The entire cooking process prohibited the chubby boss from touching the ingredients. Seeing this, Yang Xiao felt relieved, folded his hands behind his back, and adopted the posture of a leader as he patrolled the area.
When the aroma of rice wafted out, Yang Xiao returned to the kitchen. The person in charge of surveillance first allowed the restaurant owner’s family to eat, and once confird there were no issues, they served Yang Xiao two portions.
The rice was contained in green bamboo tubes, stuffed with sticky rice and curry chicken. Yang Xiao had no particular fondness for this sticky ss, but as he sniffed it, he suddenly recalled the big chicken legs from the canteen at his workplace.
Now that he was acquainted, every day the canteen prepared a pot, and when Yang Xiao ca for a al, they would serve him four chicken legs without a word. Finally, they would ladle a generous serving of broth, pouring it over the white rice on his plate, making it look incredibly appetizing.
The canteen, whether in terms of chef skills or ingredient selection, surpassed the roadside stalls near the rental house where Yang Xiao had once lived many tis over. However, as life got better day by day, Yang Xiao could no longer experience the happiness he once felt.
"Get another one." Shortly after, Yang Xiao took three portions of bamboo rice and walked back.
Of course, he couldn’t eat all of them himself; he brought them for soone else. Arriving at a secluded and dark place, confirming no one was around, Yang Xiao entered the Mirror World with the als.
Opening the door to the secret room, he saw the Mirror Ghost sitting on the ground with his back facing him, balancing a thick stack of books on its head.
An alien girl sat opposite the Mirror Ghost, puffing her cheeks, also balancing a stack of books on her head. It seed like they were in a contest.
As Yang Xiao opened the door, the Mirror Ghost seed to sense sothing, its shoulder twitched slightly, causing the books on its head to wobble and collapse dramatically. At this mont, the girl across widened her mouth with a happy jump and pulled out a crayon from sowhere, starting to draw on the Mirror Ghost’s face.
Once the girl accomplished her task, Yang Xiao approached the Mirror Ghost. The next second, when the Mirror Ghost turned its head, the scene left Yang Xiao astounded.
On the Mirror Ghost’s pale face, various doodles sprawled; flowers covered the left cheek, a flock of small birds adorned the right, and a clumsy tortoise was resting on its forehead.
Seeing Yang Xiao, the Mirror Ghost’s eyes turned red and swollen. After a mont, it shed two streams of clear tears.
Yang Xiao could roughly imagine the life the Mirror Ghost had been leading lately, with its head adorned with little braids.
The colorful string originally tied to the girl’s arm was now fastened to the Mirror Ghost’s neck, showing the girl had a particular fondness for the Mirror Ghost.
Slling the aroma of the bamboo tube rice, the girl’s eyes lit up. She took it and sat on the ground, devouring heartily.
"Eat slowly, don’t choke, there’s plenty." Yang Xiao also squatted down, sitting across from the girl.
The girl carried a Yin Talisman, protected by ghosts, clearly from a prominent family in the Myanmar and Thailand region. Had she not been kidnapped to Xiang Ma Town, she would be living a carefree life with her family, not suffering so much.
Thinking of this, Yang Xiao couldn’t help but feel more sympathy for the girl before him.
"Do you rember where your ho is?" Yang Xiao asked softly, "Or your parents’ nas?"
But no matter how Yang Xiao asked, she kept her head buried in her al. After a while, she finished an entire serving, prompting Yang Xiao to quickly hand her another, attentively opening the lid.
It seed the girl didn’t understand him, and after such a long ti of interaction, he noticed her mind seed a bit off. Yang Xiao now worried that her family may have encountered a catastrophe, potentially having lost her parents and relatives.
After finishing two and a half servings of bamboo rice, the girl wiped her mouth with the back of her hand, revealing a contented expression.
Calculating that it was about ti, Yang Xiao bent down to clean up the bamboo tubes, intending to leave. But suddenly, the girl stood up and cupped his face with both hands, a sudden change that made Yang Xiao freeze, fearing being attacked by the Yin Ghost.
But the next second, with a "pop," the girl kissed Yang Xiao on the right cheek, leaving an oily mark.
Then, she released her hands, tilting her head up to show Yang Xiao a smile as friendly as a small animal.
Yang Xiao did not move for a full ten seconds. Until he hadn’t been retaliated by the ghost, Yang Xiao breathed a sigh of relief and also smiled. Seeing the girl’s sowhat flattering smile, he suddenly felt a sense of achievent akin to nurturing a small character in a life simulation ga.
He first raised the Mirror Ghost son, and now he had a daughter. In so sense, this made him a winner in life.
"Thank you." Yang Xiao instinctively reached out, gently ruffling the girl’s hair, creating a heartwarming scene.
However, this warmth didn’t last long. Out of the corner of his eye, Yang Xiao suddenly caught sight of another face — the Mirror Ghost stood in the corner, silently watching them, with a gloomy expression, completely discordant with the scene.
Yang Xiao imdiately withdrew his hand, awkwardly glanced at the Mirror Ghost, and said, "Uh... don’t misunderstand, Daddy loves you too."
The Mirror Ghost turned away, facing the wall.
Yang Xiao packed up and left the Mirror World. On the way, he didn’t mind taking a few bites of the remaining half-box of bamboo rice. But just as he returned to the real world and walked back, he keenly sensed sothing amiss, as if soone was spying on him.
Yang Xiao continued walking nonchalantly until he turned into a dim corner, and in the next second, he activated the Soul-Capturing Mirror, disappearing instantly.
In the Mirror World, Yang Xiao shuttled freely, using various reflective "windows" to observe outside. But after searching around, he couldn’t find those prying eyes, everything seed normal around.
Logically, if the spy noticed his sudden disappearance, they would panic and likely reveal a flaw. But after searching for several minutes, Yang Xiao found nothing.
Unwilling to give up, Yang Xiao chose a concealed place to reappear, grasping the Human Bone Staff tightly to conduct a detailed sensing, yet he detected no malevolent intentions, the surroundings were unusually quiet.
His mind was racing, Yang Xiao did not believe in coincidences. Soone capable of avoiding his scrutiny and slipping away definitely had at least a Ghost Level status. Yang Xiao first thought of Tai Wenqin.
Although Professor Cui trusted him, Yang Xiao dared not fully believe it. Earlier, revealing his cards was an attempt to test him.
Yang Xiao imdiately hurried from the back yard to the front hall, where Captain Zhao was overseeing the night watch with his n.
"Where is Mr. Tai?" Yang Xiao asked after glancing around, rembering that Tai Wenqin had promised to stand guard tonight.
"I don’t know, he was here not long ago," Captain Zhao said with so surprise, "I thought he went to look for you."
"This isn’t good..." Yang Xiao was alard, imdiately thinking of Professor Cui as he rushed upstairs.
If that mysterious person was indeed Tai Wenqin, seeing his disguise exposed, he might have hard Professor Cui before leaving, possibly even kidnapped him.
But when Yang Xiao reached upstairs and opened the door, he only saw Professor Cui talking with Tai Wenqin. Seeing Yang Xiao’s anxious appearance, Professor Cui thought sothing had happened.
Yang Xiao, seeing nothing unusual between the two, casually found an excuse to gloss over the matter. Tai Wenqin seed to notice Yang Xiao’s concern, and quickly took his leave.
After confirming Tai Wenqin had left, Yang Xiao spoke to Professor Cui about sensing soone spying on him earlier and pointed suspicion toward Tai Wenqin. Yet, Professor Cui imdiately shook his head in denial, "It can’t be him, he’s been with the entire ti."
"How long has he been here?" Yang Xiao pursued without giving up.
Professor Cui glanced at the ti on the wall, estimating, "It’s been almost 20 minutes; he ca to explain that you might have so misunderstanding about him regarding the Dharma Sect tonight."
"Uncle, forgive ." Yang Xiao wasn’t listening to that and directly took out the Ghost Lantern, lighting it to shine on Professor Cui.
He suspected Tai Wenqin had perford so ans on Professor Cui, altering part of his mory, and to achieve this kind of detailed work in a short ti, it was hard not to leave a flaw.
But after careful examination, he discovered no spiritual power residuals on Professor Cui.
Seeing this, Yang Xiao imdiately went out, found his n who had been guarding the door, and inquired about when Tai Wenqin arrived, receiving the sa answer as Professor Cui.
This left Yang Xiao perplexed, "Could it be... I really misunderstood him?"
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