This Is No Ordinary Chicken Noodle Soup, This Is the King's

"I wonder what kind of rewards those three system pills will be."

On the road, Xiao Lang thought excitedly. After all, system pills weren't something money could buy; they could only be obtained by completing system-assigned tasks.

For example, the special effect Ten Complete Great Tonic Pill was a system product, and its effects were incredible.

If Xiao Yan wasn't an alchemist, given how many Heavenly Flames he had absorbed, he would definitely be infertile.

He must have secretly taken medicine!

Getting sidetracked...

Back to the main topic.

"If I get a Dou Saint Pill, a Dou Venerate Pill, or a Dou Emperor Pill, I'll be invincible."

Xiao Lang couldn't help but think gleefully. After all, if he obtained these pills, he would have the trump cards to go out and have some fun.

Xiao Lang, Xiao Lang, if you don't go out and have fun, how can you live up to your name?

"Creak."

Before Xiao Lang could knock, Xiao Yan's door was pushed open from the inside, almost hitting Xiao Lang's nose.

"Ah? Third Brother, my apologies. I was just thinking of looking for you, and I didn't expect you to be up already..."

Xiao Yan looked at Xiao Lang, saying in surprise. But then he thought of his third brother's smug personality; he must be looking to show off again because his strength had greatly increased.

It was like this eight years ago.

He even grandly declared that having strength but not showing it off was like wearing brocade at night.

That statement itself was quite boastful.

However, he liked the feeling of showing off together with his third brother.

Because he was... in his third brother's words, outwardly reserved but inwardly passionate.

"I actually have something to tell you too. You go first."

Xiao Lang was a little curious. What did Xiao Yan want to tell him?

Could it be that Old Yao had already started absorbing his Dou Qi last night?

Seeing Xiao Yan looking around, acting all mysterious, Xiao Lang became even more curious. He couldn't help but say, "Let's go to my small courtyard to talk. No one will be there."

"Okay."

Xiao Yan also felt that his third brother's courtyard was quite peaceful, undisturbed by anyone.

Even his own father had to announce his arrival if he wanted to go there.

Only Xiao Xun'er in the entire Xiao family didn't need to announce herself.

She had that special treatment.

It was only later that his third brother "borrowed" a huge sum of one hundred thousand gold coins from everyone in the Xiao family combined. After his father repaid it, he also gained the right to enter and exit Xiao Lang's small courtyard freely.

For this, he heard that Xiao Xun'er had to pay money to help his third brother repay it!

He was so envious at the time. If he had been earlier, if he had gotten ahead of his third brother, wouldn't this little rich woman, Xun'er, have been his?

But when he saw Xiao Lang buying cultivation resources with all one hundred thousand gold coins for himself, Xiao Yan slapped himself.

He had actually thought of snatching his third brother's woman before. He was worse than an animal!

From then on, Xiao Yan vowed that any woman his third brother fancied, he would never have any feelings for!

Later, he heard that Xiao Xun'er was stopped by his third brother, who said, "How can a man use his woman's money?"

With that sentence, Xiao Xun'er was left speechless. He admired that immensely at the time.

"Let's go. There's still half a pot of the chicken soup I made yesterday left. Third Brother will make noodles with it for you."

Xiao Lang used to want to rely on others, but watching Xiao Yan grow step by step, the responsibility of being an older brother became heavier and heavier.

In the past, it was more about selfish motives; now, it's more about family affection.

Even a dog kept for ten years develops deep feelings, let alone a person.

"Third Brother, honestly, not even a dog would eat your soup."

Xiao Yan remembered the first time his third brother made him drink chicken soup. The taste, that sourness and sharpness, was even more intense than eating aged pickled cabbage that had been stepped on.

It was also at that time that he no longer wanted to enter his third brother's courtyard, fearing he would be dragged in to drink soup.

"Holy crap! It smells so good!"

Ten years later, after eating the chicken soup his third brother made again, Xiao Yan was immediately proven wrong by the "true fragrance" law.

Especially after eating it, a warm current flowed through his limbs and bones, finally gathering in his kidneys. He felt as if his kidneys had sprouted wings and could soar freely.

Instantly, he realized that this soup was a man's number one treasure!

Although he didn't need it for now, once he reached adulthood, whoever called the shots in the family would depend on this thing.

"Eat slowly, no one is fighting you for it. There's still a big pot! And you haven't finished developing yet. If you supplement too much, you might get nosebleeds."

Watching Xiao Yan bury his head in eating, Xiao Lang felt a sense of accomplishment.

But Xiao Yan looked up, oblivious to the blood gushing from his nose, and said, "Third Brother, I can't believe ten years have passed, and your cooking has improved so much! I'll be coming here for meals from now on."

"Three bowls are enough. Look, your nose is bleeding, you've clearly had too much, be careful it doesn't backfire." Xiao Lang couldn't help but stop Xiao Yan, who was about to ask for another bowl.

"For the two brats to eat alone behind my back is one thing, but they've forgotten it's the day to choose a cultivation technique from the Dou Qi Pavilion. They clearly don't have me, their father, in their eyes."

Just then, Xiao Zhan walked over, grumbling.

Three minutes later.

"Lang'er, this is wrong of you. Why didn't you call your father to eat this good stuff sooner?"

After eating another bowl, Xiao Zhan's face was flushed and he said excitedly, "If you had called Dad earlier, those 100,000 gold coins might have been... you'd only owe 9,990 gold coins. After all, a hen costing ten gold coins is ten times the market price."

"..."

Listening to Xiao Zhan's outrageous words, Xiao Lang was speechless. He really was his biological father.

He didn't know why, but Xiao Zhan, who was usually steady and composed, displayed all sorts of bad habits in front of him.

He even suspected that his father was also a transmigrator.

But after the poem didn't match, Xiao Lang felt reassured.

A gentleman who does not know that poem has read the books of all the sages in vain.

"Have you two eaten enough?"

Looking at them after they each downed three bowls of the Ten Complete Great Tonic Pill chicken noodle soup, Xiao Lang wore a harmless smile, like a sunny young man.

"Third Brother, don't smile like that... I'm scared!"

Seeing Xiao Lang's smile, Xiao Yan immediately took a few steps back, feeling like his kidneys were about to be harvested.

"Son, let's talk business. This smile doesn't fit your persona."

Xiao Zhan also felt a little guilty. After raising his son for so many years, he knew very well what that smile meant.

"..."

Xiao Lang's lips twitched. He took out a mirror and looked into it, then nodded with satisfaction.

"Look at this handsome, dashing, elegant, and extraordinary..."

"Stop! Enough with the praise. Give us a price, we'll buy this chicken noodle soup!"

Seeing Xiao Lang talking for ten minutes without any sign of stopping, Xiao Zhan knew he had to pay.

Since he had to pay, he might as well end the torment sooner.

"My father understands me best."

Xiao Lang chuckled upon hearing this, put away the mirror, and said, "This isn't just any chicken noodle soup. This is Wang Wei... cough, this is the Ten Complete Great Tonic Pill chicken noodle soup."