Gourmet: Midnight Vending-Chapter 265 - 263: Do One, Eat One

Yuan Dongli Fitness Center.

Compared to Jia Mei Gym, this place is slightly more upscale. At the moment, there are about ten well-built men doing their daily training.

"What’s that smell? Is the window leaking? Why do I smell barbecue?"

"Damn, it’s garlic fragrance. Is it grilled eggplant or something?"

"You guys smell it too? So it’s not a hallucination. I thought it was my craving for barbecue making me imagine things."

A few guys were doing strength training, chatting on and off. But the aroma suddenly filling the air made it hard to focus on their training.

While everyone was curious about where the smell was coming from, there was a burst of noise from the entrance.

"Don’t grab, don’t grab, these are today’s prizes, no grabbing allowed!"

"Exactly, anyone who wants to eat must work for it. There’s no such thing as a free midnight snack in this world!"

Everyone in the gym turned to look at the sound, only to see a bunch of people pouring in from outside, led by the two female owners of the gym.

And following behind the owners was a group of women in yoga pants and tank tops!

The guys in the gym instinctively swallowed their saliva.

Aren’t these the students from the women’s yoga studio across the street?

Although the yoga studio and gym are owned by the same person, the yoga studio is women-only. The guys from the gym had wanted to go in several times but were never allowed. Today, suddenly so many came, wearing such outfits, who can stand it?

Let’s not even talk about what they’re wearing.

When everyone saw clearly, they realized where the smell had come from. Each of these ladies was holding a tray full of oysters and lamb skewers!

"What’s going on? Why are they here eating midnight snacks, trying to ruin my concentration?"

"Ha, true discipline never fears external temptations. Even if a beauty feeds me, it won’t interrupt my strength training!"

"Ridiculous... What are they up to now?"

Gu Fang and Liu Yuerong returned to the gym and placed He Ziheng in the workout area.

"What can you do?" Gu Fang asked with her hands on her hips. 𝒇𝒓𝒆𝒆𝙬𝒆𝒃𝓷𝒐𝓿𝙚𝙡.𝒄𝓸𝒎

"I can run!"

Gu Fang rolled her eyes, "Running and eating? Aren’t you afraid of choking? Try something else."

"Then I can also..."

"Start with pull-ups, follow my lead today." Gu Fang decided for He Ziheng and handed the live-streaming phone to Liu Yuerong, "Sister Liu, it’s up to you now."

"Got it." Liu Yuerong glanced at the screen and found over twenty viewers in the live stream, instantly getting serious.

He Ziheng stood by the equipment, wondering how to eat while doing pull-ups. The bar is so high.

Wouldn’t pull-ups be too easy?

If he remembered correctly, he could easily do twenty or thirty pull-ups back in high school, so wouldn’t he be full from eating all those oysters?

Gu Fang somehow found a short A-frame ladder and sat with a tray of oysters at the top, "Come on, Xiao Hu."

The guys training earlier stopped and gathered around, finding it amusing, and so did the Sister Fu group.

Plus, with Liu Yuerong’s phone streaming live, He Ziheng felt the pressure mount.

"Alright folks, the first challenger is the brother-in-law of our boss lady, and the challenge is pull-ups!"

"No choice, Boss Xiao Chen’s barbecue is too delicious, but as fitness people, we can’t indulge freely. So what do we do? Train while eating!"

Gu Fang sat proudly on the ladder, looking at He Ziheng, "Come on, Xiao Hu, haven’t you always wanted your sister-in-law to feed you? Come on, do one, I’ll feed you one, let’s see how many you can eat."

Then she gave him a meaningful look, "If you can’t do ten, don’t say I look down on you..."

Damn! Are you kidding?

He Ziheng rubbed some chalk on his hands, "Ten, who are you underestimating?"

With that, he took a slight hop and grabbed the bar.

"Uh-oh!"

With just that one move, He Ziheng suddenly felt something was off.

The last time he did pull-ups was in high school gym class, and he could do thirty or forty with ease without swinging his body.

No exaggeration, jumping up to grab the bar felt light as a feather back then.

But just now, when he jumped up and grabbed the bar, he felt, "Why does my body feel so heavy?"

He Ziheng held his breath and exerted all his strength, pulling himself up with his arms.

Finally, his head rose above the bar.

Gu Fang looked charmingly at him, "Open your mouth."

Her chopsticks holding an oyster glistening with garlic and chili, and He Ziheng’s eyes lit up as he eagerly opened his mouth.

Thunk!

As soon as he opened his mouth, the breath in his stomach escaped, and his arms lost strength, dropping him flat on his bottom under the bar.

Gu Fang shook her head disapprovingly from the ladder, "Tsk tsk, that’s it? And you’re live-streaming a challenge? Better go back and train some more."

Even with just twenty or so viewers in the live stream.

The audience was far from satisfied with the performance!

"This streamer is so weak; he can’t even manage one pull-up?"

"So disappointing, dude. With your physique, having a little sister is enough, don’t even think about the sister-in-law, you can’t handle it."

"What’s the deal, can’t even do one?"

"If it were me, and there was such a cute girl waiting to feed me, I’d do at least ten!"

Though He Ziheng couldn’t see the comments, he could hear the crowd’s snickers, turning red as a monkey’s butt, "This one doesn’t count, I’m doing it again!"

"Give it a rest." Gu Fang ate the oyster herself, then drained the shell’s juice, "How do they grill this stuff? It looks no different from others, but why is it so tasty?"

Liu Yuerong laughed, "I think maybe Boss Xiao Chen’s seasoning mix has something special. Next, who else wants to challenge?"

At this, a muscular man with well-defined lines stood up from the crowd.

"I’m in! The old rule, one pull-up, one oyster? But Boss Gu, I have a question."

"What’s the question?"

"Am I paying for these oysters in the challenge?"

"Of course not," Gu Fang said generously, "Since it’s an event at our gym, the gym covers it. Just focus on your pull-ups! But fair warning, you’re a regular, so you can’t just do one pull-up and eat one oyster."

"So how’s it work?"

Gu Fang raised three fingers.

"Three pull-ups for one!"

For regular fitness folks, doing twenty pull-ups in a row is no big deal.

The guy quickly calculated.

Getting seven oysters for free is a good deal!