Then came dinner.
Made by Xia's mother.
Although Xia's mother wanted to treat these people to a Manchu Han Imperial Feast, she simply couldn't afford it.
So I only cook home-style dishes.
The dishes weren't fancy, and the taste wasn't particularly good, but at least they had a homey feel to them.
Ms. Ji asked for more rice twice.
At first, Xia Tudou wanted to compete with her to see who had the best appetite.
But the gentle and graceful girls of Jiangnan are still not as bold and unrestrained as the women of Northeast China.
In the end, Xia Tudou ate too much and got full.
"...hiccup."
While burping, Xia Tudou said to Lu Yibei, "Brother Bei, it's been so long since I've had your sweet and sour fish. When are you going to show off your skills?"
Lu Yibei said dismissively, "Go find your boyfriend."
Li Si came as a guest this time, and even if he helped out Xia's mother, she would never actually let him cook.
—What kind of talk is it to let guests cook!
"...Can you do it?" Xia Li asked.
"I've never done it before."
Li Si smiled faintly and said, "But I can learn."
"That's definitely not as good as what Brother Bei did—remember to call me when you've mastered your skills, okay?" Xia Li said with a grin.
Hearing this, Xia's mother felt an urge to smash her daughter's blockhead with her chopsticks.
"What do you mean by 'mastering divine skills'? Can't you learn to do it yourself?!"
In Xia's mother's eyes, she still felt that as a "wife," she should at least know some cooking skills—her daughter was an expert in making desserts and was proficient in using ovens and such, but she was not very skilled in cooking utensils such as oil and pots.
"Besides, Yibei has his own girlfriend now, so don't go around asking her for this and that—" Xia's mother scolded again.
Ji Qingqian is quiet, sensible, and doesn't talk much, but that doesn't mean she doesn't mind!
The female knight-errant, who was engrossed in eating, never expected that this matter could be pinned on her.
She paused for a moment, then said to Lu Yibei:
"I want to eat it too."
Xia's mother: ...
That's not what I meant.
Ji Qingqian didn't mind Xia Li's contact with Lu Yibei at all.
Just as Li Si didn't mind the two of them bickering as usual.
Even Li Si had a feeling.
Lu Yibei sat down here, acting like his brother-in-law, and the kind of brother-in-law who would say, "Let me tell you, if you want to pursue my sister, you should..."
It emphasizes a sense of security.
People from Zhejiang Province eat regularly, but not in large quantities.
Xia Li's family is an example of this.
When it's hot, we might not even start cooking until after 7 a.m.
But it gets dark early in winter, so by the time we finished eating it was before six o'clock.
After finishing the meal, Xia's mother was about to clear the dishes.
Suddenly I received a phone call.
there:"……"
Xia's mother: "...Oh, I see. But here I have..."
there:"……"
Xia's mother: "Okay, then come and get it later."
After hanging up, she apologized to Li Si, saying, "I'm so sorry, someone ordered a cake, and it's a regular customer. I have to go downstairs—"
Li Si quickly said, "It's alright, you can go ahead and do your work."
Xia Li stood up abruptly: "Do you need my help?"
"The biggest favor you can do is to talk to your friends and stop acting crazy."
Xia's mother said, then looked at the dishes and chopsticks: "If all else fails, please wash the dishes for me."
Xia Li chuckled and plopped down on the sofa:
"Come on, let's chat, let's have a chat—"
Helpless, Xia's mother could only let her daughter go downstairs alone.
After watching Xia's mother's thin figure go downstairs, Li Si rolled up his sleeves:
"I'll do it."
Xia Li looked at the diligent fox in surprise, thought for a moment, and then said very politely:
"Then wash it clean, I'll check it later."
Lu Yibei, who was originally unrelated to this matter, glanced at the president and suddenly sighed: "Go sit over there, I'll take care of it."
Li Si smiled and said, "It's nothing."
"You're still saying you're fine? You've been yawning so many times since we finished eating—didn't you sleep well last night?" Lu Yibei asked in a low voice.
Fun fact: After a good meal, one naturally feels sleepy—but Li Si was just too sleepy.
Seeing that he had been discovered, Li Si did not deny it:
“The word ‘good’ can be removed.”
"...No, you mean all night, bro?"
"Busy, there's still some work left over from the student union, plus I haven't finished submitting the last article for the semester to the WeChat official account—and..."
Before Li Si could finish speaking, Lu Yibei interrupted him:
"Stop, stop, stop, stop! Is there no one left in the student council? Where's my brother Fu?"
“He’s taking his last exam today,” Li Si said.
It's like giving people time to review.
He really made me cry my eyes out.
Lu Yibei was touched, but not completely: "...To be honest, what are you pretending for?"
“…Okay, even if there weren’t that many things going on, I still couldn’t sleep,” Li Si said.
"I'm telling you, it's just meeting your mother-in-law, is it really necessary to lose sleep over it? Where's your strategic brilliance? You need to step up your game!"
Lu Yibei spoke while standing, but his back didn't hurt.
Li Si glanced at Lu Yibei and asked, "Brother Yibei, you must be able to chat and laugh with Junior Sister Ji's parents, right?"
Lu Yibei smiled smugly:
"Go sit on the sofa, or I'll beat you up if you keep babbling."
As he spoke, he called out to Ji Qingqian:
"Qingqian, come here. Let me show you what a flawless dishwashing technique looks like—you have to do housework properly!"
Ji Qingqian hummed in agreement and stood up.
I felt quite embarrassed about what Xia Tudou did.
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