Chapter 402: Sour Rice Mixed with Tap Water
Chapter 402: Sour Rice Mixed with Tap Water
Upon hearing this, Chu Zhao smiled bitterly.
"Shi Rong, who do you think I am? I'm not that delicate, okay? My favorite thing to do in the past was to secretly eat takeout."
"But the boss and the others can't stand the smell, especially Huo Yiyan. She always scolds me for it. She thinks I stink."
"Hahahaha!"
Although Xia Zhi was not close to Huo Yiyan, he only saw her occasionally.
But even she could imagine that Huo Yiyan, a strong woman with a cold personality, must have a look of disgust every time she faced takeout!
12:30pm.
"Look, we ordered five bowls of noodles with different flavors at once, including fried eggs, chicken feet, pig's trotters, spring bamboo shoots, and pig intestines. This way, we can eat them together and try every flavor without wasting any food."
After the takeaway arrived, Shi Rong took it from Miao Man, removed the outer packaging of the five bowls of snail noodles, placed them in the middle of the desk, and then took out four small bowls and distributed them to the three people around him.
"Mmm! It smells so good~"
Xia Zhi couldn't wait any longer, so she picked up a handful of noodles and put them into the bowl. As soon as she took a sip, she started shaking her head with joy.
"Then eat more."
Shi Rong also picked up a piece of food with chopsticks, put it in his mouth and tasted it. It tasted really good.
"Can I ask you a question?"
The four of them were halfway through their meal when Chu Yu suddenly remembered something. He raised his bowl with an inquiring gaze and looked towards Shi Rong who was sitting opposite him.
The woman spit out a small piece of pig's trotter bone that she had gnawed clean from her small mouth, and it fell into the lid of the takeaway box.
"Okay, go ahead."
Chu Yu swallowed the food in his mouth and took a sip of the guava tea beside him.
"Why did you set a rule at the Ying family not to waste food after you came back?"
When he asked this out of the blue, Shi Rong's cheeks, which were still chewing bamboo shoots, froze unnaturally, and then he forced a smile.
"Because before...when I was in the Thorn Mountain in southern China, I had no decent food to eat."
As soon as these words were spoken, the three of them stopped what they were doing, turned their heads suddenly, and looked at Shi Rong who was sitting in the middle, stunned.
Chu Yu: "What? What do you eat every day?"
The latter was calm and put down the empty bowl and chopsticks in his hands.
"There's only one meal a day: stale rice mixed with tap water."
Click——!
When Yan uttered this shockingly true answer, Shi Yang couldn't help but clench his fists, and the bamboo chopsticks in his palm were broken by him almost in an instant!
"What did you say? Huo Jiuzhou is going too far. Why would he let you eat these things? Is there something wrong with his brain?"
Such unacceptable treatment would make Shi Yang angry, and even Xia Zhi, who was usually calm, was furious. She dropped the small bowl in her hand with a bang.
"I'm going to tell grandma right now! He's even rebelling against me!"
Xia Zhi said this, picked up the phone at hand, and walked out of the office door without caring about anything.
"Hey... No, no, no, calm down, you two! Calm down for a moment, okay?"
Upon seeing this, Chu Yu quickly acted and first grabbed the anxious Xia Zhi back, then turned to comfort Shi Yang, whose eyes were bloodshot.
He was really afraid that these two people would get impulsive and say something to Feng Qingning, and then everything would be over!
"Well, isn't this all in the past? I told you I didn't care, but you two are still angry?"
Shi Rong saw that Chu Zhao couldn't handle it alone, so he just followed him out of understanding.
He personally picked up a bowl of hot snail noodles for Xia Zhi and motioned her to eat it. He then pulled over Shi Yang's big hands, which were still trembling slightly from anger, and held them in his arms and patted them.
"It was precisely because I had nothing decent to eat that I learned to cherish food. I've been a picky eater since I was a child. To maintain my figure, I don't eat fatty meat and refuse greasy food."
"I wouldn't even look at things like pig's trotters and pig intestines, which were delicacies I'd usually just throw away. But after arriving at Jishan in southern China, I realized how despicable I was back then."
"Every time I don't have enough to eat, I always think about the same question: if I collect all the food I've wasted in the past, will it be enough for me to eat for a long time? Will I never have to go hungry again?"
"Later, I met a person there. Her name was Su Lu. The first meal she stole for me was a chicken drumstick and a steamed bun. I remember it very clearly."
"Honestly, I cried while eating. It was the first time I realized that those things that I used to despise so much were actually so delicious."
Having said that, Shi Yan ignored Shi Yang's heartbroken look when he looked at her, and instead rubbed his heroic profile with her soft little head.
"Then do you know what kind of willpower I relied on to persevere in the end?"
Shi Yang closed his sore eyes, unable to utter a single word of sadness, and shook his head silently.
"I was thinking, as long as I can get out alive, I can go home and eat the food my brother cooks!"
After saying this, Shi Rong deliberately let out a series of silver bell-like hippie laughs.
Shi Yang was so distressed that he was about to cry. Even though he was a tough guy, his eyes had turned red without him noticing. How could this little girl still have the mind to laugh?
Without her being able to see him, Shi Yang released all the sorrow in his heart, turned around and pulled her into his arms, hugging her tightly.
"Be good, my brother will cook for you every day from now on, and make the best..."
Shi Rong smiled, stretched out a pair of slender arms, wrapped them around his slender neck, and nodded vigorously.
"it is good."
If it weren't for the oath Feng Qingning and Shi Rong had made at the Huo family banquet, Shi Yang would have fought the Huo family to the death long ago!
Huo! Jiu! Zhou!
You better not fall into my hands one day!
As Shi Yang thought about this, he unconsciously tightened his arms around Shi Rong.
After coaxing Shi Yang, Shi Rong went to coax Xia Zhi. After listening to what happened in the past, she stopped eating and drinking and cried like a tearful person.
Shi Rong took out her handkerchief and wiped her dirty little face. After thinking for a while, she said.
"How about I treat you to milk tea? Double sugar, with pearls, and let Chu Yu pay!"
As Shi Rong spoke, he gave Chu Yu a wink. The latter understood, adjusted his equally distraught mood, pretended to be calm, and moved closer to Xia Zhi.
"Yes, I'll treat you to milk tea, hehe... and a chocolate cake?"
When Shi Rong heard this, he thought it was a great idea!
Xia Zhi’s favorite food is chocolate cake. He is so thoughtful that he remembers even such a small thing.
Shi Rong: "How is it? Hmm? The chocolate cake is delicious~ sweet and fragrant."
Chu Yu: "Yes! It's the kind that's freshly baked, so fluffy and soft, and the butter is thick!"
Under the repeated attacks of the two, Xia Zhi finally burst into tears and smiled, reluctantly accepting Chu Yu's kindness.
……
North City Central Avenue, 79th floor of Zhaoqian Building.
At this moment, the CEO's office of Beiquezhu Palace was in a mess for some reason.
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