Chapter 8 - Food and Emotions part 1

As I was looking at the ingredients and thinking about what to make for my first meal, I thought about making something simple and easy to digest, though I won't have any problem digesting with this body of mine. After thinking for a while, I set today's menu and decided to make fried sauce noodles, seasoned with a little bit of salt and pepper, and for flavor, I will use stir-fried cauliflower. First, she decided to make the hand-pulled noodles, and the first step in making that is to perfectly balance the amount of flour and water, which is mostly based on the individual experience rather than a fixed measurement. And the most captivating thing about cooking is that even with the same recipe and the same process, the result depends entirely upon who cooked it and how it was cooked. After finishing mixing the dough, she wrapped it in a plastic bag and kept it in a small bowl, and let it rest for a moment. In the meantime, she started working with the other ingredients. Another ingredient for the fried sauce noodles is the fat of the pork belly, which should have a 60 to 40 fat and meat. After cutting the meat into small pieces and letting it shimmer in a pan until it reaches a golden brown colour will have a slight burnt fragrance and a bit of crispiness to it. The washed carrots and mushrooms.were cut into small pieces and stir-fried with diced cauliflower under even heat until they became a bit more vibrant in colour. Then she took a bit of a soybean paste, which she prepared in advance, and mixed it with some sweet noodle sauce to make it a bit more flavourful. As a person who loved food to the point of becoming a professional chef just to fill your palate, well, she makes different kinds of souces and flavours that better suit her taste buds. The soybeans were soft, sweet, and glutinous, and mixed with other vegetables, they provided a different kind of flavour that wasn't present before. Wh she was preparing the sauce, she also half-boiled an egg and took it out of the pan to let it cool for a while. At this moment, she took the fermented dough from the bowl and started working on it as she took it in one hand and started stretching it carefully from one hand to the other, but just enough not to let it break. Then she twisted the elongated dough and threw it on the table, and started stretching and twisting again and again to give it an elastic feel. After that, she took the elongated noodles and cut them into small parts, and then folded them into layers until the thin and long noodles were formed. As she was doing her work, she didn't notice that above her head, a tiny little head, which probably belongs to a 4-year-old cute little girl, was hanging from a window-shaped void that was created in the system. This probably 3-4 year old little girl was other than little An, with a pair of pigtails hanging on both sides of her face, and a curious expression looking over curiously at what her big sis was doing. This was the first time she saw something that fascinated her so much that for a second she forgot to conceal her presence, and Mo Yuxin immediately felt a presence a her. As she checked who it was, at that moment she raised her head, and what she saw made her heart tremble for a moment. Those sparkling glass-like eyes with those cute chubby baby fat on her face and those twin-tails dangling back and forth by her side just made her all the more adorable. She took a few seconds to calm herself and asked in a somewhat expectant tone, Little An ??? " At that moment, the girl also suddenly felt someone calling for her, and as she saw that it was her big sis, she suddenly panicked ev forgetting to keep the void up as it disappeared, and she felt nothing below her that could support her and started falling downwards. She closed her eyes and braced herself for the impact but forgetting a very important fact that she is part of the system and things like gravity and pain doesn't affect her here, but in her panicked and anxious state she forgot the basics but at that momt instead of a hard impact what she felt was a soft embrace. As she saw little An falling from the void, she flew headfirst and caught her in mid-air. Then she looked down in her embrace to see the small baby looking at her with eyes that seemed to melt even a heart made of stone as the corner of her eyes glistened with crystal tears, and she heard a shaky, milky voice calling out to her, "Big Sis, I..." As the little bun spoke, her twin tails waved back and forth nervously as she looked at her big sis with a myriad of feelings and emotions which shocked even herself. She is part of the system or the Inheritance. In reality, she IS the inheritance as she is its divine spirit, which has complete control of the inheritance, and her only task is to serve her master to the fullest and let her stand at the pinnacle. But at that moment, what she felt was probably the lovable and warm embrace of a mother, which she only ever knew in theory. Her emotions overflowed as she felt all kinds of emotions from surprise to panic to anxiety, and even the mysterious feeling of a child wanting to be held in her mother's embrace and feel her love for herself. As she was feeling all these extraordinary feelings for the first time since her very existence, she also experienced the feeling of shedding tears for the first time. As Mo Yuxin looked at her adorable little An and saw her trembling in her embrace like a little furry cat, and the tears gathering in the corner of her eyes, made her heart feel distressed, and she felt helpless, for she didn't know how to coax a baby. Still, with whatever little she knew, she placed her hand on top of her head and rubbed her hair and said in a tone which had a very obvious tenderness that she didn't notice, "Little An is good, it's alright." Little An felt her heart beating loudly at the tenderness in her voice as she wanted to indulge in this warm embrace and feel the love of a mother all the more. For a divine spirit, she might be the first in all of existence to feel a deep desire in her heart to call her mom and to be loved. But she suppressed these burning desires and calmed herself down as quickly as possible, and she climbed down from her embrace. Mo Yuxin felt a little bitterness and sourness inside her heart as little An climbed down from her embrace. She felt a little empty for some reason, but couldn't point it out. Then she heard the little girl saying, "Big sis, you are soo sooo sooooo awesome and cool, the way you made those noodles seemed like a phoenix dancing in the sky, your hands looked like the hands of God of art as those noodles danced to your tunes...." She said all these with a big, bright smile on her face as she exclaimed how cool I looked while making those noodles. Though she was exaggerating the whole ordeal, I still couldn't help but feel happy in my heart when she complimented me so much. 'Ahh,,,... Such an adorable little sister!' I thought in my heart, but kept only a little smile on my face as I listened to her talking adorably.