Chapter 126: She remembered everything】

"No need."

Ye Qingyue shook her head.

Huo Qingchi was from Beijing after all. If he wanted to investigate the people in Yunsheng County, she didn't know how many connections he would have to rely on.

She didn't want to trouble Huo Qingchi too much. Although they were friends, if one party owed the other too much, it would only hurt their relationship.

Ye Qingyue hoped that their relationship could last longer, so she didn't want to always rely on Huo Qingchi's help.

"I'm not completely powerless to protect myself now."

Ye Qingyue is no longer the weak and helpless country girl when she was just reborn.

After helping Lu Ai Dang and others to deal with the enemy spies last time, Lu Ai Dang specially greeted the hospital, and the dean and Director Wang took better care of her.

When Zhong Jun came that time and went to have dinner with the leaders, he also brought her with him, making her familiar to the leaders.

In the future, when she has problems, she can ask the other party for help, and she will not be rejected at the beginning.

As long as she can seize a glimmer of opportunity, Ye Qingyue will be confident that she can open up the situation.

Even if she takes a step back, she still has a system.

It is easy to kill some flies, it just depends on whether she wants to do it.

"...I know."

Seeing that Ye Qingyue insisted and did not seem to be reluctant, Huo Qingchi nodded.

"Thank you for what I said just now."

Ye Qingyue smiled. Although she could solve the problem, Huo Qingchi, as a "passerby", spoke for her, guided the crowd, and solved the public opinion trouble.

More importantly...

when she was helpless, Huo Qingchi stretched out his hand to her and stood in front of her.

Looking at Huo Qingchi's back, Ye Qingyue felt inexplicably relieved.

It was as if someone was supporting her waist.

This was a very fresh feeling for Ye Qingyue, who had been facing bad things alone for a long time.

"It's just a piece of cake."

Huo Qingchi did not take credit.

The two chatted while the boss brought the dishes.

According to their request, each dish was divided into two plates.

There were exactly two tables in the private room.

The two put the dishes on the table and sat back to back.

If an outsider saw it, they would think it was a very strange scene.

But the atmosphere between Ye Qingyue and Huo Qingchi was very harmonious, and there was no embarrassment at all.

Putting the dishes she liked in the bowl one by one, Ye Qingyue ate them in a big mouthful.

Sure enough, this is what it means to enjoy.

She narrowed her eyes slightly, and was healed by the food, and her previous bad mood was swept away.

If she had to say something bad, she would feel a little sorry for Huo Qingchi.

I clearly invited him to dinner, but he ended up eating like this.

However...

Ye Qingyue's hand that was picking up the food paused, thinking of what Huo Qingchi said to her at noon.

After listening to it, she only remembered one sentence -

"Comrade Ye is really cute when he eats!"

Huo Qingchi's serious voice, with a scorching temperature when she recalled it in her mind, Ye Qingyue only felt her face burned.

So Huo Qingchi would say such words to please girls?

In Ye Qingyue's impression, Huo Qingchi in his middle age was a serious man.

So serious that it seemed that all romantic issues had nothing to do with this man.

He had never seen any intimate opposite sex around him, nor had he ever mentioned emotional problems.

When the two of them were chatting, Huo Qingchi never deliberately told some dirty jokes like other men to test her bottom line.

Ye Qingyue even wondered whether Huo Qingchi's sexual orientation would be different from that of most men.

She even specifically talked to Huo Qingchi about gay people abroad, saying that no matter what their sexual orientation was, it was the same.

Huo Qingchi saw through her implication and denied it on the spot, saying that he didn't like men.

This made Ye Qingyue blush.

Since then, Ye Qingyue has never talked about love topics with Huo Qingchi.

Being praised as "cute" by Huo Qingchi like this is an unprecedented experience.

Just thinking about it makes me feel embarrassed.

In this era, let alone friends, even between partners, it is not so direct to talk, right?

"Comrade Ye!"

Suddenly, Huo Qingchi's somewhat surprised voice sounded from behind.

"What's wrong?" Ye Qingyue was startled.

She had been thinking about Huo Qingchi just now, and had forgotten that the protagonist was right behind her.

When she heard Huo Qingchi's voice at this moment, she inexplicably felt a little guilty.

Ye Qingyue turned her head and saw Huo Qingchi pointing at his bowl and said, "I just learned the way you eat. I put a little bit of my favorite dishes in the bowl and ate it in one bite..."

He had an expression as if he had discovered a new continent, "It's so delicious!"

Ye Qingyue was stunned.

"I didn't know there was such a way to eat before."

Huo Qingchi used to eat with a chopstick of food and a mouthful of rice.

This was the first time he had the experience of mixing multiple dishes together.

"I originally thought that mixing sweet and spicy dishes together would taste weird. But maybe because these are all my favorite foods, I didn't think it was weird when we ate them together."

Huo Qingchi couldn't help laughing when he said this. "On the contrary, I felt like I could eat all my favorite foods at once... My greed was satisfied and I felt happy."

"Comrade Ye, thank you."

Huo Qingchi smiled and said, "You taught me a new way to eat... Comrade Ye?"

He was halfway through his words when he saw Ye Qingyue's eyes were slightly red. He couldn't help but get scared, "What's wrong with you?"

Did he say something wrong?

"Comrade Huo."

Ye Qingyue looked at Huo Qingchi and said softly, "I seem to... remember why I was afraid to eat in front of others."

Because she was disliked.

When she was a child, she always looked forward to the Chinese New Year.

Because during the Chinese New Year, the Ye family's dining table was not like usual, with only one or two monotonous dishes, but was filled with all kinds of delicious food.

At that time, she would hold the bowl, pick up all the dishes she liked, put them in the bowl, and eat them in a big mouthful.

The happiness of a child is to eat a lot of food that he likes.

After that big mouthful, Ye Qingyue felt that she was the happiest person in the world!

But the harsh voice of old man Ye rang in her ears -

"Look at the way she eats, she wants everything! How greedy! She will probably be a restless person when she grows up..."

Ye Qingyue, who was only a few years old, did not understand what her grandfather said, but she vaguely understood that it was not a good thing.

After growing up, Ye Qingyue helped Xu Wenshu cook for the sake of studying.

She would also save her own rations and give them to Xu Wenshu.

After all, what Xu Wenshu taught was indeed better than what the teachers at school could teach.

Ye Qingyue knew that she was penniless, so she wanted to give back as much as possible and did not want to owe anyone a favor.

However, Ye Qingyue's body could not bear the long-term hunger.

Once she was very hungry, and Xu Wenshu wanted to have dinner with her as usual, so Ye Qingyue agreed.

There were three side dishes on the table, which were exactly what she liked.

Ye Qingyue picked up a little bit of each side dish, put it on the vegetable dumplings, and took a bite.

She was so hungry that she was finally satisfied.

At this moment, she heard a slightly mocking laugh. She

looked up and saw Xu Wenshu looking at her with subtle eyes, "Why do you eat like this? It's not a good dish, but you put everything on it... Qingyue, don't eat like this in front of outsiders. It looks so poor and embarrassing! Only a man with a broad mind like me will not despise you..."

When she heard "very embarrassing", Ye Qingyue's ears were buzzing, and she didn't hear what Xu Wenshu said next.

So, the way she eats is embarrassing?

After leaving the small Xiangyang Village, Ye Qingyue went to Beijing to study.

She heard that the food in the cafeteria was cheap and the portions were large, so she was looking forward to it since the first day of school.

After class, she arrived at the cafeteria earlier than other classmates and got her food.

As she was eating, she heard an impatient male voice next to her -

"Is this pig food? It's so disgusting! I should have gone to a state-owned hotel earlier!"

Ye Qingyue was stunned. Disgusting? She thought it was delicious.

There were vegetables and meat, which was many times better than what she had eaten in the countryside.

"Hey, don't say that."

Then, she heard another person admonishing, "Others are eating happily..."

"You mean that woman? I just saw her eating so happily, so I ordered the same dish as her. Who knew it was so bad..."

Hearing this, Ye Qingyue turned her head subconsciously and saw a thin-skinned and tender-fleshed male classmate from an obviously well-off family pushing away the plate in front of him with an unhappy look on his face.

The dishes on that plate were exactly the same as hers.

"She picked up every dish and ate so much in one bite, I thought it was delicious..." The male classmate muttered.

The companion next to him advised: "With the way she eats, you can imagine that she is a country bumpkin who has never eaten good food..."

Country bumpkin.

Never eaten good food.

Ye Qingyue's hand holding the chopsticks was shaking a little.

She just cherished the food and ate well.

In the eyes of these people, her big mouthfuls of food were so unbearable.

That day, Ye Qingyue forced herself to finish the last bit of food on the plate.

But she couldn't swallow it down, as if there was something stuck in her throat.

After returning to the dormitory, she vomited it all.

That was her first "outburst".

From then on, Ye Qingyue brought her own bowl to get food and ate in a place where no one was.

Slowly, she forgot the reason why she ate alone.

Just studying, earning merit points, and making money left her no time to think about these unpleasant things.

Until one day, her mentor brought them, the students, to complete a good project and invited the entire team to have a meal together.

Ye Qingyue ate with outsiders for the first time in a long time.

She habitually picked up some of her favorite dishes and ate them all at once.

"Qingyue, do you usually eat like this?"

The classmate next to her said casually, probably because it was the first time she saw this way of eating.

Just this one sentence made Ye Qingyue's body stiffen.

At this moment, many images and sounds flashed through her mind.

The clearest was the laughter.

She didn't say anything, but slowly chewed the food in her mouth.

As she chewed, she found that... she

couldn't swallow it.

Even if she chewed the food into pieces, she couldn't swallow it.

It was as if something was stuck in her throat.

"Qingyue, don't just eat rice, pick up some food!" The

tutor who took care of her saw that she didn't pick up any food for a long time and thought she was being reserved.

Ye Qingyue forced a smile and raised her chopsticks to pick up the potato chips closest to her.

But -

"Pah."

The potato chips fell onto the table again.

Ye Qingyue wanted to pick them up and put them into the bowl, but they fell again.

"Qingyue, what's wrong with you?"

the classmate next to her asked in confusion.

Ye Qingyue didn't answer, she just wanted to pick up the potato slice and put it into the bowl.

Food should not be wasted .

Born in a peasant family, Ye Qingyue was taught this way since she was a child.

She started working in the fields at a young age, and she also knew the weight of the saying "every grain of rice is hard-earned", so when she usually eats, she will pick up even a grain of rice in the bowl and eat it, never wasting it.

She tried again and again to pick up the potato slice.

But in the end, she couldn't control her hand shaking.

The potato slice and chopsticks fell to the ground together.

"Qingyue, what's wrong with you?"

More classmates noticed something was wrong, "Are you feeling unwell? Do you want to go to the hospital for a check-up?"

Ye Qingyue was stared at by so many eyes, and she hadn't swallowed the food in her mouth yet.

Looking at the broken potato chips and dirty chopsticks on the ground, Ye Qingyue suddenly felt like running away.

She really ran away.

Afterwards, perhaps out of sympathy for her, the classmates and tutors who had dinner with her at that time tacitly did not mention what happened that night. But

Ye Qingyue knew that some things could not be changed even if they were not mentioned.

For example, she could no longer eat in front of others.