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“My cousin came all the way here to visit me, so I definitely have to take good care of her.”
"My cousin is so nice!"
Xia Ci, standing to the side, rubbed her arm with a blank expression.
This lousy best friend is better off without.
After coming down from Yujingtai, everyone went to Feiyunpo Shopping Center together.
Xia Ci immediately entered the negotiation mode.
Xia Zhen found it interesting and joined in, negotiating the price with her.
They only took out Mora, satisfied, and prepared to pay after negotiating down to the cost price.
These two goddesses are truly...
They don't know how to manage a household!
Xia Zhi shook his head, stepped forward and whispered a reminder: "Don't use Mora to pay, use the Liyue Bank membership card. This is a store under Ningguang's name, so you can get a discount and save even more money."
"!"
The boss was about to cry.
I strolled around the streets for an hour and bought a bunch of random things, mainly items in the Sumeru and Inazuma styles.
Back at the summer shop, there wasn't much to do. Some people played mahjong, some made beds, and some chatted.
Xia Zhi asked Xiang Ling to go to the kitchen and prepare some dough.
Later, everyone got together to make dumplings, which was quite lively and fun.
Moreover, he didn't expect that, apart from him and Xiangling, the best dumpling maker was actually Guoba.
Its claws weren't originally capable of performing such delicate work, but those gloves were a great help.
"The crispy rice crust is amazing!"
"Woo!"
Xia Zhi washed a Mora and wrapped it in one of the dumplings.
To accommodate Gan Yu, he specially chose a vegetarian dumpling.
"Boss, if I eat a dumpling with Mora in it, will there be any special reward?"
"You will have great fortune next year."
"really?"
"Of course it's fake, it's just for good luck, we'll treat it as a little game."
"Oh, may I wrap some cherry blossoms inside? Whoever gets one will receive a copy of one of my novels!"
"sure."
"Boss, I'd like to pack some dried fish in too! Whoever finds some, I'll give them a bottle of my homemade wine!"
"Okay."
"Boss, I'd like to deliver lipsticks!"
……
"Either way is fine, everyone can use their own ideas."
"Master, may I wrap Jueyun pepper inside?"
"Um... well... it's not impossible..."
"Great!"
As a result, the whole process of making dumplings became even more enjoyable.
Everyone was acting secretly, and Xia Zhi had no idea what strange ingredients they had put in it.
The main point is a surprise.
Charlotte joined in the fun.
Even though she's from Fontainebleau, she found the activity very fun and even asked Xia Zhi for tips on how to make dumplings, wanting to learn how to make them more beautiful.
Xia Zhi laughed and said, "I feel that you reporters have a great attitude. You don't feel awkward sitting with the legendary immortals at lunch."
Charlotte laughed as well: "Lady Ningguang told me beforehand. I originally wanted to interview them, but Lady Ningguang wouldn't allow it, saying it would be disrespectful to the immortals."
"That's true. The immortals of Liyue generally don't like to show their faces in public."
"Yes, I feel that Liyue and Fontaine are still quite different."
"is it?"
"In our Fontaine, Lady Funina, the water goddess, is the most fond of showing her face. She attends every opera performance and trial, and I often see her feeding kittens by the roadside."
"Oh? That sounds like a very approachable position."
"Yes, everyone likes Lady Funina very much, and Lady Funina likes everyone very much too."
"I like it..."
It's rather rare to see the word "like" used to describe the relationship between mortals and gods.
Xia Zhi couldn't help but become somewhat interested in this new water god.
When I travel to Fontainebleau in the future, I must visit the opera house to witness its splendor.
Xia Zhi then thought of the "Legend of the Water Dragon King" that his cousin had told him when they were fishing at the beach.
"I've heard that there's a legend in Fontainebleau that when the Water Dragon King cries, it rains."
"Haha, that? Yes, it's mainly because the weather in Fontainebleau is very strange. One moment it's sunny, and the next it suddenly starts pouring rain. This kind of strange weather often happens, especially on days when there are trials at the opera house. But the showers don't last long and they stop after a while."
"I see, strange weather..."
Xia Zhi lowered his head, looking thoughtful.
This strange weather pattern has also occurred in Liyue in the latter half of this year, with sudden downpours every now and then.
He later discovered that it was Oser breaking the seal that caused His demonic power to leak out of the sea, thus triggering this strange phenomenon.
Could it be a similar reason in Fontainebleau?
The so-called Water Dragon King is actually a water-type demon god similar to Oser.
But I've heard that this strange weather in Fontaine has been going on for hundreds of years, which makes the situation even more perplexing.
Surely there isn't some water dragon king who's been living in the waters of Fontainebleau for hundreds of years, not causing any trouble but just crying occasionally when he's in a bad mood?
Xia Zhi started missing the little old mirror again.
Ishtar is so mean.
They broke my phone and won't let me go online to look up guides and answers.
"By the way, doesn't the government in Fontainebleau regulate harmful substances like Less?"
"Of course we manage it, but there are always some people who trade it in secret. And that stuff seems to only work on Fontainebleau people. Foreigners who drink it don't experience that pleasant hallucination at all. According to foreigners who have tried it, it tastes slightly salty and is not tasty at all."
"Oh?"
There's actually a drink that's only effective for Fontainebleau residents?
Xia Zhi was genuinely surprised this time.
He was a master of medicine and a master of poisons, so he naturally knew how difficult it was to create a drug that was effective only for people in a particular country.
This is almost equivalent to developing a genetic weapon from the original world.
Of course, Teyvat has a lot of advanced technology and various mystical powers. If these factors are involved, it is not surprising that such a thing can be accomplished.
Seeing Xia Zhi's thoughtful expression, Charlotte couldn't help but ask, "Mr. Xia, why are you suddenly asking about Les? Are you still concerned about what I mentioned last time?"
"whats the matter?"
"It's about what I mentioned before, about another newspaper that once did a feature article about Rainbow Juice in their newspaper called 'Liyue's Rainbow Juice'."
"Oh... no, I was just asking out of curiosity."
"I see. Mr. Xia may have misunderstood. Actually, that feature article was praising Rainbow Juice."
"Praise?"
"Well, here's what happened. A guy got tricked by a relative into getting addicted to Nys. Coincidentally, his neighbor came back from a trip to Liyue and brought back two bottles of chilled Rainbow Juice. They were good friends, so he gave it to him as a gift. As a result, he managed to quit Nys by drinking diluted Rainbow Juice every day. This was big news in Fontainebleau at the time. Some reporters came to interview him and asked him how he was able to quit Nys. He replied that Rainbow Juice tasted better than Nys, and that's how these kinds of misleading headlines came about."
"……I see……"
To some extent, that feature article did indeed praise Rainbow Juice.
It's a bit like that old joke from the world: Vita Lemon Tea, more refreshing than smoking...
"At the time, Fengda Company also said that it was going to buy the formula for Rainbow Juice and launch a brand new rainbow flavor."
"Fengda?"
"That's a specialty drink of Fontainebleau. It was invented by the Fontainebleau Academy of Sciences and has been very popular with the people of Fontainebleau since it was introduced to the public."
"A national drink..."
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