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Chapter 20 - Why Do You Want To Help Us?

Feng Tian gets a dose of reality listening to her impatient and cold tone. Zhang XiXi yesterday was under the influence of the tea that is why she was so sweet to me. "No, I will just wait for breakfast." He doesn't need to eat or drink he thinks but for some reason he wants to eat whatever she makes.

"Does he have any chickens here that lay eggs? With eggs I could make omelets for us."

Feng Tian listens and has a puzzled expression, he doesn't know what a chicken or omelet is. A chicken must be some creature from her world.' No, no chickens, but we have Spotted Ostrich eggs I could go get for you"

 "Are they good?"

Feng Tian has never had one but he wants to see her make this 'omelet' dish, "Quite delicious."

"Bring me six since there are three of us." She starts chopping wild onions and a red round vegetable that looks like a tomato. She crumbles up some herbs and chili pepper she had left from last night's dinner.

Feng Tian rushes outside, where am I going to find a Spotted Ostrich around here. Looking to make sure she hasn't come outside he flies into the air surveying the area.

Off over to the edge of a meadow he sees three of the large birds, it looks like they are having an Ostrich race running with their long necks stretched out, across the wild grass.

He lands by them and uses his internal force and from the pressure the three come screeching to a halt. He looks at them and wonders how to make them lay eggs on command.

"I need six eggs now!"

They blink a few times and remain motionless.

"Hmmm." He pulls out his sword hoping to scare them into laying an egg or two, they blink several more times at him.

I can't go back empty handed I want to see her cook. How do the cooks at the palace gather their eggs? He looks around to where they were rushing to and notices three more Spotted Ostriches sitting under a tree. Maybe they will be more cooperative, he leaves the Ostriches stuck in place and walks over.

These birds appear to be sleeping, he sees something under them and realizes they are sitting on eggs. He only sees two but they are rather large, she asked for six though, he doesn't want to look incompetent.

 Maybe the little girl doesn't realize the size of Ostrich eggs. Six of these would feed all of my brother's seventeen shadow guards. After a two minute conversation with himself he reaches under their butts to grab out the two spotted eggs while trying to not disturb them. He doesn't think they could bite him but he doesn't feel like testing it.

Once he has the two eggs tucked to his sleeve he flashes his palm at the other Spotted Ostriches to free them. They loudly squawk and flap their ridiculously tiny wings as they rush forward looking at him fly away.

Feeling satisfied with the results, he enters from the courtyard carrying the purple spotted eggs.

XiXi looks up to see him enter and her eyes widen in disbelief, "Holy Moly! those eggs are the size of a basketball and what is with the spots? I know I need to get used to foreign food this looks like a genetically engineered egg experiment gone horribly wrong!"

Her stomach growls, well I need to eat, "You have had this before and say it's delicious?"

"Quite delicious. What is a basketball?"

XiXi ignores his question and looks at the two humongous eggs.

She finds the biggest bowl in the cupboard and cracks the heavy eggs into it.

Zhang Yu is in the courtyard looking over the first book he is going to give XiXi to study. The first couple sections are just simple transformation spells she should be able to grasp easily. He must also first explain to her the rules by which his family has lived by for a thousand years.

Although they are members of The Sorcerer Society their family is at the highest echelon and holds themselves to a code and standards the first Ancestor wrote in the Book of Zhang.

XiXi looks out the kitchen door and sees her father in the courtyard reading. She walks out followed by Feng Tian. Zhang Yu sees them approaching and puts book away.

"Zhang Yu" she winks at him. "Do you have any Cheddar or Pepper Jack cheese in that Space of yours? I could use some for the omelets."

"I think I have some cheese, not sure what kind. He reaches in and pulls out the Pepper Jack, here you go"

Feng Tian follows behind XiXi like a puppy.

"Feng Tian can you stop following me! I feel like I have 185cm shadow following behind me!" She trips suddenly and glares at him."See you made me trip on my dress and I almost dropped the cheese."

Feng Tian has a faint smile at her indignant tone and sees the small twigs she tripped on. He bends over to pick them up and tosses them away. She is so funny with her eyebrow scrunched together looking at me with her beautiful green eyes full of tiny flames. I noticed they change to a dark smokey green when she is angry

"I think it was those twigs, Yun Tai should cl...

She interrupts, "Grab those branches of pink and red peonies. I think it would be nice to have some flowers on the table"

Those are YunTai's favorite I don't know if I should, well...maybe he won't notice a few from the back gone.

He walks back into the kitchen with quite a few, pink, red, yellow peonies, he even plucked a couple Treasure Multicolored Peonies from the other side of the garden.

"While I'm finishing up can you go get Zhang Yu to come in to eat." XiXi looks up from swirling the eggs in the bowl and shouts across the kitchen.

 She certainly is quite comfortable ordering this princely me about... but for some reason I don't mind.

Zhang Yu is sitting at a small table, assessing the situation when Feng Tian approaches him.

"Feng Tian, before we go back in to eat, I want to say thank you for humoring XiXi, she is just trying to put on a brave face. I think the gravity of our situation isn't sinking in for her yet,she is always bold and says whatever comes to her mind.

I will need a few days here to teach her some spells and other secrets of sorcery, then I think she will be more confident in undertaking this assignment. I want to tell you the fact you said you will accompany us makes me feel a bit more confident."

Feng Tian recalls his brother will be here in seven days so we can't leave before then, I would never hear the end of it from Feng Che. That's good he plans on teaching her for several days so I can delay leaving .

 I wonder if the Old Master told Yun Tai he could teach her some cultivation. She needs more than a little help, her only skills appears to be cooking and giving out orders. 

Zhang Yu continues, "I may be a third grade Sorcerer but I am an astute businessman and I can size up a man fairly well . Since we came into contact with you I sensed you aren't an ordinary man."

He looks towards the kitchen wondering if Feng Tian likes his daughter. "I will be blunt here and ask you straight out, "Why do you want to accompany us, who are you really?"

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