Adorable Food Goddess - Chapter 104

Chapter 104

20 mins passed easily, but the two more hours of waiting was painful .

Ye Jiayao said to Xia Chunyu, “Maybe you should go and rest in your room . I will call you when it’s ready . ”

“You go rest, I will wait here,” Xia Chunyu countered .

“And do what? You’re useless here . I will need to mix this every 30 minutes . ”

Xia Chunyu suddenly smiled and said, “Come on, let me take you somewhere . ”

“Where? I need to watch the stuff here,” Ye Jiayao protested .

He didn’t bother replying and simply dragged her outside . Xia Chunyu put his arms around her waist and carried her up to the roof nimbly .

“It is cooler here . You can enjoy stargazing and still stay close to whatever you’re making,” Xia Chunyu said .

That’s . . . that’s actually romantic . Who knew that this bear of a man could actually act all lovey-dovey?

Ye Jiayao leaned against his chest and stared up at the beautiful sky . This kind of view, where the stars were all so clearly visible, was a rare occurrence in the modern age . The heavy pollution has destroyed beautiful sights like this .

The Big Dipper, Vega, Orion, Cygnus… they were all in the same location she has studied before . She felt like she was seeing the same starry sky in a different world . It made her think about what would happen when she dies at this time . Would she ever go back to her original world?

“What are you thinking?” Xia Chunyu asked after a while, breaking the pensive silence they were wrapped in .

“I am wondering if you have stargazed with other people before,” Ye Jiayao lied .

“Of course . ”

Ye Jiayao frowned and looked up at him . “With who?”

Xia Chunyu laughed . “It was in the past, there’s no point talking about it now . ”

“Whatever . You don’t have to tell me if you don’t want to . I stargazed with other people before, too,” Ye Jiayao mumbled and moved away .

Xia Chunyu grabbed her back and demanded, “With who?”

“It was in the past, there’s no point talking about it now,” Ye Jiayao mocked .

“Was it with that Wei Liujiang?” Xia Chunyu asked angrily .

Ye Jiayao lifted her chin up defiantly . “I asked you first . I’ll tell you if you answer me . ”

Xia Chunyu answered roughly, “Who else can I stargaze with? It’s my brothers when we were on night duty during wars . Your turn . ”

Ye Jiayao wrinkled her nose at him, unconvinced . He was over 20 years old and from their previous encounters, she knew that he was very experienced . She wasn’t the first woman he had .

“Alright,” Xia Chunyu sighed . “It’s with Qing Liu . When she was first brought into the mansion, she missed her home so much that she goes out in the yard to cry . I felt sorry for her, so to comfort her, I brought her stargazing . ”

“Qing Liu? Your servant girl?” Ye Jiayao knew that Young Masters in a big family usually have their servant girls as their enlightening teachers for romantic lessons . If they endear themselves to their charge, they could usually become a mistress or a concubine .

Xia Chunyu nodded .

“Did you have a relationship with her?”

Xia Chunyu hesitated for a second before nodding weakly .

Ye Jiayao’s heart turned heavy . Men are bad . Why do they have to have so many women? Couldn’t they just stay loyal to one person?

“So she’s your mistress now?” Ye Jiayao asked .

Xia Chunyu shook his head . “No . I made her leave after coming back from Black Wind Ridge . ”

“Why? She entrusted herself to you, why would you just turn her away?” Ye Jiayao rebuked . She might be jealous of the woman but she’s not completely heartless .

“It was my responsibility to make her leave . ”

“I’m sure she insisted to stay,” Ye Jiayao sneered .

“I don’t want my one and only to be jealous . I like only one woman and she’s already more than enough,” Xia Chunyu replied .

Oh, God . His promise . . .

Ye Jiayao felt her heart beat faster as she asked hopefully, “Have you found that person yet?”

“What do you think?” He stared at her closely, his eyes and lips smiling .

“How would I know that?” Ye Jiayao mumbled sulkily, her face red .

Xia Chunyu merely smiled at her adorableness . “It is your turn . Who did you stargaze with?”

Ye Jiayao made a show of counting her fingers .

Xia Chunyu was surprised . Was it more than one?

“Tell me,” he insisted .

She shushed him . “Don’t interrupt me, I am counting . ”

Xia Chunyu’s eyes lost its warmth . Counting?

“I stargazed with my grandmother, my nanny, and the big yellow dog…” Ye Jiayao began with mock seriousness .

Xia Chunyu laughed out loud . However, as relieved as he was, he still felt a pang of sadness for her . She stargazed with her dog because she had no one else in her life . He cuddled her closer to him, trying to give her comfort to erase all the melancholy and suffering she went through .

“And Little Jing, then you… umm, that’s what I have got so far,” she continued .

Xia Chunyu asked jealously, “You went stargazing with Little Jing?”

“Yes, on our way to Jin Ling . We rested in a pavilion and a broken temple and every time we open our eyes, we’re greeted by the starry sky . I guess that counts, right?”

Xia Chunyu squinted at her, trying to control the urge to throw her down and make sure she knows that she only belonged to him .

“What do you mean that’s what you’ve got so far? Would you want to stargaze with others?”

Ye Jiayao saw his gloomy face and laughed inwardly . He’s so possessive .

She said shrugged and replied, “Who knows what will happen in the future?”

Xia Chunyu took her face between his hands and warned her, “No future, no other people . Okay?”

“What, I can’t stargaze with my children?” she shot back .

Xia Chunyu, realizing that he’d been played again, released her face and nodded . “That’s fine, but it has to be our children . ”

Ye Jiayao’s face turned red . “Who would want to have children with you?”

Xia Chunyu smiled lovingly at how cute she looks when she blushes .

“Oh, no! It’s time . I have to go down and mix the thing!” Ye Jiayao scrambled to stand up .

Xia Chunyu reclined calmly, his hands interlocked behind his head . “You can go . ”

Ye Jiayao looked down at the ground . How the f*ck did we get so high? “Send me down immediately . If I failed in making my ice cream, it would be your responsibility . ”

So that gloopy thing is called ice cream? Xia Chunyu said, “Pay me . ”

Ye Jiayao huffed angrily . “Are you going to get me down or not? If you don’t move, I’m going to jump down by myself . ”

Xia Chunyu replied nonchalantly, “I think you should ask Jiang Li to carry a ladder here . It would be easier . If you jump down from this height, you’ll break your bones . ”

This arrogant idiot! You’ll get your time, mister, just wait and see . Ye Jiayao threw herself into his arms and pecked his cheek . “Are you happy now?”

“Nope . ” Xia Chunyu was not satisfied with that .

Ye Jiayao bit his nose .

“Ahh! Are you a dog?” Xia Chunyu touched his nose, glaring at her .

Ye Jiayao grinned unrepentantly . “I am born in the year of the rabbit . There is a saying that when a rabbit is annoyed, it will bite . Do you want to annoy me more . ”

“Okay, rabbit, I am officially afraid of you . ” Xia Chunyu got up and picked her up . “Are you ready?”

Ye Jiayao wound her arms around his neck tightly . “Yes, yes . ”

Xia Chunyu immediately jumped down, the speed and the moment of weightlessness making Ye Jiayao scream .

Xia Chunyu put her down and taunted, “Hush . Uncle Jiang and Auntie Jiang would think I’m doing nefarious things to you out here . ”

Ye Jiayao leaned in to bite him again, but Xia Chunyu was able to dodge her this time .

Xia Chunyu playfully chided, “You really are just like a rabbit . ”

Ye Jiayao stuck her tongue out at him and stomped away . She opened the cold room and took out the ice cream . She used a soup spoon to scoop some of it to have a taste . It was smooth and soft, the pure milk smell heady and appetizing .

She grinned, happy that her first attempt turned out to be a success . She then scooped a big spoonful to feed to Xia Chunyu .

“Try it . It’s delicious . ”

Xia Chunyu tried a tiny bit and tasted it carefully . It was especially silky and soft that it just melted in his mouth . It was just the right amount of sweet and cool, too . “Yaoyao, this is delicious . Much better than broken ice!”

“Of course, it is better than broken ice . It can’t even compare to this . ” Ye Jiayao was so thrilled . She still would like to study a bit more about this so she could make an ice cream that’s even better than Haagen-Dazs, but this was an excellent first attempt .

Xia Chunyu requested, “Can I have some more? I waited for so long and you’re just going to give me one bite?”

Ye Jiayao smiled and went back to the room . She brought out some oily paper which she rolled into a cylinder . She used scissors to cut a wavy hole in it before scooping out some ice cream and placing it in her makeshift cylinder . She then squeezed the ice cream onto a dish, fashioning it into a flower .

“All ready . ” Ye Jiayao presented it to him . “You are the first person to eat ice cream in the Song Dynasty!”

Xia Chunyu exclaimed, “You made it look so good, it’s almost a shame to eat it now!”

Yaoyao was so amazing . How could she know so many weird stuff that tastes so great?

Ye Jiayao made a flower for herself as well and they ate their ice cream opposite each other . If there was a plate of tiramisu or some cookies here, it would’ve been perfect . She wasn’t sure if she’d be able to make some without an oven, but she’d try that some other day .

Xia Chunyu suddenly recalled what Little Jing had told the Emperor . “Aren’t you going to make this into a mooncake?”

“Yes! Ice cream mooncake, isn’t that creative?” Ye Jiayao asked merrily .

Xia Chunyu was speechless, amazed by her imagination . “You’ve convinced me . I promise that I will never doubt anything you make again . Yaoyao, there’s nothing that you can’t do . “