Chapter 16
Mo Xiaoxin spent half a day busy preparing only five dishes. But she still made time to cook chicken and carrot rice for the cats.
While a spatula can increase cooking speed, that's only a limited amount of time; you still have to prepare the ingredients yourself, and that's where the longest part of the cooking time is.
She fed the cat first before bringing the five dishes to Leng Huai's room.
Upon learning that Mo Xiaoxin had only prepared five dishes, Leng Huai's face darkened considerably.
"Are you trying to starve me to death?" Leng Huai looked at the three meat dishes and two vegetable dishes laid out on the table. He had waited so long, and this was all the food he got?
“I only have one hour. It takes me half a day to wash, chop, and cut the vegetables and meat. Making five dishes is already my limit,” Mo Xiaoxin retorted confidently.
"Then what are my servants supposed to eat? Drink the northwest wind?" Leng Huai asked coldly.
Mo Xiaoxin helplessly spread her hands: "That's all the ability I have."
“Deduct five taels of silver,” Leng Huai said.
Mo Xiaoxin was shocked. Their relationship was like that of a boss and an employee. She really couldn't escape the fate of being a working person no matter where she went.
But this boss's requirements are too high.
“I protest, I can’t cook for so many people by myself.”
If Zha Leng Huai withholds money, she'll only accumulate more and more debt.
"Protest denied," Leng Huai replied coldly.
Mo Xiaoxin looked like she was giving up. She had already done enough by cooking for free, and Leng Huai was still being picky. Who gave him the nerve?
Well, the mighty Demon Lord certainly has the guts.
"So what do you want? I only have two hands. At most, I can cook one more dish next time," Mo Xiaoxin said helplessly.
Leng Huai lowered his eyes and said without hesitation, "Then you're in charge of making it for me. I want five meat dishes and five vegetable dishes. If you can't finish, get up early."
Dude, are you a pig? How can you eat so much by yourself?
Leng Huai said to Zi Yu, "Give the order that the new kitchen I built last month is finished. It's twice the size of the old one. Have the cooks prepare it as soon as possible so that everyone doesn't go hungry."
Ziyu nodded in agreement and disappeared in the blink of an eye.
Mu Xiaoxiao's woodshed was indeed quite old, but it still looked clean and new, which shows that Leng Huai treated his servants quite well.
As if knowing what Mo Xiaoxin was thinking, Leng Huai said, "How can you work for me if you don't eat your fill?"
And what about her? Mo Xiaoxin was so hungry that her stomach was sticking to her back. At this moment, she looked at the dishes on the table and wanted to pounce on them, but seeing Leng Huai's arrogant look, she didn't dare to go forward. She swallowed and suppressed her inner impulse.
Leng Huai saw through Mo Xiaoxin's intentions and a mischievous smile appeared on his lips. He deliberately said, "It smells quite nice."
Then, without rushing, he picked up his chopsticks, took a string bean, and put it in his mouth.
Mo Xiaoxin barely suppressed the urge to slap him, her mind already turning this man into eight pieces.
Mo Xiaoxin asked, "How is it? Is it delicious?"
She tasted it while cooking, and it was absolutely delicious.
To everyone's surprise, Leng Huai chewed a couple of times, then suddenly frowned and quickly spat it out: "It's disgusting, make it again."
Mo Xiaoxin's eyes widened: "Impossible!"
She rushed over, picked up her chopsticks, and put the green beans in her mouth: "Isn't this delicious?"
"It's overcooked."
"Old? How could that be? If you don't stir-fry green beans like this, they'll die if they're not fully cooked!"
Leng Huai ignored Mo Xiaoxin's explanation and said to Ziyu, who had just returned, "It's fallen."
Hey, hey, hey, if you're not going to eat it, give it to her!
Mo Xiaoxin clenched her fist and watched as Ziyu, expressionless, poured the dish away without hesitation.
She endured it.
Leng Huai tried another dish of boiled beef, but he spat it out as soon as he ate it: "Make it again."
Mo Xiaoxin asked, puzzled, "What is it now?"
"It's too spicy."
Next, Leng Huai tasted all the remaining dishes, found fault with them, and made Mo Xiaoxin redo them all.
She seriously suspected that Leng Huai was setting her up!
Leng Huai told Ziyu to throw away all the dishes.
Ziyu threw away the vegetables without even blinking.
Aren't they hungry?
She was starving. Just as the last dish was about to be thrown away, Mo Xiaoxin finally couldn't help but say, "Wait, can I have that dish?"
Leng Huai: "No, you didn't cook for the servants."
Mo Xiaoxin watched as Leng Huai dumped all the vegetables into the trash can, cursing under his breath.
This dish took her a whole hour to prepare, and he just threw it away like that—what a waste!
She cursed Leng Huai as she returned to the woodshed to cook for him.
Want to mess with her? No way!
Wouldn't she sneak a bite while cooking?
But as soon as they arrived at the woodshed, they found a maid standing to the side.
“Miss Mo, I was sent by the Demon Lord to keep an eye on you, in case you steal food.”
Is Leng Huai a mind reader? How does he know what she's thinking?
Fine, fine, if you're going to pick on her and not let her steal a bite, then she won't let him off easy either.
Mo Xiaoxin secretly added a large spoonful of salt to the dish.
I'll make you sick of it.
After cursing Leng Huai a thousand or ten thousand times in her heart, Mo Xiaoxin finally made the five meat dishes and five vegetable dishes that Leng Huai had requested.
She glanced at the time; another hour had passed, and her stomach was protesting terribly.
When Mo Xiaoxin placed the dishes on the table, Leng Huai raised an eyebrow slightly. He had really underestimated her; she had actually managed to cook ten dishes in an hour. He had originally intended to find fault with her.
Suppressing her anger, Mo Xiaoxin forced a smile and said, "Please, Demon Lord, have a taste."
Just as Leng Huai was about to put the green beans into his mouth, he heard Mo Xiaoxin's stomach rumble.
Are you hungry?
"Um……"
You're only finding out now? She was cooking while she was starving!
Leng Huai pushed a plate of green beans in front of him towards Mo Xiaoxin: "Then you can have this dish."
Unfortunately, this dish contained a lot of salt.
Mo Xiaoxin's lips twitched slightly: "I don't really like this dish."
"Oh? But I really like the other dishes, and I don't want to give them to you." Seeing that Mo Xiaoxin wasn't eating, Leng Huai picked up a green bean and started eating it.
Mo Xiaoxin looked at Leng Huai's expression, anticipating how he would feel from the saltiness of the food.
But after waiting for a long time, Leng Huai did not react at all.
Mo Xiaoxin couldn't help but feel a little strange. It couldn't be. She clearly put in so much salt.
Did she misread it and put in sugar?
While Leng Huai was drinking water, she secretly picked up a green bean and put it in her mouth. The moment it touched her lips, it tasted incredibly salty, and she almost had a stroke.
She painfully vomited up the green beans.
Leng Huai sneered, "I told you I'd give you some, but you wouldn't eat it. Now you're secretly eating it. Fine, since you're so hungry, I'll reward you with this dish. Ziyu, you make sure she finishes it, or else..."
Ziyu nodded: "Yes, I understand."
No way, she really brought this on herself!
Mo Xiaoxin stood frozen in place, her body stiff, wrestling with immense inner turmoil.
In Leng Huai's eyes, Mo Xiaoxin's body was trembling, and she seemed very excited. He said, "What? Are you excited about the reward I gave you? What are you standing for? Sit down and eat, my wife."
As he read the last two words, a smile played on his lips, a smile that looked incredibly jarring and full of mockery of her actions.
He was faking it all along! He knew all along!
Damn it! This man is a devil, a devil with an incredibly dark heart!
She stared at the plate of green beans on the table. She would rather be killed by this man than eat this plate of green beans!
There was really no escaping it, so she resignedly sat down opposite Leng Huai.
Leng Huai ate his meal leisurely, gesturing to Mo Xiaoxin that she could start eating.
Under the watchful eyes of Leng Huai and Zi Yu, Mo Xiaoxin reluctantly ate the entire plate. She would eat one green bean and then drink a sip of water, until she had swallowed the whole plate of green beans and drunk a lot of water.
Her belly was so swollen and round, it felt like it was about to burst.
Leng Huai: "Don't worry, there's plenty of water in the Demon Realm."
Mo Xiaoxin looked up to the sky and howled. What sins had she committed?
Mo Xiaoxin cleared away the plates, and by the time she finished washing them, it was already dark.
The Demon Palace was quiet at night, and Mo Xiaoxin strolled leisurely in the courtyard.
It was still early, and she didn't want to go back to the bedroom too soon to see Leng Huai's sour face.
As Mo Xiao entered the courtyard, she was greeted by the fragrant aroma of flowers and the occasional chirping of birds, which made her feel relaxed and happy.
Rarely having such a leisurely time, Mo Xiaoxin finally felt relaxed.
Looking back on her time in this world, she was filled with emotion. Her parents and master from her previous life must miss her terribly. Their daughter is still alive, doing well in this world full of battles, and can be resurrected an unlimited number of times. Once she has accumulated enough resurrections to complete the mission, she can return to reality to be with them.
Mo Xiaoxin was lost in thought when she suddenly heard someone speaking.
She snapped out of her daze and immediately became alert. She hid behind a tree, watching the two people approaching from a distance.
It was Leng Huai and Zi Yu.
Ziyu told Leng Huai about what Mo Xiaoxin had done that day.
Mo Xiaoxin then realized that Leng Huai had sent someone to monitor her every move.
No wonder Leng Huai gave her that dish today; he was deliberately messing with her again.
hateful!
She'd been tricked again!
She refused to believe it. She was a modern woman from the 21st century. Although her magic power was lacking, she was not incompetent enough to outwit a demon king.
After the two left, Mo Xiaoxin quietly withdrew from the courtyard. She returned to her bedroom, lay on the bed, and kept muttering curses at Leng Huai.
She caught a whiff of a fragrance, the same scent she had smelled the last time she visited his room.
She vaguely felt that she had smelled this scent somewhere before.
She thought for a long time, and then suddenly a brilliant idea struck her.
The attack pill that Mu Xiaoxiao gave her contained this fragrance; the fragrance was very strong and had a particularly strong attack effect.
She remembers vividly that while the pill was being explained, she was eating and suddenly lost her appetite. Fortunately, Xiao Xiao gave her the antidote, and she recovered.
She patted her pockets for a while, wanting to double-check. Suddenly, she remembered that Leng Huai had confiscated the dowry box that Mu Xiaoxiao had given her.
She sighed. She was penniless, heavily in debt, and had even run out of pills to protect herself. It was truly a miserable situation.
However, she wouldn't forget the taste; there must be something wrong.
The smell is so strong, why is Leng Huai not reacting to it at all?
She had initially thought that the scent of the sachet was deliberately placed there by Leng Huai, but now it seemed that it definitely wasn't.
This fragrance stimulates the senses, causing them to gradually disappear, first the senses of taste and smell, then hearing, until finally all the senses are lost and the person becomes a vegetable.
She remembered that Leng Huai had taken a bite of very salty green beans and had no reaction at all. She had thought that Zi Yu and Qiao Yun were interfering and had told Leng Huai about adding salt in advance, but now it seemed that was not the case at all.
Perhaps Leng Huai's sense of taste has disappeared.
This toxin attack is a chronic poison, and it has been lurking around Leng Huai for at least a year.
Perhaps the person who poisoned Leng Huai had already been lurking around him, but had not been discovered.
I wonder who Leng Huai offended that made him so determined to kill him.
It is unknown whether the person who gave Leng Huai the insomnia powder was the same person who poisoned him on their wedding night.
If so, why would they want to kill Leng Huai beforehand? Aren't they afraid of exposing their identity?
She still couldn't figure it out; she was completely clueless.
She leaned back, picked up a pillow and placed it behind her, then lay down on the soft pillow.
Suddenly, a black object flew past her, and when she saw it clearly, a chill ran down her spine.
A jet-black arrow was stuck diagonally on the bedpost, the black and blue feather at the tip of the arrow exuding a sinister aura, making it look quite eerie.
If she hadn't been lying on her back, the arrow would have pierced her neck.
She was horrified, a wave of fear washing over her.
Looking in the direction the arrow came from, there was a round hole in the window paper.
The archer must be outside.
She ran under the table to hide, but before she could get under, a cold hand pulled her out.
The woman was wearing a long black coat, and although her face was expressionless, she still looked exceptionally beautiful.
It was night-blooming jasmine.
Before Mo Xiaoxin could even cry for help, Ye Songlan's icy hand covered her mouth, and then everything went black as she lost consciousness.
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