Douluo Continent has a system, but I don't want to use it.

Chapter 2 The Meat-Eating Plan in Progress (Part 1)

Fang Tian felt that he could now practice the internal energy cultivation technique of the Meridian Flow, and also learn the Eight Pieces of Brocade that he had learned from his grandfather in his previous life.

"Should I practice using a weapon to defend myself? My martial soul is a mutated sweet potato, which might not have any offensive or defensive capabilities at all!" Fang Tian thought.

"What can a sweet potato mutate into? A yam, a potato, or at most bread. What else can it mutate into? Anyway, it doesn't have much offensive or defensive capabilities."

If we want to do well in Douluo Continent, we'll probably have to rely on creating our own soul skills. Sweet potatoes don't have any offensive capabilities, and we can't use them in our self-created soul skills. We can only rely on our physical attributes to increase the attack power of our self-created soul skills.

"Sigh!" Fang Tian couldn't help but sigh, deciding to put his hopes on improving his physical fitness.

Fang Tian can improve his physical fitness through exercise, but insufficient nutrition will deplete his body. In his previous life, he lacked the patience to learn how to identify and treat medicines, and he doesn't remember any prescriptions for strengthening the body.

This body is only three years old; relentlessly training it will definitely damage it. And that's assuming it gets adequate nutrition.

If you get enough nutrition, you can use the Eight Pieces of Brocade that you learned in your spare time in your past life for exercise. This should improve your physical fitness and won't do any harm to your body.

Now that we have methods for exercising, the next step is to consider how to improve our nutrition.

The people of Sweet Potato Village are experts at growing sweet potatoes, so they have no problem having enough to eat. Eating meat is something they only indulge in during holidays and special occasions. To be honest, although I quite liked sweet potatoes in my past life, I couldn't eat them every day!

To improve nutrition, you first need to eat meat, preferably soul beast meat. This requires money, but where will that money come from?

"Sigh!" Fang Tian sighed again! Sweet potato village only has sweet potatoes, and how to sell them at a higher price is a problem.

Make them into vermicelli and rice noodles? Oh right, sweet potatoes can also be used to make wine! It's a pity Fang Tian doesn't know how to make wine. Damn! But vermicelli and rice noodles should sell for a good price, right?

However, it's obviously impossible to eat meat every day with these, so let's consider how to raise livestock.

Raising chickens and ducks is an option, but to scale it up, it would probably require artificial incubation technology, which I don't understand!

Then we can only consider rabbits. First of all, there's no need to worry about the scale; rabbits reproduce incredibly fast, producing a litter every month. Rabbits eat grass and sweet potato leaves, so food won't be a problem. Secondly, rabbit meat is quite delicious, and if we raise a lot, we can sell them in Nottingham.

"Okay! Let's leave it at that. I'll discuss it with my parents over dinner tonight. For now, I need to try to recall how to make the rice noodle sheets. After all, in my previous life, I only did it out of interest and watched others make it a few times, but I never actually did it myself."

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After dinner, Fang Tian pulled his parents aside and said he had something to discuss!

Fang's father's name was Fang Ye, a native of Hongshu Village. Fang's mother's name was Huang Hua, from Huangtu Village, a dozen miles away. The two met at Notting Junior College, but neither of them met the graduation requirements. Later, they married and had Fang Tian. At this moment, the two looked at their son, who seemed like a little adult, with amusement.

"Speak, what do you want to discuss?" Although they didn't think their son could discuss anything important with them, Mr. and Mrs. Fang still asked with smiles.

"Dad, Mom, I've thought of a way to make sweet potatoes into other delicious things. We can sell them to restaurants in the city, and then we'll have money." Although it's embarrassing to call other people "Dad" and "Mom" after regaining my memories, well, nobody knows, so I'll just swallow my pride!

"Make it into something else? What kind of thing?" Mr. Fang asked curiously.

"Dad, Mom, have you noticed? Every time the sweet potatoes are mashed up quite a bit, if we pour out the water the next day, some white stuff settles at the bottom of the basin," Fang Tian began to bluff.

"That's certainly possible. Xiaotian is quite observant!" Fang's mother praised her son with a smile.

Fang Tian couldn't do anything about his mother treating him like a child in this life. Since his current body was indeed that of a child, Fang Tian simply pretended not to hear it.

"I was thinking that if sweet potatoes are completely crushed, besides some skin and pulp, what's left is this stuff. Can this stuff be dried in the sun? Wouldn't that make it easier to preserve? Our sweet potatoes often rot, wasting a lot of food." Fang Tian used his eloquence to try and convince his parents that he was a clever genius.

"We usually boil or steam sweet potatoes, so this white thing should be able to be eaten the same way, right? And removing the skin and pulp from the sweet potato should make it taste much better. We can also sell this to get money so we can buy meat." Fang Tian's last sentence was intentional, hoping that his parents would give it a try, no matter what, because their child wanted to eat meat.

When Mr. and Mrs. Fang heard their son's last words, they felt a pang of pain in their hearts. They blamed themselves for being incompetent and unable to provide their child with meat!

"Besides, even if it doesn't work, the food we make will still be edible, so there won't be any waste!" Fang Tian continued to encourage his parents.

"Why don't you give it a try?" Fang's mother, being soft-hearted and unwilling to hurt her son's feelings, advised Fang's father with red eyes.

"Alright, let's give it a try." Mr. Fang carefully considered what he had separated from the sweet potato throughout the process. The white sediment was definitely edible, and the peel and residue could also be cooked and eaten. Even if people didn't eat them, they could be fed to the chickens, ducks, and pigs, so nothing would be wasted. After all, Mr. Fang was the head of the family, and he considered things quite thoroughly.

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The next day, the family got up early and had breakfast.

Mr. Fang brought over a full bucket of sweet potatoes, weighing over ten kilograms. Although they didn't want to waste anything, Mr. and Mrs. Fang decided to make a smaller batch to see how it went.

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Five days later, Mr. and Mrs. Fang were overjoyed to see the dried and shaped rice noodles. Although they didn't know if they would taste good, they were sure they would keep well.

This was undoubtedly due in no small part to Fang Tian's constant guidance during his parents' process of making vermicelli and rice sheets, based on his knowledge from his previous life; otherwise, it's unknown how long it would have taken to figure it out.

"Dad, Mom, why don't we try it today and see if it tastes good?" Fang Tian urged from the side.

"Okay, use your clever brain to think of how to eat it, and Mom will make it for you." Fang's mother watched from the side, having long wanted to try it out.

These past few days, Mr. and Mrs. Fang have been fully impressed with their son's intelligence, and they are amazed by his various ideas during the process of making vermicelli and rice sheets.

"If it's just for eating, you can just boil it in water. We need to try and figure out how to make it taste good so that we can sell it," Fang Tian explained to his parents.

Sweet Potato Village, being at the very bottom of the Douluo Continent, lacked a complete set of seasonings. They only found common items like oil, salt, soy sauce, vinegar, wild onions, and wild leeks.

Fang Tian decided to make some stir-fried vermicelli to test the taste first.

Under Fang Tian's guidance, Fang's mother soaked the vermicelli and drained it. She then sautéed wild onions and leeks in oil, poured the vermicelli into the pot and stir-fried it. She added some wild vegetables, seasoned it with salt, soy sauce, and vinegar, and served it after it was cooked.

(End of this chapter)