Chapter 276: Cafeteria Confrontation, It’s Great to Have You Around
Zhang Wanwan stood up suddenly and stared at her without blinking.
Leng Ziyue smiled and said to everyone: "My name is Leng Ziyue, and I am Wanwan's fiancé. Please take care of me."
"Hiss!" There were gasps coming one after another in the cafeteria.
Everyone looked at Zhang Wanwan and then at Leng Ziyue in astonishment. Both men and women looked regretful. The women were better, as they were all older than Leng Ziyue and were at most jealous and envious. But it was different for the men. The ratio of men to women in the research institute was seriously unbalanced, and cute girls like Zhang Wanwan were even rarer. Many people had their eyes on her, but now the duck that was in their mouths had flown away. They really couldn't accept it for the time being.
Su Enyang looked at Leng Ziyue warily and asked Zhang Wanwan, "Junior sister, is he really your fiancé?"
Zhang Wanwan came back to her senses, nodded hesitantly, and her face turned slightly red.
Su Enyang was in despair and lay on the table wailing.
Ding Wei came over with some juice, patted his shoulder heavily, and said earnestly: "What doesn't belong to you will never be yours. I think that little Huajuan from the Chinese Academy of Sciences is pretty good. She's a perfect match for you."
Su Enyang wanted to hit someone after hearing this. He suddenly looked up and glared at Ding Wei fiercely.
Ding Wei, however, looked like a dead pig that was not afraid of boiling water. She made a face and ran away.
Zhang Wanwan pulled Leng Ziyue to sit next to her, looked at him excitedly, squinted her eyes and smiled, "What do you want to eat? I'll get it for you."
A light flashed across Jian Rongkun's glasses, and he muttered, "Why didn't the junior sister think of serving food to the seniors?"
"That's right!" Hu Qiang came over, put his arm around Jian Rongkun's shoulders and joined in the cheering.
Zhang Wanwan blushed and quickly stood up, "I'll go get you something to eat."
As soon as Zhang Wanwan left, the faces of Jian Rongkun and others suddenly became serious. The men led by Jian Rongkun looked at Leng Ziyue with scrutiny.
"The eldest young master of the Leng family! I didn't expect you to come to our place. It seems that I still underestimated you. Since you are here, we welcome you, but if you dare to hurt Wanwan, we will not agree!" Jian Rongkun said seriously.
Hu Qiang nodded in agreement, "Junior sister is so cute and soft. If you dare to hurt her, I will be the first one who will not let you go!"
Leng Ziyue's mind raced, assessing the threat posed by the people in front of him, and came to the conclusion that the threat was zero. He immediately replied with a smile, "Don't worry about that. I have long since chosen Wan Wan, and she is my only partner. As for the Leng family, you don't have to worry about it. I will take care of it."
Jian Rongkun frowned slightly at his confident look and asked, "You..."
After talking for a long time, he still didn't ask the question in his heart. Just then, Zhang Wanwan came over with a tray, and the group of people started laughing and arguing again.
"I made you two bowls of dumplings, which are still hot, as well as a bowl of beef noodles and a plate of roast duck. I don't know if the uncle in the cafeteria cooks them authentically." Zhang Wanwan said as she put the food on the table.
Hu Qiang laughed loudly, "Xiaoxuemei, don't be fooled by the uncle in the cafeteria who looks unkempt. He is a national-level chef who was poached here just to take care of our stomachs!"
Zhang Wanwan was dumbfounded when she heard this. "That's not right! If he's so powerful, why does he feed us soy milk, steamed buns and fried dough sticks every day? They're not necessarily much better than what we eat outside. Besides, the lady in the cafeteria always gives me so much rice that it makes my stomach bloated!"
She felt depressed when talking about this. She used to be a typical little girl with a good figure and a good appetite. Now she has a skeleton but eats as much as a strong man. She dare not eat too much when going out, for fear of being regarded as a monster.
As she was thinking, Zhang Wanwan couldn't help but glance at the cafeteria uncle who was watching the Spring Festival Gala intently not far away and picking his nose from time to time with a resentful look, and she became more depressed.
Leng Ziyue wrapped a roast duck for her and put it in her bowl.
Only then did Zhang Wanwan look away.
She smiled at Leng Ziyue with satisfaction. She thought this year would be the loneliest Spring Festival in her life, but unexpectedly, God gave her such a big surprise. Leng Ziyue is back! It was really a blessing from heaven.
The ripples caused by Leng Ziyue soon disappeared in the laughter of the crowd. Zhang Wanwan talked to him in a low voice while eating.
"When did you come back? Not everyone can come in to Professor Chen's place. Tell me honestly how you got here?" Zhang Wanwan asked proudly.
Leng Ziyue smiled dotingly, fed her another mouthful of roast duck, and then said, "My mentor in Country M is a Chinese professor of M nationality, who is also quite famous. I told him a long time ago that I wanted to return to China for development, and he also agreed. If he hadn't had some unspeakable secrets, he would have wanted to come back. It was very gratifying to him that I wanted to come back, so naturally he tried his best to facilitate it. It happened that he knew an old professor in Professor Chen's institute, and the old professor recommended me to Professor Chen.
I didn’t receive a reply until after Christmas, and by then you were already here, so I couldn’t share the good news with you, so I just thought of it as a surprise for you.”
Zhang Wanwan was finally satisfied, and her whole body was filled with pink bubbles.
Ding Wei, who was standing by, advised before leaving: "I was planning to have a big meal tonight, but now I've been fed with all the dog food, so I'm leaving first!"
Zhang Wanwan smiled awkwardly and said goodbye to them.
After midnight, there were fewer and fewer people in the cafeteria.
Zhang Wanwan said to Leng Ziyue, "Let's go too. Has Professor Chen arranged a dormitory for you?"
Leng Ziyue joked, "All dormitories are double rooms now. I heard that my fiancée sleeps in a room by herself. I wonder if we can squeeze in together?"
Zhang Wanwan became an instant hit, and she just cursed him as a hooligan and left.
When she left, she did not forget to take Leng Ziyue's bag.
When Zhang Wanwan saw Leng Ziyue’s bag, she thought of the scene when she first arrived at the research institute. It was really miserable and pitiful, and it was freezing cold now.
Zhang Wanwan had forgotten that she was still angry with Leng Ziyue, and turned around and asked, "I'll take you to ask the dormitory manager for quilts and other things. Don't forget the camouflage coat. We only wear white coats in the laboratory. When we go out, we wear camouflage clothes. And..."
Zhang Wanwan talked a lot, and their shadows were stretched out long by the street lights outside the cafeteria.
With Zhang Wanwan's help, Leng Ziyue's things were quickly prepared. There was a shortage of people here but not dormitories, so Leng Ziyue naturally lived alone in a room. Zhang Wanwan helped him make the bed and put his things in order before she breathed a sigh of relief. "Okay, you can go to bed now. Go to bed early tonight. You will have exercises at six o'clock tomorrow, eat at seven, and then work. I'm used to it here, and you'll probably need to adapt slowly since you just arrived."
As soon as she turned around, she bumped into Leng Ziyue's chest. Before she could react, Leng Ziyue hugged her and said affectionately: "It's great to have you around!"
(End of this chapter)
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