I Was Contracted By The Empress As An S Rank Familiar Novel - Chapter 23

Chapter 23: Showing off His Culinary Skills

Shirley’s eyes lit up when she heard about delicious food. She had been living a hard life since she was a child. One of the reasons why she was so short was that she lacked nutrition. Considering that she was still young, she could still grow taller.

“What delicious food are you going to give me if I carry your Immortal Sword?”

Pan Liang thought for a moment before he replied, “You carry it first. I’ll see how you perform before I consider giving you any delicious food.”

Shirley pouted and went silent. Then, she obediently took the Immortal Sword with her.

After eating and resting, she continued to head to Seth City with Pan Liang.

In the evening, Shirley began to feel drowsy while driving the carriage.

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After Pan Liang was awake, he woke her up.

“Shirley, where are we now? How far are we from Seth City?”

Shirley raised her head and glanced around. Then, she took out a simple map and looked at it.

She looked at the map and then looked around in confusion. She scratched her head.

Seeing Shirley’s look, Pan Liang knew that she was lost. It seemed that she had napped for quite a while.

“Forget it. You must be lost. Let’s continue traveling. Maybe we’ll meet someone later, and we can ask for directions.”

Shirley put away the map. “How can I be lost? If we go in this direction, we’ll definitely arrive at Seth City.”

However, when she saw Pan Liang’s gaze, she became less confident.

“Fine. I’m really lost.”

Pan Liang shook his head and said, “We’d better stop here. It’s already late. The sky is going to be dark soon. Let’s rest here.”

After listening to his words, Shirley got out of the carriage and began to prepare the barbecue.

Pan Liang felt a little nauseous as he watched Shirley prepare the barbecue.

Ever since he transmigrated here, he had been eating barbecue every day. It left him wondering how the people in this world survived.

If he ate barbecue every day, the chances of him developing cancer must be very high.

He waved his hand to stop Shirley from barbecuing.

“I said I’d let you eat delicious food. I’ll get it for you now.”

He exchanged a pot and a bottle of soybean oil. When he was in the city earlier, he found out that the culinary skills in this world were very backward.

He could not find cooking in this world, so he decided to show Shirley his skills.

Shirley looked curiously at the item that he took out. Of course, she knew what a wok was, but she had never seen it before.

“Your wok is so shallow. What can you cook with it?”

Pan Liang just smiled in the face of her question. “Watch carefully from the side. You’ll be handling this task in the future.”

He took the meat that Shirley was preparing to roast, then he pulled out his Immortal Sword. With a few strokes, the meat was sliced. After adding a few more strokes, he turned the meat into smaller slices.

Seeing Pan Liang slicing the meat, Shirley became anxious. “Why did you cut the meat into slices? How are we going to eat the meat?”

Pan Liang pressed her head down to prevent her from messing things up. “As I said, you just have to wait before eating it. There’s nothing else you need to care about.”

With that, Shirley sat quietly and watched Pan Liang cook.

Pan Liang bought some spices from the exchange store, including green onion, ginger, garlic, and chilli.

After a while, the shredded green pepper meat in the pot immediately made Shirley drool.

“Wow, this smells too good. Why do you have so many spices?

“What kind of world were you in before I summoned you? How blissful it is to be in your world.”

Pan Liang did not pay attention to her question. He recalled his past life and smiled self-deprecatingly without saying anything.

“Since you’ve been so obedient these past few days, I’ll add two more dishes to the meal today.”

Pan Liang had lived alone in the past, so he was quite good at preparing home-cooked dishes.

The ingredients that he exchanged did not need to be cleaned at all, which saved him a lot of work. Given that he was now an Immortal Swordsman, cutting vegetables was an easy task for him.

20 minutes later, four dishes and a bowl of soup were ready. Two plates of meat and two plates of vegetables appeared in front of Shirley.

Shirley was already impatient. However, Pan Liang took out a new pot and began to cook the rice with firewood.

Afraid that the cooked dishes would get cold, he asked Shirley to use her Blazing Phoenix to keep them warm.

Actually, Pan Liang purposely made her stare at the delicious dishes but did not let her eat them. Consequently, she fixed her resentful gaze on him.

Seeing the notification from the system, Pan Liang beamed with joy. He was very satisfied with the rate at which his Grievance Points were increasing.

After the rice was ready, Shirley could not control her saliva any longer.

The aroma of the food also spread far away.

In fact, Pan Liang cooked for a long time with reason. He had already sensed that there were people around.

Nevertheless, these people were some distance away. In this kind of dense forest, it was possible to not see the flames here.

The aroma of such food that came from another world could easily attract other people’s attention.

Based on his perception, those people had already begun to approach in this direction.

Otherwise, he would not have made such a big pot of rice.

The two of them would not be able to finish so much food.

Pan Liang deliberately did not allow Shirley to start eating the rice until some people appeared beside the carriage. Then, he broke into laughter.

“Shirley, there are some guests here. Go and greet them.”

Since those people were already so close to her, she could feel it. She was on guard at first, but when she saw some old and young people, she let down her guard.

Her behavior caused Pan Liang to shake his head. “We must be wary of others, but Shirley is too young. That’s okay. Apparently, I wasn’t as good as her at this age either.”

A girl, who looked to be about 12 or 13 years old, fixed her eyes on the food in front of Pan Liang and kept swallowing her saliva.

A middle-aged man, who was the leader, smiled and said to Shirley, “I’m really sorry. We smelled something from there, and the children around us were clamoring to come over. We had no choice but to bring them over.”

Pan Liang did not believe him. Obviously, the man just wanted to eat the food.

Before Shirley could say anything, Pan Liang waved his hand and said, “You’re a guest anyway. Come and sit down.”

Since there were more people here, more dishes were needed. However, Pan Liang would not show off his culinary skills in front of these people.

He directly exchanged a bowl of pickled vegetables from the store of the system and placed it in front of the man.

The middle-aged man’s eyes froze.

“Although I can’t tell how powerful this young man is, his power seems extraordinary. He actually has a piece of spatial equipment.”