Chapter 46: W-who said I do not know what I am doing with the spices?
Honestly, at this point, Lin Huahua felt that whether it was lion, fox, or deer, it did not matter. None of them could be fully trusted. These beastmen all had innocent faces hiding dangerous nonsense in their hearts.
Lin Huahua stayed in the bath a little longer, partly because she still wanted to feel clean and comfortable, and partly because she needed time to recover her dignity.
By the time she finally finished and got dressed again, she did feel much better physically.
Refreshed, even.
Her skin felt clean and her body felt warm.
Her hair, though still a little damp, no longer held the dust of the day.
But mentally, she was still dying of embarrassment.
When Lin Huahua stepped out, the whole cave seemed to have fallen into one of those awkward silences so thick a spoon could probably stand in it.
Feng Yiren was there.
Mu Qingyi had already come back in too.
Hu Baiyu was also somewhere nearby, though he looked like he had lost half his soul and buried it under a rock.
No one spoke at first.
Lin Huahua also did not speak.
She kept her little face stiff, trying to act as if nothing had happened.
Unfortunately, because she was Lin Huahua, and because she was a white rat beastwoman whose emotions often liked to appear on her face without permission, the tips of her ears were still pink.
Very pink.
Her cheeks also still held a faint flush.
Feng Yiren noticed immediately.
Mu Qingyi also noticed.
Hu Baiyu noticed most of all, then almost looked ready to flee again.
Lin Huahua sat down with all the dignity she could gather and refused to look at anyone directly.
Feng Yiren stared at her. Then at Hu Baiyu.
Then back at her. Then at Hu Baiyu again.
The fox said nothing, but the silence itself was already saying many rude things.
Hu Baiyu lowered his eyes.
For once, even this giant white lion looked really guilty that Lin Huahua could not help but feel her heart tighten, just because she felt like she was being too harsh.
Yet he deserved it for taking advantage of her and peeking!
That alone was enough to tell everyone exactly who had done something shameless.
Lin Huahua felt the atmosphere and nearly wanted to bang her head against the cave wall.
Could they not all act normal, pretend to not notice anything so that she could save her face a little??
But looking that they way these beasts were busy looking at her, it was clear that they were could not even pretend everything was fine.
The deer had come back with the cleaned meat and had neatly cut it as instructed. His antlers looked especially graceful in the firelight, but his expression right now was one of pure practical confusion.
Mu Qingyi stared at Lin Huahua’s little flushed face and felt that she was just too cute, but then again after seeing the pout on her lips that signified she had been wrong he simply decided to shift matters.
Since she was no scolding Hu Baiyu, it would be wrong to let the air be filled with what had happened.
So he quickly broke the silence.
He held up the washed meat, looked toward Lin Huahua, and asked gently, "Huahua, how do we use the leaves on the meat?"
And the scene pauses exactly there.
Lin Huahua finally blinked when she heard Mu Qingyi’s voice call out to her and she quickly turned her attention to him.
To be honest she wasn’t even sure that she was really hungry any more after the fruit she had in the morning.
But seeing the way they were all staring at her she felt like it would be wrong to leave them waiting so she nodded and stared at Mu Qingyi who started at her with confusion.
Lin Huahua kept staring at him with a huge smile on her face not saying anything that Feng Yiren had to turn back to Hu Baiyu who was now sitted at the corner like a bad dog.
He stared at Hu Baiyu with annoyance feeling like, this mute Lion’s action had broken their female.
While Lin Huahua was still starting at Mu Qingyi expecting him to start cooking, her system lit up immediately and stared at her.
"Princess, I’m preety sure he needs you to give him actual directions and not stare at him" At the words of her system, Lin Huahua could not help but blink out of her trance.
Before she could even say anything the system disappeared and she looked at Mu Qingyi with surprise in her eyes.
"Oh you want ME to give YOU directions?" Lin Huahua’s eyes were as wide as two moon cakes, she had been staring at Mu Qingyi earlier because she expected him to have some basic knowledge of what to do.
Beside these spices were from his world, she was a stranger here how could she possibly know what to do?
Back at the sci-fi world she did not even know what a kitchen looked like and now she had to cook? Then everyone might as well have food poisoning to night.
"Mmh" Mu Qingyi gave her a small smile while he nodded and stared at her expectantly.
"I-i..."
Lin Huahua immediately became flushed because she knew she was about to embarrass herself if she revealed she knew nothing about cooking after her confident out burst in the morning.
But who could blame her, this system did not seem to include basic cooking skills in her memory so her thoughts were a mess at the moment.
"Little rat don’t tell me that you don’t actually know how to use this spices to roast meat" Feng Yiren said with a mocking glint in his eyes. To him he already knew that Lin Huahua had just been bluffing earlier.
Because she was a princess and a female who has had everything done for her, her whole life.
Except from shouting orders and running away from home when things did not go her way, who else could she possibly know.
Lin Huahua on the other hand, who was about to nod and accept her fate, quickly stopped in her tracks when she saw Feng Yiren’s expression.
How could she let this shameless fox have the last laugh.
No impossible.
"W-who said I do not know what I am doing with the spices?"