boyutpedia Chapter 88 Shocking! Students from a prestigious college were actually... in the cafeteria...
Chapter 88 Shocking! Students from a prestigious college were actually... in the cafeteria...
Chapter 88 Shocking! Students from a prestigious college were actually... in the cafeteria...
"Eek—Han Yue, you didn't go to the alchemy department and take some forbidden drugs, did you?" A hint of disgust appeared on Lin Xiuya's cold face.
"Old Lin, you'll know once you've tried it!" The voice wasn't from Han Yue, but from Yan Hao's rough tone.
Lin Xiuya turned his gaze back to Yan Hao, and instantly felt as if he had seen something unclean. His hair stood on end, and he almost drew his sword to strike him.
Yan Hao's dark face revealed the same awkward expression as Han Yue's, looking shy and bashful, giving off the vibe of an older sister-in-law.
Lin Xiuya looked around the entire cafeteria again and found that every student had the same expression of utter despair, while every staff member had a smug, triumphant smile on their face.
"Is this really something Huo Yuhao did?" Lin Xiuya was filled with deep doubt.
Little Fairy Doctor was happily munching on her grilled fish when she heard this and was about to speak when a familiar voice suddenly rang out beside their table: "It really is me."
Huo Yuhao appeared beside Lin Xiuya as if by ghostly apparition, a faint smile on his face...
He smiled as if admiring his own masterpiece. He was holding a glass of water in his hand, looking like he had just come from the kitchen.
"Old Huo!" Yan Hao almost jumped up, pointing to the lone dish on his plate, and angrily accused, "You're so unfair! So unfair! You have this skill but you kept it to yourself! You made such a big fuss but didn't invite the brothers! I only got one! What happened to the 'surprise'? The surprise is limited edition?!"
Huo Yuhao took a sip of water, ignoring Yan Hao's "accusation," and calmly explained, "This 'surprise' wasn't my doing. I just helped the cafeteria create new menus and optimize the cooking process."
"You didn't make this?" Han Yue finally snapped out of her reverie, her cool eyes filled with astonishment. "Impossible. Even if we had your recipe, with the Canaan Cafeteria's—"
She carefully considered her words: "—Even with the basic skills of the chefs, they could never make this taste."
She had personally experienced the hellish difficulty of the original Canaan Dining Hall and knew all too well that the difference was like an insurmountable chasm.
"Indeed." After receiving Huo Yuhao's acknowledgment, Lin Xiuya put aside his hesitation, picked up a piece of pork rib, put it in his mouth, and savored it.
The meat is tender and falls off the bone, melting in your mouth. The rich sauce, with its perfect balance of sweetness and a hint of caramel, permeates every inch of the meat. Then, the complex blend of spices unfolds layer by layer on your tongue! The ultimate deliciousness sweeps through your body like an electric current.
"They could never replicate that flavor!"
Huo Yuhao's lips curled up slightly, revealing a hint of smugness: "The key to consistent taste and controllable quality lies in the kitchen utensils."
He pointed towards the kitchen: "A batch of new kitchen utensils that I recently developed and lent to the cafeteria for trial use."
"Kitchenware?" Everyone was taken aback.
"That's right." Huo Yuhao nodded. "From the automatic washing, cutting, and pre-processing of ingredients, to the precise temperature control heating array, and the intelligent seasoning precision dispensing device—the vast majority of the entire cooking process is completed automatically by these specially designed 'kitchen utensils.' The operator only needs hands."
"It can standardize operations to the greatest extent, eliminate differences caused by human factors, and help any—well, cooking enthusiast—steadily reach a level close to that of a master chef." Huo Yuhao explained casually, as if he were talking about a trivial matter.
Yan Hao was dumbfounded, his mind filled with impressive-sounding terms like "automatic," "array," and "intelligent delivery." He finally managed to utter only one sentence: "—So, we can eat this kind of food in the cafeteria every day from now on?"
"As long as the academy doesn't forbid it—" Huo Yuhao nodded.
Lin Xiuya noticed another problem. He carefully savored the food in his mouth, feeling the pure and gentle energy dissipate in his body, nourishing his blood and qi.
"Huo Yuhao, your recipe seems to contain more than just ordinary ingredients? I can taste the flavor of Blood Bone Flower, and there are also several qi-boosting medicinal herbs. Although the medicinal effects are very mild, long-term consumption seems to be very beneficial for stabilizing the foundation of lower-level students?"
His gaze towards Huo Yuhao held admiration and a deeper curiosity: "You've incorporated medicinal cuisine into your daily diet—"
Although the academy has large reserves of these medicinal herbs, they can't withstand daily use, can they?
"Indeed—" Huo Yuhao nodded, somewhat troubled: "So tomorrow's menu won't include these medicinal herbs. For now, the medicinal cuisine menu will still be offered once a week."
"Temporarily?" Lin Xiuya noticed the blind spot: "Do you have a solution?"
"Actually, I just have an idea that might potentially solve the problem of insufficient medicinal herb production," Huo Yuhao smiled slightly. "Perhaps we'll need your help then!"
The next day, at Canaan Academy, in the herb field.
The management of the medicinal fields was not the responsibility of the alchemy department, but was instead overseen by a separate elder.
Actually, Canaan Academy didn't do this at first, since only the alchemy department, besides the cafeteria, used a lot of medicinal herbs.
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However, one day, a student from the alchemy department, in order to save trouble, directly started refining pills in the medicine garden, and the pills exploded on the first try.
From that point on, the academy decreed that all members of the Alchemy Department were forbidden from approaching the medicinal herb fields. Despite repeated protests from Elder Huo of the Alchemy Department at academy meetings, he could not sway the academy's resolve.
At this moment, the elder in charge of managing the medicinal fields, looking at the few guys "running wild" inside, clutched his heart, almost unable to breathe.
"Elder Huo, be careful! These medicinal herbs can't withstand this—hey, don't pull them out! Don't pull them out!"
When Huo Yuhao led Lin Xiuya and the others to the herb field, the elder guarding the field's greeting of "Elder Huo" had shocked them for the entire morning. Huo Yuhao could only manage a wry smile in response.
Huo Yuhao was reluctant to make a fuss, but the vice dean was exceptionally efficient. From the moment he wrote Huo Yuhao's name on the roster, within a quarter of an hour, all the elders, mentors, and staff of the entire outer academy knew about it and that a freshman had become an elder just three days after enrolling.
"Huo Yuhao, why do we have to dig up all these medicinal herbs? And why do we have to keep them alive?"
Lin Xiuya wiped his sweat. Gathering herbs wasn't tiring for these "top students" from Canaan Academy. The difficulty lay in Huo Yuhao's requirement that they not touch a single leaf and maintain the activity of the herbs after they were pulled out.
"I have some ideas that should increase the production of medicinal herbs," Huo Yuhao explained, before continuing to bury himself in his "great cause."
"Hey Lao Huo, how come you look so old? You don't look old at all!" Yan Hao sat down on the ground and joked.
"This—" Huo Yuhao said somewhat awkwardly.
"It must be due to their strength," Lin Xiuya said, patting the dust off his body.
"Huh? Old Lin, how did you know?" Yan Hao wiped the dirt off his face.
"I remember a while ago—" Lin Xiuya said with an expression that seemed to see through everything, "there was an issue of the Canaan Times that published an article titled 'Vice Dean Plays the Scoundrel—Using Power to Force Students to Admit Defeat!'"
"This article tells the story of a discussion between the vice dean and a student."
"Huh? Really?"
"How is that possible!"
Yan Hao and Han Yue exclaimed in surprise, and simultaneously turned their gazes to Huo Yuhao. They naturally guessed what Lin Xiuya meant.
"This batch of Canaan Times was recalled and destroyed within half a day of its release," Lin Xiuya said helplessly. "Doesn't this clearly tell everyone that it really happened?!"
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