"Haha, your Donghua State riddles are too hard to understand; we from Dongying State can't make heads or tails of them." This was Asou Haruka's defense for her lousy performance.
When it ca to the final prize draw segnt, Lin Xiaolu went first, followed by several younger participants, with the seniors drawing after, and Erald Sparrow being the last to reveal her prize.
Pulling a piece of paper from the draw tube, Erald Sparrow slowly unfolded it, only to find the words "Coupon for 50% off all Tangyuan" written in black ink.
It wasn't exactly thrilling, but she had indeed won sothing; yet, it also wasn't sothing particularly exciting.
Amidst her subtly mixed feelings, and while listening to the staff shout "Congratulations, third prize," Erald Sparrow accepted the so-called discount coupon with a subtly complex expression. On the other hand, Lin Xiaolu and Bai Jingxuan, probably because they had a liking for sweets, imdiately cheered and jumped for joy.
As a result, their dinner was thus decided upon: Tangyuan it would be.
Leaving the lantern riddle event, the Magical Girls mingled into the crowd and entered the snack plaza, where nurous snack booths were up for business, along with so vendors luring children with ring toss and spinning wheel gas. That so-called "Tangyuan discount coupon" could only be used in this place; any booth selling Tangyuan offered a 50% discount, regardless of the flavor or the amount purchased.
Paying at the Tangyuan booth with sowhat complex feelings, Erald Sparrow, adhering to very traditional views, chose a bowl of black sesa-filled Tangyuan, which made her seem overly plain compared to the other Magical Girls. If Xia Liang's choice of purple potato filling and Hong Siyu's pick of peanut filling were deed normal, then Lin Xiaolu's choice of strawberry filling and Asou Haruka's selection of coffee filling were sowhat puzzling.
Had Tangyuan morphed into such a fancily diversified food?
Nibling at her spoon filled with black sesa Tangyuan, Erald Sparrow pondered as if questioning her worldview. If she rembered correctly, back in her youthful days, when she, An Ya, Su Shengzi, and others used to visit the temple fair, Tangyuan was still a very traditional snack, right?
Just as her thoughts began to wander, and when she was about to sigh upon realizing she couldn't keep up with the tis, Bai Jingxuan had already sat down beside her, holding her own bowl.
"Mom, try the Tangyuan I chose."
She naturally pushed her bowl towards Erald Sparrow, crisply speaking.
"The one you chose?"
Erald Sparrow looked at Bai Jingxuan, gave it so thought, and without much protest, used her spoon to gently scoop a Tangyuan from Bai Jingxuan's bowl.
After tasting the Tangyuan, she imdiately recognized the filling—custard.
Although custard-filled Tangyuan could be considered sowhat innovative compared to the traditional black sesa filling, in comparison to sothing as unorthodox as coffee filling, it seed almost too normal.
Thinking thus, Erald Sparrow swallowed the Tangyuan in her mouth.
"It's delicious." She then gave her verdict.
"Really? Thank you!" Bai Jingxuan, without quite knowing why she was so pleased by the complint, happily took her bowl back and then leaned towards Erald Sparrow, "Then Mom, I want to taste yours too."
"Hmm... sure, but it's just a very ordinary black sesa flavor, not much different from what you can buy at the supermarket."
Erald Sparrow blinked, sowhat puzzled, "Are you sure you want to try it?"
"Yes!" Bai Jingxuan nodded.
"Alright then." With that thought, Erald Sparrow pushed her bowl forward as well.
As soon as she had done this, Bai Jingxuan pushed the bowl back.
"What's the matter? Changed your mind?"
Erald Sparrow was slightly confused.
Bai Jingxuan shook her head, negating with a hum.
"So what is it..."
Erald Sparrow's questioning was cut off as she saw Bai Jingxuan adjust her eyepatch, then lean forward slightly, opening her mouth.
"Ah." The girl said softly.
Erald Sparrow felt her wrist tremble.
She glanced around, then back at Bai Jingxuan, and after a mont's hesitation and a touch of helplessness, she lowered her spoon, and with Bai Jingxuan's spoon scooped a white and black Tangyuan from her own bowl.
"Ah."
Saying so, she first blew on the Tangyuan in the spoon to cool it, then, with a hint of embarrassnt, fed the Tangyuan into Bai Jingxuan's mouth.
Bai Jingxuan chewed furiously a few tis, then swallowed it down as if she were a cow savoring a peony: "Delicious!"
"...Glad you like it." Erald Sparrow could only awkwardly respond, while scanning the surroundings to ensure not too many people witnessed this slightly embarrassing scene.
Unfortunately, just as her gaze shifted less than ninety degrees, she saw soone else had joined them at the side.
"Bang!"
Lin Xiaolu slamd her bowl down on the table, glared at Bai Jingxuan, then, with a change in expression, t Erald Sparrow's gaze with an incredibly docile and sweet look:
"Erald Sparrow, I want so too!"
"No!"
Bai Jingxuan imdiately voiced her objection, "I was here first!"
"You've already had your turn; now it's mine!" Lin Xiaolu quickly retorted.
"I was here first!"
"It's my turn now!"
The two went back and forth like squabbling elentary school children, repeating the sa sentence over and over and gradually raising their voices.
Seeing things go south, Erald Sparrow quickly interposed to stop the squabble, then with a numb expression, fished out another Tangyuan from her own bowl and held it to Lin Xiaolu's mouth.
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