Universe Infinite Canteen.

Chapter 384 Medicinal Diet
The rain continued until almost dawn.

Then Malu and Gu Qingyi set out to walk down the mountain. The nearest county town was Yuchang County, but it was also a hundred miles away.

Gu Qingyi and Aunt Zheng were both injured, and the latter was carrying a young child, so she couldn't walk fast even with a horse.

Malu accompanied them for ten miles and passed a small village. The countdown on the traveler's bracelet was less than twenty minutes.

Malu and Gu Qingyi agreed to meet outside the south gate of Yuchang County six days later. Malu then found an excuse to fall behind and found a deserted place. He packed up the valuables and two sets of clothes that he could not take away and buried them underground.

After finishing his work, he went back to the village and found a farmer who looked relatively honest. He spent a hundred coins to foster the packhorse he had stolen from the temple there.

The reason why they chose the pack horses used by the Xingtong Escort Agency to transport goods instead of the mounts with better speed of He Qisheng and others was mainly because the pack horses were docile and more suitable for novices like Malu.

It was almost time to finish all this work, and the millipede disappeared in a ridge of a field.

When he opened his eyes again, he was back on the sofa in the rental house.

"How is the new plane?" asked Lao Wang.

"Not bad. Although it's a little different from what I imagined, it's unexpectedly quite interesting. Maybe it can even fulfill my childhood dream of being a martial arts hero. But the ingredients there are also very special."

As Malu spoke, he handed the collection bag to Lao Wang and opened a bag of potato chips.

"I don't know if there are other ingredients over there. Anyway, when I turned on the scanning function, all I saw were these things. So, what do you think we can do with them?"

"These ingredients can be used to make medicinal food." Lao Wang said after looking at it.

"Medicated diet?"

"Well, to put it simply, food and medicine have the same origin. Food is medicine, and medicine is added to food. Through cooking, food is given the ability to prevent and treat diseases, nourish the body, and so on."

"Oh, now that you mention it, I remember that my country also had similar dishes in ancient times, and some of them have been passed down to the present day. But how should I put it? It can be said that there is some effect, but if you say there is, it doesn't seem to be very obvious. Some medicinal ingredients are even toxic. It's... very subtle."

"It's because of the ingredients," said the old king, "your plane only has the most basic ingredients, so most of the medicinal foods naturally can't produce the desired effects."

"I see. Wait... so if you make it yourself, the effect of the medicinal food will be very direct?"

"That's right." Lao Wang nodded.

“How intuitive is it?”

"I can make one for you and let you try it yourself."

"Okay, I'm a little hungry too."

After the Traveler's Bracelet was upgraded to level 6, Malu would spend 17 hours every time he went out to collect food, which was why he started to unpack potato chips as soon as he came back. However, after a pause, he added, "Do less."

There is no way. The main reason is that after Lao Wang came, Millipede's food costs skyrocketed. Millipede is not as self-disciplined as Saitama and Zoro. When there is delicious food in front of him, it is difficult for him not to eat, and it is difficult not to eat too much.

This has resulted in him gaining 7 kilograms compared to when he graduated from college. Fortunately, most of this weight has grown on his stomach, and he wears thick clothes in winter, so it is not noticeable for the time being.

But this is definitely not a way to go. Malu made up his mind half a month ago and spent 8888 to buy himself a VIP annual card for a gym and formulated a strict diet plan.

As a result, half a month passed and he hadn't been to the gym once, and the diet plan remained only in the planning stage.

He weighed himself again the day before yesterday and found he had gained half a pound.

Very good, the growth rate is faster than before I decided to lose weight. Malu felt that it was difficult for him to lose weight, especially when Lao Wang brought out a large stewed chicken from the kitchen half an hour later.

Malu couldn't control his hands at all. He complained, "Didn't I tell you to do less?" while picking up the chopsticks.

The chicken stewed by Lao Wang is cooked to perfect perfection. Golden fat floats on the clear chicken soup, outlining an attractive luster. The chicken can be removed from the bone with a light flick of chopsticks.

Lao Wang was also considerate enough to give the millipede a rice cake as a staple food, but it looked a bit black.

Malu first ate a chicken leg, then ate two chicken wings with rice crackers, and then drank a bowl of chicken soup.

The chicken soup tastes even better than the chicken itself, and it concentrates the essence of the whole stewed chicken. Millut soaks the remaining rice cakes in it, and it becomes chicken soup with rice.

So he accidentally ate too much again, and by the time he realized what was happening, most of the chicken was already gone.

Malu let out a contented sigh, then put down his chopsticks and looked at Lao Wang again.

"I saw three kinds of medicinal materials in it: wolfberry, red dates and lotus seeds, but I remember that I didn't bring back red dates. Did you use ordinary ones instead? Wouldn't it affect the final effect?"

"No, because this stewed chicken is not a medicinal dish, and I didn't put the ingredients you brought back in it. Not only the red dates, but also the wolfberries and lotus seeds you brought back from the supermarket."

"Ah?" Malu was stunned, "What about the medicinal food?"

"You've already eaten it."

"When? How come I didn't know? I just ate half a chicken," Malu was puzzled, but soon he thought of something, "Wait, the medicinal food you mentioned couldn't be... that rice cake?"

"Yes, this dish is called Lotus Leaf Carbon Cake."

"Hey, then why did you stew a chicken?"

"Didn't you say you were hungry?"

"........."

Anyway, at least the chicken was delicious, although I would probably gain another two pounds after eating it.

Fortunately, there is still some time before summer, so Malu turned his attention back to the medicinal diet and said to Lao Wang, "I know lotus leaf cakes, but what are lotus leaf carbon cakes?"

"Lotus leaf charcoal, also known as lotus leaf ash. I fried, calcined, and crushed the dried Qingyun lotus leaves you brought back into powder. I added it to the rice cakes and made lotus leaf charcoal cakes."

"Can lotus leaf ash be eaten?" Malu asked in surprise, "Then what is the use of this lotus leaf carbon cake?"

"It can help people lose weight." Lao Wang said, "You can go weigh yourself now."

"Huh?!" Upon hearing this, Malu immediately went to the bedroom to take out the body fat scale, then went to the toilet to relieve himself, and then stepped on it.

He held his breath and watched the number jump a few times before finally stopping at 68.1kg.

"Oh shit!" Malu exclaimed immediately.

He still remembered that he weighed himself two days ago and the number had reached 69. Unexpectedly, two days later, he had just eaten a big meal and his weight did not increase but decreased, and was almost 2 kilograms less than the last time.

(End of this chapter)