I will never give in to Miss Death

"Haha, handsome... am I handsome? Thank you for the compliment, beautiful lady. May I ask how many people you are?"

"Both of you."

"Okay, come here."

"..."

Seeing Su Yunjin being stared at by two female college students who came in with a look of wolf seeing sheep, I couldn't help but laugh out loud.

You have today too.

When I first met Su Yunjin, I thought he was quite handsome. Even an old man like me thought he was handsome. It goes without saying that he is a man with normal sexual orientation and girls who are in adolescence will find him handsome.

How can I describe this person? He gives off the feeling of a "little bottom" with fair skin and pretty face in BL or ancient martial arts novels.

Anyway, whenever I see him, I always think of the image of those weak men in those more "gay" novels or TV dramas.

Plus, this guy is a rich second-generation, he eats well, dresses well, exercises regularly, has a good figure, and a clean face, so it is normal that he is popular with women.

But I didn't expect that he would come to the coffee shop to help today wearing a waiter's uniform.

I guess the sensation I caused at the comic convention yesterday was really big.

【What is the cute Nuoer doing? 】

[Can you turn the camera around? I can't see Nuoer's face.]

[I also want to eat the rice dumplings made by Nuoer, but unfortunately I have to work overtime tomorrow, ah...]

[What are those colorful things? Dark food? ]

[Are you stupid? That's the local specialty of Kamihama, colorful glutinous rice, made with pure natural fuel. If you don't understand, don't tell me. My Nuoer doesn't know how to cook dark food.]

At this moment, my mobile phone was placed on the mobile phone holder on the table in front of me, and I could see the barrage of comments from the live broadcast room floating by on it.

It seems that everyone is very interested in me and the pile of materials around me.

"Kamihama City has always had the custom of making colored glutinous rice. A long time ago, everyone would strictly follow the custom to make glutinous rice in five colors: red, black, yellow, white, and purple. However, as everyone's pace of life has become faster and faster recently, this custom has been retained, but it is not so strict. Basically, glutinous rice of all colors is available."

In order to dispel the concerns of the netizens in the live broadcast room, I pulled down the microphone on the headset, moved the almost cooked "maple leaf soup" in the basin to the table and said: "For example, black glutinous rice, we are used to dyeing it with maple leaf juice, like this."

I took out the soaked maple leaves and poured the equally white and plump glutinous rice into the pot. I stretched out my hands and kept stirring the large basin. "Just like this, let it sit for a long time until the glutinous rice absorbs the black maple leaf juice and turns black. Then you can steam it. The black glutinous rice cooked this way will have a light plant fragrance."

"Don't be fooled by the fact that the glutinous rice is not dark in color now, but after the juice is cooked at high temperature, it will turn into a very dark black color."

"This black glutinous rice has a certain effect of clearing the liver, improving eyesight and nourishing the mind. Because maple leaves themselves have a certain analgesic effect, friends who usually have migraines, or are under great mental stress, anxiety and tension can try black glutinous rice."

"Similarly, this is the juice of gardenia, which is used to make yellow glutinous rice. Gardenia glutinous rice has the effect of clearing away heat and removing internal fire, and it also has a certain auxiliary effect on internal bleeding, pharyngitis, rhinitis and minor colds."

As I was busy at the table, looking at the pots of glutinous rice, natural dyes and rice dumplings leaves around me, the scene of helping the adults in the welfare home wash glutinous rice a long time ago emerged in my mind.

At that time, we would almost always "go out from far away" to participate in similar festivals.

The younger children are responsible for washing things, the older ones are responsible for making fire and cooking, and the older ones help to make rice dumplings or set the tables and chairs.

So I can almost do what I need to do with these customs and habits easily.

Nowadays...are those children who used to eat glutinous rice and make rice dumplings at the same table with you still there?

"Noel."

Suddenly, I heard a familiar voice behind me.

"Things with the cat are almost sorted out, and there's no one to play with the cat now, so I'll come over to help you."

It’s Yin Xiamo.

The girl behind me took off the sleeves of her maid outfit and looked around the large table in front of her: "Is there anything I can help you with?"

[It's Xia Mo! ]

[Xia Mo, Xia Mo, I am your dog! ]

[I said, although Nuo'er is very cute, Xiaomo's temperament and usual eyes are really too domineering. I can't stand it]

[I am a girl and I am almost fascinated by Xia Mo. Her temperament is really great]

[Xiaomo dotes on Nuoer so much that she comes over to help Nuoer when she sees her cooking here pitifully]

As expected, after Xiaomo appeared, dozens of comments were added to the live broadcast room instantly, and the information about receiving reward gifts also began to increase rapidly.

"Have you finished dealing with the cat hair?"

I turned around and glanced at Ding Man, who was lazily lying on the robot vacuum cleaner, and pointed to Xiaomo at the large pots in front of him: "You can take these to Master Wang to cook."

I am not sure about other places, but the Dragon Boat Festival in Kamihama City generally has three important aspects. The first is dragon boat racing, which is officially organized by Kamihama City and is usually held on the riverside near the "Kamihama Cruiser" in Minaminagi District. The second is eating rice dumplings, when children go home to have a reunion dinner with their families. The third is worshiping the dead.

If conditions permit, go back to your hometown to worship your ancestors. If not, worship them at home with colored glutinous rice.

So today our cafe also made glutinous rice of various colors, which is convenient for those who are busy at work or those who have traveled thousands of miles to Kamihama City to experience the local customs.

Black, red, yellow, white, and purple are the five official colors of glutinous rice, but we also made green and blue glutinous rice. The former uses spinach as a dye and tastes like vegetables, while the latter is dyed with a flower called butterfly pea, which has a certain floral fragrance.

Of course, I believe that most people will add a little bit of everything when buying glutinous rice. One spoonful will bring out the colorful flavors mixed together.

In addition to glutinous rice, in order to cater to the customs of other places, the coffee shop also prepared a lot of mugwort, hung some at the door, added mugwort juice to the drinks, placed some special decorations of the Dragon Boat Festival on the first floor, and also prepared a "Five Yellow" set meal.

The five yellows of the Dragon Boat Festival are: yellow eel, yellow croaker, cucumber, yellow duck eggs, and realgar wine. The first few are very simple and can be cooked like ordinary fish. Cucumber can be made into a cold dish or fruit. Duck eggs can be salted duck eggs or boiled eggs. As for realgar wine, it depends on the customer's preference.

[Nuo'er's hands are small and white, but she actually made glutinous rice by herself. Wow, I really regret not buying a ticket.]

[Are you serious? This is too much, is this how a girl kneads glutinous rice with her hands? ]

[In front, the Dragon Boat Festival lasts for three days, and their store is said to be holding a five-day event, so it’s still in time for you to buy tickets now]

[It can be seen that Nuo'er is very skilled, whether it is washing rice or making rice dumplings, she must have a story behind it, a little girl from a wealthy family can't learn these things in a short time]

While watching the barrage on my phone, I was busy dyeing the glutinous rice. Then I took the rice dumplings leaves and started wrapping them at a very fast speed.

Just kidding, I'm super skilled at these!

Although I’m a girl now and my hands are much smaller, the feeling in my memory is still there. At most, I’m a little uncomfortable grabbing things. Anyway, there are only a few ways to make zongzi, so I just need to get familiar with it.

[You can see the meat next to it]

[It’s not pure fat meat dumplings, this is too conscience, I don’t care, I also want to go to Kamihama]

[Mung bean dumplings, Chinese sausage dumplings, bacon dumplings, and this... Is this chestnut? I want to eat it just by looking at it, dumplings made by a beautiful girl... Hehehe]

[I am actually very interested in the colorful glutinous rice. What does it taste like? Has anyone tried it? Is this really a custom there?]

"Yes, Nuoer grew up eating this kind of colorful glutinous rice."

"We usually use it to worship our ancestors here, but Nuoer didn't have any... well, so when she was a kid she could eat a lot..."

"Come on, let's have a blind box draw. I deliberately put a large piece of meat in this zongzi. Let's see which lucky customer will get it later?"

"..."

Just like that, I was wrapping zongzi while chatting with the comments in the live broadcast room. In the blink of an eye, more than an hour had passed and more and more customers started to come to the first floor.

"It looks like the real battle is about to begin."

I stretched in my position.

"come on!"

"..."

……

No. 293 I have the paddle of happiness and wisdom

Taking into account the need to create a festive atmosphere and the fact that the coffee shop had only been open for over a month, Ouyang Xue set a very low price for Dragon Boat Festival specialties such as rice dumplings, five-color glutinous rice ("Wu Huang"), etc.

It's basically the same level as the roadside snack shops outside, and the glutinous rice is almost at cost price.

So, starting from the morning, the whole coffee shop was filled with the smell of rice dumplings and glutinous rice.

Because today many customers are from other places, some even come from the far north, and have never seen this colorful glutinous rice, so they want to try it, and then look at the price list - "Wow! So cheap? Give me some, I want to try what it tastes like."

In fact, there is no particularly obvious taste between colorful glutinous rice and ordinary glutinous rice. The main fragrance is the fragrance of the glutinous rice itself.

My favorites here are the yellow and purple glutinous rice, because both types of glutinous rice are dyed with flower petals and have a very clear floral scent.

Ever since I transformed into elf mode, made a contract with the sapling of the elf tree on Yueerlan Island, and became the "Elf Queen" on Earth, it seems that even my human form has begun to like flowers and plants.

Xiaomo is also an elf, but the Elf Tree does not recognize this form of "half-elf".

In the other world, most half-elves are a combination of humans and elves. Humans naturally admire elves, but not all of them are good people, and not all of them stand on the side of kindness. Among tens of millions or hundreds of millions of people, there will always be a few evil elements who regard capturing elves as a business. From time to time, they will run to the Elf Forest to plunder elves and sell them to landlords and city lords. Because all elves, both men and women, are fair-skinned and beautiful, they are very popular with humans.

If this kind of elves have offspring that are half-elves, half-elves will not be recognized, and generally half-elves either have no mother or cannot find a father, so their life experiences will be very tragic.

Xiaomo actually belongs to this type. Her father was the Demon King at that time, and her mother was an elf who was forced to leave her homeland in the Elf Forest and come to the land of demons.

Therefore, Xiaomo's half-elf is not recognized by the Elf Tree.

But not all half-elves are without the possibility of "returning". "Elven mode" is a way for half-elves or people with elven blood to return to their elven bloodline.

"Elf Mode" is a vague and casual term Xiaomo gave me to make me understand. After all, I still have "Cat Girl Mode" and "Succubus Mode" that have not been developed. The more formal term for "Elf Mode" in the other world is "Heart of Nature".

All pure elves are born with a "heart of nature". Half-elves have lived in human society for a long time, so it is difficult for them to have a heart of nature.

The elves are not very interested in rational things. They are very emotional and pay more attention to the "heart". For example, since many elves were born from the Elf Tree, they hardly pay attention to things like "bloodline". It doesn't matter whose child, whose daughter, or who is whose father. As long as we rely on each other, she can be my mother and I can be her daughter.

It is precisely because of this habit of the elves that almost all elves are "war-weary" or a little "saintly" during wartime.

Similarly, the "Heart of Nature" cannot be obtained with the help of external forces, no matter how high your wind magic and life magic are, no matter what your beliefs are or how complicated your bloodline is, as long as you do not yearn for nature, do not consider yourself a member of the elves, and are not recognized by the Tree of Life, then you will never be able to obtain the Heart of Nature.

Conversely, even if an elf was born with the Heart of Nature, but she fell, she would also have the possibility of losing her Heart of Nature.

Xiaomo speculated that the reason why I was able to switch to elf mode so quickly and obtain the "Heart of Nature" was probably because the soul of the brave hero in the previous life was pure, flawless and peace-loving. In addition, I was ignorant in this life and had never done anything bad since I was a child. I also had a water soul that was very close to life magic. I was awakened by Xiaomo's life magic and obtained the Heart of Nature.

When you activate the Heart of Nature, that is, the Elf Mode, and come into contact with the newly born Elf Tree, you will be named the Newborn Elf Queen - even though I am the only elf on Earth at present, and I am not a pure one.

"Little sister Nuo'er, give me three dumplings that you made yourself! You have to make them yourself!"

"My dear guest, all the rice dumplings here are wrapped by me personally... Of course, the cooking is done by Chef Wang in the kitchen."

"Noer Noer, did you soak all these colorful glutinous rice yourself?"

"Yes, there are quite a few colleagues in the store who have asked for leave today, so I am currently doing this job."

“Will the dumplings made by a beautiful girl taste different from those made by grandmas and uncles out there?”

"No, maybe the old lady's dumplings are better than Nuoer's because of their good cooking skills."

"..."

Conversations like these happen almost every moment in coffee shops.

If a customer comes in from outside, or if a customer has any needs, I will go over to deal with it. If there is no need, I will go to the kitchen door, make something live in front of the mobile phone camera while chatting with the audience in the live broadcast room.

[Is the anchor using beauty mode? How can she be as cute as a doll?]

“It’s not beauty filter. There’s a reminder in the lower right corner of the live broadcast room. It’s natural, without beauty filter.”

[Host, host, I bought a plane ticket to your store and will arrive tomorrow. Will you still make zongzi tomorrow? ]

"Yes, we have received a notification that our event will last for five days. Today is Friday, and we will be making rice dumplings and glutinous rice until next Tuesday!"

[Nuoer, I watched a video of you singing at a comic convention that someone posted online. I felt healed just by listening to it, but the comments said that it would be more shocking to hear it live. Can you sing for us here? ]

"Ah... But I'm busy making this now, and I might be called by customers to take orders at any time..."

[User Pencil Xiaoxin gave a reward (Rhythm Storm), and the popularity of the live broadcast room rose to Top18! ]

"Well... I can only sing it a cappella for a while. Don't expect too much. It will definitely be different from the live version."

Compared to the customers in the coffee shop, since the audience in the live broadcast room cannot eat the food, everyone seems to care more about things like "giving out benefits".

For example, he asked me to sing, act cute, or... asked me to stand up on the chair so that I could see my legs wrapped in white silk stockings under my skirt. But he was not very interested in the food itself.

[Nuoer's figure is really a perfect replica of the little loli drawn by those artists on P station. Look at her legs, the lines of her knees, and the curves of her calves. They are slender, but also a little fleshy, so tempting]

[I seem to have the same feeling as when I was a kid chasing stars. Nuoer is a little too perfect. Is she acting? ]

[Didn’t a big brother say this before? Nuoer is very skilled at this. He must be someone who has experienced hard times. I also come from the countryside, and I can tell that Nuoer is definitely not a bad person.]

[I can’t even make zongzi, I can only eat it]

[Why do they have so many rice dumplings over there? I only have meat dumplings here, and they’re all made of fat.]

So, in such an environment, I would serve customers in the store for a while, and then return to the camera to make rice dumplings and glutinous rice, and I was busy from morning to afternoon.