Starting from scratch, Batman crushed my dream of getting rich

Chapter 59 Day Attributes

Laba porridge originated in the Song Dynasty. On the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, the major temples in Tokyo cooked porridge with seven treasures and five flavors and glutinous rice, and other people followed suit.

Rice, beans, walnuts, pine nuts, milk mushrooms, persimmons, and millet are the seven ingredients in the original version of Laba porridge, called the Seven Treasures. In addition to rice and beans, the five kinds of fruits add five flavors to the porridge.

Of course, the porridge made by Ma Zhaodi is not that exquisite or luxurious.

Rice, millet, glutinous rice, corn, coix seed, milk-flavored kidney beans, mung beans, adzuki beans, red kidney beans, red dates, cored lotus seeds, peanuts, longan. Even a bag of dried fruit was added.

Anyway, the main point is diversity, just put whatever you have.

At this moment, Ma Zhaodi silently thanked the system mall for its thoughtfulness. It even had a food processing function. With just a few dollars of asset points, he could process these bags of grains, beans and fruits, peeling, shelling, and air-drying them. It could even shorten the soaking time of an entire night to just a few seconds.

Jason stared in amazement as he added all sorts of strange-looking ingredients, both familiar and unfamiliar to him, into the pot, and subconsciously swallowed his saliva.

You can only tell whether it tastes good after eating it, but at least this pot of porridge looks colorful and smells fragrant.

As water was added to the porridge and stirred with a large spoon, the chef's clothes, which were originally soaked by the snow water, were dried by the fire again, and he hummed a tune that no one could understand.

"Children, don't be greedy, after Laba it's the New Year;

Drink Laba porridge for a few days, it will be the 23rd."

Jason didn't understand what he was humming, but he felt that he was just like Santa Claus in the fairy tale, riding a reindeer, sitting in a sleigh, flying down the chimney, and then giving gifts to the children - he could also sing nursery rhymes.

He swallowed his saliva again and again and stirred with a big spoon. The peanuts, beans, lotus seeds, etc. in the pot were finally burnt into a mush by the high temperature and mixed into one, gradually becoming part of the thick black and red porridge. The aroma of grains became stronger and stronger, making Jason almost want to taste it first.

"Don't stretch out your hands! This porridge is very hot." Ma Zhaodi looked at the children around him who seemed to be getting impatient and had to remind them: "The porridge is not ready yet. Don't rush. If it gets too hot, you won't be able to drink it."

So the children had to withdraw their hands and instead stare at the porridge in the pot, imagining how it would taste.

Ma Zhaodi could hear the sound of people swallowing saliva coming from the side of the pot. He couldn't help but smile, but then he sighed.

I wonder how many other homeless children in Gotham are suffering the same fate as this little house—or even worse.

Then again, he got the task from reading the newspaper, which meant that he would probably have to do odd jobs at the rescue center, and this pot might not be counted in the task progress; of course, he was not too disappointed, but just felt it was a pity, as he had originally wanted to see what the festive attributes of the food were.

But now, he was thinking that maybe the matter of the rescue center could be put on hold for now - the task was optional after all, so what if he did it later? He had no intention of pushing the progress to the limit anyway.

"Okay, okay, the porridge is almost ready - don't worry, you won't be allergic to the ingredients in it. Now, go get a spoon and a bowl from my car."

The second benefit of the Horn of Plenty is that the therapeutic effects of the food it produces can cover the adverse reactions it causes, including nut allergies, which are prevalent in the United States. This problem is also common in Gotham. Ma Zhaodi is not sure how many of the more than 30 children in the room suffer from nut allergies, so all his ingredients are produced using the Horn of Plenty.

The older children cheered and took out a bundle of wooden spoons and bowls from the car and distributed them one by one. Everyone gathered around the fire and watched the chef raise the big spoon and start pouring porridge into everyone's bowls, filling each bowl very full.

Jason couldn't wait to hold up the bowl. He felt a bit like when he was a child waiting for Santa Claus to give him gifts. That was when his parents were still alive. They would sing to him on Christmas and make him a small Christmas tree.

"Don't be impatient——"

Before Ma Zhaodi could finish his words, dozens of spoons had already been thrust into the bowls. After waiting for a full half hour, they were finally able to drink the hot porridge. How could these children still hold back? "Hiss, ha, ha, ha—"

The next second, the sound of breathing began to ring out in the room. A group of little kids tilted their heads back and exhaled the hot breath from their mouths toward the top of their heads, using the cold air to quickly cool the hot porridge in their mouths.

"It's hot, don't worry."

The chef looked at the children who were gasping for breath due to the burns and grinned unscrupulously, "Hehe, I told you not to be impatient, but you guys didn't listen."

Jason was quick-witted and picked up a wooden spoon to scoop some porridge from the pot and stuffed it directly into his open mouth.

"Hiss, ha, ha, ha—"

Suddenly, there was another mouth in the hut, breathing out with its head tilted back.

Ma Zhaodi took a few deep breaths before she recovered. Fortunately, Jason only scooped a little bit, otherwise she really couldn't bear it.

"You're so young and you don't learn your lesson. You're holding a grudge like that. Next time I'll put lotus seeds in your porridge!"

The chef wasn't very generous either.
But no one had time to argue with him. Everyone was busy drinking the porridge in their bowls. To be more precise, they were wolfing it down.

This was the first time they had tasted such delicious porridge. Although they didn’t know what was in it, the porridge was really thick and sweet. Every mouthful of hot porridge brought them a real sense of fullness.

Raisins are sweet and sour, peanuts are crispy, red beans are soft, and red dates are beautiful. While eating the porridge, a warm feeling flows from the stomach to the whole body. The cold hands and feet gradually warm up and become rosy. Even the chilblains on the hands and feet gradually heal and turn into healthy skin.

Horn of Plenty: A Horn of Plenty that can continuously produce food. Relying on it, you can survive in the harshest and most extreme environments. The food it produces can even provide a certain amount of life recovery ability and kill enemy blood-sucking effects.

Ma Zhaodi chased Jason for several blocks. He felt a little hungry at this time, so he made a bowl of porridge and drank it slowly. Before he could take a few sips, a system prompt suddenly popped up in front of him.

"Winter in Gotham City

Status: In progress (0.037%)

Reward activated

The "Festival" attribute effect is activated. Cooking festival food is "Laba Congee", which gains the attributes of "Harmonious Nourishing" and "Warming the Body and Eliminating Cold".

Harmonious and nourishing: mixed grains and porridge, harmonizing and nourishing, Laba porridge has enhanced nutritional supplementation effect on the eaters.

Warm the stomach and dispel cold: The ingredients are warm in nature, warming the body and dispelling cold. Laba porridge enhances the consumer's resistance to cold.

Currently obtained attribute enhancement: 0.037%
Note: The mission doesn't specify a specific location, so why use your imagination so much?

Ma Zhaodi couldn't help but give Tongzi a thumbs up.

　Special thanks to the book friends who rewarded me, thank you very much
　　
　
(End of this chapter)