As soon as it was time to leave work, the trio of photovoltaic fishermen ran out of the office.
"Stew, Stew, la la la!"
Xie Jiujiu pulled Tang Yu's left wrist, walking and singing with determined steps. Her expression, full of innocence and happiness, made passersby feel equally joyful.
Jiang Caixia walked beside Tang Yu, hesitated for a moment, then imitated Xie Jiujiu and cautiously grabbed Tang Yu's arm.
Once she did, feeling slightly embarrassed, she slowly wrapped her arm around Tang Yu's, her heart swelling with excitement.
Tang Yu, used to being held by both girls, wasn't surprised.
With envious and jealous gazes from their schoolmates, the trio walked out through the school's main gate.
At that moment, the sound of hurried footsteps echoed behind them, the noise of heels rapidly hitting the ground made the three turn around, realizing it was the Chen Bailing sisters.
When these twins stood together, they always gave the impression of being exact copies of each other.
"Tang Yu, senpai, are you going to eat stew tonight?"
Chen Baiyu, with a sweet smile, ran up to Tang Yu and patted him on the shoulder.
And she took the opportunity to shoot a provocative glance at Xie Jiujiu, who was glaring at her with obvious hostility.
Clearly, the incident in the cafeteria at noon had already created tensions between them.
"Yes, so what?"
Tang Yu nodded with a smile.
"Why don't we do it together? My sister and I don't feel like eating in the cafeteria tonight either. I'm really good at making stew sauce; I learned it at the University of Ocean Fishing."
Chen Baiyu blinked sweetly at Tang Yu.
Chen Bailing smiled slightly, looked at Tang Yu, and said, "Last time, you said you had a good alcohol tolerance, so we can have a few drinks tonight. I have a bottle of fine red wine in my car."
Seeing these two women approaching so boldly, wanting to go to Tang Yu's house, Xie Jiujiu felt as if someone was taking away her favorite toy. She was so upset that she couldn't even speak.
She looked at Tang Yu, her face puffed up, and her round eyes already had some moisture, like a little puppy that had fallen into a puddle of mud, feeling hurt and not knowing how to express her frustration.
Jiang Caixia also looked at Tang Yu with concern.
They didn't like the idea of eating with those two strange twins.
"It'll be another time. Today, we're going to Jiujiu's house."
Seeing how sad the two girls looked, Tang Yu smiled and rejected the twins, then left with Xie Jiujiu and Jiang Caixia.
After walking a few steps, Xie Jiujiu, who was still holding onto Tang Yu's arm, didn't seem happy. Instead, she started sniffling, as if she were about to cry.
"What's wrong?"
Tang Yu pulled his hand free and gently patted her little head, this time without using her head to dry his hands.
"I'm just really mad."
When Tang Yu asked, Xie Jiujiu started shedding tears.
Jiang Caixia quickly let go of Tang Yu's arm and took a handkerchief from her bag to wipe Xie Jiujiu's tears.
Tang Yu, after thinking for a moment, understood what Xie Jiujiu meant.
He smiled softly and lightly flicked her forehead. "I get it. I promise I won't let them come to my house. Only you and Jiang can come, okay?"
"Really?"
Xie Jiujiu, her voice choked, looked up and asked Tang Yu.
She thought only she and Xiaojiang could go to Tang Yu's house.
Just thinking that they might also go made her heart ache.
"Really, if I lie, I'm a pig."
"You're already a pig, change the phrase, that one's weak."
"Then pick one."
"You'd be lying if you said you won't be able to have kids, right?"
As soon as Xie Jiujiu finished speaking, she burst into laughter again, and even a snot bubble popped out of her nose.
"Gross." Tang Yu quickly pushed her away.
"You dare reject me?"
Xie Jiujiu hugged Tang Yu's arm and rubbed against it.
After a while of fooling around, Xie Jiujiu felt better. Her personality was like that—she was almost always the source of joy.
Occasionally, she felt sad, but after being consoled, she quickly recovered.
After leaving school, the three went to a nearby supermarket to buy ingredients.
Xie Jiujiu was pushing the shopping cart while murmuring.
One moment, she said she wanted to change her game name to Chen Baiyu, and then she was going to walk around looking for fights.
The next moment, she shouted that she wanted to write a novel, where Chen Baiyu turned into a dog that ate poop every day.
She was the type of person who was brave behind people's backs and murmured in front, that was her style.
The three, like a newlywed couple, took a stroll around the supermarket and, upon returning home, found Tang Keke lying on the living room floor, with a puddle of red liquid in her mouth.
Jiang Caixia and Xie Jiujiu, upon seeing this, got scared and quickly went to check on her.
Tang Yu, on the other hand, rolled his eyes. This girl was always pulling tricks.
As soon as she got home, right after work, she would scare him by pretending to be dead in various ways.
When Xie Jiujiu and Jiang Caixia fell for the trap, Tang Keke suddenly opened her eyes, hugged Xie Jiujiu, and kissed her on the cheek, very proud of herself. "Auntie, I tricked you!"
"Ah, is this ketchup?"
After being kissed with ketchup on the face, Xie Jiujiu hugged Tang Keke and kissed her on the cheek several times.
Now the two of them had a very close relationship. On their days off, they would often sit together playing games, sometimes for the entire day.
Jiang Caixia, with a soft and gentle smile, wiped the ketchup off Tang Keke's face with a handkerchief.
"Dad, when are you going to marry the two aunties and make them your wives?"
Tang Keke turned around and shouted at Tang Yu.
"When bigamy is no longer illegal."
Tang Yu rolled his eyes.
"Oh, hurry up and do something, because I really like those two aunties."
Tang Keke said somewhat discontentedly.
Tang Yu couldn't help but move his mouth. This girl sure has the guts to say that.
In front of Wang Yixue and the others, she always said things like she was her favorite aunt and stuff like that.
"Tonight, we're having stew. You guys set the table, I'll take care of the ingredients."
After giving them that instruction, Tang Yu began working in the kitchen.
Since Xie Jiujiu insisted on going to Tang Yu's house every night to eat, she forced Tang Yu to buy ingredients for half a month.
When they filled the fridge, Tang Yu was preparing to wash and chop the ingredients.
Jiang Caixia had already entered the door, pointed at Tang Yu's apron, and winked.
"Just an apron, don't worry, just help me prepare the ingredients."
Tang Yu smiled.
Jiang Caixia nodded, walked over, and began helping wash the vegetables, casting furtive glances at Tang Yu.
When she saw Tang Yu cutting the vegetables seriously, she inexplicably felt that he looked better at that moment.
It gave her the feeling of a warm couple's cooking scene after marriage.
"What are you looking at?"
Tang Yu, noticing Jiang Caixia's gaze, couldn't help but laugh and ask.
Jiang Caixia, surprised, quickly waved her hand and pointed at her forehead, then took out a handkerchief to wipe off the almost nonexistent sweat.
Hmm... I can't let him find out that I was secretly watching him.
After preparing the ingredients for the stew, the four of them started eating.
Xie Jiujiu went to get the red wine they had left at Tang Yu's house.
She insisted that they all drink together, and even served some to Tang Keke.
One bottle of wine, Tang Yu drank half a bottle.
The other half was consumed by Xie Jiujiu and Jiang Caixia.
But with such a small amount of alcohol, they couldn't handle it and ended up lying on the table with sleepy faces.
"Wake up, I'm taking you back."
Seeing it was already ten o'clock, Tang Yu pushed the two girls and shouted.
The two girls barely lifted their eyelids and remained motionless.
Tang Yu, who had already seen everything, smiled helplessly. These two girls want to stay at my house, right?
"Then at least go shower before bed? Can you stand the stew smell on your bodies?"
Tang Yu decided to motivate them with a tap on their behinds.
"Ugh, that's disgusting, pervert!"
Xie Jiujiu, who had been pretending to sleep, suddenly jumped up.
Jiang Caixia remained motionless, thinking that now it should be her turn.
Then, Tang Yu pinched her nose, and she, with a resentful expression, pushed his hand away.
"Hurry up, go take a shower. If you don't want to, we can all go together, I don't mind."
Tang Yu urged her with a smile.
"Dad, how embarrassing."
Tang Keke, who was nearby, made a soft sound and voluntarily took Jiang Caixia and Xie Jiujiu to shower.
When the sound of water running in the bathroom was heard, Tang Yu ran to the door and knocked gently.
"Do you really not need help scrubbing your back?"
"Don't do it! Don't come in!"
Xie Jiujiu shouted from the bathroom.
"Alright, remember to close the door properly."
Tang Yu turned the knob and saw that, indeed, it was locked.
This pleased him, thinking that the girls must have that sense of protection.
If they hadn't locked the door, it would mean they trusted him a lot, a man of integrity.
He returned to his room, got into the bathtub, and took a relaxing bath.
When he finished and came out, he noticed someone knocking on the door to his room.
"Who's there?"
"It's me."
Upon hearing Xie Jiujiu's voice, Tang Yu scanned the room.
After ensuring there was nothing uncomfortable for her, he ran to open the door.
After showering, Xie Jiujiu had already changed into a pink pajama.
She and Jiang Caixia had occupied one of the guest rooms a few days ago and left spare clothes there.
With a towel, she was drying her still-wet hair. She entered the room and sat on Tang Yu's bed with a puzzled expression, as if she wanted to say something but couldn't.
"If you have something to say, say it already."
Seeing her so shy, Tang Yu smiled while closing the door.
"I..."
Xie Jiujiu opened her mouth, but it seemed like Jiang Caixia had possessed her, and she spoke in a low, somewhat stammering voice: "Do I bother you sometimes?"
"No, it's fine, I also slap your behind all the time, we're even."
Tang Yu comforted her.
"That's not the same."
Xie Jiujiu lowered her head and said, "Sometimes I'm a little spoiled. Even though you make me angry a lot, you often help me, like today, when you helped me reject those two girls."
Hearing this, Tang Yu laughed and dried her hair with the towel.
"That's right, those girls just wanted to take advantage of me. If you hadn't stopped them today, I fear they would have manipulated me tonight."
"You can't... do anything with them."
Xie Jiujiu frowned, looking at Tang Yu, concerned about that.
Then, in a barely audible voice, she said: "I... I also..."
At that moment, there was another knock at the door.
This startled Xie Jiujiu, who had gathered courage to speak.
"Who's there?"
Tang Yu asked, smiling.
Since there was no response, Tang Yu knew it was Jiang Caixia.
"The door is open, come in whenever you want."
Tang Yu continued drying Xie Jiujiu's hair with a smile.
Jiang Caixia carefully opened the door and entered.
Seeing Xie Jiujiu sitting on Tang Yu's bed, her face showed a somewhat strange expression.
...
She had just gone to the bathroom, and upon returning to her room, she realized that Xie Jiujiu was not there.
She went to Tang Keke's room to look, but she didn't find her there either.
Somewhat worried, she had to run to Tang Yu's room to see what was going on.
"Little Jiang, you arrived just in time, I am checking if there are two bad women in their room."
With some guilt, Xie Jiujiu quickly lied, thinking to herself: "Little Jiang, I'm sorry."
It wasn't her intention to lie to you.
Jiang Caixia nodded and was actually about to open the wardrobe to check.
Tang Yu didn't dare to let her do that, as he had hidden some tools like drills in the wardrobe.
He grabbed Xie Jiujiu and then went to hug Jiang Caixia.
With one in each hand, he took them back to their rooms and turned off the light on the way.
"Good night!"
"Good night, Tang!"
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Since the last time they made him look bad in the meeting,
in the following meetings, Director Gu no longer invited Ye Qingshan.
His intervention had initially sparked everyone's interest,
but a trivial mistake made everyone lose interest.
This left Ye Qingshan quite upset.
Originally, he had hoped to use this opportunity to stand out in front of the big shots and quickly become a great contributor to the Chinese Academy of Sciences, advancing rapidly.
Unfortunately, things didn't go as he expected. Not only did he fail, but he ended up being considered a joke.
After returning, he spent several days reviewing the design plan over and over again.
He compared it with the theoretical knowledge he had written.
In the end, he realized that he seemed to have made no mistakes.
This led him to an inevitable conclusion.
"It must be that the people at the Chinese Academy of Sciences are not up to par."
With this conclusion, Ye Qingshan decided to take a risk.
He pulled out the design and went to see Director Gu, asking him to start testing the design from the plan.
After all, he had already presented his theoretical materials, so it wouldn't seem too sudden now.
When he went to find Director Gu,
he was not in the office.
Ye Qingshan waited for almost three hours, he was about to fall asleep, when he finally saw Director Gu walk in, looking happy.
"Little Ye? Is there something you need?"
Seeing that Ye Qingshan was waiting for him in the office, Director Gu, with a flushed face, asked.
"About the last meeting, maybe I made a small mistake with the materials, but after reviewing everything, I've refined the design and made it. Could you take a look, Director?"
Ye Qingshan quickly stood up and handed the plan to Director Gu.
Director Gu took it, looked at it, and frowned.
"This won't work, your usual problem hasn't been solved. This design only uses batteries to support the propulsion system of a Mercedes, it won't work."
"I think we should test it, maybe when we start it up, the results will be different."
Ye Qingshan insisted, unable to avoid mentally cursing the fools.
This is information that the organization gave him, how could it be wrong?
Director Gu sighed, somewhat resigned, and said: "If you're so insistent, we'll test it, so you won't be left with doubts."
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