Abnormal Gourmet Chronicle

Chapter 1342: Xia Mubing Side Story (5) Part 2

If nothing unexpected happens, even if Qin Huai’s ability appears on Jiang Feng in the form of a system, this system has not yet awakened now.

As for when it will awaken...

Given the current rate of growth of Jiang Feng’s abilities, Qin Huai estimates it will take a few years.

This makes sense, high school students saving the world is a bit radical. College students have more time to save the world.

In the end, Qin Huai concluded, "Although I don’t know what form my ability will take on Jiang Feng, I believe it should manifest in the direction we hope for."

Zhao Cheng’an showed some disdain for Qin Huai’s conclusion: "Aren’t you Feifei? Isn’t this your ability? Even though you’ve awakened, you don’t know how it will manifest?"

Qin Huai: ...

"I am Feifei, but it’s always others who wish for something from me and I fulfill their wishes. I can’t wish for myself, so how would I know what will happen?" Qin Huai retorted confidently despite the flimsy argument.

"So we’ve been tracking Jiang Feng for a month, and the conclusion is we have to wait a few more years to see results? What kind of conclusion is that?" Zhao Cheng’an continued to express his bewilderment, unwilling to end the tracking, and just wanting to hang around Z City for another month.

Qin Huai immediately saw through Zhao Cheng’an’s little scheme and didn’t directly answer him, just glanced quietly at Xia Mubing.

Xia Mubing was eating a meal packed from Jiankang Restaurant that Zhao Cheng’an brought back.

For this month, Qin Huai and the group have essentially been eating every meal from Jiankang Restaurant, with Zhao Cheng’an buying it every time, and he became a super VIP of Jiankang Restaurant. Zhao Cheng’an even added Wang Xiulian on WeChat, unlocking many dishes that weren’t on the menu. Whatever he wanted to eat, he’d message Wang Xiulian a day in advance, and Jiang Jiankang would prepare it early.

During this month, Xia Mubing racked his brains when ordering food, trying various dishes, attempting to discover an overlooked culinary talent in Jiang Jiankang.

The result was nothing found.

Jiang Jiankang is just a very competent, slightly above-average chef, a master-level existence in a small restaurant, and at chef level in a regular restaurant. Unfortunately, the Jiang Family intends to take over Taifeng Building.

At this level, attempting to take over what was once Beiping’s top restaurant is insufficient. It lacks room for growth and little cultivation value, which is concerning.

In the first few days of tracking, Xia Mubing was quite distressed, even having "worry" written all over his face.

But as the tracking deepened, Xia Mubing’s worries gradually lessened, and recently, his mood has been pretty good.

Xia Mubing saw hope in Jiang Feng for the Jiang Family to inherit Taifeng Building.

Jiang Feng has solid basic skills, is relatively straightforward, won’t slack off, and seems unaware that the chubby childhood friend next door likes him while also being very hardworking. If he has a bit of culinary talent, he would surely be a good candidate for learning cooking.

Top undercover Zhao Cheng’an managed to get a plate of Kung Pao Chicken made by Jiang Feng through getting chummy with Wang Xiulian. He ran with this precious dish back to the hotel, where Qin Huai and the others tasted it carefully, concluding it was quite average.

But the future holds promise, as Jiang Feng is still young with solid basic skills. As long as Qin Huai’s ability can manifest into a system resembling culinary skills on Jiang Feng, giving him a minor boost, with his hardworking spirit and some intense culinary practice, he is bound to make significant achievements.

Thus, the task Qin Huai set for everyone now is to silently wish in their hearts for his ability to transform into a culinary system on Jiang Feng—any culinary system will do.

Wish three times a day—morning, noon, and night—with complete sincerity.

Jiang Feng, in a way, is the hope for Taifeng Building’s reopening. Although this hope is still uncertain and filled with the unknown, hope is always good.

This hope significantly lifted Xia Mubing’s spirits.

Realizing this, Qin Huai felt that this tracking wasn’t fruitless. After all, their original purpose of visiting Z City was to see Jiang Weiguo. Although they ended up tracking Jiang Feng after just two days with Jiang Weiguo, the results were positive.

It comforted Xia Mubing and gave him some hope that Taifeng Building might one day reopen with flourishing business and a bustling crowd.

Qin Huai looked speechless at Zhao Cheng’an, who didn’t understand, "Forget about staying in Z City any longer. Master Zhou just messaged me this morning asking about your progress. For the next half month, come back to Huishan City with me. You’ve been out for so long; you need to bring back some results. Otherwise, how will you ask for leave next time?"

Zhao Cheng’an: QAQ

Xia Mubing encouraged Zhao Cheng’an: "A sheng, learn well from Qin Huai. You had a lot of bad habits back in the day that need to be corrected one by one."

After leaving Z City, Xia Mubing never mentioned the Jiang family again.

Fen Garden continued operations, just with reduced opening times and days. Slowly, even the dullest customers realized that Teacher Xia’s health wasn’t as before, and Fen Garden might not last many more years.

All at once, the already hard-to-get reservations at Fen Garden became even more coveted. Despite reduced working hours, Xia Mubing’s revenue didn’t drop, and because of rumors that Fen Garden might close by the end of the year, diners started ordering only expensive dishes, fearing they wouldn’t get a chance in the future.

Even Zhang Guanghang, far away in Japan, heard about this matter and specially sent a message to Qin Huai and Zhao Cheng’an, suggesting they go to Beiping more often if they have time to supervise Xia Mubing and prevent him from cooking too much.

Zhang Guanghang is willing to provide financial support.

Actually, many supplies for Zhao Cheng’an were replenished by Zhang Guanghang.

It could be said that for the sake of his master, Zhang Guanghang truly put in a lot of effort.

Originally, Qin Huai thought that after awakening, he would experience some grand and dramatic stories, but there wasn’t. Even the month-long tracking of Jiang Feng seemed quite ordinary (tracking a high school student lacked skill), right when Qin Huai thought this uneventful life would continue, twists came.

On an unremarkable afternoon, having just remotely guided Zhao Cheng’an on fixing his issues, finished replying to Zheng Siyuan’s messages, and given some advice to Pei Xing and Li Hua, Qin Huai found himself living like Master Qin. While casually checking the game panel and Luo Jun’s reincarnation status, he discovered that Luo Jun’s status had changed.

Luo Jun’s current status: Experiencing amnesia.

Luo Jun has successfully reincarnated!

It’s no wonder the status didn’t change for such a long time; it wasn’t considered successful reincarnation before birth. Calculating backward from this, Qin Huai estimated that Luo Jun reincarnated quite quickly, on expedited terms.

Qin Huai immediately shared this good news in the Loving Family group chat, and by the way, after Qin Huai awakened, Zhao Cheng’an added Xia Mubing to the group, while everyone kept Luo Jun’s WeChat in the chat group.

Qu Jing inherited Luo Jun’s WeChat (per Luo Jun’s wish) and managed it for him, as Luo Jun wanted to continue using this WeChat in the next life.

Bi fang holds on to the past this way, even wanting to use the same WeChat from the previous life.