Farming Together wIth Interstellar People

at the person who said that was a female warrior.
He remembered that her name was Xiao Die, while in the game she was called Little Butterfly.
To start Xiao Die, who was 1.8 meters tall and heroic, was definitely not ‘little.’ However the words she said subconsciously made Tang Ying think.

“That’s a good point.
You don’t have to have a recipe to cook, right?”

“I guess so.
I even saw the village chief over there selling oil, salt, soy sauce and vinegar.
Those things should be for cooking, right?”

“Wow, if that’s true then wouldn’t everyone be able to cook? Any of you who have learned to cook, come and raise your hands!”

“Xiao…Little, pfft, Little Butterfly, 1 didn’t you say that your mom often cooks at home? Have you learned? Want to try?”

The one who asked this obviously had a good relationship with Xiao Die, but as soon as the words left his mouth, he ate several elbow attacks from Xiao Die.

After the fight, Xiao Die said, “The taste of the crops in the game is completely different from reality.
I also want to try to use these crops to make food that may also be particularly delicious.
I will go to the village chief to buy materials!” She just barely finished when a number of people said they were willing to act as mice, and help her taste.

“Ch, virtuous!” Xiao Die raised her eyebrows and swept her gaze around, as she hummed.
“This is what you guys say now, but I’ve only seen my mom cook, never done it.
Don’t blame me if it’s not good.”

“Hey, hey.
You won’t be blamed, we have faith in you!” About a dozen people followed behind Xiao Die in the direction of the village chief.

On the way, they met other people, and curiously asked what they were doing there.

“We’re going to the village chief to buy ingredients and try to cook our own food!”

“What?! You can actually cook your own food? Who told you that?”

“It doesn’t need to be said.
The materials can be bought in the store, so it is clear that you can buy it and use it! Let’s not talk about that, we’ll go there first!”

“Hey, hey, hey.
I’ll go with you guys.
I’m really able to cook my own food.
I’m excited, ah! You don’t know, but I really craved that corn cake from before!”

The line was getting bigger and bigger.
Many of them were following just for fun, and many were really going to try.

“Adjutant… Easy Victory, 2 is it really okay to do this?” Lin XiaoHu sidled up to Tang Ying, a little worried.

Tang Ying calmly patted Lin XiaoHu’s shoulder.
“What will be the problem, XiaoHu? Ah, you still do not feel it.
This game is much more open than we thought.
Whatever you want to do, just go ahead and explore.”

After he said that, he did not wait for Lin XiaoHu’s response, instead he paced far behind a large group of people.

Although he didn’t know how to cook, he could learn, ah.
In the game, what did it matter if you knew how to cook, as long as there was a new way to play the game.
Of course, he needed to try.

Bai Li hadn’t added very many ingredients to the village chief’s shelves: Oil, salt, soy sauce, vinegar, sugar, as well as a coal stove, briquettes, butane, iron pots, and spatulas.
Just the basics, any more would be wasted.
In the future, players jokingly called those few things, the ‘basic kitchen kit.’

Soon, the players bought the materials they wanted from the village chief.
As most people were kitchen rookies, and had never cooked in reality; a few simple spices was enough to dazzle them.
When they saw that the price wasn’t expensive and within their range of acceptable, they simply bought one of each.

Xiao Die bought the ingredients, hurried back to her small hut, and closed the door with a bang so the others couldn’t come in.
She threatened them to wait for her to come out, so she could reveal her moment of great success in making dishes.

She shut the door in her friends faces, and they all looked at eachother, speechless.

“What do we do? Are we going to continue to wait outside?”

“Let’s leave.
Little Butterfly still doesn’t know if she will succeed.
Shall we go back to planting first?”

“I think that’s best.
We can’t just stand around and waste time.
We don’t know when she will be done.
If we were really sure, she would let us watch, I guess she doesn’t know herself.”

A few people finished exchanging ideas in front of Xiao Die’s house, and temporarily disbanded to go back to their own homes.
Their fields were still the basic nine, and soon they needed to harvest their ripe grain and plant another wave.
Due to the information acquired over time, this time they added a few more fertilizers to the ground, and expected to grow better quality crops.

After that, these people did the same thing in unison.
First, they stood in front of the house and looked around furtively, to make sure no one was around, then dared to dash into their house, then the door was closed tightly.
Finally, from their backpack they pulled out their secretly bought variety of seasonings and kitchen utensils.
They placed them one by one on the table or the floor, and showed an eagerness to try them out.

Simple cooking could make delicious food, but it was such a challenging thing.
They also wanted to try!

While they waited to eat someone else’s food, indeed, they should save energy, but if they could eat their own hand-made food, it went without saying that their hearts would have a sense of accomplishment.
With that thought in mind, these people were in a chaos of coaxing just now, as they were also tinkering around.
While Xiao Die entered her research period, they also decided to try something for themselves.

However, cooking was a craft that not many people in that day and age could do.
Most people were used to consuming nutritional solutions to supplement their daily needs.
Even if they occasionally want to eat a meal made of natural ingredients, interstellar people’s first choice was to go to a famous restaurant, rather than make their own at home.

After all, natural ingredients were expensive, and it would be a big loss if they screwed up.

As a result, fewer and fewer people were willing to study culinary arts.
A while ago, it was in the news that the taste of ingredients had once again declined, and now was almost like plain water.
Everyone on the Starnet cried, but what could they do? In the future, if they wanted to eat anything that tasted good, they would simply have to synthesize it with chemical materials.

Back in the game, players were faced with a variety of seasonings and took out their harvested crops, such as wheat and corn, with question marks hanging over their heads.
That said, for the cooking thing, which step should they start with?

After a long time of tangling, cold sweat drops lined their hairlines.
Finally someone could not stand the torture and – went offline.

After going offline, this person rushed out of their room and shouted in the direction of the living room, “Mom!!!!”

Translator Notes:

It is said, Xiao Die, but that is literally “little butterfly.”  躺赢 = Tang Ying, but with different characters, it becomes the idiom to win without needing to even lift a finger / victory presented on a platter