Lan Wangji was prepared for the contents of the wok to go flying, and poised to deploy some cultivator reflexes to mitigate the situation, but he is not terribly surprised that Sunny is an exceptionally competent baby. He watches her, just for a moment, with banked warmth in his eyes. "Thank you," he tells her, and then he sets to fulfilling his half of the proposed bargain: peppercorns, fennel seeds, the cassia bark, a star anise, and a pod of cao guo all join the ingredients.