Chapter 276: Universal Planting System (15)

"This was made by my mom, it's so delicious, so delicious!"

A hint of small pride permeated Xie Ting's tone.

This was made by his mom!

His mom was the best mom in the whole world, and she could make the most delicious things in the whole world!

"Then... can I have a little? Just a little! Just this tiny bit!"

Xiya stretched out his little claw to gesture, and for fear that Xie Yang would disagree, he proactively retracted it a small fraction.

Xie Yang was amused and handed him a piece of Yandianzhutitang: "Are you really sure you only want a little bit? Tingting and I were originally going to give you a big piece, so what should we do now?"

"Huh?"

Xiya was stunned.

"Hahahaha! Alright, I won't tease you anymore, take it and eat! Xiya Ma, you try some too!"

Xie Yang also took a piece of Yandianzhutitang and gave it to Xiya Ma:

"Over these years, I've received a lot of help from your family, and I've never been able to think of what to use to thank you. These are things I made yesterday; try them and see if you like them. If you do, I'll bring you more next time."

Xiya Ma looked shocked: "You actually know Cooking?"

Xie Yang carefully flipped through the original owner's memories:

She discovered that during her student days, in order to please her crush, the original owner had indeed studied Cooking under a Master.

It was just that she lacked the talent and had no patience to put effort into studying it; every time, she would spend money to buy the finished products made during the Master's teaching sessions to pass off as her own, taking them to please Che Yin'an.

Until one day she ran into him—Che Yin'an had actually turned around and given the delicacies she sent to the girl he liked; she exploded on the spot, and after that, she never went to the Master's house again.

The strategy plan of "to capture a man's heart, first capture his stomach" thus also ended without success and faded into nothing.

But this experience did indeed exist.

Xie Yang nodded readily: "Yes! I studied it before. It's a pity that the seasonings we can buy here are limited, otherwise, it could be made even more delicious."

"Wow! There's something even more delicious than this?" Xiya already had his mouth full of grease from gnawing, and he exclaimed while eating, "Tingting's mom, you are really amazing!"

"Yeah, yeah! My mom is amazing!"

Seeing his little friend sparing no effort to praise his mom, Xie Ting smiled until his eyes narrowed, as if he were the one being praised.

Xie Yang smiled and ruffled the heads of the two little ones.

After Xiya Ma started the Flying Vehicle, she selected one-touch cruise, then held her portion of Big Bone Soup, drinking it with satisfaction. Suddenly thinking of something, she paused and asked:

"Tingting's mom, this... couldn't be the meat-livestock garbage you brought back yesterday, could it?"

Seeing Xie Yang smile and nod, Xiya Ma simply couldn't believe it: "How could it be... this doesn't smell bad at all?"

"It doesn't smell, it doesn't smell! It's fragrant!"

Xiya in the back row heard the conversation between the adults with sharp ears, and while gnawing on the Yandianzhutitang with satisfaction, he didn't forget to interject to express his own opinion.

After finishing the pig trotter, he wiped the grease from his mouth, picked up the Big Bone Soup and took a sip, letting out a satisfied sigh:

"Ah! So delicious!"

Xiya Ma was amused by her son, then sighed with emotion: "I didn't expect that such smelly things could be made to taste this good! Tingting's mom, your Cooking level must be very high, right?"

"It's alright."

Xie Yang didn't speak too definitively, but she wasn't overly modest either; she still intended to get Xiya Ma to join her and help her transport ingredients.

Even if she rented a Flying Vehicle, the cargo space was very limited; running a trip to District 1, the most she could bring back was two or three hundred catties of meat-livestock.

It was enough for herself to eat, of course, but she was planning to open an online shop to sell it for money.

Therefore, she intended to hire Xiya Ma to go to District 1 to haul cargo with her.

The two would go together in the morning, and in the afternoon, Xie Yang would make delicacies at home while Xiya Ma would fly to District 1 alone again.

"Two trips a day, I will pay you 50 Star Coins."

If this job could stabilize, there would be 1500 Star Coins a month, which was higher than the salary of a Recycling Station manager.

Xiya Ma was both surprised and happy, but after calming down, she shook her head at Xie Yang: "You don't need to pay that much, 20 Star Coins is enough."

She was not greedy.

Leaving early and returning late to rummage through the garbage dump, she was happy to fly if she had an income of 500 Star Coins a month; being able to get 600 from flying two trips to District 1 was quite satisfying. Any more, and she felt like she was taking advantage of Tingting's mom, which made her feel uneasy.

"That works too," Xie Yang said, "Then let's convert the remaining Star Coins into food! I see Xiya likes it quite a bit."

"Yes! I like it! I like it so much!"

Xiya jumped up in excitement, his head nearly hitting the roof of the Flying Vehicle cabin.

"Sit down! Don't move around!"

Xiya Ma glared at him crossly, then followed with a laugh.

Having settled the cooperation, they arrived at the garbage dump.

The two pairs of mother and son split up: Xie Yang took her son to rent a Flying Vehicle, and Xiya Ma took her son to pick up scrap.

The rental agency was not far from the garbage dump; it was just a few steps away.

Everything proceeded even more smoothly than she had imagined.

In less than half an hour, she had rented a third-generation Flying Vehicle that was newer than the first-generation one Xiya's family had and was still being sold on the market.

She test-flew it in the open space behind the rental agency, and after finding no problems, she signed the electronic rental contract.

Because it was a long-term rental, the rent was paid monthly.

The two thousand five hundred Star Coins that had been credited last night and this morning were all spent before they were even warm.

Xie Yang glanced at the Star Coin balance that had instantly returned to a pitiful two digits and twitched the corner of her mouth.

In a Garbage Star similar to a slum, money was this hard to keep?

"Is that her? Where did she get the money to rent a Flying Vehicle?"

After Xie Yang and her son left, the boss of the Red Tiger Gang walked out from the inner room of the rental agency, squinting his eyes as he stared at the departing Flying Vehicle.

After being beaten up that day, he had investigated Xie Yang thoroughly.

He had originally thought she was a Gene Warrior cultivated by some major family, given her formidable combat power.

It turned out she was just a demoted resident who had been exiled by the Yilan Star authorities to Garbage Star for committing an offense, so there was nothing to be afraid of at all.

However, her strength was indeed freakishly great, so even after finding out her background, the boss of the Red Tiger Gang did not dare to act rashly.

But seeing Xie Yang rent a Flying Vehicle for a monthly fee as high as 2500 Star Coins to go back, he felt something was very wrong: where did she get the money?

Wasn't it said that all her money had gone to buying Gene Modification Potion for her son?

Wasn't it said that over the past year, she had supposedly become so poor that she could barely afford Nutrient Solution?

How did she suddenly become so wealthy?

Could it be... that she had found raw ore again?

"You, follow her and carefully check where she has been recently."

He sent a subordinate to tail Xie Yang.

Xie Yang flew the Flying Vehicle to the garbage dump.

Since she was already there, she might as well scavenge for some metal plates or useful spare parts to take back.

She planned to expand the shelter, adding a tool room and a utility room; the tool room would be used for soaking and breeding, and the utility room for storing various tools and firewood for starting fires.

The newly built shelter needed a Kongqi xunhuan guolü zhuangzhi installed, so she intended to go to the Recycling Station to see if there were any cheap second-hand ventilation units.

Along the way, she brought a portion of Clear Stewed Pork Trotters soup for Lao Luofu.

"Is this... natural food?"

Smelling the rich meaty aroma, Lao Luofu took a deep breath.

"The last time I tasted natural food was decades ago! It must have been expensive to get these ingredients, right?"

"It wasn't expensive, just the seasonings were a bit troublesome; the meat was picked up from the Zone 1 Garbage Dump, I hope you don't mind."

Xie Yang had promised to take the little one for a ride, so after finding a ventilation unit and dropping off this gift of thanks, she waved her hand and left.

"..."

Lao Luofu stared at the trotter-shaped piece of meat in the bowl, suddenly unsure whether he should swallow the soup in his mouth or spit it out.