Bearing the blue sky

Chapter 167 Raising Chickens

Breakthrough?

Everyone was startled.

Who among us here isn't a second-realm expert? Who doesn't know how difficult it is to break through?

Everyone who has eaten here has eaten here a few times, and even this steamed chicken in a clay pot is something you can eat several times a year.

The problem is, they've never even made a breakthrough!

This led them to a guess.

Could this be Zhu Ge's first time tasting a top-grade spirit-level delicacy?

"Good, good, good! Breakthrough is good." Mr. Wolf Hair laughed loudly, "How many times have we old fellows eaten these delicacies before breaking through to the second or third realm? Brother Zhu, you've achieved the Mountain-Crushing Realm with so few pills and delicacies! Good, good, good talent!"

Seeing this, Zhu Ge smiled and said gratefully, "This is all thanks to the city lord."

"It's alright, it's alright, we're all family." Mr. Wolf Hair sprayed out a breath of alcohol as soon as he opened his mouth: "Come on, come on, drink, drink, hahaha."

He's drunk.

Zhu Ge smiled and shook his head, having also drunk quite a bit of the spirit wine.

The surrounding group consisted of either second-realm Confucian or Taoist practitioners, or mountain-crushing martial artists, with only one or two others following other paths.

These people already knew each other, and they chatted happily over the meal.

Zhu Ge remained vigilant and never let his guard down, so he constantly used his blood and energy to counteract the effects of the alcohol.

In the end, all of these people, including the city lord, Mr. Langhao, were drunk and passed out on the ground, reeking of alcohol.

The dishes on the table were barely touched; they were all devoured by Zhu Ge.

When the door opened, Zhu Ge was gnawing on a braised pig's trotter made from a wild boar, a first-level demon beast.

"what?"

Li Hao was startled by the sight of people sprawled out on the floor as soon as he opened the door, and his blood instinctively protected him.

But in an instant, they discovered that these people were not corpses, but simply drunk.

So, her blood and energy naturally receded back into her body. She patted her chest and then said reproachfully, "You scared me to death! I thought you had finally killed my father!"

This time, Zhu Ge's expression turned strange: "Shopkeeper, what brings you here?"

"I'm here to pack up!" Li Hao said irritably. "You guys have been eating for so long, and many of my customers have already made reservations. I need to pack up quickly."

"Behind you? You have guests behind you?" Zhu Ge teased.

Upon hearing this, Li Hao rolled her eyes at Zhu Ge, then clapped her hands towards the door: "Quick, quick, clean this place up, but be careful not to touch these corpses on the ground!"

The next moment, one servant after another filed in, carrying pots and pans, cleaning up the soup, leftovers, and cold food.

Li Hao went straight to Zhu Ge's side, her eyes crinkling with a coquettish charm as she walked, her body seemingly boneless: "Sir, I heard everything clearly down below. Now I'm going to marry you!"

Li Hao sat down next to Zhu Ge, leaned against her, and tried to whisper in her ear.

Zhu Ge tossed the pork knuckle she had finished eating out of the box, and casually jabbed her right elbow toward Li Hao's chest.

Li Hao was shocked and bent backward, her tender white feet instinctively sticking out of her body, which were then grasped by Zhu Ge.

"Tsk." Zhu Ge made a soft sound, and the oil and warmth of her hands startled Li Hao, as if branding him with a mark.

Li Hao's heart pounded with the desire to steal, and his body transformed into a shadow and disappeared from the spot.

Seeing this, Zhu Ge raised an eyebrow and praised, "Not bad."

Immediately, Li Hao's body reappeared, and there were no more oil stains on his ankles, which should have been dispersed by the blood energy.

She was about to get angry, but when she saw Zhu Ge's smiling face and clear mind, without the slightest hint of lust, she realized that she had been tricked.

She turned her head again and saw that the servants around her all had their heads down and eyes lowered, as if they had no idea what had just happened.

"Alright, alright, I'm not going to argue with you anymore." Li Hao sat down angrily. "You've killed so many monsters outside, why don't you come and sell your flesh?"

Selling meat?

Zhu Ge couldn't help but smile wryly: "I've finished eating."

They can eat so much!

He himself did not expect that he could eat so much, and he even ate all of his original food.

Those monster meats are all money.

Practicing martial arts costs a lot of money!

Although Zhu Ge's current physical strength far exceeds that of fanfiction due to the "Great Sun Glass Body".

However, this also comes at the cost of eating more than the average person.

Otherwise, the wind tempering alone would have worn down his physical body.

This made Zhu Ge even more eager to develop the breeding and planting industries of Liudao Palace.

"Finished eating?" Li Hao asked in surprise, then looked Zhu Ge up and down, examining her arms and thighs. He blushed slightly, as if thinking of something.

The blessing song was incomprehensible.

Li Hao lowered his eyes and said, "Why don't you hire a Spirit-level chef? Many Spirit-level dishes, if cooked properly, could be enough for you to eat a whole chicken in one meal."

"Most martial arts schools in the city operate like this, employing two or three cooks. Otherwise, with martial artists eating so much, wouldn't they consume all the city's food in just a few days?"

Hire a chef?

Zhu Ge immediately fell into deep thought.

Actually, this is a very good choice.

"How do you usually hire chefs? Do you have any here?" Zhu Ge asked.

"I'm never enough cooks here!" Li Hao sighed. "Not only are there not enough cooks, but there are also not enough alchemists, medicine makers, sewing technicians, and weapon smiths!"

"Then how can one obtain this inheritance?" Zhu Ge asked again.

This time, Zhu Ge's expression turned serious.

Just as Shijie Pavilion is famous for its medicine-making, Tongfu Grand Restaurant is famous for its food and spiritual cuisine.

Logically speaking, Li Hao, having achieved what he has today, should have his own legacy to carry on.

This lineage should have nothing to do with Mr. Wolf Hair; otherwise, Mr. Wolf Hair should be the mastermind behind this power.

Although they are essentially similar, they differ in the way they are passed down through generations.

If it belongs to Li Hao, then he can decide for himself whether to sell it.

"I can lend my hand in inheriting the culinary tradition," Li Hao said thoughtfully. "But I have a condition: you must supply me with meat. You work hard outside every day, and the Six Paths Palace is located outside the city, so you should have plenty of monster meat."

"Are they really that desperate for it?" Zhu Ge asked in surprise.

"We're short!" Li Hao glanced helplessly at the people lying on the ground asleep. "These people here are either martial arts school owners or academy teachers. They either eat a lot or are extremely particular about food; they're hard to please!"

"With so many people under their command, and so many merchants and soldiers in my Jianshui City, they all like to eat at our restaurant. If it's just ordinary birds, pigs, and sheep, that's fine, but it's difficult when it comes to monsters."

"In previous years, chicken was the easiest monster meat to obtain here, because a few villages raised first-level monster chickens. Now, those villages are probably gone."

Zhu Ge understood upon hearing this.

Actually, monsters aren't that easy to hunt, but the idea of ​​raising them really caught his attention.

"You said there are villages that raise chickens?" Zhu Ge asked, a look of interest on her face. "What do you think of these chickens?"

Aquaculture!

Zhu Ge had considered this approach before, but the problem was that once some animals became monsters, they developed intelligence and became lethal.

It would be difficult to slaughter them at that time.

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