Abnormal Gourmet Chronicle-Chapter 843 - 420: [Delicious Egg Tarts]

Shi Dadan is even more straightforward; the guy just woke up, and his side quests are practically given to him, like an author forcing in a character when they can’t come up with a plot.

So although Qin Huai has been practicing the snacks required for side and main quests during this period, his status has actually been quite relaxed. It’s a state where if he can practice, he does, and if he can’t, it’s no big deal.

Whether it’s practicing thickening or honing knife skills, or learning Cloud Pattern results in making egg tarts, it’s all acceptable. What isn’t learning? What if he stumbles upon a side quest that requires him to make egg tarts in the future, wouldn’t that be great?

But Qin Huai didn’t expect Shi Dadan to care so much about his side quest, even more than he himself does.

Qin Huai thought for a moment and said, "I think you can give it a try."

Shi Dadan put down the egg tart and said very seriously, "The snack I genuinely want to eat isn’t Four Happiness Rolls. I have no memory or impression of them, and I don’t want to eat them at all. The snack I want to eat is egg tarts. I only realized how delicious egg tarts are after eating one today!"

"The snack I want to eat right now is a delicious egg tart!"

As soon as Shi Dadan finished speaking, the game notification sounded in Qin Huai’s mind.

"Ding, congratulations on discovering a side quest. Please check your game panel."

Qin Huai: ???

What the heck? Is this possible too? All this time he tried using this trick, it never worked, so why does it work when Shi Dadan says it? Is it because he’s an auspicious beast? Is Dang Kang really that capricious?

Qin Huai was dumbfounded, and it took him a full seven or eight seconds to reach out and click on the game panel to check the new side quest he acquired.

[Delicious Egg Tart]: As Shi Dadan, who has already awakened as Dang Kang, has tasted countless delicious snacks in two lifetimes, few snacks genuinely make him crave them. Today’s egg tart is one of them. As for what makes a delicious egg tart, it depends on Shi Dadan’s definition of a delicious egg tart. Players, please make an egg tart that Shi Dadan finds delicious to fulfill his wish.

Quest Reward: [A Dream Segment of Zhao Cheng’an]

Qin Huai: ?

??

???

Whose dream segment?

Zhao Cheng’an?

Qin Huai only thought Zhao Cheng’an had an eccentric personality, but he was rigid when making snacks. He was a humorous and witty person who wasn’t fond of being trapped in a small kitchen but truly loved making snacks. He was unusually serious and responsible during working hours, making him a relatively contradictory and contrasting individual.

But he never imagined Zhao Cheng’an was a spirit.

The guy genuinely doesn’t look like a spirit, while you can tell most spirits apart, except for An Youyou, who appears more human. The others clearly seem abnormal.

But Zhao Cheng’an...

The guy seems really normal.

When gossiping, he listens with all his senses and is extremely discerning, well-versed in human relationships, and familiar with interpersonal dynamics.

Based on Qin Huai’s understanding of these spirits, the reason most spirits fail in their trials is that they enter the human world but haven’t fully integrated. They try to learn how to be human but never truly understand what being human means, which is why they fail.

Zhao Cheng’an doesn’t seem like a failure at all; he seems like a great success.

Seeing Qin Huai vacantly tapping the air, Shi Dadan knew Qin Huai was looking at the game panel. Noticing Qin Huai silent for a long time, he didn’t ask; he just opened all eight takeout boxes and started eating. After taking several bites, seeing Qin Huai had clearly finished looking but had fallen into a long silence, he asked:

"What’s up?"

"Did my side quest change?"

Qin Huai scratched his head.

"No, it didn’t change, but you gave me a new side quest, and now I’m a bit confused."

"Don’t worry, Old Shi, you eat first. I’ll make a video call in the chat group."

.

"Yo, who’s this? Isn’t it the rare guest from our Loving Family, Master Qin? When you went to Gusu, there was some news, but after reaching Hangzhou, you vanished without a trace. I don’t know what’s in Hangzhou that makes you stop making snacks or brewing Dried Tangerine Peel Tea and even stop joining our group chats. I almost thought you forgot about this group."

The first person to join the video call was the sarcastic Luo Jun. Qin Huai hadn’t seen Luo Jun for a while, and when he saw his face, he wasn’t sure if it was because he hadn’t seen him for so long and found it a bit unfamiliar, or if Luo Jun had indeed aged. But Qin Huai clearly felt that Luo Jun seemed a bit older than before.

His voice also seemed hoarser, even this sarcastic tone wasn’t particularly sharp, and he didn’t sound as vigorous as before.

Previously, when Luo Jun got angry and yelled at Chen Huihong, wondering if she was crazy, he seemed so vigorous that he didn’t look like someone in his 90s. If you didn’t know better, you’d think he was a lively elder in his 60s.

Chen Huihong was the second to join the video call, with Qu Jing following closely behind. Cheng Gong was probably working and couldn’t join the group chat in time.

"Xiao Qin, how are you doing in Hangzhou? When do you plan to come back? Xu Tuqiang and the others have asked me indirectly many times. If Little Zheng hadn’t suddenly come back to make snacks a few days ago, I might have suspected they were planning to buy another house in Hangzhou."

Qin Huai: ...

The grandpas and grandmas at Yunzhong Restaurant are as enthusiastic as ever.

"How’s Zheng Siyuan doing at Yunzhong Restaurant these days?" Qin Huai asked.

He’s mostly been at Zhiwei Restaurant these days, listening to gossip and hasn’t chatted much with Zheng Siyuan on WeChat. Zheng Siyuan isn’t someone who enjoys initiating conversation, so they haven’t had much interaction.