As soon as he stepped out of the Tax Office, Lu Mingyuan suddenly regretted it and smacked his forehead.
"Ah, how could I forget to ask my father-in-law about the materials for his divine kitchenware ability?
I wonder if he has enough?"
Lu Mingyuan wasn't worrying for nothing.
The material formulas that were so easy to obtain were simply too mediocre in their properties. They were fine for ordinary use, but the moment they faced extreme conditions, they wouldn't hold up.
Take the ordinary steel formula Lu Mingyuan had learned at Qingshan Academy, for example. Never mind that the steel couldn't withstand high temperatures; plows and shovels made from it also snapped far too easily. In the end, he had only solved the problem of breakage after obtaining a higher-grade black iron formula from the Agricultural School.
Otherwise, it wouldn't do for people to keep having their farm tools break while working in the fields.
They could summon a new tool whenever one broke, but that was still a lot of trouble, and it could easily leave people fuming.
Unlike farm tools, replacing kitchenware while it was in use came at a much higher cost.
For instance, if the bottom of a wok burned through while someone was stir-frying, it wouldn't be enough to simply replace it with a new one. The whole dish would be ruined, too.
Unless...
Unless his father-in-law had never intended to include woks, and only planned to make spatulas, spoons, bowls, chopsticks, ladles, and basins.
That wouldn't do!
At the thought, Lu Mingyuan put his plans to go home on hold and decided to visit his father-in-law again.
Jing Family Restaurant.
After meeting his father-in-law, Jing Hu, and asking him about the situation, Lu Mingyuan found that things were just as he'd expected. Jing Hu