Yuanshen everyone has become my figure

It was rare to have no class today, so Chu Luye, who took the time to finish his homework, hurried back home.

To his surprise, today's house is very lively.

As soon as the door of the house was pushed open, the noisy breath of life rushed to Chu Luye head-on.

He took a closer look, only to find that the living room was full of people.

Zhongli, Xiangling, Mandrill, Qiqi, Wendy, Yanfei...

Except for the out-of-the-ordinary Mond, almost everyone in Liyue gathered here—and they all surrounded a table that was tightly blocked by them, and they didn't know what was on the table.

The abrupt Mond people were the first to discover Chuluye who came back suddenly.

"Yo! Traveler, long time no see!"

Wendy waved and smiled, and greeted Chu Luye.

One stone caused a thousand waves.

Everyone who was originally focused on the table in front of them raised their heads one after another, and their eyes focused on Chu Luye.

"Traveler! I thought you weren't coming back today either!"

"Long time no see, is your studies going well?"

"As soon as you come back, it seems that asking for leave today is the right decision."

"……haven't seen you for a long time."

"Ah...you are, Qiqi remembers you, it seems like a long time ago when we last met."

Not long after, Chu Luye became the focus of everyone's attention again. Chu Luye stiffened his body reflexively, and then slowly relaxed.

"Long time no see, everyone."

He naturally showed a smile and walked into the crowd.

"So, what are you guys doing?"

Chu Luye poked his probe curiously.

However, the height that no longer increases with age does not give him face at all. Even after a year has passed, Chu Luye still has no way to see what is surrounded by everyone.

"puff."

Not sure if it was... well, it was obviously Wendy, and let out a short laugh.

Chu Luye turned his head, narrowed his eyes slightly, and showed him a look full of deep meaning.

The translation of the content is probably: "Do you still want to drink with me?"

Wendy then pretended to be nonchalant, and quickly changed her words: "Well, I didn't say anything."

However, a brisk smile still involuntarily leaked from the corners of his eyes and brows.

Obviously, he accepted what Chu Luye meant, but he didn't fully accept it.

In the end, Zhong Li who was on the side stepped back, and thoughtfully gave Chu Luye a place where he could see the desktop.

"Actually, there's nothing..."

Chu Luye, who hastily squeezed into the crowd, saw the things on the table, and his mind was filled with question marks.

On the table is a bag of scattered white rice, some ingredients, and many large green leaves stacked together.

With years of cooking experience, Chu Luye recognized the difference between the white rice and the rice they usually eat, and guessed that the rice was probably glutinous rice.

But Chu Luye really didn't know what the long strips of green leaves were.

He looked up suspiciously and looked at Zhongli who was explaining to him.

Zhongli smiled slightly: "Xiangling said that he wanted to study foreign cuisines—today happens to be one of their festivals, called the Dragon Boat Festival."

"Yes Yes."

Hearing Zhongli mention her, Xiangling nodded quickly, and excitedly told Chu Luye the whole story of the matter.

Chu Luye suddenly realized why everyone suddenly gathered together today.

It turned out that Xiangling had been studying the ingredients of this world before, so she found the country on the other side of the sea along the way with the ingredients and seasonings she wanted, and found many interesting recipes and the like.

This zongzi-making activity started off just because the time was just right, so Xiangling wanted to try it out today, but in the end, somehow, it developed into a situation where a group of people watched.

"In this case, how about holding a zongzi making competition?"

A voice suggested.

"Looks like...wait..."

Chu Luye thought for a while, and was about to agree, but suddenly realized that something seemed wrong.

"Dadalia?"

Chu Luye suddenly looked up, and found an orange hair that suddenly appeared in the crowd.

"When did you come here?"

"Oh, this one."

Dadalia pointed back at the basement door that was still open behind him, showing a sunny smile.

"I just came here not long ago, and I just heard about Zongzi... So how about holding a competition? The person who ranks first can get a wish!"

"A wish?"

Wendy, who caught the keyword with one ear, her eyes lit up, and she raised her hand first: "I want to participate!"

"Haha, if you want to compete, of course you can't do without me."

Dadalia, who first brought up this topic, raised his hand heartily, indicating that he would also participate in the competition.

"Would you like to make zongzi? Then add me too!"

Xiangling raised her hands excitedly, obviously also very supportive of this proposal.

"and many more……"

Chu Luye widened his eyes slightly, watching helplessly as a group of people suddenly decided to compete, and he decided that the No.1 prize was a wish.

——Who can realize this wish, and it will not fall on him in the end!

However, Zhongli pondered for a while, and at this moment he spoke: "It sounds quite interesting, I wonder if I can join in?"

Xiangling smiled: "Of course!"

"Wait... Mr. Zhongli, why don't you..."

Chuluye showed a desperate look of "what's going on in this world".

"It's just a game."

Zhongli lowered his eyes and smiled at Chu Luye: "Everyone will not make wishes that are difficult to realize."

Chuluye was taken aback.

Before Xiangling nodded in agreement, Wendy let out a big booing sound.

"How can you make such a request, old man? Wouldn't the attractiveness of the reward be greatly reduced if you said that? Everyone can only make some trivial requests."

Wendy cast a disdainful look at Zhongli.

...So you want to make some unreasonable demands, right?

Chu Luye's eyes died suddenly, and he silently crossed out the amount of wine to entertain Wendy next time in his heart.

Seeing this, Yan Fei, who had been watching from the sidelines, clapped her hands and said with a smile: "In this case, I will not participate in this competition. The competition still needs a referee, right? How about I do it?"

No one objected.

Everyone has heard about Yanfei's impartiality, and she is the most professional counterpart among all present.

"Well, before the game starts, I will confirm the participants again."

Yan Fei looked around.

Chu Luye immediately realized that there was another person who had not spoken.

He looked at Mandrill who was leaning against the wall with his arms folded.

Mandrill, who received the line of sight, raised his head, his eyes were as cold as ever: "Mortal entertainment, I..."

"I'm not interested in any of that."

Chu Luye imitated Mandrill's tone and completed the next words for him.

Mandrill choked up unexpectedly, forgetting what he was going to say next.

Chu Luye immediately made up for the final blow: "But Mr. Zhongli also participated."

One hit kill.

Mandrill was persuaded.

He turned his head a little angrily: "... I see, I will participate in this competition."

Yan Fei clapped her hands together.

"Okay, then the contestants are all here, please step back, and the competition venue is being tidied up now."

Chu Luye, the only one who neither competed nor assumed the role of referee, stepped forward consciously and began to distribute white glutinous rice and zong leaves one by one.

Both money and effort, this is the tragedy of the organizers.

Chu Luye sighed in his heart, but this did not prevent him from having expectations for the next game in his heart.

——Anyway, it’s just a game. It’s worth exchanging one wish for another side that everyone rarely sees, isn’t it?

Chu Luye, who has changed his mentality to invest in the audience, thought so.

"Now announce the rules of the competition - within 10 minutes, use the glutinous rice and zong leaves in front of you to wrap as many zongzi as possible, and the one with the most in the end wins, and can get a wish sponsored by the traveler."

Chu Luye, who was suddenly cueed by Yan Fei, was taken aback, and showed a sponsor's business smile cooperatively, but was confused in his heart:

Where did Yanfei learn the host's speaking skills, and what did she, Mona, and Xiangling watch every day!

Yan Fei, who didn't know what Chuluye was thinking, waved down.

"The game officially begins!"

Everyone's hands suddenly became busy.

I don't know if it was because of the No.1 prize, but the scene was very lively from the very beginning.

Surprisingly, the speed of Mandrill, who was forcibly pulled in by Chu Luye, was not slow.

A zong leaf was rolled into a small triangle in his hands, filled with fragrant glutinous rice, the protruding part was wiped off, and the remaining zong leaves were folded together in his smooth movements.

Before Chu Luye could even see how they were folded together, Mandrill had already tied the red string, and a round and lovely zongzi with distinct four corners appeared in his hand.

"……Wow."

Chuluye couldn't help but let out a sigh of emotion.

Mandrill and Chuluye, who raised their heads upon hearing the sound, looked at each other, then lowered their heads, and for some reason there was a slight deviation in the action of wrapping a zongzi, and a small puddle of glutinous rice leaked out.

Mandrill fell behind.

Chu Luye immediately didn't dare to make any more noise, and watched the next game as quietly as a chicken.

Halfway through the time, Xiangling is temporarily leading.

Relying on her skillful cooking skills and dexterous hands, she completed one dumpling after another, and she is currently ranked first at a speed of ten in five minutes.

Immediately after her is Dadalia.

Relying on a fighter's precise control of the body, he perfectly reproduced Xiangling's movements, but because of the delay in the initial learning stage, he is currently ranked second in the speed of nine in five minutes.

No.3 is Zhongli.

Facts have proved that the adaptability and learning ability of the thousand-year-old man is also terrible. Zhongli's movements are not in a hurry, but the speed of making zongzi is still gradually increasing. Currently, it is seven and a half minutes in five minutes.

Mandrill, who made a small mistake at the beginning, had seven, and was behind Zhongli by half.

As for Wendy, who screamed the most at the beginning and showed the most obvious desire for prizes-he was doing badly.

The zongzi leaf in Wendy's hand was folded back and forth by him, and was brutally raped, but he couldn't change it into the shape that a zongzi should have.

Apparently, he hasn't even figured out how to make zongzi yet.

Wendy then held up the zong leaf and looked left and right, and simply pressed it on the table and tore it, and folded out a thousand paper cranes.

——In a sense, being able to fold a thousand paper cranes out of zong leaves in such a short period of time is also a very powerful skill.

Chu Luye, who was watching the battle, thought of this, and at the same time strictly followed the rules of watching the battle without speaking, and did not make a sound.

However, he didn't make a sound, but there were still people who couldn't stay idle.

Wendy, who was laying to pieces, pressed the Zongye paper crane's wings, and on a whim, lifted it up with a gust of wind.

The Zongye paper crane moved on the table, riding the wind, and flew up staggeringly.

Wendy let out a "wow -" exclamation.

However, the weight of the paper cranes made of Zongye is obviously different from the real ones.

It was the first time that Wendy was not proficient enough to use the wind to support the Zongye paper crane, so the low-flying paper crane wobbled and yawped in another direction.

Fly towards the back of Zhongli's head.

Zhongli, who was still making zongzi with his head down, seemed to have eyes in the back of his head, tilted his head slightly, and avoided the paper cranes flying towards him.

The paper crane then slid all the way down—his pointed head knocked on the head of the pot beside Xiangling.

"Lu?!"

She was concentrating on looking at the rice dumpling, startled, took a step back, and bumped into Dadalia who was on the side.

Dadalia, who dodged subconsciously, stepped back quickly, and the white glutinous rice was scattered all over the semi-finished rice dumplings in his hand.

The crispy rice that didn't hit anything stepped on the glutinous rice, and suddenly became unstable, and sat on the ground with the rice-leaf thousand paper crane on his head.

Xiangling found that the rice dumpling had fallen to the ground, immediately put down the zongzi in her hand, and ran to help the rice dumpling.

"Cracker! Are you okay?"

"... Lulu?"

Sitting on the ground with the thousand paper cranes on his back, who hadn't realized what happened, made a suspicious sound.

Just at this moment——

"time up!"

Yan Fei, pinching the stopwatch, announced.

Dadalia, who suddenly realized that he was still in the game, looked up and glanced at the number of zongzi on the table.

Yan Fei, who was also counting the number of zongzi on the table, smiled slightly and announced No. 1 in the zongzi making competition.

"No.1 is—Mr. Zhongli!"

Slowly placing the last zongzi in his hand, Zhong Li smiled slightly: "I've accepted."

Dadalia was immediately upset.

However, he is not the kind of person who will not admit his failure, so Dadalia just picked up the glutinous rice that he spilled on the ground, and asked, "So, what wish do you want to make?"

His dull blue eyes stared at Zhongli, and if this desire was unreasonable, he would be the first to speak up to refute.

Zhong Li just smiled lightly, and took out a small box with simple packaging from his pocket.

He turned to Chu Luye: "My wish... I want you to wear this."

Chu Luye who opened the small box was stunned for a moment, and looked at Zhongli uncertainly: "Are you sure, Mr. Zhongli?"

Zhong Li smiled and nodded.

"What is it? What is it?"

Wendy poked her head curiously.

Chu Luye had no choice but to turn the box around so that everyone could see what was inside.

——A five-color thread.

"Eh--"

Wendy suddenly showed disappointment in her eyes.

In the end, the rice dumplings wrapped in the competition were steamed by Xiangling in one pot, and everyone was full.

Chu Luye once objected to Zhongli with reason: "This five-color thread should be used to pray for children. I am an adult, so I can't wear this like a child."

Zhongli's answer was a smile: "But you are the youngest among all the people who haven't received it."

Chu Luye looked around—immortals, half-immortals, gods, Zhidong adults, degenerated gods, gods... No, there is another person.

"Where's Xiangling?"

"Grandma Ping has already sent her and Yanfei."

Is Grandma Ping so well informed?

Chu Luye was shocked, and finally put on the five-color thread obediently.

"Dragon Boat Festival Ankang."

Zhong Li smiled at him.

"Dragon Boat Festival Ankang."

Chu Luye, who was struggling to learn Chinese, also replied with a smile, the five-color thread shone slightly on his wrist.

I wish you good health and peace.

Zhong Li's eyes are soft.