novelhk Chapter 206 Wife Cake
Chapter 206 Wife Cake
Ling Jiaojiao: "Yunhe!"
Chen Qixing: "Yunhe?"
They both spoke at the same time and turned their heads to look at the person at the opposite table.
Ling Jiaojiao and Chen Qixing both had questions in their minds.
Chen Qixing appeared calm on the surface, but in reality he was in turmoil.
The girl sitting across from me, it turns out she also knows Yunhe?
Why haven’t I heard Yunhe say that?
But then again, after not seeing each other for so many years, it’s not surprising that he has new acquaintances.
Ling Jiaojiao looked at Chen Qixing, her heart also full of doubts.
The green-clad gentleman across from me actually knew Yun He and called him so intimately? Who was he?
As soon as Ling Jiaojiao entered the front hall, she saw Chen Qixing sitting alone at a table.
I felt that he looked familiar, so I just sat at the same table.
I didn’t expect that this person knew Xie Yunhe?
When Xie Yunhe walked to the table, he felt a strange and anxious atmosphere.
He turned his head from side to side, glancing at the two people at the table.
Could it be that they knew each other? Otherwise, why would they be looking at each other like that?
If he knows her, that would be great. He doesn't need an introduction.
But to be on the safe side, he still asked.
"Do you two know each other?"
They both shook their heads.
Xie Yunhe scratched his head and introduced the two people.
"Jiaojiao, this is Chen Qixing, the owner of Gulan Bookstore and my childhood friend."
"Qixing, this is Ling Jiaojiao, a famous swordsman in the martial arts world and also my partner."
Chen Qixing smiled at Ling Jiaojiao and said gently:
"Miss Ling, nice to meet you."
Ling Jiaojiao was just about to reply with "Nice to meet you" when she saw the young man in green opposite her slowly saying another sentence.
"Thank you Miss Ling for taking care of Yunhe. Sorry to bother you, Miss Ling."
Hearing this, the "Nice to meet you" that Ling Jiaojiao originally wanted to say seemed to be stuck in her throat and she couldn't spit it out.
No, this doesn't sound right.
Ling Jiaojiao looked at Chen Qixing opposite her and began to doubt her life. Was it just her illusion?
Whether I take care of you or not, it’s not your turn to thank me, right?
Ling Jiaojiao's silence attracted Xie Yunhe's attention.
Xie Yunhe didn't quite understand why Ling Jiaojiao suddenly stopped talking?
Seeing Xie Yunhe looking towards her, Ling Jiaojiao took a deep breath.
He said to Chen Qixing with a forced smile:
"Nice to meet you, Mr. Chen, you're welcome. After all, Yun He and I have been partners for many years. It would be too formal to talk about thanking or not."
"Since you two were childhood playmates so many years ago, you must be very curious about Yunhe's experiences over the years. How about I tell you a little bit?"
The smile on Chen Qixing's face gradually disappeared, turning into a slightly bitter expression.
"You're right. I've missed Yunhe's experiences over the years. If Miss Ling is willing to tell me about it, that would be great."
Xie Yunhe felt uncomfortable when he saw Chen Qixing's slightly sad voice.
Alas, he didn't want to see the incident that happened back then.
If that incident hadn't happened, I'm afraid the two of them could have grown up together and wouldn't have missed out on many of each other's memories.
Xie Yunhe said:
"We met for a short time yesterday and didn't have time to talk too much. If you want to listen, I can tell you more."
Chen Qixing's expression changed from sadness to joy.
He turned his head to look in the direction of Xie Yunhe and said softly:
"That's what I want to hear."
In this scene where childhood playmates are talking to each other, there is one person who seems out of place.
Ling Jiaojiao took a sip of tea with an expressionless face.
I always feel that this scene is familiar.
That familiar, heart-wrenching feeling also seemed familiar.
Xie Yunhe chose to sit on one side of the table, right between the two of them.
Before I could ask what to eat, I felt a gust of wind coming from behind.
Just as I was about to hide, I heard a familiar voice.
"Brother Ahe, what a coincidence, we meet again."
Li Ye pounced on Xie Yunhe from behind and hugged him.
The weight of the two people even made the long bench Xie Yunhe was sitting on creak.
Luckily, the hug ended quickly.
Li Ye straightened up.
Revealing his bright eyes and slightly swollen forehead.
He looked curiously at Chen Qixing and Ling Jiaojiao on his left and right, and then turned his attention to the remaining seats on the square table.
The only remaining seat at the square table was opposite Xie Yunhe.
Li Ye curled his lips, feeling that it was a bit far away.
He chose the second option.
"Brother Ahe, the bench is so long, let's sit together!"
The familiar "creaking" sound rang out again.
Fortunately, the long bench only sounds heavy, but it can actually seat two people.
Li Ye squeezed next to Xie Yunhe.
He became the person closest to Xie Yunhe at the table.
Xie Yunhe also gave a brief introduction to the three of them.
Ling Jiaojiao knew Li Ye. When she first met Xie Yunhe, he already had such a friend.
A few people exchanged greetings.
The waiter who served the snacks came over with a tray.
Soon, the table was filled with various snacks and desserts.
This is available at every table. If you want to eat it, you can tell them separately.
Apart from anything else, the Qin Mansion’s hospitality is quite good.
As expected of a wealthy family, they provide plenty of wine, snacks and food.
Li Ye took an egg-yellow pancake from the table and took a bite, his eyes lighting up.
The first thing you put in your mouth is the crispy golden crust with a hint of fresh wheat aroma, and the inside is soft, glutinous and sweet. Li Ye chewed it for a few times and felt that the filling should be made of some kind of melon flesh, which is sweet but not greasy. Combined with the sesame seeds and crispy crust on the outside, it has just the right taste.
"This is delicious, what kind of snack is this?"
Li Ye looked at the note next to the plate of snacks - "Wife Cake".
His face flushed instantly.
Compared with the most common words such as Madam and Madame, he also knew that ordinary people also called their wives "wife".
"Ahe, this cake is called Wife Cake. I've never eaten it before. It's delicious. I'll get you one..."
Li Ye ate the wife cake in his hand in two or three bites, then reached out his hand, intending to take another one from the plate for Xie Yunhe to eat.
At this moment, a hand stretched out from the left and a hand from the right, and appeared in front of Li Ye at the same time.
And before Li Ye, each of them took a wife cake from the plate.
Before Li Ye could react, the two pancakes closest to him were taken away.
Li Ye:?
He stretched out his hand slightly, picked up a piece of pancake, and just as he was about to hand it to Xie Yunhe, he found that someone had quickly placed two pancakes on his hand.
One on each side.
Li Ye:?
Go back one second.
Just when he took the pancake that was farther away, Chen Qixing and Ling Jiaojiao handed the pancake to Xie Yunhe.
Chen Qixing: "Yunhe, here you go."
Ling Jiaojiao: "Wife Cake, what a strange name, for you."
Now, Li Ye looked at Xie Yunhe, who had no hands to take the pancake, and then looked down at the pancake in his hand.
After thinking hard, I came up with a good idea.
"Ahe, I see you don't have any hands to hold it, let me feed you this piece of cake."
"Open your mouth, ah——"
In this way, Li Ye's wife cake became the first cake to enter Xie Yunhe's stomach.
Xie Yunhe didn't know why his friends were so keen on passing pancakes to him.
But he accepted them all and ate them all.
Strangely enough, the taste of this pancake gave Xie Yunhe a very familiar feeling.
As if he used to eat it often.
While Xie Yunhe was eating the pancakes, he seemed to see a boy and a girl, two children about fifteen or sixteen years old.
They were wearing simple clothes with sleeves that reached down to their arms, sitting around a table, eating the same golden pancakes as the ones in their hands.
At this time, there was only one pancake left on the plate.
While the boy wasn't paying attention, the girl quickly picked up the last pancake and held it up happily.
"Stupid Xiaohe, this last piece is mine! Hehe!"
The girl greased the soles of her feet with the pancake.
"Call me brother, don't call me stupid."
The boy retorted subconsciously, but did not chase after him.
He is the older brother, he would never do something to snatch things from his sister.
"I'll give you half of it."
The girl who ran away came back happily, broke off half a pancake for the boy, and ran away to play.
The boy looked at the half piece of cake in his hand, and his originally depressed mood improved.
……
"Yunhe, Yunhe..."
Xie Yunhe came back to his senses when he heard Ling Jiaojiao's voice.
"Why did you become dazed while eating just now? Is this pancake too greasy? Have some tea."
Although Ling Jiaojiao is rather arrogant and domineering to others, she is very kind to her own people.
She poured Xie Yunhe a cup of tea.
She also ate the wife cake just now, but it was not to her taste, it was too sweet!
After she finished eating, she drank tea like crazy.
It’s a good thing that Li Ye and Xie Yunhe like to eat it.
"It's nothing, I just thought of something."
Xie Yunhe said after coming back to his senses.
The atmosphere at the table was slightly improved by the food.
Everyone started chatting.
It was as if the cake-grabbing incident had never happened.
Just then, everyone heard a voice.
"Isn't this Mr. Xie? Why are you here?"
Along with the sound of footsteps and gold ornaments, a familiar ball of light appeared in front of Xie Yunhe.
From the clothes and voice, Xie Yunhe determined that this was his "rival in love" butler Ji, whom he had met once.
Wen Zhizhi said that the other party had deep feelings for Qin Yu, and they were childhood sweethearts.
I don't like Xie Yunhe, who came out of nowhere.
Before, at the door of the study, Xie Yunhe had seen the other party's temper.
Although they both like to wear red clothes, Ling Jiaojiao's temper is obviously much better than that of Butler Ji.
"Hey, who are these?"
Passing Xie Yunhe, Ji Mingzhou could clearly see the three people beside him.
His eyes swept over them one by one.
From left to right.
A young man in green clothes with eye disease who looks cool and elegant.
A young man in purple clothes who looks a bit ugly.
A girl in a red dress with half of her face covered by a mask.
His gaze returned to the two young masters.
I don't know why, but when I saw these two, especially the ugly-looking young man in purple sitting next to Xie Yunhe.
Ji Mingzhou felt a surge of anger in his heart for no reason.
It was as if there was a vicious villain with magma flowing in my heart, shouting madly, "Burn him, burn him!"
Ji Mingzhou forced himself to suppress this thought. No matter what, he was certain of one thing.
He disliked the boy in purple.
Very unpleasant.
Of course, he also disliked the boy in green, but he disliked the boy in purple even more.
They must have offended me!
Damn it, he must take revenge!
Although Ji Mingzhou felt that he had never seen these two people before, strictly speaking it should be the first time they met. They were all strangers, so how could the other party have offended him?
But he chose to trust his first feeling.
Thinking of this, he took a pot of tea from the maid beside him and walked towards Xie Yunhe and others.
Ji Mingzhou said with a forced smile:
"Everyone who comes is a guest. Come, come, I'll pour you some tea."
He came to Xie Yunhe and Li Ye and poured the tea in the teapot into Li Ye's teacup.
Li Ye was stunned for a moment, then reacted and said politely:
"Thank you."
What a polite young man he is.
He didn't look like he had ever offended me.
But Ji Mingzhou didn't care.
Ji Mingzhou does things without asking for reasons, but only according to his heart!
Tea poured out of the teapot and fell into the teacup.
At first, everyone thought that there was too much white mist in the tea and it looked like the tea was quite hot.
But as I watched, I felt something was wrong.
The tea is so hot that the teacup is melting!
Xie Yunhe was stunned.
The tea in the melted teacup naturally flowed out. Li Ye, who was closest to it, dodged the tea flowing from the table in time, but his clothes were not so lucky.
A drop of tea fell on the clothes, and it burned on the clothes with a "whoosh"!
Xie Yunhe quickly took his teacup and poured the normal tea in his cup over it.
"Chichi-"
White smoke rises.
The little flame was snuffed out in the cradle.
Ji Mingzhou, who was pouring tea for Chen Qixing, let out a regretful "tsk".
Having learned from the previous experience, Chen Qixing left his position when the other party was halfway through pouring the tea.
The young man in green still had time to speak politely:
"Don't bother me, sir. I won't drink tea."
The second cup of tea did not harm anyone, as it extinguished itself when it hit the ground.
"You, you, you, what are you doing?"
Li Ye questioned Ji Mingzhou.
"Pour you some tea, sir."
Ji Mingzhou said as if it was a matter of course.
Is there anyone who pours tea like you?
This was the common thought of everyone present.
Since the revenge was unsuccessful, the matter was dropped.
Ji Mingzhou took his teapot and left in such a charming manner.
Leaving behind two battered teacups.
And a crowd of people with messy faces.
Ji Mingzhou walked for a long time.
Only then did someone from the underworld speak in a low voice.
"Is this the Qin Mansion's Steward Ji? As expected of the Qin Mansion, even the steward is a master of martial arts."
"This use of internal energy is amazing. Not only did it heat up the tea, it also melted the teacup with internal energy. I don't think I can do that."
"That housekeeper has profound inner strength! I'm not even as good as a housekeeper, yet I still want to participate in this year's martial arts conference. I'm so ashamed."