Maybe it's encouragement to do a good job so you can drink it after.
[ his tone is dry, but not very much so, as he works on slicing the sausage at an angle to add to his bone stock soup. while fei du looks at him, wenzhou's gaze remains down as if he needs to focus on what he's doing lest he slice off his fingers. (mostly, he's just feigning it - he's deft enough in the kitchen that he's not really ever worried about accidentally cutting himself.) ]
That all is for adding after the soup is done, so it can get set aside once you've cut all of the vegetables. [ even though his kitchen helper is, well, new to doing literally anything in the kitchen like this, there's no concern about him not doing it right. fei du has proven before he can be taught. ]
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[ his tone is dry, but not very much so, as he works on slicing the sausage at an angle to add to his bone stock soup. while fei du looks at him, wenzhou's gaze remains down as if he needs to focus on what he's doing lest he slice off his fingers. (mostly, he's just feigning it - he's deft enough in the kitchen that he's not really ever worried about accidentally cutting himself.) ]
That all is for adding after the soup is done, so it can get set aside once you've cut all of the vegetables. [ even though his kitchen helper is, well, new to doing literally anything in the kitchen like this, there's no concern about him not doing it right. fei du has proven before he can be taught. ]