Chapter 15: Me! I Have the Strongest Household Connection!
After getting dressed, Dugu Han walked out and led Zhang Lexuan and the others into the reception room.
When he went to the kitchen to prepare tea, he also figured out why the door was open when Zhang Lexuan and the others arrived.
It turned out that the cook who had run away earlier was back!
Dugu Han looked at the cook, sleeping in the kitchen, and called him up speechlessly.
"Wake up! The house is on fire!"
"Huh? Fire? Where?"
When the cook heard the word "fire," he opened his eyes, stood up in panic, and looked around.
Until he saw Dugu Han behind him, he stopped, scratched his head awkwardly, and asked,
"Since when did you come back?"
"This morning."
The cook smiled and said, "I couldn't bear to leave you and Elder Xue, so I came back early this morning!"
"You can't bear to leave the gold soul coins!"
"That's part of the reason."
The cook scratched his bald head.
Elder Xue had prescribed him one gold soul coin a day, which adds up to more than 300 gold soul coins a year. His job was to help prepare medicinal food and baths, so he didn't want to leave this work.
These days, he has been rushing back from Dragon City every morning just to check on things. This morning, he returned directly because he felt the extremely cold temperature in the ice house had returned to normal!
Dugu Han smiled helplessly.
"Remember to close the door when you go in and out in the future."
"Okay, okay," the cook nodded with a smile.
Dugu Han shook his head and picked up the tea he had prepared, walking toward the reception room.
He was about to enter when he suddenly stopped in his tracks!
"Luochen, I tell you—if you want to find a man in the future, find someone like Dugu Han. Don't look at him as a small boy now; he hasn't grown up yet. And have you noticed that he..."
"Really? Sister Wu Ming, how do you know?"
"Hey!" Wu Ming waved her hand shamelessly.
"I've been through a lot. I've dated at least 800 people, so I know everything and have seen everything."
Hearing this, Zhang Lexuan and Han Ruoruo exchanged a look of mutual understanding and were utterly speechless.
Golden Crow Saintess!
Golden Crow Leftover Woman!
Who in the entire inner courtyard didn't know about this?
Only Ling Luochen, who hadn't yet entered the inner courtyard, was fooling around cluelessly.
Dugu Han stood at the door, hearing these explicit conversations, feeling embarrassed and unsure whether to go in.
"Going in… it's not appropriate."
"If I don't go in, it might seem like I'm always leaving the guests alone."
He hesitated.
"Ahem!"
Zhang Lexuan saw Dugu Han in a dilemma outside the door and quickly reminded Wu Ming and Ling Luochen.
The two followed her gaze and immediately shut their mouths.
Ling Luochen lowered her head in shame, realizing that their conversation might have been overheard by Dugu Han, the boy.
Dugu Han saw that there was silence inside and took a deep breath.
He finally gathered his courage and walked in with a smile.
As he passed Wu Ming and Ling Luochen, he couldn't help but glance at them again.
This was the first time Dugu Han had heard girls talking about this kind of topic.
It was much more explicit than what boys usually discussed!
They almost didn't hold back on the details!
'I've learned a lot,' Dugu Han thought to himself, smiling as he handed the tea to everyone.
"Come, try my top-grade Moon Flower Tea, made from the cold spring water of Dragon Sect."
"Thank you!" Zhang Lexuan and the others expressed their gratitude, each taking a cup and placing it before themselves.
Wu Ming took a sip and her eyes lit up.
"This tea clears my distracting thoughts."
"Really?" Zhang Lexuan and the other two girls also took a sip, their eyes shining.
Especially Ling Luochen, who was still a little shy because she thought their earlier conversation might have been overheard by Dugu Han, the boy.
Though embarrassed, she could already look up at Dugu Han.
"What kind of tea is this?" Han Ruoruo, who had been silent, couldn't help but ask.
She genuinely liked tea that could clear the mind.
"Moon Flower Tea," Dugu Han explained, smiling.
"It's grown on Moon Flower Mountain in the Sun Moon Empire. It's irrigated with top-grade spiritual spring water and carefully cultivated by special soul masters. It's harvested once every ten years and is a special supply for the royal family of the Sun Moon Empire."
Dugu Han smiled and told the origin of Moon Flower Tea.
Speaking of which, it was a month ago after Moon Flower Tea matured, his cousin Crown Prince Xu Tianran specially ordered someone to send it to him.
"Ah?"
"Specially supplied to the Sun Moon Empire royal family!"
When Han Ruoruo heard this, her thoughts of wanting to ask Dugu Han for the address and buy some for herself faded away.
Tea specially supplied to the Sun Moon Empire royal family!
She, a mere Soul Saint, would never be able to buy it.
"How did you manage to buy such a special tea from the Sun Moon Empire?" Wu Ming asked curiously.
Zhang Lexuan and the others were equally interested.
Especially Han Ruoruo, whose thoughts that had just faded away became active again in an instant.
That's right, if Dugu Han has connections, she can ask him to help buy some!
Dugu Han smiled and explained,
"My uncle is the newly ascended emperor of the Sun Moon Empire, and the crown prince, Xu Tianran, is my cousin. After the moon flowers matured, they sent it to me."
He revealed his relationship with the Sun Moon Empire without hesitation—because there was no need to hide.
The emperor of the most powerful country in the Douluo Continent was his uncle.
The leader of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, his father's best friend, was also connected to him.
And Shrek Academy, the strongest force, had a ten-thousand-year friendship with the Dugu family.
He… Dugu Han is the strongest connected person on the Douluo Continent!
"Your uncle is the emperor of the Sun Moon Empire?"
Zhang Lexuan and the others were all stunned.
Before coming, Yan Shaozhe only told them that Dugu Han was a descendant of Dugu Bo, the honorary dean of Shrek Academy ten thousand years ago.
He hadn't mentioned that Dugu Han was also the nephew of the current emperor.
"Are you surprised?"
"Yeah!" They all nodded enthusiastically, like chicks pecking rice.
Dugu Han chuckled.
"Well, I guess I'm not suitable for revealing my cards to others."
He then asked Zhang Lexuan,
"By the way, why did your academy send you here?"
"It's like this," she explained.
"We were originally responsible for bringing Luochen to the Extreme North to hunt for a soul ring. Before leaving, the dean told me that the academy couldn't take advantage of you, so he asked me to give you this soul ascension pill."
She then took out a jade bottle from her storage soul guidance device and handed it to Dugu Han, continuing,
"And the prepaid fee for the two Mystic Water Pills—the academy has waived that too."
(End of this chapter)