Chapter 126 Snack Bar Opening
Eslan van Emmatilan yawned loudly. After staying up all night, he was sleepy and hungry. For a moment, he didn't know whether he should go out for a meal or go back to the dormitory and fall asleep immediately.
"I really want to eat mushroom hotpot again. If I could have a bite of hotpot now, I would definitely come back to life!" He let out a sleepy cry.
His friend Henry was obviously not that entangled and directly gave a solution: "On the way back to the Mage Tower, we will pass through the central town. Let's stop by and get something to eat there."
"Okay!" Lani responded quickly. He turned around and glanced at his junior sister. "Ellie, can you still handle this? It's your first time staying up all night to do magic element calculations in the wild. It's a bit strange, isn't it?"
"Not bad," Ellie replied cautiously. "I often stay up late during exam review week, too."
However, calculating elements in the wild is indeed quite different from ordinary late-night work. After all, who would stay up late in the wilderness listening to the chirping of cicadas and the howling of wolves while feeding mosquitoes, while also forcing themselves to focus on the noisy magical elements and write furiously?
After a night of climbing, all four of them had dark circles under their eyes. They really wanted to lie down on their beds in the apprentice dormitory in the Mage Tower and pass out instantly...
But until then, a little bite to eat seems like a good option.
If I don’t replenish my energy, how can I have the strength to deal with the three consecutive questions from the instructor?
Ellie rubbed her rumbling stomach. She missed the oatmeal porridge her mother made... Well, actually, oatmeal porridge was not the point. After all, that thing was only slightly more delicious than magic mud. To be precise, she missed home a little.
The four magicians stumbled down the hillside towards the rising sun. It was only eight o'clock in the morning when they arrived at the town. Normally, few shops would be open at this time, but they smelled a very tempting aroma.
Eslan's eyes, which were about to close, suddenly opened and he followed the scent with a light footstep as he floated towards the store. The next second, he let out a surprised scream at the door of the store: "Come here! This is Boss Lich's store!"
"What?!"
"Lich Boss's shop? She's so quick! Only a few days have passed, and she's already opened a shop?!"
Several people ran quickly to the door of the store and saw a bamboo skeleton statue as tall as a human calf at the door. It had its head held high and its chest puffed out, with its hands on its pelvis. It was almost in scale with the skeleton chef they had seen before.
However, the one who was more shocked than the three of them was Ellie. She stared at the two people busy in the store with her eyes wide open: "Dad? Mom? Why are you here?"
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"So you two just opened a shop here?" Ellie said in surprise after hearing the story of her parents' adventures over the past two days.
"Yes," said Charlotte, "today is the official opening day! Actually, the boss set the opening time as 10:30 in the morning, but we both got up a little early and thought we would have nothing to do anyway, so we might as well get started."
"Oh, that lich boss's decision was right," Ellie said. "Magicians can only stay up late and can't get up early. We are all night owls, so getting up early is impossible. Opening too early will definitely not bring any customers."
"You can't say that. Look, it's a good thing we opened early today, so we've been waiting for you." Xia Erli patted her daughter's head and handed her a sausage and a cup of milk tea. "Would you like to give your classmate a discount later? I have employee benefits, so it's half price."
"What discount? Don't you get a commission? The more we sell, the more we make. Don't give them a discount!" Ellie quickly grabbed her mother and said in a low voice, "My seniors are all rich! They can afford it!"
She looked down at the milk tea in her hand, subconsciously took a sip through the straw, and was immediately shocked: "Oh my god, what kind of magical drink is this? How can it be so delicious?!"
The warm, smooth, sweet milk, wrapped in slightly bitter tea, slid down her throat, and a rich aroma of tea and roses instantly exploded through her mouth, tongue, throat, and nose. The toil of the night seemed to be swept away in that instant. She exhaled comfortably and took another bite of the sausage. The black pepper gravy bomb exploded in her mouth, the fragrance making her feel dizzy.
"Delicious, this is too delicious!" Ellie's eyes rolled, and she immediately came up with an idea: "Mom, give me ten servings of each of egg waffles, fried chicken, sausages, and milk tea. I'll cast a heat preservation spell on them and take them to the Mage Tower to sell. There's a morning meeting at the Mage Tower next door this morning, and I don't believe those seniors can resist this temptation when they wake up hungry and go to class!"
"Isn't it really too greasy to eat this in the morning?" Henry adjusted his glasses and looked at the fried chicken that had just been served at the only table for four people in the store.
The fried chicken arrived in a small wicker basket. The basket looked handmade, tightly woven, and lined with a sheet of oil paper. Each basket held eight pieces of fried chicken, roughly half a chicken. It was accompanied by vegetables like fried king oyster mushrooms, fried corn, and fried onions, along with an amber soy sauce dipping sauce. The price for one serving was eighty copper coins.
If you order two more cups of milk tea, you can have a fried chicken and milk tea combo for two, and you only need to pay one silver coin.
"If it's greasy, don't eat it." Eslan sipped his milk tea through a bamboo straw, his evil claws already reaching for the fried chicken leg. He took a big bite, and the crispy crunching sound was so loud that even the people sitting next to him could hear it. Eslan burst into tears of happiness on the spot: "Oh my god, it's so delicious! So delicious! It's really..."
"...It's so delicious." Lani added this sentence for him. The two illiterate magicians who were at a loss for words looked at each other tacitly, raised the fried chicken legs in their hands, and toasted from a distance.
Henry was skeptical, but when he looked down, he saw the half-empty fried chicken basket. He cursed "animal" in his heart and quickly reached out to take a piece for himself and his junior sister.
The fried chicken was indeed delicious, fried to a super crispy texture with almost no greasiness. The shell was crispy and crunchy, while the chicken inside was juicy, fragrant and tender. The flavor seeped into the bones, making you chew and sip and sip until the bones were completely dry before you could let it go.
The energy consumed by trekking through mountains and rivers to make records all night was replenished in an instant, the hungry stomach was soothed, and the brain became happy. Before he felt greasy and full, the basket of fried chicken was empty, and even the vegetables were divided up. Eslan even picked up the bamboo dish of sauce and licked it clean.
"Livestock!" Henry said bitterly, "Why didn't you leave me a bite?"
"There are also egg waffles and sausages," Ellie said, holding a chicken nugget in her mouth as she brought over a tray full of food. The egg waffles were wrapped in oil paper and exuded a sweet aroma. "Let's eat more before everyone wakes up. By noon, I'm afraid we won't even be able to squeeze in."
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