Chapter 202
17.
"Kyojuro, are you okay?"
"I should be the one asking you this question." Sheathing his sword, Rengoku Kyojuro quickly walked to the girl's side and held her in his arms. "Aki, are you okay?"
"Of course I'm fine." Qingxi said with a smile.
However, this good feeling of being protected only rose for a moment before it disappeared again.
Who knew that they would temporarily stop their plan of collecting ingredients in the wild because of the food festival and come over to take a look for a few days, but on the first day of the food festival, they met people from the food association who came to capture the chef.
This is not over yet. Just when the enemy and our side were fighting fiercely, one to protect the top 100 chefs in the world from being captured, and the other to capture the top 100 chefs in the world, a third party suddenly appeared... Things were developing more and more in an uncontrollable direction.
...Finally, a meteorite spice rain suddenly fell from the sky, destroying the entire human world.
...emmmm, now she finally understood how the "food shortage era" in the human world came about.
The meteorite spice carries extremely destructive radiation that can absorb all nutrients on the surface of the earth, destroying the land, preventing plants from growing, and completely destroying everything...
"Should I be glad that those people only arrested the chef and not the winemaker?" She complained to him softly.
"Ah, Jiro, we are here." Qingxi saw a giant black crow circling in the sky from the corner of his eye, and it seemed to be confronting another crow flying in the sky. Well, it should be a crow. Qingxi quickly spoke up and called back his own crow first.
What a joke! The one in other people's homes is a famous emperor crow that can create a gust of poisonous wind by flapping its wings. But this one in her home is not only of wild origin, but also spews flames like sunshine from its mouth, which seems to be very inconsistent with its black body.
Of course, if it were placed in a demon-killing anime, it might be able to get a nice name like "Yataguro", but this kind of name would not work in this world.
Worried that her cub was being abused, Qingxi noticed that it had lowered its head to look at her, so she kept waving at it, with only one meaning - naughty child, don't try to be brave at this time, get down quickly, mom will protect you...
Perhaps it was telepathy (crossed out) that came into play. After looking deeply (emphasized) at the emperor crow in the sky, Jiro swooped down in the direction of Qingxi.
Patting Jiro, who was now almost two stories tall, Qingxi said to him in a serious tone, "Let's take it easy. There are many bosses and even more chefs here. If you stray away from me, they might treat you as food and pluck all your feathers to make crow sashimi."
Coco, one of the Four Heavenly Kings, came over to check out the crow that Keith was particularly interested in: "..."
After all, it was the beast that helped block the meteorite spices just now. In addition, with the two red, particularly conspicuous chairs on its back, anyone with eyes would know that it was a crow that was raised by someone.
Unless someone has other intentions towards it, no one will take action against it at this moment.
"Oh, isn't this Kiyoki and Kyojuro? I didn't expect you to come to see the food festival too." Alu, who also noticed them, immediately called Komatsu and Zebula over.
His gaze fell on Rengoku Kyojuro, "The moves you just used were very interesting. I seemed to see a fire dragon just now."
"That's the Breathing of Flame, a breathing technique passed down through my family for generations," Rengoku Kyojuro said. "If you're interested, I can teach you."
A Lu Dou Dou Yan: "Ah, this, can you teach anyone casually?"
Rengoku Kyojuro nodded and explained, "Hmm, there aren't really any hard and fast rules for this breathing technique. As long as it suits you, you can practice it."
A Lu suddenly realized: "I see, your family is really generous, unlike some people I met before, who always wanted to hide their abilities.
But, forget about learning anything, I already have a combat system that suits me."
Two men were chatting nearby, and Qingxi lowered her head to chat with Xiaosong: "Long time no see, Xiaosong. I was really surprised when I heard your name on the stage before.
It's a shame, though. If I'd known you'd made it to the top 100 chefs list even half an hour earlier, I could have made a beautiful banner for you."
"Hahaha. There's no need to be like that." When he heard about the cheering banners and stuff, his original joy of seeing an acquaintance instantly turned to embarrassment. No, shame might be a more appropriate word.
He quickly changed the subject, his smile replaced by melancholy: "But, in the end, this year's food festival was ruined."
"Well, when the big guys fight, we little bastards can't stop them." Qingxi didn't know how to comfort the young man in front of her, who had always been so serious about his cooking, so she could only say helplessly. "But, think about it in a positive way. Even if this one was ruined, we can still think about the next one in four years." Suddenly remembering the meteorite spice, she twitched her mouth. "Ah! Maybe even longer..."
Xiaosong, who also thought of it, was like: "..." He felt extremely heartbroken.
"By the way, let me introduce you. He's Mr. Coco, and he's one of Mr. Sunny's Four Heavenly Kings. They're also very powerful gourmet hunters."
Not wanting to be bothered by the jokes anymore, Komatsu decided to change the subject, so he introduced Kiyoki and Rengoku Kyojuro.
"Hello, I'm Qingxi, my main job is winemaker and my secondary job is chef." Qingxi greeted the two of them cooperatively.
"My name is Rengoku Kyojuro," he paused for a moment, then hesitantly said, "Hmm, I'm half a gourmet hunter. Mainly because I'm worried about Aki running around the world alone, so I followed her."
The Four Heavenly Kings: "..."
Okay, okay, they get it. It’s just some dog food for these single guys.
"Can I ask, is this the crow?" Coco pointed to the big crow standing next to Qingxi, which would mischievously stretch its wings to touch the girl's hair from time to time, and then it would get a fierce warning look from the girl.
"Ah, Jiro was originally just an ordinary crow weighing only a few pounds, but later I fed him with high-quality ingredients little by little, so gourmet cells were produced in his body, and he finally became what he is now." Qingxi explained.
But Coco's attention was diverted to other things. "Its name...why does it sound a little familiar?"
Qingxi blinked, "Maybe it has the same name as someone you know. In fact, I have a relative with the same name," he paused, "and there's someone with the same name as me."
"Well, um," Xiaosong said weakly, "Is this the name of the master of acupuncture?"
Everyone: “…”
"Hahahaha, is there a kid here with the same name as me?"
Qingxi was still surprised when he saw the old woman who came slowly with a hunched back.
But...speak of the devil, he will appear sooner than later.
"Long time no see, Mr. Jiro, Grandma Setsuno." Thinking that the sooner he died, the sooner he would be reborn, Qingxi gritted his teeth and greeted the two big men.
"Hmm?" Grandma Jie Nai squinted her eyes and stared at him for a long time before a look of sudden realization appeared on her face. "It's Xiao Axi. When did you come back? Why didn't you come to see me? Xiao Jie Nai is so sad."
Before leaving here, from beginning to end, I only said something else to this national treasure chef and the master of Dianxue. Qingxi's mouth twitched, "What are you two doing?"
Do you two big guys want to know that the old lady you know is a young boyfriend?
No, she still has her dignity.
However, now it seems that no matter how I try to avoid it, I can't...
As if she was about to throw the can down, Qingxi said under pressure, "No, I don't have time. I'm busy showing my boyfriend around here. This opportunity is rare. I don't know if there will be another chance in the future."
The Four Heavenly Kings and Komatsu didn't understand what the girl meant, but Setsuno and Jiro, the only ones who knew what she was like, did understand.
Neither of them continued to talk about this topic.
Jiro walked over to the large black crow next to Kiyoki, "It's also called Jiro."
"Yes, but don't get me wrong, I didn't choose the name." Qingxi chose to explain to the boss, "It's too long to explain, but in short, this child's previous human partners all died, and in the end I raised him. His name was also given by his former partners."
"Um, do Miss Kiyoki and Grandma Setsuno, Mr. Jiro, know each other?" Komatsu asked.
He was really curious. Just looking at the relaxed atmosphere of their conversation, it didn't seem like they were just casual acquaintances.
"Oh, of course," Setsuno said with a smile. "Jiro and I used to go to Aki's shop often for drinks."
"This braised pork is delicious when paired with alcohol," Jiro continued.
"Is it really okay for you two national treasures to praise someone who's even ranked very low in the world like this?" Qingxi raised her hands to cover her face. "I feel really pressured."
"Well, don't say that," A Lu said. "Think of it another way... Being praised by a national treasure means Qingxi, your winemaking and cooking skills are quite good."
"Alright, alright, stop talking about me." Qingxi decisively changed the subject, "Grandma Setsuno, I've collected some ingredients. Should I give them directly to you or to IGO?"
"Well, when I heard your name from Alu earlier, as well as the news about collecting ingredients, I was certain it was you," said Setsuno. She waved at Qingxi and Xiaosong, "I'm going to gather all the chefs here. Ah Xi, come with me. As for the others, you probably have more important things to do, so just get ready."
18.
"Um?"
Yuta, known as the "Master of Medicinal Cuisine", was processing the ingredients in his hands. He looked down at the ingredients in front of him for a while, and then suddenly raised his head to look at the girl who was quickly pinching the golden-rice steamed buns with both hands. Beside her, the young man with flame-like hair was stacking the steamed buns she had wrapped in baskets and putting them in the steamer to steam.
"Is this the food ingredient from the gourmet world?"
Suddenly, beside him, the King of Curry, Madara. Skarin XIII also stopped what he was doing and exclaimed in surprise.
Jutta: "Young people nowadays are really amazing..."
Madara Skarn XIII: "It's hard to imagine."
After all, whether it is Qingxi or Rengoku Kyojuro, from the appearance, the two people do not give people the impression of being very powerful people at first glance, but among the ingredients they collected, there were actually ingredients from the gourmet world.
Qingxi's stove was a little far from them, so she couldn't hear the conversation between the two of them. However, as more and more of the world's top 100 chefs noticed this and began to stop and chat quietly with the people around them, scattered words reached her ears.
Helpless, she stopped what she was doing and explained briefly, "Well, we've almost collected everything here in the human world, and we can't just store everything in other places without anything happening. If the meteorite spice hadn't happened, I would have meant well but ended up with something worse. So, after Kyojuro's body adapted to the harsh environment of the human world, we went straight to the food world to collect ingredients... Well, they're big and there's a lot of them, and we found our former partner there, and with his help, we collected ingredients from the inner and outer parts of the food world.
Let me be clear, we're not strong enough to enter those dangerous places yet. We're relying on a plant... So, don't try to imitate us, as this is just cheating."
The Sleeping Fruit, the capture level is unknown, one piece weighs 600 kilograms. The perfume extracted from it only smells good when sprayed on people, but animals in the gourmet world will automatically fall asleep after smelling it.
Kyojuro and he were lucky enough to meet his former partner, Xiaojing, when they arrived at the outskirts of the food world.
It is a Whale Island turtle.
After not seeing it for ten years, it has grown to the size of an island.
Under its guidance, they picked up two complete Miamia fruits, and at the same time, without wasting any money, they also collected those that had fallen from the vines and were half-rotten.
Oh, by the way, they also didn’t let go of the wild beasts around them that accidentally smelled the fragrance of the Mianmian fruit and fell into a coma. They cut their necks to let the blood, removed their internal organs, and after doing the simplest and rough processing, they put them away.
Of course, she didn't throw away the blood and internal organs. You know, animal blood and internal organs can be eaten. However, she didn't have time, so she temporarily put them into the food backpack.
Well, as for the fact that Xiaojing from her family gave them a "fish treasure" before they returned, there is no need to tell anyone about it.
Yubao, its full name should be concentrated seafood essence.
It is a byproduct of the various seafood that the Whale Island turtle eats from birth. The more seafood it eats, the more concentrated seafood stock will be produced on its back, which is a very good thing for chefs.
In this way, relying on them and the safe zone that Xiaojing brought them to, the two of them stayed in the food world for a whole year.
The chefs: “…”
In a sense, this is also an honest child, isn't he?
"Although cheating might seem unkind, Ms. Qingxi and Mr. Rengoku are truly remarkable," Komatsu said. "They and Mr. Rengoku managed to stockpile so much food for everyone."
"Just a quick correction," Qingxi said. "These ingredients weren't collected by me alone, but by everyone."
Xiaosong was confused: "Is there anyone else like Ms. Qingxi helping to collect ingredients?"
Qingxi said proudly: "Yes, there are more than a hundred people, all of them are my family."
Xiaosong's eyes almost popped out of his head in shock. "A-over a hundred family members? Miss Qingxi, are you from a big family?"
Facing such a particularly honest child, Qingxi's eyes drifted a little, "Yes, yes, the Ubuyashiki family...a family that has existed for a thousand years."
Xiaosong: "Ohhhh, that seems really amazing."
The chefs who had been listening to the youngest girl among them deceiving others the whole time, "..."
And Chef Komatsu, don’t you feel anything strange at all?
19.
Even though Qingxi had stockpiled ingredients for three years, these ingredients were limited.
So the ingredients that Qingxi brought out were also cooked by the chefs. She also took out two-thirds of her own family savings. However, the entire human world has a large population. Without subsequent supplies, there would be nothing left after all the ingredients were consumed.
Before this, Alu, Komatsu and a group of people went to the food world by different routes.
The reason is simple. The Acacia Life Menu that grew up in the food world is about to mature. If they don't want them to fall into the hands of the Food Association and that unknown force, the people representing the human side must set off now.
20.
She had completed the main task assigned to her by Atong, and from then on, Qingxi was ready to go back.
Well, to quote Kyojuro, even if there are things that need their help later, they can say that they have nothing to do for now, so they can go back to his world first and celebrate her 18th birthday. If there is enough time, they can get married.
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