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"What do you want from me? Do you still want me to join the Ren Family Army? I'm used to being free and easy, not suited for military service. But I must say, you remember my name quite well."
Seeing Ren Xiao put the Crossbow back on her back, her attitude became noticeably friendlier, and Chen Zao finally relaxed enough to express his stance on not joining the military.
Ren Xiao waved her hand and said, "I'm not asking you to join the military; I want to ask where you got those two bags of flour you exchanged at the food depot last time. My Third Brother made delicious sweet buns with that flour! I tried one, and it was indeed tasty! ... Slurp."
Ren Xiao then secretly swallowed, revealing just how deeply she remembered the deliciousness of those sweet buns.
As for the question about the source of the food, Chen Zao was well-prepared: "I ground that flour myself and added some secret ingredients during the process to eliminate its raw and rancid taste, leaving only the freshest wheat aroma. Of course, there are still some unpleasant odors in the flour that I need to work on eliminating."
"You’re a... chef?"
Ren Xiao stared wide-eyed at Chen Zao, her gaze revealing a hint of admiration.
In these chaotic times, being a chef is far less celebrated and revered than being a brave warrior. However, for those from wealthy families who do not struggle with basic needs, skilled chefs are still highly valued.
In large families, top chefs are treated as esteemed guests, and their hiring fees can rival those of capable generals.
In this world of scarce resources and limited ingredients, finding someone who can pursue a culinary career and refine their skills is exceedingly rare.
Yet, the pursuit of delicious food among wealthy young masters is endless.
For those from affluent families, when filling their stomachs is not an issue, they naturally desire better and healthier meals, relying on various magical techniques from skilled chefs.
For instance, Ren Xiao just mentioned her Third Brother—Ren San Shao Ye—Ren Tang, who is known far and wide as a big foodie in Panlong Six Strongholds.
The mountain peak named "Tangling," bestowed upon Ren Tang by Ren Changdong, has no defenses at all; it has been transformed into a gathering place for dining halls at Luohan Slope with dozens of restaurants established by Ren Tang.
Not only in Luohan Slope but also in Panlong Five Villages, nearly all the best chefs have been lured to Tangling by Ren Tang with generous pay and favorable policies.
This foodie Ren San Shao Ye is determined to create the best dining hall in Panlong Base to attract talented individuals to Luohan Slope through gourmet food.
However, this idea of Ren Tang was met with disdain from most of his siblings and officials in the Ren Family. They believed that Ren Tang was simply lazy and gluttonous, seeking comfort instead of striving for progress by establishing a dining hall.
Ren Changdong secretly supported Ren Tang's culinary strategy, which made Tangling quite popular in recent years.
Chen Zao had long heard that Tangling, located to the west of Luohan Slope, was a food hall, but he had never been there.
Tangling is a place only accessible to the wealthy and influential.
Ordinary people can also enter, but they must first exchange 1 gram of gold or 1 milliliter of Primary Beast Oil for a food voucher at the entrance.
Once these vouchers are exchanged, they cannot be converted back into gold or Beast Oil; they must be fully consumed within the restaurant at Tangling and are only valid for one week, after which they become void.
For an ordinary family in the apocalypse, the supplies that can be exchanged for 1 gram of gold could sustain them for half a year. How could they possibly spend it all in a week at Tangling?
It is rare for ordinary people to indulge in extravagant spending at Tangling.
Those who do spend there are invariably wealthy young masters and ladies from prominent families in Six Forts, as well as hunting teams that have received generous rewards and want to treat themselves.
Chen Zao had previously been quite interested in Tangling and wanted to see what kind of food it offered.
However, after trying the so-called "dishes" at other restaurants during the apocalypse, Chen Zao lost interest in Tangling.
He was not reluctant to part with 1 gram of gold; rather, he simply could not stomach food made from foul-smelling ingredients in the apocalypse.
Since he had never been to Tangling, Chen Zao did not realize how esteemed the chef profession was in the eyes of Ren Xiao, a foodie nurtured by Ren San Shao Ye.
At this moment, he casually replied, "I'm not really a chef. As I've mentioned before, I'm just a hunter. The reason I can make such delicious flour is that I have a heart that pursues good food. Hehe. I like to use fresh ingredients for myself, and when I make too much, I go exchange some gold."
"To be able to grind such fragrant flour, you're far more skilled than many chefs I've seen! Don't think of yourself as a hopeless free hunter; go be a chef at Tangling!"
"Be a chef at Tangling?" Chen Zao had never considered this profession before.
"Yes! With your skills, you could definitely make a name for yourself at Tangling! You don't even need to sell anything else; just sell sweet buns made from Fragrant Flour, and you would surely establish yourself there! If you dare to open a shop at Tangling, I would dare to go buy sweet buns from you!"
Ren Xiao couldn't help but drool at the thought of sweet steamed buns.
She had never eaten such delicious staple food in her life!
Although she had tried some mouthwatering dishes in Tangling with her Third Brother, when it came to staple food, the sweet steamed buns made from flour sold by Chen Zao were definitely the best in Tangling!
However, Chen Zao stuck to his usual line: "I'm used to freedom and don't like staying in one place for too long. And to be honest, the ingredients I choose are quite rare; they're not grown by me but gathered from the wild. It takes a lot of time to find these ingredients, so I don't have much time to run a shop. But occasionally selling some of my homemade food in Tangling is something I can consider."
"You can cook? You have culinary skills? Aren't you a chef?" Ren Xiao's mind was inexplicably innocent at that moment.
"Just because I'm not a chef doesn't mean I can't cook," Chen Zao laughed, patting his chest. "Don't forget, I have a heart that pursues good food. If I can grind such fragrant flour, how could I possibly not know how to cook?"
"How does your cooking compare to sweet steamed buns?"
"I don't know what your sweet steamed buns taste like, but I believe that the food I make should be much tastier than the sweet steamed buns your Third Brother makes."
Chen Zao was quite confident about this.
The sweet steamed buns Ren Xiao mentioned were probably made with uncontaminated flour mixed with some contaminated saccharin, contaminated cream, and contaminated eggs, so no matter how fragrant they were, they wouldn't be that special.
On the other hand, the diverse array of food he had in his storage space could easily leave Seventh Sister questioning her life choices.
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