Reborn As Lucky Star
Chapter 652: Unexpected Joy

Chapter 652: Chapter 652: Unexpected Joy

Lu Zhu didn’t start arguing with Yue Qingqing, she just remained silent.

Qu Ruorui tried to lighten the mood, "Aren’t you close to the river? Let’s go play by the river this afternoon? I even want to find a pebble."

Lu Zhu, "Let’s not go, that river is really dirty, it has all kinds of garbage floating in it, and a drunkard even drowned in there."

Qu Ruorui, "..."

Lu Zhu glanced at her, "When the body was found, it had swollen up horribly, frightfully large. The police couldn’t even identify it after they arrived, and there were swarms of flies and insects all around."

Qu Ruorui, "I really didn’t want to hear that, thanks."

Lu Zhu enjoyed teasing Qu Ruorui and happily went to the communal kitchen to get food.

Qu Ruorui patted her chest, feeling nauseous just thinking about that scene.

"I don’t think I can eat now."

Yue Qingqing pinched Qiuqiu’s cheek, "She’s just teasing you."

Jingze never expected that Lu Zhu also had such a wicked sense of humor.

Zhan Zhenfang came back, using a cane, and set up a small table in one of the few open spaces of the yard.

The three of them sat around as Lu Zhu placed a round pot on the table.

The soup was a bright red and looked appealing with thinly sliced potatoes, mushrooms, tofu skin, and various greens, with some meat and fish slices buried in the middle.

The aroma was rich, one sniff of the spicy scent stimulated the appetite tremendously.

"This is a dish my mom learned from someone else, it may look like a simple hot pot, but the flavor is really good."

Lu Zhu put several small bowls in front of everyone, adding some chili sauce, and placed a pair of shared chopsticks in the middle.

Zhan Zhenfang said apologetically, "Xiaozhu told me this morning that you were coming. I didn’t know what to make, so I just prepared this, please don’t mind."

Yue Qingqing, smelling the aroma, was already swallowing her saliva. Seeing the aunt pick up the chopsticks, she could no longer resist and grabbed some glass noodles into her bowl.

The explosive spicy taste in her mouth made her appetite surge, even though her tongue was a bit numb, she couldn’t help eating more.

Even Qu Ruorui, who had felt nauseous from Lu Zhu’s earlier comments, was now burying her head and eating heartily, with no signs of being unable to eat.

Zhan Zhenfang watched this scene, her eyes filled with laughter.

She knew her daughter well.

After so many years burdened by her, to say nothing of good friends, there were hardly any familiar people around them.

Zhan Zhenfang always worried about her daughter’s future and felt she was a burden, sometimes even thinking of ending it all.

But she knew she was her daughter’s only concern.

If she were gone, Xiaozhu would definitely become more radical, who knows what foolish things she might do.

So, Zhan Zhenfang needed to live well.

The day Xiaozhu said she was bringing classmates over, Zhan Zhenfang felt both happy and afraid, worried that the girls seeing the state of their home would look down on her daughter.

Fortunately, the scenario she had imagined did not occur; these two were clearly good kids.

Lu Zhu ate unhurriedly, refilling water for the two of them.

Yue Qingqing, who usually ate less spicy food, was now sweating profusely, gulping down water with a gasp, yet unwilling to put down her chopsticks.

Qu Ruorui was in a similar state.

"Auntie, your cooking is too good, how did you make this soup?"

Zhan Zhenfang blushed, "I just threw some things together. Xiaozhu likes spicy food, so I often make something spicy. I still have a few bottles of chili sauce in my house, you can take them back to use in the cafeteria."

Yue Qingqing laughed with a hee-hee, coyly replied, "How can we accept that?"

"What’s there to be embarrassed about, auntie made it herself, it’s not worth much," Zhan Zhenfang nonchalantly put down her chopsticks and went inside to get the chili sauce.

Yue Qingqing took the opportunity to look up at Lu Zhu, "I think auntie’s cooking skill is too good to waste."

Yue Qingqing’s palette had been carefully nurtured by Jiang Jingze.

Even though she generally didn’t prefer spicy food, she genuinely thought the auntie’s soup tasted delicious, spicy yet flavorful, which would surely appeal to others too.

Lu Zhu shook her head, "My mom’s legs aren’t good, and being a chef means standing all day in the kitchen, she can’t handle that."

Even if not as a chef, she could do something else, Yue Qingqing picked up a piece of meat and dipped it into the chili sauce in her bowl.

Like this chili sauce, which was quite tasty, perhaps it would sell well.

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