Chapter 168: Roasted Potato Chapter 168: Roasted Potato Su Yinhe grabbed the potato and dashed into the kitchen without saying another word.
Chen Yuan originally wanted to stop her; he was quite interested in Su Yinhe, but she slipped away like a slippery eel before he could even shout.
“It’s not appropriate to trouble a young lady like that. I’ll have someone assist her,” Chen Yuan said, then gestured to his subordinates.
“No need, no need. She loves to work, and she’s actually allergic to strange men. Don’t go near her, or she might drop dead from the allergic reaction,” Lin Murong blurted out, diagnosing Su Yinhe with an illness.
“What?” Chen Yuan’s ability to manage his expression completely failed him.
“What kind of allergy is that?”
“Yes, it’s true. She’s extremely uncomfortable being in the same space with strange men. If you get too close, she could suffocate,” Lin Murong continued to fib, but his expression was dead serious.
“Lin Jun, you must be joking. How can there be such an illness?” Chen Yuan was skeptical, considering the effort it took to get a woman here, especially one with such an ‘illness.’
“It’s true. She has been scared of men since she was a child. She was my neighbor once, and she couldn’t touch strange men. It took me a long time to get familiar enough to approach her,” Lin Murong said earnestly, showing no signs of lying.
Chi Yan almost burst out laughing as he watched Lin Murong bluff seriously.
Fortunately, he was a rather aloof man, and aloof men simply do not break character and laugh.
“I’ll go help,” Chi Yan said, and quickly headed to the kitchen.
Chen Yuan was dumbfounded; that man…
That man moved so fast, almost like a ghost, Chen Yuan barely managed to react.
“Can’t touch strange men?”
“Right. Familiar ones are fine.”
It was confirmed, he was definitely being played.
Had Chen Yuan been considering treating them well before, now he only wanted them to pay a price.
Although he was ready to severely deal with them, Chen Yuan’s facial expression remained unchanged; he still acted like buddies with Lin Murong.
“Brother Chen, just you wait. Xiao He’s cooking is incredibly tasty. You’re definitely going to like it,” Lin Murong kept prattling on.
But he wasn’t interested in whether Xiao He could cook; he was interested in Xiao He herself.
Xiao He as a person was worth much more than her culinary skills.
“Brother Chen, don’t be skeptical. Our Xiao He’s cooking skills are absolutely mind-blowing,” the kind that could send you to heaven. Lin Murong hoped Su Yinhe would catch on quickly.
And Su Yinhe was indeed smart.
She was baking a potato in the kitchen.
To call it a kitchen was actually an overstatement; it had nothing.
The kitchen appliances had been unusable for years. The last time they were cleaned out, Chi Yan had put them all into storage.
His space was big enough to store anything.
And so he stored everything.
Just in case they might be needed someday.
Since there was nothing available, Su Yinhe decided to roast a potato. Roasting potatoes didn’t need salt or oil, nothing at all, just fire.
They hadn’t brought anything with them.
And they hadn’t gone out to buy any ingredients either.
Roasting a potato was just perfect.
When Chi Yan entered, she was roasting a potato that had turned into charcoal.
“Are you roasting charcoal?”
“Of course not, this is a potato. Brother Chen specifically brought these potatoes,” Su Yinhe waved the charred-like potato.
Chi Yan: “You did this on purpose.”
Her cooking skills weren’t that bad.
“Oh no, I didn’t do it on purpose. I’m just not skilled at cooking, but I am very serious about preparing their meal,” Su Yinhe would not admit it.
“Let me help you,” Chi Yan picked up a potato and joined her in roasting. There were so many potatoes, he worried her hands might get sore.
Su Yinhe made room for him.
Chi Yan’s potatoes were even blacker than the ones Su Yinhe had roasted.
They even made a bit of a noise when they hit the ground.
“My cooking skills aren’t that great either. I overdid it.”
“No worries, no worries, as long as we’re serious, we’re trying. Brother Chen is a good person, he definitely won’t blame us,” Su Yinhe said, patting his shoulder to comfort him.
Then the two of them ended up turning all the potatoes Brother Chen had brought over into pure charcoal.
The pitch-black kind.
If you cut them open, probably only a tiny bit in the middle would still be edible.
After they were done, they packed up the charred… I mean, roasted potatoes and sent them over to Chen Yuan and the others.
Lin Murong was still shooting the breeze with Chen Yuan. Seeing them, his eyes lit up.
“See, didn’t I say Xiao He was skilled? He finished making the food so quickly. Brother Chen, the potatoes you brought over, don’t be shy, make sure to eat a lot.”
Lin Murong saw the blackened chunks and laughed even more genuinely.
“Come on, Brother Chen, help yourself.” Lin Murong took the roasted potatoes, not minding the heat at all, and handed one charcoal-like potato over to Chen Yuan.
Chen Yuan looked at the black, still-steaming potato, conflicted whether to take it or not.
But in the end, he took it.
“Eat up. It must be delicious,” Lin Murong said with a hopeful face.
Chen Yuan: “Lin Jun, why aren’t you eating? Good stuff should…”
“No, no, we couldn’t possibly. Thanks to Brother Chen, we’re able to live in such a nice place, and these are your potatoes too. How could we possibly eat and leave you hungry? You eat. We don’t deserve it.” Lin Murong’s head shook like a bobblehead.
“No, no, we don’t deserve it. Only you, Brother Chen, only you should eat,” Lin Murong really didn’t want to eat the charcoal.
He had a devious heart.
Galaxy was also led astray.
And Chi Yan was turning out bad to the bone.
He definitely couldn’t eat this charcoal.
Only Chen Yuan was worthy of it.
“Brother Chen, why aren’t you eating? Are you looking down on us? Do you despise us because we’re poor? I knew it. When we first came here, we had nothing, and you looked down on us.”
“But Brother Chen, I don’t know why you helped us rent this place initially, but we truly appreciate it. Yet you won’t even accept our gratitude.”
“Brother Chen, we have no food, nothing at all, not even these potatoes that are yours. But our gratitude is real.”
“But you refuse to see our sincere gratitude.” Lin Murong turned into an acting legend, and soon he was sobbing.
This time with real tears.
Neither of them could actually cry; they just bowed their heads, pretending to be sad.
Su Yinhe had to think of every heartbreaking thing in his life to avoid bursting out laughing.
Chi Yan had it easy; he was naturally not much of a laugher, just lowering his head and pretending was enough.
Chen Yuan looked at the sobbing Lin Murong, completely overwhelmed.
What… what is this situation?
Why did he come here?
What even is this situation?