Witch Special

"Never demand that your guests comply with you. As chefs, we should regard serving our guests as our mission. In this regard, I have not done enough." Fat Chef August used this sentence as his farewell speech, then bowed to the audience and left the ring.

With Liu Angxing's successful defense of the title once again, the replay of this program also came to an end. When Lin's mother saw the commercials start to play on TV, she turned off the TV and yawned loudly.

"Is this the one you invested in? We've seen it, and your cooking is really good." Dad Lin kicked his wife's slippers at his feet to her and said to Lin Zhenxi.

“Actually, he gave me a box of snacks this morning, but my friend and I finished it, hehe.” o(*￣▽￣*)ゞ

"Okay, it's getting late, go take a shower and go to bed. Your dad and I will go upstairs first." Lin's mother lowered her head and put on her slippers. Ta pulled her slippers and staggered up the escalator. Lin's father was worried that she would fall down the stairs, so he quickly put on his shoes and followed.

After the two elders went upstairs, Lin Zhenxi and her sister were the only ones left in the living room.

Lin Zhenxi turned her head and looked at Qin Ningjing who was also looking at her.

"Um...Jingjing, do you want to take a bath together? Our bathtub is quite big."

The little girl was stunned for a moment, then her face flushed red. She quickly shook her head twice, causing her braids to sway like rattles. Then she said to Lin Zhenxi, "Well, no need. You go first, sister. I'll wash after you're done. Actually, it's okay if I don't wash. The Theorem Transformation has the effect of cleansing the body."

"But a bath can also relax the body, right? I might take a long time. Come on, let's join." Lin Zhenxi smiled and raised her hand, trying to grab her stepsister, who was two sizes smaller than her. However, Qin Ningjing's movements were much more agile than Lin Zhenxi, a witch whose exercise was limited to jogging. She turned around and ran behind Lin Zhenxi.

"Sister, you wash first. I...I'll go back to my room first."

Qin Ningjing finished speaking and ran upstairs with his fat pigeon on his head. Lin Zhenxi was left alone in the quiet living room. Looking at the rooms on the first floor, which had become dark because the ceiling lights had automatically turned off when no one was around, she felt a sense of familiarity and strangeness.

Ah, this is her home, she is home.

It turns out that home is where your family is. If you are alone, it can only be called a place to rest.

Perhaps living alone can make you feel free and able to do whatever you want. However, when it's late at night and you're lying in bed alone with your eyes closed, loneliness and solitude surge into your heart like a rising tide, making you want to hug something and find some spiritual support.

Why do people like to keep pets? Besides their genuine cuteness, it's probably also because they have a sense of "I need to go home on time every day because there's a little one at home who needs me." A person who is not needed by anyone is like a ship with its mooring rope cut, drifting with the current, easily losing their way and even losing themselves.

In this respect, Lin Zhenxi was definitely lucky. She knew that in this world, there were always two people who cared about her, worried about her, and eagerly awaited her return home. Even if it wasn't for her own sake, but for theirs, she would do her utmost to return from those complex and dangerous other worlds.

Perhaps sensing Lin Zhenxi's sudden melancholy, the black cat stretched out its paw and left a small plum blossom print on the side of Lin Zhenxi's neck.

"Maki, you won't be lonely, meow. At least the cat will definitely be with you all the time."

"Well, Yanyan, thank you." Lin Zhenxi tilted her head and rubbed the black cat's soft fur.

"But Jingjing doesn't want to take a bath with me. It's a bit regrettable. How about I wash you?"

"Don't want to take a bath, meow!" The little black cat who doesn't like water immediately raised its tail.

But Yanyan's resistance seemed weak and powerless in front of Lin Zhenxi. Lin Zhenxi easily pinched the back of her neck and subdued her.

Then she went upstairs carrying a cat in her hand and walked into the bathroom at the end of the corridor.

This fulfilling and busy day officially came to an end with the black cat's scream when it touched the hot water.

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Without any alarm clock, Lin Zhenxi slept until she woke up naturally. Although she hadn't slept on this bed at home for several years, the sense of security at home still allowed her to enjoy a very good sleep.

The result was that when Lin Zhenxi opened her eyes, the sun was almost shining on her bed.

Well, her bed is on the east side of the room.

Lin Zhenxi took the black cat's tail away from her face, touched the personal terminal next to the pillow, squinted her eyes, unlocked the screen, looked at the time, and then took a breath.

Hiss, it’s already 11:60 in the morning, she slept for a really long time.

"Maki, you can sleep so well and even snore, little pig!" The black cat woke up when Lin Maki moved her tail. Now she turned over and lay on her side on the bed, laughing loudly.

Lin Zhenxi was filled with anger and he threw back the quilt, held down the black cat's two front paws, turned the black cat over, buried his face in the black cat's chest and rubbed it hard, rubbing all the eye mucus and nose oil from his sleep all over the black cat's body.

Throwing aside the black cat that had started screaming, wailing, and finally crying, Lin Zhenxi got out of bed, straightened her pajamas, walked out of the bedroom, turned left, and went to the bathroom.

After all, it was at home. Lin Zhenxi couldn't just strip naked as soon as she entered the house like she did in her rented house in Xinlan City. If her mother just pushed the door open, it would be so embarrassing. So, she put on her pajamas before going to bed yesterday, which she hadn't done in a long time...

By the time Lin Zhenxi finished washing up, it was already the second half of the day. Lin Zhenxi walked out of the bathroom with her hair loose, sniffed, and smelled the smell of barbecue.

"Mom, it smells so good. What did you buy?" Lin Zhenxi leaned on the railing and shouted down.

However, the person who stuck her head out from downstairs was not Lin's mother, but Qin Ningjing. She was wearing an apron over her school uniform, dressed like a little cook, and she looked quite decent.

The little girl, still holding the spatula, used the back of her hand to tidy up her drooping hair. She looked up at Lin Zhenxi and said, "Sister, you're awake. Come down and have dinner. Uncle and aunt are out. Auntie originally asked me to wake you up at nine or ten o'clock, but since you haven't moved, I didn't."

"Oh, that's true. Although it's summer vacation now, adults still have to go to work." Lin Zhenxi, who is also an adult but has a lot of vacation time in his hands, nodded in agreement.

Qin Ningjing also had a deep understanding of this. In the past, there were only her and her father in her family. A middle-aged man who wanted to raise a daughter alone needed to put in much more effort than a couple. Qin Ningjing's father often worked overtime until late at night before returning home.

Perhaps, if her father had not gotten off work so late, he would not have been caught alone by the collectors.

Since the two ordinary people were not at home, Lin Zhenxi felt much freer. She didn't take the stairs, but simply jumped over the railing and landed lightly on the first floor.

If Lin's mother saw this, she would probably twist Lin Zhenxi's ear and nag her for an hour.

When Lin Zhenxi arrived at the restaurant, she saw that Qin Ningjing had already filled the table with dishes, about six dishes and one soup. It was so luxurious that it didn't seem like a family banquet.

There were even more than six, because Qin Ningjing went back to the kitchen and brought out a plate of golden fried pork chops sizzling with oil, and placed it directly in the center of the table as the main dish.

Seeing the little girl looking at him with sparkling eyes, as if she had received a high-scoring answer sheet and was expecting to be praised, Lin Zhenxi actually lost her confidence.

This girl...does she think she can actually eat a lot?

"Well, Jingjing, you made so much. Not to mention the two of us, even if Mom and Dad came back, we wouldn't be able to finish it."

"It's okay, I can finish it." Qin Ningjing said something very scary in a very calm tone.

"Ah?" Lin Zhenxi lowered her head to look at the table full of dishes, then turned her head to look at Qin Ningjing's small body of just over 1.4 meters, which was difficult to distinguish from the front and back. It was really hard to associate her with the term "big eater".

The fat pigeon standing on the table raised one wing and explained to Lin Zhenxi like a primary school student reporting to the teacher:

"Sister, Theoremists can gain energy through food. After food enters the body, all that food, except for what the body needs, is converted into and stored as magic power. To reserve magic power, every Theoremist can eat a great deal of food. The most outstanding Theoremists can even eat food that weighs as much as their own body."

If that were the case... Lin Zhenxi remembered Amor saying that Qin Ningjing's qualifications as a theorem maker were top-notch. In other words, her seemingly skinny, delicate sister was actually a huge eater.

"So... huh? Wait, didn't you say yesterday that the Theorem Master's magic power was fixed? How come it can now be stored through eating?" Lin Zhenxi suddenly discovered a bright spot.

Amor spread his wings and continued to explain, "The fixed magic power of the Theoremist is the maximum output magic power. Although the storage limit is also affected by aptitude, it is possible to store additional magic power through eating."

"Oh, an extra tube of blue bar, right? I see." Lin Zhenxi pounded his hands and made a succinct summary.

"That's...right." Amor wiped the sweat off his forehead and acknowledged Lin Zhenxi's top-notch understanding.