Chapter 158 I'll send you an invitation then, I want one too.

What brings you here?

“I…I’m a volunteer doctor,” Shen Yuqiu said, quick-wittedly.

Wen Min glanced silently at Shen Yuqiu, who was dressed in a shirt and trousers and whose hands were empty.

Shen Yuqiu seemed to sense something and immediately said, "I put my things in the car, really."

Anyway, he had a first-aid kit and a white coat in his car, a brand new short-sleeved one. Wearing it made him look like a chef, it was simply unbearable to look at. He would never wear it in the hospital, so he just threw it in his car. But today... he didn't want to wear it today either, but he had no choice.

After finishing speaking, Shen Yuqiu turned around and went back to the car to get his things.

While Shen Yuqiu was agonizing over whether to wear the chef's uniform in the car, Zhuang Changfeng's car sped into the orphanage. Opening the car door and seeing Wen Min, Zhuang Changfeng greeted her happily, "Hi!"

Wen Min was about to call the colleague in charge of contacting volunteers to ask him why the doctor had changed without telling her when she saw Zhuang Changfeng and his car. Wen Min put away her phone and said, "Dr. Zhuang, hello."

Zhuang Changfeng, dressed in a white coat and carrying a medical instrument, got off the ambulance. "I'm sorry, Dr. Li suddenly had something come up and couldn't make it, so he asked me to come in his place. I rushed from home to the hospital before I got here, so I'm a little late."

Wen Min's phone suddenly rang. She answered it, and it was her colleague in charge of the volunteers. They were talking about changing doctors.

After hanging up the phone, Wen Min led Zhuang Changfeng to the elevated floor, which was the children's rest area. Sitting there, they could see at a glance what the children were doing in the vegetable garden.

Wen Min was very experienced in entertaining people. Tables and chairs had already been set up on the elevated floor. Wen Min invited Zhuang Changfeng to sit down and then sat down opposite him. Then he made tea for Zhuang Changfeng.

After much deliberation, Shen Yuqiu ultimately decided not to wear the chef's uniform. He had already come up with a reason: he would tell Wen Min that it was too hot and he wouldn't wear it. However, he kept the uniform in his hand, mainly to prove to Wen Min that he wasn't lying.

When he entered, he saw Wen Min and Zhuang Changfeng chatting and laughing over tea. If Zhuang Changfeng's laughter hadn't been so loud, Shen Yuqiu would have thought he was seeing things.

"Zhuang Changfeng? What are you doing here?"

Shen Yuqiu carried the medical kit and strode across the yard, stepping onto the knee-high water platform in one go.

Zhuang Changfeng was also surprised to see Shen Yuqiu. "You're here to volunteer too?"

Shen Yuqiu's arrogant demeanor was instantly suppressed. He quickly glanced at Wen Min, whose eyes were full of understanding. Wen Min had obviously seen through him. Shen Yuqiu was nervous for a moment but then calmed down. If he could see through him, so be it. If he could see through him, he shouldn't be wearing a 'chef's uniform' anymore. But Zhuang Changfeng couldn't know about this, or he would laugh at him for the rest of his life.

“Yes,” Shen Yuqiu said matter-of-factly.

Zhuang Changfeng immediately noticed the brand-new, snow-white clothes in Shen Yuqiu's hand. "Hahahaha, isn't that the newly issued 'chef's uniform'? You're actually wearing it? Hahahaha."

Shen Yuqiu pulled his hand back and said, "What are you laughing at? What's so funny?"

"Hahahaha! Hurry up and put it on! Hahahahaha!" Zhuang Changfeng laughed so hard he was bent over.

Shen Yuqiu's old face turned red from laughing. He hooked the leg of the chair that was meant for Zhuang Changfeng to sit on, and Zhuang Changfeng fell to the ground with a thud. "Are you crazy?!"

"Let you laugh!"

...

After the two finished arguing, Wen Min had already walked away.

Shen Yuqiu glared at Zhuang Changfeng, then picked up the teacup on the table and drank it down in one gulp.

“That’s mine,” Zhuang Changfeng said.

“You’re not allowed to drink the wine that Minmin poured,” Shen Yuqiu said.

"Tsk tsk tsk!"

"ill."

...

After the sun came out, the teachers led the children back from the vegetable garden one after another.

When Wen Xingmou saw Shen Yuqiu, she ran over excitedly, "Uncle Doctor!"

Shen Yuqiu's gloomy face instantly broke into a loving smile. He took the heavy bamboo basket from Wen Xingmou's hand and said with a smile, "Hello, Xingmou."

"Hello, Doctor Uncle." Wen Xingmou was panting but couldn't hide her excitement. "You've come to our house too!"

"yes."

"Do you want to eat the cucumbers and tomatoes I picked?" Wen Minmou took a tender cucumber out of the basket.

"Okay, thank you, Xingmou." Shen Yuqiu took the cucumber, rubbed it with her hands, and took a big bite. "So crisp, delicious!"

"Really?" Wen Xingmou smiled, her eyes crinkling into crescent moons. "I grew these cucumbers when I was little."

"Really? You're amazing."

Zhuang Changfeng, who had been ignored all along, said sourly from the side, "Tsk tsk tsk, stop clenching your tongue, look how you've clenched your voice."

Wen Xingmou then noticed there was another doctor, a doctor in a white coat, and her eyes instantly filled with admiration and happiness. "Are you a doctor too?"

Zhuang Changfeng said with considerable pride, "It's the real deal."

Wen Xingmou quickly took out the two largest cucumbers and the largest red tomato from the basket. "Uncle Doctor, these are for you."

"Thank you, little girl." Zhuang Changfeng felt relieved and gave Shen Yuqiu a very provocative look.

Shen Yuqiu rolled her eyes at him.

Wen Xingmou wanted to chat with the doctor, so Shen Yuqiu carried her a chair and poured her a glass of warm water, placing it in front of her.

Shen Yuqiu ultimately lost because he wasn't wearing a white coat. Wen Xingmou clearly admired Zhuang Changfeng more and started chatting with him as soon as she sat down.

"I want to be a doctor when I grow up."

"Really? Being a doctor is very hard work," Zhuang Changfeng said.

“It’s okay, I’m not afraid of hard work.” Wen Xingmou, like a mature little adult, tilted her head and said seriously, “Everyone has to overcome many difficulties to realize their dreams.”

“That’s right,” Zhuang Changfeng said. “When you go to graduate school, your uncle will introduce you to some great professors.”

What is a mentor?

"They are the teachers who teach you medical knowledge. You need to learn a lot of knowledge to become a qualified doctor."

"So, are you good at it?"

"It's alright."

"Is Uncle Shen powerful?"

"It's alright."

"Then you can be my mentors."

Zhuang Changfeng was both amused and exasperated: "Don't be too greedy, baby."

...

The children picked a lot of fruits and vegetables, and one by one, they came back from the vegetable garden covered in sweat, carrying baskets. Even after returning to the ground floor, they didn't put down their baskets to rest, but dragged them towards the kitchen.

"Where to?" Shen Xinan said, "Just leave the basket here."

"I want to cook for my big brother," a little girl said.

"I want to cook delicious food for my big brother too." Another little boy followed the little girl into the kitchen.

"I want one too."

So An Fusheng received a lot of vegetables. The fruits and melons were fine, but the leafy vegetables were a few leaves of this kind and a few leaves of that kind.

"Isn't there a single complete one?" An Fusheng asked.

Yes, we have them here.

Ji Fengnian helped Wen Xinglan, who was carrying a large cabbage, as they arrived.

"Heads!" Wen Xinglan shouted.

An Shisi always said that cabbage looked like a human head. Wen Xinglan, who was learning half of the knowledge behind him, also called the cabbage that looked like a human head "human head". They corrected him many times, but he couldn't get it right. Everyone got tired of correcting him and even followed his example. From then on, cabbage was called "human head cabbage" in the orphanage.

An Fusheng quickly went over to take the vegetables from Wen Xinglan, exclaiming, "Wow, it's such a big and complete head!"

Wen Xinglan laughed smugly. He always wanted the big picture, and the large, well-shaped melons and fruits in the vegetable garden that were tied with colorful ribbons to be kept as seeds were often killed by him prematurely.

After the cabbage was taken away, Wen Xinglan was still carrying a basket in her arms.

The basket was bought specifically for the summer camp. It's made of bamboo but very lightweight. It's shaped like a dog's head, so it looks quite big, but it doesn't hold much stuff at all. It's designed to give the kids the illusion that I can carry a huge basket of vegetables.

Wen Xinglan's basket contained two bitter melons. The lower half of the bitter melons had turned orange, and the bottom part was spread out like an octopus's tentacles. The bright red interior walls were covered with plump seeds, making it look like a large lily. "Flower!"

"Why did you pick the seeds again?" An Fusheng said shamelessly, "You don't even like bitter melon, so why do you keep picking it! If you want flowers, go pick pumpkin flowers!"

Ji Fengnian: "There's nothing we can do. He took it off in the blink of an eye. Even the kids can understand the instructions, but he can't."

An Fusheng: "Forget it, the seeds are old anyway, let's save them for him."

An Fusheng said that storing the seeds involved first digging them out of the melon, sticking them along with the sticky pulp to the wall to dry, and then storing them in a clean mineral water bottle.

Wen Xinglan, who picks seeds every day, knows the process very well. Upon hearing the instruction, he immediately picked up the grotesque bitter gourd and went out.

An Fusheng was so skilled at it that he almost suspected that Wen Xinglan was doing it on purpose. There were all sorts of seeds on the outside wall, such as pumpkin seeds, cucumber seeds, cantaloupe seeds... all of which were caused by Wen Xinglan.

...

After delivering the vegetables, the two teachers coaxed the children to go outside to learn about vegetables, but they couldn't sit still for long.

"Teacher, I'm hungry."

"Teacher, my stomach is growling."

"Teacher, I want to eat."

...

Fortunately, there weren't many different dishes to make today, so it was done quickly.

The teacher led the children to wash their hands and sit down, and then the food was served.

To live up to the children's enthusiasm, every dish at lunchtime today included ingredients picked by the children. For example, the tomatoes in the tomato and tofu stew, the loofah in the loofah and clam soup, the eggplant in the eggplant fritters, and even the green soybeans picked by the children were added to the yam and pork slice soup.

"I picked the eggplant, and I want to eat it."

"I want to eat that tofu and tomato, so I picked the tomato."

"I want to eat loofah soup."

Zhuang Changfeng held a large stainless steel bowl and said, "I want them all."

...

Wow, this is delicious!

"Mine tastes the best."

"Mine is the best."

...

The kids are having a big competition here, while the adults are busy eating.

There wasn't much meat or fish today, but every dish was fresh, fragrant, and delicious.

Zhuang Changfeng had previously ordered takeout from Xiaoxingchen Cafeteria through a nurse's recommendation, and he was absolutely amazed by it. He ordered it countless times afterward, which is why he came without hesitation when his colleagues asked him to cover their shift. Luckily, he was on leave today, otherwise he wouldn't have had this opportunity. But today's dishes were even better than the takeout. The freshness and aroma when the food just came out of the pot could not be preserved even with the best packaging.

"Delicious! Delicious!" Zhuang Changfeng wolfed down his food. "If we opened a dine-in restaurant, the business would definitely be booming."

An Fusheng said, "It will open next month."

Zhuang Chang was surprised: "Such strong execution?"

Wen Min smiled and said, "It was planned a long time ago. The hotel started construction at the beginning of the year and was only renovated in June. Now we're putting on furniture and such, and it's expected to open next month."

"That's quite an investment, building a restaurant right here. But I like it. Let me know when it opens, I'll definitely be there," Zhuang Changfeng said.

Wen Min said, "Okay, we'll have a trial run for a few days before the official opening. We'll send you an invitation then. Come over for a meal when you have time, and give us your feedback."

Zhuang Changfeng: "No problem."

Shen Yuqiu: "I want one too."

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The author says: Let me tell you something that will make you envious. I have so many lychees, a whole refrigerator full. My friend picked them after get off work today and just got back. She brought them to me before she even got home (because we live in the same building, I'm two floors below her, hahaha). They are so fresh, big, and beautiful! Ahhhhh!