Genshin Impact: Legend of the Emperor

In order to entertain Ying and Paimon, Candice spent a lot of time and effort and a lot of Mora.

Just like these special dishes from various countries, the prices of the ingredients used alone are quite astonishing.

For example, the sweet flower in Mond's classic dish, sweet flower stuffed chicken. Although this plant can be found in most areas of Teyvat, if you want to buy a sweet flower in the desert where even people are rare, the shipping fee is not low.

Fortunately, as the guardian of Aru Village, Candice is also a hidden rich woman.

In order to protect Aru Village, Candice has been fighting against the brutal monsters that want to invade Aru Village for generations. The materials of these high-level monsters after being killed are randomly piled up in Candice's warehouse as a collection and a symbol of powerful deterrence.

Just like hunters would hang the heads of various beasts on the wall to show their strength, Candice's ancestors also had the habit of using materials from various powerful monsters to show their strength.

Originally, most of these monster materials could only be used as decorations and were not very useful. But after the opening of the desert trade route, these materials could actually be exchanged for a large amount of Mora.

Candice, who usually uses her own money to subsidize poor villagers and is not very wealthy herself, has become the richest person in Aru Village simply by selling the materials left over from the monsters she killed.

In fact, it makes sense that the materials of these monsters can be sold at such a high price.

These dangerous monsters, such as sandworms, desert scorpions and relic machines, are daunting just because of their powerful combat capabilities.

These materials are of great research value to alchemists and scholars, and it is said that alchemists can use these monster materials to create equipment with extraordinary powers, but I don’t know whether it is true or not.

However, for the mercenaries of the Gilded Brigade, it is enough to know that the corpses of these monsters can be sold for money. As for whether the buyers use them to make wine or for research, why bother?

As a rare celebration moment, in order to make today's party more lively, Candice invited the whole village to attend the party.

There was definitely not enough space for so many people to sit in the room, so the banquet was moved from indoors to outdoors.

Fortunately, the sandstorm was not too strong today, and there were mountain walls around Aru Village to block the sandstorm. Otherwise, it would be easy to spit out half a mouthful of sand while eating a bite of vegetable.

The villagers of Aru Village are generally kind and simple. Now that the trade route has been opened, every household has become wealthy and no longer has to worry about food, so almost every household brings their own specialty dishes to the dinner.

Seeing this scene, Ying's passion as a chef was ignited, and she immediately used the ingredients stored in her backpack to make several signature dishes. These exotic dishes were amazing.

As time passed, more and more people came to the banquet and the atmosphere became lively.

The moon was bright in the sky and the dishes were ready. Candice gave an order to light the open-air bonfire, and then announced the start of the banquet amid the cheers of the crowd.

The children are particularly happy tonight. In the past, they could only stay in the house early at this time, but today they can play with their friends to their heart's content. There are also all kinds of delicious food that they have never seen before, and they can eat as much as they want.

Paimon had somehow mixed in with the children and actually became like their king, commanding a group of children to jump up and down at the banquet, making it very lively.

Sitting in front of the campfire, there is the vast starry sky above your heads. Although the starry sky of Teyvat is fake, looking up will still give you a sense of shock like the real starry sky.

There was naturally no shortage of fine wine at the banquet. The heroic and straightforward character of the desert people made them prefer the strong liquor from Liyue. Here, Mondstadt's wine was considered a drink only for women and children.

But this may be related to the fact that wine is expensive but people cannot enjoy it enough.

However, this banquet was prepared for Ying and Paimeng after all, and these two people didn't look like they could drink, so under Candice's intimidation, everyone just drank a little bit. Anyone who dared to act crazy after getting drunk would definitely be severely punished by Candice and thrown out.

Ying and Paimon were the most distinguished guests of this banquet. As the host of the banquet, Candice certainly could not neglect them, so she immediately raised her glass and toasted them with a glass of wine.

Ying and Paimon toasted Candice with grape juice instead of wine.

People who do not like drinking, including women and children, can enjoy grape juice to their heart's content.

In the desert, where water resources are scarce, even grape juice is a rare treasure, and the children of Aru Village rarely drink it. However, even though these children are very greedy for grape juice, under the leadership of the boss Paimon, they still line up obediently to receive the grape juice.

Even if there were kids who wanted to cut in line, they obediently went back to line up after being scolded by Paimon, which really made Paimon feel relieved.

What surprised Ying the most was that, faced with the delicious grape juice, Paimon actually persisted until the end, and only after all the children had drunk the grape juice did he excitedly go to get his own portion.

When Ying asked, Paimon patted his chest and said in a serious tone: "Is this Paimon's responsibility as the boss?"

"Hey, I learned this from Inazuma's friend. How about it, isn't it cool?"

"A friend of Inazuma?"

"Yes, she is Yan Fei's junior sister. The boss of A Ninja introduced her to me. It is said that she is also the boss of a large gang, commanding four to five hundred people. The boss of A Ninja also said that he would treat us well when we arrive at Inazuma."

"How about it, I'm awesome!"

Facing the complacent Paimon, Ying boasted perfunctorily: "Great, great."

When it comes to making friends, I have to admire this little girl Paimon. She can always get along with others quickly, and strangers will let down their guard against her because of her cute appearance and childlike body shape.

The last time in Liyue, she and Yan Fei only met once. They said hello and left. Although Yan Fei's appearance was not so unrecognizable that they could not recognize her on the street, she and Yan Fei did not even speak more than three sentences to each other.

Not only did Paimon become good friends with Yanfei, he also got to know Inazuma's new friends through Yanfei. Paimon's network of contacts is even wider than hers.

The banquet was still going on. After eating and drinking, everyone started singing and dancing around the campfire, holding hands.

The flames in the bonfire swayed, and the crowd dancing around the flames kept turning. The dancing shadows were reflected on the ground like dancers, or like a light show in a dance party, reflected on the faces of the onlookers.

In the crowd, Ying and Paimeng were gradually infected by the enthusiasm and happiness of the villagers of Aru Village. They threw aside their reserve and joined the jumping team.

There were no rules, no rehearsals, but everyone seemed to learn everything on their own, singing songs that no one could understand and dancing simple and happy dances in unison.