As he spoke, he stepped back and saw Wu Lin, whose head was the only part of his body that was covered by seaweed.

Wu Lin smiled helplessly at Lu Yulan. It was his own fault for not helping Lu Fangyao when Lu Nanshen was around, so Lu Yulan seized the opportunity to throw him into the sea.

There's nothing I can do; the kid is too stingy, so as his father, I have to go along with him.

Wu Lin even had a small, light purple ball tied in his hair.

"Sister-in-law, what do you think? Isn't it beautiful? My masterpiece."

Lu Yulan watched as the small, light purple ball was covered with white, needle-like straws, or rather, tentacles, which kept changing color and even moved slowly over Wu Lin's head.

This explains why Wu Lin and Lu's younger brother have a good relationship.

If girls played like that, their relationship would have collapsed long ago, and she'd be scratching you so badly your own mother wouldn't recognize you.

"Alright, untie him quickly."

These seaweeds haven't changed much; they're still dark green and very thick.

The small purple ball on its head was placed together with the one on its green tentacles.

Like a group of small purple fluffy balls, they slowly wriggled in the water, as if they had gotten tired of playing, and then curled up into a ball, floating in the water.

The green clumps outside, which had been chasing after the green, seemed to have suddenly spotted a group of companions in the water and circled around them.

Chu Rui and the uncle were the last ones, carrying two buckets filled with small seashells and other seafood.

"Sister-in-law, I feel like this must be delicious."

Lu's younger brother pointed to the small purple ball.

Lu Yulan nodded. "Of course."

How could sea urchins not taste good?

Before she could even speak, the little dumpling jumped into the water, grabbed a sea urchin each, and ran off.

Last time I stole their mushrooms, so this time they stole my sea urchins, right?

That's quite interesting.

Lu's younger brother watched the green rabbit dart away and said, "Sister-in-law, I heard that rabbits are at their fattest at the end of summer. Let's eat rabbit!"

The last little dumpling hadn't left yet. As if hearing the sound, it hit Lu's younger brother's foot with a purple sea urchin and ran away.

"Ha ha."

Everyone laughed. "It's not good to eat such a clever little thing."

Lu Yulan gave her younger brother a way out, fearing that if he tried to catch the rabbit, he would be attacked by a bunch of sea urchins.

The group chatted happily, discussing what to eat, but Chu Rui stood quietly to the side, not joining in.

Lu Yulan glanced at her younger brother, thinking that since he was a child sent by her idol, she should take good care of him.

"You may continue."

Then the uncle and I took the seafood back to the kitchen.

Kelp can be used to make kelp soup. As for sea urchins, Lu's younger brother probably likes purple and has collected a lot of them, so we can make sea urchin custard and eat it directly, because she's worried that the others might get diarrhea.

The way seafood is prepared follows a process that goes from complex to simple, a rather rustic approach that Lu Yulan likes.

The main problem was that ever since Xiaomi honed her knife skills, she had been doing delicate work, and her mind was always tense, causing her temples to throb with pain. Fortunately, Xiaomi was considerate of her as a host and didn't force her to master the skills.

However, once Lu Yulan starts something, she has to do it well, otherwise she will think about it even when she sleeps and will be extremely restless.

Making seafood today allows me to relax a bit. As the saying goes, "Stealing half a day of leisure from a busy life, with melon seeds, peanuts, and soda."

If she ever manages to make Coca-Cola, that would be truly remarkable.

[Host, please stop having such dangerous thoughts.]

"Xiaomi! You promised you wouldn't hear what I really think!"

Your eyes look wrong.

Lu Yulan: ...

You're the one with the wrong eyes. Her eyes were practically crescent-shaped from smiling just now. How could you possibly see anything?

While Lu Yulan and Xiao Mi were joking around with their cards, General Lu's progress was not going smoothly.