Chapter 1144 — You Went Yourself
The Blossom Guardian · Page 2 of 2
Wei Zhao began grilling seafood over the fire, and wave after wave of fragrance drifted over to An Liwen and Su Taizao, making their mouths water.
"We'll grill too!" An Liwen said through gritted teeth. "Don't we have lamb skewers and chicken wings? Ours are no worse than theirs!"
"Right, I'll go get everything ready!" Su Taizao hurried off to prepare. But when he had everything ready, he made the tragic discovery that the car battery was dead! Earlier they had used the headlights to light their way while catching seafood, and had forgotten to keep the engine running. The power drain had been too great, and the battery had run flat.
"Brother An, we're in trouble! The car battery's dead!" Su Taizao fiddled with it in the car for a while to no avail, then cried out with a sour face.
"What? Dead? What did you do? Can't you manage to do anything right?" An Liwen said, beside himself with rage.
"I accidentally forgot to keep the engine running..." Su Taizao said timidly.
"You... never mind!" An Liwen wanted to curse him out, but he was too hungry now to muster the strength. He waved a hand instead. "Doesn't this high-tech thing support manual power generation? Go and generate it by hand!"
"Huh? Me?" Su Taizao looked at the grill and saw that it was hand-cranked! In other words, if they wanted the food cooked, someone would have to keep cranking the handle the whole time! By the time everything was done, wouldn't he be worked to death?
"Of course — who else, me?" An Liwen glared at him. "Hurry up, stop dawdling! It's just a crank — think of it as jerking off!"
"..." Su Taizao had no choice but to walk over and start cranking the handle rapidly by hand. Sure enough, heat began pouring off the grill, and it flashed with rainbow-colored lights! Su Taizao could not help but curse: "What brain-dead idiot invented this? You work yourself half to death to generate this tiny bit of power — couldn't it be put to some proper use? And it flashes lights too — how much of my sweat is that wasting?"
"Stop dawdling, crank faster!" An Liwen said, flipping the skewers on the grill and urging him on.
Over on Wei Zhao's side, however, they were already eating delicious grilled seafood!
"How romantic... I never thought I, Feng Xiaoxiao, would have a day like this..." Feng Xiaoxiao murmured to herself as she watched the various seafood delicacies sizzle and give off their aroma over the fire. She had thought she would never have friendship or love in this life, and yet all at once she had both.
The friends Feng Xiaoxiao had kept before were all fair-weather hangers-on she had met through racing, not the kind you could open your heart to. There was no way she would have gone camping with them — who knew what ulterior motives they might have had?
"The oysters are ready!" Wei Zhao took a few oysters off the grill, put them on a plate, and handed it to Shen Yushu, who was waiting nearby. "You go ahead and eat first!"
"Oh, they're ready!" Shen Yushu cheerfully carried the plate over to Gu Mengyao, Feng Xiaoxiao, and Tang Zhi, set it down on the sand, and said, "I'll go get some drinks."
"You all start — let me shell one for Wei Zhao." Tang Zhi picked up an oyster, pried out the meat, and held it out to Wei Zhao.