The first thing I did was to find out

Chapter 187 Awakening

Ouyang fell into a long silence after hearing that if he wanted to eat Guoer, he had to go to Gusu specifically. Qin Huai didn't care about his good brother's silence because the three-diced dumplings in the steamer were ready.

【San Ding Bao Grade B】

All of them are B grade.

Stable performance.

Qin Huai opened the lid himself. The moment he opened the lid, steam hit his face. The heat mixed with the unique wheat aroma of the buns, silently announcing to everyone around him that this pot of buns was really delicious.

People who often eat steamed buns know that you can tell whether the buns are delicious by smelling them.

Smell sounds a bit abstract, but for every neighbor living in the community near Qin's Breakfast Shop, especially for high school students who have to go to school at 7 o'clock, get up early every day, and come to Qin's Breakfast Shop with full of expectations and hunger just to eat the buns they want, identifying buns by smell is the most basic skill.

The aroma of delicious buns is different from that of ordinary buns.

Especially the meat buns. Although the meat filling is tightly wrapped in the bun skin, the aroma will still be emitted along with the wheat aroma.

That sweet smell, full of carbohydrates, fats, sugars and other flavors that represent humans' most primitive pursuit and desire for calories, will quickly invade the nasal cavity of people who are in urgent need of a delicious breakfast.

At that moment, the scent of flowers, books, dust, and gasoline all disappeared. Even if there was a braised food shop next to the breakfast shop, the aroma of the braised food could be temporarily ignored.

The whole world smells only of buns.

And it tastes like the buns made by Qin Huai himself.

If someone insists on asking what the steamed buns made by Qin Huai taste like, then these customers who come to buy steamed buns every morning with the intention of opening a blind box will definitely tell them loudly:

It tastes like steamed buns!
As long as you get a little closer and take a deep breath, you will know that you have made a safe bet this morning and will be able to taste the flavor of the buns of your dreams!

No matter how cold or hot it is, whether it is windy or rainy, or even on a typhoon day, as long as the Qin's breakfast shop is open, everyone will dare to line up for the taste of the buns!

As long as you smell the fragrance, your saliva will automatically be secreted, and your brain will automatically be drawn to the flavor. You can already feel the taste of buns before you even get the buns in your hands!

Unfortunately, only the residents living near the Qin's breakfast shop can understand this feeling, and the guests of the Yunzhong Canteen are destined not to understand it.

Because the buns sold by Qin Huai and Qin Congwen in the Yunzhong Canteen are not priced the same, they are sold separately.

When people buy buns, they can’t get the joy of opening a blind box.

Qin Huai skillfully picked up the buns one by one and put them on the plate. He didn't know how much each employee ate, but he knew that everyone would eat more today than usual. After all, after working for so long, even the smallest appetite would be hungry.

So when Qin Huai was making the last batch of buns, he prepared them according to Qin Luo's appetite, while also taking into account the small portions of Ouyang, Chen Huihong, Chen Huihui, Luo Jun, Qu Jing and even Chen Yingjun.

Qin Luo doesn’t need to make the buns from this batch. Qin Luo won’t be back from school until the evening, so Qin Huai will make them for her then.

Qin Huai filled a large plate of buns for each person, paired with unlimited refills of tangerine peel tea and the nourishing-looking pigeon stewed with Gastrodia elata. Everyone had the illusion that it was Chinese New Year.

There is a large plate of buns in front of me. It looks so shabby, but it is actually very rich.

Many waiters in Yunzhong Canteen have never eaten so many three-piece buns since they started working there.

You should know that today's three-pack buns are limited in purchase. The canteen cannot really limit the purchase to only 5 per person per day, but it can limit the purchase to 5 at a time. Many nearby residents lined up from morning to noon just to buy a few more buns.

But how many are on the plate in front of everyone now?

There are totally 12!
This is not an ordinary 12-pack of three-piece buns, this is a special benefit for the Yunzhong Canteen employees that symbolizes privilege!

If you carry these 12 buns and walk around Yunzhong Community, you will be the most handsome guy in the entire community. Even Grandma Ding carrying two large bags of fermented glutinous rice steamed buns cannot overshadow your brilliance.

"Everyone has been busy all day and has worked hard. Let's eat something to replenish ourselves." Qin Huai said with a smile.

Qin Huai didn't even need to call out any requests, as some people had already started eating.

The first to start was An Youyou. She picked up the bun and stuffed it into her mouth even faster and more decisively than Ouyang.

While other employees were still hesitating and thinking about whether this plate was for one person or for several people, whether they should eat one or two and pack up the leftovers to take home for their families, or just eat their fill without thinking too much, An Youyou had already put the bun in her mouth.

An Youyou had already eaten Sanding Buns yesterday.

But she felt it was not enough, far from enough.

I can never get enough of these delicious buns.

When she had money in the future, she would have a three-stuffed bun, a five-stuffed bun, a four-happiness dumpling, and a fermented glutinous rice steamed bun every morning. She would eat whatever was available in the cafeteria, and she would make sure to have a good meal before going to work every day.

Soon, the employees of Yunzhong Canteen, who had been slumped in their chairs due to exhaustion and staggering, all held buns in their hands and began to happily gobble them up, taking bites of bun and sips of tangerine peel tea, with an intoxicated look on their faces.

This was the scene Qu Jing saw when she walked into the cafeteria.

As a professional neurologist, Qu Jing's first reaction was to call the police.

Then Qu Jing took a look at what everyone was eating.

Sanding bag, tangerine peel tea.

never mind.

When Qu Jing came in, Qin Huai was eating pigeon stewed with Gastrodia elata.

The ordinary pigeon stewed with Gastrodia elata and the delicious Sanding buns formed a sharp contrast. Qin Huai took a bite of the pigeon and a bite of Sanding bun, and deeply felt that Gong Liang really loved her.

After eating the S-grade three-diced buns, I can still eat the D-grade Gastrodia elata stewed pigeon, and I have to eat it every few days.

Worthy of being a gold medal salesperson!
"Qin Huai, long time no see." Qu Jing took off her mask and smiled after coming in. "Your return has caused a sensation. Wherever I went this morning, I could smell the smell of steamed buns. The director of the neurosurgery department came to my department and asked me if I could help buy Sanding buns for him."

Qin Huai could only ask: "Have you eaten?"

Qu Jing shook her head. Qin Huai pushed the bun in front of him towards Qu Jing: "Eat some."

Qu Jing didn't hesitate and sat down to eat the three-pot buns.

Qin Huai took a quick look at Qu Jing. She looked very good, with a rosy complexion, normal lip color, and sufficient qi and blood.

You won't die in a short time.

Noticing that Qin Huai was looking at her, Qu Jing smiled and said, "I'm in a very good mental state recently."

"Although I still get complained by patients occasionally, saying that I wrap myself too tightly and don't respect them, and that I am powerless to help most of the patients with Alzheimer's disease I meet. The progress of my new paper is not going smoothly, and sometimes when I'm sitting in front of the computer in the middle of the night, I still have a strong urge to cut my wrists a few times, but it's already good enough." Qu Jing said softly, her voice was light, and you could tell that she was not forcing a smile but really believed so.

"Sister Hong is always worried about me. She often finds excuses to bring me fruit at 9 or 10 o'clock in the evening. She brings a big bag of imported fruit or even a fruit plate to my house to check. She makes sure there are no knives for cutting fruit on the table and all the knives in the kitchen are put back in place before she feels at ease."

"She often complained to me that you had been in Gusu for so long that she had no tangerine peel tea to drink or snacks to eat. The only biscuits she ordered from Huangji to run errands across provinces were delivered normally, and the fermented glutinous rice steamed buns sent from Gusu were not as soft and chewy as those that were freshly cooked."

Qin Huai was shocked: "Sister Hong really ordered takeout from another province?!"

"Yes, but it seems that she was just taking advantage of Mr. Luo's interprovincial takeaway. Mr. Luo drinks tangerine peel tea every morning, which is delivered from Gusu the day before."

Qin Huai didn't understand and was greatly shocked. He was just talking, but he didn't expect Luo Jun to really do it.

Qin Huai thought about it and didn't know what to say, so he could only turn the topic back to Qu Jing: "I can see that you look pretty good now."

Qu Jing nodded: "Maybe it's because I've been secretly sunbathing recently."

Seeing Qin Huai startled, Qu Jing continued, "Over the years, I have been pretending that I am severely allergic to ultraviolet rays. I have been pretending so much that I have come to believe it. Not only do I wrap myself up tightly every day, I also avoid the sun. Even the house I rented before was not facing the sun. Every day when I go to bed, I have to draw the blackout curtains tightly to ensure that the sun does not shine into my room."

"But the bedroom in the house that Sister Hong rented to me faces the sun."

"One night when Sister Hong came to chat with me, she opened the curtains in my room to ventilate. That night I was writing my paper until 2 or in the morning. I didn't pay attention to the curtains before going to bed, and I was woken up by the sunlight the next morning."

"The sunshine was especially warm and cozy. The moment I woke up, I suddenly felt that I hadn't been in the sunshine like this for many years."

"At that time, I was thinking, sunbathing is such a comfortable thing." "It turns out that I can really live a normal life."

"Even though my body was covered with scars, winding and hideous, even though I was prone to self-harm and lost my mind, every time I had to let Mother Qu bandage my wounds while she cried."

"Even though I have to wear a mask every day to pretend that I am allergic to ultraviolet rays, when I am alone I always feel like a dark monster that has lived in the sewers for years. I cannot stand the light and dare not show my true face to others. If others find out what I am, they will stay away from me."

"But I can still live a normal life."

"There will still be normal people like you, Sister Hong, and Mr. Luo who will accept and understand me."

"I can still bask in the sun when it's sunny and take my gloves off in front of you."

"There are still doctors and nurses in the department who know that I have a weird personality, am not good at speaking, and don't like to talk to people, but they still pull me aside to chat and gossip, just to get me to buy tangerine peel tea and San Ding Bao for them."

"And I can really control myself from hurting myself."

Qu Jing said with some pride: "I haven't had any new wounds for 45 days."

Hearing Qu Jing say this, Qin Huai felt very emotional for a moment.

Qu Jing's side quest is the most difficult side quest to complete on Qin Huai's side. There are no clues, no direction, no clues, and the most important thing is that Qu Jing's dream is only one paragraph.

Qin Huai must complete this confusing side quest in order to obtain Qu Jing's only dream.

Simply put, there is no way to cut corners or take shortcuts in Qu Jing's mission.

Before going to Gusu, Qin Huai had tried his best, but to no avail.

This directly led to Gong Liang's mission being surpassed by others. Before Qu Jing's dream was obtained, Gong Liang's memory was unlocked.

But in terms of the degree of crisis, Qu Jing is definitely far greater than Gong Liang. Her obsession is deeper than Gong Liang's, and she is in her last life which is about to fail.

At first, Qin Huai didn't quite understand why Luo Jun and Chen Huihong would patch him up in advance. They reminded him indirectly that not every monster could successfully pass the tribulation, and he shouldn't feel psychologically burdened even if he failed.

After reading all of Luo Jun's memories, Qin Huai understood a little.

Many times it is not that the spirits cannot survive the catastrophe, but that they do not want to survive the catastrophe. Their catastrophe is never caused by others, but by their own hearts. They cannot get over the hurdle in their hearts, and cannot forgive themselves for various reasons, which leads to a deeper obsession and an irreversible catastrophe.

But Qin Huai didn't expect Chen Huihong to say one thing, but actually do another. She said that it would be difficult for Qu Jing to succeed in overcoming the tribulation, and even if she failed, Qin Huai shouldn't feel guilty or blame herself, because these were all the spirits' own fate and there was really little that others could do.

However, he secretly went to Luo Jun's house every day to eat fruits, went to Qu Jing's house to talk with Qu Jing, checked the knives and strictly prohibited self-harm.

All we can say is that these plant and wood elves are naturally kind-hearted.

Qin Huai looked at Qu Jing and felt that after more than a month, Qu Jing was a little different.

Before, Qu Jing was always indifferent. She looked at everything indifferently. Except for being extra attentive and enthusiastic towards patients, she treated other things equally, as if everything was just a passing cloud to her.

but now.

Although it is also light, it has a little more popularity.

Before, Qin Huai was not sure whether Qu Jing could live long, but now he was sure.

There is a high probability that Qu Jing will die of natural causes in this life.

Qin Huai smiled and said, "Then Dean Qu should be very happy."

Qu Jing nodded and took out a scarf from her bag: "Mother Qu is very grateful to you. She specially knitted a scarf for you, Sister Hong and Mr. Luo. Qin Huai, your scarf was finished first. This is the picture that Mother Qu specially picked online. It looks pretty good to me. I don't know why it looks familiar. We might have the same style."

Qin Huai quickly took the scarf and looked at it carefully.

Ok……

It does look familiar. This logo is so familiar.

L…V.

Dean Qu has a good aesthetic sense. He accurately picked out the most well-known luxury brands from a bunch of online pictures.

Qin Huai didn't say anything and silently accepted the scarf.

I have to say, Dean Qu’s knitting skills are really good, the stitches are very good, and the scarf looks very beautiful overall. It doesn’t even look fake from a distance.

Who can resist a genuine hand-knitted L-length wool scarf?
Qin Huai glanced at the time and found that it was not yet 3 o'clock. He finally realized that something seemed to be wrong and asked:

"Are you on the day shift or the night shift today?"

The day shift definitely hasn't gotten off work at this time, and the night shift should be sleeping at this time. How could Qu Jing appear in the Yunzhong Canteen at this time?

"I'm leaving get off work early today." Qu Jing said, "Our hospital has sent me to study at the Suzhou branch for two months. I'll be leaving the day after tomorrow. I don't have to go to work this afternoon and tomorrow. Let me go home and pack my luggage."

"I came here specifically to ask you, Qin Huai, about the situation in Gusu, to see what season's clothes I need to bring, what the weather is like there, and whether commuting is convenient."

"I can live in the hospital's staff dormitory when I go there to study this time, but you know my situation. It will be inconvenient to live with other people, so I plan to rent a house outside."

“Do you have any recommended areas?”

Qin Huai thought for a moment and said, "I don't know the location, but I have a full set of smart home products to recommend, and a Chinese medicine bone-setting shop to recommend."

Qu Jing:?
"But since you are going to Gusu to study the day after tomorrow, I have an unwelcome favor to ask of you." Qin Huai said solemnly.

Qu Jing was misled by Qin Huai's serious expression and thought it was something very important. She immediately sat up straight, looked serious, and nodded affirmatively: "You say."

"I'll cook it for you later, so don't tell anyone that I bought it from Huang Ji."

"Don't ask the runner to go to Huang Ji to buy dim sum."

Huang Ji’s business is already very good and it can’t be any better.

Qin Huai was really afraid of the private hospital where Qu Jing worked. How much salary do your hospital pay doctors? How come you are so rich?

Qu Jing nodded in agreement, not understanding why.

Although Qin Huai has lived in Gusu for more than a month, he doesn't know Gusu very well. After all, his activities are limited to 1 kilometer around Huangji.

However, if Qu Jing wanted to rent a house, Qinhuai could help. He asked Qu Jing for the address of the hospital in Gusu, and then sent the address to Gong Liang, asking Gong Liang to ask his assistant to refer to nearby houses.

Qu Jing had to go home to pack her luggage. After packing up the small kitchen, she didn't stay long and went back.

After Qu Jing left, Qin Huai pondered her condition, thought about it, opened the game panel, and turned to the illustration.

The last time Qin Huai looked at the recipe, he didn't pay attention to other people's illustrated status.

Qu Jing’s illustrations are ranked fourth.

Name: Qu Jing

Species: Unknown

Status: Awakening

Dream: 0/1
Recipe: None
Gift: None
Sure enough, Qu Jing's condition changed.

Chen Huihong's fruit did not have Bai Shun, and Qu Jing's state changed from complete amnesia to about to awaken. It can be said that Qu Jing only needs one last opportunity to start awakening.

In this round, the plant monsters scored big points!

(End of this chapter)