Chapter 675 - 694: Feng Xiang, a Key Person
Chapter 675: Chapter 694: Feng Xiang, a Key Person
After clicking into the post, she quickly understood what was going on.
It turned out a streamer was randomly giving away real food, and some rich person who hadn’t been chosen was willing to spend a million Star Coins to buy a dish.
At first, she was shocked. ’Are rich people really that generous?’ A single dish for a million Star Coins. If only she had a million Star Coins. She could pay for Ye Ye’s medical treatments and buy some Nourishing Liquid.
After her initial shock, she set up a special notification for the stream. ’I’ll try my luck every day from now on,’ she thought. ’If I win one day, life will get a little easier for my husband and me.’
Who would have thought that when she tuned in two days later, she would catch Jiang Qiuqiu’s live stream right before the giveaway? The aroma, the flavors... Feng Xiang was instantly captivated.
Not only that, but Feng Xiang also found that she felt particularly energized after watching the streams.
’It’s free to watch, anyway,’ she figured. ’I’m not spending any Star Coins.’
After enjoying the free content for a while, she introduced the stream to her husband.
Her husband loved it, too.
The couple enjoyed the streams together for free, and neither of them ever suggested trying to win a sample, even though a taste-testing slot only cost five Star Coins.
Then, Feng Xiang’s birthday arrived.
Her husband had quietly won the data for a plate of braised pork. That evening, he brought it out and shared it with Feng Xiang.
"You like this, don’t you?"
"I won it for you."
"But—"
"It was only five Star Coins." Her husband said magnanimously. "Hurry up and eat. Connect your terminal. If you don’t eat it now, the day will be over, and it won’t be your birthday anymore."
The smell was incredible, but the taste was absolutely divine.
It was the most delicious thing Feng Xiang had ever eaten. ’No wonder people are willing to pay for this,’ she thought. ’If I had the money, I’d gladly spend it on this streamer every day.’
’It’s a shame Ye Ye doesn’t have a terminal yet and can’t taste this.’
The two of them made that single data plate last for a full two hours. They would take a bite, then pause to talk for a while, as if eating it too quickly would be a waste.
"Ah Xiang, if you like it, we can eat this more often in the future," Feng Xiang’s husband said with a smile. "I found a new job, and the pay is even higher than before."
"!"
"Really?"
"Mhm." Her husband felt lucky himself. "Some company just came to our star to build an experimental factory for growing natural food. You know how I have those herbivore Genes? Turns out it gives me a bit of an affinity for plants, so they hired me."
"The pay is 2,000 more than before! And it’s a natural food cultivation base... Maybe I’ll even be able to bring some natural food home in the future."
It was truly the best news she had received all year.
With her husband’s new job, he could occasionally bring home discarded food items and spare seeds from the factory. Feng Xiang got some soil and secretly started planting a small garden at home. Life slowly began to improve.
When life gets a little better, one’s ambitions begin to stir.
Around that time, Qiuqiu started teaching how to cook homestyle dishes.
Feng Xiang wanted to learn. She sensed an opportunity. Jiang Juju had nearly ten billion fans. What did that even mean? Ten billion people liked her and were willing to spend money on her.
’If I could just learn a fraction of Jiang Juju’s skills,’ she mused, ’I wouldn’t need that many people to notice me. Just a thousand people, each giving me one Star Coin...’
’That would be enough.’
But the vegetables she started with were too expensive.
So expensive that Feng Xiang couldn’t bring herself to buy them.
Later, Qiuqiu taught meat dishes. The meat itself was cheap, but after trying to cook it a few times, Feng Xiang realized it wasn’t that simple. What she made was nothing like what Juju made; the difference was just too great.
The meat was cheap, but the seasonings were not.
The expense stung, so she gave up on learning to cook. ’I was getting ahead of myself,’ she thought. ’If it were really that easy to learn...’