As I was arranging the roasted goose on the plate, I awkwardly lifted my eyes.
Suddenly seeing Beichen and Xiao Li straighten up, they pricked up their ears to listen to Yu Rongling's next words.
Yu Rongling gave a sly smile, raised his eyebrows, and said, "Of course there is. I'm the most qualified spy by your sister-in-law's side. That cousin of hers who followed Xuanjing suggested that your sister-in-law should follow Xuanjing too. Do you know how she turned it down?"
"How did she turn it down?" Longting actually indulged the guy in beating around the bush.
Yu Rongling chuckled, "Sister-in-law said she was captivated by your good looks. I showed that woman your photo, and it directly made sister-in-law's cousin spit blood in anger. Bro, doesn't that deserve a reward from you?"
"The inner core of the North Sea Snake Dragon, an extra one I took last time I went to the North Sea." Longting fetched a pure white pearl from his sleeve and tossed it to Yu Rongling.
I indignantly slammed the plate on the table. "I'm not dead yet, do you have to gossip right in front of the person involved? Don't I have any dignity?"
This brotherly duo, one singing and the other echoing, are really too much.
"Sister-in-law, don't be mad, next time we'll definitely do it behind your back," Yu Rongling cheekily said to me, while making faces at Longting, "Bro, you've got it tough, having a son already but haven't caught up with the wife."
Longting kicked Yu Rongling off his chair with one foot; Yu Rongling, caught off guard, fell flat on his face, a big footprint on his buttocks, furiously storming off, "Bro, you're just embarrassed!"
"Daring to expose my shortcomings, have you grown bold?" Longting said with a sinister smile.
Yu Rongling shrank his neck, still frightened, but nevertheless let out a defiant roar, "This is tyranny, a despotic rule; a tyrant! No dissenting voices allowed."
Xiao Li tugged at my sleeve and asked me softly, "Longting hasn't pursued you?"
I: "..."
Seeing I didn't respond, she turned to look at Beichen.
Beichen took a bite of the roasted goose and said, "He hasn't."
Xiao Li covered her lips, "I feel like I've learned some incredible secret."
"Someone is petty; be careful he might shut you up." Beichen spoke gravely.
Xiao Li: "That's terrifying."
Beichen: "Indeed, it is."
I: "..."
At that moment, I just wished I could find a crack in the floor to crawl into.
Seeing me turn to leave, Xiao Li grabbed me, "Where are you going? Sit down and eat with us, Yuanyuan, don't be shy. We're just joking."
"I also made soup with the goose carcass; you guys are eating so greasy, aren't you planning on something light?" I silently pulled her hand away, walking chaotically to serve the soup.
I treated the goose carcass as if it were Yu Rongling's snake bones, I scooped it out furiously, crushed the damn thing...
"Do you have a grudge against this goose carcass?" Longting walked over, chuckling lightly.
My lips twitched, realizing I had been too harsh on the goose carcass, I scooped out the scattered bones and ladled a big bowl of soup, "No grudge, I'm just venting my anger; you and Yu Rongling are deliberately tormenting me! You didn't leave any face for me!"
"Us two? We wouldn't dare. Madam, please, don't be angry."
Longting leaned close to my ear, his cool breath spraying on my face, just as I was about to say I wouldn't calm down so easily, he said, "You look too adorable when you're angry, I'm afraid I won't be able to resist..."
"..."
My hands holding the soup froze completely, my face turned a deep shade of red.
My brain felt like it had caught a virus, all scrambled inside.
Longting naturally took the bowl of soup from my hands and set it on the table across from us.
I slowly followed, sitting next to him.
"Yuanyuan makes killer soup, she learned from our kitchen's Cantonese master chef," Xiao Li stood up to serve the soup for everyone.
Beichen took a large ladle from her hand, "I'll do it, I have a steady hand."
"Oh..." Xiao Li's hand was touched by Beichen and, shyly lowering her head, it was filled with the purity of budding emotions.
Beichen first served Xiao Li a bowl, "It's a bit hot."
"Oh." Xiao Li's face turned even redder as she buried her head and drank the soup.
Beichen then served soup to me and Yu Longting, and finally to Yu Rongling.
Yu Rongling gulped it down quickly, "Delicious, sister-in-law's cooking is superb."
Beichen had just finished serving himself.
And he had already finished drinking.
So, with good temper, Beichen served Yu Rongling another bowl.
"If I had a wife who could cook like this, I'd stay home every day, just waiting to eat."
This time, Yu Rongling drank slower because there wasn't much left in the soup bowl, slowly savoring the flavor.
Yu Longting snatched a particularly good piece of goose leg meat from under Yu Rongling's chopsticks, "Stop dreaming, you're not that lucky."
Under Yu Rongling's envious gaze, Yu Longting placed the goose leg in my bowl.
"My goose leg, damn it, heartless..."
I tasted the roast goose, it really was delicious, and said to Yu Longting, "You didn't waste your effort digging so much soil, making a temporary deep well oven, you should try it too."
"Yeah, next time make it just for me, only for me to eat." Yu Longting's demeanor was meticulous, and his eating was extremely graceful.
The meal of deep-well roasted goose ended, and everyone started to clean up and went about their business.
Chen Decheng asked me to help with the accounts at the cashier's desk, and just as I was typing noisily on the cash register's keyboard, I smelled a hint of smoke.
I then saw Immortal Liu leaning against the shop door smoking.
She was extremely beautiful, even more glamorous than the most stunning top stars in the entertainment industry by a factor of three, and she was dressed very elegantly and appropriately.
Chen Decheng personally came out to greet her, "This guest, are you here to dine? Why not come inside, and I will introduce you to some of our signature dishes?"
"Your shop has hung this thing; your grandma here can't enter, aren't you going to take it down?" Immortal Liu said, tilting her head and pointing her sharp chin at Chen Decheng.
Upon hearing this, Chen Decheng was almost scared to pee, "You... you... you... are you... not human?"
"Tsk, smart," Immortal Liu said.
Chen Decheng's legs trembled, and he almost knelt down.
Yu Longting quickly stepped forward and said to Immortal Liu, "Why have you come by yourself? Is there something important?"
"I came to find you because it's important. Let Su Wan come with me," Immortal Liu said, a cold glint crossing her eyes.
Yu Longting instinctively stepped in front of me, "The Reincarnation Array will start in three days, why do you need her so early?"
"The Reincarnation Array has become unstable; it started earlier. Su Wan must come back with me to make the Reincarnation Garment," Immortal Liu explained.
"I and my brother personally helped you build the framework of the Formation; you can't stabilize it so soon, has your identity as Ying Long been watered down?"
Yu Rongling teased.
Immortal Liu took a deep puff of her cigarette, her long, slim fingers casually holding it, "My role as Ying Long isn't worth much; we still need your brother, the Snake Lord, to make a move."
"Immortal Liu, don't talk nonsense," Yu Longting's face turned cold.
Immortal Liu covered her lips with a hand, smiling seductively, "Oh, sorry, is your identity not supposed to be known to other mortals?"
"Wanwan is not feeling well; she needs to rest for three days. I and Yu Rongling will help you maintain it for three days," Yu Longting frowned but did not pursue Immortal Liu's deliberately provocative remark.
Immortal Liu glanced at me, seemingly just realizing my depleted Spiritual Power, "My god, has he drained you?? Although our snake kind tend to be more vigorous in such matters, Madam is a delicate young lady; be careful you don't cause any fatalities."