It was already 12 o'clock in the middle of the night, and the customers had already left. Kojiro looked at this strange girl with great interest.
Eating eight portions of a set meal made for adults in one go was not ordinary from any point of view.
"Then what are you going to use to repay the debt? It's not a contract, right?”Kojiro said calmly as he pushed up his glasses.
Huh? I didn't expect a serious and cold-faced man like you to have such dirty thoughts. What do you want to do to a five-year-old girl?
Of course, this was just a joke. Ling knew Kojiro's character. He was cold on the outside but warm on the inside. He was a typical person with a sharp mouth but a soft heart. He was a pure cook. Therefore, she didn't have to be careful about not revealing her wealth in front of him.
Ling reached into the pocket of the inner lining and rummaged through it. Inside the pocket was the dimensional pocket that she had brought from home. As long as the item she took out was not larger than the opening of the pocket, there was no need to enlarge it.
Crystals were not valuable at all. There was no other way. Although he had taken all the gemstones in the house, there were only about 30 of them. He would only use them to pay for such a wasteful thing once.
" This should be enough," Ling thought as he took his hand out of his pocket.”Ling opened his palm. His small, fair hand was like a jade plate presenting a treasure. There was a blue gem the size of a thumb.
"Idiot! Put it away!" Kojiro was stunned when he saw the gemstone. His expression changed as he quickly covered Ling's open palm.
Although Yomiya Kojiro was a chef, it didn't mean that he didn't know the quality of the gemstone. On the contrary, as the first Japanese to receive the " Pruspel Medal ", Yomiya Kojiro often went to various high-end places in Paris. He could tell the quality of the gemstone at a glance.
Kojiro could tell that the sapphire in Ling's hand was the world's best " Caucasus " sapphire. Its color was pure and thick, a deep blue like the deep sea. It was a pure crystal with a luster that was not weak or transparent, and it was the size of a thumb!
"Come with me." Kojiro pulled Ling into the lounge in front of the shop with a serious expression.
Hey, hey, hey, you came to my place. What do you want to do to a young girl?
Ling was making a malicious joke about Kojiro in his heart.
In the spacious lounge, there was a man and two women besides Shizumiya Kojiro. The man was Abo, one of them was Taka, and the other was a short-haired woman with freckles on her face. Ling remembered that her name was Lucy Hugo. In Food War, she was Shinos, who was in charge of meat dishes. Since Taka had been promoted from a receptionist to a front desk manager, there was no reason for her to be a food producer.
Oh, so this is the core staff of the SHINOS shop?
Lucy's eyes widened in shock when she saw the Fourth Palace dragging Ling in.""Manager! You're not going to tell us that you like this, are you? Even if this child is really very beautiful, sigh, it hurts, hurts, hurts."
Sure enough, she was as happy as a rabbit. It was definitely Lucy Hugo.
The Fourth Palace left Lucy, who had been disturbed, behind and turned to look at Ling.""Tell me, young miss. Who are you? This kind of thing shouldn't appear in the hands of a child.”As he spoke, the others in the room looked at the sapphire in Ling's hand, and they were all amazed.
"Heavens, such a beautiful gem! This is the first time I've seen it."
"Wow! It was so beautiful. Whether it was the color or the grinding technique, they were impeccable.”
"No matter how you look at it, it shouldn't be in the hands of a child.”
Ling could only grumble in his heart about the trio's amazement. In fact, these gemstones were only considered average in the Tosaka family. Every single one of the thirty-plus gemstones that Ling had was not any worse than this, and most of them were above this. This was also why Ling would rather work than sell gemstones before, because if he sold them, there would be no place to buy them.
Alas, in fact, all the best gems in the world have been picked up by magicians as bombs. What a sad truth this is.
" That…" Ling said with a troubled expression," There's no point in asking who I am, right?" I can guarantee that this gemstone is definitely clean. I won't steal it or rob it. I guarantee that no one will come looking for trouble. It should be worth 800,000 yuan. If it's not enough, I still have some money on me."
Just like the rich second generation who treated money as numbers, Ling who experimented with gemstones as bombs every day was clueless about the value of gemstones. She knew that they were probably very valuable.
Kojiro pushed up his glasses and snorted coldly.""It's not just 800,000. Five years ago, at the Paris International Auction, a sapphire that was not even half the size of your hand was sold for 6,000,000 US dollars. The value of a sapphire that is twice the size is at least ten times more.”
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F * ck! Then what do you want me to do? Other than this, I only have crystals left. Those things are worthless again! If I take out other gemstones, you'll be scared to death.
By now, Shizumiya Kojiro was completely convinced that Ling was a willful young lady who had stolen the treasure from her family in a fit of anger with her parents. She did not know the importance of money and could only use the treasure as money for her meals.
Shichiya Kojiro sighed lightly and turned to Abo.""Contact the police station tomorrow and ask her parents to pay for the meal together. Wei, let her sleep with you tonight.”
It had to be said that Kojiro was a very upright person. He had no intention of deceiving children, and he had no excessive greed for priceless gems. He was even prepared to send this willful young lady home.
Whether it was martial arts, demonic arts, or culinary arts, if one wanted to pursue the highest peak, it was necessary to have a clear and honest mind, not to mention a belief that would not be shaken by external things.
Ling could not help but feel a sense of admiration for the person before him, but…
Being sent home was strictly forbidden!!!
Ling immediately displayed the panic that a child should have, waving his arms up and down at high speed as he shouted,""No! I can't go home!"
Kojiro's face was cold as he turned around impatiently and said,""Children shouldn't be willful."
"I'm not being willful. I have a reason to leave home!”Ling argued loudly.
"What's the reason?" Not only Yomiya Kojiro, but everyone else in the room also looked at her.
Facing the questioning gazes of the four people, Miss Ling's thoughts raced like lightning. She combined it with her own reality and instantly came up with a plot.
Ling lowered his head and covered his eyes with the flowing sea. He sank into a deep silence." If I go back, my sister will suffer."”
The four members of SHINOS were even more curious.
"I'm a child of an ancient family with a long history. Our family has signed an alliance with another ancient family since ancient times. If there are two descendants of the same family, we will exchange one of our children as the other's adopted son to maintain our cooperative relationship. If one party doesn't have a second descendant, we will give the other party a portion of the family benefits.”
"In my generation, there were only two girls in the family. I was the older sister, and I was appointed by the parents as the next heir since I was young. According to the covenant, the younger sister had to be adopted.”
"Although he's an adopted son, he's actually just a hostage exchanged between us. I've already learned about the dark and dirty side of nobles from the previous generation of people from the opposite family. I couldn't let my sister face that fate. I begged my father to let me take my sister's place and let her inherit the family.”
"But no matter how much I begged, it was useless. A week ago, Father was going to discuss the matter of my sister's marriage with the other party's head. I knew that it was just a bargain to sell my sister to the other party!”At this point, Ling was already gnashing his teeth, his voice spilling out from between his teeth.
At this moment, Ling was desperately trying to recall the story of Sakura's reincarnation in the original novel. Sakura was like this in the original novel. Sakura would leave the Tosaka family and change her surname to Machiriri. She would never be able to return to the Tosaka family. The Machiriri family would pay a certain percentage of the family's profits to the Tosaka family as compensation every year. Wasn't this selling?
"Mother had no choice but to agree. I knew that no one else would save my sister, so I decided to run away from home! Because as long as I leave, my sister will become the only child in the family. The family that values inheritance the most will definitely change my sister as the heir. Dirty transactions can't be carried out!"
"So I can't go back! He absolutely could not go back! I'd rather wander in the outside world than go back to that home! At least not now, not now. I can only return to that family after my sister officially inherits everything in the family."
Ling wiped away his tears and continued sobbing,""Please, I've spent a lot of effort to come here and stay away from that home. Don't send me back again. Take this gem as payment for this meal. The dishes you cook are delicious and worth this gem.”
The most perfect lie was to tell the truth. She only needed to embellish the details to perfectly tell the truth about her own situation. Ling had indeed run away from home to save his younger sister, Sakura. Of course, he was not as pitiful and helpless as she made him out to be.
As for the tears, it was simple. They would come out as soon as he recalled something sad, so Ling recalled the scene of Sakura and Aardwolf taking on Wen in the game in his previous life.
Oh no, I can't stop my tears!
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