novelraw Chapter 83
Chapter 83
Chapter 83: This Dragon Claw Smells Both Good and Bad
The Central Home Furnishing City is a complex that houses all the major furniture brands in Qingcheng City.
After Xia Li got out of the subway, he grabbed the dragon claw and walked straight towards a blue building.
He walked briskly with a clear goal in mind.
IKEA, a furniture store that also operates a restaurant.
From the first to the fourth floor, there were all sorts of strange furniture along the way, which dazzled Lucia.
Before she could even ask what those things were for, Xia Li pulled her along at a brisk pace.
“Do you feel that our home is small and shabby?” Xia Li asked.
The furniture and decoration here were on a completely different level compared to Xia Li’s home.
One was refined, elegant, understated yet luxurious, while the other was characterized by being old, shabby, and small. “No leaks,” Lucia shook her head and said.
“The room I sleep in has windows to shield from wind and rain, and when the curtains are drawn, even the sun can’t shine in, so there are no leaks.”
After thinking for a moment, Lucia added, “It’s not small either. It’s already very spacious for me.”
Meaning, she was very satisfied with Xia Li’s home.
Dragons aren’t that picky. Their only definition of a lair is ‘food’ and ‘shiny things’.
Although Xia Li’s home didn’t have any beautiful metals or gems, there was plenty of food and a toilet.
It was simply a perfect Silver Dragon lair!
“I’ll buy you a bigger lair when I make money.”
Xia Li held the dragon claw and said as they walked.
Lucia was a little dissatisfied with this sentence and pondered silently for a while.
Xia Li’s words clearly still treated her as an incapable freeloader.
She was already useful, not some useless dragon who lazed around at home doing nothing.
“Then I’ll also make money to buy you a bigger house!”
The evil dragon was particularly competitive.
Xia Li didn’t want to discourage the evil dragon’s enthusiasm, so he just nodded slightly.
They arrived on the fourth floor of IKEA.
This entire floor was a dining area, similar in environment to a university cafeteria.
Lucia, who had just been completely unfazed by the material conditions, was immediately captivated by the things being sold on this floor.
Xia Li took the tray and let Lucia get whatever she wanted.
He couldn’t afford a house and furniture right now, but a full meal was no problem at all.
Lucia immediately went into food-sweeping mode, choosing a large pile of food she had never seen before. She found a corner to sit with Xia Li and began to eat voraciously.
“Gulp…”
After taking a sip of milk, Lucia’s lips were covered with a layer of milk foam, like a little old dragon with a white beard.
“Aren’t you eating?” Lucia wiped her mouth.
Xia Li had been staring at her intently since just now.
This kind of half-smiling gaze made Lucia feel a little uneasy.
The mantis stalks the cicada, unaware of the oriole behind…
The way Xia Li looked at her was like how she looked at the little sheep grazing outside her dragon lair.
At that time, the expression on Lucia’s face was the same as Xia Li’s, smug and content, thinking to herself, ‘Eat quickly, eat quickly, after you get fat, it’ll be my turn to eat you’.
“I’m full.” Xia Li leaned back in his chair and waited quietly.
“Oh…”
Lucia looked down at the small mountain of plates beside her, feeling a bit hesitant.
It’s better to eat less…
If she gets fat, she’ll be slaughtered.
No.
It’s illegal to eat people in this world, and it must be illegal to eat dragons too.
Xia Li shouldn’t be fattening her up to eat her.
“I’m full.”
After struggling internally, Lucia decided to stop there.
She hadn’t started working as a little chef yet, so she was still a useless dragon overall.
She couldn’t let her rate of food consumption exceed her labor value. Such livestock would be dealt with directly in Azure Continent.
“There’s still a chicken wing left. You’re not going to eat it?”
Xia Li glanced at the chicken wing on Lucia’s plate.
With this guy’s appetite, eating one more chicken wing should be no problem at all, right?
And Lucia wasn’t the kind of dragon who would waste any food.
“No, I’m not eating anymore.” Lucia shook her head like a rattle drum.
Xia Li: “…”
Why is she being so reserved now?
“Then I’ll eat it.” Xia Li said.
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“You eat, you eat.” Lucia nodded generously.
However, what followed was two minutes of silence.
The crowd around them was noisy, children were chasing each other, running from one end of the corridor to the other, white-collar workers carrying food passed by calmly, the aroma of a dozen delicacies wafting from their noses.
“Gulp.”
Lucia swallowed nervously.
The way Xia Li was looking at her… was so strange.
He didn’t speak, which made Lucia even more nervous.
Could it be…
She’s about to be slaughtered!
“I can’t reach it.”
At this moment, Xia Li suddenly spoke.
Lucia thought for a moment, then picked up the plate with the chicken wing in both hands and offered it to him.
“Here you go…”
“Ah, my hands are so dirty. I haven’t washed them. It’s definitely unhygienic to touch food like this.”
Xia Li muttered to himself.
His hands were resting on the table, his body leaning back against the chair, with no intention of reaching for the chicken wing.
“…”
Lucia frowned.
She looked down at her dragon claws.
She had specifically washed her claws in the restroom earlier because she had taken a lot of fries, chicken wings, and chicken legs, and Xia Li had said that she needed to wash her hands before eating.
Oh right.
Humans are very fragile animals, and their intestines are also fragile.
If they eat unhygienic food, they easily get diarrhea. If the diarrhea is severe, they have to go to a place called a ‘hospital’ to burn money and be imprisoned.
This was something Xia Li had told her before.
“I’ll feed you!”
Thinking of this, Lucia nodded straightforwardly.
She immediately put down the plate and wiped her dragon claws with a clean tissue.
She picked up the last chicken wing on the plate and sniffed it in front of her nose.
Hmm, no spoilage, the smell is fine.
The temperature is also fine.
Standing up, Lucia bent down and successfully fed Xia Li with her fragrant little hands.
Seeing that Xia Li couldn’t finish it in one bite, Lucia waited patiently, holding the edge of the chicken wing and frequently changing the angle for him.
Sigh, Xia Li could eat a whole banana in one bite.
Why does he need so many bites for a chicken wing?
“Alright, it tastes good.”
Xia Li savored the taste for a while, a smile already forming on his lips.
This silly dragon is still smiling foolishly.
Silly dragons are indeed silly. She doesn’t even know she’s being tricked by Xia Li.
With this level of naivety, wouldn’t it be easy to win her over?
“Wait for me…”
Lucia noticed that the grease on her hands wouldn’t come off, so she turned and went to the restroom again.
Xia Li put one hand in his pocket, took a sip of her leftover milk through the straw, and drank it with a “glug glug” sound.
“Did you wash them clean?”
“Mm-hmm.”
“Let me smell.” Xia Li said.
So Lucia readily raised both her dragon claws and held them in front of Xia Li’s nose.
Xia Li lowered his head and sniffed.
Hmm… there’s the smell of chicken wings, cake, salmon, steak, and ketchup.
She washed them for nothing.
But he didn’t mind and held her fragrant and slightly smelly dragon claw.
“Let’s go, let’s go buy a bed.”
“Go out and buy one?”
“Yeah, the food here is okay, but the furniture is too expensive. We can go to the street behind and buy a bigger and cheaper bed.”