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nLing Pingan helped the old man, the leader of his aunt, up the stairs carefully.

nRespecting the old and loving the young.

nHe had been taught of that since elementary school.

nAfter helping the old man up the stairs, Ling Pingan held him and invited him to the sofa in the living room to take a seat.

n“Sir, please take a seat first. I’ll call my aunt and her colleagues to accompany you…”

n“As for me, I’ll prepare the dishes in the kitchen before joining all of you…”

nThe old Sir was very amiable. He smiled and said, “Young Master, please suit yourself. Don’t worry about me!”

nLing Pingan nodded and walked to one side of the living room. He knocked on the door of his aunt’s bedroom. “Aunty, your leader is here. Hurry up and come out to accompany him!”

nDup!

nLing Pingan heard panicky noises coming from the bedroom. After a while, aunt and her colleague came out in panic with the kitten, Bastet in their arms.

nThey looked at the old gentleman sitting on the sofa and seemed to be very nervous and excited.

nLing Pingan looked at him and nodded. “This old sir must be a respected senior in their unit!”

nHe knew that there were not many people who could make his aunt so nervous.

nBecause this aunt of his was a tough girl in nature. She was careless and never knew what panic and fear were. Except for cockroaches and rats, that was the first time Ling Pingan saw her being panicked.

nThinking of cockroaches and rats, Ling Pingan felt a little strange.

nIt seemed that ever since he stepped on that cockroach when he was ten years old and caught a rat and hanged it to death when he was 12 years old, he had never seen a fly or a mosquito in his house. Let alone cockroaches and rats.

nIt was quite strange!

nLogically speaking, shouldn’t such an old-fashioned building have cockroaches crawling all over the ground and rats running everywhere?

nHowever… he didn’t think much about it.

nAfter all, would anyone want cockroaches and rats in their house?

n‘I must be too diligent!’ Ling Pingan thought, ‘My house is too clean, and the cockroaches and rats have no room to survive. They have all starved to death!’

nThinking of this, Ling Pingan happily went into the kitchen.

nHe might be lazy usually and wouldn’t cook himself if he could order takeout.

nHowever, he was extremely into it once he started cooking.

nHe placed the pressure cooker that he had not used for a long time under the tap and washed it clean. Then, he picked up the rice that he bought yesterday. After thinking about it, he scooped three bowls out of the bag.

nThen, he rinsed the rice, placed it in the pressure cooker, and turned on the gas.

nAfter doing that, he began to prepare the crayfish.

nHe opened the refrigerator and took out the crayfish that he had fried yesterday.

n“I’ll make some with garlic paste and the others into mouth-watering crayfish…” he thought for a moment and popped his head out to ask, “Aunty, ask your colleagues and leader could they eat spicy food?”

nLing Pingan soon received an affirmative answer.

nOf course, considering that there was an elderly among them, and too spicy would not be good for him.

nTherefore, he took out seven to eight dry chilies that were not too spicy. He cut them up randomly and threw them into a bowl.

nThe bowl was already filled with chopped garlic.

nHe took out a pan and lit up another stove. He heated the pot and put the lard in.

nWhen the lard started to smoke, he put in the garlic.

nInstantly, the entire kitchen was filled with the fragrance of garlic.

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n“It smells so good!” Chu Weiwei’s nose twitched slightly. She couldn’t help but stand up and look at the kitchen.

n“Weiwei, how is it?” Li Anan said proudly, “My nephew’s cooking is pretty good, right?”

n“You can eat his cooking every day if you are his girlfriend!”

n“Such delicious food could not be bought from other places!” she began to use the temptation of delicacies.

nChu Weiwei’s face blushed a little when she heard this. She said angrily, “Captain, you are making fun of me again…”

nThe children of the Chu family abstained from love before they became monks.

nThat was the specialty of their family’s “Principium of Dao”!

n“Actually…” Li Shouyi, who had been sitting on the sofa, suddenly said to Chu Weiwei, “First Lieutenant Chu, you can consider captain Li’s suggestion!”

nChu Weiwei’s face blushed more. “Even you are making fun of me…”

n“This is a serious suggestion from this old man!” Li Shouyi said with a smile. His tone was more of a serious suggestion than just teasing.

nAt this moment, the fragrance in the kitchen became even intense.

nLi Shouyi could not help but gulp. “Fragrant! So fragrant!”

nHe recalled the pictures of the crayfish that he had seen before.

nThe bright crystal-like flesh and the crystal-like shell of the crayfish.

nEach crayfish was comparable to a unique work of art in the world!

n“Then you should have more crayfish later!” Li Anan said very happily.

n“Definitely! Definitely!” The old man smiled and rubbed his palms together.

nHe had given up on his reputation. He didn’t even care about his reputation. Didn’t he take the courage to come here just for this feast!

nFor the most luxurious, expensive, and gorgeous feast in the world?

nMeow!

nThe kitten in Li Anan’s arms cried out unhappily.

nLi Shouyi finally noticed it. The Egyptian cat goddess who had been ignored.

n“Bastet, right?” He smiled. “You should eat more of it later too…”

nMeow!

nThe kitten was finally happy.

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nIn the kitchen, Ling Pingan was cooking the garlic crayfish, which was his specialty.

nEveryone had their understanding of the garlic crayfish.

nLing Pingan’s understanding was that when boiled with beer, the aroma of the garlic would permeate into the shrimp meat.

nOnly then, the taste of the crayfish was strong enough to eat!

nTherefore, after frying the crayfish and garlic for two minutes, he poured in two bottles of beer!

nThen, he covered the pot and let the crayfish stew slowly upon the fire.

nHe walked out of the kitchen, up the stairs, and to the rooftop.

nAt this time, it was almost ten o’clock.

nThe sun was gradually getting hotter, and the entire rooftop was slightly foggy.

nHe walked to the slow oven and opened the lid. He took out the beef wrapped in tin foil.

nHe held the scalding beef in his palm and walked to the chopping board. He unwrapped the tin foil and revealed the beef inside.

nThe entire piece of meat was extremely crisp and soft. After more than half an hour of roasting in the stove, the internal temperature had already risen to 80 degrees.

nThat was the most suitable temperature for stewed and roasted beef!

nTherefore, Ling Pingan only pulled lightly, and the shredded meat separated from each other.

nHe couldn’t help but swallow his saliva.

n“There are guests here today. So I’ll not taste it first!” As he spoke, he took a knife and cut the piece of beef into slices.

nHe cut out about ten slices of meat in total.

nLing Pingan picked up one of the pieces and placed it in front of his eyes to observe.

nEven though it had been roasted for more than ten hours, the beef still had a bright red color of the myoglobin.

nWith just a gentle squeeze, the juice flowed out from the meat like a mountain spring.

nThe fragrance of the meat filled his nose!

n“I’m such a genius!” Ling Pingan was overwhelmed by his culinary skills!

nHe placed the beef on a plate and poured the juice in as well. Then, he held the plate of meat with both hands and walked down the stairs.

nDrones flew by in the sky.

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