Chapter 16 Meow Meow
[Are you willing to accept this side quest? Accept/Reject】
Jian Yunlan hesitated.
Taotie?
Which Taotie?
Is it the brutal and gluttonous beast Taotie from the Classic of Mountains and Seas that he imagined?
As a snack stand, hiring a glutton as an employee doesn't seem credible no matter how you think about it.
After thinking for a while, Jian Yunlan clicked 'Reject'.
[This side quest is a mandatory side quest and cannot be refused~]
[Side quest accepted.] 】
[Warm Tips: After the mission fails, the dump truck will be punished]
【Countdown: 24:00:00】
Jian Yunlan: “.”
If you can't refuse, then what is the point of this system asking questions?
Failure punishes the dump truck. Does that mean that failure will kill him? !
Forget it, since I have already accepted the mandatory mission, I can only take it one step at a time.
Go to bed first.
Think about tomorrow’s things tomorrow.
Jian Yunlan fell on the bed, exhausted from a week of setting up the stall. He closed his eyes and fell asleep...
.
Wake up.
【Countdown 15:45:20】
OK, I slept for more than eight hours. If he doesn't recruit that so-called Taotie within fifteen hours, he will die.
Jian Yunlan smiled slightly.
He doesn't want to live anyway [smile][shy].
...But, he had only been setting up the stall for a week and he hadn’t done enough yet.
Thinking of the diners' eagerly expectant eyes, Jian Yunlan got out of bed angrily.
You said you want to recruit Taotie, where should I look for them? Can that kind of ancient ferocious beast be seen casually?
Jian Yunlan walked downstairs in her pajamas, listlessly and yawning.
The butler in a tuxedo bowed slightly and said, "Master, Mr. Taotie is here and is in the waiting room."
Jian Yunlan: "Oh."
“…”
Jian Yunlan: "Wait, who did you say is here?"
Jian family villa, waiting room.
The skylight shone in from the large floor-to-ceiling windows. Next to the windows, the white gauze was swaying, and a man was standing by the window.
The man was wearing an intricate robe from the Warring States Period, embroidered with Taotie patterns in gold thread, ox bone shoulder armor, and a long robe that dragged on the ground. He had the violent temperament of a military general who had fought in bloody battles in troubled times.
The man's long silver hair was tied into a high ponytail with a golden crown. His dark golden pupils had been staring at Jian Yunlan indifferently and lazily since Jian Yunlan stepped into the room, with the characteristics of animal pupils.
The light and wind fell on the man, his silver hair was gently blown by the wind. His skin color was darker than that of ordinary people, and the entire white cow bone shoulder armor on his shoulder had an eerie beauty as he looked towards Jian Yunlan.
...What a handsome glutton.
He looks handsome, brutal, bloodthirsty, and otherworldly, as if he has stepped out of a painting.
Jian Yunlan was stunned, not knowing how to describe the shock in her heart.
Then the next second, this 'character walking out of the painting' pulled off the white screen and started chewing.
Jian Yunlan: “?”
Taotie stuffed a white screen in his mouth and chewed for two seconds with an expressionless face: "Chew, chew, chew."
"It doesn't taste good." Taotie swallowed the white screen with disgust and commented, "It looks like curtain fabric."
Jian Yunlan: "...what you ate was the curtain fabric."
Taotie narrowed his amber pupils, looked around, and took a fancy to the crystal ashtray on the coffee table.
Taotie walked over and stuffed the entire ashtray into his mouth: "Chew, chew, chew."
With his overly beautiful face and open mouth, he chewed the entire ashtray until it made a crunching sound. After swallowing it, he commented, "It doesn't taste good. It tastes like an ashtray."
Jian Yunlan: "...you are eating the ashtray."
Taotie walked around the entire waiting room, looking left and right, trying everything, but found everything tasteless.
Finally, he looked at Jian Yunlan, his pupils narrowed.
That look was very intriguing.
Jian Yunlan was instantly horrified: "I'm not delicious, you, you, you don't come over here."
Taotie licked the corner of his mouth, his eyes were evil and fierce: "How can you know if you don't try it?"
With a loud bang, an unknown cold wind blew!
A blood-like air flow surged around Taotie, his silver hair moved without wind, and his ox-bone shoulder armor looked like the incarnation of the ox-headed and horse-faced beast from hell.
A huge shadow of a glutton appeared around him. The ancient beast had the characteristics of a dragon, a tiger, and an ox. Its thick scales were blue-red like dragon scales, and its bloody mouth was full of jagged teeth. The smell of blood filled his face...
"I am an ancient beast from the Mountain and Sea Plane. For many years, I have dominated the Ten Thousand Worlds Plane. I am tired of the delicacies of the Ten Thousand Worlds, so I came to the small plane to look for delicacies that suit my taste."
"Human, let's start with you!"
Jian Yunlan has been a cook all his life, but he never thought that one day he would be treated as food.
"Wait a minute." Jian Yunlan said urgently, "You mean, you're hungry, right?"
Taotie: “You can understand it this way.”
"I'll cook for you!" Jian Yun said with sparkling eyes. He was not sleepy when there were diners. "I'm a good cook. The food I make is delicious. You will regret it if you don't eat it."
Taotie: “…”
"I have traveled through the myriad worlds for many years and have tasted all kinds of delicacies. Why would I be interested in the ordinary mortal food you cook?" Taotie clicked his tongue.
"Don't try to find excuses to delay. I'm going to eat someone now."
What a madman's diary.
Jian Yunlan looked left and right, and the words between the lines were all filled with the word "cannibalism"!
Jian Yunlan said in a flattering voice: "Master Taotie, give me fifteen minutes. After fifteen minutes, if you are not satisfied with the food I made, I won't be in a hurry to eat it."
Taotie narrowed his eyes, seeming to be pondering the feasibility of this plan.
After a long while, he finally snorted reluctantly: "Okay, I'll spare you a quarter of an hour."
The Taotie's floating beast head retreated half a step in the air, and the man in the Warring States robe sat down on the sofa with an arrogant look on his face. Seeing Jian Yunlan standing there motionless, he said angrily:
"Go now!"
"Okay, old man." Jian Yunlan said quickly and slipped out to the kitchen.
Taotie: “…”
What did he call me just now? !
Jian Yunlan ignored the angry Taotie and hurried into the kitchen to start thinking of a solution.
It seems that this Taotie is very powerful and can ignore the laws of physics. Calling the police or hiring bodyguards is unlikely to be effective.
But Jian Yunlan believes in her cooking skills.
Not to mention Taotie, even if the Jade Emperor came, he would have to bow down before his spatula.
Fifteen minutes was a tight time schedule, so Jian Yunlan grabbed whatever ingredients she could see - noodles, leftover shrimps from yesterday's stall, eggs, and green vegetables.
Time is life, and what matters nowadays is speed. Fortunately, the ingredients are all cooked.
Jian Yunlan quickly started frying the eggs, put the shrimp shells into the frying oil, poured in boiling water, put in the noodles, shrimp and vegetables, and finally simply seasoned...
Fifteen minutes later.
Taotie sat on the sofa with his legs crossed, waiting impatiently.
Could it be that this human being broke his word and ran away secretly?
He dares!
Suddenly, the door was pushed open.
A strong and fresh fragrance rushes into the nose, the aroma of shrimp, the mellowness of noodle soup, mixed with white mist-like steam blowing in the face.
Jian Yunlan respectfully held up the bowl of freshly baked shrimp noodles.
The noodle soup is rich in color, a light golden color that makes people's appetite grow. The surface is covered with delicate oil and has an attractive salty and fragrant taste. The noodles in the noodle soup are clearly distinct and flexible. In the middle of the noodles is a golden fried egg with curled edges. The egg yolk in the middle is runny. If you poke it slightly, the egg liquid will flow out and blend with the noodle soup.
The most eye-catching thing is the greasy prawns with bright red shells and tender white meat, soaked in golden noodle soup. You can imagine that the whole noodle soup is full of the sweet taste of shrimps, bubbling hotly.
Taotie moved his nose and stared at the bowl of noodles.
His eyes were still full of disdain:
"Humph, just superficial work."
Although he said this, Taotie immediately took the chopsticks and picked up the bowl.
He first took a sip of the noodle soup, then picked up a piece of noodles with chopsticks and put it into his mouth.
——With a sip of noodle soup, the delicious and rich aroma of seafood passes through the throat, warming the whole body. The hot and mellow taste makes people want to sigh out loud.
The noodles picked up with chopsticks are very flexible, cooked to the perfect degree of doneness, and have a chewy texture when chewed with teeth, and every bite is full of soup.
Taotie's eyes widened slightly, and his eating movements changed from being elegant at the beginning to gradually becoming disregarding his image.
The golden fried egg is the finishing touch. The crispy egg white and the dense yolk blend with the sweetness and delicate taste of the shrimp noodle soup, making you want to swallow your tongue.
Not to mention the juicy, tender and chewy prawns, full of delicious aroma...
I haven't had such delicious food for many years.
I have been a glutton for so many years and have eaten all kinds of delicacies from land and sea, but I never thought that one day I would eat a bowl of amazing shrimp noodles in this ordinary little plane.
Even the agar-agar dew in heaven cannot compare to it.
The purpose of Taotie's existence is to eat.
He was irritable most of the time because he couldn't eat the food he wanted and hunger tormented him all the time.
It’s a pity for humans to eat such delicious food.
Taotie decided that after he finished serving his sentence in the small plane, he would bring this man back to the mountain and sea plane to be his personal chef!
After suddenly tasting the delicacy beyond his imagination, Taotie relaxed completely, his eyes half-opened with satisfaction, thinking happily about the future. The Taotie head floating in the air also became looming and was about to disappear.
Suddenly, a voice was heard:
"One hundred percent taming collar!"
Taotie: “?”
Just as Jian Yunlan finished speaking, a small golden ring appeared out of thin air, flew across the sky, and was put around the neck of Taotie.
The man in the Warring States robe disappeared, and was replaced by the original body of the Taotie, which was as tall as three people. The Taotie was like a dragon, with scars all over its body. Its bronze scales were rough and thick, and its two long horns were bright red. Its blood-red eyes stared at Jian Yunlan.
"roar!!!"
——Human, how dare you plot against me! ! !
Taotie was furious and let out an earth-shaking roar, struggling violently. Even the sky and earth changed color, and dark clouds began to gather!
But Taotie couldn't resist the power of the collar after all. Under that power, it shrank smaller and smaller, gradually becoming as tall as Jian Yunlan, and then continued to shrink...
“Ouch!”
A beautiful big silver-haired dog stood on the ground, glaring at Jian Yunlan angrily.
The big dog looks very much like a Samoyed, cute yet a bit majestic, with cow bone armor on its body, golden flame-like eyes, and a few strands of green and red in its hair like oil paintings, making it very handsome.
"Ah, ah!"
What have you done to me!
"Master Taotie, you were the first one to eat me," Jian Yunlan said, "Please don't blame me."
"If you obey the law and don't yell that you want to eat people all the time, you can still be transformed back into human form occasionally."
Jian Yunlan made three rules with him: "Okay, Maomao?"
Taotie glared at him angrily, wanting to kill someone: "Awoo -- Woof!"
Who are you calling Maomao? !
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