Playing house in the anime world

"Is it not delicious?" Gojo Aiko showed a cautious and expectant look, "Half of this was made by me..."

Paimon: "...Ah, the taste of this chocolate! So delicious! Lotus seed chocolate!"

The corners of Ying's mouth twitched. Her acting seemed a bit fake.

But since half of it was made by Gojo Aiko, the remaining half is also black lotus seed candy, so it should be made by Walnut, right?

It makes sense that chocolate is black, but what else can make lotus seed candy black?

Is it really caramel?

Paimeng didn't dare to try any more, so he immediately turned around and encouraged Ying to try it as well.

If you are lucky, you will get the lotus seed chocolate made by Aiko!

Paimon tried to wink at Ying.

Ying silently took one from the plate in Zhongli's hand. Before putting it into her mouth, she secretly observed it and smelled it. It was very good, a slightly transparent black color with a caramel flavor. This was definitely a caramel lotus seed made of walnuts!

"How is it? Is it delicious?" Hu Tao came over with an expectant look on his face.

Ying: “…delicious.”

She didn't mean to do it, the taste was indeed okay, but a little bitter, probably because the caramel was overcooked, or she deliberately made it a little darker to get such a dark color.

"Ganyu, do you want to try it?" Ying remembered that Ganyu seemed to be very concerned about the lotus seed candy just now, probably because of Zhongli.

"I...um...I have to go to work..." Ganyu felt a little embarrassed in front of Zhongli.

"Then let's pack some for Sister Ganyu to take away!" Aiko Gojo took out a paper bag from somewhere.

"Guest, why don't you quickly prepare some lotus seed candy for Miss Ganyu?" Hu Tao felt an inexplicably subtle atmosphere in the air, and she immediately decided to break it.

Then the atmosphere seemed to become even more awkward.

"No, don't bother Mr. Zhongli! I can do it myself!" Ganyu hurriedly packed some lotus seed candies, including those made by Zhongli, Hu Tao, and Wu Tiao Aizi, and then left as fast as the wind while thanking them.

"I always feel like I'm running away..." Paimon shook his head helplessly, "Come to think of it, the Lantern Festival is in two days! Aiko, can you guys clean up your new house?"

Aiko Gojo nodded. She thought it would definitely be possible since there were more people than her.

"We can come and help too!" Paimon was actually thinking that since there was nothing to do in the next few days, they could go to Gojo Aiko's place to play and help at the same time.

"She is so strong!" Paimon pointed at Ying specifically, and Ying cooperated by showing off the muscles in her arms.

"I can also come and help!" Hu Tao pointed at Zhongli again, "It's just right to lend you my guest!"

The Lantern Festival is only a few days away, and most of the work has been done. We have been relatively free these few days, so basically everyone has nothing to do.

"Hehe~ Then let me go to your kitchen and take a look. I always feel that you have a lot of interesting things there!" Kurumi just saw Gojo Aiko take out a lot of strange things.

Although chocolate is not very popular in Liyue, it is very popular in neighboring Mondstadt and Fontaine.

But she also discovered something she had never seen before.

For example, there were candies wrapped in beautiful candy papers, fruits like red raspberries, and some jams that I had never tasted before.

Is this really the benefit of wandering and adventuring in various worlds?

Even in Liyue, where trade is booming, you may not be able to eat delicacies and specialties from other countries, because the food cannot be transported and it spoils too easily.

So you can only go to other countries yourself to know what is there in other countries.

Aiko Gojo looked innocent. Even if Kurumi went to the kitchen, she wouldn't be able to find anything because everything was in her space!

Zhongli sighed silently. He had put a lot of effort into hiding Wendy from the hall master a few days ago.

He had some free time recently, and was thinking of making some traditional snacks like candies, but he was not paying attention and let the hall master sneak in.

He didn't mind the strange dishes made by Master Hu.

Although the dishes cooked by Hu Tao are very imaginative, they are not terrible. In terms of innovative cooking, she cannot compare with Xiang Ling.

He was mainly worried that Master Hu would discover something abnormal about Gojo Aiko. Given Master Hu's curiosity, it would be bad if she went into it further.

Fortunately, she has not become suspicious at the moment and just thinks that the strange things on Aiko Gojo's body are specialties of other countries.

"Ai Zi! Let's eat something in Wanmin Hall first?" Paimeng's eyes lit up immediately when he saw Xiangling not far away.

"A bowl of dragon beard noodles will do for me." Aiko Gojo had secretly eaten a lot of snacks while studying lotus seed candy with Kurumi just now, so she was not very hungry now.

"I saw Xiangling carrying a bamboo basket of matsutake mushrooms this morning. Let's order a meat roll stuffed with matsutake mushrooms." Zhongli didn't think that Gojo Aiko would be full with the snacks he just had plus a bowl of dragon beard noodles.

"Okay, then I'll have another crystal shrimp!" While eating lotus seed candy, Aiko Gojo began to look around for the rice crust.

Every time I pass by Wanmin Hall, I must find some rice crust.

"Zhongli! Where's our food?" Paimon put his hands on his hips, "I'm also a little kid!"

"You should ask Ying to give you some, right?" Hu Tao picked up a black lotus seed candy with a smile, "Would you like to try one? It has a caramel flavor!"

Paimeng immediately turned around and pulled Ying along, saying that the two of them could go and order the food, and there was no need to trouble Guest Zhongli and Hall Master Hu!

"I'll go order a cup of tea." Seeing that someone had taken over the job of ordering food, Zhongli went to Sanwan Buguogang to order tea.

"Alas, my guest likes to drink tea with every meal. Aiko, do you think that if we use the best quality Chenyu Xian Tea to make milk tea, will it taste better?" Hu Tao didn't know what she was thinking of. She had drunk milk tea from Gojo Aiko several times and now she was used to drinking milk tea.

"Then we should use the best quality milk to make this milk tea, right?" Gojo Aiko looked thoughtful, "We should also use the best quality bird eggs and milk to make pudding, and the best sweet flowers to make sugar..."

Hu Tao nodded in agreement: "That sounds interesting. Let's find a chance to steal Ke Qing's tea!"

Gojo Aiko: “…Steal?”

"What do you mean by stealing?" Zhongli came back after ordering tea and just happened to hear Gojo Aiko's last sentence.

"I have a surprise for you, my guest!" Hu Tao waved her hands and began to trick Zhong Li, "Do you want to know?"

"Since it's a surprise, it wouldn't be a surprise if you let me know in advance, right?" Zhongli could only choose not to ask further questions.