Chapter 358: Chapter 209: The Voiceover Circle Explodes! Lin Xu’s First Live Broadcast: Setting Shrimp Traps with Second Uncle! [Seeking Monthly Ticket]_4
They then chatted about the places they were going to visit and the content for today’s live stream.
Soon, they arrived at the water park.
Shi Molli and the others, having eaten their fill, were playing around, holding lotus flowers and seed pods they had picked from the pond near the reservoir.
As the car pulled in, several of his younger cousins handed some over.
"Cousin Lin Xu, Cousin-in-law, these are for you," they said.
Lin Xu took them and first sniffed the lotus flowers, laughing as he said, "You can fry these lotus petals. Just coat them with a thin layer of batter and fry them in warm oil. Even without breadcrumbs, they’re so good they’d make the kid next door cry with envy."
I remember when I was a kid, Mom loved to fry pumpkin blossoms, squash blossoms, lotus flowers, and other ingredients in warm oil. They tasted fragrant and sweet, very delicious.
Seeing the lotus flowers now, he couldn’t help but reminisce about the past.
Meanwhile, his live stream viewers were going wild:
"He really is a chef! Even doing a wilderness broadcast, he doesn’t forget to make us drool."
"Oh my god! If Boss Lin hadn’t said so, I’d never have known lotus flowers could be eaten this way. My useless knowledge has increased again!"
"I hope Boss Lin fries some for us to see later!"
"Someone once said that in a chef’s eyes, everything is an ingredient. Now I truly believe it."
"..."
After talking about the lotus flowers, Lin Xu placed them on the car seat beside him. He then broke open a lotus seed pod and peeled out a seed.
Just when everyone thought he was going to eat it, Lin Xu surprisingly extended it towards the camera. Immediately, Shen Baobao’s voice came through the live stream:
"WOW! This is so delicious!"
The fans were instantly shocked.
"Good heavens! Is the boss’s wife the one filming?"
"I’m relieved he hasn’t forgotten to cook during the broadcast, but I didn’t expect him to also ’sprinkle dog food’ on us!"
"This is too much! Did you lure us in just to feed us your ’dog food’?"
"Listening to the boss’s wife chewing, I’m actually getting a bit hungry."
"Me too! I wish someone would peel lotus seeds for me like that. I really crave some."
"..."
Lin Xu peeled lotus seeds for her for the rest of the drive, and everyone listened to Shen Baobao’s chewing sounds the whole time.
Although they found being fed ’dog food’ a bit annoying, this kind of sweet love was still something everyone yearned for!
They arrived at the edge of the reservoir.
A simple dock, constructed from bamboo and some timber beams, stood here, with a small hut beside it.
While his Second Uncle went into the hut to get the shrimp traps, Lin Xu, holding Dundun, strolled along the reservoir bank with Shen Baobao.
As they were walking, Shen Baobao suddenly aimed the camera at the shallow water near the shore.
"WOW!" she exclaimed. "Aren’t these river snails?"
Lin Xu glanced over and nodded. "Yes, they’re river snails, and they’re quite big too."
The water quality in the reservoir was good, so various aquatic products could be seen.
Lin Xu had originally planned to use the time while his uncle was fetching the shrimp traps to go to the lotus pond up ahead and pull out some young lotus rhizomes, intending to make a dish with them that evening.
But who would have expected Shen Baobao to freeze in her tracks at the sight of the river snails?
"I want to eat river snails! In the past, my parents always said they have parasites and wouldn’t even let me touch them. Xu Bao, could you cook some for me to try?"
As soon as she finished speaking, a notification from the system sounded in Lin Xu’s mind:
"The host is passionate about discovering delicious food, triggering the reward task [Spicy Snails]: Please cook a portion of Spicy Snails that satisfies your fiancée before nightfall. Upon completion, you will be rewarded with one ’Excellent Level’ seafood culinary draw!"
WHOA! I just completed the reward task for lamb with dipping sauce. I didn’t expect another one to trigger so soon. This wilderness broadcast really does bring unexpected gains! Thinking of Spicy Snails, Lin Xu immediately recalled the world-famous Snail Noodles. Why not take this opportunity, while making Spicy Snails, to also prepare some Snail Noodles for everyone to try?
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It’s the last day of July, folks! I’m seeking Monthly Tickets. This month, I wrote 335,000 words, and my ranking on the combat power charts is in the low thirties. Surely that deserves a Monthly Ticket as encouragement, right? The book is now just over 690,000 words, and in August, I’ll try my best to reach 1,000,000 words. I was thinking of writing a month-end summary, but for an unpopular book like mine, there’s not much to summarize. So, that’s all for now. Wishing everyone a safe and joyful August, and may everything go smoothly for you all. By the way, do you guys like Snail Noodles?