Food gives me an entry, I will be invincible if I stay alive

Chapter 2: The Ten-Year-Late Book of Food

In the second half of the night, the drizzle of spring rain lingered in the air until dawn.

Chen Xu didn't know when he fell asleep. In a state of half-asleep and half-awake, he seemed to have a head full of bizarre dreams.

One day I dreamt that I had passed the imperial examination, was riding a horse in a parade, and could see all the flowers in Chang'an in one day.

Then he dreamed that he was led by a goblin into a desolate mountain shrouded in cold mist, and a fox girl was taking him to marry her.

In a flash, he felt like he had turned into a demon and entered the Youquan Ghost Market.

On the long, dark street, where ghostly lights flickered, demons and ghosts came and went, trading items like corpse oil, painted skins, rotting maggots, and bloody straw men. There were also evil ghost tears, human skin lanterns, and skull wine cups...

Chen Xu woke up with a start.

My heart was pounding, almost jumping out of my chest.

He leaned against the window, listening to the various sounds on the distant Nanshi Street, the quarrels between the neighbors, the clashing of pots and pans, the crying of children...

The greed, anger, and ignorance of the mortal world caused him to fall back into the human world.

Chen Xu let out a long breath, finally calming down and sorting out his thoughts.

It was a dream, so good.

He took the crutch and decided to go to the kitchen first.

See if there really is a rat demon!
In the kitchen, everything seemed to be the same as what he had cleaned up after making dinner yesterday.

Except that the stove was slightly warm, the bowl of white porridge in the bowl covered with bamboo strips on the stove had disappeared completely.

Also, next to the empty porridge bowl, there was a piece of gray-brown bark about half the size of a palm!

Seeing this piece of bark, Chen Xu was startled at first, then he remembered what the rat demon said last night: "You should take this worry-free clothing to the stove."

It turns out that the so-called "no-worry clothes" is actually a piece of tree bark.

Just hearing the name at first, Chen Xu thought it was some kind of magic weapon or robe.

But come to think of it, if the rat demon that night was really so powerful, he could easily give away a magic weapon. How could he come in the middle of the night to steal, steal... and exchange it for porridge?

Somehow, when Chen Xu found out that the rat demon had given him only a small piece of bark, he was not disappointed but instead breathed a sigh of relief.

He leaned forward slightly to look at the piece of bark, and was thinking about what to do with it when another message suddenly popped up in front of him.

[Wuhuanyi, the remaining bark of a hundred-year-old peach tree, has a slight effect of warding off evil spirits when carried with you. Grinding it into powder and taking it can kill bacteria and remove impurities.]

Chen Xu blinked, and the message prompt disappeared. He concentrated and looked again, and the message prompt reappeared.

Chen Xu suddenly realized that he had gained an amazing ability. He quickly tried to check all the objects around him, and finally concluded that his ability should be called [I can see all food entries]!
Yes, all “food,” including some edibles in the non-conventional sense.

For example, the salt in the jar has the following entry: [Crude salt, salty, astringent, and bitter. A small amount is fine, but an excessive amount is poisonous.]

Another example is the ash from the bottom of an iron pot. The entry for this item reads: [Pot ash, low-quality herbal frost, has a mild hemostatic effect when taken internally or applied topically.]

Even the ash from the bottom of the pot has a hint, which shows how wide the "edible" range of the entry is.

Chen Xu suddenly had a lot of thoughts in his mind, and his originally depressed mood couldn't help but become slightly agitated.

But thinking that there might be a monster hiding somewhere in the house, he quickly controlled his fluctuating emotions.

He walked back and forth in the kitchen for a few steps, pretending to be surprised and said, "Hey, why is the porridge gone? Did I remember it wrong?"

He casually put the bark on the stove into his sleeve pocket and put the bowl of porridge aside.

[Wuhuanyi] can ward off evil spirits. The rat demon has some intentions.

In return, Chen Xu immediately lit a fire and prepared breakfast.

There were not many ingredients available, so Chen Xu cooked another pot of rice porridge.

Then he beat five eggs, grabbed a handful of flour, mixed them with water, added some salt and lard, and spread them into ten thin and soft omelets.

The eggs and lard are mixed together and instantly produce a wonderful aroma due to the high temperature.

The child from the east neighbor's house had a very keen nose and actually shouted at the wall: "Grandma, Grandma, Shitou wants to eat some egg pancakes. The egg pancakes are so delicious!"

Just as the shouting began, a head popped out from the east wall of Chen Xu's yard. It was a white-haired old woman, shouting towards Chen Xu's kitchen: "Scholar, Scholar Chen, how did you make these egg pancakes? Why do they smell so good?"

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Chen Xu was in the kitchen and was completely shocked.

It turns out that not only the rat demon will receive a prompt when he likes a post, but ordinary people will also receive a prompt when they praise him!
What is going on here? What is the purpose of the so-called "like"?
Chen Xu's mind flashed, and he immediately walked out of the kitchen. He smiled at the old lady on the wall and said, "Good morning, Aunt Lai. You said the egg pancakes I made were delicious? Are they really delicious?"

Aunt Lai's eyes rolled around, wrinkles on her face. She licked her lips and said, "It smells so good! It smells so good! Mr. Chen, how much do you want to give us?"

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Three thumbs-up comments popped up in succession. On the other side of the fence, the Lai family's child anxiously shouted, "Grandma, I want one too! Shitou wants the delicious egg pancake!"

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【The Book of Food Cauldron Opens】

Chen Xu's eyes suddenly flickered, and he immediately felt a scroll of ancient bamboo slips, as if it came from the other side of distant time and space.

It seemed both real and unreal, true and false, and it slowly unfolded in front of Chen Xu's eyes, in the void at this moment!
Chen Xu was startled, but his first reaction was to turn around and look at Aunt Lai who was lying on the wall.

He was worried that Aunt Lai would see the Food Cauldron Heavenly Book in front of her.

But before he could express his worry, a strange feeling in the dark made Chen Xu realize that the Food Cauldron Heavenly Book was his personal treasure, and only he could know, see and use it.

Aunt Lai was still staring at Chen Xu with greedy eyes and her saliva seemed to be about to flow out.

Seeing that Chen Xu didn't answer, she hurriedly urged: "Scholar Chen, where are your cakes? My Shitou wants to eat too!"

Under normal circumstances, Chen Xu would never agree to casually give cakes to a neighbor like Aunt Lai who was as helpless as a dog-skin plaster.

But this time the situation was different. He turned around and went into the kitchen and brought out two egg pancakes on a plate.

He walked slowly, limping on one leg. Aunt Lai kept calling out, "Scholar Chen, Scholar Chen?"

Chen Xu came to the wall with the cake and said with a half-smile, "Auntie Lai, there's no need to be so anxious. The road ahead will eventually end, so don't fight over the horns of a snail."

Aunt Lai's eyes had long been glued to the omelet, so how could she hear what Chen Xu was saying?
She climbed up the wall in a hurry, her neck was as long as a duck hanging by the neck, and her arms stretched out to grab the cake.

"What snails and bulls? It's so hard to understand what a scholar is saying. Oh, this cake smells so good! Come on, I can't grab it, scholar, stretch your hand out a little longer!"

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Chen Xu moved his hand slightly, so that the plate was half a foot away from Aunt Lai's chicken claw-like hand.

"Auntie Lai, are the egg pancakes really delicious?"

"Smells good! Hurry up, give it to me!"

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Chen Xu raised the plate a little higher, and Aunt Lai finally stretched out her fingers and grabbed the two pancakes from the plate in an instant.

She exerted too much force and her body fell behind the wall. Chen Xu heard a bang through the wall.

"Ouch!" Aunt Lai fell to the ground, but she didn't care about the pain at all. Her voice was twisted with ecstasy, "It smells good! The cake smells so good, so delicious! Shitou, come quickly, eat some cake!"

Shitou rushed over with joy and immediately ate voraciously: "Smells so good, so delicious! Aw, aw, so delicious, so delicious!"

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On the other side of the wall, the grandparents were ecstatic, and on this side of the wall, Chen Xu was also ecstatic.

The golden finger finally arrived, and he felt that he might be saved.

(End of this chapter)