I Love FarmingCh15 - Food Review

Editor: Alysia

If XiaoBai could see the commentary barrage, it would agree with the comments. Cui QiChao was truly a black-hearted divine farmer. This big devil had cordoned off a small plot of the yard behind the canteen to raise ducks. fu kWa

Cui QiChao personally went to the farmer’s market to select dozens of ducklings, each of which was a light yellow shelduck with a dual purpose–they could be used to lay eggs or slaughtered for their meat. The eggs produced by the ducks had a high yield, and the duck wasn’t picky about its living environment.

These ducks were vaccinated and nourished, but they could only be grown in captivity for the time being, and could only be released into the water after they reached maturity.

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As for the water? Of course, it had the lotus pond of the school.

Cui QiChao led the cat to the ducks and remarked, “There are no sheep to herd here, but there are ducks to herd. Which shepherd cat wouldn’t keep the chickens and ducks in line? ” duaBWn

In addition to the shepherd cat, shepherd dogs of this age are no longer confined to just shepherding.

XiaoBai: “…”

Why-why was it dragged to help out in farming!

Now XiaoBai only had one thought in his mind, “Would it be better to learn how to jump through a fire circle instead?”

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The canteen’s yard was constructed of cement, and there was no grass to feed the ducklings. During the livestock rearing period, the ducks would mostly need to be fed.

Cui QiChao and his employees accomplished it themselves by dragging a nylon net and constructing an enclosure. The terrain next to the enclosure was sandy, and there were a few late-maturing types of watermelon. When it reaches maturity, it would be time for summer vacation.

When the university teachers learned that Cui QiChao was breeding ducks, they flocked to reserve some duck eggs that would be produced in the future, as well as the entire duck for the end of the year, to use to prepare for Chinese New Year.

Unknowingly, however, everyone placed their confidence in Cui QiChao. TXcndA

Although they had no idea what had prompted Little Cui’s interest, he was serious and diligent in his work, as well as vibrant and attractive. The most important aspect was that the vegetables he grew were extremely delicious…

Hehe, how bad would the ducks reared by Cui QiChao be? They could view the ducks in plain sight, and they saw that he would not feed them any disgusting food.

Recently, when Cui QiChao checked the feedback in the suggestion box, many of them had asked the same question: Is the corn that they had recently grown sweet or waxy?

Cui QiChao didn’t care about this when he planted the corn. He thought about it and told the canteen staff to answer the students. RcupHz

It’s all sweet corn.

This had caused some students who preferred waxy corn to sweet corn to scream in despair. They preferred the soft and sticky taste of waxy corn.

We’re sorry for MTLers or people who like using reading mode, but our translations keep getting stolen by aggregators so we’re going to bring back the copy protection. If you need to MTL please retype the gibberish parts.

Cui QiChao didn’t pay much attention to the competition between the preferred tastes of the students. His main focus was on his recent work on improving the yield of the crops.

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First, he had to select the good pepper varieties from the market as the parent materials for new varieties breeding, and then he had to do the cross-breeding preparatory work, which included deciding which pepper should be used as the male parent and which pepper should be used as the female parent.

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From the selection of parent materials to the production and sampling procedures, it normally takes at least three or four years for a new variety to be born.

Within four years’ time, it would be the duration for a batch of students to graduate. It’s also the duration Cui QiChao had to finish recording the program and return. Not to mention the post-production and editing process also takes several years. EQJMVm

Cui QiChao, on the other hand, was no ordinary guy. In this aspect, the divine farmer’s ancestry predisposed him to a natural sense of smell, and there were not many breeding fields here. For example, during the preparation phase, he would not employ numerous combinations of crops but instead select a few that he believed were practical, saving him a significant amount of testing time.

This was also Cui QiChao’s first attempt at improving plant breeding, and he was eager to see the results.

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“The Tales of Good Food” was a We-media firm that produced food-related content. It was made up of a group of 15 members. The firm began by generating content in the form of guides for making wonderful homemade cuisine. After their fan base increased, they would look out for intriguing or high-end restaurants and write food critiques for their subscribers. The content they created would almost certainly be mixed in with some advertisements. Wy6mKi

Because they saw Huang Weihe’s article on Wechat, the editor of The Tales of Good Food also chose the first canteen as a proposed topic they could create content about.

Finally, after a discussion, this topic caused a slight disagreement.

They’d all critiqued it before, whether it was a street stall or a high-end restaurant. And they’d even gone to other people’s houses to write an article once, which led to fans howling about it, who demanded to know how they could eat the food there. In short, the evaluation’s scope was exceedingly broad.

However, even the We-media team had never evaluated a canteen. MaBs01

Meals served at canteens, particularly university canteens, were often large-portioned dishes.

After debating it for a time because of Huang WeiHe’s essay, and considered that if the food quality was truly outstanding, the piece might be innovative and eye-catching. After the topic was chosen, two editors, Sesame and Rice Ball, were dispatched to Nanhai.

They didn’t want to disclose to anyone their intention to shoot at a certain place ahead of time, because some companies would make special arrangements for it. They located CU students privately and paid to rent their campus cards.

Sesame and Rice Ball were the pen names of the editors of this article, and they were used to being called by this name too. Their hearts were bursting with emotion as they stood on the third floor of the CU’s first canteen. In the past, the food topics they presented were either so shabby that the owners only had street carts, or the foods served were exquisitely decorated. 8mI kc

The long dining table and bench in the first canteen were painted blue. The floors were made of off-white floor tiles and the dining plates were all made of pure stainless steel. The walls were pasted with slogans such as “To waste is to shame” and “Hard work is put in for every meal on the plate”. All of them were adhering to the unique style of a regular Chinese campus, simple and unadorned.

They looked at today’s menu. It was simple, including braised potatoes, sponge gourd with scrambled eggs, water spinach and preserved bean curd, minced meat and eggplant…

With a hard to perceive mood, Sesame and Rice Ball picked different dishes, and they did not get rice, but they had almost gotten all the improved dishes.

When they got the dishes, they had a whole different perspective on the first canteen. They began to wonder if Huang WeiHe, who had exceptional writing skills, couldn’t encapsulate the flavor of the food and describe it. Otherwise, the pair would not be salivating after tasting so much delectable cuisine. k547up

Rice Ball subconsciously turned back and stopped the person at the rear of the queue, “Wait a minute, I forgot to get some rice. I still want to get rice. ”

“Didn’t you say you didn’t want rice?” said the auntie responsible for scooping the rice.

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“I want it, I want it, but I just forgot about it.” When Rice Ball saw that there was no space to place the rice on his plate, he said, “Please put it in a takeaway box for me.”

Sesame, seeing this, hurriedly added, “Two bowls of it!” tuwXdK

There were several dishes that required rice to eat with. If they didn’t get some rice, they would probably be dying for it later!

No matter how hungry they were, they had to work first. They took out a DSLR camera from their bags to shoot. This attracted the attention of the students, but it wasn’t as if there weren’t weird people around the campus anyway.

After taking a photo of it, Sesame felt his spirits return and he picked up chopsticks to take a bite of the new dish.

This was the first canteen’s homegrown stir-fried pok choy. It’s simpler to stir fry than water spinach or fermented bean curd. Only oil, salt, and garlic were used in the preparation. Pok choy leaves were oval in shape and had a green tinge to them, similar to bok choy. odJuKL

Because it was a canteen dish, it was not carefully prepared. It was not cut into sections. The garlic was only patted on it a few times, but the color of the vegetable looked vibrant and fresh. The green leaves were connected with the white tender stems.

Sesame grabbed a whole piece of pok choy and stuffed it into his mouth. The first thing he ate was the full part of the stem. With a mere chew, after a crisp click, he tasted the sweet vegetable juice. It was so sweet that Sesame felt that what he used to eat before was fake pok choy!

Like a rabbit, he nibbled and ate the fresh and tender leaves. The leaves were less juicy, but smoother and tasted right, with an ample amount of saltiness.

It was sweet and fragrant. Sesame almost felt that he was possessed by a herbivore. Otherwise, how else could he be so enthralled by vegetable leaves? Oyn7AT

After Sesame had finished eating the pok choy, he took the opportunity to stare at the Rice Ball. Rice Ball ate more quickly than Sesame. They had each chosen a different dish. He picked water spinach and fermented bean curd for the vegetable dish. He was now devouring the green pepper and dry bean curd. He could only think of one word: delicious.

The green pepper and dried bean curd cooked with spicy bean paste rendered it an oily yellow hue, and the pepper skin was dry. The inside, on the other hand, was exceedingly smooth and tender. However, it did not have the texture of silky tofu, which would shatter when touched. Every bite seemed to be full of juices, and the green pepper seeds on top made the meal taste spicier. Even the green peppers, which were chopped into long strips, were fried to make them soft and tasty. And these peppers go well with the smoked dry bean curd that was already stuffed into his mouth.

This was a very common meal served with rice. Rice Ball poured the delectable sauce immediately onto his rice. The saucy yellow sauce contained a few dry crumbs and green pepper seeds, and as it slid down the rice, it separated into numerous separate tracks, soaking the rice in the same color as itself.

Seeing this, Sesame’s eyes turned red. He couldn’t help taking a few pieces of dried bean curd from his plate. Besides, there were still fish flavored shredded pork, beef brisket with stewed radish and other dishes. RsMfFC

…Half an hour later, the two editors who finished up all the food on their plate had fallen into a state of slight deliriousness.

It was because they usually ate a lot of delicious food, and when they tasted such appetizing home-cooked dishes, this only served to make the dishes that they had tasted here even more delicious.

They had not felt this bloated in a long time. And they were now experiencing bloating from their stomach. They didn’t know if they needed to go to the gym for a few hours to make up for the meal, so they were both unhappy and joyful.

“…My favorite dish is the pok choy. As soon as I finished eating it, it was so appetizing that my stomach had opened and I couldn’t stop eating.” bCiYPO

“I love the water spinach. It’s said that these two vegetables are grown by the canteen owner himself. Huang WeiHe was not exaggerating.”

“I really believe that their boss took care of them so carefully. This dish is so damn sweet. I think what I ate previously was all grass now.”

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“I can write 10000 words for this article.”

After another half-hour’s rest, they slowly got up and went to find Cui QiChao. XLuNvO

They talked to him about Huang WeiHe’s article first. Then, the two said that they would publish a special issue after they revealed their identity, and according to their usual practice, they would give some benefits to their fans. They hoped that the first canteen could sell them several bottles of chili oil for a lucky draw.

——Before they wrote the manuscript, they were sure that they would be able to publish it. In their opinion, this critique of this place must be done, and it should be done well. Of course, the chili oil was just the icing on the cake.

Judging by the number of fans of The Tales of Good Food, one had to naturally pay them to advertise on their platform. Generally, the businesses that actively looked for them wouldn’t have to pay them, but for the sake of publicity, they also provided things for free.

However, because they knew from Huang WeiHe that the owner of the first canteen had a special identity, they politely decided to pay him instead. hDnFAs

Who knew that the handsome boss of the first canteen who didn’t look like someone who would run a canteen would say this indifferently after listening, “No, I am not short of money.”

He contracted the first canteen for the same purpose he signed a contract with the LJJ company. It was not for money.

The two people were pleasantly surprised. Did this mean that he was providing them with chili oil free of charge?

Cui QiChao, “The chili oil in the canteen is only for our students to eat free of charge. In fact, the CU’s canteen is not open to the public at all.” 8cbV3H

What he was indicating was that he didn’t care about the effect of publicity, and he was dissatisfied with the fact that they were passing off as students to eat, because this was the portion that was meant to be for the students!

Rice Ball and Sesame: “…”

How cruel!


T/N: My team and I are finally caught up to the latest chapter that was being translated previously! :3 HNALPQ

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Translator's Note

stir-fried pok choy:

Translator's Note

green pepper and dried bean curd:

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  1. Poor Rice Ball and Sesame. Not only did they not get the interview, they also got kicked out.

    Thank you for your hard work, Translator. I’m glad that the novel is finally in English. I’ve been wanting to read it but I couldn’t because there were only raws.