159 I Really Can’t Eat Anymore
While Wang Heng, Lu Qi, and Han Yixuan were eating, Ye Xun was lying on the bed in her bedroom, picking up her phone.
The winter vacation wasn’t even halfway through, but she had already finished most of her homework. She felt that compared to her academic progress when she first transferred a few months ago, she had really made huge progress now.
No matter how she thought about it, she should relax and entertain herself properly, right? The problem was, how to entertain herself?
If it were before, her father would take her to the South Pacific to see the sea view, to the Maple Leaf Country to see the snow, to Edo to shop… But now, she couldn’t even go to the small towns around Rongdu.
“Fortunately, listening to music doesn’t cost money…” The girl murmured to herself and opened the NetEase Cloud Music app.
This app hadn’t been launched for long, and it was still considered a relatively niche music platform. However, two singers Ye Xun liked had deep cooperation with this platform, so she became a loyal user of NetEase Cloud Music.
Click on Today’s Recommendations, play the first song.
After a simple piano intro, an ethereal and clear female voice sounded.
Ye Xun’s eyes lit up. This style was exactly her favorite type!
The girl hurriedly looked at the relevant information of this song.
“Lyrics and music are both by her? This Pei Ningle is so amazing…”
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After finishing the call, Lu Qi returned to the dining table and sat down, suddenly realizing that the atmosphere seemed a bit subtle.
Lu Qi picked up her chopsticks, tasted a piece of beef in the seasoning dish, and nodded. “Although it’s a bit cold, the taste is indeed not bad.”
Wang Heng placed the chicken wings, shrimp, and several vegetables on the grilling paper, holding the serving chopsticks and constantly flipping them…
After Lu Qi finished eating the two pieces of beef, she suddenly said, “You’re flipping them too quickly. They’re not cooked at all.”
“Alright, I was a little impatient,” Wang Heng put down the serving chopsticks and asked, “Do you want anything to drink?”
Han Yixuan: “I’m fine with anything.”
Lu Qi: “Whatever.”
Wang Heng walked to the counter, took a large bottle of Coke and three cups, and returned to his seat. At this time, he found an extra shiitake mushroom in his dish.
Lu Qi was looking at her phone, while Han Yixuan was holding the serving chopsticks, busy grilling—so, it should be Han Yixuan who put it there for him?
Wang Heng poured three cups of Coke and placed them in front of himself and the two girls. Lu Qi said “thank you,” while Han Yixuan said nothing, just placed a perfectly cooked potato slice in his dish.
“Thanks, but you don’t need to serve me.”
Hearing him say this, Han Yixuan tilted her head. “You were quite happy when we ate before. What’s wrong today?”
Oh right, almost forgot, I’m still pretending to be lovers in front of Lu Qi.
Wang Heng realized his situation and also realized that he really shouldn’t say ‘no’ to the girl easily.
And Lu Qi on the side, seemingly staring at her phone, was watching the interaction between the two out of the corner of her eye, sneering inwardly—Act, keep acting? The acting skills are really good, looking like a virtuous little woman, actually acting so realistically.
Not only the vegetables, but the shrimp were also cooked. Han Yixuan put on disposable gloves, carefully peeled two shrimps, and placed them in Wang Heng’s dish.
Then the girl looked up at Lu Qi and asked, “Sister Lu, do you want some shrimp? Shall I peel two for you?”
Lu Qi: “…No need, I can peel them myself.”
Han Yixuan nodded and continued to put other ingredients on the grilling paper.
The pork belly was quickly cooked. Han Yixuan dipped it in sauce, wrapped it in lettuce, and held it to Wang Heng’s mouth.
“Open up,” the girl said softly.
Wang Heng had just swallowed the last shrimp and taken a gulp of Coke. He hesitated for two seconds. He stared at Han Yixuan but saw nothing unusual in her gaze. It seemed that all her actions now were perfectly normal… But helping him pick up food was one thing; feeding him directly was a bit too much, right?
Wang Heng took the lettuce-wrapped pork belly with his hand and ate it in two big bites.
Han Yixuan picked up her chopsticks again and flipped the chicken wings on the grilling paper. Judging by the color on both sides, they seemed about done. So she poked them with her chopsticks, estimated they were indeed cooked, picked them up, and placed them in Wang Heng’s small dish.
Lu Qi put down her phone and asked, “Do you always eat like this?”
Wang Heng had just swallowed the meat in his mouth and hadn’t had time to speak when he heard Han Yixuan rush to say, “Because my appetite is much smaller than his, I occasionally pick up food for him. But this should actually be considered mutual help. For example, when we eat noodles together, he finishes what I can’t eat.”
Although she knew there was a high probability the other party was just lying, Lu Qi still felt a little itch in her teeth.
Wang Heng remained silent, just putting a bunch of enoki mushrooms and a few slices of asparagus lettuce on the paper. After clearing the meat from his dish, these vegetables were also about done, so he distributed them to Han Yixuan and Lu Qi’s dishes.
Just eating without doing anything made him feel like a giant baby being taken care of by girls. But if he only picked up food for Han Yixuan, it seemed like he was asking for trouble. So serving both girls at the same time was obviously a wiser choice.
“So, we are helping each other,” Han Yixuan said with a smile while eating enoki mushrooms.
Lu Qi gripped the chopsticks in her hand tightly.
Her gaze swept over the faces of the young man and woman, took a deep breath, and suddenly picked up the few remaining slices of tender beef from the plate, placed them on the paper, and brushed a little oil on them.
After a while, when the beef was cooked, she put all the meat into Wang Heng’s dish.
“I don’t have a big appetite either. Let me serve you,” Lu Qi said with a smile.
And in the short time Lu Qi was grilling beef for him, Han Yixuan had already put three chicken wings and some other vegetables into his dish. With the addition of the beef, his dish was piled high, looking like a small hill.
The corner of Wang Heng’s mouth twitched. “You guys should eat too…”
Lu Qi: “I’m a little full.”
Han Yixuan: “Me too…”
He suddenly missed Pei Ningle a little—if that gluttonous girl were here, she definitely wouldn’t join in the fun of picking up food for him, and she could even help finish a lot of it.
But now there was no way out. He could only bury his head and eat.
Just as he cleared half of the small hill in his dish, more meat and vegetables fell from the sky. Lu Qi and Han Yixuan seemed to be competing in hand speed and operational proficiency, vying to pile the small hill even higher.
Wang Heng was dumbfounded. “Are you guys… sure it’s cooked?”
Han Yixuan smiled. “Don’t worry, it’s definitely cooked. Didn’t you see me taste a piece first?”
Lu Qi also had a caring smile on her face. “Eat your fill. Don’t go hungry.”
And Wang Heng touched his already somewhat distended abdomen and couldn’t help but fall into despair.
“I really can’t eat another bite…”
