Chapter 143: Chapter 143 - 137: Delicious Noodles

After returning to Greenfield City, the first thing Shen Tang did was go to the fields to have a look.

The wheat and vegetables had a bumper harvest!

Hu Yun and the others, following Shen Tang’s instructions, had already cut the wheat ears and extracted the seeds, putting them into bags.

Next, they didn’t know what to do.

"Can this really be eaten?" Hu Yun, seeing that no one was watching, grabbed a handful of wheat ears and stuffed them into his mouth, only to jab his tongue painfully.

He forced himself to chew, but it had no taste at all, like chewing on wood!

His face turned a shade of green as he spat them all out.

When Shen Tang arrived, she happened to witness this scene and laughed uproariously, "Who taught you to eat it like that!"

Upon hearing the voice, Hu Yun quickly looked up and, seeing the female’s smile, his face flushed red, and he forgot to lower his hand mid-air, "M-master?"

He called out uncertainly.

Hearing this title, Shen Tang sighed with a smile, "I’ve told you, there’s no need to call me master, that title is too strange."

Hu Yun scratched his head sheepishly, unsure what else to call her.

It felt impolite to call her by name.

And she wasn’t a princess now, so he couldn’t call her Your Highness.

The familiar nickname Xiao Tang was even more daunting, lest he be skinned by those four men beside her.

"Just call me Sister Tang." Shen Tang glanced at Hu Yun, who seemed to be about two years younger than her, around seventeen or eighteen years old, with a handsome and delicate face, and striking red-orange short hair.

Hearing the commotion here, the beastmen working in the fields all turned to look.

Seeing Shen Tang’s face, they felt an inexplicable stir, unsure if it was an illusion, but she seemed even more beautiful than before she left.

They had never seen such a charming and beautiful female in real life.

The male beasts were all stunned.

Xiao Jin frowned and coldly scolded, "What are you all looking at? Get back to work if you haven’t finished! If you slack off, I’ll break your legs!"

The beastmen snapped back to reality, covering their flushed faces, embarrassed to keep staring.

Shen Li glanced at the furious Xiao Jin, then looked at Shen Tang, his handsome face gentle, "Xiao Tang’er, how do you plan to deal with these wheat seeds?"

Shen Tang grabbed a handful of wheat. Although Hu Yun and the others had collected the seeds as instructed, the collection was rough, with seeds still covered by husks and mixed with many stalks and leaves.

Although technology in the Beast World was more advanced than modern times, there weren’t machines specifically for producing flour, so they had to resort to traditional methods.

Shen Tang recalled how the old farmers in her grandparents’ village handled wheat ears when she was young.

She directed the beastmen to move the hundreds of bags of wheat to a wide and flat area, dumping them all out.

Then, she had wind-element superpowered beastmen blow from all sides to mimic the old method of airing wheat, separating the lighter twigs and leaves from the wheat ears, leaving only the seeds behind.

Lu Xiao, leading a few wind-element beastmen, quickly completed the task.

Seeing the seeds easily separated, Lu Xiao, usually stoic, looked slightly surprised as he glanced at Shen Tang. This clever method wasn’t particularly smart, yet none of the others had thought of it.

Where did she learn all this?

A princess raised in luxury, who hadn’t even been in the kitchen much, suddenly skilled in fieldwork like this.

Heh, it’s quite interesting.

[Ding, congratulations to the host, Lu Xiao affinity +5!]

As Shen Tang was directing the beastmen to work, she paused, surprised by the system prompt in her mind, and turned to Lu Xiao in disbelief.

The man’s expression remained indifferent, unchanged, standing there like a cold landscape.

Truly, very aloof.

Shen Tang then asked Xiao Jin and a few beastmen to go up the mountain to find some large stones and create a simple version of a stone mill.

Xiao Jin followed her instructions, chiseling the large stones into round shapes, hollowing them out in the middle, nearly wearing out his claws.

Shen Tang felt a bit sorry, suddenly recalling that intermediate earth element ability could also control stone transformation.

She hurriedly had Xiao Jin and the others stop, utilizing earth element ability to shape the stones with her thoughts.

Xiao Jin found some sturdy wood on the mountain, knitted them to the stone mill with wire, and crafted a simple stone mill.

Following this model, they made five stone mills.

The beastmen, strong and resilient, found grinding wheat much easier than hunting.

They pulled the hundreds of kilograms of stone mill, feet swift, almost spinning like a top.

Shen Tang watched in awe.

By the afternoon, the wheat was debranned, revealing pale yellow seeds.

Led by Lu Xiao, the wind beastmen removed the bran residue, revealing pale yellow-white seeds.

Continuing to grind them into flour with the stone mill.

As evening approached, the work was done, and they had ground nearly a hundred bags of flour.

The beastmen, seeing the snowy white flour, akin to winter snowflakes, were stunned at how beautiful the milled wheat had become!

Hu Yun secretly grabbed a handful and stuffed it into his mouth, nearly choking.

The other beastmen, initially tempted to taste it secretly, quickly gave up the idea after watching him.

This time, they were smart, proactively asking Shen Tang, "Sister Tang, how do you say this flour should be eaten?"

"The freshly ground flour needs to be left to sit for a few days, or it might cause bloating if eaten immediately. In a few days, I’ll make it into food and let everyone try it." Shen Tang spoke with a genuinely joyous smile, exuding a sense of belief.

The beastmen felt something strange, firmly believing her words.

A month ago, they wouldn’t have thought this way.

Most of these penal workers initially only agreed to work in the fields to slack off and reduce their sentences, not out of trust in Shen Tang, many even resenting her.

But now, their mentality had quietly changed.

They were genuinely curious about how delicious the food she mentioned could be.

The City Lord also took her advice, building a warehouse in the city specifically for storing grain.

The beastmen helped move the flour into the warehouse.

Shen Tang had Xiao Jin carry a big bag of flour home.

Feeling the snow-like smooth flour, Shen Tang was overjoyed, envisioning noodles, buns, dumplings, vegetable pancakes, and fried dough sticks beckoning her!

She was almost drooling with anticipation.

A few days later, unable to contain her enthusiasm, Shen Tang decided to try it out. She scooped a large spoonful of flour into a basin and added water to knead the dough.

Seeing Shen Tang’s hands turn red from kneading, Xiao Jin snatched the iron basin from her, pushing her aside, "Clumsy, go stand over there, let me handle this."

Shen Tang glared at him but didn’t refuse, commanding, "Wash your dirty claws first!"

Xiao Jin’s forehead veins bulged, "Don’t listen to that dead fox’s nonsense, I’ve already washed them!"

Shen Tang took his two large hands, carefully inspected them, and only after making sure they were clean did she let him knead the dough.