Chapter 348 Ice Cream Tasting
After leaving underground, Liu Bai followed the location of the mission and came to the vicinity of Lisha Suburb again.
But after waiting for a long time, he still didn't see the client. Seeing that time was running out for him to complete today's daily commission, he had to sigh. His idea of pairing two talking foxes was thwarted...
Liu Bai then went back to continue his daily commissions.
Three of today's daily commissions are about defeating monsters. Apart from the need to travel, such commissions are the simplest for him. He can just swing his sword at the scene and solve them. It doesn't take much time.
After completing three commissioned tasks, Liu Bai returned to Liyue Harbor and continued to check the fourth commission.
"Ice cream raw material collection commission... and customer taste survey, new ice cream tasting, and..."
"Hey, this is a good job!"
Liu Bai hadn't looked carefully before, but now that he saw it was a food tasting, he immediately rushed to the mission location happily.
The location is Feiyunpo, which is the prime location of Liyue Harbor. Those who can afford to open a shop here are either rich or noble.
Although the ice cream shop called "Hagentus" is not well-known and small in scale, it is doing booming business these days.
Since the Lantern Festival, the weather has started to warm up, and now, several months later, it has begun to turn towards summer and autumn.
Since, except for the holder of the Ice God's Eye, ordinary people have no ability to preserve and make ice cream at low temperatures for a long time, the competitive pressure on this store is not that great.
"Sister Guili, can you please give me another serving of this ice slime popsicle?"
Inside the store, a young man with ice-blue hair's eyes lit up after trying the new ice cream, and he quickly spoke to Guizhong.
Since the name "Gui Zhong" is relatively well-known, although many Liyue people have never heard of "Hagentus", they have heard of the God of Dust "Gui Zhong". Therefore, when contacting outsiders, Gui Zhong uses the identity of an ordinary person and is named "Gui Li". He is the cousin of Zhongli, a guest official of the Wangsheng Hall.
"No, Chongyun. We are in the tasting stage now and each person can only get one of each item. Why don't you try the remaining ice cream... Well, this fire slime and thunder slime style tastes pretty good too."
Gui Zhong shook his head slightly, then pointed at the ice creams of other attributes in the tasting plate and made a suggestion.
After all, the purpose of the food tasting activity is to improve the taste. She hopes that customers will like all seven kinds of slime, rather than just one or two flavors. After all, she wants to sell the whole set as a bundle.
"Fire, fire slime... isn't it spicy?"
Looking at the fiery red ice cream, the boy named Chongyun shrank his neck.
He loves ice cream very much, so he has been a regular customer who visits the store almost every day since it opened.
"It's a little spicy, but not too spicy. Ganyu didn't say anything after eating it."
Guizhong nodded and handed a new small fork to Chongyun.
Chongyun hesitated for a moment and took the small fork.
"I, I'd better try this Thunder Slime..."
In the end, Chongyun did not touch the fire slime, but picked up the thunder slime-shaped ice cream and started tasting it.
"A guest is here. Chongyun, please find a place to sit down first, and then tell me what kind of ice cream you want to eat."
At this time, Gui Zhong noticed that the door was pushed open. He didn't have time to ask Chongyun how the food tasted. He immediately told him and went back to entertain the guests.
"Hagen...Daz?"
As he walked into the store, Liu Bai stroked his chin and thought about the store name he had just seen outside the door. It felt very familiar.
"It's Hagentus."
Gui Zhong, who came over to greet him, heard Liu Bai's muttering and subconsciously reminded him.
"Oh, you are the owner of the store, right? I am here to entrust you with a task. Here are the raw materials I collected for you."
Liu Bai came back to his senses and after seeing Gui Zhong, he quickly took out the raw materials he had collected in the wild.
According to the task requirements, the raw materials are some Liyue specialties, such as Qingxin, Liuli Bag, Liuli Lily, Jueyun Pepper, etc., plus some slime.
Among them, Qingxin and Liulidai are freshly picked medicinal herbs. They are different from the processed medicinal herbs sold in Bubulu and are more suitable for making food.
"So much... Thank you so much~ Come sit down and have a rest!"
Gui Zhong took the bag from Liu Bai's hand and took a look at it, and found that it was full of medicinal herbs.
Among them, Qingxin and Liulidai both grow on cliffs, and the cost of picking them is very high, so the prices of these medicinal materials are also very high.
Gui Zhong warmly invited Liu Bai to sit down in the store, and then paid the commission reward for him. The reward was based on the quantity of raw materials provided, so Liu Bai earned a considerable amount of Mora.
"By the way, take a look at the menu. I haven't had time to thank you for what happened before. You are my savior, so just order any flavor of ice cream you want. It's free~"
After paying the commission reward, Gui Zhong trotted to the front desk, got the store menu, handed it to Liu Bai and said.
The last time Liu Bai fed her Teyvat fried eggs, he set off for Mondstadt the next morning. This was the first time they met since then, so she had no chance to thank Liu Bai before.
"Is there such a good thing?"
Liu Bai originally thought that it would be nice to be able to try the ice cream, but when he heard that it was free, he didn't care when he had saved the other person.
Picking up the menu, Liu Bai looked at it carefully, and finally pointed at the coriander-flavored ice cream on it.
"Except for this, serve all the others!"
"Okay, wait a moment~"
Gui Zhong was not stingy with this little bit of ice cream, nor was he worried that someone like Liu Bai would get an upset stomach, so he went back to the kitchen and turned on the ice cream machine at full capacity to produce ice cream at full speed.
Soon, portions of ice cream of different flavors and styles were brought to the table where Liu Bai was sitting.
"hiss……"
Seeing Liu Bai wolfing down the ice cream one piece at a time, Chongyun, who was not far away, couldn't help but gasp.
"If you eat this way, most people won't get a splitting headache after eating much, right?"
"Is this person not afraid of the cold at all?"
Chongyun muttered quietly in a voice that only he could hear.
However, as soon as he finished speaking, he saw Liu Bai also gasped, covering his head with his hands as if he was in unbearable pain from the cold, then he knocked his head four times before continuing to eat.
[↑Diamond Head: Reduces 80% of head damage]
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"Girl! I'm back! Come and see what good things I brought you~!"
In the evening, Liu Bai returned to the house with a delicate box of ice cream. He couldn't wait to run to Nashida who was cooking and opened the box in his hand.
Inside the ice cream box are seven cute small slime-shaped ice creams in seven colors, corresponding to the seven elemental forces.
"Ice cream? Then feed me~ I still need to cook~"
Nashida, who was cooking, did not stop, but opened her mouth towards Liu Bai after she finished speaking.
Although it was best not to eat sweets before a meal, she was a deity and was lovable enough to be exempt from those rules.
"嘤嘤~"
At this time, the pink-haired fox ran out from somewhere and pulled Liu Bai's trouser leg with its claws.
As long as Liu Bai feeds her the "magic pill", she can be herself openly.
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