The round Sixi balls were bitten into the mouth, and there was no meat residue at all, but it was not soft and chewy.

The meatballs are firm, yet tender, fresh, but sweet, and the unique aroma of wild rhinoceros rich in meat protein, so that the contradictory and unified taste appears in the same dish, and people can't stop eating it.

He found that everyone's greetings gradually disappeared, and the five members of the team were all immersed in hardship.

Only Xia Yuanfang held a glass of freshly squeezed green fruit juice and looked at everyone with a smile.

Her gaze always swept from Zong Ruoan's face inadvertently, and then looked at Xia Chujian.

Xia Chujian was extremely happy to eat, and she only had the dishes she wanted to eat in her eyes, and her shrewdness was all used on how to grab the vegetables.

The corners of Xia Yuanfang's mouth twitched, knowing that he was thinking too much.

This Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, the dishes on the table are particularly fulfilling.

In addition to the four dishes made by Xia Yuanfang with a total of twelve bowls of dishes, there are also twenty-eight dishes brought by Zong Ruoan, of course, those four staple dishes are not counted.

On the entire rectangular dining table, the presentation is distinct.

One-third of the dining table is Xia Yuanfang's dishes.

The blue and white sea bowl on a white background is unpretentious, and at first glance it is a solid family at the bottom of Mulan City.

The other two-thirds of the table is the dishes brought by Zong Ruoan.

They are all arranged in a variety of bowls and soup basins that look like jade.

Each plate is a solid color, and there is no pattern, although the color of the plate is slightly different, but it can be seen that it is the same color.

It's a light green with a hint of pigeon gray, stretching from the bottom of a plate or soup bowl to the top, like a light to dark blend.

It was as if it had been a rainy evening, and the sky was the color of the sky as twilight fell.

Under the lighting of the restaurant, these simple and elegant dinner plates or soup basins have an indescribable elegance and sophistication, and even make people forget the various Chinese New Year's Eve meals they carry inside.

Because in their own right, they are fine works of art.

When Zong Ruo'an's meals were just taken out and put on the plate, Xia Chu saw that their team was full of amazement and curiosity.

But after tasting all the colorful dishes and soups inside, their chopsticks invariably turned to the Xia family's white-on-white blue and white sea bowls that looked full of fireworks.

Although Xia Yuanfang only made four dishes, the amount was particularly sufficient, and each dish was filled with three large bowls.

But despite this, everyone was like a whirlwind, and it only took half an hour to eat all the dishes she cooked.

It can only be said that what can give real dignity to a dish is not the container that carries it, but the diners who swallow it.

No matter how beautiful the packaging on the outside is, if there is no real inner (taste) connotation (Tao), it will not be chosen by gourmets.

After eating the meals made by Xia Yuanfang that made them could only bury their heads and be reluctant to open their mouths to speak, they patted their half-full stomachs and began the greetings on Chinese New Year's Eve.

For the remaining hour and a half, everyone chatted about the thirty-two dishes brought by Zong Ruoan, which was a bit of a New Year's meaning.

Zong Ruoan also realized for the first time this time what the phrase "there is a sky outside the sky, and there are people outside the world" means.

He sighed, "...... It's true that I'm narrow-minded, Ms. Xia's cooking skills are well-deserved to be the first in the entire Beichen Empire."

When Zong Ruoan said this, it really carried a lot of weight.

Even Li Jian was surprised and asked, "Colonel Zong, aren't you saying polite words, are you?" We're all honest people, and we'll take it seriously!"

Xia Chujian nodded again and again, his eyes were as bright as stars, and he looked at Zong Ruoan like that, as if he was also saying, "It will be taken seriously"!

is obviously not a very beautiful face, but in Zong Ruoan's eyes at this time, it is extremely cute.

He smiled and said, "If it doesn't taste good, I can keep my mouth shut. Now that I've boasted about it, it's delicious. What I just said is full of real gold."

Song Mingqian and Pingqiong made a "whoosh" together, and stretched out their thumbs to Xia Yuan: "Xia."

Auntie is amazing!"

Ye Shijie said, "Since Colonel Zong said so, Aunt Xia's cooking skills are indeed not ordinary. We always come to eat white food, and we really can't go away."

In their opinion, Zong Ruoan was born in the top wealthy family of the Beichen Empire, and even participated in palace banquets in the palace.

So what he meant, if there is no polite ingredient, then Xia Yuanfang's cooking skills are really amazing.

Zong Ruoan smiled and said, "If Ms. Xia wants to go to Beichenxing or Shaofuxing to open a restaurant, I will definitely help. - This kind of craftsmanship, no matter where it is, will not be buried."

Xia Yuanfang didn't care, cooking was her hobby in addition to learning, and she didn't care about the number one.

Just as he was about to open his mouth to refuse, he heard Xia Chujian say, "Colonel Zong, what you said is not right. Why do you have to be a cook if you are good at cooking?"

She obviously didn't drink, but her cheeks were red and pink, as if she had natural rouge.

Zong Ruoan found it interesting and said, "The cooking skills are so good, why can't you be a cook?"

"Of course, that's because, my aunt's skills are better than cooking!" Xia Chu saw a generous wave of his hand, "My aunt used to be a senior researcher at Ritchie Pharmaceutical! If it weren't for her sudden illness three years ago, her current achievements would be limitless!"

But as soon as she said that, she added, "I don't mean to look down on cooks, cooking is a serious profession, just like us bounty hunters. I used to think about opening a restaurant to make money...... It turned out that I didn't have the capital to open a restaurant, and it took too much time, so I couldn't go to school, so I dismissed this idea."

Zong Ruoan was even more interested: "Oh? Can you also cook? How does it compare to your aunt's craftsmanship?"

Xia Chujian compared with his hand: "Compared with my aunt, that's too bad...... But compared to other chefs, I think I can make it to the top."

Crowd: "......"

This cow is a bit big.

Xia Yuanfang smiled and touched Xia Chujian's forehead, and said, "You didn't eat a lot of sugar today, did you? Why are you drunk?"

Xia Chujian hugged Xia Yuanfang's shoulder and said, "Auntie, I'm so sleepy, my heart is beating very fast......

"It's not midnight yet, you can't sleep." Pingqiong pulled Xia Chujian over, "Come, let's make a fist!"

The two girls were enthusiastic and rowed Wang Baquan.

Li Jian pulled Song Mingqian and said, "Let's also make fists!" Draw a real man***!"

Ye Shijie was drinking red wine alone, looking ahead with empty eyes, and he didn't seem to have any focus.

Xia Yuanfang lowered his eyes, didn't look at anyone, and scooped himself a bowl of creamy soup from the Zong family.

The taste of this soup is okay, but the proportion of cream is a little too much, so when you take the first bite, it is a kind of greasy that chokes people.

Xia Yuanfang felt that if she was given the same ingredients, she would be able to make it even more delicious.

Zong Ruoan looked at Xia Yuanfang at this time, changed his name and narrowed the distance and said, "Aunt Xia, I just said when I first saw you, you used to be a senior researcher at Ritchie Pharmaceutical?"

Xia Yuanfang nodded: "Well, I relied on the salary there to raise Chujian."

Since Xia Yuanfang had no intention of being a chef, Xia Chujian also said that Xia Yuanfang was more powerful than being a chef in other aspects, Zong Ruoan suggested, "I wonder if Aunt Xia still wants to go back and continue to be a researcher?"

Xia Yuanfang smiled: "No, at my age, I don't want to work for others anymore."

But if you don't work, you won't have an income.

Zong Ruoan felt that Xia Chujian really shouldn't have been a bounty hunter who licked blood at such a young age.

He stared at Xia Yuanfang and said, "Aunt Xia is still very young, haven't you thought about finding a new job?"

Xia Yuanfang seemed to understand what he meant, and said with a smile, "Of course I have thought about it, but I want to do something new and meaningful. I'm collecting information right now, and I'll start when I'm well."

Zong Ruoan still wanted to persuade again, but thought of the school records he had found in the first time of Xia.

As far as her poor academic performance is concerned, big

I don't want to be a bounty hunter, and I can't do anything else.

What's more, she still has some talent in her as a bounty hunter.

Although she is not a genetic evolutionary, she is very talented when it comes to firearms.

Zong Ruo'an looked at Xia Chujian with deep eyes, and a lot of thoughts ran through his mind, and he was finally pressed down one by one.

A few people talked and laughed, and soon it was almost midnight.

Everyone turned on their virtual displays and tuned into the Countdown to Zero on Imperial Television.

Although the Beichen Empire already has quantum communication technology, when communicating with each other, they can ignore the long distance gap between the stars and achieve the effect of instant communication, but each planet also has its own four seasons and the division of day and night, so it is not possible to achieve the same time in everything.

For example, the zero o'clock on New Year's Chinese New Year's Eve is carried out according to the time on the side of the Beichen Star Imperial Capital.

And at midnight in the imperial capital of Beichen Star, not to mention on other planets, even in other places on the same planet, it may be daytime or night, in short, the time is different.

Therefore, some activities, such as this empire-wide New Year's Eve event, are recorded in the imperial capital of Beichen Star, and then sent to various local planet TV stations, and then broadcast at the point according to the time in the rest of the place.

When it was midnight on Chinese New Year's Eve in Mulan City, they watched the recording of the large-scale New Year's Eve event held in the Beichen Star Imperial Capital a few hours ago.

But everyone is used to it, and it is not because it is a recording that they are less interested.

Because they can use three-dimensional holographic projection to project the situation into the living room of their own home and feel the atmosphere at that time.

When the recording of the New Year's Eve event began to be broadcast, everyone saw the virtual screen in front of them, and it seemed that the people of the entire Beichen Empire had gathered in the big square in front of the Beichen Star Imperial Palace.

Of course, only a small number of people actually come to this square to participate in the annual New Year's Eve countdown and blessing activities.

The vast majority of people can only use a three-dimensional holographic virtual system to project themselves onto this square.

The projection people are either standing or sitting, and some of them are still lying on the bed.

Of course, this kind of projection, because there will be a live broadcast link, so there is mechanical intelligence responsible for supervising and screening the projection that can be broadcast live.

Those projections that were making indecent actions in an attempt to attract popularity in the countdown to Chinese New Year's Eve were blocked by mechanical intelligence early in the morning.

These people can see themselves, but others can't see them.

Just let them entertain themselves......