Chapter 27 – Lobster Feast and Brewing Wine
Lin Jiu, wearing green leaves on his head and holding a fish spear, was digging for demon lobster under the blazing sun on the beach.
Most of the demon lobster that had besieged the island had been lured into “prison” by him. A few of the remaining ones had already made it to shore, with many burrowing into the sand, diligently digging holes. Lin Jiu had to dig them out one by one, a task far more time-consuming than leading them away.
The rest of his time was spent digging up these dragon prawns, and Lin Jiu grew increasingly frustrated, vowing never to see these creatures again in his life. The resentment was so deep that for days, he’d been eating them—raw, grilled, or pan-fried on a stone slab. Only by consuming them to extinction could he ease the anger in his heart.
When he finally received the notification that the task was complete, Lin Jiu had been digging so long he was in a daze.
[Congratulation host on completing and protect Xipu Island.]
[Earned 100 magic points and 1 Iron Treasure Chest.]
[Do you want to open it?]
Lin Jiu, still in dazed, said, “Open.”
[Congratulations, host. You have obtained 1 basic gene enhancement serum.]
Lin Jiu was stunned for a long time before he opened the inventory to check. Sure enough, he saw an injection icon. He clicked the icon, and an automatic syringe appeared in his hand. The syringe needle was filled with light blue liquid, which was very beautiful.
Lin Jiu had a bewildered look on his face. He worked so hard to get a black iron treasure chest, but what came out of it was this. This kind of thing only existed in science fiction movies. He couldn’t inject it into himself or others. Who knew if this injection would turn him into the Hulk?
Lin Jiu felt that this thing was not practical at all.
He put the syringe back into the inventory in disappointment and checked his magic points. Now only magic points could soothe his wounded heart.
Mission accomplished, Lin Jiu instantly turned from a pauper into a rich man, with 154 magic points. What was there to be afraid of?
Excluding the 100 points of mission rewards, the remaining 52 points are the recycling points of the shrimp shells and fish bones he had eaten during this period.
It would be shocking if you didn’t look at it. By this calculation, he has been in the Demon Sea plane for a long time.
Lin Jiu felt that he should go back. Before leaving, he wanted to bring back some specialties of the island. He picked a lot of fruits and vegetables, put them in the refrigerator of the super smart kitchen, and set the time to a constant value.
Living things cannot be placed in the refrigerator. Lin Jiu wanted to put the Demon Lobsters in it, so he had to kill them first and then put it in the refrigerator, setting a constant time so that no matter when he took them out, they would be as fresh as when he had just killed them.
He did so, otherwise he wouldn’t be able to bring back too many Demon Lobsters. Each purchase consumes 10 magic points, so he had to bring as many as possible until the refrigerator in the smart kitchen was full.
He also wanted to make use of the space in the smart kitchen and place the live Demon Lobster in the super smart kitchen, however, the smart kitchen could not be closed. Finally, Lin Jiu had no choice but to give up the idea.
Not only did he fill up the refrigerator, he also wanted to fill up the fish pond.
He went down to the sea again and caught a lot of small sea monsters such as black star clams and horn shrimps, which shared the fish pond with Silver Carp, and he took them all back.
Lin Jiu returned to the bedroom with a full stomach. As usual, he took a shower and changed clothes first. This time he did not sleep, he had rest well on the island.
After packing up and coming out, the first thing he did was to turn on the computer. He wanted to see what day it was. He had been living in a daze in the Demon Sea plane and had not kept track of the days, so he himself did not know how many days had passed.
It was the familiar vibration reminder again. Lin Jiu waited until the phone stopped vibrating before checking the calendar. He was just buying some goods, and a month had passed from the crisp autumn weather to the chilly cold!
Lin Jiu was startled, and his first reaction was whether Si Xu had already finish eating the Silver Carps?
He didn’t check the message reminder and wanted to call Si Xu, but when he looked through the address book, Si Xu’s number was not there!
Lin Jiu wanted to click back and look for Jiang Ge’s number, but accidentally clicked on a missed call. It was an unfamiliar number. Lin Jiu tried to hang up in a panic, but the phone was connected after only one ring.
“Sorry, I dialed the wrong number…”
“It’s me, are you back?”
On the other end of the phone, it was Si Xu’s familiar voice. Lin Jiu was stunned. Then he remembered that Si Xu had called him before, but he didn’t answer.
“I, I’m back. Have you finished eating the fish?”
He felt insecure when he thought about the many missed calls he ignored.
“I’ve finished eating a long time ago, why did you come back just now?” Lin Jiu’s safe return made Si Xu breathe a sigh of relief.
Lin Jiu asked nervously: “Are you feeling unwell?”
Si Xu on the other end of the phone looked at the afternoon sun and raised his lips, “Yes, I need your delicious food to replenish my body.”
In fact, just a few days after eating it, his body was still normal and he had no food rejection reaction.
“Okay, I’ll cook whatever you want… By the way, I brought back some lobsters this time. Come to the store and I’ll cook it for you.”
As soon as the words came out of his mouth, Lin Jiu realized that he sounded too casual and wondered if Si Xu would dislike it.
Of course Si Xu would not hate it, “Okay, I’ll go over now?”
“Okay, I’ll go to the store to prepare first.” Lin Jiu hung up the phone, carefully saved Si Xu’s number, and then rode out on his bike.
The store was deserted, with no one around. However, the neighbors nearby looked surprised when they saw him.
During the month that Lin Jiu was away, there were many people hanging around the store every day at the beginning. But as time went on, fewer and fewer people came. In the past two days, only a few people came and left when they saw that the store was not open.
They all thought that the Demon Fish Restaurant was closed, but unexpectedly the owner showed up again.
Lin Jiu opened the door and entered the store. The store was undergoing system maintenance and there were no problems. Lin Jiu simply tidied up and began to prepare dinner.
Lin Jiu went to the private room, entered the smart kitchen, and took out a Demon Lobster.
These Demon Lobster had been simply processed before being killed, and all that was left was to remove the shrimp thread.
These Demon Lobsters are very big, any one of them weighs more than 30 kilograms, and one person cannot finish them all. Lin Jiu thought that Jiang Ge would also come, and it seems that two people cannot finish them either…it is better to only prepare half.
What Lin Jiu didn’t expect was that not only Si Xu and Jiang Ge came, but also Ji Anchen who was dressed like an elite.
When they entered, Lin Jiu was frying shrimp on a stone slab. The rich aroma made their mouths water. Si Xu and Jiang Ge felt like they were alive again. Only Lin Jiu’s delicious food could repair their weakness.?
“It smells so good! After a month, I finally smell this wonderful aroma again. What are we eating today? Oh! Such a big one… a lobster or an Australian lobster? The color of the pattern looks a bit like a flower dragon?”
Jiang Ge was surprised by the half shrimp shell placed in the kitchen. Seeing the delicious food, he even forgot the guilty feeling he had a month ago, and now his mind was only thinking about eating.
Si Xu also saw the shrimp shell. It was so big and rare that one person could not finish eating a whole large claw.
Lin Jiu paused, “…Lobster.”
The Demon Lobster is also a lobster, so yeah, that’s fine.
Jiang Ge was delighted. “Is this the new product? The big claws look delicious.”
“Delicious, but also dangerous.”
Si Xu looked at the claws carefully. If they were clamped, not only the legs and hands but also the waist could be broken in two, a person would definitely be like cutting in half.
“Are you hurt?” Si Xu didn’t know how Lin Jiu got the goods. He was worried that Lin Jiu would go and catch them himself like he did with Silver Carp.
The sudden concern from his idol made Lin Jiu stun for two seconds before he shook his head mechanically, “No, these lobsters look fierce but as long as you control their claws, they will have no power to resist.”
“…It’s still better to be careful.” Si Xu had no right to tell Lin Jiu not to do such a dangerous thing, he could only remind him that safety was important.
Ji Anchen, who had been ignored, had to cough lightly to show his presence.
Lin Jiu nodded at him. With Mi Youyou’s mess, who doesn’t know that the owner of the Demon Fish Restaurant is the well-known Lin Jiu with all the negative information flying around? Lin Jiu has already expected that it will not be possible to open a shop quietly in the future, and he needs to find another way.
He always feels like he has forgotten something.
Ji Anchen took the initiative to speak, “Let me get to know you again. I am Si Xu’s cousin.”
Lin Jiu: “…”
Lin Jiu: “…”
Lin Jiu: “…”
Lin Jiu suddenly remembered that he had sent the Black Star Pearl to Si Xu anonymously!
Now everyone knows that he is a merchant of raw Black Star Pearls. Ji Anchen is Si Xu’s cousin. It makes no sense for Si Xu not to know who sent him the Black Star Pearl.
Lin Jiu subconsciously looked toward Si Xu, only to see that Si Xu was looking at him with a smile.
Lin Jiu appeared calm on the surface, but he was panicking inside. It was all over, it was all over. It had been a month since his identity was exposed, and he just now feel that he was dancing naked!
“Let’s go to the private room first, dinner will be ready soon.” He pretended to be calm and performed perfectly.
“I want to book the place tonight and have dinner together, is that okay?” Si Xu’s tone was so gentle that it was impossible to refuse.
“…Okay.” He had no intention of doing business tonight, not because his idol asked him to.
Jiang Ge very consciously closed the shop door and hung up a small wooden sign saying “Temporarily closed”.
The three of them helped serve the dishes while Lin Jiu prepared the food.
Tonight is the Lobster Feast. A Demon Lobster has been fully cooked. The four of them can eat to their heart’s content and try to finish it all.
Lin Jiu brought over the last dish of shrimp porridge. Si Xu and the other two had already sat down at the table, waiting for Lin Jiu to come over.
Lin Jiu put down the shrimp porridge and looked at the table full of delicious food, feeling like something was missing.
“Want a drink?”
Jiang Ge slammed the table excitedly, “I’ve been wanting to say this for a long time. A place where you eat can’t be without wine.”
Lin Jiu looked at Si Xu and Ji Anchen.
Si Xu smiled and said, “If there is wine, you can have some.”
Ji Anchen: “We brought a driver.”
It seems they were well prepared.
“Wait a minute, I’ll get it.”
Lin Jiu went to the second floor. There was no wine in the store, so he brought back a lot of fruits this time. He planned to make his own wine. He has been busy since he came back. He decided to brew some now. The refrigerator will speed up the fermentation process and it will be completed in minutes.
Lin Jiu opened the smart kitchen. This time he brought back many green fruit, red fruit and golden berries. These fruits are grown in abundance on Xipu Island. Golden berries are not suitable for making wine, but red and green fruit are suitable.
There are wine barrels in the tableware area, in all sizes, with the smallest being 5L.
Lin Jiu picked two of the smallest wine barrels to make green fruit wine and red fruit wine respectively. Lin Jiu used 1 magic point to buy a barrel of 100L of concentrate alcohol from the system.
With the concentrated alcohol, making fruit wine is very simple, as long as you master the formula and proportion.
Lin Jiu was in a very good mood, not knowing whether it was because Si Xu was here and he wanted to brew wine for Si Xu to drink, or because Si Xu cared about him.
The fruit wine was made very quickly and the time was accelerated by putting it in the refrigerator. In just a few minutes, several months had passed in the refrigerator.
Lin Jiu moved the fermented wine barrel, found two wine jugs and four wine glasses in the tableware area, carried the wine barrel downstairs, opened the small door on the wing, and Lin Jiu saw Si Xu standing below.
Si Xu reached out and took a wooden wine barrel, his movements natural, “You brewed your own wine? Where do you put it?”
“I put them in the private room. This is my first time brewing, so I don’t know if it tastes good. There are two flavors, you can try them.” Lin Jiu put the wine barrel on the small table by the window.
Jiang Ge was amazed. “Lin Jiu, you are really versatile. You can cook delicious food and brew wine. How can you be so good!”
Jiang Ge couldn’t wait to squeeze over and be the first to taste it.
