Great, I'm surrounded by villains.

September asked cautiously. Cooking was not unfamiliar to her, but she had never been so nervous as today, because this was a breakfast with impure motives. She had poisoned the egg and vegetable toast.

First, place a slice of toast on the chopping board, then draw a diamond shape on the surface of the toast, place it in the pot, beat the eggs into the diamond-shaped groove, add the chopped cherry tomatoes and green pepper rings in turn, mix together, and season with salt and pepper, until the eggs and vegetables are solidified by the temperature in the pot.

But if it stopped there, it would be just like ordinary egg and vegetable toast.

The reason why it is called a secret recipe is that another ingredient is added to it at the end.

The poison called love.

These are the original words in the notebook. In the recipe summary, my father said that this was how he entered my mother’s heart.

So what about Mr. Mingyuan?

Jiu Yue stared at the person across the table. She was suddenly very curious about what this man’s inner world was like.

Mr. Ming Yuan ate very quickly, as if years of work had made him habitually shorten his breakfast time. In the blink of an eye, the toast on the plate was finished. The person opposite the table picked up a tissue and wiped the corners of his mouth.

"Very good, the best breakfast I've had in months."

Duan Mingyuan spoke highly of it.

He thought of the bakery he often visited near his company. The two bakeries were actually equally delicious, but for some reason, there seemed to be something else in today's toast, which was difficult for his taste buds to taste, but made him relax inexplicably, and it complemented the morning light, as if the whole day ahead was full of hope.

September also felt this invisible power, and when she heard the word "best", a strange emotion surged in her heart.

This indescribable joy was much stronger than eating two chickens in one meal.

What was she talking about?

Mr. Mingyuan must like her!

Even without getting into Mr. Mingyuan's heart, she knew what he was thinking at the moment.

As long as I keep her by my side, I can eat the "best" eggs and vegetables on toast every day.

Jiu Yue stared at Duan Mingyuan for a long time, watching him take out the monoculars that Fuling had given them yesterday. After he put them on, a layer of vague gloom suddenly covered his brows.

Is it because he feels depressed because he thinks that they might separate in the future?

There's no need to be sad.

The so-called companion monster is to always accompany the object of the bond...

"September, you are 0."

"Oh, Mr. Mingyuan is annoying!"

Jiu Yue's hair exploded instantly, her face reddening all the way to her neck. "I'm a girl, girls don't say things like that..."

"I asked why your energy is 0, what are you talking about?"

Total number of days on the shelf: 20

(End of this chapter)

Chapter 17 September's results were not ideal

My father didn't lie.

"Egg and Vegetable Toast" is indeed a mysterious recipe. Jiuyue feels that she has successfully entered Mr. Mingyuan's heart. She understands the gloom in his heart. Mr. Mingyuan wearing monoculars is like a majestic class teacher. He finds that Jiuyue, a classmate in the class, only scored in single digits in this exam.

It’s still a 150-point test.

But on the bright side, her disguise skills are so advanced that even the technology of Universal Company cannot detect it.

Unlike the optimistic and cheerful September, Duan Mingyuan was in a heavy mood, with only one thought left in his mind.

September's results were not ideal.

And she seems to be the kind of student in the class who only scores in the single digits on the exams but can still smile at you.

The saying "a fool has his own luck" probably describes a situation like this. September has proved with her actions that as long as she remains optimistic at all times, external pressure and other people's evaluations will not have any impact on her. Even if she fails an exam or even has to repeat a grade, this little fox can face every day happily.

However, as the class teacher, Duan Mingyuan was under tremendous pressure.

"September!"

"To!"

"Look at your eyes, your ears, your tail, how can you get 0 points?"

Energy of 0 is the standard for ordinary people who cannot see evil spirits. He really couldn't imagine that Jiu Yue's grades could be so bad.

Now is the early stage of starting a business and we need manpower, but when you look at September’s clear big eyes, can you safely hand over important things to her?

"Mr. Mingyuan, don't be too stressed. I'll make you some flower tea."

Jiu Yue comforted Duan Mingyuan, as if the person sitting opposite her was the one who failed the exam.

Duan Mingyuan held his forehead and tried his best to suppress the swelling in his head. "What do you think about what we discussed yesterday?"

He had supervised many interns who had just graduated when he was working, but even the most "clear" among them were not as lethal as September. He seriously suspected that the main reason why his business collapsed halfway was because he was angered by September.

Also drink scented tea. Just drink scented tea here based on how many points you got in the exam!

"Uh, oh, about what happened yesterday, I thought a lot about it after I lay down on the bed."

Jiuyue opened the memo on her phone, which contained her thoughts and experiences on the industry:

"1. Establish a team with Mr. Ming Yuan as the core and implement the work guidelines arranged by Mr. Ming Yuan. "

"2. Improve your work ability and ideological awareness, be brave to fight, and not be afraid of hardship or difficulties."

"3. Let's have big plate chicken tomorrow night."

She did think a lot.

Especially wide noodles with big plate chicken are much better than rice, so I have to go to the supermarket this afternoon to buy some flour to make the noodles.

"Mr. Mingyuan, I'm very good at kneading dough."

This is not bragging, she is very experienced in handling any food related to chicken.

Duan Mingyuan finally understood the feelings of the high school teachers. Asking September to stand up and attend class would not save her, so teachers would usually turn a blind eye to such students. As long as they did not whisper to each other and affect others' listening, they would just let them be.

Once again, he thought that working in an electronics factory might be a better decision.

But he was never someone who gave up easily. He took out the notebook he had kept since high school and turned to the page he had annotated overnight. There was a clear division of the titles of evil spirits on it, so correspondingly, their line of work must also have corresponding job ranks.

“The question is, how do we establish a clear job grade system and a corresponding promotion system?”

Unlike those industries that have already established systems, they have to start everything from scratch.

Although he raised the question, Duan Mingyuan no longer had any expectations for Jiu Yue. He was asking the question to himself.

After breakfast it was time to work, and this problem was the work dilemma he needed to solve throughout the morning.

"Why don't you use yourself as a reference, Mr. Mingyuan?"

When Duan Mingyuan no longer had any expectations for Jiu Yue, the latter suddenly put the question of "what to eat in the evening" behind his mind and began to think about this issue seriously.

This job level system actually refers to the path of human cultivation. She had raised this question on the first night she arrived at Mr. Mingyuan's house, but he evaded her at the time, "No one should know how you got here better than you, Mr. Mingyuan, right?"

This is not a problem for evil spirits.

As long as they keep eating and plundering, they will become stronger and stronger.

.. Simply put, they only need to practice the principle of "eat, eat, eat".

With his style, it is absolutely impossible for him to imitate the evil methods, but he will open up another path that belongs to mankind.

This is also Duan Mingyuan's greatest special feature - with a human body, he has obtained power that even evil spirits cannot match. However, judging from yesterday's "course content", this power is closely related to his own abilities.

So the final question is how Mr. Mingyuan survived the process of "eating, eating and eating" before awakening his abilities?

Jiu Yue felt that the answer to this difficult problem might have been in Mr. Mingyuan himself from the very beginning.

Seeing Duan Mingyuan lost in thought, she asked, "Mr. Mingyuan, you said that evil spirits are paper tigers that break at the slightest touch. Was it like this when you first tried to exorcise them?"

Duan Mingyuan remained silent.

"So before that, did anything unusual happen?"

"No."

“Then maybe the answer to the question lies in ordinary daily life.”

Jiu Yue was also racking her brains. She felt that she had vaguely grasped the clue to this matter, but she couldn't express it directly.

After all, in front of Mr. Ming Yuan, she was an innocent little fox with 0 energy, and she only learned about her "ability" when she was looking through her notebook yesterday.

"In fact, I have been curious since yesterday. Why can the same process of feeding on humans and absorbing energy give rise to completely different abilities? Mr. Mingyuan, it seems that you have never encountered an evil spirit with exactly the same abilities, right?"

She looked at Duan Mingyuan carefully, hoping to provide him with some help.

"The cleaner and the drummer."

Duan Mingyuan blurted out.

Thinking about it carefully, when he encountered the evil spirit on his way home late at night, the other party crawled out from the garbage dump, which was exactly the area where the cleaner worked every day.

Hearing this, Jiu Yue finally revealed a relieved smile.

As expected, Mr. Mingyuan!

Resourceful, he can clear up any doubts with just a few casual words.

However, the next moment, she felt a sharp gaze falling on her, and the smile froze on her face.

"What's wrong, Mr. Mingyuan?"

"It seems I have to change my assessment of you."

"……what?"

This little fox is not really stupid, on the contrary, her intuition is surprisingly sharp.

"You're one of those students in class who's obviously very smart but never studies seriously."

Let me report on the current progress. I have already discussed the cooperation intention with an artist last night. It is initially estimated that 4-5 Q-version style mini-theaters will be released in a month. The remaining text-based mini-theaters will be unlocked through the character's heart value as in the previous book. Every time the heart value of the two characters increases by 500, a text-based mini-theater will be unlocked. If nothing goes wrong, we will start drawing the story, storyboards and characters of the first mini-theater tomorrow after discussing it.

Ps: The drawing of the Q-version mini-theater is also an expense. I also hope that readers will not hold back on reading the book during the new book period, but contribute to reading it. If it can be on the new book list and you recommend it, it will also help to make some money back. Thank you very much!

Thanks to book friend 20220807124721234 for the 500 starting coins!

Thanks to Zhishouduzhanbaqiandi for the reward of 1000 Qidian coins!

(End of this chapter)

Chapter 18: Lusan's Law

After a day, Duan Mingyuan finally remembered the sanitation worker's name.

The worker's name is Lu San, a native of Yunlong City. When he was young, he was said to be very loyal to the underworld, and drinking and fighting were the norm. When he was 24 years old, he finally seriously injured someone in a gang fight and was sent to prison for 12 years. After he was released from prison, he was arranged to do some odd jobs in the community. He was imprisoned several times for theft, indecent assault and other reasons. Before working as a sanitation worker in this neighborhood, he had just been released.

This is also the longest job that Lu San has worked in all these years.

His intuition told him that this might be a very important name.

"But why does he look so old?"

Jiu Yue pointed at the man in the photo, "Isn't he only in his 40s?"

The person in the photo looked to be in his sixties, with a pale face and thin body, as if he had been sucked dry by a monster.

"It does not matter."

Duan Mingyuan carefully recalled the scene when he encountered an evil spirit after work late at night. "You were there at the time. The evil spirit crawled out of the garbage dump, right?"

"Ah."

"What was it doing before it crawled out?"

"…Eating garbage?"

To be honest, Jiu Yue didn't want to know what an evil creature was doing hiding in a dirty garbage dump, nor was she interested in Lu San, but she knew the answer to this question from the beginning, and it was a group of wanted criminals who told her.

The real criminal, who was offered a high reward by Universal Company.

"The ability is related to the subconscious of the main body. The information Fuling brought mentioned that Lu San has been complaining about the endless garbage he has to deal with every day."

If this theory is correct, then before he passed through the alley, the evil spirit in the garbage dump was actually helping Lu San deal with the garbage - by swallowing the garbage into his stomach.

Lu San may be a bad guy, but the embodiment of his spiritual energy does contribute to the cleanliness of the neighborhood.