"Buying them all is out of the question. Can you even finish that many buns by yourself? Besides, my buns aren't something you can eat recklessly. Too many aren't good for your body."
"They're just buns... Could they really make someone sick?"
Xu Yanwu muttered.
"What did you say?!"
Third Uncle puffed up his beard and glared.
"When you came in, didn't you see what the sign on the street said?"
"Medicine and Food Street!"
Still fuming, Third Uncle carried out a steamer basket of buns.
The piping-hot buns looked exceptionally appetizing inside the bamboo steamer.
"These things are all incredibly nourishing!"
"Honestly, don't let your young, sturdy body fool you. If you eat too many later, you'll start spraying nosebleeds on the spot!"
"I'm telling you, I've never seen an outsider eat their way through this entire street in a single day!"
Hearing that, Xu Yanwu suddenly felt... why did those words sound so familiar?
He had the distinct feeling that plenty of people would soon come along and break that record...
"Hm? Incredibly nourishing?"
Xu Yanwu raised an eyebrow. "Just how nourishing are they?"
"Well, that calls for an explanation..."
Third Uncle launched into an animated explanation of his buns' benefits—what meats they used, what kinds of medicinal herbs they added...
He also explained what effects those herbs would produce when combined, and so on.
But Xu Yanwu's mind was not on Third Uncle's explanation at all. He was staring fixedly at the buns before him.
"These buns... nourishing?"
How nourishing could they be?
Could they be more nourishing than the Honkai Beasts he had gnawed on years ago?
Could they be more nourishing than that cauldronful of potent medicine stewed in the Shennong Cauldron back then?
Could they be more nourishing than the medicinal herbs nurtured by