Scientific Travel

That's why you have to be a master chef; their skills are truly exceptional.

There are three key factors in whether a dish is delicious: the taste of the ingredients themselves, the appropriateness of the seasonings, and the control of the cooking time.

Deng Yin successfully mastered the first and third points, making her a very talented cook. Li Pingle, who mastered all three, is even more talented in cooking.

Finding the perfect recipe requires numerous experiments. Deng Yin and Li Pingle spent almost a week tinkering in the kitchen before finally creating a cream that they were both very satisfied with.

During this week, Li Pingle spent most of his time figuring out the recipe, so his meals have been rather mediocre lately.

Recently, Wang Moyu has been in charge of cooking. She had studied cooking for a while, but the final result was not satisfactory.

It wasn't bad, but it wasn't particularly delicious either; it was just average.

Li Pingle was very accommodating; no matter how well Wang Moyu performed, he would always find a way to praise her.

Wang Xi thought that Li Pingle had finished his work and it would be his turn to cook next, so he ordered, "Father, I want to eat eggplant cake and green thread noodles for breakfast tomorrow!"

Wang Moyu replied, "Your father has something to do, so your mother will make it for you tomorrow morning."

"Huh?" Wang Xi didn't want to eat the food Wang Moyu cooked, but she didn't dare to say it outright: "Mother, don't you dislike cooking? Why don't you let Father cook instead? I don't want to eat Wanlvxiansi anymore, I just want Ziqie cake."

How could Wang Moyu not see through her little scheme? She asked, "Don't you like your mother's cooking?"

"How could that be!" Wang Xi waved her hands repeatedly, afraid that Wang Moyu wouldn't believe her if she was too slow. "I love my mother's cooking the most, so please don't spoil me too much, or I'll only be able to eat your cooking. I don't want my mother to work too hard."

Li Pingle pretended to be sad and said sadly, "So Xixi doesn't like Daddy's cooking at all. She only knows how to care for Mommy and doesn't care about Daddy at all. Daddy has been cooking for so long and I've never heard you say that you were worried that I was working too hard and didn't want me to cook."

"No, no." Wang Xi's little brain wasn't big enough to handle so many questions. She didn't see through Li Ping Le's teasing and was so anxious that her hands were shaking so much they were blurry.

Everyone couldn't help but laugh when they saw her reaction, even Gou Dan laughed along.

Deng Yinxiao was the most cheerful of them all, but he eventually got his comeuppance when he choked on his own saliva.

Wang Xi said quietly, "Sister, be careful, don't laugh yourself to death."

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Cake base is much easier to make than cream, so Deng Yin didn't follow the recipe from memory, but instead innovated with Li Pingle.

The key to making a fluffy cake base is to add lots of eggs. For a cake base the size of a tin can, I added a full ten eggs.

Deng Yin's cakes only come in one size: the same size as a tin can. They're estimated to be between four and six inches.

This size is just right. Some things are not necessarily more expensive the bigger they are; on the contrary, the smaller they are, the more luxurious they appear.

Now that you've learned how to make cakes, the next step is to rent a shop.

Now, no matter what you're selling, it's the off-season, and many shops are available for rent.

Deng Yin's main business is selling rare and valuable items, so the location naturally can't be too remote. Ideally, it should also be quite large; what small shop, even a tiny one, would sell such expensive things?

The first glance at a shop's exterior determines how much people expect to pay for its products.

When renting the shop, Deng Yinshun brought Gou Dan along. Although she had his indenture, she couldn't prevent the boy from running away.

I wonder if the system, now that it has amnesia, can still upgrade the space.

However, he will regain his memory someday, so it's always good to be prepared in advance.

Most of the people in Xiye City are poor. Deng Yin also visited Baihua City, and the people there are even poorer than those in Xiye City.

No matter when, the place where the ruler of a country is located is always the place with the most wealthy people.

Shimu City is where the rulers of this country reside.

As expected of a big city, it's completely different from those small towns. It's as if natural disasters never happened here. There are only a few beggars on the streets, no street vendors, and even the vegetable sellers have their own shops.

Before coming, Deng Yin was mentally prepared for the high prices at the store, but after arriving, she realized that she was still unprepared.

Most shops are leased for a minimum of one year. Any shops that allow only one month's lease are either in a remote location or have a small interior.

Renting long-term now is not cost-effective. The next natural disaster has been confirmed as rain, and given the height of the shops, there is a high probability that they will be flooded.

Besides the money for renting the shop, Deng Yin also needed to set aside enough money for food and accommodation during this period.

Shimu City is far from Xiye City. Even by electric bike, it would take two days to go there and back. Deng Yin had already left enough food for the family of three before he left.

Although the weather was hot, the temperature in the basement was low, and Deng Yin had even installed an air conditioner, so the food could be stored for ten days or half a month without any problem.

After Wang Moyu recovered from her injuries, the couple prepared to leave. It was Deng Yin who kept persuading them, and Wang Xi, who didn't want to be separated from Deng Yin, cried, made a scene, and even threatened suicide, which finally convinced them to stay.

Staying is fine, but not eating and lodging for free. Li Pingle and Wang Moyu discussed it and gave Deng Yin a silver note with 10,000 gold coins.

The money wasn't needed for food and lodging, but if it weren't for Deng Yin, Wang Moyu and Wang Xi would have been in grave danger, and Li Pingle would have at best ended up being kept by a sugar daddy.

"I can't accept it." Deng Yin's expression was unusually serious, and his voice carried a hint of anger. "I asked you to stay, not to make money. If you insist on giving me money, then you might as well leave."

Generally speaking, once such words are uttered, the other party will back down and take back the money.

But Wang Moyu is clearly no ordinary person.

"Okay, let's go then."

In the end, Wang Moyu proved to be the more skillful one. The two of them compromised, and instead of giving each other a silver note with ten thousand gold coins, they exchanged it for a silver note with five thousand gold coins.

After inquiring about the rent of the eight shops, Deng Yin knew that the five thousand gold coins in silver notes were lost.

Whenever this happens, Deng Yin would curse Wei Wu Jiang's life as so worthless!

If the emperor brought three people to stay for a day, it would be worth ten of his lives.

In the end, Deng Yin rented the cheapest shop among the eight shops he had just looked at.

This shop is neither the smallest nor the most remote of the eight; its low price is due to its unlucky feng shui.

Business people are all particular about this; anyone who rented this shop before failed within two months. Over time, even those who didn't believe it before started to believe it.

The person who rented the shop to Deng Yin was an honest man; he told her about this before renting it to her.