Chapter 55: Then Let’s Eat Together?
Speaking of celebrations, in Li Wei’s impression, it must be hot pot.
The ingredients don’t need to be very high-end, don’t need to cost much money, and don’t require going to any high-class club.
Whether poor or luxurious, one pot, a basin of excellent soup base, the same old meat that becomes delicious after a quick rinse, mushrooms that are never absent, and finally that one bite of noodles after eating and drinking one’s fill.
Even when staying home, Li Wei really likes to eat hot pot.
Whether it’s luxuriously spending three or five hundred on a Haidilao takeout, or taking his mobile phone to the market to spend over 100 buying vegetables and meat, he can enjoy what he needs most.
——The emptiness filled by hypocritical liveliness and the sense of satisfaction from eating hot food.
Today he specially bought a large pot and an induction cooker.
The big box containing the tableware was carried by Li Wei himself, and his few Pokémon ran off on their own to buy ingredients and snacks, which they packed in small bags, paid for, and clutched tightly in their hands.
The familiar sunset, the familiar road from the supermarket back to the dormitory, the familiar ‘group of four’.
The only difference is that at this moment, in the small bag at Li Wei’s waist, there is a Magikarp still going ‘Ababa Ababa’.
【Li Wei, charge!!! Hurry home!!! I can’t wait!!! Hot pot hot pot!! First time for raw fish! I’m so excited!! But can I eat this stuff? Last time I saw you eating Lanzhou ramen, I was so envious! Where is Lanzhou? When can I evolve? Will I be able to eat these delicious things after evolving? Huh?? Oh right, I forgot you can’t hear me now? No, wait! I remember you told me you’re an Aura User! So you should be able to understand me through Aura! Right?! Hey!!!】
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Li Wei, pretending not to hear, sighed deeply.
Too painful.
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The increase in partners means the dining table needs to be expanded, means more daily grain purchases are needed, and considering Magikarp’s ‘disability’ issue, today Li Wei also specially prepared a lot of hot pot ingredients that Magikarp can eat too.
Carrying the stuff, after getting home, he handed over unpacking the box, washing the tableware, setting the table, and such tasks to Eevee with Psychic Power, while Dragonair, after changing the water for Magikarp, followed Li Wei and Riolu to the kitchen.
Mandarin duck pot is a must.
Half tomato soup base, half spicy pot soup base.
Tomato one for the Pokémon to eat, he eats the spicy one himself, occasionally enjoying the tomato one too.
Perfect.
Just as everyone finished washing the vegetables and arranging them on plates, and the soup base was ready and the large pot was about to be carried back to the dormitory to enjoy, the kitchen door was suddenly pushed open.
“Cheep!!!”
Familiar cry, followed by a yellowish thing pouncing onto Li Wei’s face.
“Xiao Ke!!!”
Mo Jiu’s somewhat annoyed voice came from the doorway.
She was done with her own Morpeko.
Usually not serious but at least obedient and not embarrassing, but for some reason, ever since meeting Li Wei, its behavior has become increasingly weird!! As if Li Wei had a magnet on him, basically every meeting it has to pounce on him.
No matter how much you say, it doesn’t work, ask why, and it just answers ‘like’, unbelievable!!!
(○｀ 3′○)！！！！！
At this moment, Mo Jiu couldn’t help but let her imagination run wild, good thing she didn’t raise a little Snorlax, otherwise this pounce, no matter how sturdy Li Wei’s body, would send him to the hospital to lie down.
“Cheep!”
【Made something delicious again!!】
At this moment, in Li Wei’s view, he could only see a pair of round, shiny big eyes.
Left eye says ‘eat’, right eye also says ‘eat’.
“Mo Jiu, good afternoon!”
Although he couldn’t see, Li Wei roughly judged Mo Jiu’s direction via Aura, and greeted the aura cluster.
“Good evening!”
After returning the greeting, Li Wei heard da da da footsteps, and with a floral scent different from the food aroma drifting over, he saw the light again.
“Cheep!!!!”
This was Morpeko’s hysterical scream.
“Sorry, sorry! He always troubles you!”
The familiar apology from Mo Jiu on behalf of her silly son, which he had heard who knows how many times in the past half month.
“No problem, no problem, we’re all friends, this little thing isn’t important.”
“No no no, that was rude, I’ll educate him again when we get back!! Really sorry!! He used to be very obedient and didn’t have this habit······”
Saying this, Mo Jiu couldn’t help but take a deep breath, and the hand pinching Morpeko’s nape used a bit more force.
But······
The thick-skinned Morpeko indicated this was no big deal, at this moment its brain was full of other ideas.
“Cheep!!”
【Li Wei! You’re making something delicious again today, right!!】
Voice full of expectation, looking at it vigorously waving its four little paws, it’s clear this means ‘I want to try too’.
“How about······ eat together?”
It’s hot pot anyway, a few more mouths are the same?
“Cheep!!”
【Good!! Good!! I’ll accept for Mo Jiu! Charge!!】
Everyone had been getting along for two weeks, getting very familiar with each other, Mo Jiu was as reserved as always, but Morpeko’s overly familiar personality stood out even more.
However, everyone is always very tolerant of cute little things, treating them like kids, so Li Wei didn’t refuse Morpeko’s proposal.
After all, today is a celebration day.
“Then let’s eat together?”
Li Wei asked Mo Jiu.
“Ah··· this····”
Gotta refuse! How embarrassing! Mooching food again, already mooched five or six meals······· one more doesn’t hurt.
With this thought process, Mo Jiu stood there blankly blinking her eyes.
“Then······ I’ll go back to my room first, grab some dessert, and we can eat together.” Mo Jiu suggested.
“Mm mm, thanks.”
During the two’s conversation gap, Morpeko took the chance while they chatted, darted out, climbed onto Li Wei’s shoulder, and waved its little paw at Mo Jiu, as if saying, ‘You go, you go, I’ll guard the food here.’
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Pushing open the door to her own house, Mo Jiu returned to the small room, leaned against the door and sighed worriedly.
“Gothitelle, is there the lava chocolate cake you made this afternoon in the little refrigerator?”
【Yes, there is.】
The convenience of Psychic Power Pokémon communication lies here.
Gothitelle set down the housekeeping tools in her hand, went to the bathroom to wash her hands, bent down to open the little refrigerator, then asked Mo Jiu.
【Planning to have it as dessert after dinner?】
“Sort of, Xiao Ke ran off with Li Wei again······ They’re making hot pot today, since Xiao Ke always mooches their meals, I feel a bit bad, and you made some snacks today anyway·······”
“Aaaah.”
At this point, Mo Jiu couldn’t help but ‘howl at the sky’, then immediately squatted down at the door holding her head, curling into a self-loathing ball.
【Okay okay, stop self-loathing, it’s just going to eat.】
“It’s not that, Gothitelle, this this this, sigh, can’t explain to you.”
Actually, Mo Jiu herself couldn’t explain it clearly.
She’s not very good at socializing, doesn’t know how to properly communicate with friends.
Speaking of which, at school besides occasionally being invited to eat after class, she doesn’t even have friends.
Every day it’s just school and home, two points and one line·······
“Aaaah, what should I do, why does Xiao Ke have to be so overly familiar!!! Even pouncing on Tian Bai would be fine!! I don’t even know how to communicate with female friends, how did it jump straight to hell difficulty!”
Different from her usual polite image, at this moment Mo Jiu was more like a head-holding crying gopher.
【I’ve seen that Li Wei boy, his aura is very comforting, gives a sense of closeness.】
Gothitelle completely ignored Mo Jiu’s self-abandoning remarks and yells, taking a packaging box to pack the small cakes made in the refrigerator.
“Sense of closeness? Psychic resonance?”
【He’s not a Psychic Power user.】
“Then what is it?”
Mo Jiu now really regretted immensely the decision to go to the kitchen to cook when hungry earlier.
Could’ve waited for Gothitelle to finish cleaning the room, waited for her to go to the kitchen to make food! Had to be diligent and cook!!! Waaah!! Though Li Wei’s food is mostly pretty tasty.
orz.
【It’s Aura.】
“Aura?”
【This sense of closeness can only be explained that way.】
Aura can perceive others’ emotions, and at the same time one’s own Aura will change with the user, unconsciously amplifying the owner’s emotions infinitely.
As the old nice guy Li Wei, this small kindness in his heart amplified, naturally in this group of Pokémon with keen insight and amazing sixth sense, he was undeniably like central air conditioning.
Winning over Magikarp’s fondness, Morpeko’s fondness, it’s not some protagonist halo fluke, just an inevitable phenomenon as an Aura holder.
Of course, Li Wei doesn’t know this yet.
He just thinks it’s because he’s handsome and has personal charm.
【You still squatting here not leaving?】
After handing the packaged snack bag to Mo Jiu, Gothitelle lowered her head and asked the self-loathing Mo Jiu shrunk in the corner.
“Don’t wanna go······ don’t wanna face reality waaah, always feel like in his impression I’m definitely a glutton QAQ.”
【I don’t know how that boy evaluates you, I only know if you don’t go back soon, with Xiao Ke’s personality, it might really tell them about you sleep-talking at midnight and such.】
“Ya!!!”
She sprang up from the ground, Gothitelle’s words more effective than any persuasion or comfort, Mo Jiu grabbed the dessert in hand, said “Then I’m off!!” to Gothitelle, then rushed out of the dormitory straight to Li Wei’s room door.
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Raining today.
Slept all day.
。。。。。。。。。
A bit bad.
Mainly self-loathing, don’t even want to check backstage.
Chicken soup tasted amazing today, super good.
Dinner tonight is bibimbap.
Tired.
Gotta have a few bad mood days a month.
That’s it.
Bye
