Chapter 63: Heartthrob
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Little Star No. 2 served fruit milk on a tray, then continued back to the cargo box to start organizing the goods. Ainuo looked at the thing served up with great speechlessness, and Xiang Chuan and the others were also amused: surprisingly, three cups were brought up, and all of them were sealed cups.
“Little Star No. 2, where are the transparent cups? I remember I ordered some before.” Xiang Chuan asked.
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“Hmm……” Xiang Chuan looked at the cups on the table; apart from not being very aesthetically pleasing, there was nothing wrong with them. “Continue with the current task priority order, and finish organizing the goods first.”
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“Ah haha……” Xiang Chuan dryly laughed as she looked at the puzzled Ainuo, and said a bit embarrassedly: “Sorry, kitchenware and cups haven’t been sorted out yet…… It’s fine, the cups just don’t look great, but they’re drinkable, right?”
With that, she convinced herself instead.
“If this were a proper food supply place, you’d probably get complaints on the first day of opening.” Ainuo ruthlessly critiqued.
Xiang Chuan: “……” Damn it! Unable to refute!
“People who come here to freeload food and drinks before we’ve officially opened to the public have no right to complain.” Ouyang Yating ruthlessly shot back, “If you’re not drinking, then I’ll take them away. Unlike you, this idle person, we’ve been busy all afternoon.”
With that, Ouyang Yating reached out to take the tray, but Ainuo was quicker and grabbed the tray first, raising an eyebrow: “This was served to me. What kind of store clerk robs things from customers?”
This brat, so arrogant in front of Xiang Chuan and Liang Gong before, now showing his true colors, huh? Seeing the childhood friend in front of her with that infuriating smug expression she’d seen since they were kids, Ouyang Yating felt her fist harden after a long time. Xiang Chuan and Liang Gong, who were observing the situation, were startled, fearing something would happen, and quickly pulled Ouyang Yating back repeatedly.
“Yating, calm down.”
“Ouyang Yating, don’t! You’ll get disciplined by the school for fighting.”
Hearing this, Xiang Chuan was stunned: The school discipline system is still in place?
Listening to the two, Ouyang Yating nearly had black lines on her forehead: “Am I such a violent image in your minds?” She felt she’d always gone for the poised young lady route.
“It’s just…… the aura…… right?” Xiang Chuan glanced at Liang Gong, who nodded vigorously. Ever since Ainuo showed up, the poised and aloof air around Ouyang Yating had faded quite a bit, replaced by a sharper edge. The contrast was big, but the figure like a knight guarding in front of Xiang Chuan that morning had boosted her popularity a lot among the girls in the class.
Watching the three bicker, Ainuo relaxed body and mind as if watching a sitcom, casually picked up a cup, inserted a straw and took a sip, then froze.
“This is apple and…… what? It tastes a bit like milk? Is it some new liquid ingredient?”
Hearing this, Xiang Chuan and Liang Gong both froze, and Ouyang Yating finally found a chance to pull her restrained hands free, then looked at Ainuo moodily: “Trade secret, don’t pry……”
“How did you know?”
Her unfinished words were interrupted by Xiang Chuan’s excited question. Ouyang Yating was familiar with this tone; a few days ago, when she sat on the review panel and named the fruit in the fruit milk, it was the same tone.
Thinking of this, Ouyang Yating had a bad premonition and suddenly clamped Xiang Chuan’s arms with her own, fearing she’d get excited again and, like before, rush up for super close contact with this smug guy. Their club president, who didn’t pay attention to personal space, was totally capable of it.
“Calm down, calm down, club president.” Ouyang Yating hurriedly said, “This guy’s family is in ingredient production and export. Uncle Daolin…… that is, this guy’s father, often takes them to the family production base for on-site teaching. He’s had more or less contact with some unprocessed ingredients. Though I don’t know how he knew it was fruit……”
“You wouldn’t know about this, huh?” Hearing the last part of Ouyang Yating’s words, Ainuo got excited. “I’ve dissected and tasted every fruit at home!”
This smug look, like waiting for praise.
“Oh————” Ouyang Yating dragged out a long tone, narrowed her eyes, a smile appearing on her face, as if recalling something happy. “Back in junior high, Sadie said you got two months’ pocket money docked by Uncle Daolin because of this, right?”
“You…… how does that girl spill everything!” Ainuo was furious and took a big sip of apple fruit milk to calm down.
“Try the other cup, try the other cup.” Xiang Chuan, held back by Ouyang Yating, flailed her legs excitedly.
“Hm?” Ainuo picked up the other cup, took a sip. “This is peach, right? Why is there pulp inside?”
What a talent!
Xiang Chuan’s eyes lit up instantly. With unprecedented explosive force, she broke free from Ouyang Yating’s grip, rushed to Ainuo, startling him into instinctively leaning back. But he forgot he was sitting on an ancient-style chair that couldn’t move like an anti-gravity chair. In the panic, he nearly flipped backward. Xiang Chuan was shocked and quickly grabbed his sleeve, pulling him back.
“Sorry, sorry, scared you.” Xiang Chuan awkwardly haha-laughed, then leaned in with shining eyes and asked: “Classmate, are you interested in ancient gourmet food?”
“Ah?”
Ainuo froze, subconsciously wanting to say no interest, but the familiar fervent gleam in Xiang Chuan’s eyes stuck his refusal in his throat.
Interested? He had no curiosity about ancient culture, didn’t even glance at those information turbulence news online, which was why he chose the Information Technology Club, which seemed totally unrelated to the family business, to expand his interests. He’d just seen too many ingredients and was a bit tired of them.
But, no interest? Not really. His home was in ingredient production and export, so he definitely had interest in ancient gourmet food that could cause unpredictable changes in ingredient value.
So…… tempted?
Looking at the crazy flame in the girl’s eyes in front of him, like his mother’s back then, he couldn’t help but wonder what that enthusiasm overflowing to make her eyes shine with such fervor felt like.
He slightly opened his mouth and said something.
Demeter University Affiliated High School received its first club transfer application in less than a week since the start of school, one afternoon.
The Information Technology Club wanted to cry but had no tears: We told you to confess, not to sell yourself entirely to them.
But what could they do? They sent the person away themselves, so they had to accept it.
Members finally complete——
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