As for what to sell at the stall, Chen Mo wasn't quite sure yet, but he definitely needed to buy some chicken.

The task for Han Yang Peanuts didn't have specific instructions, and he could only follow clues. However, he wasn't on this trip just for a task. Chen Mo found the Lu Family's issues far more interesting than his own mission.

Why did Lu the Second, who's likely a big boss now, return to his hometown to take down the signboard that Boss Lu had inherited and maintained for a hundred years?

Could it be that this sign was somehow bothering him?

From Chen Mo's observation, Boss Lu's business was doing quite well, but no matter how good it was, it couldn't compare to just a finger of Lu the Second's enterprise.

This was quite intriguing.

Chen Mo slowly walked up the mountain road from his memory. He chose not to drive but to walk instead.

The scenery in Sichuan and Shu was limitless, with mountain ranges stretching endlessly on either side of the road after leaving Hanyang. In sparsely populated areas, the sound of flowing water from the mountains could faintly be heard.

Such an environment made one feel that living in this place could extend one's life by ten years!

The mountain road in his memory hadn't changed much. Chen Mo continued on willingly, and after about twenty minutes, he saw a narrow path appear on one side of the mountain road.

If he remembered correctly, this was where Boss Lu lived.

"Hello? Is anyone there?"

Standing at the end of the path, Chen Mo shouted loudly.

The yard didn't have a gate, so everything inside was visible at a glance. Just as Chen Mo finished speaking, a woman's voice emerged from inside the house, growing closer.

"I've told you many times, I'm not selling, not selling! If you have the skill, you just... Oh?"

The woman stood in the yard staring at Chen Mo, her angry expression quickly turning to one of embarrassment, "Sorry, who are you?"

Chen Mo looked at the woman in front of him.

She was exactly the same as he remembered, albeit with a few more wrinkles on her face and a bit less sparkle in her eyes.

"Oh. I'm a tourist. I heard people say the chicken sold by your family is of great quality, so I was wondering if I could possibly buy one?"

"Well..." The woman hesitated a little, "You'd have to ask that man of mine. He's at the chicken farm right now. Would you like to wait for a little bit?"

"No need." Chen Mo smiled and said, "Can you tell me where the chicken farm is? I'll go and ask him myself."

The woman turned and pointed behind her house, "You need to head this way. There's only a small path you can take. Keep going and you'll see it."

That should be easy to find.

Chen Mo nodded in thanks and followed the mountain road behind the small house, continuing upwards. This path clearly wasn't originally there—it likely appeared from Boss Lu walking it countless times.

Walking and walking, just walking on and on.

Climbing over another small hill, the view in front suddenly broadened. Not far away, he could see a fence made of wire without an end in sight.

The area enclosed by the wire was vast, and inside, flocks of free-range chickens were running around, occasionally pecking at the ground, seemingly having discovered insects in the soil.

Beneath the wire fence, a man was squatting on the ground, staring off into the distance at the chickens with half a cigarette in his hand.

"Hello?"

Lu Yongjun turned his head, "Who are you?"

"Oh, I'm an outsider, a tourist. I heard your family raises great chickens, so I especially came to buy one."

Lu Yongjun was startled at first, then smiled softly, "There aren't many chickens with suitable dates at the moment. How many do you need?"

Such confidence?

Such a response surprised Chen Mo a bit. The man in front of him greatly differed from what he had seen in his memory card.

Logically, men should put on some weight in middle age, but Lu Yongjun had not, and he was even a bit slimmer than he was over a decade ago.

The face, lean and furrowed, looked about seven or eight years older than his wife.

"I, I'll only take one first."

"There's still one available." Lu Yongjun opened the pen's gate and flicked the butt of his cigarette onto the ground to stub it out with his foot, "Cluck cluck cluck cluck~"

He pinched his throat to make a sound resembling a chicken's, and all the chickens that had been hunting for bugs came running over at the sound. Lu Yongjun crouched down and yanked up a sprout of greenery from the ground.

The green sprout pulled from the earth was laden with a bunch of peanuts!

The excited chickens gathered around the peanut sprout, pecking vigorously, and Lu Yongjun took the opportunity to grab one chicken by the wing and lifted it, "Here you go."

"How much?"

"How much..."

Chen Mo saw the man before him seeming to space out for a moment, "Never mind, just take it as a gift."

After speaking, Lu Yongjun turned back, led Chen Mo through the fence, locked the wire mesh again, and returned to his original place, lit another cigarette from his pocket.

Seeing that the other party didn't seem to want to talk more, Chen Mo had to take a hundred yuan bill from his pocket and place it next to Lu Yongjun.

When Lu Yongjun didn't respond, Chen Mo said, "Thanks then."

Then he traced his way back down the mountain. Returning to the yard, he didn't see the woman. He only smelled a smoky fragrance drifting from the kitchen, guessing correctly that she was probably making something like smoked meat.

Chen Mo didn't disturb her and left the courtyard on his own.

Nearly an hour later.

Chen Mo returned to the parking lot outside the commune, the hen in his hand clucking incessantly.

"By the way... why did Uncle the Blacksmith say the Lu family's chicken is the best?"

Chen Mo placed the live chicken on the food truck's countertop, "Identify the ingredients."

[Identifying ingredients...]

[Identification complete!]

[Free-range chicken, grown by eating various types of insects and peanuts in the wild, Rating: A grade]

[Hanyang Peanut Chicken, due to being raised free-range from a young age, possesses firmer meat, feeds on various types of insects and fresh peanuts found in the wild, resulting in succulent and tender meat with a natural freshness.]

Chen Mo's eyes almost shone with light!

What the heck!

Wasn't the task about Hanyang peanuts, how come buying a chicken got him an A-grade ingredient?

Moreover!

Chen Mo saw in his mind that the Seeking Flavor task was marked as completed, meaning...

Chen Mo could hardly believe it and looked up at his Cloning Chef Machine, then tried putting the live chicken in the second slot at the top.

"You really can't give me a replicated live chicken, right?"

Somewhat incredulously, he slowly opened the second platform slot of the chef machine.

"Crap!"

Lying silently inside the compartment was a whole chicken already cleaned and plucked!

This was too amazing, wasn't it?

And the words that appeared before him proved that Chen Mo wasn't seeing things.

[Number of copies: 2/10]

[Category: A-grade Flour, A-grade Peanut Chicken]

[Copying ability: 5 lbs per time, 1 chicken per time]

[Cooldown time: 30 minutes, 5 minutes]

[Note: Flour can be copied up to 50 lbs per day, Peanut Chicken up to 30 chickens per day]

That's quite a lot, 30 chickens really aren't few!

Chen Mo delightedly took the processed whole chicken out and tossed it on the workbench.

"Let's see what's so special about this A-grade peanut chicken!"

Chen Mo casually sliced a small piece of chicken, putting it into the input slot, waiting for the recipe analysis to be completed.

Night fell.

He wasn't in a rush to cook.

There was one more thing to do, since Uncle the Blacksmith mentioned it too; in Hanyang, the market operates on a first-come, first-serve basis, so Chen Mo had to choose a decent spot as well.

It was already late, and the streets had few people left. Chen Mo slowly drove his food truck into the ancient town.

After winding through several streets, he arrived at Lu Fang, next door.

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