Today, most people woke up late, some didn't even turn up in the entire morning. So yeah, another day-off for Peak. Ye Xingchen was supposed to be in charge of the house renovation, but since he never showed up, Mr. Chen took over because he always wanted to be helpful.
"Mmmh…"
Yun Che rolled over while having a dream.
"Are you a beast?"
Yun Che stared at Xing Feng with his wide-open eyes.
"I'm your guardian beast, aren't I?"
Xing Feng bent over and put a small kiss on Yun Che's forehead. "Get up and have a bath?"
Yun Che laid flat regardless of Xing Feng's proposition even though every part of his body was sore. He lit up a cigarette for himself, staring blankly at the ceiling.
As though his bad mood was detected, Xing Feng sat up, stroke his hair. "My babe, what do you want to eat? I'll go downstairs and cook for you."
Yun Che slowly turned his head, seemingly opened his mouth with difficulty, showed and ground his white, glossy teeth as if he was violently chewing something. "Sausage, mushroom, eggplant, cucumber, banana… chop them all up!"
"Uh…"
Che's malice was explicitly received.
Today started with a chaotic morning.
"Haixuan and Chu?"
The noisy construction was ongoing outside, Yun Che lolled on the couch in Xing Feng's living room. He, too, was surprised by what happened last night between Chu Haoling and Lu Haixuan. These two were the least possible couple. Didn't Haixuan think Chu was mouthy? Most importantly, Haixuan couldn't cook, how could the food maniac Chu Haoling take fancy to him?
"Neither of them was willing to tell us what happened. Haoling still locks himself in the room, but I think both of their heads were unclear when they did the thing."
Gu Mingxuan nodded. He hated to make such a presumption, but what happened between Haixuan and Chu Haoling might have a bearing on the friendship between two squads. Yun Che as the captain of Peak deserved to be in the loop.
"He didn't have lunch?"
Xing Feng slightly knitted his brows. Gu Mingxuan nodded again. This was serious, Chu Haoling would rather die than miss a meal. His action suggested the seriousness of this matter.
"Why are you so serious? Is he gonna kill himself or what?"
Yun Che sat straight after darting a contemptuous look at them. "He's a space superfunction possessor, do you think a glutton like him hasn't got food in his Space? It's between Haixuan and Chu, and they're adults, it's not our place to intervene in their business whether they have feelings for each other or not. We'd only make things worse otherwise. Just let them sort it out."
He believed the friendship between two squads weren't as breakable as they thought it would be. If this could be the hindrance, then it meant none of them was genuine, so nothing would be worth bemoaning.
"Yes, Che is right. Haoling seems an uncaring guy, but he is, in fact, sensitive. We'd better not let him notice something. Haixuan is still young. He's kind of reckless, but he isn't an idiot. I think no one wants too much attention from others. We know what happened, and that's it, don't put too much pressure on them."
Xing Feng eased his knitted brows. Xing Feng was with Yun Che, so was Gu Mingxuan, although he still couldn't quite accept the fact that their chief was happy being Yun Che's guardian beast. Captain Xing turned around his attitude almost immediately.
"Oh, how was the lunch that my sister cooked?"
Yun Che tried to change the subject as if he remembered something. Gu Mingxuan kind of lagged and answered without thinking, "Perfect."
Yun Yao's cooking was well-received. She might not be as good as Chef Qin, but her food would always taste homey. Everybody liked it.
"My meaning is, was there any difference in the rice?"
Yun Yao asked again. He handed the rice and flour that he got from Space to his sister yesterday and specifically asked her to try the new rice. He didn't even get to eat the rice that he had grown himself because he was in bed the whole morning and later went into Space after eating some random stuff that Xing Feng cooked for him.
"No difference, really."
Gu Mingxuan thought about it and decided there was no difference.
"Really? I need to speak to my sister."
Muttered Yun Che. He stood up and walked away. Gu Mingxuan looked at Xing Feng in confusion, "What's wrong?"
"Nothing. He gave his sister a bag of rice and a bag of flour. He wanted to know how they taste like."
Xing Feng chuckled and explained. He took a sip of the kung fu tea and asked, "Have you got the chickens that I asked for?"
"They are in the yard. But chief, why do you want chickens?"
Xing Feng just asked for the chickens but didn't tell him what they were about. "We aren't going to build a chicken farm in the yard, are we?" Gu wondered.
"Che asked for the chickens. You like Yao, right? Ask her if she wants some. If she does, get her some chickens to make her happy."
People might not know how Gu Mingxuan felt about Yun Yao but his brothers surely had seen him through.
"I've asked her and she has got the chickens."
"You act fast."
"Well, I must. Many in Chaoyang adore the two girls in Peak, especially Yun Yao. She's pretty, gentle, kind, and a good cook. Her son is also super cute. If I didn't act fast, she would have been someone else's wife already."
"Hehe."
Xing Feng gave Gu a thumbs-up. As the Chaoyang counselor, he was incisive and a go-getter.
Meanwhile in Peak's house.
Not surprisingly, Zhou Zeyu and the Meng brothers, who had already blended into the crowd, made fun of Ye Xingchen after he and JiangShang came downstairs, even Yun Che and Zhan Yafei joined them. Ye Xingchen gave the man who caused all this a glare, but the man was all smiley and innocent, saying senior this, senior that, pouring tea for him, feeding him with snacks. In the end, Ye Xingchen neither talked the crowd back nor told Jiang Shang off.
When Yun Che came back to his house, everybody thought he would show up in the same state as Ye Xingchen's, but they were disappointed. Yun Che looked perfectly normal. Everybody had the same question, "Did Captain Xing not bang him? No way, that's Captain Xing, how could he have missed that opportunity? And if they hadn't done anything, why did Che wake up this late? Or Captain Xing is a tall, big macho with a tiny dick? Or Che has a thick, fat dick?"
"What are you looking at? Your faces look disgusting."
Knowing what these people were thinking, Yun Che gave them a contemptuous look. He sat right next to Yun Yao and asked bluntly, "Sis, you didn't cook the rice or use the flour I gave you, right?"
Gu Mingxuan wouldn't have said "no difference" otherwise. Normally speaking, crops from Space would taste better.
"Hmm? Oh, I forgot. I've been busy since early in the morning. The builders were here before lunch, I got to take a breather a moment ago."
Yun Yao now remembered what Yun Che told her to do yesterday.
"So use them tonight. If the rice and flour are good, we'll be eating those."
Yun Che thought his sister was busy. He wrapped his arm around her shoulder with a fawning look on the face. Well, the kitchen queen was in charge of the food that they ate.
"I got it, I got it."
Yun Yao pushed her brother away and shook her head. No matter how the world changed out there, Yun Che still remained the same, which was good. It would be better if Cheng could return to normal someday.