Baby Serendipity: The Whole World Fell In Love With Me
Chapter 488 - 487: The Black Pearl in the Clam

Chapter 488: Chapter 487: The Black Pearl in the Clam

A silent screenshot war once again broke out just outside the Live Broadcast Room.

Mianmian was also fighting her own battle.

Situ Zha had criticized her again, saying she was foolishly entering other people’s homes.

This time, Mianmian simply didn’t share her thoughts and quietly listened to Situ Zha’s endless nagging. Only when they reached Situ Jing did Situ Zha stop lecturing and sat down to take Mianmian’s basket.

"Here, I’ll help you with these. You’d better go back quickly."

Situ Jing’s technique for preparing seafood was both good and fast, and Situ Zha had also picked it up well.

Mianmian watched intently and learned earnestly.

When it came to opening clams, Situ Zha was holding a small one, and with a tool Situ Jing had found from somewhere, she opened up one of the large clams that Mianmian had found.

There were a lot of clams on the beach, perhaps because the area nearby was where clams lived.

Inside the clams, some parts of the flesh couldn’t be eaten. Situ Zha used the small one in her hand as a demonstration for Mianmian.

Mianmian heard her and used a small knife to pick out the inedible parts from inside the large clam shell she was holding. As she was picking at the flesh, her knife suddenly touched something hard.

"Huh?"

She reached into the clam flesh and felt for the hard object.

After struggling with the clam flesh for a while, a bit of black started to show.

[Damn, my family sells clam shells, and I feel like this is a clam with a pearl inside.]

[Could it be a black pearl?]

While the Broadcasting Room audience was shocked by the discussion, Mianmian had just managed to pull the black object out of the clam.

It was actually a black pearl!

It was a naturally round sphere, about the size of a child’s marble. Under natural light, the black pearl reflected light, with the shadowy parts even revealing a greenish tinge.

"What, some kind of dumb luck?" Situ Zha saw the black pearl, and the corner of her mouth twitched in a clearly dissatisfied manner.

Mianmian blinked her eyes, "Mianmian doesn’t know where this luck came from either."

After speaking, she tossed the black pearl into the basket without intending to deal with it further.

Situ Zha was speechless, wiping her hands on the cloth, and picked up the list that had been placed aside. "Did you not take a careful look at the back of the list?"

"There’s content on the back?" Mianmian looked surprised.

She really hadn’t looked at the back of the list and thought that the little icons on the front were everything there was to it.

Situ Zha, speechless and choking back frustration, handed the back of the list to Mianmian.

[In the history of sea harvesting in this Fishing Village, villagers have found black pearls inside clams. The area nearby might be a breeding ground for black pearl clams. If you find black pearls in clams, you can exchange them for a huge amount of points based on their size!]

"Wow, it’s really true." After Mianmian finished reading the explanation on the back of the list, she smiled joyfully, "So this black pearl can be exchanged for lots of points, that’s great."

She had been embarrassed before because her team hasn’t amassed many points, but now with this black pearl, Charlie would also be happy!

Happy as she was, she still needed to clean the seafood.

"Little Auntie is really lucky." Situ Jing was happy for Mianmian, "With this, you can repay yesterday’s points, right?"

Mianmian nodded her small head: "Hehe, if I find another black pearl next time, I’ll give it to you."

Seeing Mianmian smiling so happily, the fans of Hu Yingying stationed in her Live-stream Room were not pleased.

[Our Xiaohong is also opening clams; she’ll definitely find a black pearl too. What’s there to be smug about?]

[Exactly, running to Yingying’s place to stay for so long, who knows if the clams were picked up from Yingying’s catch?]

[Are you guys stupid? You know very well that Little Auntie has already compensated Hu Xiaohong for everything she found, and yet you’re still saying such things?]

The Live Broadcast Room erupted in chaos again over a black pearl.

In the end, it was only after Mianmian’s fans stopped talking that the commotion finally died down.

All the seafood had been prepped. Situ Jing asked if Charlie will be cooking again today and turned to ask the staff if they could help out.

The staff member replied, "Each group of guests can only eat what they make themselves; they cannot help each other. Directly giving food and points-related items is also not allowed."

Since they couldn’t help with cooking, Situ Jing looked at Mianmian’s small arms and legs and resignedly said, "Little Auntie, then call Charlie over. I’ll teach you how to make the seafood delicious, and after that, you can go back and cook it yourselves."

Situ Jing was willing to teach, and Mianmian was eager to learn.

She ran back to fetch Charlie and stood behind Situ Jing with him to learn how to cook.

To speed up the learning process, Situ Jing demonstrated how to stew seafood.

She described the process in great detail and, while waiting for the pot to heat up, she wrote it down on paper.

Worried that Charlie might not understand, she even included English translations.

Seeing Situ Jing writing down the recipe, Mianmian quickly said, "It’s fine to write it in just one language. Mianmian can read the words from Charlie’s country."

Upon hearing this, Situ Jing, utterly astonished, stopped writing and asked, "Little Auntie, you can read American Language?"

"Yes." Mianmian confirmed and said in American Language, "My mom taught me. She had studied it before, so she taught it all to me. She said you should learn from the best of all worlds, so it’s also necessary to learn other countries’ languages. She hopes that Mianmian will learn some other languages too~ I just haven’t started yet."

"Little Auntie’s mom is so impressive," Situ Jing thought that a mom who could teach a three-year-old child to speak American Language so fluently must be an incredible mom.

Self-consciously comparing to her own son, Situ Jing felt a little ashamed.

She was often busy with work, and if it weren’t for the company closing down, she wouldn’t have had such close moments with Situ Zha.

Noticing Situ Jing’s gaze, Situ Zha rolled his eyes in an ungracious manner, "Just focus on cooking. Why talk about this boring stuff?"

With that, the topic was abruptly cut off.

Situ Jing went back to concentrating on teaching how to cook, especially focusing on the sauce, which is critical for stewed seafood.

If the sauce isn’t tasty, it ruins the whole dish.

After learning, Mianmian and Charlie returned to their own house.

The adult and child worked together to stir-fry the vegetables first. The vegetables didn’t need very high heat; adding a little water just before it runs dry was enough. This time, the vegetables were barely edible when they came out of the wok.

Next came stewing the seafood! Following the process strictly, it was quite simple.

After stewing was done and they were ready to eat, they realized they had forgotten to steam the rice. Moreover, neither of them was quite sure how to use the rice cooker and needed to learn that as well.

They were supposed to go out to look for seafood in the afternoon, but Mianmian and Charlie had spent too much time researching cooking, and by the time they went out, it was already past three o’clock.

After searching all morning, the seafood in their area was pitifully scant, forcing them to continue their search in the communal area.

The afternoon beach seemed very gentle; the sun was leaning towards the west, not directly overhead. The sea glimmered, occasionally rippled by fish surfacing to dance on the water.

Just as Mianmian arrived in the communal area, Situ Zha approached her, grumpily commenting, "Why have you only come now?"

"We went cooking." After Mianmian replied, Situ Zha pulled her to a corner and said, "Here, these are what this young master found diving. There’s plenty here, pick whatever you want."

No sooner had Situ Zha finished speaking than Little White Dragon’s voice rang out, "Mianmian, you’re here too. Look, I found lots of seafood, all for you."

Both of them wanted to offer Mianmian seafood.

Before Mianmian could reply, Gu Youyou also came over.

"Mianmian, come quick, come quick. Mom and I have prepared a surprise for you."

Mianmian glanced at the staff member, leaned in close to Gu Youyou’s ear, and asked, "Is it seafood by any chance?"

Gu Youyou nodded with glee.