Chapter 13 Rose Glutinous Rice Balls
Due to the frailty caused by his fragile heart in his previous life, Jiang You has always had an extraordinary appreciation and love for a healthy and strong body.
In her eyes, those muscles with clear boundaries, beautiful lines, full of endurance and explosive power, firm yet elastic, are the reflection of the combination of a healthy and beautiful body and a strong and resolute heart.
——Without perseverance, hard work, and persistence day after day, strict management of the food intake, and strict adherence to and completion of a scientific training plan, it would be impossible to create such an enviable, strong, and perfectly perfect physique, even in the magical world.
After coming to this world and becoming a lich, Jiangyou, who was left with only a skeleton, temporarily lost the opportunity to develop beautiful muscles. However, she unexpectedly discovered that as a faceless, skinless and fleshless skeleton, she would no longer be subjected to gender gazes from others, but could stare at anyone without restraint!
After hiding the platinum phylactery inlaid with emeralds and rubies that he found in the sarcophagus, the "immortal" skeleton craftsman You is now full of confidence and is not afraid at all!
Her blazing, soul-fire gaze, threatening to burst into flames, seared Andrei's back into a cold sweat. The Kingdom Knight, always interrogating and probing others, attempting to uncover the ugly truth beneath layers of hypocrisy, rarely found himself the subject of scrutiny. He paced restlessly around the room.
"Everything is suspicious," Andrei pondered. "A magic idiot who frequently made mistakes and was expelled from the Royal Magic Academy was able to draw this series of magic circles without any mistakes, sacrificed his own life and body, summoned unknown souls to refine liches, and finally died without any evidence..."
He glanced at the skeleton again: "And it's a failure... Speaking of which, why did it fail? The entire magic circle looks perfect, is it because of insufficient energy?"
——Is this part of some hidden, secret and evil grand plan of the 'Evil Eye Moon'?
However, this 'Jiaoyou' currently looked ordinary. Aside from a slightly creepy gaze, there was nothing unusual about her. Everything she said was corroborated by the evidence left here, and it hadn't caused any reaction from his sword. Clearly, she was telling the truth, and she held no ill intentions...
He looked like a kind and upright passerby who was unfortunately caught up in this lich refining.
Andre's sword was a sacred weapon blessed by his mother, Annina de Dresden, the high priestess of the Lunari Cult. It has the power to detect people's hearts and words. Once it detects that people around him have evil thoughts and tell lies, it will vibrate to warn them.
"Are you broken?" While the skeleton went upstairs to check the fire on the stove and the 'Rose Glutinous Rice' she had been thinking about, Andre turned around and held the hilt of the sword and asked in a low voice.
His sword immediately shook several times in protest.
"Well, it's not broken, so there's absolutely no problem." Andrei rested his right elbow on his left hand and his chin on his right, lost in thought. "Could it be that 'Evil Eyed Moon' just wants a cook? But she's a failure, and a lich's failure doesn't have a tongue, so it can't taste the food...?"
Andrei was baffled. He'd considered everything, except for the fact that this was an accident. After all, in the eyes of a magical genius who had been exceptionally gifted and hardworking since childhood, how could someone who could accurately draw these magic circles even misspell his own soul's true name? This must have been a deliberate voluntary sacrifice.
Andrei, a gifted student with exceptional talent and memory, always able to find the right answer using the correct method, naturally didn't understand the pain of a Magic noob who could always complete 99% of the steps correctly, only to stumble on the last 1%...
"Hello, Jericho..." Andre thought and called out, but there was no response for a long time. He looked up and saw that the entire basement was empty.
Andrei: ...? Wait a minute, where's a knight squire like me?
He walked up the stairs in confusion, and just halfway there he heard cheerful laughter coming from the kitchen upstairs, and Jericho's voice of praise: "Delicious!" "Delicious!"
Andre: “…”
The black-haired knight stretched out his long legs, leaping several steps at a time, and walked to the kitchen in two steps. He found a man and a lich, each holding something and eating happily.
In one hand, Jericho held a rice dumpling, dyed a pink-purple gradient by the juice of rose petals, his mouth bulging with food, like a hamster hoarding food. The Skeleton Lich, on the other hand, held a rose-colored soul fire, slurping it up, his eyes dancing with joy.
Andrei: "..." How come you're eating so soon? And you didn't even take me with you!
Jericho was enjoying his meal when he looked up and suddenly saw his young master's eyes, which were seven parts resentment, two parts condemnation, and one part questioning. He instantly felt guilty: "Ahem, young master, I haven't eaten for most of the day, and this rose glutinous rice dumpling smells so fragrant..."
His young master's eyes looked even more resentful: "...I haven't eaten anything today either!"
"Oh, how can that be?" The lich finished the glutinous rice-flavored soul fire with a faint floral scent in just a few bites. She burped with sufficient energy and enthusiastically brought a small stool. "Please sit down. The rose glutinous rice ball will be ready soon~"
Andre watched her carefully clean her hand bones, then took the spoon that was once considered a "weapon" and scooped a ball of glutinous rice into an empty plate and flattened it, sprinkled a little bit of fine salt to enhance the flavor, and wrapped a candied plum and steamed soft and fragrant rose petals in the middle. Finally, he kneaded it into a round and plump ball that could just fit in the palm of his hand.
Taking into account the appetite of an adult man, Jiang You made three rice balls in a row, put them on a clean white porcelain plate and handed them to him.
"Want to try it? Although I can't taste it, Jericho said it's quite delicious." The skeleton said cheerfully, "Don't mind me, I can't eat human food myself, so I didn't buy much food. I steamed this rose glutinous rice to make wine, but I steamed a little too much this morning, so it's totally fine to share some between the two of you!
"I also made the preserved sour plums these past few days. The ingredients are plums from the tree in the backyard, honey, and roses given by Aunt Wolf next door. They're all natural and pollution-free!"
At her urging, Andrei washed his hands, picked up a rice ball doubtfully and took a bite, and his eyes suddenly widened.
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