Chapter 736: That's all, a blessing of true love and melancholy

"Salted herring...Unripe violet melon...Dumplings...Something that freezes your tongue..." Thomas said weakly, "I feel like my life is going through a revolving lantern. Goodbye, everyone..."

"It's because Thomas put a lot of weird things in there, and he's been fishing out the ingredients he put in." Paimon put his hands on his hips.

The seats for the crowd were Thomas, on Linghua's side, Jiang Yi opposite Linghua, and in front of Thomas were Paimeng and Ying.

"Actually, Thomas... you don't have to try so hard. It's okay. Just make a few wrong guesses on purpose, and then you can pass the ball to Ayaka or Ying." Paimon shook his head.

Thomas smiled bitterly and didn't explain. This was a man's responsibility, and he really wanted to change his luck. "My luck has not been very good recently and in the future, so I will definitely get the blessing of the God of Hot Pot. I may have overexerted myself without realizing it. But it doesn't matter. Just treat it as a kind of practice... I can feel that after all this trouble, my bad luck has run out!"

As he said that, he looked at Jiang Yi, thankful for Jiang Yi's help in sharing some of the burden.

Jiang Yi also protected the two girls on his left and right in the game and deliberately ate the worse food.

"How are you, brother?" he asked.

"Good health and good condition!" Jiang Yi smiled. "I am very interested in telling you about the delicious food I ate in Mondstadt and Liyue. They are not inferior to these hot pot dishes! For example, the witch's vegetable soup and love potion, the scout knight's fragrant grilled steak, the wind dragon's scales, the slime mushrooms, and the colorful glazed pancakes..."

"Thomas, Jiang Yi's stomach is made of a black hole, so don't ask him." Ying said with a smile.

"Black hole?" Thomas' mouth twitched slightly. This is a...very scary description, right? ?

"Are the delicacies that Young Master Jiang Yi mentioned real delicacies?" Kamisato Ayaka was curious. From the name, except for the scales of the wind dragon, everything else seemed... quite normal, right?

"Uh! I think it's better if you don't ask too many questions, Linghua." Paimon stopped.

"Ahem!" Thomas felt his throat and mouth burning. "Now it's over, it's time to present the awards. I declare that today's hot pot game is over, and I am the winner!"

"Reward... a glass of water. Rest for an hour."

He quickly slipped away and rushed out to drink water and rest.

"It seems like I'm feeling really uncomfortable." Paimon touched his stomach, fortunately he didn't eat those weird foods.

"Hehe! But I didn't expect Linghua to put small cakes in the hot pot. It's unexpectedly dark." She narrowed her eyes and teased, "Cooking cakes in a hot pot... um... imagine the taste... In the end, it was eaten by Ying."

Ying didn't care. This cake made her feel like she was participating in some dark cuisine.

"S-Sorry... I thought it would be delicious..." Kamisato Ayaka blushed and lowered her head.

"Alright, alright!" Jiang Yi said, "The game is over. Thomas will stay in the Mulou Teahouse to avoid bad luck in the next few days. I'll take you back to Shenlifu!"

"Thank you, Mr. Jiang Yi!" Kamisato Ayaka bowed with a smile.

"Ying, their names are so formal?" Paimeng whispered to Ying.

"What do you want to say?" Ying rolled her eyes.

"Hehe! I didn't prepare to say anything!" Paimeng smiled with his hands behind his back. At this distance, Jiang Yi could not hide it.

She just thought that something must be going on between Linghua and Jiang Yi, so she pretended to be polite in front of outsiders.

Her gossip fire was burning so fiercely about what happened in those two days that she could hardly suppress it.

I'm really curious whether Kamisato Ayaka really went astray and fell into Jiang Yi's hands.

"You two are going back to Kamisato Prefecture, right?" Ying thought for a moment, "I want to go to other places in Inazuma Castle and investigate some of the rituals that Tenryo has been practicing recently, so I won't go back with you."

Once she promised to do something, she would be very conscientious and responsible.

The fight against the Eye Hunting Order starts with these small things.

"Ying, it's okay to take a rest." Kamisato Ayaka said hurriedly.

"I know! We will take care to rest. The main reason is that we didn't do much these two times, so let Paimeng and I take action." Ying said, "The job of protecting Linghua is left to you."

Jiang Yi looked at Ying, Ying looked at him and blinked.

Why is there such an awkward atmosphere?

Just like cheating in front of someone else, and someone is still assisting with a sour look?

"I'm leaving first." Ying turned around and took Paimeng away.

"Ying, are you really planning to secretly follow behind and observe?" Paimeng whispered after leaving the Mulou Teahouse, "Going to the Adventurer's Guild is just an excuse, right? If we leave, they will reveal things we don't know."

"..." Ying, "Shut up, Paimon."

Wood leak tea room.

Jiang Yi and Kamisato Ayaka went to meet Thomas.

"I'm much better. Don't worry about me. Just be careful outside." Thomas's complexion improved.

"Be careful, if someone from Tianling who follows the 'Eye Hunting Order' comes looking for you, don't go out. Just wait until the ceremony is over." Kamisato Ayaka warned.

"I know. Here, I might ask someone to prepare the ingredients for the next 'hot pot game'. Haha, I'll go clean the table." Thomas smiled optimistically.

Kamisato Ayaka nodded and walked outside.

"Oh! There is no time to breathe at all. I originally wanted to do some things... It seems that I have to put them aside for later." After she went out, she sighed while looking at the cherry blossoms outside.

"What is it?" Jiang Yi asked, glancing back.

The golden and white hair disappeared in a flash.

I was a little speechless.

Ying and Paimeng, do you two have any idea? How could you possibly hide this from me?

What do you want to do?

"I was originally planning to ask you for help." Kamisato Ayaka looked up, "However, this is an emergency, so I can only tell you later!"

"Okay!" Jiang Yi looked at the dancing fan in his hand and smiled.

We sailed on the sea to Kamisato Prefecture.

Ying and Paimon stood on the shore.

"Did you hear that? Ying!" Paimon looked at the two people on the boat with eyes as bright as fire. "They really have something to do. There is something they can't do now."

"I'll have to pay more attention to it in the future." Ying's eyes were calm, "But I think the real secret has not been exposed yet."

"That's right!" Paimon nodded, "Follow him!"

"Hey! Ying, why did you leave?"

"Let's go to the Adventurer's Guild." Ying walked with firm steps. "We'll investigate this later. Let's go check out the commission first and find out if Inazuma has any trace of the Abyss Cult."

"Ah!" Paimeng didn't expect that Ying's purpose suddenly turned to this. Is he planning to find his brother?

"Wait for me!" Paimon hurriedly caught up.

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"Does Miss Linghua usually eat cakes?" Jiang Yi suddenly asked on the boat, "Today is your birthday, right?"

"Huh!? How did you know that?" Kamisato Ayaka was surprised.

"Although there are not many decorations, there are still some changes in the Mulou Tea House. They were made by Thomas, right? There is also the hot pot game and the text on the complete little cake." Jiang Yi said.

"Master Jiang Yi, you are very observant." Shen Li Linghua covered her face with a fan, "Today is indeed the day! But I thought it would not be a good idea to hold a big birthday party in such an atmosphere, so Thomas only ordered a small cake for me and prepared a hot pot game to secretly celebrate my birthday under the celebratory banquet to liven up the atmosphere. I also changed some flowers and decorations in the Mulou Tea House."

"I guessed it right." Jiang Yi said with a smile, "I have a nickname in Mondstadt and Liyue, Happy Birthday Master."

"What a strange nickname?" Kamisato Ayaka wondered.

"So, knowing the girl's birthday, it's natural to give her a gift!" Jiang Yi said with a smile, "As allies and friends, even though we've only known each other for a short time, it shouldn't be abrupt. I don't have anything prepared, so I'll just give you a magical conch."

He reached into his sleeve and pulled out a glowing blue conch.

"The Echo Conch can randomly record one or two short sentences and keep them for a thousand years. It is a special item obtained from a mysterious sea in Mondstadt. This one has never been recorded before, so I used runes to design a switch for it to record and gave it to you."

Kamisato Ayaka took the wonderful conch and touched the runes on it with her fingers.

"Ms. Linghua, happy birthday!" Jiang Yi smiled.

"Ms. Linghua, happy birthday!" Kamisato Linghua looked at the runes that lit up and dimmed, put the conch shell in her ears, and heard Jiang Yi's blessing just now.

“It was recorded,” she said.

"There are runes on it that can delete sounds..." Jiang Yi reminded.

"No! This sentence is very good." Kamisato Ayaka raised the conch with a smile.

"Actually, you can use it to record other things." Jiang Yi looked at the girl with gray-blue eyes whose snow-white hair was blowing in the sea breeze.

"That's enough. Isn't it meaningful?" Kamisato Ayaka shook her head. "But I seem to understand why you are called Happy Birthday Master. You must have said this to many girls."

Jiang Yi was speechless.

"But I can feel the sincerity and melancholy in it!" Kamisato Ayaka didn't say anything. She felt that Jiang Yi's blessing was as if he had known her for a long time, and then to make up for the lost birthday, he said the four words "Happy Birthday" to her.

"Melancholy?" Jiang Yi recalled the letters that characters in the game would send him on their birthdays. It should have been their birthdays, but they were gifts from them.

I just felt that now that I had come to the real Teivat, I could respond.

Give them gifts and blessings.

So I want to leave none behind.

"Mr. Jiang Yi, can you tell me what you do on birthdays in your hometown? How do people celebrate their birthdays in Mondstadt and Liyue?" Kamisato Ayaka asked while standing on tiptoe, with her hands behind her back, looking at the Kamisato Mansion on the island.

"In my hometown, people also eat cakes, longevity noodles and eggs just like Liyue..." Jiang Yi stood at the bow and spoke softly.

Kamisato Ayaka listened carefully.

In the night wind, cherry blossoms are floating on the sea.

Dots of pink carry the moonlight.