Chapter 202 Casefile 7: Lich Formation (5)

This three-on-four battle ended at lightning speed with the help of the magical soul fire.

After Andrei tied up Paphis and his servants, who were still in a daze and unable to get out of their emotions, the great magician Mebucha untied the magic barrier, allowing the patrol knights who were attracted by the movement of the magic barrier and had to wait outside to come in and arrest all the prisoners who had fallen into the trap.

"That's really interesting," Jiang You grinned. "They're so proactive, it saves us a lot of trouble!"

The great magician Mebucha put away his staff and coughed lightly at Jiang You: "The little cake we promised you..."

“I’ll go bake now!”

As the owner of most of the food shops on this food street, Jiangyou hummed a song as he walked into the back kitchen of the bakery, took out an egg beater, a spatula, two batter bowls, paper cup molds, eggs and low-gluten flour, preheated the oven, and started preparing quickly.

Separate the golden egg yolks and egg whites, add milk, sugar, oil and flour to the former and mix them into a batter, while adding fine white sugar and lemon juice to the latter in batches and beat until dry foam is formed.

The two batters were carefully mixed together by Jiangyou using the folding method. The light, even mixing without defoaming is the secret to a delicious and fluffy cake.

Pour the mixed batter into a cloth piping bag and squeeze it into a small and exquisite paper cup. It only needs to be filled to 80% and it will expand into a golden chiffon cup cake when baked.

A whole batch of cupcake batter was put into the oven. Jiangyou used magic to measure the temperature of the oven and adjusted it to 120 degrees for 20 minutes, and then baked it at 145 degrees for 35 minutes.

Every oven has its own firepower and temper. At this temperature and time, this oven can bake delicious chiffon cupcakes that will not shrink, crack, collapse or burn.

There are many different kinds of cakes, and the textures vary greatly. However, compared to the thick, greasy, and hard cakes, Jiangyou still prefers the simple version of chiffon cakes, which are soft, fragrant and sweet.

The freshly baked chiffon cake is delicious when eaten alone after it has cooled down a little. If you want to pursue other variations in taste, you can also squeeze cream filling into the middle of the cake, decorate the top with cream flowers, and sprinkle with various dried fruits, powdered sugar, sugar grains or chocolate.

In order to reward the great magician Mebucha, Mi Funa's ultimate nemesis, Jiang You spent a lot of money this time and used all kinds of expensive raw materials without hesitation.

——To be able to solve the big trouble of Mi Funa who was lurking in the dark and coming for him, this little expense is nothing to the current boss You.

In one word, worth it. In two words, a huge profit!

An hour and a half later, the great magician Mebucha smelled the scent and floated into the bakery. Takumi was humming a song and placing the perfectly cooled cupcakes on a tray.

One retains the classic original flavor of the chiffon cake; the second is topped with vanilla cream and a maraschino cherry; the third is chocolate cream, with shaved chocolate flakes sprinkled on top...

In order to avoid feeling too greasy when eating the cake, Jiangyou also made a pot of black tea.

...Although it is already late at night, the magicians are all masters of late-night cultivation who cannot get up during the day and cannot sleep at night. I believe that the top masters and great magicians among them will not care about not being able to sleep after drinking black tea.

Takumi brought a tray with three small cakes, a cup, and a pot of black tea to the Great Magician Mebucha: "Please enjoy your meal~"

A satisfied smile finally appeared on the face of the great magician Mebucha. He sniffed the sweet fragrance, picked up the original chiffon cake, peeled off the wax paper, and took a bite of half of it.

"Delicious!" He praised incoherently, stuffing the remaining half of the plain cake into his mouth. "This is the first time I've eaten such a soft cake. It's light and airy, lighter than a sponge... It's like a sweet breeze!"

He tasted it with satisfaction and said, "Is this the original flavor? Give me more!"

"Okay!" There are still a lot of baked cakes. It is difficult to make those with cream, but you can have as many original cakes as you want.

It was the middle of the night and there was nowhere to sell the baked cakes, so Jiangyou simply packed up all the cakes and gave them to the great magician and Andre to eat while working overtime at night.

After a late-night snack, the two had a much better impression of each other. Jiang You felt that this powerful magician was very easy to please, and Mebucha also felt that Jiang You, the lich, was reliable!

After working overtime to bake the cakes, Jiangyou went home to take a bath and sleep without any worries. As for Andrei and the great magician Mebucha, they had to stay up late to work overtime and interrogate the performance that came to them... ahem, prisoners.

Poor Andre, who worked overtime, didn't come back yawning until noon the next morning. As soon as he got home, he fell into a deep sleep and didn't get up until noon.

"Great Magician Mebucha led a group of knights and took the prisoners back to the capital." Andre found Takumi in the small restaurant. "Is there anything to eat?"

"Yes, you just caught up with the ready-made lunch." Jiang You said, "Today we're having Mom's pig's trotters, and I also made a red oil dipping sauce."

She served Andre a large bowl of snow-white and soft pig's trotters soaked in milky white kidney bean soup, accompanied by a bowl of red oil dipping sauce and a bowl of fragrant white rice. It looked particularly tempting.

"So delicious!" Andrei took a sip of the milky white soup and was immediately surprised. "It's not greasy at all. I feel like my appetite has been whetted!"

He took another big sip, feeling the hot soup sliding down his throat smoothly, warming his stomach that had worked hard all night.

"This soup tastes different from the five-fingered peach soup I had before." He licked the corner of his mouth. "I like this one better."

"Hey, each has its own flavor," Jiang You said. "Dip the pig's trotters in this sauce, it's spicy enough to give it a kick! By the way, is Mi Funa still alive? Have those prisoners confessed?"

Andre nodded and continued while eating, "She's still alive... well, I can't say she's alive. After all, she's been a corpse since three years ago. Anyway, the lightning magic of the great magician Mebucha didn't send her back to the underworld.

"She told me a lot of things, but the Great Magician Mebucha probably has other concerns and doesn't want you to directly extract her soul fire. He has other means to view her memories."

"Oh!" Jianyou had no objection to this. The relationship between Mebucha and Mi Funa was too complicated. It was obvious that there would be many secrets that they didn't want others to know. Jianyou didn't want to be "solved" because he inexplicably knew something he shouldn't know.

"Then should I still eat the soul fire of that Ghost-Faced Man No. 4?"

"Eat," Andre said, "Come with me to the City Lord's Mansion later, and we'll see what secrets are hidden in this soul fire."