Chapter 463

Qin Feng answered softly, "A big toy we can use for the Water-Splashing Festival."

Reba shook her head: "Don't get it~"

Although, to be fair, she really was looking forward to taking part in the Dai people's Water-Splashing Festival.

But only the 'gentle splash' kind — the one where you grab a little twig, dip it in some water, and lightly sprinkle it to pass along blessings.

However!

When people finally get to enjoy a festival, they're hardly willing to be so gentle and refined about it.

If you're going to splash, splash the biggest water~

--【OMG! Feng-ge is starting to keep us in suspense again!】

--【Real talk, the Dai Misses are seriously pretty (pretty in the aesthetic-appreciation sense)】

—【Washing so many banana leaves for what? Is that lemongrass for grilling fish?】

—【Generally, what kind of fish do you use for lemongrass grilled fish?】

--【I'm from the South of the Colorful Clouds, so I can answer you like this — what'd you eat this morning? Tilapia~ what'd you eat for lunch? Tilapia~ and then...】

—【Master, stop lecturing! We get it, lemongrass grilled tilapia~】

—【And there's also rice and glutinous rice cakes? Plus pork and fish cooked in banana leaves!】

In Dai cuisine, banana leaves hold a position of no small importance.

Any ingredient, wrapped in a banana leaf and grilled, can be made into a leaf-wrapped roast.

On the banana leaves Reba had washed clean,

Auntie Yu wrapped in some stirred-together glutinous rice cakes and rice~

Reba observed closely, and Qin Feng handed her a tissue, wiping her face without ceremony.

Qin Feng: "Don't drip drool on the banana leaves."

Reba: "I wasn't drooling at all TvT!"

Qin Feng: "Then what are you looking at?"

Reba pointed at the glutinous rice cakes and said: "That one I know, it's called 'non-Newtonian fluid'!"

After saying this, Reba lifted her little chin slightly~

Looking awfully smug~

Like she was waiting for her boyfriend to praise her~

Something like, "You've learned so much more, Reba, you really are so knowledgeable!"

As a result,

Qin Feng instead countered: "Look how clever you are — so what's the principle behind non-Newtonian fluid?"

Reba: " "

Right now she was mooching a New Year's Eve dinner in the village, waiting to celebrate the Water-Splashing Festival~

How did it suddenly turn into a pop-physics quiz QAQ!

Reba went "ah-bah ah-bah" like a little mute~

Looks like, without a thorough understanding, showing off does require caution!

Reba said: "You say it as if you know it either~ hmph!"

There was a bit of a gamble in it!

The gamble was that Qin Feng didn't know either.

Qin Feng took the machete Uncle Yan handed over!

And began preparing the bamboo sticks needed for grilling fish and meat~

He answered: "Non-Newtonian fluid refers to fluids that don't satisfy Newton's law of viscosity."

"That is, fluids whose shear stress and shear strain rate don't have a linear relationship."

Reba's expression: C. O!

Damn~ he got to show off again!

Qin Feng set the split bamboo strips aside.

He asked again: "Let me ask you an easy one — was non-Newtonian fluid proposed by Newton?"

Reba thought for a moment, nodded and said: "That must be it! If you can even ask this question, then it definitely is~" She added: "If I'm not mistaken, Newtonian fluid and non-Newtonian fluid should both have been proposed by Newton! Qin Feng nodded.

He didn't pick up the thread again.

But it drove Reba crazy~

Come on and compliment her already!

Reba pressed: "Did I get it right or not?"

Qin Feng said: "Guessing right doesn't really count as an answer."

Reba: "But I do have grounds!"

Qin Feng: "Elaborate on those grounds."

Reba: "An anti-tank missile is still a missile!"

Qin Feng:...

The silly girlfriend's so-called grounds.

Not to say it's well-reasoned and well-sourced.

But it's also completely off the mark~

Off to the side, Uncle Yan and Auntie Yu exchanged glances.

Only because the conversational range of the little couple Qin Feng and Reba was, well, a bit too wide.

From Dai cuisine to non-Newtonian fluids, how did we end up talking about anti-tank missiles?

That's the vibe of young couples communicating these days.

Is it all this strange?

Soon, with the help of Qin Feng and Reba's group assistants.

Uncle Yan's family had prepared the ingredients for the shared New Year's Eve dinner table.

There were lemongrass-grilled tilapia and sticky rice wrapped in banana leaves and grilled.

And there was the Dai "divine seasoning" nam jim, with roasted eggplant added!

Simply put, this sauce, made with roasted tomatoes, chili peppers, and spices.

Would be delicious even if you dipped your shoe sole in it!

Because it was a shared New Year's Eve feast~

Each household indeed brought their own prepared dishes and stools; if you didn't bring a bowl, you could use disposable tableware.

And so it went...

Qin Feng and Reba, each hugging a large rice bowl with a diameter of 40 centimeters!

Set off for the square with Uncle Yan's family.

Reba: "See? The tableware I prepared can still come in handy."

Qin Feng: "That's not tableware; that's a basin!"

Upon arriving at the square, the first thing the "young couple" saw was the Dai's representative elephant-foot drum!

Moreover, Reba noticed two old men pasting sticky rice onto the drumheads.

Reba: "Qin Feng, look~ Does the drum need to eat too?"

Qin Feng: "Ah, yes yes yes, not only does it need to eat, but this Dai elephant-foot drum also smokes, drinks, and gets its hair permed."

Reba: "I think of you as my boyfriend, and you think of me as an idiot?"

Qin Feng: "If you think the drum needs to eat, aren't you the idiot?"

Reba: "If I weren't silly, how would I make you look smart?"

Qin Feng: "That sounds reasonable."

Reba: "So why are people pasting sticky glutinous rice onto the drumheads?"

Qin Feng: "The sticky glutinous rice allows the Dai elephant-foot drum to produce more complex vibrations and transmit richer sounds. In the understanding of the Dai people,

the drumbeat can reach straight to the sky.

A solemn instrument that conveys beautiful wishes to faraway places~

And the Water Splashing Festival spreads beautiful blessings in the form of water.

Reba: "So does this mean 'prosperity comes with water'?"