Free Web NovelAfter Boss Hu yielded his position, Lu Yibei came and stood steadily before the stove.
She closed her eyes, savored the taste of the 'A Day of Sugar Cake' dish from earlier in her mind, and then pondered what kind of dish she should make
to fully display the results of her learning tonight and repay Boss Hu's diligent teaching.
First, from the perspective of culinary pairing, cold cucumber salad should be accompanied by a small cup of wine, but now she was cooking, not brewing wine, so she could only make a dish that used wine as an ingredient.
Thinking carefully, the beer-braised chicken wings Old Dad used to make were quite popular, so she decided to make that.
Secondly, what kind of emotion should be infused into the dish to match 'A Day of Sugar Cake' and elevate it?
After a terrible day comes despair, and after despair should come the final madness?
Thinking of this, Lu Yibei opened her eyes and told the Yi Mice, who were waiting quietly nearby with small bamboo baskets on their backs,
After waiting for a moment.
After the Yi Mice carefully placed the last ingredient on the kitchen counter and retreated to the side, Lu Yibei steadied herself and took a cleaver from the knife rack, preparing to start processing the ingredients.
Recalling Boss Hu's cooking technique from earlier, she imitated him by stirring up the Spiritual Energy within her body, and then gathered a wisp of Spiritual Energy between her five fingers, and a faint crimson glow immediately appeared on the cleaver.
Immediately after, Lu Yibei picked up a chicken wing root and placed it on the cutting board. The blade descended quickly and steadily, about to make cuts on the chicken wing root for flavor absorption.
However, when the blade was less than a centimeter away from the chicken wing root, she suddenly withdrew her hand and frowned.
She had discovered something very serious.
What she wanted to make was a dish infused with 'the final madness', but she didn't understand what state could be called the final madness.
If she didn't understand it, she couldn't imagine that emotion, let alone infuse it into the dish.
Damn it! What should I do?
If worst comes to worst, maybe I should change the theme?
Like 'My Pigeon Friend', or 'When I'm Born, I'll Take My Child's Surname'?
Lu Yibei thought, secretly considering giving up, and at this moment, the surroundings suddenly fell into a deathly silence.
The barking sounds of the mountain imps playing and fighting, the rustling sounds of the Yi Mice's small paws rubbing against the display shelves as they ran, the gurgling water sounds as Grandma Bai's sprayed clear water fell into the water tank—
It was as if someone had suddenly pressed a pause button; all sounds in her ears disappeared in an instant.
Lu Yibei was startled, and before she could react, a hand was silently placed on the back of her hand.
A soft, slightly cool touch came from the back of her hand. Lu Yibei's body tensed slightly. Subconsciously, she turned around and, with a whoosh, sent the cleaver in her hand towards the owner of that hand.
"Clang!"
A metallic sound suddenly appeared. A slender, fair little hand, using its index and middle fingers, casually locked the blade.
"Oh my! Haven't seen you for a while, is this how you welcome me?"
A beautiful red-haired girl, wearing a clean white chef's uniform and a tall chef's hat, had appeared behind her at some point.
Lu Yibei looked at the girl and said blankly, "D-Chatterbox Girl? Why did you show up at a time like this?"
She had thought that the hand placed on the back of her hand was Boss Hu's salty pig's trotters, trying to take advantage of an employee.
She had thought long and hard before, considering many possibilities as to why Boss Hu was so good to her. One of them was that Boss Hu was coveting her beauty.
Speaking of Boss Hu...
Lu Yibei suddenly remembered that Boss Hu was still nearby and quickly turned her head to look at him. Seeing Boss Hu maintaining the posture of propping his cheek with one hand, with the corners of his mouth slightly upturned, standing there as if petrified, his body even looking weathered, she secretly breathed a sigh of relief.
"Don't worry! For that old Fox to sense my presence, the urban legend' main body core would need to advance at least three to five more times to be enough." As if
As if sensing Lu Yibei's worry, Chatterbox Girl pouted.
"As for why I'm here, why don't you take a guess?"
Lu Yibei withdrew her gaze from Boss Hu, sized up Chatterbox Girl, and said expressionlessly, "I guess you're here to take a job."
"But whether it's the cooking methods for Human Fireworks or Human Hell, I want to learn them myself, not—"
Halfway through her sentence, Lu Yibei suddenly realized something. Her eyes widened slightly, and her voice rose a few octaves as she said, "That's right! Speaking of which,
I should have asked you long ago if you knew how to cook Human Fireworks!"
"If you knew how, why would I bother learning?!"
A trace of awkwardness flashed across Chatterbox Girl's face. "This really isn't within my scope of business. If you had asked me earlier, I would have also told you that the Liao Zhai Tavern has people joining, and told you to come and learn yourself."
"So, you don't know how?" Lu Yibei rolled her eyes and said indifferently, "Then I'm sorry, I don't need proxy services today, please leave!"
"Wow! So heartless!" Chatterbox Girl covered her chest with one hand and said with a pained expression, "The proxy industry is really hard to do. If you don't help the boss win, it's no good. If you seriously help the boss win, it's also no good!"
"If you take the boss to high-level games too many times, her own skills improve, and then there are no jobs left to take. It's just like a heartless scumbag who pulls out!"
"Then you haven't taken Ju Meng!" Lu Yibei shrugged and said, "If it were her, you could take her ten thousand times, and she wouldn't improve at all.
She might even get worse."
She had just experienced this a few hours ago.
When it comes to playing games, some people are story-driven, some are scenery-driven, some are technical players who enjoy overcoming high-difficulty bosses,
and Ju Meng is the type who enjoys reaping the rewards; what she likes is just the instant pleasure from the treasure.
I haven't taken her, but I've eaten it, and it was very unpleasant. Chatterbox Girl thought, pouting.
To successfully hunt the Calamity-level Ju Meng with combat power slightly superior to B Level, the method she used, in simple terms, was to come up with some sinister ways
to accelerate Ju Meng's corruption process.
And the taste of devouring a corrupted and fallen urban legend' main body core goes without saying.
"Speaking of which, why exactly are you here?" Lu Yibei asked.
"You don't appreciate good intentions!" Chatterbox Girl rolled her eyes. "Didn't I see you were in a predicament and actively came to take a job?"
Hearing this, Lu Yibei frowned. "Taking a job? But didn't you say you don't know how to cook Human Fireworks? Do you know how to cook Human Hell?"
Chatterbox Girl spread her hands. "I don't know how to do that either. Why would I need to?"
As she spoke, she looked completely justified, as if saying, 'I don't know how, and I'm proud of it!'
I'm not like you, who hasn't even handled her own affairs properly, yet still has the leisure to go do some side quest like fishing for snapping turtles!
But it's also good. Perhaps it's by being nosy like this, instead of conquering everything with violence, that you can achieve a Happy Ending! Chatterbox Girl thought.
Lu Yibei was speechless.
Facts proved that although Chatterbox Girl was indeed very capable in combat, she wasn't omnipotent, nor could she play every 'role'.
At least, she couldn't handle the 'role' of a chef.
After a few seconds of silence, she asked Chatterbox Girl irritably, "You don't know how, so what job are you here to take?"
"Although I don't know how to cook, I can tell you a story about the final madness!" Chatterbox Girl said. "Weren't you just troubled by this?"
Moreover, you'll be able to use this story very soon. Chatterbox Girl thought, but didn't say this out loud.
"Oh?" Lu Yibei sized up Chatterbox Girl and asked, "Your own story?"
"No, a friend's story."
"A friend?" Lu Yibei narrowed her eyes slightly, looking thoughtful.
"I know what you're thinking, but this so-called friend really isn't me." Chatterbox Girl said helplessly.
Based on her understanding of Lu Yibei, even if Lu Yibei didn't say it, she knew what Lu Yibei was thinking.
"Alright!" Lu Yibei nodded dubiously and said, "Then tell it, I'm listening."
"Don't just listen!" Chatterbox Girl pointed to the cutting board behind Lu Yibei and said, "Do it while you listen, that way the effect will be even better."
"Oh, okay!"
Lu Yibei responded twice, turned around, and refocused her attention on the cutting board. She concentrated, ready to listen carefully to Chatterbox Girl's story,
and all sorts of background noises in the kitchen once again entered her ears.
It was as if a paused video had the play button pressed and started playing again.
Did Chatterbox Girl leave? Didn't she say she was going to tell me a story? Lu Yibei frowned. The next moment, a familiar voice echoed in her mind.
"Actually, this isn't my friend's story either. It's something I heard from a very old friend, about a Night Watch agent's story..."
Hearing the voice, Lu Yibei was startled for a moment, then quickly came back to her senses. Gripping the cleaver in her hand, she skillfully completed the cutting work on the first chicken wing root.
"The story begins over forty years ago. At that time, a male infant named Hua Qianli was born into this world. He was born in the coastal area of Country Z, his family had a rich foundation, and in the 1980s, they already had a household worth tens of millions..."
Chatterbox Girl's voice was very calm, with almost no fluctuations, but it seemed to contain some kind of magic. As Lu Yibei listened, a scene seemed to appear before her eyes:
a chubby baby born with a silver spoon in his mouth, crying loudly in the delivery room, ready to welcome his happy life.
"What kind of 'final madness' is this?"
"Don't tell me rich people also have troubles!"
I'm afraid I won't be able to control my urge to hit someone.
Lu Yibei thought secretly while processing the chicken wing roots.
"Hua Qianli's father was ambitious and successful in the business world, his mother was a university Professor in the dance department, the family was very harmonious, and his parents were very loving..."
"He was an only child. From a young age, he could get whatever he wanted. His parents had high hopes for him and gave him all the best resources..."
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Also, from a very young age, he lived a life that many people wouldn't dare to even dream of in their entire lives.
"Under permissible conditions, there's naturally nothing wrong with cultivating him with all their might like his parents did. However, as he grew older, his parents' divorce,
the breaking of his cradle, and the ever-changing surroundings made him realize that he was powerless in many things, which caused his mindset to slowly change..."
Listening to Chatterbox Girl, Lu Yibei seemed to see a seven or eight-year-old boy in a coastal city in the early 1990s,
caught in deep confusion under the impact of the waves of the era and family changes.
Although she had not experienced that era, she had a general understanding of it from a series of movies, TV shows, and novels.
It was an era when everything was growing wildly, creating many miracles but also breeding a lot of sin.
While Lu Yibei was thinking, the story told by Chatterbox Girl, as expected, began to develop in a bad direction.
"Starting from who knows when, Hua Qianli stopped coming home. In his view, instead of returning to that cold home,
it was better to hang out with his group of dissolute friends. It was during that time that he started drinking heavily, picked up the bad habit of gambling, and eventually even
got involved with drugs."
"Slap—!"
Lu Yibei smashed a head of garlic, shaking her head while mincing it into garlic paste.
He was into gambling and drugs but not prostitution? I don't quite approve!
But with his background, even if he was into gambling and drugs, he wouldn't completely ruin himself anytime soon, right?
Unless his Old Dad went bankrupt? Lu Yibei thought.
"Hua Qianli's father watched him degenerate and once tried to dissuade him, even locking him at home and hiring people to keep a close watch on him, but it had little effect.
All he got in return was repeated heartache."
"Finally, his father, who already had a new family and a second child, became disheartened and simply stopped caring about him. Anyway, with
his wealth, he could completely support such a good-for-nothing until he died."
"From then on, Hua Qianli began a life of debauchery and turning day into night. He actually knew that the friends around him were just
after his money, but he didn't care. He only enjoyed the feeling of standing in the center of the crowd."
"Good times didn't last. When Hua Qianli was twenty, his father made a wrong decision that put the family business in a very difficult
situation, even facing the possibility of bankruptcy."
Lu Yibei,
Don't look at me, it has nothing to do with me!
How can something that happened long ago be attributed to my jinxing?
Thinking this, Lu Yibei mixed ginger paste, garlic paste, cooking wine, oyster sauce, and other seasonings with the prepared chicken wings, and began to marinate them.
As she mixed the chicken wings and various seasonings evenly, Boss Hu, who had been quietly observing, suddenly had a serious expression.
As if experiencing a hallucination, he saw a depressing dark cloud hovering over the marinating chicken wings, as if
brewing a storm.
Seeing the emotions the maker poured into the dish was his Power, a special ability granted to him.
Calamity... Is she really a genius at cooking Human Hell?
Can she learn to this extent just by watching me do it once? Boss Hu thought.
While Boss Hu was contemplating, the story echoing in Lu Yibei's mind continued.
"Hua Qianli didn't care at all about the crisis his father and the family business encountered. He felt it had absolutely nothing to do with him, and
continued to do as he pleased. Until one day, a friend he had recently met took him to a magical place where he saw things he had never
seen before."
"Could it be the Dream Come True Journey?" Lu Yibei asked Chatterbox Girl in her mind.
"BINGO! It was indeed the Dream Come True Journey."
"Did he also go gambling like my Old Dad-in-law?" Lu Yibei pressed.
"What Old Dad-in-law? Did she agree to marry you?" Chatterbox Girl retorted.
"It's only a matter of time!" Lu Yibei said confidently.
"Hmph!" Chatterbox Girl spat, steering the conversation back on track. "Hua Qianli didn't participate in the gambling at Dream Come True Entertainment City, but
he got involved with the treasures from Dan Sha Gu Shi Pharmacy. In a sense, that might be more dangerous than participating in gambling."
"So, Mr. Hua went bankrupt because he was doing drugs?" Lu Yibei asked. "I knew it. With his family's conditions,
how could they possibly lose everything without getting involved in urban legend?"
"No!" Chatterbox Girl said. "Hua Qianli did secretly embezzle a large sum of money from his family to buy treasures, almost causing the family
business to go bankrupt. But in the end, his father successfully turned the tide. Although his wealth was not as great as before, they still managed to get through the difficult time."
"However, from then on, his father finally realized that his eldest son was completely beyond saving. He directly cut off Hua Qianli's
financial source and severed ties with him."
"I get it, I get it!" Lu Yibei said. "It's like the main account was ruined, so he just deleted it and focused on leveling up the alt account, right?"
Chatterbox Girl gave a non-committal response, remained silent for a few seconds, and then continued, "After losing his father's financial support, Hua Qianli realized how
useless he was. He had no survival skills, was completely ignorant about many things in society, and had picked up many deadly bad habits. His °• N 𝑜 v 𝑒 l i g h t •° dissolute friends also gradually
left him."
"Finally, late at night on his twenty-first birthday, his addiction to the 'treasure' flared up. In extreme pain, he thought of
death. So, he used his last hundred thousand yuan to buy a case of red wine."
"Wait! How much?" Lu Yibei interrupted.
"A hundred thousand. What's wrong?" Chatterbox Girl said calmly.
"Excuse me, I really can't imagine the world of the rich. Please continue." Lu Yibei said.
"That night, Hua Qianli carried the wine to the rooftop of an unfinished building, planning to get himself drunk and then end his life.
However, he had only just drunk one bottle when he met a little thief who was stealing wine, and who was also one of the only two beings he ever loved in his life."
"Hua Qianli had never seen such a beautiful Miss. He was mesmerized by the Miss's somewhat shy smile with just one glance. That smile
was more intoxicating than fine red wine."
Noticing that Chatterbox Girl used the word "being," Lu Yibei couldn't help but ask, "Not human?"
"She was a low-level Psychic with a Sheng Cai Gui Spirit Mark," Chatterbox Girl said. "However, there was a problem when the Spirit Mark was drawn, which caused her to have a tendency towards urban legend-ization, so she can't be entirely considered human."
"Mr. Hua didn't turn over a new leaf because of that Miss, did he?" Lu Yibei pressed.
"That's right!"
Lu Yibei,
Some say love at first sight is actually just lust at first sight.
So, didn't this Mr. Hua quit his addiction to the "treasures" from Dan Sha Gu Shi Pharmacy because of lust at first sight?
The power of LSP is truly awesome!
Thinking this, Lu Yibei said to Chatterbox Girl in her mind, "What happened next?"
"Then, not long after, they had a small wedding and lived a happy life. Three years later, that Miss became pregnant." free𝑤ebnovel.com
Lu Yibei, "???"
How did it become a Happy Ending while you were talking? What's going on? Where's Jade Palace Immortal? Do something!
Lu Yibei thought fiercely, like a pervert who felt worse seeing others live a good life than falling into an abyss herself.
Boss Hu, who was observing, was just as confused as Lu Yibei.
He watched with his own eyes as the dark cloud hovering over the dish Lu Yibei was making grew thicker and thicker, on the verge of erupting into a
shocking storm. But before the rain came down, a
rainbow appeared in the dark clouds?
What in the world is Disaster up to? Boss Hu thought, puzzled.
Just then, the rainbow suddenly shattered, as if crushed by a pair of invisible large hands, breaking into pieces. Then the dark clouds
instantly re-gathered, becoming even thicker. Terrifying lightning flashed between the clouds.
"Just as Hua Qianli was working hard, earning a meager salary, and waiting with hope for his child to be born,
his wife died. On the night after his daughter was born, her heart was dug out by a group of members from an illegal Spiritual Energy organization."
"Perhaps the later days were too good, or perhaps Hua Qianli was high on drugs at the time, he had even forgotten that after his father
cut off his financial source, in order to continue obtaining the treasures, he had promised the people from Dan Sha Gu Shi Pharmacy to offer his most beloved
person."
"When he made the promise, he originally thought that the so-called most beloved person would probably be his parents. He never imagined that he would one day
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"Just as he was completely disheartened, a Night Watch officer responsible for investigating that illegal Spiritual Energy organization appeared before him. Seeing his high Spiritual Energy potential, he explained the whole story to him and invited him to join the Night Watch."
"He must have agreed without even thinking, right?" Lu Yibei asked.
She put herself in his shoes. If someone harmed Jiang Hao, she would retaliate at all costs. As for Ju Meng, that Smelly Girl,
she would also reluctantly retaliate a bit!
"That's right!" Chatterbox Girl said. "He joined the Night Watch without hesitation, paid a heavy price, and became an
A-level Spirit Ability User in the shortest possible time, transforming into a vengeful ghost who hunted down that illegal Spiritual Energy organization, chasing them all the way to Liming City's
headquarters."
"Liming City? Is that the place that's particularly chaotic, where the Night Watch can't even maintain order?" Lu Yibei said.
"That's the place," Chatterbox Girl teased. "I didn't expect you to be quite knowledgeable!" "Did he successfully destroy the headquarters of that illegal Spiritual Energy organization?"
"He succeeded. For this, he even took his young daughter and hid in that terrible place for several years."
"Then..." Lu Yibei thought for a moment and asked, "Does the story end here? After all, his final obsession is gone, and people
would probably collapse instantly."
As she spoke, she began the final steps of making beer-braised chicken wings.
In her opinion, she had absorbed enough negative emotions from this story, enough to give Boss Hu a good drink.
For a moment, she even wanted to rename this dish "A Terrible Life."
However, just then, she heard Chatterbox Girl say, "He did collapse, but the story didn't end."
Lu Yibei
