Chapter 64: About To Say Goodbye To Lin Yu
When the afternoon dismissal bell rang, Ouyang Yating, Liang Gong, and Ainuo, who was in the Student Union office handling the transfer club procedures, suddenly felt that today seemed a bit too long.
As for Xiang Chuan, she was holding the jar for culturing yeast starter and instructing Xiao Xue No. 2 on precautions, finally leaving with “See you tomorrow~!”, and got into the family car and disappeared into the distance.
They had just quarreled in the morning, and in the afternoon the person came into their own club… What would the class discuss tomorrow? Thinking of this, Ouyang Yating, who was waiting at the school gate for the family pickup car, chose to give up thinking.
Whatever, let it be. If there’s really something, it’s the club president who has to worry about it.
“Hmm hmm~” After getting in the car, Xiang Chuan turned on the terminal’s light screen to check the progress of organizing the club activity room warehouse and the equipment that hadn’t arrived at the school yet, humming a tune with an unclear melody in a pretty good mood.
“Sister Xiang Chuan, did something good happen at school today?” Xiang Xue saw that her sister was in a good mood, so she also became happy, and at the same time was very curious about the progress of her sister’s new club: “Is there any new progress on the club side?”
“Exactly—” Xiang Chuan displayed a club member introduction light screen.
Xiang Xue curiously leaned over. The introduction page was no different from what her sister showed her yesterday. The members were one, two, three, four… four? She raised her head curiously and said: “Sister, did your club recruit new people again? Didn’t you say recruitment ended on Wednesday? Is this someone who was stuck in audit until now to pass?”
“What stuck in audit? Where did you learn that term?” Xiang Chuan was embarrassed. Was her image in her sister’s mind that of an exploitative capitalist? “The person specially transferred from another club to our A Bite of China Club, and passed my audit test.”
“How come such an awesome person only came to join Sister Xiang Chuan’s club at this time? Is there some ulterior motive?”
“Uh, not really… Should I say I begged him…?”
As Xiang Chuan spoke, she couldn’t help but shrink her neck. Recalling that after getting Ainuo’s affirmative reply in the afternoon, she immediately contacted the Student Council President with lightning speed to request him to handle Ainuo’s transfer club procedures, scaring the Student Council President quite a bit. He directly sent a video call and chattered like a machine gun about not troubling other members just because the member count was too low and such, until Ainuo, sitting beside her, couldn’t stand it anymore and personally explained, then the Student Council President reluctantly believed it half-doubtingly.
Xiang Xue looked carefully at the member list: “Ainuo Li…? Is this new member from a noble family?”
One characteristic of noble families is that names are in Western style, with given name first and family name last.
“Yeah, Yating said from the Li Family. Xiang Xue, do you know the Li Family?”
“Dad mentioned it a few times. The Li Family is responsible for ingredients transportation and production, and has always cooperated with our family.” Xiang Xue looked at the list and couldn’t help laughing, saying: “Sister Xiang Chuan, your club has a high concentration of great families. Maybe Dad will send you to be the family exchange vanguard team.”
“Ah? I don’t want that. This is a proper club researching ancient gourmet food. I don’t want to deal with those things.” Xiang Chuan quickly put away the light screen in fright. “Xiao Xue, don’t tell Dad about this. I don’t want to stir up unnecessary things.”
“Okay, okay, okay.”
Xiang Xue shrugged. She naturally didn’t bother to say it. She also didn’t like adults’ dealings based on interests. As for her having to deal with them in the future? That could wait until then.
The sisters weren’t very interested in this topic and fell into silence for a while.
While fiddling with the terminal light screen, Xiang Xue suddenly thought of something: “Sister, our class is getting a transfer student.”
“That’s pretty good… Hmm?” Xiang Chuan felt something was off. “You’re in the first year of junior high, right? Transfer student?? Hmm???”
“Yeah, strange, right?” Xiang Xue also looked puzzled. “I heard it’s transferring from the First Fleet. I thought our fleet and the First Fleet aren’t within the farthest direct communication distance. Doesn’t that mean that person has to take a special shuttle over? How rich must they be?”
“Maybe it’s because of parents’ job transfer. Isn’t it almost that… Fleet Exchange Period? Personnel transfers before big activities are normal.”
“My classmate inquired and said it’s not like that. The person’s parents have been living apart for a few years, but both work in the First Fleet and haven’t transferred over.” Xiang Xue touched her chin. “Really can’t figure out what that transfer student is here for.”
“Maybe they fancy our Junior High Department’s teaching quality, or perhaps for future agriculture career?”
By the end, even Xiang Chuan lacked confidence. These days, after her acquaintances’ crash courses, she had heard that their fleet ranked last among the twelve fleets in development planning due to agriculture.
“No one would want to study agriculture knowledge now.” Sure enough, Xiang Xue immediately denied it. “The First Fleet’s school is much better than ours. What can they learn here? If really coming for studies, wouldn’t the Second Fleet be better? That’s the education capital.”
Second Fleet Hera, Xiang Chuan had some impression of this. At the start of school, Homeroom Teacher Zhu Bingwen had explained that the club education system originated from the Second Fleet.
“Don’t dwell on it.” Xiang Chuan decided to give up thinking. She originally didn’t quite understand modern people’s ideas. “Wait until that transfer student arrives, then you can ask him. Maybe it’s just because of family issues and coming here to relax.”
“To relax, no need to transfer schools, right? Inter-fleet transfer procedures are super troublesome…”
Xiang Xue said this and opened her terminal light screen again, starting to look at the messages from viewers in the live stream room. Clearly, she had temporarily lost interest in the transfer student topic.
After returning home, Xiang Chuan had no time to care about family socializing or the mysterious transfer student. As early as last night, she learned that Lin Yu Uncle, who had been freeloading meals at home since the day she transmigrated, would leave the day after tomorrow, also announcing the official end of the First Fleet diplomatic mission’s exchange activity this time.
Although it deviated from the initial purpose of cozying up to Lin Yu, Lin Yu and the Xiang Family had formed a deep gourmet food friendship, especially for Xiang Chuan’s gourmet food. He was so attached to it that after dinner last night, when mentioning departing, he sighed repeatedly and even said: “Xiang Chuan, why don’t you transfer to our First Fleet? Our family kitchen is yours to use, whatever ingredients you want to buy, just say, Lin Uncle will cover it all.”
This scared Xiang Xue, who was preparing to go to the entertainment room to continue watching Empresses in the Palace, into pouncing and hugging Xiang Chuan, looking at Lin Yu vigilantly— Her sister could make sweet dim sum for her to eat and play nice movies for her to watch. If Lin Uncle took her sister to the First Fleet, what would she do!
Of course, as a broad homebody type, Xiang Chuan naturally wouldn’t consider moving to the First Fleet, which was who knows how many light-years away at this time.
How troublesome is communication between fleets? Just look at the preparation period for the Fleet Exchange Period. The Fleet Exchange Period is held once every two thousand years, and each preparation takes at least fifty years to arrange routes for each fleet and prepare for exchange activities. Some pioneering fleets, like the Ninth Fleet and Tenth Fleet, which are busy with construction and development everywhere, sometimes take ten or twenty years to even locate.
If Xiang Chuan went, with bad luck, she probably wouldn’t see her family again in this lifetime. She firmly refused this.
But making a sumptuous farewell banquet for Lin Yu Uncle was doable.
Hearing that Xiang Chuan would make delicious food for him tonight, Lin Yu early declined invitations from other high officials and celebrities of the Third Fleet, brought Daiken, and hurried back to the Xiang Family.
Welcoming him was a carefully decorated two-layer cake and a dining table laid out with a dazzling array of dishes.
“This one to bring out after dinner… Eh? Lin Yu Uncle, you’re back so early… Xiao Xue! Don’t steal eats!”
From the kitchen, Xiang Chuan poked her head out to greet him, then was distracted by Xiang Xue secretly picking up a piece of fried chicken next to her, startling Xiang Xue into shrinking back.
Mr. and Mrs. Xiang Weiguo and Xiang Qi also came to welcome him. As the dishes were served, Lin Yu once again felt heartbroken about parting with these gourmet foods and sent his son a multi-angle photo of the dining table.
Lin Ming, who was still several light-years away from the Third Fleet, naturally didn’t receive his father’s final food photo.
The big one is leaving, the small one is coming.
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