"Everyone, time to eat! Come get your own plates. If you want chopped scallions, add them yourselves!"
In the kitchen, Chen Shi looked at the six plates of fried noodles on the table and nodded slightly.
He took a light sniff. They had color, aroma, and flavor in equal measure. Even if he opened a restaurant, they would surely be very popular.
Each plate was a full thirty centimeters wide, piled high with fried noodles and the other ingredients.
Each person should have two portions of noodles. With servings this big, surely there would be enough to eat?
While Chen Shi was thinking, Qian Renxue and the others began moving.
They had already grown impatient when they smelled the fried noodles earlier. Led by Qian Renxue, they each picked up a plate, then stood there, unsure what to do next.
"There are knives, forks, and chopsticks here. Use whichever you like!"
Chen Shi pointed out where the chopsticks, knives, and forks were, and Qian Renxue and the others went to get them.
Just then, Chen Shi noticed Dugu Yan.
Because of her Life-Bound Poison, Dugu Yan could only stand at the kitchen doorway, not daring to enter. She looked rather pitiful, as though she had been ostracized.
Seeing this, Chen Shi also felt rather deeply guilty. He had somewhat isolated Dugu Yan.
He then picked up the remaining plate of fried noodles from the table, walked over to Dugu Yan, and said:
"Here, take this. Have something to eat first!"
"Th... thank you!"
Dugu Yan's eyes reddened slightly as she smelled the aroma wafting toward her, and she spoke with some gratitude.
Chen Shi then led them to the dining room. After he briefly explained how to go about the meal, Qian Renxue and the others began eating with gusto.
"Cough, cough, cough!"
Xiao Wu could not help coughing after just one bite of fried noodles.
"Hmm? Too spicy?"
Chen Shi looked at Xiao Wu in some surprise. Hadn't he left out the chili peppers? He had only used the seasoning packets from the instant noodles. Even that much was too spicy for her?
But after thinking about it, he understood. Rabbits were herbivores to begin with, so it was normal for her to find it spicy.
He went back to the kitchen, opened the refrigerator, took out several drinks, and set one down for each of them.
"Th... thank you!" ×5
The five women looked at the bright red cans, somewhat at a loss.
What exactly were these things?
"These are drinks. Open them like this!"
Seeing their expressions, Chen Shi demonstrated himself.
He held the red can in his left hand and pulled hard on the ring tab with his right.
With a click, an opening appeared in the red can.
Then Chen Shi raised the can to his lips and took a sip.
Seeing this marvelous scene, Qian Renxue and the others followed his example and tasted the drink inside.
Just one sip left them frozen in place.
What was in this? Why was it sweet, yet had an indescribably refreshing coolness?
After seeing their reactions, Chen Shi was about to sit down and eat his noodles when he noticed that Dugu Yan looked rather listless. She showed little enthusiasm for eating, her expression was deeply downcast, and her eyes were still a little red.
Earlier, he had refused Dugu Yan's request to cook, and the other four had also ostracized her.
After some thought, Chen Shi decided to make it up to Dugu Yan. As they ate, he said:
"Dugu Yan, earlier, when you pressed me for an answer, I didn't answer you, but answered Xiao Wu instead. Then I rejected your idea of cooking. Thinking it over, I did dampen your enthusiasm a little. To make up for that, I'm going to give you an extra piece of important information."
At these words, Dugu Yan's eyes turned red as she sat at the dining table, and she could no longer hold back her tears.
The others also stopped what they were doing and stared curiously at Chen Shi, wanting to hear what important information he would reveal.
Then Chen Shi said, "Why did I say earlier that your grandfather was the most unfortunate Titled Douluo on the Douluo Continent?
"The reason began precisely when your grandfather, Poison Douluo Dugu Bo, became acquainted with Tang San?"
Tang San? Him again? Why was he involved every time?
Hearing this, the five at the dining table each had their own thoughts.
Sure enough, Tang San was the one who harmed Grandfather.
That brat should have been killed sooner.
After hearing Chen Shi's words, Dugu Yan tightened her fingers around her fork.
When she returned to the Douluo Continent in seven days, she had to warn her grandfather not to let the two of them have any further contact.
Xiao Wu frowned slightly at Chen Shi's words but said nothing more. She no longer knew what she thought. Her only goal now was to find out whose hands she would die at in the future.
Ning Rongrong set down the red can in her hand and stared motionlessly at Chen Shi. She already knew that her becoming a god was connected to Tang San. Regardless of what sort of character Tang San had or what he was hiding, she would offer no judgment now.
As for Qian Renxue, she narrowed her eyes slightly.
This Tang San truly was a formidable enemy of our Spirit Hall. When I return to the Douluo Continent in seven days, I must inform Grandfather promptly and eliminate Tang San as soon as possible, cutting off any future trouble at the root.
"Tang San used treating your grandfather's Life-Bound Poison and yours as a pretext to obtain permission to pick herbs in your grandfather's Medicine Garden."
Chen Shi did not know what the others were thinking. He continued:
"But your grandfather possessed a treasure trove without even knowing it. The valley he occupied was one of the Douluo Continent's three great treasure basins. It was a paradise for plant growth, where they grew more than ten times faster than outside.
"So all sorts of Immortal Herbs grew there, such as aromatic silk beauty, the Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew, the Lovesick Heartbreak Red, crystal blood dragon ginseng, the Cockscomb Phoenix-Tail Sunflower, singular velvet sky chrysanthemum, aromatic silk beauty, octagonal mysterious ice grass, infernal delicate apricot, and other Immortal-grade Herbs."
These words instantly shocked everyone present.
Ning Rongrong and the others widened their eyes in disbelief.
The aromatic silk beauty was actually in Sunset Forest, in a place called the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well?
And it had originally belonged to Dugu Bo, before that person mentioned later gave it to me. Did that mean Third Brother had seized it from the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well?
At this thought, Ning Rongrong glanced at Qian Renxue and Dugu Yan, inwardly sensing trouble.
With those two having heard such crucial information, it would be difficult for her to obtain the aromatic silk beauty afterward.
At that moment, the corners of Qian Renxue's mouth lifted slightly. With this information, their Spirit Hall could do a great many things.
In the future, Spirit Hall could also take control of the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and turn it into their Medicine Garden. Spirit Hall would grow stronger and stronger.
After hearing Chen Shi's words, Dugu Yan's lungs nearly burst with rage.
She had not expected her grandfather Dugu Bo's Medicine Garden to contain so many good things. Her grandfather actually failed to recognize them, and she did not know how things had turned out in the end.
But wasn't Tang San Grandfather's friend despite their age gap? Surely he wouldn't leave him without even a single Immortal Herb?
Surely not? Surely not?
Meanwhile, on the Douluo Continent.
The moment Chen Shi uttered those words, the entire Douluo Continent erupted.
In Sunset Forest, within the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
Dugu Bo, who had been hiding at the edge of the cliff, immediately stood up.
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