Warhammer: Hail to the Void Lords!.

Chapter 532 06.0531: "Conforming to the etiquette of porridge"

"I don't know, Captain. Although I was born on the edge of the Ultramarine, I don't know Aurora. I'm sorry."

"What are you sorry for? It's hot pot, of course! It's a pity that you were not on my battleship that time, so you didn't get to taste it, but hot pot culture is rich and diverse, and there are also small hot pots for two."

"Uh... is it spicy?" Sister Arabella was much more relaxed than before due to Horatio's enthusiasm: "I have heard of this famous dish from China. But I can't eat spicy food. The food in the monastery is relatively light, and my nasal cavity is quite sensitive, so it might..."

As the nun spoke, two slightly apologetic red clouds floated across her face, making her three-dimensional and mature face look particularly pure and lovely.

"Can't eat spicy food?" Horatio's eyes rolled.

"No problem! Let me introduce to you a non-spicy hot pot!" Horatio grinned mysteriously.

Soon after a while.

"Excuse me, dear Captain, venerable Sister. This is the porridge hotpot you ordered. Please enjoy it slowly. If you need anything, please call me at any time."

The senior female manager of the mansion, who was wearing a high ponytail and a black cheongsam with a golden dragon pattern, personally led the maids, who were wearing festive red cheongsams with golden phoenixes and cute buns, to the door. They knocked respectfully and opened the door only after getting Horatio's consent. Then they presented a delicate little golden stove cooking hot porridge.

As one of the highest-standard state guesthouses in Aurora for entertaining imperial officials, Phoenix Tower offers the best accommodation in Aurora, with all the delicacies from land and sea that can be found in the Five Hundred Worlds.

However, the Zhendan people always honor the delicacies produced on their own planet when entertaining foreign guests.

Sister Arabella looked at the porridge bubbling in the delicate little stove in front of her, emitting the aroma of grain, and she couldn't help swallowing her saliva.

In the convent, this kind of porridge with simple ingredients but slowly releasing sweetness in the mouth is a common food ration, but she has never seen hot pot with porridge as the soup base.

Just as she picked up the spoon and was about to scoop a bowl of porridge, Horatio stopped her.

"Wait a minute, Sister Arabella. The porridge in the porridge hotpot is not meant to be drunk now."

The nun blinked her clear eyes in confusion and smiled awkwardly: "Ah, so you don't drink it now? I thought..."

Horatio picked up a dish next to him, which contained fresh seafood caught from the Aurora artificial lake, a kind of fish fillet called "three-eyed crispy grass carp" by the locals. He divided it into two parts, half of which was poured into the small golden pot for Sister Arabella, and the other half into his own pot.

Then, he used smooth movements to fish out a bamboo tube 'raft' from the elegant 'flowing wine cup and winding water', which contained a variety of fresh ingredients cushioned by ice cubes.

There are fish, shrimp, crabs and shellfish, all kinds of them, and each one is different.

Although Horatio couldn't help wondering whether these exotic fresh foods offended the fundamentalism of porridge-based hotpot, he soon felt relieved - they were all similar anyway, and the most important thing was that the ingredients were fresh and delicious.

Well, it’s in accordance with the etiquette of eating porridge.

He poured palm-sized black tiger shrimps into the golden pot in front of Sister Arabella; four-eyed swimming crabs whose roe was as golden as gold when cut open; inverted clams that were neatly bulging upwards, and many other seafoods that Horatio couldn't name (most of which he was very familiar with the corresponding ancient Terra species).

"The first thing to put into the porridge hotpot is seafood, which will be the essence of the porridge flavor, and then the meat. But before that, may I ask Sister Arabella if there is anything she should avoid eating?"

"Well, no." "Then I'll give you a little bit of everything."

Then all kinds of seafood fell into the boiling porridge one after another, sinking and floating, appearing and disappearing.

As chopped green onions are sprinkled into the boiling pot, the freshness in the water begins to turn white or red - a sign that they are ripe and edible.

"You can eat it, Sister. Here is the non-spicy soy sauce dipping sauce I made. Try it." He made a 'please' gesture.

Sister Arabella carefully scooped the meat slices with crystal rice grains on the surface into the bowl, pursed her lips and blew gently.

After taking a quick taste and comparing the two flavors, she found that the porridge that was just served was nothing special. It was just the taste of the porridge that she was familiar with.

But after cooking the dishes, the umami flavor of fish, shrimp, crab and shellfish blended into the porridge, injecting new vitality into the rice porridge and making her appreciate its flavor.

"It's really delicious!" Her eyes were full of surprise, and her original fatigue was swept away.

“I didn’t expect porridge could be so delicious!”

She held the bowl in her hand and murmured as if she had found a treasure: "The fish meat is very crisp and elastic, with a firm and delicious taste. The shellfish makes the whole pot of porridge more flavorful, and the shrimp and crab have a unique freshness of crustaceans. The soy sauce flavor adds another layer of flavor.

Well, maybe this will be good for Officer Diana's recovery, and it will also whet her appetite - Captain, can I pack some to take back?"

"Don't worry, this is just the beginning. You can bring as much as you want, but the highlight is yet to come!"

He also fished out freshly slaughtered meat from the "Liushangqushui", which were Glocks, Heterozoans, and animals unique to China, a kind of soft-horned deer-like animal, whose horns were also a traditional medicinal ingredient with a long history.

The meats were slaughtered right after they were killed, and they were even still jumping as they floated out of the winding water.

Although a little creepy, they will be incomparably crispy and tender when put into the pot. Most of the ingredients that can only be enjoyed by the top nobles in the imperial world are just luxury goods that the middle class can afford in the main world of Ultramar 500 Worlds.

It can be seen how important "exemption from tithe" is to the development of a planet, especially a world managed and planned by Guilliman's descendants. Instead of using resources to pay tithes with a high loss and waste rate, it is better to use them efficiently on the spot and use high-quality troops and high-quality goods to serve the empire.

As Sister Arabella ate the fresh and delicious dishes, her taste buds were awakened by the rich flavors, her lungs were nourished by the warm and sweet hot porridge, and her face became rosy again.

Her rosy face, which had regained its rosy color, made her return to the beauty and charm she had when they first met. The beauty spots at the corners of her mouth and eyes perfectly added a unique mature charm to her face.

"You look like you're enjoying your meal."

"I haven't eaten at the table for a long time." The nun said after chewing and swallowing the food in her mouth politely: "The urgent environment and the people who need to be taken care of everywhere, the dining table I use most is to sit cross-legged by myself."

"It's very hard, especially for you pure angels who have to shoulder combat missions. But later on, if I remember correctly, the nun will send your team as the shipboard preaching group on my warship?"

"Escorting the 'Pure White Mayflower' is my last deployment mission. After that, I will join your warship. Battle Sister Arabella will serve you, Captain."

(End of this chapter)