Peninsula: I run a bed and breakfast on Jeju Island

Chapter 103 Suppressing the Smell

"Tsk."

"That's what they call karma." Li Ran raised an eyebrow and looked at her with a grin.

Lee Ji-eun gritted her teeth.

"Alright, stop looking like you've been taken advantage of."

He pursed his lips. "I didn't ask you to do anything, just drink some ginger tea. You'd have to drink it sooner or later anyway."

Despite saying that, Lee Ji-eun always felt that she had been taken advantage of.

Li Ran shook her head and took a sip of ginger tea.

Actually, ginger tea isn't that bad.

It's just a bit strong at first, but you'll get used to it.

Lee Ji-eun kept stirring the ginger tea with a spoon.

She glanced at Li Ran and noticed that he had almost finished drinking.

"How did you manage to drink that?" She put down her spoon. "Don't you find it awful?"

"Who said it wasn't bad?" He turned to look at Lee Ji-eun.

"and you----"

She glanced at the nearly empty ginger tea in Li Ran's bowl.

"Sigh, just because it tastes bad doesn't mean we should drink it."

He shrugged. "I made this to prevent catching a cold. If I really wanted it to taste good, couldn't I just drink a beverage?"

Upon hearing this, Lee Ji-eun pursed her lips.

She turned her attention back to the ginger tea, trying to mentally prepare herself.

She touched the inside of the bowl and found that it wasn't very hot anymore.

"Do you have any cookies?" she asked.

She still didn't want to drink it directly.

Even just using cookies to mask the flavor is good.

"They're all on the coffee table, just find them yourself."

"6

Lee Ji-eun shifted her gaze to the pile of snacks.

The snacks on the coffee table were piled up in a mess, with potato chips, chocolate, and candy all mixed together.

She reached in and rummaged around for a bit, then pulled out a packet of butter cookies.

The packaging of this bag of cookies looks pretty new.

She was about to tear open the packaging when she caught a glimpse of a string of numbers out of the corner of her eye and stopped.

【2018.05.16】

This is the production date of the cookies.

She blinked.

"Um?"

Lee Ji-eun looked down and glanced at it again.

May 16th.

Isn't this her birthday?

"Is that such a coincidence?"

She muttered something to herself.

"What?" Li Ran didn't hear clearly.

Lee Ji-eun looked up at him, waving the cookie in her hand, "The production date of this cookie is exactly the same as my birthday, May 16th."

Li Ran glanced down and nodded. "That's quite a coincidence."

"By the way, what's the shelf life of these cookies? Have they expired yet?"

Lee Ji-eun blinked, then suddenly realized what she meant.

现在是2019年4月3号，饼乾的生产日期是2018年5月16号，都快一年了。

"I bought this at the supermarket a few days ago, it can't be expired that quickly, can it?" he said somewhat uncertainly.

Li Ran placed the empty bowl on the coffee table, then leaned closer and said, "Let's see how long the shelf life is."

Upon hearing this, Lee Ji-eun looked down and flipped through the back of the packaging bag.

The tiny characters were crammed there.

After looking for a while, she finally found the label: "Shelf life: twelve months."

"It's not expired yet, it's still a month away from expiration."

Li Ran breathed a sigh of relief. "I knew these were just snacks I bought from the supermarket, how could they have expired so quickly?"

"But this unscrupulous supermarket just sold me snacks that were close to their expiration date? I'm never buying from that store again." He pursed his lips.

As he spoke, he began to check the other snacks with some unease.

Fortunately, it seems that only the cookie was close to its expiration date.

Lee Ji-eun wasn't going to listen to him nagging anymore and tore open the cookie packaging.

She sniffed and smelled a buttery aroma wafting from the bag.

She pulled a cookie out of it.

"Click~"

These biscuits are quite crunchy and don't have any strange taste.

She chewed it, then quickly picked up the ginger tea and took a small sip.

The next second, her face scrunched up again. "It doesn't really work, it still tastes awful."

Li Ran almost burst out laughing.

"Is that expression of yours really necessary?"

"The problem is, this stuff really doesn't taste good!"

Lee Ji-eun stuffed a cookie into her mouth to mask the taste.

She chewed while giving him a disapproving look. "Did you put in too much ginger? Otherwise, why is it so spicy?"

"Is it a lot?"

Li Ran looked down at her empty bowl.

"I think it's alright."

"That's because you have a problem with your sense of taste," Lee Ji-eun wrinkled her nose.

"Hey! That's a personal attack."

"cut.

"

Lee Ji-eun pursed her lips.

She lowered her head and took another sip of ginger tea, then grabbed a cookie and stuffed it into her mouth.

Her series of movements were so practiced, as if she were performing a fixed routine:

1. Take a sip of ginger tea.

2. Frowning.

3. Take a bite of the cookie.

4. Slowly restore your expression.

5. Take another sip of ginger tea.

Back and forth.

Li Ran rested her chin on her hand and watched her for a while. "At this rate, when will you ever finish it?"

"By the time you finish drinking it, the ginger tea will probably be completely cold."

"What's your hurry?" Lee Ji-eun mumbled, her mouth full of half a cookie.

He shook his head, picked up his empty bowl, and headed towards the kitchen.

After a while, he came out of the kitchen again.

He no longer had a bowl in his hands, but now he had a bottle of honey.

He handed the honey to Lee Ji-eun, "Here, if you really can't drink it, just drink it with the honey."

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Lee Ji-eun looked up at him and took the honey from his hand. "Why didn't you bring the honey out sooner?"

"Why didn't you just mix the honey into the ginger tea and boil it together?"

Li Ran sat down again beside her. "I just forgot at the time. Besides, I already added a lot of brown sugar. How much more do you want to add?"

"Generally speaking, adding brown sugar is enough. Who would have thought you couldn't even accept this little bit of flavor?" He shook his head.

"cut."

Lee Ji-eun ignored him and unscrewed the cap on the honey.

She poured a lot of honey into the bowl, which seemed to thicken the ginger tea.

Lee Ji-eun put the honey lid on and stirred it in the bowl with a spoon.

She picked up the bowl, brought it to her lips, and carefully took a sip.

This time her expression wasn't as ferocious.

"It helps a little." She smacked her lips, "but it still can't mask the ginger flavor."

"That's obvious," Li Ran leaned back on the sofa. "I made ginger tea, not sugar water. Ginger tea, ginger tea, the ginger flavor is definitely strong!"

Lee Ji-eun ignored him and added another half spoonful of honey to the bowl.

She stirred the ginger tea, tapping the spoon lightly against the side of the bowl twice, making a crisp sound.

"You might as well just drink honey."

Li Ran glanced at the bowl in her hand, "If you add it like this, one bowl of ginger tea and half a bowl of honey, you won't eat much ginger in the end, but you'll exceed the sugar limit."

"Ugh, I know, just shut up." Lee Ji-eun waved her hand impatiently.

She increasingly felt that Li Ran was just as long-winded as her mother.

After adding the honey, she picked up the bowl, ready to gulp it down in one go.

"Glug~ Glug~"

Lee Ji-eun felt that the ginger tea tasted much better this time.

The sweetness of the honey partially masked the spiciness of the ginger.

Although the burning sensation still rushed up my throat, at least it wasn't as choking anymore.