A Mix-up and a Trait
Inside the kitchen.
Rienta and Fern were busy preparing the ingredients.
Both of them are experienced in the kitchen, and they prepare ingredients very quickly.
Rienta originally wanted to eat hot pot with mutton, as he had stored a lot of meat in his Personal Space.
Unfortunately, there's no sesame paste here.
Rienta sighed with some regret.
"What's wrong?"
Wearing an apron and with her hair tied up, Fern held a spatula in her hand and looked at Rienta was sighing beside her, with a puzzled expression.
"It's nothing, just a thought."
Rienta shook her head, without elaborating.
Continue processing the steamed crabs.
This time, he wanted to make a famous dish from the Song Dynasty.
'Crab-Stuffed Orange'.
Hollow out an orange, fill it with crab meat and roe stir-fried with orange pulp, and then steam it.
Rienta only decided to try it after seeing the fruit that Fern and the others had bought.
But to be honest, he wasn't very confident.
Judging solely from the ingredients, oranges and crab meat.
One is fruit, the other is freshwater seafood.
No matter how you look at it, these two ingredients seem impossible to combine.
Like stir-fried mooncakes with tomatoes.
Tomatoes, just go and stew the beef brisket!
Even if all else fails, scrambled eggs with tomatoes will do.
Asshole!
However, this 'Crab-Stuffed Orange' is, after all, a famous dish from the Song Dynasty.
People in that era were quite particular about food.
Yes, we should have faith in the tastes of our ancestors.
After silently praying for a while, Rienta began to speed up her movements.
Place the oranges stuffed with crab meat into a steamer and steam them.
After completing this experimental dish, Rienta turned to look at Fern.
He wasn't worried about Fern's cooking skills.
Rather, it was because, after he briefly explained the process of making 'Crab-Stuffed Orange'...
Fern said she also had an inspiration for a new dish.
Looking at Fern was solemnly placing various ingredients into the mold.
For a moment, Rienta couldn't figure out what kind of dish Fern wanted to make.
Pizza?
Or is it a certain faction?
Etc.
What is that in Fern's hand?
Rienta looked at the small fish heads that suddenly appeared in the mold and kept increasing in number with some horror.
A terrible thought suddenly popped into his mind.
"Fern, you're not... doing 'Stargazy Pie', are you?!"
"'Stargazy Pie'? What a great name!"
Fern was taken aback for a moment, then looked at Rienta with satisfaction.
This was the first time she had felt that her Rienta was quite good at choosing names.
The name 'Stargazy Pie' is a perfect match for her dish.
Watching Fern, beaming with joy, place the molds into the oven, Rienta opened her mouth, as if to say something.
But then I remembered that my 'Crab-Stuffed Orange' dish seemed to share a similar sentiment with Stargazy Pie in some ways.
Thinking of this, Rienta fell silent.
His experiment with this dish seems poised to trigger something exceptionally terrifying.
Rienta's expression flickered with uncertainty. After standing there for a moment in a daze, she turned around and stopped paying attention to the situation with Fern.
With a casual wave of his hand, orange-yellow flames ignited in the stove.
He decided to cook more dishes.
It's like making advance compensation for a possible situation in the future.
Xierhai stood at the door, raising his hand several times, only to lower it again.
He hadn't figured out what to say yet.
This house belongs to a wealthy local businessman.
It was he who acted as a go-between, enabling Rienta and the others to rent this luxurious house.
Judging from Rienta's extravagant demeanor when they rented the house, their team must have been quite well-off.
The key point is that the tea set is worth several hundred gold coins!
I don't know if Rienta was referring to Larsi Gold Coins or Schtrahl's Gold Coins.
But neither of them is something he can afford to lose.
He was just an ordinary boatman.
After Xierhai for a long time, Hill finally gritted his teeth and rang the doorbell.
'Ding-dong.'
"Huh? It's Uncle Hill? Please come in."
When Stark opened the door and found it was Xierhai, he warmly invited him inside.
In the living room.
Frieren was sitting on the sofa flipping through Grimoire.
Xierhai looked around but didn't see Rienta.
He sat down somewhat stiffly opposite Frieren.
From the moment Xierhai entered, the warrior Stark sensed that something was wrong with Xierhai.
But he thought it was because it was too cold outside.
Stark picked up the 'Yixing Teapot', poured a cup of hot tea, and handed it to Xierhai.
"Uncle Hill, is there something you need this time?"
Xierhai took the teacup instinctively, about to speak, when he suddenly realized that the cup in his hand was none other than the valuable 'Azure After the Rain, the Sky Turns Azure' that Rienta had mentioned.
"What is this cup...?"
Frieren picked up the conversation and explained, "This is the tea set that comes with Rienta's [Hot Tea Magic]. Is something wrong?"
Was it magic?
Xierhai gave a wry smile and explained his purpose to the two of them.
He had never imagined that the uniquely flavored 'Longjing Tea' would actually be a magical creation.
Having witnessed Rienta casually taking out large amounts of gold coins, he assumed that the 'Longjing Tea' and the tea set were stored in some kind of storage magic.
After listening, Frieren and Stark looked at each other and fell silent.
After a brief silence.
Frieren picked up the 'After the Rain, the Sky Turns Azure' teacup and examined it carefully.
The tea set that comes with this [Hot Tea Magic] set was also newly developed by Rienta after she arrived at the port of this large trading city.
She hadn't paid much attention to this matter before.
After all, since arriving at this port, Rienta has been going to the lakeside cabin almost every day.
They say that encountering someone who looks like a doppelganger is a rare thing and should be cherished.
Therefore, she hadn't drunk much 'Longjing Tea'.
Based on the current situation, this should just be a false alarm.
Judging from the exquisite nature of this tea set alone, it may indeed be quite valuable.
However, to reach the level of hundreds of gold coins that Rienta mentioned, this tea set still needs to be refined over time.
In other words, it needs to become a true 'antique'.
Unfortunately, it was merely a magical creation.
Frieren sighed in disappointment, picked up her teacup, and took a big gulp.
A thought suddenly popped into her mind.
'Or, how about we study the original version of [Projection Magic] together with Rienta?'
Stark naturally realized what was happening as well.
He's in a bit of an awkward situation now, after all, he was partly to blame for this blunder.
Stark is not good at handling these kinds of situations.
Turning around, I only saw Frieren was lost in thought.
"..."
"Rienta, come out here right now!"
Inside the kitchen.
Hearing the shouts, Rienta ran out with a spatula in her hand.
Upon seeing Xierhai sitting upright on the sofa, he paused for a moment, then looked at Stark and asked in confusion:
"What's wrong?"