Chapter 32

After discussing the matter of pretending to be boyfriend and girlfriend, Lu Ya suggested visiting several of Gu Fan's medicinal fields.

Gu Fan took him for a walk.

Every blade of medicinal herbs looks thriving, without a single weed or sign of insect pests.

"Can you take care of so many herbs by yourself?" Standing on the snowy mountain, Lu Ya looked around at the medicinal fields and asked, with the busy scene of her moving around the fields in her mind.

Since his own secret was involved, Gu Fan began to suspect that Lu Ya was testing him. He said nonchalantly, "I have wood-related abilities, so managing the medicinal fields is easy for me."

Sensing her wariness, Lu Ya stopped asking.

The two returned to the villa.

What Lu Ya meant was that since he wanted the Sheng family to misunderstand their relationship, it would be illogical for him to leave immediately after arriving for a while.

"You keep busy. I'll sit in the living room until noon before leaving."

With him here, how could Gu Fan dare to refine the elixir? Not only could Lu Ya see with his eyes, but his mental power could also be used for detection.

Thinking that Lu Ya was an Earthling after all, Gu Fan asked him, "Can you cook?"

Xinghe and the others prepared enough boxed lunches for her before they left, but as Meng Lianying said, the boxed lunches were not as delicious as freshly cooked ones.

After eating the fasting pills for several days in a row, Gu Fan became greedy.

Therefore, it is easy to go from frugality to extravagance, but difficult to go from extravagance to frugality. Once you start enjoying, you don’t want to practice frugality anymore.

Lu Ya obviously didn't understand what she meant and said, "I have a boxed lunch in my space."

Gu Fan pursed his lips.

Lu Ya finally understood: "You want to eat freshly made food."

Gu Fan looked at him expectantly: "Will you?"

Lu Ya: "Yes, but I need to go to the supermarket to buy the ingredients, or do you have some in your refrigerator?"

Gu Fan never lights a fire, and the refrigerator he bought is just a decoration.

Lu Ya stood up from the sofa: "Let's go buy it together."

Gu Fan readily agreed.

"Your car is too flashy, drive mine." After walking out of the yard and glancing at Lu Ya's combat off-road vehicle, Gu Fan walked towards her Xiaoqing car.

"You open it, I'll think about what to eat for lunch."

Lu Ya automatically sat in the back seat.

Gu Fan didn't think much about it. He fastened his seat belt, searched for supermarkets within the Second Ring Road on the navigation, and then drove off.

Lu Ya took out a tablet and plugged in headphones.

Gu Fan looked back several times and saw that he was staring at the tablet with a focused expression. He didn't seem to be thinking about food, but rather watching a drama.

This is a good thing, as it shows that he has everything planned out and is very confident about today's lunch.

More than forty minutes later, Xiaoqing's car stopped in the parking lot of a large supermarket.

Today is a weekday. It’s around nine in the morning and there aren’t many people buying groceries in the supermarket.

Gu Fan ignored the gazes of others and followed Lu Ya while looking around. To be honest, this was her first time to buy vegetables in the supermarket.

"Three dishes, are they enough?" Lu Ya filled a shopping cart and turned to ask Gu Fan.

Gu Fan nodded. Seeing that he seemed to be finishing his shopping for the day, he asked in confusion, "Where can I buy chocolate around here?"

As soon as she finished speaking, an old lady who was buying vegetables not far away suddenly looked over, her expression full of disbelief.

Lu Ya pushed the cart closer to Gu Fan and whispered something in her head, "Chocolate comes from cocoa beans. Cocoa trees grow in tropical regions. Before the radiation, they were only grown in Hainan and a few areas along the southern coast. After the radiation, the sea was overrun with monsters, and Hainan was no longer accessible. The southern coastal areas are too far from the base, and traveling back and forth between the two places is extremely dangerous for S-rank experts. Therefore, the chocolate currently available at the base was collected during the radiation event. It's a short-term non-renewable resource, and ordinary people can't buy it here."

Only then did Gu Fan understand the value of chocolate.

"Then you gave me a gift last time..."

"That's the thank you gift for agreeing to join the rear medical team." Lu Ya explained before Gu Fan finished his sentence.

Gu Fan loved chocolate. As he followed him to the checkout area, he whispered, "Do you have any chocolate left? I'll buy some from you. How many merit points are needed for a box?"

Lu Ya: "If you agree to be my girlfriend, according to the customs of love between men and women in this country, I will give you a box every holiday in the future, free of charge."

Gu Fan: "Even if I agreed, it would be fake. How can I accept such an expensive gift from you? It would be more appropriate to sell it to me."

Lu Ya: "I proposed this deal, so even though our relationship is fake, I will still perform the etiquette and obligations of a real boyfriend. Of course, other than some superficial socializing, you don't have to pay anything to me."

Gu Fan had never found a partner in the cultivation continent, but he had watched several movies and TV series since coming to Earth, including the idol romance drama that Fenghuo complained about. It must be said that the male protagonists in those dramas were indeed very good to their girlfriends. The male characters who treated their girlfriends harshly were basically cannon fodder or villains and were to be despised.

Obviously, Lu Ya's self-esteem requires him not to degenerate into cannon fodder or villain.

By the time they got in the car, Gu Fan had already made up his mind. He said to Lu Ya, "Okay, I promise you, you use me to ward off romantic interests, and I'll use you to ward off unscrupulous businessmen. As for chocolate, you don't have to give it to me every holiday. From now on, every time you ask me to accompany you to a social event, you can give me a box as a thank you gift. It's fair and simple."

Lu Ya: "Okay."

On the way back, Gu Fan was still driving, and Lu Ya sat in the back watching videos.

When we arrived at the villa, it was already eleven o'clock.

Lu Ya asked Gu Fan to do whatever he wanted, and went to the kitchen alone with two bags of ingredients, and closed the kitchen door solemnly.

“How long will it take to heal?”

"One hour."

One hour is enough for Gu Fan to refine a batch of pills.

Gu Fan went to the underground alchemy room to prevent Lu Ya from peeping. This time she was refining hair growth pills.

When concentrating on refining medicine, one does not feel the time. When the pill was ready, Gu Fan finished his work and tiptoed upstairs. Before he reached the hall, a familiar aroma of cooking wafted over. Gu Fan took a deep breath, and his stomach actually started to growl with greed.

There were already two dishes on the coffee table, each covered with a lid. Gu Fan opened them and took a look. They were very good, one was Dongpo pork and the other was chopped pepper fish head, both of which were her favorites.

The noise in the kitchen became quieter, and soon, Lu Ya came over with the last dish of fish-flavored eggplant.

His black military uniform remained unchanged, straight and solemn. However, after being busy in the kitchen for an hour, a faint red appeared on Lu Ya's fair face and a layer of sweat covered his forehead. This state, which was similar to that of Chef Fenghuo, finally made Lu Ya feel a little more down-to-earth and no longer so aloof.

Gu Fan still remembers that when she first saw Lu Ya, she felt only awe in her heart and didn't dare to look him in the eye.

"You should buy a dining table." Bending down to put down the dish, Lu Ya looked at Gu Fan and said.

Gu Fan explained awkwardly, "When Xinghe and the others were here, I always ate at their place."

Lu Ya: "I'll do the whole play. I might come over here often in the future."

Gu Fan: ...

Lu Ya went back to the kitchen to get rice and chopsticks.

Gu Fan looked at her empty living room and upstairs, and thought that she had to clean up a guest room for Lu Ya.

Gu Fan sat on the sofa, and Lu Ya took out a small stool from the space and sat opposite her.

Gu Fan didn't bother to be polite with him and tried all three dishes. Although they were not as good as Fenghuo's cooking, they were still pretty good.

"The Dongpo pork would be better if it were a little more tender."

“The fish head wasn’t very flavorful.”

“The eggplant is a bit salty.”

Gu Fan gave comments after tasting each dish.

Lu Ya just nodded. Seeing that Gu Fan was eating happily and not trying to swallow the food, he picked up the bowl and started eating.

"Who cooked for you when you lived with your grandfather?" Lu Ya suddenly became curious about her previous life.

Gu Fan bit his chopsticks and smiled, "We eat wild game every day. Grandpa is good at roasting monster meat. If we can't finish it in one meal, we can continue for the next meal. I didn't know there was such delicious food in the base."

Lu Ya: "You haven't met other retail investors?"

Gu Fan continued to deceive: "I have seen it. There were a few people with special abilities who wanted to take advantage of me, but they were burned to ashes by my grandfather. There were also female special abilities who wanted to rely on us, but my grandfather didn't like it and didn't agree."

The image of Mr. Gu in Lu Ya's mind gradually became fuller, with a solitary and withdrawn personality.

"By the way, I haven't asked your age yet." Judging from her face, she is similar to Qing Teng, but her figure is too plump.

Gu Fan smiled and said, "Guess what."

This was the first time she showed such a playful and intriguing smile in front of Lu Ya. Lu Ya was slightly startled and then reported a number that had no basis: "Twenty?"

Gu Fan shook his head and reminded him: "Don't forget, people with special abilities will look younger than ordinary people of the same age."

Lu Ya guessed again: "Twenty-five?"

Gu Fan still shook his head.

Lu Ya: "Twenty-six?"

He couldn't believe that Gu Fan was older than him, so he didn't guess above twenty-seven.

Gu Fan smiled even brighter: "I won't tell you, but it's bigger than you anyway, much bigger."

What is Lu Ya? She is older than his grandfather and can be considered as Lu Ya's great aunt.

Unfortunately, Gu Fan was telling the truth, but Lu Ya didn't believe it at all. The exact age didn't matter. Lu Ya just needed to confirm one thing: "Over 18?"

Gu Fan nodded.

Lu Ya stopped asking.

Speaking of eighteen, Gu Fan inquired, "I heard Sheng Xi is engaged to one of your sisters? Eighteen is the age at which one is considered an adult. Why is your sister thinking about marriage so early?"

Lu Ya: "Ever since the base was established, the daughters of the five major families have always been in high demand. Lu Yao is my father's only unmarried daughter, and she has dual-level A-level qualifications. It's already too late to put off marriage until she's seventeen."

Gu Fan raised his eyelashes and looked at him: "I rejected Sheng Xi's face, and you still asked me to be your fake girlfriend. Aren't you afraid that your sister will be angry?"

Lu Ya looked back at her and said, "What she thinks has nothing to do with me. Besides, the time I've spent with her isn't as long as the time I've spent with you."

Gu Fan understood his attitude towards Lu Yao and had a clear idea in his mind: "You said before that someone told the old man about our relationship. Was it her?"

Lu Ya: "Yes, but she was just testing you. I don't want her and Sheng Xi to continue to cause trouble for you, so I came to negotiate with you for mutual benefit."

Gu Fan: "Are you buying a house here just to deepen other people's misunderstandings?"

Lu Ya lowered his eyes and agreed.

Gu Fan breathed a sigh of relief. She had originally thought that Lu Ya wanted to monitor her closely.

Although the distance is closer now, at least she understands Lu Ya's purpose.

"There are two empty rooms on the second floor. You can choose one and prepare whatever you need. You have everything in your space anyway."

After dinner, Gu Fan left these trivial matters to Lu Ya.

Just as she was about to leave, she heard Lu Ya contact Xiao Chen and say, "According to the furniture configuration of my villa bedroom, send another set to Miss Gu in Phoenix Mountain."

Gu Fan: ...

She also wants a "Xiao Chen".