2 The Black merchan (1/2)
-----Zhu Wushang POV-----
It's been 12 years since I've come to this world. Yes, come to this world. It's not wrong to use this to describe me. Because after the first year since birth I have many bits and pieces of strange memories pop up in my head. These memories do not are very different from each other.
One time, I'm an inspector that try to uncover a dark secret of a cult in a world that's completely unfamiliar to me. Other time I'm an elite or high-rank officer that can give a command to fire an apocalypse maker that destroy all life with a searing light when it explodes, and the mushroom-like cloud would follow after the explosion. Sometimes time I'm a great merchant that has an organization of 100 thousand people around the world, my wealth is unimaginable. And many more.
Those memories have nothing to do with each other at all. It's like I'm an observer that saw those people living their lives and got fascinated by it. All the things I've seen in the memories are always from the third person perspective; I saw how they live their lives and consequence of their action, including the outside factor that would affect their lives. But, I'm sure that's I'm not the one who's experiencing it like I living my own lives right now.
All of those memories help me a lot when it comes to judging someone character. I can sense if they can be trust or not. And it helps my mind to grow more mature than the child at the same age as mine.
I don't know what those memories are, but I know one thing. All the people I saw in those memories remnants, none of them had spirit-root. And there is no cultivator in those memories.
So I wonder if I came from that world? But Enough of my dilemma, right now I need to finish preparing this feast. I heard from Fatty that my godmother had come here from the imperial continent to celebrate my birthday so I need to do my best because this would be a grand feast for our family.
”Young master!” A familiar voice sounded. I look at the direction while tasting the soup in the tasting plate in my hand.
”What do you want? Fatty.” I ask a fat boy who's running to me with an exciting smile.
”I heard that young master going to personally prepare the feast!!”
”And you want to to make sure it delicious by pre-tasting it first?” This thing always being his goal when he's coming here while I'm the one who's cooking the food.
”Ahahaha Young master always read my mind just like the great sage that can foresee heaven secrets.” Fatty was chuckling and rub his hand together with pleasure while flattering me.
”Stop flattering me fatty there's no additional portion for you even if you praise me to heaven,” I told him in a matter of fact while fatty just shamelessly chuckling and shrug it off.
This is fatty; His name is Hong Paopao. He's the servant hired by my father and comes here when I was 4. He's my first friend even he's a servant and is four years older than me. At first, he didn't have the nickname fatty; He's even slim to the point of seeing his rib through his skin.
But after he gets the first taste of my food and become my assistant for taste testing my new dish. Like I had pushed the button that shouldn't be pushed in the dangerous tomb, His foodie spirits have been awakened. After that his food standard had significantly raised, He can't' help himself to give a critic to a bad food when he ate one, and it's usually escalated to a brawl when the chef that makes the food he ate can't take the critic.
His body becomes more and more obese until he becomes what he is today and gets a nickname <Fatty>.
I quickly finish preparing the food, this Jade tranquil soup that I cooked from the essence of 10 spirits vegetable and herbs mixed together is the last dish I need to finish while waiting for the honeyed roast spirits lake bird that I prepared. This bird I got from my father when he brings me to hunt a wild game in the outer rim of the Great forest of nowhere, and he hunts it for this special day. Other than this, I still got many spirits herbs and vegetable to use for my cooking.
I start to do the stir-fried spirits rice and control the flame with my hand and use my inner qi to control fire to be more precise to maintain the taste and freshness of the food while stir frying it.
Yes, I can only use inner qi which is the result of my research and comprehension toward the nature of spiritual qi in the hope that I can use spiritual qi even if it's an artificial one. The result made me realize that It's impossible to use it if I didn't have a spiritual root. But from what I understand, I had created a method to use inner qi which is the life force of every living being of this world.
This inner qi is far more inferior than spiritual qi more than heaven compared to earth. First, it can only enhance bodily function and strengthen it. I'm much faster, stronger and have sharper sense than mortal but I can't use the inner qi to create the element like fire water or electric. At most, I can only use the sword qi or finger qi strike from a short distance, no more 10 Meter.
The maximum extent of the inner qi is equal to the peak of Spirits Warrior, which I already achieved. When I reached 14 years, I need to train my body the hard way to increase my strength further. But even I try my best, the maximum power that I can reach will never pass the primary stage of Spirits commander.
The only thing that I regret is that I can't use spiritual qi. Otherwise with this brain of mine, I could be able to many things that would make my family proud.
Enough of my dilemma. With fatty and other servants help. I quickly finish the rest of the task in the kitchen. I divide ⅓ of all the food for servant before I tell them to send the rest to the dining room in the main building.
I scoop up the soup with a ladle and pour it into a small bowl and give it to fatty.