Who Let Him Cultivate?! (WX)-Chapter 84: The Tofu Shop on Qianmen Street

After Lan Ting witnessed the whole process of Lu Yang performing Animal Form Fist to transform into Man Gu, she silently took out a yellow talisman.

I think it’s best that I draw a Shapeshifting Talisman myself.

As expected of the immortal sect renowned for their fanciful imagination and spells to be disguising the Shapeshifting Technique as a fist technique. This is something only achievable with a profound comprehension of spells. Fellow Daoist Lu Yang must have reached the level where his comprehension of spells transcends spells and traces them to their origins.

Lan Ting believed that Lu Yang’s talent in spells was unrivaled among those at the same cultivation realm.

Lu Yang recalled that Lan Ting had also asked for the tiger hide previously to create talismans. It looks like she has quite the talent for talismans.

Lan Ting pointed at her own eyes. “My eyes are imbued with a divine wonder that makes them sensitive to patterns, allowing me to discern the core essence of runes and the focal point of arrays, so I’m naturally adept at crafting talismans and drawing arrays. However, I have limited capacity, so I have directed most of my energy to crafting talismans; I only have a very rudimentary understanding of arrays.”

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Despite Lan Ting’s humility, the talent she possessed was actually an exceptional one that many talisman and array masters were envious of. Her talent was fated to take her far in the field of talismans and arrays

Soon, Lan Ting finished drawing a Shapeshifting Talisman and pasted it on herself. It was fascinating watching her stunning features change into ordinary ones right before their eyes.

Just like that, the barbeque shop welcomed its new staff.

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After Lan Ting had joined the barbeque shop for two days, the trio’s workload had become much lighter although the shop was still busy as usual.

Lu Yang noticed that Man Gu appeared to be a little unhappy and used his spiritual consciousness to ask him while serving the customers, “Did something happen? You don’t seem very happy.”

Man Gu nodded. “I don’t know if you have noticed, Brother Lu, but the number of customers has decreased recently. I calculated our revenue for the past few days and confirmed that it’s indeed true.”

Lu Yang was taken aback as he hadn’t paid attention to this detail. “Because of Lan Ting?” But shouldn’t business be better with the addition of a female staff?

“No, the numbers have already been reducing before Lan Ting joined. I still haven’t figured out the problem.” Man Gu had been ruminating about this problem.

Lu Yang didn’t make much of it. He wished that there would be less business for the barbeque shop. “You can think about it first. I’ll go deliver the food.”

A month ago, at Meng Jingzhou’s suggestion, the barbeque shop had introduced a delivery service. A box would be placed at the entrance in the day, and those who wanted food delivery would deposit a piece of paper written with their desired barbeque skewers, delivery time, and address. At night, one of the three would be responsible for handling the deliveries.

It was Lu Yang’s turn today.

Lu Yang hadn’t gone out for the past few nights, and he noticed that there were considerably fewer pedestrians on the streets. Perhaps this is the reason for the barbeque shop’s lower customer traffic.

“Let me see where I should deliver this to...the tofu shop on Qianmen Street?”

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Wen Xiangyu had long heard about the popular barbeque shop that opened recently. She was interested in giving it a try, wondering if it was really as delicious as in the rumors. However, ever since her husband passed away and she took over his tofu shop, she had hardly gone out at night.

She was not trying to brag, but with her beautiful appearance, she didn’t know how many people hungered after her, so going out alone would be very dangerous. Subsequently, she heard that the barbeque shop offered a food delivery service, so she wrote what she wanted to eat on a piece of paper and dropped it in the box outside the shop.

She had been very sleepy the past few days, and it was even worse today. Before the skewers could arrive, she had already succumbed to her sleepiness and lain on the bed.

The barbeque shop’s staff should probably be able to wake me up.

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Lu Zhi was a thief who had been giving the constables a headache recently. He would sneak into people’s homes at night and steal their valuables while they were asleep, then he would swiftly depart, leaving behind negligible traces. When the constables questioned the neighbors, the answers were always something along the lines of them being too deep asleep to notice anything outside.

This time, Lu Zhi had set his sights on the tofu shop on Qianmen Street. The lady boss was a well-known pretty widow, and her tofu’s reputation reached far and wide. The money she earned the past few years caused the neighboring proprietors’ eyes to go red with envy.

Lu Zhi was agile like a monkey as he stealthily climbed to a rooftop. Twisting his body, he opened the window to the second floor.

“She should be asleep by now.”

He was extremely confident as he had happened to come across a yellow talisman that was capable of inducing deep slumber. He had pasted it outside the house, and everyone within fifty meters would sleep like a log. This trick of his had never failed him.

Holding his breath and slinking over cautiously, Lu Zhi saw the beauty lying in bed, and a sly smirk of triumph morphed onto his face. He then turned around to rummage through the cupboards for valuables. Based on my experience, women like to keep things here.

“Nothing?” Lu Zhi frowned and turned his gaze to where the tofu shop’s lady boss was.

Since there’s nothing here, the stuff should be under the bed.

He gingerly crouched down and peered under the bed. That was when his heart almost stopped beating.

There’s actually a human face underneath the bed!

“Ahhh, ghost!”

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Zheng Shouhe was a rapist who had been giving the constables a headache recently. He often hid under the beds of single women beforehand, waiting for them to fall asleep before emerging to defile them. However, there were occasions where he would bump into women in the midst of an affair. In those cases, he could only force himself to wait patiently under the bed.

This time, he had set his sights on the tofu shop on Qianmen Street. The lady boss was a well-known pretty widow, and it was unclear how many souls she had captivated.

As usual, Zheng Shouhe had hid under the bed in advance, waiting for nightfall to have his way with the lady boss.

“I'm so sleepy.” Zheng Shouhe had never felt so sleepy. In the past, the more he waited, the more excited he would become. However, for some reason, sleepiness kept coming over him today. His eyelids were fighting with each other. After trying to open his eyes a few times, he ultimately succumbed to his sleepiness.

A shrill scream woke him up. He seems to be shouting “ghost” or something.

Zheng Shouhe suddenly opened his eyes and saw Lu Zhi staring at him in fright from under the bed. Zheng Shouhe immediately clamped his hand over Lu Zhi’s mouth and darted out from underneath the bed. His other hand took out a dagger from behind his waist and pressed it against Lu Zhi’s neck.

Zheng Shouhe then saw Wen Xiangyu curled up in bed, trembling in fear. She had clearly also been woken up by Lu Zhi shrieking.

“You get up too! What an unlucky day it is today!” Zheng Shouhe cursed out loud. He found some ropes and tied Lu Zhi up, planning to kill both Lu Zhi and Wen Xiangyu after he finished getting his way with the latter.

Just then, a knocking sound came from downstairs.

“Is anyone there? I'm here to deliver the food.”

Zheng Shouhe clicked his tongue. My luck today is really terrible! After binding Lu Zhi up, he coerced Wen Xiangyu to go downstairs with him.

Drawing his knife to threaten Wen Xiangyu, Zheng Shouhe growled in a low voice, “Tell the person outside to leave!”

Everyone in Yanjiang Commandery knew that the pretty widow lived alone. If he asked the person outside to leave, the other party would hear a male voice and get suspicious.

“Just leave it outside the door. I'll go out to get it in a bit,” Wen Xiangyu said in a soft voice.

“That won't do, you haven't paid yet,” the person at the door replied.

Zheng Shouhe’s face became warped in malice. Since you're courting death, you can't blame anyone!