Travel through Teyvat and spend your life with Linghua

Chapter 23: Has my brother-in-law finally gotten it?

"Yeah!" Linghua was so happy that she almost jumped up.

"Is there any Liyue dish you want to eat?" Xinyang picked up the pen and paper beside him to prepare to take notes.

Linghua felt a little disappointed. "Ah? But I don't know what delicious food there is in Liyue."

"That's okay. I'll make some of my specialties. I guarantee they'll be even better than what's served at Xinyuexuan in Liyue Hotel."

"Golden Shrimp Balls and Fairy Jumps Over the Wall, these two dishes." Xinyang was about to get up when he heard Lingren ordering two dishes.

"Immortal Jumps Over the Wall is too difficult for me to make. I can try Golden Shrimp Balls, but Brother Lingren, Linghua doesn't even know what dishes Liyue has. How do you know?"

When Linghua heard this, she understood what Xinyang meant and looked at Lingren angrily. Lingren felt a little guilty when Linghua looked at him like that. At this time, Thomas walked in, and Lingren seemed to have grabbed a life-saving straw.

"Thomas, you've come just in time. Xinyang wants to make Liyue cuisine for us today, and we're still short of some ingredients. So, let's go buy some together."

Thomas looked at Ayato in surprise, wondering when the head of the family had to do something like buying ingredients himself.

"No way, Xinyang went with me to buy a lot of ingredients at noon today, probably to prepare for tonight."

Xinyang suppressed her smile and walked quickly to Thomas. "That's right, Thomas. It's for tonight. Go to the kitchen and help me." Without waiting for Thomas to react, Xinyang took him away and closed the study door.

Before they even reached the kitchen, Thomas broke free from Xinyang's hand and said, "Did something happen to the head of the family? He never mentioned going over to buy ingredients."

It would have been better if you didn't say it. Upon hearing Thomas say that, Xinyang laughed again, and holding the packhorse's shoulders, she told Thomas the whole story.

Thomas was speechless after hearing this. "The head of the family is really something. He often eats things outside without telling the eldest daughter."

"Does Ayato do this often?"

"I can't say often. Every time the master goes out shopping, he will buy some snacks he comes across and bring them to Mulou Teahouse. If he buys too much and has some leftovers, he will bring them back for the eldest lady." After saying this, Thomas realized that he had said too much.

"You must not tell anyone about this, especially to the young lady. And don't tell them that I said it, or I will die miserably."

Looking at Thomas's "sincere" eyes, Xinyang had no choice but to agree.

When he arrived at the kitchen, Thomas could only wash the vegetables and peel them because he didn't know how to cook or stew. He left the kitchen soon.

Xinyang knew that Lingren valued Linghua very much and would not easily allow himself to have too much contact with Linghua. If he wanted to marry Linghua, Lingren was another difficulty that could not be ignored. His biggest advantage was that he knew a lot of information and his cooking skills were not bad. To sum up, he had to tell the key information in advance at the right time and conquer Lingren's stomach in order to pass the test of being his brother-in-law.

Looking at the ingredients Thomas prepared for her, although she no longer remembered what delicacies Liyue had, Liyue was a country modeled after China, and she knew most of the Chinese home-cooked dishes, such as stir-fried tomatoes and shredded potatoes with vinegar. Since Linghua didn't like eating animal offal, she could only make some stir-fried meat for meat, and the golden shrimp balls ordered by her brother-in-law.

Xinyang tied on an apron and skillfully cut the ingredients and set them aside. She heated oil in a pan, first put the shredded meat into the pan and stir-fried it, then added various seasonings to taste. After a while, a plate of fried meat with delicious color, aroma and taste was ready.

Next, he began making the golden thread shrimp balls. He peeled the prawns, leaving the tails on, coated them in flour and egg, and deep-fried them in hot oil until golden brown. He then removed the prawns and drained the oil. Finally, he used syrup to create long, thin golden threads, which he then wrapped around the shrimp balls. The exquisite golden thread shrimp balls were ready.

Xinyang brought the prepared dishes to the table and waited for Linghua and Lingren.

Thomas came over after smelling the smell. Just as he was about to grab a shrimp ball with his bare hands, he was interrupted by Xinyang, "Linghua hasn't come yet, why are you in such a hurry?"

Thomas took back his hit hand and complained, "Xinyang, are we still brothers? Didn't you come to Inazuma to see me? But after you arrived at Kamisato's house, you spend every day hanging around the eldest lady."

"What more do we need to say between brothers? Besides, didn't I leave a bucket of dandelion wine in your room the night I came to Kamisato's house?"

Linghua trotted to the dining table and said, "It smells so good, Xinyang. You're such a great cook. Can you teach me?"

Xinyang was about to agree when she saw Thomas gesturing wildly with his arms crossed behind Linghua, and even Lingren was winking at her.

Linghua noticed something strange and looked back.

Ayato quickly put on a normal expression, but Toma couldn't react in time. "Toma, what are you doing?"

Thomas scratched his head awkwardly. "Oh, I was trying to say that cooking is dangerous. Besides, with me here, Missy doesn't need to learn how to cook."

Linghua's face became visibly depressed. Lingren and Thomas just breathed a sigh of relief when Xinyang agreed to Linghua.

"Okay, I can teach you how to cook."

Thomas and Ayato were shocked. Thomas walked over and pulled Xinyang aside, whispering, "What are you doing? Can't you see we're trying to stop the young lady? When she was learning to cook, she almost blew up the society's official, and you still dared to agree?"

Xinyang waved his hand and said, "Don't worry, it's still a little bit off, isn't it? Besides, I'm here. Even if I can't teach her well, Linghua won't get hurt. Okay, that's it."

Xinyang walked over to Linghua and comforted her, "No one can learn to cook well at first. Everyone has their own strengths. I'll teach you later."

At this point, Lingren had no choice but to agree that Linghua could learn to cook from Xinyang. She walked over to Xinyang, patted Xinyang's shoulder, and looked at him with a "take care" expression.

Xinyang thought: Is it really that exaggerated? In the game, the worst thing Linghua did was blow up the stove, so why did both of them look so shocked? And Lingren once did something as unbelievable as throwing cake into a hot pot. Linghua should be better, right?

Just like that night, there was not much conversation at the dinner table, and everyone was eating voraciously.

After dinner, Ayato actually asked Ayahua to take Xinyang for a walk outside Kamisato House for the first time.

"Did I hear correctly, Brother Lingren? Are you comfortable letting Linghua and I go out together?"

"That's right. How can I not go out for a walk after eating so much? It's safer with you. If you don't want to, forget it, Thomas."

Xinyang quickly interrupted Lingren, "Hey, okay, Linghua, I haven't been outside Kamisato House yet. Can you take me for a walk?"

Linghua smiled and nodded, "Of course, we are good friends."

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