SFS Chapter 181 Having Bad Intentions About Cats
Chapter 181 Having Bad Intentions About Cats
Qingyi arrived late and overheard Xu Ning asking this cat-eared loli for some "awful wine." Incredulously, she reached out her little hand and touched Xu Ning's forehead.
"Are you so confused by that drunkard? What are you trying to give up? What will happen to the offerings to the god of wine if you stop drinking? What about the skills you haven't unlocked yet? Also, don't drag me into this when you talk about quitting drinking. I'm not going to go crazy with you!"
Xu Ning smiled at Diona and said, "Look how attached this little one is to alcohol. Go on, we're waiting."
Diona nodded firmly, "I will do my best!"
Diona turned and went behind the counter.
Seeing Xu Ning's smile, Qingyi ran to the counter with unease, jumped up, and peered inside while clinging to the counter.
"Hey! What are you doing? Put that toad down right now!"
"What are those dark, grimy pieces of wood? Why would you throw them into a cocktail glass?"
"That's a tail, isn't it? It's definitely a tail..."
The woman in green turned her head and said to Xu Ning menacingly, "I absolutely will not allow you to drink this garbage; it is a desecration of wine!"
Xu Ning smiled and once again soothed Qingyi's enraged soul.
"Don't worry, it's fine to drink. As long as she doesn't take off her socks while filtering the wine... um~ what's with this sudden surge of anticipation..."
The man in green was still furious and roared, "I think you just have bad intentions towards this cat. How can you drink wine with that weird stuff added to it?"
Xu Ning pounced on her, ripped the blue-clad woman off the counter, and shoved her into a chair at the table. He scolded her in a low voice, "Don't spout nonsense. I already have enough of my strange rumors. Let me tell you, this girl's father is a very skilled hunter. He cherishes her dearly. I don't want to have arrows aimed at my head from the shadows every time I go out!"
While the two were glaring at each other, Diona, who was behind the counter, had already filtered and poured two glasses of wine and brought them over to them.
Shuyun also specially mixed a normal drink for the proprietress and brought it over.
Xu Ning picked up the wine glass with a thin layer of foam on it and took a big gulp without hesitation.
Diona wagged her tail nervously and stared at Xu Ning, anxiously wanting to know how he felt.
"How about it? How about it? Don't you ever want to drink again?"
Xu Ning frowned deeply and said in a deep voice, "I do feel a little bad, but only a little. Maybe I didn't drink enough. I'll drink some more."
This was the first time Diona had achieved such a "victory," and she excitedly raised her hand to indicate, "Try it all!"
Xu Ning tilted his head back and downed the entire glass of wine, then sighed loudly, "This is the first time I've felt this way about not wanting to drink since I started thinking about quitting. It's a pity this feeling is so short-lived; I'm afraid it will disappear soon."
Diona hurriedly grabbed her shaker. "I'll make you two more right away. Make sure you keep this feeling!"
Margaret sipped her drink, glanced at Xu Ning's expression, and chuckled, "You really know this girl well. If you dare to praise her even once, you'll only get this one drink all day."
Looking at Xu Ning's obviously acting sigh, the little girl in green knew perfectly well that he just wanted to drink a few more of the drinks that the cat had mixed.
"Is it really that delicious?"
Qingyi moved the glass of wine in front of her a little closer with a puzzled look, sniffed it carefully, and then took a small sip.
"Hmm? This feeling of turning the rotten into the miraculous?"
The woman in green's eyes lit up. "This is clearly blessed wine! Which god was so generous as to bestow divine power upon this cat to make wine? It's practically on par with the wine god we worship in our grotto!"
Manager Margaret was greatly displeased with Qingyi's wording, slamming her hand on the table and saying, "Although the wine here can't compare to the gifts of angels, it's still a fine wine that I, the proprietress, carefully selected. How can you call it rotten stuff..."
"Not even close, not even close."
After finishing the wine in his cup, Qingyi rolled his eyes and suddenly squinted and chuckled.
After Diona brought out the two glasses of wine again, Qingyi carefully examined the cat's shaker.
"The Eye of God of Ice is embedded in the cocktail shaker. Xu Ning, it looks a lot like your Dust Concealment Gourd!"
Xu Ning nodded as he enjoyed the two newly served glasses of wine.
Diona's wine, overall, was indeed not as good as the few sips of wine from the spring in her gourd.
But strangely enough, after the cat's care, no matter what she added, it all turned into a completely different and novel flavor.
"Hmph, I'll drink your wine."
The woman in green, with an arrogant expression, taunted Diona.
"It won't work on me, absolutely not. Every single wine I drink is of the highest quality. If the base wine you use is inferior, don't expect me to develop a resistance to my own wine. Unless..."
Qingyi winked at Xu Ning, who immediately understood and lined up six bowls, pouring out one bowl of each type of wine.
"How about it? If you're so capable, turn the wine I drink every day into the worst-tasting wine ever!"
Qingyi tilted her head back, looking at Diona with an expression that said, "I know you wouldn't dare."
Diona clenched her cat paws and gritted her teeth, saying, "I can do it!"
The cat-like girl carried several bowls of wine to the back of the counter one by one and began mixing them one by one.
Xu Ning and Qingyi exchanged a glance, then secretly clapped their hands under the table and whispered praise: "Well done!"
Margaret watched as her silly little cat completely fell into the trap of these two drunkards, sighed, and didn't expose them.
"If you mix your own drinks, you have to pay the same price as if you were buying regular alcohol!"
Xu Ning gave the proprietress a reassuring gesture and smiled, "No problem!"
Margaret glanced at Diona, who was mixing drinks, and asked Xu Ning, "Those are the exquisite drinks that Liyue has been talking about lately, right? They smell extraordinary. But I wonder if the people of Mondstadt can handle them?"
Xu Ning picked up a clean cup from the table and poured a full glass of the recently released Qianfeng wine.
"This is a special brew I made specifically for the tastes of the Mondstadt people, and it's called 'Thousand Winds.' As for how delicious it is..."
Xu Ning hadn't finished speaking.
Suddenly, the doors of the Cat's Tail Tavern burst open, and a green figure rushed to Xu Ning's table, picked up the 'Thousand Winds' drink and downed it in one gulp, then sneezed and ran out again.
Xu Ning continued, "...This shows just how popular it is. You don't even need cats to rival the gifts of angels."
"Of course, the only thing you need to be careful of from now on is that bard from earlier."
Margaret laughed. "It's nothing, it's just a matter of getting a few more cats."