eurekapd Chapter 143 Fine Wine (2)
Chapter 143 Fine Wine (2)
When Wendy finished singing, all the audience members couldn't help but applaud.
"Hehe, thank you for the applause. Did the song you just heard help you?" Wendy put away her harp, clearly pleased with the crowd's reaction.
Lei Ze: "It's like wine, a little sweet, a little dizzying. I don't understand what it means."
Paimon: "Don't even mention Razer, I think so too! It is indeed about brewing, but there are no details at all!"
Kong: "I really couldn't hear anything in the material."
Xuan Yue lowered her head in thought, remaining silent.
Paimon: "Jin Xuan, do you know something?"
"Don't ask me, I'm not good at thinking. I can talk about things like warfare, but riddles... I always leave them to A-Qing or Zhongli." Xuan Yue scratched his head, looking equally confused.
Wendy: "Haha, hazy and romantic, that's a characteristic of Mondstadt poetry."
"If we're really talking about the ingredients for brewing... um... um..." Paimon counted on his fingers, carefully recalling the contents of the poem: "'The courage to explore, the tenderness of love, the perseverance to protect, a thousand winds... blessings...'"
"I have absolutely no idea what it refers to! Hey, you street performer, you seem to know everything, so give me a hint!"
"Oh dear, I'm not a strict teacher. But I can't make up things for you that aren't in the songs."
Wendy maintained his usual teasing demeanor, seemingly anticipating their reactions.
(...I can't tell...) Xuan Yue's eyes suddenly lit up.
Just as she was about to speak, Wendy's voice echoed in her mind: (Little Crescent Moon, don't tell on me.)
Well, this is to prevent him from saying it. But it also indirectly let him know the truth.
Wendy: "If you want to know the secret of Fragrance, you'll have to do it yourselves?"
"Does 'taking action' mean... that we should brew our own wine? And... will we really know a lot by brewing wine? You're not kidding me, are you?" Paimon looked wary; she hadn't forgotten how he had completely fooled her when she first came to Mondstadt.
"We've known each other for so long, don't you still believe in my sincerity? I'm so heartbroken." Wendy covered her chest with one hand, pretending to be hurt by their words.
Xuan Yue: "Why don't you make a vow?"
Wendy: "??"
Xuan Yue: "Since we're in Mondstadt, how about we swear an oath to the faith of Mondstadt?"
Paimon, who knows the inside story: "Huh?"
Razer (unaware of the inside story): "?"
(Is this for real?) Wendy happily replied immediately, "Sure, I'm willing to swear an oath to Lord Barbatos."
Xuan Yue coldly added the second half of the sentence: "Well, if there is any deception in the oath, then I will admit that the Wind God and the Rock God are a pair."
Wendy: "Huh?!" Σ( ° △ °|||)︴
Paimon: (Did I hear that right?!)
Kong: (So ruthless! What did Zhongli do to offend him?)
Razer: "???"
In Liyue, someone was practicing calligraphy when—"snap!"—the brush broke.
Zhongli (facepalm in exasperation): "A bad feeling..."
Back in Mondstadt, Wendy's eyes were glazed over, and it took her a while to come to her senses.
(Little Xuan Yue, I shouldn't have offended you, right? How could you bear to make me make this terrible oath?!) Wendy screamed in the voice transmission.
Xuan Yue's ears hurt from the noise, but she didn't feel guilty: (As long as you're not lying, what's there to be afraid of? Did you just lie to them?)
(I'm not targeting you personally, it's just that drinking bitter medicine for a month in Jueyun was all Morax's idea. I can't let it go without getting revenge on him.)
Wendy (╥_╥): (Then why did you drag me into this?)
Xuan Yue (＾▽＾): (I was talking about the Wind God, not you, right?)
Wendy: (...)
“…I believe. I…want to try.” Razer’s words broke the silence: “I want to brew my own wine and find the answer.”
“I know how to make wine, and I also… I know what’s in Mom and Dad’s wine.” Although Razer’s words were intermittent, his red eyes were shining, and he was determined to make up his mind.
"Since Lei Ze has said so, and Jin Xuan has vouched for him, we should still believe in the singer. It's not shameful for a novice to fail at brewing wine for the first time."
"Then I'll get ready to begin. By the way, does Jin Xuan want to come along?" Kong asked Xuan Yue.
“…Okay, then you guys start first, I’ll come back later. Here!” Xuan Yue handed Kong a feather.
"Take it with you, I'll catch up later."
Paimon: "Is there something special about these feathers?"
Hearing Paimon's question, Xuan Yue just smiled and said, "This feather is just a coordinate. After all, I won't miss out on any gossip. But I've already ordered my juice, so I can't just not drink any of it."
“Hmm, that makes sense. You can only feel at ease once the food is in your stomach.” Paimon was quite qualified to say this.
Kong held the feather and examined it closely. It was a golden feather with black edges.
Wendy: "Don't worry, don't worry, take it easy. Brewing isn't as difficult as you think. As long as you put in the ingredients with a happy and sincere heart, you'll definitely get the results you want."
Xuan Yue (→_→): "You make it sound so nice."
Paimon: "Exactly, exactly."
“That… song, I’ll tell it to Master,” Lei Ze interjected, “and then… you should think about it yourself.”
Xuan Yue: "It sounds like you're not going to start taking action right away. That's fine, then I can play a little longer."
Sora: "How about we meet again in two days? And here, shall we?"
Lei Ze: "Okay. I got it. See you then."
Xuan Yue: "I'm fine with it too. I'm here to have fun anyway."
"We'll be going now, because we just got back to Mondstadt with Paimon, and we haven't prepared the ingredients for dinner yet."
Kong bid them farewell, and Reize, wanting to take the poem back to tell Lisa, didn't linger.
"Great, finally I can enjoy the wine." Wendy was already rubbing her hands together, looking at the bottles of dandelion wine on the counter with great anticipation.
“A thousand winds and fine wine… there’s no answer, is there?” Xuan Yue’s voice was soft, only he and Wendy could hear it.
"The ingredients in that song aren't fixed; it's entirely about using whatever you like to brew the wine. That's probably the main reason you deliberately guided them to do it themselves."
Wendy: "Hey."
"Heh." Xuan Yue was almost amused by his own anger, but now he felt emboldened: "It's alright. As long as you lied, the Wind God and the Rock God are a pair. The oath we just made is valid, and it can be considered a kind of 'contract.'"
(I learned this from Morax and applied it effectively. I'm so smart.) (=^▽^=)
Venti felt like the sky had fallen: "If it's not Xuan Yue, and the Anemo and Geo are a couple, what good will that do you?"
Xuan Yue perked up when this was mentioned: "It's not good for me, but it's great for Liyue. That way, the map of Mondstadt can be pieced together into the map of Liyue."
"You guys really are a group..."
Upon hearing this, Wendy hugged herself tightly; it was terrifying. These people had been eyeing Mondstadt since the Demon God Wars, first Xuanqing, then Morax, and now even Xuanyue had joined in.
It's truly remarkable that Mondstadt has been managed by him for so long...
"Monde Winery is doing well, so there's no need to change that. Next, we need to assess the cultivation and production capacity of this area and try to increase the labor force, as well as the cotton textile industry."
Xuan Yue got thirsty as she spoke, picked up her juice, and turned to look at Wendy beside her. Wendy froze.
"..." (It was just a joke, don't take it seriously.)