The Strong Female Lead Versus The Most Miserable Male Lead-Chapter 411 - 410: Potato Chips Make an Appearance

"Eat!" It wasn’t just Nian Shutong’s call, but the call of everyone seated around the dining table.

Mr. Fan came over, carrying a small basin of clean salted duck eggs.

"Boss, I tried one, and it goes perfectly with porridge."

"Got it, if you say it’s good, it must be good."

Nian Shutong took the basin and started distributing to everyone. After a round of handing them out, there were still several left.

Everyone held their duck eggs, all eyes on Nian Shutong, watching how she would proceed.

Nian Shutong lifted a duck egg and said, "One end of the duck egg is hollow. Tap it on the table."

"Crack," the crisp sound of the salted duck egg hitting the table echoed.

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"Ah... it’s dripping oil."

Reluctantly, Nian Shutong picked up the duck egg over her porridge bowl to catch the dripping oil, so it wouldn’t be wasted on the table.

Everyone mimicked Nian Shutong’s method and started to open their salted duck eggs.

Most people methodically followed Nian Shutong’s instructions, but Ha Ha was unique. He took the duck egg and tapped it on his forehead.

"Hehe, it doesn’t hurt."

Everyone just glanced at him and seemed surprisingly calm about it.

For breakfast, plain porridge with salted duck eggs, accompanied by shredded mustard, cucumber strips, and garlic eggplant, with soft pancakes as the main dish.

The meal was refreshing and appetizing, especially the salted duck eggs with white rice porridge, which made Nian Shutong drink two more bowls of porridge.

After breakfast, Nian Shutong, who was originally planning to go to the factory area, stopped Mr. Fan first and pulled him to begin tasting and identifying spices.

The two of them set up a big plastic sheet over a large table outside the kitchen, and laid out each spice on it.

First, they took out the familiar spices, about a dozen of them.

"Mr. Fan, which do you think needs to be planted more?"

One by one, Mr. Fan picked up some of the spices and said to Nian Shutong, "Star anise, bay leaf, cinnamon, fennel... These are commonly used."

"Good, noted."

Then, the two of them started tasting some unidentified ingredients.

Nian Shutong could match some of the names, but since she wasn’t the chef, it was better for Mr. Fan to handle it.

For some items, their expressions twisted as they tasted, while some others they liked.

In any case, the two of them were as if putting on different faces, switching emotions rapidly.

When their tasting session was over, it was already noon.

Mr. Fan went to cook, while Nian Shutong bought some spice seeds and taught Wang Fu how to plant them.

After receiving the seeds, Wang Fu didn’t leave.

"Boss, the temperature has dropped a bit recently, I’m worried it might affect our crops."

After hearing Wang Fu’s concern, before Nian Shutong could reply, System Xiao Ba immediately spoke up.

"Host, rest assured, the current temperature here won’t damage the seeds produced by the system. However, if it drops below ten degrees, there will be some impacts, and below zero, they can’t grow."

Nian Shutong first reassured Wang Fu, "Don’t worry, it won’t have any impact."

"That’s good to hear, I’ll get busy then, Boss."

Wang Fu left reassured; if the Boss said it’s fine, then it must be fine.

Watching Wang Fu walk away, Nian Shutong turned to ask Xiao Ba.

"Xiao Ba, then what about the colder regions in the north? Won’t they have much less crops?"

"Indeed, but Xiao Ba reminds the host that some grains taste even better when grown in the north!"

Is that so?

Nian Shutong wasn’t doubting Xiao Ba’s words—this was just like many of the plants and spirit plants in the Cultivation World, which couldn’t grow into their full medicinal potential without certain conditions.

"Xiao Ba, send me a list of which items can be farmed on a large scale and taste better. I’m planning to slowly develop the northern territories."

"Of course, host."

Xiao Ba happily agreed and added, "Host, in the future, you will unlock more detailed classifications."

"What kind of detailed classifications?"

"Like rice, for example, there’s Wuchang rice, fragrant rice, long-grain fragrant rice...many varieties, each with a distinct taste."

"For now, the host has only started with the most common type of rice."

The most common type of rice already tastes like this?

Nian Shutong began to look forward to the various choices of rice. What could different rice taste like?

Would it be as delicious as the spirit rice from the Cultivation World?

After communicating with Xiao Ba, Nian Shutong went to have lunch, and after lunch, she headed to the factory area.

Today, she was going to start the snack factory machines and make a batch for testing.

The first snack to be produced was potato chips. She had plenty of potatoes as the raw material.

The second was shrimp sticks, she had seafood and all other necessary ingredients easily at her disposal.

The third snack was spicy strips, mainly made of flour and chili, which she also had readily available.

She had initially thought of postponing the spicy strips because the spices were insufficient, but decided to buy a batch from Xiao Ba to cover it for now.

Once she planted them, she could harvest them in a month and have a supply ready.

When Nian Shutong arrived at the snack factory, all the raw materials were almost prepared.

The first to be started were the potato chips.

The potato chips had to be made with fresh potatoes. Fortunately, after harvesting, Nian Shutong’s potatoes were sent directly to the cold storage, kept in the state they were dug up.

First, the machines washed the potatoes with running water, then clean potatoes were peeled by machines, and after sorting by size, they were washed again to remove the skin.

After this washing, the potatoes were sent to a slicer. Once sliced, they were immersed in cold water for further cleaning to remove starch.

The starch-free potatoes were dried, then deep-fried, and as they moved along the conveyor belt, the oil was spun off. Finally, a machine would spray salt on them.

The salted potatoes, after being sorted to remove any defective chips, were then seasoned and ultimately packed.

Today’s chips were bagged.

Nian Shutong picked up the first bag of finished chips, tearing it open along the bag’s serrated edge and took out a chip.

*Crunch.*

Crispy, not very salty, with the original taste of the potato.

"Tasty, everyone try some."

At this moment, the few workers left in the factory each grabbed a bag, opened it, and each tasted a chip.

"Delicious."

"It feels more addictive the more you eat."

"Kids will definitely love it."

The chips received unanimous praise from everyone, and Nian Shutong even suggested everyone take the chips produced today back to the small wooden house first, giving everyone a bag to try.

As for the other two snacks, they too were produced in small quantities for now, to be taken back first for everyone to try and to perform a simple market test before releasing them in the store.

When Nian Shutong returned, it was earlier than usual.

She stood in an open space, raising two bags of potato chips, and shouted to the surrounding children, "Kids! I’m back!"

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