Little Cooking Saint – 0333 – Steamed Pork with Rice Flour (f)

Chapter 333 – Steamed Pork with Rice Flour (f)

Translated by Gumihou

Edited by Gumihou

 

[Gumihou: … *pours calming tea over her head*]

 

Jin Ming privately laughed for a moment before saying, “In fact, you can bribe me away. I’m a businessman after all. If the reward is tempting enough, I believe I can resolve this little trouble for you.”

Shiyu’s eyebrows jumped imperceptibly [1a].

What a liar. To say that he will resolve this matter with such a straight face when he was the one who brought it to their doorstep in the first place.

If she were to offer him a favour for luring this woman away, this shameless person would definitely open his mouth wide and demand something unreasonable. 

“Your face disgusts me,” Shiyu gave him a scornful look. “Businessmen value profit. After seeing you, I finally understand these words well. You talk about making friends and fateful meetings but so long as there is profit to be made, you are perfectly willing to stab your friends in the back. You truly impressed me, Young Master Jin.”

“Haha,” Jin Ming was not angry at all. So long as he could make a profit, what was letting someone take a few verbal swipes at him? “I’ll take that as a compliment. Now, shall we have a little chat?”

“No need,” Shiyu waved a hand at him. “It’s no big deal. Let that woman follow us.” After all, the one that the woman was paying attention to was not her.

At worse, she could get Qing Chen to use the ‘Male Beauty Trap’ and lure the woman away. It should work to get the woman out of the way.

She turned and made her way toward Qing Chen. The woman was still talking at him, “…my name is Su Nian. You can call me Little Su… why aren’t you talking? Can you tell me your name? I do feel that we have a great fate with each other. Who knows, we could be even more fated…”

At this, the three Panda Brothers [1b] next to Qing Chen huffed and said, “Brother Qing Chen doesn’t wish to speak to you.”

This attracted the woman’s attention to them. She looked over the three brothers for a moment and her eyes lit up, “Yo~ yo~ three little pandas~!” She rushed forward and rubbed her hands over their heads, “Such cute, stupid-looking spiritual beasts!”

At the sight of her comrades being rubbed and ravaged all over, Shiyu held a moment of silence for the three pandas.

At such a critical moment, it was necessary to sacrifice the male sex.

“Ahem, Qing Chen,” Shiyu stepped closer to Qing Chen and said, “It’s a bit difficult to get off the tiger [2] now. How about you take the three brothers into the town first?”

The Queen Bee should be nearby. She must locate the Queen Bee first. If these people keep following her around, everything would be exposed.

Qing Chen nodded [3a], “Yes.”

However, no matter how well they scheme, they could not make any quick changes [1c].

Not far from them, they heard a sudden scream [3b]. The woman, who had been teasing the three Pandas suddenly turned serious, “Killing intent!”

[3c] The woman leapt into the air, heading towards the scream. Shiyu’s heart shook and she quickly followed.

“Bei Bei, grab that Jin Ming and make sure he stays where he is. Don’t let him move around!” she shouted from the air.

She may not be able to stop that woman but she could still stop Jin Ming.

Once Bei Bei had gotten the order, without a second word, he seized Jin Ming like an eagle seizing a chick [1d].

Bei Bei might look like a teenage youth and Jin Ming a full-grown man but he managed to capture the man easily. Still felt weird to see a youth easily grabbing a fully grown man by the back of his neck [1e].

As for Jin Ming, he could care less about what he looked like now. The only thing he could focus on was what the southern woman had said [1f].

These people… are all Spiritual Beasts… Divine Transformation Spiritual Beasts…

 

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Shiyu and Qing Chen followed after the woman towards the place where the scream had originated. There, they discovered a black mist lingering in the area. Right in the middle of the black mist was a person dressed in a cloak standing next to a corpse.

The person was not very tall. In fact, they looked like a child. However, since their back was towards them, no one could see their face.

“So, it turned out to be an intact soul…” said the woman with some surprise. “Were you the one who killed this person?”

The person turned around slowly.

The woman was shocked, “A little girl!”

When Shiyu saw the girl, she was also shocked, “Xiao Yun, it’s you?! [1g]”

Shiyu’s mood was very delicate right at this moment. She had thought up various methods to look for Xiao Yun before but had never expected that the two of them would meet under such circumstances.

Moreover, Xiao Yun was standing right in front of a corpse. No matter what, it looked like she had killed this person.

However, seeing Xiao Yun’s clear eyes, Shiyu felt that she had better not judge the matter too soon.

“Who killed this person?” she asked.

A light flashed in Xiao Yun’s eyes. She flashed Shiyu a sweet smile, “I don’t know who it is. I only know that he’s killed by a black Soul Drawing Flag with an uncle living inside it. The uncle is very bad and likes to kill people. He has already eaten several people.”

“Where is that uncle now?”

Xiao Yun pointed to a nearby forest, “He went there,”

Both Shiyu and the woman rushed towards the forest. In the end, the woman was a step faster and entered the woods first. Her back disappeared rapidly from sight.

“Sister, come with me quickly,”

Who knows when but Xiao Yun had quietly appeared beside Shiyu. She took Shiyu’s hand and they floated towards the centre of the town.

In an instant, they arrived at an inn. “He’s really inside this inn. About the forest thing, I lied to that person.”

Shiyu was truly grateful, “Thank you! I’ll go in first. You stay here and be careful.”

As soon as Shiyu entered the inn, she spread out her mental power. Her mental energies penetrated through every part of the inn and very quickly, she located the long-missing Soul Drawing Flag.

The Soul Drawing Flag was very cunning. It had hidden itself in the beams of the inn. People who came in and out of the inn never noticed that a devil had tucked itself away above their heads.

“Qing Chen, there’s nothing on this floor, let us go to the second floor,” said Shiyu to Qing Chen. However, her eyes had turned towards the beam.

Qing Chen immediately understood. After a short pause, he made his way towards the stairs and began walking up, step by step. As soon as his foot stepped onto the second floor, Shiyu suddenly moved, flying towards the beam and catching the Soul Drawing Flag with her hand.

“Finally got you!”

The black Soul Drawing Flag struggled in her hands, twisted faces made of black mist could be seen now and then on the black flag.

“How could you possibly know the location of my remnant soul!?” Li Tian’s fearful voice filled with resentment howled. “Who told you?!”

“I don’t need anyone to tell me this. I am going to grab you and sacrifice you to the hundreds of thousands of dead mortals of Dawn City.” As she spoke, Shiyu called up Ocean Heart Flame.

“Aagghh–!!” Li Tian’s remnant soul shrieked. “If you burn me to death, don’t think you can recover even a single soul from that place!”

Just then, someone came in from outside, “Not just the remnant soul of those mortals but even the soul of this little girl I happened to catch would be safe. How about it? Want to make an exchange?”

When Shiyu looked towards the door, the woman in the Flamingo Red outfit smiled brightly at her. She had caught Xiao Yun by her cloak.

“This little gal is really clever, to think she’d actually tricked me.”

Looks like the situation was in a deadlock now.

The innkeeper and waiters had all hidden themselves away, frightened by what was going on. As for the other guests, they had all found hidden nooks to take cover, praying that they would not be caught up in this indescribable dispute.

“Do you know what Li Tian had done?! Still want to save him?!” Shiyu was somewhat [1h] angry.

“I cannot control what he does. Now that I have encountered him, I refuse to let him die,” said the woman.

“Does senior really have to save him?” asked Qing Chen.

“Aiyo~ what’s with the senior? Do I look that old? I am only 18 years old~” the woman was obviously even more enthusiastic towards Qing Chen. “I don’t have to save him, however, I have been entrusted by others and cannot neglect this duty. Naturally, if you are willing to promise yourself to me, I may consider breaking this oath.”

Qing Chen said nothing. That’s because everyone within hearing range knew that it was just a tease.

Oh, but, there’s someone who had not caught on.

“Su Nian [4], you mustn’t!” Li Tian’s remnant soul shouted. “I must go and see Mu Jin. Take me to her quickly. If Mu Jin found out how you abandoned me you’ll face a terrible consequence.”

When the woman heard his unpleasant howling, she stuck a finger into her ears and muttered, “You’re just as noisy as ever. Is it always threatening and bullying with you? Even if you die here, I can just pretend I heard and saw nothing. Whatever, I don’t want to waste my time with people like you.”

The woman then raised her chin and looked at Shiyu, “This man is so annoying that I don’t feel like saving him anymore. However, I still need to report something back. Therefore, I’ll be taking this little girl with me. Whether you can lend me a hand or not, depends on your abilities.”

This woman came when she wanted to and left the moment she did not feel like saving someone.

She grabbed Xiao Yun, smashed a talisman to pieces, and disappeared without a trace.

Everything happened so fast that Shiyu was completely baffled.

“This person is really…”

“Temperamental,” said Qing Chen.

In an instant, the two of them turned vicious glares at Li Tian. The woman had already left, meaning she did not care about Li Tian.

This meant Shiyu could torment Li Tian as she liked so long as she did not completely dissipate him.

“What are you planning to do?!” Li Tian had not expected Su Nian to be so different from before. To leave the moment she decided to, leaving him with no room to manoeuvre.

Shiyu ignored him and instead asked Qing Chen, “Do you know how to draw out a soul?”

Li Tian had said that if he died, the souls of those mortals would never be recovered. Could she assume that meant there’s a way to recover those lost souls?

Qing Chen shook his head, “I don’t have much knowledge on this matter.”

Leisurely Cloud Sect was a well-known and righteous sect and basically did not involve itself in this kind of shady thing.

“Coil your mental power around his soul and draw them out,” Fat Cat, as always, appeared at the most crucial time.

As soon as she heard Fat Cat, Shiyu had some idea of what to do. Her mind moved and an invisible force began to wrap itself around Li Tian’s remnant soul.

With a sudden forceful pull, she drew Li Tian’s tattered soul out of the Soul Drawing Flag.

Right that moment, Ocean Heart Flame rolled out a tongue of fire and before Li Tian could even scream in agony, he was surrounded by flames.

“Don’t kill him. As for the punishment? Do whatever you like with him,” said Shiyu.

There was no better punishment for a soul than to be toyed with by Ocean Heart Flame. What a soul is most afraid of is the very masculine energy of thunder and fire. It should suffer quite severely.

As for the Soul Drawing Flag, now that it was no longer suppressed by Li Tian’s remnant soul, black mist began to grow thicker and thicker around it even as Shiyu watched. It seemed to grow more powerful the more black mist surrounded it.

“Let’s put this thing away first,” said Qing Chen.

This thing had belonged to Demonic Cultivators, if other Cultivators were to see it, they might attract more trouble.

After putting the Soul Drawing Flag away, Shiyu and the others left the inn [1i] and met up with the Panda Brothers. Jin Ming was still being dragged around by Bei Bei.

When Shiyu saw him, she grabbed Jin Ming by the neck, “Who was that woman just now. She’s not Profound Sky’s State Master, is she?!”

She had some suspicions about this woman’s identity but from all recent odd behaviours, it looked like she might have guessed wrong.

“Did I ever say she is the State Master?” Jin Ming said with a red face.

“Take me to her now or I’ll destroy all your business!” Shiyu’s teeth itched as she gnashed them together. If this fellow had not jumped into her matter in the middle, they would not be dealing with all these extra issues now.

“Then, you should let me go first,” Jin Ming forced passed his throat.

Shiyu threw him to the ground. “You had better not play tricks or your entire clan’s business is doomed!”

“Cough, cough,” Jin Ming clutched his throat. Not taking her threats lying down, he said, “Why don’t you just kill me? In fact, you don’t wish to make things worse, right? Once the matter of you involving Spiritual Beasts in your business, the one who would suffer would be you.”

“Looks like you’re really looking to die,”

“No, no, you would never dare to kill me,” Jin Ming spoke confidently. “If you kill me off, trust me, trouble will never leave you alone.”

Shiyu looked at him coldly, “I have no idea where you get your confidence from. As far as I know, Central Trading House has more than you as the successor. Once you die, I’m sure the other potential heirs will applaud.”

“They are all idiots,” Jin Ming gestured to himself with a grin. “I am different. If I die, my father would lose his best son. I don’t you could afford the wrath of a father who had lost his precious heir? How about this? Promise me a condition and I shall help you find that woman.”

“You’re still thinking about striking deals now? Is your brain clouded by money?” Shiyu turned to Bei Bei. “Bei Bei, grab him. Make sure he doesn’t run away. Since his father treasures him so much, let’s take him to Profound sky and blackmail dear old dad!”

In the next blink Jin Ming found himself hoisted up by the youth again. Looks like Shiyu was serious about taking him to Profound Sky to threaten his father. The ridiculousness of the situation was finally sinking in.

The one to take advantage of the situation and rob the other side should be him, ah. So how did he end up as a hostage in the end?

 

Gumihou: the only reason why this whole thing did not go tits up in this hot mess of a situation is due to Su Nian randomly deciding to skip off without squishing the whole lot of them.

Also, so many ‘wha- but how!!?’ moments

…why is everyone so dumb? Aside from Xiao Yun.

This is like reading the ‘Doomsday Book by Connie Willis’ all over again. I don’t care if it won the Hugo and Nebula awards, the characters in that book are too thick-headed for doctors, historians, and archaeologists!

Basically, you lot are

 

We now have Glossaries for Character, Cultivation Terms, Clan Names, Restaurants & Places

 

[1] Really? You’re sure?

[a] *cough* sure, imperceptibly.

[b] Human form? Panda form? Probably human form?

[c] Cannot make quick changes no matter how well one scheme…

That just means you’re bad at scheming. Either you haven’t taken everything into consideration or you’re bad at reacting to unexpected situations. FaiLURE

[d] *Claps* wow, wonderful. Extra words to describe an utterly mundane action.

[e] *writes* author’s attempt at humour noted

[f] Southern woman – who is this?

No record of any mention of the south or about Divine transformation experts in this chapter until now. Can only assume that the author must have forgotten something

[g] *slow claps* you guys are so smart

[h] lol, ‘somewhat’. Seriously, it’s 有些

[i] weird sentence structure

After this point, Gumi just auto fix the weird stuff. If it starts to make sense again, that mean’s Gumi has meddled.

 

[2] ‘Get off the Tiger’ is the second half of ‘If You Ride a Tiger, It’s Hard to Get Off’

Meaning, if you started a dangerous enterprise, it’s often easier to see it through the end than to stop halfway.

 

[3] Deleted Stuff:

[a] Nodded in agreement

Aww, gee, just in case he nodded in disagreement?

[b] of a human

[c] Then/Following that

Pointless prepositions that just drag things down 

[4] Su Nian or 素年– Is from the 素年堇時 or Su Nuan Jin Shi aka the author’s name

Also, the ‘Shi’ is the same as Shiyu’s ‘shi’

Yeah, make what you like about it.

 

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