"You want me to go shopping with you?"
After dinner, Mingmei was dragged out of the campus by Lu Xiaoyao once again.
"Yeah, yeah, it's finally a holiday, you can't just go back to your room after dinner like you usually do, can you?" Lu Xiaoyao's unintentional remark hit the nail on the head. The quantum computer is so much fun, and the holographic space is so free!
Seeing that Mingmei remained silent, Lu Xiaoyao hugged Mingmei's arm tightly, stared at Mingmei, and said, "I don't care, is it still a holiday if we don't go out?"
Mingmei: Isn't it a holiday to just lie in bed freely?
Unable to resist Lu Xiaoyao's persistent pestering, Mingmei had no choice but to beg for mercy and go out with her. However, as they were leaving, Mingmei asked one more question: "What are you going to buy? You're not going to buy clothes, are you?"
If it's about buying clothes, Mingmei thinks she could try to persuade her, since she usually wears school uniforms when she's in school. If she really wants to buy something, she should wait until a long holiday.
"No, my grandpa asked me to buy them as gifts for the older brothers next door so I can visit them when I go back," Lu Xiaoyao said. "Last night, he suddenly sent me a message saying that it would be a shame not to send something to my childhood sweethearts, and that I could just send it back directly."
"Childhood sweetheart...you're going on a blind date?"
Although she didn't seem to be gossiping at all, Lu Xiaoyao could still tell something from Mingmei's tone.
"No way!" Lu Xiaoyao denied it outright. "Who wants to go on a blind date with a little kid?"
"Oh, so you're into older men..."
Lu Xiaoyao: "..."
Lu Xiaoyao then realized that Mingmei wouldn't know about these things, and it wouldn't be easy to explain in a short time. So she pulled Mingmei along and said, "Come on, let's go to the children's educational toy section to buy some things!"
【Ghost? Is this how you use "childhood sweetheart"?】 Mingmei stood aside, watching Lu Xiaoyao carefully selecting items in the "3-5 year old children's zone" sign, and was a little confused for a moment.
【My understanding is probably not.】 Even Guigui was a little unsure how to answer. Its database didn't say that a girl around 20 years old and a four or five-year-old kid growing up together could be called childhood sweethearts, right?
[Could it be that the childhood sweetheart she was talking about is the father of her child?] Mingmei wondered suspiciously, but then she thought about it again and it still didn't make sense. [Isn't the legal marriage age in the interstellar world thirty? You can only get married and have children after thirty, so... the father of the child and Lu Xiaoyao can't really be considered childhood sweethearts, can they?]
Unable to find the phrase "childhood sweethearts" to match her gaze, Mingmei, somewhat annoyed, shifted her attention to the outside of the shop, only to be drawn to Mu Chen, who appeared there.
"Why is he here?"
Who is it?
Having chosen her gift, Lu Xiaoyao had already asked the store's AI to pack it up and send it away. When she turned around, she saw Mingmei talking to herself outside the door.
Startled by Lu Xiaoyao's sudden appearance, Mingmei shook her head and looked away, saying, "It's nothing, I just saw some students from our school here."
"Hey~ What's the big deal? This is the biggest shopping mall near our school. It's not surprising that there are students from our school here during holidays."
After Lu Xiaoyao finished speaking, Mingmei nodded in agreement. She wasn't about to go up and ask Mu Chen questions or follow him just because she saw him there.
"Come on, there's a super delicious dessert shop here, I'll take you there~" Lu Xiaoyao's eyes lit up at the mention of food. "The shop isn't big, and it's not famous, but every single dessert they make is absolutely delicious!"
"You know so much about this?"
Mingmei followed Lu Xiaoyao, listening to her exaggerated claims, "Is it really that delicious?"
"Yes, my boss recommended this shop to me. It used to be near our company, and I used to order cakes from them every day when I was doing live streams."
Later, when I came back to school, I was quite sad about this for a while, but then I heard that the store had moved! Wow! You have no idea how happy I was when I saw the address!
Seeing Lu Xiaoyao dancing around so excitedly, Mingmei quietly said, "So you actually came out just to have some snacks, and buying gifts was just a side trip, right?"
Lu Xiaoyao: ……
Don't expose me~
...
Although Ting Lu Xiaoyao had mentioned that the "Pinzhen" dessert shop's decor was designed in the style of ancient Chinese planet Lanxing, she couldn't help but admire the shop's decor after entering and seeing the holographic special effects.
As I looked up, the dawn broke, and wisps of smoke drifted across the sky. The light was so bright that for a moment I wanted to raise my hand to shield my eyes from the slightly dazzling light, as if I hadn't been there with my sister on the mountaintop the morning before we crossed over.
She turned her head down, and the lush green grass beneath her feet and the babbling brook in her ears drew her gaze to the clear water, the stone bridge, and the endless peach blossom groves on both banks. The beauty of it all left Mingmei speechless.
[At the foot of Bu Tianmen Mountain stand a thousand thousand-year-old peach trees, their blossoms blooming year-round, a truly beautiful sight. However, they are also part of Bu Tianmen's mountain-guarding formation. Once activated, these beautiful peach blossoms can instantly become deadly weapons...]
Mingmei rubbed her temples; the somewhat familiar yet unfamiliar voice in her ear gave her a headache.
"Come on, this place is deep in the peach grove, it's just a few steps away~" Lu Xiaoyao's voice pulled Mingmei back to reality. After taking a few steps into the depths of the peach grove, Mingmei was stunned.
Whether it was fate or something else, even though the dessert shop called "Pinzhen" that Lu Xiaoyao mentioned was so remote and had so few people, Mu Chen and the two of them were actually in the shop at this moment.
Mingmei: ...
Mu Chen: ...
Lu Xiaoyao: ? ? ?
"Hey? Boss, what a coincidence!" Oblivious to the subtle tension between Mingmei and Muchen, Lu Xiaoyao greeted them familiarly, "Are you here for dessert too?"
"...Yes." Mu Chen nodded hesitantly, then quickly glanced at Mingmei and asked, "Are you here for pastries too?"
"Mmm!" Lu Xiaoyao nodded quickly. "Boss, wanna share a table?"
Normally, Mu Chen would have been overjoyed by this, but now...
"No need, I'm waiting for someone. Um... there are private rooms inside, the environment is quiet and elegant, you can go sit over there."
The implication in Mu Chen's words that he wanted to get rid of the person was obvious.
Mingmei glanced at the other person again and saw that although the other person still had a gentle smile on their face, their lips were slightly pursed into a straight line, as if they looked a little nervous.
What is he worried about?
Mingmei was pondering when she saw Mu Chen's expression change. Then, she heard a voice from the doorway that Mingmei recognized very well—"I'm going to see which wild boar dares to steal my cabbage today. Don't think you can bribe me with a few snacks at 'Pinzhen'!"
As they were talking, a very youthful-looking blond boy strode into the store with an aggressive air. When he looked up inside, before Liu Liu could even scream, Mingmei and Lu Xiaoyao were also dumbfounded.
"Godfather (boss)?!"
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