"System, did you move an entire supermarket in here?"
[Host, please note: food is replenished once every fifteen days. Please plan your daily food consumption carefully. Do not waste food.]
The system did not answer him, instead giving him a warning.
"Hmm? Don't tell me even this much food isn't enough?"
Chen Shi looked at the neatly stacked bags of rice in the corner, then pulled open a storage cabinet. It was crammed with flour, dried noodles, instant noodles, biscuits, canned goods, and other food, along with a huge pile of convenience foods whose names he did not know.
He felt that this food alone would last the six of them more than half a month.
Then he walked over to the row of refrigerators and opened them one by one, from left to right.
The refrigerators contained fruit, vegetables, seafood, chicken, duck, fish, other meats, frozen foods, drinks, mineral water, and more. They had everything, in abundant variety.
Chen Shi made a rough estimate. The food in these refrigerators alone weighed several hundred jin in total.
After inspecting all the food, he grew puzzled again.
"All this gets replenished every fifteen days, and it really isn't enough?"
He muttered with a frown, but a timely growl from his stomach interrupted his thoughts.
Forget it. Heaven and earth might be vast, but eating came first. I'd fill my stomach before anything else.
If he simply wanted to fill his stomach, and quickly at that, instant noodles were clearly the best choice.
Having made up his mind, he walked toward the storage cabinet and reached for the box of instant noodles.
Just then, out of the corner of his eye, he caught several figures appearing in the kitchen doorway.
Turning his head, he saw that Qian Renxue and the others had arrived at the kitchen entrance, lined up in a row, all looking straight at her.
Although the kitchen was large, five people standing in its doorway at once still made it seem a little crowded.
Of the five, Qian Renxue stood at the front, her golden eyes sweeping over the kitchen's layout as her brows furrowed slightly.
As Spirit Hall's young master, and having spent over a decade as the Heaven Dou Empire's crown prince, what sort of kitchen had she not seen? The kitchens in the Heaven Dou Imperial Palace were more than ten times larger than this one.
But the two were different. The Heaven Dou Empire's kitchens burned charcoal and used cookware, yet this kitchen had no firewood at all. Aside from the cookware and knives, she recognized nothing else.
What exactly was going on?
She had originally come to the kitchen to see whether Chen Shi would add any "extra ingredients," only to find herself shocked first.
Not far from her side, Xiao Wu had recovered quite a bit of her vitality, but her expression was now indifferent, as though nothing could interest her.
After entering the kitchen, she seemed to catch a scent and sniffed hard, her rabbit ears twitching as well.
She had already smelled something delicious in this kitchen.
As a Soft Bone Rabbit who had taken human form to cultivate anew, she still had a fairly keen sense of smell.
Beside Xiao Wu stood Ning Rongrong, her arms folded across her chest as she strove to maintain the pride of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect's little princess.
But her eyes betrayed her, stealing glances all around the kitchen.
As for Hu Liena and Dugu Yan, they, too, were looking curiously at everything inside.
Seeing the five of them crowded into the kitchen doorway, Chen Shi suddenly found it rather amusing.
On the Douluo Continent, given Qian Renxue's and Ning Rongrong's standing, they surely had entourages attending them wherever they went and needed only open their mouths to be fed.
As for Xiao Wu, Dugu Yan, and Hu Liena, their backgrounds were far from ordinary either, and they rarely had occasion to cook.
Yet here the five of them were, squeezed into the kitchen doorway like five cats that had never seen the world.
Just then, a thought suddenly flashed through Chen Shi's mind.
These five live in my villa, eating and drinking for free without having to do anything. Isn't that a little inappropriate?
With that thought, he leaned against the storage cabinet, looked at the five women with their differing expressions, and spoke:
"You've come at just the right time."
His words interrupted the thoughts of four of them.
"What do you mean?" Qian Renxue raised her head slightly and asked in confusion.
"You're living at my place now. Not only have you paid no rent, but you're also getting free room and board, enjoying everything here. Isn't that a little inappropriate?"
Chen Shi spoke calmly. As the landlord and owner of the villa, if he personally handled everything, where would his dignity be? Wouldn't that make him a servant?
At these words, Qian Renxue and the others' expressions darkened.
Free room and board? He made it sound as though they'd wanted to come here.
But beneath someone else's eaves, they had no choice but to bow their heads.
Besides, didn't they very much want to obtain some information about the future from Chen Shi?
"What do you mean, unreasonable? What exactly are you trying to say?" Ning Rongrong asked with some displeasure.
Chen Shi glanced at her and explained the plan he had just thought of:
"It's simple. Work in the villa, and not only will your rent be waived, you'll also earn chances to ask me questions!"
Hearing this, the five women had wanted to object, but at the thought of earning chances to ask questions, they could not help growing a little excited.
They had already experienced Chen Shi's ability to know the past, present, and future, so they did not want to give up a chance to ask him questions.
Then all five looked at Chen Shi at once, wanting to see what he would have them do.
Seeing that none of the five objected, Chen Shi said with a smile:
"For example, washing dishes and cooking in the kitchen will earn you one chance to ask a question every seven days."
"Or doing housework in the villa, such as sweeping, mopping, and wiping tables, will also earn you one chance to ask a question."
Hearing Chen Shi's words, Qian Renxue could not help frowning.
Housework and cooking could earn her chances to ask questions, but given her status, whether in Spirit Hall or the Heaven Dou Imperial Palace, how could it ever have fallen to her to do housework?
In all these years, she had never done housework even once. Didn't that mean this chance to ask questions would slip right past her?
As for Ning Rongrong, she was slightly better off than Qian Renxue, but only slightly. She, too, had grown up with a golden spoon in her mouth. Aside from briefly doing a few things at Shrek, when had she ever done housework?
Apart from those two, Hu Liena and the other two were all somewhat tempted, because housework was something they really could do.
Seeing their reactions, Chen Shi nodded in satisfaction, feeling that he was truly a genius beyond compare.
He had come to this villa to enjoy himself.
So he nodded and added, "As for other jobs, I haven't thought of them yet. We'll discuss those later!"
The moment he finished speaking, before Chen Shi could react, Xiao Wu darted forward like a wild rabbit slipped free of its reins, moving ahead of the other four.
"I can do the housework!"
"Are you sure?" Chen Shi looked at her.
"It's just cleaning. It's not difficult. Back at Nuoding Academy, I was a work-study student. Cleaning was something I did often."
Xiao Wu spoke evenly. Compared with before, her expression was somewhat cold.
She was good at housework, but not at cooking.
When it came to eating, all she needed was carrots.
"All right. In that case, I'll leave the cleaning to you!"
Chen Shi nodded. Just as he was about to say something, he saw Dugu Yan and Hu Liena step forward.
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