Chapter 51

"Mr. Shi, when you can't do it, don't give others hope."

Several people sat alone at a dining table, and Ying Heng suddenly said.

"I didn't!" Shi Jiasen subconsciously retorted, but as soon as he finished speaking, he remembered the scene just now and shut up angrily.

Wen Hongjuan noticed that there seemed to be some disagreement between the two of them, and came out to smooth things over, "It's okay, it's okay, Xiaosen, the children understand your good intentions, and I will tell them when you go back." Shi

Jiasen lowered his head slightly, "Then trouble you, Mom Wen."

From beginning to end, Tan Li did not say anything.

She just quietly ate the chestnut roast chicken that Shi Jiasen specially made for the children in the orphanage.

Shi Jiasen quietly raised his eyes, from taking a quick peek every 5 minutes to 5 or 6 peeks every 3 minutes, and then staring at Tan Li's face.

"How, how is it?" He asked cautiously.

Tan Li: "It's OK."

"Why is it OK again?" Shi Jiasen was anxious, "Although it's for kids, I didn't make it casually. Even if I take this dish to Y'M, I can serve it as a main dish!"

Tan Li: ...

"Why are you so excited?" Tan Li suspected that the man in front of him had mania.

How come he has been so... jumping up and down after just knowing each other for such a short time?

Shi Jiasen was speechless. He was forgotten by Tan Li twice, and he couldn't explain why he was obsessed with it.

"Then tell me, what's wrong with it?" Shi Jiasen has been doing well since he entered the cooking world. There are

countless people who praise him, but there has never been one like Tan Li, who always gives her bad or just-ok comments every time she eats his food.

Moreover, this is based on the premise that she always forgets about herself! This

shows that in Tan Li's opinion, his cooking is indeed not up to standard.

Shi Jiasen has always felt that he has encountered a bottleneck in cooking in recent years, but people around him are complimenting him without thinking, and he himself can't figure out where his problem lies, so he is inevitably anxious.

"I didn't say no, did I?" Although Tan Li had a bad memory, she didn't forget what she said just now. "I said it's OK."

She said earnestly, "Young man, don't be so irritable."

"There are so many people in the world, and everyone's taste may be different. If you go into it one by one, you will get mad at yourself first."

Shi Jiasen: ...

Although Tan Li had completely forgotten him, she always said the same thing.

Recalling that not-so-pleasant first encounter, Shi Jiasen suppressed his impatience. "I'm not anxious. I just want to know why you think it's OK?"

Shi Jiasen pointed at the chestnut roasted chicken in front of Tan Li. "What is it about it that makes you think it doesn't meet your standard of deliciousness?"

Since he asked sincerely, Tan Li answered.

"It's very plain." Tan Li said bluntly, "I've eaten delicious food, and yours is far inferior."

The dishes made by Big Spoon back then were much more delicious.

The infinite flow world is not like the real world. There is only one kind of food that can be obtained through official channels - nutrient solution.

Simple, convenient, and contains all the nutrients needed to maintain human body functions.

At the same time, it tastes bad and expensive.

The main god system is a door-digging system. Every time you pass a copy, you only give a few points. Even for an elite team like Tan Li who survived to the end, the points obtained are enough for everyone to eat unlimited nutrient solution every day.

But if this is the case, other superpowers, weapons, etc. cannot be exchanged.

What's more, the nutrient solution tastes bad.

But it's different when you enter the copy world.

Some people are lucky enough to enter a dungeon that is similar to the real world, where they can fill their stomachs with local materials.

If you are unlucky and enter a dungeon like [Falling Star Sea] or [Infinite Flowing Sand], it will be more miserable. If you don’t prepare nutrient solution in your backpack in advance, you may starve to death before being killed by the dungeon.

Therefore, nutrient solution is an emergency material that no one wants to buy in the infinite flow world, but you have to prepare a little bit.

Tan Li’s team was also like this, but at that time their team only had 3 people. Every day they either fought and killed, or everyone saved points to buy a bottle of unpalatable nutrient solution to share among three people to drink to save their lives. Life was meaningless.

Until they met Big Spoon.

That time, they were lucky and entered a dungeon of [Apocalypse Hundred Years].

Although zombies were running all over the place, alien plants could string people together more easily than stringing candied haws, and human civilization was completely destroyed, it was at least based on the real world, and they could still dig wild vegetables.

There, they met Big Spoon. He

was round and fat, and could cook a pot of wild vegetables to make it taste like a Manchu-Han banquet.

Thinking of this, Tan Li raised the corners of her mouth subconsciously.

At that time, she, Le Tong, and Bing Huaer were so hungry for wild vegetables that their eyes almost turned green. The honest Big Spoon was so scared that he shrank to one side and trembled. It was

a long time later that she heard Big Spoon say that he almost thought he was going to die because of a pot of wild vegetable soup.

After all, in the infinite flow world, being killed by a copy or being killed by other players are all the same thing.

Tan Li's mouth slowly retracted.

Shi Jiasen was still waiting for Tan Li to tell him in detail. After waiting for a long time, he saw that she had no response. He couldn't help but anxiously want to ask again——

"Mr. Shi," Ying Heng suddenly said, "Don't talk while eating or sleeping. Can we have a good meal first?"

Although he said this to Shi Jiasen, his eyes fell on Tan Li.

Shi Jiasen realized that Tan Li's eyes were a little vague, as if she was stuck in a certain memory.

That expression...

Shi Jiasen suspected that he had seen it wrong. How could Tan Li, a woman who seemed to look down on everything and was super high-profile and arrogant, show such a sad expression? Tan Li had already returned to normal.

She was remembering some past events, but she wasn't lost in them.

She only left a 0.01% corner of her heart, and the other 99.9% was spent on being alert to the outside world. This was a small occupational disease after she came out of the infinite flow world.

Tan Li sensed Shi Jiasen's seriousness and thought for a while, "I think delicious things have that kind of heart-warming taste, and yours is just fancy."

"But there is no heart."

Tan Li explained very abstractly, after all, her feelings were very abstract.

"Just..." Tan Li herself was a little surprised at her own patience. She was willing to explain so much to Shi Jiasen, "Take your roast chicken, it feels like it was made for you, not for the people who eat it."

Shi Jiasen was stunned.

When they first met, Tan Li's words once again echoed in his mind -

in Tan Li's perception, his dishes were always full of his self-satisfied arrogance.

As if he sensed something, Shi Jiasen lowered his eyes.

Tan Li did not fall into recollection, but he was actually thinking at this moment.

Tan Li put down the tableware after eating two bites. Ying Heng couldn't help asking, "Are you full?"

"You don't understand this," Tan Li shook her head, "We are like this, we just eat two bites and throw away the rest, this is how we are."

Ying Heng: ...

"That's not called a rich lady," Ying Heng said bluntly, "That's called anorexia."

Tan Li squinted at him.

Ying Heng did not dodge, "I'm afraid you can't protect me when I have an accident, eat a little more."

Tan Li didn't want to eat.

As soon as she thought of the big spoon, she couldn't help but think of the scene before his death.

The person who was instantly swallowed by the lava hell did not even have time to scream, but it left a smell of barbecue in the air. Although it disappeared quickly, she felt sick when she thought about it.

Tong Jing, who was on the side, was also worried that Tan Li would not be enough if he only ate such a small amount. She was just about to join the ranks of persuading Tan Li to eat more, but Ying Heng was as fickle as the rain in June.

"Okay," he pulled the plate in front of Tan Li to his end, "If you don't want to eat, then you can eat."

Tong Jing:? ? ?

Why did you suddenly stop persuading me?

She is ready!

How could Ying Heng be so unprincipled?

The unprincipled Ying Heng quickened his eating speed, "This roast chicken is indeed average, it's normal that you don't want to eat it."

Tan Li stopped eating, but Ying Heng ate so fast that the assistant Tong Jing had no nerve to continue eating slowly. She quickly swallowed the meal in front of her.

Tong Jing: "Dean Wen, let's go check the donation list, shall we?"

Before Wen Hongjuan could react, one by one, they all stopped.

If Shi Jiasen hadn't been still in deep thought, he would have been pissed off by these people who were chewing on a peony and didn't know how to appreciate it.

Although Wen Hongjuan couldn't see anything unusual on Tan Li's calm face, she could see Ying Heng's protection and Tong Jing's anxiety.

After thinking for a while, she responded, "Okay, let's go to the office to talk?"

Everyone agreed.

Except for Shi Jiasen who stayed there to ponder the deep meaning of Tan Li's words, everyone left the restaurant and went to the dean's office.

**

Checking the donation list is a tedious and mechanical task. Tong Jing, as Tan Li's all-round life assistant, did not even think of asking for help. She directly communicated with Wen Hongjuan alone, and was very organized.

Tan Li and Ying Heng just sat aside, one crossed his legs and played with his mobile phone, and the other looked at the dead leaves on the window net with empty eyes.

For a while, in the whole office, except for the voices of Tong Jing and Wen Hongjuan, there was only the game music from Tan Li's mobile phone.

The tune was quite lively.

"Well..." Wen Hongjuan felt that although the two people behind her didn't talk, their presence was getting stronger and stronger. She couldn't help but say, "Let's check the list here. Xiaoli and Mr. Ying should be bored."

She found a few photo albums from the bookcase and handed them to Tan Li. "These are some photos you took when you were here. Do you want to see the photos?"

Tan Li was not interested at first.

After all, the years in the orphanage were really too long for her. She almost didn't remember them.

But when her eyes fell on Le Tong on the phone, her thoughts turned again.

"Okay, thank you." Tan Li took the album and said thank you politely.

Wen Hongjuan was slightly startled, and her eyes looked at Tan Li with a little sadness.

Seeing that Tan Li wanted to look at the photo album, Ying Heng also pulled his eyes back from staring at the dead branches outside the window.

He moved the rocker of the wheelchair and moved closer to Tan Li.

Tan Li:?

Tan Li looked at him.

Ying Heng also looked at Tan Li.

He seemed to be trying to say with his eyes, "Let's look at it together."

Although Tan Li was speechless about this attempt to speak with his eyes, he finally sighed, "...then let's look at it together."