My Husband, a Marshal: Conquering the Stars with My Culinary Arts-Chapter 705 - 237 Orchid Bean_3

Du Xixi’s holiday will at least extend to this summer, no matter what, to give Lin You some time to arrange Du Xixi’s schoolwork.

"I’m afraid Your Majesty is already waiting for them," Ke Lian replied casually. When he’s resting at home, he doesn’t want to worry about external affairs; he prefers to enjoy the two-person world with Du Xixi. "CD-0329 Star sent over a bunch of beans earlier, and 2569 said they’re called broad beans?"

The two-person world of Du Xixi and Ke Lian revolves mainly around Du Xixi’s favorite food. Although Ke Lian doesn’t cook, he’s quite adept at chatting about it to cater to her interests.

"Yes, there’s an animal on Blue Star called a silkworm. Broad beans might be named so because the peeled beans resemble the cocoons spun by silkworms, or because the edible season of broad beans coincides with the first wave of silk spun by silkworms in spring," Du Xixi became interested and introduced the broad beans to Ke Lian in detail. "I saw those fresh broad beans and peeled them earlier, leaving them to soak with 2569. I’ll make you orchid beans at noon, they’re great appetizers."

Ke Xing took the three kids out to play, either to an old family friend’s place or a newly opened infant amusement park nearby. With the Mechanical Soldiers accompanying them and Miao Miao, who was also idle at home, looking after them, Du Xixi and Ke Lian were not worried about their safety.

But if Du Xixi made appetizers, Ke Xing could only taste them in the evening.

Several of Du Xixi’s grandfathers could enjoy a drink, with one particularly fond of alcohol, always bringing out some old huangjiu he had aged for years when making Buddha Jumps Over the Wall, mumbling about using less while unceremoniously pouring jar after jar.

When Du Xixi was very young, she had the fortune to taste Buddha Jumps Over the Wall made with old huangjiu, with not a drop of water added. It truly burst with wine aroma; Du Xixi didn’t get drunk, but everyone noticed her face was still red the next morning. 𝒻𝑟ℯℯ𝑤𝑒𝑏𝑛𝘰𝓋𝑒𝓁.𝒸𝑜𝘮

In this world, there’s no long-aged huangjiu, but Du Xixi has already started brewing wine. In the Ke Family’s storeroom, there are several jars of wine she brewed, not just huangjiu, but also many fruit wines. Considering Ke Lian and Ke Xing’s tastes, she even tried brewing a few jars of high and low-proof spirits based on the distillation methods she vaguely remembered.

Ke Lian doesn’t like the high-proof, smooth liquor, preferring the throat-burning type. Back when Ke Lian could only down one sip, under the efforts of getting him drunk by Ke Xing and Du Xixi, he now has a remarkable tolerance.

Indeed, when Du Xixi mentioned using those broad beans to make appetizers, Ke Lian became somewhat happy, sat up straight and asked, "What do orchid beans taste like? Are they spicy?"

"They can be any flavor. Soaked, clean broad beans just need to be drained and fried crisp in oil. You can adjust the flavor to whatever you want," Du Xixi leaned on Ke Lian, then pouted, somewhat coyly directing him to get her some fruit.

The simplest orchid beans might just require some salt for a salty taste, but Du Xixi likes to experiment. Even back on Blue Star, she was very creative, making many strange yet delicious flavors for orchid beans.

For example, Grandpa especially enjoys seaweed-flavored orchid beans, the second Grandpa loves sesame-flavored ones, and the third Grandpa is particularly fond of wasabi-flavored... In the end, no matter what flavor of orchid beans they want, Du Xixi can make it.

Ke Lian prefers spicy and aromatic food. Hearing Du Xixi say so, he patted Du Xixi’s head expectantly, then twirled her now much longer hair around his fingers and played with it slowly: "I’ll be looking forward to it, then."

Du Xixi always follows through when she says she’ll do something. She promised Ke Lian and would never go back on her word, so as lunchtime approached, she personally went to the kitchen, not needing 2569 who was busy with other dishes to assist, directly rolling up her sleeves, donning an apron, and started scooping the broad beans soaked in clear water.

The broad beans were originally a few together, encased in long bean pods. Du Xixi and 2569 spent some time peeling them earlier in the morning, at which time Ke Lian was reviewing an important temporary military report, thus missing the opportunity to experience life together with Du Xixi.

But now, Ke Lian came to "join the fun," seeing Du Xixi scooping broad beans. He wasn’t worried about water splashing on him and immediately went over to scoop them all up.

Then... as soon as he entered the kitchen, his dexterity was sealed, getting a large part of his clothes wet, and was disdainfully pushed out of the kitchen by Du Xixi who thought he was making a mess.

Ke Lian looked at the tightly closed kitchen door, uncertain how many times he’d been disliked by Du Xixi for this. First, he rubbed his nose, then looked around seeing no one, sighed, and squatted right at the kitchen door.

If he couldn’t make food with Du Xixi, then he could listen to Du Xixi make food while squatting here! However, the soundproofing of this kitchen door was too good; maybe it’s time to change it sometime.

Ke Lian: Ah, another day of being disliked by the wife for my cooking skills...