What to Do if You Mess With an Omega? - Chapter 27.2

But one review caught Ning Hanzhu’s particular attention.

[Fangfish feeds on D-level beast species, containing only a tiny portion of mental energy, yet it helped me greatly. I hope to see the streamer handle higher-level ingredients someday.]

Ning Hanzhu had never heard such a thing before. Without this review, she would not even know ingredients had grades.

No wonder Future Star Elementary started teaching identification of plants, beasts, and some minerals. They were all closely tied to life.

Evidently, she needed to learn too.

Composing herself, Ning Hanzhu went live.

The background was a cozy wallpaper she had specially bought. Upon starting, over a hundred viewers flooded in at once, surprising her a bit.

She waved at the camera in greeting, then cut straight to the point. “Today, I’ll teach a simple dish. For now, let’s call it red fruit stir-fried goo-goo eggs.”

Of course, its other name was tomato-scrambled-eggs.

This was a dish Ning Hanzhu often ate. Without tomatoes, she substituted red fruit. The fruit was sour-sweet and juicy. As for the eggs, they came from goo-goo beasts, with high protein content. She had wanted beast chicken, but the shopkeeper said beast chickens were too combative, often fighting and crushing their own eggs, making them hard to find.

Goo-goo beasts had mild temperaments and laid many eggs.

[Streamer so half-hearted. That red fruit is sour as hell. What’s good about it?]

[As expected, dark cuisine.]

[Goo-goo beast eggs—I crush one in one hand. Super stress-relieving. Tastes like sh1t. Won’t this dish taste like sh1t too? Gone gone.]

When Ning Hanzhu made this dish, she liked to scramble the eggs first, then squeeze out the tomato juice, add a bit of sugar to balance the tomatoes’ natural acidity, season it, and finally roll the scrambled eggs in the tomato juice twice.

Red fruit was more sour than tomatoes, so she added extra sugar.

The goo-goo eggs did not taste as exaggerated as the netizens claimed. During beating and mixing, she added deodorizing seasonings.

After the full process, the red fruit stir-fried goo-goo eggs were done.

She tasted it, confirmed the flavor was about right, then uploaded the data to the starnet and set out ten portions for everyone to try. Afterward, she waved goodbye to the stream viewers and logged off.

“Huh, not sour at all.”

“So good.”

Ning Hanzhu ended early tonight for a reason: tomorrow she had to send Ning Qianqian to school. But they had prepared none of the needed items.

“Brother Lu, check if I missed anything. I’ll list them. We need two outfits for Qianqian, a little backpack, school supplies…”

“Just order on the starnet. Expedited delivery. Same city is fast. We can add anything missing later.”

When Ning Hanzhu went to school before, others had prepared everything perfectly for her. She had never worried about it. Now roles reversed, she felt a mix of pride and anxiety at having a daughter grown enough for school. With Xu Yuqing there earlier, she had not noticed. Now she wanted to prepare everything other children had and more for Ning Qianqian.

Lu Yutang had only fought three matches in the starnet simulation arena.

When he came to.

The living room brimmed with express boxes.

He stared in shock. “Going to school requires this much stuff?”

Ning Hanzhu nodded. “I think so. I saw the kids at school using this kind of water bottle. And this backpack—Qianqian can have two, so one for backup if the other gets dirty. New clothes and shoes too…”

Ning Qianqian clung in her arms, watching her unbox. “Sister, will you pick me up after school?”

“Of course.”

“Are there really lots of little friends at school?”

“Yes.”

“Will they like me?”

Ning Hanzhu finally shifted her gaze from the items back to the downcast little one. “Our Qianqian is so cute. Of course they will. Don’t worry. Tomorrow sister will go with you to school. If you don’t like it then, we’ll come home. Okay?”

Lu Yutang wanted to interject but said nothing in the end.

The next morning, Ning Hanzhu dragged the reluctant sleeper from bed. Ning Qianqian stayed dazed throughout. Normally, she never rose this early.

She let Ning Hanzhu hold her for brushing teeth, washing face, and changing clothes in a sleepy trance. Only upon smelling breakfast aroma did half her drowsiness flee. She yawned.

Ning Hanzhu had specially ordered breakfast via the nanny robot. The big and little wolfed it down hastily, then rushed for the hover train.

She had inputted the route yesterday. They arrived at the school right on time, flashing the student ID to enter.

After finding Ning Qianqian’s class, she arranged the backpack and water cup neatly, then instructed her. “Be good here and listen to the teacher. Sister is right outside. If anyone bullies you, tell sister later.”

Ning Qianqian glanced outward. “Okay.”

Only inside the classroom did Ning Hanzhu realize one could not see out from within. No wonder no child had turned when they stood outside earlier.

After class started, she stood at the spot agreed with Ning Qianqian, watching the child glance out frequently. The teacher noticed but said nothing.

After one class, Ning Qianqian ran straight out of the classroom.

Ning Hanzhu opened her arms, and the little one rushed into them. She hugged her tight, feeling the child squeeze back hard. “Our Qianqian is so great. She actually listened through a whole class so obediently.”

Ning Qianqian pouted, holding back.

Ning Hanzhu recalled her own first day at school, abandoned by her parents for just ten minutes before she wailed for home.

No one could console her.

She just wanted to go home.

In the end, her grandfather had carried her back with a dark face, bought piles of snacks, and coaxed her half the day before succeeding. For just one semester, she had fussed for three or five days at least.

Her mother had been one step ahead, finding an older school sister to lead her. With someone to play with and treats, she gradually found school interesting.

But now, they had no peer for Ning Qianqian.

“Qianqian, sister suffered for being uneducated and ignorant. Our family needs a smart one. You are that clever little treasure. Listen carefully to the teacher, study hard, and grow up to be as amazing as pretty sister.”

Ning Qianqian patted her like a little adult. “Sister, you are amazing too. In my heart, you are the most most most amazing.”

Ning Hanzhu felt torn between laughter and tears.

She stayed outside for half the day, watching Ning Qianqian gradually adapt to the class rhythm, glancing out less and less. Even a little girl from class took the initiative to share snacks. Good thing she had packed some in the bag. The two little girls shared mutually, their rapport seeming quite harmonious.

Children’s attention was easily captured by novelties.

Ning Qianqian was no exception.

Once Ning Hanzhu confirmed she was no longer needed, she left the school step by step. Thinking to find a place to pass time until dismissal, when she could pick up the little one and head home.

She chose a food street.

Just as she prepared to scout it out, her optical computer vibrated. Ning Yingwu’s message popped up suddenly.

[Ning Hanzhu, come out. We duel.]

Where had this deep-well ice come from?

Ning Hanzhu ignored it. But Ning Yingwu bounced back and forth like a grasshopper.

[Ning Hanzhu you trash, who allowed you to touch Miss Yuqing? I will kill you.]

[Coward, if you dare not respond, I’ll smash all your mom’s old things, so you never see them again for life.]

Such childish goading—she would not fall for it.

Ning Hanzhu’s gaze lingered on the last message. The original body’s mother’s things? They must be quite precious.

She sighed lightly. “Fine. Never seen someone so eager to court death.”