The Rise of Otaku

Chapter 54 Mini Luhua Village Banquet

In winter, the combination of beach trunks and shirts could no longer withstand the cold wave anymore. After waking up one night feeling freezing, Zhou Yu finally remembered to take out some autumn clothes. However, after opening the wardrobe where the autumn and winter clothes were kept, he was greeted with a strong moldy smell, that almost made him throw up. Taking out a piece of clothes and unfolding it to have a close look. It was covered with some strange mold, and there were many marks, which were clearly left by mice.

Checking all of the clothes one by one, none of them had escaped. The spring in the village was humid. Probably he hadn’t paid too much attention to the wardrobe for a long time, the clothes inside were already dampened by the weather. Coupled with the big hole, that was made by rats, on the back of the wardrobe, the clothes had already been visited by different of ‘tourists’.

No matter how slow of a person Zhou Yu was, he also realized that those clothes couldn’t be used anymore. So he burned all of them in the yard. Fortunately, he had earned some money. He just needed to buy some new one. He also needed to get a stronger wardrobe as well. Anyway, he couldn’t share his wardrobe with rats and cockroaches.

Zhou Yu never checked clothes carefully or tried them on in shops. He often just quickly glanced through the section that he needed to go to and got the clothes that he needed as quickly as he could. The shop owner knew Zhou Yu. After all, Luhua Village was just nearby. The “robbery” of the supermarket that made by a group of children some time ago, was still talked about by the people in the small high street. Such a generous customer was not common in this area. Surprisingly, this rich young man didn’t want to go to the city to buy some famous brands. Instead, he wanted to buy cheap goods at his shop.

Zhou Yu liked to do things in one go. He didn’t want to go around the high street comparing the prices of the things he needed to buy in each shop. He just wanted to get three sets of clothes, which were enough to allow him to change once in a while. Plus a new cotton quilt, he ended up having quite a big box of stuff. Only until he packed all the things together did he realized that he would have trouble taking them home.

Having a great customer like Zhou Yu, the shop owner couldn’t stop smiling. Seeing Zhou Yu’s concerned expression, the shop owner knew what he was thinking, so he said, “Boss Zhou, thank you for your business. Xiao Hong, come and help Boss Zhou to take his clothes back.”

Accidentally, Otaku Zhou Yu became Boss Zhou Yu.

After solving the problem of clothes, the freezing feeling finally disappeared and he could continue to live at home like an Otaku. After the season was changed, the scenery that was seen by the eyes of the ACG world also changed. Before, the world was covered with brown leaves in autumn. But now it was cold and bleak. All it left was some snow to cover the whole village in white. But in the eyes of reality, the scenery hadn’t changed much. It was just less greenery.

In mini Luhua Village, the outfits of every villager were also changed. Only the old Dragon King remained the same. His Black Dragon Robe remained unchanged throughout the year. Zhou Yu was curious about how he got through the summer. Was there something special inside its clothes, or were dragons as cold-blooded as snakes?

Because of the cold weather, the villagers of the ACG world rarely went out. They usually gathered in Mini Luhua village and chat with each other. As there were no entertainment facilities, the village seemed quite deserted. However, Zhou Yu’s money was tight at the moment. He didn’t even have enough Coins to construct some useful buildings, let alone entertainment facilities.

Since it was still at the beginner’s stage, they had to endure it. They needed to play some cards or chess to entertain themselves. In terms of high-class leisure activities, it would only be available in the future.

After washing his face, Zhou Yu took some time to look at the small vegetable field. Vegetables seemed to grow slowly in winter, but they looked very healthy. The fastest-growing ones were bean sprouts and leek, which could be harvested today.

Uncle Guan Er came out of the hut while carrying a machete, that was relatively huge compared to his body. It now looked like the legendary warrior Guan Yu even more.

The mature bean sprouts were about the same height of uncle Guan Er. After taking a deep breath, uncle Guan Er suddenly lifted the machete and waved it. The bean sprouts were then cut off from their roots.

Uncle Guan Er’s machete skill was truly amazing.

All the leek were harvested in less than a moment. Uncle Guan Er then skillfully tied them up and carried them back to the yard of the farmer’s hut. Each bundle was counted as one unit. After carefully calculating harvest, the yield of the bean sprout seed was 20 units, while leek was slightly lower, which was 15 units.

The number seemed quite large. However, in the eyes of reality, it was just enough for one plate each. Of course, it would be the big plate that everyone used in villages, not the small plate that was used in the city. To Zhou Yu, those two dishes could last about three days.

Unless it could be produced in large quantities. Otherwise, it would not be easy to live off two farmlands. However, at present, mass production was almost impossible. There were too many things that needed Moe Coins. He still had to make animated movies and games. Alas, he was still very poor.

Now that he had vegetables, the first thing he needed to make, was alcoholic beverages. As early as when Uncle Guan Er harvested the vegetables, the old drunkard had already waited on the side drooling. The alcoholic beverages from the real world were not really his cup of tea. He still preferred alcoholic beverages from the ACG world.

Three units of Bean Sprout alcoholic beverages and two units of Leek alcoholic beverages were made one bottle each. And then he could finally use those drinks to “threaten” the old drunkard to work as a martial arts instructor.

Zhou Yu never gave up his Kungfu dream.

He couldn’t make any more alcoholic beverages. Because other villagers were still waiting to eat the ACG vegetables that were produced for the first time in Mini Luhua Village. Every household had already brought out tables and chairs to form a simple village banquet scene.

But then everyone realized that there was no chef!

Usually, everyone just used their own small cooking stoves at home, the only food they had were the fish of the ACG world, that Zhou Yu caught. Each fish was very small. So they could cook it by themselves. But those two ingredients were too big for them. Unless there were a professional chef and some professional cooking equipment. Otherwise, the banquet couldn’t be continued.

Therefore, they could only rely on Zhou Yu.

Zhou Yu was speechless. Because he also wanted to try if those vegetables were as tasty as what they said in those online s. Why did he suddenly have to be a chef?

To be honest, although he had lived in the village alone for more than a year, and he indeed also cooked some vegetable dishes from to time, he was not good at cooking at all. Whenever he cooked, he basically chopped the vegetables into pieces, heat the oil, added some ginger, onions, and garlic, and then stirred the vegetable pieces blindly in the pan. No matter what kind of vegetables, they were all cooked this way. He never once expected that the food that was cooked by him, to taste good. As long as the food was edible, he would be fine with it.

With this kind of cooking skill, it was okay to cook food for himself. But now, he had to let so many people taste his ‘poison’, it was very embarrassing.

Sigh, he also didn’t have other choices. He couldn’t find anyone else to it.

Therefore, under the observation of the crowd, Zhou Yu began to stir-fry the vegetables. At this moment, it was already too late to check some recipes on the internet. Therefore, he had to ‘improvise’.

And his ‘improvise’ was still: washing, cutting, heating oil, adding ginger, onion, and garlic, and then stir-frying blindly!

As bean sprouts were poured into the frying pan, it instantly caused loud sizzling noises. However, Zhou Yu couldn’t care less about the noises. In order to save time, he continued to throw the cut leek down and then fried them together. To finish the frying, he added some soy sauce and salt and then simmered it for a while before it was poured on to a plate.

Well, at least the appearance was quite good. It was white and green, and with some black soy sauce. And most importantly, it was not burned.

Seeing the dish, everyone’s forehead was covered with sweat. Everyone was clearly speechless about Zhou Yu’s cooking skill. They were also amazed at how Zhou Yu was able to survive so long.

Anyway, this was the first mini Luhua village’s banquet, they had to grit their teeth and try it.

Time to serve the food and let the village banquet begin!

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