The Elixir is for You, The Poison is for Me

#640 - Never forget

“Those teeth.” Qi Wenren watched from the side with envy, feeling like the jujube cake in his hand wasn't so appealing anymore.

But he quickly thought of another problem and couldn't laugh anymore.

“Wait, if the chains can't hold it, how are we going to control it later?”

As a result, he saw Lu Jing on the other side already busy. Judging from his appearance, he seemed to be setting up some kind of formation.

However, the Beast Taming Array was just Lu Jing's insurance. While setting up the array as quickly as possible, he asked Qi Wenren to go out and find Steward Luo and his daughter, telling them to buy food and bring it back.

Lu Jing's idea was simple: since the purpose of this strange object was related to eating, he would start with eating.

He would try to let it have a big meal first to see if it could resolve its obsession.

So later, Luo Yingying found a restaurant across the street and ordered thirteen tables of food in one go.

All kinds of dishes were continuously sent to the antique shop.

Lu Jing threw the food to the face on Little Aku's body, and the latter really lived up to expectations and began to feast.

It devoured all the food in front of it at a rapid pace, regardless of whether it was hot or cold, meat or vegetables.

Later, the speed at which the six chefs in the restaurant were cooking could no longer keep up with the speed at which it was swallowing.

Seeing this, Lu Jing decisively asked Luo Yingying to find three more restaurants, paying each of them one hundred taels of silver in advance, and asked them to go all out and stir-fry all kinds of dishes.

Afterwards, he simply mobilized the nearby residents.

The speed at which the money was spent made Qi Wenren a little frightened.

Although he had been with Lu Jing for so many days, Lu Jing had never shown such a lavish attitude on weekdays, so Qi Wenren didn't know that this junior from the academy actually had such wealth.

Under Lu Jing's monetary offensive, most of Anding County seemed to be boiling. All the restaurants and taverns started cooking.

The food that was sent even piled up into a small mountain outside the antique shop.

Even Qi Wenren had a great time eating.

This matter even alarmed Chief Tong Tu. He specially sent someone to investigate the situation, after all, the three northwestern states were still at war, and food was very precious.

In order to get by, Lu Jing claimed that he was helping Tong Qianxi with her illness.

Chief Tong Tu just sneered after receiving the news. He had already made plans. If Lu Jing and Qi Wenren couldn't cure his only daughter in two days, then he would have to let them suffer.

Even if he couldn't directly kill them because of Tuole's sake, he would at least have them stay in jail for ten or twenty years.

In the antique shop, Qi Wenren and Lu Jing were still paying attention to the gluttonous figure.

It had been almost an hour now.

That face had been eating for a full hour, and its eating speed had not slowed down at all, just like a huge black hole.

At this time, Qi Wenren was a little shaken. He had been by Lu Jing's side, so he saw very clearly that Lu Jing had spent a full four thousand taels of silver.

Four thousand taels of silver, just to feed a mouth, um… of course, Qi Wenren also slightly deducted a little during this period.

But the things he ate were not even a drop in the bucket compared to what that face ate.

This money made that face eat wildly for another hour, but unfortunately, it still didn't look like it was going to be full.

Moreover, bad news came again at this time. The ingredients stored in those restaurants and taverns were also limited, and they had been consumed by now. Now it was night, and it was not easy to purchase them again.

In addition, the chefs also needed to rest.

After working for two hours in a row without stopping, the hands of the chefs who were cooking were almost sore, and no matter how much money was given, they couldn't hold on.

The nearby residents still had some surplus grain, but now that there was war and chaos, even if it was to make money, no one would take out all the grain at home.

Although Luo Yingying was working very hard to find it, the food that was sent was still getting less and less.

Seeing that in at most a quarter of an hour, that face would have nothing to eat, Lu Jing's face became more and more ugly.

Could it be that his attempt this time was going to end here? Would the eight thousand taels of silver be wasted in vain?

The more Lu Jing thought about it, the more painful he felt. Just as he was calculating where he could get some more food, his eyes inadvertently swept over the package he had been carrying with him.

As a result, he remembered something else.

—【Yi Character Five Hundred and Twenty-Seven】.

The strange object that Hanshan Kehua Tree gave him. The tea brewed with this thing should also be classified as food.

Thinking like this, Lu Jing boiled a pot of tea himself and rinsed the red leaf in it.

Afterwards, he poured a cup and placed it in front of that face.

The latter didn't refuse anyone who came, and swallowed it in one gulp, even with the teacup. As a result, the next moment, it suddenly froze.

Lu Jing also saw other expressions besides hunger on that face for the first time.

After that, its mouth actually stopped very rarely.

It closed its eyes, as if carefully savoring the aftertaste of the tea. After a moment, it opened its eyes again and asked Lu Jing, "What kind of tea is this?"

“Yellow Millet Dream.”

Lu Jing didn't expect that face to be able to speak, after all, it hadn't opened its mouth once from the time he saw it until now.

“Good tea,” that face said again, “This is the best thing I have ever eaten in my life.”

Lu Jing's heart moved, “Your obsession…”

“To eat a delicacy that can move me,” that face continued.

“You just ate so much, wasn’t there anything that suited your taste?” Lu Jing was still hurting for his eight thousand taels of silver.

“No, I was born without a sense of taste. Everything tastes the same.”

This time it was Lu Jing's turn to be silent. After a moment, he said, “Isn’t your obsession a bit too much…”

“I know, but that’s why I can’t stop thinking about it,” that face sighed, and said quietly.