My Restaurant's Guests are All Abnormal

Chapter 134: Twenty-sixth Chapter Chen Ze: I think I can!

Chen Ze scratched his head, feeling it wasn’t great to drag out someone’s hidden feelings, so he was a bit melancholic about how to support Lafra.

"Right, where’s that thing... my photo?" Lafra stretched out her hand, still remembering the last time she brought Chen Ze to the castle, where a frail human took a picture of her.

"Just a moment, I’ll get it for you." Chen Ze ran upstairs and took the photo from the bedroom dresser.

"It’s..." Lafra looked at the photo with delight, thinking that although it was a bit worse than magic-etched images, it was still quite nice.

Then Lafra saw Chen Ze’s gaze.

"It’s... it’s so ordinary! Humph, having me appear in such a place, really rude!" Lafra turned her head away, slipping the photo into her personal space.

Chen Ze’s lips twitched, wondering if she actually liked it or not.

Chen Ze didn’t enjoy watching guests eat, so he returned to the kitchen; he was feeling a bit peckish and suddenly craved stinky tofu.

While Lafra watched Chen Ze enter the kitchen, she secretly took out the photo again, blushed as she put it back, and cautiously looked around to check her surroundings.

Once she was sure no one had seen her, she breathed a sigh of relief and began to eat the meal that Chen Ze had prepared.

There are many kinds of stinky tofu, with different places having their own version; Huaxia’s Changsha stinky tofu, black and smelly, is quite famous.

One could even smell the stench from a street away, but after trying it, the vast majority of people would say it tastes delicious.

This time, Chen Ze planned to make Yunnan’s stinky tofu, small cubes that didn’t smell as potent as Changsha’s stinky tofu.

But dipped in sauce, it turned into quite a nice delicacy; Chen Ze often ordered a plate at barbecue stands and chatted with friends for a long time.

Chen Ze heated the charcoal; though there were convenient appliances like gas stoves and induction cookers now, some dishes just had to be prepared with wood or coal.

Otherwise, something about the flavor was always missing.

Chen Ze placed the stinky tofu on a wire rack; he just had to wait and occasionally turn them over.

"When Betty wakes up, I’ll have her write an announcement. Hosting a big eater competition should be doable," Chen Ze thought about the previous idea while flipping the tofu.

However, this depended on having an extremely abundant reserve of ingredients, or else Chen Ze feared he might go bankrupt.

Just the Dragon Clan, led by Riesel, could deplete all the restaurant’s stock.

And not every species had the appetite of a Dragon; how to make the competition fair and just was another challenge.

Chen Ze felt that if this problem wasn’t solved, the first big eater competition would remain merely a pipe dream.

"What are you doing? It’s all burnt." Lafra’s voice startled Chen Ze into a jolt.

Only then did Chen Ze realize that the stinky tofu in front of him had turned into black charcoal.

"Thank you, Lafra." After a flurry of panicked activity, Chen Ze let out a sigh of relief; although the stinky tofu was ruined, at least there were no major mishaps.

"Hmph, a verbal thanks lacks sincerity," Lafra said, arms crossed as she glanced at the ceiling.

"Then, how about I give you a case of cola!" Chen Ze said, ready to clap his hands and head to the basement to get the cola.

"You! Ugh, ahhhhhh!!" Lafra, annoyed, stomped on Chen Ze’s foot forcefully before throwing down a bag and storming off, huffing with anger.

Chen Ze was left alone, holding his foot and inhaling sharply from the pain.

"Is my magic circle broken?" Chen Ze had an urge to complain. It was supposed to protect him, but now it just let Lafra stomp on his foot at will.

Chen Ze opened the bag and glanced inside. It contained a stone that looked similar to the Illusion Stone Lafra had used before.

"Such a precious gemstone..." Chen Ze touched it and instantly knew what it was for.

It was a gemstone just like the other, only this one could create a forest filled with stars.

However, it had a magic power requirement: maintaining the environment would continuously consume magic power. It was unclear how much magic power this stone had stored inside it.

"Such a valuable gift, is this like a dowry for marrying Betty? But I’m not a member of Betty’s family," Chen Ze said with a mix of laughter and tears as he placed the Illusion Stone inside a small box. He would use it later.

Chen Ze was now feeling melancholic, wondering how he would explain today’s events to Betty once she woke up.

"You awake, little bro? Congratulations, you’ve caught the eye of a bossy female CEO. A CEO’s gift is always generous. I intended to refuse it, but it was just too big," Chen Ze shook his head; surely this explanation wouldn’t do.

"Betty, there’s something I need to tell you, and you can choose whether to know it or not. If you eat the fried chicken in your left hand, I will tell you a lie, allowing you to live in bliss for a lifetime. If you eat the stinky tofu in your right hand, I will tell you the harsh truth." This definitely wouldn’t do either.

Chen Ze felt like he was going bald from stressing over this; it was more difficult than making Wenshi tofu.

Chen Ze decided to go and make some Wenshi tofu to calm down.

Then, after five minutes, Chen Ze was lying serenely in a chair, entering sage mode.

"Tsk, it’s just like after a shudder, suddenly everything seems inconsequential."

The tofu on the cutting board looked more like a white, unidentified substance.

As it turned out, making Wenshi tofu was even harder; Chen Ze preparing Wenshi tofu was like a primary school student suddenly attending a calculus class.

Even following the recipe was like a primary student holding "Calculus—From Beginning to Burial" and "Calculus—From Introduction to Collapse", not understanding a thing.

This wasn’t just a gap in scholarly knowledge, it was completely a dimensionally different challenge.

Just when Chen Ze thought he could spend the afternoon in sage mode, the Wind Chime rang again, but there was no sound to follow.

Chen Ze curiously stuck his head out to have a look; the restaurant was empty, and the door had closed itself. ƒrēewebnovel.com

"Did they get scared off just by seeing me?" Chen Ze was puzzled, and then he heard a strange noise.

"Cluck... cluck cluck..." It was a very sinister and eerie sound, which Chen Ze found all too familiar.

Chen Ze took a deep breath, sensed the magic circle, and then immediately locked onto an unfamiliar intruder.

Chen Ze smacked his lips, walked out of the kitchen with his phone in hand.

It was as if Zhang Wei’s spawn point was the toilet. The guest in front of him, her spawn point was the staircase, although Chen Ze couldn’t understand how she managed to get in.

But a visitor is a visitor; now to see if she was an unwelcome one or just an ordinary guest.