Chapter 85 Don't run, it's Potato! Yes, it's me. ...

After Shen Yuqiu left, Wen Min also locked himself in his room and didn't even come out for dinner. The whole family ate dinner with great anxiety.

After dinner, Lou Lan helped the children wash up, while An Fusheng studied in Wen Min's office. He had recently started learning how to make tables and had entered a new level of difficulty. He didn't understand many of the formulas and internet terms, and making a simple table felt like a life-long struggle.

It took An Fusheng nearly two hours to barely finish the homework assigned by Xu Sannian.

After Xu Sannian arrived, he took care of the girls' bathing and hair washing, An Fusheng took care of Wen Xinglin and An Shisi, and Lou Lan only needed to take care of Wen Xingrui and Wen Xinglan's bathing.

When An Fusheng came out of the office, Wen Xinglin and An Shisi were already waiting for him. Actually, Wen Xinglin used to take a shower by himself sometimes, but recently the weather has been getting colder and colder, and An Fusheng noticed that Wen Xinglin's neck was getting darker and darker. He realized that Wen Xinglin couldn't wash himself properly and had to help him.

"Grab your clothes and go take a shower."

"Okay, big brother!"

Wen Xinglin and An Shisi carried their clothes and went to the bathroom with An Fusheng to take a shower.

After taking a shower, An Fusheng carried one in each hand out of the room. He glanced at his room and saw Wen Xinglan already engrossed in reading a puzzle book on his bed.

An Fusheng threw An Shisi onto his small bed. An Shisi hugged An Fusheng's arm and said, "Big brother, I want to sleep with you."

“Alright.” An Fusheng pulled An Shisi back to his bed. “You and your brother play for a while. I’ll go make something for Aunt Wen to eat. She must be hungry since she didn’t have dinner.”

An Shisi said, "Okay."

An Fusheng asked An Shisi to accompany Wen Xinglan to read the puzzle book, while he went to the kitchen to cook a bowl of sweet fermented rice with eggs. He then knocked on Wen Min's door and said, "I saw that your room light was on, so I cooked you a bowl of sweet fermented rice with eggs. Do you want some?"

"Yes." Wen Min let An Fusheng into the room.

An Fusheng brought in a bowl of fermented rice wine with eggs. Wen Min looked at the bowl; the grains of fermented rice wine were scattered and floating in the clear soup. There were also red dates and goji berries in the soup, and a poached egg was lying in the middle, swaying slightly as An Fusheng walked around, steaming hot. Wen Min said, "It looks delicious."

Seeing that Wen Min's expression was normal, An Fusheng was slightly relieved. "Then you give it a try."

An Fusheng carefully placed the bowl on the round table in Wen Min's room and noticed that the laptop on the table was lit up. Was Wen's mother working?

Wen Min closed the half-closed notebook and moved it to the side, telling An Fusheng to sit down.

An Fusheng felt a little uncomfortable entering Wen Min's room. He had originally planned to put down the fermented rice and leave, but Wen Min asked him to sit down, and Wen Min hadn't closed the door. He found a stool and sat down opposite Wen Min.

An Fusheng usually saw Wen Min with her hair tied in a low ponytail, dressed in a neat but not very formal manner. Today was the first time he had seen Wen Min with her hair down, with two plush doll hair clips in her hair, and wearing a fluffy animal-style pajamas just like Wen Xinglan's. She was wrapped in fluff and looked like an innocent little girl. An Fusheng seemed to realize that his Wen mother was also a girl who needed protection.

Seeing Wen Min take a spoonful of fermented rice, An Fusheng asked, "Is it sweet?"

"It's very sweet," Wen Min said, taking another spoonful. "Delicious."

An Fusheng said, "I didn't add any sugar. The sweetness comes from the natural fermentation of the yeast, and this time the fermentation was particularly good."

Wen Min said, "Great!"

An Fusheng: "There's plenty more; you can eat it tomorrow or the day after."

Wen Min: "Isn't it said that the longer the wine is stored, the stronger its flavor will become?"

An Fusheng: "I've already cooked it. Once the fermented rice is fully cooked, it won't continue to ferment. If you put it in the refrigerator, it can be stored for at least half a month."

Wen Min: "My son is amazing!"

An Fusheng paused for a moment and said, "Mrs. Wen, I'll earn money to buy you a car in the future."

Wen Min looked up at An Fusheng: "Why do you suddenly want to buy me a car?"

An Fusheng said in a serious tone, "We will not ride in Teacher Shen's car from now on."

Wen Min smiled, her eyebrows curving upwards: "Okay."

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The next day, An Fusheng was soaking wood ear mushrooms in the kitchen when he suddenly heard his younger siblings screaming outside. He ran out and found that someone had brought a large bouquet of yellow and green flowers, specifically for Wen Min.

An Fusheng knew who sent it after a little guess, and said insincerely, "It's not pretty at all, not even as pretty as a bright red rose."

Xu Sannian looked at An Fusheng as if he had seen a ghost: "What terrifying straight male aesthetics! You say such beautiful flowers aren't as pretty as red roses? Your future girlfriend is going to be so unlucky!"

Wen Min smiled and said, "Indeed, it's not as pretty as a red rose."

Wenmin took the card from the bouquet and gave the flowers to the children.

The bouquet was huge, and the children carried it home like ants carrying house.

An Fusheng went back to the kitchen, unconvinced.

After lunch, An Fusheng went up to the living room on the second floor and found that the bouquet of flowers had been completely dismantled. The flowers had been pulled out and placed in various bottles, which filled the whole room.

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For several weeks in a row, Bai Miaomiao's food was confiscated by her homeroom teacher as soon as she entered the classroom. The teacher acted like a sentry, walking up to her desk and knocking on it the moment she entered, asking, "Miaomiao, did you have dinner at home?"

Bai Miaomiao nodded.

Class teacher: "Take it out."

Bai Miaomiao obediently handed over the snacks her older brother had brought her.

Then the homeroom teacher would smile and leave with the bag, and might not even come over during evening self-study.

As soon as the homeroom teacher left, Bai Xun came over with a pained expression and asked, "Why are you being so obedient?"

Bai Miaomiao said, "He knows I brought food."

Bai Xun: "Can't you just say you didn't bring it?"

Bai Miaomiao: "But he can see it with just a flip."

Bai Xun shook his head: "Sigh, honest kid! I've been looking forward to Sundays for so long, only to have them all come to nothing. Little sister, you've disappointed me time and time again!"

Bai Miaomiao calmly took out an identical insulated bag from her backpack. "There's another one."

Bai Xun almost screamed, but Bai Miaomiao's deskmate quickly covered her mouth: "Don't make a sound!"

Bai Xun nodded cautiously, then squeezed down next to Bai Miaomiao's seat, "Move over a bit."

Bai Miaomiao aligned her chair closely with her deskmate's, shifting her bottom slightly towards the middle.

"What's today?" Bai Xun asked in a low voice.

Bai Miaomiao whispered in return, "Braised food."

Bai Xun exclaimed in delight: "Wow, I love it!"

Seeing Bai Miaomiao take out box after box, her deskmate asked, "Wow, why are there two more boxes?"

Bai Miaomiao: "One box is spicy, and one box is not spicy."

Bai Xun and Bai Miaomiao, who were sitting next to each other, desperately covered their mouths to prevent themselves from screaming out of excitement.

Bai Miaomiao laid the insulated bag on her lap, placed the lunchbox on top of the insulated bag, opened the lunchbox, and gave each of them a pair of gloves.

The two of them couldn't wait to put on their gloves, ignoring what Bai Miaomiao had just said about which dishes were spicy and which weren't. They grabbed whatever was convenient and didn't want to waste a single second.

"tasty!"

"It's very flavorful."

"This spicy food tastes so good!"

"Mmm, this is delicious! Everything your older brother makes tastes good. Does your family need a younger sister?"

"Me too. If my older brother is willing to let me be his younger sister, I'm willing to eat and drink well with him every day."

"Bai Xun, why are you eating and taking things? And didn't you claim to be the eldest brother?"

"I'm willing to be my older brother's sister, is that not allowed?"

"How did he become your older brother? He never said he wanted you to be his younger sister."

Bai Miaomiao finished eating a duck neck before saying, "We have many younger sisters in our family."

My deskmate, tearing at a duck's foot, said, "Since there are so many, you shouldn't mind having one more, right?"

Bai Xun: "Hmm, one more."

Bai Miaomiao didn't expect them to be so persistent in acknowledging him as their elder brother, and said, "Actually, my elder brother also owns a restaurant. If you want to eat my elder brother's cooking, you can just order takeout. You don't necessarily have to acknowledge him as your elder brother."

"Really? What's the restaurant called?" Bai Xun asked.

Bai Mangmang pointed to the QR code on the takeout bag, "You can scan this to place an order, and kimchi is included. You can order on the weekend."

Bai Xun: "Why wait until the weekend? Order it tomorrow!"

Bai Miaomiao: "Doesn't the school forbid us from eating outside food?"

My deskmate quickly gnawed on a duck neck without looking up: "She eats it every day."

Bai Miaomiao looked at Bai Xun: "How did you bring him in? Won't the teacher scold you if they find out?"

Bai Xun winked smugly: "I have my own way."

After saying that, she looked down and saw that someone had already finished one of the boxes, and shouted, "Tang Xi, you're eating too fast!"

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After enabling the mini-program for ordering food, Xu Sannian also set up a reservation ordering function, which allows customers to place orders in advance before opening hours and reserve their desired delivery time. Once the store opens, the restaurant will prepare the food according to the customer's wishes and deliver it to the customer at the agreed time.

Bai Miaomiao said that her restaurant was short-staffed, had limited food production capacity, and limited business hours, so she told Bai Xun that it would be best to make a reservation and order in advance.

As soon as the bell rang for the end of the long break, Bai Xun leaped off his chair. The homeroom teacher said sullenly, "Why are you running so fast? Go to the toilet after you finish doing your eye exercises."

Bai Xun quickly retreated back to his original position. He was so preoccupied with lunch that he forgot he needed to do his eye exercises.

The music for eye exercises started playing immediately. Bai Xun suppressed his impatience and did the exercises while timing himself. Almost as soon as the instructions for the eye exercises ended, Bai Xun had already darted to Bai Miaomiao's seat. "Miaomiao, order."

When Bai Miaomiao opened her eyes, she saw Bai Xun grinning at her and saying, "Order it yourself."

Bai Xun: "I need you to order for me. Tell me which one is delicious."

Bai Miaomiao: "They're all pretty good, but some might be a bit pricey. You can try the cheaper ones first."

Bai Xun had already looked through the entire menu. The most expensive set meal was only a little over a hundred yuan, which was about the same as what she usually ate. "It's not expensive. Can you order the one you think is the best?"

Bai Miaomiao ordered her a stewed chicken with soybeans, a dish unique to their restaurant, and the price was just right.

Tang Xi was tempted to follow Bai Xun's lead, but she was afraid of being caught by the teacher and having her parents called in. Her mother was very strict with her and almost never allowed her to make any mistakes, unlike Bai Xun's parents, who didn't care about her at all and didn't even attend parent-teacher conferences. That's why Bai Xun dared to do whatever she wanted at school, and Tang Xi was so envious of her.

"Don't you two want to eat?" Bai Xun asked. "Would you like me to treat you?"

Bai Miaomiao and Tang Xi shook their heads. Although they didn't have much money, it wasn't entirely because they didn't have money. The main reason was that the school didn't allow them to eat outside food, and if they were caught, their parents would be called!

Bai Xun had no choice but to order his own portion and go back to find his deskmate.

As soon as the lunch bell rang and the teacher called out "get out of class dismissed," the students ran towards the cafeteria like bandits.

Bai Miaomiao used to eat alone in the cafeteria. But after sharing her food with Tang Xi, the two gradually became familiar with each other. Bai Miaomiao then realized that Tang Xi wasn't as serious and quiet as she seemed. She pretended to be reading seriously every day, but she was actually secretly reading comics. After Bai Miaomiao discovered this, Tang Xi made sure that Bai Miaomiao wouldn't tell the teacher. She even shared her comic books with her. When talking about comics, she was a real chatterbox.

The comics are exquisite and vivid, and they also opened the door to a new world for Bai Miaomiao.

Bai Miaomiao and Tang Xi were discussing the latest issue of the comic while queuing in the cafeteria when Bai Xun hurriedly came over and pulled them out of the line.

“We’re in line, why are you pulling us out? If you pull us out, we’ll have to line up again,” Tang Xi said.

Bai Xun: "It's still the same dishes, what's the point of arranging them? Come with me."

Tang Xi: "You're making it sound like you have something special for us to eat."

Bai Xun: "Of course."

Tang Xi: "You bought them for us? You don't only order for yourself, do you?"

Bai Xun said with a haughty expression, "Come with me and you'll see."

Bai Xun led the two to a slope on the side of the school. This slope was actually a cemetery. According to the number of tombstones, there should be three graves, but it was not certain. This was because the tombstones were not the kind of tombstones that were more than a meter high and engraved with words that one could see in a cemetery. They were just irregular stones, the largest of which was no more than fifty centimeters in length and width, and the smallest was probably only a dozen centimeters. There were no words on the stones. The graves were not individual mounds of earth, but an entire slope. If it weren't for the colorful paper that would be hung on it during Qingming Festival, people probably wouldn't know that it was a grave.

"Why did you bring us here?" Tang Xi was a little scared and didn't dare to speak too loudly, for fear of disturbing the people below.

"Let's eat," Bai Xun said.

Upon hearing Bai Xun's voice, a furry head rustled out from behind the earthen slope.

Tang Xi and Bai Miaomiao both looked toward the sound, screamed, and were about to run back.

Bai Xun grabbed one of the students' school uniform jackets and shouted, "Don't run, it's Potato!"

Yang Yu leaned half her body out from the slope and said, "Yes, it's me."

Yang Yu was Bai Xun's deskmate. Tang Xi and Bai Miaomiao looked at Yang Yu in horror, "You... how did you suddenly appear from there?"

"I'm waiting for you here. Come down and eat," Yang Yu said.

Bai Miaomiao and Tang Xi stood still, their bodies filled with resistance, but Bai Xun grabbed their coats and dragged them step by step toward the earthen slope.

"Didn't you say your food sells out quickly? I was afraid I'd make a reservation too late and there wouldn't be any left, so when I ordered, I added a note saying I'm your classmate and good friend, and asked you to save me a portion for me, even if it's just for your sake. In the end, you even brought me a portion too. We saw that the portion you gave was quite large, enough for Tangxi and me to eat together."

Tang Xi pointed at Yang Yu and asked, "Why is she here too?" It wasn't that she thought Yang Yu shouldn't be here; she was just terrified and wanted to know why.

Bai Xun: "I told her to order too, we often eat takeout together here!"

Yang Yu said, "Yes, yes, this place is very secluded. You won't be discovered if you order takeout here. Plus, there's a hole in the wall, making it perfect for sneaking takeout. You have no idea how much effort we put into getting the delivery guys to find this place accurately."

Tang Xi and Bai Miaomiao were pulled by Bai Xun to the bottom of the earthen slope. There was a small area below that had been completely cleared of vegetation, and several stones were placed around the smooth ground, which looked like they were for sitting on when eating.

When Yang Yu saw them come down, she took out the takeout, spread the insulated bag on the ground as a mat, put the lunch boxes on the insulated bag, and invited Bai Miaomiao and Tang Xi to sit wherever they wanted, showing a lot of hostess spirit.

Tang Xi asked nervously, "You usually eat here? Aren't you afraid?" This is a place that everyone usually avoids!

Yang Yu said, "What's there to be afraid of? Practice makes perfect. We're old acquaintances."

Bai Miaomiao and Tang Xi glanced at the tombstones, which were still intact, and breathed a sigh of relief before carefully sitting down.

"I can smell the aroma! My older brother's cooking skills are truly amazing!" Bai Xun exclaimed. "I'm so hungry!"

The portion of rice that Bai Miaomiao's older brother gave her was exceptionally large. Bai Miaomiao and Tang Xi each ate half and thought it was too much. Several portions of vegetables were also given to them.

The food was still warm, and the aroma wafted out as soon as it was opened. This was an irresistible temptation for middle school students who were growing and hungry after a morning of classes. No one could resist it, including Bai Miaomiao and Tang Xi, who had just been hesitating.

Bai Xun shouted "Let's eat!" and everyone eagerly started grabbing the food. Despite being usually quiet and refined girls, none of them hesitated when it came to delicious food.

"Ah!!!" Yang Yu exclaimed between bites, "It's so delicious! Every dish is so good! Ah! How come this kimchi is so delicious too!"

Bai Miaomiao, who was always modest and low-key, couldn't help but feel a little proud at this moment, saying, "This pickled radish was made by my eldest brother. My family also has more than ten kinds of pickled vegetables, including bracken, kelp, wood ear fungus, bamboo shoots, bitter lettuce, cucumber, papaya, ginger, garlic..."

Yang Yu quickly stopped her: "Stop talking! I want to eat them all! I'll dream about them tonight!"

Bai Miaomiao said, "My older brother's chili powder is also delicious. My older brother's kimchi tastes so good when paired with his chili powder. No one else's chili powder tastes this good."

Yang Yu munched on a piece of pickled radish, its surface glistening red with chili powder, confirming that Bai Miaomiao wasn't exaggerating. "I'm going to snatch your older brother away!"

Another one trying to steal the boss's thunder? Bai Miaomiao didn't want to say another word.

Yang Yu still lacked experience. Tang Xi thought that if she said a few more words about the food being gone, Yang Yu would behave herself.

Bai Xun, having learned a painful lesson from being fed an extra duck neck and wing by Tang Xi for saying a few extra words yesterday, is now more experienced and focused solely on eating. With five or six dishes on the table, each one a delightful surprise, she is completely absorbed in the food and has no time to talk.

The portions of the main meals were very generous, unlike the snacks which were not enough to go around. Everyone was stuffed after finishing all the food.

After eating too much, it's easy to feel sleepy. The group sat on the rocks, feeling drowsy, savoring the delicious food they had just tasted.

Yang Yu said with satisfaction, "It's so delicious! I'm so full. I'm even a little sleepy. I feel like I can fall asleep right away and have a sweet dream."

Bai Xun Dao lazily replied, "I want to be one too."

Tang Xi suddenly lowered her voice, "Do you think it's possible?"

"What?" Everyone looked at her curiously.

Tang Xi glanced stiffly at the graves behind her. Just then, a gust of wind blew, causing the weeds on the slope to bend down in unison.

"Ah!" Tang Xi suddenly scrambled up from the rock, grabbed Bai Miaomiao, and ran.

Bai Xun didn't have time to think before running after them.

Yang Yu was left behind shouting, "The trash hasn't been collected yet!"

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