The Young General's Wife Is Mr. Lucky

18. No Condiment

Perhaps since Yu Jinli showed love for dragon tenderloin in particular during lunch, now there was even more dragon tenderloin on the dinner table.
Yu Jinli's eyes lit up at that.
"I asked our chef to make more dragon tenderloin since you like it. Have some. Tell me if there is anything else you want to eat. I'll let the kitchen prepare for you." Qiao Mulan told Yu Jinli amicably and picked up dragon tenderloin for him. Now, in the plate in front of him, a small stack of dragon tenderloin had piled up.
"Thank you, mom." Yu Jinli expressed his gratitude happily.
He felt the same kind of love from Qiao Mulan as he did from his master shifu. It turned out right that he chose to come here in the first place.
He was happy and thankful for his good fortune.
"Make yourself at home." As she spoke, Qiao Mulan picked up food for him again, finally experiencing what it was like to be a mother.
It was actually a sad story.
Qiao Mulan gave birth to one child - Jiang Mosheng. However, since Jiang was three, he acted like an adult, eating, dressing up and doing everything himself without worrying his mom which left her no sense of achievement as a mom. Qiao Mulan didn't feel she had brought up a kid at all.
She always wanted a child who would be by her side all the time and who would act coquettishly so she wanted a daughter but since she had been unable to conceive one for years, she stopped entertaining high hopes.
However, Yu Jinli was a sign of hope.
Though he wasn't a girl, his personality and appearance met every one of her requirements. Every time she saw him, she wished she could pamper him like a baby, having everything arranged for him.
She had finally started to have the feeling of a mom and a sense of achievement.
Though Yu Jinli needed spiritual objects to supplement his spirit power, those boiled meat made him sick.
If dragon tenderloin wasn't a spiritual object, he wouldn't have it a second time. It was completely tasteless. He wished he could have some good food.
"Mom, do you have condiment here?" In the end, he couldn't help but asking.
With condiment, the dragon tenderloin could become delicious. Then, he could have good food as well as taking in spirit power. One move, two gains.
"What is condiment?" Qiao Mulan asked, confused.
Yu Jinli: "..."
He started to feel sorry for men of this world.
"It's something that changes the flavor of food." He tried to describe what condiment was - a must for making delicacies.
Without condiment, food loses its potential.
Pitiably, Qiao Mulan didn't quite understand him since she ate her food simply boiled every day.
In fact, it was rare that Yu Jinli could eat natural food every day since only powerful family could afford it. Average family could only have nutrition preparation.
Under such a circumstance, for people here, natural food was already a rare delicacy, so nobody bothered to find condiment.
To Yu Jinli, this news was a bolt from the blue.
People who hadn't had delicious dishes might be happy with the natural taste of food since nutrition preparation was worse. However, for Yu Jinli, who had had all the delicacies on earth, the primitively cooked food here was a disaster.
Sure, without comparison, people here didn't know how bad they had it.