The Yang Qi of Righteousness (Part One)

"Come on, try the chicken legs I, Zhang Caicai, made." In the square, Zhang Caicai arranged the prepared chicken legs on seven plates, one on each plate, corresponding to Ma Feifei and his group, as well as Mu Qingyi, a total of seven people.

"I'll try it first! I'll try it first!" Mu Qingyi was extremely excited. Her eyes lit up when she saw the chicken leg. She didn't care about her image and reached out to grab the chicken leg from the plate.

"Wow... it's so hot!" Mu Qingyi touched the chicken leg, and the steaming heat of the chicken leg went straight into her palm. But Mu Qingyi did not let go of the chicken leg. She grabbed the chicken leg and put it into her mouth.

"Slurp~" He slurped off a piece of chicken leg and sucked it directly into his mouth to chew.

"Mmm... delicious, delicious!" Mu Qingyi's eyes lit up, and she gave Zhang Caicai a thumbs up, praising the chicken leg as she ate it, without holding back.

"Of course! I, Zhang Caicai, am determined to become a culinary master!" Zhang Caicai was so proud of Mu Qingyi's praise that he felt like he was flying to the sky. He raised his head and said proudly, without the slightest bit of modesty.

"Shopkeeper, come and eat! Zhang Caicai's chicken legs are delicious!" Ba Jiu called out to Ma Feifei and the others below.

At this moment, Ma Feifei had finished asking for the answer, Yun Qingyang had finished drawing the painting. The group slowly walked up.

"Ma Feifei, here." Yun Qingyang walked to Ma Feifei's side and handed him the drawing paper.

Ma Feifei took the drawing paper, glanced at it, and raised an eyebrow.

The background and house above are full of cute style, but that's not the most important thing. The most important thing is that there is a person in the background, and you can tell it's Ma Feifei without even looking at him.

"Excuse me, why am I so short?" Ma Feifei asked, taking the chicken leg that Luan Feng handed him.

Ma Feifei's painting skills have reached a professional level, so he can naturally tell the proportions of the figures and backgrounds in a painting at a glance. Judging from his appearance, he is no more than 1.7 meters tall.

"You really aren't tall!" Yun Qingyang replied, shaking his head as he refused the chicken leg Zhang Caicai offered him in a fawning manner.

Upon hearing this, Ma Feifei's face darkened. Wasn't he tall?

Is 1.7 meters short?

In his world, 1.7 meters is already considered a pretty good height.

There are plenty of people around 1.6 meters tall, but I've never seen anyone over 1.7 meters tall.

Okay, he is indeed a bit short.

"Then what's with the proportions? The upper body is so long?" Ma Feifei asked, pointing to the body in the drawing.

The lower body of the figure in the portrait is only about one-third the length of the upper body.

"You don't understand, these are our painters' techniques." Yun Qingyang glanced at Ma Feifei as if he were a complete novice, then snatched the drawing paper from Ma Feifei's hand and turned to leave.

"I want to hang it on the Bookstore door so everyone can admire it."

"..." Ma Feifei looked at the somewhat excited Yun Qingyang, speechless.

"Mmm... this is delicious, very delicious." Mu Qingyi quickly finished the chicken leg in her hand, leaving only a bare bone. Seeing that there was still a chicken leg on the plate, she quickly reached out and took it to eat.

"How does it compare to the Zui Xian Lou?" Ma Feifei leaned closer and asked with a smile.

Ma Feifei didn't want to comment on Zhang Caicai's personality, but Ma Feifei highly recognized Zhang Caicai cooking skills. To his knowledge, he had never seen anyone whose cooking skills surpassed Zhang Caicai's.

"It tastes better than Zui Xian Lou," Mu Qingyi praised sincerely.

"Would you like to continue eating his chicken legs?" Ma Feifei asked, guiding the conversation.

"Little brother, give this young chef to your older brother, and I'll give you wealth and honor, how about it?" Mu Qingyi said indistinctly while chewing on a chicken leg.

Ma Feifei smiled and shook his head, saying, "It's definitely impossible for me to give you the person, you're mistaken, don't even think about it. But there is a way to let you eat chicken legs often."

"What method?" Mu Qingyi asked, puzzled.

"As the saying goes, 'Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.' If you really like eating this, why don't you learn how to make it yourself?" Ma Feifei said, gesturing towards Zhang Caicai.

Mu Qingyi frowned, followed Ma Feifei's gaze to Zhang Caicai, a thoughtful look in her eyes, and asked, "You mean you want me to learn how to kick from him?"

"That's what I mean." Ma Feifei smiled mysteriously.

"Great idea!" Mu Qingyi patted Ma Feifei on the shoulder, completely disregarding the oil stains on her hands, and walked straight towards Zhang Caicai.

Ma Feifei watched Mu Qingyi's retreating figure, a sly smile spreading across his face.

If Mu Qingyi is willing to learn cooking skills from Zhang Caicai, then Ma Feifei can use Zhang Caicai to make Mu Qingyi Book-holding woman.

Of course, there was another matter besides that: he wanted this local bigwig to act as a go-between, to bring back those students from the Confucian Dao Academy, and to help them awaken the Righteous Qi within them.

As long as Righteous Qi is ignited, Ma Feifei believes that the Confucian Dao Academy will become the most dazzling branch of the Wu'an Academy.

"What? You want to learn to cook from me? Impossible, I don't take apprentices." Zhang Caicai arrogantly rejected Mu Qingyi's suggestion.

Upon hearing this, Ma Feifei knew it wouldn't do. He immediately ran over and, under Mu Qingyi's questioning gaze, grabbed Zhang Caicai and pulled her aside, threatening in a low voice, "You must take this disciple, understand? Otherwise, don't blame me for making things difficult for you later."

Ma Feifei thought Zhang Caicai would be intimidated, but after hearing Ma Feifei's words, Zhang Caicai paused for a moment, then put on an unyielding expression and said, "Shopkeeper, although I respect you, I also have the dignity of a culinary master. I'd rather die than do Zhang Caicai I don't want to do!"

Ma Feifei was speechless after hearing Zhang Caicai's words. He looked at Zhang Caicai with newfound respect, thinking that Zhang Caicai's image had suddenly become much more imposing.

Just as Ma Feifei was about to give up pressuring Zhang Caicai and look for other methods, Yun Qingyang appeared beside Ma Feifei at some point, glanced at Zhang Caicai, and said calmly, "Agree, all interest will be waived, only the principal will be repaid."

"Smack!"

Zhang Caicai escaped Ma Feifei's clutches and ran to Mu Qingyi. She coughed and said seriously, "I can promise to teach you how to cook, but you have to agree to one condition."

"Okay, no problem!" Mu Qingyi agreed immediately, without even mentioning Zhang Caicai's request.

Zhang Caicai turned her head and glanced triumphantly at Ma Feifei, as if she were asking for credit.

Ma Feifei naturally knew that Zhang Caicai's condition was for him, but he didn't have time to Zhang Caicai right now.

"Hey, Qingyang, you still haven't paid Caicai back?" Ma Feifei asked in a low voice. How long has this debt been outstanding? More than 10,000 Spirit Crystal shouldn't have been owed for this long, right?

"I returned it, but it's not enough." Yun Qingyang's eyes lit up at the mention of Spirit Crystal.

"Really? Caicai can't even pay back more than 10,000 Spirit Crystal?" Ma Feifei was a little surprised.

"More than ten thousand? Are you kidding me? You don't charge interest when you lend people Spirit Crystal?" Yun Qingyang said with a serious face. "Isn't eleven thousand the interest?" Ma Feifei asked doubtfully. Zhang Caicai had already repaid ten thousand, so according to Yun Qingyang's calculation, there was only an eleven thousand left.

"The interest increases every day, don't you understand?" Yun Qingyang stretched out her hand and counted on her tender fingers, saying, "At an interest rate of 11,000 per day, Zhang Caicai has been in arrears for a full 45 days, so he now owes me a total of 495,000 Spirit Crystal."

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