Transmigration: The Little Chef Calls The Shots
Chapter 981 - 146 Old Flower Cat

Chapter 981: 146 Old Flower Cat

The one who must have felt the most aggrieved when Zhao Hongyan arrived at Zhuma Town was undoubtedly Lao Fan.

First, he had to watch Eunuch Chang relishing the food, then he began to endure the intense protest from his stomach, and finally, to distract himself, Lao Fan stubbornly started walking circles around the room, mumbling with his eyes closed, "I’m not hungry, I’m not hungry, I’m not the least bit hungry!"

Just at that moment, Xiao Linshuang’s crisp voice suddenly rang out, "Oh, so Master, you’re not hungry, huh? To think I still worried about you and brought you food late at night!"

Lao Fan’s ears perked up immediately; at first, he thought he was hallucinating from hunger, but this hallucination was so real he could hear and see it, and even smell the aroma of the food!

"Good apprentice! Good apprentice!"

Seeing Xiao Linshuang about to leave with the food container, Lao Fan darted forward and grabbed it tightly within two or three steps, "Apprentice, you’re the one who cares about your Master the most, it wasn’t in vain that I cared for you the most."

Knowing that Lao Fan was really starving, Xiao Linshuang hadn’t really meant to leave. She walked into the room chuckling, holding the food container, "Master, I see you’re truly pitiable. To think you’d be this afraid of a mere child!"

As soon as she brought it up, Lao Fan, who was beaming with joy just moments ago, suddenly looked distressed and hurriedly shut the door tightly; it turned out this girl still thought he was afraid of Zhao Hongyan!

"Girl, you don’t understand. Where am I afraid of that little brat? What I’m afraid of is that—huh? No, the Master is not afraid of him. What’s there to be afraid of that old thing?" Lao Fan grumbled to himself while stuffing Crystal shrimp dumplings into his mouth, "I, the Master, am not afraid of heaven or earth, let alone that Chang Laoguai!"

Chang Laoguai? Xiao Linshuang blinked, so her Master was actually afraid of that Eunuch Chang.

Xiao Linshuang slapped the table hard, and with Lao Fan staring in shock, she declared indignantly, "That’s what I thought, how could our Master be afraid of anyone! Obviously, Master doesn’t want to meet him. Right, with your status and prestige, you can’t be seen by just anybody who wishes to. Eunuch Chang wants to meet my Master without making an appointment in advance, it’s simply impossible, right, Master?"

What a teachable child!

Tears welled up in Lao Fan’s eyes with excitement. This apprentice understood his heart the best!

With a sly chuckle, Xiao Linshuang leaned in, batting her eyes and asked with a grin, "Master, your apprentice is very curious, why are you afraid, cough, I mean, why don’t you want to meet Eunuch Chang? Did he offend you?"

Lao Fan choked, finding even his favorite Crystal shrimp dumplings tasteless.

Feigning nonchalance, he stroked his beard and shook his head with his eyes closed, "Well, that’s a long story."

"No worries, no worries, your apprentice has prepared so much delicious food for you, we have plenty even if we talk until dawn!" Xiao Linshuang was not about to let Lao Fan off the hook, determined to pry to the very end with all the ardor of a gossip.

Knowing the character of this little wolf pup, Lao Fan realized he wouldn’t get off the hook without a good story. Rolling his eyes, an idea suddenly lit up in Lao Fan’s mind as he said with a smile, "Actually, it’s like this! Chang Laoguai, like your Master, has a strong desire for fine food. Before entering the palace, we were good friends who ate our way through the north and the south. Having tried everything outside the palace, we longed to taste the food from the Imperial kitchen. And so, with my excellent medical skills, I got into the palace as an Imperial Physician. As for Chang Laoguai, how could his medical skills compare to your Master’s? He’s a complete dunce! Without decent skills, he couldn’t become an Imperial Physician and enter the palace, and without entering the palace, he couldn’t get the Imperial kitchen’s food. So, this shameless Chang Laoguai came up with a cunning plan."

"What plan?" Xiao Linshuang asked curiously.

Stroking his beard, Lao Fan approached Xiao Linshuang and said with a wink, "He, he just castrated himself and became a eunuch! Haha."

Xiao Linshuang paused, then burst into laughter, her belly aching from the hilarity. So that’s why Eunuch Chang entered the palace and became a eunuch!

"He’s so old already, how could he still get into the palace as a eunuch? Would they even want him at the palace?"

As the master and apprentice were joking around, they suddenly heard voices coming from outside getting louder and nearer.

Lao Fan’s ears twitched alertly, and he couldn’t stomach his food anymore, "Quick, quick, put it away, put it away!"