The Lady’s Facade was Ruined - Chapter 28
Chapter 28: Lunch Time
In the kitchen, Fang Yichang, who was still busy preparing lunch, shot a glance at Wang Tingting and shouted back, “What? What thievery? I asked Zhao Yimeng to wash the strawberries and sent it My Lady.”
When Wang Tingting heard this, she became displeased, “Why? Those are the strawberries I picked!”
Fang Yichang snorted, “Didn’t you pick it with My Lady?”
Wang Tingting pursed her mouth and replied feebly, “Then half of them are mine. Why did you give them all to her? Besides, the strawberries are going to be used to make fruit salad. You gave her all of them, then what should we make?”
“Oh!” Fang Yichang took out the fried vegetables from the pan and let Wang Tingting take a look, “I thought that she sprained her ankle. Since your feet are okay, can’t you go pick another basket? Why are you yelling at me here? You are also responsible for her sprained ankle.”
Wang Tingting was really going to die from anger. Just now, she was getting scolded by Huo Cheng in the infirmary. And now, she was also being scolded by Fang Yichang when she arrived. Why is everyone scolding her? Did she know that Shen Wanying would stupidly fall off the ladder?
But Wang Tingting didn’t dare to stir up a fight with Fang Yichang. Although Fang Yichang had never beat up a girl before, in the end, he was still a problematic teenager so she didn’t want to provoke him. She picked up a fruit basket and said to Qiu Ziqing, “Wait here while I pick some more strawberries again, okay?”
“I’ll go with you.” Qiu Ziqing said before following Wang Tingting out.
At the entrance of the infirmary, Zhao Yimeng walked in with a large bowl of freshly washed strawberries, “Dear Lady, I’m here to give you strawberries!”
While Shen Wanying’s foot was being bandaged, she heard Zhao Yimeng’s voice and raised her head, “So many strawberries?”
“Yeah, Fang Yichang asked me to bring them all. I’m not giving Wang Tingting any!” After finding a spot to place the basket of strawberries, Zhao Yimeng squatted in front of Shen Wanying to take a look, “Is your foot seriously injured? Did you get injured anywhere else?”
“It’s okay, only a sprained ankle. I’ll feel better after taking the medicine.”
“That’s good. Come, let’s eat these strawberries. Huo Cheng, you too!” Zhao Yimeng enthusiastically asked everyone to eat. Shen Wanying picked a strawberry to eat. Zhao Yimeng also welcomed herself to eat and picked a strawberry to eat, “By the way, Fang Yichang asked me to help him ask Huo Cheng to go back quickly. He has his hands full in the kitchen.”
Huo Cheng looked at Shen Wanying, “I will go back after I send Shen Wanying back to her room.”
“Hey,” Zhao Yimeng fed herself a strawberry again and spoke sincerely, “Fang Yichang also said that he also wanted to visit Shen Wanying when she’s injured like this. Yet he hasn’t come, right? Because he is aware that he should stick around in the kitchen for now. If he also came here, no one will be able to have lunch today, and Our Lady also won’t be able to eat. Men shouldn’t be worried about their children all day long. They should shoulder their own responsibilities!”
Huo Cheng: “…”
Shen Wanying smiled and looked at Huo Cheng, “I think what Fang Yichang said is very reasonable. Now there is only one person in our class who is in the kitchen. Fang Yichang has to take care of both sides by himself. He definitely will exhaust himself. Moreover, there are still so many things to do at noon. Many people are waiting for dinner.”
Huo Cheng hesitated, and the doctor on the sideline opened her mouth, giving advice, “I think you should stop fighting. This student will stay here to rest and don’t need to go back to her room. Anyway, you will have lunch outside at noon, so she should stay so she can avoid having to run around.”
Shen Wanying nodded in agreement, “Listen to the doctor.”
Huo Cheng: “…”
“Doctor, you too, go ahead and eat the strawberries.” Zhao Yimeng offered the strawberries to the doctor enthusiastically.
Huo Cheng stood up and said to them, “Then both of you stay here. I will go back to the kitchen first.”
“Okay.” Zhao Yimeng watched Huo Cheng go out, then approached Shen Wanying to make some inquiries, “I’ve heard, Huo Cheng came back with you all the way today. Just two of you, eh?”
“…” Shen Wanying pretended she didn’t understand, “This strawberry is so sweet and delicious. You can eat more.”
Although Zhao Yimeng already knew that Shen Wanying was using the strawberries to shut her up, she still ate the strawberries unconvincingly.
Because the strawberries taste really delicious!
Huo Cheng returned to the kitchen. Following that, the pressure on the kitchen from the lack of helpers dropped sharply. The lunch was finally prepared right before lunch time. Zhao Yimeng assisted Shen Wanying with leaving the infirmary and went to join the others at the lunch area.
Everyone was completely tired after they were busy working all morning. Now, they all sat and chattered away together while waiting for lunch.
Zhao Yimeng and Shen Wanying sat at the same table with Huo Cheng. The dishes provided by the farm were placed on the table in advance and the remaining chefs also came out.
This time, as usual, there was a lazy class who made a hot pot to eat. As it finished cooking, the appetizing aroma of the freshly prepared food wafted through the cafeteria. Fortunately, the dishes served by Huo Cheng were also delicious, which was a relief for the students.
Huo Cheng had cooked a total of five dishes that were made according to Shen Wanying’s liking. Furthermore, both Huo Cheng and Shen Wanying had made the mushroom pork rib soup together.
——Although Shen Wanying only helped with cutting up the mushrooms, she insisted that there was half of her hard work.
Another student in the class had also prepared a barbecue for everyone. The meat and vegetables were all served. It was a perfect match with the fruit salad dish in each class.
Everyone had a great lunch and Huo Cheng’s cooking skills were well received by the students. The boys didn’t understand. The two tops in their class were not only good in their grades but also good in cooking. The skills of these top students nowadays, are they a buy one get one free? 😊
“More than that, they even look good.” Zhao Yimeng faintly interrupted. The other boys in class 1 suffered even more internal injuries.
Everyone was free in the afternoon. There were many recreational facilities on the farm. Since the weather was quite good today, many students were choosing to spend some time flying kites.
As a result, the kites in the sky were densely packed like dumplings in the steamer pot.
If she hadn’t sprained her foot, Shen Wanying would also like to fly a kite. But now as she couldn’t run, she could only go back to her room to rest. Meanwhile, Huo Cheng had finished helping with cleaning up in the kitchen. He looked around but didn’t find Shen Wanying. After asking around other students regarding her whereabouts, he found out that Shen Wanying had already returned to her room.
Shen Wanying and Zhao Yimeng’s room was on the third floor of the hotel. The hotel had an elevator, so she didn’t need to climb the stairs. She dragged her injured foot and slowly returned to the room. As soon as she said she wanted to take a nap, she heard someone knock on the door.
She glanced at the door and asked, “Who is it?”
“It’s me.” Huo Cheng’s voice came from the outside.
Shen Wanying recognized his voice and walked up to open the door. Huo Cheng stood outside the door, holding an orange in his hand. Shen Wanying was taken aback for a moment, then smiled and asked him, “What’s the matter?”
Huo Cheng looked at her feet. Shen Wanying had put on a pair of slippers. It seemed that she brought them from her home, “Does your foot feel better?”
“It’s much better, I plan to stay in the room this afternoon.”
“Well, then have a good rest in the afternoon.” Huo Cheng said, handing her the orange in his hand, “After I got back the orange you picked, I kept one especially.”
The fruit salad on today’s lunch also had oranges in it. Shen Wanying thought that all the oranges she had picked were used to make salads. She didn’t expect Huo Cheng would save one for her. It was obvious that the oranges were specially picked. The color and shape are really good. It also had been carefully washed by steaming it.
It looks very tempting.
“Thank you.” Shen Wanying smiled at Huo Cheng with the orange in her hand.
Huo Cheng gave a quick glance and quietly said, “Then I won’t bother you while you rest.”
Shen Wanying stood at the door, watching Huo Cheng walk away before closing the door.
She sat down at the window and put the orange on the small table besides it. The orange which was bathed in the sunlight looked rounder and more lovely, making anyone that were to look at it reluctant to eat it.
Shen Wanying smiled and tapped her finger on the orange. Then she went to bed and fell asleep.