"Is this about right?"
Nanaya scooped a spoonful of soup from the seasoning dish and tasted it.
"Well, it's OK. It seems that my skills have not deteriorated."
Nanaya nodded with satisfaction. He picked up the big pot of thick soup with cotton cloth and walked slowly into the dining room.
"Oh! It smells so good~"
The smell of the thick soup immediately perked up Shiki, who was sitting at the dining table.
Pop.
Nanaya knocked down the spoon she was holding out.
"Wait a minute, the meal isn't ready yet. Shiki Matsuno, keep an eye on her."
"What? I didn't eat anything secretly!"
When Shiki was called out by Nanaya, he immediately hid the spoon in his hand behind his back.
"You two..." Nanaya's mouth twitched, "Forget it, you two should supervise each other. If I see that there is less soup when I come back, you two will be punished to kneel down!"
"Huh?!"*2
Nanaya ignored the two people who were screaming. He turned on the portable induction cooker to the keep-warm mode, then returned to the kitchen to prepare other food.
Today is December 31st, which is New Year's Eve in Japan.
As Nanaya had promised Lily before, he invited his close friends to attend the New Year's party in his villa.
At present, the battle between Washimine and Lin Bao in the Japanese film industry has temporarily ended the first round.
All major film awards announced their nominations before the New Year, and judging by the results, Fate and "San Chome" are on par with each other.
Except for a few nominations, basically any award that "San Chome" is nominated for will definitely also have Fate.
Vice versa.
After all, the organizers of these film awards are not stupid. Now that Washimine and Lin Bao are fighting so fiercely, even people outside the circle know about it.
If they don't put the movies of their two companies side by side to attract attention and generate popularity at this time, what else are they waiting for?
Anyway, it's just a spot, not a real prize, so just give it away.
Just like every year's Oscars, there are many popular commercial films nominated, but only a few of these films win awards, and most of them are just runners-up.
The reason for doing this is to hope that the audience will pay attention to the Oscars because of these films, thereby increasing their popularity.
But if you keep using this trick, the audience is not stupid.
So over the past two years, attention to the Oscars has continued to decline.
And those commercial blockbusters also know that they cannot win any awards, so they no longer sign up.
In two years, even the North American Oscars will be not much different from the Independent Film Awards.
Although everyone hopes to know the results as soon as possible, most of these film awards are nominated in December and the awards are announced after the New Year.
Although the organizers said that this was because there was not enough time to count the votes, the event would have to be postponed to after the New Year.
But Nanaya thought that it was probably because the organizers of the awards were kind-hearted and wanted those film crews that did not win to have a peaceful year.
Since the organizer was so considerate, Nanaya couldn't refuse.
Invite friends to have a party just for themselves to relax, this is the most comfortable time for Nanaya after working for a year.
In fact, it's not just a New Year's party. Because everyone is busy with Christmas this year, the New Year's party even takes on some of the content of the Christmas party.
Although it is indeed strange to exchange Christmas gifts while listening to the New Year's Eve bells.
Although Nanaya invited everyone who was on good terms with him, including his teacher, in the end only the younger generation came to the party.
Apart from the Trier members and their families, only the Ryougi siblings, Shiki, Illya, Shion and the Sugiyama brothers attended the party.
However, this number of people doesn't seem to be the only ones, right?
"Forget it, don't worry about these details."
"What are you doing talking to yourself there? Come over here and help!"
Rin, who was busy cooking in the kitchen, saw Nanaya slacking off and quickly hit him on the butt with her knee.
Nanaya smiled bitterly and said, "Hey, haven't I already come?"
In order to make this family party more lively, the entire party was hosted by the party participants themselves under Nanaya's hosting.
For example, Nanaya herself, Rin, Sakura, and Shion were responsible for the food at the party, while others like Ori, Sugiyama, and others were responsible for the decorations of the party.
There were only two guys who were just eating and waiting to die, Shiki Matsuno and Shiki who were sitting at the table.
"Why are you in such a hurry, Rin? Isn't all the food being prepared as planned?"
"Come here quickly and stop her!"
Rin pointed at Lily who was fiddling with something on the chopping board and said, "She seems to be planning to cook something."
"Forehead..."
Nanaya originally wanted to assign the group of young ladies, including Lily, to Ori to prepare the party scene.
But for some reason, Lily was standing at the stove at this moment.
"Nanaya, you'd better stop Lily from messing around. Don't forget that this golden-haired girl comes from the country of dark cuisine~"
Sakura held her face and said with a smile, "When the time comes, you will be responsible for eating everything she makes."
[Then why don't you stop it! ]
Nanaya was complaining madly in his heart.
But at this time, it was too late for Nanaya to stop Lily.
"Hehe, let me show you my superb cooking skills!"
Lily held the kitchen knife against her chest and spoke confidently.
Brush!
With just one cut, Lily cut the cantaloupe in front of her into two.
[So it's cantaloupe dishes? ]
Lily's action made Nanaya feel a little relieved. If it was a fruit dish, as long as it was not overcooked or added with strange seasonings such as soy sauce and pepper, the taste would generally not be too bad.
Lily used an iron spoon to scoop out the seeds from the middle of the cantaloupe, and then poured brandy directly into the pit of half the cantaloupe.
"Ok, done!"
Lily excitedly showed the two semicircular cantaloupes to Nanaya and the others: "Clang clang~ Wine-stained cantaloupe!"
Pop.
Nanaya punched Lily on the head, and Rin took the opportunity to snatch the two pieces of cantaloupe.
"Don't waste the food!"
With that, Nanaya threw Lily out of the kitchen.
"Hmm... there is obviously a way to eat it."
Lily complained indignantly, but it was of no use.
"Go and help your sister with the decorations. You are not allowed to enter the kitchen again."
Nanaya didn't want Lily to make anything weird again, because these foods were very expensive.
"I didn't expect it to be wine."
Sakura felt a headache looking at the cantaloupe on the table. After what Lily did to her, both the cantaloupe and the brandy needed to be eaten as soon as possible.
"I was thinking that if it was some weird dark cuisine, I could bully Nanaya." Sakura said regretfully, "In this case, I can only let the guy who can drink better eat the cantaloupe later."
"Hey, hey! How much do you hate me?"
Nanaya's mouth twitched and he didn't know what to say. Could it be that this woman was just waiting to watch the show?
"Forget it. If Nanaya gets drunk and has sex with someone after drinking, it will be troublesome."
Sakura didn't say anything about Nanaya's complaints. She just looked at Nanaya with contempt: "What if he ends up hugging a woman he shouldn't be hugging? That would mean a lot of trouble for him, don't you think, sister?"
"I should have told you not to call me that!"
Rin yelled angrily, picked up half a cantaloupe and said, "It's still early to eat. Let's wrap this in plastic wrap and put it in the refrigerator."
"Sister, stop ordering me around!"
Although Sakura snorted, she still followed Rin to wrap the remaining half of the cantaloupe.
"Nanaya."
At this time, Shion, who had been busy at another stove, shouted.
"What?"
Nanaya rushed over, who knows what tricks this old lady has come up with.
You know, originally Nanaya was planning to let Shion help Ori decorate the room, but no one knew what was wrong with this young lady, she insisted on staying in the kitchen.
Fortunately, Shion still had some self-awareness. She did not choose to do jobs like cooking that would threaten her own and other people's lives, but instead chose the simplest jobs of washing vegetables and passing tools.
Even so, Nanaya didn't dare to relax completely.
Look, who knows what's wrong with this young lady now, she wants to ask me for help.
"What did you do? Did you scratch your finger?" Nanaya asked with concern.
But what Nanaya was waiting for was not Shion's questions, or asking for help, but a hug from Shion.
Well...it might not be appropriate to say it was a hug. It should be said that Shion's two jade arms directly hugged Nanaya's neck.
"Hey~ Nanaya, can you come over and teach me how to cook?" Shion said while blowing on Nanaya's neck.
"Ah!! Ah??"
Nanaya screamed twice. The sudden attack made him feel as if his brain was suddenly filled with brandy.
Shion whispered in Nanaya's ear, "So, I don't know how to cook. Can you teach me?"
"Ha----!"
Nanaya screamed out loud, not because he sensed the danger from Shion, but because he clearly felt a murderous aura.
And he was furious.
"I say, Boss Shion, if you need someone to teach you how to cook..."
Lin held a radish in one hand and asked with a dark face, "How about just looking for me?"
Crack.
With a crisp sound, Rin crushed the radish into pieces with one hand.
"Sorry!!"
Although Nanaya didn't know why he had to apologize, he just apologized under the current circumstances.
Shion pouted unhappily and said, "Tsk, it's boring for a girl to teach another girl."
"Really? Why do I feel like this will be very interesting???"
Pop.
Just when Rin and Shion were on the verge of a fight, Sakura suddenly locked the kitchen door.
"Sorry, I have a question that I want to know more about than cooking."
Sakura smiled at the other three people in the room, "Can you explain why the three of you have the same scent?"
"Would you tell me, please?"
Sakura said as she took a step forward.