“It’s Senior Brother Ah Man.”

In the end, amidst the chaos, Chan Guang, who had been silent and still, was identified as the culprit.

With Lu Xiaoyao's help, at least everyone was busy and organized before the dishes were even put into the pot. Mingmei and Meijiu were treated like real children by Lu Xiaoyao, who cut three diced carrots and distributed them to the two sisters and Chan Guang.

This childish way of coaxing made the three little ones speechless.

However, the three who ultimately didn't cook went to sit in a row at the door. Who wants to cook when they can eat ready-made food?

"By the way, why are you here so late?" Mingmei asked Meijiu and Chan Guang first.

"I can't get full from drinking honey water. Mother is still chatting with the sect leader, so I wanted to come to the kitchen myself to see if there was anything to eat."

Meijiu's habit of treating the kitchen like her second home couldn't be changed even when she was outside. It was understandable that she came over late at night.

"What about you?" After Meijiu finished, Mingmei didn't forget to prompt Chan Guang. Chan Guang, as if he didn't expect Mingmei to notice him, paused slightly as he fiddled with his prayer beads, turned to look at Mingmei, and slowly said, "I noticed that two senior brothers were acting suspiciously when they left the dormitory, so I followed them to see what was going on..."

And that's how he ended up openly appearing in front of Charlie and the others, which led to everything Mingmei and Lu Xiaoyao saw when they met just now.

"Are you sure? Add a spoonful of salt?"

"No, it says add an appropriate amount of salt."

"How much is an appropriate amount?"

"Just about right, right?"

"Then... like this?"

"A little more?"

"Like this?"

"Yeah, that's it! Just add a little of everything, it shouldn't be too bad."

Just as the three of them were chatting at the kitchen door, trying to get to know each other better, the conversation of the three people in the kitchen suddenly and unexpectedly reached everyone's ears.

What did they mean by "add a little of everything, it shouldn't be too bad"? Mingmei suddenly felt a little scared in her heart. She felt that she shouldn't expect anything from tonight's meal.

"It's getting late."

Suddenly, Chan Guang stood up and said goodbye. "Since senior brothers are just eating, I won't disturb you."

After saying that, Chan Guang turned around and hurriedly left. The way he looked didn't seem like someone who was okay.

"Why is he leaving so fast?"

Meijiu looked at Chan Guang's departing figure, pouted, and said, "That's so strange. He suddenly appeared just now, and now he's running away without even saying goodbye. Why is he running, Sister?"

"Ah... If he can run, let him run~" To be honest, after the conversation just now, Mingmei also wanted to run away, but seeing Meijiu's confused big eyes, she decided to say something more reliable. "I heard that Buddhist cultivators have a seventh sense."

"Seventh sense?"

"That is—he might have 'seen' something."

Having said that, Mingmei suddenly remembered that Chan Guang did seem to have the ability to see the future, or rather, to see cause and effect.

…

[I wish you smooth sailing.]

Mingmei suddenly remembered what Chan Guang looked like when he grew up. The smile on his face seemed more sincere than it did now.

Chan Guang's smile in the game seemed more Buddhist, but Mingmei didn't think that was a good thing.

Those who cultivate immortality are ultimately mortal flesh and blood. Being too Buddhist is just imprisoning oneself.

Sculpting oneself into a clay figure might earn the praise of others, but whether that's what one really wants in one's heart is another matter entirely.

She still remembered that just when she was about to ascend with her parents and leave that world, Chan Guang suddenly ran to see her.

He told her some things she never knew.

[You will be happy. I see it, you will be happy, in the future...]

The young Buddhist acolyte, dressed in an apricot-white kasaya, looked at her with gentle eyes, his lips moving.

It seemed like there were words he hadn't finished, but in the end, they turned into a long sigh. He stood there with his hands clasped together, the prayer beads shining particularly brightly in the sunlight, so brightly that Mingmei seemed to smell something burning...

Burning smell?

"Ahhhhh!! Fire, fire!! It's on fire!"

Mingmei immediately came back to her senses and saw flames flickering in the kitchen, and thick smoke was constantly drifting towards the door.

Before Meijiu could rush in, she heard a soft shout, "Don't be afraid. Watch my Water Orb Technique!"

"Crap!"

Hearing this, Mingmei grabbed Meijiu, who was about to rush in, and immediately turned around, leading Meijiu to run in the opposite direction of the kitchen. This kitchen was a lost cause!

…

"Seriously, you guys, can't you just give me a break for one day?"

Mei Shi, who was discussing matters with Yuehua, the sect leader of Bibo Yaoshan, was shocked again by the news from her disciples below.

Meijiu and her disciples, along with the monks from Linhua Temple, had destroyed someone else's kitchen.

They destroyed it quite thoroughly. First, they set it on fire, then they flooded it with water. Well, the house collapsed directly.

Not only was Mei Shi speechless, but the Abbot who came to rescue them realized that their temple really had a problem.

The Enforcement Hall Elder, who was forced to stay and assist in the investigation, now knew that among the disciples he came to "rescue", there were two who had caused trouble. The muscles hidden under his monk's robe were itching to beat someone!

Can't these little guys just be quiet for a while?!

"No, Mother, my sister and I didn't cook. We were just waiting at the door for food."

The way Meijiu and Mingmei were dressed neatly at the moment was completely the opposite of the disheveled appearance of the three people who ran out of the house, so the credibility of their words was indeed quite high.

"How can you be so gluttonous?!" The Linhua Temple elder looked extremely fierce, and he felt that Charlie and Madison's behavior had completely disgraced them.

Being mischievous wasn't enough, they actually did it for something to eat, just that?!

"Elder, we've been hungry for many days!" Madison also felt wronged!

"Yes! We've been here for many days, and every night we just drink sugar water. We could understand being treated like criminal suspects at that time, and only being given water for two meals, but now that we've been released, we only get one real meal out of three meals a day, but the amount is too small! We're still growing, we need to eat our fill!"

"Presumptuous!"

These words were not said by the Linhua Temple elder, but by Yuehua, the sect leader of Bibo Yaoshan. "That is our Bibo Yaoshan's spiritual flower honey dew, which has so many benefits such as beautifying the skin, detoxifying, slimming, and promoting cultivation. You dare to criticize after we gave it to you?"

"They're just country bumpkins who don't appreciate fine food. Of course the honey water you gave us is a good thing, it's just, just not very filling..."

Lu Xiaoyao spoke well of the two while also expressing their desire to just have a full meal.

"I won't make things difficult for you new disciples. Forget it, just pay for it."

Yuehua most likely wouldn't hire unfamiliar and ordinary craftsmen to come and rebuild the kitchen recently, but she still needed to hire someone to build it.

It was just that the cost would be higher, so Yuehua took advantage of this and blackmailed a sum of money that Lu Xiaoyao, a new disciple with a guaranteed minimum of only 10 intermediate spirit stones and 60 low-level spirit stones a month, would never dare to imagine.

"This price is only fitting for building a golden house, right?" Even Mei Shi shouted, saying how black-hearted Yuehua was.

"No, the main reason is that the Wan Jian Sect's appearance fee is too high."

Mingmei's mouth twitched when she heard this.

She wasn't planning on having a group of blacksmiths build her a kitchen, was she?