OBS Chapter 104 The Giant Carp!
Chapter 104 The Giant Carp!
"Ah... Xiuxiu, my dear Xiuxiu, you are truly a wonderful woman..."
Of course, only Chen Chen could say such cheesy things.
At lunchtime, everyone gathered around Cheng Xiuxiu's dining table and watched as an aunt and Cheng Xiuxiu brought seven or eight steaming dishes to the table.
Of course, there's nothing to brag about just serving a dish. What moved Chen Chen was that Cheng Xiuxiu, who had almost never cooked before, specially made a braised carp for them at noon today under the guidance of her aunt!
Braised carp, my friends, is not a simple, mindless dish like scrambled eggs with tomatoes. It requires a certain level of skill to prepare.
So... is it okay to say that it doesn't taste very good?
Lin Jianlu took a bite of Cheng Xiuxiu's version of braised carp and felt that she seemed to have added too much salt, and the braising flavor was not quite right. Although it looked quite appetizing, it tasted rather unpleasant...
She glanced at Chen Chen furtively and saw that he was so moved he was about to cry, so she wisely kept quiet and didn't comment.
Moreover, she is Lin Baolong. In terms of the closeness of their relationship, he is Cheng Xiuxiu's own person. How could an insider undermine his own person in front of outsiders?
"Um..." At this moment, the little boy sitting next to Chen Chen spoke up.
"I feel that this braised carp..." She hesitated, as if she wanted to tell the truth, but after noticing the look in Chen Chen's eyes, she quickly changed her strategy and nodded vigorously:
"Absolutely delicious! Absolutely wonderful!"
Damn, their bootlicking skills are top-notch. Is this the basic operation for members of the anime club?
This made her a little insecure about her sense of taste.
She glanced at Yan Yiyan beside her and saw that after taking a bite, a subtle smile appeared on her cheek, which reassured her somewhat.
Ah, okay, her sense of taste and decision-making are both fine.
But after a brief silence, Lin Jianlu suddenly frowned.
By the way, when did Yan Yiyan arrive?
"How did you suddenly appear?"
"I've been here all along." Seeing Lin Baolong ask, Yan Yiyan swallowed the food in her mouth and replied casually, "Xiuxiu invited me. Xiuxiu has been contacting me a lot lately."
Oh...I see.
It turns out that Cheng Xiuxiu and Yan Yiyan have recently developed a relationship similar to that of best friends.
"By the way, I was just about to ask, those pants you're wearing..." Yan Yiyan pouted her oily lips and pointed at Lin Baolong's thigh, asking, "Don't they look a bit like Chen Chen's?"
"It's not just similar, it is," Lin Jianlu explained.
"Well?"
A strange look of confusion suddenly appeared on the girl's face.
Or rather...excited?
Why are you wearing Chen Chen's pants?
He got my pants wet.
Of course, there's no need to say that she was so angry with Chen Chen that she jumped into the pool and got her pants wet. That would make Lin Baolong seem unsteady, like Chen Chen who's always yelling and acting like a brain-damaged person.
"Oh……"
Yan Yiyan glanced at Lin Baolong's upper body clothing, which also had some wet stains.
Immediately, she couldn't help but turn her gaze to Chen Chen across from her. He was only wearing a T-shirt, which was supposed to be quick-drying. He had put it on without even wiping it after swimming, so the T-shirt was still damp and stuck to Chen Chen's body, showing off his well-defined shoulder muscles.
Summer day, swimming pool, splashing water droplets, wet clothes, two handsome boys, and coincidentally, one is more refined, the other more muscular...
A sudden surge of heat rushed through her mind, and Yan Yiyan couldn't help but bite her lower lip and clamp her legs tightly together.
"Hey, why are you having a nosebleed?" Lin Baolong asked urgently from beside him.
"Oh...oh, I'm sorry, I...I...never mind, do you have any tissues?"
……
What is Yan Yiyan thinking about all day long?
Lin Jianlu hurriedly handed her the paper, inwardly complaining.
But thinking about it carefully, there's nothing to look down on others for.
After all, the things in one's head don't really matter.
Anyway, everything was wrong.
Akashi Mio is not Xie Linyu's daughter, but the girl who fell into the water. She easily learned this from the report.
Moreover, Akashi Mio completely mistook the person who saved her for Xie Linyu. If the person who was saved thought that way, then how effective would it be for Chen Chen to release a video to clarify?
It seems that Chen Chen's silence was not to help Xie Linyu and her daughter, but rather because he was truly pressured by online public opinion and had no choice but to delete the video.
Why didn't she think of that during the previous investigation?
She realized she was actually a fool, and didn't even realize how stupid she was, fantasizing about solving cases like Sherlock Holmes and Miss Marple.
After searching for so many irrelevant clues and piecing them together haphazardly, I ended up making a huge blunder.
Realizing this, Lin Jianlu fell into deep self-blame and frustration.
Actually, it would be a little better if she had just guessed wrong. What bothered her the most was that before realizing her mistake, she had shamelessly shown off in front of Chen Chen.
Now, however, she was slapped hard in the face by the truth, so hard that she felt even the chewing sounds she heard while eating had turned into "slap," "slap," "slap" sounds.
How embarrassing!
Therefore, Lin Jianlu is now very fortunate that she used the identity of Lin Baolong instead of Lin Jianlu to tell Chen Chen her speculation, otherwise she would have been unable to hold her head up in front of him for a long time.
Of course, there's nothing shameful about Lin Baolong's identity. Right now, only she and Chen Chen have discussed this matter; no one else knows anything about it.
What's even more surprising is that now, when Chen Chen is in front of Cheng Xiuxiu, he doesn't use this incident as a reason to belittle her and elevate himself, as he usually does.
Instead, she kept praising how delicious Cheng Xiuxiu's big carp was.
Looking at Chen Chen's praise, Lin Jianlu couldn't help but feel a strange sense of jealousy.
This guy has never praised her like this before.
She remembered the last time he praised her highly. It was when she was a child playing "Love & Happiness" and sniping. She killed fifteen people in a row, which made her feel so good that her scalp tingled and her breathing became rapid.
He was right beside her then, clapping and cheering wildly; those bright eyes are still vivid in her memory.
But after he contracted the O-God virus, he never did that again.
She once believed that the god had taken away the Chen Chen from her memories.
Of course, she doesn't think that way anymore.
Because a new love has surpassed the old one.
Cheng Xiuxiu, if your fish dish were really delicious, that would be fine.
It was clearly not as good as what she made, but Chen Chen praised it so much, like a once-in-a-lifetime chef. How could she accept that?
And there's that sycophantic brat, that effeminate little boy.
This guy is the one she despises the most.
Chen Chen himself couldn't keep a straight face while chewing the fish, which probably meant he knew the fish was really badly cooked.
But this guy wouldn't stop praising her, and he kept saying things like, "Xiuxiu's cooking is really good~" and "Our anime club's great loli is truly deserving of the title~".
Sigh, speechless. What a petty person.