Chapter 124
Chapter 124: Tranquil Young Lady, Amidst the Swirling Clouds
The girl stared at the text, slightly stunned.
These words sounded strange.
After some thought, she replied:
【Fu Chengque】: Even if I’m here, you’d still try to take my remote control!
【Wen Yu】: Absolutely impossible.
【Wen Yu】: I have no interest in TV programs now.
【Fu Chengque】: You’re just pretending. [Cat hitting someone]
【Fu Chengque】: I’m going to start eating!
【Wen Yu】: What, you haven’t started yet?
【Fu Chengque】: I’ll get you for that.
Fu Chengque replied to messages while eating, turning a simple matter into an underground operation.
Fortunately, everyone was gathered around Grandma, so no one noticed her.
That’s good, this way the tranquil young lady can eat without being watched!
To be honest, she had a rough morning and didn’t have much appetite for lunch due to some discomfort in her stomach. She knew that the highlight was the New Year’s Eve dinner tonight, so she had saved some room in her stomach for it!
Let’s start eating!
Looking around, she quickly picked up a piece of dark-red braised pork and added some dried vegetables to her bowl.
Placing the dried vegetables on top of the meat, she took a hearty bite. The aroma of the meat filled the air, rich but not greasy.
Fu Chengque was quite satisfied.
As soon as the first bite went down, she immediately followed it with another. Two bites and the palm-sized piece of braised pork was gone.
Indeed, meat cooked in large pots and pans always tasted better.
After finishing, she didn’t forget to reply to someone:
【Fu Chengque】: Just had a huge piece of braised pork, it’s so delicious!
【Wen Yu】: I want a piece too!
【Fu Chengque】: Puh, learning from others!
【Wen Yu】: Learning, learning, learning.
【Fu Chengque】: … [Cat speechless]
After tapping six points with one finger and adding an emoji, Fu Chengque’s attention turned to the oil-braised prawns.
Those bright red prawns were too tempting, lying there in the sauce, wearing their transparent shells, revealing their tender white meat.
This is outrageous! How can they drip oil while being red? Isn’t this inciting criminal behavior?
The responsibility lies with the prawns, not me!
The girl thought, then dropped the chopsticks directly, stretched out her arms, and grabbed four prawns from a distant place. Each one was larger than her thumb, and together, the four were almost as thick as her wrist.
Really plump.
So fragrant!
Hehehe…
After finishing the four large prawns, she set her sights on the crab.
Oh, shrimp and crab, they’re all family. Since she had eaten the prawns, there was no reason not to eat the crab. This logic makes sense.
Crab, let’s have another one!
Fu Chengque was excited in her mind, and then she grabbed another crab, peeled it, removed the gills, and the white crab meat looked like snow.
This meat didn’t even need to be chewed, just a slurp with the mouth, and most of it came off.
After enjoying the shrimp and crab, it could be considered a reunion for the internal organs, right?
The girl chuckled as she thought, using her middle finger to tap the phone screen.
【Fu Chengque】: Ate ten large lobsters again.
【Fu Chengque】: And crabs as big as heads.
【Wen Yu】: What a coincidence, I ate a giant octopus, it just overturned a huge wheel on the sea.
【Wen Yu】: The wheel was full of cowhide!
【Fu Chengque】: Hahaha
【Fu Chengque】: [Cat laughing loudly] [Cat laughing loudly]
【Wen Yu】: Are you eating and texting at the same time?
【Fu Chengque】: Oh! Impossible!
【Fu Chengque】: I’m only messaging after I finish eating.
【Fu Chengque】: But I ate a lot!
【Fu Chengque】: I’ll be so fat after the New Year.
【Wen Yu】: It’s okay, if you can’t walk from being fat, I’ll reluctantly carry you.
【Fu Chengque】: ??
【Fu Chengque】: I can’t walk, and you think you can carry me?
【Wen Yu】: Don’t doubt me. If you don’t believe it, let me carry you tomorrow.
【Fu Chengque】: ??? I’m not even fat yet!
【Wen Yu】: You can still try.
【Fu Chengque】: You’re dreaming.
Fu Chengque’s gaze shifted from her phone to the table, feeling her stomach grumble again…
Oh!
She’s supposed to be a quiet lady, how can she eat like this!
Whose belly has become its own body?
Is it Wen Yu’s!
Stinky Wen Yu, eats like a little pig!
Fu Chengque felt uncomfortable with her head hanging down, but then she thought, even a lady needs to eat, so one more bite won’t hurt—
Just one bite!
***
The number of times Xiao Qingmei was teased and joked with today exceeded the total of the past week.
It’s even more than in the past twenty years.
Wen Yu scrolled through the chat history, somewhat amazed at how much nonsense he and Fu Chengque could chat about.
After putting away his phone, Wen Yu focused on eating the New Year’s Eve dinner with his parents, occasionally chatting with them. However, conversations had to be brief, as they were often interrupted by the gradually intensifying firecrackers and fireworks outside.
Coincidentally.
A sharp “whoosh” sound rose from below the balcony, shooting up into the sky and exploding at an angle that couldn’t be seen.
Someone downstairs was setting off fireworks.
After finishing his meal, Wen Yu carried a bowl of post-dinner soup and walked to the balcony, looking up to see the fireworks set off by people downstairs. After waiting for a while, more fireworks scattered—
“Boom—”
A red light ball shot into the sky, burst at the top of the building, turning into countless small dots of light, falling like slow raindrops.
The sky in the distance was the same, with the entire city of Jiangcheng crackling and popping.
Wen Yu watched for a long time before withdrawing his gaze, listening to the familiar yet slightly awkward sketches on the Spring Festival Gala in his ears, feeling a sense of loneliness in his heart. In this situation, only Xiao Qingmei could slightly heal the loneliness in his heart.
Oh, Xiao Qingmei found him first!
【Fu Chengque】: Full!
【Fu Chengque】: Too full, my belly is round!
【Wen Yu】: I just finished eating too, I’m on the balcony enjoying the breeze and watching the fireworks.
【Fu Chengque】: Wow! Boss Wen is elegant.
【Fu Chengque】: Hold on, I’ll find a place to watch the fireworks too.
【Wen Yu】: How about up in the trees, where the birds belong?
【Fu Chengque】: I’ll smack you!
【Fu Chengque】: I’m on the rooftop now, hehehe, the view from the 5th floor is really nice.
【Fu Chengque】: Just a bit windy.
【Wen Yu】: Is it safe?
【Fu Chengque】: Don’t worry, there are parents up here too.
【Wen Yu】: Make sure to wrap up, if you catch a cold, this year won’t be satisfactory.
【Fu Chengque】: I’m over 99.9% immortal, completely fine!
【Wen Yu】: [Image][Image][Image]
【Wen Yu】: Fireworks! They look so beautiful.
【Fu Chengque】: [Image]
【Fu Chengque】: Mine are not bad either.
Wen Yu opened the photos sent by Fu Chengque and saw a big face printed on the screen of her phone—turns out it was a selfie of Fu Chengque on the rooftop with fireworks in the background!
She stood on the rooftop, with the cold wind lifting her hair.
Her cheeks and nose were reddened by the cold wind, but her smile was so bright. In the slightly dim background, her white teeth were shining.
He chuckled:
She’s so silly.
Looking at the photo, he didn’t know how to respond or evaluate it.
Should he just praise it?
Or should he take a funny selfie too?
He decided to take an interesting one himself.
Just as Wen Yu picked up his phone, a message from Fu Chengque came through—
【Fu Chengque】: Waited for so long, where’s yours! [Angry cat]
【Fu Chengque】: Never mind, I’ll watch alone! Hehehe…
In the next moment, a video call request came through, and his phone vibrated like crazy.
Wen Yu felt a bit flustered.
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