I Alone Am Immortal: My Rebirth and Leisurely Cultivation

Chapter 155 Li Yan is no longer useful

After dinner, Jiang Yingzhu and Mei Mengqian secretly went to the second-year high school classroom to find Hua Junshu and gather information.

Li Yan didn't go; instead, he returned to the classroom alone.

When he arrived at the classroom corridor, he found many people leaning on the railing eating instant noodles, and several boys getting water to make instant noodles.

As a result, the entire corridor smelled very strongly.

"What's going on with you guys?" Li Yan glanced at Yu Qingya and the others. "No pocket money? How are you going to eat instant noodles?!"

Lin Yufan was holding her phone and keeping time when she heard this, she said:
"Let's try a new way to eat instant noodles, it's said to taste ten times better!"

“Yes, yes, and it’s been a long time since I’ve had it.” Guo Cailing nodded, glancing at the timer.

"Okay, one minute is up," she urged, eagerly opening the lid in front of her.

Li Yan was puzzled. "What new way to eat it?"

"First, soak the dough for two minutes, then drain the water, sprinkle with seasonings, stir well, and then soak it a second time for one minute."

As Yu Qingya spoke, she stirred her instant noodles. "This is called the double-soaking method, just like frying chicken a second time."

After saying that, she couldn't wait to take a bite.

Standing to the side, Li Yan felt that this method was like taking off one's pants to fart.

Watching the girls savor the food, he blinked and asked, "How does it taste?"

"So-so." Lin Yufan clicked her tongue. "It's no different from just soaking it directly."

"Yeah, really, what a waste of time," Yu Qingya said.

"That's strange. I feel that Hu Weiwen's explanation makes a lot of sense. Fried chicken tastes better after being fried twice, so why can't instant noodles be fried the same way?" Guo Cailing wondered.

"correct."

Li Yan shook his head speechlessly, "Who came up with this double-brewing method?"

“Hu Weiwen eats instant noodles every night. We asked him if he got tired of it, and that’s how he came up with this method,” Lin Yufan said.

“He just likes to eat instant noodles,” Li Yan said.

"Furthermore, fried chicken needs to be fried twice because it won't be cooked through the first fry. It's a struggle between water and oil, unlike instant noodles."

Guo Cailing, having been fooled once, was smarter this time and immediately questioned, "How did you know?"

"I can cook."

These four simple words are incredibly persuasive.

Guo Cailing and the others were convinced.

After learning the cause of the matter, Li Yan didn't pay much attention to it.

Back in his seat, he was surprised to find that Yu Bing hadn't eaten instant noodles.

"Yu Bing, why didn't you have instant noodles?"

“My mom said eating instant noodles will stunt your growth,” Yu Bing said seriously, then looked behind him and asked in confusion:
"Where are Zhuzhu and Mengmeng?"

"He didn't come back."

"Oh." Yu Bing nodded, glanced at the time, and realized that she wouldn't have the chance to practice Jiang Yingzhu's unique communication skills tonight, so she got up to fetch water.

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Friday morning.

Li Yan said it was all Jiang Yingzhu's fault, because he had to wash her clothes and therefore didn't have time to make breakfast.

The three of them ate ramen outside the school, and Jiang Yingzhu was upset because she didn't get to eat stir-fried pork.

They openly and honestly divided Li Yan's scallion pancakes with Mei Mengqian's, and then threatened her:

I'm not doing your homework for you tomorrow!

"But I'm not handing in my homework anymore, so surely no one else will?" Li Yan said with a playful smile.

The head of teaching at No. 6 Middle School happened to walk into the noodle shop and frowned upon hearing this.

He thought to himself, "I want to see which student is so arrogant that they dare to speak so loudly about not doing their homework!"

Then, I saw Li Yan.

The grade head's stern face immediately softened; it was him.

Daily homework is just for reinforcing knowledge; if the top student in the grade doesn't do it, then of course there's no need for reinforcement.

Moreover, there must be more important learning tasks.

The head of the grade came to the ordering counter and pointed to Li Yan's table.

"How much money do they have?"

"Oh, they've already paid, sir. These days, young people always pay in advance."

The head of the grade looked stern, glanced at the menu, and said, "Give me a bowl of beef noodles, and add a bottle of soy milk for each of those three. Put it on my tab!"

"Okay, that's 24 in total."

The grade head paused for a moment. Usually, they would pay after they finished eating, but this time they paid first.

After finishing the soy milk offered by the school leaders, Li Yan pushed his bike to the bike shed, locked it, and said to Jiang Yingzhu and the other person:

"You guys go to the classroom first, I'm going to the cafeteria to buy something."

"What did you buy? Aren't you full?!" Jiang Yingzhu glared. "I only took half of your scallion pancake, and Mengmeng ate the other half!"

"Buying water. Are you going?"

"Too lazy to walk."

Jiang Yingzhu hooked her arm around Mei Mengqian and turned around. Having just finished eating, she was too lazy to move, let alone walk across a playground.

When Li Yan arrived at the cafeteria, he didn't go to buy water first. Instead, he cast a spell to isolate himself from the kitchen.

In the kitchen, the middle-aged woman who was working as a cashier at the supermarket the day before yesterday has been reduced to doing odd jobs here.

This is the busiest time of the morning, with every window busy, while the older women in the back help cook.

Li Yan watched as she took an oleander, chopped it up, and put it into the pot.

Some of them were mixed in with the already chopped and washed lunch ingredients.

Oleander, that's a poisonous plant.

Even for viewing, you have to be at a distance!
This woman clearly knew what she was doing, otherwise she wouldn't have been wearing gloves and a mask.

Li Yan's gaze was cold. He recorded a video on his phone, raised his hand, and used his divine sense to create a heavy pressure that knocked her unconscious.

Then he took out his finger and drew a mantra in the air, which he then injected into the body.

Then he left.

Li Yan was simply using his divine sense to scan his surroundings as usual, but he didn't expect to discover this.

He originally wanted to call the police directly, but the head of the teaching department ordered a soy milk instead.

Let's leave it to the head of the teaching department to handle for now.

He also bears responsibility for the safety of the students.

Li Yan walked out of the cafeteria and sent the video to the dean of students. That afternoon, the cafeteria closed and was sealed off; a new tender notice was posted.

These changes would likely go unnoticed by boarding students unless they were actively paying attention.

Friday being a holiday is what everyone cares about most.

After the spring cleaning was finished, during class meeting, many students were rushing to finish their homework.

Now that I've finished writing, I can enjoy my vacation.

Zhou Haiyang didn't do his homework. He felt that since he finally had a holiday, he wanted to ask his girlfriend out to play.

So they went to the other side, to where Liang Xueyi was.

"Xuexue, are you free on Saturday? I'd like to invite you to the movies."

Liang Xueyi was doing her homework when she heard this and looked up.

"Haiyang, I hired a tutor on Saturday, sorry."

"Oh? What about Sunday? Sunday is fine too!"

“Sunday,” Liang Xueyi thought for a moment, then nodded, knowing she was going shopping with her girlfriends in the morning.

"Sunday morning and afternoon are fine, but let's skip the movies, they're too expensive. Let's go to the library instead, there are some English questions I don't know how to answer."

Zhou Haiyang was overjoyed; not only had he successfully completed the date, but he hadn't even spent a penny. He quickly agreed:
"Good good!"

Liang Xueyi smiled and nodded. "Haiyang, you can go back now. Yang Xiong is back."

"okay."

Zhou Haiyang left, and Yang Xiong entered the classroom and took his seat.

As soon as he sat down, he said to Liang Xueyi next to him:

"I've already arranged with my brother to come to your house on Saturday to tutor you."

Just now, Yang Xiong refused to go on a carefree holiday with his good brother and instead helped his poor and weak classmate.

He felt that Liang Xueyi was very considerate and spoke nicely. Although she was someone else's girlfriend, it didn't matter; they could be best friends.

"Let's go to the library instead. I'm afraid my dad will misunderstand. He's very fierce and often hits people," Liang Xueyi said.

"Really? Your dad won't hit you, will he?" Yang Xiong asked with concern.

"That's not there."

Mei Mengqian watched Liang Xueyi's good show next door for a while, then got bored and turned to ask Li Yan.

"Li Yan, what are we going to do tomorrow?"

"I have something to do this morning, but you guys won't be able to get up anyway."

Li Yan thought for a moment, "Let's ask Zhu Zhu first, she should have some ideas."

Mei Mengqian nodded; she didn't have any particular thoughts on it anyway.

From childhood to adulthood, she has always been the one being arranged for.

But when it really matters, she has her own opinions.

However, she doesn't usually think things through or make decisions about these small matters.

But tonight, she knew what to do.

As is customary, the three sisters had a barbecue, but this time there were even more people, including Yu Qingya and Yu Bing.

Li Yan felt that he stood out because everyone around him was a girl.

However, he doesn't mind.

On the contrary, Mei Mengqian felt a little strange watching Jiang Yingzhu and Yu Qingya laughing and joking.

It feels like I haven't been here long, but everything has changed since I graduated from junior high school.

As she made more and more friends, Mei Mengqian came to understand the meaning of Jiang Yingzhu's words about how it's good to have more people around.

But now that she thinks about it, even she doesn't know when the change started.

What are you thinking about?

Li Yan placed a skewer of grilled sweet potato skins on her plate from the barbecue grill.

The Three Sisters BBQ has launched these self-service mini grills, which are very popular with students.

"I wasn't thinking about anything." Mei Mengqian smiled, picked up the sweet potato peel, and ate it slowly.

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Li Yan got up very early on Saturday.

He went to the warehouse by the river, collected all the medicine, and then sent it to Jiangcheng.

It was later learned that the company's medicinal herb base had been completed.

Li Yan remembered the school cafeteria bidding process, so he asked Hua Ningxia to compete for it.

We'll also set up our R&D base in Huangcheng.

Li Yan has two more formulas in hand, but he is temporarily lacking some experiments.

He felt it would be better to locate the research and development base and the production of the medicine near him.

His divine sense was able to take care of it.

Ten o'clock in the morning.

Jiang Yingzhu and Mei Mengqian played ranked matches last night and went to bed very late.

Jiang Yingzhu opened the window and called out to the neighbor several times, but no one answered.

"He's out fooling around again!"

So she went out to wash up, and as soon as she opened the door, she smelled a wonderful aroma coming from the kitchen.

"?"

Jiang Yingzhu peeked out and saw that Mei Mengqian was actually cooking noodles, and they looked quite good.

"Mengmeng." Jiang Yingzhu opened her mouth.

"Zhuzhu, you're awake. Let's eat first."

Jiang Yingzhu wondered if she was dreaming, closed the door, and then opened it again.

Two bowls of vegetable and egg noodles were placed on the cutting board.

The poached eggs are golden, the greens are glossy, and the noodles are neatly arranged.

"Mengmeng, how did you learn to cook?!"

"I learned it secretly from Li Yan."

"Wow, you little rascal!" Jiang Yingzhu took a bite of the fried egg; it was delicious.

"Li Yan is useless now, let's live our own lives."

(End of this chapter)