Chapter 12 The Flesh Buddha and the Nun

Chapter 12 The Flesh Buddha and the Nun

Chapter 12 The Flesh Buddha and the Nun
If given a choice, Li Yu did not want to come to Zhulao Temple to meet Zhu Mei.

There is no other reason. This is a true sequence eight extraordinary being, and he is also a demon monk who is good at fighting.

Moreover, from the scattered conversations between Jiao Qing and Sun Sanniang, as well as the information in the account book, Li Yu also knew how cruel this "pig-headed monk" was.

In fact, both of them suspected that Zhu Mei was about to be promoted to Sequence Seven.

But Li Yu had to come, as a good cook cannot cook without rice. Although he had extraordinary cooking skills inherited from the gods and had unique recipes, in order to make real spiritual food, he still needed spiritual ingredients.

If Tianjifang wants to find those things, Zhu Mei is the first candidate.

Fortunately, although this man is cruel, he abides by the rules of business, is honest and trustworthy, offers fair prices, and is also a gourmet who loves delicious food.

While Li Yu was recalling, he skillfully handed over a menu and a list of ingredients at the same time.

"Senior Zhu!"

"I am the son of Jiao Qing and Sun Sanniang from the old street. Both of them are now dead. I closed the butcher shop I inherited permanently and turned it into a private restaurant specializing in spiritual food. I plan to open it tonight and come here to buy some ingredients."

"If you are interested, you can also take a look at this menu."

Almost as soon as Li Yu finished speaking, the two lists in his hands were snatched away.

Zhu Mei's eyes first fell on the menu.

He didn't care much at first, but when he saw the dishes above, his eyes lit up and drool flowed from his pig mouth.

He couldn't help but mutter excitedly:
"Who are Jiao Qing and Sun Sanniang? Oh, the ogre couple who believe in the forbidden god?"

"You are their son. It is possible that you can master extraordinary cooking skills and make spiritual food."

"It is rumored that the [Forbidden God Recipe] given by the evil god to each believer has different contents. In this world, no one can collect and eat all the dishes."

"Currently in Wanfu City, the ones who know the most dishes should be my old cousin Zhu Can, the old demon, and King Xi... ahem!"

"You can do all of these?"

Zhu Mei stopped talking halfway, as if he had to stop because he was talking about some important person.

Although Li Yu wanted to know many extraordinary secrets in his heart, he also adhered to his character at this time and replied a little stiffly:

“I can make anything that’s on the menu.”

"But you can't order all of them, as some dishes have conflicting spiritual effects, and some are not suitable for Buddhists or men. There are about ten spiritual foods suitable for you, such as the Eight Treasure Rice, the Strange Dragon Soup, and the Glazed Meat..."

"Okay, let's make all ten of them. I, Old Pig, want to have a good meal tonight."

"After all, if there is no accident, you won't last long. You will have one less meal after another."

Similar words, this time came from the mouth of a powerful man.

Obviously, although Zhu Mei, the "evil monk", was not familiar with the couple, he saw through Li Yu's condition at the moment with his powerful strength and sharp eyes.

Having said that, it is also believed that he is not optimistic about his ability to resist the possession of the forbidden egg, and that he will become a cannibal.

The difference is that the abbot of the Pig Lao Temple added two more sentences:
"If the spiritual food you cook tonight is really delicious and makes me happy, I can help you."

"When you really can't hold on any longer, you can come to the Pig Man Temple to find me."

"Oh, Senior Zhu is willing to convert me into Buddhism and help me advance to Sequence Eight [Demon Monk]?"

As soon as Li Yu said this, he immediately received an incredible look.

There was no murderous intent in Zhu Mei's eyes. She just felt that the young man in front of her was a shameless fool.

On second thought, it's normal that this kid has been raised in a dark room since he was a child and doesn't understand the ways of the world.

So he didn't get angry, but just said unhappily:

"Evil monk? Why don't you ask me to help you transfer to another path in the religion, the Sequence Eight [Nun]? Anyway, you look pretty, so it's not impossible for you to be a nun who sells her buttocks."

"Humph, whether you have wisdom or not is still unclear. Since you have been marked as a forbidden god, unless you encounter a great opportunity, you will never be able to turn to other gods in this life."

"Although I don't have the ability to help you dig out the contents of your stomach, I can paint it with gold and place it on the lotus throne."

"You will become a 'Pig Man Flesh Buddha', and receive incense and offerings day and night. This will not only give you enough food, but also suppress the possession of others. Over time, you will have a chance to be reborn."

"What do you think? Think about it carefully."

As he spoke, Zhu Mei raised his hand and pointed to the left and right of Zhulao Temple.

However, there were all kinds of bizarre statues of Buddha and Bodhisattva on both sides. Each one was lifelike, but their expressions were distorted and painful. There were several empty seats in the deepest part. The cast lotus throne was empty except for a half-meter-long thick iron nail that flashed a cold light.

This scene, combined with Zhu Mei's words, immediately made Li Yu feel horrified and disgusted.

The only gain from the few sentences of conversation was that he learned another extraordinary knowledge: Fallen Buddhism also possessed another path to God, whose starting sequence was eight, named Yanni.

The rainbow progress bar of the Truth Bubble jumped again.

Despite this, Li Yu still had the urge to curse and complain.

After forcing himself to hold back, he nodded calmly and responded to Zhu Mei:
"I have remembered what Senior Zhu said. Let's see what fate brings."

"Now I hope Senior Zhu can arrange and give orders to have all the ingredients delivered to my courtyard. The banquet will start at midnight. I still need several hours to prepare."

"no problem!"

"Old Pig, I'll give you a 20% discount and a complete set of tables and chairs."

"You must remember this favor. When you are desperate, come to the Pig Man Temple. Don't let others take advantage of you. Hahaha..."

……

Amid the hearty laughter of Zhu Mei, the kind-looking abbot of the Zhulao Temple, Li Yu, with a gloomy face, followed the signposts and returned to his own yard.

Along the way, there were residential buildings of different styles but all with pipes and lights, the sound of whistles from far away, flying objects looming in the clouds high in the sky... and so on. These scenes were similar to those in the previous life, but also obviously different.

Li Yu was dazed at first, and then seemed to be cruelly reminded: the terrible predicament he was facing now was real.

He doesn't have much time left.

"Hmph, let's see what we harvest tonight."

"If I can't find a good way out, I can just follow the example of the original owner of this body and end my life. Maybe I can even travel back in time."

"I don't want to be an ogre, let alone a shitty flesh-and-blood Buddha."

When he made up his mind to give up, Li Yu had already returned to the old street.

He glanced at the still existing notice of permanent shop closure and then opened the door of his house.

The next moment, a scene that made him stunned suddenly appeared in his eyes.

The courtyard, which was originally somewhat slovenly, dirty, eerie and disgusting, was now completely new, tidy, with clean windows and desks. Under the illumination of the electric eel light in the master bedroom, it miraculously exuded a warm atmosphere.

This feeling reached its peak as the mechanical doll "Hongdou", which looked like an ancient girl, slowly walked out and called out "master" in a cute voice.

Even Li Yu himself did not expect this!

Just after coming out of a thrilling and terrifying atmosphere, I was seamlessly connected to such a beautiful picture.

At this moment, a thought echoed in his heart: Those four hundred taels were totally worth it.

"In my previous life, as an ordinary office worker who had a little exposure to the second dimension, I did fantasize about having a gentle and beautiful maid, but at that time I was thinking about a flesh and blood maid."

"Now it seems that mechanical ones are not a bad idea."

Li Yu's mood suddenly improved a lot.

As soon as he woke up after traveling through time, he found himself in this terrifying "Wanfu City". Although his original body's memories and other signs showed that the three major countries of Qian, Jing and Li outside the city were actually peaceful and prosperous because they were protected by the six major orthodox sects.

But after all, he has never been there, and still needs to struggle to survive here.

In such a cruel environment, it was rare to see a little bit of warmth and beauty, and Li Yu would not refuse it. He couldn't help but smile, and then stepped forward and began to inspect his new yard, which was swept and tidied by Hongdou and was extremely clean.

The kitchen area in particular was taken care of by Hongdou because of the special instructions given by the host Li Yu before he left.

The thick layers of dust that had accumulated over the years were no longer visible, and everything was shiny and bright. Jiao Qing and Sun Sanniang had the dream of becoming "cooks" since the first day they entered the city, and for this purpose they purchased many strange but very useful kitchen utensils, but they had been hidden at the bottom of the box gathering dust for many years.

Tonight, Hongdou turned them all out and arranged them in order.

Even the stove, iron pot and other items were modified by her in some way.

The kitchen at this moment did not look like a rural earthen stove at all, but more like the territory of an extraordinary chef with strange hobbies.

Li Yu, who had originally planned to use his extraordinary cooking skills in a few hours, felt very familiar with the kitchen in front of him.

If he had not run out of ingredients at hand, he would have been unable to resist and started cooking.

"Well done, Anko."

"Thank you, Master!"

After hearing the master's praise, the Linglong doll still responded with that mechanical voice, without the slightest fluctuation in its tone.

But Li Yu became interested at this time.

Suddenly, like a wretched teenager, he grabbed the maid's mechanical hand and went to the master bedroom.

On the way, he did not forget to talk to him:
"Hongdou, how much do you remember about the past?"

"I don't know what the past is. What I woke up to was the master."

"Who made you?"

"I don't know, Master."

"What else can you do besides burning corpses and cleaning?"

"I don't know, Master, please give me more specific orders."

"Can you help me kill someone, Anko?"

"Yes, Master. Begin the search for human lifeforms..."

"Stop!"

……

In the master bedroom, Li Yu looked at the beautiful and cute mechanical doll standing obediently in front of him and couldn't help but smile bitterly.

The warm feeling was still there, but he also vaguely understood at this time: Red Bean still had extraordinary value, but he could not expect too much in terms of wisdom, which gave him a sense of "artificial mental retardation".

Because he had expected it, Li Yu was not disappointed.

At this time, he was certain that red beans did have some other functions, but they needed Li Yu to develop them in depth.

He walked around Hongdou for a few steps to observe her, and then decided to touch her from top to bottom, conducting a very detailed inspection of the girl doll from inside to outside.

That's right, he still didn't give up.

Try to understand it thoroughly first. Even if there is no hope of repair, it will be helpful to know more extraordinary knowledge.

But before he could act, there was a knock on the door, accompanied by the sound of grunting breathing, and a loud voice magically sounded directly beside Li Yu's ears:

"By order of the host!"

"I'm here to deliver food and tables and chairs. Please open the door, benefactor."

Although his action was interrupted, Li Yu was not disappointed and quickly went to open the door.

Compared to understanding the maid dolls in depth, business is more important.

As soon as the courtyard gate opened, Li Yu smelled the familiar smell of meat and incense, and immediately saw five or six pig-faced monks standing in front of him.

They were all big and strong, with a lot of fat, pig heads and faces, and very thick hair all over their bodies, which could not be covered even by their monks' robes.

But there is no smell of pork, instead the aroma of incense is stronger.

They didn't even exchange polite words with Li Yu. They walked straight in, put down the various tables and chairs they had brought, and spread out seven or eight large packages, motioning Li Yu to come forward and count them.

Inside the package, there were all kinds of spiritual ingredients, such as a bag of sinister black toads, river clams with ghost faces, pieces of strange wheel-shaped lotus roots, evil crabs with centipedes, a large jar of poisonous insects... and so on. These were exactly all the ingredients Li Yu needed tonight.

Compared with ordinary ingredients, these things are all weird.

Mortals try to avoid it.

Even if you get it, you can't eat it, otherwise you will die.

Take the "ghost clam" for example. If a poor person who is not a transcendent eats even a small piece of it, he will be poisoned, his body will be covered with ghost faces, and he will die on the spot wailing.

In fact, even the extraordinary people themselves, even the official sequence eight monks.

If you force yourself to eat unprocessed high-spiritual food, you will be poisoned, and if you don't die, your skin will be peeled off.

At this time, people like Li Yu who possess extraordinary cooking skills have become extremely valuable.

Although he is not a true "vegetable man", he possesses the power of a vegetable man and can process these ingredients, remove the toxicity, and let diners only enjoy the spiritual beauty of them.

Of course, there are conservatively estimated to be nearly a hundred paths to God in this world, and there are far more than just the Sequence Eight of the Forbidden God Path who have similar abilities. Otherwise, the evil god Forbidden God would have been able to walk the earth openly and honestly, at least on an equal footing with the six major righteous sects, instead of being a rat crossing the street and being chased by everyone.

Soon, Li Yu finished counting all the ingredients.

With great heartache, he paid the leading pig-faced monk a huge sum of five hundred taels of silver.

The one thousand taels he earned from selling Sun Sanniang's intestines were all gone.

This was the result of the "Zhu Mei, the abbot of the Zhulao Temple" who was jealous of Li Yu's body and generously gave him a 20% discount, otherwise he would have still owed him money.

After seeing off the ridiculous pig-faced monks, he began to mutter:
"All the dishes cost a total of five hundred taels."

"The selling price is nearly six thousand taels. If nothing goes wrong, I can make back more than ten times my investment tonight."

"This deal looks great, but if I really start calculating, I'm going to lose a lot of money."

Li Yu weighed the remaining dozens of taels of silver in his hand, his face solemn.

What he was calculating was only the purchasing cost.

The real "big cost"!
It's him.

Every time you use your cooking skills, you take a big step closer to death.

Compared with this, a mere few thousand taels of silver is nothing.

"Fortunately, if my plan can succeed."

"What I will get is more than just this money. That is a truly profitable deal. It is worth it for me to set the price so low and take such a risk."

"let's start!"

"Hongdou, help me wash and cut the vegetables."

"Okay, Master, activate the spirit kitchen function... Failed to activate..."

"What a shitty Tiangong salesman. He even took away the cook module? He really only left me with the shell?"

"Forget it, you should just help me light the fire."

"Good host!"

(End of this chapter)