Zombie King Opens a Restaurant in Her Last Days

Editor: Eve

Although everyone only got a small piece of egg cake, when they tasted a tiny bite, all of them had the urge to snuck it away, waiting until they were really too hungry to eat it.

If it were in the past, no one would have thought that they would have to see such a day. A time where they would have to cherish food so much.

In the past, along with friends, usually when they went out to eat together and ordered a bunch of dishes, at least a half of them would be left untouched.

After looking through the book for a while, Fu Cao took out the marinade she prepared and a large quantity of ingredients from the space, took out a few stainless steel cauldron and filled them with water to boil, then she got the pork ribs, pig feet, pig ears and pig tails out.

Previously she had killed two pigs in space while eating pork, but left the ears and whatnot she didn’t like, along with a big pile of meat left.

The amount of two pigs’ hog-tail ears and ribs that were left untouched added up to a big pile.

Luckily she also had a large stainless steel pot, after removing the blood foam with boiling water. When she fished out a spare, Fu Cao began to simmer the marinade according to the recipe.

They were ready-made marinade which when simmered for a while makes the aroma get stronger and much flavourful.

The water boiled, three packs of marinade were poured in, and a large amount of star anise and other ingredients were added.

At this time, Fu Cao put in all of these to be brined.

Because the sun was getting bigger and hotter during the day, the spring clothes sent by Fu Cao were obviously not enough, so everyone’s training was moved from the ground to train inside.

And then there’s the college auditorium to train in.

The aroma of the marinade was much stronger than the aroma of the morning’s roasted meat and stinky tofu, and it didn’t dissipate before long.

“It smells so good~” drool spilled from the corners of her mouth as she smelled the aroma.

She cleanly wiped her saliva and couldn’t resist looking left and right as if wanting to see where the scent was coming from.

“It’s lo mein, who’s lo mein?”

“Who’s shouting! We’re doing serious training here, whoever wants to run their mouths, won’t have lunch today at noon!”

In the auditorium, it was Xiao Bin’s company.

Seeing that everyone was dazed, Xiao Bin gave a few lectures with an ugly face.

However, the aroma was indeed very strong and fragrant, so who was the one bringing it out exactly?

At the same time, basically the entire university was filled with a strong mouth watering scent. Who let Fu Cao’s exclusive hotel be this close to the university, ah.

The dried chillies were chopped in half and simmered in the marinade, giving it a little spicy flavor along with powdered sugar, which made the marinade taste a lot better while also giving the pork meat a more elastic texture.

She slowly simmered the whole marinate over low flame, meanwhile Fu Cao began to season the flour too.

She wondered how many crystal cores they could get back tomorrow when they come back from outside, Fu Cao’s eyes gleamed like stars. But she knew these things were all for tomorrow.

Just as Fu Cao was making the egg cakes, Zhang Zhongmin’s angry voice came from the doorway: “What the hell are you doing!”

However, when Fu Cao turned back, she saw a glimmer of an ‘unknown liquid’ around the corners of Zhang Zhongmin’s mouth. She squinted her eyes and said, “Making egg cakes and omelette.”

Zhang Zhongmin scowled darkly, “The smell of your brined meat and vegetables is drifting all over the school, can you please restrain it?”

Fu Cao, while skillfully making egg cakes, took out the time to reply to him, ”Restrain? what restrain, I’m preparing this for you. Aren’t you guys going out tomorrow, you’ll definitely run into zombies and kill them.”

“By the time you get the crystal nucleus, you can come over and eat.

“How about one nucleus for one egg cake? It’s a bargain, right?” Fu Cao smiled as she narrowed her eyes and said, “One crystal nucleus for each brine rib and one crystal nucleus for pig’s meat….”

Fu Cao spoke quickly in one mouthful, the poor Zhang Zhongmin’s face was almost as dark as the bottom of a pot, his adam’s apple rolled slightly when he heard her say so….

His stomach grumbled.

He was too hungry, especially because he was standing in the doorway with that briny aroma constantly turning up his nose.

“There are more than two thousand people in the whole school……..” Zhang Zhongmin got a headache as he thought more, Fu Cao made such a big deal this time. He was then afraid that some people might come here with crooked ideas.

“I don’t care, whoever comes with the crystal nucleus, I’ll recognize them as customers.” Fu Cao fished out the just-made egg cake and put it aside, narrowing her eyes, she turned to look back at Zhang Zhongmin: ”I know that Captain Zhang is a good person, someone with integrity and kindness. But, I’m not going to do the kind of thing that helps people unconditionally without favours.”

At first, if Chen Ju hadn’t had Lin Xiaoya with her, she wouldn’t have cared.

She did enough things in her previous life. Now, she just wants to be happy with how she is.

“…… “Zhang Zhongmin looked at Fu Cao strangely, could he be a Saint, holy Father figure in her eyes? The corners of his mouth twitched slightly, “It’s not that I have a problem with you doing that, it’s just that I thought, you should at least keep a low profile.”

He sighed, “The people at school can’t concentrate on training anymore who let you interfere with this godly aroma.”

But he also couldn’t blame it on their lack of willpower, who let everyone now only eat three portions of rations and be hungry all day, all the time.

The girls who were trying to lose weight before the apocalypse, now doesn’t even bring that topic up.

Fu Cao used her mental power to look at the situation in the school and instantly understood Zhang Zhongmin’s helplessness. She looked over and suddenly revealed a smile, “Captain Zhang, how about we make a deal?”

Seeing Fu Cao’s brilliant smile, Zhang Zhongmin got goosebumps and turned defensive. But the defensive look faded at the thought of what had happened before: “What deal?”

“You go back and talk to the people at the school, won’t you be out looking for supplies, the first thing tomorrow morning?” Fu Cao smiled and continued, “A thousand crystal nuclei, how about me providing the whole school with a full dinner tonight?”

“…….” A thousand crystal nuclei!

It suddenly occurred to Zhang Zhongmin that the crystalline nuclei piled up at the entrance of the East Gate have already been removed, but the one’s at West Gate, the South Gate, and the North Gate due to the school desks and chairs piled up messily at those three entrances earlier, the crystalline nuclei in the heads of the zombies over there were still there.

As he calculated in his mind he realized that the crystalline nuclei in the heads of three gate zombies would have looked like at least a thousand.

Although they were going out tomorrow to get supplies the whole school wasn’t leaving, the people who wouldn’t be sent out tomorrow to get supplies can stay for training while the others who go, will move things out of the way and dig out the crystal nuclei…..

Wouldn’t you be in better spirits if you have a full dinner prior to going out for work, wasn’t that the case? He couldn’t let everyone out go hungry anyways…….

“No need to go back and discuss it. How about a dinner for the whole school tonight plus breakfast for those who go out tomorrow morning looking for supplies?” Zhang Zhongmin looked seriously at Fu Cao hoping to bargain.

He was not all that brain dead either, she thought.

“How many of you are going out for supplies tomorrow?” Fu Cao asked.

“First squads of one to sixteen companies, around two hundred at most.” Zhang Zhongmin didn’t give a specific number because he was afraid that Fu Cao would feel that the number was too high.

But Fu Cao had long known the insides of the school very well, the first squad of each company was of eighteen people, so the total was two hundred and eighty-eight people.

Plus since it was their first time out on a mission, they’d definitely be led by the captains, but it was also unlikely that all sixteen class leaders would set out, so it would be one captain leading their own squad plus one from another company.

With the addition of eight captains, that’s two hundred and ninety-six people.

Fu Cao wrinkled her nose and said dismissively, “Fine ah, but the crystal nucleus, you need to hand them over to me by tonight.”

She had been salivating over the nuclei in the corpses of the zombies piled over in front of the three gates for so long that she would have wanted to do it herself if she hadn’t been this patient.

Looking at the pitiful few crystal nuclei piled up in her space, she felt more and more miserable.

After receiving Fu Cao’s approval, Zhang Zhongmin’s dark face suddenly brightened. He showered her with a dazzling smile; his snow-white teeth were just too bright to look at.

Originally, Zhang Zhongmin’s skin was wheatish dark, but this time due to training under the sun it was much darker than before, it was not any better than black.

Seeing the white, shiny teeth, Fu couldn’t help but say, “Black brand toothpaste.”

“…….” the smile on Zhang Zhongmin’s face froze as he gave Fu Cao a glare as he turned around and left.

Fu Cao rubbed her nose and smiled at once, humming indifferently as she continued to make egg cakes.

Meanwhile Zhang Zhongmin ran back with great excitement in his heart, gathering everyone together to announce the matter. At that moment, everyone felt as if they were dreaming?

Since the sun was too much outside now, everyone was focused in the small woods. There was pin drop silence in the woods by now.

Still, Teng Wencong couldn’t help but ask, “Captain, are you telling us the truth?”

As soon as the words fell, everyone couldn’t help but swallow their mouths. The sound of those two thousand or so people swallowing their mouths was very loud. Yet no one was embarrassed or amused.

“Yes, really! So, except for the first squad of the sixteen classes, all the others will go with me to the three gates to dig for crystal nuclei!”

Zhang Zhongmin glanced at everyone, “And the first task of all the first squads now is to train well, rest well tonight, and get enough spirit for tomorrow, we’ll carry all the big bags of supplies back, so that none of us in the whole school are starving!”

“Yes!” All answered in unison, with a resounding voice.

Everyone’s eyes were as bright as the light bulbs from the two hundred dig they did. Before the apocalypse, no one expected that a full meal would excite them into this state.

After observing all that was happening with her spiritual power, Fu Cao was satisfied, and looked at them dug into zombies for the crystal nucleus earnestly. In fact, since there were more than two thousand people in the school, removing those who were going to look for supplies, the pace of digging the crystal nucleus was certainly not slow.

But the hardest part was moving the clutter piled up over there, and because there was a lot of stuff piled up at those three gates for safety. They have to be careful to move away and try not to make too many loud noises.

It was very time consuming, but with motivation, everyone was hyperactive and excited, including the people who were trained.

Everyone had a simple lunch before yet they were not full as usual but only with faith and hope they worked hard. Although it was just for dinner ….

Fu Cao made three hundred large, thick egg cakes, and the pot was all marinated.

Looking at the piles of egg cakes, Fu Cao suddenly felt that it was still quite good to be a zombie, at least she wouldn’t have to feel tired, otherwise she would have been exhausted from doing only a quarter of this long ago.

Not to mention a meal for over 2,000 people tonight.

Taking out the huge rice cooker she had scavenged from the supermarket…Fu Cao looked at it, damn she had no electricity here….

And as for her generator, it was installed inside the cottage. She sighed deeply: “This is going to exhaust this zombie’s rhythm…….”

She hugged and brought out all the books related to cooking and casually flipped through two of them. After a few seconds, she came across a porridge, a millet pumpkin porridge.

There were pumpkins in the space, and as for millet, she had brought a lot of them back from her last trip to the supermarket.

At once, she took out the big stainless steel pot that had been marinated and poured a mouthful of spices in it, and then added a large quantity of millet and half of pumpkin, and three times more water accordingly.

This was one simple recipe, she just had to keep an eye on the flame and that’s all about it.

Fu Cao tossed everything into the pot and waited for it to simmer slowly.

Then she sat back and reclined on the safa as she flipped through the book to see what other dishes she could make, would be appropriate for a big hot pot dish. The two dishes she had made in a row were both approved by Lu Xuan before. Fu Cao was now more and more confident in her cooking skills.

She shoved her fist in the air as if she was going for a battle, ready to conquer the entire school and make it her huge supply house for crystals!

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