Help! My pet supervillain has three personalities!

"Yes, there's only one official road from our town to the prefectural city. Along the way, we pass through a place called Wushan. A band of mountain bandits roam that place. It's easy to defend and difficult to attack. The imperial court sends people to suppress the bandits, but it's mostly just for show."

"That's why those bandits can rob people at will, and our merchants have to pay huge protection fees just to get through safely."

"Oh, I see," Tang Yue blinked, then asked, "Then our academy can also pay protection money, wouldn't that make us safer?"

"You wish!"

"If it were that simple, I wouldn't have to worry about it so much,"

"Xiaoyue, you don't know, the leader of Wushan has a strange habit. He can let anyone go, but he won't let scholars go."

"Why? Could it be that his wife was slept with by a scholar?" Tang Yue was shocked and blurted out her guess.

Qi Mu raised his long eyebrows and smiled, "That's what everyone's guessing, but the truth is still unknown."

Tang Yue blinked her big eyes, "Wow, I'm so curious! I'll go ask him this time, and kill him while I'm at it, to avenge Brother Chenyang."

Qi Mu's eyelids twitched. Mountain bandits weren't so easy to kill.

He said helplessly, "I can let Xiao Yang go, but you have to show me the strength that convinces me, otherwise I won't let you take people with you."

Seeing a glimmer of hope, Tang Yue immediately asked, "Grandpa Qi, what do you mean by having real ability?"

"Let's hire a bodyguard."

"Oh, that's all you're asking for?"

"The person you hire must be highly skilled in martial arts, at least better than, hmm, Lin Hai."

"Is Instructor Lin's martial arts skill very high?"

Qi Mu straightened up and said, "Of course it's high. Over the years, only the class led by Lin Hai returned without missing a single student. However, since then, Lin Hai has never led a team again."

The instructor had actually taught students before, and he brought them back unharmed. He was truly a hidden master.

"Then why didn't he bring it?"

"I don't know, you'll have to ask him directly."

"Alright, Grandpa Qi, could you give me some laxatives, sleeping pills, itching powder, or something like that?"

"What do you want these for?"

"It works! It works! Grandpa Qi, when you make the itching powder, add more chili powder to it. I'll try it and see if it works."

"Okay, but don't use it to harm good people."

"Okay, Grandpa Qi, remember to prepare a lot more, I need to take some with me when I leave."

"Okay, okay, you should leave now. Nothing good ever comes from your presence here."

"Hehe, it's just that I really like Grandpa Qi, the doctor."

Qi Mu listened to Tang Yueke's words and let out a hearty laugh.

Qi Chenyang listened to his grandfather's laughter in the backyard, and his eyebrows unconsciously curved upwards as well.

Xiaoyue is such a joy to be around.

After Tang Yue finished handling everything, she began to draw up blueprints and prepare the recipes.

She prepared a Sichuan-style set meal for Taoyuan Tavern.

To maintain the authentic taste, she stayed in her kitchen at home for three days, but even so, she couldn't recreate that special spicy and savory flavor like modern chefs.

If she were to rate it herself, she would give it a maximum of seven points. After all, she is not a chef, nor a food blogger; she is just a beautiful girl who cooks home-style dishes in her spare time.

She wrote down the menu and the dosage ratios one by one before taking the shop design drawings, which she had spent two sleepless nights working on, to Duan Yu.

She walked into the restaurant, which had already been renovated, with two large dark circles under her eyes.

"Duan Yu, come downstairs to find me quickly, I can't walk anymore."

Tang Yue sat on a bench on the first floor, waiting for Duan Yu to come downstairs.

Duan Yu listened to Tang Yue's voice echoing throughout the entire building, rubbed his forehead, and then walked down the stairs.

He looked at Tang Yue, whose eyes were lifeless, face was pale, and eyes were dark circles, and exclaimed in surprise, "My god, you... which monster sucked your life essence? How did you end up like this?"

"Of course it's because of you, you little devil! Come on, sit down and see if there's enough food."

"There are a total of 24 dishes. You can choose 12 to release on the opening day. As for the remaining 12, you can decide what to do with them. Don't release them all at once. You need to whet their appetites before introducing a new dish."

"Okay, the chefs are in the kitchen. Do you want to teach them now?"

"Why don't you take a rest? I think you're..." almost dead.

"No need, it's nothing," she said. Back then, she stayed up several nights with Gao Min reading novels without getting sick, so these past few days are nothing.

"Okay, come with me."

Tang Yue then followed Duan Yu into the kitchen and taught the chef how to make the twenty-four dishes until he was satisfied. Only then did she say to Duan Yu, "I've come up with the dishes and given you the names, but you'll have to come up with the promotional terms. You know I'm not very good at writing, so don't count on me."

"Also, here are the design drawings for my new shop. Send them to the prefectural city as quickly as possible and have your people decorate it. Oh, and remember to have them buy me a large restaurant. I'm planning to open a branch of our restaurant in the prefectural city."

Duan Yu looked at the stack of sample drawings and his scalp tightened: "So many, can you handle them all?"

"That's why I came to you – I'm just too busy. You need to use all your most reliable people, understand?"

"Alright, alright, come with me to get the contract. Go back and rest now, I'm really afraid you'll collapse right here."

Tang Yue stuck out her tongue, and after taking the contract with Duan Yu, she went home and slept like a log.

Tang Ruhua squatted by Tang Yue's bedside, looking at Tang Yue, and murmured, "This brat has been staying up all night these past two days, could she have fallen asleep and died?"

"Yueyue, it's time to get up. You've slept for a whole day and night."

"Yueyue?"

"Yueyue?"

Seeing that her gentle approach couldn't get Tang Yue to get up, Tang Ruhua directly pulled off Tang Yue's blanket and started yelling: "Tang Yue, if you don't get up, you'll be punished by not being allowed to eat for three days."

Still half asleep, Tang Yue sat bolt upright: "Huh? Time to eat?"

"Let's go then," she said, getting out of bed without even putting on her shoes.

Tang Ruhua pulled Tang Yue back to bed, put her shoes back on, and wiped Tang Yue's face with a cool towel. Only then did Tang Yue look at her mother with a sliver of clarity.

"Mom, why are you here?"

Tang Ruhua was so angry she laughed. "What do you think? You've given me nightmares. I'm speechless."

"How long have I been asleep?"

"It's been about a day and a night, anyway, quite a long time."

Tang Yue: ... She said she felt like her eyes were glued shut, and she couldn't open them. Her head was also dizzy from sleep.

I didn't realize I'd been sleeping for so long.

"Gurgle~ Gurgle~" Tang Yue and Tang Ruhua both looked down at Tang Yue's rumbling stomach.

"Hmm? Mom, my stomach is growling."

Tang Ruhua looked at the simple-minded Tang Yue and muttered to herself, "Why... is she sleeping so soundly? Could this child have developed some kind of health problem from sleeping like this?"

Tang Yue: ...

"Mom, I'm just hungry, it has nothing to do with my brain. Let's go eat quickly," she said. She was really starving and had lost at least four pounds.