"Eat up, eat up," Ye Xu quickly waved his hand.
Everyone cheered and immediately started eating. Heaven knows how long they had been craving that aroma. The assistant manager was very strict and said that if they were going to wait for the manager to return, they would have to wait, and no one was allowed to steal any. Apart from Xiaoyu, who managed to steal a noodle thanks to her agility, everyone else could only watch longingly.
Ye Xu suspected that Sister Xuan had secretly gone easy on Xiao Yu; otherwise, it wouldn't make sense that she could stop even a flying dragon cub but couldn't stop a little furball. However, looking at Xiao Yu's innocent and bewildered eyes, Ye Xu felt that going easy on her was understandable; his lucky cat was just so adorable.
The best part about slurping rice noodles is that you can swallow a whole clump of noodles in one go. If the noodles were a little smoother, you might swallow them before you even have time to chew them. Ye Xu tried hard to control himself so that he didn't look too much like a refugee while eating, which saved his precarious image.
With a mouthful of rice noodles in his mouth, Ye Xu chewed with difficulty. He couldn't bear to swallow it after just a quick chew, nor could he bear to spit it out, so he ate with a mixture of joy and pain.
Jiang Yuexuan looked at him helplessly and handed him a bowl: "From now on, take a bite first and put it in the bowl before you eat it."
"Hmm..." Ye Xu nodded vaguely in agreement.
Ye Xu developed the bad habit of eating too fast from a young age. As an orphan, even though he never went hungry in the orphanage, he was still naturally a bit possessive of his food, afraid that it would be taken away. Later, when he was in school and working part-time, he had to speed up his eating in order to save every second.
In the previous world, where it was freezing cold, Ye Xu often ate hot pot for every meal, so this problem wasn't very noticeable. Now that they've moved to a modern world with abundant food, Jiang Yuexuan is really worried that he'll eat too fast and cause stomach problems.
Ye Xu sat upright like a primary school student, obediently following Sister Xuan's instructions. He didn't have any proper parents, and in the orphanage before, few people had ever been like Jiang Yuexuan, singled him out and nagging about every little detail. Ye Xu was actually quite happy about this.
"I've said a bit too much." Jiang Yuexuan paused. "Never mind, you should eat first. Once you're full, we can have a proper chat."
Jiang Yuexuan knew it wasn't appropriate to be too intimate with someone she had only known for a short time, but Ye Xu wasn't just anyone, how could she just leave him alone? This Ye Xu was an orphan, it was really heartbreaking, even though it was a parallel universe... sigh!
Ye Xu didn't notice Jiang Yuexuan's little melancholy. He happily chewed his rice noodles, his cheeks bulging like a hamster eating. But he wasn't very well-behaved while eating, glancing around as if he was full of curiosity about his surroundings.
Ye Xu originally wanted to take a closer look at what the fully renovated second floor looked like, but he was instead drawn to the way everyone was eating.
Everyone had a plate of rice noodles in front of them, except for Tangtang. Tangtang seemed to only like eating candy, so there was a plate of fruit candies next to her, which was out of place with the others.
Then look at the others. The little elves had tiny portions of mixed noodles in front of them, just a tiny bit, probably only a few strands, looking like they were playing house. Xiaoyu, who was about the same size as them, had a normal portion of mixed noodles, a large portion that would be enough for an adult man.
All of this is understandable. The little elf is genuinely small, while Jade is a sapling about the height of a person disguised as a kitten. They are simply incomparable.
But—wasn't that a bit much for Little Dragon Feifei? A whole basin of it! Its little body was almost completely hidden by the basin, and it was still flying up to eat while clinging to the edge of the basin!
Ye Xu was so shocked that he forgot to chew and subconsciously swallowed the powder in his mouth, almost choking. It was Jiang Yuexuan who noticed something was wrong first and handed him a glass of watermelon juice, which calmed him down.
Seemingly aware of Ye Xu's surprise, Jiang Yuexuan calmly said, "Dragons have big appetites, especially the growing ones. You're the same. Believe me, this bowl of mixed noodles isn't enough to fill your teeth. Eat as much as you want, but you still need to save some room. We plan to open several stores. Don't you want to try every kind of snack?"
After hearing this, Ye Xu was first surprised by his own appetite.
During his last few days on the Transi continent, Ye Xu had already successfully fused with the bloodline. If his appetite had increased, there's no reason why he wouldn't have noticed it then.
But now, after hearing Jiang Yuexuan's words, he really did feel incredibly hungry, as if he could eat a whole cow. He had initially thought the aroma of the mixed noodles was just a misperception, but was he truly hungry?
Thinking about this, Ye Xu quickly accepted the premise.
Who cares? An increased appetite won't hurt me. After all, I don't need points to buy ingredients. With all the money he earns, surely he can afford to eat a whole cow every day? Now I don't have to worry about having too much delicious food to eat. It couldn't be better.
Ye Xu obediently raised her hand: "Sister, I also want a big bowl of mixed rice noodles!"
He believed in himself! After finishing a whole bowl, he could still eat a lot more! He wasn't afraid of being full at all!
"Okay, I'll make it for you." Jiang Yuexuan quickly finished the plate of rice noodles in front of her, got up and went to the kitchen.
Ye Xu was a little surprised and quietly asked the others, "Did Sister Xuan make the rice noodles?"
Luna nodded and added, "The store doesn't have employee coupons to buy chefs anymore. Luckily, the food at this store is easy to prepare. The assistant manager said that all we need to do is buy the right sauces and side dishes, have the robot cook the noodles and let them cool, and prepare other ingredients like scallions, then we can just add things and mix it up."
Jiang Yuexuan was initially worried that people wouldn't understand the local residents' taste preferences, so she went to the kitchen to select sauces. Later, she found that mixing rice noodles didn't require any special skills, so she just mixed them for them.
Soon, a large bowl of noodles was brought out.
"These two basins were originally intended for kneading dough in the kitchen," Jiang Yuexuan said jokingly, putting down her things. "Now they've become your food bowls."
Ye Xu scratched his face sheepishly and changed the subject: "Didn't you say there were no chef robots? Other robots can knead dough?"
"No way, so this is empty so you can use it as a food bowl?" Jiang Yuexuan raised an eyebrow.
Ye Xu: "..." Is this topic going to get out of hand?
Ye Xu chose to lower his head and slurp his noodles, tactically ignoring Sister Xuan's teasing.
Jiang Yuexuan wasn't annoyed and went back to the kitchen to continue mixing other things. In addition to rice noodles, the noodle shop also sold mixed noodles, cold noodles, sweet potato noodles, potato noodles, etc. In short, it sold all kinds of cold staple foods.
A shop like this can't use the same sauce forever, or people will get tired of it. Therefore, Jiang Yuexuan's choice was to develop a variety of sauces, and then each sauce could be chosen to be mixed with rice noodles, noodles, or jelly.
Some people love this sauce but don't like eating cold noodles, so they can use it to mix with other noodles. Others only eat mixed noodles and can choose different sauces to change the flavor.
Jiang Yuexuan asked Ye Xu if she wanted noodles or something else, and received the answer "I want everything". So she simply mixed a portion of each sauce with a different staple food, since Ye Xu could eat it anyway, it would just use up a few more bowls and plates.
The noodle shop had an incredibly wide variety of products, and Ye Xu, being the type who gets tired of eating once she starts, ended up filling her enormous stomach in just one place. The others finished their meal much earlier, watching in astonishment.
Especially the little dragon cub, Feifei, stared wide-eyed at Ye Xu, not understanding why its master, despite being so small, could eat as much as its giant dragon parents. It turned out that dragons could really transform into humans; its parents hadn't lied to it.
Ye Xu, whose dragon status had been changed once again, was completely unaware of this.
After they had eaten and drunk their fill, Ye Xu and Sister Xuan had a detailed talk. Sister Xuan mainly talked about how he should take care of his health. She said that merging with the dragon bloodline wasn't just about taking a super tonic. She suspected that Ye Xu still had some minor health problems from before that needed careful treatment.
"If we have enough points, we can have the system provide a health scan service, and then use the points to fix these ailments," Jiang Yuexuan said with some concern. "It's better to cure physical problems as soon as possible."
Although Ye Xu felt he was strong enough to kill a tiger with a single swipe of his tail, he didn't argue. Instead, he obediently nodded and agreed: "I'll go once I've paid off the loan and saved enough money."
"You're in debt?" Jiang Yuexuan frowned slightly. "That's right. There are only 1 billion points per plane. You spent 1 billion to buy this bloodline, so you must have taken out a loan. I almost forgot that you just cleared one plane and you're short on points. You don't even have enough employee coupons in the store."
Ye Xu felt a little guilty: "Sister Xuan, am I being too stingy? Shuangshuang has been trying to persuade me to take out a loan, but I always refused before, and this time I didn't borrow too much."
If we had borrowed more, the store wouldn't be in such a tight spot.
"What's so stingy about this?" Jiang Yuexuan patted his head reassuringly. "The system's interest rate is so high, it's almost the same as the loan amount. If I borrowed 10,000 and had to pay back 20,000, I wouldn't do it either."
Ye Xu nodded frantically, "That's right, that's right! A mortgage is unavoidable; we really have no money, so we have to take out a loan. Under other circumstances, who can afford this? The interest is almost equal to the principal!"
"Okay, I understand. Leave it to me. Wait a moment, I'll take you to the system for a check-up after I've finished here." Jiang Yuexuan patted his shoulder and told him to go have some fun.
Ye Xu was completely confused. What did Sister Xuan want to deal with? Was it about the loan? How should this be handled?
He quickly learned how Sister Xuan planned to handle the situation. A huge sum of money had suddenly appeared in the shop's account, and Ye Xu was shocked when he received the news. He rushed to find Jiang Yuexuan to ask what was going on, but couldn't find her; she was probably resting in her staff dormitory.
In the dormitory on the fifth floor, Jiang Yuexuan was sitting on the sofa chatting with the system.
The system was a little unhappy: "You transferred your own points to the store account, that's cheating."
“That was borrowed from them,” Jiang Yuexuan said calmly. “It’s a loan that’s been repaid, no different from yours.”
system:"……"
“I paid back the loan Xiaoxu borrowed from you. I'll give you the principal and interest together. We'll call it even when he returns the points to me. I'll tell him when I go downstairs that I've already told you that you won't have to pay interest on loans in the future. Don't let it slip.”
The system snorted coldly, but ultimately agreed.
Jiang Yuexuan transferred 500 million points to Ye Xu, which is the maximum amount an individual can transfer in a single plane. She planned to tell Ye Xu that this was an interest-free loan she had negotiated with the system, but in reality, she was the lender, not the system.
With this additional 500 million, Ye Xu has borrowed a total of 700 million, with 200 million in interest. He only needs to repay Jiang Yuexuan 900 million. Originally, Jiang Yuexuan didn't want to charge the 200 million in interest, but considering Ye Xu's personality, she felt he probably wouldn't accept such a kind offer, so she had to give up the idea.
Borrowing from the system is not as good as borrowing from her; she's not in a hurry to get those points back, and Ye Xu can repay them whenever he wants. The system, however, can't be so casual; if it's not repaid for too long, interest will increase.
Clearly, Jiang Yuexuan wasn't as she claimed, having previously been bound to a dimensional system but refusing it due to her busy schedule meeting a deadline. In fact, she had made a contract with the system back then, specifically the one in front of her, and after successfully completing the level and returning, she didn't choose to unbind herself from the system.
After the store manager completes the challenge, the system will generate a second store copy, contract a new store manager, and leave the previous experienced store manager to fend for themselves.
Jiang Yuexuan chose to conceal the truth because she felt it was not convenient for Ye Xu to know too much about the truth of the different dimensions, so as not to impact his worldview.
Jiang Yuexuan had previously encountered another Ye Xu in another dimension, a wealthy young master from a happy family who had never experienced hardship. There was also another Jiang Yuexuan in that dimension, so she didn't stay long. Upon discovering this, she immediately left to avoid causing chaos in the dimension due to the presence of two versions of herself.
Although her stay was short, Jiang Yuexuan deliberately gathered a lot of information about her other self and Ye Xu. She didn't know that "Ye Xu," but her "self" had a very good relationship with "Ye Xu." Perhaps influenced by her other self, Jiang Yuexuan inexplicably cared a lot about all Ye Xus, feeling that these children should be her protected cubs.
Therefore, after clearing the level, Jiang Yuexuan did not choose to continue opening a shop. Instead, she acted as a go-between, facilitating the binding of Ye Xu and the system. Afterward, she submitted her resume to Manager Ye, wanting to join the shop and help out.
Unfortunately, Ye Xu failed to hire Jiang Yuexuan earlier, and the two didn't meet until the second plane.
That's good too. Xiaoxu completed a business operation on her own without her involvement and gained a lot of experience.
Jiang Yuexuan didn't intend to spoil Ye Xu; she planned to subtly teach him more business skills. Once he completed the mission, Ye Xu would be able to handle things independently and confidently if he wanted to go out and have fun on his own.
After discussing with the system, Jiang Yuexuan went downstairs and told Ye Xu what she had prepared to say.
Ye Xu felt something was off, but couldn't quite put his finger on it. Given Sister Xuan's previous track record of forcing the system to back down on the matter of opening a movie theater with just a few words, Ye Xu felt that it wasn't impossible for Sister Xuan to persuade the system to forgo interest.
"Well..." With the issue of the huge sum of money resolved, Ye Xu couldn't think of anything else to say for a moment. He thought for a while and suddenly remembered the issue of his appetite, so he quickly asked, "Sister, when I was in the Transi Continent, I didn't notice that my appetite had increased so much. Why did I become such a glutton as soon as I came to the modern world?"
Jiang Yuexuan was quite clear about this issue; she had previously changed her bloodline and had specifically studied it.
She explained, "There will be a slight delay after the bloodline is newly changed. You will gradually awaken many more dragon abilities in the future. These things don't happen overnight. The increased appetite might be due to the spatial teleportation stimulating your bloodline, causing it to awaken suddenly. But this is a good thing."
Young dragon cubs need to eat more to grow faster. Once their appetite awakens, their other abilities should awaken at a faster pace. This is a good thing, and Jiang Yuexuan decided to prepare more delicious food to feed her little dragon.
After Jiang Yuexuan turned and left, several question marks belatedly appeared on Ye Xu's mind—minor? Who's a minor? Me? How am I a minor? Aren't I already in my twenties??
With this question in mind, Ye Xu followed after them. Then he was forced to listen to a lot of "common sense" about how many years dragons can live, and that young dragons within a few decades of birth are considered cubs, etc.
Ye Xu's bloodline inheritance had never taught him these things, so it's likely that he hasn't awakened the relevant memories yet.
A note from the author:
Ye Ye: It was so sudden...
Let me give new readers a brief introduction to Ye Xuyu's Iron Decagon (sorry for the large number of readers) --
Ye Xu: The core link, the group's darling;
Jiang Yuexuan: The ultimate lapdog for everyone, a mother figure who cleans up messes everywhere;
Chu Jifeng: A beautiful and sassy older sister with a fierce personality who can stop children from crying at night;
Ji Ling: A beautiful, aloof sword cultivator who doesn't talk much but dotes on Ye Ye;
Xiao Suguang: Gentle and intellectual, Sister Xuan's assistant, with exceptional culinary talent;
Xiao Yige: The younger brother of the person above, the youngest, fulfilling Ye Ye's wish to be the older brother, is an unlucky kid;
Shen Zhu: Xiao Jie's boyfriend, steady, reliable, and very devoted;
Fang Yu: Shen Zhu's good brother, a goofball;
Mo Bei: Ye Ye's nemesis, also a goofball, naive and rich, the group's bully;
Han Yingchen: Seemingly silent, but secretly a gossip queen; poor and with a big appetite.
Chapter 32 Book Fans
Ye Xu was overjoyed to have secured a huge interest-free loan. As the key figure in negotiating the "interest-free" terms, Ye Xu decided to support all of Sister Xuan's decisions—even when Sister Xuan said that the remaining shops needed to buy more robot employees to keep them running, he didn't hesitate.
Ye Xu had just received a large sum of money, but he spent most of it on buying robots. Fortunately, he no longer needed to use a lot of points. Shuangshuang suggested that he continue to strengthen his dragon body, but he felt it wasn't necessary for the time being. He wanted to adapt to his current physical strength first.