Lu Tian stared intently at the instant noodles and said angrily, "Have you ever seen a parent not give him or her food?"
"That's true." Peng Yangyang took a bite of instant noodles, and all her speculations disappeared immediately.
"Yangyang, the noodles can be eaten once they're spread out, right?"
"right."
Lu Tian smelled the aroma of instant noodles, swallowed happily, put the book away, and took the fork to check the condition of the noodles. Just as Peng Yangyang said, it fell apart when stirred. She picked up a mouthful of noodles and was about to put it into her mouth. Before she opened her mouth, the phone rang again. The caller ID showed that it was the person who had just said goodbye to her.
"Is there anything wrong?" Lu Tian answered the phone with resentment. Instant noodles will not taste good if they are soaked for too long.
Meng Jingdong's voice was as steady as ever, without any emotion. "I'm sorry, I forgot to treat you to dinner. I asked Song Ci to buy you some food. I'm not sure if it suits your taste. Someone will deliver it to your dormitory in about ten minutes. I gave him your number. You and your classmates can go downstairs to get it."
"Okay, thank you." Lu Tian said blankly. Her reaction now was that she didn't expect Meng Jingdong to think of this.
What delicious food could he possibly send? But for some reason, Lu Tian believed it was a feast.
"Yangyang, stop eating!"
Peng Yangyang looked up in surprise: "Why?"
"I have a feeling we'll have a feast in ten minutes!"
Peng Yangyang: “…”
Eight minutes later, Lu Tian answered the phone. The male voice was emotionless, exactly like Meng Jingdong's: "Lu Tian, I'm here to bring you food. Come and get it. It would be best if four people come down."
"Yangyang, let's go!"
Peng Yangyang went down from the third floor with Lu Tian, half believing it and half doubting it. They happened to meet Helian Chen and Jiang Feifei returning to the dormitory in the stairwell, and the four of them went down together.
Lu Zhenzhe and his roommate Chen Kang stood at the bottom of the girls' dormitory, looking at each other in bewilderment. Passing students kept glancing at them. Even if he was courting a girl, he'd never seen someone standing downstairs with a luxurious lunch box, right? Was he delivering food? He was being too much of a traitor, wasn't he?
When Lu Tian and her three companions came out of the dormitory, they immediately saw the resentful duo carrying lunch boxes and cakes. She walked over without hesitation and said, "Hello, I'm Lu Tian."
Lu Zhenzhe moved his mouth, his handsome eyebrows wrinkled together, but he didn't say his name in the end: "Meng Jingdong asked me to come."
"Okay, thank you."
Jiang Feifei followed behind Lu Tian, looking at this and that, but she endured and didn't expose them on the spot. The four of them took the large and still hot lunch boxes and cakes from the two of them, and thanked them very sincerely.
After they carried their lunch boxes upstairs, Jiang Feifei started gossiping slyly, "Lu Tian, why is Lu Zhenzhe bringing you food? Who is that Meng guy he mentioned? Is he your boyfriend?"
Lu Tian said vaguely: "No, my relative."
"Hey, are you and Lu Zhenzhe also relatives?"
"That shouldn't be the case. My relative asked me for a favor and didn't have time to treat me to a meal, so please ask him to bring it over." Lu Tian guessed the truth calmly.
The four of them opened the lunch boxes and found that it was from a very famous hotel near the school. The dishes were also signature dishes, including black pepper beef tenderloin, prawns in tomato sauce, pepper and sesame chicken, and another dish that looked like stir-fried pork liver with green peppers.
"Hey, why is there pig liver?"
Lu Tian silently chanted in his heart to replenish blood.
Lu Zhenzhe used to be a food delivery boy, so he obediently replied to Meng Jingdong's message: "I've already delivered it to her."
"It's not appropriate to tip. I'll thank you in person next time." After a long time, Meng Jingdong replied with a few words.
"What is your relationship with her?"
Meng Jingdong responded quickly this time: "You are not allowed to like her. She and I are in a legal relationship."
Is it legal? Middle school student Lu Zhenzhe covered his face and wailed, while his bribed friend Chen Kang stifled a laugh: "How does it feel to have the person you like become your sister-in-law?"
"Shut up!" Lu Zhenzhe said angrily. He didn't reply to Meng Jingdong's message. Instead, he found Lu Tian's number, edited a text message and sent it to her.
"I'm sorry, please forget the friend verification message I sent you last time."
Lu Tian took a bite of prawns while smelling the aroma of instant noodles. After thinking for a moment, she remembered what Lu Zhenzhe had sent. She suppressed a smile and replied to him, "Okay."
By the way, I accepted his friend request.
Tian Jing prepared a delicious meal, and the three of them sat down to eat. Lu Tian hesitated for a moment, "Aren't you going to wait for uncle?"
"He's working overtime, let's eat." Tian Jing explained gently, very pleased with Lu Tian's understanding.
Lu Tian chuckled and lowered her head to eat. Tian Jing was a strong woman, but she had never lost the cooking skills she learned in her early years. The four dishes and one soup were colorful and fragrant. Even the picky eater Zou Fan ate with gusto, complaining as he ate, "Mom, the food at school is terrible. Can you make me a lunch box?"
Tian Jing was startled. She first looked at Lu Tian's expression. Seeing that she didn't show any displeasure, she smiled and said, "How can mom have time to cook for you? It's the same as asking Auntie to cook for you."
Zou Fan was easy to deal with and nodded in agreement.
Lu Tian excitedly extended her chopsticks towards the spicy chicken. Tian Jing saw her movements clearly and asked in confusion, "Lu Tian, don't you dislike spicy food?"
"Well, I had hotpot with my classmates recently and I've started to like spicy food." Lu Tian explained without changing his expression.
"Then tell me what you like to eat and I'll make it for you." Tian Jing felt very guilty. Lu Tian had been in boarding school since middle school. She was busy with work and didn't have much time to spend with her children. She didn't really know Lu Tian's preferences.
Lu Tian agreed and teased the handsome boy while she was at it, but she found that the child was very carefree. Just now, Tian Jing refused to make a box lunch for Zou Fan because she was afraid that she would have an opinion, but she agreed to make her favorite food without hesitation. However, Zou Fan did not react at all. The living environment of the Zou family is actually much better than she imagined.
After dinner, Lu Tian explained the whole story of her call to Old Lady Tian. If Grandma Yu Gu came, she would definitely ask Tian Jing to do a DNA test. This part was only briefly mentioned in the novel. It only said that Grandma Gu asked Tian Jing to verify her identity, cried bitterly, and then accepted Lu Tian as her granddaughter. However, she had a deep affection for her daughter and granddaughter, with whom she had been living for decades, and was also reluctant to give up. Grandma Gu had her cake and eat it, which made Lu Tian even more dissatisfied with Ning Xuan.
"Lu Tian, what benefit do you want to gain from this matter?"
Lu Tian was stunned. Yes, why did the original owner do this? Because... Yu Ningxuan's fiancé, Han Yifan, was her high school crush. She knew Han Yifan's mother was particular about marrying someone of equal social status. She also happened to discover that Yu Ningxuan's mother and Tian Jing were born on the same day, month, and year, so she wanted to expose the truth right there and then.
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