HIDDEN EVIL [XIAO SHUXIANG THE SERIES]

HIDDEN EVIL [XIAO SHUXIANG THE SERIES]
20 - Xiao Shuxiang (3)

Xiao Shuxiang regained consciousness after the eleventh day, his condition was still weak and upon waking-Ling Chu Zhen was the first person he saw. In the room there was also the Mad Beggar Boy, Ling Lang Tian and Wang Rui Chan.


"Dad.." Xiao Shuxiang's voice softly, his gaze was still somewhat blurry and his body was completely limp at this moment.


"Xiao 'Er... How are you doing, son? Are you feeling better?" Ling Chu Zhen touched Xiao Shuxiang's hand slowly. He sat near his daughter-in-law with the look in his eyes that contained anxiety.


Xiao Shuxiang tried to get up, but Wang Rui Chan warned him. "If your condition is still weak, you should stay lying down. You don't have to move much."


"Mrs..." Xiao Shuxiang muttered, he breathed slowly and turned his head for a moment towards the white haired woman who was none other than the mother of her White Cat.


The Mad Beggar Boy standing beside Ling Chu Zhen was seen hugging his bamboo staff, his voice soft. "Shuxiangsu... Is your body still hurting? You need anything?"


"I'm..." Xiao Shuxiang was about to reply when the voice from within his stomach took over to leave the Mad Beggar Boy, Ling Lang Tian, Ling Chu Zhen and Wang Rui Chan stunned.


Xiao Shuxiang's eyes closed for a moment before he re-opened his eyes and smiled faintly. "You've heard it, right..? My tummy... I'm hungry."


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The Mad Beggar Boy blinked, he smiled bitterly. "You are different. I just woke up, and asked for food. You can always impress me,"


"Crazy Beggar, I don't need your praise. I need to eat, quickly feed me..!" Xiao Shuxiang rolled and kicked his legs.


If the young man had started to actively move like this, then the sign was that he was already in good shape. For those people who already knew what Xiao Shuxiang was doing----they would no longer find it embarrassing.


"I'll bring you some food," Wang Rui Chan stepped away. His facial expression was calm and while in front of the door of the room-he exhaled and shook his head.


Ling Lang Tian watched his sister-in-law who seemed to be holding onto the stomach while rolling right and left. His room was now back noisy after Xiao Shuxiang woke up.


"Xiao 'Er... Calm yourself. You don't move too much" Ling Chu Zhen patted the long-haired young man's arm softly and tried to calm him down.


"But I'm hungry,"


Crazy Beggar Boy, "We know you're hungry. But you don't have to get this big. You're like a child..! Think about how old you are now..! You're a bitch,"


"Ah, right." Xiao Shuxiang had just remembered, but not about the Mad Beggar Boy's words. It's another thing, "How long have I been unconscious?"


Ling Lang Tian replied, "About eleven days. Thank ye. You're so troublesome."


The innuendo of the white-haired handsome man had no effect whatsoever on Xiao Shuxiang. Precisely the Alchemist Chef was more shocked to find out he had been unconscious for so long. His body is completely limp.


Xiao Shuxiang stared at the ceiling of the room and began to extend his right hand. He faintly saw a chain made of thin wind encircling his wrist.


"The Seal of the Soul Restraint Chain is even active again and is this strong..." Xiao Shuxiang's forehead twitched slightly. He could feel the flow of Qi within his body being suppressed to an extreme degree.


"Although I was the one who originally agreed with this sealing, but knowing my practice was now suppressed to being at the fifth level of Forging Qi felt extremely stifling." Xiao Shuxiang breathed slowly and began to wake up.


"Be careful," Ling Chu Zhen helped Xiao Shuxiang. He was so considerate of the Alchemist Chef as well as his daughter-in-law.


"How are you feeling now, Xiao'Er? Is your body still hurting?"


"Dad, I'm just limp. But what about your condition? The last time I remember... Dad spewed blood."


Xiao Shuxiang let out a slow breath, he nodded. "Thank God if so. How are the other elders doing? I feel like I hurt them,"


"It's not your fault. You don't worry, it's better to rest and just focus on restoring your body."


"Mn, okay..."


Xiao Shuxiang's voice was so delicate. He behaved as calmly as ever even though the look in his eyes seemed to contain indescribable worry.


Ling Lang Tian and the Mad Beggar Boy were actually waiting for the protest from Xiao Shuxiang, but it seemed like the Alchemist Chef was in a condition that was unwilling to fuss over anything. It felt as if Xiao Shuxiang accepted his current state.


Wang Rui Chan came over a while later. The white-haired woman was carrying six maids who each held an apparently filled dish.


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The eyes of the Mad Beggar Boy sparkled when he saw that one of the dishes presented was sweet mandarin fish. Anyone knows it is the best cuisine that even the aroma alone has stimulated the production of saliva.


Not only was the sweet mandarin fish served to Xiao Shuxiang. But also boiled crab meatballs, steamed b*bi in bamboo leaves, meat tripe b*bi with chili sauce, chicken kung pao, etc, shrimp dumplings and up to three delicious soups are served just to fill one person's stomach.


"Oh my goodness..." The Crazy Beggar Boy rubbed his lips, it felt like his saliva was about to fall. He really did not expect that Wang Rui Chan would be this good.


Xiao Shuxiang was very fond of dishes that looked crowded, let alone filled with red. It was just that for dishes made of meat-he always asked the type and ingredients to the servants.


Meat-based b*bi dishes were immediately set aside, including soups containing oils from the animal's fats. Xiao Shuxiang was indeed like this, he set his own abstinence. Never eat a meat-based dish b*bi.


Ling Chu Zhen, Ling Lang Tian and Wang Rui Chan noticed how greedy Xiao Shuxiang was eating. The Mad Beggar Boy repeatedly gulped while rubbing his bamboo stick. He closed his eyes long enough. It felt like this kind of torment he could not endure anymore.


Xiao Shuxiang stopped eating him for a moment, he exhaled. "Lt's amazing... I never thought I could live for more than a week without eating. Tsk, tsk, tsk... Too amazing."


Ling Lang Tian let out a short snort when he heard it. His tone sounded cynical, "It's just a strange thing if you can eat that much. People like you should be able to hold back."


Crazy Beggar Boy, "Aah! Thas right. I just remembered..! Cultivators instead of practicing 'inedia'? You don't need to eat, do you?"


"Huh, come on, man..." Xiao Shuxiang shook his head slowly, "... Cultivators were only humans who were slightly more special than humans in general. They are sentient beings, not gods. You're too glorifying us."


Crazy Beggar Boy, "But I never saw my Zhen-Zhen eat. Tian-Tian is the same, including my Lan'Er Gege. You're the only one who's different, why is that?"


Xiao Shuxiang nearly choked with the call of the Mad Beggar Boy to Ling Chu Zhen and Ling Lang Tian. The man with the bamboo stick really had the guts to ruin the name of others.


Ling Chu Zhen turned his head towards the Mad Beggar Boy and explained that practicing 'inedia' was not as easy as it seemed. It also depends on the age, talent and ability of each person. 


Generally cultivators who studied 'inedia' were at least 14 years old or were already capable in spiritual energy change techniques. Usually this 'inedia' training is done gradually.


Some cultivators there were able to not eat for three days, a week and at most probably around ten days. This 'media' training is so that they can survive extreme conditions or dangerous situations and it is not possible to consume any food.


Studying cultivation does not mean that they will be cut off from worldly needs such as eating. And while it is true that it is possible, only those in a certain level can do it. Even for a Grand Elder like Ling Chu Zhen himself could only resist not eating for 15 days.


The same applies to the definition that a cultivator is an immortal being. Though the reality was that the cultivation training they underwent did not make cultivators capable of avoiding destiny like 'death'.


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