"Hmm?" The man continued eating his roasted pheasant. "You're quite interesting, little girl. Tell me, what do you want in exchange?"
Lin Jinghan didn't expect the other party to actually pick up her conversation. After thinking carefully for a while, she said:
"It took me nearly a quarter of an hour to hunt this roasted pheasant, and another half an hour to roast it. If you only want to eat this roasted pheasant, then you only need to hunt three pheasants for me."
Gu Chuan looked at Lin Jinghan in surprise, as if what she had just said was a fairy tale. Thinking that she was his disciple's wife after all, he kindly reminded her, "Little girl, you may not know that the man above is the famous Xiang Yuanqing. It's impossible to ask him to hunt pheasants for you. Your roasted pheasant will be snatched away for nothing."
Xiang Yuanqing, the head of Tianque Pavilion, is known as the Sword Saint.
Tianque Pavilion is the only martial arts force in the world that is famous for both swordsmanship and medical skills. Every disciple of Tianque Pavilion will not easily make enemies with others when he walks out. The leader of the Tianque Pavilion is even more arrogant and naturally will not take the words of a little girl seriously.
"No matter who they are, as long as they're not bandits, they can't just rob others, right?" Lin Jinghan pouted, looking very aggrieved. "Besides, I haven't eaten all day and I'm still hungry. I've been busy for so long, and I haven't even had a bite to eat. How could you have the heart to do that?"
Lin Jinghan felt more and more aggrieved as she spoke. She took off the water bottle from her waist, touched her stomach, and drank the raw water pitifully, as if she was full after drinking all the water.
Seeing this, Guchuan knew that his disciple's wife probably didn't know Xiang Yuanqing's identity. She was really like a "newborn calf that is not afraid of a tiger".
He was just wondering how he could get rid of Xiang Yuanqing if he disregarded his status and touched his disciple's wife, but then he heard Xiang Yuanqing say:
“Little girl, you are right, I am not a bandit, I will give you the pheasant you want.”
Xiang Yuanqing took out a piece of paper and carefully wrapped the roasted pheasant in his hand. With a light jump, he disappeared without a sway of the branches. In less than a cup of tea, he came back with eleven pheasants and a bundle of firewood in his hands. Then he naturally approached the fire.
"Little girl, the three pheasants are what you requested. As for the remaining eight, I ask you to roast two for me. As you requested, the remaining six will be exchanged for two more roasted pheasants for me."
The man threw the pheasant in front of Lin Jinghan, sat down casually, took out the remaining hot roasted pheasant in his hand, and waved it towards Lin Jinghan.
"Now, can I eat your roasted pheasant?"
Lin Jinghan's mouth twitched: This senior is very clear about the accounts...
Moreover, these pheasants seemed to be alive? So this senior had prepared all the ingredients for tomorrow morning's breakfast? He was really thoughtful...
But why would she cook for free? She'd asked him to catch pheasants before, simply because their things had been stolen and she wanted to save face. Now, if she really took those six pheasants from him, she'd be shooting herself in the foot.
"Senior, Jinghan said, if you only want to eat this roasted pheasant, you can exchange it for three." Lin Jinghan said "this one" very clearly.
"Oh?" Xiang Yuanqing threw away the last bone in his hand and looked at Lin Jinghan with interest, "So?"
"So, Senior, you just took my roasted pheasant. I'll just treat it as a gift to you. As long as I have three more pheasants to roast and eat, I won't go hungry. But now, if you want to ask me, a unique culinary master, to cook for you, the reward you offer must not be detrimental to both your status and mine."
Gu Chuan couldn't help but look up at the sky. What was going on today? His disciple's wife seemed quite smart, but now she was so foolish as to push Xiang Yuanqing even further? And what was wrong with Xiang Yuanqing? With his temper, anyone who dared to raise a price with him would have been slapped away long ago, right?
"Ahem, Brother Xiang..." Gu Chuan wanted to smooth things over to prevent his disciple's wife from getting hurt, but Xiang Yuanqing ignored him and only nodded to Lin Jinghan, saying, "That makes sense. Tell me, what kind of reward would you offer without losing your identity?"
"I'm not bragging, Jinghan. My cooking skills are absolutely unique. Besides my family and friends, the only people who can enjoy what I cook are those who can give me a satisfactory reward. Senior, why don't you tell me the reward first and see if it's worth my all to make delicious food for you. You know, this pheasant can be eaten not only by roasting, but also in many other ways. Pan-frying, stir-frying, boiling, deep-frying, Jinghan can do it all!"
As Lin Jinghan spoke, she started to clean the pheasant. Her technique was quite skillful and neat.
No one would not be tempted by delicious food, especially those who love food as much as the two in front of her. Lin Jinghan knew this very well. She threw out the bait of delicious food and saw how these two people would react.
Guchuan swallowed his saliva, and his eyes lit up as if he would be eating meals cooked by his disciple's wife every day. He made up his mind to bring his disciple's wife back to his disciple, so that he could enjoy his disciple's wife's filial piety with a clear conscience!
Xiang Yuanqing's concentration was much stronger than Gu Chuan's, and he didn't show any sign of being tempted by the food. After a moment's thought, he took out a bottle from his arms and tossed it to Lin Jinghan nonchalantly: "This is a beauty pill. You are very much my cup of tea, so I'll give it to you."
"Hey, Brother Xiang, you don't have a fever today, do you? This beauty pill can delay skin aging after taking it. For a girl, it's a treasure worth a fortune. Last time, that princess spent ten thousand gold coins to buy it from your Tianque Pavilion, but you didn't sell it to her. Why are you willing to give it up now?"
Lin Jinghan can prepare skin care products by herself, and she also has a medical space. Naturally, she is not very interested in the effect of delaying skin aging. However, this beauty pill sounds like it should be a very precious thing. She does not know much about the medicine in this world, but it is okay to use it for research.
"make a deal!"
She didn't even look at the bottle. She cleaned the roasted pheasant in her hand, put it on the fire, applied seasoning, and washed her hands carefully before picking up the bottle. She poured out a pill, sniffed it carefully, studied it carefully, and showed a slightly disappointed expression. Then she put the pill back into the bottle without any care and put it into her clothes.
In fact, she found that there were many medicinal ingredients in it, which she could not distinguish with her eyes and nose, and the efficacy of this beauty pill was indeed very good. Once she used the medical space to study it carefully, she might get some unexpected gains.
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