Guild Boss's Ambition

"Answer me! Two servings of East China Sea Nine-scale Flying Fish Sashimi. Please enjoy your meal."

With a distinctive shout, the Lizard Man smiled and pushed two plates of pink and white sashimi in front of us. In order to prevent me from being in the awkward situation of not knowing how to eat it and being at a loss, Gu Shan smiled beautifully and first gave a standard demonstration.

She introduced it with a little exaggeration: "The meat of the nine-scale flying fish is very sweet. I usually just add a little sweet soy sauce and put a few shredded ginger on it. When you put it in your mouth, you can definitely feel the vitality of the sea!"

I tried to follow her movements once and ate a piece of sashimi.

My thoughts are simple.

I stood up and extended the hand of friendship to the mysterious lizard man again.

"Dear Mr. Mengjia, are you interested in working as a chef in our Stone House?"

"Stone House? Is that an adventurer's guild?"

Hearing this term, the lizardman looked hesitant.

With a bad feeling, I nodded.

Hearing this, Mengjia shook his head with a hint of regret: "I have eaten in your restaurant before, and I am sorry to say that your chef did not put his heart into cooking, but just made the ingredients into something that could fill my stomach. If I have to work with those who waste the ingredients, then I would rather continue to run this roadside stall by myself. So, Ms. Lannong, please don't make things difficult for Mengjia, okay?"

"OK then."

Seeing Mengjia's disdain for associating with evil, I had no choice but to sit down and be a pure guest.

Eat a piece of sashimi...

Eat another piece of sashimi...

It tastes good no matter how you eat it...

Then I couldn’t help but think of the chefs at Stone House.

They could make beef taste like watermelon and boil eggs harder than rock, but they just couldn't make a normal dish of food. Now that I think about it carefully, those damn guys were probably not unable to make delicious food, but deliberately made it so unpalatable!

Crack!

Even though I only had five points of strength, I still broke a pair of chopsticks in a fit of rage.

Gu Shan looked at me in surprise, full of worry.

"Senior, why did your curse of smashing tableware suddenly become more serious?"

"..."

I was speechless for a moment, not knowing what to say.

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3. The weird necromancer (Erhard)

(Mener-Ehard)

I don't know if it's my illusion or I'm just tired of it, but I've recently started to feel that the food at our Stone House is getting worse and worse, and sometimes customers complain that the food tastes very strange, but in fact, there has been no change in the internal staff of our kitchen! Why did this change happen? Could it be that some guys are deliberately trying to trip me up?

At dusk, having just resolved a dispute with adventurers, I set out on my journey home alone.

Adventurers can always run into unexpected disputes while performing missions. For example, Party A is setting a trap to kill a ground dragon in the forest, while Party B's men happen to pass by a pit trap used to hunt dragons. As a result, Party A's scouts were chased by the ground dragon for nearly fifteen minutes before they could escape, and Party B's entire team was covered in sand and suffered minor injuries.

Next, both parties will begin to accuse each other of their faults, and finally the matter will be brought to the Adventurer's Guild to which both parties belong.

Generally speaking, each guild will have someone dedicated to resolving these disputes.

However, in the Stone House where there was a shortage of staff, I had to do it myself.

At this time, I walked near the back door of the stone house and met a person.

"Bai Ye? What is she doing here alone?"

I saw Bai Ye, dressed in bones, sitting alone on the grass under a big tree, with a thick unknown book on the cover. Following her gaze, I saw a pair of children about ten years old not far away. I recognized the two children, they were both sons of the old hunter Uncle Aisha. Now, they were each holding a slingshot, using stones on the ground as ammunition, and using sparrows in the city for shooting training.

I saw them shoot several times but missed. After all, the sparrows in the city are very slippery and it really takes some skills to hit them.

However, it didn't matter if they couldn't hit the sparrow, but being targeted by a necromancer would be very bad.

Thinking of Bai Ye’s past behavior, I immediately walked over to her side.

"Witch, are you trying to plot something here again?"

Bai Ye glanced at me and then at Brother Aisha opposite him, and smiled brightly: "I am thinking about whether to punish some disobedient bad kids. However, since a righteous person like you, President Ehard, has appeared, I don't think I need to do it."

"You'd better not play any tricks." I said coldly.

Bai Ye put on a provocative expression and chuckled, "Oh, noble and righteous President Ehard, I have clearly signed a soul contract with Miss Lannong, why do you still insist that I will do those things to steal money and kill people? Don't you really think that your wooden head is better than Miss Lannong? Since she is confident in letting me walk around on the street, she must have her reasons."

"You──"

"Aren't you going to do something? Our messenger of justice."

I was so angry that I had a fever, but she suddenly turned her head to look at the Aisha brothers. I saw that the taller one of them pulled the slingshot, and the stone on the string flew out with a rustling sound. Sparrow, who had his back to the slingshot, was hit on the head and fell to the ground from the eaves.

After finally shooting one, the two brothers were overjoyed and hugged each other excitedly.

I smiled at their success, but...

What did Bai Ye want me to do just now?

I frowned and looked at the two brothers for a long time, but couldn't find the problem.

Nothing special happened...

Bai Ye, is she kidding me?

"What do you think I should do?"

Bai Ye looked up at me, blinked, shrugged and smiled, "No, nothing. I was just saying it casually. Just treat it as an unfunny joke. There is absolutely no other special meaning."

I didn't want to understand her crazy talk, I just warned her again before leaving: "You'd better not do anything rash, especially don't try to attack Xiao Lan. If you dare to touch Xiao Lan's hair, I will dare to make your head move, you'd better be careful."

"No, President Ehard..."

Bai Ye closed the book on his knees, stood up slowly, and looked me in the eye: "To Uru, your existence seems to be much more dangerous than a prisoner like me. My aggression is based on the pursuit of eternal life, while your possessiveness is related to the meaning of your own existence. You, however, are the kind of terrible woman who would think of destroying something if she can't get it──"

"I──"

I wanted to refute her loudly, but she took the initiative to extend her index finger and gently pressed my lips: "You don't need to explain anything to a despicable necromancer like me. I just came to give you a possibility for the safety of the contractor. And if I am unfortunately right, then you can try to convince your inner demon."

What is this crazy woman's intention in telling me this?

I stared at Bai Ye in confusion. Bai Ye smiled again and said sarcastically, "By the way, hasn't Stone House developed very fast recently with the help of Uru? But, Miss President, don't you think your own strength can't keep up with their growth? Think about the top leaders of the top ten guilds. Which one of them is not a legendary figure? And what about you? A high-level knight who is not even platinum?"

Bai Ye’s questioning immediately hit my inferiority complex.

Although my grades in the Knight Academy have always been among the best, I am extremely weak when it comes to being the president of an adventurer's guild. Looking at the sixty-four guilds on the Qingyun Road, only the president of our Stone House has not reached the platinum level or above. If we encounter any special occasions, we will definitely suffer a loss. However, even if the facts are as Bai Ye said, but...

"What does this have to do with you?"

Bai Ye chuckled, and a test tube appeared from his space ring, tempting her: "I have a potion here that can strengthen the human physique. Miss President, do you want to try it? Don't worry, I have studied it thoroughly. The side effect is at most that it will make you lose your fertility. But compared to the prosperous future of the Stone House, isn't this a small sacrifice?"

I didn't give the test tube a second look.

"How can a thief like you be so kind?"

"Of course, this potion has conditions. I'll sell it to you for one thousand gold coins."

"Forget about it! Who would spend a thousand gold coins to buy something like this that has no quality assurance at all?"

"That's a shame. This is obviously a very worthwhile work, and I've even given you a 50% discount privately."

I snorted coldly and turned around, intending to abandon this necromancer who had called me blind. However, just as I took a step forward, she reached out and hooked my belt. The touch of her fingers on my pelvis gave me a thrill!

Oh!

I let out an embarrassing cry and turned my head with a murderous look in my eyes—

She glanced at me timidly, smiled nonchalantly and said, "Don't leave in a hurry. Since you happened to be here, there is one thing you can help me with. Of course, you don't have to help me, but this may cause more pain."

"Cause more pain? What do you mean?"

"Just follow me."

She didn't explain in detail, but calculated that I would definitely follow her, so she turned around and walked in one direction.

We finally stopped under a big tree next to the weapon shop.

Bai Ye pointed at the big tree and said to me, "This banyan tree has lived for almost 400 years, but 50 years ago, its roots were crushed by the weapons shop next to it. Since then, in the past 50 years, its roots have begun to decay and rot every rainy season, causing it great pain."

I looked at the banyan tree that Bai Ye pointed to, and saw that the leaves on the tree were lush and green, with no signs of illness at all.

"Do you know how to communicate with a tree?"

"I have studied botany and read a lot of druidic texts."

I did not doubt her erudition, so I asked suspiciously, "So, what do you want me to do?"

Bai Ye smiled and said casually, "It's very simple. I want you to explain the situation of the big banyan tree to the owner of this weapons shop, and then let him tear down his house and rebuild it. That's all."

I immediately got angry: "Do you want me to scold you? Who would tear down their hard work just for a plant?"

Bai Ye blinked and took a step to leave: "Then let's just leave it here to suffer. Goodbye."

I immediately pulled her back and asked, "Are you planning to leave like this?"

The necromancer rolled his eyes at me and asked, "What else?"

I asked desperately, "Is there really no way to help it?"

Bai Ye blinked innocently and said with a smile: "Didn't I tell you the method? Go to the weapon shop with an axe and beat up the abominable dwarf boss. Then force him to sign a soul contract with us. Finally, use the power of the contract to force him to demolish the weapon shop."

"What kind of a weird method is this? It's simply armed crime!" I said angrily.

Bai Ye blinked again and smiled as if he had played a successful prank: "Okay, I was just kidding you. I actually have a more direct way to cure this banyan tree. You just need to chop off the damaged root with a battle axe, and then I will sprinkle some healing medicine on the wound. Then this banyan tree will be free from the pain that has plagued it for fifty years."

"Why didn't you tell me such a simple method earlier!" I yelled again.

Bai Ye smiled and replied, "Because teasing President Ehard is very interesting."

I decided not to pay attention to her: "..."

Next, I followed the process Bai Ye described and helped remove the rotten roots of the banyan tree.

And at the moment when the roots were successfully removed, an old iron box was suddenly pushed out of the soil by a bunch of tree roots. Just as I was greatly surprised, Bai Ye picked up the iron box without hesitation and put it into the space ring.

"What is that?" I asked.

"Mr. Dashu gave me the money for my medical treatment." She said with a smile and strode away.

"..."

I knew she wouldn't suddenly have a burst of kindness and help others in pain.

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4. The source of dog food (Little Blue)

(Ulu-Lannon)

On the morning of June 7, I was chewing a piece of bread and looking at the dawn in the sky, with a solemn feeling in my heart.

Yesterday, I bought a pair of princess shoes for Gushan...

Yesterday, I had some delicious sashimi...

Yesterday, the kitchen idiots caused my confession to be ruthlessly rejected by the lizard uncle...

And today, I am determined to massacre the cooking room!

Their crimes are unforgivable!

If we want to discipline our employees, first of all, we have to clarify the interest relationship between each other, and the contract in black and white can provide us with some basic information immediately, so after breakfast, I knocked on the door of the president's office.

"Come in, the door is unlocked."

"Sister Meng'er, please show me the contracts of those bastards. I can't stand the dog food they make!"

I rushed into the room angrily, only to see Sister Meng'er chewing on the whole-wheat steamed buns sold by Old Peter at the door while examining the engineering drawings on the table. When she heard my roar, she raised her head with a gloomy expression, "I was just about to discuss this with you, Xiaolan. I just asked them to make a simple bowl of oatmeal this morning, but they had the guts to make my oatmeal taste like snails! They are simply trying to make me unhappy!"

It sounded as if Sister Menger had tasted snails before.

Sister Meng'er swallowed the steamed bun in a few bites, then found three contracts from the drawer and handed them to me.