Chapter 449: Dignity is more important than starvation, discussing fate, fighting against the sky

Put the fishing rod on the chair.

Jiang Yi raised his head and took a sip of the wine in the emerald jade gourd.

When the hour was up, the spirits of Yingda, Fanan and Mi Nu returned to the cave, and Shenhui Zhanyan returned with the emerald gourd and all his strength.

After sitting for a while, Jiang Yi heard Paimeng's call and got up to eat at the open-air dining table on the ground floor of Wangshu Inn.

"Yes! An order of crab roe tofu." Ying said to the waitress of the inn while holding the menu.

"Although tofu is a common ingredient, it is a perfect match with crab roe. It is one of our signature dishes." The innkeeper introduced the dishes with a smile.

"There are also golden shrimp balls." Ying ordered the second dish.

"Golden shrimp balls are made with big, fat shrimps and coated with crispy fried potatoes. The taste is amazing." The waitress in the inn said seductively.

Mona swallowed and her throat moved.

"Vegetarian abalone and pickled pork with preserved vegetables." Ying ordered two more dishes.

"The first dish, as the name suggests, is vegetarian abalone, but the taste is no less than real abalone. The second dish is a favorite of regular customers. Bamboo shoots, meat and ham are cooked together to create a flavorful soup. If you pour two spoonfuls of it into a rice bowl, no amount of rice will be enough!" The innkeeper's waitress wrote down the four dishes Ying ordered.

"So many? Okay! Three and a half people, that's not unacceptable." Mona held the wallet.

"What? That's not how Paimon counts! Jiang Yi and I haven't ordered what we want to eat yet!" Paimon picked up the menu, "I want squirrel fish, tender pepper chicken, and pearl jade white jade soup."

"Ying's master is treating us, Jiang Yi, you're welcome!" She passed the menu to Paimeng.

Mona tightened her grip on the wallet: "Yes... yes! As Ying's master, I am very generous. As long as you finish everything you ordered and don't waste food."

In order to avoid being exposed when she went to Mondstadt, she prepared herself and Ying to adapt to the performance of the master-disciple relationship in advance.

Ying couldn't refuse and could only accept it.

She just couldn't help but tell Mona that Keli didn't know astrology at all, but Mona still insisted.

"You don't have to worry about that. Even if we cook and serve all the ingredients prepared by Wangshu Inn today, Jiang Yi can finish it. Please don't underestimate the stomachs of people from other worlds." Paimeng put his hands on his hips, looking proud.

Ying's face was full of question marks, Paimon...don't include me in this and cause other people to misunderstand.

The waitress at Wangshu Inn introduced the dishes conscientiously.

Jiang Yi was too lazy to listen and just picked up the menu and started browsing.

“That’s all!”

"Okay! Okay!" The innkeeper's waitress was excited. "The dishes will have to wait a while. You can have some tea first. I'll have someone bring up a plate of cold dishes. It's free."

"Free!" Mona was surprised. She had never encountered such a thing before.

"Wait!" She remembered a rumor that if the consumption reaches a certain level, most restaurants and inns will give away something.

"I, I just want to ask, how much is the total cost of the dishes ordered now?"

The innkeeper quickly calculated, "It's about 50,000 Mora. This kid and the girl ordered 20,000 Mora, and the handsome guest also ordered more than 20,000 Mora."

Mona, who had just eaten a spicy meat steamed bun a few days ago, was drowsy from hunger, but she suddenly became very awake.

She tilted her head, looked at the menu, and stammered, "I... I just want a bowl of vegetarian noodles."

"I've got it!" The waitress put away the menu and trotted upstairs.

Jiang Yi looked at Mona who suddenly became weak and thought that he was such a bad guy.

I went to Mond and treated her to a good meal.

As the last meal before leaving Liyue, he wanted to eat something good. After all, it might be a long time before he could return to Liyue. But since the other party offered to treat him, he would be embarrassed to pay for the meal alone!

"There are so many dishes that one table may not be enough. I'll pull the one next to it over." He stood up and put the empty table together with this one.

He took some time to go to the inn's kitchen and told Yan Xiao to prepare something that Jiang Xue liked, and he would pay for it.

A large table of dishes was slowly served.

Mona lowered her head and ate the delicious vegetarian noodles with tears in her eyes.

"Golden shrimp balls, so fragrant. Mona, would you like one?" Jiang Yidu asked for a pair of chopsticks and picked one up for Mona. "If you don't act quickly, Paimeng will grab them all soon!"

"Yes! Mona, eat these dishes together! Why are you only eating noodles!" Paimon ate with relish, eating rice and picking up dishes.

"No! No!" Mona looked at the golden shrimp balls in the bowl and waved her hands, wanting to say that she didn't like it.

Although it was Mona who was treating, Jiang Yi felt like the host: "Anything else you want? Some vegetarian abalone? It goes really well with noodles."

"The meat roll stuffed with matsutake mushrooms I ordered is also good! Stir-fried river fish? Boiled black bass? Tianshu meat?"

Mona picked up the bowl and refused seriously: "I treated you to the food, you can eat it yourself, I just want the noodles!"

“Only by living a simple life can we glimpse the truth of the world.”

"As an astrologer, I have always been very strict with myself."

Now that the other party has said so, can Jiang Yi, Ying and Paimeng still stop the other party from practicing?

But Jiang Yi finally saw what it meant to suffer in order to save face.

He was so greedy that he ate all the golden shrimp balls in the bowl!

After the four of them finished eating, Ying and Paimeng felt a little full, mainly because they hadn't digested the spicy meat steamed buns they had in the morning.

Jiang Yi ate the last bowl of rice and drank up all the soups from the dishes. Guoba saw this and definitely praised it.

Mona also finished her vegetarian noodles.

"Gu Gu Gu Gu——!"

In this sumptuous meal that just ended, some people were not full.

The atmosphere became awkward.

"Mona, are you short of money?" Paimon realized belatedly, "No matter how simple your life is, you still have to have enough food! You want to save face, but you only ordered a bowl of vegetarian noodles, and you don't want to eat what we ordered... Hmm... I remember the Inazuma light novel described this kind of personality like this..."

"I heard everything!" Mona was furious. "This is the practice of astrology, the practice."

"It's not because of a lack of Mora, such a cheesy reason."

"Astrologers should focus on studying the stars, limit their material desires, and not let the mundane things of the world disturb their minds and affect their judgment. This is cultivation."

"Using Mora to excessively satisfy physical desires is vulgar..."

"Cuckoo-"

"...and dangerous."

Paimon rolled his eyes and spread his hands, "How unconvincing!"

"This dignity of an astrologer is too hard to understand. However, I know that it is wrong to watch you starve when only the three of us have had a feast."

Ying said, "Let me show you my skills. At least I can make sure you're full!"

"Instead of buying it from Mora, I can get the materials and make it myself. This is also a simple life without Mora satisfying my desires!"

"I'm going to borrow the kitchen."

Ying and Paimon run away.

Jiang Yi looked at Mona with a smile, and Mona felt even more embarrassed when she was looked at: "You really don't have to waste your time on me, go and persuade them, I'm not greedy at all..."

"Although I'm still a little hungry, it's no big deal. When I'm hungry, I'm more energetic. When I'm full, I feel warm and sleepy, and I can't study or do research."

"You understand, right?"

Jiang Yi stacked up the dishes and asked the inn maid to clean them up.

He put the table back together: "I don't understand!"

"Let me ask you a question. Fate in this world cannot be changed, so does the fate of the animals and plants I eat change? After all, I am not a person of this world."

Talking about serious issues, Mona regained her confidence and pride: "That doesn't count, because they are destined to die and be eaten by other beings, so you didn't change their fate."

Jiang Yi nodded: "So, is our meeting beyond fate's expectations?"

“All the stars are in their orbits, but there are always special stars in the world that deviate from their predetermined orbits. Although the process changes, the outcome remains the same. Destiny is still revealed by the stars and has not changed.”

"You distorted the starlight and almost attracted many stars to deviate from their trajectory, but fate remains the same." Mona looked serious, her eyes shining with stars, as if countless star tracks were emerging.

Jiang Yi tapped the edge of the table lightly.

"Will a deviant cause also produce a predetermined result? The fate of Teyvat... I really want to challenge it."

"Fighting against the sky is endless fun!"

He had deep thoughts in his mind and also turned to go to the kitchen of Wangshu Inn.