After breakfast, Mai Ge packed the breakfast he wanted to bring Crassus and then pushed his bicycle out the door.
After hesitating for a long time between staying home alone and getting carsick, the Ugly Duckling finally chose to get on the bicycle basket. He didn't know why the little one, a cat, was afraid to stay at home.
As Mai Ge locked the door, he glanced at Mo Bai's blacksmith shop, which remained closed. The eerie silence made him uneasy. After all, this was a neighbor who was eager to make a big splash. Wasn't it said that the dawn of an explosion was quiet? Being so close, Mai Ge was still a little worried.
Because Mai Ge had brought takeout, so he and Amy entered the school together. The magic room on the third floor was still slightly ajar. Mai Ge knocked twice, pushed the door open to let Amy in, and then followed her in.
"Good morning, Little Amy." Crassus held a long-necked crystal vessel containing red, blue, and white potions that remained separate and did not mix with each other. As Crassus shook the vessel, the potions slowly intertwined.
"Wow, Master Crassus, what is this?" Amy asked, looking at the crystal vessel in Crassus's hand with great curiosity.
Mai Ge watched with some curiosity. As a level 10 archmage, the magic potions he concocted must be high grade. Even giving Amy a few high grade magic shields would be good, at least to protect Amy's safety.
"Open your eyes wide, don't miss it!" Crassus smiled mysteriously, then suddenly shook the bottle vigorously. The three-colored magic potion swirled inside, the three colors intertwining and rising from the slender neck of the bottle, transforming into a three-colored rose. Crassus plucked it from the bottle and handed it to Amy with a smile, saying, "Little Amy, do you like it?"
"Wow, Master is amazing! This is beautiful flower, Amy loves it!" Amy reached out and took the three-colored flower, her little face full of happy smiles.
Mai Ge watched this scene with a strange expression. He had thought it was some powerful magic, but it turned out that Crassus had spent so much time tinkering with it all morning just to conjure a flower for Amy. It was quite a challenge for this renowned melee mage on the continent. It was indeed not an easy task to please his own apprentice.
"Boss Mai, did you bring me the braised chicken and sweet tofu pudding?" Crassus asked Mai Ge with some anticipation.
"Yes, Braised Chicken Rice and extra rice, and a serving of tofu pudding." Mai Ge smiled and nodded, placing the bag he was carrying on the table beside him.
"Master, that's a total of 1,050 copper coins." Amy held the flower in one hand and stretched out her other little hand, smiling as she said, "And this morning Amy also had a serving of Braised Chicken Rice with extra rice and a serving of Sweet Tofu Pudding, which also cost 1,050 copper coins."
"Alright, here you go." Crassus couldn't help but chuckle. It was bad enough that his own disciple didn't show him any respect, but he also had to take care of her three meals a day. There were probably only two masters like this on the entire Nolan Continent: him and Yulian.
Regarding the fact that his own child's teacher has to pay for meals at home, Mai Ge felt a slight pang of conscience, but he readily accepted the money Crassus offered and prepared to leave.
"By the way, Boss Mai, Amy gets out of school at 4:30 this afternoon. I have to go out for a bit, could you come pick her up?" Crassus said while carefully taking his food.
"Okay, I'll head back now." Mai Ge nodded, reached out and touched Amy's hair, then turned and went out. Picking up his daughter from school was no problem at all, he had only asked Crassus to bring Amy back because he was coming over for dinner.
Mai Ge rode his bicycle back to the restaurant. There were already a few customers queuing at the door. They greeted Mai Ge warmly when they saw him return, while looking at his bicycle with some surprise. This thing was really amazing, but it was obviously not something that an ordinary person could handle.
Mai Ge greeted everyone with a smile, opened the door to let Yabemia and Sally, who were also waiting at the door, in, and then closed the door again.
"Hey, why did that pretty elf girl follow him inside? Does she have some special privileges?" a guest asked, somewhat puzzled.
"An elf... Could it be that she's the proprietress who has never appeared before?" The man next to him widened his eyes and asked in surprise.
"Now that you mention it, that's quite possible. I've eaten here many times, but I've never seen the owner's wife."
"How could that be? Didn't you all see that the elf girl looked only seventeen or eighteen years old? The Little Boss is already four years old." someone retorted.
"What's so strange about that? Elves naturally look young. Even if a three hundred years old elf stands in front of you, it's perfectly normal for her to look like a seventeen or eighteen years old girl. You know, elves have a lifespan of eight hundred years, and elves who cultivate life magic can even maintain their youthful appearance." the person who spoke first said with a smile.
"May be this is one of Boss Mai's new waitresses. Didn't you see her standing with Miss Mia just now? If she was the boss's wife, how could she not even have a key? If that's the case, Boss Mai probably hasn't had enough of kneeling on the washboard."
The guests began to whisper among themselves about Sally's identity, all sorts of strange speculations popping into their minds.
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"You two sit down for a bit. Aisha, don't be too nervous on your first day at work. It's okay to go a little slow, but try not to make any mistakes." Mai Ge put the bicycle away, glanced at the dizzy Ugly Duckling in the basket, and smiled at the two of them.
"Boss, if you're making braised chicken today, do you need me to help prepare the Flaming Chicken?" Yabemia asked Mai Ge.
"No need for today. The ingredients I brought in were chicken legs, so no extra processing is needed." Mai Ge shook his head. Mia really never gets a break.
"Okay." Yabemia nodded, her expression slightly disappointed.
"Perhaps we can learn Spring Is Here again…" Sally suggested softly. This dance was almost magical. Although some of the moves felt a little embarrassing, but it was also captivating. After practicing the ones she had learned earlier for a whole night, she was even more excited for the rest of the dance.
"Is it okay?" Yabemia's eyes lit up as she looked at Mai Ge.
"Of course." Mai Ge smiled, reached for the music box, turned on the dance tutorial mode, placed it on the table, and turned to go into the kitchen. Even if he was a capitalist, he had to be a capitalist who won people over with virtue.
"Have you heard? Something big happened at Restaurant Mai Mi yesterday."
"What big thing? Didn't Boss Mai take leave to go out and gather ingredients? I was really looking forward to today's new dish."
"That was the notice from yesterday morning. Yesterday afternoon, it was changed to a new announcement saying that the restaurant was attacked by rioters and was completely razed to the ground, leaving a crater more than ten meters deep!"
"I 屮艸芔茻...(Holy crap!) Who could possibly do something so heinous?!"
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