After the two kids finished eating the cookies, they didn't want to talk about food anymore.

Otherwise, it will arouse the gluttony in your stomach again.

Unable to find a suitable topic, the two could only lie in bed staring at each other, and soon began to feel sleepy.

"Ha~~Miss, I'll take a nap first. Wait for Brother Li Heng to come and call me..."

Xiao Chi only felt his eyelids becoming heavier and heavier, his consciousness becoming more and more blurred, and finally his head tilted and he fell asleep.

"Xiao Chi, don't... don't sleep! Ha~ I, I can't hold on any longer!"

Lu Xiaoxiao weakly shook Xiaochi's shoulders, trying to wake her up, but she herself fell asleep without resistance because of her intense sleepiness.

......

Outside the room, in the yard, Li Heng admired the vast starry sky for a long time, and finally decided to go back to sleep.

"Squeak~"

After pushing open the door, Li Heng heard a snoring sound coming from the room.

“Huha~Huha…”

"Could it be that a stray dog ​​sneaked into my house? It can't be those two little guys!"

Li Heng pricked up his ears and immediately identified the source of the sound: his bed.

He quietly walked to the bedside and immediately saw two big bulges on the quilt.

"Well! I didn't expect it was really you two."

He lifted the quilt and saw two little ones lying on their backs, fast asleep, with a glowing ball between them.

"How come these two fell asleep in my room? Did they eat too much and become dizzy? So they walked into the wrong room?"

Before he could figure out why the two little ones appeared here, two irregular water stains on the bed sheet next to him caught his eye.

The two puddles of water looked particularly dazzling under the light, and there were some biscuit crumbs next to them.

"Damn it! You actually ate cookies in my cup and drooled so much."

Li Heng was so angry that his teeth were itching. He wanted to wake up the two kids and give them a good spanking.

"Li..., Brother Li Heng, our...gifts, do you like them?"

Xiao Chi, who was still asleep, suddenly turned over and muttered to himself intermittently.

"Gift? What gift? Why can't I see it?"

Li Heng thought for a while before he understood what Xiao Chi meant.

"You two are really creative. Who would consider themselves as a gift?"

Xiao Chi's talking in her sleep made Li Heng give up his plan to beat them up.

He picked up the two little ones, sent them back to their rooms, and carefully tucked them in before going back.

The next morning, the two little ones woke up from their dreams and found themselves in their own room.

Aren't they in Brother Li Heng's room? Was everything that happened last night just a dream?

The two confused kids ran out of the room, wanting to confirm with Li Heng, and then they saw him drying bed sheets in the yard.

The two water stains on it look familiar.

In order to avoid being beaten, the two kids did not go to him to cause trouble, but bypassed him and sneaked to the kitchen.

Li Heng made porridge for breakfast, not ordinary porridge, but century egg and lean meat porridge.

The lean meat is not ordinary lean meat, but dragon meat, so overall, today's breakfast is quite luxurious.

After all, not everyone can eat the meat of high-level spiritual beasts.

Having said that, Song Qingfeng, Bai Dabao and other big guys and apprentices were not too curious about the dragon meat. Instead, they were somewhat interested in the preserved eggs in the bowl.

Because they had eaten dragon meat for several meals in a row, this was the first time they had eaten preserved eggs.

"Brother Li Heng, what animal laid this preserved egg?"

"This is an egg, but I processed it a little using some methods to change its appearance and taste."

Li Heng explained to them while drinking his porridge.

"Is that so? Then can you give me one to try?"

"This thing tastes a bit strong if eaten dry, and most people may not be able to handle it."

Considering that Song Qingfeng was a person with strong taste, Li Heng decided to give him one to try.

As for the others, after hearing Li Heng's reminder, they decided to wait and see for a while.

"Hehe, I'm not an ordinary person, but this preserved egg looks pretty good."

Song Qingfeng peeled a preserved egg in just a few strokes. Despite its beautiful appearance, it exuded a pungent, indescribable smell.

Just this smell was enough to make the other big guys back off. It seemed that Li Heng's reminder was right.

However, Song Qingfeng didn't care about the smell at all and threw the peeled preserved egg into his mouth.

"Mm, not bad! It's the taste I like."

After eating, Song Qingfeng nodded with a satisfied look on his face.

"A ruthless man!"

Li Heng sighed inwardly. Apart from him and the two kids, other people were not so accepting of eating preserved eggs 'raw'.

After breakfast, Li Heng wanted to check the fermentation of the cocoa beans that he had been concerned about all night.

After arriving in the room, I opened the seal on the jar directly, and a sour and stinky smell hit me in the face.

"Ugh~"

The two little ones were caught off guard, their eyes went dark, and they turned their heads away and started retching.

I thought Brother Li Heng was making something delicious, so we got so close to each other, but I didn't expect that he made a jar of stinky stuff.

But after eating stinky tofu, snail noodles and preserved eggs, the two little ones did not doubt Li Heng.

They firmly believe that what Li Heng will eventually make will be delicious.

"This taste is even more refreshing than snail rice noodle!"

Li Heng couldn't stand the smell, but there was no other way. If he wanted to make better-tasting chocolate, the fermentation step was inevitable.

In the acceleration formation, the cocoa beans that had been naturally fermented overnight had turned brown on the surface.

The rotten pulp sticks to the cocoa fruit, giving it a sticky feel.

It is still in this state, which is exactly what he wants to see. The fermentation of the cocoa beans is complete and the subsequent steps can begin.

Li Heng took the jar to the kitchen, poured the cocoa beans into a basin, and then washed off the pulp on the surface with clean water.

Put the washed cocoa beans into the oven and bake them at low temperature for ten minutes to dry the moisture on the surface of the cocoa beans.

The low temperature mentioned here is about eighty degrees. Li Heng doesn't have a thermometer, and there is no temperature scale on the alien version of the oven.

Therefore, he can only rely on his experience to control the temperature.

After the moisture on the surface of the cocoa fruit is dried, the formal baking process will begin.

Roast the cocoa beans in the oven in three batches.

The first time the temperature is controlled at around 100 degrees and the time is 30 minutes; the second time the temperature is 130 degrees and the time is also 30 minutes; the third time the temperature is 150 degrees and the time is 10 minutes.

The roasted cocoa beans no longer have a stinky smell like before.

Instead, there was a chocolate aroma, which was enough to show that Li Heng was half successful.

Pick up a cocoa bean and gently pinch it with your hand. The brown skin will fall off easily, revealing the brown kernel inside.

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