Mu Anxiao looked at Piao, who was teaching her not to waste food, with a helpless expression. She chuckled dryly and said, "Brother, the pastries are sweet, but this is sour. How can I eat it?"
"I have some bad news for you," Piao said with a smile.
"Bad news," Mu Anxiao repeated, her lips twitching. "Since it's bad news, you'd better not tell me."
"I will tell you," Piao said, his lips curving upwards. "The pastries in the demon realm all taste like this. If you follow me, you'll have to get used to it. If you don't, you won't get any food."
"What are you talking about?" Mu Anxiao expressed her displeasure, picking up the pastry and looking at it. "Are you kidding me? This is spoiled." She brought the pastry to her nose to smell it.
"It's not spoiled, it's just that the ingredients in the demon realm taste like this," Piao said.
Upon hearing this, Mu Anxiao put the pastry down and said, "Don't tell me that all the ingredients in your demon realm are sour, bitter, and spicy, with no sweet or salty."
"Yes," Piao nodded.
"Do you like eating it?" Mu Anxiao asked.
Piao was silent for a moment and said, "I had the same reaction as you before, but once I got used to it, it was fine, because the food looks the same as food in the mortal world."
"But the taste is different," Mu Anxiao said.
"You'll get used to it slowly," Piao said, reaching for the pastry in front of Mu Anxiao. "Do you need me to feed you?"
Mu Anxiao looked at Piao's face, which held a sinister smile. She swallowed, then took the pastry, looked at it, closed her eyes, and ate the entire piece in one go.
Yan watched Mu Anxiao's pained and contorted chewing expression without making any comment.
Piao smiled and looked at Mu Anxiao's profile, saying, "It's delicious, isn't it?"
Mu Anxiao kept her eyes tightly closed and shook her head.
Piao smiled.
In the wine cellar, a red-clothed rabbit spirit looked at the Rabbit Queen, who had appeared at some unknown time, with a terrified expression. She said, "Greetings, Your Majesty."
The Rabbit Queen calmly glanced at the two small wine jars in the red-clothed rabbit spirit's hands and said, "The great demon sent you."
"Yes," the red-clothed rabbit spirit nodded, her mind in a daze.
"I'm really curious," the Rabbit Queen said inexplicably.
"What are you curious about?" the red-clothed rabbit spirit asked cautiously.
"Why didn't that great demon kill you?" the Rabbit Queen said, pointing to her own neck. "He almost killed me today."
The red-clothed rabbit spirit didn't know what to say.
The Rabbit Queen looked at the red-clothed rabbit spirit's appearance and smiled, saying, "What, are you afraid of me, or do you hate me?"
"I'm afraid of you," the red-clothed rabbit spirit told the truth.
"Don't you consider me your friend?" the Rabbit Queen said, taking a step forward.
The red-clothed rabbit spirit looked at the Rabbit Queen and said, "You've never let me say that before, you..." She stopped mid-sentence, her eyes widening. "You're not the queen."
The Rabbit Queen, hearing the red-clothed rabbit spirit's revelation, couldn't help but throw her head back and laugh. She then transformed into a chain and said, "Go back and tell Mu Anxiao that I've arrived." With that, she flew away.
The red-clothed rabbit spirit was startled. "Who is that?" she said. Then, her eyes shifted, and she quickly squatted down to pack the wine.
In the woodshed, Feng Qishi stood before the door, staring at the wall with a worried expression. "I wonder how that foolish Mu is doing?"
"You've been standing there for quite a while," Xu Lan Yan said.
Feng Qishi didn't speak and called out to the side, "I'm hungry."
Outside, the second guard rabbit was startled the moment she heard Feng Qishi's voice. She then looked at the first guard rabbit, who had just returned, and said, "I heard him speak."
"I heard him too," the first guard rabbit nodded.
"What's going on?" the second guard rabbit asked, her eyes glazing over. "Could it be that the great demon's magic has been broken?"
"Yes, it might be a temporary thing," the first guard rabbit said.
"What does temporary mean?" the second guard rabbit genuinely didn't understand what the first guard rabbit had said.
The first guard rabbit touched the back of her head and chuckled foolishly. "I don't know, I just said it."
Feng Qishi, listening to their conversation outside, said, "Temporary means a period of time."
Upon hearing this, the first and second guard rabbits simultaneously looked at the door in surprise. The first guard rabbit said, "He heard us talking."
"Yes," the second guard rabbit nodded.
Feng Qishi yawned and said, "You heard what I said, why aren't you replying?"
The second guard rabbit swallowed and said, "Why should I reply to you?"
The first guard rabbit nudged the second guard rabbit's arm and said, "You don't need to reply."
Hearing this, the second guard rabbit covered her mouth. "That's right, why should I reply to him?"
"Since you've replied, then go get us some food. I'm starving," Feng Qishi said deliberately.
Following this, the second guard rabbit looked at the first guard rabbit and said, "If you want to eat, then come out yourself if you have the ability."
"If I could get out, I wouldn't be wasting my breath talking to you," Feng Qishi said nonchalantly.
The rat demons and the rabbit spirits watched Feng Qishi's conversation with the two outside with helpless expressions and sighed.
At this moment, Feng Qishi happened to see them and asked, "Why are you sighing?"
Outside, the first and second guard rabbits thought Feng Qishi was talking to them, so they looked at each other. The first guard rabbit said, "We weren't sighing."
Hearing this, Feng Qishi turned her face slightly and said, "I wasn't talking to you."
"Oh," the second guard rabbit responded foolishly.
The first guard rabbit looked at the second guard rabbit and said, "Don't answer him."
Immediately, the second guard rabbit said "Oh" again.
The first guard rabbit turned away in exasperation.
The second guard rabbit took a carrot out of her sleeve and said, "How about giving this to him?" she said, facing the back of the first guard rabbit.
The first guard rabbit sniffed and quickly turned to look at the carrot in the second guard rabbit's hand, saying, "Didn't you say you didn't have any more?"
"I didn't have any, and then I got some," the second guard rabbit said with a silly grin.
"Give it to me," the first guard rabbit held out her hand.
"I won't give it to you," the second guard rabbit retracted her hand.
"Give it to me, you liar," the first guard rabbit said angrily, and then started fighting with the second guard rabbit.
Inside, the female rat demon said, "Why are you talking to them so much? They're all just guys who eat carrots and greens. Even if they bring you food, it's all barely edible."
The rabbit spirits became unhappy the moment the female rat demon said this, but they remained silent!
"Have you eaten it?" Feng Qishi glanced at the rabbit spirits and asked intentionally.
"I haven't eaten it, but I've seen them eat it," the female rat demon said.
"Actually, I think it's quite alright," said the first male rat demon.