Chapter 335: Chapter One Hundred and Ninety-Five: The Deliciousness of Barbecue
"Are you guys not eating?" Chen Ze took a bite of the synthetic mushroom skewer, puzzled, and found it was nicely grilled. The mushrooms weren’t too dry, soft and tasty with a hint of spiciness from the chili.
"Well..." Betty didn’t know what to say, as she really hadn’t tried sheep eyes before.
"Manager, can you actually eat sheep eyes?" Ronna cautiously asked.
In their small village, no one cared for sheep eyes, and only wanderers and orphans would pick them up to boil and eat.
"Of course, you can try them. They actually taste pretty good," Chen Ze said nonchalantly. There was nothing strange about eating sheep eyes to him.
Ronna nodded, then picked up a skewer of sheep eyes, took several deep breaths, and then closed her eyes to take a bite.
The first impression was its springiness and chewiness, followed by the bursting sensation as she bit down, and the taste was indeed delicious. With the barbecue and chili powder, the sheep eyes didn’t give Ronna any discomfort, and she even felt an urge to have another skewer.
"They’re really good!" Ronna said happily as she opened her eyes and reached for another skewer.
Chen Ze grinned. Grilled sheep eyes were a specialty of Xuzhou, similar in a unique way to the roasted pig eyes from Guangdong.
Plus, they were well-accepted by the foodies of Xuzhou, so how could they not taste good?
Betty looked at Ronna, who was eating happily, and still couldn’t bring herself to try a skewer. After some hesitation, she chose a skewer of meat that didn’t look strange.
Chen Ze took a piece of grilled beef, glanced at Betty, and didn’t know what to say—was her luck good, or was it bad?
"Manager...what is this?" Before eating it, Betty still asked, afraid Chen Ze would say it was sheep eyes or something of the sort.
"Oh, this? This is the ’milk box’," Chen Ze replied with a smile, then took a bite of his own beef skewer.
Meanwhile, Ronna was eating the beef skewer, and being clever, she started to choose her food based on what Chen Ze was eating. This way, she could never go wrong.
"I see," Betty nodded. Although she didn’t quite understand why it was called a ’milk box,’ she assumed it was something fairly normal.
Then Betty took a bite, found the texture chewy, and there was a faint taste of milk, which she found very appealing.
Watching Betty eat another ’milk box’ skewer, Chen Ze smiled and then added to what he hadn’t finished saying.
"The ’milk box’ is actually the part of the cow used for storing milk. How is it? Tastes good, right?" Chen Ze looked at Betty with a smile, and her face changed colors several times before settling into a steely glare at Chen Ze.
"Manager... you... you tricked me!" Betty felt like crying. She knew exactly what the ’milk ’box’’ was and instinctively covered her chest, worried the manager might suddenly decide to take her to make ’milk boxes.’
"Manager..." Ronna also looked at Chen Ze with a stony expression, truly surprised that he would use such ingredients for grilling.
"What’s so strange about it? It’s all meat, right? If I served you a ’cow shrunken’ hot pot, wouldn’t you be throwing up?" Chen Ze rolled his eyes, for the ’cow shrunken’ hot pot was not something that anyone could easily accept.
"This is cicada pupae. Though they are insects, they taste good and are rich in nutrients," Chen Ze said, pointing to the grilled cicada pupae on the plate.
"And then there’s the grilled chicken hearts, but what I’d recommend the most is the grilled chicken skin. It’s really delicious and aromatic," Chen Ze introduced the skewers on the plate, then stood up and headed to the kitchen.
He calculated that the chicken carcass should also be sufficiently marinated by now, and it was time to use the electric oven for grilling.
Or rather, grilled?
"This barbecue is really great," Betty sighed and then picked up a cicada pupa and ate it.
Although she was aware it was an insect while eating and had to spend some time steeling her mind, after eating it, Betty grew fond of this barbecue—the taste was really amazing.
"Which barbecue do you like, Sister Betty?" Ronna picked up another skewer of grilled sheep’s eyes, something Betty wouldn’t eat, although Ronna had said it was very tasty.
"Me? I like everything! Except sheep’s eyes." Betty rubbed her own eyes.
Suddenly, a delicious aroma wafted from the kitchen, aggressively seizing the sense of smell of Betty and Ronna.
"Come, come, try this, grilled chicken ribs." Chen Ze brought out the grilled chicken ribs, the rich aroma making Betty swallow a lot of saliva. freewebnσvel.cøm
"So delicious!" Betty said joyfully, looking at the grilled chicken ribs in front of her. Although there wasn’t much meat, the flavor was really great and very fragrant.
"Yeah, this does taste pretty good," Chen Ze nodded in agreement.
"Oh right, Ronna, here’s your pizza." Then Chen Ze handed a pizza to Ronna.
"Thank you, Manager Sir," Ronna gratefully accepted it.
After finishing the barbecue and sending Ronna away, Chen Ze returned to the kitchen to continue experimenting with his Dog Ignore Buns, pondering what would be the best thing to wrap around the aspic.
"Manager, have you played Princess Connect?" Betty asked while washing the dishes.
"Played a little bit, why?" Chen Ze didn’t turn his head, continuing to chop vegetables.
"Just curious, it seems really popular." Betty placed the cleaned dishes in the sterilizer.
"The popularity is okay, I guess, but I’m not planning on playing it," Chen Ze shook his head. He had tried Princess Connect during the public beta. freēwēbnovel.com
Then he heard from the friend who got him into it that if you want to work in the guild wars, you need to farm Character Cards, wolf things and such.
Chen Ze didn’t manage to get them, didn’t want to spend money on in-game transactions, and just gave up.
Lately, that friend had said that their guild’s war, from one in the afternoon to one at night, left them exhausted both physically and mentally, and the crunch was that they couldn’t even make it into the top thousand—a testament to its brutality.
Anyway, Chen Ze wasn’t planning on playing such games, as it felt too much like going to work. If playing games wasn’t for fun, it would be too tiring.
So, in the end, Chen Ze rejected his friend’s idea to pull him back into the game, not even if he was offered an initial Character Cards account.
"Manager, do you like playing something like... what was it, Electric Train Something or Little Something Something?" Betty teased Chen Ze with a lecherous expression on her face.
"Please, can’t you, as a girl, be a little less dirty?" Chen Ze was exasperated; this Succubus must be rotten to the core.
Perhaps starting tomorrow, he should limit Betty’s computer usage at noon? Otherwise, if she became a social demon, he wouldn’t be able to handle it.