well-done steak was naturally a breeze.

"Mm-hmm, I want it well-done."

Xia Nuannuan nodded with a smile.