After Zong Ruoan hung up the call with Yutai Jinyu, he went to the bathroom to take a shower and change his clothes.

As soon as it was cleaned up, the doorbell rang outside.

It was the Zong servant who brought him the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner who came over.

Zong Ruoan opened the door and let them in, and after putting the food delivered in the restaurant, he let them go back.

These people came on the Zong clan's private starship that could make space jumps, so they were very fast.

At this time, they rushed back, and they still had time to reunite with their families and have a Chinese New Year's Eve dinner.

In order to thank them for their service, Zong Ruoan also transferred a big red envelope to each of them, so that these people were taken away in time.

After they left, Zong Ruoan sent a video call request to Xia Chujian.

At this time, Xia Chujian and his teammates were happily gathered in the kitchen and dining room to help Xia Yuanfang.

Hearing the prompt sound of the quantum light brain, Xia Chujian glanced at it and found that it was actually Zong Ruoan's video call request.

She was a little surprised.

Today is Chinese New Year's Eve, although it is not yet four o'clock in the afternoon, but it is already dark outside, and the cold is biting, dripping into ice is no longer enough to describe the cold outside.

At this time, Zong Ruoan does not prepare a Chinese New Year's Eve dinner with her family, what video call request will she send?

Xia Chujian pressed it with some curiosity.

Zong Ruoan saw the busy people around Xia Chujian: "...... Are you at home?"

Xia Chujian nodded: "Yes, our team has come to my house for Chinese New Year's Eve."

Zong Ruoan smiled and said, "Can I come and join you? I'm just done with work today, and I can't go back to my house for Chinese New Year's Eve, and now I'm alone."

Xia Chujian didn't think much about it, and said, "It's really miserable to spend Chinese New Year's Eve alone, Colonel Zong, where are you now?"

Zong Ruoan said, "It's in the neighborhood next door to your house."

Xia Chujian was amazed and said, "Colonel Zong bought a house in a well-decorated community! Colonel Zong is really rich!"

Zong Ruoan: "......"

The Petrified Crowd: "......"

To say to a person from the four nobles that you are really rich, I really don't know whether it is sarcasm or ignorance.

But looking at Xia Chu's appearance, it was neither sarcasm nor ignorance, she really thought so.

Li Lian leaned over and said solemnly to Zong Ruoan on the video call: "Colonel Zong, if you can let us praise "really rich" for the first time, it is an out-and-out compliment, and ordinary people can't get this kind of praise."

Zong Ruoan smiled: "I understand, thank you Li Lian for solving your doubts. By the way, because I can't go home for Chinese New Year's Eve, my family sent me a Chinese New Year's Eve set, I can't finish it alone, if you don't mind, I'll bring it to eat with you, okay?"

Xia Chujian smiled and waved his hand: "Don't mind! Don't mind! Of course not! If you eat something delicious, it will taste even better!"

Then she casually asked, "How many dishes did Colonel Zong's family send to Colonel Zong?"

Zong Ruoan glanced at the electronic food box on the table that had not yet been taken out and plated, and said, "...... It's about thirty-two dishes."

First Summer: "......"

When I saw the black rhino pork bun I was wrapping, I suddenly felt that it was not fragrant.

However, she quickly comforted herself that Zong Ruoan won by quantity, and her family relied on quality!

Zong Ruoan said, "Then come over now?"

Xia Chujian nodded blankly: "Do you need us to pick you up?" Thirty-two dishes, will one person not be able to take them?"

Zong Ruoan thought for a moment, "If only you could come over and help me get it together."

Li Jian and Song Ming immediately recommended themselves: "Colonel Zong, where is your address? We can come and help you!"

Zong Ruoan said the address.

Li Jian and Song Mingqian immediately put on their coats and went out.

They didn't use flying machines, but directly used the high physical strength of B-class genetic evolutionaries to jump from building to building, and arrived at the next neighborhood in five minutes.

However, after entering the neighboring community, it took another ten minutes to reach the first floor of the building where Zong Ruoan lived.

Because that community is much bigger than the old and backward community where Xia first saw them......

Then take the elevator up to the top floor, and then come to the door of Zong Ruoan's top duplex apartment.

Rang the doorbell, Zong Ruoan opened the door for them, pointed to the restaurant on the other side and said, "The food box is still over there, let's move it together."

"There are five food boxes in total, each containing eight cold cuts, eight hot dishes, eight steamed dishes, four soups, and four main dishes."

Zong Ruoan picked up the electronic food box containing four soups, which was almost half a person high.

Song Ming carried two food boxes in front of him, containing cold dishes and hot dishes respectively.

The two food boxes that Li Tie was carrying were steamed vegetables and staple food.

The three of them took the elevator downstairs from the top floor, and then ran all the way, and finally came to the door of Xia Chujian's house.

Half an hour has passed.

Xia Chujian opened the door and said with emotion, "Actually, Colonel Zong lives far away......

Zong Ruoan: "......"

If you use an aircraft, ten minutes back and forth.

It's a pity that his flying machine is not here, and he can't always use his Thunder fighter.

The first time I saw Xia was just a casual remark.

Li Jian and Song Mingqian followed up from behind and put the food boxes they had brought over on the large dining table in the restaurant.

When Xia Yuanfang heard that Zong Ruoan was coming, he also came out of the kitchen and said politely to him: "Welcome Colonel Zong to my house to spend Chinese New Year's Eve together, my side occupies the hand, Colonel Zong, you are at your own convenience."

Zong Ruoan didn't know anything about cooking, so he didn't take the initiative to ask to help in the kitchen.

But Xia Chu saw that the members of their team were either helping to pick vegetables in the kitchen or making steamed buns in the restaurant.

Therefore, he also walked over, put his hands in his trouser pockets, stood beside Xia Chujian, watched her flexible ten fingers fly, and soon wrapped the white and chubby buns.

He looked at the minced meat and asked curiously, "What kind of stuffing is this?"

Xia Chu was triumphant: "Black truffle wild rhinoceros stuffing!"

Zong Ruoan was even more curious: "...... I heard that the black rhino pork in Mulan City is out of stock everywhere, how did you get it?"

First Summer: "......"

Careless.

I forgot the origin of this thing, and I can't be humane to outsiders for the time being.

Ye Shijie smiled at this time and patched and said, "The last time we went to the Alien Beast Forest on a mission, we took two wild rhinoceros and brought them back. We are reluctant to sell it, so we keep it in my big refrigerator, and if we want to eat it, we can bring some over and let Aunt Xia help make it."

Li Jian also said, "Aunt Xia's cooking skills are really good! Ordinary people compare with Aunt Xia, that is the difference between a primary school student and a doctoral student!". z.br>

Xia Chujian squinted at Li Lian: "...... Bound master, your pun sarcasm is getting more and more sophisticated, who is a primary school student? - You can directly report my quantum light brain number!"

Li Lian laughed, and said to Zong Ruoan, "Colonel Zong, it's really not me bragging, Aunt Xia's cooking, you can eat it later."

Zong Ruoan smiled slightly, and did not expect much.

He knew that in this empire, not to mention commoners and citizens, even many nobles did not have a good background in food.

However, these people do not include families like their four nobles.

The food culture passed down from generation to generation by their four nobles can be written into a book.

He is confident that he is not comparable to the civilian aunt he first met in the summer.

However, when Xia Yuanfang finished cooking all the dishes and put them on the plate with the dishes brought by Zong Ruoan, Zong Ruoan realized that he was very wrong.

Xia Yuanfang only made four big dishes today.

A moist stewed unicorn beef with taro and linden fruit, and a unicorn beef tofu that is tender and melts in your mouth.

A dish of steamed wild rhino pork Sixi meatballs, and a pure meat version of braised wild rhino pork.

But every

A dish is filled with three sea bowls, and a small half of the table is also set.

Then there are some snacks, such as the fried noodles made for the team last time, the three fresh bean skins with meat cubes, and the oil sugar cakes they haven't eaten, the white glutinous rice balls, and the plum cabbage button pork baked cakes.

The main dish is steamed rice with Yutai Ota rice brought by Aunt Chen.

At the beginning, Zong Ruoan was not much surprised by Xia Yuanfang's cooking, because he only looked at the appearance, and did not have the fine knife work and exquisite presentation of his cook.

But the pot of crystal clear rice that was served attracted his attention.

Since Zong Ruoan became an adult, he rarely eats rice, even the best Yutai Mitian rice.

In fact, because his mother is the eldest princess, his family has not lacked this kind of rice since he was a child, but if he eats too much, he thinks that is the same thing.

But this time, when he took his first bite of rice, he found that it tasted amazing.

When you take a bite, the flavor of the rice is like bursting juice, and it instantly soaks all the taste buds.

Chew it, umami is heavy.

Chew it again, and the umami is heavy again.

After chewing it one bite at a time, the umami seemed to be endless, and there were so many layers that he had not perceived......

Zong Ruoan swallowed a mouthful of rice before asking Xia Yuanfang, "Ms. Xia, what kind of rice is this rice?" I've never eaten rice so good."

Xia Yuanfang smiled and said, "I also think this rice is delicious, this is Yutai Yutian rice."

Zong Ruoan was even more surprised: "...... Yutai Mita? I grew up eating Yutai Mita rice, but it didn't taste like that at all."

I was lost when I first saw it in the summer.

"Colonel Zong, can there be such a big difference between the same variety of rice?"

Zong Ruoan said: "If it is really the same kind of rice, there should not be so much difference in itself, and it can only be a cooking method."

As he spoke, he wanted to ask Xia Yuanfang how he did it, but he quickly thought that it was taboo.

Among the four nobles, the food culture that has been passed down from generation to generation is a secret within the family.

If the nobles want to inquire about other people's ancestral recipes, they have to come secretly, because once they are discovered, it is the rhythm of breaking off friendships.

So Zong Ruoan didn't continue to ask, but out of politeness, he took another bite of the steamed meatballs made by Xia Yuanfang.

He didn't know what kind of stuffing it was, but he felt that the soup was very clear, and the pink balls were round and floating in the clear soup, and they were also dotted with some unknown green crumb vegetables, which looked very meaningful.

It's just that after he tasted it, his pupils immediately shook.

It's really hard to believe that someone can do such a great thing with meat dishes!