Si Huaixi’s thoughts raced for a moment, then he took out the thermal box with a calm expression.
After all, it was just a cat he picked up, he should be able to afford to raise it.
“Eat. You probably haven’t eaten anything since I left this morning. This is the food I brought from a kind family. His wife cooks pretty good fish.”
Si Huaixi opened the thermal box with ease.
The fragrant sweet and sour fish looked very appetising. The crispy fish meat is lightly fried, and the burnt aroma is accompanied by the sweet and sour taste of fruit. The tender and tempting fish meat is coated with orange-red sour vinegar sauce, which is fragrant and crispy, and the slightly sour taste with a hint of spiciness is irresistible.
Si Huaixi couldn’t help but pick up the food with chopsticks several times at Cao’s house. Cao’s wife also added some homemade side dishes, which were sour, spicy and delicious. When he left, Si Huaixi not only took the insulation box of Cao’s house, but also asked his wife to add some side dishes.
Chief Cao’s wife was a cheerful southern woman. She wanted to send a whole jar of her special dishes, but Si Huaixi refused on the pretext that it was not convenient to bring it to his friends. When she learned that Si Huaixi was bringing food to his friends and that she could not bring leftovers to Commander Si’s friends, she specially made a fresh, steaming hot sweet and sour fish.
Pei Zhaozhou was a little slow to react for a moment. He was just talking about the preparations needed for the new experiment, when suddenly Si Huaixi produced a box of meals cooked using traditional Chinese cooking methods.
Interstellar traditional cooking methods are a luxury that only the upper class can enjoy. A simple plate of stir-fried vegetables cooked using traditional methods can cost hundreds of bottles of nutritional supplements. Pei Zhaozhou has been a member of the working class since he was young, and he fought his way to fame. How could he have the money to enjoy the luxury of traditional cooking methods?
After entering the Empire’s First Military Academy, a bottle of nutrient supplements could cover several days’ consumption. When fighting the Zerg, I was so busy that I didn’t even have time to take nutrient supplements, let alone the opportunity to enjoy traditional cooking, which was a time-consuming and costly luxury.
Only after he became a major-general of the empire and was invited to banquets by those nobles, did he try the ancient cooking methods that these nobles so admired.
But after trying it, Pei Zhaozhou found out that it tasted even worse than the nutritional supplements.
A mixture of all sorts of strange ingredients creates a weird dark cuisine that makes the tongue unable to taste the sour, sweet, bitter and spicy flavours. After being used to eating liquid nutritional supplements, those strange ancient cooking meals that are soft, sticky or stiff to the touch make people feel nauseous and their appetite decreases immediately. In addition, the nutritional content is not as balanced as that of nutritional supplements, so it is simply a waste of food!
As time went by, Pei Zhaozhou was no longer willing to try, and even rejected invitations from imperial nobles. He was also scolded for being ungrateful, saying that he was born a commoner and did not even know how to appreciate the elegant traditional cooking methods.
Pei Zhaozhou thought that there must be no nutritional supplements in this world, nor his favourite flavours of the Imperial Army nutritional supplements. He could only taste the artificial primitive cooking in this world…
For a moment, he felt depressed.
He didn’t expect that even in a different world, he still couldn’t escape.
But Pei Zhaozhou thought about it for a moment and knew that this was something Si Huaixi had specially brought to him, and he didn’t want him to return disappointed…
He can only hope it doesn’t taste too bad.
Si Huaixi handed over the chopsticks.
Pei Zhaozhou glanced at the way Si Huaixi held the chopsticks, then clenched the chopsticks in his hand awkwardly. The two wooden sticks were crooked. His amber eyes looked at the delicious-looking food, with a hint of subtle confusion in his eyes.
In the past, tableware was rarely used in interstellar space. Normally, people would just open the lid of the nutrient solution and drink it in one gulp. In the rare occasions when tableware was needed at banquets, they would use knives and forks. This kind of tableware that Si Huaixi gave him was the first time he had seen it.
stamp!
stamp!
Pei Zhaozhou clenched the chopsticks tightly and poked the chopsticks into the fish meat like he would use a fork, then lifted it up. As a result, the fish meat rolled everywhere but he couldn’t pick up a single piece of meat.
Gradually, Pei Zhaozhou felt ashamed and his expression became gloomy.
The cat watched completely as he didn’t know how to use chopsticks and was still sulking with anger, his expression turned into that of a bad-tempered cat.
Si Huaixi laughed and said, “Are you really not not able to pick up the food because you are picky about food?”
Pei Zhaozhou blushed guiltily: “I’m not picky about food!”
Si Huaixi’s eyes were filled with helplessness and a doting look that he didn’t even realise. He smiled and said, “Okay, you’re not picky about food, you just don’t know how to use chopsticks. I don’t know how you stayed in China for so many years. You can’t even use chopsticks. Let me teach you how to use them.”
Pei Zhaozhou felt that he should be angry, but Si Huaixi’s intimate tone inexplicably extinguished the fire in his heart, and he began to seriously learn the tableware of this high-dimensional world.
Damn it! Why are these two wooden sticks so hard to grasp?
Si Huaixi briefly explained how to use chopsticks.
To be honest, this was the first time he had said this. Looking at the cat’s amber-platinum eyes that were wide open with curiosity, he felt a little complicated and worried. Chopsticks had long been integrated into the daily life of the Chinese, and it was assumed that all Chinese people would use them, unless they were not Chinese.
His inquiring gaze was fixed on Pei Zhaozhou’s extraordinary amber-coloured eyes. Chinese people usually have black hair and black eyes. Si Huaixi himself is an exception, but what about Pei Zhaozhou?
Once again, doubts arose in his mind: where did he come from?
Si Huaixi was lost in his own thoughts, but was brought back to reality by a voice.
“Want to eat?”
Si Huaixi came back to his senses and saw Pei Zhaozhou picking up a piece of snow-white fish and feeding it to him using the method he had just taught him. His amber eyes were filled with anxiety, as if he was afraid that the fish would fall if he couldn’t hold the chopsticks steadily.
Si Huaixi’s worries were instantly swept away, his sea-blue eyes flashed with a bright and joyful light, and he said happily like a master being fed by his own proud cat, “Eat!”
Just eat it. Why are you so happy?
Pei Zhaozhou was shy and avoided Si Huaixi’s overly happy and enthusiastic gaze. After feeding him a mouthful, he buried his head in eating!
Transform into a hungry cat!
He originally thought that no matter how unpalatable the traditional cooking was, he had already eaten it, so he tried hard to control his expression. He would not let Si Huaixi down even if it tasted unpalatable.
and……
Si Huaixi just took a bite and seemed quite happy. It shouldn’t be too bad…
The cat thoughtfully fed the first bite of food to its owner. Only when it saw the owner’s silly smile did it put its mind at ease and eat its meal.
The result was that I was amazed after taking the first bite!
The fish is delicious! This side dish is also delicious! Why is the sour and sweet taste on the tongue so irresistible!
Pei Zhaozhou’s amber-colored pupils shone brightly, as beautiful as shimmering golden glass. When he looked at the delicious food in the box again, his eyes were so hot that they were about to burn.
The chopsticks flew so fast that they left afterimages!
Pei Zhaozhou propped up his cheeks while chewing, looking like a hungry cat that had been eating voraciously for a long time. He even ate the dry rice with a fierce look.
Si Huaixi was a little surprised, but soon smiled.
At least judging from its eagerness to eat, it seems like a cat that is not picky about food and is easy to feed.
Just eating vegetables without rice may not be a good idea.
The surface layer of fish meat was eaten up, leaving only half a box of rice, which looked pitiful because no one wanted to eat it.
It turns out that cats all love to eat meat.
Si Huaixi reached out and touched the chopsticks of the cat who was concentrating on eating, thinking of waking up the cat who was so absorbed in eating that he didn’t even look at his owner, and said, “You’ll be hungry if you don’t eat something.”
Who would have thought that the cat would get angry immediately when it was disturbed while eating, and its sharp eyes subconsciously revealed the murderous intent of snatching food from the tiger’s mouth, just like any big cat protecting its food in the wild.
Si Huaixi’s movements instantly froze, and he was too timid to dare to make the cat angry.
But after the cat saw that the unknown person who stole the food was his owner, he no longer showed his aggressive attitude, let down his guard, and became soft and approachable.
Pei Zhaozhou stopped, looked at Si Huaixi with puzzled eyes, and asked, “What’s wrong?”
At this moment, Si Huaixi was like an idiot owner who was worried about the cat’s unbalanced nutrition. His sea-blue eyes looked at Pei Zhaozhou deeply, picked up a mouthful of white rice with chopsticks, and handed it to Pei Zhaozhou: “This is also delicious. If you like to eat fish, I remember that the base gives me a quota of several fish every month. If it’s not enough, you can exchange it with crystal stones.”
Pei Zhaozhou’s eyes flashed with surprise, and his ears turned red with embarrassment at a speed visible to the naked eye.
He didn’t feel anything when he took the initiative to feed Si Huaixi just now, but when Si Huaixi fed him in return, Pei Zhaozhou felt like he was deeply doted on by Si Huaixi, and there was a hint of pleasure in his shame and annoyance.
Pei Zhaozhou hesitantly swallowed the rice Si Huaixi fed him. The fragrance of the soft and glutinous rice and the sweetness after chewing seemed to spread into his heart, softening into a piece of honey candy, so sweet that his cheeks turned rosy.
But when Si Huaixi wanted to feed him a few more bites, Pei Zhaozhou blushed and took back the chopsticks and ate it himself.
After all, he is not a child who knows nothing. It is too embarrassing to let Si Huaixi feed him!
Si Huaixi felt a trace of regret in his heart as he looked at the cat waiting obediently for him to feed it. Its watery amber eyes were full of longing for him, ahem – maybe it was the desire for him to feed it urgently.
But he still felt a little excited and wanted to reach out and stroke the cat that was eating so obediently. He waited for the cat to let down its guard towards him, revealing its soft and furry belly and allowing him to stroke and get close to it.
It’s just that the cat doesn’t seem to like him getting close…
Even though he had just touched the cat’s back, he angrily chased him away.
Si Huaixi’s eyes grew deep and he sighed in his heart, hoping that Maomao would stop rejecting him so much for the sake of the meal.
But things are never as we wish.
When Pei Zhaozhou came to his senses, he saw the box that he had eaten clean, with a hint of confusion in his eyes.
Why, it’s gone all of a sudden.
It’s like a cat that is eating happily, and sees that there is no cat food left on the plate. It is still not satisfied, but looks at the empty plate with pitiful eyes, feeling lost and self-pitying.
Pei Zhaozhou said gratefully: “Thank you for the food you brought me, it’s delicious!”
Si Huaixi smiled disapprovingly and said, “If you think it tastes good, I’ll ask Chief Cao’s wife how to make it, and I can make it when I get home tomorrow.”
Pei Zhaozhou’s eyes lit up slightly, but then he thought about going to Si Huaixi’s house and being in the same room, which would mean inevitable contact. If the susceptible period came earlier again, what should he do?
Pei Zhaozhou frowned in embarrassment: “Forget it, you have helped me a lot. I can’t bother you for everything after arriving at the base.”
Si Huaixi’s smile faded and he had a bad feeling in his heart.
Pei Zhaozhou said in a low voice: “Thank you for taking care of me for so long, but I still think it’s better for me to live alone. I don’t want to bother you too much. This is the key you gave me. I want to return it to you. As for the generator, I will stay at the base and do my best to help you.”
After saying that, Pei Zhaozhou handed a key to Si Huaixi.
He continued to stab Si Huaixi in the heart.
Pei Zhaozhou: “Take the key and you can leave. I can spend the time in the observation room by myself, so I don’t need to bother you.”
Si Huaixi’s smile instantly turned cold. He was so angry that he had a heart attack and couldn’t speak for a moment. He could only bite his back teeth and stare at Pei Zhaozhou gloomily.
—What a cruel cat!
—You refuse to admit your mistake after eating, and you’re thinking about running away from home before you even enter the door. You’re dreaming!
