Yoki's POV
I jolted from my sleep when i heard a loud thud i quickly scan the place to see where the sound came from and to my surprised i see Jing lying in the ground unconscious,
'he didn't even wake up when he fell down what the hell-'
When i was supposed to go back to sleep i felt a stick on my hand and grab it, and that's when i remember today is my mother's birthday!
I rushed to the bathroom to wash my face and ran to the kitchen, the chef greeted me and told me that the ingredients that i asked for yesterday just came
"Oh Great it's all fresh! Thank you so much Mister!" I said while looking and counting the ingredients, thankfully it's complete so i started preparing the ingredients and chopping them with the right size each dish.
"Also Yokihiro.. right? Master Xialin asked me to help you" he said
"Of course I would love to! Thank you for the help since this is actually my first time cooking this many dishes"
Though cooking Ash Reshteh like my mom always does is difficult tho i still did it close to the original taste, when i finished cooking Ash Reshteh i started cooking the soup mother told me that the soup is actually a hot and sour soup which contains bean sprouts, it's a very easy dish which i happily enjoy the most.
While the head chef helped me prepare the side dishes like dumplings, vegetable stir fry with soy sauce, namul and kinpira.
And after 2 hours I'm finally done cooking, me and the other chef arranged the dishes and put them into each pallet needed.
"Uhmm, how many pallets are we going to use?" I asked them since this is my first time preparing dishes like this
"We usually prepare six since the teachers are also here but since master and madame asked us to only prepare five then we will be preparing five today"
I nodded in his response
"Also you can take a bath now we will prepare this and take it to the chief's pavilion and you can head there after taking a bath"
"Well then I'll leave this to you, thank you!"
I rushed into Jing's pavilion and quickly took a bath. While I was in the bathroom I heard a voice from outside saying words which sounded like a man greeting jing, "how are you" I was kinda confused but I think it's just Jing and his jokes again
After the bath I asked Jing if he was the one saying those words that I heard while bathing earlier and he responded that he wasn’t the one talking earlier because he was sleeping . And he just woke up when he heard me open the bathroom.
'Oh then whose voice was that'
"Oh okay then,it was great talking to you"
I was confused because the only person in that room was me and jing unless there were people who entered our room.
I didn't have time to think of this and just enjoy this day so I quickly go to the kitchen to see any updates to the preparation
"Mister, I just finished taking a bath. Where's the food?"
" Oh... They are still preparing the table before we put the food, mind waiting for a couple minutes for us?"
"Oh… ok Mister can you just call me if it's ready i'll just go back to Jing's pavilion to pick him up."
"Sure, no problem"
"Thank you" and bowed to excuse myself
Jing's pavillion
I went back to the pavilion to search for jing but wherever i went he wasn’t there "jing you there? Where are you?"
" I'm here in the bathroom, why?" Jing answered
"Ohh… did you just started or did you just ended"
"Actually I'm done"
"Okay, Come let's go. We're about to eat!" I repeatedly knocked on the bathroom door
"Alright i’m coming, now Chill" He laughed
Main Hall
"Yoki, the foods you all cooked are so pretty. Did you prepare all of this?" Asked Aunt Mirae
"Oh actually the chef and the other people on the kitchen helped me prepare all of this and i just cooked it"
"Ohh~well then let's get started shall we?" Aunt said so i nodded in response
"Also Yoki happy birthday to your mother" uncle said with a smile
"Thank you uncle, even though i can't visit her I'm not still happy to eat all the foods mother taught me" i said with a smile plastered in my face, forgetting what happened
And with that said we all started eating, thankfully they weren't complaining about my cooking skills and the food i cooked
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"Yokiii~ can you make this again?" Jing said with those soft pleading voice
I chuckled "why though?"
"Because it's new to my taste and it's delicious!" He said with glee and sparkles on his eyes
"Sure sure, if uncle and the chefs are okay with it" i said while staring at uncle and aunts faces
"If you don't mind cooking then of course, it'll be good for you to kill some time i think" Uncle answered
"Really? Then it'll be my pleasure to cook, thank you very much Uncle and Aunt Mirae"
"No problem and the food is indeed delicious, as expected for Albe's child" aunt said
Forest Hunting
Since I don't know how to use a dagger the teacher instructed me to be quiet while waiting to surprise them when until jing starts attack or throw daggers at our prey that could lower the prey's guard any time, As the teacher instructed me to do, I finally hunted two rabbits and one chicken so I quickly ran to the original position
"Teacher! I finally caught something like what you told me to do , to stay quiet as i can be and do and attack them at the right moment and time " I happily said because after all it's just been two days and i already caught three animals
I was waiting for Jing to come back and show him my hunt but a sudden scream at Jing's assigned position made us run there
And that's when we saw Jing being held as a hostage by a man with three people at the back, backing him up whenever the teachers attempts to fight the man
"Free Jing and i will be willing to do any proposal that you will say and ask" i firmly said even though I'm scared, who wouldn't they're grown ups and we're still kids that are still learning
"Ha! And what will a kid like you do? Buy us toys and books like kids like you like to do?" The other man replied with a mocking tone while all of the people laugh at what he said
"Yoki i need you to do us a favor and run to the Manor and report what's happening we will be fighting them and rescue Jing" I know the teacher told me but i don't want do it since he's against four people and him fighting all four of them at the same time will be a much more bigger disaster
"Yes teacher will do" I said pretending to head back when i actually just hid behind the bush trying to find a perfect opening and opportunity to throw my dagger to the man at the back
I can't hear anything so I just observed, I'm getting impatient with them so I just throw the dagger hoping it will stab the guy, not the teacher or Jing
While I was watching them fight while also throwing my dagger at man at the same time , it luckily landed on the guy on the back's shoulder which made all of his comrade surprised by his high pitched screams, while the dagger still pierced through his shoulder
"Who's there!? Show yourself this instant!" The man yells while directly pointing his sword at Jing once again
Yoki quickly throws his dagger at the man threatening Jing and pierced through his right arm as he instantly dropped his sword, his comrades instantly alert themselves and kept looking around the bushes while the teacher took the opportunity to grab Jing
Yokihiro reveals himself as he starts throwing all of the remaining dagger he has at both of the men as it pierced through their backs, They took this opportunity to take advantage on what happened to run back to the pavilions to report the incident that just happened to the Cloud Recesses
After reporting to their Leader they immediately took action and ran to the forest bringing all of them straight to jail.
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