CH 17

While Luo Ning was cooking, Bao Xiangxiang returned. She had instinctively run out after being choked by the smoke earlier. However, when she saw Luo Ning helped Wei Yao and Chai Jing to light the fire, she regretted it a little and was afraid that the audience would gossip about her. So when she came in, she said with an apologetic expression, “Fellow mentors, I’m sorry. I have bronchitis, so I went out just now.”

Wei Yao and Chai Jing naturally didn’t blame her. “It’s okay, Mentor Luo helped us anyway.”

Bao Xiangxiang secretly felt annoyed that Luo Ning got the advantage this time.

“Then I’ll cook first,” she said with a smile,

“Okay!” Wei Yao and Chai Jing went out to help.

Bao Xiangxiang picked a few ingredients from the pile and said to Luo Ning, “Mentor Luo, I’ll cook the vegetables first while you’re cooking?”

“Sure” Luo Ning’s gaze swept across the remaining ingredients, “I’ll go deal with the fish.”

Bao Xiangxiang was smart enough to choose pork, chicken, eggs, tofu, and baby vegetables that were easier to cook, leaving only fish, a piece of bacon, beans, and mustard greens. But Luo Ning didn’t care, her cooking skills had never lost to anyone before.

Originally, Bao Xiangxiang wanted to stir up Luo Ning’s emotions. If the other party gave her a hard time or disagreed with her on the spot, it would be great because she would definitely be roasted. Though contrary to her expectations, Luo Ning agreed in such a good-tempered manner. It frustrated her, as if she had just punched cotton. But she couldn’t express it, so she could only suppress her unhappiness and take the ingredients to start cooking. She prepared spicy chicken, boiled pork slices, tomato scrambled eggs, and tofu cabbage soup.

Luo Ning washed the fish again, then took a knife and skillfully cut the fish into fillets. She didn’t look like a beginner at all.

[Luo Ning’s knife skills look very good!]

[It doesn’t look like she doesn’t know how to cook. Her ingredients aren’t as good as Bo Xiangxiang’s, but I’m suddenly looking forward to her cooking].

On the other side, Bao Xiangxiang took the chopped chicken and started to fry it. Because the iron pot was long, she wasn’t used to it. Plus, she hadn’t cooked by herself for more than a year, so she seemed a little flustered.

[Bao Xiangxiang looks a bit clumsy.]

[The main reason is that this stove is too old, and the iron pot is so big that no one would be able to get used to it. How is our Xiangxiang clumsy?]

[This thing is really hard to use. I wonder if Luo Ning will be the same way.]

There were only two burners on the stove; one was cooking rice, and the other was being used by Bao Xiangxiang. Luo Ning had already chopped all the ingredients while she was cooking.

The vegetables had been washed by Su Qinglan. She found that she couldn’t help in other aspects, so she stood by and watched the other two cook. She found that Luo Ning was very serious and skilled in handling the ingredients, while Bao Xiangxiang was much inferior.

After a while, Bao Xiangxiang scooped up the fried chicken, but because she didn’t control the heat enough, it was a little burnt. She was unhappy in her heart, but she didn’t show it on her face and continued to cook seriously. The tomato and eggs were not burnt, but the appearance was average, and the boiled pork slices were not satisfactory. After she finished, Luo Ning took over.

There was a similar scenario in Luo Ning’s past life. Originally, she was going to offer to cook, but Bao Xiangxiang asked her to go with Ji Xingheng to cut firewood. That way, they could reminisce about the past and resolve their conflicts. At that time, she and Ji Xingheng had quarreled over the trending topic, and they were in a cold war. She felt that it was inappropriate and wanted to refuse the offer to cook, but because of the will of the book, a hidden power made her choose to accompany Ji Xingheng.

The firewood incident also happened. After running out, Bao Xiangxiang got three wet towels and ran back for the sake of her image. She kept cheering Wei Yao and Chai Jing on, and they finally managed to light a fire after half a day. Because of this, Bo Xiangxiang not only won the favor of Wei Yao and Chai Jing, she also successfully stabilized an angelic persona, which won another wave of favor from the audience.

And she, the flower vase who was chopping firewood with Ji Xingheng, happened to have a comparison picture with Bao Xiangxiang, and was heavily criticized. Even non-fans didn’t have a good impression of her, thinking that she was deliberately taking advantage of Ji Xingheng’s popularity.

Now, without the constraints of the will of the book world, Luo Ning could do whatever she wanted. This time, she would not let Bao Xiangxiang successfully stabilize an angel persona.

A comparison picture? Sure, let’s do it. She’ll let Bao Xiangxiang experience all the things she experienced before.

Luo Ning found sauerkraut in the kitchen, so she made pickled fish first. Soon, a pot of fish with pickled cabbage appeared on the screen, and it looked very appetizing.

[Just looking at it makes me hungry! I wonder if it tastes good.]

[I’m good at making pickled fish. Luo Ning’s steps and ingredients are correct. I’m one hundred percent sure her cooking won’t be inedible.]

[I’m suddenly a little hungry]

[Hey, why did she leave half of it in the pot?]

Everyone saw that Luo Ning had only taken half of the fish, but the other half was still in the pot, so they were a little curious as to what else she was going to do.

Su Qinglan was also curious, so she asked.

Luo Ning put the fried red oil dried chili into the pot and said, “I’m afraid some people don’t like spicy food, so the first plate is only slightly spicy, and this one will be spicier.

Su Qinglan came to an understanding. “You are very thoughtful.”

She didn’t like spicy food herself. Besides maintaining her figure, celebrities like her didn’t dare to eat spicy food for fear of getting acne.

Just now, when Bao Xiangxiang was cooking spicy chicken and making boiled pork slices, she could already smell how spicy it was. She thought that it would be out of the question for her to eat the chicken and the pork slices.

When she smelled the delicious smell of pickled fish, she suddenly felt very hungry. She was just afraid that it would be spicy, but she didn’t expect that Luo Ning’s fish would be divided into spicy and non-spicy. Originally, she was neutral towards Luo Ning, but now she couldn’t help but feel a little fond of her.

The bullet comments were also positive.

[Luo Ning is so considerate. My Chaichai can’t eat spicy food, while Tongtong loves spicy food. I was worried about this problem just now, but now both of them can eat it.]

[Yeah, the details determine success or failure. I think Luo Ning is very polite to everyone except for not wanting to talk to a certain someone. The point is, she’s so thoughtful, not as bad as the Internet says!]

[Bao Xiangxiang’s fried spicy chicken just now looks very spicy, and she also put millet pepper in the boiled pork slices. Even if she likes spicy food, isn’t she too disrespectful of others?]

[And her fried chicken is too burnt, and the boiled pork slices don’t look appetizing, bad review!]

[Luo Ning is still more considerate and thoughtful. Just with this comparison, looking at the first dish made by the two of them, Luo Ning’s is obviously more delicious in color and flavor.]

Bao Xiangxiang was also watching Luo Ning’s cooking in the kitchen at this time, and when she heard the conversation between Su Qinglan and Luo Ning, her face changed slightly. She felt a little annoyed that she hadn’t thought of this.

She herself liked spicy food, and Ji Xingheng could also eat spicy food. The important thing was that she had heard that Lu Xun seemed to like spicy food, so she wanted to attract their attention and affection, so she made two spicy dishes.

Lu Xun was her idol, the guy she couldn’t ask for before possessing this body, and she naturally liked a handsome man like Ji Xingheng who had background, popularity, and looks. If Ji Xingheng could be snatched away from Luo Ning, she would feel a sense of accomplishment.

Moreover, she had an indescribable hunch that as long as she succeeded, it would be of great help to her luck and future. Now, looking at Luo Ning’s sauerkraut fish, she knew that she hadn’t done a good job of cooking to win favor and had let the other party take the lead. She was very frustrated.