"Mm..."
Hearing this, Yōki hid behind Mei, seeming too afraid to look at the demon god statue.
She did not know if it was an illusion, but Yōki felt as though the statue were alive, staring at her like she was prey.
"Let's deal with the food first! We have a nice fat rabbit and a whole pile of bamboo shoots. How about stir-fried rabbit with bamboo shoots for dinner?"
Mei took out the pot she had prepared from her inventory, along with all kinds of modern seasonings and ingredients—oil, salt, soy sauce, vinegar, cooking wine, chicken essence, and so on.
Seeing Mei pull out so many things from thin air, Yōki seemed to forget her fear of the statue and stared at them curiously.
Although she was curious where Mei had taken them from and puzzled by what they all were, the well-educated princess did not take the initiative to ask.
"Next, I need to prepare the ingredients. You can have some candy first!"
Mei took out three lollipops and handed them to Yōki, Yingcao, and Crimson Crow's Wing.
Modern lollipops were completely incomparable to ancient candy. Back then, there was probably only malt sugar and cane sugar, and only a small number of people could afford to eat them.
"Lollipops!"
Yingcao, who had already tasted lollipops before, brightened up and eagerly took one.
Crimson Crow's Wing and Yōki also accepted theirs curiously.
Mm, this time, they were Alpenliebe lollipops.
After having Yingcao teach Yōki how to unwrap the packaging, Mei began preparing the rabbit and bamboo shoots.
As a master proficient in most sichuan cuisine recipes—self-proclaimed, admittedly—Mei's cooking skills were still worthy of recognition.
Rabbit was one of Bashu people's staple ingredients. The number of rabbits they ate every year was truly terrifying.
Spicy rabbit heads,