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Strange World Little Cooking Saint

Chapter 28 – Sliced Fish Soup with Mountain Treasures

Kirindas:XXX

Everyone understood that coming to Beast Mountain meant encountering demons and spiritual beasts. However, now that a spiritual beast had actually appeared, they all felt a little frightened.

Even Shiyu felt that this was strange. For a spiritual beast to quiet down the sounds of birds and animals had to be a really powerful creature. However, no matter how much she concentrated, she could hear no sound of movements.

Does this means that there's an extremely powerful spiritual beast that could frighten the birds and animals into silence from far away? If so, just what rank of spiritual beast could it be? Level two? Or an incredibly powerful level three?

Suddenly, Yong Ming shouted, "Look up there!"

Shiyu raised her head and gasped.

Goodness! Right above their heads floated something that looked like a pile of bunched up cotton. It was weird enough to see a giant wad of cotton floating above their heads, but the thing actually had a face like a human smiling sinisterly down at them. Just looking at it sent shivers down their backs.

"Just what is that thing?" One of the female adventurer asked. Women were particularly sensitive against creepy things like these.

"It's a Cloud Beast. Curses! How could we bump into this unlucky fellow."

The thing above them was called a Cloud Beast, all adventurers hunting for spiritual beasts hoped to never meet this thing. Despite their strange look, they were actually rank three beasts, which meant killing them would be difficult. However, the thing that was most annoying was that almost nothing of the Cloud Beast could be sold for money.

Adventurers hunted spiritual beasts for meat and hide, but a Cloud Beast's meat was soft and spongy, and once dead would dissolve quickly. Not only that, Cloud Beast rarely have magical stones in them. In short, encountering one would meant a loss for an adventuring group, but it was a deal they could not refuse to do.

In Shiyu's memory, the <> mentioned that these things were afraid of fire, which meant she has an element that's strong against it. However, she was not sure whether her raw power was enough to actually burn this creature to death.

Just as Shiyu was pondering over this, a foreign voice suddenly sounded around them. Someone else had arrived in the same clearing as them, the man looked up at the creepily floating Cloud Beast in disappointment. "And here I thought something good had finally appeared, it's just this garbage."

Shiyu's eyes zeroed in on the extremely beautiful woman standing among the men. From her face, Shiyu guessed that she was probably 17 or 18 years old, with an extremely well developed body. Things that should stick out really stuck out, the parts that should be slim have no excess fat. A sexy body combined with a beautiful face, this was definitely what one would consider the rarest among the rare.

"Miss Ren, it's such a surprise to meet you again." A different group of adventurers had trooped in, this time, the slightly flirty voice was extremely familiar to Shiyu.

Shiyu turned, and why, if it isn't her target—Zhao Shang Qing?

Looking at Zhao Shang Qing's group, there were actually quite a few girls in it, all were cute, delicate specimen. However, allthe women's eyes were extremely dull, almost like a wooden puppet's. Under their shabby clothes, faint signs of injury could be seen. Thinking about Zhao Shang Qing's disgraceful moral conduct, Shiyu felt like throwing up. This low life bastard, even under these kinds of circumstances he still found time to abuse the weak. Moreover, many of these girls were still practically children!

In fact, even in her past life Shiyu had hated Zhao Shang Qing as a character, right now it would not be impossible to say that she has the intention to kill him.

The latter two that appeared were clearly no ordinary people. Yong Ming himself dared not interfere, preferring to just stand aside and observe. As for that Big Sister Miss Ren, she really had no intention of hanging around Zhao Shang Qing, especially after she had seen the eyes of those child-girls following him. Loathing gathered in her eyes.

"Let's finish that Cloud Beast and leave, ba!" She ordered.

The people following her were clearly servants of the Ren family. Among them there were three rather high level martial artists. Which meant dealing with a level three beast would post little difficulty. The only problem was that the Cloud Beast was floating very high above their heads, making it difficult to deliver damaging blows.

Since there were no benefit in fighting a Cloud Beast, once it gusted away from their attacks, nobody bothered to give chase. Yong Ming was extremely grateful to these people who helped him out of a sticky problem, and ventured to thank them.

At the same time, Shiyu had more or less confirmed the identity of this Great Miss Ren. The Ren family were also one of the great clans of Qing Shan City, in fact, the head of the Ren Clan was also the head of Qing Shan City. This woman before them was Ren Xue, the beloved daughter of Elder Ren.

Come to think of it, this Ren Xua also got involved with Lin Fan. However, afterwards since she could no longer keep up with Lin Fan in terms of martial strengths, she eventually became one of the many flowers in his harem.

How annoying, Lin Fan's 'close personal female friends' seemed to be everywhere.

Shiyu muttered curses to herself deep in her heart, even that annoying Zhao Shang Ching had popped up out of nowhere. Not sure whether Ren Xue was trying to avoid confronting this creepy guy, but she seemed keen to avoid speaking to the man directly. She even invited Yong Ming and his group to go hunting together. Possibly with the added number of people, Shang Qing's creepiness level could be diluted a little.

Thus, the original troupe of 9 people suddenly turned into a grand scale adventuring ensemble. This made Shiyu quietly happy as she plotted secretly in the background.

Night fell, and the group decided to make camp next to a lake. As usual, Shiyu started to prepare food. Since there's a water source nearby, she decided to use the materials at hand and caught a few fish from the lake.

After gutting and scaling the fish, she sliced the meat into even pieces with her trusty dagger. She then took out some spices and other ingredients from her basket.

Once the iron cooking pot was properly heated up, a splash of oil was added, followed by dried red chillies, ginger slices, and garlic pieces. The spices were sautéed until fragrant and the oil started to turn red from the dried chillies. Shiyu then poured clean water from her secret spring into the pot, she then added salt and other seasoning to taste. Almost immediately bright red dots of oil danced on top of the soup like tiny bouncing stars.

With the soup at a roiling boil, she tossed in a bunch of herbs and wild vegetables she had collected on the way in, and slid the properly cleaned and sliced up fish into the soup. Just like that, the Sliced Fish Soup with Mountain Treasures[1] was almost done.

The spiciness of the chillies already tickled the noses of the people around her, with the complex fragrance of the nearly finished soup wafting about, anyone with any degree of interest in food would be moved. The first to approach was Ren Xue, this girl have very little defence against delicious food.

She made a big show of sniffing the air and asked, "Little sister, this fish dish you made, would it be all right to share?"

Shiyu revealed an innocent smile and said, "Of course."

Now that one person had stepped forward, others began to approach in groups of two or three. A whole pot of fish soup soon disappeared, however, there were plenty of people who still lamented about not having enough to eat.

Because of this, plenty of people volunteered to catch more fish, still others to collect water and clean the fish. The simple pot of fish soup ended up turning into an impromptu hot pot[2] party.

Luckily there were plenty of ingredients, and everyone was able to eat their fill happily. Even Zhao Shang Qing was unable to resist running forward, wishing to eat and drink with them. However, he still remained cautious and used his own silver bowl and chopsticks to eat.

As for Shiyu, she served him a portion as normal as you please.

This auntie is not afraid of you eating too much, just afraid that you won't eat.

Additionally, poisoning was a matter of dosage. Just because your silver bowl cannot detect poison, it did not mean that there was no poison. It was entirely possible that the dose was just too low…

Sliced Fish Soup with Mountain Treasures Fish Hot pot – Since Shiyu added chilli into her first fish dish, I imagine the soup would be little red from the hot oil

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