Chapter 1249 - 1246: Auntie, Try My Cooking
Luofeng glanced at the delivery progress on his phone and said, "Baby, it’s almost here, go wash your hands and get ready to eat."
Bai Ningbing’s face flushed red; she shot Luofeng a glare, then walked over to the sink and lowered her voice, "Luofeng, my mom’s here, don’t yell that randomly!"
Luofeng suddenly came back to his senses, then gently nudged her. "Go call your mom to come eat! I think she went to change clothes."
Tangya usually didn’t wear her work clothes at home.
She had already gone to the bedroom.
"Mm-hmm!" Bai Ningbing nodded and walked toward the bedroom.
A moment later, Tangya and Bai Ningbing came back to the dining area in the kitchen. Luofeng had already served three bowls of rice.
His own bowl was piled high.
The two beauties’ bowls were just normal.
After all, they really couldn’t eat that much.
"Come on, Auntie, Ningbing, try my cooking." Luofeng called out.
"Your cooking?" Tangya laughed.
Luofeng said with a straight face, "Of course it’s my cooking. I’m the one who cooked this pot of rice. Doesn’t that count as my handiwork?"
Put that way, it sounded fair enough.
"Auntie, Ningbing, try this stonefish. It’s this place’s signature steamed fish." Luofeng urged.
Bai Ningbing liked fish. After tasting it, she said, "Not bad, it’s tender and fresh, the flavor’s great."
Tangya chimed in, "It is pretty good, but the fat content’s a bit high, easy to put on weight."
As soon as she heard "put on weight."
Bai Ningbing immediately abandoned the stonefish and shifted her target to the Leopard coral trout.
The Leopard coral trout’s texture was top-notch. Otherwise, how could it be a representative among high-end fish?
Tangya asked, "Which place is this from?"
"Right near your bank. It’s pretty close, about fifteen minutes or so if you go over. If you like it, Auntie, you can go eat there sometimes." Luofeng said.
Tangya nodded.
But her, going to eat alone?
That was impossible.
She would probably rather stay home and eat fruit and bread by herself.
But Luofeng glanced at the home clothes Tangya was wearing today.
They weren’t pajamas.
But it was a camisole?
The house wasn’t even that hot, right? Why so breezy?
The key thing was that Tangya had a great figure—those fragrant shoulders and fair arms, plus those unbeatable... whatever lines?
Interesting.
"This place’s Kung Pao chicken is really good too!" Bai Ningbing said.
"That one’s from another restaurant, Farmer’s Banquet. I’ve had their Kung Pao chicken many times, it’s really solid." As he spoke, Luofeng picked up a piece of cured pork ribs for Bai Ningbing, and casually also gave a piece to Tangya.
Tangya glanced at Luofeng from the corner of her eye but didn’t refuse.
Because pork is high in calories, yet Tangya still didn’t refuse.
Bai Ningbing refused and said, "I’d better eat less pork, it makes you gain weight!"
Luofeng’s eyes flickered. "If you’re afraid of putting on weight, then let’s go up to the rooftop to swim later. The sun’s already set anyway, and swimming really is great for losing weight."
Bai Ningbing said expectantly, "Good idea, we’ll go together later!"
Tangya gave Bai Ningbing a strange look from the side.
Luofeng coughed lightly.
This Iron Silly, she hadn’t realized she said something wrong?
Luofeng quickly changed the subject. "Auntie, you know how to swim, right?"
Bai Ningbing answered for Tangya, "My mom’s really incredible!"
Luofeng smiled. "Then I’m probably the weakest one here, okay?"
In reality, Luofeng was very good.
He just sometimes needed tactical camouflage.
After all, if pretending to be bad at swimming could earn him some great perks, why not act a bit weak?
Tangya stayed silent on the side; these topics felt a bit delicate to her.
After about half an hour, Luofeng, Tangya, and Bai Ningbing had all finished dinner.
Cleaning up was left to Bai Ningbing and Tangya, while Luofeng sat on the sofa and continued reading messages from Long Jianfeng.
And he deliberately sat on the single armchair that Tangya liked.
Tangya glanced at the armchair and also realized something, but didn’t say it out loud.
After all, a hair dryer wasn’t some magic tool, okay?
There were still faint traces.
Long Jianfeng: Boss Luo, the total amount of peach gum is 176 0.5 kilograms. I measured it: your family’s peach orchard is four mu. There are 202 peach trees. Besides bite marks from wild dogs on the peach gum, there are also signs of birds stealing some.
Long Jianfeng: We discovered it pretty late, so some got ruined by wild animals, but not too much. By my estimate, peach gum output will be higher in the future. How should we handle this batch?
Luofeng: Split it into two parts. Store 170 0.5 kilograms, and give you guys 6 0.5 kilograms for research.
Luofeng: Oh right, how’s the holly fruit propagation research going?
Honestly, Luofeng didn’t want to ask.
But he pretended to check in.
Long Jianfeng: Everything’s going smoothly, currently over 190 saplings have survived.
Luofeng: Very good, keep it up.
After finishing his chat with Long Jianfeng, Bai Ningbing walked over to Luofeng and handed him a pair of swim trunks.
"Your swim trunks," Bai Ningbing said.
Luofeng took them. "Hang on, let me deal with something over at Qili Bay first!"
"The peach gum?" Bai Ningbing asked.
"Mm-hmm. I’ll take you over to check it out tomorrow?" Luofeng said.
"Sure, I want to see the place where you grew up." Bai Ningbing said happily.
Luofeng smiled and nodded. "Okay, the place where I grew up is actually pretty fun!"
"Mm, let’s go together tomorrow then!" Bai Ningbing said.
Luofeng really liked this simple, sincere answer from Bai Ningbing.
She liked the place where he grew up.
That answer filled Luofeng with emotion.
He tossed his phone onto the coffee table. "Let’s go up to the rooftop pool now?"
"Okay! I want to race you!" Bai Ningbing grabbed Luofeng and pulled him up from the sofa.
Luofeng stood up with a smile. "Alright, let’s go!"
The two of them headed up to the rooftop garden.
The pool had already been filtered and disinfected.
Luofeng was wondering if he should top up some credit on Ningbing’s house’s water, electricity, and gas cards.
After all, changing the water once cost six hundred yuan.
If you included filtering and cleaning chemicals, that came to nine hundred.
If Bai Ningbing changed the water once a day, Tangya would probably lose her mind, right?
Bai Ningbing changed into her swimsuit in the rooftop changing room. After a light warm-up, she slipped into the pool and started swimming.
She began with breaststroke, then freestyle, then backstroke.
Then she swam back to Luofeng’s side. "How was that? I’m pretty impressive, right?"
"Very nice!" Luofeng smiled.
These were basically just showy moves.
People who are truly strong swimmers are the kind who can actually go into the water to rescue someone, okay?
Plus this was still water.
If it were a fast-flowing river, and you could make it across to the other side, now that would be Awesome.
"You sound really perfunctory. Do you think I’m not that good?" Bai Ningbing huffed playfully. "Fine then, you try and catch up to me!"
"Any reward if I do?" Luofeng asked with a mischievous grin.
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