Shadow Weaver

Chapter 96: My Master Occasionally Cooks
"but……"

Lu Shinian spoke slowly and drawn out the last syllable of his voice, then turned around and looked at the three people with an ambiguous look.

Xu Yichi suddenly understood what he meant somehow - he felt that they didn't look like people who could cook or be in the kitchen.

So the little girl pursed her lips and was silent for a moment: "...Master Jiazi, you don't need to say anything after the word 'but'."

——It would be impolite to say that again, thank you.

"Ahem, please don't worry about these details, Master Xu." Lu Shinian clenched his fist and pretended to cough, "Anyway, there is really no kitchen here, but if you really want to cook instant noodles or hot meals in it, you can also buy an induction cooker or a small cooking pot with a slightly lower power."

"Also, if you are too lazy to cook and don't want to order takeout, there is also a dining hall open to the public in the temple - or if you don't mind, you can also eat with me and the disciples in the temple."

"Oh wow, you have this kind of business!" Xu Yichi's eyes lit up in response - she could understand that there was a cafeteria in the Taoist temple. After all, in addition to Yaoshan Temple, there were many temples in your country that had dining halls for tourists and pilgrims to eat. The vegetarian food in many temples was even more delicious than those famous vegetarian restaurants outside.

But for someone like Taoist Jiazi, he directly stated that he could eat with his disciples...this seems to be less common.

I don’t know what the Taoist priests in the mountains eat every day.

The little girl blinked her eyes uncontrollably and her thoughts drifted away. After a while, she hesitated and tugged at the young man's sleeve: "But what about that, Taoist Master Jiaozi?"

"How do you charge for eating at your temple?"

——She knew that some temples in China provided free vegetarian meals, but one had to queue up to get a number and the meals were limited in quantity.

But those are usually aimed at ordinary tourists who only come to the temple to eat one or two meals occasionally. People like them have to stay here for several months...

It doesn't seem convenient to eat for free every day...right?

"…If you can get up and are willing to queue up every day." Lu Shinian said in silence, "The temple has 200 free lunch tickets every day."

"If you're too lazy to queue, the canteen in the temple charges two yuan for breakfast, five yuan for lunch and five yuan for dinner. It's basically a public welfare canteen, and the fees are not expensive. For the specific opening times, you have to check the large notice board in the canteen."

"In addition, if you want to eat with me, it's free. But if you eat with my disciples, you will have to pay a monthly meal fee - about three hundred yuan. I'll have to ask Master for the details first."

"Oh, then the cost difference between eating in the cafeteria and eating with the disciples seems to be not much, both are cheaper than ordering takeout." Xu Yichi wandered around and whistled lightly, "But why is there no charge for eating with you?"

"…Because I am used to cooking for myself." Lu Shinian said, his eyes drifting uncontrollably, "It's like this, Master Xu."

"To be honest, Master... sometimes when he feels like it, he will take the initiative to cook for the disciples in the temple."

"But his cooking skills are very unstable."

"It's... cough, unstable, you know, that kind of instability." The young man in Taoist robes coughed so hard that he almost coughed out his lungs. "When he performs well, it's not bad, but once he performs poorly or overperforms..." "- Green pepper mustard cheese mooncake, you have experienced the power of this thing yourself."

"So..." For the safety of his poor stomach, it would be safer for him to cook and eat by himself.

Although this does not completely allow him to escape the pursuit of his master, the "gifted ghost chef" - some of his "painstaking works" that he considers to be perfect from material selection to production to finished product shape still have to be stuffed into his stomach.

But in the end... one less meal is better.jpg
Lu Shinian said this very tactfully, but when Xu Yichi and the others thought of the weird mooncakes they had the honor of tasting in the piano store that day, they began to feel unwell all over.

"...When I think about it, Taoist Priest Jiazi, your life every day is really not easy." Xu Dasheng pulled the corners of his lips a little stiffly, and raised his hand to pat the young man's shoulder with sympathy.

She only tasted a little bit of the mooncake last time, and it felt like her tongue was hit by a ghost. Her sense of taste was impaired for more than three days.

If I lived in the temple, I could taste the "unique delicacy" produced by Taoist Master Chen every day...

Alas~ Their lives seem to have suddenly lost hope.

The girls all shuddered when they thought of this, and Xu Yichi immediately decided that he would hold on to Lu Shinian and the chefs in the cafeteria tightly and never let go.

Bai Miaomiao asked Lu Shinian more questions about the cafeteria cautiously - until everyone confirmed again and again that no matter how crazy Chen Yingsheng was, he would not really run into the cafeteria to steal the chefs' jobs, they slowly put their minds at ease.

Fortunately.

As long as Taoist Chen doesn't go and cause trouble in the cafeteria, they can pretend that his hobby of dark cuisine doesn't exist - he is still the respected old Taoist in their minds.

"Calculated this way... the cost of living in the temple seems to be lower than living outside." Bai Miaomiao bit An Qing's ear and whispered, "Normally, the three of us have to spend more than 30 yuan just for lunch every day!"

——This money is enough for the three of them to eat for a day in the temple.

"Indeed, and takeout food may not be clean... but at least the food hygiene of Taoist Master Jiazi and the cafeteria in their temple can be guaranteed." An Qing nodded - even if it was the dark food cooked by Taoist Master Chen himself, it was simply because the taste was hard to swallow, not because it was unclean.

"So what should we do? Let's go into the house and take a look. If there is no problem and the rent is suitable... let's rent it?" Xu Yichi scratched her head. She felt that this place was quite suitable, except that it was a little far from the city... but most of the people in their studio were stay-at-home moms. They usually didn't go out for ten days or half a month, so this thing didn't seem to have much impact on them.

"Okay, let's go in and take a look first - food and transportation are secondary. The key is to see how the accommodation is and whether there is enough space for us to set up computers and other things." Bai Miaomiao made the final decision. After hearing this, Xu Dasheng turned around and stared at Lu Shinian's facade.

The latter immediately understood what was going on and hurriedly led the three people into the house.

"Okay, fellow benefactors, please follow me inside and take a look."

I felt dizzy at the beginning of the meeting. The field trip schedule on the 24th was too tight. Three days of attractions were squeezed into one day. I would be exhausted if I really went. I will not go. I will rest in the hotel and do some coding. I will go home on the 25th.

24 I'll write a chapter about Lao Yi first, then write this. If I can finish it, I'll update it on 25. 26 I'll ask for leave (I'll have to go home on 25 so I can't write it). If I can't finish it, I'll go home on 25 and write it after I've had enough sleep. I'll update it on 26.