I am reciting the Classic of Mountains and Seas in the interstellar

The round Sixi meatballs fit into your mouth, with no trace of meat left at all, but they are not soft and chewy.

The meatballs are chewy yet tender, fresh and rich yet sweet, coupled with the unique flavor of wild rhinoceros pork that is rich in meat protein, such contradictory yet unified flavors appear in the same dish. It is delicious. It's completely impossible to stop.

He found that everyone's greetings gradually disappeared, and the five people in Xia Chujian's team were all immersed in their food.

Only Xia Yuanfang was holding a glass of freshly squeezed Green Yiguo juice and looking at everyone with a smile.

Her eyes always inadvertently glanced from Zong Ruoan's face to Xia Chujian.

Xia Chujian ate with great joy, all she could think about was the food she wanted to eat, and all her energy was spent on how to grab the food.

The corners of Xia Yuanfang's mouth twitched, knowing that he was overthinking.

This New Year's Eve dinner, the dishes on the table are particularly rich.

In addition to the four dishes made by Xia Yuanfang and a total of twelve bowls, there are also twenty-eight dishes brought by Zong Ruoan, of course, the four staple dishes are not included.

On the entire rectangular dining table, the dishes are clearly arranged.

One-third of the dining table is filled with Xia Yuanfang's dishes.

The large bowl with blue and white background is simple and unpretentious. At first glance, it looks like a well-to-do family from the bottom of Mulan City.

The other two-thirds of the tables were filled with dishes brought by Zong Ruoan.

They are all arranged with various jade-looking dinner plates and soup basins.

Each dinner plate is a solid color without any patterns. Although the colors of the dinner plates are slightly different, it can be seen that they are all of the same color series.

It was a light green with a hint of dove gray, extending from the bottom of the dinner plate or soup basin to the top, like a smudge from light to dark.

It's like the color of the sky when twilight falls on a rainy evening.

Under the illumination of the restaurant lights, these simple and elegant dinner plates or soup basins have an indescribable elegance and sophistication that makes people forget about the various New Year’s Eve dinners they carry.

Because they themselves are fine works of art.

When Zong Ruoan had just taken out the dishes and put them on the plates, Xia Chu was full of surprise and curiosity when he saw their team.

But after taking a bite of all the various dishes and soups inside, their chopsticks turned to the Xia family's white-bottomed blue and white bowls that looked full of fireworks.

Although Xia Yuanfang only cooked four dishes, the portions were very generous. Each dish contained three large bowls.

But despite this, everyone was like a storm, and it only took half an hour to finish all the dishes she cooked.

All we can say is that what gives a dish its true dignity is not the container that holds it, but the diners who swallow it.

No matter how beautiful the outer packaging is, if it has no real inner flavor connotation, it will not be chosen by gourmets.

After eating the food cooked by Xia Yuanfang, which made them immerse themselves in eating and reluctant to open their mouths to talk, they patted their half-full bellies and began to talk on New Year's Eve.

In the remaining hour and a half, everyone ate and chatted over the thirty-two dishes brought by Zong Ruoan, which made it feel like celebrating the New Year.

This was the first time Zong Ruoan realized what the saying "there is heaven outside the sky and there are people outside the world" meant.

He said with emotion: "...It is true that I am narrow-minded. Ms. Xia's cooking skills are well deserved to be number one in the entire Beichen Empire."

This sentence said by Zong Ruoan is really very weighty.

Even Li Fu was surprised and asked: "Colonel Zong, are you just talking politely? We are all honest people and we will take it seriously!"

Xia Chujian nodded repeatedly, his eyes as bright as stars, looking at Zong Ruoan, as if he was saying "I will take it seriously"!

A face that was obviously not very pretty, but in Zong Ruoan's eyes, it was extremely cute.

He smiled slightly and said, "If it's not delicious, I can keep silent. Now that I've boasted, it's really delicious. What I just said is pure gold."

Song Mingqian and Ping Qiong made a "wow" sound together and extended their thumbs towards Xia Yuanfang: "Aunt Xia is amazing!"

Ye Shijie said: "Since Colonel Zong said so, Aunt Xia's cooking skills are indeed not very good. We always come here to eat for free, and I really feel bad about it."

In their opinion, Zong Ruoan came from the top wealthy family in the Beichen Empire, and even frequently participated in banquets in the palace.

So if what he said was not polite, then Xia Yuanfang's cooking skills are really amazing.

Zong Ruoan said with a smile: "If Ms. Xia wants to open a restaurant in Beichen Star or Shaofu Star, I will definitely help her. - This kind of craftsmanship will never be buried no matter where it is."

Xia Yuanfang didn't care. Cooking was her hobby after studying, and she didn't care about her ranking.

Just as he was about to politely refuse, Xia Chujian said: "Colonel Zong, what you said is wrong. Why should you become a cook if you are good at cooking?"

She obviously didn't drink, but her cheeks were very pink, as if she had natural rouge.

Zong Ruoan found it interesting and said, "If you are so good at cooking, why can't you be a cook?"

"Of course, it's because my aunt's skills are better than cooking!" Xia Chujian waved her hand generously, "My aunt used to be a senior researcher at Ritchie Pharmaceuticals! If it weren't for her sudden illness three years ago, she would The current achievements are limitless!”

But after she finished speaking, she immediately added: "I didn't mean to look down on chefs. Chefs are a serious profession, just like us bounty hunters. I once thought about opening a restaurant to make money... but then I found out that I didn't The cost of opening a restaurant and the time required were so great that I couldn’t go to school, so I gave up the idea.”

Zong Ruoan became more interested: "Oh? You can also cook? How does it compare with your aunt's cooking?"

Xia Chujian gestured with her hands: "Compared to my aunt, it's far behind... But compared to other chefs, I think I can reach the top."

Everyone: "..."

This guy is a bit exaggerated.

Xia Yuanfang smiled and touched Xia Chujian's forehead and said, "You didn't eat a lot of candy today, right? Why are you drunk?"

Xia Chujian hugged Xia Yuanfang's shoulders and said, "Auntie, I'm so sleepy, my heart is beating very fast..."

"It's not midnight yet, you can't sleep." Ping Qiong pulled Xia Chujian over, "Come on, let's do some boxing!"

The two girls performed the tortoise punch with great interest.

Li Fu pulled Song Mingqian and said: "Let's do boxing too! Do real men's boxing!"

Ye Shijie was drinking red wine alone, staring blankly ahead, seemingly out of focus.

Xia Yuanfang lowered his eyes and scooped himself a bowl of Zong's cream soup without looking at anyone.

The soup tastes okay, but the proportion of cream is a little too much, so when you take the first bite, it feels greasy and makes you choke.

Xia Yuanfang felt that if she was given the same ingredients, she could taste better.

Zong Ruo'an looked at Xia Yuanfang at this time, changed his title and closed the distance and said, "Aunt Xia, when I first met, I just said that you used to be a senior researcher at Ritchie Pharmaceuticals?"

Xia Yuanfang nodded: "Well, I relied on the salary there to raise Chu Jian."

Since Xia Yuanfang has no intention of becoming a chef, Xia Chujian also said that Xia Yuanfang is better in other aspects than being a chef. Zong Ruoan suggested: "I wonder if Aunt Xia still wants to go back and continue to be a researcher?"

Xia Yuanfang smiled: "No, at my age, I no longer want to work for others."

But if you don’t work, you have no income.

Zong Ruoan felt that it was really inappropriate for Xia Chujian to become a bounty hunter who licks blood at such a young age.

He stared at Xia Yuanfang and said, "Aunt Xia is still very young, hasn't she thought about finding a new job?"

Xia Yuanfang seemed to understand what he meant, and smiled and said: "Of course I have thought about it, but I want to do something new and meaningful. I am collecting information now, and I will start when I recover."

Zong Ruoan wanted to persuade him again, but he thought of Xia Chujian's school records that he had checked.

With her poor academic performance, she probably couldn't do anything else besides being a bounty hunter.

What's more, she still has some talents as a bounty hunter.

Although she is not a genetic evolver, her talent in firearms is really outstanding.

Zong Ruoan looked at Xia Chujian with deep eyes. Many thoughts ran through his mind, and he finally suppressed them one by one.

A few people chatted and laughed, and soon it was almost midnight.

Everyone turned on their virtual screens and tuned into the zero o'clock countdown event on the Imperial Royal TV.

Although the Beichen Empire already has quantum communication technology, when communicating with each other, it can ignore the long distance between stars and achieve the effect of instant communication, but each planet also has its own four-season extension and division of day and night, so it cannot Be consistent in time for everything.

For example, the midnight time on New Year's Eve is based on the time in the Beichen Star Imperial Capital.

As for the midnight in the Beichen Star Imperial Capital, let alone other planets, even in other places on the same planet, it may be day or night. In short, the time is different.

Therefore, some events, such as this New Year's Eve event of an empire-wide nature, are recorded in the Imperial Capital of Beichen Star, and then sent to various local planet TV stations, and then broadcast according to the time in other places.

At midnight on New Year's Eve in Mulan City, Guiyuan Star, they were watching the recording of the large-scale New Year's Eve event held in the Imperial Capital of Beichen Star a few hours ago.

But everyone is used to it, and it doesn’t make them any less interested just because it’s a recorded broadcast.

Because they can use three-dimensional holographic projection to project the situation into their living room and feel the atmosphere at that time.

When the recording of the New Year's Eve event started to play, everyone saw the virtual screen in front of them. It seemed that everyone in the Beichen Empire had gathered in the large square in front of the Imperial Palace of Beichen Star.

Of course, only a small number of people actually come to this square to participate in the annual New Year's Eve countdown and blessing activities.

Most people can only use the three-dimensional holographic virtual system to project themselves onto this square.

The people who project these images are standing or sitting, and some are even lying on the bed.

Of course, this kind of projection will have a live broadcast, so there will be mechanical intelligence responsible for supervising and selecting the projections that can be broadcast live.

Those projections that performed indecent actions in an attempt to gain popularity during the countdown to New Year's Eve were blocked by machine intelligence early on.

These people can see themselves, but others cannot.

Just let them enjoy themselves...

Second update at 1pm. Happy weekend everyone!