Heavy snow is falling, and the entire Qingfeng City is covered in silver.
Standing in front of the window and looking at the slowly falling snow outside, Lingzhu let out a faint sigh.
"What's wrong? Are you thinking about Master again?"
Xiong San hugged Lingzhu from behind, gentleness appearing on his honest face.
"Yes! It was early summer when sir left, and now it's late winter. More than three years have passed so quickly."
Lingzhu thought, and the thick snow outside Jixiang Xiaozhu quickly began to roll, a clean road was cleared, and there were white snow bears on both sides of the road.
"hey-hey."
Looking at the snow bear created by the magic of spirit beads, Xiong San couldn't help but smile.
"Too many things have happened in three years. Do you think my husband would be surprised when he comes back and sees us like this?"
Lingzhu turned around and hugged Xiong San, burying her face in Xiong San's thick chest.
"Yes or no." Xiong San said.
"What do you mean you don't know how to do it?" Lingzhu asked, looking up.
"Master knows that I want you to be my Taoist companion, but he doesn't know that I do it so quickly. In the first year after he left, I hugged the beauty back!"
"Virtue!"
Looking at the pride on Xiong San's face, Lingzhu gave him a roll of his eyes, and then remembered what happened before, and a blush appeared on his face.
"If we say it's really fate, why do we meet eyes with a stupid bear like you?" Lingzhu said with a smile.
"hey-hey!"
Xiong San smiled proudly, and then tightened his arms holding the Lingzhu: "Madam, when will you change your name to call me husband?"
"Wait! If you want me to change my name to you husband, my husband must be present, and my grandma must be present too." Lingzhu laughed.
"I don't know when Master will come back, and I don't know where your grandma is. How long are you going to make me wait!" Xiong San said with a bitter face.
"I don't care about that. Anyway, if you want me to change my mind, my husband and grandma must be here." Lingzhu chuckled.
"Okay! Then I'm going to cook."
Xiong San was just a little regretful, not disappointed. After all, he and Lingzhu had talked about this topic more than once.
"Go and see if you can open the Eye of Tao before Mr. comes back." Lingzhu said.
Since this year, Xiong San has always had a feeling when cooking. That feeling comes from his eyes. He can't tell what it is, but it is somewhat similar to the Eye of Tao mentioned by Gu Zheng.
"I hope so! But it feels very difficult. When Master left, he had not yet opened the Eye of Tao, and the feeling I have now, Master has already had." Xiong San shrugged and smiled.
After Xiong San left, Lingzhu was in a daze again.
Three years, too many things have happened in three years.
At noon, half an hour after Jixiang Xiaozhu opened, there was still not a single customer in the store.
"If it were Master here, there should be at least a few tables of customers by now, right?"
Looking at the heavy snow that was still falling, Xiong San murmured to himself.
Gu Zheng left Jixiang Xiaozhu for three years. Starting from the second year, Jixiang Xiaozhu's business became worse and worse.
"If Mr. were here, business would definitely be very hot, but if it were just us, we would actually be doing pretty well. The reason why business is like this is inevitable, so you don't need to blame yourself." Lingzhu said with a smile.
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Without ancient disputes, Jixiang Xiaozhu cannot do food therapy, and the number of customers will naturally be reduced. As for food therapy, Lingzhu and Xiong San are not incompetent, but the food therapy they make can only cure some diseases.
Minor ailments are not like the kind of elixir that can cure immortal cultivators' difficult and complicated illnesses in Guzheng, so there won't be many customers in this area. As for delicious food, although it can increase immortal power, Xiong Sanhe Lingzhu can't.
The types of delicacies that can be cooked are limited, and in order to increase the magical power of delicacies, there needs to be a period of time after consumption. Therefore, even if you are a regular visitor to Jixiang Xiaozhu, you cannot come here every day.
"Now our regular customer base is only the three sects on Dongxu Mountain." Master Yunqing said.
"Definitely! There is no food cultivator to attract people. If it is delicious, it will not make those outside immortal cultivators think about it all the time." Lingzhu said.
Three years is a long time for Lingzhu and others, but for the development of a city, three years is too short. The three sects on Dongxu Mountain outside Qingfeng City alone are not enough.
Qingfeng City has become a city with many foreign cultivators. Therefore, although the foreign cultivators who come to Qingfeng City will come to Jixiang Xiaozhu to taste the delicious food, it is not enough to really whet the 'appetite' of these foreign cultivators.
They sincerely want to visit Jixiang Xiaozhu again.
"Fellow Taoist Yunqing, guess how many tables of guests there will be today?" Xiong San asked.
"Two tables." Master Yunqing said.
"Why do you guess two tables?" Xiong San asked again.
"Today is the day when Qiao Bai can taste delicious food again. He will definitely come back today. As for the other table, I feel that even if the business is bad, there will definitely be a table, right?" Master Yunqing said.
In the past three years, Qiao Bai has been a die-hard eater of Jixiang Xiaozhu. As long as tasting delicious food can increase his immortal power, he will definitely come on time. Qu Wanying and others, who were often with Qiao Bai, were chatting with Qiao Bai.
After coming for a few months, the number of visits gradually became less and less. After all, not everyone wants Qiao Bai to be so in love with Jixiang Xiaozhu. They also need to retreat, and a retreat can only take one or two months.
It's very short-lived, and it's normal for ten or twenty years.
"Three years have passed. This Qiao Bai can really persevere. Do you think your husband will accept him as his apprentice when he comes back this time?" Master Yunqing asked.
"It's difficult! When I followed my husband, he said he would only take me as a maid."
Lingzhu's voice paused, and then she rolled her eyes at Xiong San: "I really don't know why sir would accept you as his apprentice!"
"Am I not very talented in the art of eating?"
Xiong San smiled at first, then straightened his face: "What am I mine? To fellow Taoist Yunqing, is it so difficult for you to call me husband?"
"Your talent in the art of food is not bad, but I always feel that when you accept a disciple, you are looking for more than talent," Lingzhu said.
"It is true that Master has limitations in this aspect, but I don't know what they are specifically. Anyway, you all know that Master has a past that we don't understand," Xiong Sandao said.
"Perhaps the master will really accept Qiao Bai as his apprentice. There's no telling!" Master Yun Qing said.
"Yunqing, why did you say that?" Lingzhu asked.
"What kind of smart man is your husband? He must have already seen that Qiao Bai wants to become his teacher. Moreover, before he left, didn't he call Qiao Bai into the room alone? Although we
I don’t know what they talked about, but since then Qiao Bai has always come to Jixiang Xiaozhu, which at least makes me feel that Qiao Bai still has hope of becoming a disciple. Although I dare not say that I understand Mr.
There is always a feeling that Mr. may have given Qiao Bai some hope!" Master Yun Qing said.
"Anyway, it's relatively free. If Qiao Bai comes to Jixiang Xiaozhu today, then ask him what he said to his husband in the room that day." Lingzhu said with a smile.
"Xiong, have you seen your two senior brothers?" Master Yunqing asked.
"No, I just heard Master said that he had two disciples in front of me." Xiong San smiled helplessly.
There was not much business, so Lingzhu and the other three were chatting in the hall. After about a cup of tea, two people walked towards Jixiang Xiaozhu in the snow curtain.
The people walking towards Jixiang Xiaozhu can be regarded as regular visitors to Jixiang Xiaozhu, but they are not disciples of the three sects. They are two casual cultivators named Nan Chen and Xie Xian.
Nan Chen was the first immortal cultivator diner after Jixiang Xiaozhu opened in Qingfeng City. Later, he brought his Taoist friend Xie Xian who was infected with the 'rotten corpse poison'. Gu Zheng used diet therapy to get rid of the 'rotten corpse'
After Gu', because he felt that he was destined to Nan Chen and sympathized with the two of them as low-level immortal cultivators, he gave them jade slips about the ingredients. In the past three years, Xie Xian and Nan Chen were also friends with Jixiang Xiaozhu.
Frequent customers, they will bring some ingredients to Jixiang Xiaozhu every time, so they can taste the delicious food and accumulate some immortal power.
"Several fellow Taoists are here!"
Nan Chen and Xie Xian entered Jixiang Xiaozhu and greeted Xiong San and others.
"The last time the two Taoist friends came here was probably three months ago. They came to Jixiang Xiaozhu at such a short interval. Could it be that the two Taoist friends got the ingredients again?" Xiong San said with a smile.
Compared with three years ago, Nan Chen and Xie Xian are very different. Not to mention the improvement of their inner cultivation. Three years ago, Nan Chen and Xie Xian did not even have a low-level fairy robe. But now they both have
Everyone is wearing a high-end fairy clothes, and the original mustard seed pocket has been turned into a storage belt. Such a change is all because they have spent the past three years squandering ingredients and exchanging a lot of fairy coins from Jixiang Xiaozhu.
for the sake of.
"I was lucky this time. Luohua County in Nanzhan Prefecture harvested a lot of food, so I met a few Taoist friends again." Nan Chen said with a smile.
"In such a short period of time, the two fellow Taoists have already fought back and forth, and they have indeed fought hard enough!" Xiong San said.
"It won't work if we don't work hard! Nowadays, the price of food ingredients has risen. If we don't work harder, how can we earn enough immortal coins for future cultivation!" Nan Chen said.
"It's really sad to think about it! Three years ago, the two of us were reluctant to even use the cross-county teleportation formation. Nowadays, using cross-continent teleportation formations is a common thing. Look at these fairy weapons used today. Everything is...
Thanks to fellow Taoist Tie, and thanks to Jixiang Xiaozhu!" Xie Xian said with emotion.
Xiong San nodded and said, "Let's see what these two fellow Taoists have gained this time."
"good!"
Nanchen responded and poured out the resources from his storage belt.
There are a total of two hundred and fifty-two resources, including twenty-two inner elixirs, one hundred and thirty ordinary quality ingredients, sixty medium-level ingredients, thirty excellent-level ingredients, eleven high-level ingredients, and immortal ingredients.
Enjoy one piece of food.
"Yes, this trip has been fruitful!"
Xiong San paused for a moment, and then said: "I want all the inner elixirs, but I don't need these eighty-five ingredients."
Xiong San picked out 85 relatively common items of ordinary quality.
"Fellow Taoist, why is this?" Xie Xian asked.
"You also know that because my master is away, Jixiang Xiaozhu's business is not very good. In addition, the master sent out several jade slips. In the past three years, Jixiang Xiaozhu has not only acquired two
The ingredients sent by a fellow Taoist are also being purchased from the ingredients sent by other sects. Therefore, there are not many immortal coins left by the master, so we have to be somewhat selective when collecting the ingredients! This time I did not pick two.
Fellow Taoist's ingredients are of medium quality. The next time Fellow Taoist delivers ingredients, a lot of the medium-grade ones will be chosen," Xiong San said.
After listening to what Xiong San said, Nan Chen nodded: "Then, fellow Taoist, please give me a price for these ingredients!"
Xiong San set a price for the ingredients. The price was a little lower than the last time he purchased it, but it still allowed Nan Chen and the others to make a profit. Nan Chen and Xie Xian didn't say anything about it. After all, what Xiong San said was the same.
The truth is, if they don't sell these ingredients to Jixiang Xiaozhu, even if they can be sold elsewhere, it will definitely be cheaper than Jixiang Xiaozhu.
After completing the transaction of ingredients, Nan Chen and Xie Xian ordered eight more dishes and two soups. Now that they both have immortal coins, they don't care about the expense of tasting delicious food.
"Fellow Taoist, is there no news about your master yet?"
Seeing Xiong San going to the kitchen, Nan Chen asked again what he always asked every time he came to Jixiang Xiaozhu.
"No." Xiong San smiled bitterly.
The eight dishes and two soups ordered by Nanchen hadn't been cooked yet, but a new guest came to Jixiang Xiaozhu, and this new guest was none other than Qiao Bai, whom Master Yunqing had guessed before.
Qiao Bai was a real regular customer of Jixiang Xiaozhu. After greeting Master Yunqing in the hall, he ordered four dishes and one soup.
"Fellow Taoist Yunqing, is there any news about Senior Tie?"
Qiao Bai also asked the questions that he always asked when he came over.
Without saying anything, Master Yunqing just shook his head, with a wry smile on his face that was exactly the same as Xiong San's before.
Qiao Bai didn't say anything else. He stared in the direction of the kitchen in a daze. He yearned for the kitchen, but without Gu Zheng's words, Xiong San and the others would not let Qiao Bai enter the kitchen.
"Brother!"
After a while, a voice transmission interrupted Qiao Bai's thoughts.
"Junior sister, have you just left seclusion?"
Joy appeared on Qiao Bai's face, and through the window of Jixiang Xiaozhu, he saw Qu Wanying, who had arrived before anyone else.
"Yes! As soon as I couldn't find you when I came out of seclusion, I knew you were at Jixiang Xiaozhu again."
Like a gust of wind, Qu Wanying entered Jixiang Xiaozhu, with a hint of dissatisfaction in her voice.
Qiao Bai didn't seem to hear Qu Wanying's dissatisfaction. With a smile still on his face, he looked Qu Wanying up and down, and then said via voice: "Junior sister, have you advanced in cultivation?"
"yes!"
The happiness just flashed on Qu Wanying's face. She sat next to Qiao Bai with a hint of pleading in her eyes: "Brother, don't come to Jixiang Xiaozhu so often. You should practice honestly! Three years.
In this time, senior brother has not even had a decent retreat. Originally, junior sister's cultivation level was much lower than that of senior brother, but now, junior sister's cultivation level is already the same as senior brother's. If senior brother doesn't seize the time to practice, he will be the third among the younger generation.
Once you’re done, you’re no longer a senior brother.”
"First, is it important?"
As if muttering to himself, Qiao Bai shook his head and smiled.
"Brother!"
Qu Wanying sent a message to call Qiao Bai, and even took Qiao Bai's hand with both hands and shook it.
"Junior sister, if you practice well, everyone has their own path." Qiao Bai said meaningfully.
"But is this path feasible for senior brother? Senior Tie never said he wanted to accept you as his disciple!"
Qu Wanying's eyes were red: "I will choose a Taoist companion this year. If senior brother can't get the first place, I,"
Looking at Qu Wanying who was hesitant to speak, Qiao Bai was silent for a moment: "Junior sister's Taoist companion is completely decided by junior sister. If junior sister's criterion for choosing a Taoist partner is to only recognize the first one and not the other person, then I have nothing to say.
explain!"
"I,"
Qu Wanying's tears rolled down her face and she was speechless for a moment.
"Why!"
Qiao Bai sighed and raised his hand to wipe Qu Wanying's tears: "My goal was to be number one in the past, but after seeing the magic of Senior Ti's way of eating, I understood what is my way. Because of the sect
For some reasons, if you choose number one, you can no longer pursue the way of eating, so you don’t need to be number one!”
"Don't say that Senior Tie is missing now. Even if he is in Jixiang Xiaozhu, he may not accept senior brother as his apprentice. Even if he accepts senior brother as his apprentice, what will the future path of senior brother be? Open a fairy kitchen restaurant? But this is
How long will it take? If you get the first place, even though you have to give up the way of eating due to some reasons in the sect, as long as the senior brother gets the first place, based on the person you are like, you will definitely be the sect leader of Yufeng Sect in the future."
"Junior sister, there is no need to persuade me anymore, I have made up my mind! I also believe that my achievements in the art of food will definitely be greater than being the master of Yufeng Sect."
Qu Wanying's words were interrupted by Qiao Bai. Looking at the determined Qiao Bai, the tears that Qu Wanying had just stopped flowed out again.
"You are crazy!"
Qu Wanying, who said nothing to Qiao Bai, rushed out of Jixiang Xiaozhu.
The communication between Qiao Bai and Qu Wanying was always through sound transmission, so outsiders did not know what happened between the two of them, but they could only tell that there was a conflict.
"Fellow Taoist, the food is here."
Master Yunqing served Qiao Bai, and finally looked at Qiao Bai who was in a daze and said, "Aren't you going to chase him?"
"No."
Qiao Bai shook his head and smiled bitterly. The delicious food that was originally very fragrant became a little unpleasant in his mouth.
"Tsk tsk tsk."
Looking at Master Yunqing who returned to the kitchen, Lingzhu said something.
"What's wrong?" Master Yunqing asked.
"Yunqing, it's okay! You're not worried enough about your own affairs, so you want to worry about other people's affairs?" Lingzhu said with a smile.
"I feel like I have the same problem as Qiao Bai." Master Yunqing sighed.
"Eh? What happened today? There are still diners at noon!" Lingzhu asked curiously.
"Isn't it better to have diners? It will make you look bored," said Xiong San, who was cooking.
"Silly Bear, why do I think this diner is evil? With his stern face, he feels as if someone owes him some immortal coins." Lingzhu frowned.
The diner who entered Jixiang Xiaozhu was an old man. With his white clothes and white hair, he blended in with the heavy snow outside, and his face was indeed serious.
"What would you like to eat, fellow Taoist? The menu is on the wall."
Master Yunqing asked the old man in white who sat down.
"I heard that the food cultivation in Jixiang Xiaozhu can increase the immortal power and is more cost-effective than taking the Immortal Yuan Pill?"
The old man in white had a cold face and his voice was even colder.
"I'm really sorry. Only our husband can cook for food cultivators. Now that he is away, Jixiang Xiaozhu does not provide food cultivators." Master Yunqing said.
