"Okay." Qin Zhaoci instantly sighed in relief, turned her head to look at Ye Lianyin next to her, took the initiative to reach out and grab her hand.
Ye Lianyin's body visibly stiffened for a moment when she was grabbed, but quickly returned to normal.
Standing up with Qin Zhaoci with a calm expression, they came to the dining table together.
Soon enough, the housekeeping robot brought up the meal prepared by the chef.
It was the first time for Qin Zhaoci to see the Imperial people's hand-made meals so looking at the food in front of him that looked good, she picked up her chopsticks and was eager to try it.
Seeing Qin Zhaoci's excited appearance, Ye Lianyin hesitated.
If it were her before, she might have jumped at the chance to try it. After all, it is a very rare opportunity to eat a meal cooked by the chef himself.
The number of chefs in the Empire is very small, except for the royal family and the Empire's top richest people who will invite a chef to specifically cook at home during festivals, the Empire's public have almost no opportunity to eat meals.
Hotels, restaurants, and chefs in the market also charge a very high price for a meal. In addition, the ingredients are so expensive that ordinary people cannot afford it. Therefore, even if ordinary people have the opportunity to eat, they have almost no chance to eat it frequently.
The Ye family only let the chef prepare meals during the holidays, and everyone usually drinks nutrient solution.
This time when they came back, the Qin family specially invited a chef back, which shows how much they adhere importance to the two of them.
But Ye Lianyin's taste has been taken by Qin Zhaoci's cooks recently, and she still has a deep impression of the taste of the chef's food, so she doesn't know how to move her chopsticks for a while.
Seeing Ye Lianyin in a daze, Rao Antong thought she was embarrassed, and immediately added a prawn to her plate using chopsticks, and incidentally picked one for Qin Zhaoci too, saying, "Hurry up and eat, don't be distracted."
Yeah, let's eat quickly." Qin Zhaoci saw that everyone else had moved their chopsticks, so she picked up the chopsticks, picked up the shrimp in the bowl, and took a bite.
Ye Lianyin tilted her head to see her expression, and as expected, just after a few bites, her whole expression became off.
Within three seconds, Qin Zhaoci took out a tissue and quickly spit out what was in her mouth, wrapped it up and threw it into the trash can.
Looking at Qin Zhaoci's reaction, Qin Zhongying was stunned for a moment: "Why, is the food not to your liking this time?"
Qin Zhaoci picked up a glass of water and took a quick sip in an attempt to wash down the disgusting and strange taste in her mouth.
She inexplicably asked: "Is this the only level of chefs in the empire?"
Qin Ruyi nodded: "Yeah, didn't you used to like to eat them, Xiaoci?"
"Yes, Xiaoci, you used to come home and have the chef cook a meal for you every time." Rao Antong ate the dish with the same surprised expression.
Seeing how everyone else ate so deliciously, Qin Zhaoci pursed her lips inexplicably. She finally knew why Ye Lianyin was so pleasantly surprised when she ate her own food for the first time.
She wondered if the people in the Empire had lost their sense of taste, how painful and monotonous life would be without tasting delicious food.
She instantly felt that they were really pitiful. Although they had very advanced technology, they really had too little fun in life.
But there was no way she could cook them a meal right now, it would be too strange, in case her abnormality got discovered it would be her end.
So Qin Zhaoci can only say: "My taste has changed. Now I find it really unpalatable."
"Hey, I didn't expect Xiaoci to even change her preferences this time, you used to like this chef's cooking the most, looks like we'll have to change the chef." Shen Moci glanced in the direction of the kitchen, "Has Xiaoci met any favorite chefs lately?"
"Uh, no, no, grandma you don't need to rush to find another chef, I haven't gone out to eat recently either, when I meet one, I will tell you." Qin Zhaoci was afraid that the Qin family would invite back other chefs who would cooked even worse food, so she immediately found an excuse to refuse.
"Okay, when you find it, remember to tell your mother, you don't need to eat the meals. If you don't like it, don't eat it and don't force yourself. The nutrient solution is in the refrigerator, you and Xiaoyin can go and get it directly."
Qin Ruyi also saw that this dish was not to Ye Lianyin's liking, and did not force them to eat it, so she quickly pointed to the direction of the refrigerator.
Just as Ye Lianyin was about to nod her head in agreement and got up to get the nutrient solution, when Qin Zhaoci stretched out her hand from under the table, grabbed her wrist, looked at Qin Ruyi with a smile and refused, "Yinyin and I woke up late this morning and drank the nutrient solution late, so we're not very hungry now. Grandma, mom, can I walk around the house with Yinyin first? I feel so unfamiliar here, I want to take a stroll first."
"Oh, that's right, I forgot that Yinyin is here for the first time, then you really need to take a stroll. Xiaoci, I'm afraid you probably don't remember the structure of your home at all, so I will let the housekeeping robot guide you and take you around." Rao Antong immediately voice control, and called the housekeeping robot.
Qin Zhaoci did not refuse, but nodded with a smile, took Ye Lianyin's hand, and left with the housekeeping robot.
Only when the two followed the robot to the Qin family's back garden did Ye Lianyin, who had been silent, ask the question she had wanted to asked, "Why did you stop me from getting the nutrient solution just now?"
Qin Zhaoci let go of her hand and shook her head: "Don't you think the nutrient solution is even worse? This meal is already bad enough. I didn't expect the chef here to cook a simple shrimp like wood, and I don't know what seasonings are added in it, the fishy smell is also not covered at all, and there is a layer of something that I don't even know. It almost made me sick and didn't spit it out".
Regarding Qin Zhaoci's evaluation, Ye Lianyin had no way to refute.
Before she could come up with something to reply, Qin Zhaoci asked again: "Are you hungry now?"
Ye Lianyin nodded: "A little bit, so I'd better go drink a nutrient solution, I don't know how long we'll be here yet."
"Then you can eat this." Qin Zhaoci suddenly took out a sandwich she made this morning from her coat pocket, "I made it this morning and I wanted you to eat it together, but I didn't know you were up so early and as soon as you woke up, you drank a nutrient solution, and I didn't even have time to speak."
When Qin Zhaoci said this, her tone was a bit resentful, as if she was blaming Ye Lianyin for being too unfamiliar with her.
Ye Lianyin was so flustered by what Qin Zhaoci had said. Looking at the sandwich in her hand, she was ashamed to refuse, and reached out to take it.
I don't know if it was because Qin Zhaoci was carrying it in her arms, but the sandwich still seemed to be tainted with Qin Zhaoci's body heat, and it was still warm in her hand.
Ye Lianyin opened her mouth and took a bite, and slowly ate the sandwich in her hand bit by bit.
Qin Zhaoci's cooking is as good as ever, especially after trying a strange dish just now, Ye Lianyin thought it was delicious after eating it, and, not long after the sandwich was finished.
After eating, seeing Qin Zhaoci, who was sitting next to her, staring at the empty space not far away in a daze, Ye Lianyin was embarrassed.
"Aren't you hungry?" Ye Lianyin thought about how she was so focused on eating by herself that she didn't even ask Qin Zhaoci.
Qin Zhaoci shook her head: "I'm not hungry. I'm already thinking about what to cook for dinner when we'll get home later. Is there anything you want to eat?"
Ye Lianyin was taken aback by Qin Zhaoci's question: " Why did you ask me all of a sudden?"
Qin Zhaoci turned her head, her eyes met Ye Lianyin's eyes, and slowly pressed her face closer to her, just as Ye Lianyin started to get nervous, she suddenly curled her lips in a brilliant smile: "In order to please you. After all, I have something to ask you, and I would like to ask Miss Ye to seriously consider my request today, please, please."
Ye Lianyin didn't expect anyone to please so bluntly, she was stunned for a moment, but before she could react on how to reply.
Qin Zhaoci stood up, walked to the place she had been staring at when she was in a daze just now, and squatted down.
Reaching out her hand to touch the ground, she casually grabbed a handful of soil, kneaded it twice, then shook her head again, as if she was not very satisfied.
Seeing Qin Zhaoci's weird behavior, Ye Lianyin didn't bother to answer, walked over, and asked strangely: "What are you doing?"
Qin Zhaoci didn't look up at her: "Oh, I was wondering if I could grow something in this place. After all, the whole garden is empty, and I always feel that something is missing."
Ye Lianyin followed and squatted down: "Then what do you think can be planted here?"
Zhaoci shook her head: "I can't plant anything here. This land is full of sand, and I can't grow anything at all. I can only let people see if they can put some decorations or fitness equipment here to make the garden look less empty."
"Have you planted something in the garden at home?" Seeing the way Qin Zhaoci wanted to study the empty space, Ye Lianyin suddenly remembered they had a piece of land at home, apparently Qin Zhaoci had planted apples.
Zhaoci nodded: "Yeah, the growth cycle of plants in the empire is quite short. So far, the samplings have reached the height of my knees. I feel that as long as I take good care of them, they should be able to bear fruit soon.
"When the result is out, let's try it together to see how it tastes, and then consider whether we want to continue planting."
"Mm-hmm." Ye Lianyin agreed with a casual nod, looking down at the ground beneath her feet, somewhat lost in thought.
Qin Zhaoci also noticed Ye Lianyin's absent-mindedness, and after a moment of silence, she tentatively asked, "What's wrong with you?"
"It's nothing." Ye Lianyin raised her head and glanced at her, her eyes full of doubt, "I was just wondering why you suddenly have so many skills after losing your memory, I never heard before that Qin Zhaoci could cook, and looking at the reactions of your two mothers just now, it seems that neither of them knew that you could cook."
Also, recently at home, a lot of the food you cooked for me was completely different from the food sold on the market in the Empire. It seemed to be some new variety and it tasted good and unusual. Before this, I had never heard of the Qin family starting to get involved in agriculture. What's going on? Qin Zhaoci, who are you?"
This long paragraph of suspicion hit Qin Zhaoci's heart like a heavy hammer, she was so frightened that she almost forgot to breathe.
It was all her fault for being too mentally relaxed after coming to this world, thinking that she could use her memory loss to muddle through all of her current abnormalities as long as she didn't stay with the Qin family's parents and Ye Lianyin didn't know the original owner before this.
But she forgot that Ye Lianyin is not stupid, no matter what,
the abnormal behavior she had recently done that was out of this world had long been seen by her.
Just as Qin Zhaoci lowered her head in contemplation, Ye Lianyin was also looking at her expression, trying to see the flaws in it.
However, Qin Zhaoci is someone who has been fighting for so long in the apocalypse and has long since practiced the ability to not change her expression.
She saw her eyes rolled slightly twice, and she immediately organized her words, pretending to be the same as usual, and laughed twice: "Qin Zhaoci is Qin Zhaoci, who else can it be, you really think too much, Ye Lianyin, before we got married, we didn't know each other, and I never lived with my two mothers before."
"Although my reputation in the Empire before I lost my memory has always been bad, it's not like I can't do anything. Although I don't know the details, I woke up that moment and really felt like cooking. It's like a muscle memory, and I don't know why, it seems like I've done it many times before."
"Maybe I learned it secretly before I lost my memory, but I really don't know much about it. After all, I don't remember anything."
"As for the agriculture you mentioned and the recent food we ate, it is also something that a plant research institute recently gave me. They said that I am the largest shareholder of their research institute and provided them with all the Research and Development funds. It may be that I invested in something before I lost my memory. You have also heard that I love to invest indiscriminately. The foods that they gave me were all tested and there was no problem, so I gave you the food."
Author's Note:
Qin Zhaoci: "Sure enough, I'll still cook delicious food."
"Okay." Qin Zhaoci instantly sighed in relief, turned her head to look at Ye Lianyin next to her, took the initiative to reach out and grab her hand.
Ye Lianyin's body visibly stiffened for a moment when she was grabbed, but quickly returned to normal.
Standing up with Qin Zhaoci with a calm expression, they came to the dining table together.
Soon enough, the housekeeping robot brought up the meal prepared by the chef.
It was the first time for Qin Zhaoci to see the Imperial people's hand-made meals so looking at the food in front of him that looked good, she picked up her chopsticks and was eager to try it.
Seeing Qin Zhaoci's excited appearance, Ye Lianyin hesitated.
If it were her before, she might have jumped at the chance to try it. After all, it is a very rare opportunity to eat a meal cooked by the chef himself.
The number of chefs in the Empire is very small, except for the royal family and the Empire's top richest people who will invite a chef to specifically cook at home during festivals, the Empire's public have almost no opportunity to eat meals.
Hotels, restaurants, and chefs in the market also charge a very high price for a meal. In addition, the ingredients are so expensive that ordinary people cannot afford it. Therefore, even if ordinary people have the opportunity to eat, they have almost no chance to eat it frequently.
The Ye family only let the chef prepare meals during the holidays, and everyone usually drinks nutrient solution.
This time when they came back, the Qin family specially invited a chef back, which shows how much they adhere importance to the two of them.
But Ye Lianyin's taste has been taken by Qin Zhaoci's cooks recently, and she still has a deep impression of the taste of the chef's food, so she doesn't know how to move her chopsticks for a while.
Seeing Ye Lianyin in a daze, Rao Antong thought she was embarrassed, and immediately added a prawn to her plate using chopsticks, and incidentally picked one for Qin Zhaoci too, saying, "Hurry up and eat, don't be distracted."
Yeah, let's eat quickly." Qin Zhaoci saw that everyone else had moved their chopsticks, so she picked up the chopsticks, picked up the shrimp in the bowl, and took a bite.
Ye Lianyin tilted her head to see her expression, and as expected, just after a few bites, her whole expression became off.
Within three seconds, Qin Zhaoci took out a tissue and quickly spit out what was in her mouth, wrapped it up and threw it into the trash can.
Looking at Qin Zhaoci's reaction, Qin Zhongying was stunned for a moment: "Why, is the food not to your liking this time?"
Qin Zhaoci picked up a glass of water and took a quick sip in an attempt to wash down the disgusting and strange taste in her mouth.
She inexplicably asked: "Is this the only level of chefs in the empire?"
Qin Ruyi nodded: "Yeah, didn't you used to like to eat them, Xiaoci?"
"Yes, Xiaoci, you used to come home and have the chef cook a meal for you every time." Rao Antong ate the dish with the same surprised expression.
Seeing how everyone else ate so deliciously, Qin Zhaoci pursed her lips inexplicably. She finally knew why Ye Lianyin was so pleasantly surprised when she ate her own food for the first time.
She wondered if the people in the Empire had lost their sense of taste, how painful and monotonous life would be without tasting delicious food.
She instantly felt that they were really pitiful. Although they had very advanced technology, they really had too little fun in life.
But there was no way she could cook them a meal right now, it would be too strange, in case her abnormality got discovered it would be her end.
So Qin Zhaoci can only say: "My taste has changed. Now I find it really unpalatable."
"Hey, I didn't expect Xiaoci to even change her preferences this time, you used to like this chef's cooking the most, looks like we'll have to change the chef." Shen Moci glanced in the direction of the kitchen, "Has Xiaoci met any favorite chefs lately?"
"Uh, no, no, grandma you don't need to rush to find another chef, I haven't gone out to eat recently either, when I meet one, I will tell you." Qin Zhaoci was afraid that the Qin family would invite back other chefs who would cooked even worse food, so she immediately found an excuse to refuse.
"Okay, when you find it, remember to tell your mother, you don't need to eat the meals. If you don't like it, don't eat it and don't force yourself. The nutrient solution is in the refrigerator, you and Xiaoyin can go and get it directly."
Qin Ruyi also saw that this dish was not to Ye Lianyin's liking, and did not force them to eat it, so she quickly pointed to the direction of the refrigerator.
Just as Ye Lianyin was about to nod her head in agreement and got up to get the nutrient solution, when Qin Zhaoci stretched out her hand from under the table, grabbed her wrist, looked at Qin Ruyi with a smile and refused, "Yinyin and I woke up late this morning and drank the nutrient solution late, so we're not very hungry now. Grandma, mom, can I walk around the house with Yinyin first? I feel so unfamiliar here, I want to take a stroll first."
"Oh, that's right, I forgot that Yinyin is here for the first time, then you really need to take a stroll. Xiaoci, I'm afraid you probably don't remember the structure of your home at all, so I will let the housekeeping robot guide you and take you around." Rao Antong immediately voice control, and called the housekeeping robot.
Qin Zhaoci did not refuse, but nodded with a smile, took Ye Lianyin's hand, and left with the housekeeping robot.
Only when the two followed the robot to the Qin family's back garden did Ye Lianyin, who had been silent, ask the question she had wanted to asked, "Why did you stop me from getting the nutrient solution just now?"
Qin Zhaoci let go of her hand and shook her head: "Don't you think the nutrient solution is even worse? This meal is already bad enough. I didn't expect the chef here to cook a simple shrimp like wood, and I don't know what seasonings are added in it, the fishy smell is also not covered at all, and there is a layer of something that I don't even know. It almost made me sick and didn't spit it out".
Regarding Qin Zhaoci's evaluation, Ye Lianyin had no way to refute.
Before she could come up with something to reply, Qin Zhaoci asked again: "Are you hungry now?"
Ye Lianyin nodded: "A little bit, so I'd better go drink a nutrient solution, I don't know how long we'll be here yet."
"Then you can eat this." Qin Zhaoci suddenly took out a sandwich she made this morning from her coat pocket, "I made it this morning and I wanted you to eat it together, but I didn't know you were up so early and as soon as you woke up, you drank a nutrient solution, and I didn't even have time to speak."
When Qin Zhaoci said this, her tone was a bit resentful, as if she was blaming Ye Lianyin for being too unfamiliar with her.
Ye Lianyin was so flustered by what Qin Zhaoci had said. Looking at the sandwich in her hand, she was ashamed to refuse, and reached out to take it.
I don't know if it was because Qin Zhaoci was carrying it in her arms, but the sandwich still seemed to be tainted with Qin Zhaoci's body heat, and it was still warm in her hand.
Ye Lianyin opened her mouth and took a bite, and slowly ate the sandwich in her hand bit by bit.
Qin Zhaoci's cooking is as good as ever, especially after trying a strange dish just now, Ye Lianyin thought it was delicious after eating it, and, not long after the sandwich was finished.
After eating, seeing Qin Zhaoci, who was sitting next to her, staring at the empty space not far away in a daze, Ye Lianyin was embarrassed.
"Aren't you hungry?" Ye Lianyin thought about how she was so focused on eating by herself that she didn't even ask Qin Zhaoci.
Qin Zhaoci shook her head: "I'm not hungry. I'm already thinking about what to cook for dinner when we'll get home later. Is there anything you want to eat?"
Ye Lianyin was taken aback by Qin Zhaoci's question: " Why did you ask me all of a sudden?"
Qin Zhaoci turned her head, her eyes met Ye Lianyin's eyes, and slowly pressed her face closer to her, just as Ye Lianyin started to get nervous, she suddenly curled her lips in a brilliant smile: "In order to please you. After all, I have something to ask you, and I would like to ask Miss Ye to seriously consider my request today, please, please."
Ye Lianyin didn't expect anyone to please so bluntly, she was stunned for a moment, but before she could react on how to reply.
Qin Zhaoci stood up, walked to the place she had been staring at when she was in a daze just now, and squatted down.
Reaching out her hand to touch the ground, she casually grabbed a handful of soil, kneaded it twice, then shook her head again, as if she was not very satisfied.
Seeing Qin Zhaoci's weird behavior, Ye Lianyin didn't bother to answer, walked over, and asked strangely: "What are you doing?"
Qin Zhaoci didn't look up at her: "Oh, I was wondering if I could grow something in this place. After all, the whole garden is empty, and I always feel that something is missing."
Ye Lianyin followed and squatted down: "Then what do you think can be planted here?"
Zhaoci shook her head: "I can't plant anything here. This land is full of sand, and I can't grow anything at all. I can only let people see if they can put some decorations or fitness equipment here to make the garden look less empty."
"Have you planted something in the garden at home?" Seeing the way Qin Zhaoci wanted to study the empty space, Ye Lianyin suddenly remembered they had a piece of land at home, apparently Qin Zhaoci had planted apples.
Zhaoci nodded: "Yeah, the growth cycle of plants in the empire is quite short. So far, the samplings have reached the height of my knees. I feel that as long as I take good care of them, they should be able to bear fruit soon.
"When the result is out, let's try it together to see how it tastes, and then consider whether we want to continue planting."
"Mm-hmm." Ye Lianyin agreed with a casual nod, looking down at the ground beneath her feet, somewhat lost in thought.
Qin Zhaoci also noticed Ye Lianyin's absent-mindedness, and after a moment of silence, she tentatively asked, "What's wrong with you?"
"It's nothing." Ye Lianyin raised her head and glanced at her, her eyes full of doubt, "I was just wondering why you suddenly have so many skills after losing your memory, I never heard before that Qin Zhaoci could cook, and looking at the reactions of your two mothers just now, it seems that neither of them knew that you could cook."
Also, recently at home, a lot of the food you cooked for me was completely different from the food sold on the market in the Empire. It seemed to be some new variety and it tasted good and unusual. Before this, I had never heard of the Qin family starting to get involved in agriculture. What's going on? Qin Zhaoci, who are you?"
This long paragraph of suspicion hit Qin Zhaoci's heart like a heavy hammer, she was so frightened that she almost forgot to breathe.
It was all her fault for being too mentally relaxed after coming to this world, thinking that she could use her memory loss to muddle through all of her current abnormalities as long as she didn't stay with the Qin family's parents and Ye Lianyin didn't know the original owner before this.
But she forgot that Ye Lianyin is not stupid, no matter what,
the abnormal behavior she had recently done that was out of this world had long been seen by her.
Just as Qin Zhaoci lowered her head in contemplation, Ye Lianyin was also looking at her expression, trying to see the flaws in it.
However, Qin Zhaoci is someone who has been fighting for so long in the apocalypse and has long since practiced the ability to not change her expression.
She saw her eyes rolled slightly twice, and she immediately organized her words, pretending to be the same as usual, and laughed twice: "Qin Zhaoci is Qin Zhaoci, who else can it be, you really think too much, Ye Lianyin, before we got married, we didn't know each other, and I never lived with my two mothers before."
"Although my reputation in the Empire before I lost my memory has always been bad, it's not like I can't do anything. Although I don't know the details, I woke up that moment and really felt like cooking. It's like a muscle memory, and I don't know why, it seems like I've done it many times before."
"Maybe I learned it secretly before I lost my memory, but I really don't know much about it. After all, I don't remember anything."
"As for the agriculture you mentioned and the recent food we ate, it is also something that a plant research institute recently gave me. They said that I am the largest shareholder of their research institute and provided them with all the Research and Development funds. It may be that I invested in something before I lost my memory. You have also heard that I love to invest indiscriminately. The foods that they gave me were all tested and there was no problem, so I gave you the food."
Author's Note:
Qin Zhaoci: "Sure enough, I'll still cook delicious food."
