Qin Lin suddenly felt a great deal of affection for Thomas in the game.
Who wouldn't be happy to suddenly become a lucky winner?
He'd just gotten a new cooking skill from the Gourmet: Fried Mud Chicken. It might not be all that useful, but it would still let him indulge his appetite every now and then.
Now Thomas had shown up, too. It'd be a shame not to get a pleasant surprise out of it, right?
Since he was making Thomas a lucky winner, he might as well make him an even luckier one.
As Qin Lin was thinking this, the mud around the chicken gave a faint crackling sound. The heat had baked it hard, and it was starting to crack.
That meant the chicken was almost ready.
He quickly refocused.
He could do the quest later. For now, he needed to finish cooking the chicken.
Once the mud around a fried mud chicken started cracking, he had to control the heat again and turn it down.
The scene drew Zhao Moqing, Tang Xiuwan, and the others' attention.
As women, they knew their way around a kitchen. After all, in most people's eyes, a woman needed to know how to cook if she wanted a happy family.
Women who couldn't cook either came from wealthy families or had married wealthy men. If neither was true, problems would gradually crop up in their lives.
That was why they were so surprised.
They hadn't expected making fried mud chicken to involve so many steps, or to require such close attention to the heat.
Still, there was no denying that a man who took cooking seriously was handsome and appealing.
Tang Xiuwan couldn't help feeling envious. "Moqing, I'm so jealous. Chairman Qin is such a good cook."
Li Kai seemed to