Her fingers moved quickly.
Hua Jinyue came close to her brother and pointed at the pictures on the tablet: "Brother, brother! This! These black truffle and beef balls! They look delicious! And this... chilled freshly squeezed coconut! Moisten your throat!"
She ordered with great enthusiasm, treating her brother as someone who needed to be fed.
Ye Qingliu was already accustomed to his sister's "enthusiasm". He just said "hmm" softly with a nasal tone. His eyes were still fixed on the tablet, but seemed a little vacant.
His slender fingers unconsciously swiped across the screen, and then he slowly added a portion of chilled bamboo fungus and a portion of hand-cut lamb's head.
Duan Shuce didn't even look at his tablet. He said directly to the waiter standing beside him, "Freshly squeezed orange juice, room temperature. And one serving of brown sugar rice cake."
He knew Ning Xiwan loved to eat this.
Soon, the bottom of the pot was brought up, boiling.
The red soup is boiling brightly, and the rich aroma of butter mixed with the overbearing scent of pepper and chili rises instantly, dominating the sense of smell; the clear soup is bright yellow in color, with various rare mushrooms floating up and down, exuding a mellow and warm fragrance.
A wide variety of top-quality ingredients are exquisitely presented like works of art, covering the entire table.
The red soup is bubbling with hot bubbles, while the clear soup is warm and steamy.
Ning Xiwan was the first to pick up a piece of Wagyu beef that was as thin as a cicada's wing and as delicate as snowflakes. She dipped it in the red soup for a few seconds. When the beef changed color and curled up, she immediately took it out, coated it with a thick layer of sesame oil and garlic dipping sauce, and stuffed it into her mouth with satisfaction.
"Hmm! That's the smell! I'm alive!" She squinted her eyes happily, her cheeks puffed up like a satisfied cat.
Hua Jinyue was concentrating on her lucky bag of shrimp paste and crab roe, carefully scooping them out with a colander, her twin ponytails swaying gently with her diligent movements.
After she had boiled a plump lucky bag of crab roe, she immediately placed it in the bone dish in front of Ye Qingliu, her big eyes sparkling: "Brother, try it! Jinyue boiled it for you! Be careful with the heat!"
Ye Qingliu looked at the round, steaming lucky bag on the plate and blinked imperceptibly, as if to dispel some of his sleepiness.
He picked up his chopsticks, his movements still graceful, though a beat slower than usual. He picked up the lucky bag and blew on it gently before putting it into his mouth. The sweet crab roe burst in his mouth, mixing with the chewy lucky bag skin and the delicious filling.
"Delicious." He commented simply, his voice a little warmer from having just eaten hot food, which also dispelled some of the fatigue.
Hua Jinyue immediately burst into laughter, even happier than if she had eaten it herself.
Duan Shuce ate quietly and efficiently.
He mainly cooks in clear soup pots. He uses chopsticks to pick up the lamb's head or bamboo fungus steadily and accurately, blanch them briefly in the clear soup, then takes them out and dips them in a little simple seafood sauce. His movements are clean and neat, with a sense of organization unique to science students.
Only occasionally, he would silently use a slotted spoon to accurately scoop out a few slices of tripe or yellow throat from the boiling red soup and put them into Ning Xiwan's almost empty plate.
"Wow! Shu Ce! You understand me!" Ning Xiwan was busy dealing with a piece of beef short ribs. Seeing the new "hard stuff" on the plate, she happily nudged him with her elbow.
Duan Shuce didn't say anything, but just picked up another piece of baby cabbage heart that had been blanched in the clear soup pot and put it on the edge of her plate full of red oil food, as a silent reminder of "balanced nutrition".
Amidst the steam, the atmosphere in the box gradually heated up.
Hua Jinyue chattered back and forth about the wonderful moments of the concert, focusing on how Sara Lin looked at her little rabbit hairpin with "affection", and the "sky-shatteringly handsome" moment when her brother was "favored" by the spotlight.
Ning Xiwan vividly imitated the distorted expression on the face of the bespectacled boy named Wang when he saw them, as if he had "witnessed aliens landing on Earth."
Especially when seeing the strawberry on Ye Qingliu's head and the duck on Duan Shuce's head, the details that almost made the lenses of the glasses fall off made Hua Jinyue giggle.
"You didn't see Duan Shuce's expression at the time," Ning Xiwan said, taking a sip of iced coconut milk and glancing mischievously at him. "He was emitting a chilling aura that said 'if you look again, I'll freeze your eyes shut,' which scared Wang so much that he and his companions ran faster than rabbits!"
Duan Shuce swallowed a mouthful of bamboo fungus expressionlessly and glanced at her coldly: "Eat."
"Tsk, so boring!" Ning Xiwan curled her lips and turned to "harass" Ye Qingliu again, "Son, how did you feel at that time? You were the center of attention! Strawberry Prince!"
Ye Qingliu was carefully picking up a piece of fresh fish fillet from the clear soup pot with chopsticks. Upon hearing this, he paused and the fish fillet almost slipped.
He picked it up steadily and placed it on the plate before looking up at Ning Xiwan. His tone was calm, yet with a hint of imperceptible laziness: "Sister Wan, don't talk while eating."
"Oh, are you still shy?" Ning Xiwan laughed even more happily.
Ye Qingliu leaned back slightly to avoid her "claws", and at the same time picked up the freshly blanched fish fillet on the plate very naturally and put it into Ning Xiwan's mouth which was open because of laughing.
The movements are smooth and precise.
Ning Xiwan: "...Hmm?" A piece of warm and tender fish meat was suddenly stuffed into her mouth. She chewed it twice subconsciously, looking at Ye Qingliu with wide eyes.
Ye Qingliu looked calm, as if he had just done something very ordinary. He picked up the spoon, poured himself half a bowl of mushroom soup, and drank it slowly.
The hot soup seemed to dispel some of his fatigue, and he let out a barely perceptible breath.
"Hahahaha!" Hua Jinyue laughed so hard she nearly spit out her shrimp paste. "Great job, brother! Block Sister Ning's mouth!"
Duan Shuce looked at Ning Xiwan with puffed cheeks and a confused expression as if to say, "I was actually killed by my son." The corners of his mouth twitched slightly.
He then forced it flat again, lowered his head and concentrated on the food in the bowl, only his shoulders seemed to shrug slightly.
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