There was actually a great man in the God Transformation Stage hidden in the Xuanqin Palace. Qin Ran now had no idea what the Emperor Xuanqin was planning... You know, Qin Ran was not sure whether there were any people in the God Transformation Stage in a sect like the Daojian Sect.
As a result, he dared not approach the palace again and had to wander around Mo City, hiding and looking for another opportunity.
He hid for more than a month... At the end of December, when he had not yet found an opportunity to meet Zhao Zheng and was preparing to plan his own trouble, New Year's Eve arrived.
Xuan Qin and Northern Chu were indeed at war. There were more than one million elite soldiers from both countries facing each other in Wuyi City. The atmosphere was tense and a fight could break out at any moment. Every soldier on both sides was on edge every moment, afraid that they would not see the sun the next day.
But the changes of things and the passage of time never change according to human will.
Although there is no sign of the New Year's Eve either inside or outside Wuyi City, but...according to the time, it is indeed the New Year's Eve.
In fact, Qin Ran could not have imagined that the first time he met his girlfriend's parents would be during the tense war, nor could he have imagined that the first time he spent the New Year at his girlfriend's house would be in the midst of a military campaign.
…According to Qin Ran’s own calculations, although the current relationship between him and Li Shiyin was not clear, it was most likely a boyfriend-girlfriend relationship. After all, they had done all the things such as kissing, hugging, and lifting each other up, in addition to some more intimate exchanges between husband and wife, they had also done all the things that should be done. In fact, Qin was actually the passive party, and he was the one who was pushed by the rebellious disciple.
There is no New Year atmosphere inside or outside the city, but in fact, when people care about this atmosphere, the lack of New Year atmosphere itself is a New Year atmosphere.
People miss their loved ones more during the holidays. On the actual New Year's Day, whether inside or outside the city, the atmosphere is more somber and serious than usual... This is the New Year's Eve in Wuyi City.
Qin Ran was a person with a strong sense of ritual, as could be seen from the fact that he insisted on celebrating various traditional festivals from his previous life even when he was alone in the other world. So, even if no one in the city or outside the city wanted to celebrate the New Year, he still decided to show his respect.
...Even if he wants to defend this city to the death and die in this city, he has to wait until the end of the New Year.
It has been more than a month since he came to Wuyi City. Qin has never been treated specially. He eats whatever the people in the city eat. If there is a shortage of supplies in the city, he doesn't have to eat.
But today, he had to be special... After all, he was a monk.
Early in the morning, he took Li Shiyin with him and walked into the kitchen of the City Lord's Mansion, determined to make a common New Year's Eve dinner from his hometown for his girlfriend's family.
He planned chicken, duck, fish and meat, and made chicken soup, roast duck, braised crucian carp, braised pork elbow, lotus root and spare ribs. As for frying crispy meat, making dumplings and glutinous rice cakes, he also asked Li Shiyin to do some of them.
In short, he made all kinds of home-cooked dishes from his previous life that would be eaten during the Chinese New Year.
In the kitchen, he was the chef, and his silly apprentice was his assistant, washing vegetables, cutting meat, lighting the fire, washing pots, etc. He thought that his silly apprentice would be the kitchen killer who "didn't do anything (even made things worse), but still exhausted me to death", but surprisingly, his silly apprentice helped him with everything, and asked him if he didn't know how to do it, but he always did it well.
She vowed at the beginning of the year to learn how to be a good wife and mother and to prepare for marrying her master. Now judging from the results, she is really serious about it.
Qin Ran added more firewood to the stove and cooked the braised pork elbow over high heat until the sauce dried up.
He stood up from the stove, looked up and saw his silly apprentice washing vegetables seriously and skillfully. He felt really emotional.
At this moment, they really have a warm feeling of an ordinary couple. You plow the fields while I weave, you cook while I light the fire, just like they are really an ordinary farm couple.
He looked at her. The silly apprentice was now less impetuous, more gentle and reserved, and had more feminine charm, which attracted him even more. He was fascinated by her.
After a while, Li Shiyin finished washing the vegetables and turned around. She saw the master leaning against the stove and staring at her. She was not shy at all and was so happy that she quickly put her hands on her hips and tilted her butt, posing, and smiled foolishly, revealing a few white, shell-like teeth, and asked in a delicate voice: "Master, do I look good?"
Qin Ran came back to his senses and saw his silly apprentice's conceited look. He still had some of his old character, but he nodded and smiled, "Yeah, it looks good."
“Hehe…” Li Shiyin looked a little shy now. She felt sweet inside and ran to Qin Ran. She kissed him on the face with a “ah” sound and said proudly, “I think it looks good too.”
The side of her face was still wet, which made Qin Ran feel itchy. He looked at her wet lips and wanted to hold them in his mouth to taste them, but he resisted and joked, "You are so conceited, of course you think you are beautiful."
“Hmm…” Li Shiyin tilted her head adorably, looked at Qin Ran with her big smiling eyes, and said, “I think Master is pretty, too.”
"Master, you're not good-looking!" Qin Ran rolled his eyes, stretched out his hand and pinched her cheek, saying, "Okay, go chop the ribs quickly. It's getting late. Just stew some ribs and we can eat."
His hands had just been used to add firewood, and were full of cigarette ash. When he pinched Li Shiyin's face, his finger marks were all over it... like a tabby cat.
Li Shiyin was so stupid that she didn't know and kept saying, "Master is really good-looking! My master is the best-looking..."
She turned around to look for ribs and started showing off again, "Master, I will chop the ribs for you and make sure they are even and each piece is the same size."
“Yes, yes, yes…” Qin Ran looked at the cat-like Li Shiyin and couldn’t help laughing. He replied, “Your swordsmanship is the most accurate.”
"Humph! Of course not!" Li Shiyin found the ribs and picked them up to wash. She turned around and saw Qin Ran still laughing. She was very confused and asked, "Master, what are you laughing at again?"
"You are so beautiful. I feel happy when I see you. Of course I smile." Qin Ran said seriously.
Li Shiyin was skeptical, but the reason given by the master was completely true, so she nodded: "Of course, I am Li Shiyin, everyone loves me and flowers bloom when I see them."
So, until dinner time that night, the finger marks on Li Shiyin's face were still there.
Qin Ran and Li Shiyin worked all day and finally got a table full of dishes. They invited Li Zhan and Li Shiwen and their spouses, a total of five people, to sit at the table.
Looking at the table full of sumptuous dishes, Li Zhan was a little hesitant. The city was in short supply, but they were being so extravagant. Wasn't that not good?
But the people who cooked were Li Shiyin and Qin Ran, so he didn’t seem to have the right to say anything, and it was difficult for him to say anything…
If we ignore their relationship, these two are two powerful monks who have made tremendous contributions to Northern Chu. Moreover, for so long, these two people have neither received rewards nor preferential treatment. For more than a month, they have been eating with the soldiers in the city and have never been treated specially. Now it is only the special night of the New Year, and it is their own doing. He really has no right to criticize.
So he didn't say anything, but his face looked a little awkward... The soldiers were suffering outside, while he was enjoying himself at the banquet.
Seeing Li Zhan's expression, Qin Ran said, "These are actually some simple meals from my hometown. I brought some down from the mountain when I went out. That's all. Don't blame me, uncle."
Li Zhan shook his head and said nothing.
Seeing this, Li Shiwen said, "I didn't expect that Brother Qin has this skill. It's not simple!"
"You think everyone is like you, who only knows how to eat." Yuchi Zhen complained quietly.
But the atmosphere at the table became much more relaxed.
"Being able to eat is also a skill..." Li Shiwen refuted without blushing, "In the past, when we selected excellent soldiers, we looked at their teeth. If they had good teeth, they could eat more, and if they ate more, they would be healthy! Eating is not easy!"
"Yes, yes, pigs eat the most, so they are also very capable!" Li Shiyin followed.
Qin Ran served chicken soup and dumplings to everyone at the table. Hearing this, he smiled and said, "Pigs are indeed very capable. In fact, pigs have a high IQ. The gene sequence of pigs is only a few percentage points different from that of humans. Sometimes, when a pill is developed and has not been eaten by humans, you can give it to pigs first. If there is no problem with the pigs, then it won't be that dangerous for humans to eat it."
"What is a gene sequence?" Li Shiwen ate a dumpling and said, "Hey! It tastes great!"
“Hmm… the internal secret language of us alchemists.” Qin Ran replied.
"Oh!" Li Shiwen concentrated on eating and nodded.
"I made the dumplings!" Li Shiyin raised her hand and said, "Although the filling was mixed by the chef and the skin was rolled by the chef."
"This thing is called dumplings?" Li Shiwen said disdainfully after hearing what Li Shiyin said, "No wonder it's so ugly."
"If it's ugly, don't eat it." Li Shiyin glared at him.
Li Shiwen raised his eyes to look at Li Shiyin, and saw Li Shiyin's calico face in the light. He couldn't help but laughed out loud, "Hahaha". His mouth was full of dumplings, but he couldn't spit them out, so he kept them in his mouth and choked badly.
"Hey! What are you doing?" Li Shiwen's appearance caused quite a stir, and Li Shiyin couldn't help but scold him, "You're already that old, but you still don't let me trust you. You can't even eat properly."
Li Shiwen felt choked and pointed at Li Shiyin's face and went out to clean up.
"What?" Li Shiyin touched it herself and found nothing.
Yuchi Zhen and Li Zhan looked at her, and when they saw her calico face, they couldn't help laughing.
Li Shiyin then realized that something was wrong with her face. She turned around and asked Qin Ran, "Master, what's wrong with my face?"
Qin Ran said with a serious face, "Very good, your skin is very good. There is nothing wrong with it."
Li Shiyin looked at Qin Ran, not believing him, and took out a small mirror to look...
"Ah! Master!!!" She immediately realized that it was her beloved master who did this!
"Ahem!" Qin Ran looked down at the dumplings in the bowl and thought that these dumplings were real dumplings.
Li Shiyin snorted angrily, stood up and followed Li Shiwen out to wash her face.
"In fact, today it was all thanks to Shiyin's help..." Qin Ran praised Li Shiyin after she left, "Otherwise I wouldn't be able to handle it all by myself."
"You can call me." Yuchi Zhen said, "Although I'm not an expert in cooking, I have learned the basics."
"What did you ask me to do?" Li Shiwen came back, wiping her face with a towel and said with a smile, "Is that what they are doing? ... You are going to destroy other people's feelings!"
Yuchi Zhen smiled and realized that it was indeed the case.
Li Shiyin also came in. She heard this without any shyness and hurriedly added fuel to the fire: "It's fun to cook together... Sister-in-law, you should ask Li Shiwen to learn how to cook, and then you can cook together..."
Yuchi Zhen thought about that warm scene and couldn't help but feel moved, and looked at Li Shiwen.
"Ah!" Li Shiwen was nervous. "I'm just a rough guy, how can I cook?"
“My master will…” Li Shiyin sat back in her seat, next to Qin Ran, and continued to stir up trouble. “My master is much better than you. Humph!”
After all, he is a person who does not bear grudges against his master.
"Your master is not a rough guy. He is very smart..." Li Shiwen hesitated and quickly took a pot of wine from the owner, saying, "This is the pot of wine that Qiqi sent. You can try it too..."
"Brother, don't change the subject!" Li Shiyin said, "How about I teach you how to cook tomorrow?"
"...I'm busy!" Li Shiwen replied, looking for a cup to pour wine for others.
The two siblings quarreled and the party became lively, and it finally had some flavor of the New Year.
The food was delicious and the people were friendly. Li Zhan did not do anything to ruin the atmosphere and his attitude became gentle. He ate the meal and drank some wine. When he was drunk, he started chatting out loud.
"It's a pity that my mother is not in Wuyi City."
The New Year's Eve dinner was over, and the master and disciple sat on the parapet of the city wall, feeling the cold wind and looking in the direction of the Xuanqin military camp. Li Shiyin snuggled in Qin Ran's arms, looking at the darkness ahead, and murmured.
The wine consumed at the banquet was a gift from Lu Junxing to Long Qiqi, and from Long Qiqi to Li Shiwen. It was a spiritual wine, and Li Shiyin drank some and was actually a little drunk.
"Next year during the Spring Festival, we will go to Danyang to cook another New Year's Eve dinner for your mother." Qin Ran hugged Li Shiyin and stroked her face with his fingers, enjoying the warm and smooth feeling of his fingertips, while shielding her from the cold wind that came at night.
"Next year..." Li Shiyin changed her posture, turned around, put her arms around Qin Ran's waist, and asked in a low voice, "Master, can we win? Master...will we die?"
Qin Ran thought of the God Transformation Stage in the Xuan Qin Palace again. If he hadn’t had that God Transformation Stage, he would have had a 90% chance of winning, but…
"We will definitely win, and we will not die." He said with certainty, and then asked, "Do you believe in the master?"
Li Shiyin closed her eyes, smelled the pleasant scent of her master, and felt her master's fingertips sliding across her cheeks.
In her heart, the master is omnipotent and has always been very powerful. He always arranges everything without anyone noticing, and he always makes people feel at ease.
but……
The master never asked her "Do you believe in the master?" But now the master asked her that. The master actually had no idea.
She rubbed her forehead against the master's warm chest, finding a comfortable position. After a while, she nasally whispered, "Master, if you really can't hold on...just leave."
Qin Ran heard this and looked at the darkness ahead, and the fire above the Xuanqin military camp in the distance… If he wanted to leave, he would have left long ago.
"Shiyin..." he called softly, "You are my master's only one, you are the gift this world has given me, you are what I have been waiting for in my past and present lives...
"Master will never leave you."
Li Shiyin hugged Qin Ran tightly, with her little head pressed against Qin Ran's chest. After a while, the clothes on Qin Ran's chest were wet with tears.
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