Chapter 157: Pitiful Ling Xi
Space-time Avenue: Normal, after all, it’s Grandpa’s decades of knife skills.
My knife skills are the best: Tsk, in front of Grandpa, my knife skills rank second!
Jing Jing De Jing Jing: You upstairs, start a live stream and let me see, I don’t believe it!
Wang Wang: Our Empire’s number one chef’s knife skills are also very impressive!
Wang Diao Guo Qu: Get lost, go watch your Empire’s live stream!
Yesterday Like a Dream: I can prove that everything Grandpa said is true. I’m a new student studying to be a chef. I’ve been cutting radishes for half a year now, and I vomit at the sight of radishes!
I’m the happiest: Don’t vomit upstairs, this is just the beginning. Next, you’ll have to carve flowers on radishes. It won’t be as simple as vomiting then—you’ll bleed too, hahahaha…
Qing Tian Da Meng: Oh my god, luckily I didn’t choose to study to be a chef back then.
……
Ling Xi listened to Grandpa’s scolding, unable to retort. “But, Grandpa… I’m in the planting department…”
In the live stream room, everyone burst out laughing upon hearing Ling Xi’s words.
Grandpa Ling glared with tiger-like eyes. “You still say that! If I hadn’t believed you back then when you said that after graduating, our family wouldn’t have to beg Grandmother Lin to buy ingredients, I wouldn’t have agreed to let you study planting. And the result?!!!”
Ling Xi shrank his head and quickly picked up a potato to start peeling.
However, Grandpa Ling didn’t let him off. “The result? That tail grass you bought right after enrolling cost so many star coins. Half a semester later, I haven’t even seen a single vegetable sprout!
And you keep spending money on medicine, seeds, buying…”
Thinking of this, Grandpa Ling wanted to beat this useless grandson.
Ling Xi hurriedly held up the peeled potato, showing it to Grandpa ingratiatingly. “Grandpa, how did I do peeling this?”
Everyone in the live stream room saw Ling Xi’s peeled potato and couldn’t help but feel sympathy for him.
Qing Tian Da Meng: Absolute good man, I suggest you run now!
Jing Jing De Jing Jing: Hahahaha, I’ve never seen such a mangled potato!
My knife skills are the best: Tsk tsk, kid, you’re fanning the flames for your grandpa…
Wang Wang: Run quick, Grandpa is undoing his belt!
Wang Diao Guo Qu: Oh my, this kid is in for a good beating today!
………
As everyone in the live stream room thought, Grandpa Ling looked at the grandson’s peeled potato, which was originally the size of a bowl mouth but now fist-sized, not to mention missing chunks here and there, with the potato skin not even fully peeled off!
Grandpa Ling silently undid his belt, staring heavily at his grandson.
Ling Xi watched Grandpa’s actions, his little heart pounding wildly. “Gr… Grandpa… what… what are you doing? We’re live streaming right now… if you do that… you’ll get banned!!! Grandpa… Grandpa!”
Seeing the belt about to be drawn, Ling Xi decisively bolted and ran.
“You brat, stop right there! If I don’t beat you today, my name won’t be Ling!!!”
“Grandpa, no, I’ll peel the potato properly…”
“Ah! Help! Grandpa is hitting someone!!!”
Ling Xi ran while shouting for help loudly, and his cries successfully attracted many people.
Grandmother Lin and the others watched the daily grandson-beating drama, quickly pulling out small stools to munch on sunflower seeds while watching with great interest.
Grandpa Ling: ……
Ling Xi: ……
Live Stream Room
“Hahahahaha…”
Others: Why’d you stop hitting?
Ling Xi: Wuwuwu…
Shi An’an, Shi Anxin, Sheng Rong, Lin Jinmo, and Shi Lele were sitting on the tallest tree in the forest at this time, happily watching the scene.
Shi Lele looked sympathetically at Ling Xi, who was being dragged into the house by Grandpa Ling by the ear. “Ling Xi is so pitiful.”
Sheng Rong shook his head helplessly. “This is even worse than if he’d chosen the chef department back then. At least he wouldn’t be getting beaten now.”
Lin Jinmo: “If he chose the chef department, he might not graduate.”
“………” The others thought of Ling Xi’s terrible culinary skills, fell silent for a moment, then nodded in unison. “Makes sense.”
Shi An’an looked at the people below with smiles on their faces, but her heart wasn’t at ease.
“Now that Eldest Brother and the others have founded the Independent Army, you can’t go back to class, right?”
There were still half a month until school started, but these people showed no sign of leaving, so Shi An’an guessed as much.
Shi Anxin nodded. “Yeah, if we go back to Capital Star now, we can’t return to school. We might get caught right away.”
“Then what to do?”
“We applied for a leave of absence, not going back to school for now, hehe.” Shi Lele was very happy.
“Ling Xi and I already told Eldest Cousin and the others. Starting tomorrow, we’ll follow them to learn.”
“Jingmo and Sheng Rong are following Uncle Liu.”
Hearing that everyone had made plans, Shi An’an felt relieved.
She just didn’t know how Eldest Brother and the others were doing. They checked Star Net messages every day now, and currently, the Independent Army was growing stronger.
More and more people and legions were joining the Independent Army.
“By the way, Uncle seems to be getting engaged.” Shi Anxin suddenly said.
“Engaged?!” Shi An’an was very surprised.
“I know!” Sheng Rong immediately said. “Your uncle is impressive. Do you know who he’s getting engaged to?”
“Who?” Shi Lele was very curious.
Shi An’an looked at Older Sister beside her, who had a mysterious look on her face as she turned to Sheng Rong and asked, “Who is it?”
Sheng Rong exaggerated his expression. “It’s the daughter of our Federation’s number one leader!”
“Number one leader?” Shi An’an heard this title for the first time. “Does our Federation have a number one leader? What about the Council?”
“The number one leader is the final decision-maker. The Council makes decisions on every matter, but the ultimate authority lies with the leader.”
“Then this leader…” Shi An’an looked at Sheng Rong.
Sheng Rong immediately understood her meaning and could only sigh helplessly. “This leader can be called our Federation’s number one God of War, but the God of War is old, his lifespan is nearing its limit, so he hasn’t had the energy to make decisions in recent years. Thus, all Federation matters are currently decided by Council members…”
“Uncle has now entered the Council.” Shi Anxin suddenly said.
Hearing this, Shi An’an couldn’t help but have many associations. She recalled the gossip about Uncle that Xu Li and the others had mentioned before, and also how not long ago when Uncle went to Capital Star, he had asked her for the colorful rose…
“Then, does Uncle like that girl?” Shi An’an didn’t care about the Council or anything; she just wanted to know if Uncle had given that ten-color rose to the person he liked…
Shi Anxin patted her younger sister’s shoulder and smiled slightly. “Don’t worry, the reason Uncle hasn’t married all these years is because of this girl.”
“Uncle and that girl were classmates at Capital Star First University before. They seemed to have mutual feelings back in school, but because of the girl’s background, Uncle never…”
