Lu Wanqing thought about it and quickly returned to the Zhongli family. Arranging a kitchen was quite troublesome, as there were many things inside.
Fortunately, she had prior experience in preparing a kitchen at the Mu family. Lu Wanqing went upstairs and took out the drawing paper and pen for the design blueprint from her spatial button.
Having experienced drawing mechs, she found it easy to sketch the general layout of the kitchen. She didn't want to cause extra trouble, so she directly drew the layout of the kitchen at the Mu family's place, including its fittings, and clearly noted each item. By the time she finished, more than half the day had passed, and it was time for lunch.
The domestic robot made lunch, and the butler called her downstairs to eat. Lu Wanqing readily agreed and handed the kitchen design blueprint she had spent the morning drawing to the butler.
The butler took the design, looked at it curiously for a while, his brows furrowed deeper and deeper, and his eyes filled with increasing confusion. However, he said nothing.
Lu Wanqing noticed the butler's subtle expressions and felt a little worried. But recalling how Butler Mu had handled everything at the Mu family's place, she tried to reassure herself and let go of her concerns, not to overthink.
Technology in the interstellar era was very advanced; these things should be trivial to them.
However, the truth proved Lu Wanqing's assumption of "trivial matters" to be wrong, as she was proven wrong after lunch. The butler had studied the blueprint carefully several times but still couldn't understand it, especially the kitchen appliances noted below, which left him completely bewildered.
"Miss Lu, what you've drawn are things from over three thousand years ago. They probably don't exist anymore," Steward Xiao said to her with a troubled tone.
Lu Wanqing: "..."
"Can't these things be bought?" Lu Wanqing couldn't help but ask.
Steward Xiao's expression was troubled: "Miss Lu, these are things from over three thousand years ago. It's really difficult to find them in our era."
"And even if we could find them, wouldn't they be in the national museum?"
"Of course, a small portion might be private collections of antiques, but that..."
"Even if we bought them back at a high price, these things from over three thousand years ago probably couldn't be truly put into use, could they?"
Lu Wanqing looked at Steward Xiao and finally couldn't help but let out a chuckle.
"I didn't mean that," Lu Wanqing quickly explained. "I meant, we could have a batch of this type of appliance custom-made now."
Lu Wanqing said, feeling a little embarrassed: "I can't help it. The appliances in the interstellar era look too advanced, and I don't seem to know how to use them."
To be precise, they were super-intelligent and advanced. The kitchens in the interstellar era had been completely replaced by automated machines, which they called domestic robots. There was no room for manual control at all.
She wanted to cook for the children herself, so she needed a kitchen that could be operated manually.
Steward Xiao finally understood and breathed a sigh of relief, but he soon looked troubled again: "But there are no places to sell these appliances, right?"
Lu Wanqing: "..."
So, was this matter causing Steward Xiao so much trouble?
Lu Wanqing was a little confused. At the Mu family's place, these things had been very simple, and a new kitchen was ready in just one day, with all the utensils in styles she was familiar with and fully usable.
However, as she thought about it, Lu Wanqing suddenly remembered something. The Zhongli family was different from the Mu family. The Zhongli family was in the military, while the Mu family specialized in mechs. In other words, the Mu family specialized in researching machinery, and Mu Sijie was the most powerful mech master in the interstellar era.
The Mu family's expertise was in making machines, so it was a trivial matter for them to produce a set of appliances from over three thousand years ago. But for the Zhongli family, it was a very difficult and troublesome task?
Lu Wanqing understood as she thought, and she came back to her senses. She looked at Steward Xiao and quickly said, "I understand. I'll handle the appliances. You just need to have the kitchen's general layout renovated according to my design blueprint, okay?"
Setting aside the appliance issue, renovating the kitchen was actually very simple.
"Okay!" Steward Xiao agreed immediately. Without having to worry about the appliances, simply renovating the kitchen to match the shape in the blueprint was quite simple.
"Thank you," Lu Wanqing said quickly.
"You're welcome, it's my duty," Steward Xiao said earnestly.
"If you don't understand anything in the blueprint, you can come to me," Lu Wanqing said again.
"Alright, I know," Steward Xiao replied.
Lu Wanqing nodded. The kitchen renovation matter was roughly arranged. The remaining issue was the appliances.
She didn't think the appliances would be difficult. The Mu family had a set. She could probably ask Mu Sijie to move the appliances from there?
Now that she had a spatial button, moving things was convenient.
Lu Wanqing thought about it, opened her communicator, and sent a message to Mu Sijie, explaining the matter of the kitchen appliances.
To her surprise, as soon as she sent the message, Mu Sijie replied quickly.
"No problem, just a few appliances, it's very simple."
"However, it's best not to touch the ones at the Mu family's place for now. Lanlan really likes things you've used. If they are all moved away, he might be sad."
Lu Wanqing looked at the message, and her heart sank. She thought of Lanlan.
"How is Lanlan recently?"
"After I left..."
"Did he cry?"
Lu Wanqing thought about it and couldn't help but ask.
Mu Sijie: "He's fine, just misses you quite a bit."
Mu Sijie: "If you have time, could you call him before sleeping every night and tell him a bedtime story? He really likes listening to your bedtime stories."
Lu Wanqing suddenly felt her throat was a little hoarse. After a while, she found her voice and agreed, "Okay."
Mu Sijie's words also reminded her. Even if she couldn't go to other families to take care of the other children now, the interstellar era's internet was so developed. Perhaps she could call the children on her communicator, or occasionally take them to meet on the interstellar network?
Although the interstellar network wasn't the real world, everything simulated in it was so vivid, and the gap with the real world wasn't that big, right?
If she could have the other children log into the interstellar network, and they could meet there together, wouldn't that be great?
Lu Wanqing thought about it and couldn't help but edit all her thoughts into a message and send it, asking for Mu Sijie's opinion.
In the Mu Group's mech laboratory, Mu Sijie looked at the message Lu Wanqing sent and was silent for a long time. Finally, he replied sternly: "You'd better not do that."
Mu Sijie: "Wanqing, I know you care a lot about the children, but unless there are special circumstances, do not let the children gather frequently."
Lu Wanqing: "???"
Why couldn't the children gather together?
They were just children?
Who would they hurt by gathering?
Lu Wanqing couldn't understand. She couldn't help but take out her communicator and type out that question again: "Why?"
Lu Wanqing: "If they gather, will something bad happen?"