"Come in."
"Uncle..."
"Hmm?"
"I kind of understand how Sun Wukong felt now."
Not even with his somersault cloud traveling 108,000 miles could he escape the Buddha’s palm! How desperate and sad he must have been back then...
"What?"
Sun Wukong? Yin Shixiu couldn’t quite keep up with Su Xiaomeng’s train of thought.
Su Xiaomeng shook her head, with an expression that said "you wouldn’t understand even if I explained," then took that heavy step.
Yin Shixiu looked at the time and asked, "What do you want to eat tonight?"
"Can we just eat anything?"
"You’re still sick, eat something light."
"I’ve been eating light for half a month now!"
Yin Shixiu was a bit taken aback by her sudden outburst, then chuckled, "Then what do you want to eat?"
"Spicy hotpot!"
Su Xiaomeng blinked her starry eyes at him, full of anticipation.
"Uncle..."
"No spicy, clear broth is okay."
"Or would you rather have plain porridge with pickled radish?"
"Clear broth hotpot!"
Yin Shixiu shook his head, "Look at your ambition!"
"..." Su Xiaomeng pouted.
Yin Shixiu grabbed his coat, "Wait at home, I’ll go to the supermarket downstairs to buy ingredients."
"Buy more fish balls, and also shrimp paste and octopus!"
"Okay."
"Five-spice pork belly!"
"Hmm."
"Oh, and beef, beef!"
Su Xiaomeng blinked her eyes, looked at him eagerly, and asked softly, "Is that a bit too much?"
"Anything else?"
"Egg dumplings..."
"Anything else?"
"Baby cabbage and tofu skin..."
"Two boxes of beef..."
Su Xiaomeng bared her teeth at him, weakly showing two fingers.
Yin Shixiu gave her a complex look, didn’t ask further, he had a vague feeling her mental menu was as long as the Great Wall!
"Uncle, did you remember everything?"
Su Xiaomeng hung by the door, looking at Yin Shixiu outside, and asked cautiously.
"Remembered."
Su Xiaomeng was a bit skeptical but didn’t ask further, just smiled and said,
"Make sure to come back quickly!"
Yin Shixiu’s step froze for a fraction of a second, then he proceeded out.
Su Xiaomeng closed the door, lay down on the sofa, with nothing but hotpot on her mind.
When Yin Shixiu returned with a full load of ingredients, watching him clean them up and divide them onto plates on the dining table, as the bone broth boiled, Su Xiaomeng began to put ingredients in.
By the time Yin Shixiu came over, the pot was already filled with boiling ingredients, and Su Xiaomeng’s face was flushed red from the steam.
He sat across from her, tearing open two bags of sesame sauce for dipping.
"Eat more vegetables, stop only eyeing the meat."
Su Xiaomeng didn’t listen to him at all, after half a month of barely seeing any meat, in no time, she finished a whole box of beef by herself.
Yin Shixiu initially wanted to stop her, but thinking about it, her recovery from illness was too quick, which wasn’t interesting either...
With a bit of selfishness, he opened the second box of beef and placed it in front of her, "Make sure it’s fully cooked before eating."
"Hmm." Su Xiaomeng ate with immense satisfaction.
At this moment, she didn’t feel that Yin Shixiu was an old monster, or that he was sinister and cunning, or that this place was the Five Finger Mountain.
"This is for you."
Su Xiaomeng wasn’t one to ignore others, for instance, when she was almost full and the pot still seemed quite full, she would start picking food for Yin Shixiu!
Yin Shixiu wasn’t too passionate about hotpot, but with Su Xiaomeng sitting across from him, he suddenly found hotpot to be really... delicious.
After finishing the pot, Su Xiaomeng felt utterly comfortable, seeing Yin Shixiu cleaning the dishes, she suddenly felt a bit embarrassed and got up to help tidy up.