Chapter 685 - 704: The Banquet Begins
Chapter 685: Chapter 704: The Banquet Begins
’The meat is pretty fresh. The delivery conditions are amazing.’
’The vegetables are vibrant and crisp—they look delicious. I’ll sort them out and put them in the cooler for tomorrow.’
’And then there’s the seafood...’
Since the house was meant for cooking, Mrs. Ai’er had thoughtfully prepared the kitchen. It was fully equipped; basically, everything Jiang Qiuqiu needed was already here.
’Everything is relatively new, too. It’ll be quite convenient to livestream from here.’
’It’s just that the thermostatic container might need to be a bit bigger—’
’No, that’s not right.’
’The one I had before was that big for storing food, but can I even keep a large supply of food at school?’
’On second thought, this size should be fine.’
As she mulled it over, she began rearranging the kitchen, moving things around until they were just how she liked them.
She also drew up the menu on her terminal.
On her terminal, in a small group chat, a few of the old generals suddenly tagged her, asking if there was a grand feast tomorrow. It seemed Mrs. Ai’er had already told them.
She took a photo of the overflowing pile of ingredients. "That’s right. I’m cooking all of this."
!
This is more shocking than the time I saw a whole case of Star Coins.
W-w-what... I’m officially skipping my Spirit Nourishing Liquid tonight. I need to save room to eat more tomorrow.
Mrs. Ai’er: @Old Bai In that case, you don’t have to come tomorrow either.
I’ll drink it, I’ll drink it! Man is iron, Nourishing Liquid is steel. I’ll panic if I miss a single dose. I’ll drink it.
By the way, @Jiang Qiuqiu, Little Jiang, is there anything you’d like? Should we bring some gifts?
No need. Having you gentlemen come is the best gift of all. ’Tomorrow’s goal isn’t so simple; this can’t be counted as Spirit Healing.’ Just coming is the biggest help you can give me.
She thought her refusal had been obvious enough.
But the bigwigs completely ignored her. Old Bai didn’t reply to her either, instead starting to tag the other ’brothers’ to discuss what they should bring for Jiang Qiuqiu.
Jiang Qiuqiu: ...
’Oh well, let them bring what they want. You can’t refuse a gift from your elders. Besides, the generals probably aren’t short on money, and if I keep refusing, I’ll just seem petty.’
’But, if Mrs. Ai’er already told the generals... did she also tell the dean of the Spirit Healing Department?’
She was right.
Mrs. Ai’er had indeed gone to see Dean Zhu.
Even though he was the dean, Zhu Tiansheng still taught a full course load and was a hands-on instructor who worried about everything. In short, he was a very busy man.
But no matter how busy he was, he had to make time for his ’old sister’.
"Ai’er, what’s wrong?"
"What? You’re inviting me to a meal at Federation University?"
’Hmm, this meal—’
"You’d better not be asking me to compromise my principles!"
"Our Spirit Healing Department doesn’t just accept anyone. Even if you’re trying to pull strings for a junior, I won’t take them."
Ai’er: ...
"What are you thinking? I’m not trying to pull strings for someone. I want you to meet a person."
"Oh? You mean that natural-born Spirit Healing Master with exceptional talent you mentioned before?"
"The very same."
"She’s at our university, and she’s cooking... Wait, she’s the one cooking the meal for us? Is she a food-based Spirit Healing Master?" The dean did a quick mental search. ’Our department doesn’t seem to have any food-specialist Spirit Healing Masters, does it?’
"You still love to ask questions, just like you always have. If you want to know, just come for the meal tomorrow afternoon and find out," Mrs. Ai’er sighed. "If I were any good at teaching students, she wouldn’t have fallen into your lap to teach."
"..."
"Alright, fine. I’ll go. I’m curious to see who this mysterious person is."
’To have that whole group of old geezers singing her praises.’
"Just be there."
’Once he’s there, he’ll understand.’
’A promising talent who’s half-invested in the Mecha Soldier program.’
’Tsk, Old Zhu is going to have his hands full.’
Mrs. Ai’er ended the call and glanced at the moon hanging high in the sky, unable to stop a thought from surfacing—
’This new generation of kids is way more ambitious than we were.’
’They want to learn this, they want to learn that, and they have the audacity to try and learn it all.’
’It’s truly impressive.’
’If all our youth are like this, then there’s hope for the Federation.’