Sitting on the now soft chair, a smile appeared on Ye Qian's face.
He had spent quite a lot of days sleeping on rocks after his soul entered this body and those were also the days when he had learned the most of his life.
Knowledge about the world and all kinds of mysteries was nothing when compared to how much he had learned about human nature those days.
"Those were some really different days, every day would be a life or death, if not for him maybe I wouldn't have had the thought of learning alchemy as well."
Ye Qian muttered thinking about Lord Ju.
After a year of working along with him and studying all that he had thought, he had moved out in search of more knowledge.
Of course, the important reason was that he had somehow already broken the shackles of the basic mortal cultivation and had entered the Chi Gathering in just a year.
As for the reason, even he didn't know how that had happened.
One day after 3 months of joining the shop, while helping sort out the herbs, he suddenly entered the Blue stage and after that, it was only a matter of time before he had broken through those small levels and even the Gold Stage didn't take long for him to achieve and get to the cusps of Chi Gathering.
After that, he never met the old man Ju as he used to call him.
While the others called him Lord Ju.
Meanwhile, hearing Ye Qian mutter something related to the life and death struggle of each day, the couple couldn't help but look at each other.
Yuan Meng had told them that all these years while Ye Qian was away, he had been taken by the military due to certain special reasons.
And now that they heard him mutter something like that, they related it to that.
"That's all about the special medicinal herbs, and tell me, did you like the taste of the food that I made."
Thinking that Ye Qian might be tranced, Aunt Qin asked, trying to get his attention back.
"Actually it's even better than Mengmeng."
Ye Qian said while munching on a piece of dumpling after dipping another one into the soup and biting it in one go.
"Hehe, aren't you worried that your wife will get mad at you if she gets to know that you liked someone else's food better than the one that she makes?"
Aunt Qin smiled quizzically
"Ahh, no not at all, she won't get mad at me for that."
Ye Qian shook his head gulping down the dumpling.
The couple looked at each other and smiled while continuing to eat lunch.
Since the time was close to lunch and Ye Qian was also here, they decided that joining him would be better since they would at least be able to enjoy the food after so many days.
After all, it was getting harder and harder for them to even enjoy their food as the time to leave this place was getting closer.
Whenever they would have lunch alone, their minds would always be constantly thinking about all that had happened and were about to.
That day when Yuan Meng and Ye Qian came to meet them, they were delighted to the extreme and it was like someone who was driving was given a small hope for smiling.
And it was only during that day did they completely not think anything related to the matters of the food court.
After a few moments, Ye Qian suddenly thought of something before looking at the couple and asking.
"By the way are you two going to retire soon?"
"Whaaa...what did you say?"
The eyes of the couple widened in shock as they looked at Ye Qian.
One could see the deep melancholy in their eyes as they seemed to have understood what Ye Qian meant.
"Umm, yes, it has been more than 25 years since we have been running this business, and since we are already old enough, we decided to take a break from this and hand it over to someone else."
Uncle Fu nodded, but Ye Qian could tell that things were definitely not as he said they were.
It was obvious that they were not happy to just let go of their business.
One had to know that they didn't have any child, and for them, this business that they had started more than 25 years ago was more or less like their own child to them and even if they were getting tired, it was not like they really needed to work here but it would still be fine if they were to just be around.
But from Uncle Fu's words, it was also clear that they were not going to enter the food court after they got out of it.
"Ohh, that would be great, you can come with us, maybe Mom and dad are also planning to go back to town, you all can live and it would be great."
Ye Qian nodded while trying to make them feel a bit better.
"That would be really great, Sister Yan and I get along really well like friends from old times, it would really be great to join them."
Although a bit of sadness could be seen in her eyes, Aunt Qin nodded with a smile as if delighted and then asked with suspicion while keeping the chopsticks on the bowl.
"How did you get to know that we are going to RETIRE?"
As she said that she gasped a lot of breath subconsciously.
"Ohh that, when I was waiting at the door, I met someone, he said that the food court was his and the guards should be wary of people trying to make trouble in the court and not let them enter unless they have booked the tables."
Although things had happened way far differently from what Ye Qian narrated, he didn't want them to feel bad that he knew of things that they were certainly trying to hide.
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