Chapter 54: Confession?
“How about it? Convinced now, right?”
Xiang Chuan chuckled with her hands on her hips, looking smug.
Ouyang Yating looked speechlessly at this childish girl, wanting to say something, but the coffee table in front of her had an empty bowl with all the soup juice drunk up, so refuting would clearly lack persuasiveness. Thus, she turned her head away, not looking at her, as a small act of resistance.
At this moment, Xiang Chuan’s terminal received a message. She opened the light screen and took a look, then laughed and turned the light screen toward Ouyang Yating. Ouyang Yating glanced at it from the corner of her eye; the sender displayed Liang Gong’s name. He said nothing in the message, just typed three exclamation marks, one per line.
Everything was self-evident.
Now both club members of A Bite of China Club were convinced by the facts, so they naturally began discussing the preparation of supplies for A Bite of China Club.
But as they discussed, Xiang Chuan felt they weren’t discussing issues; rather, she was acting as the explainer.
Ouyang Yating: “What’s the use of this small bowl? Isn’t it more than half of a cup for holding liquid food?”
Xiang Chuan: “This is for making dim sum… Dim sum is the general term for food other than staple food, like the yam cake Man Man just ate.”
Nancy: “You chose such large sizes for three glass jars? Xiang Chuan, did you fill it out wrong?”
Xiang Chuan: “This is for making yeast… Yeast is a kind of material that must be used to make buns and the cakes posted yesterday.”
Ouyang Yating: “Thick wooden board? Preparing repair materials for activities so early?”
Xiang Chuan: “This is to be modified into a cutting board… A cutting board is the tool for cutting vegetables and meat… No, you can’t cut vegetables directly on the cabinet surface. The sound of the metal film material is unbearable to me; people who come to our side to eat things will be scared away.”
After explaining for a long time, Ouyang Yating finally began to slowly ponder the list she had made notes on while listening to Xiang Chuan’s explanation earlier, looking thoughtful. Xiang Chuan’s throat felt spicy and burning; she now just wanted a cup of hawthorn tea, but modern era had no tea drinking culture. Before figuring out fruit milk and juice, people only drank water. Where was there any throat-soothing and fire-reducing tea now… Xiang Chuan chose to drink orange juice.
On the contrary, Ouyang Yating, after the personal experience of lunch and Xiang Chuan’s explanation of the uses of some equipment just now, now had a new understanding of ancient food.
So making ancient food required so many processes; it required so much equipment.
So the seasonings for ancient food were not just the five kinds of oil, salt, vinegar, chili, and sugar; the types of food were not limited to grains, meat, vegetables, and seafood. Pepper and yam as medicinal materials could also be seasonings and ingredients.
These… really subverted her worldview up to now too much.
Originally, she thought tasting a few bites unintentionally while helping elders at home test fruit had given her a taste impact. Now, in comparison, fruit was the one that didn’t surprise her much.
“By the way, Xiang Chuan.” Ouyang Yating suddenly raised her head, showing a strange smile that made Xiang Chuan somewhat creeped out: “Did you just open voice communication with Liang Gong?”
Why suddenly bring this up? Xiang Chuan had some bad premonitions, but she still honestly answered: “No… what’s wrong?”
Hearing this, she stood up and patted Xiang Chuan’s shoulder, showing a smile that could be described as merciful, but the next sentence directly caused Xiang Chuan’s brain to crash: “Then this afternoon, I’ll leave it to Club President you to re-explain all this content to Liang Gong once more.”
“OH——MY————GOD——————!”
After humans stepped into the universe, thoroughly shattering the ancient religious beliefs about heavenly fantasies after twenty thousand years, on the fleet main ship where people gathered, “Oh my God” resounded once again.
Of course, Ouyang Yating wouldn’t torment her own club president like this. When the rest time broadcast rang out and the three returned to their respective dormitories, she copied her own supplies list filled with various annotations and sent it to Liang Gong, leaving Xiang Chuan speechless. She directly stuffed the orange juice that Little Star No.1 had urgently produced into her arms, indicating that since it was useless, this culprit who made her bustle around pointlessly should deal with it.
Afternoon.
Except for the extremely few students in each class who hadn’t chosen clubs yet and were led by the Student Union for another club visit activity, other students didn’t need to return to their classes first like the three days before school started and then go to the club activity room; they could directly leave the dormitory area to attend club activities.
At this time, all students envied the Performance Club and A Bite of China Club. The activity rooms of the two clubs were built in the vicinity of the dormitory area, while others had to go to the club building first. The distance from the dormitory area to the club building was about the same as to the teaching building—very enviable.
Xiang Chuan walked into the activity room and saw Liang Gong sitting on an ancient standard chair by the door looking at the form, feeling aggrieved in her heart:
“Liang Gong, listen to me. Yating at noon today, she was so infuriating…”
Ouyang Yating, following behind Xiang Chuan at a distance of less than five meters: “Club President, when talking bad about someone, at least don’t say it right in front of the person involved.”
Liang Gong, unaware of the causes and effects: “…Ah haha?”
After the playful banter, when Little Star No.2 served a pot of fruit milk and three cups, the three began discussing serious matters. The original list Xiang Chuan made actually already covered a quite comprehensive range. After Ouyang Yating’s organization and annotations, the content was very easy to understand, and in the end, they only made some adjustments to the pre-purchase quantities.
After finalizing the supplies list, Xiang Chuan mysteriously led the two to the kitchen area and pressed the button on the wall to the right of the predetermined refrigerator position in the kitchen. A small door opened on the right side of the kitchen entrance.
It turned out this was a mini version that Xiang Chuan had the university Engineering Department model after her home warehouse (Xiang Chuan: No way around it, the one at home is really too big, my wallet can’t handle it). Freezing, refrigeration, freshness preservation, insulation, sterilization… functionally almost the same as the one at home. Although it cost over two million Star Yuan, for the sake of future diet and living at school, Xiang Chuan was still willing to make this investment.
“Buy more flour, less rice noodles. Rice noodles for steaming cakes aren’t as good as flour… Huh?”
While Xiang Chuan was nagging Ouyang Yating about the pre-purchase quantities of flour and rice noodles and leaving the warehouse to return to the activity room, she discovered a few figures at the activity room door.
“Classmates, what’s wrong?”
Slow on the uptake, Xiang Chuan remembered she was the club president and hurried over to greet them. Upon closer look, there was even a familiar face—it was that brown-haired little handsome guy from the class who on the first day of school complained that she was blocking his way.
Here for emergency club joining? But among the people named by the Class President this morning to gather at the Student Union in the afternoon, this classmate didn’t seem to be included. Logically, he should have already joined another club.
Could it be that they came to get buns? Very likely, boys in puberty get hungry easily, and there are some other people following behind, probably they heard that buns could be gotten so they followed along.
“Everyone, sorry,” Classmate Xiang Chuan said a bit embarrassedly, “the buns and steamed buns here were all distributed by noon.”
Hearing this, everyone’s expressions became very subtle. The boys in the back couldn’t help but laugh, and the brown-haired boy standing in front of Classmate Xiang Chuan had an even more wonderful expression.
“Classmate Xiang Chuan,” the brown-haired boy hesitated before speaking, “we’re not here to get food.”
“Huh?” Classmate Xiang Chuan was even more doubtful, not here to join the group and not here to get food, then what are they here for…”We still have some fruit milk here, it’s very tasty, why don’t you take some back.”
“……We’re not here to get drinks either.” The brown-haired boy’s expression got even worse.
“Huh???” Classmate Xiang Chuan practically wrote the question mark on her face,
The brown-haired boy fell silent, hesitated several times, then took a deep breath like he was mustering courage, looked at Classmate Xiang Chuan who had a dumbfounded look, and said seriously: “Classmate Xiang Chuan, I like you, please be my girlfriend.”
“……Huh?”
Went V! Double update today~ The other chapter will be released later. Will this new(ly?) debuting boy be Classmate Xiang Chuan’s CP? Guess, everyone (〃艸〃)(*艸`) Also thanks to reader Thirty-Three Cat Heads for catching bugs~ Typing on a Bluetooth keyboard makes it easy to make typos, alas
