With Qin Huai's current skill at making fillings, modifying the recipe Zhao Cheng'an gave doesn't require much effort; just add honey based on intuition.

It should be sweet, but not too sweet. After all, times have changed, and it's no longer an era where people solely pursued sugary foods.

At 4:57 am, the sky outside was already getting light, and the village roosters began crowing one after another. In about ten minutes, Mr. Qin and Granny Qin would get up. The elderly in the village who were used to getting up early would also be awake by now, lingering in their rooms for a bit while checking their phones. Once the sky is fully bright, they would head out to wash up and make breakfast.

Mornings in Qin Family Village were just that ordinary.

Qin Huai tasted a bit of the sweet filling he made.

Hmm, it's delicious, even when eaten alone. Sandwiched thinly between two pieces of Fuling Cake, it should have an even more unique flavor.

The proper procedure for making Fuling Cake sandwiches was so simple that even a 7-year-old in the village could do it.

It could even be DIY-ed, as long as the amount of sweet filling was controlled and not too much was added. This type of Fuling Cake with such sweet fillings wouldn't taste bad no matter how the sandwich was made.

Qin Huai took an appropriate amount of sweet filling, spread it evenly on the cake skin, sandwiched it between two cake skins, and a Fuling Cake sandwich was born.

Qin Huai handed the Fuling Cake sandwich with a smile to Mr. Xu: "Mr. Xu, this is the first Fuling Cake sandwich I made. Please try it and tell me how it tastes."

Mr. Xu got up, took the Fuling Cake sandwich, and was a bit surprised: "Xiao Qin, you've never made this before?"

While speaking, he took a bite.

"Never made it before. Before I went to Beiping last year, I didn't even know this snack existed. We don't eat this around here."

"If you don't believe me, you can ask my parents or my grandparents later. They surely haven't had it either."

Mr. Xu was carefully chewing. Now that he's older, his teeth aren't as strong, and the sweet filling on the Fuling Cake sandwich was a bit sticky for him, making it more effort to eat than just plain Fuling Cake.

After chewing for about a minute, Mr. Xu finally swallowed the first bite and said, "It's quite sweet and very tasty."

After speaking, Mr. Xu gave a wry smile: "But it's a bit too much effort to eat, I might not have the fortune to enjoy it."

As Mr. Xu was speaking, Qin Huai had already spread the sweet filling on the second Fuling Cake sandwich, ready to take a bite: "That's how this snack is. If you like Fuling Cake, I can cook some for you alone. You can keep them in your room as snacks to munch on."

After saying that, Qin Huai took a bite of the Fuling Cake sandwich.

Before eating the Fuling Cake sandwich, Qin Huai had already tried eating the Fuling Cake and the sweet filling separately. His evaluation of these two ingredients was not very high; Fuling Cake had no flavor and no texture, mainly offering freshness and a crispness as thin as a cicada's wings.

The sweet filling had flavor but was monotonously sweet, not a rich or complicated dessert filling, just a very ordinary snack filling.

But when combined, the taste was unexpectedly good and had a unique flavor.

The originally flavorless Fuling Cake had a few unique tastes when paired with the sweet filling. Of course, this additional flavor might have been a figment of Qin Huai's imagination, since Fuling itself is flavorless.

The slightly sticky sweet filling, which made Mr. Xu sigh that he couldn't enjoy it, paired with the Fuling Cake, surprisingly offered Qin Huai some chewiness during the chewing process. It's a unique sensation, unlike eating sticky candy or a chewy bun, more like having a regular snack filled with the New Year's spirit.

It's very sweet, not extraordinarily so, but not cloying either. It's very satisfying to eat. When you hold it in your hands, if you find your mouth feeling bland or want a bite, you can take a nibble. If not, just set it aside.

Whether kids are playing with their friends or adults are sitting in a room watching TV, having tea, or chatting, it fits right in with the New Year's atmosphere.

Suddenly, Qin Huai understood why Zhao Cheng'an wanted to eat this during the New Year because it's indeed well-suited for the occasion.

The originally plain 60-point snack, barely passing, suddenly scored 80 points with the New Year buff.

Not to mention that today is New Year's Eve, with the buff effect even stronger—Qin Huai felt like the Fuling Cake sandwich in his hand scored 85 points.

Qin Huai couldn't stop chewing.

One Fuling Cake sandwich disappeared quickly, and Qin Huai wasn't quite satisfied yet, intending to make another one. But as he picked up a Fuling Cake and prepared to spread sweet filling on it, a notification sound from the game suddenly echoed in his mind.

"Ding, congratulations to the player for discovering——Buzz…Buzz..."

"Congratulations to the player for obtaining [???'s Dream Sequence]."

Qin Huai: ???

Not even pretending?

No quest, just giving a dream?

Did Zhou Hu's tarot reading take effect yesterday? Achieving the wish so quickly, skipping the middle process and getting directly to the result?

Master Zhou, what a divine calculator! Indeed, combining East and West has good effects. You've been pursuing the wrong direction—tarot is really your forte, not Zhou Yi predictions!

Subconsciously, Qin Huai glanced at Mr. Xu, who was still struggling with the Fuling Cake sandwich in hand. Qin Huai looked out the window; the sky was still in a dim state, and Mr. Qin and Granny Qin could get up at any time.

Today is New Year's Eve, and Qin Huai has many things to do, many snacks to make. Qin Luo previously listed a long menu. Today is also the liveliest New Year's dinner for the Qin family, with all the spirits who could come gathered, and Qin Huai wanted to showcase his skills by making a sumptuous table of snacks to entertain everyone.

Mr. Qin and Granny Qin also ordered hot dishes and soup from many families in the village, and tonight Qin Huai and Qin Luo have to deliver Chicken Soup Noodles to each household. Just now, Qin Huai had decided to make more Fuling Cake sandwiches for Qin Luo to distribute to the villagers in the afternoon.

Qin Huai is destined to be very busy today.

And exploring memories is very unpredictable; sometimes Qin Huai might spend half a day in a memory, sometimes several days, sometimes several months. Like with Luo Jun's memory before, even with time acceleration, it was a solid few years.

The passage of time in real life wouldn't be too fast, but for Qin Huai, such a long memory viewing would undoubtedly be mentally taxing. This was why Qin Huai never watched two memory sequences in a row before; it was too exhausting for the brain.

Theoretically, with Qin Huai being so busy today, it wasn't suitable for him to view memories.

Moreover, the name of this memory was very strange—it was ???'s memory. Last time, the game system didn't display the name; it was the spirit of the first life of Qu Jing who made sticky rice cake.

Theoretically, the only memory Qin Huai could now access was Zhou Hu's, but this memory clearly wasn't Zhou Hu's.

And indeed, there was still a slot in Qin Huai's information chart.

A mysterious spirit.

Qin Huai really wanted to watch it, right now.

He hesitated for only a second before deciding to watch it.

If you want to watch, just watch! 𝕗𝐫𝚎𝗲𝘄𝐞𝕓𝐧𝕠𝘃𝕖𝐥.𝐜𝚘𝚖

"Mr. Xu, could you help me close the door, and perhaps check outside to ensure that my parents won't come into the kitchen for the next few minutes?"

Mr. Xu was a bit unresponsive as Qin Huai had already tapped into the virtual game panel, found [???'s Dream Sequence].

"I just obtained a nameless dream sequence, and I want to watch it now. In reality, it should only take a few minutes. In these few minutes, I will be in a dazed, stationary state—don't be alarmed; it'll be over soon."

Mr. Xu was still stunned, not reacting as Qin Huai had already clicked on [???'s Dream Sequence].

Choose yes.

[Loading dream——]

Before entering the dream, Qin Huai heard Mr. Xu say: "Xiao Qin, how do you lock the kitchen door here?"

Qin Huai: !!!

Damn it, miscalculation—I forgot the kitchen door was a second-hand door Granny Qin bought cheaply from town, with a particularly tricky lock.

Rushing to inform Mr. Xu of the trick to locking the kitchen door, Qin Huai hastily opened his mouth, but it was already too late.

Qin Huai entered the dream.

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Kind reminder: I know many readers don't like dream sequences, but this particular sequence is essential to the primary storyline and shouldn't be skipped. (Once the dream ends, the main storyline is almost complete.)