Chapter 114

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Chapter 114- Back to the real world (4)

Gu Anran opened the refrigerator, and found there was nothing but sauce, ah, there are two eggs! After spending two weeks in the room, there was no food left except some instant noodles. Now there are two more eggs! Hooray! Hooray!

“Hong Qingyi! There’s no food left!” Gu Anran slammed the door of the refrigerator, the hunger in her stomach made her tone more irritable.

“Then go out and buy some! We can grab a meal and some other necessities while we are out.” Hong Qingyi shrugged, not moving her eyes from the game on her screen.

“Then let’s hurry up and go.” Gu Anran took off the headphones on Hong Qingyi’s ears with a displeased look.

“I know, I know, I’ll tell them to hang up.” Hong Qingyi pouted and then stood up. Then she put on some light clothes and followed Gu Anran out of the door. However, as they walked out the door, they did not notice that someone was watching them very closely.

Meanwhile, in a certain monitoring room, an upperclassman saw the two appear at the door and quickly picked up the phone.

“President, the people you had us watch over have finally come out.” The upperclassman wiped the sweat from his forehead. He was ordered by the president to stay in this monitoring room for over two weeks! There was no movement at all the entire time, yet today they finally came out! He felt so moved, his mission has been fulfilled!

“Ah….I see.” Mu Qingli said lightly, then hung up her phone and waved at the few people sitting in front of her, “The two kittens have left the nest!”

Gu Anran and Hong Qingyi had no idea that their actions were being filmed and sent to a few certain people. At this moment, they were using their phones to look up where to eat.

“Let’s eat hot pot!” Hong Qingyi said excitedly.

“Eating hot pot in this weather?” Although it was already night time, it was still quite hot outside.

“Why does that even matter? The hot pot restaurant has a powerful strong air conditioner and they have special discounts during this time of the year too!” Hong Qingyi showed her phone to Gu Anran. The hot pot is called “Pot Addition” and is one of the more famous restaurants near the school. The spicy hot pot they have is especially recommended by many students and right now they were having an event where for the second person, the price was halved.

“Let’s go then!” Gu Anran shrugged. She didn’t care what they ate anyway, and if she sweats, she can always go back to the dormitory and take a shower.

“Let’s go, let’s go, follow me.”

The two of them walked out of the campus and then arrived at the hot pot restaurant about 10 minutes away from the campus. There were many people walking around the area as the two of them entered the restaurant. Since the summer heat was still burning outside, there were not many customers inside and there was no need to wait as the waiter took them to their table immediately.

However, because there are only small parties coming to eat, all the smaller tables are full and the two of them were led to a six-person booth instead. They didn’t mind the seating arrangement, but they would soon regret their decision.

Their food came quickly and the red boiling soup in front of them exuded the slight smell of herbs that was a little pungent yet enticing at the same time. They threw their hot pot ingredients into the hot soup, Gu Anran breaking apart a large piece of cabbage while leaving the more leafy vegetables to the side. After all, if you throw those vegetables in too early, they’ll quickly turn an unpalatable yellow.

Who knows what Hong Qingyi was thinking but she actually ordered the largest, best-quality meat platter combo. There were two big plates of beef, pig, and sheep along with more than 20 slices of fish fillets, chicken, shrimp, clams, etc. The amount of plates made the six-seater table completely full, how were they going to eat all of this?? Gu Anran could only sigh as she looked at the dozen plates.

“Here….are your rice and drinks.” Hong Qingyi returned with two bowls of rice and two bottles of coke.

“Can we even finish all of this?” Gu Anran asked while throwing some beef onto Hong Qingyi’s plate.

“Ai, if we can’t finish it then we can just pack it up for takeout later! What else are you going to do? Hisss…oh that’s hot, really hot!” Hong Qingyi grinned as she took a bite of her meat.

“Be more careful!” Gu Anran rolled her eyes before picking up her own meat. Mmm…this restaurant is indeed worthy of a recommendation, the food is delicious! The praise isn’t exaggerated either as the soup wasn’t too spicy for most and it warmed up the body with an enjoyable feeling. One can imagine how popular this place must be during the cold winter months.

While the two were eating happily, the four people they least wanted to see appeared outside of the restaurant.

“Mengyan, Qingyi, you two really want to eat here during this hot summer day?? Are you crazy??” Duan Hongwu curled his lips and stuck his hands into his pockets.

“If you keep speaking like this, I’ll ask your housekeeper to make you eat hot pot all year-round without any air-conditioning on.” Mu Qingli smiled brightly. Although her smile seemed gentle, there was a clear killing intent to it. The person who received this killing intent is none other than Duan Hongwu. He looked at Mu Qingli as if she sprouted two horns out of her head. This woman is the devil! The only woman who can control all of their parents without breaking a sweat! Too scary!

“Qingli, they’re over there.” Chi Mengyan pointed in the direction where Gu Anran and Hong Qingyi were currently bowing their heads over their food.

“En, I see. Wenyan, I’ll leave the rest to you.” Mu Qingli turned to Song Wenyan.

“Of course, leave it to me. I’m bringing out the big guns today.” He gave her a thumbs-up, and then immediately many men in black appeared behind him.

“Young Master, is it true you’re inviting us to dinner today?” The man in the lead asked happily.

“Of course it’s true. We’re eating right here.” Song Wenyan pointed to the hot pot restaurant, and immediately the faces of the men in black stiffened.

“Boss…this can’t be a prank by the Young Master, right?”

“I don’t know, he normally isn’t the type to do this kind of thing.”

“Forget it, if we’re told to eat hot pot then we are eating it! I haven’t eaten anything all day for this one meal!”

Just how unreliable are you in their eyes? Duan Hongwu, Mu Qingli and Chi Mengyan all turned to look at Song Wenyan speechlessly.

“Ahem….in any case, you should all go in now. Ah, but remember, you do not know any of us.” Song Wenyan coughed dryly and then ordered seriously.

“Understood.” The group of people dressing balck bowed towards Song Wenyan in unison, making the nearby pedestrians stop and take a picture. Mu Qingli and the others stepped back a little to distance themselves, they were already embarrassed enough as it was!

“Um….is there something you need?” The hot pot restaurant owner’s wife rubbed her hands as she looked anxiously at the group in black. She wondered if she should call the police or not.

“Hahahaha, boss lady, our brothers have come here to eat! A total of 56 people. Is that okay?” The man in the lead took off his sunglasses to show an unexpectedly honest-looking face. Only then did the owner’s wife breathe a sigh of relief.

“P-Please come in.”

“Seems things are quite lively outside.” Hong Qingyi pointed towards the window.

“I don’t care, it has nothing to do with us anyway.” Gu Anran said as she continued to eat and focus her thoughts on how to recreate this soup recipe later. If she can get the spices right, maybe they don’t have to spend money eating here all the time. Ah, but what if she sells the recipe to other people? Please, she’s not that evil as to give away the bread and butter of the store to someone else.

“By the way, there’s a freshman contest coming up!” Hong Qingyi showed Gu Anran the phone’s screen, the picture of the campus forum informing the students of a new student contest where each department can send a team of freshmen to showcase their talents or perform a show.

“We’re not going to participate, but we should stop by the stalls and see some of the shows.” Gu Anran sipped her soup.

“Aiya, what a coincidence.” A familiar voice sounded out.

“Keuk-! Cough, cough, cough!” The voice scared Gu Anran so much that she started choking violently. Suddenly someone was patting her back with one hand.

“What are you guys doing here?” Hong Qingyi put down her bowl and turned towards them with an alert expression while Gu Anran quickly escaped from the hands clapping her back.

“Dear customers…I’m very sorry, but as you can see all the other seats are full today. We’re sorry to bother you, but can these four join you at this booth?” The waiter spoke first and looked towards Gu Anran and Hong Qingyi with an apologetic look.

“This….” Gu Anran looked around and saw that in a blink of an eye, the restaurant really did fill up with people and most of them seemed to have just arrived. This meant that Mu Qingli and the others would have to wait at least 20 minutes for another table.

“Then we’ll pack up the leftovers and leave. We’re about finished here anyways-” Before Gu Anran could finish she was interrupted by Chi Mengyan.

“We’ll pay.”

“Hah.” The ice beauty’s words may sound simple, but sorry, we don’t understand them!

“What Mengyan means is that you two should keep eating and as an apology, we’ll pay the bill.” Mu Qingli quickly explained with a smile.

“Ah.” Their words changed quickly! Gu Anran barely had time to react before Mu Qingli and the other four immediately sat down and then asked the waiter to grab some more dishes.

By the time Gu Anran and Hong Qingyi reacted, the two of them could no longer escape as they sat in the innermost part of the booth where their backs were against the window. Ahhhhh! Their retreat has been cut off!

The enemy is too strong! The retreat has been cut off! What should they do to save themselves now? Urgently waiting for your answers online!

***Don’t mind me, trying some new T/N and footnotes. Simply click on the [1] in the text and it will take you to the bottom here. Click “Back” if you want to go back to the footnote in the text.

This is supposed to be a joke, for when Chi Mengyan said “we’ll pay” she used the same phrase a person would say to a prostitute or escort. Like “we’ll pay for your body/time” kind of deal. Back

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