Meng Guanghui's lips twitched, and he said, "...Since nutrient solutions were invented, no one should starve to death, right? You could buy Low-Level Nutrient Solution in your situation, couldn't you?"
Xia Chujian said, "It's precisely because I ate too much Low-Level Nutrient Solution that I never want to eat that tasteless stuff again."
As she spoke, she first took the Shredded Pork Fried Noodles over and placed them on the long table, then took out the electronic lunch box from her backpack.
Inside were various natural seasonings that her Aunt had packed for her, as well as small jars of oil, salt, soy sauce, and vinegar.
Xia Chujian placed the frying pan on the induction cooker, turned on the device that resembled a range hood, then first added some oil. After it heated up, she poured the noodles and minced meat from the bowl into the frying pan, discarding the noodle soup directly, as it was unnecessary.
Next, she added a tiny bit of seasoning that could tenderize the meat, along with a little salt and sugar, and thus made Shredded Pork Fried Noodles.
Meng Guanghui didn't pay much attention at first, happily cutting his Pan-Fried Steak and eating it, occasionally looking up at Xia Chujian's busy figure, determined to mock her.
But as the increasingly fragrant aroma wafted from Xia Chujian's frying pan, Meng Guanghui couldn't sit still.
He sniffed from time to time, wondering what she was making that smelled so good! Unexpectedly, after Xia Chujian finished the fried noodles, she put the steak back in the pan for a makeover.
She placed the steak in the frying pan and first used low heat to slowly pan-fry it.
Then, she mixed a steak sauce with salt, sugar, and natural seasonings.
The flavor of this steak sauce was very close to the original seasonings of the Pan-Fried Steak. She poured it over the steak in the frying pan, then immediately turned off the induction cooker, letting the residual heat bake it. Once the aroma was fully released, the new Pan-Fried Steak was ready.
It was more well-done than the previous Pan-Fried Steak, but the entire flavor was different.
The steak sauce she mixed was like a flavor filter, seemingly extracting all the excellent qualities of the original seasonings of the Pan-Fried Steak, but without overpowering it, because overwhelming the original flavor would be going too far.
She placed the re-made Shredded Pork Fried Noodles and Pan-Fried Steak on the tray in front of the soft seat, unscrewed a bottle of Clear Water, took a sip, then ate a bite of the Shredded Pork Fried Noodles, and couldn't help but hum, saying, "I could eat two portions of these fried noodles."
Meng Guanghui was indeed a regular on this interstellar spaceship. He had eaten all the dishes on the menu here, and his favorite was this Pan-Fried Steak.
But now, he only smelled a bit of the aroma of the reprocessed Pan-Fried Steak from Xia Chujian's side, and he felt as if a hand was reaching out from his stomach, eager to snatch the Pan-Fried Steak from Xia Chujian!
When Xia Chujian was eating, she noticed Meng Guanghui's occasional glances, and she secretly found it amusing, eating even more exaggeratedly.
Meng Guanghui took a few more bites of his own Pan-Fried Steak, but couldn't stand it any longer. He looked at Xia Chujian with a smile and said, "Chujian, it's your first time out, ignorance is no excuse, so you don't have to pay for this meal yourself. However, you can't eat so much food alone, why don't you let me help you eat the Pan-Fried Steak?"
Xia Chujian thought for a moment and said, "I really can't eat that much, but if this is the amount for two meals, I think I can still eat it."
Meng Guanghui quickly said, "We can order more later, no need to eat leftovers."
"Actually, I don't care about eating leftovers. My family used to be poor, we only cooked one meal a day, and at night we would eat leftovers, or not eat at all." Xia Chujian cherished the Shredded Pork Fried Noodles as she put them in her mouth, chewing carefully.
Meng Guanghui grimaced where Xia Chujian couldn't see.
He took a deep breath, stood up directly from his seat, quickly walked to Xia Chujian's side, picked up Xia Chujian's plate of barely eaten Pan-Fried Steak and said, "It's okay, with me, we don't eat leftovers. I'm your Chief, what kind of Chief would let his employees eat leftovers? Come on, let me help you eliminate the leftovers!"
By the time he finished speaking, he had already returned to his soft seat.
Xia Chujian stared at him dumbfounded and said, "Chief, you're too fast!"
Meng Guanghui thought to himself, he had even used the strength of a high-level Gene Evolver, just to snatch a plate of food from his subordinate, it was really embarrassing...
While thinking, he cut Xia Chujian's plate of Pan-Fried Steak and put it in his mouth.
As the piece of beef entered his mouth, under the cutting of his teeth, the aroma of the sauce and the meat juice bursting out of the beef mixed together, making his tongue feel like it had entered a gluttonous feast.
He chewed mouthful after mouthful, so satisfied that he couldn't bear to swallow! Xia Chujian watched him like this, secretly amused, and also quite satisfied.
Thinking, let you deliberately trick me, let's see who tricks who?!
After Meng Guanghui ate two bites of steak, Xia Chujian pretended to wake up from a dream and said, "Chief! You can't eat what I've eaten! I've already cut off a small piece!"
She stood up and brazenly took her plate of steak back.
If he hadn't tried his best to restrain himself, Meng Guanghui would have almost used his identity as a high-level Gene Evolver to knock the plate out of Xia Chujian's hand!
He glared at Xia Chujian, and sullenly went to cut his original piece of Pan-Fried Steak again.
Before he had eaten Xia Chujian's re-made steak, he hadn't felt that there was anything wrong with this steak.
But after eating such delicious steak, he really couldn't swallow his own.
But he couldn't spit it out in front of his subordinate, so he had to swallow it whole with all his might.
Then, he threw down his knife and fork and said to Xia Chujian, "Alright, I admit I was wrong, it was my fault, I should have reminded you in time. Even if you can't finish it, you don't have to pay for it yourself."
Xia Chujian said with a smile, "Chief, don't say that, you're right, we really shouldn't waste food."
Meng Guanghui said anxiously, "My little aunt! I know I was wrong, okay?! Can you... can you..."
Xia Chujian didn't continue, and said with a smile, "I know, I was just joking. Come, Chief, let me help you re-fry this Pan-Fried Steak."
"Ah?! That's great! Hurry, hurry!"
This time, Meng Guanghui stood next to Xia Chujian, watching her redo the Pan-Fried Steak.
It turned out that Xia Chujian had already planned to help him fry it again, because she only used half of the sauce she had mixed just now.
Once Meng Guanghui's steak was re-fried, Meng Guanghui immediately started eating.
This time, he still chewed slowly, as if he was tasting the steak in the best steakhouse on Beichen Star.
Meng Guanghui finished a large steak weighing two pounds in one go.
After eating, he still stared at Xia Chujian's steak with a look of unfinished business.
Xia Chujian gave it to him directly, saying, "I really can't finish it. If Chief doesn't want to waste it, then..."
"Of course I can't waste it! Come, I'll help you eliminate it!" Meng Guanghui flashed, and Xia Chujian's plate of steak appeared on the tray in front of Meng Guanghui.
Xia Chujian: "..."
Okay, he is my boss after all, so I can't continue to laugh at him.
But she couldn't help it. After eating, she sent a message to Zhu Yingying, telling her about this interesting thing.
Unfortunately, Zhu Yingying saw this message three hours later.
Because when the interstellar spacecraft is in space warp, the network on the spacecraft cannot transmit messages.
After eating this meal, Meng Guanghui slumped contentedly on the soft chair and said to Xia Chujian, "Your cooking skills are amazing! I have eaten in so many restaurants, almost all the famous restaurants on the Five Major Planets of the Beichen Empire, but none of them have steak as delicious as yours."
Xia Chujian said, "Chief, you are too kind. Actually, the ingredients for this steak are not good. It would be more delicious if it was made with fresh Unicorn Cattle meat."
Meng Guanghui: "..."
He glanced at her faintly and said, "When your training is over and you return to Mulan City, you must invite me to your house as a guest."
Xia Chujian: "..."
She said with a mocking smile, "Can the leaders of the Special Security Bureau go to their subordinates' homes for dinner? Isn't that against the rules?"
"Of course not. I am the leader. It's not against the rules to visit you at your home and have a casual meal! And I will pay!" Meng Guanghui said righteously.
Xia Chujian had no choice but to nod and said, "Then I will find a time to invite you after I go back."
After agreeing on the follow-up meals, Meng Guanghui was in a better mood.
At this time, the communicator in the small private room suddenly said: "*Space Warp Starting! Space Warp Starting! Please fasten your seat belts and do not walk around.*"
Xia Chujian and Meng Guanghui quickly sat on the soft seats and fastened their seat belts.
This was Xia Chujian's first time experiencing space warp, and she was very excited.
As soon as she fastened her seat belt, the lights in the small private room went out, and only light spots appeared on the dark green display screen in front of her.
Meng Guanghui said, "This is not a display screen, it is a visual baffle made of Lapis Lightstone. What you see now is the scenery of the outer starry sky."
Xia Chujian widened her eyes and saw that on the dark green visual baffle, the light spots were getting closer and closer, almost at the speed of light, and were drawn into lines from points.
And the straight lines were pulled by some force, and suddenly turned into various curved lines, such as parabolas, ellipses, hyperbolas, spirals, and cycloids. Various different lines formed strange patterns.
Immediately afterwards, those different lines had colors, red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet, colorful, dazzling, and dizzying.
Before long, these dazzling lines seemed to be attracted by something, and all the curves gradually merged and straightened, and finally became a straight line.
Almost in the blink of an eye, the straight line rushed into the distance like an arrow leaving the string.
And in the distance, a black hole rotated and appeared in front of them.
Meng Guanghui said, "The Wormhole has appeared, and we are about to warp space. Hold on tight."
As he said that, the entire interstellar spacecraft suddenly shook, and then accelerated suddenly and entered the Wormhole.
Xia Chujian couldn't see anything.
She said disappointedly, "Have we entered the Wormhole? Why don't they let us see it..."
Meng Guanghui rubbed his temples speechlessly and said, "When entering the Wormhole, the spaceship will experience the tearing of immense gravity, and that dark green visual barrier will be torn to shreds in minutes. Now, the entire spaceship is covered with a layer of anti-force field power shield, which can offset the tearing of the Wormhole's gravity."
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