Chapter 343 New Year's Eve (1/2)

Chapter 343 New Year's Eve (1/2)

There was a big man in the God Transformation Stage hidden in the Xuanqin Palace. Qin Ran didn't know what the Emperor Xuanqin was planning... You know, Qin Ran was not sure whether there were any God Transformation Stage people in the sects like Daojianmen.

So he didn't dare to approach the palace anymore, and had to wander in Mocheng, hiding, and looking for opportunities.

He hid for more than a month... At the end of December, when he hadn't found an opportunity to meet Zhao Zheng and was preparing to make trouble, New Year's Eve arrived.

Xuanqin and Beichu were indeed at war. The two countries had more than one million elite soldiers facing each other in Wuyi City. The atmosphere was tense and a fight would break out if they were not careful. Every soldier on both sides of the war was worried every moment, afraid that they would not see the sun the next day.

But the changes of things and the passage of time never change according to human will.

Although there was no sign of the New Year inside and outside Wuyi City,... according to the time, it was indeed the New Year.

In fact, Qin Ran could not have imagined that the first time he met his girlfriend's parents was during the tense war, nor could he have imagined that the first time he spent the New Year at his girlfriend's house was in the military.

...According to Qin Ran's own calculations, although the current relationship between him and Li Shiyin is not clear, it is likely that they are in a boyfriend-girlfriend relationship. After all, they have done all the things such as kissing, hugging, and lifting up, in addition to some more intimate exchanges between husband and wife, they have also done all that should be done. In fact, he, Qin, is actually the passive party, and he is the one who is pushed away by the rebellious disciple.

There is no New Year atmosphere inside and outside the city, but in fact, when people care about this atmosphere, the lack of New Year atmosphere itself is a New Year atmosphere.

Every festival makes people miss their relatives more. On the real New Year's Day, whether inside or outside the city, the atmosphere is more depressed and serious than usual... This is the New Year's Eve in Wuyi City.

Qin Ran is a person with a strong sense of ritual. This can be seen from the fact that he still insists on celebrating various traditional festivals in his previous life when he is alone in the other world. Therefore, even if no one in the city or outside the city wants to celebrate the New Year, he still decides to show his respect.

... Even if he wants to defend this city to the death and die in this city, he has to celebrate the New Year first.

In the more than a month since he came to Wuyi City, Qin has never been special. He eats whatever the people in the city eat. If there is a shortage of supplies in the city, he can choose not to eat.

But today, he must be special... After all, he is a cultivator.

Early in the morning, he took Li Shiyin with him and walked into the kitchen of the City Lord's Mansion, determined to make a common New Year's Eve dinner in his hometown for his girlfriend's family.

He planned chicken, duck, fish and meat, boiled chicken soup, roasted duck meat, braised crucian carp, braised pork elbow, lotus root and ribs, and fried crispy meat, made dumplings, and made glutinous rice cakes with Li Shiyin.

In short, he made all kinds of home-cooked dishes from his previous life that would be eaten during the Chinese New Year.

In the kitchen, he was the chef, and his silly apprentice was his assistant, washing vegetables, cutting meat, lighting fires, washing pots, and so on. He thought that his silly apprentice would be the kitchen killer who "didn't do anything (even made things worse), but still exhausted me to death", but surprisingly, his silly apprentice helped him one by one, and asked him if he didn't know how to do it, but he always did it well.

At the beginning of the year, she vowed to learn to be a good wife and mother, and to prepare for marrying her master. Now, from the results, it seems that she is really serious.

Qin Ran added firewood to the stove, and wanted to simmer the braised pork elbows over high heat, and then remove the sauce from the pot.

He stood up from the stove and looked up to see his silly apprentice washing vegetables seriously, with a skilled look, and he was really moved.

At this time, they really had the warmth of an ordinary couple. You plow the fields while I weave cloth, you cook while I light the fire, as if they were really an ordinary farm couple.

He looked at her, and now the silly apprentice was less impetuous, more gentle and restrained, and more feminine, which attracted him more. He was fascinated.

After a while, Li Shiyin finished washing the vegetables and turned around. She saw the master leaning against the stove and staring at her. She was not shy at all, and she was so happy that she quickly put her hands on her hips and tilted her buttocks, posing, and smiled foolishly, revealing a few white little shell-like teeth, and asked in a delicate voice: "Master, do I look good?"

Qin Ran came back to his senses and saw that the silly apprentice was conceited. After all, he still had some of his old temperament, but he nodded and smiled: "Yeah, it looks good."

"Hehe..." Li Shiyin looked a little shy at this time. She felt sweet in her heart, "Puff Puff Puff" ran to Qin Ran, "mua" kissed Qin Ran on the face, and then said proudly, "I think it looks good too."

The side of her face was still wet, which made Qin Ran feel itchy. He looked at her wet lips and wanted to hold her in his mouth to taste her, but he resisted and joked, "You are so conceited, of course you think you are good-looking."

"Hmmmm..." Li Shiyin tilted her head cutely, looked at Qin Ran with big smiling eyes, and said, "I think the master is also good-looking."

"Master is not good-looking at all!" Qin Ran rolled his eyes, stretched out his hand and pinched her cheek, saying, "Okay, go and chop the ribs, it's getting late, stew some ribs and you can eat."

His hand had just added firewood, and there was a hand full of cigarette ash. This pinch left a finger mark on Li Shiyin's face... like a cat.

Li Shiyin was stupid and didn't know, and kept saying, "Master is really good-looking! My master is the best-looking..."

She turned around to find the ribs and showed off again, "Master, I will chop the ribs for you. Make sure they are even and each piece is the same size."

"Yes, yes..." Qin Ran looked at the cat-like Li Shiyin, couldn't help laughing, and replied, "Your swordsmanship is the most accurate."

"Hmph! That's not true!" Li Shiyin found the ribs, picked them up and washed them. When she turned around and saw Qin Ran still laughing, she was puzzled, "Master, what are you laughing at?"

"You are so good-looking, I feel happy when I see you, of course I will smile." Qin Ran said seriously.

Li Shiyin was doubtful, but the reason given by the master was completely in line with the facts, so she nodded: "Of course, I am the invincible and lovely Li Shiyin who is loved by everyone, and is loved by everyone."

So, until dinner time in the evening, the fingerprints on Li Shiyin's face were still there.

Qin Ran and Li Shiyin worked hard all day and finally got a table of food. They went to invite Li Zhan and Li Shiwen, a total of five people, to sit at the table.

Looking at the sumptuous dishes on the table, Li Zhan was a little hesitant. At present, there was a shortage of supplies in the city, but it was not good for them to be so extravagant.

But it was Li Shiyin and Qin Ran who were cooking. He didn't seem qualified to say anything, and it was hard to say anything...

Regardless of their relationship, these are two monks with great magical powers who have made tremendous contributions to Beichu. Moreover, for so long, these two people have neither received rewards nor received preferential treatment. For more than a month, they have eaten together with the soldiers in the city and never done anything special. At the moment, it's just the specialness of the New Year's Eve, and it was done by someone else. He really has no right to blame.

So he didn't speak, but his face was a little awkward... The soldiers were suffering outside, and he was enjoying it at the table.

Qin Ran saw Li Zhan's look and said, "These are actually some simple meals from my hometown. I brought some down from the mountain when I went out, but that's all. Don't blame me, uncle."

Li Zhan shook his head and said nothing.

Seeing this, Li Shiwen said: "I didn't expect you, brother Qin, to have this skill. It's not easy!"

"You think they are all like you, they only know how to eat." Yuchi Zhen complained quietly.

But the atmosphere at the table became much more relaxed.

"Being able to eat is also a skill..." Li Shiwen retorted without blushing, "In the past, when we selected the best soldiers, we had to look at a person's teeth. If the teeth are good, you can eat more, and if you eat more, your health will be better! Eating is not easy!”

"Yes, yes, pigs eat the best, so pigs are also very capable!" Li Shiyin followed.

Qin Ran served chicken soup and distributed dumplings to everyone at the table. Hearing this, he smiled and said: "Pigs are indeed very capable. In fact, the IQ of pigs is not low, and the genetic sequence of pigs is not different from that of humans by a few percentage points. Sometimes, pigs are very capable. , a pill has been developed and has not been eaten by humans. You can give it to pigs first. If the pigs eat it and there is no problem, then it will not be so dangerous for people to eat it. "

"What is the genetic sequence?" Li Shiwen ate a dumpling and said, "Hey! It tastes very good!"

"Well... our alchemist's internal secret words." Qin Ran replied.

"Oh!" Li Shiwen concentrated on eating and nodded.

"I made the dumplings!" Li Shiyin raised her hand and said, "Although the filling is prepared by the master, the skin is rolled out by the master."

"This thing is called a dumpling?" Li Shiwen heard Li Shiyin's words and said with disgust, "No wonder it's so ugly."

"If it looks ugly, don't eat it." Li Shiyin glared at him.

Li Shiwen raised his eyes and looked at Li Shiyin. At this time, he saw Li Shiyin's cat face through the light. He couldn't hold it back and laughed "hahaha". He had a mouthful of dumplings and it was hard to spit them out. He wrapped them in his mouth and choked hard. .

"Hey! What are you doing!" Li Shiwen's appearance caused a lot of commotion, and Li Shiyin couldn't help but scolded, "You are such an old man, and you still don't make people feel at ease. You can't even eat well."

Li Shiwen choked and felt uncomfortable, pointed at Li Shiyin's face, and went out to clean up.

"What?" Li Shiyin touched it herself and found no clues.

Yu Chizhen and Li Zhan looked at her and couldn't help laughing when they saw her cat-like face.

Only then did Li Shiyin realize that something was wrong with her face. She turned around and asked Qin Ran, "Master, what's wrong with my face?"

Kieran looked serious and said: "Very good, your skin is very good. There is no problem."

Li Shiyin looked at Qin Ran and didn't believe it, so she found a small mirror to look at...

"Ah! Master!!!" She immediately realized that it was her favorite master who had done something good!

"Ahem!" Qin Ran looked down at the dumplings in the bowl and felt that these dumplings were really dumplings.

Li Shiyin let out an angry "hum", got up and followed Li Shiwen's steps out to wash her face.

"Actually, I relied on Shiyin's help today..." Seeing Li Shiyin go out, Kieran praised her, "Otherwise, I wouldn't be able to do it alone."

"You can call me." Yuchi Zhen said, "Although I'm not good at cooking, I've actually learned the basics."

"Why are you being asked to do that?" Li Shiwen came back, wiping his face with a handkerchief and smiling, "Are they cooking?...You are going to destroy other people's feelings!"

Yuchi Zhen smiled and realized that it was indeed like that.

Li Shiyin also came in. When she heard this, she was not shy and hurriedly said: "It's fun to cook together... Sister-in-law, you should ask Li Shiwen to learn cooking too, and then you can cook together..."

Yuchi really thought about that warm scene, couldn't help but feel moved, and looked at Li Shiwen.

"Ahem!" Li Shiwen was nervous, "I'm just a rough guy, how can I cook?"

"My master will..." Li Shiyin sat back in her seat, next to Qin Ran, and continued to stir up trouble, "My master is much better than you. Humph!"

After all, he is a person who does not bear grudges against his master.

"Your master is not a rough man, he has at least a lot of tricks..." Li Shiwen hesitated, and quickly took a pot of wine from the, saying, "This is the pot of wine that Qiqi sent, you can try it too..."

"Brother, don't change the subject!" Li Shiyin said, "How about I teach you to cook tomorrow?"

"...I don't have time!" Li Shiwen replied, looking for a cup to pour wine for others.

The two siblings quarreled and the meal became lively, and finally there was some taste of the New Year.

The food was delicious, and the people were kind. Li Zhan did not do anything to ruin the atmosphere, and his attitude became gentle. He ate the meal and drank the wine. When he was drunk, he also chatted.

"It's a pity that my mother is not in Wuyi City."

The New Year's Eve dinner was over, and the master and apprentice sat on the parapet on the top of the city, blowing in the cold wind, looking at the direction of the Xuanqin military camp. Li Shiyin snuggled in Qin Ran's arms, looking at the darkness ahead, and murmured so.

The wine they drank during the banquet was the wine that Lu Junxing gave to Long Qiqi, and Long Qiqi gave to Li Shiwen. It was a spiritual wine. Li Shiyin drank some and was actually a little drunk.

"Next year's New Year, we will go to Danyang to cook another New Year's Eve dinner for your mother." Qin Ran hugged Li Shiyin, stroked her face with his fingers, enjoyed the warm and smooth fingertips, and blocked the cold wind that hit her at night.

"Next year..." Li Shiyin changed her posture, turned around, and put her arms around Qin Ran's waist, and whispered, "Master, can we win? Master...will we die?"

Qin Ran thought of the God Transformation Stage in Xuanqin Palace again. If there was no God Transformation Stage, he would have a 90% chance of winning, but...

"We will definitely win, we will not die." He said affirmatively, and asked, "Do you believe in Master?"

Li Shiyin closed her eyes, smelled the very pleasant smell on the master's body, and felt the master's fingertips sliding across her cheeks.

In her heart, the master is omnipotent and has always been very powerful. He always arranges everything without her noticing, and he always makes people feel extremely relieved.

But...

The master never asked her "Do you believe in the master?", but now the master asked this question. The master actually has no idea.

She rubbed her forehead against the master's warm chest and found a comfortable position. After a while, she nasally said quietly: "Master, if you really can't keep it... just leave."

Qin Ran heard this and looked at the darkness in front of him, and the fire above the Xuanqin military camp in the distance... If he wanted to leave, he would have left long ago.

"Shiyin..." He called softly, "You are the only one for the master, you are the gift given to me by this world, you are my wait in my past and present life...

"The master will never leave you."

Li Shiyin hugged Qin Ran tightly, with her little head pressed against Qin Ran's chest. After a while, Qin Ran's clothes on his chest were wet with tears.