Chapter 82
Who is it?
Jiang Yunu didn't look up when she noticed someone approaching. She was concentrating on gnawing on a piece of roasted lamb chops, using her sharp canine teeth to tear off the strips of meat and the flexible fascia attached to the bones.
At this moment, Jiang Luobo would not allow himself to be distracted.
The sky and the earth are not as big as the grilled lamb chop she tore clean.
So the visitor greeted them in a friendly manner, only to see the white-haired girl across the table continuing to tear and chew the food.
Obviously, due to the height difference between them and the angle of their vision, he couldn't see how the little girl's fangs were perfectly separating the flesh and bone of the lamb chops. But it was very magical. He always felt as if he had broken through the human physiological structure and perspective. He saw the sharp gleaming teeth of the little girl with her head lowered, and also saw how she processed the prey... Oh no, food.
This man was very outgoing and friendly. Even after being "ignored" by Jiang Yunu, he didn't change his expression or walk away. He just looked at Jiang Yunu curiously for a while while he was eating, and then took the initiative to say, "Do you like today's lamb chops very much? Is this enough? If not, I see that there aren't many people at the window over there. I'll go get you another one. It's my treat!"
Hearing the keyword "treat", Jiang Yunu finally raised his head from the lamb chops.
——Then I saw a little golden retriever with a big smile on his face.
Jiang Yunu: "Is it you?"
The little golden retriever grinned: "Yes, it's me - do you want a tissue?"
While still asking, the little golden retriever had already picked up the tissue box beside him, took out two sheets from it, and handed them to Jiang Yunu.
Jiang Yunu took the tissue and watched the other party touch the corner of his mouth with his bare hands.
"Cumin granules." the other party said.
Jiang Yunu used the tissue handed to her by the caring little golden retriever to wipe off the cumin particles on her lips while eating lamb chops. After wiping, she subconsciously licked the edge of her mouth with the tip of her tongue, and the tip of her tongue gave her a smell of cumin mixed with the scented tissue.
"Hey." Jiang Yunu said, "Why are the paper towels in your school cafeteria still scented with flowers?"
The little golden retriever sitting opposite laughed even more happily: "How do you know these are tissues from 'our' school?"
Jiang Yunu looked at the little golden retriever with a look that said, "Are you a little fool?"
The little golden retriever coughed and said, "What I mean is, I just said hello to you for the first time after we met again, and you already know which school I am from?"
As the little golden retriever spoke, he looked around, hinting with his moving eyes and expressions: There are many students from different schools who will come to this restaurant to eat!
Jiang Yunu's words just now clearly showed that he was certain that he was from Songnan.
Jiang Yunu took another sip from his water cup, washing away the strange blend of mutton, cumin, and tissue paper floral aromas on his tongue. He then said, "The competition is already halfway through, and the practicals start next week. I've already met all the students from 'Flea' and 'Roll King,' as well as all the members of your Songnan team competing this round. Since you only showed up today, it's obvious you can't be from the other two schools, let alone my school."
There are only four schools in total. By using the process of elimination, it is clear where the little golden retriever belongs.
Moreover, at Songnan's home stadium, only Songnan's own students were there. They had not been seen in the training venues and dormitory areas during the competition in the past few days, but suddenly appeared in the foreign guest canteen of the participating college today.
"Okay." The little golden retriever said, "I am indeed from Songnan."
He pulled out another clean tissue, brought it under his nose and sniffed it, his nose twitching as he revealed a horrible expression: "This must be the teacher from the logistics department who took it upon himself to think that floral scents are more suitable for entertaining guests, so the public tissues provided to you are all strongly scented - ahem!"
The little golden retriever sneezed because of the smoke from the tissue, and quickly covered his mouth with the tissue. When he rubbed his red nose and looked up, Jiang Yunu was looking at him across the table.
The little golden retriever rubbed his nose and said, "You still remember who I am, right?"
Jiang Yunu felt that if she shook her head, the familiar and outgoing little boy in front of her might wrinkle his nose and start crying at her. She found the scene a bit strange and interesting, but after all, she was not a particularly evil person who liked to see people's facial features twisted, so Jiang Yunu said, "Remember, you are Xue Zhanxing, and you talked to me and my brother at the hospital in Xiate City."
The little golden retriever, Xue Zhanxing, immediately said, "How can that be called 'talking'? I'm just trying to make friends with you two!"
Because he wanted to accuse Jiang Yunu, Xue Zhanxing's voice became an octave higher and the volume was a bit loud, attracting the attention of people at the surrounding tables.
Jiang Yunu: "Hmm."
Xue Zhanxing, an outgoing and friendly person, doesn't care about the opinions of others. He just chased Jiang Yunu and asked, "I'm not your friend?"
Jiang Yunu didn't care about being watched, but she was more meticulous than Xue Zhanxing in defining "friends".
"A friend you've only met once?" she said.
"This isn't just a simple 'only met once'!" Xue Zhanxing argued. "Look—I witnessed your physical exam, witnessed you becoming old enough to go to school with your brother, and even witnessed you causing a device malfunction during the attribute classification test!"
Hearing Xue Zhanxing list the other party's witness experience as the last item, Jiang Yunu made a low-key note in his heart.
Jiang Luobo had a hunch that the other party had ulterior motives, but he remained calm on the surface.
She said, "It sounds like this meeting we had was indeed quite important."
Xue Zhanxing nodded vigorously immediately: "Is that so? This one meeting is better than seeing many others!"
The white-haired girl did not comment on this statement. She just stared into Xue Zhanxing's eyes in the way she was used to staring at people's eyes.
After thinking for a moment, Jiang Yunu decided to get straight to the point: "The inter-school competition has been going on for so many days, and I've been at your school for so many days. Why did you suddenly think of looking for me?"
Xue Zhanxing began to touch his nose: "Don't make me sound like a weasel paying New Year's greetings to a chicken..."
Jiang Yunu said, "When people pay New Year's greetings, at least they remember to bring gifts. Where is your gift? Is it the lamb chops you promised me?"
Xue Zhanxing was stunned. He didn't expect that his initial words were really heard by Jiang Yunu, who was busy eating. Jiang Yunu looked like a rich young master. He immediately stood up from his chair and said, "I'll go right away. You can't send me away to buy lamb chops and leave first!"
Before Xue Zhanxing finished speaking, he was already two steps away. He turned around while speaking, and then the little golden-haired man made sure that Jiang Yunu would not take the opportunity to sneak away, so he finally turned around and plunged into the crowd. One could only rely on a moving ray of gold to judge that he was approaching the Lamb Chops window quickly.
Jiang Yunu had no intention of forcing Xue Zhanxing to give her a "New Year's gift", but the little golden retriever was very proactive, so she decided to accept this gift from her "friend whom she had only met once".
——Anyway, the other party’s purpose of suddenly coming to her might not be pure, so what’s wrong with her accepting a gift?
Xue Zhanxing quickly returned with the lamb chops. These freshly baked lamb chops, sprinkled with seasoning, smelled incredibly fragrant and were truly appetizing.
The little golden retriever sat down again across the table and watched Jiang Yunu tearing the meat. He felt that the white-haired girl's attitude towards him was a little more enthusiastic than before.
Xue Zhanxing told Jiang Yunu while he was eating lamb chops that he did not delay until today to come and see his "friend whom he had only met once" on purpose - the main reason was that he was sick at home and did not come to school at all.
Jiang Yunu took the time to glance at the other person, and couldn't tell that the little golden retriever, who looked in good spirits, looked sick in any way.
"Are you well now?" she asked.
Xue Zhanxing answered vaguely: "Almost... sort of."
Jiang Yunu did not ask any more questions about this issue.
Xue Zhanxing was a talkative person. Even though she had only met him once in the hospital in Xiate City, Jiang Yunu was very impressed by his talkativeness. She could still clearly remember how this little golden retriever had used words to make the outwardly "aloof" Qiao Yisen so cold that he wanted to become dumb and deaf, leaving Qiao Yisen with lingering fears. She also remembered that she had talked a lot to him.
Jiang Yunu herself is quite talkative, but she is relatively silent in front of delicious food. She chooses eating over talking to show her respect for food.
So Jiang Yunu continued to listen - Xue Zhanxing muttered to himself that he was sick at the wrong time, and was sick during the school team selection and the first half of the competition, as if God intended for him not to participate; Xue Zhanxing also muttered to himself that this year's Songnan school team selection was "quite varied", with many conditions that had not been set in previous years, and that those who finally passed the strict selection and became members of the school team were the "best of the best" among their peers.
Xue Zhanxing also said that he had no idea at first who came to Engel this year - he didn't even know that Qiao Yisen and Jiang Yunu had applied for Engel, and that they were now Engel's students.
Because they didn’t add any contact information at the beginning!
"I thought you two would go to the city center in the next few days." Xue Zhanxing looked aggrieved. "I went to the hospital and the central business district again in the next few days, but I didn't run into you at all."
“…”
Jiang Yunu seriously felt that in this era of interstellar superpowers, there were still young masters who wanted to "accidentally meet" friends by wandering around the commercial district on foot. This was as difficult as it was for modern people in the ancient Blue Star era to say to each other, "If you have any problems, please contact me by sending a message in a bottle in the future."
"I don't know where you two got into, but your names weren't on the list for the new Songnan freshman class, so I knew you didn't come to Songnan," Xue Zhanxing said. "When I was about to return to school after recovering from my illness, I happened to hear that a student from Engel had made a big splash at a practical competition and even blew up one of the school's pre-detection devices. That reminded me of you, the one who had caused the hospital equipment to malfunction."
The little golden retriever smiled, showing off his small white teeth: "When I asked the name of this Engel student, it turned out to be you!"
At this point, Jiang Yunu couldn't help but ask, "You were able to find me in the cafeteria today. Did you wander around here for several days and finally ran into me by chance?"
Xue Zhanxing immediately showed an expression of "How do you know?"
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