chapter 25

On 24th December, the eve of Christmas…London was covered with snow and it landed on the red roof of the church, gently. At half past five, Momo and Ling’er were holding the scarves they had woven overnight, excitedly high-fiving each other without words and celebrating the success of the battle.

Na Ze stealthily revealed a smile in the area where the room’s shadows were folded, and Yun Zhaoyin pinched the stealth knack and sat down on the couch opposite them, also waking up from a nap. The two men looked at each other, helplessly shrugging their shoulders, while exaggerating a sigh. This week, two lonely men sitting like this almost became a tacit understanding. But listening to their little secrets and little wishes, thinking about Christmas Eve being able to receive gifts, being unhappy would be a lie!

However, after chatting regarding this matter, the two women had a more difficult task ahead of them. At seven in the morning, Momo dragged Ling’er, who was still not fully asleep, up from her bed and began the work of preparing the dumplings. Eating dumplings is simple, but making dumplings is a huge task: fermenting noodles, rolling noodles, cutting dumpling skins, chopping dumpling fillings, wrapping dumplings, making dumplings…people who have only eaten dumplings don’t know how hard it is!

The first process of fermenting the wet noodles left her feeling panting and tired.

Bracing her sore and swollen waist, Momo slowly moved into the building’s attached supermarket, heaving a long sigh. Honestly, this place she really did not like, if it’s not for the dumpling filling can not be an overnight dish. Plus, she really did not have the strength to run out, she did not even want to enter the second time.

If we ask the reason, it was not because the goods were too strange or the price was too expensive, but because of the greeting that came from overhead. “Ah, it’s Mrs. Momo, how are you, Mrs. Momo!”

Listen, here we go again! Momo made a full preparation in her heart, then resolutely tilted her head, still startled. A woman’s head hanging above her head, pale face, blood red lips, is looking backwards at herself, less than twenty centimeters away. ”Heh! You, hello!”

“It’s an honor to meet Madame,” the woman, upside down on the ceiling, not at all uncomfortable with her image, moved a step peacefully, slightly distancing herself from Momo, feeling slightly excited, “Madame, you haven’t been here for a long time!”

Momo tilted her head in pain and smiled, if she could, she wouldn’t be here today! The supermarket is full of blood clan’s people, hanging from the ceiling to greet her, making her tilt her head, as if she was on the set of a shoot in the Shura of Liaozhai, and walk the whole way in anxiety.

These upside-down ones were newborn bloods, and the shapeshifting bats weren’t quite used to it yet, and in order to adjust well to the new perspective, they spent the first fifty years of their freshman year walking as upside-down as they could, exercising their suction power. The mansion should be one of the concentrations of the blood clans, so many blood clans often ran to the supermarket here to walk around and pass the time.

“What do you want to buy? I am familiar with the place and can recommend it to you. Oh, you see, I almost forgot, allow me to introduce myself, I am Tebessa.” Perhaps finding it inconvenient to talk head to head, Tebessa turned around and fell to the ground.

“Tebessa, it’s nice to meet you,” Momo sighed in relief without leaning her neck, “I’m going to buy some meat and some vegetables.”

To be honest, she said, it’s a big place with a guide, but she couldn’t figure it out for a while.

“Really? You come with me and I’ll take you to the common area to buy, which the Bloods area may not have.” Tebessa smiled thoughtfully, and Momo realized that she was pretty and had an air of bookishness, as for her skin color and red lips, those were features that the Newborn Bloods could not hide.

“Ah, yes!” Smiling gratefully at her, Momo followed her around the cargo rack in the other direction.

As soon as Momo looked along the way, there weren’t many people around today, and even if there were…it was basically people walking on the floor, which was very different from the crowded ceiling last time, so there was a bit of a strange feeling from Tebessa. “Why are there so few people today?”

“Because it’s Christmas Eve!” Tabitha answered rightfully, Christmas Day was the most vulnerable time of the year for the Blood Clan, everyone would basically shrink into their homes, she lived in this building and came out today to buy necessities too.

“Yeah right, it’s Christmas Eve, everyone should be home for the holidays!” Momo nodded in enlightenment, but apparently, she could only think of a Chinese New Year scene, “What do you guys eat at night?”

“We aren’t picky with food, anything is good.” Tebessa thought about it, apart from drinking Type A blood, Type B blood and Type AB blood instead, she couldn’t think of what else she could eat, the elders had said that there were some delicacies, for the sake of the elegant and noble bloodline and status of the Blood Clan, she was not allowed to take them without permission.

“Are you alone?” Momo raised her head and asked with concern, “In that case, you’re welcome to come to my house for dumplings in the evening!”

“Well, thank you Madame for your kindness,” Tebessa stroked her long hair and smiled a little coyly, “This, or no, I can’t eat much.”

“That’s right,” Momo thought about it and also felt justified, not reluctantly, “Haha, if you don’t say it, I’d forget it, sorry!”

“Lady Momo you don’t have to apologize,” said Tebessa, suddenly not knowing what to say to the lovely lady who was so straightforward in front of her, she took a few steps at a time and pointed to the freezer in front of the slanted front, “You see, the fresh food area is right over there.”

“Thanks!” Momo smiled and nodded at her, then crossed over to the shopping basket next to her. With a glance, there didn’t seem to be much she could recognize, and turned to look at Tebessa, “There’s pork for sale here, right?”

“There are,” Tebessa nodded softly, turning the corner and leading her to a slightly larger freezer, “You see, there are plenty of them.”

A whole pig! A lot indeed, Momo gulped hard, “Don’t tell me they are going to sell it one by one!”

“Madame you are too cute. Of course not,” said Tebessa, clearly aware that she was human, and a sharp blood-colored blade curdled in her hand, “whichever one you wish to take quickly, I will cut it for you.”

“I just want a hind leg. That’s good enough,” Momo looked at her hand rather with a sigh. It’s good to know spells, can buy quite a few tools less. Hmmm…maybe the air conditioner refrigerator appliances and whatnot is not needed. It really helps to save money!

Tebessa carried the split pig’s leg, and with her other hand slightly lifting the hem of her own puffy skirt, she looked a little comical as Momo hurried to get the pig’s leg. “I’ll take it!”

“Ma’am, I’ll do it anyway!” Tebessa hurriedly backed away, stopping her, “Don’t you still have to buy vegetables, let’s go look at them?”

“This…alright. Sorry for troubling you!” Momo followed her towards the vegetable counter, where it seemed much more normal, but why weren’t there any vegetables suitable for making dumpling filling? What about potato dumplings, tomato dumplings, peanut dumplings?

“Tebessa, are there any other vegetables for sale?”

“No more, there are very few races who eat vegetables” Tebessa replied absentmindedly, her eyes however focused on a corner.

Momo followed her gaze and finally found green color among the pile of red and yellow vegetables, it was garlic! With a self-consoling nod, Momo decided to make fresh meat dumplings, adding more garlic to the filling, which shouldn’t feel too cloying either. Thinking as she went up to pick out the garlic, still quite fresh, she grabbed about two pounds and greeted Tebessa. “I’ve got my stuff, please which way to pay for it?”

Tebessa kept her eyes on her hand from the moment Momo started picking the garlic, only to nod groggily when she heard Momo talking to herself, “Um, okay. Ma’am, would you please come with me.”

After saying that, she turned around and led the way, Momo followed her around and around again. Before reaching the cash register, scratching her card to pay the bill, and carrying something out of the supermarket…Tebessa suddenly pulled her from behind, slightly panicked, pointing to the garlic in Momo’s hand. “Madame, what are you buying this for?”

“Wrap dumplings and eat them!”

“Oh,” Tebessa squirmed and nodded her head, not knowing what she wanted to say, opening her mouth, but just repeating Momo’s words, “Wrap dumplings and eat them,huh……”