She looked in fridge; there were eggs, which she took one to crack. The egg was completely yellow, with no white part.
She gave up on trying to understand the foods of this world. She browsed through the food list in her mind trying to see what she can cook.
She looked at the ingredients she had stocked and she was stumped. She has always been a fan of African food, like chapati kuku. However, she doesn't have time to knead the dough, roll it then fry it; it is time consuming and her anger, sorry, her stomach can't wait.
So she chose to cook rice, stir-fried chicken, some veggies and scrambled eggs.
She could feel her mouth watering in the end, her mood already lifted.
She looked in the truck with suprise; she had been in this world for almost three days, which was like three years in Earth.
The eggs she had incubated had already hatched and it seemed the system had incubated more. Since her client told her to buy whatever she could, she bought an incubator with eggs; at the time she thought, "What is an apocalypse without eggs or chicken.?"
And her truck; it looked different, the size seemed bigger. Well whatever.
She dismissed her concerns, as long as there was a limited supply of food, she was not worried. But to be prepared she will search for a place to plant the seeds and rear some chickens.
She tied the apron on her waist before washing her hands. In the process she washed the carrots, peppers, onions and garlic.
She then peeled the carrots and sliced them before slicing the peppers and the onion, while the garlic was minced.
Making sure all her spices were ready, she cut the 1kg boneless chicken in to a bite- sized pieces.
She heat oil in a large pan, which she found in the kitchen, over medium high heat.
She used a cooking stove from the space, because she found it hard to start fire from this world's gas stove due to it's complicated irocess of starting it and the use of crystals instead of actual gas. Lastly had not been taught on how to use it.
After making sure the oil was of the right temperature, she added the chicken pieces and cooked them until they were golden brown for about five to seven minutes.
She removed the fried chicken from the pan and set it in another pan before adding a bit more oil.
She sauteed the sliced onions and minced garlic until fragrant. When her husbands smelled the aroma wafting from the kitchen, they were shocked. The scent was fragnant, appetizing and new.
They thought that it will be like always, or like on their past life, when she bossed them around, demanding the best food, when they themselves coldnt even cook.
When they saw her going in to the kitchen, they expected to hear her curses,but the aroma, made them stop the scheme's that they were concocting in their brains.
They all stood up and went to peek through the kitchen door. There, in the kitchen, their wife stood dancing around to a song they had never heard. Using strange and familiar tools.
She was cracking the eggs, before scrambling them. She mixed the veggies she had prepared earlier, after making sure it was ready to be served, she removed the food from the stove and closed it.
There, in the pots the food was steaming hot and ready to be served.
She looked at the ready tempting food, her conscious stomach ignored her, it started growling from anticipation. It started growling from the time she imagined the ready meal up to the real ready meal.
"Cassen, help me carry the remaining food." She said, she knew they were around, hiding, even the ones who were peeking at her from the kitchen door.
She carried the rice to the dining table. It was wooden and round, with ten wooden chairs sorronding it.
The plates were ready, after a while, Cassen followed by Alex, the second husband, brought the remaining food and placed it on the table.
She told Alex to call the remaining three— much she does not want to see them, she could not eat while they were looking.
The aroma was hard to ignore, before Alex could call them they were already standing.
Didn't they fear she could poison them or just like Cassen they were immune to any poison?
Seeing everyone on the dining table eating her food with relish, made her happy.
She made sure that her stomach was bloated before she stopped eating. The remaining food was cleaned by the other five.
Now she started looking at them; the other time she was too angry to realise how beautiful and world breaking these half men could be. They were too delicate, too handsome, too much of her types but she can not touch them.
Their eyelashes were too long, she felt envious for a moment.
They ate, neither too hurriedly not too slowly; at a pace, and elegantly. Well they were nobles, and as a noble they are taught everything as nobles, even peeing is as a noble.
Thank God she could not remember the noble rules, but she felt like she would never followed them, judging by the clothes in her closet.
When they finished eating, she waited for them to at least thank or praise her. But tactically, they all remained quiet.
They all stood up to clear the dishes and wash them in the sink.
"System, they left just like that." She thought, feeling like smacking them. How can they not appreciate something good, even her good pinkie ignored her.
"Come here!" She screamed inwardly.
They all stopped, mechanically, they turned their heads in her direction but Cassen, ignored her inner ranting.
The other four, maybe they are still psychologically traumatized or they were shocked.
Shocked to hear her quarrelling but they didn't see her mouth moving.
Shocked by the idea of her looking cute with that expression of wanting to hit them but she couldn't.
Shocked that they thought she looked cute.
The four of them turned back to the dining and looked at her.
She became conscious of their stares. Remembering how the system had advised her to marry more than ten husbands, she closed her legs tightly.
If she had balls, they would explode from exhaustion.
Her eyes trailed from their heads up to their waists then downard.
"Gasp! system they look big." she lamented. How can she handle more than five?
Now she felt sorry for her mother for having fifteen of them.
When they heard her inner voice, their eyes darkened.
She wants to sleep with us? They thought. In her dreams. Their killing intent intensified when they remembered how she forced herself on them, in their last life.
When she so how much hatred and disdain, was in their eyes, she rolled her eyes.
How dare they show disdain, did they think she wants to see them. She sneered.
The beeping of her opti-crystal phone broke up the tense atmosphere.
She read the arrogant message twice to make sure that she didn't get it wrong.
"Three days from now on, there will be a banquet at main palace in the city center, prepare." She told her husbands who were standing there.
Just like Earth, there are seven days but the months are different. There are 13 months with 28 days in a year.
She stood up with a tired sigh, already envisioning the chaos that will be on that day.
Everything has it's first. She remember there on Earth the girls would say shyly," that was my first kiss" or you could here someone saying" that was my first time going there".
She once told her mysterious client, "You are my first customer."
She thought that if she there is a choice to choose powers, she will choose the power that speed time.
She could speed up even years. She chuckled at the thought. If wishes were that simple everyone would wish to be a millionaire.
She decided to be mentally prepared, because the banquet would be the beginning of the plot.
It's about time she met the other characters.