Chapter 16
Chapter 16: A Tree Spirit Gets a Nickname, Big Glutton Gets Blocked and Wants to Fight
“Wow, he goes straight to violence the moment something sets him off, so intense.” Jiang Tea Tea sighed, lifted her hand, and pointed behind Huang Da Zhuang, signaling for him to turn around and look: “Are you talking about him?”
They did not see the little red and black baby dragon, but they did see a young beastman boy. He had two small red and black fleshy horns on his forehead, his hair tied in a high ponytail, and he wore the blue and black training suit of a First Year in the Combat Department. His whole body gave off a strong aura of stay away from me, if you come close, I will kill you.
Huang Da Zhuang’s body went stiff, his heart skipped a beat, and his legs started to shake on their own. His voice trembled: “Sister Tea, you’re my real sister, right? You’re just trying to scare me, right? I’m just a weak beastman who hasn’t awakened any supernatural abilities yet. If Sui Xuan Chu, the top student, finds out I was badmouthing him behind his back, he’ll punch me into the ground so deep no one can dig me out.”
Looking at how cowardly he was acting, Jiang Tea Tea reached out and pushed him so he turned around to face Sui Xuan Chu, then said: “Big Dog Huang, what are you afraid of? We were praising him, not saying anything bad. Why would he bother to yank you out?”
Huang Da Zhuang was still scared and did not dare look directly at Sui Xuan Chu, who stood not far away at the entrance of the school cafeteria with his hands in his pockets, his eyes slanted their way.
Mom, Dad, Sui Xuan Chu’s aura as the top student was so strong that even from this distance, Huang Da Zhuang felt like Sui Xuan Chu could appear in front of him the next second and twist his head off.
Sui Xuan Chu withdrew his gaze from Huang Da Zhuang, swept his eyes once over Jiang Tea Tea and Chong Xing Qi, then lifted his foot and walked into the school cafeteria with a cool air.
Jiang Tea Tea raised her eyebrows and reminded Huang Da Zhuang, who looked like he wished he could dig a hole and crawl into it: “Alright, stop being scared. Sui Xuan Chu already went into the cafeteria. Let’s go eat too.”
Huang Da Zhuang’s eyes lit up: “Really? Hey, hey, hey, Sister Tea, wait for me, wait for me.”
Jiang Tea Tea walked very fast. While she was at it, she casually grabbed Lu Ling’er, who had been talking with Chong Xing Qi, and pulled her along into the school cafeteria, then paid for her.
The largest and most luxurious school cafeteria of the Royal Military Imperial Academy really lived up to its name. It was simple and clean, with countless robots tidying up trays and dishes and cleaning the floors, making sure the entire cafeteria stayed spotless with no food scraps left anywhere.
All kinds of food were laid out in the self service area. Students chose what they wanted themselves. Different foods had different prices, all charged by weight, from 2 star credits up to 20,000 star credits per jin.
Jiang Tea Tea swept her gaze over the various meat dishes and fired off three questions at Lu Ling’er: “Little Deer, you’re treating, you’re paying, do you have enough money?”
Lu Ling’er put her hands on her hips: “Jiang Tea Tea, I already admitted I was prejudiced against you before, and I admitted it was wrong to bully you. I promised to treat you to a meal and pay for it. Do you really have to look down on me like that?”
“Misunderstanding, misunderstanding, I’m not looking down on you.” Jiang Tea Tea quickly said: “I mean, I can eat just a tiny bit. If you don’t have enough money, I can eat a tiny bit less.”
Lu Ling’er snorted and looked her up and down from head to toe: “With your body that hasn’t even hit a hundred jin yet, how much can you even eat? Eat. Eat whatever you want. I’ll cover it.”
Jiang Tea Tea’s eyes lit up: “Really?”
Lu Ling’er nodded hard: “Who do you think you’re underestimating?”
Jiang Tea Tea said: “Then I won’t be polite.”
In her heart, Lu Ling’er thought: [Even if she doesn’t act polite, how much can she really eat? One jin of meat, two jin of vegetables, a bowl of rice, some soup, that would already stuff her to death.]
What she never expected was that Jiang Tea Tea did not go scoop some portions onto her tray. She went and picked up whole basins. Roasted lamb legs, roasted lamb ribs, stewed beef, stewed pork, braised chicken drumsticks, marinated raw shrimp, grilled fish pieces, and so on, at least a dozen big basins.
The ten person table in the cafeteria was almost too small to hold everything. Everyone who came to eat stopped scooping their food and stared over at her.
Lu Ling’er and Huang Da Zhuang were even more dumbfounded. They only remembered to pay and completely forgot to get themselves any food.
Once they sat down across from Jiang Tea Tea, Jiang Tea Tea looked at them and asked: “You’re holding empty plates. Are you going to gnaw on the plates?”
Lu Ling’er and Huang Da Zhuang snapped out of it as if waking from a dream. They stared at the table full of meat dishes with not a single green vegetable in sight and asked Jiang Tea Tea: “Sister Tea, are you sure you can really finish all of this?”
Jiang Tea Tea answered casually: “If the table were bigger, I would have taken two more dishes. I also saw venison and bear paw just now.”
This little bit of meat was nothing. She was a Green Tea Tree Spirit. Green tea trees loved organic fertilizer the most. And what was organic fertilizer? Meat. All kinds of meat, all kinds of rich, greasy food.
Lu Ling’er and Huang Da Zhuang were so scared they swallowed hard: “Venison and bear paw are the restaurant’s specialty dishes. If you really want to eat them, we can go get a little for you.”
Jiang Tea Tea did not stand on ceremony with them: “That sounds great. Bring all of it over. Thanks.”
Lu Ling’er and Huang Da Zhuang: “……”
This was not a tiny bit of an appetite.
This was an itsy bitsy bit the size of a whole world.
They were just being polite. She actually took it seriously?
Jiang Tea Tea rolled up her sleeves, skipped the chopsticks, grabbed a roasted lamb rib with her hands, and started tearing into it.
There were more than twenty lamb ribs piled in that big basin. In the blink of an eye, she finished all of them, tossed the bones back into the basin, and gave her review: “The roast is a bit too tough and a bit too salty. It would be better if it were a little more tender and a little lighter.”
Huang Da Zhuang and Lu Ling’er: “……”
They just wanted her to hurry up and eat and stop talking. The head chef of the school cafeteria had already been alarmed and come out. If this went on, her head might end up getting smacked by a big soup ladle, and then she would really cry.
Jiang Tea Tea had no idea the head chef had been drawn out and had no time to notice that the seats around her were now full of students who had come to eat.
Those students did not get food or rice. They just stared at her, eyes wide, watching her elegantly and quickly devour meat.
Someone even took a picture of all the meat dishes in front of her and posted it on the school forum with a poll: option one, she can finish all of it; option two, she can’t finish it.
The second thing Jiang Tea Tea ate was roasted lamb legs. She wolfed down more than thirty small roasted lamb legs. The third dish was braised pork, the fourth was stewed beef, and the fifth was braised chicken drumsticks.
She ate fast and fiercely. The venison and bear paw were not brought by Lu Ling’er and Huang Da Zhuang, but by the head chef of the school cafeteria.
Every time she finished a dish, she would give a comment. The head chef would ask her where he needed to improve and how he should change it, and she answered every question one by one.
The head chef felt that he had finally met a kindred spirit, someone who understood him. He paid out of his own pocket to bring her venison and bear paw so she could eat, and watched her devour them with satisfaction.
Jiang Tea Tea ate for an hour and a half. Not only was the table completely cleared, but her stomach did not bulge at all. It was flat, as if she had not eaten anything. She did not even burp once.
Huang Da Zhuang had said that once she presented flowers tomorrow to the Commander in Chief of the Three Armies, the Prince Regent, His Highness Chong Ming, she would become popular throughout the whole Royal Military Imperial Academy. He had said it too early.
Just this one meal made her famous. Now everyone at the Royal Military Imperial Academy knew that the Imperial Academy had produced a glutton.
The glutton was a pure human with no supernatural abilities. When she ate, she simply relied on hard chewing. Because of that, on the way back to the classroom, Jiang Tea Tea attracted a lot of attention.
During the afternoon classes, Lin Feng Feng and her group kept secretly glancing at Jiang Tea Tea. They did not dare provoke her or look for trouble, afraid she would get too hungry and eat them.
Jiang Tea Tea spent the afternoon studying steadily, positive and hardworking.
After school, she left the classroom and walked to the dorm entrance. There she saw the fake young miss’s adoptive older brother and the true young lady’s biological older brother, Jiang Yi Cheng, waiting for her in front of the dorm building in his Third Year Water Element Ability uniform.
She ignored him, did not even pause her steps, and moved to walk past him back into the dorm.
Jiang Yi Cheng reached out to block her: “Younger sister, I have something to say to you.”
Jiang Tea Tea stopped, slanted her eyes toward him, full of contempt: “Who is your younger sister? Jiang Yi Cheng, you’ve got the wrong person.”
Jiang Yi Cheng looked like her words had hurt him deeply. Pain flashed across his face: “Younger sister, even though you are not my real younger sister, Dad and Mom raised you for eighteen years. We have loved you for eighteen years.”
“This time Dad and Mom were wrong. They should not have sent you to that man with the surname Zhou. I will apologize on their behalf and ask you to forgive them. Tomorrow, when we welcome His Highness Chong Ming, I want to ask you to plead with His Highness and ask him to let them go and not punish them.”