I sold grilled fish in the 70s!

Zhu Zhu couldn't sit still when she saw the eggplants that Manager Yi was carrying. She had always been thinking about making this delicious dish and that delicious food to sell on Shenglong Street. However, recently, one thing after another has been happening.

My father, my two younger sisters, and I had only gone to a cave to retrieve some rice wine brewed by our grandmother. Unexpectedly, we were trapped inside for two days by a toxic gas. If it weren't for the Heavenly Virtue System's blessing, my father and I would probably have died long ago from inhaling the large amounts of harmful gas.

Previously, I was very resistant to the existence of the Heavenly Virtue System in my head, especially since I could extract and use things from it. I was also afraid that if others saw this, they would think I was a monster. But after using the Heavenly Virtue System, I found it to be a very useful thing.

Thinking of this, Zhuzhu walked up to Mulong and took the basket from his hand. Just as she was about to walk into the kitchen, Mulong called her back.

Little princess, are you carrying this basket of eggplants into the kitchen because you're planning to make something delicious?

Haha! Uncle, how come I can't hide anything from you now? I just want to use this basket of eggplants to make something delicious.

Little princess, don't you think it's a little inappropriate for you to call your uncle "old man" right now? Don't you think your uncle is in the prime of his life?

As Mu Long spoke these words to Zhu Zhu, he gently touched his hair with one hand.

Haha! After spending so much time with you, Uncle, I've only just realized how much you care about your appearance!

Zhuzhu, don't you know the saying, "Everyone has a love for beauty"? I think you, little girl, will also have a love for beauty when you grow up a bit more.

By the way! Uncle, does our Shenglong Hotel have scallions and chives? I'd like to add some scallions and chives when I make eggplant fritters later; it will make them smell really good.

Yes, I have some! I'm planning to use the scallions and chives for dumplings. If you want to use them to make something else delicious, feel free to take them!

Uncle, why did you suddenly decide to make dumplings at this time of year, when it's neither a holiday nor a festival?

That's because I remembered a saying: "The more you drink dumplings and wine, the better." But that's only a secondary reason. The main reason is that I feel our hotel already has plenty of fine wine, but we're lacking a side dish to accompany it. So I wanted to ask someone to make more dumplings and keep them at the hotel.

Uncle, I think your idea is great! But have you considered that the weather is so hot now? If you don't put the dumplings you make in the freezer in time, they will easily spoil!

Yes, yes! So I really want to get a refrigerator for our Shenglong Hotel. But as you know, refrigerators aren't something ordinary people like us can just buy whenever we want.

Haha! Uncle, you're already so rich! Do you really think it's funny to be here complaining about being poor? And Uncle, how do you keep your food fresh in the sweltering summer without a refrigerator?

Little princess, have you forgotten? Not far from our Longsheng Street, there is a place we use specifically to store ice.

Oh! Now that you've reminded me, I remember you took me there a few months ago!

Okay! Alright! Let's hurry up and make some delicious eggplant fritters! Let's not just stand here chatting!

Meow! Meow! Meow!

Not far away, Little Furong saw her father about to leave her again, so she cried out a few times towards Mu Long. If Little Furong hadn't injured her hind leg, the little one probably would have run to Mu Long's side long ago.

At this moment, Mu Long ignored Xiao Furong's cries and, together with Zhu Zhu, carried a basket of eggplants into the kitchen of Shenglong Hotel.

Uncle, do you know if this basket of eggplants has been washed? If it has, I'll just chop them into small pieces, add some eggs, chopped scallions, and chives, and fry them in oil. Speaking of oil, Zhuzhu suddenly remembered that in this era, people used lard to cook.

Things like lard are usually only available during the Lunar New Year, so that day I asked Jianmei to go to the kitchen and ask my uncles and aunts for some cooking oil to make mooncakes. It was perfectly normal for them not to give Jianmei any, since I had searched the kitchen for a long time but couldn't find any cooking oil.

But then he saw a bowl of pure white lard on the stove. Was he really going to use this bowl of lard to make eggplant fritters? That would be such a waste!

Zhuzhu, didn't you want to make eggplant fritters? Why are you always walking around in the kitchen? Are you looking for something?

Uncle, I'm looking for cooking oil for frying eggplant boxes. Does our Longsheng Hotel have that?

No! But we have lard! That bowl of pure white lard is right in front of you, can't you see it?

Of course I saw it! But I think it's a bit wasteful to use lard to fry eggplant boxes, especially since lard is a very rare commodity these days.

As Zhu Zhu spoke, she took advantage of the fact that Mu Long was not looking at her and was looking down at the wood-burning stove, and took out a bucket of unopened cooking oil and some seasonings needed to make eggplant boxes from her system.

Once all the ingredients were ready, Zhuzhu remembered that she needed some fresh meat for the eggplant dumplings. So Zhuzhu started searching in her system again, but no matter how hard she searched, she couldn't find the fresh meat she wanted.