If everyone could still speak freely in front of Mu Yan, they would be nervous in front of Mu Chen. They couldn’t understand why a sweet and charming Little Boss would marry a cold and indifferent Big Boss.
It was quite difficult to comprehend, ah.
Mu Chen swiftly cleaned up the store after the last customer left, then locked the door, took Mu Yan’s hand, and walked home together.
005 was buzzing over the plants sent by Xiao An in the morning. Despite being a system fairy, it was unable to identify these plants without Mu Yan’s permission.
“Yanyan, hurry up and identify these plants.” 005 hurriedly said when he saw Mu Yan.
Mu Yan then remembered these plants and then used appraisal skill one by one, filling his ears with the sound of inedibleness.
[Red poplar, inedible.]
[Mingqing, inedible.]
[Soybean, leguminous, edible.]
[Red root, inedible.]
After identifying all the plants, Mu Yan habitually wanted to pile them up in the miscellaneous room, but suddenly stopped halfway through the action.
“Did I just hear something edible?” Mu Yan asked Mu Chen dumbfounded.
Mu Chen nodded and quickly pulled out a branch with black fruits from a pile of plants.
“Hey, is there something wrong with your eyes? It was clearly identified as soybeans just now. What are you doing with these black fruits?” 005 habitually confronted Mu Chen, and then paused after speaking, suddenly becoming very surprised.
“Yanyan, it’s soybeans, it’s soybeans. Just now I heard it was soybeans.” 005 danced excitedly.
They had been searching for it for so long and finally found the news of soybeans! That was good news!
Mu Yan looked at 005, then at Mu Chen, and then used appraisal skill towards the black fruit.
Then the system voice sounded again.
[Soybean, leguminous, edible.]
005, who was spinning in circles, suddenly stopped in mid air. His bean-sized eyes looked at the black fruit and listened to the system’s identification sound, giving him a feeling of wanting to hit something.
“Shouldn’t soybeans be yellow?”
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He had never seen soybeans being black before. So why call them soybeans? Why not just black beans? 005 really wanted to flip the table and throw it to the system! (╯ರ ~ ರ）╯︵ ┻━┻
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“I didn’t expect that kid to be so lucky. We have been looking for soybeans for so long, but he found them by accident.” 005 couldn’t help but feel betrayed by fate.
“Well, Xiao An is very lucky.” Mu Yan said with a bright smile. Mu Chen paused for a moment, his eyes deepening.
It’s not unexpected that they couldn’t find any soybeans. After all, soybeans in this reality look nothing like those described by Mu Yan. Despite having the same name, they were larger than walnuts and nonetheless black.
They had been searching according to Mu Yan’s criteria, and it would be strange if they were able to locate them.
“The next time Xiao An comes over, you should ask him where he got the soybeans. There have to be more than this.”
After asking Xiao An, Mu Chen, Mu Yan and 005 went to the place where soybeans grew. For a while, the two of them stayed motionless as they gazed at the trees laden with black fruits.
Mu Yan and 005 were silent since the soybeans here were nothing like they expected, and Mu Chen’s silence because, well, he was usually a man of few words.
But since the appraisal skill gave the result, then this was the raw material they would use to make bean curd jelly and tofu.
“I’ll go up and get them; you can get them from below.” Mu Chen said to Mu Yan, and then he took three steps up the tree, shaking the branches as the black fruits dropped like rain.
005 flew higher, grasping the black fruit in his short hands and forcefully pushing it down, while Mu Yan picked up the fallen fruit below.
The two worked quietly with 005 and swiftly gathered six baskets before returning home.
Now how to grind the black fruit into powder? Mu Yan looked directly at 005, which was self-evident.
However, unlike the previous few occasions, 005 did not cry this time, but instead swiftly exchanged a stone mill. The stone mill was totally mechanical, requiring no human intervention to complete, therefore the points cost was naturally greater.
Although 005 was still in pain, he recovered soon, believing Mu Chen’s ability to gain points was exceptional. They would repay the points as long as they worked hard. Now was the time to upgrade!
Everything was almost finished. Mu Yan decided to begin making tofu according to the recipe.
The first step of the recipe was to soak the soybeans, which required a few hours. Therefore, Mu Yan placed a portion of the soybeans in a large basin and soaked them in water, intending to complete the next stages after they were soaked.
Now that soybeans had been found, rice had also been found, wheat was almost mature, and a large number of ingredients had been available. Mu Yan decided not to go to the forest in the next few days. In addition to harvesting wheat and making tofu, he wanted to give everyone a break, especially Mu Chen, who was the most hardworking person every day.
“Ah Chen, let’s find some waiters to help in the store, so that you don’t have to work so hard.” Mu Yan said guiltily, knowing that he couldn’t help much.
“Okay.” Mu Chen responded with a smile as he rubbed his soft hair.
“Then you can write the recruitment notice, I’m not very proficient yet.” Mu Yan lowered his head in embarrassment.
During this period of time, he had been learning to recognize words and write with Ah Chen. Although he had gained a lot of knowledge, his handwriting was not much better than that of a beginner. The handwriting was crooked and could not be shown off to others at all.
“You have already written very well, practicing more would be better.” Mu Chen encouraged, touching his head.
Mu Chen went to cook lunch, while Mu Yan sat comfortably in the rocking chair in the yard, basking in the sun and drowsy.
After lunch, the two of them hugged each other and took a comfy nap. After getting up, the soybeans were already soft from being soaked.
Mu Chen put the soybeans into the automatic stone mill to make a pulp. Then, using a piece of fine gauze, he filtered out all of the bean dregs, repeating numerous times until just the soybean milk remained, which was saved for later use.
Tofu required the use of edible gypsum water, and it was not available here, so points needed to be spent on the system to exchange.
Mix the gypsum powder with warm water, and then slowly pour it into soybean milk, keep stirring. At this time, the protein began to precipitate.
After half an hour, strain the sediment with gauze and press it into the prepared square mold to compact the tofu. The square tofu would then gain shape as the mold was removed. Mu Yan took a small piece and tasted it, only to find that it tasted good. Then, he took another large piece and handed it to Mu Chen’s mouth.
“Ah Chen, try it.” Mu Yan’s eyes sparkled.
Mu Chen gazed down at his fingers, which were even whiter and more tender than the tofu, and his eyes darkened. He lowered his head and slowly licked his fingers together with the tofu in his lips.
Mu Yan’s face immediately turned red and he lowered his head in embarrassment, wanting to pull out his fingers. The temperature was transferred to him entirely by the warm tongue.
“Ah Chen…” Mu Yan exclaimed, but he didn’t know that the soft and sticky voice further catalyzed the beasty nature in Mu Chen’s body.
With great self-control, Mu Chen managed to suppress the turmoil in his heart.
“It’s delicious.” Mu Chen said with a slightly hoarse voice, and he didn’t know whether he was talking about tofu or someone’s small hands.
“Tomorrow, I’ll make something better and delicious for you,” Mu Yan was too shy to look up.
“Okay.” Mu Chen lowered his head, and Mu Yan’s ears trembled as Mu Chen’s warm breath brushed against them.
“I, I, I’m going to the kitchen.” Mu Yan stammered and dashed into the kitchen, leaving Mu Chen behind with a low laugh.
005 pretended to be blind the entire time, and didn’t care if he saw or heard. 005 didn’t want to be a light bulb or be blinded. He’d find a gentler and better system wife in the future, so he wouldn’t be envious of his host, hah!
Since Mu Yan posted a recruitment notice, the applicants almost squeezed the threshold, and many people followed suit and came to queue up for interviews.
“This store doesn’t look very big. Why do so many people come to interview? Could it be that the salary is very high?” One person who followed the trend in the queue couldn’t help asking, and the others who didn’t know were listening carefully.
Conformity was human nature, even in the interstellar era, it was still deeply rooted in their hearts.
“The salary is two thousand credits per month.” The person familiar with the situation replied.
“That low? Then why do they continue to go to interviews one after another?” Hearing this, the man couldn’t believe what he heard. In this era when the average pay was 3,000 credits, 2,000 credits was insufficient.
“For three meals a day.”
“Ah? Even if they manage food and housing, the salary is too low.”
The man was visibly shaken. He assumed it was a well-paying job and wanted to join in. But who knew it turned out to be a low-wage job?
Even if you the boss managed food and housing, how much could people eat? Nutritional powder was so cheap that anyone could afford it.
The informed person coldly glanced down at the questioner and said, “You must have never eaten here.”
“That’s it, let alone two thousand credit points. Even if the boss doesn’t give credit points, as long as he manages three meals a day, I still have to come for an interview!”
“The three meals that the little boss eats must be richer than the ones made in the store. Last time I passed by the little boss’s house, I almost knocked on the door because of the smell.”
“With so many people interviewing, I don’t know if I can be accepted. Alas… the little boss only accepts five people.”
The customers who knew about the store gathered together to discuss, while those who followed suit were confused, unable to understand why 2000 credit points could make so many people eager and even worried that they would lose the interview.
Even though everyone knew the pay was pitiful, no one left. Just because of this confusion, everyone also wanted to see what the charm of this small store could attract so many people.
At the store, there were just two interviewers, Mu Chen and Mu Yan, plus the invisible 005, if he was counted.
The interviewing procedure was simple. Each dining table had a knife and a washed white radish. Mu Yan would ask everybody who came to the interview to cut the radish. Of course, he would first show it before observing their cutting process and results.
All of the interviewees were confused, holding knives and staring at the radish in front of them, and couldn’t understand why the waiter job applicant still had to do these things.
“This is a white radish that can be eaten,” Mu Yan stated, though he didn’t go into detail, which was sufficient.
As soon as everyone heard that it was edible, their eyes lit up immediately. The previous doubts were instantly forgotten, and the way they looked at the white radish changed completely. They all imitated Mu Yan’s previous action of cutting radish and began to try.
Both Mu Yan and Mu Chen secretly observed their actions and cut effects, and gradually had a candidate in their hearts.
In fact, this time when recruiting employees, Mu Yan not only wanted to recruit waiters, but also prepared for training chefs in the future. Their small store would definitely need to cook more and more delicious food, and it was difficult for him and Ah Chen alone to complete it. Moreover, the initial purpose of the system was to promote food culture, so teaching others cooking skills was naturally part of it.
Frozenmirage: Hello my lovelies, thank you so much for your patience! 
Ooh, I wonder if they can make soy milk!
Soy is rare product in my national kitchen so I’m curious
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