Chapter 295: Numb
Irene and Xuan Che stared at each other.
After about half a minute, the little puppet took a look at the things the other party had just taken out and said, "Nothing?"
Xuan Che's face twitched slightly, and his hundred-year-old Dao heart almost shook, but he still nodded with gritted teeth: "It's true that it's gone."
Seeing this, Yu Sheng sighed and stepped forward to comfort him: "It's okay, it's okay, you did your best."
"Alas, after all, I am not very knowledgeable and only know how to recite from a book," Xuan Che sighed and said dejectedly while packing up his things, "Maybe there is a way, but I really can't think of it. When I go back, I will ask my master, or ask the seniors in the sect for advice. Maybe there will be a way out."
"That's fine," Yu Sheng nodded, looking sincere, "Then I'll trouble you."
After we finished discussing this matter, it was almost noon.
Yu Sheng naturally invited the guest to stay for dinner - he did not dwell on the question of "whether the immortal cultivators from Qianfeng Lingshan would eat or not". After all, first of all, Xuan Che had already drunk a can of Coke, and secondly, there was an immortal cultivator in his family, who ate a lot at every meal.
Xuan Che did not refuse the invitation. He was even quite curious about how these guys in the room who were definitely not "human" but were "imitating" humans lived their daily lives. When he agreed to stay for dinner, he even had a bit of adventurous spirit in his heart.
He will soon realize that his choice to stay and broaden his horizons was the right one.
Because lunch was made by Hu Li.
Perhaps because she felt that it was so rare to have a guest from the same "field" come, Hu Li volunteered to show off her cooking skills herself and let the local immortals see what the traditional food from her hometown tastes like.
Yu Sheng's first reaction was actually to intercept it. After all, he knew that the appearance of the "fox stew" was somewhat cult. It was not a big deal if a pot of colorful wriggling things was served on the table and scared the guests. What would be funny was if Xuan Che thought that it was a demon and drew his sword to fight to the death with lunch - but he didn't stop him.
Because the fox was grabbing his hand and wagging its tail.
"Just spoil her," Irene Unit-01, who was carrying a picture frame on her back, looked at Yu Sheng helplessly at the dining table. "Give her everything she wants and agree to whatever she wants to do. You know that the thing she cooks is getting weirder and weirder. When the kitchen door opens and the food is served, you won't say a word."
"Not really," Yu Sheng waved his hands and explained seriously, "She has had a very hard life over the past few decades. I just want to be nice to her now. And would I be nice to you? You've been in bad shape for a long time."
Irene curled her lips and said, "If you hadn't used materials bought from a ten-dollar store, I would have believed it now."
Xuan Che had been curiously paying attention to the movements in the kitchen - the door was closed, and his spiritual sense, which could penetrate mountains and ridges, would be blocked here as long as it encountered a closed door, so he had no idea what was going on inside. He could only hear a series of clanging sounds from time to time, mixed with the explosions of rising flames and flashes of light. To be honest, it didn't sound like cooking, but it might be a bit too much to say that it was a positional battle...
After hesitating for a long time, he looked up at Yu Sheng and said, "Is this... the sound of cooking?"
"It's a specialty of her hometown, fox stew," Yu Sheng explained to the guests cheerfully, "It's okay, it just makes a lot of noise, that's normal, she should be trying to reason with the dish right now, and once she's done, she can serve it."
Xuan Che: “……?”
Seeing this, Yu Sheng added a few more words as a precaution: "By the way, the food on the table may look a bit stimulating, so be prepared. But even though it may not look good, it will still taste good. And I think it will be very beneficial for practitioners like you."
As Xuan Che listened, he became more and more curious, and just as he was wondering how ugly a dish could be, the kitchen door finally opened.
He wasn't paying attention and subconsciously scanned with his spiritual sense.
As a result, they saw the Nine-tailed Fire, which was so blazing that it was impossible to look directly at, as if a violent energy reaction was taking place inside, walking out with a ball of rising scorching light.
Xuan Che was startled and hastily withdrew his spiritual sense. Then he saw a large soup pot with a lid placed on the table - Yu Sheng stood up to help open the lid, and as the steam rose, something else also rose up.
After standing up and taking a look into the pot in confusion, Xuan Che's heart shuddered.
He stood there in a daze for a few seconds before he stared at Yu Sheng, and spoke hesitantly as if sleepwalking: "It, it greeted me."
Yu Sheng thought for a moment and said, "It seems that this stew is more polite."
Xuan Che: “……?”
If this pot of "dish" continues to stew, it will soon transform and ascend to heaven, right?! While he was wondering, Hu Li had already quickly scooped out the food from the pot, distributing it bowl by bowl, while muttering: "One bowl for the benefactor, one bowl for me, one bowl for the guest, one bowl for me, one bowl for Irene, one pot for me..."
"Eat it while it's hot," Yu Sheng said with a gentle smile, nodding to the handsome young man across the table, "It tastes really good."
The master's orders are upon me.
These big words emerged in Xuan Che's mind, and in the dim light he seemed to see something familiar reflected in the bowl of soup that was slightly rippling and still bubbling. In a trance he saw clearly - it was the master's copper-headed leather belt.
Along with the copper-headed leather belt, the master's earnest teachings before leaving also emerged: "Xuan Che, you must remember that the master you are going to see this time defeated the dark angel... Such a master must have mysterious and bizarre things around him, so you must be bold and careful when you go there. If the master rewards you with something, you should take it, maybe it will be a great opportunity..."
Thinking of this, he finally made up his mind and scooped a spoonful of the food in the bowl into his mouth.
When Yu Sheng saw the handsome young man sitting across the table, he took a bite and suddenly froze with a strange expression, not moving at all as if he was in a trance.
He waited for half a minute before he could no longer help but ask, "What's wrong? Not to your taste?"
Xuan Che suddenly woke up, but his expression became even more strange. He held it in for a long time before he uttered, "...It's better than mine."
Yu Sheng didn't understand at first: "...what?"
Xuan Che was too busy to answer at this time. He swallowed another spoonful of wine. In his mind, he recalled the scolding he received for remembering the wrong recipe, the kneeling punishment for getting the time wrong, and the beating he received for missing the elixir fire...
He looked down at the contents of the bowl, and was puzzled by one thing: how could this pill look like this when its potency was so pure? Then, out of the corner of his eye, he saw two figures covered in golden light jumping out from nowhere.
Looking up, he saw two nameless divine birds with golden wings and jade crowns, majestic and radiant with spiritual light, jumping from Hu Li's shoulders to the table, lowering their heads to peck at the "stew" in a small bowl.
He didn't recognize what kind of divine birds they were, but he suspected that these two birds had higher cultivation levels than the two cranes that his master raised in the sea of clouds - but their eyes looked a little strange.
With an aura of holiness as before.
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Yu Sheng introduced the dishes to the guests: "These two are boiled and salt-baked. They are pets of Hu Li."
Xuan Che hesitated for a moment, looked up at the nine-tailed fox who had already started eating from the pot, and after a while, he squeezed out a sentence from behind his molars: "The name... is very good."
Yu Sheng smiled a little awkwardly, and was hesitating whether to tell the other party the real varieties of boiled and salt-baked meat, when he suddenly heard a "bang" from somewhere.
The next second, he noticed that the sound of the TV in the living room had gone out, the lights in the kitchen had gone out, the hum of the air conditioner had stopped, and even the refrigerator in the dining room had stopped moving.
Irene, who was sitting cross-legged on the dining table, screamed "Oh my God!" and jumped up and fell off the edge of the table!
This sudden situation frightened Yu Sheng. He quickly reached out to catch Irene, but saw that the little doll was in a daze. Then, he heard the sound of something falling to the ground in the living room.
A very bad intuition jumped from the top of his head to his tailbone, and Yu Sheng jumped up from his chair in an instant. Without even saying hello to Xuan Che, he turned around and rushed straight into the living room.
Then he saw the smoking little doll lying on the ground next to the TV cabinet, and the power strip that had been blown apart on the other side.
Yu Sheng: “…”
He was completely dumbfounded. He ran to the doll in two or three steps and said madly: "Are you really going to chew on the wires?!"
Irene was probably still numb at this time, her little face was blackened by smoke, and her hair was blown away, but she still raised her hand firmly and gave Yu Sheng the middle finger.
While Yu Sheng was stunned, Irene came out from between the sofa and the coffee table next to him, looked up and glared at him: "You are the one chewing on the wires! Your whole family chews on wires! I'm not stupid!"
Yu Sheng looked at Irene who came out from the sofa, raised his hand and pointed at the one who was still smoking on the ground: "What's wrong with you?"
"What happened? Ask the socket you bought from the five dollar store!" Irene was furious. "I was watching TV when it suddenly started smoking. I rushed over to unplug it, but as soon as I grabbed the wire, there was a bang. I didn't even have time to dodge before I was numb!"
Yu Sheng: “…”
His complaints instantly turned into embarrassment. He recalled that he seemed to have bought a cheap socket and placed it in the living room. Irene had complained about it the day before yesterday and asked him to buy a new one as soon as possible. He forgot about it...
Thinking of this, he quickly picked up Irene, who was lying on the ground and smoking, and took a tissue from the side to wipe the doll's face. However, just when he was about to say something to ease the embarrassment, the doll in his arms suddenly moved and raised its hand to block his action: "Wait."
Yu Sheng: "What's wrong?"
Irene (Pro max smoky black and gold limited edition 66.6cm) had a strange look on her face - probably a strange look, because it was so dark from the smoke that it couldn't be seen clearly - she raised her wrist and moved it, then jumped out of Yu Sheng's arms and looked down at her body.
“…It’s charged.”
Yu Sheng: “…What?!”
(End of this chapter)
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