LIGHTNOVELWORLD Volume 3 Chapter 14
14. Hungry
“Ahahaha! Chicken soup is here!”
George carried a pot of chicken soup into the dining room and placed it on the table.
“Everyone, come and try it. I made it myself!”
“Uncle George, can you really cook?” The children asked.
“Hmph, I’ve gone through a lot of hard training, and my cooking has been approved by Teacher Martha. Don’t believe me? Just try it!”
George immediately ladled out a bowl of chicken soup and placed it in front of the child who had raised doubts.
Under everyone’s gaze, the child drank the chicken soup, showing an enjoyable expression. After tasting it, he still felt it wasn’t enough and smacked his lips.
“How is it?” The children beside him asked.
“This chicken soup is very delicious!” The child who had tasted it gave a very high evaluation.
“Uncle George, I want some too, I want chicken soup too!” The children shouted together.
“Okay, okay, everyone, don’t rush. There’s enough for everyone.”
As he spoke, George scooped out another bowl and placed it in front of Xia Yi.
“Miss Xia Yi, please have a taste!”
“Okay.”
Xia Yi was also a bit surprised. This guy George had actually learned how to cook?
She also took a sip.
Unexpectedly, it was quite good.
“Not bad.”
“Haha, what an honor!” George happily laughed.
Afterwards, Martha and the other teachers of the Spring Breeze Orphanage also brought out the remaining dishes, and dinner began.
The dishes on the table were very rich, sufficient to supplement the children’s nutrition without any problems.
Indeed, compared to before, it was much better.
Back then, there weren’t many things Xia Yi and her other companions could eat, and meat was also very rare, only possible during festivals.
“Miss Xia Yi, do you think these suit your taste?” Martha asked. “This might be a bit different from what you usually eat.”
“Mm, I think it’s quite good!”
“You’re really quite different from ordinary nobles.” Martha sighed.
“Really?”
“Exactly!” George echoed beside her. “Miss Xia Yi has no airs at all, unlike those high-and-mighty nobles who look down on people through their nostrils. You’re completely different!”
Xia Yi didn’t know how to explain it.
After all, nobles with even a bit of status definitely wouldn’t interact with commoners like her.
Human nobles inherently believed they were superior to ordinary people, and looking down on them was the most normal attitude.
On the contrary, someone like Xia Yi was considered an anomaly.
“This shows that Miss Xia Yi has received a good education and has outstanding qualities.” Martha helped Xia Yi make an excuse.
“Mm! Indeed, I believe Miss Xia Yi will definitely achieve extraordinary accomplishments in the future!” George was convinced.
“I also think Sister Xia Yi is super amazing!”
“Playing with Sister Xia Yi is so much fun!”
“Much more fun than being with Uncle George!”
The children also started praising her, making Xia Yi feel a bit embarrassed.
“Hey, hey, hey, if you say that, I’ll be heartbroken!” George pretended to look like he was about to cry.
“We’re not saying Uncle George is bad, just that Uncle George isn’t cute enough and isn’t as pretty as Sister Xia Yi!”
“You brat, so you just like beautiful sisters?” George snorted. “Sorry, but I’m a man, and I’m already an uncle. I can’t become what you want… After all, how can a man become a cute girl?”
“Ugh…”
Xia Yi felt that she was hit by a stray bullet.
George, actually I really did…
Wuuu.
She really didn’t want to admit it.
But it was true that she should have been around the same age as George, already at the age of an uncle, but she had turned into a young dragon, a white-haired loli with a big tail.
Fate played tricks on people.
Amidst the laughter and chatter, dinner time at the Spring Breeze Orphanage ended, and the children were helping the teachers clean up the tables.
But Xia Yi encountered an unprecedented, huge crisis she had never considered.
What to do? What to do?
She sat in her seat, feeling very anxious.
The reason was simple…
She wasn’t full!
The appetite of dragons and humans was on completely different levels.
The amount of food that might be enough to make an adult male full might just be filling the gaps between teeth for dragons.
Dragons were very powerful as a Superior Race, but their energy consumption was also very high. Even just lying down and doing nothing required eating a lot.
Xia Yi hadn’t expected that even after using the transformation potion to turn herself into a human, her appetite would still be the same as a dragon’s.
Dinner time was about to end, but she was still very hungry.
So hungry, so hungry, so hungry!
Most importantly, in order to properly act as a human, she couldn’t reveal her appetite.
After all, from her appearance, she was just a loli… If she could eat dozens of times more than a grown man like George, wouldn’t that expose her identity?
“Sister Xia Yi, let me help you wash the dishes!”
A child ran up to Xia Yi and took away her tableware.
“Wait…”
“Hmm?” The child turned his head and asked in confusion, “What’s wrong, Sister Xia Yi? Are you still not full? But I saw you eating non-stop!”
“No, no, I mean, don’t run too fast. Be careful.” Xia Yi forced a smile.
“Mm, mm! I know!”
The child left with Xia Yi’s tableware.
What should she do? If she couldn’t eat her fill, she would die!
Xia Yi’s mind was thinking at high speed.
Suddenly, she had a good idea…
Right, why didn’t I think of that!!
Hehehe!
…
Late at night.
Xia Yi left the guest room and snuck out.
Although the Spring Breeze Orphanage had been renovated, the layout hadn’t changed, so she could find the right path in the middle of the night by relying on her memory.
She tiptoed through the orphanage.
It was already late at night, and the children were all asleep. The teachers also wouldn’t sleep too late either, as they had to teach and work the next day.
“If I’m not mistaken… it should be here.”
Xia Yi pushed open the door.
Indeed, it was here, the kitchen!
The Spring Breeze Orphanage was indeed wealthy now and had started using magic refrigerators made with ice-attribute magic stones to store food.
The method she had thought of was to sneak into the kitchen in the middle of the night to find something to eat. Since no one would be around at night, she could eat her fill in the kitchen—
She could even use fire-attribute magic on the spot to heat up the food.
Magic really is a good thing. In terms of convenience, it’s much better than swordsmanship!
Growl, growl, growl!
Xia Yi’s little belly couldn’t help but growl.
“Hehehe, I’m digging in!”
Of course, she wouldn’t just eat here for free. She would leave enough money as compensation afterwards.
…
“Xia Yi, revived!”
Xia Yi finally regained her energy. After leaving enough money, she left the kitchen, ready to go back and have a good sleep.
She had just opened the door when her expression froze on her face.
Martha was actually standing at the doorway, as if she had been waiting for her to leave the kitchen, without deliberately disturbing her.
“Sister Martha, I…”
Xia Yi was thinking about what excuse she should use to gloss over it.
However, Martha softly uttered a name that immediately threw her mind into chaos.