Chapter 048
After solving her physiological problem, Qingxi slowly ate the first meal after she woke up - vegetable porridge, while listening to Yagen Toushirou and Tsurumaru Kuninaga talking about what happened before she woke up.
For example, she had been in a coma for two days.
For example, during the two days she was unconscious, the two of them were taken by Rengoku Makijuro to the Demon Slayer Corps headquarters to meet Ubuyashiki Kōya. Then, after knowing that he had encountered a demon, Hirumi Gyomei came to visit her during the day, and Lady Amane also came to see her after she finished her confinement.
As for their own affairs, they didn't talk much about it, probably because there were "outsiders" in the dormitory.
"Does this ointment really work?" Yagen Toushirou held the small wooden box in his hand, his purple eyes staring straight at the translucent ointment inside.
"No problem, no problem." Qingxi stretched out the left half of her face towards him, "I've used it on someone before, and it worked wonders."
Yagen Toushirou was still a little worried, but when he thought about his general being a medical worker and thinking that he would not do anything to him, he applied the ointment on the scratch that was scabbing.
"Apply it thicker, and there's no need to bandage me anymore. They will be repaired after a while." Qing Xiduo said.
At this moment, she asked Yagen Toushirou to apply something to her face, but the ointment made from the scales of the aloe fish that she had applied to Iguro Obanai's face before. However, this was the semi-finished product that she had ground up when she tricked Iguro, and she had re-grinded it and kept it.
Originally, she had thought of giving the things to whoever needed them in the clinic, but in the end, she didn't give the things away but used them on herself.
After applying the ointment to Qingxi, Yagen Toushirou put the box away. He did not return it because he would have to apply it again before going to bed at night anyway.
"General, you should also apply it on your left shoulder." After applying it on her face, Yagen Toushirou reminded her.
Qingxi: "...Then I'll trouble you, Yaoyan."
It's better not to bother two people with one thing. What's more, she is just a little loli who has nothing now. It's no problem for her to take off her clothes a little and apply medicine. There is no one else in the room now, so the embarrassment will pass in a while.
"Excuse me." After saying this, Yagen Toushirou's gloved hands had already half-undone her clothes, revealing the wound on her left shoulder that was caused by the female ghost's nail. Just as he was about to take the medicine, someone knocked on the door of the house, and then the door was opened from the outside.
The two people in the room looked towards the door at the same time.
Looking at the owl standing at the door with a red face, not knowing whether to come in or leave, Qingxi almost sighed.
Kyojuro, why is it you again???
The word "又" is used very cleverly.
Shouldn't he have been in the room before she went to the bathroom? Why did he run out again, and why did he come back at this time?
The last time he entered the house, he heard Tsurumaru Kuninaga saying he was going to the bathroom. This time when he came back from outside, she was being "undressed" in the room...
After coming to his senses, Yagen Toushirou continued with his work until he applied ointment on the wound and bandaged it with gauze before helping Kiyoki put on his clothes again.
It’s okay for the face, but the wound on the shoulder needs to be bandaged after applying the ointment, otherwise it will be in vain if you apply it before putting on clothes.
"Based on the quantity in this box, it can only be used for three days at most. Do you have any more, General?" asked Yagen Toushirou.
"Yes, I just need you to help grind it out." Qingxi said as he poked with his right fingers, and the next moment he took out a square piece of cut aloe vera fish scales, "The raw materials are here."
Yagen Toushirou picked up the fish scale and looked at it carefully, but he had no idea what it was.
Qingxi explained, "This is the scale of a fish called Aloe Vera Fish in the Gourmet World. A whole piece is very large. The piece in your hand is cut by me. People over there use it to make scar cream and other things. It's pollution-free, pure natural, and safe."
"The world of gourmet food, right? It sounds like a very interesting world." As if the door to a new world had opened, Yagen Toushirou raised his hand to adjust his glasses. "Can wild animals grow medicine?"
"If there's a chance, I'll take you there to have a look," Qingxi said.
"Kyojuro." With the help of Yagen Toushirou, Kiyoki got out of bed. It was her hands that were paralyzed, not her legs. After she woke up, she would just have to lie in bed for two or three days.
Standing in front of the boy, who was a head taller than her, she complained with helplessness in her tone, "Why didn't I know you were so shy before, Kyojuro? You act like this and I think you're going to say something like, 'Aki, I'll take responsibility for you,' but it's just applying medicine. I've changed the medicine for many ghost hunters in the clinic before. Do you think I'm shy?"
But Ah Xi, you are a girl, how can it be the same?
Rengoku Kyojuro objected in his mind.
"I'm going to go for a walk downstairs. Kyojuro, you'd better not move around too much until your ribs are healed. Go to bed and recuperate."
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After saying goodbye to Rengoku Kyojuro, Qingxi went downstairs accompanied by Yagen Toushirou. While on the first floor, she first received a wave of greetings from the young ladies in her own medical team. Then, when she stood at the door of the ward on the first floor and looked inside to see how many injured people had come into the clinic recently, she received sympathetic glances from some of the ghost hunters in the ward who had been taken care of by her.
Qingxi: It's just a broken bone, why are you guys showing sympathy?
Qingxi, who had no idea that she had been beaten in the face and disfigured by a ghost among that group of people, and that the damage would never heal, didn't want to be surrounded by the sympathetic gazes in the ward anymore, so she turned around and left.
"Girl, you're down now. Take good care of your injuries. You can go out if you have time... Well, if you don't want to go out, you can go to the crow kennel. The crows there have been lacking your feeding these days, and they are all wilting."
When passing by Ueno Arata's rest room, Qingxi was stopped by someone in the room. She stopped and looked surprised, "My lord, didn't you demolish the crow house?"
Her mission was accomplished. Out of the thirty crows, she had thrown four crows as fast as Jiro to him. This ratio was already very good.
Ueno's gaze swept over the girl's face, lingering for a moment on the scratch where something had been smeared. After confirming that the girl wasn't losing her composure due to the possibility of a scar, he replied in his usual tone, "Including Jiro, there are only five. That's out of the question. The original thirty are still in the crow shed. The lord should be sending another batch of crows soon, so the number might be higher. You should have an idea."
Qingxi glared, "I have to let others take care of me now, how can I feed them?"
Ueno Shin shrugged: "So, didn't I just say it would take some time?
Besides, five crows are really a bit too few. Although the Demon Slayer Corps has never exceeded four figures in its thousand-year history, it still has eight or nine hundred people. Add to that the trainers, the swordsmiths, and the logistics department, and everyone needs crows to transmit messages. You should at least train seventy or eighty more crows to form a "Sky Rapid Communication Network."
"According to what you said, the flying speed of the crows I feed is... Forget it, let's call Jiro and the others to feed a group of mutant crows. The ratio of feeding one mutant crow is 1:9. If there are eighty mutant crows, I have to feed 720 crows. Doctor Ueno, why don't you let me pay for the food of the crows of the entire Demon Slayer Corps?" Qingxi snorted in dissatisfaction.
Ueno Shinichi immediately took the opportunity to climb up the ladder and said, "Good idea, as long as you are willing, Axi, I think the lord will definitely agree."
I want your head!
"Doctor Ueno, do you know how expensive high-quality ingredients are?" she asked quietly. "Just think about that time when you came to steal food from the crows. 100 grams of Andrea's swordfish meat cost over 200,000 yen, which converts to just over 300 yen here. How can 100 grams of meat be enough for a crow a day? It would take at least 4 kilograms. And the food I gave them wasn't even the best..."
Hearing the man's gasp, Qingxi continued, "Although I receive two salaries, and the lord also pays me for the food, but when it comes to feeding the crows, I can honestly say that I not only gave the Demon Slayer Corps a discount, but also broke a bone, practically giving it away for free... And you, a black-hearted doctor, actually wanted to fleece me."
Ueno Arata thought silently about how much fish soup made with that fish meat he had eaten last time... At least four or five bowls, not to mention 100 grams of fish meat, even a pound.
Ueno Arata suddenly raised his hands to cover his chest, his face showing sadness... I'm sorry, my lord, I seem to have dropped you into a pit.
The Ubuyashiki family has accumulated a lot of wealth over thousands of years, but the price of a meal that Qingxi casually quoted at this moment was so high. 720 crows, and in the end, maybe only 70 or 80 mutant crows can be raised... It's simply a waste of money.
...My Lord, I just hope that once you know how much it really costs to feed those crows in the crow house, you won't blame me for being too nosy today...
Because, if they didn't know the price, they could still pretend to know nothing, but now... the dirty thoughts of adults.jpg
Satisfied with the fact that Ueno Arata was left speechless by her, Qingxi raised her foot and continued to walk around the clinic.
Walking beside the girl, Yagen Toushirou, who had been in the background for a while, asked curiously, "General, were you just... lying to Dr. Ueno?"
"How could that be?" Qingxi asked in surprise. "Is Yaoyan surprised that 100 grams of fish meat can be sold for over 200,000 yuan?"
Seeing the black-haired boy nod, she explained, "In the world of gourmet food, the price of ingredients is determined by the difficulty of catching them and how delicious they are.
Capturing a Level 1 beast requires ten fully armed hunters with hunting rifles. Capturing a Level 5 beast wouldn't be enough for even a tank to handle. You can work your way down."
Yagen Toushirou really followed her words and thought about it, but because the worldview of the gourmet world she described was different from his own, with so little information available at the moment, he couldn't imagine what kind of weapons the people there used to hunt beasts above level 5.
Unable to believe it, Yagen Toushirou changed the subject and asked, "The admiral over there must be a hunter, right? How did you catch the Andrea swordfish you just mentioned? Judging from the price of that 'beautiful' fish, it must have been caught at a very high level."
Qingxi wanted to raise her hands and make a fist, but both her arms were slings, so she couldn't. She could only speak in a proud tone and said, "Killed him with one punch."
Yagen Toushirou: “???”
He thought he might have been hallucinating.
If their Shinsengumi is really that powerful, then why doesn't he have any power to resist that seemingly weak female ghost?
Qingxi curled her lips and asked back, "Have you ever seen anyone in this world who can punch through a reinforced concrete building and knock it down with one punch? If I go back with this ability, will I be sure people won't think I'm dangerous? So when I came back, I chose to let the gourmet cells in my body fall asleep. Because I chose to be an ordinary person, even if I couldn't return to my own world and accidentally came to this one, I'm still just an ordinary person... one who doesn't even have the talent to learn swordsmanship. Do you... understand?"
Although his voice was low, Yagen Toushirou was certain that he had heard the words his general had just said, which were enough to silence Midorin: "...Understood."
"What are gourmet cells then?" Yagen Toushirou changed the subject again.
“This is a bit difficult to explain…”
I walked along the inner corridor to the backyard, and then went to the crow house through the small door in the backyard wall.
Walking into the pavilion beside the ever-blooming wisteria, the two sat down. Qingxi organized her words and said, "It seems that in that world, a great gourmet once discovered a jellyfish in the deep sea. Within it, they discovered gourmet cells with a different level of activity than those in other fish. Later, someone tried to extract those cells and implant them into the human body, which activated the recipient's own cells. After consuming gourmet food, human life can evolve and their strength surpasses that of ordinary people. You can imagine them as Super Saiyans in cartoons."
"General, what's the highest level of prey you can capture in that world?"
"Me?" Qingxi stretched out his voice, "You may not believe this, but if I fight alone, I can capture ingredients around level 1500 in the gourmet world, but if I have a partner, we can capture ingredients around level 1800.
One dozen for each child."
To capture a level 1 beast, ten fully armed hunters with hunting rifles are needed. Yagen Toushirou couldn't imagine how powerful the general who awakened himself with spiritual power would be in that world.
"Are you willing?" he asked. "From a powerful man to an ordinary person."
"At first, I was a little uncomfortable with it, but it was okay. After all, I also gained a lot of benefits while completing missions for Atong. After returning, I didn't have to worry about food and clothing. Even if I had to raise a full-scale Honmaru, I could afford it. After thinking about it this way, I felt much better." Qingxi said. But immediately, she sighed deeply, "But it turned out that Atong was unreliable. Not only did he fail to find the coordinates of my original world, but he also brought me to a world with cannibal ghosts.
No matter how much money you have, it's useless if you don't have the ability to protect it. Plus, right after I arrived, I encountered the ghost incident at Mr. Beimingyu's temple. The eldest child was blinded and injured, and one of the nine children collaborated with the ghost to save his own life, attracting it. Four of the eight died, and it was a mess. Then, they didn't mind taking me in. Now that we were "family," I had the ability, and I always wanted to make sure I lived comfortably and had good food... Then, at the invitation of the lord, the five of us (one big, four small) moved out of the temple. I came to the clinic, Mr. Beimingyu became a ghost hunter, and Yangtai and the other two went to learn breathing techniques from the Thunder Breathing Instructor... In some ways, I've found myself a safe house where I can survive."
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