Food gives me an entry, I will be invincible if I stay alive

Chapter 5: Qi and Blood Surge
The streets of Nanshi are bustling with people.

Madam Rong's wonderful metaphor made everyone around her laugh.

Some people clapped their legs and yelled, while others hurriedly started to make a noise: "What kind of cake is this? It's even better than the one Rong Lao Si snatched for his wife. How delicious can it be? Mr. Chen, don't be stingy, let us all have a taste of this cake too!"

"Yeah, give them all a try! We'll trade you some side dishes too."

"Yes, I'll trade you this bunch of shepherd's purse for some bread, but let's make a deal: if the bread isn't tasty, I won't give you the shepherd's purse."

"Go away, you are so stingy that you can't even bear to give up a handful of shepherd's purse. Why don't you pick up the dust from the cracks in the bricks under your feet and spread it on the fields?" Rong Si Niang put her hands on her hips and started cursing, which caused another burst of laughter.

Chen Xu stood at the street corner, keeping a steady expression as he distributed the egg pancakes one by one. As more and more people ate the pancakes, exclamations of surprise were heard.

"It's actually delicious, holy shit! This scholar really knows how to cook."

"Didn't the scholars say that the five flavors in the cauldron are like life, or what is life?"

"It's the five flavors of life, my goodness, it smells so good!"

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【Like +1】

【Like +1】

……

Likes popped up one after another, and Chen Xu's heart, which had been hanging in the air, finally settled down.

A victory in the first battle, great!
[Fireworks value: 30]

When the total fireworks value reached 30, Chen Xu also received the third round of health +1.

That’s not all, there are a lot of vendors on both sides of Nanshi Street.

Chen Xu didn't have to walk far. He just needed to "exchange egg pancakes" at the intersection, and that was enough for him to find twenty or thirty exchange partners at the same time.

Each person provided five likes, and soon Chen Xu broke the total number of likes to 100 in one go.

For every 10 likes his Qi and Health would increase by 1. In this short while, his Qi and Health had increased by 8 points, and soon, a new prompt appeared.

[When the total number of likes reaches 100, the Essence Level and the Soul Level will be opened.]

[Attribute monitoring is enabled.]

On the street, Chen Xu didn't feel comfortable looking closely at his specific attributes.

He only felt the heat surging all over his body, and gradually, even his breathing seemed to be erupting with heat.

My body felt bloated, and the injured area on my right leg was itchy and painful, as if there were a hundred thousand ants crawling, arching, gnawing and biting there.

What the hell!

Chen Xu almost yelled in the street.

Seeing that the number of likes was still growing, he forced himself to suppress the urge to yell, for fear of interrupting the enthusiasm of the people on the street.

Chen Xu knew very well that the reason why he was able to get so many likes so easily today was not because his egg pancakes were so delicious.

Maybe it’s delicious, but is it really delicious enough to make everyone rave about it?
Not really, not really.

The reason why people like it so enthusiastically is mainly because of the sense of contrast and freshness.

After all, which scholar would take out the food he cooked on the street and exchange it for ingredients with the vendors?

Add to that this first exchange, and the "famous sayings of the sages" to support it, wouldn't people be eager?

But this kind of thing can happen once or twice but it is difficult to happen again.

If you do it a few more times, it won’t be so easy.

Chen Xu must put in more effort and spend more time and effort.

Opportunities are rare and will never come back. Chen Xu must seize today's good start and strive to make his original accumulation faster and more powerful!
Oh shit—but it really hurts and is so uncomfortable.

Chen Xu's expression was uncontrollably twisted slightly. He used almost all his energy to suppress the pain, so he didn't notice that there was a young man in gray clothes and a small hat on the street, who was pouting and looking at him.

A moment later, a young man dressed as a servant emerged from the crowd and ran into the second floor of a teahouse on the street.

Sitting by the window was a young scholar wearing a silk robe.

The servant, with a playful smile on his face, came forward and whispered, "Sir, that guy must have gone crazy. He actually sold his egg pancakes to the smelly untouchables. When the untouchables praised them for being delicious, he was as happy as a fool..."

"Shut up!"

The servant was stunned, and the next moment he saw a dark face.

"That's your son and my classmate and friend, yet you insult him so rudely. Do you look down on him? Or do you look down on me, your son?"

Lin Qi stood up angrily and left with a wave of his sleeves.

Chen Xu finally returned home with a full load of 183 likes and fireworks points.

In the end, some of the likes actually came from passers-by on the street, and some came from vendors at the back of the street.

Not all of these people even got to eat Chen Xu's egg pancakes. Some just tasted them, while others just watched.

But whether it's out of herd mentality or curiosity, even those who just smell it can't help but say a few words: "It smells really good, really strange, hey, this scholar must be crazy..."

That’s right, some people praised the fragrance of the egg pancakes while secretly gossiping and criticizing Chen Xu.

Chen Xu did not get the maximum five likes from everyone. Similarly, when the egg pancakes were distributed, some vendors pretended not to eat them even though they had eaten them, or they stubbornly said that they were not tasty.

In short, he was reluctant to take out the things on his stall to exchange with Chen Xu.

There were so many people and it was so busy that Chen Xu didn't care about these details.

He offered to trade food for ingredients right away, not out of stinginess or a desire to profit. He simply didn't want people to get the impression that his things should be given away for free.

The loophole of free service cannot be opened. Once it is opened, it will not only make people look down on you, but it will also make it easier for people to have evil thoughts.

There was also a small episode. Chen Xu passed by a stall selling sheep and saw the sheep vendor quickly snatch a small piece of egg pancake from someone else's hand, then put it in his mouth to taste it, but he said "Ugh, it's so disgusting!"

The vendor next to him looked at him with disdain: "It's obviously delicious, Hei Lao Liu, oh Hei Lao Liu, you are either deliberately saying it tastes bad, or you are reluctant to spare some mutton for our Mr. Chen, right?"

Hei Laoliu laughed: "You want to exchange a piece of broken bread for my mutton? You are so generous, why don't you give him your stall?"

The vendor at the next stall was a pork seller. He generously gave Chen Xu a piece of pork bone with meat on it and patted his chest loudly: "Let Mr. Chen know that not all the people who make a living on the streets of our Nanshi are mean. Only Hei Laoliu is stingy!
Next time you have something delicious to eat, come and exchange it with me. I'm known as Zhao Yiliang in the underworld. I never cheat on weights. Unlike some black-hearted people..."

Zhao Yiliang pointed directly at Hei Laoliu, and Hei Laoliu was not willing to be outdone.

The two of them chatted back and forth, leaving Chen Xu behind and starting to quarrel.

Chen Xu walked past the meat stall and felt that Hei Laoliu's mutton was countless times more fishy than Zhao Yiliang's pork.

A sheep's head was hung upside down on a shiny black iron hook. A creepy smell of blood rushed towards me, mixed with an indescribable stench and nausea.

It’s strange to say, but Chen Xu only took a look at the sheep’s head, and the appearance of the sheep’s head was engraved in his heart like a brand.

The blood-red eye sockets, the bulging pupils, and the dried-up traces at the corners of the eyes that looked like tear marks... every detail was crystal clear.

Even the flies fluttering around the sheep's eyes seemed to have flown into Chen Xu's heart, and he could not forget them.

buzzing-

The sound of decay follows me everywhere.

What on earth could there be to think about with a sheep's head?

Chen Xu returned home, forced himself to shake off the discomfort in his heart, and summoned the Food Cauldron Heavenly Book.

He wanted to see quickly what new changes would happen to the Food Cauldron Heavenly Book after unlocking the Essence Gate and the Soul Gate.

(End of this chapter)