NIP Chapter 148 Food: White-haired Cinderella Cow Luckily, I didn't teach the wrong lesson...
Chapter 148 Food: White-haired Cinderella Cow Luckily, I didn't teach the wrong lesson...
Chapter 148 Gourmet Food: White-haired Cinderella Beef? Luckily, I didn't teach the wrong lesson.
"So that's what I understood..."
After listening to Zhi Shi's explanation, Wang Changsheng touched his nose and then nodded slightly.
His gaze also fell on Sakura: "That's right, I understand this, and not only that, just now in the store, I also sensed an abnormal magical aura, right after that panda head appeared. I'm sure that aura was very unusual."
"Huh?" As Wang Changsheng finished speaking, Xiaoying couldn't help but ask, "So, Wang, can you sense what that thing is?"
She wanted to know who the culprit was that made the seemingly kind store manager, who appeared to be as gentle as Tomoyo, so unhappy.
Wang Changsheng didn't answer directly. Instead, he lowered his voice, turned his head, glanced at the boutique, and then said in a sinister tone, "Panda Head is just a plush toy. How could it appear here out of thin air? There's definitely something shady going on behind the scenes..."
"Huh?" Sakura, who hadn't thought anything of it before, froze after Wang Changsheng said those words.
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"Xiao Wang... Xiao Wang, what do you mean? Do you mean..." Xiao Ying stammered, but Wang Changsheng's tone had already given her a vague answer.
"That's right, maybe it's some kind of lingering spirit that sees those dolls as its own possessions, so it was unhappy when someone bought them and took them all back," Wang Changsheng said, making up a story.
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After listening to Wang Changsheng's nonsense, the tuft of hair on Xiaoying's head suddenly seemed to have a mechanism activated, and it began to spin and tremble.
This scene left Wang Changsheng completely stunned.
Before he could explain that he was just joking, Xiaoying pounced on him and rushed into Wang Changsheng's arms.
"Well……"
Wang Changsheng, who originally only wanted to earn a little bit of negative points and small rewards, suddenly found his throat blocked by something and couldn't say anything.
Feeling the warmth from his embrace, Wang Changsheng felt calm, but the blood in his body was rushing downwards.
Sensing that something was about to happen to him, Wang Changsheng quickly grabbed Xiaoying's shoulder, pushed her away, and looked her straight in the eye.
"Sakura! How about we go to your house?"
"Huh?" Sakura was taken aback.
Tomoyo, who was standing next to her, also looked over.
"Let's take Tomoyo with us and go to your house to ask Kero what he thinks about this. Even though he slept for thirty years and didn't take on the responsibility of properly guarding the Clow Cards, he is, after all, a guardian beast of the Clow Cards. Maybe he has some insights of his own."
Tomoyo withdrew her gaze.
She nodded and said to Sakura, "Yes, it might not be a ghost or anything like that. Maybe it's just the Clow Cards playing a prank, but I think we should ask Kero about it."
After calming his blood and qi down a bit, Wang Changsheng released Xiaoying's shoulder: "Of course, it's also possible that it's just a ghost. Didn't the shopkeeper just say that her fiancé passed away? Since it was an accident, she must be very unwilling to accept it, right? In addition, the shopkeeper decided to continue running this shop for the sake of their promise and, most importantly, for the sake of her fiancé's ideals."
"Perhaps the shop owner's fiancé didn't want to see his wife living alone with the obsession of someone who had already passed away, so he came here in spirit form to force the shop owner to give up the idea of opening the shop."
"Of course, this is just my guess, but it is a very touching love story with a beginning and an end."
Message: Not only did you get most of it right by accident, but you also made Sakura both scared and touched. It was a very friendly exchange!
Message: You have acquired a level one spell – Swiftness!
Message: You have obtained the raw material from the Food Kingdom—White Cinderella Cow!
Message: This item has been added to the All-Heavens Friendly Exchange Shop and is priced at 588 Negative Points per head.
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White Cinderella
Description: One of the most common fantasy ingredients, this is a white-haired edible cow, 3.5 meters long, 1.8 meters tall, and weighing 2.5 tons. It is usually a high-end ingredient that can only be provided in five-star hotels and above.
Effects: Unlike regular beef, the marbled cut of white beef is very rich in fat and flank meat. Eating the meat from its belly has beauty benefits, so we can try to increase promotion efforts among women.
"Um?"
After casually making up a love story and scaring Xiaoying again, Wang Changsheng looked at the system's notification. He glanced at it and didn't find anything strange, but he thought the reward he received this time was quite interesting.
White beef is a common type of beef in the Gourmet Hunter world, but it is also a high-end ingredient, said to be even more delicious than A5 beef.
The system rewarded him with one and also unlocked the sale of this breed of cattle in the All-Heavens Shop. Wang Changsheng was just about to see what this guy looked like when he glanced at the system notification again...
"Autumn beans, sack of potatoes!"
Wang Changsheng was stunned.
"A lucky accident, and he was mostly right??"
His expression was somewhat surprised, and he couldn't help but turn his head to look at the boutique that was already some distance away from them.
He simply wanted to take this opportunity to make some harmless jokes to earn a little extra money, while also trying to guide Sakura to realize the truth: it was actually a Clow Card playing tricks behind the scenes.
Unexpectedly, the information revealed by the system, whether intentionally or unintentionally, indirectly confirmed that his earlier nonsense was actually true!
In other words, is there really a ghost following the shopkeeper all along?
Is that ghost the shop manager's deceased fiancé?
"I'll blanch it!" Wang Changsheng exclaimed inwardly.
This is outrageous!
Moreover, he clearly didn't sense any other aura besides the panda head.
Could it be that because it's still daytime, the shop manager's fiancé can't run out and is hiding somewhere else?
To be honest, this was quite unexpected for Wang Changsheng.
"Could the power of love really affect a person's state after death?" Wang Changsheng had spent some time in Sakura's world.
Aside from the occasional strange occurrence, he hadn't really encountered any ghosts.
Unexpectedly, we ran into each other here.
It can't really be called an encounter; the system mainly indicates from the side that there is a ghost accompanying the shopkeeper.
Although he hadn't witnessed it with his own eyes, the system had no reason to tease him about it.
To see the shop manager and her fiancé, she might have to wait until evening.
"They believe that one should become a Buddha after death and then be reincarnated. I don't know if one can truly be reincarnated, but if one lingers in the mortal world, one will probably become more and more irritable, right? Even a pure soul may eventually be affected and become a vengeful ghost." Wang Changsheng stroked his chin. "If only Little Wolf were here. He studies Taoist magic and should be able to give a more reasonable explanation for this phenomenon."
Regarding matters concerning the afterlife, Wang Changsheng, being a Chinese, naturally had some of his own insights.
However, he wasn't sure if it would actually work here; it was all just speculation.
"But does this fiancé want to stay with the shop manager and wait for her to find her next love, or does he want her to give up and keep the shop running for his sake?"
At this point, Wang Changsheng belatedly realized that he had roughly understood some things.
The first question is...
Previously, when the dolls were in other towns, they were always put back into the shopkeeper's shop. Was this the work of the person who switched the shopkeeper?
Wang Changsheng didn't think much of it at the time, so he didn't ask any further questions.
Looking back now, it does seem a bit strange.
For example, Clow Cards usually appear in Tomoeda Town. At that time, Clow Cards were scattered in various places, and it is not impossible that they went to other places, but the timing of their appearance is still worth studying.
The Clow Cards had just been scattered a couple of days ago, and immediately, something happened at the shopkeeper's shop. It's quite a coincidence.
Logically, it should take some time for the Clow Cards to break free of their seal; it shouldn't have happened so quickly.
Based on everything he knew, Wang Changsheng now had this feeling.
Could it be that her fiancé felt the shop owner shouldn't be burdened by his past ideals, so he tampered with the dolls in an attempt to make the shop owner give up?
To her fiancé's surprise, the shop owner preferred to leave her hometown and start a new life in a strange town rather than give up her idea of continuing to run the shop and sell dolls.
The fiancé may have been moved and decided to back off, or he may not have intended to back off at all.
However, at this very moment, the Clow Cards suddenly appeared, interfering and causing the shopkeeper to suffer once again.
"Thinking about it that way, skipping cards should be punished."
In any case, the sign-skipping incident took the store manager a whole day, and she didn't even get the store tidy up properly.
So Wang Changsheng secretly breathed a sigh of relief.
If someone skips a card and does nothing, yet you still manage to extract 40,000 to 50,000 negative points from them, plus a god-tier item...
He was actually a little embarrassed.
Fortunately, the card change didn't disappoint me.
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