Gourmet Kindergarten

In the classroom, the six little radish heads sat obediently in their seats.

The empty plates in front of them were neatly arranged, and pairs of small hands were stacked up in an orderly fashion.

But while he was honest, his mouth never stopped.

"Why isn't the headmaster here yet...?"

"Exactly, I washed my hands a long time ago."

"Fried meat, hurry up and get into my mouth, I can't wait to eat you..."

"..."

Several fluffy little heads huddled together, whispering in hushed tones.

Despite their words, not a single one dared to make a move.

After all, the headmaster had given a strict order—whoever sits the most upright gets to eat meat first.

Every little glutton present knew the value of this rule.

For that much-anticipated fried meat, everyone straightened their backs as much as possible, even moving their butts very carefully, for fear of being judged as "breaking the rules" and losing the right to eat first.

On the podium, Teacher Yu looked at the group of little ones whose eyes were shining with desire but who were holding back their cravings, and almost burst out laughing.

Just then—

The sound of a wheeled cart rolling could be heard from outside the corridor.

The murmurs instantly disappeared.

Six little heads turned towards the door in unison, gazing longingly into the distance.

coming!

The kindergarten director has arrived with fried meat!

As soon as Pei Qian and Aunt Zhao entered the classroom, six pairs of eyes were fixed on the plate of golden and crispy sweet and sour pork on the cart, and they never looked away.

Noticing Pei Qian's gaze sweeping over them, the little ones' backs suddenly straightened up by two centimeters.

But their constantly moving little throats completely betrayed them.

"Gulp."

"Gulp."

The sounds of swallowing rose and fell, each louder than the last.

"Pfft!"

Pei Qian was amused by the serious and well-behaved little guys.

To be honest, these four-legged money-devouring beasts are actually quite cute when they're quiet.

Aunt Zhao, who was helping to serve the food, couldn't help but mutter to herself, looking at these little devils with disbelief: They usually eat like crazy, but today they're all unusually well-behaved.

Sure enough, when faced with absolutely delicious food, there's no kid you can't handle!

soon.

The little radishes' plates were piled high with their "trophies": five pieces of tempting sweet and sour pork, a spoonful of steaming cabbage and tofu stew, and soft, sticky rice.

"Kids, today we're having sweet and sour pork and stewed cabbage with tofu. Now—let's eat!"

Teacher Yu's word "eat" hasn't even landed yet.

Six small spoons were already in action.

Freshly cooked sweet and sour pork is crispy on the outside and tender on the inside, coated in a rich sweet and sour sauce that bursts with juice with every bite; then, take a bite of the incredibly delicious braised cabbage and tofu, and the combination of crisp and soft, rich and light, is simply divine.

The six little ones instantly transformed into ruthless rice-eating machines, their mouths stuffed full, yet they still insisted on mumbling indistinctly.

"Wow...it's sweet and sour, crunchy, and smells amazing!"

"It tastes even better than my mom's fried chicken legs!"

"Look! Scrape the sauce onto the white rice, and the rice becomes heavenly rice!"

"The tofu soup with rice is also super delicious, slurp it up!"

"I declare, I'll do it every day!"

"..."

These little monsters came up with all sorts of outrageous ways to eat – some used sweet and sour pork as a topping, shoving it into their rice to coat every grain with the sauce; others crumbled soft tofu and mixed it all together with rice, showing off their creations; one even tried to stuff bitten pieces of sweet and sour pork into tofu, creating something like "tofu stuffed with pork"...

They managed to turn a simple lunch into a feast fit for a Manchu Han Imperial Feast.

Teacher Yu watched the six "fat hamsters" eating heartily, their heads bobbing up and down, and couldn't help but smile.

Taking care of these little devils for so long, every meal is a tug-of-war.

She never imagined that she would see them eating so enthusiastically, even when they were being coaxed to eat and refused to swallow.

She couldn't resist taking out her phone to film it.

After taking notes, she sidled up to Aunt Zhao, her face full of resentment: "Aunt Zhao, I heard you mention your cooking skills before, but I didn't take it seriously. I never expected you to be so good at it! If you have such skills, why did you only show them this much? I've been so worried these past few days trying to get these kids to eat more that I'm almost bald!!"

"what?"

Aunt Zhao looked completely bewildered. Realizing that Teacher Yu had misunderstood, she quickly waved her hand, "You mean sweet and sour pork? I really didn't make that! If I were that good, I would have opened a shop and become a boss long ago, instead of working here as a cleaner!"

"You didn't do it?"

Teacher Yu was stunned. "Who did that?"

"Cough cough cough!"

Pei Qian, who was standing to the side, coughed lightly twice at the right moment, silently straightened his back, and gave a frantic hint.

Teacher Yu looked in the direction of the voice and suddenly realized, "Little Principal, you didn't secretly hire a new chef, did you? But wait, I didn't see any strangers in the kitchen just now!"

Pei Qian: "..."

The greatest distance in the world is not the distance between life and death, but the distance between me standing in front of you and you not knowing that I am the master of making sweet and sour pork!

This is so embarrassing!

"Teacher Yu, have you ever thought..." Pei Qian began quietly, "that I was the one who made this sweet and sour pork?"

"Huh? You?"

Teacher Yu blinked hard twice, her eyes instantly filled with concern for the intellectually disabled: "Little principal, stop fooling around."

"Don't you have any idea how bad your cooking used to be? 'Standard' is an understatement; it was utterly mediocre! Kids turn their noses up at your food. You think you can cook like this?"

Pei Qian's face darkened.

Unpleasant memories flooded my mind instantly—

Indeed, ever since I took over the cooking, those little rascals not only haven't been happy with it, but the moment the food was served, their little mouths were so pursed they could hang an oil bottle on them, and they all left a lot of leftovers...

but…

What does his predecessor's terrible cooking skills have to do with him, a fully-leveled transmigrator?!

He won't take the blame for this!

"It really was the young headmaster who made it," Aunt Zhao testified from the side. "I assisted him the whole time, and I watched him cut the meat and put it in the pot without any mistakes. To be honest, even I didn't know he had this skill. When I took a bite, I was stunned."

Teacher Yu was stunned again.

His gaze darted back and forth between the sincere Aunt Zhao and the aloof Pei Qian with his arms crossed.

Aunt Zhao had no reason to joke about something like this, but it was just too outrageous!

"You...did you really do this?"

Pei Qian slightly raised his chin, conveying four words with his eyes: Believe it or not.

Teacher Yu opened her mouth, but the words "I don't believe it" got stuck in her throat and she swallowed them back.

"Fine, I admit I misjudged." She paused, then couldn't help but mutter, "But what you did before..."

"The past is the past, the present is the present." Pei Qian raised his hand to interrupt, his expression calm. "A person can't stay in the same place forever, can they?"

Teacher Yu was speechless.

That makes sense, but isn't this leap a bit too far?

From "kids pout when they see it" to "eating so much their eyebrows are about to fly off," did it skip more than a dozen versions in between?

Forget it, I won't dwell on it anymore.

As long as these little devils can obediently cook, it doesn't matter if they suddenly become enlightened or are possessed by a culinary god, as long as they work!

but…

The most important thing right now is to quickly try the sweet and sour pork and the stewed cabbage and tofu to see what they taste like!