Chapter 161 Irene's Amazing Cooking Skills
After hearing Yu Sheng's reply, Little Red Riding Hood said nothing. She just sat quietly on the grass, as if she was thinking about something, or as if she was just in a daze.
After a long while, Yu Sheng heard her muttering quietly, "This place is so quiet, there are no squirrels or wolves."
"Why do I feel so unlucky when you say that, as if five hundred swordsmen will jump out of the bushes nearby in the next second," Yu Sheng looked around awkwardly, and his eyes fell on the girl again, "Um... are you okay? You look tired?"
"Nonsense, I'm a senior in high school," Little Red Riding Hood rolled her eyes, "and I fell asleep in chemistry class."
Yu Sheng didn't expect such a practical answer. He was a little stunned for a moment. The girl in front of him didn't wait for his response, but smiled and shook her head: "At first I didn't want to go to school, especially after I went through the "awakening" stage and knew what would happen in the future... I had a big fight with my previous "parents", and you heard the content of the fight... Isn't it a bit stupid?"
Yu Sheng didn't say anything.
Little Red Riding Hood didn't care whether Yu Sheng answered her or not.
"Now, I occasionally quarrel with those half-grown children in a similar way," she said to herself. "They can never understand why the orphanage wants them to go to school and study step by step. Those with better conditions are arranged to go to ordinary schools, and those with worse conditions have to follow teachers in the compound. For almost everyone, what they learn will never come in handy. They will never graduate, will not have the opportunity to work, and will not have the opportunity to become a designer, a technician, a driver...
“They’re right, it’s a real waste of time – if you consider that the average child only has a dozen years of life so far.
"But the 'parent' who took care of me told me that people should have hope when they are alive - if the world doesn't give us hope, then that's the problem with the world. Whether we hold hope or not is our own business.
"In this world, there are very few things we can control. Too many things will not develop as you expect, so in the end, your 'mindset' becomes the only thing that belongs to you... Although, it is often not so easy to control.
"She also said that it's hard for us to live a complete life, but we can find ways to make the days before adulthood complete... She also told me not to smoke, drink, or do bad things, and asked me to learn something and understand how big the world is. She said it's very, very easy for people to become bad, and giving up on themselves is the easiest thing, so we should do something challenging, such as being a good student..."
Little Red Riding Hood talked to herself, said a lot, then she took a long breath, lay on her back on the gray yet soft grass, looking at the equally gray sky above.
"In fact, it's not a profound truth. She can't say anything profound. After all, when she left, she was only 18 years old - she didn't even have time to get a driver's license."
Yu Sheng turned his head and looked at the girl lying on the grass: "But she taught you very well."
"It's not that good. I still didn't listen to a lot of things she said, like not to fight with others. She also had some points that I still don't agree with - but what can I do? Anyway, I can't refute her now."
"Too."
The two of them fell silent again.
Little Red Riding Hood stared at the gray sky for a long time. After an unknown amount of time, she suddenly broke the silence: "This place is so quiet..."
"You just sighed once."
"No, what I mean is - your dream is so boring. Is there only grass here?" Little Red Riding Hood turned over and sat up. "Dreams, at least shouldn't be... bizarre and complicated? Why is this place like... the afterlife?"
"Why did you choose this?" Yu Sheng's eyes twitched. "Wouldn't it be nice to have a quiet dream? If you've rested enough here, go back - find a high place and lie down with your back to the ground. You should be able to wake up. Or I'll ask Irene to come and kick you out. The success rate of this is 100%..."
"Forget it, I'd rather be woken up by the teacher's chalk," Little Red Riding Hood waved her hand immediately, "You're right, it's nice to have a quiet dream. If I accidentally fall asleep, I'm worried that I'll run into the Dark Forest again when I open my eyes. I didn't expect to be able to hide here in peace and quiet."
Yu Sheng curled his lips, but at this moment, he vaguely smelled something.
"Do you smell anything?" He frowned in confusion and looked at the girl next to him. "It smells strange, and it's quite pungent."
"No," Little Red Riding Hood sniffed, "it's just the smell of grass - you have rhinitis."
"That's impossible. It smells like something is burnt."
"You must have smelled it wrong. My nose is worse than a dog's..."
Little Red Riding Hood had just said half of her words when she saw Yu Shengteng almost jump up from the ground. He was shocked and said, "No! The kitchen!"
Little Red Riding Hood: “…Ah?”
But Yu Sheng's figure had disappeared.
The next second, Yu Sheng suddenly opened his eyes, and then when he turned over, he felt something empty under his body and fell directly on a pile of furry tails.
The crackling static electricity is the flowers blooming in winter, and the language of the flowers is - the fox fairy at home may really have the spirit of thunder.
Yu Sheng jumped up from the pile of tails with a cry, and then almost fell headfirst on the sharp corner of the coffee table because he stepped on the smooth fur. If he had fallen hard, it would take at least half an hour before he would have the chance to see what was going on in the kitchen, but fortunately, he was not dead. Then he hurriedly ran from the living room to the kitchen door. As soon as he pushed the door open, he smelled a strong smell of burnt food.
In between, there was also Irene's exclamation: "Hey hey hey water water water! It's on fire! I'm on fire... I'm on fire too!"
Yu Sheng rushed forward, picked up Irene, who was standing on the stove with flames on her skirt, and threw her directly into the sink. Then he turned off the fire, put out the fire in the wok with a lid, and opened the window to ventilate the room in one go.
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Hu Li stood in the corner of the kitchen with his neck shrunk, Irene lay in the sink with a dark face, the faucet was running, and the little doll was slowly floating up - Yu Sheng stared at the two funny guys and the smoke dissipating from the stove in amazement, because the action preceded the brain, so the brain had not reacted at this time.
At this time, his cell phone rang twice. He picked it up and saw that it was a text message from Little Red Riding Hood:
"I woke up and was discovered by the teacher. I was woken up by the chalk hitting me. I was furious."
Yu Sheng gave a cheering expression in return, then glanced across the kitchen again and scratched his hair: "Well, can anyone explain to me what's going on?"
A few minutes later, Irene was hung on the balcony by a clothesline with her sleeves passed through her, water dripping from her body. Yu Sheng took a large hair dryer and blew her hair, making the little doll sway.
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Feeling that the air was blowing too slowly, Yu Sheng had to move out the electric heater and place it next to the clothes drying rack.
"Well, you don't have to hang me up, I can bake it myself..." Ailin looked at Yu Sheng's expression and whispered cautiously, "I can even flip it myself."
"I hung you on the pole not to save you energy, but to help you remember."
"Yes, yes..."
Yu Sheng stared at the pitiful doll lady. After a long moment of tension, he finally sighed resignedly and walked forward to help Irene down from the clothesline.
The little doll immediately climbed up to the electric heater next to it with nimble hands and feet, sat cross-legged on it, and wisps of white steam began to come out of its body.
Now Yu Sheng understood why this guy didn’t realize he was too close to the fire even when his clothes were burning.
She's not afraid of being burned! "I'm glad you guys want to help me cook," Yu Sheng said helplessly after holding it in for a long time, "but you almost set the kitchen on fire, which is a bit scary - it shouldn't be like this, Hu Li, isn't it normal for you to help heat up the food?"
"I...I usually use the fox fire to heat up the food," Hu Li stood nearby with his neck shrunk (and his tail tucked in), his ears drooping, "but Irene said she can't get used to it, she knows how to use the gas stove... and then she wants to perform the flipping of the spoon..."
Yu Sheng was stunned for a moment, then turned to look at the doll lady sitting on the electric radiator. The latter was now surrounded by steam and looked like an immortal. "You, flipping the spoon?"
Irene chuckled awkwardly, the black dust on her face still there.
"That frying pan is almost as big as you when it stands upright! Are you flipping the pan?" Yu Sheng's eyebrows stood up, "Who is flipping who between you two?!"
Irene laughed dryly twice, changed her position on the radiator, and continued to emit "smoke".
Yu Sheng shook his head, stood up and walked over to take the little doll down from the heater.
Irene was startled: "Hey, what are you doing——"
Yu Sheng sighed and walked towards the bathroom with the doll in his hand: "Don't roast it anymore. I just remembered that you should take a shower first. The smoke and fire will make it taste good."
Ailin was suspended in the air by her collar. She looked up at Yu Sheng and said, "You're not angry anymore?"
"How can I get over being angry day after day?" Yu Sheng didn't know whether to laugh or cry. "Well, at least I didn't really set the house on fire... I'll go to the kitchen later to see how to solve the problem of lunch."
(End of this chapter)
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