Chapter 18: The Beginning of Everything Is Difficult
The theft was fruitless, and he returned home silently.
Because almost all deliveries are in the same city, the ingredients ordered in the morning have already been delivered in the afternoon.
Although he kept sighing, he could only take one step at a time.
Xu Chen took out ten kinds of ingredients first, and the rest were all stuffed into the refrigerator in one go.
Among them, five are alien beasts, and five are first-order demonic beasts. Xu Chen wanted to try the difference between the Alien Beast and the Demonic Beast first.
Looking at the ingredients in front of him, Xu Chen first opened the hand of the thief, and on the basis of the hand of the thief, he stimulated the mouth of gluttony.
Because the mouth of gluttony is stolen through ability, so this gluttonous ability is completely rooted in the hand of the thief, and only in the state of activating the black arm can the mouth of gluttony be opened, but the consumption of soul power is definitely not as simple as one plus one equals two, just this moment made Xu Chen break out in a cold sweat.
Quickly pick up a piece of meat and stuff it into your mouth.
But when the meat came to his mouth, he couldn't bite it down.
"Damn!"
After hesitating repeatedly, Xu Chen couldn't bear the consumption of soul power and withdrew from the ability state.
Looking at the meat in front of him, Xu Chen didn't want to eat it, but an urge to cook it into a delicacy was too strong.
"Hey...... , it's really troublesome, don't fry two dishes. With that, Xu Chen put away the meat and took it to the kitchen.
For some reason, the moment he stood in the kitchen, a culinary inspiration came to his mind, and Xu Chen, who was usually too lazy to cook, actually thought of more than 20 kinds of cooking plans in a moment.
Cutting meat, garnish, pickling, cooking, cooking, a series of actions are smooth and smooth.
After a while, ten exquisite dishes were served on the table.
Looking at a table of high-end dishes, Xu Chen couldn't believe that this would be done by himself.
If it was before, let alone cooking such a large table of dishes by yourself, even if you came to seven people to help you, you wouldn't be able to do it to this extent.
"Could it be that this is a side effect of gluttony?" Xu Chen laughed at himself, it was not a bad thing anyway, so he simply didn't continue to dig deeper, after all, eating is the most important thing.
Because I consumed a lot of soul power when I first opened the ability, and I didn't get enough rest, I won't have much time to waste this time. Seeing the position of the dishes, Xu Chen held chopsticks in one hand and launched a gluttonous mouth with the other.
Sure enough, in the face of the delicacies, the gluttonous mouth did not refuse, and the ten dishes were like a wind and clouds, and they were quickly wiped out.
The first two words that came to mind were "delicious", and it can be said that this was the most delicious meal Xu Chen had ever eaten.
But the next feeling is not so good.
The intense pain spread from the brain to the whole body, as if every cell in the body was frantically dying and reborn, and the strong cells were constantly alternating with the old cells.
"Poof!" he fell to his knees, blood and sweat seeping out of his body, and in a few moments, his body was covered with a layer of slimy things.
This process lasted for about three minutes, but it seemed like half an hour had passed in Xu Chen's heart.
"Whew......!" he let out a long breath and the first thing he did when he got up was to rush into the bathroom to take a shower.
Letting the warm water wash over his body, Xu Chen felt more comfortable than ever.
After taking a bath, Xu Chen came to the mirror, looked left and right, and there seemed to be no change, exerting force with his arms, making the muscles bulge as much as possible, but unfortunately, there were no muscles.
"That's it, if you only have this little ingredient, it's normal that it doesn't work. Although he said it lightly, Xu Chen was still a little disappointed in his heart.
But how did he know that the change in the three minutes just now was enough to withstand the ten days of penance of those so-called martial arts geniuses.
After taking a bath, Xu Chen didn't rush to eat the rest of the ingredients, because he could feel that with his current physical strength, he would definitely not be able to adapt to continuous food intensification, and if he didn't take proper rest, blindly eating would only bring the opposite effect.
The most important thing now is the issue of money.
In desperation, I had to borrow it.
When it comes to borrowing money, Xu Chen's first thought is Zhang Yao, after all, the tickets to and from the East Acropolis were all given by him, and he doesn't seem to be very distressed, it is estimated that this guy must be very rich.
A moment later, the call with Zhang Yao was connected.
"Hey boy, just contact me when you get back? No, you miss me so soon?"
"Not really. ”
"Huh, what are you looking for me?"
"I ...... , I want to borrow some money. ”
"Nope. Two words, categorically, without a trace of hesitation.
"Huh?" Xu Chen didn't expect that he would refuse so simply.
Zhang Yao explained: "There really isn't, they all lost." ”
Xu Chen was puzzled: "What?
Hearing this, Zhang Yao was angry: "Are you embarrassed to say, don't you lose to you?"
Xu Chen was stunned: "What?"
Zhang Yao explained: "You forgot, after you came out of the gate of reincarnation, we bet on what type of ability you obtained, and only the bastard of the tireless person guessed it." I lost more than a million to him. ”
"More than a million! You are sick! Why do you gamble so much?" Hearing that Zhang Yao had lost so much money, Xu Chen couldn't wait to beat him.
Zhang Yao was obviously not happy: "You are embarrassed to say, it's not because of you." ”
"You don't have any there, a few thousand. Xu Chen made a final effort.
Zhang Yao said: "Don't say thousands, hundreds are gone, your ticket to go back is still the money I borrowed from the tireless person, speaking of which, you kid still owes me 100,000 now." ”
Listening to Zhang Yao's life worse than himself, Xu Chen felt that the world was spinning, and he wanted to die.
But then he seemed to think of something, and hurriedly asked, "Well, then let me ask you, how do you make all your money?" ”
When Zhang Yao heard this, he said easily: "Oh, it's simple. ”
As soon as he heard the simplicity, Xu Chen suddenly came to his senses: "Speak quickly, say quickly." ”
Zhang Yao said: "Hey, it's nothing, it's all some scholarships, isn't it that the school gave me a lot of scholarships in order to keep me, if I'm not mistaken, it seems to have given more than one million at the beginning." ”
"Ahh As soon as he heard this, Xu Chen's heart was half cold, Zhang Yao is a recognized genius in the whole school, it is normal for him to have a scholarship, he is a very ordinary student, not to mention a scholarship, it is not good to pay less tuition.
"Ahh Speaking of this, Zhang Yao seemed to think of something again: "There are almost one million ......." ”
When Xu Chen heard this, he hurriedly urged: "What money?"
Zhang Yao said: "It's still a scholarship." ”
"Poof....... Xu Chen almost spit out a mouthful of old blood, and then said viciously: "You want to die!"
Seeing that Xu Chen was excited, Zhang Yao hurriedly explained: "No, no, no, you can also take this money, this is a scholarship for promotion to a martial artist." ”
As soon as he heard this, Xu Chen suddenly remembered that there is indeed such a thing, as long as you can be successfully promoted to a martial artist during your studies, the school will issue a special scholarship with an amount of 880,000 yuan, the purpose is to motivate students to train hard, and when a few people received this money, they were still envious for a long time.
If you can get this money, then the future life will be much less stressful, at least not as worried as it is now.
Hanging up the call, Xu Chen relaxed a little, this martial arts scholarship is like a sudden rest stop on the endless road, which adds a lot of comfort.
Now the goal is clearer, that is, to become a martial artist in the short term and get this huge amount of money as soon as possible.
Taking out a pen and paper, Xu Chen lay on the table, writing a plan to make money.
I should recruit a tenant, rent out part of the house, and look around the home left by my dead father, Xu Chen said secretly: "It's a little small, but it's not too much to rent 50,000 a year." ”
As he spoke, he jotted it down on a piece of paper.
You can't steal the money, but it's just a thing, and you can try it again.
Watches, rings, necklaces, these things should also sell for a little bit of a price.
If you work hard, you can probably steal 50,000 yuan.
Do you want to do odd jobs anymore? You can make some money, right?
No, no, no, forget it, it's better to do more qi perception training if you have this time.
By the way, Zhang Yao is out of drama there, so he should be able to borrow some money from a teacher or classmate, right? Thinking of this, Xu Chen recalled what he usually looked like at school.
Forget it, let's borrow it from the teacher, none of the classmates have a good relationship, and the teacher is good to me.
If you borrow it from a teacher, you should be able to make up 10,000 yuan.
Add and calculate, Xu Chen recorded all the inspiration for making money today, and if he was lucky, he could barely get 200,000.
As long as everything goes well, these 200,000 should be enough to advance to become a martial artist.
Looking at the long list: "Hey, there's a lot to do." ”