CHAPTER 250: CHAPTER 242: MAYONNAISE OF SILVER STAR QUALITY!

After playing for over half an hour, Han Qiwu led Little Prince and Little Shui out of the ice and snow world; he needed to prepare for planting the Ice Mushroom mother stock.

Seeing Little Shui’s reluctant expression, Han Qiwu held it in his arms and coaxed, "Don’t worry, Little Shui. In a few days, I’ll bring some ice lotuses back and make more icy grounds for you to play on."

"Whimper whimper!" Little Shui nodded repeatedly, raised its paw, and sprinkled snowflakes onto the ground, obediently standing to the side to watch.

After calculating the positions, Han Qiwu took out the two Ice Mushroom mother plants and planted them one by one.

Once planted, the two Ice Mushroom mother plants seemed to have found their home, their caps rising and falling a few times, gently pulsating as if breathing.

After pulsating for a few dozen seconds, an ice-blue system notification appeared before Han Qiwu.

[The Ice Mushroom mother stock has begun reproduction]

At the same time, tiny ice-blue spores scattered from the Ice Mushroom mother plants, drifting gently with the wind onto the snowy ground.

As the snowflakes turned, these spores vanished without a trace.

"Grow well! I’m relying on you all to help me strike it rich," Han Qiwu withdrew his gaze, stood up, stretched lazily, and walked to the house entrance to start building the mayonnaise machine.

"The results should be great," Han Qiwu thought with anticipation.

After preparing the materials, he chose the system for manufacturing.

Within a few seconds, a mayonnaise machine appeared in his storage space.

"Is it really that quick to make processing tools like this?" Han Qiwu was a little surprised and faintly entertained a guess.

The exact verification would have to wait until he obtained other processing tools.

Positioning the mayonnaise machine in the vacant space nearby, Han Qiwu took it out and walked over to interact with it.

[Mayonnaise Machine]

[Please insert any egg type]

[Please insert quartz or place a container on the tray]

The appearance of the mayonnaise machine resembled an ice cream machine, with an insertion slot for eggs above, a tray below for storing the mayonnaise, and an indicator light on the cabinet.

"If quartz is inserted, will the mayonnaise end up in glass jars?" Han Qiwu mused, pulling out a large green-shelled chicken egg and tossing it in, then placing a basin below to catch the output.

Let’s see how it works first.

After the green-shelled chicken egg was inserted, the indicator light shifted from red to green, slowly flashing.

[Mayonnaise in progress, estimated completion in 12 hours]

"Twelve hours, huh. Alright, once in the morning and once at night works well," Han Qiwu now understood the remark about the long production time.

Fortunately, the mayonnaise machine operated quietly without any noise.

Long production time aside, it’s fine.

Quality craftsmanship takes time, after all.

Han Qiwu glanced at the moon in the sky, sighed a little, and headed to the nearby woods to chop some trees. Deep in thought, he muttered, "I still have 5,039 gold on me. Tomorrow, I’ll go fishing and should be able to build a duck shelter. If chicken eggs can make mayonnaise, duck eggs should be able to as well, right?"

Don’t worry, Flame Duck, in a couple of days, I’ll give you a chance to stretch your legs.

"I need to build two more fish ponds, one for snails and one for glacier whitefish; for the glacier whitefish pond, I’d need to add an ice lotus as well. This means I need to head to the mines sometime in the next few days."

After chopping for over an hour, Han Qiwu felt his body loosen up, so he stepped onto a clearing and started practicing "The Call of the Era."

Under the moonlight, Little Prince snored contentedly in his burrow, Little Electric diligently continued ridding the strawberry patch of insects, Little Shui sprawled by the fish pond occasionally teasing the Black Seabream King inside, the Meat Chicken snuggled up to the Green Soil Chicken beside it as if dreaming sweetly, while Kui Niu earnestly adapted to life moving on just one leg.

Harmony.

Over half an hour later, a weary Han Qiwu surveyed the courtyard with a smile, then went indoors to take a warm bath. Crawling into bed, he read "Tale of the Giants" for a while before falling into a deep sleep.

March 8 – Daily Log

Planting Experience +121

Foraging Experience +352

Fishing Experience +1124

Combat Experience +912

Mining Experience +851

Character Affinity Changes:

Guo Zihong: ❤❤

Current Money: 5,039 gold

Historical Earnings: 198,735 gold

"Boom rumble rumble..."

Before his eyes opened, Han Qiwu was startled awake by the sound of thunder roaring in his ears.

"Another thunderstorm?" Han Qiwu rubbed his eyes and slowly sat up to glance at the light rain outside the window.

No thunder seemed present.

Just then, a system notification appeared.

[Kui Niu Effect—Thunderous Roar triggered; current farm crop yield per instance increased by 7%]

So it was him!

Not bad, not bad—better performance than the Meat Chicken.

Just mutated, and already helping out at home.

Unlike that Meat Chicken—it used to graciously leave two legs behind, but now, it only spends its days messing around with the other hens. These past few days, all the eggs in Wutong have turned out to be Fire Duck eggs.

Time to straighten it out later!

Han Qiwu thought as he went about his morning washing routine, opening the system log for a peek.

Busy all day yesterday, fortunately, the experiences gained along several skill paths seemed decent. At this rate, combat and mining were likely to level up soon.

Aunt Guo’s Affinity increased again—looks like practicing Ba Duan Jin is quite effective.

Wonder what kind of hat or clothing Aunt Guo might make this time; I’m rather excited to find out.

After reading the log, Han Qiwu headed to the kitchen to prepare breakfast. Glancing at the countertop, he remembered the mayonnaise he had started last night.

"Let’s see if the mayonnaise is ready yet," Han Qiwu walked out to the mayonnaise machine in the yard, noticing its indicator light had turned yellow.

In the small iron basin on the tray, there sat a portion of pale yellow mayonnaise.

[Coarsely Preserved Large Portion Mayonnaise (Silver Star Quality)]

[Stamina +120]

[Health +50]

[Sell Price: 375 gold]

[Note: If equipped with a container, its quality will be higher]

Silver Star Quality yields 375 gold???

If equipped with a container reaching Gold Star Quality, wouldn’t it fetch 450 or 500 gold?

Han Qiwu was stunned. Besides Fear Bird and Flame Bird, Wutong produces four chicken eggs per day, usually one large and three small ones. Roughly estimated, a large portion is worth 375 gold, and small portions should be at least 200 gold each. Adding it up, if there’s enough mayonnaise machines, Wutong could earn 1,000 gold daily just from eggs.

If Fear Bird ever lays eggs, this number will rise even further.

Turns out, food processing is indeed the fastest way to make money!

Let’s acquire three more mayonnaise machines to process all the stored eggs at home!

As for this batch, let’s taste-test it first.

"But, you can’t eat this stuff on its own, right?" Han Qiwu crouched to pick up the mayonnaise; in the past, he usually ate it with sandwich bread.

He thought for a moment and came up with an idea.

Pancakes can wrap anything!

After frying the pancake, Han Qiwu skillfully layered on other ingredients, then scooped a generous spoonful of mayonnaise to spread evenly atop it, rolled it up, and took a big bite.

Delicious!

This mayonnaise is smooth and silky, rich with egg aroma, refreshing yet flavorful with a lingering taste. Since it is a water-in-oil emulsification type, its first sensation on the palate is the smoothness of water, followed by the rich enveloping feel of the oil. This elevates its texture by several levels.

Despite the presence of various other ingredients, Han Qiwu immediately caught the mayonnaise’s distinctive flavor.

"If Silver Star tastes this good, then Gold Star must be divine. I need to solve the container issue soon. Strange, with quartz being common in the mines, why haven’t I encountered it yet?" Han Qiwu pondered his next plan while munching on the delicious roll.