Chapter 266, Give It to Her
He saw it and named it - she was sympathizing with him.
She knew that she had no right to sympathize with him, and he was even less willing to accept the sympathy of her, his enemy. In his view, the words she had just said were nothing but self-righteous self-satisfaction.
Shen Yao bit her lip and lowered her head: “Qin Huai, I’m going in.”
"Wait." As if the previous topic didn't exist, Qin Huai grabbed her wrist and stuffed a White Rabbit candy into her hand. "I'll come up and call you when it's time for dinner."
"I'm not very hungry." Shen Yao had no appetite and whispered, "Don't call me for dinner."
…
Perhaps because of the communication with Qin Huai, Chen Yao had the same dream as last time at night.
In the dream, there was still thick fog that made it impossible to see the road ahead and the strangely shaped carnivorous plants. But this time, she did not run. Instead, she walked calmly past each flower.
Walking through the garden, she met the little boy she had seen last time again at the exit.
He lay on the ground motionless, not knowing whether he was dead or alive.
A carnivorous plant was standing next to him, with its bloody mouth wide open, ready to swallow the boy in one gulp.
"Stop!" She heard her own clear voice, stopping the carnivorous plant, "You are not allowed to hurt him!"
…
It was late at night when Chen Yao woke up from her dream. She could vaguely see the moonlight coming in through the window.
Sitting on the bed and recalling the dream just now, Shen Yao thought thoughtfully: "That person..."
Who is that person in the dream, that little boy covered in wounds and with a frightened look in his eyes, the little boy who was almost swallowed by the carnivorous plant... who is he?
Before she could come up with an answer, her stomach growled twice. Shen Yao held her aching stomach, climbed out of bed, put on her coat, and prepared to go downstairs to find something to eat.
…
Hearing the clanging sounds in the kitchen, Qin Huai stopped.
After waiting for a while, a burnt smell came from the kitchen. The man's mouth twitched and he walked towards the kitchen.
Chen Yao looked at the noodles stuck to the bottom of the pot in frustration and put down the spoon in annoyance: "You are so useless, Chen Yao. You can't even cook noodles. How come you didn't starve to death?"
As if it understood her mumbling, its stomach started to protest wildly again.
Qin Huai couldn't bear it any longer: "If you keep messing around, this pot will be unusable."
He suddenly appeared behind her like a ghost. Shen Yao shuddered with fear and reflexively waved the spoon towards his face.
Qin Huai grabbed her wrist with one hand and barely saved his face.
"You woman, you're so violent." Qin Huai took the spoon from her hand and glanced at the black mass in the pot. He laughed, "Are you going to fry sesame cakes with noodles?"
Shen Yao's ears burned, and she silently let go of her hand: "I'm sorry, I will clean the pot."
"Since you're hungry, why don't you have dinner?" Qin Huai pushed her aside and took the pot under the faucet to clean it. "It's okay if the pot is broken, but what you're doing now is a waste of food, don't you understand? Don't you know how precious food is in the apocalypse?"
Knowing she was wrong, Shen Yao lowered her head and hummed back, "I was wrong."
The stomach growls in response.
Qin Huai: "..." He tried to hold it back, but couldn't help it, "Puff."
Shen Yao pressed her belly and whispered even more quietly: "I'm causing you trouble again."
"No problem, I'm just hungry too." Qin Huai said, "What do you like to put in your noodles? Tomato and egg, please?"
Shen Yao nodded.
She is not picky about food.
Qin Huai deftly peeled and cut the tomatoes, then beat the eggs...
Shen Yao stood by and looked at him - she couldn't see his figure clearly, but she could smell a faint smell of blood on him.
"You..." She licked her lips, "Where did you go last night?"
Qin Huai didn't even turn his head: "The arena."
"arena?"
Qin Huai finally turned around and looked at her, with a half-smile: "Believe me, you won't like that place."
He said so, and Chen Yao tactfully did not ask any further questions.
After waiting for a while, the aroma of tomato and eggs wafted out, and Chen Yao subconsciously sipped her lips - it smelled so good. She didn't know that Qin Huai had this skill. Didn't he stay in the laboratory all the time? How did he have the opportunity to learn how to cook?
The man brought the two bowls of noodles to the living room and placed them on the table, then went back to the kitchen to bring the girl out.
"Sit here."
After she sat down, he handed her the chopsticks and said, "You eat first, I'll go change my clothes."
"Change clothes?"
"You can smell it, my clothes are covered in blood. It's very rude to wear this kind of clothes to dine with a lady."
“…”
When Qin Huai came down, Shen Yao had not yet picked up her chopsticks. The education she received since childhood did not allow her to eat alone without her companions.
As he passed by her, Qin Huai tapped the table with his fingers: "If you don't eat it, it will become mushy."
After hearing him sit down, Shen Yao began to eat noodles in small mouthfuls.
In the silence, she once again recalled the dream she had had, the frightened little boy and the strangely shaped carnivorous plant in the dream.
"Qin Huai, have we met before?"
Hearing this question, the man paused with his chopsticks, and was silent for a moment. He chuckled and said, "If we had met before, how come you don't have any impression of it?"
Shen Yao was silent.
She really had no impression at all.
But in her recent dreams...she always naturally associated that boy with Qin Huai.
Perhaps, I have been paying too much attention to him recently, so I seem to be thinking about him and dreaming about him at night?
Seeing her silence, Qin Huai's eyes darkened: "Do you wish we had met before?"
The past cannot be changed and has nothing to do with her wishes. Chen Yao swallowed the noodles and said frankly: "I've been dreaming a lot lately, and I dream about very, very bad things. If it's just my wish, then I wish we had never met before."
If she didn't know him, the little boy who appeared in her dream would not be him - the child who was covered in scars and half-dead every time they met. Even if there was only a slight possibility, she hoped it was not him.
The sparkling light in his eyes returned to calmness, and Qin Huai said calmly: "Then we have never met."
Chen Yao: “…”
Noticing the change in his mood, Shen Yao ate quietly, not daring to speak again.
…
The four of them traveled light and without any delay along the way, Jiang Ran and his group arrived at the Dongchao base half a month later.
…
In the villa garden, a woman is watering jasmine flowers.
She was wearing a cheongsam, her figure was graceful, her movements were leisurely and relaxed, and her every move revealed the gentleness and calmness nurtured by time.
Beside her, the maid who was helping to carry the bucket heard the laughter coming from the living room and showed an indignant expression: "Madam, listen to the sound, that woman is here again!"
The woman from the Shi family, because of the rise of her family, forgot her own weight and took advantage of the fact that the young master was out and came to the Pei family to find the master openly.
Every day, she either sends cakes or invites the master to go for a walk, and even deliberately says some boastful and provocative words in front of the lady...
Shameless little hooves!
Unlike the servant, who was angry, the woman just smiled faintly and scooped a bucket of water: "He likes that man, give it to her."
He's just a man, she never took him seriously. If the woman likes him, just take him.
(End of this chapter)
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