Chapter 9: Housewarming Party
As An Du, the heir of the An Zi Group, appeared, the An Zi Group staff didn’t even need to contact the interstellar PR, they directly reported to Old Master An Zi.
Old Master An Zi made an interstellar call, and before he could start scolding, An Du directly said, “Let’s make a bet. Tomorrow, you’ll instruct your staff to go to the anchor’s live broadcast room and snatch the taste that goes on the shelves. After they’ve smelled it, if you say a single word that it’s not as good as the strawberry-flavored nutritional supplement you developed, I’ll obediently go back and inherit the family business without saying another word.”
Old Master An Zi’s scolding on the tip of his tongue was swallowed back: “Are you serious?”
An Du had a deep meaning as he schemed against the old man: “Of course it’s true, remember to send more people to lurk in the live broadcast room, I’m afraid you won’t be able to snatch it and will have to keep waiting.”
The old man grunted: “Just wait for you to come back and work for me.”
An Du silently smiled: “No need to wait, I’ll go to the group tomorrow and wait for the result on site.”
Hehe, if he could snatch it tomorrow, he could even smell it again.
He was lucky to snatch it today, but tomorrow’s guarantee of snatching it was not certain, so it was necessary to pull the old man into the water as a precaution.
Although he was not capable in other areas, his people under him were quite numerous.
Even if 40,000 people were snatching online, with so many people, he would definitely be able to snatch a share, right?
Look at that, he was so smart.
The old man who was deceived didn’t take it seriously at all, and didn’t even pay much attention to it. Every year there were so many new anchors, he couldn’t possibly pay attention to each one personally.
This time, it was this good-for-nothing prodigal son who took the initiative to enter the field, and he just learned about it, but in terms of flavor, there was no more outstanding nutritional supplement on the market than their group’s!
The An Zi Group remained silent due to the bet between the old master and the young master, as if they hadn’t seen the discussions all over the Star Network forum.
An Du’s actions immediately reversed the public opinion, making the behind-the-scenes black sheep so angry that their face turned blue.
Nicky sat in an office, his face turning iron blue due to the anger, which greatly discounted his exquisite handsome face. He had spent a lot of money, but this was the result??Â
“It’s not that we won’t continue, but An Du, as the heir, represents An Zi’s endorsement of this new anchor, so An Zi won’t intervene again.” After all, if they intervened, wouldn’t that be slapping their own young master in the face?
Nicky’s fiery red hair was like an angry lion: “Just let this newcomer suppress me?”
He had put so much effort into becoming the number one in the food area, but this person had only appeared for two days, not only snatching away his spotlight, but even the number of fans online had decreased by a quarter!
If he waited any longer, it would only decrease further.
He finally couldn’t sit still and stepped in. At first, he just had his assistant bring in the water army to guide the rhythm in the live broadcast room, but every time he was a step behind.
Now he could only use a lot of money to make a move on the Star Network forum, who would have known that the An Du, who was said to be indifferent to the family business after graduation, would actually step in?
The assistant comforted: “It’s best to retreat for now and continue to wait. This newcomer has started so explosively and brought out such good stuff, it’s probably about to end. Wait a few more days, if he can’t bring out anything better, the heat will drop, and we don’t even need to intervene, he won’t be able to stir up any waves.”
Nicky’s expression finally improved, thinking that waiting a few more days wouldn’t be a problem.
But just as he calmed down, the assistant next to him suddenly exclaimed, his face changing slightly as he looked at Nicky: “No, this is not good.”
Nicky had a bad feeling: “What’s wrong?”
The assistant quietly opened a holographic projection, and a review suddenly appeared, written by the renowned food column authority critic, Fei Xue.
It was actually praising this new anchor to the skies, even boldly claiming that he was the next level royal master-level imperial chef.
This was the highest evaluation in the entire Star System.
Nicky finally couldn’t hold back and smashed everything in the work area.
When the turbulence on the Star Network finally calmed down, Ning Yunyi had already taken Ning Xiaomiao to rest early.
The villa had a total of three floors, with he and Ning Xiaomiao each occupying a room on the second floor, and the first floor planned to be used as the live broadcast room.
The third floor was temporarily Ning Yunyi’s cultivation area, and when he had arranged the entire floor, he would also bring Ning Xiaomiao to cultivate.
But there was no hurry for now, the priority was to nourish the little kitten’s body.
The next day, Ning Yunyi woke up and found Ning Xiaomiao already obediently squatting at the door. Hearing the movement, he immediately raised his head, his large emerald eyes hazily looking at his father, and his tail swishing excitedly behind her.
Ning Yunyi’s mouth curved up, he bent down and hugged the little kitten, rubbing him all over. When she was dazed and intoxicated, he placed his on his shoulders and went downstairs.
Ning Xiaomiao’s little head was pressed against hisfather’s neck, the whole kitten happily bubbling, his father was so warm.
Ning Yunyi planned to cook a big meal for the housewarming party, so he just ate something simple for breakfast.
He took out dumplings and pan-fried them, accompanied by fried eggs and milk, making the little kitten eat without raising his head.
When they were almost done, the man and kitten started to tidy up the villa.
Because Ning Xiaomiao was still young, Ning Yunyi only let the little one help by handing things over.
In the morning, Ning Yunyi planted a circle of thorn seeds along the wall-side of the courtyard outside the villa. While planting, he used his spiritual power to catalyze them, and when they were about to break through the soil, he stopped, and in a few days, a whole wall of thorns would grow, which not only blocked the prying of the outside world, but also prevented uninvited intruders.
Mr. Xu was intentionally invited to bully the original body, and it couldn’t be guaranteed that he wouldn’t track down the new residence, so it was necessary to take preventive measures in advance.
Not only that, Ning Yunyi took out the idle surveillance cameras from the space and installed one in each of the full-range positions inside and outside the courtyard.
As long as anyone approached within 50 meters, it would alert him.
The reason he didn’t directly buy a more advanced holographic surveillance camera from the Star System was not only because it was too expensive, but also because this trash star simply didn’t sell them.
Plus, there were quite a few in the space, it was a waste not to use them.
After activating the surveillance and setting it to synchronize to the bracelet, Ning Yunyi took Ning Xiaomiao out to the rear mountain.
In his hand, he carried a few tree seedlings taken from the space, planning to find a place in the artificial forest to enclose an area and plant them first to see if they could gather spiritual energy.
Ning Xiaomiao turned back into a kitten as soon as she went out, obediently holding Ning Yunyi’s small hand and going to the artificial forest.
Ning Yunyi didn’t go too far from the villa, only about ten meters from the entrance of the artificial forest, and began to plant the tree seedlings close to the tall shrubs.
Because the artificial forest was so realistic, the young and tender tree seedlings were weak and swaying, and it was really hard to tell if they were real or fake.
Not to mention that this place was sparsely populated, even if someone accidentally stumbled upon them, they would only think they were artificial.
Ning Yunyi planted a few tree seedlings in a circle, watered them, and then led Ning Xiaomiao back to the place where they had roasted the fish yesterday, planning to roast a wrapped chicken in advance.
The housewarming party was just him and the little kitten, so he didn’t need to make too much. For noon’s live broadcast, he planned to make a corn and pork rib soup, plus some red-braised chicken wings, garlic lettuce, and egg custard, but last night the little kitten seemed to really like the wrapped chicken, although she didn’t say it, he could see it.
Children need to be pampered a bit, and especially since this little one was so obedient.
Sure enough, when Ning Yunyi took out the wrapped chicken already coated in mud, Ning Xiaomiao’s eyes lit up.
Ning Yunyi smiled: “We’ll eat this for lunch, do you like it?”
Ning Xiaomiao nodded his little head vigorously, his bright eyes shining, and when the sunlight shone on them, hisemerald pupils became even more translucent and beautiful, like crystal stones.
Ning Yunyi buried the wrapped chicken in the ground and lit a pile of fire on top, not needing to take care of it anymore, and led the little kitten back to the villa.
If this was a real forest, Ning Yunyi would still be worried, but this was an artificial forest, with special materials added, so the fire would be extinguished as soon as it touched it, and there would be no bad consequences.
Back at the villa, it was about time for the live broadcast, Ning Yunyi processed the ingredients as usual, then clicked into [Star Live].
When Ning Yunyi opened the background, he saw the income interface and hesitated for a moment, uncertain, and counted again, unusually stunned.
After he withdrew the tips yesterday, he only had a few hundred stars left, even after adding the 40 servings of taste that were auctioned off, plus the four thousand stars, it didn’t add up to ten thousand.
But at the moment, before he even started broadcasting, the income interface on the background showed six digits.
Over 100,000 stars.
Ning Yunyi clicked on the details, most of them were tips, and the top few were mostly familiar faces.
The second was [Ancient Research Institute Someone], the third was Luke, and there were two or three other frequent barrage senders during his live broadcast.
As for the number one, it was a completely unfamiliar [An Du].
Ning Yunyi guessed that these tips were probably due to the impact of the taste that was on the shelves yesterday.
He had thought there would be an impact, but he didn’t expect the effect to be so great.
However, this was a good thing for him, no one was complaining about the stars being too hot to handle.
Ning Yunyi didn’t click into the private messages, first because there were too many, and second because he could roughly guess that they were all hoping to individually seek the taste or purchase the food.
The taste, he would put it on the shelves after the live broadcast, and as for purchasing the food, he wouldn’t share it out.
He said it was fake synthetic, but in fact these were genuine ancient Goulun species ingredients.
Ning Yunyi directly clicked on the start live broadcast.
Almost simultaneously, the foodie fans who were following [First Knife of the Sect] immediately clicked in, and the online number soon exceeded 40,000, with a continuing upward trend.
Ning Yunyi smiled at the camera, still in the form of a cartoon character, with a blurred background that had changed to a larger place.
Although it was blurred, one could still see that the place was larger.
[Wow, the anchor has changed the location? This stage is even bigger, will he be able to live broadcast more delicious food? Hehe hehe!]
[Wuwuwu, anchor food, I’m hungry, how can I eat the food the anchor makes with his own hands?]
[Didn’t the anchor say it was synthetic? Just go buy the nutritional supplement, wouldn’t that be enough?]
[The ones in the front must not have seen the forum, the ones who snatched the taste have already said, it’s not the taste of the nutritional supplement at all, it’s delicious!]
[Then why didn’t the others who snatched it say anything?]
[What do you think? Those dogs, they snatched it and ate it themselves!]
[Yeah, just from the high price they were asking for transfers yesterday, they were too shameless!!]
“Welcome everyone to the live broadcast room, we did indeed change to a new venue.” Ning Yunyi casually selected a barrage, not continuing to watch, and dragged the transparent screen to the side, starting to make the time-consuming corn and pork rib soup.
“Today is the first day of officially moving in, so this meal is a housewarming party. The menu for lunch is corn and pork rib soup, red-braised chicken wings, garlic lettuce, and egg custard specially cooked for the little one at home.”
Ning Yunyi said as he started to blanch the pork ribs, and after the blanching was done, he reheated the wok and stir-fried them until they were browned, then poured in hot water and transferred them to a clay pot, adding the pre-prepared braising seasoning packet, and covered the pot to start braising.
To make the pork ribs even more tender, he again added spiritual power tempering to shorten the time.
When he finished all this, Ning Yunyi started the second dish, which was the red-braised chicken wings.
The “chicken wings” was just a cover term, they were actually chicken wings.
He started to cut the chicken wings with a flower knife, which would help them absorb the flavor better. His movements were very fast, the smooth motions making the knife in his hand seem like an ordinary toy.
Even though they had seen it many times, the audience couldn’t help but exclaim in amazement.
On the other hand, while the live broadcast room in the villa was bustling, the outside of the villa was deathly silent, the only difference being the gradual wafting of the fragrance of the wrapped chicken from the area next to the artificial forest.
At the same time, in a dark and damp stone cave deep in the artificial forest, the inner walls were clearly visible with sharp claw marks that had penetrated a third of the way into the cliff face. Wave after wave of spiritual attacks were launched towards the outside of the cave, only to be blocked by the transparent protective barrier it had set up in advance when it was still lucid.
After a while, the huge ferocious beast, which had been severely disturbed in its spiritual sea and was on the verge of losing control, suddenly opened its emerald beast eyes, its sanity gradually uncontrollable, the beast roar on the tip of its mouth shocking heaven and earth, reverberating through the cave, but all blocked by the barrier outside and not leaking out at all.
But soon, the transparent protective barrier was shattered by the powerful spiritual force, spreading into a spider web-like crack until it completely dissipated, and the claws of the frenzied beast shot forward with a fierce lunge, disappearing without a trace in the blink of an eye.
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