Chapter 119

The teenager stood in the kitchen, wearing a dark blue apron, water vapor rising from the steaming pot, he lowered his head, intently looking at the contents of the pot, then seeing that the fire was almost ready, he turned off the heat source and fished the noodles out of the pot.

Ji Yu couldn’t help but walk to the kitchen door and peek over, “Great Chef, when is dinner going to start?”

Ling Yuan has heard the footsteps and turns around, “Hungry? It’ll be ready soon.”

Ji Yu takes a deep breath and nods, “So hungry, smells so good, I want to eat.”

Ling Yuan spreads the fried egg on top of the noodles, removes his apron, holds the bowl, and lifts his jaw, “Quickly go sit down, dinner is ready.”

Ji Yu hurriedly sits upright, her hands placed on the dining table, well-behaved like a kindergarten child waiting for the teacher to distribute the food.

Ling Yuan couldn’t help but smile, placing the noodles in front of her, “Quickly taste the flavor.”

Ji Yu hmmm’d, but didn’t move, waiting for Ling Yuan to come out with another bowl of noodles and sit down before picking up her chopsticks, “Senior, I’m going to start.”

“Eat.”

She picked up a pair of chopsticks, blew on them and waited for them to cool down before stuffing them into her mouth, chewing a few times and nodding her head repeatedly, “Yummy.”

“Tasty eat more, I put enough portions, it’s enough.”

“Uh-huh, senior you also eat.”

Ji Yu saw that Ling Yuan hadn’t moved his chopsticks yet and urged.

“Good.”

During the meal, both of them were quiet, perhaps because they had been hungry for too long, Ji Yu surprisingly ate a bowl of noodles cleanly, and in the end, he didn’t even let go of the soup, affirming Ling Yuan’s cooking skills with his empty bowl.

After eating, Ling Yuan cleans up the dishes, Ji Yu hurriedly presses his hand, “Senior, I’ll clean it up.”

“You go watch TV, just two bowls, it’s quick.”

Ling Yuan pushes her hand away and quickly stacks the two bowls together and takes them into the kitchen, Ji Yu follows him and leans against the refrigerator, watching him wash the bowls.

“Senior is really out of the hall and down in the kitchen, I don’t know who will be cheaper in the future.”

Ling Yuan frowns at her words, “What do you think? The seats for future girlfriends are all booked by someone.”

Ji Yu let out an “Oh” and spoke in a natural tone, “So it’s cheaper for me, this little fairy ah.”

“Good to know.”

Ji Yu couldn’t help but smile, “Then, eating people’s mouths is short, do I have to pay something?”

“Huh?” Ling Yuan looked back at her, “There’s a payment?”

“There is.” Ji Yu said in a serious manner, “My father said that you can’t accept things from others with peace of mind, that asking for things will make a relationship fragile, and that equivalence is the only way to last. Of course, this equivalence can be material or spiritual.”

She cocked her head at the teenager, “I think my dad’s right.”

“Moreover, after all, it’s the handiwork of the big schoolmaster, it’s not for everyone, so I have to pay a little bit of a fee anyways.”

Ling Yuan was slightly stunned, then, abruptly smiled.

It turned out that while he was making efforts to be nice to her, she had also found a way to pay, making their relationship equal.

“Okay, you watch and give.”

The words just fell, a soft body behind him pasted over, Ling Yuan froze for a moment, lowered his eyes to look down at Ji Yu’s porcelain white small hands that were wrapped around him, and immediately smiled and bent his eyebrows, “This is payment? Is this taking advantage of me?”

Ji Yu tightly wrapped her arms around him, her face pressed against his back, “As the ancients say, it’s a son of a bitch if you don’t take advantage of a bargain.”

Ling Yuan was so amused that he laughed out an airy tone, “Ji Little Fish, tell me, which ancient person could say such great words?”

“Who cares which one it was, in any case, I, a present-day person, find it very reasonable.”

She added, “This isn’t payment, it’s just a little interest paid to you first.”

Ling Yuan puts the bowl on the draining rack and says helplessly, “Good girl, I’m washing the bowl and it’s dirty, can you, this present person, let go of me first?”

Ji Yu rubbed his back and hugged him tighter, inhaling deeply, enjoying the refreshingly warm scent of the teenager’s body, and only said, “Senior, did you spray perfume?”

“No, is there a smell?” Ling Yuan sniffed his body and didn’t feel any perfume odor.

“Well, it smells like lime.” She said, “I like the smell.”

“It could be the smell of laundry detergent.”

“But my laundry detergent also smells like lime, why is it different from yours?”

Ling Yuan washed the dishes, took a hand towel and wiped the water off his hands, turned around and hugged her, “Then next time, we’ll buy the same brand of laundry detergent.”

“Good.” She raised her eyes and smiled, her eyes curving up in a smile.

“Actually, Senior, I wanted to say thank you.”

Ji Yu’s mood suddenly dropped, and she said softly, “When my dad first left, grandpa was devastated, and his spirit wasn’t very good, and at that time, it was very hard for me, but there was no one beside me to help me, or to enlighten me.”

“At that time, the thought was a little bit of a bull’s-eye, always thinking of doing something amazing, you know, I can spar, if I do radical things may have serious consequences.”

“One day, I was walking down the street, my mind thinking about those murderous maniacs on the news, those innocent passersby who did nothing wrong at all but lost their lives because of it, how many families were broken because of it. I then asked myself, “Dad lost his life trying to save others, are you going to take a path that is the exact opposite of Dad’s?”

“For some reason, just in that moment, I suddenly figured it out.”

Ling Yuan closed his eyes, his heart suddenly aching so much that he couldn’t breathe, he only embedded her in his arms with force, his throat felt as if it was blocked by a foreign object, he couldn’t say a single word. He didn’t dare to think about it at all, he didn’t dare to think at all about how in the world she had survived during that time, his heart was pounding just listening to it.

This looks like no temper, treat anyone mild and gentle little girl, in the father’s accident, in the end went through what kind of painful psychological process?

She said she figured it out, in fact, the little girl is still too kind to do things that would hurt others.

Sensing his nervousness, Ji Yu gently patted his back and soothed, ”Don’t be nervous, it won’t happen now. I’ve heard a teacher say before that everyone actually has evil thoughts in their hearts, it’s just that some people control them with reason, while others can’t suppress them and explode out.”

After a long period of silence, Ling Yuan opened his mouth, muffled, “At that time, did your mom know?”

Ji Yu’s movements lagged, shaking his head, “No, didn’t tell her about it, there’s no need.”

Ling Yuan wants to say that that one could be a sign of depression, he says softly, “Have you ever thought that it could be a disease?”

Ji Yu was aware of it, she had read psychology books later on, looking at him wanting to say something, how smart she was, she guessed what he was thinking, “I know, depression.”

“Then you today ……”

Ji Yu hastily interrupted him, “Don’t worry, no, I can tell the difference. My heart is just a little messed up today, I didn’t think about anything else.”

Ling Yuan carefully observes her complexion, seeing that her eyes are firm, he puts down his heart, “Things are all in the past, let’s not think about it so much. Going forward, no matter what happens you can talk to me about it, no matter how good or bad it is, don’t hold it in your heart all by yourself, okay?”

If anything happened to her, he really couldn’t bear it.