Apocalypse: I became rich by selling zombie live broadcasts

Chapter 74 What to do if you can’t cook well in the end times

Clips of the live broadcast of the disaster were posted online by netizens, sparking heated discussions but yielding no concrete results.

Shi Nianzhen had several video calls with the Beijing headquarters and met the director of the headquarters. After learning about the end of the world, disasters, other worlds, and professionals, he said he would do some research, and that was the end of the story.

Compared to the military strength of Blue Star, the disaster is too strong.

Shi Nianzhen was not in a hurry and lived every day to the fullest.

Get up early and read after dinner to learn about the universe.

After studying for two hours, I practiced shooting with Qin Kong.

Hot pot at noon.

In the afternoon, he followed Qin Kong to fight, and under his guidance, he learned various fighting techniques, such as the correct way to punch and exert force.

In the evening, water and fertilize the fruits, vegetables, flowers and plants at home.

Hot pot for dinner.

After dinner, I went out to rescue supplies and zombies, just to help digest the food.

After returning, he broadcast live. He traded food with the Blue Star people for zombies, and then broadcast live to the people in the other world, exchanging the zombies for Abyss Coins.

Shi Nianzhen's material inventory and Abyss Coins are steadily increasing.

Fortunately, there are not volcanoes everywhere on the blue planet, and most places are not ravaged by magma, so there are no wildfires.

There is no need for her to rescue supplies, otherwise she would be too busy.

The volcanic ash is always in the atmosphere, making the sky gloomy and dark even during the day.

During this period, we also helped to transport supplies to the Beijing headquarters several times.

Shi Nianzhen had upgraded her home, now she had fields, vegetable gardens, and orchards. She also added many robots to help with the farming.

Everything is thriving.

The only drawback is that her mutant species are not enough to fill them, so she can only grow ordinary crops.

Shi Nianzhen kept a close eye on those mutant plants.

That day, Bei Mian reached out to the Angel of Vengeance again, but before his fingertips touched the edge of the rose leaves, he was grabbed by Shi Nianzhen who came out of the shower.

"Hmm?" Shi Nianzhen narrowed his eyes dangerously.

"Ah!" Bei Mian smiled and retracted his hand. "It's all because it smells so good. I was writing a song on the third floor and I smelled it and came down without realizing it. It's all because it seduced me!"

Since the day of the volcanic eruption, Bei Mian has lived in Shi Nianzhen's portable home.

She does nothing but write songs every day.

The main reason was that Nian was really worried about her touching her vegetable garden and small animals, especially after she found out that Bei Mian was eyeing her mutant rose every day.

I don't trust her anymore.

Shi Nianzhen snorted, "Don't even think about it."

"Seriously, since you like this flower so much, why don't you grow a few more?" Bei Mian said.

"How do you know I didn't?"

Shi Nianzhen pushed her away from the flowers, out of the small vegetable garden, and into the kitchen.

"If you really want it, then work on writing songs and earning money. When I grow a plant, you can buy one. For now, why don't you bake some strawberry rolls for afternoon tea."

Yes, although Beimian is not very good at cooking, he is very good at baking.

"I can do it, but can we change up dinner? I've been eating hotpot all the time, and I'm almost fascinated by the flavor." Bei Mian asked while rolling up his sleeves as he stood by the kitchen island.

Shi Nianzhen curled her half-wet hair with her fingers, hesitated for a moment, and agreed.

She herself was actually tired of eating it, but her previous cooking experience was hard to describe.

Burning and overcooking were minor incidents. There was also the incident of the pressure cooker lid flying up and getting stuck in the ceiling. There was also the incident of the oil pan catching fire and the casserole pot exploding, which left a deep psychological trauma on her.

Shi Nianzhen turned around and went upstairs. She took out her mother's red book after a long absence and reviewed the dishes on it.

Scrambled eggs with tomatoes is the most popular dish. It is very simple to make, just fry them until cooked.

Scrambled eggs with cucumber is a mild and light dish. It was my favorite when I was little. You can just fry them together and eat them.

Smashing cucumbers is super easy. You don’t need to turn on the fire or even use a knife. All you need is your hands.

Braised chicken wings are a complicated dish in Shi Nianzhen’s eyes. The sugar color will break down when fried in oil, but she still loves to eat them.

Curry chicken/beef is also a complicated dish. It always burns the pot every time I make it, but I love it.

I love frying steak, but it will burn into charcoal.

……

My mother's red book doesn't have many recipes, only ten. The steps for preparing ingredients and cooking them are all very detailed, so even if she has an idea, she will make mistakes.

Each one would bring back memories of her failures.

There were still two hours before dinner. Shi Nianzhen sat on the sofa, holding a book, and chose dishes for dinner.

Sudden.

Her ears twitched and she suddenly fell sideways.

A slender hand stretched out from behind the sofa and hooked nothing.

Qin Kong chuckled and leaned over from behind the sofa: "You're quite alert, much better than you were a month ago."

Shi Nianzhen raised an eyebrow in satisfaction, "It wasn't a waste of practice, was it?"

"Yeah." Qin Kong laughed lowly and looked at her with curved eyes.

Shi Nianzhen tightened her grip on the book, resisting the urge to touch his face.

It's really weird. Although Qin Kong's face is handsome, it is tough and has nothing to do with cuteness. Why does she think it's cute and want to touch him?
Perhaps something went wrong with her brain after being attacked so many times.

This month, if she wasn't careful, Qin Kong would attack her.

Qin Kong didn't do anything to her, just hugged her, or patted her on the shoulder. Sometimes he would snatch the snacks or cakes from her hands, or the last shrimp or cherry on the plate... and so on.

It’s a good thing that Qin Kong didn’t succeed.

If he succeeded, not only would Shi Nianzhen be taken advantage of, but he would also be forced to practice more.

With a physical fitness of 400 points, I have trained myself to the point where I can't even lift my arms and legs. I have to be fed by him during meals, and there's a Bei Mian watching me with a wink. It's really embarrassing.

Qin Kong was very happy with it and even asked her: "I am also happy to serve you by giving you a bath, Miss~"

Shi Nianzhen was so angry that he shouted "hooligan".

Qin Kong would put her in a bathtub filled with medicine and let her soak there. After the medicine took effect and her muscles relaxed, Shi Nianzhen would come out to take a bath by herself.

All in all, it's been a very tortuous and bizarre month.

"Let's take a truce today. I have something important to do." Shi Nianzhen coughed and said to him with a serious face.

"Hmm?" Qin Kong also stopped laughing and asked, "Are you planning to go find Disaster and test your skills?"

"It's not that big of a deal," Shi Nianzhen sat up straight, pointed at the handwritten recipe in the red book and said to him, "For our dinner, I plan to make smashed cucumbers, scrambled eggs with tomatoes, and curry beef!"

Qin Kong flipped through the menu in her hand and frowned slightly, "Are we going to kill a cow?"

Shi Nianzhen pursed her lips and said, "That's not necessary. I have a lot of frozen beef."

Qin Kong raised his left eyebrow and asked, not understanding, "Then what's so big about this?"

Shi Nianzhen looked at him and glanced at the kitchen worriedly, "We might lose the kitchen."

Qin Kong looked at her with a half-smile.

Shi Nianzhen's eyes turned and met his gaze, and her eyebrows immediately raised.

Qin Kong immediately nodded seriously, "It is indeed very big."

Shi Nianzhen sneered, "Are you laughing at me?"

"No!" Qin Kong stood up straight, very sincerely, "I'm looking forward to it."

Shi Nianzhen narrowed his eyes, slammed the book shut, and stood up to go to the kitchen. "Don't talk nonsense, otherwise, there will be no food for you tonight."

"I promise not to say a word and even help you, Miss!" Two hours later,
The three of them sat around the dining table, looking at the three plates on the table, but no one picked up their chopsticks.

"Eat, why aren't you moving?" Shi Nianzhen looked at Bei Mian, "Didn't you say you wanted to change the dishes? You also agreed to these three dishes. Come and try them."

Bei Mian's gaze moved from the cucumber that was too rotten to be picked up, to the brown sticky substance, and finally to the red and yellow scrambled eggs with tomatoes.

Judging from the appearance, only scrambled eggs with tomatoes is acceptable.

"Then I'll try this scrambled eggs with tomatoes first."

Bei Mian put a spoonful into his mouth, chewed it twice, and then stopped moving.

"How was it?" Shi Nianzhen stared at her and asked, "I deliberately didn't taste it because I wanted to give you a surprise."

Bei Mian's lips were pale from being pursed tightly, and he looked stiff and awkward as if he couldn't swallow them and couldn't spit them out.

Shi Nianzhen frowned, "Still not working?"

Bei Mian thought about it, moved his tongue, pulled out two small eggshells from between his lips and put them into the bone dish. He chewed them twice and swallowed them. He quickly took two mouthfuls of rice and drank a sip of water before speaking.

"It's okay. You can still eat it after removing the eggshell. It goes really well with rice." Bei Mian said.

"Too salty?" Shi Nianzhen took a bite and frowned. "Oh, I added salt once when I was beating the eggs, and then I added salt again when I took the pot out of the pot because I thought the tomatoes were tasteless."

"It's okay, it goes well with rice." Bei Mian said.

Shi Nianzhen sighed softly and said dejectedly, "Why is cooking so difficult?"

"It tastes good to me," Qin Kong suddenly interrupted, "This curry is just the right amount of salty."

"Really? Let me try it," Bei Mian said as he scooped a spoonful of curry into his bowl. "Even chefs make mistakes occasionally. This small mistake won't affect our evaluation of your cooking skills."

"Yes, the coffee tastes very pure." Qin Kong said.

Bei Mian paused, a look of confusion in his eyes. "I've heard of people putting chocolate in curry, but this is the first time I've put coffee in it. Did you put coffee or chocolate in it?"

Shi Nianzhen shook his head.

Curry shouldn't taste like coffee; she didn't put any coffee or chocolate in it. If it tastes like coffee, it's probably burnt.

Bei Mian had already put a piece of beef into his mouth.

Chew chew chew.

His face was very calm.

Chew chew chew.

Not a word.

"How?" Shi Nianzhen asked.

Bei Mian saw that she wanted to speak, so he chewed faster.

During the few minutes that Shi Nianzhen was staring at her, she chewed faster and faster, until she was as fast as a Hot Wheels, comparable to a hamster.

Shi Nianzhen's heart finally died down.

She silently tasted the last of the smashed cucumber with a spoon.

The fresh cucumber fragrance, slight lemon sourness, sugar sweetness, soy sauce umami, and appropriate salt and chili spiciness roll in your mouth one after another.

"It tastes pretty good, but it's a little too broken, not as crispy as it should be." Shi Nianzhen looked at his hands. "I used too much force when I smashed the cucumber. This is the first time I've smashed a cucumber since I became stronger, and I didn't understand how much force I should use."

Bei Mian chewed the beef expressionlessly, shielding his mouth with a tissue before finally speaking, "How did you chew this beef?"

She looked at Qin Kong.

"It broke into pieces after two chews." Ever since Qin Kong had eaten Beimian's little cake, he was willing to condescend to pay attention to her.

"..." Bei Mian stopped chewing, sighed, wrapped the piece of beef in a tissue, and threw it into the trash can, "You two are too strong, and I am not worthy of you."

Shi Nianzhen tasted the curry beef.

"The beef is a little old and mushy. I always end up with it mushy when I make this. It never works."

Adhering to the principle of not wasting food, the three of them still ate the food.

The food was tasteless, my stomach was full but I didn’t feel satisfied.

After dinner, the three of them came out of their portable home and began to collect supplies to digest the food, while also fighting zombies.

Shi Nianzhen was very depressed all the way.

"Don't be so depressed. Even though it doesn't taste good, it's still edible. At least you are better than me and can cook." Bei Mian comforted her.

"But you can make small cakes, and the quality is quite good, the kind that customers will repurchase." Shi Nianzhen said.

"It's okay, you just didn't practice enough before. Just do it a few more times until you get used to it." Bei Mian said.

Shi Nianzhen hummed.

At this time, they were passing by a building with a very respectable facade. A huge dragon head was carved in the middle of the plaque, which looked very domineering.

"What was this place used for before?" Qin Kong asked.

"Long Lou, which sells morning tea, is very famous in the Hong Kong area."

Bei Mian looked at the door, his face full of nostalgia, and counted on his fingers, "I've been here many times. Their boat porridge, tiger skin chicken feet, black bean ribs, shrimp and red rice rolls, cheese and beef tarts, lotus leaf chicken, and dry fried beef noodles are all superb. The others are also on par."

“It’s a good restaurant that won’t disappoint.”

Bei Mian swallowed silently.

Shi Nianzhen pursed her lips and said, "I want to eat crab roe dumplings too."

Qin Kong glanced at her and said, "If there is a tutorial, why not go back and try it?"

Shi Nianzhen tilted his head and thought for a moment, then took out his phone and said slowly, "Maybe we should ask if the chef of Longlou is still alive."

"What do you want?" Bei Mian asked.

"There must be supplies in here," Shi Nianzhen pointed at the Dragon Tower. "If the owner or chef of the Dragon Tower is still alive and can make us a proper breakfast, it wouldn't be a big deal if we could help them clean up the zombies and ensure they can get their supplies back."

"Even if I provide them with supplies, it's not impossible, right?"

Bei Mian's eyes lit up and he nodded heavily.

"Right! Even if it's not from Longlou, as long as we find a chef, we can still have delicious food, right?"

Shi Nianzhen nodded.

"As expected, there's strength in numbers! If you're not good at something, just ask someone who is good at it to do it," Bei Mian said. "Hurry up, start the live broadcast!"

Shi Nianzhen: "Start the live broadcast, and the push target is the chefs from the past of this world."

"Five seconds left, live broadcast is about to begin." Penelope responded immediately.

The live broadcast has started.

Viewership numbers are rising rapidly, but are still much lower than before.

Shi Nianzhen looked at the number of people online exceeding ten thousand, and he had a clue in his mind.

"Hello everyone, I'm Shi Nianzhen. Today's push is a special for chefs." Shi Nianzhen smiled at the camera, turned the camera around, and took in the environment around him.

The streets were covered in blood, but there were no screaming zombies or dirty corpses.

They cleared out all the zombies nearby.

As the camera turned, the facade of Longlou appeared in the live broadcast.

"We are outside the Dragon House. I want to ask if the chef or owner of the Dragon House is still alive?"

The barrage is full of questions:
[What's wrong? Do you want to requisition the Dragon Tower's supplies? ]

[Strange! This is the first time I've seen someone looking for supplies ask if the owner is alive. You're quite polite.]

"What's wrong? If the boss of the Dragon Tower is still alive, you won't take his supplies? Or will you return his supplies to him?"

[I, I used to be a pastry chef at Long Lou! ]

"If you're in the harbor, could you come and save me? I'm the boss of Longlou."

(End of this chapter)