Abnormal Gourmet Chronicle-Chapter 1143 - 551: The Taste of Memories

Although Qin Huai didn't know why the spirits suddenly started distributing memories, he didn't plan to finish watching An Youyou's dream at Luo Jun's house.

Too tiring.

Reading memories didn't physically tire Qin Huai, but it exhausted him mentally. Short memories were fine, but the especially long ones felt like days, dozens, even months or years in the memory, leaving Qin Huai needing time to recover and sort through what he'd seen.

Even though Wang Gen Sheng's memory wasn't long, only a few days, there was no guarantee An Youyou's memory wasn't long.

When it comes to viewing memories, there's no turning back mid-way; once you've started, you have to finish. After all, Wang Gen Sheng and An Youyou weren't urgent cases, so he could delay. But if Qin Huai had accessed Zhou Hu's memory, he might have grit his teeth and finished because of the Nine-tailed Fox's life at stake.

Now...

Let the employees suffer a bit; An Youyou wouldn't know.

Qin Huai cleared his thoughts, looked at the puzzled crowd, and started explaining: "Here's the thing, today during the day, I completed Uncle Wang's side quest, and just now at home, I finished watching the memory and derived a new recipe—'Family Reunion Dumplings.'

Saying this, Qin Huai pointed to the two plates of dumplings on the table.

"The recipe is a bit special. Once I read the dish details to you, you'll understand. The rating of the recipe I derived was only Level C, but the dumplings I just made, one plate turned out Level A+, directly completing the main quest."

"That's about it."

Luo Jun listened expressionlessly, looked at the two plates of dumplings in front of him, and precisely extended his chopsticks to the plate of leftover Family Reunion Dumplings rated Level C, picking one up.

"So, this is why you called me late at night wanting to come to my house to make dumplings, and asked Zhang Shumei to go for a walk?"

Luo Jun stuffed the dumpling into his mouth, bit into it, revealing the filling inside.

It was braised pork filling.

Including quail egg braised with the pork.

Qin Huai didn't want to use this filling for dumplings either, mainly because the leftovers at Luo Jun's house were too lavish. Today, Luo Jun's house had four dishes: sweet and sour ribs, quail egg braised pork, mushroom chicken stew, and pan-seared steak, not a trace of vegetables but all grand dishes.

Zhang Shumei is quite skilled; with these dishes, the taste is surely amazing, provided they're not wrapped in dumpling skin and made into dumplings.

As for whether the dumplings are tasty...

Qin Huai could only say the Level C rating was evidence enough.

The next second, Luo Jun's roar resounded throughout the living room.

"Qin Huai, are you out of your mind?! You're worse than Chen Huihong! Braised pork dumplings, you actually used this trashy stuff to wrap dumplings!"

Luo Jun was so angry he wanted to throw the chopsticks and plate at Qin Huai's face, while Qin Huai tried to dodge, covering his face with both hands, loudly explaining: "Mr. Luo, listen to me, I didn't mean to do this, just let me finish reading the recipe details to you!"

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Ten minutes later, after listening to the fast version of Wang Gen Sheng's memory along with the recipe details, everyone was contemplating while looking at the two plates of dumplings on the table.

Luo Jun still wanted to smash the dumplings in Qin Huai's face, glaring at the plate of leftover Family Reunion Dumplings rated Level C, grinding his teeth as he asked, "Why didn't you warn me when I picked it up."

Qin Huai: "…At the time I was zoning out, and by the time I realized, it was too late."

Seeing Luo Jun was ready to grab the plate for an all-out fight, the 92-year-old was about to star in an action blockbuster, Cheng Gong quickly stepped in to calm the situation.

"This 'Family Reunion Dumpling' is indeed quite special. Just from the task details, it seems like the Family Reunion triggers under certain special conditions, unexpected that mixing different kinds of dumplings in one pot would count as Family Reunion Dumplings. Little Qin was quite shocked, zoning out and not realizing was normal."

"Yeah, yeah." To ensure Qin Huai's safety, Shi Dadan immediately agreed mindlessly.

Qu Jing was still immersed in Wang Gen Sheng's plot, took a sip of warm Rice Cake Soup, and asked vaguely, "Am I the only one who finds it strange that Uncle Wang's side quest and the recipe derived from his memory don't quite match?"

Gong Liang nodded: "I think so too."

"Old Wang's side quest was potato dumplings, and ultimately the derived recipe was 'Family Reunion Dumplings,' not too surprising between the two. But Old Wang's side quest completed strangely, Qin Huai's potato dumplings were not the same as the ones Old Wang ate during the New Year, who would have thought these were dumplings made with leftovers."

"But Qin Huai didn't use leftovers to make dumplings, and Old Wang's side quest suddenly completed. The only different thing was that he ate a bit of bad tasting salted vegetables before the dumplings, but according to Qin Huai's description, Old Wang didn't eat salted vegetables when dining on Family Reunion Dumplings, these two events are unrelated, so how did the side quest suddenly complete?"

Gong Liang voiced Qin Huai's biggest confusion, since finishing the memory, Qin Huai kept pondering this issue. Every spirit has its unique task completion mode, some follow rules, some are driven by emotions, and some as long as wrapped as dumplings.

Wang Gen Sheng alone was unreasonable this time.

Not only did Qin Huai not make the potato dumplings Wang Gen Sheng wanted, nor accidentally recreate the special setting when eating potato dumplings, yet the task was completed.

A bit like cheating.

Of course, cheating is impossible. Qin Huai thought there must be many stories behind Wang Gen Sheng that they hadn't uncovered, his guess was this task's completion was a coincidence, just they didn't know exactly how.