Showbiz Scandal: The Official Announcement of My Ex and Myself-Chapter 294: Heart-Shaped Green Steamed Buns
Xie Qingci was quite looking forward to it; the taste was secondary. The main thing was that this meal was considered as Yu Xia’s first time cooking for him.
So when the dishes were gradually served, he maintained a grateful heart throughout.
The porridge boiled with dandelion looked normal, the shepherd’s purse dumplings, although not very neat in shape, at least were sealed properly, the mugwort steamed buns were a bit green which made him anxious but were also kind of pretty, and the stir-fried dried meat with garlic sprouts was a bit blackish, yet this dish couldn’t taste bad no matter how it’s prepared, so it should be okay.
Yu Xia handed out the bowls and chopsticks and urged him to eat quickly.
"I’m so hungry my stomach is burning, hurry up and eat. These steamed buns, there are only two, were specially saved for you. You’re still growing, so you need more staples, temporarily forget about your manager outside the screen."
Xie Qingci picked up a steamed bun and took a bite.
Almost got choked that he couldn’t catch his breath.
He made an effort to swallow it down, drank two mouthfuls of porridge and finally got over it.
"Sis."
"Hmm?" Yu Xia was quickly handling her chopsticks, her head still buried in the bowl and not lifted while answering.
He raised the unusually heavy steamed bun and asked, "This steamed bun... wasn’t it fermented?"
This weight could match three steamed buns sold outside, if used to hit a dog, it could knock it out.
Yu Xia looked up with a frown at him: "There’s no time for fermentation, why, do you have any complaints about my steamed buns?"
"...No, they’re quite tasty." He tried hard to eat the vegetables along, one bite of bun three bites of food, chewing till his cheeks were sore before swallowing those two green love steamed buns.
Then Yu Xia served him another bowl of porridge.
"These dishes in front of you, with a perfect mix of meat and vegetables, taste excellent, remember not to waste them."
She was already full, but some dishes were left over, they couldn’t be wasted, right? After all, these were wild vegetables she had painstakingly dug up from the mountain.
Xie Qingci nodded.
He had good table manners, the old lady beside them praised him nonstop, mentioning how handsome and capable he was, Yu Xia felt like she was listening to the matchmaker praising a dating partner, she sat for a while then ran outside.
The scenery in the village wasn’t bad, though the land was barren, the plots of private land around the house were still planted with vegetables, small patches with good care, surrounded by green nets to prevent chickens and ducks from running in and ruining the vegetables.
She stepped into the kitchen room, packed up the raw dumplings, waiting for the buns on the steamer to be cooked. During the waiting process, she casually glanced out through the narrow window, just to see Xie Qingci looking back at her from the sitting room.
The two exchanged looks across half the yard’s distance, after a while, a lazy cat strutted past from under the eaves, Yu Xia lowered her gaze first, yet there was a slight smile at the corner of her mouth.
Even she didn’t know what she was smiling about, but at that moment, she was in a really good mood, couldn’t help but want to smile.
Xie Qingci quickly finished his meal, tidied up the bowl and chopsticks ready to wash dishes. Yu Xia was beside packing buns, pondering how to rearrange all the items in the backpack to free up enough space.
"If the bun gets squeezed, won’t it just burst like falling into a dry pool at noon?"
Xie Qingci: "I’ll carry it well, it won’t get squeezed."
She muttered to ask again: "How long can these last? I made ten, planning for one piece per person a meal, they won’t go bad by then, will they?"
"Ten?" Xie Qingci was a bit puzzled, "With only a handful of dried meat stir-fried with vegetables, can you really make ten buns?"
Yu Xia replied with her head down: "Mostly they were used to stir fry, the rest I applied a blind box method, sliced and stuffed into five buns. Oh right, the remaining five buns without any meat, four have wild vegetables, and one is blank."
In other words, five meaty, four vegetarian, and one indistinguishable from a steamed bun.
Xie Qingci wanted to say something but stopped, and eventually didn’t ask anything, continued to wash his dishes.
[You two might as well stay here for the rest of your lives, you’re just a couple of kids short of being Niu Lang and Zhi Niu]
[LOL, Xie Qingci almost rolled his eyes from choking]
[They truly look more like a couple than real couples, and not much is missing to be like real spouses, it’s like... newlyweds?]
[Eating blood oranges feels weirdly astringent]
[Yu Xia is not delicate at all, I thought such a big star, with a princess background, would be very delicate]
[Clearly, Xie Qingci doesn’t trust Yu Xia’s cooking much, hitting the nail he glanced up how many times]
[Is it troublesome for some netizens to be a bit romantic? Instead of worrying about Yu Xia not cooking well, worry about Yu Xia burning her hand, always wanting to go over and soothe his sister, right?]
[Hahahahaha I laughed till I died]
[Blind box? Goodness, I finally found a way to bring some surprise into my stagnant marriage with my husband]
[Confuse him with a bun’s exterior but a steamed bun’s interior, huh?]
[I’m more concerned about where they’re sleeping tonight]
After eating their fill, saying goodbye to the old lady watching them from the yard entrance, Yu Xia and Xie Qingci continued their journey.
Only about an hour left before truce time, they needed to reach the next checkpoint to draw a task as fast as possible.
The target mountain was by a river, unlike the stream encountered in the last episode, this river was deep and wide, the only way past was by the ferry dock.
But it was a good thing too, Yu Xia paid the ferry fee and asked the boatman:
"Is there any other path across the mountain on the other side?"
The boatman shook his head: "If you want to cross from this side, there isn’t. This river is very long, only a special bridge is built far away over there, nothing here."
So the transit was inconvenient for them, and similarly for their pursuers.
Xie Qingci chased with another question: "Is there a time restriction for the boat here?"
"Starts at 8 in the morning, not operating at noon, by 6 in the evening I go back to eat, stopped too."
That’s kind of good news, at least they’d be safer across the river.
They both exhaled in relief.
The boat drifted along the stream, swaying, Yu Xia enjoyed the river breeze admiring the sun’s slanting rays sparkling on the river surface, occasionally spotting fleeting fish shadows, once the water moved, they’d whip their tails and vanish.
At that moment, Xie Qingci saw a bamboo fish basket on the boat, asked the boatman if he could sell it to them.
The boatman took five dollars and exchanged it for a new one for them.
Getting off the boat, Yu Xia held the fish basket to study it carefully.
"Big belly, small mouth, let’s break some buns inside, once the fish swim in, they can’t get out!"
Xie Qingci saw her excitement, thought of the weight of the buns, nodded objectively: "That’s a good idea, maybe we can get a fish overnight, can roast it for a meal."
They bought some seasoning from the old lady, it’s all packed.
Yu Xia was eager to catch fish now, she looked around the surroundings, consulted him: "Where should we pitch the tent tonight? Can it not be too far from the river so we can catch fish?"
Xie Qingci first asked her: "Do we first head to the checkpoint to draw tasks, or find a place to pitch the tent?"
