Chapter 160: I Really Can’t Eat Any More
Wang Heng, Lu Qi, and Han Yixuan were earning a living, while Ye Xun was lying on the bed in her bedroom, picking up her mobile phone.
The winter holiday wasn’t even half over, but she had already finished most of her homework. She felt that compared to her academic progress when she had just transferred schools a few months ago, she had made huge improvements now.
No matter how she thought about it, she should relax and enjoy some entertainment, right? The question was, what way to entertain herself?
If it were before, Father would take her to see the ocean view in the South Pacific Ocean, to see snow in Maple Leaf Country, to shop in Edo… but now, she couldn’t even go to the small towns around Rongdu.
“It’s good that listening to songs doesn’t cost money…” the young girl muttered to herself, opening the Wangyu Music APP.
This APP hadn’t been out for long, and it was still a relatively niche music platform now. However, the two singers Ye Xun liked had in-depth cooperation with this platform, so she had also become a loyal user of Wangyu Music.
She opened today’s recommendation and played the first song.
After a simple piano prelude, an ethereal and clear female voice sounded.
Ye Xun’s eyes lit up; this style was exactly her favorite type!
The young girl quickly glanced at the related information for this song.
“Lyrics and composition both by her? This Pei Ningle is so amazing…”
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After finishing the phone call, Lu Qi sat back down at the dining table and suddenly noticed that the atmosphere seemed a bit subtle.
Lu Qi picked up her chopsticks, tasted a bite of the beef in the seasoning dish, and nodded: “Although it’s a bit cold now, the taste is still pretty good.”
Wang Heng put chicken wings, shrimp, and a few vegetable dishes on the grilling paper, holding the serving chopsticks and constantly flipping them…
After Lu Qi finished eating both pieces of beef, she suddenly said: “You’re flipping them too quickly; they’re not cooked at all.”
“Okay, I was a bit impatient,” Wang Heng put down the serving chopsticks and asked again, “Do you two want any beverages?”
Han Yixuan: “Anything is fine for me.”
Lu Qi: “Whatever.”
Wang Heng walked to the counter, grabbed a large bottle of cola and three cups, and returned to the seats. At this moment, he noticed an extra shiitake mushroom in his scale.
Lu Qi was looking at her mobile phone, while Han Yixuan was holding the serving chopsticks, busy with the barbecue—so it should be Han Yixuan who put it there for him?
Wang Heng poured three cups of cola and placed them in front of himself and the two girls. Lu Qi said “thanks,” while Han Yixuan said nothing, just placing a perfectly cooked potato slice in his scale.
“Thanks, but no need to serve me anymore.”
Hearing him say that, Han Yixuan tilted her head: “When we earned a living before, you were always quite willing. What’s up today?”
Oh right, he almost forgot—he was still pretending to be lovers in front of Lu Qi.
Wang Heng realized his situation and also realized he really shouldn’t easily say ‘no’ to the young girl.
Meanwhile, Lu Qi seemed to be staring at her mobile phone, but with her peripheral vision, she was paying attention to their interaction, sneering inwardly—keep pretending? Their acting skills were pretty good, with her acting like such a virtuous little woman, so convincingly real.
Not just vegetable dishes, the shrimp were also grilled done. Han Yixuan put on disposable gloves, carefully peeled two shrimp, and placed them in Wang Heng’s scale.
Then the young girl looked up at Lu Qi and asked: “Sister Lu, do you want shrimp? I can peel a couple for you.”
Lu Qi: “……No need, I can peel them myself.”
Han Yixuan nodded and continued placing other ingredients on the grilling paper.
Pork belly was grilled quickly. Han Yixuan dipped it in sauce, wrapped it in green vegetables, and held it to Wang Heng’s mouth.
“Open your mouth.” The young girl said softly.
Wang Heng had just swallowed the last shrimp and taken a gulp of cola, hesitating for two seconds. He stared at Han Yixuan and saw nothing unusual in her gaze; all her current actions seemed perfectly normal… but helping with serving dishes was one thing—feeding directly into his mouth was too much, right?
Wang Heng took the pork belly wrapped in green vegetables with his hand and ate it in two big bites.
Han Yixuan picked up the chopsticks again, flipped the chicken wings on the grilling paper. Judging by the color on both sides, they seemed about done, so she poked one with the chopsticks, estimated it was indeed cooked, then picked them up and placed them in Wang Heng’s small scale.
Lu Qi put down her mobile phone and asked: “Do you two usually earn a living like this?”
Wang Heng had just swallowed the meat in his mouth and hadn’t had time to speak when Han Yixuan quickly said: “Because my appetite is much smaller than his, I occasionally serve him some dishes. But this is actually mutual help. For example, when we eat noodles together, whatever I can’t finish, he helps solve it.”
Although she knew it was probably just the other party lying, Lu Qi still felt a bit itchy in her teeth.
Wang Heng silently said nothing, just placing a bunch of enoki mushroom and a few bamboo shoots on the paper. After clearing the meat from his scale, these vegetable dishes were also nearly done, so he divided them into Han Yixuan’s and Lu Qi’s scales.
Just eating without helping would make him feel like a giant baby being taken care of by a girl. But serving only Han Yixuan would seem like asking for trouble. So serving both girls at the same time was obviously the wiser choice.
“So, we’re mutual helping each other,” Han Yixuan said with a smile while eating enoki mushroom.
Lu Qi gripped the chopsticks in her hand tightly.
Her gaze swept over the faces of this young boy and young girl, she took a deep breath, suddenly picked up the only remaining few slices of tender beef from her scale, placed them on the paper, and brushed on a bit of oil.
After a while, once the beef was grilled, she picked all of it into Wang Heng’s scale.
“My appetite isn’t big either; let me service you a bit.” Lu Qi said with a smiling face.
And during this short time while Lu Qi was grilling beef for him, Han Yixuan had already placed three chicken wings and some other vegetable dishes into his scale. Plus the beef, his scale was now piled full, forming a little hill.
Wang Heng’s mouth twitched: “You two should eat some yourselves…”
Lu Qi: “I’m a bit full.”
Han Yixuan: “Me too…”
He suddenly missed Pei Ningle a bit—if that gluttonous girl were here, she definitely wouldn’t join in serving him dishes and could even help solve a lot.
But now there was no way; he could only bury his head and eat.
He had just cleared half of the little hill in his scale when more meat and vegetables came from above. Lu Qi and Han Yixuan were like competing in hand speed and operation proficiency, vying to stack the height of his little hill even more exaggeratedly.
Wang Heng was dumbfounded: “You two… are they grilled done?”
Han Yixuan smiled: “Rest assured, they’re definitely done. Didn’t you see me taste one first?”
Lu Qi also had a concerned smile: “Eat up to get full, don’t go hungry.”
Wang Heng touched his already somewhat bloated belly and couldn’t help falling into despair.
“I really can’t eat even one more piece…”
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