護花近衛 - 第73章 免費廚師 - 墨香閣

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It was not long before Uncle Qing's Bentley pulled up in front of the villa, and Uncle Qing froze for a moment when he saw Wei Zhao standing at the gate.

"Mr. Lin, what are you doing here?" Uncle Qing got out of the car and looked at Wei Zhao with some surprise.

"I came out for a breath of fresh air, and to have a look at who lives around here," Wei Zhao said.

Uncle Qing nodded. "Mengyao and the others have not come out yet? Shall I go and call them?"

Just as he spoke, Gu Mengyao and Shen Yushu came walking out of the villa chatting and laughing with their schoolbags on their backs. Seeing Uncle Qing, they greeted him and got into the car.

Wei Zhao naturally took the front passenger seat, and Uncle Qing started the car and drove slowly toward the school.

Once in the car, the two girls kept whispering together in the back seat. The Bentley had plenty of room inside, and besides, Wei Zhao did not care to eavesdrop on their private talk, so he paid no attention to what they were saying.

After a while, Shen Yushu gave Gu Mengyao a nudge. "If you like it, why will you not say so yourself?"

"Like what? I will just have a couple of bites in passing. Forget it if you will not say it," Gu Mengyao snorted and ignored Shen Yushu.

Shen Yushu had no choice but to wrinkle her nose. "Fine, fine, I will say it, I will say it."

Those two remarks were spoken loudly and clearly enough that Wei Zhao heard them from the front passenger seat, though he had no idea what they were about.

"Uncle Qing, when you come over in the evening, could you buy some more fresh ingredients?" Shen Yushu said to Uncle Qing as he drove.

"Oh? Ingredients?" Uncle Qing was slightly taken aback. "You mean fresh vegetables and meat?"

"Yes, eggs, seasonings, buy a little of everything. Just make it a complete set," Shen Yushu said with a nod.

"All right." Uncle Qing was puzzled. He had prepared fresh vegetables and meat for them before, but much of it had ended up expiring, so afterward he had only kept a small amount on hand for emergencies. He had not expected Shen Yushu to suddenly ask him to stock up a whole lot.

Judging from what Shen Yushu and Gu Mengyao had just been saying, Gu Mengyao was most likely in on it too, so Uncle Qing asked no more questions and agreed without hesitation.

"Yay! Sister Yaoyao, we will have good food from now on!" Shen Yushu excitedly held out her hand, wanting a high-five from Gu Mengyao.

Gu Mengyao shot her a glare. "Eat, eat, all you ever think about is eating. When you eat yourself into a fat pig, let us see who will still marry you."

Wei Zhao listened from the front passenger seat with metaphorical black lines all over his head. If he still could not figure out what this girl Shen Yushu was scheming, he would be a complete idiot. Buying all those ingredients, was she treating him as a free chef?

Damn it, how wronged was he? Waking up with a runny nose had been seized on as blackmail material. If word of this got out and his old teammates heard it, would they not laugh their teeth off?

Still, this was really not something he could explain, and the more he explained the worse it would get, so Wei Zhao could only swallow it. He would just treat it as carrying out a mission. For a reward big enough to feed him for the rest of his life, what he was putting up with now counted as nothing.

Compared with those days in the North African jungle, when even a spider could take a man's life, life now was wonderful. He could go to school and chase girls... well, chasing girls did not seem very reliable.

Watching in the rearview mirror as Shen Yushu made faces at him from the back seat, Wei Zhao could only close his eyes and pretend he had seen nothing.