Abnormal Gourmet Chronicle-Chapter 941 - 462: Somewhat Like an Old Friend (Part 2)

"Qin Huai, do you think everything that just happened was a hallucination because the two of us didn't have enough to eat, got chased out by Master Xia, and starved to death at the gate of Fen Garden? I vaguely remember Zhang... what's-his-name telling me that Old Xia asked us to come back to Fen Garden for dinner tomorrow night." Saying this, Zhao Cheng'an pinched himself, grimaced, and still didn't believe it, wanting to pinch Qin Huai, but Qin Huai slapped his hand away.

"This kind of thing, just pinch yourself." After slapping Zhao Cheng'an's hand away, Qin Huai became a bit more clear-headed, sat up straight, and began to review everything from tonight.

Very strange, not at all logical, not like Xia Mubing's character, but Qin Huai also felt like everything seemed to have traces to follow.

Qin Huai looked at Zhao Cheng'an, continuously watching.

This life's Zhao Cheng'an and the first life's Chen Sheng don't look alike at all, no problems with his mind, and doesn't speak with that kind of disregard for others' feelings that Chen Sheng had, much less the Beiping Thief King.

But to say they are completely different, that's not true either. Zhao Cheng'an actually has a lot of little habits quite similar to Chen Sheng. Although this life's Zhao Cheng'an has completely forgotten his past memories, he is still himself, just the him who has forgotten that he is a spirit and thinks he's a human, essentially still a person.

Considering Xia Mubing's age, Xia Mubing seems like the kind of person who would believe in the supernatural, reincarnation, and rebirth.

Mr. Qin and Granny Qin still firmly believe to this day that Qin Luo and He Cheng were brought by Qin Huai, and that Qin Huai is the Qin Family's Child-Giving Guanyin, and not a miracle worker who cures infertility.

Qin Huai reconsidered, thinking there's a possibility but not a big one. It's because he knows Zhao Cheng'an is Chen Sheng, so he has a preconceived notion that Zhao Cheng'an and Chen Sheng are very similar, but if you put that aside and look at it, it's hard to see the resemblance, especially for someone like Xia Mubing, an ordinary person.

There must be other reasons.

But what exactly are those reasons?

Qin Huai started to brainstorm, while Zhao Cheng'an looked at Qin Huai, who suddenly sank into thought, with a head full of question marks. 𝓯𝙧𝙚𝒆𝙬𝙚𝒃𝙣𝙤𝒗𝓮𝓵.𝙘𝙤𝙢

Brother, don't show that expression, it scares me. Every time you show that expression, I feel like you're going to come up with something big. Didn't we just finish a satisfying feast? Don't overthink it.

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Meanwhile, Fen Garden finally returned to normal business status, and Zhang Guanghang also began to think about what to eat after work. Initially, he was thinking of just ordering some takeout, but for some reason, beef and pork Baked Buns kept lingering in his mind, refusing to leave, making him crave Baked Buns now.

Sticking around with those two kinds of Baked Buns were also Qin Huai and Zhao Cheng'an.

Zhang Guanghang endured for half an hour and finally couldn't help but ask, "Master, those two guests... are they special in any way?"

Xia Mubing had no intention of hiding anything, and said calmly, "Those two are very similar to some people I used to know when I was young."

Zhang Guanghang: ?

Zhang Guanghang wasn't stupid. He thought for a moment, then realized, and asked, "Is it because of the Yam Cake that Master Qin made?"

Xia Mubing let out a long sigh, a sigh filled with nostalgia, with a hint of melancholy, with the feeling of having lost all his loved ones over the years, leaving only himself living in this world for decades, and said softly, "Chen Sheng is the name of my junior brother."

"That name was given to him by me back then."

"Yam Cake was my master's specialty snack. My junior brother and I learned our master's meat cooking and pastry skills, respectively. But my junior brother's not too adept in his learning, so his skills weren't as good as Qin Huai's."

"Today's Yam Cake tasted and looked exactly the same as my master's back in the day. Ling Guangzhao said this recipe is something Qin Huai found from an old book, which turns out my junior brother, when practicing writing with Ping'an, didn't know what to write, so he wrote recipes, and needed to inscribe his name on the Yam Cake, which quite fits his personality, as he... wasn't quite normal."

As Xia Mubing spoke, he started to laugh.

"For Qin Huai to get my junior brother's recipe and learn my master's skills, it counts as fate. The Xiao Zhao next to him... I was just wondering if it's because I'm getting old, I see him eating, and he looks a bit like my junior brother."

Zhang Guanghang said nothing, because he saw the tears in Xia Mubing's eyes.

It's the first time he saw his master like this. His master was always tough, irritable, awkward, very caring, occasionally like a little old man, but most of the time, made people feel uncomfortable, rarely talked about the past, and even when mentioned, he spoke blandly, as if telling stories that didn't belong to him.

This I once had a few old friends, I don't wish to mention them but they always live in my heart status, Zhang Guanghang was witnessing for the first time.

"My junior brother and I during our first year at master's house hadn't yet been accepted as apprentices, we were just apprentices at Taifeng Building. That year, Taifeng Building's business was good, Boss Lu was in a good mood, and every master could bring a table feast back, each apprentice could bring a dish."

"Everyone was overjoyed, except my junior brother was brash, shamelessly asking Boss Lu if he could bring back the remaining steamed buns too. On that New Year's Eve dinner, I didn't dare to eat too much for fear of being disliked, but my junior brother, fearless, ate to his heart's content, reaching a point where he almost collapsed to the ground wanting to sleep, just like those two lads today."

"Especially that Xiao Zhao, the way he hesitated to burp is just like my junior brother."

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