A Bite of Douluo Continent

"I..." Meng Yun bit her lip, and finally nodded with great hesitation, "Alright, I'll go back to the academy now."

The stagnant air around them instantly returned to normal. Meng Yun remained silent for a moment, then turned and headed towards the academy.

Only after Meng Yun's figure completely disappeared did De Hongchen slowly emerge from the shadows, a sly smile on his face.

"Luckily, I arrived in time. If this girl had told Young Master Qi everything and scared him away, where would I have gotten such delicious food..."

"Besides, it's not time to leave during the Cold Food Festival yet..."

"Now, because of the Cold Food Festival, the Xu family has secretly adjusted the manpower and deployment in the army... which has given me an opportunity. Hehe, Boss Qi is truly my lucky star."

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"Your Majesty, has the Imperial Tutor visited?"

Having just received the news and the emperor's summons, Zhou Yuan hurried to the council hall. Looking at Xu Haolong, who was sitting on the dragon throne in a daze, he felt a sense of helplessness.

How foolish!

They let Meng Yun go just like that. I heard that the Secret Service not only failed to extract any useful information from her, but also made her aware of many of the Secret Service's plans for Qi Han during the interrogation.

If we just release Meng Yun like this, and the other party tells Qi Han, wouldn't all our previous plans be in vain?

Xu Haolong looked up at Zhou Yuan, who had an anxious expression, and understood the source of his worry. He smiled reassuringly and said, "It's alright. Although the Imperial Tutor has asked the Secret Service to release him, he has personally guaranteed that Meng Yun will not reveal anything about what happened today."

Hearing this, Zhou Yuan finally breathed a slight sigh of relief.

Although the Imperial Tutor had a very strange temper, was unpredictable, and extremely protective of his own, he had one excellent quality: he always kept his word. Once he made such a promise, he would definitely keep it.

As for what measures the Imperial Tutor will take, that's not their concern. After all, the Imperial Tutor is the Dean of the Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy, so he should have a way.

From this perspective, although we didn't discover anything new through Meng Yun, we didn't suffer too much loss this time...

"Sigh." Zhou Yuan sighed and said helplessly, "Since that's the case, it seems we need to think of other ways to test the waters during the Cold Food Festival."

"The Secret Service has been monitoring Hanshi for ten days," Xu Haolong paused. "And so have you ministers. Have you discovered anything during these ten days?"

“No… oh wait, no.” Zhou Yuan shook his head, then his expression turned a little strange. “It seems like there is a little, though I don’t know if it counts as a problem.”

"Qi Han has been running the restaurant for ten days, but he has never purchased any raw materials. Where did his ingredients come from?"

“This is nothing.” Xu Haolong frowned and pondered for a moment, then shook his head. “As long as you have a storage soul tool, storing a large amount of food is not a problem.”

“Then there are no other doubts.” Zhou Yuan smiled wryly. “In the past ten days, this Boss Qi Han has been running the restaurant diligently. If it weren’t for the questionable background of his, I would almost have thought that he really came to Mingdu to open a shop.”

"That's enough." Xu Haolong shook his head. "This can't go on. We'll keep an eye on the Secret Service as before, and let's stop the other probing. There are only a few months left until the Sun Moon Continent is discovered in Douluo Continent. We've already spent too much energy on the Cold Food Festival. We should put that energy into something more important."

“Yes!” Zhou Yuan nodded in agreement.

In fact, he now eats at Hanshi Restaurant every day and has almost forgotten that his original reason for eating there was to monitor the other party. As for that boss Qi Han, according to his previous guess, he should already know the identities of the ministers, but he can still maintain such a friendly smile to welcome everyone to dine there every day, which makes him really unable to figure out the other party's thoughts.

That's fine. As long as we send some people to keep an eye on them and make sure Han Shi doesn't leave the Sun and Moon Continent for the next few months, we can put all other plans on hold.

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"call!"

As Qi Han stepped out of the training space, he looked up and saw the beautiful figure in work clothes standing quietly at the door, and couldn't help but smile.

Great, starting today, I can finally relax a bit.

Walking to the door and opening it a crack, Qi Han smiled and said to Meng Yun, "Come in."

“Hmm…” Meng Yun walked into the Cold Food Festival, still feeling guilty.

Someone wants to harm the boss, but you can't tell the boss...

Qi Han didn't notice Meng Yun's strange expression. He closed the shop door and smiled at the girl.

What would you like to eat for dinner tonight?

The eleventh chapter of this book

The New Year is over! This chapter is a tiny bit important, so please don't skip it, thank you!

Today is a very special day. First of all, it's the Lantern Festival. Happy Lantern Festival to everyone!

And today, the main text of this book has reached 500 chapters. This book is expected to be completed in 1,000 chapters, so now it can be said that half of it has been officially written. Today, the average subscription of "A Bite of Douluo Continent" officially reached 1,000, and I can finally say that I have written a book with a 1,000 average subscription!

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Next, let's talk about the update issue.

This book has always been updated twice a day, at noon and 6 pm sharp, and this will continue in the future, but there will be some changes to the extra chapters.

I apologize to all readers in advance.

I currently owe 14 bonus chapters, and I still owe 4 more bonus chapters from the donation from Boss Pipa. There are also 1 bonus chapter each for the four new helmsmen: Song Ruochen, Mu Xin, Xiao Heidao Duo Ai, and Anye Xun Qing. Finally, there are bonus chapters for the book's 800 average subscriptions, 900 average subscriptions, and 1000 average subscriptions, two chapters each time, for a total of six chapters.

Because I will be busier than before, I need to prepare for my graduation project and some internship work, and I also need to prepare the outline for my next book six months in advance so that I can directly follow up with the new book after this one is finished (don't ask me what the new book is, it will definitely be better than this one). So it will be difficult to add more chapters like we are now. I will finish adding these fourteen chapters within this month. The rules for adding more chapters will be completely canceled, and only the rule of adding two more chapters for every 100 more subscriptions will be retained.

This means that starting today, there will only be an extra chapter for every 100 new average subscriptions. All other extra chapters, including those for donations, will be cancelled. Please do what you can afford.

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In the book club group 820074544, I often see people asking, "I've posted it so many times..."

About the update

I'll make a few minor changes and post it at 12:30.

Chapter 501 A New Mission Full of Malice

Side Quest Eleven: The Temptation of Food (Completed)

Mission Rewards: Soul Power Level +2 (Claimable), 3-Star Selectable Recipe Fragments (Claimable).

Meng Yun has been a waiter at the Cold Food Festival for three days now.

The job of a waiter is not complicated, it's just that it gets quite busy during business hours. After three days of training, Meng Yun has lost the anxiety and helplessness she felt when she first arrived and has become a qualified employee of Hanshi Restaurant.

With the help of waiters to take orders, serve food, and clean, Qi Han became more efficient, which naturally increased the number of customers the shop could accommodate, and Han Shi's business was better than before.

Just as the imperial edict was being posted, many people in Mingdu turned their attention to Mingke Street. Naturally, the completion speed of side quest eleven was very fast. After the noon business hours on the twelfth day of the Cold Food Festival, Qi Han's quest page changed.

Here it comes!

He happily accepted the Soul Power level reward, feeling the Soul Power within his body flowing and growing stronger through his meridians. His Soul Power level jumped from level 55 to level 57, and Qi Han's face immediately lit up with joy.

Before I knew it, I was not far from level 60.

After calming himself down, Qi Han casually accepted the remaining three-star selectable recipe fragment rewards.

He now has exactly eighteen three-star recipe fragments, enough to exchange for two three-star recipes.

But there's no rush.

He hadn't even finished the four-star recipes he was working on yet, and he hadn't even finished learning the "Zilong Disarming" technique. There was still a "Buddha Jumps Over the Wall" dish waiting for him.

Furthermore, there doesn't seem to be an urgent need for a three-star recipe in the short term, so this redemption can be kept.

Who knows, there might be a time in the future when we urgently need a three-star recipe?

The side quests were completed twice as fast as Qi Han had expected, which was naturally something to be happy about. However, Qi Han soon discovered that Ru Yi was secretly sabotaging him with more than one side quest.

With the disappearance of side quest eleven, a brand new quest quickly popped up on the quest page.

Side Quest Twelve: Overwhelmingly Positive Reviews

Please, without any inducement, get five thousand diners from the Sun and Moon Empire to spontaneously recommend Cold Food.

Mission Description: Let the residents of Mingdu accept this recommendation!

Mission Rewards: Soul Power Level +2, 16 Two-Star Selectable Recipe Fragments

Task progress: 302/5000.

If Qi Han had only thought about "living a life of luxury" before, he would probably be wailing by now.

But with the completion of side quest eleven, Qi Han could no longer hold out any longer, and at this moment he was somewhat resigned to his fate, completely giving up in his mindset.

This side quest is also unprecedented; it requires diners to spontaneously recommend cold food.

The term "Amway" means recommendation, and the task requires five thousand diners to recommend Hanshi (a type of cold dish) to the people around them.

This was indeed a new task, but after calmly analyzing it, Qi Han immediately felt the difficulty of the new task and the malice from Ruyi.

First of all, the task requirements clearly state that the task involves the Sun Moon Empire's retainers, which means that Qi Han cannot return to Douluo Continent to continue completing this task. To complete side quest twelve, he must remain in Mingdu.

Secondly, this task has clear limitations: no inducement is allowed. In other words, Qi Han cannot ask or imply that diners will recommend it to him in any way; he can only rely on the diners to do so spontaneously.

Not every diner will have this spontaneous behavior.

It's like finding a good book; many people will continue reading, but only a few will recommend it to others.

Gu Qihan has just completed the task of having 1,000 repeat customers, which means that at this moment, the number of diners who have visited Hanshi more than twice has just reached 1,000. If we were to say which diners are most likely to recommend Hanshi to their friends, it would obviously be the vast majority of these repeat customers.

The fact that there are just over 300 Amway referrals in the mission progress means that Amway referrals only account for about 30% of the returning customers. Moreover, this is because the dishes in Hanshi are delicacies that they have never tasted before. If it were a normal restaurant, the percentage would probably be much lower.

Based on this ratio, to have 5,000 diners spontaneously recommend it, it would be equivalent to having over 16,000 repeat customers for Hanshi...

This is no easy task. After all, it took Qi Han twelve days to get a thousand repeat customers, and now he wants to increase that number tenfold.

Now, his main mission is to operate for 30 days, and only 18 days remain. However, it is almost impossible to increase the number of returning customers by more than ten times in those 18 days.

This also means that his original plan to stay for thirty days and then leave will most likely fall through. He probably won't be able to leave before completing side quest twelve...

We can only hope that we can gather the 5,000 Amway customers as soon as possible.

Thinking of this, Qi Han instantly entered the training space and caught a giggling little girl, giving her a good spanking.

孽 孽!

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