Chapter 35 I've gained weight, I've gotten older...
Heng Xing thought for a moment and replied, "I don't like it, but I don't dislike it either."
Yu Nianqing added another bottle of strawberry jam to the shopping cart. "If Captain Heng had the chance to change his pheromones, would he choose to use a different one?"
Heng Xing leaned her entire weight on the shopping cart and said without thinking, "I'm used to it, so be it."
Five-year-olds can't remember too many things.
When Hengxing recalled her mother, she only had a few fragmented memories in her mind; a few short fragments formed the image of her mother in her mind.
Aside from the blood-red remnants of the harbor at night and the sad memories of being beaten for being a naughty child, all she could recall was the woman holding her as she swayed back and forth on the swing in the courtyard.
She joked with a grin, "If your pheromones smell like roses, everyone will laugh at you. No O mega will want to marry you anymore."
The child in my arms, crunching away at a cookie: ...
The woman was extremely upset, saying, "Luckily it doesn't taste like cookies, otherwise it would have been even more troublesome."
The incident ended with the child crying and running to his father, while the woman who had done wrong was scolded by her husband for an entire night.
After their mother passed away, the father and daughter sold the house with the swing and used the money from the sale and the compensation to buy a smaller but safer new house.
There is no swing in the new house.
Hengxing knew that she wasn't born disliking the smell of roses; it was just that the smell of roses evoked memories she didn't want to recall.
After Yu Nianqing finished picking out the jams he needed, he went to buy other ingredients. Heng Xing pushed the cart and they went back and forth between the shelves.
He seemed to know a lot about all kinds of ingredients, and could always accurately find what he wanted among the wide variety of products on the shelves, no matter how enthusiastically the shopping robot next to him tried to sell it.
She couldn't understand these things and couldn't have a heated and academic discussion with him, so she simply followed quietly behind him, waiting for him to turn around and ask for her opinion before speaking up.
"Captain Heng..."
"Um?"
"Pistachios or cashews, which do you prefer?"
I like them both.
"Mango or kiwi, which do you prefer?"
I like them both.
"Which do you prefer, mint sauce or rose sauce?"
"You're so childish."
Yu Nianqing, having succeeded in her mischievous scheme, covered her scarf and laughed out loud.
"boring."
Hengxing leaned against the shopping cart railing, looking at him helplessly.
After buying the baking materials Yu Nianqing needed, she went to buy the tools and ingredients for barbecuing.
Looking at the boxed beef, lamb, and various other meats in the refrigerator, Heng Xing suddenly asked, "Mr. Yu, have you heard of them?"
Yu Nianqing: "?"
Hengxing: "Insect meat and lobster meat taste very similar."
Yu Nianqing thought of the two tentacles that had emerged from the soil, and her stomach churned. "...I admit we're even. Don't talk about this kind of thing again."
Heng Xing happily placed several large boxes of meat into the shopping cart.
Returning to the port in the spaceship, Hengxing stepped back into the airship, enveloped in a long-lost warmth. He took off his hat and scarf, holding them in his hands, unsure whether to return them to him.
Yu Nianqing was about to go to the kitchen to put the newly bought ingredients away when she said, "Captain Heng, you can keep the scarf and hat; you'll need them later."
"Oh." Hengxing put them into the space button.
Yu Nianqing then said, "Captain Heng, I think I'm almost fully recovered. Let's set sail now. It's more important for you to see Professor Wen."
Hengxing: "It's okay, we'll leave after you're fully recovered, no rush."
But he still insisted on leaving.
Oh well.
That night, the spaceship left the port and headed towards the planet Yula.
This voyage was not as boring as the previous ones.
On the night the spaceship took off, Yu Nianqing started baking cookies. After receiving praise from Heng Xing, she made different kinds of snacks every two days.
The spaceship smelled sweet like butter, even with the exhaust system running all day.
Yu Nianqing wanted to turn the exhaust device knob to the top, but Heng Xing stopped her.
"It's great as it is now. I feel good every morning when I wake up," she said.
It felt like coming home.
Occasionally, she would dream that she was awakened by sunlight, with a large bookcase full of books next to her bed, and the air filled with the same sweet fragrance.
Actually, the pheromones taste like cookies.
It's not that it's unacceptable.
It smells quite good.
Hengxing stopped wandering around the spaceship when he couldn't sleep at night.
She set up a barbecue grill in the corner of the kitchen, opened barbecue tutorial videos on the StarNet, and embarked on the path of barbecue research.
It has to be said that she has a high level of comprehension; in just a few days, she perfectly replicated the taste of the barbecue restaurant.
A few days later, in the morning, Yu Nianqing finished washing up and opened the door with a refreshing minty smell on her breath.
Approaching her was Chef Heng, who reeked of charcoal. She excitedly held out a plate and asked him to try it.
Yu Nianqing symbolically ate a skewer of beef.
He's not particularly interested in barbecue, and eating too many skewers would affect his figure.
Yu Nianqing has always strictly controlled her diet to keep it light, and she practices yoga before taking a shower at night to ensure that her slim waist and perky buttocks are welded to her body.
The morning after Hai Qinxing ate barbecue, he noticed he had a slight bad breath, so he wore a scarf all day to block out his breathing.
Hengxing watched in bewilderment as he laboriously pulled the mattress to the corner, leaving enough space between them to fit three mattresses.
Yu Nianqing: "I'm not feeling well today, and I'm afraid it might affect you."
Hengxing: "Oh, do you need to take your medicine?"
Yu Nianqing: "It's okay, it'll be fine tomorrow. I don't think it's really suitable to eat barbecue."
Heng Xing: "Mysterious ancient Eastern medicine says that eating barbecue can easily cause internal heat, so you should eat less of it in the future."
Yu Nianqing: "I think so too."
great.
The same applies to baking. Those cookies and breads are fattening products, so he only tries a little bit to make sure the taste is right.
This is a bit like putting in a lot of effort for nothing; you waste a lot of time but don't even eat it yourself.
But he believes that Captain Heng's preference is the most important thing.
Barbecue and cookies are indeed fattening foods, a fact Hengxing only realized a week later.
When she was showering and applying shower gel, she suddenly noticed that the deep abdominal muscles on her waist didn't feel as firm as before. Looking down, she found that the lines had indeed faded.
Horror stories,
She has gained weight.
This was something that had never bothered her.
Hengxing felt firsthand that she was no longer an 18-year-old girl, and her metabolism had slowed down considerably.
Muscles are an Alpha's pride, and she will not allow her pride to be affected.
She had watched helplessly as her colleague from the auto repair shop got married, and his eight-pack abs went from six to four, then to one, and finally turned into a beer belly.
Moreover, this process took less than a year.
This was her number one nightmare of the year during high school.
She dreamt that she also had a beer belly, and a baby whose face she couldn't see was sitting on her belly bouncing around. She was so scared that she struggled to wake up on the spot.
While young people enjoy their youth and vitality, they also fear growing older and becoming like some of their elders.
Hengxing started to control her diet and stopped barbecuing, but Yu Nianqing still baked small cookies for her every two days.
She didn't want to disappoint him, so she always finished the cookies.
One afternoon, Yu Nianqing saw her sitting at the table with a deep look on her face and felt strange. She asked her, "Captain Heng, what's wrong?"
Heng Xing: "Mr. Yu, do you think I've gained weight?"
Yu Nianqing: "No, how could that be? But actually I think Captain Heng is still cute even if he gets fat."
He was serious; he wasn't just being polite.
But Hengxing doesn't think so.
How could a beer belly be associated with cuteness?
Besides, why should Alphas be cute?
She needs strength.
Hengxing started going to the gym to work out when he couldn't sleep at night, vowing to get back his lost muscles.
Time flies, and when Yu Nianqing noticed that Heng Xing's arms had gotten thicker, they had just arrived at Yula Star.
*
Evening Frost Star.
"Are you sure you've communicated the inspection route arrangements?" the driver asked.
"Don't worry, I told you yesterday." Si Yun casually sat on the stool, swinging his legs. "By the way, Father, why does it have to be done in this order?"
The driver and passengers felt a headache just looking at her movements. "Watch your posture!"
"Don't worry, everyone on my starship this time is a stranger, a researcher. Nobody will be able to tell." She continued swinging her legs nonchalantly. "Trust me, once we're on board, I'll make sure you sit properly."
The driver rubbed his eyes but didn't say anything.
Si Yun: "Father, you haven't answered my question yet."
The driver said coldly, "This is not something you should be concerned with."
He glanced down at the time on his terminal. "You should go."
Si Yun stood up and walked out of the study. "Okay, I understand."
Mrs. Si had been waiting outside the study for quite some time. When she saw her come out, she reached out to help her straighten her clothes, as if she were still a child who couldn't even dress herself.
"Siyun, you're not a child anymore." Sicheng looked at her daughter, her eyes filled with emotions she had never seen before and couldn't understand. "When you encounter difficulties, don't think about running away anymore."
Si Yun looked back at him and realized for the first time that her father had grown old.
She gave a soft "hmm" and walked outside.
Mrs. Si hurriedly followed her, muttering her worries about her daughter's daily life.
"That's enough, Mom, stop talking, I'm leaving."
Si Yun walked into the starship that was already parked outside the room.
The lieutenant stood by the hatch, head bowed, awaiting her instructions.
This deputy general was a new one after she returned; she didn't know or care where the previous one went.
"Start the starship and head to the research institute."
After giving the instructions, Si Yun walked towards the driver's seat.
"yes!"
The deputy general responded.
The starship started up, ascended, and passed through the port of Late Frost Star on its way to the research institute located on Central Star.
A dozen or so combat mechs followed behind the starship.
Several hours later, the starship arrived at the central star port, and the research team, which had been waiting at the port with its equipment, boarded the starship.
"Marshal, we need to change our flight route." The research team leader pushed up his glasses.
"Whose order is this?"
Si Yun hates it when people don't listen to her.
"This is His Majesty the Emperor's order."
Her attitude surprised the researchers.
I never imagined Marshal Si had such a bad temper in private.
Looking at the electronic seal on the imperial edict, which could not be forged, Si Yun remembered his father's instructions to avoid trouble and nodded in agreement.
The new inspection route was issued to the starship's pilots.
She adjusted her route while muttering to herself.
"This new route is the exact opposite of the last one."
Author's note: Abs are an Alpha's second face (just kidding).
Thank you to all the little angels who voted for me or watered my plants with nutrient solution between 2023-01-22 23:51:56 and 2023-01-23 23:28:40!
Thank you to the little angel who threw the landmine: I await your return as we once did;
Thank you to the little angels who watered the nutrient solution: rain (2 bottles); lala (1 bottle);
Thank you so much for your support! I will continue to work hard!
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