The bullies immediately introduced themselves as noble offspring but immediately changed their tone into a different one, revealing that the 4 recipes and businesses he had started had already expanded crazily. After that the fat guy getting bullied stood up and wiped his tears thanking MC.
The fat student lying on the floor, with tears and snot coming flowing down his chubby cheeks looked up as he saw the poor soul that was about to be bullied by the bullies that were lording down over him.
"You! I know you!"
A young master with pristine robes walked up to Zhu Jiao with an air of arrogance, the rest of the other guys stood behind with folded arms as they watched the scene unfurl in front of them.
Zhu Jiao smirked as he readied his mind thinking of the different ways he could slap the face of the young master group that was ready to come find trouble with him.
"Sir, can I shake your hand?" The young master stood in front of Zhu Jiao with his hand outstretched, confusing Zhu Jiao entirely.
"Wait… What!? Why?" Zhu Jiao asked confusedly while unwittingly shaking the hand of the young master in front of him. The remaining young masters who were behind the fatty on the ground immediately came forward as they gave him a bow.
"I'm Young master Tong, this is Young master Wu and Young master Qing. It's a great honour to finally meat the creator and owner of Middle Earth."
The three of them stood there eagerly eyeing Zhu Jiao's every move.
Zhu Jiao cocked his head as he went into deep thought.
"What the hell is Middle Earth? Oh Crap! That name! Only those 4 could have come up with a name like that! Why would they name it that!"
Zhu Jiao immediately whipped his head around and looked at the trio there.
"By Middle Earth you mean…"
"Middle Earth Katsu don! You won't stop until you're don-e!
Chicken as large as your face! Middle Earth Chicken Cutlet!
Middle Earth Spicy Chicken! Will melt your face off!
Some Middle Earth Boba to cool it all down!"
The trio started to sing the jingle as they started laughing happily.
Zhu Jiao started to hum along as well getting swept up by them
"The jingle is indeed catchy… But wait how did you know I was the creator and owner of the store?"
"Mr Zhong Tu, other than playing the jingle, your face is in front of every store, they even made your face the mascot of every store. Everyone who has went to that slice of heaven would know you all too well!"
The trio smiled as they excitedly replied Zhu Jiao.
"To think that they'd do something so ridiculous! …. Wait did you just call me Zhong Tu?"
"Yes sir, in the front of every store there is a sign 'Zhong Tu approved"
"My name is not Zhong Tu it's Zhu… no…. My name is Lin Dong! Sigh, it's okay telling 3 people won't change the fact that my face is already recognised with the Middle Earth branding"
Zhu Jiao tried to explain but he got exasperated midway and decided to just leave it be.
"Sir! Can you tell us if there is a next wave of products being released in the market? We're all from noble family, if you have anynew business ideas please do let us know! We would be more than interested to jump on to any opportunities we might have."
Young master Tong spoke up for the entire group, but the rest of them nodded their head in agreement.
"For now, currently I don't have any ideas, but if I do you'll be the first to know."
Zhu Jiao smiled at Young master Tong and the rest while they bowed and they walked off. Looking at the ground, he noticed the fatty on the floor, turning his head he immediately shouted,
"Guys! You left your fatty here….nevermind." Turning back to the fatty he picks him up before patting him on the shoulder.
"You… you saved me…eh?"
The fatty wiped away his tears and looked around trying to find the person who saved him, but unfortunately, our Zhu Jiao had already vanished into thin air having a fat best friend with him would be too cliche even for him to handle.
Walking through the inner courtyard he finally arrived in front of a huge hall.
'Inner Courtyard Grand Hall'
Looking around, he finally located someone sitting at the counter that looks like she might be able to help.
"Hello miss, I'd like to check, if the testing for core disciples are open now?"
The lady at the counter, busy with something else pointed him towards the door. When Zhu Jiao tried to ask for more information he just got waved away.
Shrugging his shoulders he walked up to a big door, shaking his head before stepping into the huge door disappearing into the darkness.
"Hua Ci! Hua Ci! Who's the student who went into the rune array test? Did you record it down? Hua Ci!"
The lady at the counter snapped out of her dazed as she looked at the source of the voice. Immediately jumping up she questioned the man.
"What? No one came to take the rune array test?"
"What do you mean no one is in the rune array test? Then why is the rune array test occupied?" he shouted.
"Oh crap it must be the guy who wanted to try for the core disciple position! I asked him to go to the side door he must have misunderstood…"
Instantly standing up trying to find a better position to look at the door panicking at the mistake she made.
"Damn it! Hua Ci! We have to be careful! The core disciple test is just to check if you're a houtian cultivator. The Rune array test tests your abilities in finding the weakness in rune arrays, if you don't have experience, you'll get stuck in the endless illusions and die. There is no way to bring them out of there…"
"Erm, I think you asked me to go into the wrong room… I couldn't find any testers inside."
Zhu Jiao's voice resounded from beside them causing the man to jump up in shock and shout.
"You! How the hell did you get out of there so quickly!?