Daoist Liyue, I live in the Hall of Rebirth!

"Then Gan Yu, let's go in groups of two." Ying sent out an invitation.

Gan Yu nodded.

"Come on, Shen Ming, let's have a showdown!" Hu Tao was full of fighting spirit, and she wanted to give back the bad guy Shen Ming who bullied her before.

Shen Ming folded his arms around his chest, his eyes revealed confidence.

Just kidding, I don’t know how many times I played this organ chess story at the beginning, the information is asymmetric, how can I lose?

Although the game is shown as tower defense in the game, this game is actually a chess and card game in essence. The map is used as the board, and the organs and monsters are used as the pieces. The two sides play against each other.

Shen Ming relied on his familiarity with the rules to kill Hu Tao, and there was not much difference between Gan Yu and Ying. Ying's ability to accept the new rules was faster than Gan Yu, and Gan Yu also lost more than he won.

"Why are you so good at it? Tell me quickly, have you practiced secretly?" Hu Tao said angrily.

"Don't stain people's innocence for no reason. This is a matter of acceptance of new rules. It seems that you are already behind the times." Shen Ming opened his eyes and said nonsense.

As the defender, Shen Ming is very clear about the tower defense rules of the defender, so he naturally has the advantage.

On the other hand, as the monster's attacker, Hu Tao hasn't figured out the best monster combination yet due to her short contact time.

"Come again!"

10 minutes later......

"No, come again!" Hu Tao said unwillingly.

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In the end, Hu Tao only won once when Shen Ming made a mistake, but it was obvious that her familiarity with the rules had grown rapidly.

Ying and Gan Yu reached a balance between winning and losing.

The few people who had enjoyed the game gradually walked back. At this time, it was completely dark. They said goodbye at the fork in the road and made an appointment tomorrow.

Shen Ming and Hu Tao were walking home, at this moment, a sneaky figure appeared in the alley beside them, and the two of them took a closer look.

Xiangling was quietly waving to the two not far away.

"Hello! How's the Sea Lantern Festival going?" Xiangling waved livelyly, but didn't dare to make too much noise because it was too late.

"It's interesting, but then again, you are..." Hu Tao said, looking at Xiangling suspiciously.

Shouldn't it be at the Manmin Hall at this time?

"Hey hey...clang, clang!" Xiangling suddenly took out an ice cream sundae from behind.

"Would you like to try the semi-finished product I made?"

This time, Xiangling changed the shape well, making this sundae look like it has nothing to do with slime.

Walnut took it curiously.

Three blue, white, and purple snowballs were squeezed into the cone, and the surface was covered with a thin layer of ice. At the same time, she inserted a slice of lemon for seasoning.

"This is just a semi-finished product." Xiangling said in a low voice, "I haven't figured out how to express something as precious as gold, and this one is not sour enough."

"Sour?" The corner of Shen Ming's mouth twitched.

He never felt sour when he was making out with Walnut.

"Yes, sour!" Xiangling nodded affirmatively.

"Actually, the relationship between me and Hu Tao is sweet." Shen Ming tried to explain.

"I know it needs to be sweet, but can ice cream not be sweet?" Xiangling said naturally, "but sour is also necessary."

"Really not." Shen Ming said sincerely.

"Hmm..." Xiangling frowned and thought, "I believe in my feelings."

"..." Shen Ming.

Walnut tried to lick it.

"Well!!!"

Tongue is frozen!

It's cold on the top, and the numbing current makes the walnuts goosebumps.

"Ah! I seem to have used too much material." Xiangling covered her small mouth, "Sure enough, I still need to find someone to test it, otherwise the customer will be scolded to death."

"Woo (Xiang)! Woo (Ling)!" Hu Tao stared at Xiang Ling.

"Hey hey... I'm sorry, I'll fix it for you, I'll fix it for you." Xiangling stretched out her claws.

Chapter 230

Walnut has his own solution to the frozen tongue, just pour some hot water on it.

There was no hot water on site, but don't forget that Walnut itself has the eyes of a fire-attribute god, so it shouldn't be too easy to make a fire.

"Wow, Xiangling, you are going to murder." Hu Tao's whole tongue was numb, and she kept wiping her mouth with the back of her hand.

"It's just that the ingredients are too strong, haha..." Xiangling smiled dryly. It's not so easy to innovate cuisine. From inedible to edible, from edible to delicious, it has to go through such a stage.

Especially when the cuisine you want to innovate has no experience to draw on.

Xiangling was too busy thinking about how to adjust the ratio of ice, water and mines, but forgot that if the concentration is too high, it will also cause discomfort.

"However, I have also received valuable experience. Next time, next time it will be delicious!" Xiangling assured confidently.

Shen Ming took the unfinished sundae and tried to take a bite. In order not to go the old way of walnuts, he directly gnawed a small piece into his mouth with his teeth instead of licking it.

The entrance is extremely cold, and the ice water keeps trying to freeze, but it melts repeatedly in the mouth. During this process, the sweet taste of the ice cream itself rushes straight to the head along with the extremely ice-like cold air.

A faint tingling feeling surrounds the mouth all the time, even if swallowed, it still slightly remains. I have to say that Xiangling is a genius. She expresses the electric stimulation when she is in love very well. In order not to let the stimulation be too high, Deliberately use the cold feeling to slightly overwhelm the electric stimulation.

It not only has the cold stimulation of ice cream, but also has the throbbing feeling like electricity. The sweetness of the ice cream itself corresponds well to the main color of love.

That's the sourness...so sour.

Shen Ming expressed her feelings to Xiangling a little bit, and Xiangling also recorded it seriously, but she always remained suspicious in the argument about acid.

Love...isn't it supposed to be sweet and sour?

Shen Ming took a big bite, the cream was all over his mouth, and he tasted it while saying, "Really, love shouldn't be so sour, sourness is a loser who can't ask for it."

"Really?" Xiangling was dubious.

At this time, Hu Tao saw that Shen Ming's mouth was covered with cream, although there was only a little bit of it, she couldn't help but frowned, she stretched out her hand to wipe the cream off Shen Ming's mouth, and then put it into her mouth to suck.

Well, the taste is really good, and Xiangling's talent in cooking is beyond words.

Shen Ming was very happy with Hu Tao's actions, even though Xiang Ling was the only one here who could show off.

Xiangling frowned and sniffled, feeling strange in her heart.

"To be honest, there should be sourness, but there really won't be so much of it. It's a sweet and sour love affair, but sweetness should be the dominant one. Sourness is only about [-]% of the flavoring agent." Hu Tao rarely laughed. I said something from my heart.

But the more Hu Tao said that, watching the interaction between her and Shen Ming, the more sour Xiang Ling became.

"I, I don't believe it, you must be playing a prank again." Xiangling took a step back vigilantly, and she decided to trust her intuition as a chef, "Leave me astray on purpose, I won't be fooled!"

"Just wait, I will definitely be able to cook the perfect love dish."

As she said that, Xiangling didn't seem to want to give Hu Tao time to refute, so she hurried back, leaving only Hu Tao with her mouth slightly open.

Walnut was stunned in the night sky with a cone in his hand.

"Have you heard the story about the wolf coming?" Shen Ming glanced at Hu Tao, "There are too many pranks, and no one will believe the truth."

"I'm really not playing a prank." Hu Tao said sullenly.

"For this kind of thing, the point is not whether you do it or not, but whether the other party believes it or not." Shen Ming said with a sigh, then shook his head, "I guess this love dish will have to be a success or failure dog meal."

"What kind of dish?" Hu Tao didn't understand the connotation.

"It's just something you can't ask for, and you can only eat sour food in the corner." Shen Ming spoke sharply.

"What's that? Your mouth is too poisonous." Hu Tao kept laughing with her hands behind her back.

"I learned from you." Shen Ming continued to walk forward.

"Hey, my mouth is not poisonous." Hu Tao defended.

She really thinks that she is not poisonous, but rather understanding and reasonable.

In a sense, she does not have the attribute of a poisonous tongue, but what she says on certain occasions due to the difference in the three views may be particularly poignant.

But she herself is certainly not aware of this.

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The Sea Lantern Festival is a festival for every Liyue people, naturally including Hu Tao and Shen Ming.

During this period of time when the festive atmosphere was getting stronger and stronger, the two of them wandered around, completely making up for the regret that they did not spend together at the last Sea Lantern Festival, and the time soon came to the last time of the Sea Lantern Festival.

On the square, after the basic design was completed, the construction of the Mingxiao Lantern was carried out quickly. In just a few days, it already had a vivid image.

When the most solemn day of the Sea Lantern Festival comes, the lantern will leave the ground, jump up, gallop in the sky, and finally bloom the most gorgeous fireworks.

It was Liyue people's gratitude and commemoration to the immortals who guarded Liyue, although such sincere feelings don't know how many years it will last.

The formalization of festivals is predictable. This is the case for people who live for less than a hundred years. The next generation will inevitably lack some empathy for immortals, and the next generation will also be the same.

As the saying goes, this festival is not as good as it used to be.

But at least now people can still enjoy this authentic Sea Lantern Festival, rather than purely as a holiday.

Shen Ming and Hu Tao also contributed to this Mingxiao Lantern, they donated a little pumice stone and some useless broken ore.

Purely in the name of the individual, not the Hall of Death.

"Shen Ming."

Standing in front of the almost completed Mingxiao Lantern, Hu Tao held Shen Ming's hand tightly.

"Huh?" Shen Ming responded softly.

"Next year's Sea Lantern Festival, shall we still spend it together like this?" Hu Tao leaned towards Shen Ming.

"Why not?" Shen Ming held Hu Tao's hand tightly.

"We played so crazy at the Sea Lantern Festival this time, and got in touch with a lot of things we haven't seen before." Hu Tao looked up at the thousands of lanterns.

Have you ever seen thousands of lanterns flying together?

Shen Ming saw it at sea last year, but the distance was too far, so he didn't feel much. Hu Tao also saw it last year, but because he was busy with the banquet, he didn't have time to observe carefully.

Now, they have plenty of time to enjoy the scene with each other.

No one will bother.

In the distance, next to the storyteller, Zhong Li is sitting and raising his teacup.

Ying took Gan Yu's hand and wandered around, trying to bring back her lonely state of mind.

The two from Beiguo Bank finally met, and Xiangling finally completed her masterpiece.

Beidou returned from the voyage, and played chess and drinks with Ningguang; Xingqiu and Chongyun were playing Xiaoyao knights in Xiaoshi.

On the grass somewhere, Mandrill looked up at the sky.

The monsters that have been slaughtered for thousands of years are for these bright lights to rise into the sky.

This is Liyue's Wanjia lights.

Chapter 230 Brilliant fireworks, the beginning of a new year

"Don't miss it when you pass by, come and have a look, the latest dish created by Wanmintang Xiangling!"

In Wanmin Hall, Master Mao was introducing his daughter's cooking with a proud face.

Although there is one delicacy in which he thinks that the taste and the thoughts he wants to express are completely split, but the taste is still very delicious, as expected of his daughter!

The people who stopped were curious and tried one after another.

One is a family dish, and the other is a love dish, but no matter which one is, the people who have eaten it are basically very emotional.

The young people with little experience shouted delicious and exciting, while the older ones shed tears in the nostalgia and aftertaste.

That's right, Xiangling's so-called love cuisine created with the template of Hu Tao and Shen Ming has also succeeded, at least it has resonated with quite a few people.