Chapter 74: Success
Translator: Henyee Translations Editor: Henyee Translations
Xiaoxiao raised her eyebrows. How could a girl admit that she couldn’t do it? This was a provocation!
“Just you wait. I’m not free today. I’ll show you what an all-rounded Masterchef is tomorrow.”
Shen Tianci thought that she was bragging. The chef who made snacks for him today was released from the palace. She was the previous head chef. Many people could not get her even if they wanted to.
Xiaoxiao took a bite. It was indeed not bad, but she still refused to admit defeat.
The two of them bickered as they skewered many skewers. However, their styles were different. Xiaoxiao’s combination of meat and vegetables alternated between red and green, while Shen Tianci’s were all freestyle abstract works. Anyway, he did not want to eat anything he had seen.
The happiest thing about barbecuing was that everyone could enjoy the fruits of their labor themselves. Anything that was made by their own hands would always feel more delicious.
He watched with his own eyes as the meat skewers in his hand sizzled under the flames and gradually changed color. Then, he looked at the vegetables that were dripping with oil from the meat, and they looked even more delicious. His appetite came.
Other than the deer meat, the diligent Yun Yi with dark circles under his eyes also brought back some other prey, so basically everyone had work to do and cooking meat to watch over.
When Xiaoxiao was free, Rong Yan carried the rabbit that he had kept at home for a long time and planned to give it to Xiaoxiao. He didn’t mean anything else. He just wanted to thank her for working hard for more than half a day. If not for her, he wouldn’t have been able to invite Shen Tianci.
As far as he knew, girls should like such furry and harmless-looking things.
Then, he heard Xiaoxiao cover her face and exclaim at him, who was holding the rabbit. “Wow! Such a cute little rabbit…”
Rong Yan thought to himself that it was indeed the right gift, but he heard her say again, “You have to add spice to it!”
Rong Yan was speechless.
To be honest, he had been speechless only a handful of times since he was young.
Xiaoxiao looked at Rong Yan’s reaction again and hurriedly retracted her drool. “You like it? Then 1 won’t eat it.” Anyway, such a small one was not enough for her.
However, she couldn’t tell that her neighbor liked such cute things. She couldn’t help but comment, “You’re quite cute.”
Rong Yan was speechless.
His fingers hidden in his sleeve rubbed against each other, and his back tensed up. Who was she calling cute?! He threw the rabbit away and let it run away on its own. Then, he glanced at the guards who were holding back their laughter and successfully made them turn around and straighten their backs to maintain silence.
However, Xiaoxiao added, “No, you’re much prettier than a rabbit.”
Rong Yan felt that his ears were very hot, so he hurriedly ran to the barbecue stove and stood still.
This girl! Why was she talking more and more…
He spun the skewers on the stove a few times and suppressed the redness at the tip of his ears. He looked up at Xiaoxiao again. The latter was carefully applying an amber-colored sauce to the largest piece of meat. Noticing his gaze, she chuckled and wrapped a piece of cooked vegetable leaf around it. She picked it up with her chopsticks and raised it at him.
“Try one?”
Rong Yan quickly turned around and thought to himself, Are you teasing a rabbit?
However, he quickly turned his head back and took the plate himself. “Thank you.”
Xiaoxiao pursed her lips and her hands itched. Why did she feel that the neighbor’s young master looked so obedient? She really wanted to rub him.
Suppressing her restless hand, Xiaoxiao heard Shen Tianci shout, “I want to eat too!”
Xiaoxiao ruthlessly handed him a plate. “Cut it yourself.”
It was not that she was lazy, but Young Master Shen’s diet was unique. The more she prepared everything for him, the more pretentious he became. It was better to let him have a good time himself.
However, others did not know that Shen Tianci muttered that she was “biased”. Rong Yan also looked up at her and chewed even more happily.
As expected, Shen Tianci was having a lot of fun. Even if he mixed a few sauces together to create a “tragically wonderful” taste, he could still frown and eat them.
The fragrance of meat from Rong Yan’s courtyard made the villagers nearby crave for several hours, so the news of them gathering to barbecue naturally reached the ears of the people in the old residence.
Old Madam Ning threw things around angrily. She scolded them improperly. The gist was that the eldest branch was ungrateful. They ate meat and let their elders starve. Second Uncle Ning swallowed his saliva and asked, “Mother, are your pickled vegetables done?”
Old Madam Ning rolled her eyes. “They’re the only ones who treat this little thing like a treasure and hide it.”
Second Uncle Ning’s eyes lit up.. “Then it’s done?”
