The Masked Strength of the Sect's Trash chapter 48

Chapter 48 Who does Master like?

Shao Cheng was determined to show off his cooking skills to his three disciples.

Despite Lu Shaoqing and Ji Yan's best efforts to dissuade him, nothing worked.

Lu Shaoqing said, "Master, I suddenly remembered someone invited me for a meal."

Ji Yan added, "I have an appointment too."

Seeing his disciples trying to make excuses to escape, Shao Cheng sneered, "Pretending, are you?"

"You two have plans? Do you think I'm an idiot?"

"I’m telling you," Shao Cheng glared fiercely at Lu Shaoqing and Ji Yan, "If anyone dares to leave today, I’ll smack their behind."

Lu Shaoqing looked at Ji Yan and said, "You're the senior disciple, you should persuade Master."

"Don’t you usually criticize Master pretty harshly?"

Ji Yan retorted, "You're the second disciple, you’re cunning, think of a way to stop him."

"Where’s that energy you use to rile Master up until he’s speechless?"

Shao Cheng snorted, "No matter what you say, you won't change my mind."

"Now, go help out."

Lu Shaoqing and Ji Yan exchanged a glance, then suddenly bolted in opposite directions.

However, as soon as they moved, Shao Cheng waved his hand, trapping them both in place.

Shao Cheng was in the early Nascent Soul stage, at the third layer of Nascent Soul cultivation.

Catching them off guard, even Ji Yan, who had just entered the Nascent Soul stage, couldn’t break free.

Shao Cheng sneered, looking unsurprised. "The way you two stick your butts out, I can tell whether you’re going to take a dump or pee."

"Trying to escape? No way!"

He then stared at them with a dangerous look. "Do you want me to spank you in front of your junior sister?"

Lu Shaoqing sighed, "Fine, fine, I’ll suck it up today."

"If Senior Brother eats it, I’ll eat it too, okay?"

Ji Yan, wearing a sullen expression, echoed, "If he eats, I’ll eat."

Lu Shaoqing scoffed, "And you call yourself the senior disciple? Have some backbone, will you?"

"You should say, ‘As the senior disciple, I’ll eat for the sake of my junior brother.'"

Ji Yan replied, "How about you, as the junior brother, eat for me, the senior brother?"

Lu Shaoqing said, "As the junior brother, I don't know how to respect the elderly."

"And I don’t know how to love the younger ones."

Watching her two senior brothers bickering, Xiao Yi couldn’t understand why they were acting as if their Master’s cooking was some deadly poison.

Xiao Yi couldn’t understand, "It’s an honor for us disciples that Master is personally cooking. Why wouldn’t you want to eat?"

"We should be grateful and eat as much as possible."

Hearing this, Shao Cheng felt gratified. His youngest disciple was still the best.

He laughed heartily, "Good, that’s how a disciple should behave."

"You two should be ashamed that you can’t even compare to your junior sister."

Xiao Yi beamed with pride after the praise, feeling very happy.

In this regard, she felt she had done better than her two senior brothers.

Xiao Yi cheerfully said, "Master, you just go ahead and cook. Make a lot, and my senior brothers and I will definitely finish everything."

"Shut up!"

Ji Yan and Lu Shaoqing shouted in unison.

Xiao Yi shrank back, puzzled as to why her senior brothers were so opposed to this.

Shao Cheng led the three of them to the kitchen and started working inside.

The three disciples stayed outside, helping with washing the vegetables and other tasks.

Though "helping" mostly meant Xiao Yi was doing the work.

Ji Yan and Lu Shaoqing, on the other hand, were sighing and groaning.

Especially Lu Shaoqing, who would occasionally let out a long, dramatic sigh.

"Sigh..."

They looked like prisoners about to face execution.

Xiao Yi was extremely curious, her mind filled with questions.

"Senior Brother, Second Brother, who is Uncle An?"

Xiao Yi asked curiously as she washed the vegetables, her eyes shining with gossip.

Lu Shaoqing had found a long bench from somewhere and was lying on it like a corpse.

Ji Yan answered her question, "Uncle An is Elder An Qianyan from Shuangyue Valley."

Xiao Yi immediately understood who it was and exclaimed, "The third elder of Shuangyue Valley?"

"I’ve heard she loves gourmet food and is a great cook herself. But very few people have tasted her cooking."

Ji Yan confirmed, "Exactly. That’s why Master became obsessed with cooking."

"He said he wanted to create some gourmet dishes for Uncle An to try."

Xiao Yi’s eyes sparkled with admiration.

"That’s so romantic."

"Romantic?" Ji Yan shook his head, "I’ll never understand you women."

"What’s romantic about that? To me, it’s just a waste of time."

"With that time, he could be cultivating instead."

Xiao Yi countered, "Senior Brother, you just don’t understand romance."

Then she quickly asked, "So, did Master and Uncle An get together?"

Lu Shaoqing chimed in, "Get together? Not a chance. Uncle An never had any interest in him; Master was just being self-indulgent."

"No interest?" Xiao Yi was a bit disappointed, but then she remembered, "Second Brother, you mentioned Master’s old flame before. Were you talking about Uncle An?"

"Is that Tianji tablet something Uncle An gave to Master?"

Lu Shaoqing replied, "Yes, Master treats it like a treasure."

"And then your Senior Brother lost it."

Ji Yan refused to take the blame, "You stole it from Master, and it got ruined because of you."

Lu Shaoqing retorted, "If you hadn’t gone crazy that night, how would it have gotten ruined?"

"Besides, I gave Master a chance to save it, but he wasn’t strong enough."

"So Master is partially responsible."

Lu Shaoqing completely shirked the blame, refusing to take any responsibility.

Ji Yan argued, "It all started because of you."

"Who told you to pick a fight with me? You couldn’t break through, so you used me as a whetstone? Do you have no shame?"

Seeing that the two were about to argue again, Xiao Yi quickly interrupted.

"Senior Brothers, Master’s cooking should be good, right?"

"Why did you two act like that just now?"

"Is it really that bad?"

Ji Yan answered, "It’s terrible!"

Lu Shaoqing added, "Worse than poison."

"That’s impossible," Xiao Yi wrinkled her nose, refusing to believe it. "How could food be worse than poison?"

"Second Brother, you must be joking, right?"

"I don’t believe it."

To Xiao Yi, no matter how bad someone’s cooking skills were, they couldn’t possibly make something poisonous, right?

It’s not like they were adding actual poison.

"You don’t believe it?"

Xiao Yi responded, "Of course not, how could that be?"

Lu Shaoqing and Ji Yan exchanged a look and said in unison, "You’ll see soon enough. Make sure you eat a lot."