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Chapter 450 - 424: The Drunken Ginseng Doll

Chapter 450: Chapter 424: The Drunken Ginseng Doll

Li Chen walked over, and Lin Xiaoxiao immediately pursed her lips, "My brother-in-law won’t tell me again, sis, you tell me."

"Who says I won’t tell you? Come on, I’ll give you a good talk today." Li Chen sat down next to Lin Xiaoxiao and chuckled.

Lin Xiaoxiao’s spirits immediately lifted, her big eyes blinking, "Really, brother-in-law, hurry up and tell me."

"After your sister and I fell inside, we found that it was actually a maze, and then we were trapped inside for a day, and finally..." Li Chen drew out his words and glanced at Lin Xiaoxiao, "finally we found the exit and came up."

"That’s it?" Lin Xiaoxiao was stunned.

"That’s it. It’s that simple." Li Chen spread his hands and shrugged.

"You bad person, brother-in-law, you are definitely lying to me," Lin Xiaoxiao protested.

Lin Yi chuckled and went straight into the kitchen to help Aunt Wang.

Li Chen felt helpless, "Xiaoxiao, this is true, I’m not lying to you."

Of course, Li Chen hadn’t lied to Lin Xiaoxiao; he was just giving the simplified version. After all, that’s how it happened, they went down and came back up, no mistake in that.

Lin Xiaoxiao hit Li Chen lightly with her little hands, while Li Chen pleaded mercy, yet he thoroughly enjoyed it.

"That will teach you for lying to me again."

Lin Xiaoxiao exclaimed angrily, but she had no idea that Li Chen actually greatly enjoyed this situation.

"Brother-in-law, will you dare to lie to me in the future?" Lin Xiaoxiao hummed and asked.

After speaking, Lin Xiaoxiao gave up hitting Li Chen.

That night, after dinner, when it was time to sleep, Li Chen naturally spent a wonderful moment with Lin Yi.

The next day was already the time to go back to work, and a few days of holiday had passed.

On the third day, Lin Yi got up, finished washing up, put on a smart suit, then gently kissed Li Chen and went out.

And Lin Xiaoxiao was also going to class today; she had already finished one-third of her courses.

After Li Chen got up, he went downstairs, where Aunt Wang had already made breakfast and placed it on the table before she left for errands.

Li Chen picked up breakfast and ate slowly, still feeling that this simple warmth was best, which was also the reason why he chose to return to Linchuan initially.

Ah, life, after staying at the peak for too long, can also be lonely, as lonely as snow. This feeling is hard to endure.

Li Chen thought rather pretentiously.

Just then, Li Chen sniffed with his nose and suddenly a fragrance of alcohol wafted over.

There’s an aroma of alcohol?

Li Chen was surprised, but at that moment, he saw a chubby and cute doll waddling over from afar.

It was the Ginseng Doll.

Li Chen stared blankly at the Ginseng Doll, who was clearly drunk at the moment. Its chubby body swayed left and right; it aimed to walk left, then leaned to the right, but when it tried to go right, it staggered several steps to the left.

Staggering and swaying, but just wouldn’t fall over.

Looking at the Ginseng Doll, Li Chen couldn’t help but smile inwardly. Initially, he had caught it because it was greedy for alcohol, and now it had gone to drink again.

In the hands of the Ginseng Doll, it was dragging a bottle of red wine, the deep red wine inside emitting waves of fragrance, extremely tempting.

The Ginseng Doll’s mouth kept making "wa wu, wa wu" sounds, which, after a while, turned into "um ah, um ah" with melody, as if singing. But before a few sounds came out, a burp echoed from its throat, the "buuurrp" almost made Li Chen burst into laughter.

However, the Ginseng Doll didn’t seem to realize, drunkenly waddling over with small steps. It then hugged the wine bottle and started drinking from it, looking utterly adorable.

Feeling mischievous, Li Chen walked over to the Ginseng Doll, "A Shen ah, it’s not good to drink too much alcohol, come here, give it to me."

Li Chen reached out to take the wine bottle, the Ginseng Doll made a sound of surprise with no other reaction, but when Li Chen was about to take the bottle, it suddenly reacted, hugging the bottle tightly, refusing to let go while making a series of "ao wu ao wu" sounds as if to say: if you’re robbing my thing, I’m going to cut ties with you!

Li Chen chuckled, the Ginseng Doll wasn’t strong; it was no match for him. He lifted the bottle up while the Ginseng Doll gripped the other end, and its short legs ran following the swaying of the bottle.

The Ginseng Doll seemed to sober up a bit, saw Li Chen trying to take the wine bottle, and started making a crying sound like a baby’s cry, but with a milk-like voice.

"Okay, okay, I won’t take yours, don’t cry," Li Chen coaxed, then let go of the bottle. Caught off guard, the Ginseng Doll stumbled back several steps hugging the bottle and then plopped down on its bottom.

Watching the Ginseng Doll fall over onto the ground with the wine bottle, Li Chen couldn’t help but laugh, and as the wine poured out, the Ginseng Doll’s first reaction was to open its mouth to drink it.

It looked like it was time to nickname it Little Drunkard.

Li Chen laughed again, then took another look at the spot on the Ginseng Doll’s belly that was caved in. It was slowly returning to normal, already starting to protrude a bit. However, in the short term, it was impossible to fully recover.

Li Chen sighed inwardly, knowing he was still not strong enough, and decided he absolutely couldn’t ask for the Ginseng Doll’s help again. If he took too much blood and "flesh" from it, it would likely revert to being just an ordinary Ginseng.

This was something Li Chen did not want to see, as he had already come to regard the Ginseng Doll as a very good friend.

"Come on, little drunkard, want some breakfast?" Li Chen said cheerfully.

For the Ginseng Doll, anything it ate would turn into energy, and whatever was useless would just evaporate away; it also possessed some of the unique characteristics of plants.

Li Chen handed over a steamed bun; it was made with old dough and tasted very good, but unexpectedly, the Ginseng Doll sniffed at the steamed bun brought to its mouth, shook its head arrogantly, and then turned its attention back to the grape wine.

You really don’t understand our ginseng’s taste, huh? This thing doesn’t smell as good as grape wine, so it surely wouldn’t taste good. Yeah, that must be it.

Li Chen was speechless for a while, he took back the steamed bun, and at this moment, the Ginseng Doll’s chubby little hand loosened, the wine bottle dropped straight to the ground, and it fell backward onto the floor, starting to snore with its little nose twitching.

Damn, it’s actually passed out drunk?

Li Chen was both amused and exasperated, this little thing really was something.

Shaking his head, Li Chen put away the breakfast he had finished eating, then picked up the Ginseng Doll, which had passed out, and headed toward Zhong Tian’s place.

After Zhong Tian came back, he was immediately taken to the hospital, but his body’s healing ability was also exceedingly strong. Besides the more serious injury from reversing his True Qi on himself, the rest were just superficial wounds.

Pushing open the door, Li Chen found Zhong Tian exercising in the yard. The yard was provided by Aunt Wang, who directly bought the villa next door to serve as Zhong Tian’s residence.

At that moment, Zhong Tian was practicing the horse stance, his whole body operating the Mysterious Technique as he punched with diligence. This was what his master had told him when he became an apprentice, and since then, he had persisted in getting up early to train without ever taking a break.

"A Tian, feeling any better?"

Li Chen called out.

Zhong Tian opened his eyes, his face breaking into a naive smile as he stopped the Mysterious Technique, "Eldest senior brother, you’re here."

Li Chen walked over and placed his hand directly on Zhong Tian’s meridians, and was actually surprised to find that the True Qi in his body was circulating very smoothly, and his injuries had mostly healed.

"Getting up so early to practice, have you had breakfast?" Li Chen asked with a smile.

"Not yet," Zhong Tian scratched his head, and his stomach also growled, causing Zhong Tian to laugh a bit sheepishly.

Li Chen patted Zhong Tian on the shoulder, "Come on, I’ll take you out to eat."

So, carrying the Ginseng Doll and followed by a big guy, Li Chen went out and came to a commercial street where he found a breakfast shop, and he shouted loudly, "Shop owner, serve breakfast."

"Right away, right away, what would you like to eat?" replied the lady boss with a smile.

"Ask him," Li Chen pointed at Zhong Tian, and after thinking for a bit, Zhong Tian said naively, "Buns."

"Alright, what filling? How many?" the lady boss asked.

Zhong Tian scratched his head, unsure of how many he wanted. Li Chen laughed and said to the lady boss, "Let’s start with fifteen baskets."

The lady boss was taken aback and asked uncertainly, "Fifteen baskets?"

"Just bring them, we’ll make sure to finish them," Li Chen assured.

So, off went the lady boss, and it wasn’t long before she brought over fifteen baskets of buns.

People eating breakfast nearby and passersby couldn’t help but glance over and saw the customer’s table piled high with small buns, almost reaching one meter in height.

"Wow, that’s some appetite," someone nearby commented admiringly.

Those around were shocked; they had seen people who could eat, but certainly none who could eat like him.

Having finished his own meal, Li Chen didn’t need to eat much more, while Zhong Tian started eating, his speed of consuming the buns once again stunned everyone.

Are you sure this is eating buns and not swallowing them whole?

Zhong Tian picked up a basket of buns, then started shoving them into his mouth at an incredibly fast pace. Soon, that basket was empty, promptly followed by the next, with onlookers hardly seeing him pause as he kept swallowing buns continuously.

"I’m impressed, that big guy can really eat," a bystander remarked.

The others were so astounded by the sight that they just watched Zhong Tian eat, their own breakfasts hovering midway to their mouths, motionless.

Li Chen was somewhat speechless and advised, "A Tian, eat a bit slower."

Zhong Tian mumbled a vague reply, and Li Chen shook his head, placing the Ginseng Doll on the table and then going to grab a newspaper.

He casually opened it and saw that the headline on the front page of the newspaper stated, "Foreign Martial Arts Troupe Visits Huaxia – For Exchange or Suppression?" Li Chen read a bit further, and the news reported that several martial arts teams from overseas would soon be coming to Huaxia for an exchange, and Linchuan was the designated location.

In the course of this exchange, the martial arts troupes from abroad expressed their wish to challenge Huaxia’s Kung Fu. However, their teams were quite mixed, including Westerners, Southeast Asians, and Japanese people.

These combined martial arts teams coming to Huaxia for the exchange seemed rather aggressive.

Li Chen smiled faintly; he wasn’t part of the National Martial Arts Community, so this wasn’t his concern. Besides, he had plenty of things to deal with. Back in the maze, he had killed Li Yang, but the Ghost King and Li Xinmei had escaped, and it was uncertain if they were dead or not.

Li Chen was pondering this when a discussion started at the neighboring table.