I Was Contracted By The Empress As An S Rank Familiar Novel - Chapter 34
Chapter 34: Winning Spicy Sticks
After taking over the bottles from Pan Liang, Shirley jumped up excitedly. “Great! This amount of seasoning will be enough for our meals for half a year. I’ll roast the python’s meat for you tonight.”
Pan Liang’s face suddenly turned ghastly. “I said I don’t want to eat roasted meat. Why do you still want to roast the meat? It’s fine if you want to cook it with some vegetables, but I just don’t want to eat roasted meat.”
Shirley stuck out her tongue and said, “Okay, okay. I’ll listen to you. Bring me your pot, and I’ll cook for you.”
Pan Liang was quite worried about letting Shirley cook by herself. He did not know what kind of awful cuisine she would make in the end, so he went over to watch.
While she was cooking, Pan Liang cooked the rice beside her.. There was an electric rice cooker with its own energy source in the system, but that cooker required a lot of Grievance Points. Even the Immortal Sword did not require so many Grievance Points.
Pan Liang could not bear to exchange something with its own energy source. The cooker he managed to exchange might not be able to work properly.
After some thought, he continued to stare at the rice cooker. At the same time, he kept an eye on Shirley to prevent her from messing things up.
Then, he spotted Shirley putting seasoning casually.
He quickly advised her, “This is barbecue seasoning. Why are you putting it directly into the pot of stew? Although the seasoning tastes good, it doesn’t necessarily match with all the dishes.
“Let me explain to you how to make it.”
Then, Shirley made the snake soup under his guidance. The two of them had snake soup and some pickled vegetables.
Shirley ate half of the pot of rice. In fact, Pan Liang initially wanted to leave some leftovers to make fried rice with eggs tomorrow morning.
She ate up the rice in the end.
“Forget it. Let’s talk about it tomorrow morning.”
After packing her things, Shirley looked at Pan Liang and asked, “Do we still need to carry on with our journey tonight?”
“Of course. Otherwise, we won’t be able to get to the entrance of the secret realm in three days.”
Shirley nodded and said, “That’s right. According to the mission, those who can’t make it before the secret realm is opened will fail. They won’t be qualified to enter the secret realm anymore.”
Pan Liang took the reins and said, “Go to sleep. I’ll drive. I’ll wake you up in the middle of the night. You’ve already slept for half a day, so it’s time to do some work later at night.”
Shirley nodded and said, “Okay, okay. Thank you for your hard work, Pan Liang.”
Pan Liang was not concerned about what she said.
During the second half of the night, he felt very energetic. However, his Experience Bar remained the same after a long while, which upset him.
“Shirley, get up quickly. It’s your turn to drive.”
After shouting a few times, Shirley turned over but did not respond.
At this moment, Pan Liang realized how angry the people around him were when he just lay down.
He pinched Shirley’s nose. Although her level was not high, she could hold her breath. She might not be able to hold it for too long.
In the end, Pan Liang failed to wake Shirley up.
He had no choice but to put the little poodle in the driver’s seat and let it bite the reins.
The poodle could be him as long as he transferred his consciousness to it.
If Pan Liang did not control it, the poodle would be like a fool. It would behave like him where it knew nothing apart from eating, drinking, and sleeping.
The poodle controlled the carriage even better than Shirley. However, it was Pan Liang who was controlling the poodle at this time.
He was not sleepy. He just wanted to gain more experience. Furthermore, now that he had earned enough Grievance Points for the lucky draw, he wanted to see what he could get this time.
The lucky draw did not take long. If he gained any more inheritances, he would need to spend time to inherit them.
“System, I want to take part in the lucky draw.”
[The start of lucky draw.]
[The end of lucky draw. Congratulations on obtaining a consolation prize, which is a packet of spicy sticks.]
“Damn, I only got a packet of spicy sticks. This is simply trash. Spicy sticks can be exchanged for only five Grievance Points in the exchange store of the system. Now, it ended up costing me 10,000 Grievance Points.
“Sigh, I’m really unlucky. Let’s see what these spicy sticks can do first. I hope this packet isn’t just an ordinary snack.”
[Spicy sticks: You can level up by ten levels after eating the spicy sticks. It will last for half an hour. The consolation prize that you have won will appear in the exchange store of the system.]
“Sure enough, it’s of use. If it’s used well, it should be pretty good.
“Let me see how much it costs in the exchange store.”
Pan Liang opened the exchange store and saw two packets of spicy sticks. The packaging of these two spicy sticks was different. The expensive one was red, and the cheap one had a dragon logo.
“Hmm, this red one looks very spicy, but it’s not considered too expensive. It costs only 100 Grievance Points, and it’s quite worthwhile.”
After that, Pan Liang lay down in the carriage and slept. He did not sleep much during the day, so he felt a little sleepy now. Nevertheless, he did not feel sleepy when he was driving just now.
The next morning, Shirley woke up first. She was shocked to see a person lying next to her.
After realizing that it was Pan Liang, she was relieved.
“Aren’t you driving? Why are you sleeping?”
Then, she stuck her head out, only to see the little poodle driving. “Wow, I didn’t expect the poodle to be able to drive. I’ll leave this task to you from now on.”
She returned to the carriage and looked at Pan Liang who was sleeping soundly. She could not help but prank him.
She took out a pen and drew on his face.
After she went to the front of the carriage, the little poodle stopped driving and ran into the carriage to sleep.
“Why are you so lazy like Pan Liang? Fine. It’s getting late. Let me cook something.”
After the fragrance of the food spread out, Pan Liang woke up immediately.
“Hey. I didn’t expect you to learn so quickly. I only taught you once and you’ve gotten the hang of it.”
Shirley looked up proudly and said, “Of course, I’m a genius with SSS-rank talent. I can learn things very quickly.”
Pan Liang nodded in agreement. “That’s great. I won’t have to cook by myself in the future then.”
Actually, Pan Liang thought, ‘If the language of this world hadn’t been different from the language of our world, I would’ve gotten you a cookbook. That way, I wouldn’t have to teach you personally.’
In fact, he did not go through the system carefully. If he did, he would find out that the cookbook produced by the system would change the language according to the world.
After breakfast, they carried on with their journey. Nothing special happened throughout the day as all they did were eat and travel.
