The crayfish were bought at the vegetable market. They had green shells and were all fresh and vigorous.
I bought ten kilograms and put them in a basin at home. Chen Nuo took a brush and cleaned them one by one, then used scissors to cut the shrimp tails one by one, and then picked out the shrimp threads...
Well, this was Chen Yanluo's original plan.
Originally, he really wanted to cook it with his own hands. Cooking, it was fun to do it occasionally.
But after washing the ten kilograms of crayfish, he only trimmed the tails after three or five and became impatient.
I just refilled the plastic bag, went downstairs and ran to a restaurant at the entrance of the community, threw fifty yuan to the boss, and asked for help with the cooking.
They are all restaurants at the door. I have eaten there several times on weekdays, and the boss and Chen Nuo also know each other. After receiving the fifty yuan, he happily threw the bag of shrimps to the waiter in the store to get them.
The boss lit a cigarette, made tea, and chatted with Chen Nuo for a while. But within half an hour, the kitchen worker brought back a bag of cleanly cooked shrimps.
Not only were the shrimp lines cleaned, but the shrimp gills were also cut off. Before leaving, Chen Nuo also bought a pack of thirteen incense from the boss.
When I went back, I bought a few cans of beer at the convenience store at the entrance of the community, and took a bottle of orange juice and went upstairs.
When he got home, he put the thirteen-spice crayfish in the pot and started cooking it. Taking advantage of the time, Chen Nuo quickly made two more side dishes.
I bought two pieces of fat meat from the vegetable market, fried them in a pan, fried some fried vegetables, then boiled some peanuts and edamame in salt water, and threw in some spiced star anise, and it was done.
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This little girl Nivell always wanted to go to the kitchen and watch Chen Nuo cooking. After being kicked out by Chen Nuo several times, she just stayed in the living room to talk to Xiao Zizi.
Chen Nuo turned on the range hood in the kitchen, holding a cigarette in his mouth and cooking with a shovel in his hand. Occasionally, he heard the chirping sounds of two girls, one large and one young, coming from the living room.
Hey, I don’t know how a foreign girl and a Chinese girl, one who doesn’t speak English and the other who speaks Chinese very poorly, can have such a lively conversation.
However, the crayfish was quite successful. After a large basin was served, the two girls ate and screamed.
Especially when Nivell looked at this athletic girl enjoying her food, Chen Nuo was really worried that if this girl stayed in China for a long time, she might become a chubby girl.
After eating two bowls of crayfish, Nivel finally had some self-control. Looking at the hill of shrimp shells in front of her, she sighed with regret and finally stopped.
"Actually, I haven't figured out one thing before." Nivel said slowly while looking at Chen Nuo.
"What?" Chen Nuo answered casually, then peeled off a shrimp tail, put the shrimp meat into his sister's bowl, then gave her a chopstick of green vegetables, and told Xiao Zizi: "Okay, the last one
! You can’t eat lobster. Children can’t eat too much of this. Eat some green vegetables and finish the rice.”
Xiao Yezi nodded obediently, stuffed the shrimp meat from the bowl into his mouth, then lowered his head and plucked the rice.
Nivel just looked at the brother and sister quietly.
"What do you mean by what you just said?" Chen Nuo then turned to look at Nivell.
"I never understood one thing before. You obviously have such great abilities, why do you want to stay in this city and be an ordinary-looking student?" Nivel shook her head: "The outside world is so big and exciting.
."
"Well, what next?" Chen Nuo nodded nonchalantly and continued to peel a shrimp. He peeled it very carefully. Not only did he peel off the pliers to eat the meat, but he even smelled the yellow off the shrimp head.
At this point, Nivel is not good. As a foreigner who eats shrimp, she will never learn Chen Nuo's ability to completely peel off a pair of crayfish pincers.
"I seem to understand a little better now." Neville said in a serious tone.
"Understand what?"
"Today, I saw your expression and emotion when you were buying groceries. I thought you seemed very happy."
"I was very happy to begin with." Chen Nuo quickly peeled off the shrimp tail and threw it into his mouth. He chewed it and said casually: "Why are you not happy in such a life?"
"Yes." Nivel nodded sincerely: "You are accompanied by your family, live together, buy ingredients together, cook together, and eat together. There are people who need you to take care of... This kind of life is the simplest.
of happiness.”
Chen Nuo glanced at Nivell.
Nivel shook her head: "I can't remember the last time I cooked with my own hands and sat down to eat with my family."
After a pause, Nivel frowned and said: "Even before my family members passed away, it has been a long time."
"Then what kind of life did you lead before?"
Nivell thought for a while: "My father is busy with the work of several of his foundations, and planning annual climbing goals with my mother, doing training, and flying to the world for field trips. And my sister... She is used to
She sets goals one after another for herself. She wants to be the best sports genius in the history of the Devon Hill family, so she always pushes herself very hard."
"In fact, there is no distinction between superior and inferior, and there is no distinction between right and wrong. It just depends on personal choice. If it were me... at least, I prefer the leisurely and simple life now."
"Well, I can see that you really enjoy it."
Chen Nuo picked up the beer can in front of him and motioned to Nivell.
Nivel also picked up the beer can and touched it with him, then raised her head and drank it in one gulp.
This was the second can she drank tonight. After finishing the drink, Nivel shook her head and said, "You said today that you wanted to ask me for help with something. What was it?"
"Oh, it's very simple." Chen Nuo smiled and said: "Your assistant plan for the reception team, don't stop it after school starts."
"Um?"
"In the future, I may still have some things to do and I won't go to school from time to time. Keep this name, and you will be able to cover me when I skip classes."
Nivel's eyes were a little strange: "Is this the case?"
"yes."
"I thought that for your girlfriend's father, you would ask me to give him more opportunities and provide him with more opportunities for promotion."
"Hahahaha!" Chen Nuo smiled, shook his head and said: "You don't understand. In education in China, teachers are the core competitiveness. In this school, Mr. Sun is the most outstanding teacher. I don't need to hire him.
What special treatment do you provide him? But you, if you hope that your investment can get a good return, you should take the initiative to recruit more talents like this."
Nivel's tone was a bit complicated: "So, you don't care at all and don't shy away from it. That Miss Sun is your girlfriend?"
"Of course." Chen Nuo nodded: "She is my girlfriend."
Nivel took a deep breath: "Aren't you afraid that I am very angry about this? I can ask my partner to fire that Mr. Sun tomorrow!"
"..." Chen Nuo glanced at this little girl, shook his head and said, "No, you are not a person with this kind of personality."
"..." Nivel was silent for a few seconds, and finally shook her head helplessly: "I am indeed not."
With that said, Nivel opened another can of beer and raised it: "Here, raise your glass!"
"Why raise a glass?"
"I wish you and your girlfriend will break up soon!"
Chen Nuo smiled.
He shook his head, but still touched the beer can with Nivell, but what he said was very clear: "Nivell, our fate in this life should stop at being friends or partners. With this glass of wine, I hope
You can adjust your mentality and feelings as soon as possible."
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After dinner, it is unrealistic to expect a British noble lady to wash the dishes.
Nivel has never washed dishes in her entire life.
So leaving the two girls, one older and one younger, to continue communicating with gestures and clumsy language in the living room, Chen Nuo went into the kitchen to wash the dishes.
At around eight o'clock, Chen Nuo sent Nivelle away.
Standing at the door, Nivell exhaled: "I had a very happy meal today."
"Thank you for the compliment."
"I will do whatever you ask me to help you with."
"Same, thank you."
"But, I won't give up!" Nivel shook her head.
Chen Nuo frowned, but spread his hands: "Whatever you want."
People who engage in sports often have a perseverant character. Once they accept the truth, it is difficult to give up easily.
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After leaving Chen Nuo's house, we went downstairs to the roadside, where Nivell's car was already parked and waiting.
After getting in the car, the driver sent by the education company drove steadily, but he felt strange in his heart because this young girl, sitting behind the car, was muttering to herself the whole way, not knowing what to say.
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Before she even arrived at the hotel, Nivel had already made a phone call: "Teacher Li, please come to the hotel to see me immediately... No problem, I can pay you for overtime work."
When the car arrived at the hotel, Nivel went upstairs to her room. A Chinese language teacher she hired with a high salary had already arrived in advance and was waiting there.
This Teacher Li is a middle-aged lady who is also an excellent primary school Chinese teacher and is also very good in English. She was selected by Nivell through people from the education company. Nivell has been following this teacher for two semesters.
More than a week has passed.
Although he was called to the hotel so late, Teacher Li did not feel dissatisfied at all because of the high overtime pay.
"Teacher Li, I have a Chinese saying that I just learned today. I would like to ask you what it means."
"Oh?" Teacher Li smiled politely: "What is it?"
"I don't quite understand the meaning. It's probably some kind of Chinese slang. Or maybe it's some kind of poetry?"
"Poetry?" Teacher Li frowned: "I know you are a studious person, but what I need to point out is that with your current mastery of Chinese language, you should also carefully lay the foundation. Exposure to Chinese poetry too early will be very beneficial to you.
It’s not that helpful.”
"No, I want to learn!" Nivel's tone was firm.
Teacher Li no longer objected. Anyway, she was working and getting paid. If the employer wants to learn, then she should learn: "What kind of poetry is it?"
Nivell took a deep breath and said the sentence that she had learned from Little Ye Zi all night today and repeated hundreds of times in the car.
"A lama has come from the south!"
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Little Leaf took a bath and went to bed obediently.
Chen Nuo returned to the kitchen, added some more chili peppers to the remaining crayfish in the pot, stir-fried it again, filled it with a thermos bucket, and packed it in a plastic bag.
Carry it out.
I went downstairs and took a taxi all the way to the staff dormitory of No. 8 Middle School.
At this point, the Sun family has not gone to bed yet. Old Sun is used to going to bed late. But for poor Sun Keke, the good days of summer vacation are over.
Lao Sun has already started to find a tutor for her, and she has to tutor her until nine o'clock every night for the past few days before she can go home after class.
After this point, it happened to be the time for Sun Keke to go home from get out of class.
I knocked on the door and it was Sun Keke who opened the door.
Apparently she had just returned home not long ago. When she saw Chen Nuo standing outside the door, the girl was a little surprised: "Chen Nuo? Why are you here?"
"I'll give you a midnight snack." Chen Nuo walked in with a smile and handed the bag in his hand to Sun Keke.
Lao Sun poked his head out of the room and glanced at Chen Nuo. His face looked a little sour, but he still shrank back.
Yang Xiaoyi's attitude was much more polite than before, and she even took the initiative to wash an apple for Chen Nuo.
However, Chen Nuo declined Yang Xiaoyi's offer to peel it herself. Yang Xiaoyi looked at Chen Nuo with a smile and said, "Let's talk."
Then he turned around and entered the back room.
Chen Nuo sighed in his heart. It seemed that he should have passed Yang Xiaoyi's test.
Sun Keke had already opened the thermos bucket by himself and saw a bucket full of crayfish. He was stunned for a moment and then started laughing.
"I made it at home. I added more chili peppers. Don't you like spicy food?" Chen Nuo said with a smile: "You couldn't eat well or sleep well a few days ago. You have lost a lot of weight. You can eat more snacks."
Ye, it would be better if you put on some weight."
Sun Keke naturally understood that what Chen Nuo said was not good, but she rolled her eyes at him sweetly, and then deliberately smiled and said: "I want you to peel it off for me."
Chen Nuo quickly peeled off three or four lobsters in one go, then picked up a tissue and wiped his hands: "You can eat the rest yourself. Ye Zi is still sleeping at home. It's too late and she's alone. I don't worry about being out for too long."
Sun Keke was sensible and immediately stopped being obsessive and coquettish. She stood up and walked Chen Nuo to the door, her eyes full of affection. Even when Chen Nuo gave her a quick kiss on the lips before leaving, the girl didn't.
Resist and dodge.
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There is about a month left in the summer vacation.
For Chen Nuo, the past month has been too difficult. After traveling abroad, he also experienced a thrilling incident such as challenging an alien mother body. After returning, he rushed to Xi'an to save people.
So, for the rest of the days, he decided to be a salty fish.
Once Chen Nuo is free, the happiest person will naturally be Sun Keke.
It's just that these days, School Beauty Sun can only go back and forth between happiness and pain.
Mr. and Mrs. Sun still have high expectations for their daughter. During the last summer vacation before her senior year in high school, they arranged a lot of tutoring time for Sun Keke. She had to tutor four days a week, and she also had to do homework at home at other times.
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Sun Keke's weakness is that anyone who has experienced mathematics knows that there is no shortcut to the mathematics of the college entrance examination. The best way to improve is to study a lot of questions.
Therefore, Sun Keke could only occasionally spare time to hang out with Chen Nuo. The two of them would occasionally have a meal or watch a movie.
Sometimes, in order to get along with Sun Keke, Chen Nuo even took on the task of transporting Sun Keke to tutoring.
Seeing that his girlfriend began to lose weight and her chin became pointed due to a lot of study pressure, Chen Yanluo felt so sad!
I couldn't help but increase the number of visits to the vegetable market. From time to time I would cook two dishes at home, open a small stove for my girlfriend, and make a midnight snack or something.
But even so, Sun Keke still lost weight day by day.
According to what she said, she worked on the questions until night every day, and in order to find time to date Chen Nuo during the day, she couldn't sleep in late.
There was even one time when the two of them were watching a movie, and Sun Keke fell asleep after less than a third of the movie.
However, Sun Keke was asked not to go out to meet each other but to sleep more at home to catch up on her sleep, but the girl refused to do so.
At the same time, Zhang Linsheng has quickly entered the role and got into work these days.
He went to the shop on Daming Road every day to serve as a decoration supervisor, which helped Brother Lei a lot. Brother Lei was busy with the old store on Tangzi Street and couldn't keep an eye on the decoration every day.
Zhang Linsheng was in charge of the decoration of the new shop. He ran there every morning and stayed there all day. This boy was very attentive and watched the decoration workers at work every day. He would ask questions from time to time. He was not only satisfied with supervising the work, but also tried to
I learned a lot about decoration.
Although he is young, he has a good father, Zhang Tiejun, after all. Zhang Tiejun would also walk a stop and come over to see him during his lunch break every day.
There were some things that Zhang Linsheng didn't understand, but Zhang Tiejun could see them.
But Comrade Lao Zhang had his own social experience as a middle-aged man. He saw something was wrong, but he would not tell the decoration team directly. Instead, he took his son aside to explain it in private, and then left, asking Zhang Linsheng
In the afternoon, I will go to the decoration team in person to find faults.
In this way, you can quickly establish your son's authority when facing the decoration team.
In this era, there are basically no formal decoration companies. Most of them are a group of guerrillas led by contractors to pick up jobs everywhere. The industry is actually extremely chaotic, and all kinds of disgraceful things are common.
Of course, in fact, it will only be slightly better after more than ten years, but it is almost the same.
Zhang Linsheng supervised the work for some days, during which he had several quarrels with the contractor of the decoration team, but he finally began to grow up. Sometimes Chen Nuo would occasionally stroll around the shop and watch Zhang Linsheng smoking a cigarette and naked.
The sleeves argued with the decorator, and after the argument, he laughed and smoked, already looking a bit like a small boss.
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It's almost the beginning of August.
That night, after Chen Nuo comforted Chen Xiaoye and fell asleep, he sat in the room and opened his laptop, inserted the USB flash drive from the Octopus Monster website, and wanted to read some news about the underground world.
After entering the free trading area, I saw the first post above with a title written clearly.
[Shocking! The Queen challenged the monks continuously, but the wizard still didn’t show up!]
Under this post, it is said that the Queen has been making waves in Europe in recent days, sweeping away several points of the Sorcerer's Order in Europe, and defeating several senior core members of the Order.
The comments below are all words like "The Queen is mighty" and "The wizard is too cowardly" so as to fear that the world will not be in chaos.
Some people even raised questions: The wizard continued not to show up, maybe because he had already fought with the Queen and was defeated by the Queen of the Starry Sky, so he kept hiding and not showing up.
And in the forum, the second most popular post is...
[The Knights of the Blade surrendered to the Queen].
Among them is the leader of the Blade Knights, who publicly wrote a message of resignation on the forum, admitting that the Queen is Britain's number one master, and stating that all members of the Blade Knights will maintain sufficient respect when meeting the Queen of the Starry Sky in the future.
He was obviously beaten.
After seeing these two pieces of news, Chen Nuo sighed inwardly.
Calculated this way, the two things Lu Xixi has to do in Europe should have come to an end.
Next, she should come to China to meet with her.
Ouch...headache!
I casually switched aspects and jumped to the [Official Mission Release Area].
As soon as the cut plane was switched, Chen Nuo couldn't help but say "Hey".
Historically, in the [Official Mission Release Area] of the Octopus Monster website, the top position has always been a long-term mission published by the website: the Octopus Monster website acquires large octopuses at high prices for a long time.
Use heavy rewards to encourage superpowers all over the world to catch giant octopuses with distinctive shapes and sell them to the official channels provided by the website.
In the past, even in his previous life, Chen Nuo felt that this might just be the personal evil interest of the backend boss of this octopus website, the guy nicknamed "Octopus Monster": he was obsessed with studying octopuses.
But after experiencing the RB trip, Chen Nuo has realized that the octopus monster's long-term behavior of collecting octopuses is probably related to the ruins of alien civilization on the seabed.
Today, the top position of the section, the post about long-term acquisition of octopus, has been replaced!
Instead, there is a new task released in the past two days, which is placed high above the mouth.
[S-level mission, recruitment.]
After Chen Nuo clicked in, he saw the content of this post as follows:
[Task content]: Search and rescue.
[Commission requirement]: Destroyer level or above is required, telekinesis masters are preferred.
[Number of clients]: Eight people.
【reward】:
A can get one free task help from the official website, regardless of category and time. (According to the contribution rating, one can get one task in each of the three categories of ABC.)
B Cash remuneration of 200 million M yuan (remuneration will be distributed according to the task contribution rating, and the maximum single person shall not exceed 50% of the total amount)
[Commissioned content]: Survey the specified area, search and rescue the target person, and eliminate all threats in the area that affect the search and rescue mission.
[Note on entrustment]: This entrustment is a high-level entrustment. During the execution of the entrustment, there is the possibility of confrontation with secular world governments or official organizations, as well as local forces, etc. Please choose carefully.
This is the content of the task release.
The only hidden part is the "specified area" for search and rescue, which is hidden.
Obviously, only after signing up, passing the screening, and successfully accepting the commission can you see more detailed parts.
There are two points that caught Chen Nuo's attention in this post.
The first one is that this post was actually pinned to the top of the Octopus website! It replaced the original long-term commission to acquire Octopus.
The second one is the request for entrustment, which states that "preference will be given to telekinesis masters" and that the number of entrusters is eight!
This easily reminded Chen Nuo of his underwater encounter at RB.
There are also many messages and comments under this post.
Apparently, Octopus Monster officials actually canceled the previous long-term acquisition of octopus posts and replaced it with such a commissioned task.
This approach aroused everyone's curiosity.
Many comments expressed a point of view: obviously for the octopus monster boss, this task is very important.
Secondly, some people expressed surprise at the generous rewards of the mission.
Two hundred million M yuan in cash was still very valuable in 2001, without the inflation that occurred more than ten years later and the era when country M printed US dollar bills all over the world.
In addition to cash, the free commission provided by the Octopus website is also a very valuable reward.
The meaning is very clear. After completing the commission, you are equivalent to getting a [Wish] opportunity provided by the Octopus website. According to the task level of the website, you can choose a commission opportunity among the three commission levels ABC based on the contribution to completing the commission, and the commissioned
The cost will be paid by the Octopus website.
In the comments, some well-known IDs on the Octopus website even appeared, and several of them are big guys who have been famous in the underground world for a long time.
Chen Nuo quickly set his sights on a guy named [Bigfoot].
Chen Nuo knew the true identity of this guy whose ID was [Bigfoot] and had dealt with him once in his previous life.
This man is a master of telekinesis, destroyer level. His strength is similar to that of the captain of the abyss, maybe slightly higher.
His real name is Harvey, and he is a South American.
In a previous life, Chen Nuo had cooperated with this guy on a mission. It didn't count as cooperation, but they just happened to accept the same commission.
Chen Nuo always felt that for this guy whose ID was "Bigfoot", he chose the wrong nickname.
He shouldn't be called Bigfoot, he should be called Big Mouth.
This man has a bad mouth, speaks arrogantly, is arrogant, and his words are ugly.
During that cooperation, Chen Nuo used a lot of perseverance to hold back and not kill this foul-mouthed guy with his own hands.
However, this guy's fate in his previous life was not good either.
During the years when Chen Yanluo was drifting at sea, he learned from the news on the Octopus website that this guy was dead.
And he probably died at the hands of a wizard.
Under this commissioned post, [Bigfoot] left a very high-profile and aggressive message: I am very interested! I think I can eat such a large piece of cake by myself, there is no need for eight people to share it!
Because this guy has always been very high-profile and really strong, after he left a message, many IDs left some flattering words.
Chen Nuo frowned when he saw this.
He thought for a moment, picked up the phone, and dialed Lu Xixi's number.
After a while, Lu Xixian answered the call.
"Husband~" Lu's thin tone sounded like he was in a good mood.
"Um."
"I've almost finished handling the matter here. I can go to China to find you in a few days. There was a little, a little accident. I was catching a few mice from the monastic order, and I accidentally discovered it.
Some interesting stuff, I'm still tracking a few guys...
Therefore, the time I promised you to go to China may have to be postponed a little bit."
The deer's thin laugh was very relaxed.
Chen Nuo also smiled: "It's okay, I'll wait for you to come over... If it's too complicated to find the monks, you can leave them alone. Just pay attention to your safety."
After a pause, Chen Nuo asked casually in a relaxed tone: "Have you seen the newly pinned commission on the Octopus Monster's website?"
"I saw it yesterday." Lu Xixi didn't seem to be very concerned: "I'm just curious about how important this task is, so that the monster actually gave up his favorite octopus temporarily."
"Didn't he look for you?" Chen Nuo smiled.
"Looking for it. You know, according to the usual practice, I am the golden account boss of his website, and I am also hired as a senior consultant of the website. For this kind of S-level commission, the monster has already called me personally.
, asked me if I was interested in joining, and the reward was that I could get up to 100 million."
"...You accept it?"
"Of course not, I refused." Lu said with a smile: "I want to finish the things here as soon as possible, and then go to China to see you. So I have no interest in that monster's proposal at all."
Having said this, Lu asked carefully: "Huh? What, are you interested in this mission? Your telepathy is very strong, and you have reached the level of a destroyer. Do you want to go? If you want to go,
Shall we go together?"
"No, I'm not interested." Chen Nuo immediately denied: "I'm just curious, just asking you. If you accept the commission, maybe I can hear some gossip from you."
Lu Xixi had no doubts and smiled, and soon the two of them moved the topic to something else.
After reminding Lu Xing to pay attention to safety, Chen Nuo hung up the phone.
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Of course Chen Nuo lied to Lu in detail.
He is very interested in this task!
There are eight telepaths!
These two messages are so easy to imagine!
But Chen Nuo does not intend to use his own account to accept the commission!
After he killed the mother body, Chen Nuo was naturally wary of the octopus monster that he highly suspected was related to the alien ruins!
If the octopus monster is also looking for the mother body, then God knows where he stands.
And Chen Nuo didn't even dare to use his original identity to accept the commission.
If you use your own account to accept the commission, just in case there is a hostile situation with the octopus monster in the future.
The octopus monster can easily transfer funds to and from its own account, and can feel its real identity.
So……
Chen Nuo thought for a while and stared at the screen, his eyes resting on the ID called [Bigfoot].