Chapter 69 - 069 Lin Bai’s Cooking Skills
"City Lord, can we assign someone else to monitor Lin, the Storekeeper?" Xu Longyun was engrossed in official documents when Zhao Tong pushed open the door and walked in, his face ashen, his legs trembling where he stood.
"What’s wrong?" Xu Longyun was startled by Zhao Tong’s state.
"City Lord, I really can’t take it anymore! Lin, the Storekeeper, he’s not doing a single thing a proper person would do!" Zhao Tong’s tears started to flow before he even finished speaking. A Hidden Guard of the City Lord’s Mansion, a man of iron who wouldn’t so much as blink if stabbed, now looked as pitiful as a child.
"..." Xu Longyun put down the documents, her fine eyebrows knitted slightly. "Did he bully you?"
"He... he forced me to eat the food he cooked." Unpleasant memories flooded his mind, and his stomach churned. He instinctively clutched his belly.
Recalling the taste of Lin Bai’s cooking, Xu Longyun inexplicably felt rather full. She looked sympathetically at her guard and asked, "Is he still cooking?"
"Not anymore." Zhao Tong shook his head, stammering, "He... Mister Lin has started making flour-based dishes now."
"Flour-based dishes?" Xu Longyun raised her head in surprise.
"Yes, steamed buns, noodles, flatbreads, things like that. He makes something different almost every time." As Zhao Tong spoke, he let out an involuntary belch, his complexion growing even more ghastly.
"That shouldn’t be a major issue!" Xu Longyun said. "Although Lin Bai’s cooking is a bit unpalatable, it shouldn’t be a huge problem for you all. During survival training, don’t you even eat raw meat?"
"City Lord, raw meat can at least be swallowed! But the flatbreads Lin, the Storekeeper, makes are harder than blue bricks! When he steams buns, he dumps in a huge handful of baking soda, making the buns bitter and astringent. And the food he makes... it’s even worse than my wife’s cooking..."
Zhao Tong tried to control his expression, but as soon as he spoke, a wave of grievance washed over him, and bitter tears streamed down his face uncontrollably. "City Lord, either you assign someone else to monitor Lin, the Storekeeper, or please, go and persuade him to start alchemy promptly. He really isn’t cut out for cooking! I seriously can’t endure it any longer."