"Yeah, when I was little, my godfather told me that my dad used to bully my uncles a lot when my mom wasn't around, and even beat them up in the process. I used to think my uncles were so pitiful... Now... ha~"

Mingmei recalled how smoothly her uncle Ruan Xun had handled the video call with her last night after coming out of the bathroom; his movements were even more fluid than Yan Hui's.

Even at the end, he didn't bother mentioning that staying up all night had made him bald, and simply said, "Hello? Hey? The mainframe's signal coverage is terrible... Hello! Huh?"

Then she was hung up.

Mingmei: "..."

She's now hoping her dad will give those two unlucky uncles a good beating!

"They're both so infuriating... If it's inconvenient to talk about it, just say it's something I can't know about..."

As she spoke, Mingmei scooped up a spoonful of steaming hot congee from a clay pot. The rice grains, cooked until they burst open, were accompanied by some unknown, snow-white, tender meat. The sensation of putting it in her mouth was quite wonderful.

"If we just say it's inconvenient to talk about this, aren't you worried that they might be carrying out some kind of secret operation, or that there might be some unknown danger?"

Even Mu Chen knew that Ming Mei had inherited her mother's lazy and worrisome personality, and Yan Hui and Ruan Xun were naturally aware of it as well.

"Is this matter truly dangerous?"

"Pfft~ Let's have some porridge, how does it taste?"

Mu Chen chuckled, no longer letting Mingmei dwell on Yan Hui and the others, and instead asked Mingmei how the porridge tasted.

"It's quite delicious. The meat inside is somewhat like chicken and somewhat like fish, somewhere in between."

"It's insect flesh."

"Um?"

Mingmei's eyes almost popped out of their sockets as she turned to look at the window where Mu Chen had just gotten his food. Sure enough, there was a sign that read "New Product Launch" in big characters, with a line of smaller characters below it: "Raw Insect Meat Porridge".

No wonder there was no one at that window just now!