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Lisa rolled around on the bed while hugging a pillow, her mouth letting out cries and groans like a crazy person. She wondered if Jungkook could solve his food problem and whether he could take care of Little Kookie.
Her experiences after crossing over had become clearer and clearer; her memory was no longer as vague as before. However, what followed was endless worry and shame. The worry was Jungkook’s healthy diet, and the shame was the play where she threw away her moral integrity.
Hold it! Lisa paused her actions. She followed a strict sleeping schedule everyday, but that didn’t mean that she couldn’t go straight back to sleep after waking up! She thought of Jungkook and Kookie not having settled their dinner yet, how they were staying miserably in a dark and damp house, and haphazardly solving the problems of food and clothing. Her mind helplessly conjured the picture of a person and a cat squatting together for instant noodles. The sight was unbearable!
Lisa got up and went to the kitchen for a glass of milk, drank it and rinsed her mouth afterwards. Then she laid back on her bed, closed her eyes and went to sleep.
Meanwhile, Jungkook sat at the side of the stove, slowly adding firewood and boiling water. Next to him was a box of instant noodles and a bowl of cat food. Little Kookie was burying its head in the bowl, eating happily.
The water in the pot slowly boiled, giving off steam. He picked up the instant noodles and tore the package open. Taking out the seasoning packet, he was about to add it in, when suddenly, he heard a voice that had earlier disappeared transmitting through the air: [ Sure enough, you are eating instant noodles again! ]
Jungkook’s empty eyes suddenly brightened, and the shadows left by the drooping bangs on his face lightened considerably.
“You didn’t leave?” He looked at the milk bottle on the stove.
[ I was worried that you might not eat well, so I came back again. ]
Jungkook silently remembered this sentence in his heart. Worried that he would not eat well, so she came back, hmmm…
[ What ingredients did you bring? ] Lisa asked.
Jungkook pointed to the chopping board, “Just these.”
[ You’ve already dealt with them? Let’s get started then. ] Lisa said happily, [ Although there aren’t many ingredients, it’s enough to cook dinner. You can buy some fresh ingredients from the villagers tomorrow. ]
“Yeah.” Jungkook stood up, set the instant noodles aside, rolled up his sleeves and prepared to cook.
There was no rice nor oil in the kitchen. The main ingredients were pork, toast, ham, corn, potatoes, tomatoes, fresh vegetables and some condiments.
Lisa had Jungkook first lightly fry the pork to extract the oil before removing the meat. The pork oil was then used to fry slices of ham. After frying, he spread the ham evenly on the toast, then put tomato slices and green leaves on top.
Using the excess oil, he stir-fried pork with potatoes. Adding corn and water, he heated everything to a boil, removed the foam, covered the wok, and simmered for 25 minutes. Then he stirred in the milk with a spatula and did his best to mash the potatoes. He added salt and chicken bouillon for seasoning, simmered for a few more minutes, then finally put out the fire. Thus a bowl of improved potato soup was made.
Lisa had Jungkook specially set aside some potatoes and corn, which were later simmered with tomato juice in the wok as an after dinner snack.
Ham and vegetable toast, potato soup, and an original flavored potato with corn dish were Jungkook’s dinner today.