Quite awkward

Qi Yu went downstairs and sat in the main room, holding her chin in her hand and staring blankly. The rain outside never stopped.

She was unsure whether she could get to the set on time tomorrow.

During the filming period, she never came late or left early.

Sometimes after work, she would still stay on the set to watch the two leading teachers filming, more or less wanting to learn something so that she could improve faster.

As night fell, the old lady took out the leftovers from lunch from the refrigerator.

She added a ladle of water to the iron pot and supported it with two chopsticks. She put the bowl in, covered the pot, and then lit the firewood.

Qi Yu stood aside and watched, worried about her and Mu Chenan's dinner today.

She had just looked through the refrigerator and found the refrigerated section was empty, and there was no meat or vegetable stock in the freezer section.

Seeing her conflicted look, the old lady stood up and took out a pumpkin she had grown from the dark hut next to her.

"I usually eat simple food. If you want to cook it yourself, you can cook this pumpkin."

Qi Yu took the pumpkin from the old lady. Because it was too heavy, she bent down and gently put it back on the ground.

After the old lady heated up the meal, she took the bowl and went to the main room. Qi Yu ran to the wood stove and bent down to take a look. There was still a faint flame. If she added some firewood, it would light up again.

She rolled up her sleeves, quickly took tools to peel the pumpkin, cut it into pieces, then added firewood, waited for the fire in the stove to burn, then heated oil in a pan, stir-fried the pumpkin twice, added clean well water, covered the pot and simmered it.

After completing this step, she picked up the rice cooker pot to wash the rice and cook it.

Expect to wait another twenty minutes for your meal.

She got up and ran upstairs. Just as she stepped onto the first step, she saw two men's long legs around the corner.

She stopped and looked up, then called out with a smile, "Second Brother."

"I cooked and we had pumpkin tonight."

Mu Chenan walked a few steps towards her, raised his hand to wipe away the black dust on her cheek, and his fingertips inadvertently slid across her face as he lowered his hand.

The temperature of the man's fingertips was slightly cool, but Qi Yu felt half of her face was burning, like the low-temperature flame of a wood stove.

She moved sideways to create distance between her and him.

He raised his eyebrows and reminded her softly, "There's still some on your neck, wipe it off yourself."

Qi Yu rubbed the flesh on her neck randomly, and Mu Chenan noticed that her skin turned red.

He walked around her and stood on the porch to catch his breath, then walked to the kitchen.

Qi Yu was stirring the gurgling pumpkin with a spatula. She added salt and sugar and continued stirring before serving.

"Brother, are you hungry? We'll be eating soon."

Mu Chenan didn't answer her. He pulled up his pants, squatted down, and took out two eggs from the basket.

When he was studying abroad, he occasionally cooked, and making a simple scrambled eggs was a piece of cake for him.

Seeing that he wanted to cook, Qi Yu washed the pot and looked at the firewood. There was no problem.

She was just about to sit down and rest when Mu Chenan told her to pick some green onions.

Qi Yu peeked out from the kitchen door. The old lady was not in the main room. She walked to the sink and saw his bony hands washing egg shells.

Young Master Mu is really particular.

She leaned against his arm, looked up, and whispered, "Isn't it too casual to pull things from other people's fields?"

Mu Chenan turned off the water and snorted, "I gave the old lady 5,000 yuan, so what if I took a few green onions from her house?"

Qi Yu opened his eyes wide.

At that time, she didn't look at the stack of money carefully and estimated that it was only a few hundred or a thousand yuan at most.

It turned out that he gave the old lady 5,000 yuan at one time.

This is equivalent to the cost of a one-night stay at a platinum luxury hotel.

Logically, the host should prepare a sumptuous meal to entertain them, but considering that the other party was a casual and eccentric old lady, they might as well do it themselves.

The old lady built a fence and planted green onions in rectangular pots under the porch. They were not soaked by rain and were still fresh.

After Qi Yu finished pulling the green onions, she returned to the kitchen and saw Mu Chenan beating eggs.

She washed the dirt off the roots and handed it to Mu Chenan.

"Brother, I'm going to the bathroom. I'll be right down."

When she left, Mu Chenan placed the green onions on the chopping board and picked up the kitchen knife with one hand, looking very focused.

Three minutes later, Qi Yu came back and Mu Chenan had already put the eggs into the pot and was flipping them with a spatula.

He is tall and the stove is very low, so he can only bend down as much as possible to cook.

She walked over, smelled the aroma of green onions and eggs, and asked, "Second brother, why don't I do it? You look uncomfortable in this position."

"No need, go prepare the dishes, I'll be ready soon."

"okay!"

……

After a busy period, I finally had dinner at eight o'clock in the evening.

The pumpkin and scrambled eggs were delicious.

Qi Yu ate some more rice, and Mu Chenan held the bowl and ate very politely.

The old lady came over to take a look and said with a compliment: "It looks good. Don't throw it away if you don't finish it. I'll save it for tomorrow."

Qi Yu smiled and agreed: "There is still a bowl of untouched pumpkin in the kitchen. I will put it in the refrigerator later."

"Well, sensible girl, I'm going to sleep, you guys close the door yourselves."

After the old lady finished speaking, she went into a side room, closed the door tightly, and ignored them, looking overly casual.

After dinner, Mu Chenan received a call from Chen Yang.

The main road will still be blocked from traffic tomorrow. Chen Yang heard about a small road and he will rush there tomorrow morning to pick up the two of them and take them back to Linjiang City.

While he was on the phone, Qi Yu had already cleaned up the kitchen.

The two met in the stairwell and went upstairs together.

"You can leave tomorrow morning. I'll take you to the crew first." Mu Chenan said.

Qi Yu nodded vigorously and finally felt relieved.