Deed

Li Mingyi didn't dwell on his confusion for long. After returning home, he searched everywhere for Jiang Huiqin. Chen Suhua comforted him and gave him a glass of warm water, which gradually calmed him and cleared his head.

"Xiao Feng, I'm truly sorry," Li Mingyi said, sitting on the sofa after regaining his senses. He slowly put on his reading glasses. "The dish you made is exactly like the one your Great-Grand Aunt used to make for me."

"If I can taste it again, I can rest easy and go find your Great-Grand Aunt," Li Mingyi smiled and picked up the newspaper.

"Dad, what are you talking about? The doctor said you're fine during your last check-up. What do you mean 'go find'?" Chen Suhua brought him another glass of warm water and placed it on the coffee table. "Xiao Feng, thank you for your trouble. I'll take care of him here, you can go back and eat."

Chen Suhua walked Jiang Feng to the end of the hallway. Jiang Feng was still a bit worried. "Great-Grandpa didn't eat much just now. Should I go back and bring him some porridge?"

Chen Suhua sighed and refused.

"No need, your Great-Grandpa can't eat anymore."

"He can only drink a small bowl of porridge each day. We went to the hospital for a check-up the day before yesterday, and the doctor said he..."

"He only has half a month left at most."

As she spoke, Chen Suhua's eyes reddened, and tears streamed down her right eye.

Jiang Feng turned back to look at her in shock.

Half a month?!

On the way back, Jiang Feng still felt somewhat dazed.

Li Mingyi was not only his Great-Grand Uncle, but through his memories, Jiang Feng had witnessed Li Mingyi and Jiang Huiqin's youthful affection and their shared hardships in middle age. Although it was only a brief glimpse, Li Mingyi's place in his heart was ultimately different.

Once Li Mingyi was gone, there would truly be very few people left in the world who remembered Jiang Huiqin.

Jiang Feng only snapped back to reality when he reached the entrance of the shop, remembering that he hadn't checked his mission rewards yet.

Everyone else was still eating on the second floor. Jiang Feng went straight into the storage room and opened his status panel, finding the item tab.

[A Memory from Jiang Weiguo]: A memory that can be entered repeatedly.

[Deed]: Deed for Tai Feng Lou. [Claimable: Yes/No]

He clicked yes.

Strangely, no deed appeared out of thin air.

But this was normal. Tai Feng Lou was a restaurant in Beiping during the Republic of China era. It probably didn't even exist anymore. A deed from the Republic of China era would definitely be useless now, at best an antique to be displayed at home for collection.

The game's stinginess hadn't changed one bit.

Jiang Feng went upstairs to eat with everyone.

Seeing Jiang Feng return, Jiang Weiguo asked, "How is your Great-Grand Uncle?"

"He was fine when I left. He'd woken up and was reading the newspaper," Jiang Feng replied, not wanting to tell the Old Master about Li Mingyi's limited time and cause him further sadness.

Jiang Feng sat back down. The dishes on the table were almost all gone, with a little bit of everything left. It looked like they had been intentionally saved for him.

"Brother Feng, you weren't bragging at all! Your grandpa's cooking is truly second to none!" Wang Hao said, drinking the pork rib soup with a look of utter satisfaction, his expression exaggerated.

"Brother Feng, just tell me, does your family also have a Jiang Family Restaurant like Wu Minqi's family? How many Michelin stars? Just say it, I can handle it!" Liu Zixuan used his chopsticks to diligently pick up the last few grains of rice mixed with meat juice from his bowl.

"Michelin stars? Michelin tires! You guys left so much food, I can't finish it. Who wants these Four Happiness Meatballs?" Jiang Feng picked up a chopstickful of food.

"Me."

"Liu Qian, you've already eaten two meals, and you're still eating? It's not good for girls to eat too much and get fat, especially since you have to stream. I'll eat it, I'll eat it."

"Haozi, you're already covered in fat, stop eating. I'm skinny, I'll eat it!"

"Heh, you think you're skinnier than me? I wasn't full just now. I'm eating, I'm eating!"

"Let's split it, how about splitting it?" Qiu Chen chimed in to ease the tension.

"No way are we splitting it with you!" everyone said in unison.

The group fought over the last Four Happiness Meatballs in the plate, completely disregarding their past classmate camaraderie and no longer paying attention to Jiang Feng.

For the next few days, Jiang Weiguo took charge of the cooking.

Jiang Jiankang was so happy he didn't want to leave, wishing he didn't even have to open his shop. Jiang Jianye and Jiang Jianshe were the most decisive; they simply closed their pet shop, posted a notice on the door saying the owner was busy, and spent their days hovering around the Healthy Stir-fry Restaurant, serving the Old Master. Jiang Feng guessed that if his uncle Jiang Jianguo hadn't been afraid of him constantly being in front of the Old Master and annoying him, he would have already moved in with his bedding at the Healthy Stir-fry Restaurant.

Everyone could tell that Jiang Weiguo had come to A City because of Jiang Feng. He praised Jiang Feng every day, to the point where Jiang Feng felt a bit overwhelmed.

With Jiang Weiguo in A City, the customers of the Healthy Stir-fry Restaurant were in for a treat. The Old Master was a man who couldn't sit still. Sometimes, when customers ordered dishes he liked, he would personally cook them. Coupled with Wang Hao, a big-mouthed gossip who couldn't control his tongue, the Old Master's culinary skills were almost blown up to be those of a culinary god descended to earth, unrivaled in China.

In no time, the Healthy Stir-fry Restaurant became the most popular spot near A University. Students flocked to it, and during dinner, even many teachers would come. Everyone was like buying a lottery ticket and waiting for the draw; you never knew if a dish was cooked by the Old Master until it was served.

In just four days, the main quest was completed.

"Ding, Main Quest completed: [Gain a Foothold]. Reward obtained: [Renovation Blueprint]."

Renovation blueprint?

Jiang Feng was cutting vegetables when he heard the notification sound, feeling a bit puzzled.

Why give him a renovation blueprint?

His second uncle's family still owed over a hundred thousand yuan that hadn't been repaid. Bringing up renovations at a time like this, even if he was Comrade Wang Xiulian's own son, wouldn't fly!

Jiang Feng waited for the game to issue a new main quest.

He waited for five minutes.

Ten minutes.

Half an hour.

Jiang Feng: ???

Where's the main quest???

What kind of garbage game is this? Not only does it update once a month, but now it's not even giving me the main quest halfway through. Is it this buggy?

What is even in the heads of this game's developers?

Do Earth players have no human rights?

Are they bullying Earth players because of their slow internet speeds?

Did Earth people eat their rice for them to be treated like this?

Jiang Feng cursed the game's developers, creators, and operators from beginning to end in his mind, over and over again. By the time he returned to his dorm that evening, the game still hadn't released a new main quest.

The main quest section had successfully changed to ???

Jiang Feng finally understood.

The main quest.

It was gone!

Trash game, ruining my youth!