"No! Way!" said Huang Lan.
"Do you have to use so many exclamation marks?" An Yang curled his lip. "Stingy!"
"This isn't being stingy!"
"Then what is it?"
"This is called having dignity!" said Huang Lan.
Just then Xiao Qian walked over carrying another basin of hand-grabbed mutton, and hearing their conversation, she asked in surprise, "What are you two chatting about again? How did it escalate to this level?"
"Oh, I'm desperately trying to persuade Fellow Daoist Huang Lan to change back to her true form and be frank with us, but Fellow Daoist Huang Lan is unusually stubborn. Even though she admits herself that she likes her true form better and changing back makes her freer, for some reason, she just refuses to change back and show us."
Xiao Qian put the plate on the table, pondered for a moment, and said, "That's actually a pretty good idea, Sister Huang Lan, you can consider it. After all, we've already seen Xiaochán's and the rabbit's true forms... Mhm, really!"
"I'm not talking to you two, you sing in tune with each other!" As Huang Lan spoke, she indeed stopped looking at them, locking her gaze firmly on that plate of hand-grabbed mutton and licking her lips.
Comrade Xiao Qian shook her head helplessly. "Then I'll go back to the kitchen to cook."
After she left, Huang Lan dug in.
Before long, dishes of food were served onto the table one after another, as if the rich aroma of meat filled the entire living room.
Yet apart from the food for those two carnivores Huang Lan and Xiaochán, there wasn't much other meat. Most of it was quite light and nutritious breakfast food, such as pan-fried buns and fried eggs, along with the alfalfa grass for the Rabbit Demon to