Gentleman's Night Canteen

"It's time for the sixth group to come over recently. I wasn't there when the fifth group came last time. I didn't want to miss it this time, so I came back early, just in time to see my old buddy in the arrangement stronghold. I just told it not to trouble the Ailu cats when they were loading the goods, and I’ll just do it.”

While talking, the other side turned sideways.

It was only then that Lan Meng knew why the other party had been standing outside the store and did not come in. It turned out that the other party was carrying a wooden frame that was usually placed on the back of a herbivorous dragon to transport heavy materials. Unsurprisingly, it should be Lan Meng. The supplies that Meng purchased from the star stronghold.

That's right, even though Lan Meng is the chef's apprentice, except for the part of the resources that the other party friendly supported him when he first opened, all the supplies that Lan Meng bought after that were purchased with money.

It's not that you can't go whoring for free, just like what Lan Meng did in Dao's wife, but Lan Meng still insisted on exchanging materials with spices and the like.

The reason for doing this is not only because he doesn't want to affect his reputation in the star stronghold because of trivial things like supplies, but also because he wants to prove to his teacher that he can rely on the cooking skills taught by the other party to be self-reliant.

The entrance of Lanmeng restaurant is in a forest outside the Xingchen stronghold. The Ailumao expedition team in the stronghold has come to deliver supplies more than once. Naturally, my teacher knows the location, but the other party has never come over.

Although Lan Meng knew that the reason why the other party didn't come was probably because he felt that a man should not be too hypocritical, but to be honest, Lan Meng was still a little disappointed that the other party hadn't come, and part of the reason why he was so surprised to see the other party today was also part of the reason.

And looking at the bright smile of the head of the group, Lan Meng probably guessed that it was the other party who took the initiative to invite the other party.

Looking at Lan Meng's slightly grateful eyes, the other party not only showed his signature hearty smile, but also gave Lan Meng a thumbs up.

However, Lan Meng suddenly remembered that the other party was still carrying supplies at this time, so he hurriedly stepped out of the door and led the other party towards the warehouse on the other side.

"Big group leader, I'll take you to the warehouse first..."

And at the same time that Lan Meng led the other party to the warehouse, the 'chef' who was Lan Meng's teacher stepped into the store with his arms folded, his face as serious as ever, and the only remaining one eye was like a falcon Scanning Lan Meng's restaurant, it seems that he intends to see if there is anything wrong with his disciples.

At the same time, Lan Meng on the other side has brought the head of the group to the warehouse.

Lanmeng's restaurant is a standard two-story building from the outside. The first floor is the restaurant, which can be regarded as the work area, and the second floor is the living area. The warehouse is located on the side of the first floor, which can be directly connected to the kitchen.

At this time, the head of the group in the warehouse reminded Lan Meng to be careful while slowly taking off the shoulder straps of the wooden frame, while Lan Meng was holding the bottom of the wooden frame with both hands carefully, and then Lan Meng felt his hands slammed The ground sank.

But fortunately, the weight of his hands was relieved in just a moment, because the head of the group had already pulled the wooden frame sideways with Lan Meng's brief support after taking off his shoulder straps.

With the help of the other party, Lan Meng put the wooden frame in the corner of the warehouse, and planned to tidy it up later.

However, when he saw the other party's seemingly unchanged expression, he held back a little envy.

After all, the other party came from the Xingchen stronghold to his restaurant with nearly a ton of supplies on his back, his face was not flushed and he was not out of breath, but he felt his hands tingling just after picking it up, and Lan Meng felt a little lost unconsciously.

It's just that I don't wait for Lan Meng to lose for too long—————

"Crack~"

A slap was slammed on his shoulder.

"Why are you disappointed? If you hadn't been recruited by my old buddy to be a chef, I would definitely invite you to join the guild! It takes more than half a year to train to your level. It takes more than talent~"

What the other party said was not just to comfort Lan Meng. After all, as a member of the first phase of the New World Expedition Team and has been fighting in the New World for nearly 60 years, he has seen countless excellent hunters. What is his physical fitness, and how much effort has he put in to get to where he is today.

Just like the learning of cooking requires countless sweats, the same is true for working out the body.

As for Lan Meng, there is nothing she can do about being slapped on her shoulder except for a wry smile. After all, from a certain point of view, her teacher's bad habit of patting his waist was brought about by the man in front of her. Men who are not very good at words prefer to express their emotions with physical actions rather than words, and the behavior of patting the shoulder undoubtedly represents his intimacy.

But Lan Meng, who heard the other party's words, couldn't help showing a helpless smile.

"Although I also like the life of a hunter, let's forget it. After all, even with the help of everyone in the stronghold, except for the few people in the research institute..."

Speaking of this, Lan Meng couldn't help shaking her head, obviously remembering the experience of being knocked down by a group of drunks in a restaurant.

Of course, the group of drunkards didn't end well, and they were hanged upside down outside the restaurant by their teacher for a whole night to sober up.

And the head of the group just patted Lan Meng and didn't say much.

Although he is a hunter, and his old friend stays in the star stronghold as the chef, but whenever he comes back, the first thing he does after reporting the information is to find his old friend and have a good drink with him.

During this period, he also witnessed the growth of Lanmeng with his own eyes.

He knew how tough the smiling young man in front of him was, so he knew that the other party didn't need his comfort.

It's just that at this time, neither Lan Meng nor the other party seems to have forgotten one thing.

There are no real newcomers who are eligible to participate in the expedition to the New World.

Even the civilian staff responsible for the daily operation of the stronghold are selected from thousands of thousands. As for the group of researchers, although they are all weak, they can track various monsters in the wild, and even escape from the pursuit of monsters. Their strength is not weak, after all, they are really too weak to be selected.

It is similar to the fact that although there are scientists among the astronauts going to the space station, they also need to undergo strict training and meet the assessment requirements before they are allowed to go to the sky in order to do experiments in the sky.

It is not an exaggeration to say that Lan Meng's strength is the best in the star stronghold. After all, even if the civil servants are not as physically fit as him, they have more experience in escaping than him. Lan Meng has no combat experience when there are various traps available in the wild. Meng really might not be able to catch up with them, let alone the group of hunters who are front-line combatants, each one is better than an animal.

But maybe because there are too many "abnormal people" around him, Lan Meng seems to have forgotten what kind of existence he is in the eyes of ordinary people.

The head of the group laughed even more happily about this.

"Don't care~ don't care, Lan Meng, you are still young. I haven't seen you for half a month. I think you seem to be stronger, but unlike our group of old guys in their seventies and eighties, what we think about every day is not to let the state decline. .”

Speaking of which, the other party couldn't help but make a helpless expression.

Lan Meng believed the other party's words. After all, as far as he knew, the head of the group was only in his 20s when he joined the expedition team. Now that the sixth group is coming soon, the other party is indeed in his seventies, but the problem is that The legendary 'Blue Star' returned with the members of the fifth group, and the opponent was the strongest hunter in the entire camp. He was at his age and had such fighting power, so he always had the illusion that the opponent was in Versailles.

Fortunately, without waiting for Lan Meng to think too much, the other party patted him on the shoulder.

"Okay~ Don't think about it too much. If you want, I can help you train by staying in the stronghold for a while. Now let's take a look at the 'gift' I brought you~"

The blinking expression of the man with thick and long hair like a lion's mane in front of him was a bit weird, but Lan Meng was indeed full of curiosity about the 'gift' the other party said...

Chapter No.17 Holy Sword Maker, Cat Hunter and Dragon

Lan Meng, who was going to tidy up later, couldn't help but be aroused by the words of the head of the group at this time, he decisively lifted off the outer waterproof cloth,

A special rock-like ingredient appeared in front of Lan Meng.

The first time Lan Meng saw this rock, he didn't even realize what it was, but when he carefully recalled the ingredients from the New World described by his teacher, Lan Meng suddenly widened his eyes.

"Great regiment leader, this shouldn't be..."

Seeing Lan Meng's surprised expression, the other party smiled brightly. After all, what is more gratifying in this world than being recognized by the other party for the gift that I carefully prepared?

"Haha~! It seems that you have recognized Lanmeng, yes, it is the tail of Tushalong!"

While speaking, the other party sighed.

"When you left the stronghold, Lan Meng, I originally wanted to give you some good things, but my old buddy said that you were still a newcomer at the time, and it was a waste to give you good things. After so many years, it is still so strict~"

Lan Meng has a deep understanding of the sigh of the head of the group. After all, only those who get along with each other day and night know how strict his teacher is.

Back then, when Lan Meng's teacher was still in the role of hunting cats, when he teamed up with the stubborn group leader to go out in the field, the other party's always rampant character brought a lot of trouble to Lan Meng's teacher, and at the same time, it was also a mystery to him. To serve as the opponent's 'limiter'.

Later, as the head of the group became more and more mature, and gradually realized that he had nothing to help the other party in the wild, the head chef simply took advantage of a hunting failure to bid farewell to the front line and began to learn cooking from that "cat mother-in-law". Art, in order to be able to eat something good when the other party returns to the stronghold.

But whether it was at the beginning or now, it is always indispensable for the two to preach when they meet.

So the other party can probably guess how difficult Lan Meng was during his art studies.

At this time, the two men, one old and one young, looked at each other and smiled tacitly.

However, afterward, Lan Meng calmed down quickly. Although the customers in the store were not considered customers, more of them should be regarded as guests entertained by him, but it was not good to leave Xiao Lin and Thor behind for such a long time.

As for Connor?

Connor is easy to deal with, as long as she has something to eat, she will not make any noise.

He took the head of the group, Lan Meng, to open the doors of the kitchen and warehouse, but to his surprise, Thor and Xiao Lin didn't seem to be there?

Lan Meng took the other party back to the restaurant again, and then his expression became extremely subtle.

Maybe it was because Lan Meng didn't hear the wind chimes because he was in the warehouse, but there were new customers in the store at this time.

"Blue dream?!"

Artoria, who was wearing a cloak, was looking at Thor with a serious face, but when Lan Meng and the head of the group came out of the kitchen together, they showed surprise expressions.

In fact, not only Al, but Merlin who was behind the other party also breathed a sigh of relief.

Lanmeng's previous proposal of "apple delivery fee" was finally compromised after some careful consideration.

Although Merlin looks out of shape on weekdays, his concern for Artoria is real.

From Merlin's point of view, maybe the current Al is not a good king. After all, the knowledge he taught the other party before was more basic knowledge. Excellent king.

But he can proudly tell anyone that his disciple is a hardworking king.

Handle government affairs every day until midnight, do morning exercises with the knights of the knights every morning, eat breakfast with everyone in the knights, and lunch and dinner are basically thick soup + black bread, it can be said that in the castle Al either dealt with government affairs in the study, or dealt with nobles in the reception room. Besides, he could only see each other in the bedroom.

Faced with such a hard-working disciple, how could he, as a teacher, have the heart to limit his only hobby?

Even though the pride of being the "Magician of Flowers" made him disdain to go to Avalon to steal apples, he finally succumbed to Lan Meng's words, "You don't want Al to be hungry, don't you?" 'under.

Today, he just returned from Avalon and planned to bring Al to have a full meal, but what he didn't expect was that he encountered an accident just after entering the door.

This accident was not Thor, after all, she and Xiaolin were still in the kitchen at the time, and the first thing Merlin noticed was Connor who was sitting on the sofa eating biscuits.

Merlin's tense expression at that time made Artoria, who was familiar with him, feel a little strange.

After all, in her impression, her teacher was always out of shape, but once his expression became serious, it meant something important.

In the face of his disciple's curiosity, Merlin didn't hide anything, and directly told Artoria that the Connor in front of him was actually a dragon.

Hearing this, Arturia was stunned. After all, even though she has become the king of Camelot now, Arturia still did not give up her ideal of being a knight. After all, she was listening to the The story of the knight defeating the dragon to save the princess' grew up.

The evil dragon in her impression has a ferocious head, big horns on top of its head, and terrifying flames from its mouth. The cute little girl in front of her is completely different from the 'dragon' in her impression.

For some reason, Artoria felt disillusioned, as if she had received a police report from the residents saying that there were wolves, and the police uncle was fully armed and finally saw a husky.

But coincidentally, at this time, with Lan Meng's departure, Thor and Xiaolin returned to the restaurant immediately.

The head chef, Thor, and Artoria, who had been sitting in the corner fishing since they came in, met their eyes.

The head chef noticed the abnormal breath on Thor, and unconsciously touched the handle of the knife behind him;

And Thor unconsciously aimed at the saber around Arturia's waist. Although the aura was not the same as the 'holy sword' that pierced her scales, Thor always felt that something was wrong;

As for Arturia, she noticed the faint hostility in Thor.

Suddenly the three parties fell into a strange confrontation.

But fortunately, Lan Meng finally came back at this time.

Looking at the weird atmosphere in the three parties, Lan Meng didn't guess that Thor's overreaction was caused by the 'calibur' on Altria's waist. He thought it was Thor who noticed his teacher.

After all, unlike Lan Meng's "ordinary people" who just work in the kitchen, Lan Meng's teacher has actually fought various monsters in the wild as a hunting cat, and the monsters he killed are even worse than Lan Meng's. There are even more monsters.

But Lan Meng also knew that Thor didn't like him, and he couldn't stop him at all, so he turned to look at another person.

"Xiao Lin! This is my teacher! He is also a member of the 'Hunter's Guild' I told you about!"

After hearing Lan Meng's words, Kobayashi reacted and began to appease Thor, while Lan Meng comforted his teacher and Al, and the friction suddenly disappeared...

Chapter 18 Finally... a tail?

Arturia was confused about Thor's hostility, but Merlin's eyes flickered. It was obvious that he knew some inside information, such as the blood of the Pendaragon family.

But this matter is related to the plans of the former king of Camelot, "King Uther" and "The Fairy of the Lake". Naturally, he can't explain it easily, and even Artoria herself doesn't know about this matter. Just an ordinary lucky guy.

At the same time, Thor on the other side gradually calmed down under Kobayashi's comfort, but looked at Lan Meng with a subtle expression.

If it was said that Lan Meng only made her feel a little threatened at first, and it was more because of worrying about Xiao Lin, then with the appearance of the head of the group, she really began to be a little vigilant.

Although this man looks harmless to humans and animals, he is like a spider web linking countless people, and even she finds these people a bit tricky, and what makes her even more troublesome is that even now she still can't see Lan Meng's identity. Where exactly is the 'bottom'.

'What an unfathomable man...'

While sighing silently in her heart, Thor silently decided that it would be better not to provoke Lan Meng... Of course, the premise is that the other party does not provoke Xiao Lin, which is also her bottom line.

Blue Dream and Kobayashi acted as lubricants, and the cute Connor showed everyone that "dragons are not necessarily a threat". It was even more eye-catching during the "cooking showdown".

She still hasn't forgotten the competition between Lanmeng and Emiya Shiro more than a week ago. The cooking styles of the two are completely different, but the dishes are equally delicious and the price/performance ratio of free prostitution without paying...

Even if she didn't say a word, Artoria, who was staring at Lan Meng closely, reminded Lan Meng to "choose herself" with her eyes.

Lan Meng naturally noticed Arturia's longing eyes, but he had no time to take her thoughts into account, because at this moment he was still facing another problem—————————————— The number of people in the store seemed to be a bit exceeded?

Not counting Lan Meng and Thor, who are the two sides to learn from each other, there are six people in total: Kobayashi, Connor, Artoria, Merlin, the head chef and the head of the group.

Generally speaking, unless it is a scoring system, the number of judges is odd, so that it is easy to determine the winner.

So that means that one person must be excluded, and the person present is either an acquaintance of Lan Meng or an acquaintance of Thor, and he doesn't know how to choose.

Fortunately, Merlin spoke at this moment.

"Choose the judges? Let Al go~ I don't even know how to evaluate other than saying 'delicious'..."

Merlin had a helpless expression on his face, as if he was reluctantly giving up for Lan Meng's discussion, but in fact he had his own thoughts when he said this.

If Al had told him more than half a month ago that 'Blue Dream's cooking has the ability to influence people's hearts', Merlin would never have believed it.

But a week ago, he witnessed that confrontation with his own eyes, especially when Emiya Shirou, who seemed to have lost his emotions like a dead tree, burst into tears because of Lan Meng's cooking, he realized what Lan Meng was doing. Cooking is definitely not easy.