Lin Qingping and Gu Juncheng

Chapter 604 Good stuff

Lu Yi pointed at Lin Qingping and said with a smile, "Could you please get me an extra pair of chopsticks?"

Lin Qingping stood there dumbfounded. Was this really treating her like a nanny?

Alright, let's wait and see. Shi Hui's face changed; Lu Yi clearly didn't care about Shi Hui's feelings at all...

Lin Qingping smiled and readily agreed, "Okay."

Say you're fully prepared to get up.

Shi Hui's expression darkened further. She quickly pressed Lin Qingping down, her smile returning in an instant. "How could I let you go? I'll go, I'll go! You just sit here!"

Lin Qingping didn't get up, but after sitting down, she received a rather unfriendly look from Lu Yi, as if to say: How can someone be so tactless?

Lin Qingping didn't know who was being tactless.

But Lu Yi was clearly at odds with her today.

Today, Shi Hui didn't know that Lu Yi was going to bring her dried seafood, so there were several seafood dishes on the table: stir-fried sea cucumber, stir-fried abalone with pork, pork ribs with dried scallops, and Buddha Jumps Over the Wall.

Shi Hui said, "I don't know how to make these either. Giving them to me is such a waste of ingredients. I just made a mess of it. This dish is a simplified version of an online recipe."

She pointed at the Buddha Jumps Over the Wall dish and said, "You two experts, try it and see. If it doesn't taste good, don't blame me. You know I'm not a good cook, yet you still made me all this stuff!"

Shi Hui could only make such a joke because she was very familiar with Expert Shen and Wu Tianjiao. Moreover, these things were delivered by Expert Shen. When she said "experts," she was referring to Lin Qingping and Expert Shen, who were the manufacturers.

Expert Shen found it amusing, but he wasn't exactly a skilled cook either, so he passed the question to Lin Qingping, saying, "You give me some pointers."

Lin Qingping, who has loved studying cooking in both her past and present lives, didn't hold back, saying, "I may not have many other skills, but I'm an expert at cooking!"

Just as she was about to speak, Lu Yi's voice rang out, interrupting her, "Hui, I'm good at this."

Wu Tianjiao glanced at her in surprise.

Everyone glanced at her.

But Lu Yi didn't notice the strange looks in everyone's eyes. He started talking to himself, from the fact that the fish maw in Buddha Jumps Over the Wall wasn't soaked enough and didn't release its gelatinous substance, to the fact that the sea cucumber was overcooked, to the fact that pork ribs and dried scallops didn't go well together, and that the meat in the abalone stir-fry was too lean. He went on and on, and then he talked about how to make these dishes in detail.

For a moment, she was the only one talking at the entire dining table.

Dean Wan sensed something was wrong and nudged his wife. Lu Yi finally stopped and smiled, "Hui, did I say too much? I just felt it was a waste of good things because you don't know how to cook them, especially the ones I gave you today, which are all top-quality ingredients. If you don't know how to cook them, just call me next time and I'll cook them for you."

Shi Hui had known Lu Yi for a long time and knew that she was competitive and ambitious, always wanting to be better than others. Her things were always the best. Normally, Shi Hui didn't bother to argue with her, since her husband and Dean Wan were good friends. But today, with Lin Qingping, Expert Shen, and Wu Tianjiao all there, Shi Hui was very unhappy: Lu Yi wasn't usually so ungrateful, so what was wrong with her today?

Shi Hui was still holding back, and said with a forced smile, "Okay."

Lu Yi smiled with satisfaction, then changed the subject back to Lin Qingping, saying to Shi Hui, "Hui, you can ask the nanny to cook some home-style dishes. The nanny can cook, but they can't handle these high-end ingredients. You have to look after them yourself. Although you sell fish, there are some things that they may have never even seen before."

Everyone was filled with questions: ? ? ? The nanny? Who? The fishmonger? Who is that?

Wu Tianjiao chuckled inwardly. In today's situation, no one was in a position to break things up. Shi Hui was the host, Lin Qingping's son Zhiyuan still needed to make a living at the hospital, and only she had nothing to do with anyone here.

She hesitated for a moment, but ultimately decided that she wouldn't feel comfortable eating a meal in such a stifling manner—she could tolerate being upset herself (of course, no one dared to upset her), but she was unhappy that Lin Qingping was being mocked like this.

She smiled and looked at Expert Shen with a teasing expression, "I'm talking to you, you fishmonger!"

Expert Shen: ...

Upon hearing this, Lu Yi panicked, "No, no, that's not what I meant. I wasn't talking about him." Lu Yi wasn't actually familiar with Wu Tianjiao and didn't know what Expert Shen did.

"Then who are you talking about? Her?" Wu Tianjiao pointed directly at Lin Qingping, "There are only two fishmongers here."

Lu Yi smiled slightly, "Then not all fishmongers are the same."

Wu Tianjiao laughed: They really are the same.

The scene was getting a bit awkward. Dean Wan and Dr. Cao were both quite embarrassed, especially Dean Wan, who kept hinting to Lu Yi to stop talking.

But at this moment, even if Lu Yi wanted to stop, Wu Tianjiao wouldn't let him.

"Really?" Wu Tianjiao said, "We don't know much about these things. We gave them to the Shi Hui family. Show us if they're all low-grade goods."

Wu Tianjiao had already noticed some gift boxes on the floor next to the food cabinet, and she guessed that they were the "top-quality ingredients" that Lu Yi had brought.

Lu Yi's expression changed slightly. Had she said earlier that the food on Shi Hui's table was low-grade?

"Huihui, show it to this expert so we won't be fooled later." Wu Tianjiao was determined not to let this matter rest, even though Dean Wan was already getting anxious.

Dr. Cao actually tried to stop Shi Hui, but Shi Hui turned around and took out the gift box—the box containing her ingredients for today.

The packaging was exactly the same as the one Lu Yi sent.

Lu Yi was quite adept at handling things and could instantly forget what he had said. "This is a good product! Just like me, I know that this company produces high-end products."

Shi Hui smiled, "The boss brought it himself, how could it not be good?"

Lu Yi's eyes lit up as he looked at Wu Tianjiao eagerly, "You... are you the owners of this place?"

"I'm not!" Wu Tianjiao laughed.

Lu Yi's eager gaze fell on Expert Shen's face.

Expert Shen quickly replied, "Neither do I."