Abnormal Gourmet Chronicle-Chapter 1164 - 559: Setting Out Now (2)

"I just thought about it, I won't spend my salary this month. I can get fruit directly from Mr. Luo's house for free. I'll hold off on buying the clothes and shoes I have my eye on, and I won't buy those headphones either."

"In mid-October, I'll go to Shanghai to visit Little Seventh, mid-November to Gusu to visit Little Ninth, mid-December to Z City to find Jiang Weiguo, by then..."

"No need to divide it over three months." Qin Huai interrupted An Youyou, "Once Mr. Luo's private detective finds out the specific situation, we can set off directly. According to the order you just mentioned, I'll go with you."

"Old Shi also has to come along; I've got this thousand-day breakfast mission with him. Wherever I go, he has to follow."

"He happens to want to visit Mr. Xu in Gusu as well."

"The travel expenses will be reimbursed."

An Youyou: !

"Boss, you really are the best, most generous boss I've ever met!"

"If you could lend me three gold bars, that would be even better."

"Don't even think about it."

In the end, Qin Huai and An Youyou didn't stay at Luo Jun's house to wait for everyone else to wake up for a tea party.

After breakfast, Luo Jun wanted to catch up on sleep; he didn't want two people trying to scam him hanging around the house. In Luo Jun's view, since Qin Huai and An Youyou had nothing else to do, they might as well go back to work at Yunzhong Restaurant and make some snacks instead of idling at his place and delaying his sleep and TV watching.

Qin Huai thought it made sense. He had initially come to Luo Jun's house dragging An Youyou along to discuss things with everyone because his thoughts were scattered. Now that everything was clarified, he selflessly left the task of shocking everyone with the news that An Youyou was the true protagonist to Luo Jun.

Before leaving with bags of fruit, Luo Jun, sitting on the sofa, said leisurely, "The reason your mind felt so muddled before wasn't that you couldn't figure it out, but because you needed someone to tell the story again, giving you time to sort through the plot." 𝕗𝐫𝚎𝗲𝘄𝐞𝕓𝐧𝕠𝘃𝕖𝐥.𝐜𝚘𝚖

"In the future, if something confuses you, just like today, find someone to help you think it through, instead of letting your thoughts run wild."

Qin Huai rarely heard such direct words of care from Luo Jun. Before leaving, he nodded seriously and said, "I've taken note, Mr. Luo."

The self-proclaimed sleep-needer Luo Jun ignored Qin Huai and turned on the TV to continue watching his dramas.

On the way back to Yunzhong Restaurant, An Youyou, excited as if Qin Huai had given her a 2000 yuan bonus, chattered non-stop while carrying two large bags of fruit: "Boss, can we really eat and take Mr. Luo's fruit whenever we want, any time?"

"Can we take anything? Can I take a whole durian? A box of strawberries? Three boxes of cherries?"

Qin Huai looked at An Youyou somewhat helplessly, "Are you planning to empty Luo Jun's house of fruit to sell it off elsewhere?"

An Youyou chuckled without replying.

Qin Huai could only gently remind, "Mr. Luo may have failed in his crossing tribulation, but his failure was more like getting caught in his own web. We all think he has a chance to succeed in this life, as long as he's willing to let himself off the hook."

"It might not be likely, but what if? You're also an auspicious beast, but can you withstand a mouthful of fire from a Bi fang?"

An Youyou fell silent.

"Boss, how could I want to take Luo Jun's fruit to sell? I just really love eating fruit. Getting to take this much fruit home every day already makes me very happy."

"If I could take two more boxes of fruit home for the New Year to send to my grandma, that would be even better."

Qin Huai didn't expect An Youyou to bring up her grandma. After thinking for a bit, he still asked, "I thought you weren't close with your grandma."

"Not very close," An Youyou said frankly. "Boss, didn't I give you a resume? Everything in that resume is true; my relationship with my grandma isn't great, but there's no relationship at all between me and my parents or brother."

"If I had to spend my own money to buy fruit to bring back, I definitely wouldn't want to. But if Mr. Luo is willing to give it for free, why not?"

"Every year during the New Year, my grandma loudly grumbles about how she's worked hard her whole life and all she raised were ungrateful wolves. During holidays, nobody knows to bring her nice things to honor her. Before I woke up, I wasn't too keen on spending more money to honor her, and even now... I'm still not very keen."

"I'll go for it if it's free."

"And my grandma has one good point; she dislikes my brother even more than she dislikes my mom. Because when my mom left me with her, she only gave the minimum living expenses each month. I ate a lot, and sometimes my grandma even had to pay extra. If I bring her high-end fruit, she definitely won't share even a kernel with my brother. She'll eat all the fruit herself right in front of them."

Hearing An Youyou say this, Qin Huai finally saw a bit of this life's traits in the current An Youyou.

Perhaps talking about fruit made her crave it a little, as An Youyou fished out a jujube from the bag and started eating it as they walked, just as she and Qin Huai were about to reach the entrance of Yunzhong Restaurant. Qin Huai suddenly remembered something.

"Oh right, Youyou, I have one more thing to ask you."

An Youyou stopped in her tracks.

"You said Mr. Xu originally had parents, but he only became an orphan begging on the streets after they died. But according to Old Shi, Xu Nuo had a grandma who doted on him. Did Mr. Xu later adopt a godmother?"

"Oh, that! Actually, I found that out back in the day, it was through gossip." An Youyou lowered her voice, "I heard Little Ninth was a live-in son-in-law."

Qin Huai: No wonder Little Ninth is so resourceful; he's really eager to improve.