Chapter 435: Chapter 435: Beauties, you are going too far_1

Zhang Xian saw that all of the women were looking at him, even Xiao Nan expected him to cook some dishes. Out of exasperation, he got up and went to the kitchen.

Since they had bought vegetables in the afternoon, there wasn’t much left. After cooking one meal, all that was left were two tomatoes, some pea tendrils, some chili peppers, and a palm-sized piece of lean meat.

"How am I going to cook these?"

Zhang Xian gave a weary smile, walked over to the refrigerator, and opened it.

Relieved to find a few eggs that hadn’t spoiled, he thought he might just be able to make tomato scrambled eggs and stir-fried pork with pea tendrils. There was nothing left for him to work with, so they couldn’t blame him for only making two dishes.

"What are you all just standing there for?"

In the dining room, Xiao Nan walked over to the table and sat down, saying, "Let’s eat! Even though my cooking isn’t great, it isn’t unbearable, right? You’re all so discouraging!"

"Alright! Let’s eat!"

Mo Shaoyun walked over to the table, sat down, and began eating with her chopsticks.

Li Peichi and Nangong Wu also showed no intention of not eating and took seats at the table.

Just as Xiao Nan had stated, although the dishes didn’t look appealing, they weren’t inedible. They were able to eat the dishes without rice without any issues.

"Actually, it isn’t that bad!"

After Xiao Nan tasted each dish, she grumbled, "You all are just too picky. Too lazy to cook, and yet, still criticizing. I’m astonished."

"Hehe! Didn’t we just hire a male housekeeper?"

Li Peichi laughed and said, "If Zhang Xian’s cooking isn’t too terrible, we can hand over the cooking responsibilities to him in the future."

"I’m not so sure about that..."

Mo Shaoyun stated, "For somebody like Zhang Xian, could he actually cook? Even if he had to cook out of necessity when he lived in the mountains, I doubt his culinary skills are up to scratch."

Nangong Wu, Xiao Nan, and Li Peichi all nodded in agreement.

In their eyes, Zhang Xian didn’t strike them as the kind of man who could cook.

Soon, the aroma of freshly cooked dishes wafted out from the kitchen.

"Wait a minute..."

Li Peichi sniffed and commented, "This smells really good. Is it possible that Zhang Xian is actually an exceptional chef?"

"It does smell good. I bet the flavor is also great."

Smelling the enticing aroma, Xiao Nan then got up and headed to the kitchen saying, "I’ll go spy on him and observe his cooking skills."

Mo Shaoyun pursed her lips, deep in thought. She hadn’t expected Zhang Xian could cook. Even though the dishes weren’t out yet, the aroma gave her an idea of what to expect.

"Are you stir-frying pork with pea tendrils?"

Xiao Nan ran into the kitchen and commented, "Not bad, it smells delicious."

"It should be okay."

While continuing to stir-fry, Zhang Xian chuckled, "After all, I cooked a lot when living in the mountains. That grumpy old man was also quite picky, so it was not easy to serve him!"

"Yes, it looks pretty good."

Xiao Nan laughed and proposed, "Teach me! I suddenly feel that cooking occasionally could be quite fun."

Zhang Xian shook his head, "No, this is my unique skill and I don’t casually teach others."

"You’re kidding, right?"

Dissatisfied, Xiao Nan exclaimed, "With these limited ingredients, how could it be your unique skill? If you’re unwilling to teach, then just say no. Do you need to make so many excuses? So annoying..."

"Cooking isn’t as simple as you think."

Zhang Xian stated, "You need to pay attention to the heat and oil temperature. If we had firewood, the dishes would be even tastier."

Xiao Nan pouted, "If you aren’t intending to teach me, why are you saying all this?"

"Actually, it’s not that I can’t teach you, but teaching you for free is out of the question. Shouldn’t I get something in return?"

Grinning, Zhang Xian said, "Even though cooking isn’t a big deal, it counts as a skill, right? If you learn it, that would be an additional life skill for you, wouldn’t it?"

"What are you trying to do?"

Xiao Nan cast a sidelong glance at Zhang Xian and said, "Shaoyun’s matter just got settled, and here you are playing tricks again. Very well..."

"Well, this..."

Zhang Xian scratched his nose, "I need to finish cooking first."

Xiao Nan nodded and didn’t say anything more.

When Zhang Xian finished stir-frying the pork and pea tendrils and put it in a bowl, she immediately picked up her chopsticks and tasted it.

Realizing the taste was pretty good, her eyes lit up, "Hmm, not bad at all. I didn’t expect your cooking skills to be that good."

Zhang Xian smiled proudly, "Of course!"

"I’m going to serve this."

Xiao Nan picked up the bowl of food, got up from her chair, and left the kitchen while eating from the bowl.

"Oh my..."

Seeing Xiao Nan already snacking on the food before it got to the table, Li Peichi exclaimed, "Sister Nan, aren’t you eating a bit too much? It hasn’t even reached the table yet!"

"I can’t help it..."

Xiao Nan replied, "It’s so delicious! Let me tell you, Zhang Xian’s culinary skills are definitely not a joke!"

"Really?"

Li Peichi’s eyes lit up, ready to dive in with her chopsticks.

Just when she realized the taste was indeed extraordinary, she held up a pea tendril with her chopsticks and laughed while chewing, "Mmm, it really is delicious!"

Nangong Wu and Mo Shaoyun, seeing this, couldn’t help but join in, raising their chopsticks to start the food raid.

"Uh..."

When Zhang Xian came out of the kitchen with the stir-fried tomatoes and eggs, he saw that the stir-fried pork and pea tendrils had been devoured and his eyes popped open, "Hey, you ate it all? You could have at least saved some for me to taste, right?"

"What are you tasting when you cooked it yourself?"

Li Peichi smacked her lips, urging, "What are you doing standing there? Bring the dish over quickly! Can’t you see we’re all waiting?"

Zhang Xian’s mouth twitched unnaturally a few times, and helplessly placed the bowl on the table.

"Eat up..."

Li Peichi immediately picked up her chopsticks, eating like a ravenous wolf.

Nangong Wu and Xiao Nan were the same, eating as if they hadn’t eaten for days. Even Mo Shaoyun let loose her restraint and joined the gobble train.

"Erm...can’t you guys eat slower?"

Zhang Xian quickly picked up his chopsticks, as if he didn’t hurry up, there would be no soup left.

"Snap..."

Li Peichi suddenly reached out her hand and knocked Zhang Xian’s chopsticks away, "You’re not allowed to eat this, it’s for the four of us."

"What do you mean?" Zhang Xian asked, puzzled.

Li Peichi said, "You eat what Sister Nan cooked, and we eat what you cooked. It’s that simple."

Zhang Xian asked in confusion, "Why is that?"

"Well..."

After thinking for a moment, Li Peichi chuckled, "A man eats what a woman cooks, and a woman eats what a man cooks. Therefore, you can’t eat what you cooked yourself."

Zhang Xian widened his eyes, "What kind of reason is that?"

"Hehe..."

Xiao Nan pushed all the dishes she cooked in front of Zhang Xian and laughed, "Eat! You have to finish everything! Otherwise, someone might get upset and angry!"

"That’s not fair, is it?"

Zhang Xian complained, "I’ve been busy for half an hour at least. How could you be so cruel?"

Li Peichi pouted, "You’re not allowed to eat since you didn’t tell us earlier that you were such a good cook, causing us to miss out on so many delicious meals. It’s a justified punishment."

Xiao Nan nodded, "I agree with Peichi. You should have told us earlier about your cooking skills. Do you realize how much we have missed out?"

Although Mo Shaoyun and Nangong Wu didn’t say anything, their positions were clear. They stood firmly on the same side as Li Peichi and Xiao Nan.

"Come on..."

Zhang Xian had a look of dismay on his face, "Is this how you guys bully me? Isn’t this too much?"

...

The night, after dinner.

Zhang Xian, who was watching TV, suddenly received a phone call. It was from the middle-aged woman he had threatened that morning.

With a cold smile, he held the phone to his ear and asked, "Well? Is everything handled?"

"Yes... yes, can you come over now?"

Zhang Xian said, "I can, but I have to remind you, it’s best not to try any tricks. Otherwise, you’ll be very sorry."

"No... no, how dare I! I... I’m already scared of you. I won’t dare."

Zhang Xian gave a cold laugh, "I hope so. I’ll come over immediately."

...

Yanjing, inside a small council.

A middle-aged woman and three middle-aged men were sitting on a couch.

The middle-aged woman seemed a bit nervous, her forehead was covered in fine beads of sweat.

The three men looked rather relaxed behaving as though they didn’t care about the middle-aged woman’s words about the fierce youngster. They simply scoffed at it.

It couldn’t be helped. The middle-aged woman was just a peripheral member of their organization and could barely be considered part of it.

Such peripheral members, who don’t need strength, as long as they have value, their organization selectively absorbs them, letting them do some things that internal people find inconvenient to do.

These so-called formidable individuals in the mouth of a peripheral member were, in their eyes, just regular high-level fighters, not reaching their Dharma Eye.

Don’t forget, they were genuine assassins with impressive skills. Even though they weren’t considered skilled members within the organization, they weren’t to be compared with ordinary fighters.

So confident, they firmly believed they could subdue that guy.

"You..."

The middle-aged woman said, "You guys should hide first!"

"Hide? Really?"

One of the middle-aged men disdainfully said, "When that guy comes later, I can bring him down in a minute."

The middle-aged woman said, "He... he’s really formidable. I’m not tricking you. Plus, he has some weird methods, not easy to deal with."

"Tsk..."

The middle-aged man said disdainfully, "So what if he’s tough? I can still take him."

The middle-aged woman stopped talking when she heard that.

To put it nicely, she was also an assassin, but to be blunt, she was just a handywoman with no status in the organization. She wouldn’t dare to confront these guys directly.

"Let’s hide!"

Another middle-aged man said, "As assassins, we only care about results, not processes. We choose the easiest process."

The arrogant middle-aged man frowned, got up, and walked into a room.

The other two looked at each other, instructed the middle-aged woman a bit, and also hid themselves, forming a triangle configuration.

"Knock, Knock, Knock..."

At one point, a knock on the door suddenly rang out.

The middle-aged woman walked to the door, opened the door, and quickly said with a smile, "You... you’re here? Come in!"

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