Ye Linchen returned to the rented room with the food, and Lin Xuemei and Li Hongying were still engrossed in their studies.
Upon hearing the door open, the two immediately looked up.
Lin Xuemei sniffed and exclaimed exaggeratedly, "Wow! It smells so good! This smell makes me really hungry!"
She stood up, rubbing her slightly sore neck, and followed Ye Linchen into the kitchen to get bowls and chopsticks.
Li Hongying also stood up, cleared the table, moved the books aside, and wiped them clean with a cloth.
Once the bowls and chopsticks were set on the table, Ye Linchen took the food out of the plastic bag. The lunchboxes, each printed with an exquisite logo, immediately caught the attention of Lin Xuemei and Li Hongying.
"Xiao Chen, where did you buy this? The packaging looks really high-end!"
Lin Xuemei picked up the lunchbox and examined it curiously.
Li Hongying also picked up a box to examine it, and exclaimed, "This... isn't this the logo of Binjiang Hotel? I heard their dishes are very expensive, we're in luck today!" She turned to Ye Linchen, "How much did you spend? I'll give you the money."
Ye Linchen waved his hand with a smile: "No need for money, I didn't buy it, someone else is treating!"
"Who's treating? That's so generous!" Lin Xuemei pressed.
Ye Linchen blinked but didn't answer: "If someone's treating, just eat. Why ask so many questions?"
Lin Xuemei, however, had a sudden flash of inspiration and immediately guessed: "Could it be the friend who invited you to dinner the other day?"
Ye Linchen's lips curled up, but he remained focused on setting out the dishes and refused to respond.
Li Hongying wasn't in the dorm that day and didn't know about it. She couldn't contain her curiosity and asked, "Which friend? How come I don't know about this?"
Lin Xuemei glanced at Ye Linchen with an ambiguous expression: "He's just a good friend of Xiaochen's whom I haven't seen in a long time, a mature and steady person..."
"Oh~~~" Li Hongying immediately showed a knowing expression, "Just good friends?"
"We were good friends back then, but who knows now? No wonder you took so long to come back, you must have been on a date!" Lin Xuemei teased with a smile.
"If you keep talking nonsense, I won't let you eat anymore." Ye Linchen pretended to snatch her bowl.
Lin Xuemei quickly picked up her bowl and said with a smile, "Don't talk nonsense, don't talk nonsense. We are able to eat such good food because of you. I should thank you."
"You're absolutely right, your good friend is really a friend indeed."
Ye Linchen blushed slightly as they teased her. She opened the lunchbox lids one by one and said reproachfully, "Don't talk so much. Eat quickly, it won't taste good if it gets cold."
As soon as the lid was opened, the aroma became even stronger. Lin Xuemei and Li Hongying were starving. Upon smelling the fragrance, they forgot all about teasing and immediately picked up their chopsticks and began to wolf down the food.
"Mmm...it's so delicious!" Lin Xuemei exclaimed as she ate. "This Binjiang Hotel is really something else; even the rice is better than other places! Is it Thai rice?"
Li Hongying nodded and said, "That should be it! I heard that the ingredients for this restaurant are all air-freighted from other places, and they are all the freshest. It's true that you get what you pay for!"
Ye Linchen had eaten at several good restaurants with Gu Jingran and had developed a certain taste, so he agreed with what the two of them said.
The food at Binjiang Hotel is really delicious.
Gu Jingran certainly has excellent taste when it comes to food.
The three of them ate while praising the food, and soon finished all the food in the lunchbox. They put the chopsticks and lunchbox into a plastic bag and that was it. They only had to wash three bowls.
Lin Xuemei touched her belly and gave her a speech.
"It's so good to be rich! I must start my own business. When I'm rich, I'll eat at the Riverside Restaurant every day."
Ye Linchen threw the plastic bag into the trash can, then took out the chocolate that Gu Jingran had given him and said with a smile, "Here, try this one too. It's chocolate that Brother Gu brought back from Hong Kong!"
"Brother Gu? So your good friend's surname is Gu..."
Lin Xuemei was halfway through her sentence when she noticed some words printed on the chocolate box and quickly read them aloud: "The Peninsula Hotel! This is chocolate made by the Peninsula Hotel! This... this box must cost over three hundred yuan, right?"
Ye Linchen was shocked to find that a small box of chocolates cost over three hundred yuan: "So expensive?"
"Yes, my cousin's husband went to Hong Kong on a business trip and brought a box back for my cousin. She treasures it terribly. When we had a get-together, we took it out and only gave one to each of us."
Lin Xuemei carefully examined the box in her hand and said meaningfully to Ye Linchen, "I heard that in the West, chocolates are given as tokens of love. It seems that this Brother Gu is deeply in love with our little Chen!"
Ye Linchen's cheeks started burning again, and she lowered her head, snatched the box, opened it, and pretended to be angry, saying, "Don't talk nonsense. Here, I'll treat you to a few more today."
Lin Xuemei refused, laughing and saying, "I dare not eat them! These chocolates are all people's kind gestures, how can I eat their good intentions!"
Ye Linchen ignored her and handed the box to Li Hongying, who was smiling and silent beside him.
"If she won't eat it, we will! Come and try this chocolate that costs over 300 yuan!"
Afraid that she might feel embarrassed, Li Hongying didn't stand on ceremony anymore. She took a piece of chocolate, carefully put it in her mouth, and savored it.
"It's delicious! The flavor is so rich and smooth!"
Lin Xuemei hurriedly reached out to take it: "I want some too... I want to try it and see how it's different from my cousin's."
Ye Linchen took one for himself and handed the box to her: "Try it, and write an 800-word reflection after you've finished."
"You're trying to kill me!"
Lin Xuemei quickly grabbed one and put it in her mouth, closed her eyes, and said with a look of pure enjoyment, "My feeling can be summed up in three words: So delicious!"
She opened her eyes and said, "These expensive things are just different."
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