Chapter 73 — Free Chef
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Not long after, Uncle Qing's Bentley pulled up at the villa's gate. He saw Wei Zhao standing there and froze for a moment.
"Mr. Lin, what are you doing out here?" Uncle Qing got out of the car and looked at Wei Zhao with some puzzlement.
"Just getting some fresh air, and having a look at who lives around here," Wei Zhao said.
Uncle Qing nodded. "Mengyao and the others haven't come out yet? Shall I go call them?"
As he spoke, Gu Mengyao and Shen Yushu came out of the villa carrying their backpacks, chatting and laughing. When they saw Uncle Qing, they greeted him and got into the car.
Wei Zhao sat naturally in the passenger seat. Uncle Qing started the car and drove slowly in the direction of the school.
Once the two girls were in the car, they kept whispering to each other in the back. The Bentley was roomy, and Wei Zhao was not about to deliberately eavesdrop on two young ladies' private talk, so he paid them no mind.
After a while, Shen Yushu nudged Gu Mengyao. "If you like it, why don't you say so?"
"Like what? I was just having a couple of bites in passing. If you don't want to say it, then forget it." Gu Mengyao gave a little huff and ignored Shen Yushu.
Shen Yushu had no choice. She wrinkled her nose and said, "All right, all right. I'll say it, then."
Those two lines came out louder and clearer, so Wei Zhao, in the passenger seat up front, heard them—though he still had no idea what they were talking about.
"Uncle Qing, when you come by tonight, could you buy some fresh ingredients?" Shen Yushu said to Uncle Qing, who was driving.
"Oh? Ingredients?" Uncle Qing was slightly taken aback. "Fresh vegetables and meat, you mean?"
"Yes! Eggs, seasonings, all that sort of thing—just get a full set, whatever's needed," Shen Yushu said with a nod.
"All right." Uncle Qing was a little puzzled. He had prepared fresh vegetables and meat for them before, but much of it had ended up spoiling, so afterward he had kept only small quantities on hand, just in case. He had not expected Shen Yushu to suddenly ask for a large stock.
Judging by the exchange between Shen Yushu and Gu Mengyao earlier, this was probably Gu Mengyao's idea as well. So Uncle Qing asked no further questions and agreed without hesitation.
"Yay! Yaoyao, we'll have good food from now on!" Shen Yushu excitedly held out her hand for a high-five with Gu Mengyao.
Gu Mengyao shot her a glare. "Eat, eat, all you think about is eating. By the time you've eaten yourself into a fat pig, we'll see whether anyone will marry you."
Up in the passenger seat, Wei Zhao's face was a mask of dark lines. If he still did not understand what this little girl Shen Yushu was up to, he would be a fool. Buying all those ingredients—was she taking him for a free chef?
Damn it all, was he not the wronged party here? One little trick with a runny nose, and someone had him by the short hairs. If word of this ever got out and reached his old teammates, would they not laugh their teeth out?
And yet this really was hard to explain away—the more he explained, the worse it would get. Wei Zhao could only endure it. He would just treat it as carrying out a mission. For the sake of a reward that could feed him for the rest of his life, Wei Zhao decided this was nothing at all.
Compared with the North African jungle, where even a single spider could take a man's life, life now was so good. He could go to school, he could chase girls… uh, well, chasing girls seemed a bit unreliable.
Wei Zhao looked in the rearview mirror. Shen Yushu was in the back making faces at him, so he simply closed his eyes and pretended not to see.
Shen Yushu squinted and contorted her face for ages, hunting for a few especially difficult expressions to annoy Wei Zhao—only to find that Brother Big Arrowhead had actually shut his eyes. Shen Yushu was instantly furious beyond measure, and in her agitation her face cramped up, and this time it would not go back to normal.