Chapter 38: Unimaginable Thing
Author: Black Lantern (黑色花灯)
Translated by Gumihou
Putting his words to practice, Ye Fei cleaned the tomato and sliced it into wedges. After cutting, he placed them in a ceramic bowl. Then, he cracked the eggs open and beat them.
Everything was done in an orderly manner. Once the eggs were beaten, Ye Fei started to fetch other items from the storage box: Salt, starch, sugar, as well as other seasonings.
Finally, he took out the Rose Oil to fry the scramble eggs.
The moment the viewers saw Ye Fei take out the tub of Rose Oil, they were rendered speechless. The rich are really rich, ah. To use Rose Oil to cook everything, is that thing free?
Ye Fei had no idea what the viewers were thinking. He went on with his prep work, taking out the frying pan from the other storage box and placing it on the stove. After heating the pan for a bit, he dropped in a small blob of the Rose Oil.
Once the blob of oil melted and its unique fragrance permeated the air, Ye Fei picked up the bowl of beaten eggs and stirred it a few more times before pouring the egg onto the pan.
[1] When the eggs flowed into the pan, it was as though a faint golden brilliance was shining over the surface. The brilliant light seemed to fly towards his face before shimmering outwards in all directions.
Ye Fei hurriedly stepped back and looked around but found nothing. [1] Was the scene just now an illusion?
However, Ye Fei was sure that it was not an illusion. He really did see the faint golden light just now.
“Could that be the work of the Ten Thousand Mile Fragrance thing seeping through the lines?” muttered Ye Fei as he started to agitate the eggs in the pan.
Just then, within a mansion, a well-dressed young man was speaking into a microphone, cheerfully livening up the atmosphere for his favourite broadcaster when his entire body suddenly shivered. He lifted his head to sniff the air. Then, he slowly stood up and went around the room.
“This fragrance… why is it so fragrant? This is the smell of frying eggs, have I ever smelled such a strong egg fragrance before? This smell… is Aunt Wang cooking something? Didn’t I tell her there’s no need to make lunch today? [1] There will be a dinner party later, but… that doesn’t explain the smell of eggs, ah. Such a wonderful smell, this is…”
Suddenly, the young man’s eyes widened and he rushed back to his computer. Wishing he could just stick his head through the monitor, his eyes were wide as they stared intently at the scrambled eggs in Ye Fei’s live broadcast.
Tasting Everything Under Heaven thought: Impossible, how could such a strange phenomenon happen? Although I don’t know where Deity Ye is located, no matter how rich and fragrant the eggs, the smell can’t float that far!
At the same time, in an exquisite European-style villa, a middle-aged man wearing a pair of gold-rimmed glasses was also stunned. To be more precise, he was busy snorting in the air like an addict snorting up a certain type of white powder.
“How can this be possible? How can this be? Could the scent of Deity Ye’s scrambled eggs be wafting out of the computer? The eggy aroma is definitely not the aroma of ordinary eggs. It’s too alluring.”
The middle-aged man gulped suddenly.
The waters of Phuji Island [2] were deep blue and calm. Today was an excellent day for sailing. A luxury cruise liner was floating slowly on the waters of the Yindu Ocean.
On a clean deck, a young man was sunning himself comfortably on a sunbed, his left arm around a high-class woman while his right hand was busily swiping at the notebook on his lap.
Suddenly, the young man let go of the high-class woman and slowly put his notebook aside. He stepped off the sunbed and walked about the deck on bare feet, his eyes kept scanning around, as though in search of something.
Seeing his odd behaviour, the high-class woman asked gently, “What is it, Zekai?”
Qin Zekai [4] said, “Xiao Man, do you smell anything? Like a strong eggy smell?”
High-class woman Xiao Man shook her head a little confusedly. Suddenly, she smiled, “What now, could it be you’re just hungry? Didn’t you just have lunch?”
Qin Zekai shook his head, “No, I’m not hungry. It’s just, I really did smell the fragrance of eggs. Goodness, I’ve never smelled such a strong scent of chicken eggs before. I…”
He was about to say ‘I suddenly felt a little hungry’ but his eyes suddenly widened and he nearly ran to his notebook again. Qin Zekai picked up the notebook and stared into the screen. Rather, he was staring at Ye Fei, who was scrambling eggs live on his broadcasting channel.
“This… this is… your mom, did I just encounter a ghost?”
Within a large office, a middle-aged man with a wide mouth was seated on a luxurious sofa chair behind a mahogany desk. He was laughing and grinning to himself as he stared at the computer before him where Ye Fei was cooking.
Suddenly, he tipped up his head and began to sniff the air. He sat up straight and looked around but did not find the source of the smell.
Finally, he picked up his phone and pressed the number for Secretary 1 and said casually, “Sasha, is someone frying eggs in the company?”
A very pleasant female voice replied, “Hello President, no one is frying eggs, ah. Since it is lunch break now, most of them had gone on their break.”
The middle-aged man replied with an ‘oh’ and replaced the phone in its cradle. Suddenly, his eyes widened and he slowly turned to look at the computer in front of him.
Ye Fei was scrambling eggs.
“F*ck, could it be? That’s too outrageous, isn’t it?” said the middle-aged man to himself in disbelief.
Right now, the same scene was being re-enacted all over the country. Nearly 40,000 people stared dumbfounded at their devices.
“I… I may have smelled the fragrance of Deity Ye’s scrambled eggs.” Within the extremely quiet channel, Tasting Everything Under Heaven’s low voice suddenly murmured.
Immediately after that, I Am a Foodie wrote, “You too? I thought it was just me,”
8 Treasure Cuisine, “This smell is strong enough to overwhelm the smell of the ocean. M*therf*cker, am I dreaming?”
Tao Tie, “Tell me this is not true, otherwise, I’d go crazy.”
Others also sent up messages, one by one and in just 22 or 3 breaths, 40,000 to 50,000 messages suddenly exploded in the chatbox. The chatbox was so filled up with information that it nearly froze.
Just when everyone was about to explode from curiosity, Ye Fei, who had been scrambling eggs suddenly looked up and grinned. “The eggs have now been scrambled and can now be set aside, can you smell the aroma?”
Everyone, “… …”
“Your mom, so it really is Deity Ye’s fried eggs that I’m smelling, ah?”
“Heaven, ah. I nearly went crazy. How can this be? How?! Deity Ye, just where are you? Why can I smell your scrambled eggs?”
“Me too. Deity Ye, are you the Old Ye who lives next to my house?”
“Who knows how many hundreds of miles apart we are but the smell is still so strong. You must be a prophet sent from heaven to save us foolish mortals… no, you must be the God of Cooking himself, right?”
“Here I thought Deity Ye’s cooking was just a gimmick, merely pulling crowds with top-quality ingredients. I had not expected Deity Ye’s cooking to be so great, ah! Top skill! Respect!”
“That plate of eggs is really alluring. It’s golden bright and shining pink… Yi~~? Did I just see stars floating above the plate?”
“Pu~~ Upstairs, enough with you. Do you really think you’re in the middle of a fantasy story, ah? Did you hear a ‘ding’? Haha,”
The entire live broadcast was exploding with activity. No one had expected such a skill from Ye Fei. The Ten Thousand Mile Fragrance Skill was just too mysterious.
“The colour is top-notch, fragrance top-notch. In short, this plate of scrambled eggs is top-notched. Deity Ye, accept these two cruise ships from me as my show of respect!”
Big local tyrant, I Am a Foodie, that dashing and over the top individual was so happy that with a flip of his hand, two luxury cruise ships sailed across the screen.
8 Treasure Cuisine was even crazier. In his eyes, it was as though money was not money and after a few frantic swipes, threw out five luxury cruise ships. Everyone nearly rolled over.
Insanity! Madness!
Your mom, must you be so crazy? Can you please tone down your craziness?
Tasting Everything Under Heaven happily roared, “With broadcasts at this level, how could daddy not give out a few luxury ships?”
With that, 3 more luxury cruise ships sailed across the screen.
Mister Tao Tie was still a little low key, he merely sent 5 planes flying across the screen to join in the fun.
As for the rest of the audience, everyone nearly went crazy: Planes, sports cars, limousines, and motorhomes, began to flood the screen. As for applause, lollipops and other smaller reward items, they practically covered the screen.
“F*ck! Enough, enough, you guys stop now, I can’t even see the broadcast anymore,” Tasting Everything Under Heaven.
Most other people, “Neither can I, ah!!!”
[Gumihou: Gumi has issue with the description ‘strong eggy smell’. Generally, fresh eggs have less ‘smell’ while eggs that are close to their expiry have a stronger smell. So, each time Gumi had to write ‘strong eggy smell’, Gumi physically recoiled.]
Have a look at some real-life best eggs in the world.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9yh6-d_u-hA
Gumihou went down the egg chute on this:
https://www.quora.com/Do-brown-eggs-taste-and-smell-different-than-white-eggs
[1] Some small adjustments for better flow.
[2] Phuji Islands (普济岛) – probably a reference to Fiji Island
[3] Yindu Ocean (银都洋) – probably a reference to the Indian Ocean
[4] Qin Zekai (秦泽凯) – This guy’s name is pretty badass
秦 (Qin) – from the Qin Dynasty’s line of emperors ‘qin’
泽 (Ze) – lustre, favour, benevolence
凯 (Kai) – Victorious, success
His name is basically: Victory Favours Qin
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The toasty odor of scrambled eggs doesn’t seem to be complemented by rose oil. At least to my imagination since I know both odors well having grown up at my parents’ home that had rose shrubs in the backyard. I’ve also tasted rose water as a drink additive. Forcing both odors together and smelling them in my imagination, it feels unbalanced as I’m rolling the toasty egg flavor with the rose water flavor in my mouth. Maybe adding a dash of very finely ground cayenne pepper would balance the flavors in the mouth since the heat ties the toasty and rosy flavors together.
Hence why it is relegated as ‘Fantasy Food’ in my mind and therefore, did not offend my sensibilities too much.