Chapter 485 - Friends Must Part (1/2)

In the subconscious, Lin Luoran thinks what Liao says is impossible.

She doesn’t have the nerve to say that she is familiar with other places but she has been to Penglai herself. People live there. However, there are no cultivators in the country where warriors are highly valued… The stories of immortals are thousands of years ago. Mortals tend to regard cultivators as immortals. If senior cultivators of Gathering Vitality had been to Penglai in Tang Dynasty, there would have been some clues in the mortal world, unless they have not been to the three Kingdoms of Penglai at all.

The times don’t add up.

Lin Luoran refutes Liao but she doesn’t have the time to dig into details. The horse teams from a distance have already arrived in front of the castle.

Besides the Windsor siblings’ horses, the king’s horse is also coming.

Three most important members of the royal family are here and the entire castle is tightly guarded. This is so different from the farewell banquet Lin Luoran imagines. She doesn’t want to hide her dissatisfaction. However, when the King of Nami gets out of the carriage and apologizes gracefully, Lin Luoran’s dissatisfaction disappears in an instant.

Sure enough, no matter how extraordinary her personal ability is, maybe she is still a little citizen in her subconscious mind.

Lin Luoran invites them to take the seat.

Life of Nami n.o.bles is kind of extravagance. The large dining table for banquets is long and wide but Lin Luoran does not choose to use it. Even though it’s a banquet, she does not want people to keep distant.

In the center of the round table, there is a long-necked green-mouthed white porcelain vase with a half-open peach blossom in it. It is charming but not seductive. Windsor II, King of Nami, nods. He is prodigal of praise.

“Is this beautiful bottle from Lady Lin’s hometown?”

Huaxia’s porcelains were once popular throughout Euroe. The appreciation in the eyes of Windsor II is not totally hypocritical. Lin Luoran’s artistic skills enable her to make the pure color and a flowerless porcelain vase. She herself also likes it very much. Hearing the king asking about her hometown, Lin Luoran thinks of many things. She always thinks that what she cares about is the beautiful land of Huaxia in the past. However, now Huaxia is only a piece of scorched land with mutant monsters but she still misses it very much—even Nami Star is picturesque and it has species similar to the earth, it is still not the earth.

Ma Shuangshuang and Han Weiya are serving. Lin Luoran introduces Colin, Ma Yiming, Liao, including cyan little fox to Windsor II. Windsor II acts so perfect and no one can find any mistakes.

Today, a few people work together to cook. The dishes include all kinds of cooking style. Xiaozhi provides the recipe. Living in the military station, this guy has stayed on the earth for many years. He has collected mineral resources while stealing many Huaxia civilization materials… The Alpha Alliance still wants to find a method of “cultivation” from Huaxia’s ancient books. The Alliance really never let go of anything.

Ma Shuangshuang makes kung pao chicken and boiled fish. The chicken was caught in the forest and the fish was caught in the river by her brother Ma Yiming himself. The glowing red color makes Judith swallow, neglecting his father’s watching. He is drooling without any manners.

Ma Yiming is very lazy so he cooks fried steak. Black pepper is not easy to find so he has done some changes to the dish. Although it is still delicious, it has some tastes which are both domestic and foreign, making fried steak a home cooking.

Han Weiya cooks Dongpo meat and West Lake Fish in Vinegar Gravy which are famous Jiangsu and Zhejiang dishes before the New Era. The Han family’s ancestors lived on the coast of Jiangsu and Zhejiang. These two dishes are also considered as Han Weiya’s expertise.

As for Colin… it is indeed a bit bullying to ask an alien to make dumplings and steam buns. Poor Colin Weir clumsily kneaded the dough last night.

Lin Luoran is mixing dumpling fillings and buns fillings. She believes the taste can make people ignore their irregular shape.

The dumplings are filled with pork cabbage, beef celery, egg leeks, fresh mushrooms, and agaric. The dipping sauce is made with homemade balsamic vinegar. If these are fairly simple, then the Crab Roe Packages can show her sincerity just from how it is made.

Ma Yiming spent almost all night catching crabs on the riverside between the manor and the forest to make a few cages of small steamed buns.

People can get crab roe at any season. However, only female crabs with a round belly have nice crab roe. There are crabs on Nami Star but they are too small. Ma Yiming has to grab a lot to get enough raw materials.

With enough crab roe, Lin adds cooking wine, salt, minced ginger and fries them all together. After beating the eggs, she adds the same volume of water with a little cooking wine, vinegar, and minced ginger. After the crab roe is fried, Lin pours the egg liquid with brown sugar, crushed fungus, and monosodium glutamate to make a crab roe paste. Before making buns, pork bellies adds a soft flavor of oil into the crab roe. What’s more, with green onion to make it more fragrant… the delicacy is the most impressive when people make it attentively. Although the crab roe bun shape is irregular, even Windsor II cannot help eating two of them when they are served in a small bamboo cage.

This meal is suitable for both guests and hosts. Even Liao looks up to Lin Luoran. He doesn’t look wretched anymore and he has a very happy conversation with Windsor II.

In fact, regardless of appearance, Liao, who has been in Huaxia for thousands of years, is really a good talker.