She wanted to eat fried chicken.
But you can't order takeout in a place like this, especially since it's the middle of the night.
She suppressed her craving and went back to sleep.
Half an hour later.
Unable to fall asleep after much agonizing and struggling, she suddenly jumped out of bed and went to Chai Shuqing's bedside.
It's too sinful to get up and eat alone in the middle of the night, so you have to bring someone else along to share the guilt.
"Qingqing..."
Chai Shuqing rubbed her eyes, looking extremely sleepy: "Mmm..."
"Do you want to eat chicken cutlet?" Chai Qianning asked in her ear.
Chai Shuqing turned over, reached up and grabbed a toy chick from the bedside table, tossing it to Chai Qianning: "You eat it, I'm going to sleep..." Her voice grew weaker and weaker, and a few seconds later she sounded like she was asleep again.
In the end, she didn't wake her up again and went back to bed.
A few minutes later she got up again, this time finally determined to go to the kitchen to see what she could eat, otherwise she wouldn't be able to sleep because she was so hungry.
The guesthouse was eerily quiet in the early morning, the sky and mountains shrouded in white mist. Two strings of chili peppers hung on either side of the opposite entrance, shimmering eerily in the flowing fog.
Chai Qianning went into the kitchen, opened the refrigerator and saw a lot of ingredients, but none of them were ready to eat.
Chicken breast, breadcrumbs, starch, and so on are all available; as long as she puts her hands to it, she can make chicken cutlets.
But she was lazy. She wanted to eat it but didn't want to fry it herself, so she hesitated for a while. Finally, her cravings overcame her laziness, and she decided to cook it herself.
It took her nearly twenty minutes to finally make the fragrant fried chicken nuggets.
Although it's not quite as good as what you can buy elsewhere, it's already pretty good considering the current situation.
Just as she was about to take a bite, her eyes unexpectedly caught sight of a figure passing by not far outside the window, though she couldn't make out the details clearly through the window paper.
In the dead of night, who else but a gluttonous person like her would come out to forage for food?
Chai Qianning covered the chicken cutlet, opened the door, and took a look.
The shadow turned behind a pillar diagonally opposite and went up the stairs.
—It was the back view of a woman, with long hair and wearing a white dress.
hiss!
She looks like a female ghost.
She was a staunch materialist who never believed in ghosts or gods, so she was about to turn around when she remembered the time her grandfather's house was robbed when she was a child, and she couldn't help but stop in her tracks.
In the current environment, the public security here is considered quite good. What era are we living in? It's unlikely that we'll be robbed, and there are surveillance cameras, so the information can be found the next day.
She turned her head and saw the source of the noise she had heard in the room—a flowerpot had fallen to the ground, spilling soil all over the brick surface.
She walked over, stood in front of the messy floor, and glanced again in the direction of the figure she had just seen.
I don't know if the flowerpot was blown over by the wind or knocked over by something else.
A few seconds later, she still went to the corner of that pillar.
Reaching the last step of the stairs, she slapped her forehead—this was Sheng Muxi's room.
Whether she was still half asleep or seeing things, she clearly saw the figure heading towards Sheng Muxi's room. But now there was nothing there. If the figure had turned back, she should have been able to see it again, because there was no path ahead.
She ran her fingers along the railing a few times.
Forget it, I'll just go back and eat some chicken cutlet.
Just as she was about to leave, she heard noises coming from Sheng Muxi's room. She listened for a while and thought, "Damn it, I can still hear footsteps in the middle of the night."
So she brought her ear closer.
She wasn't trying to eavesdrop on anything; she just felt that the figure was strange!
However, just as she put her ear to the door, it suddenly opened.
Chai Qianning: "!!"
Sheng Muxi and she stared at each other for several seconds.
Finally, Sheng Muxi asked, puzzled, "What are you doing at my room door?"
Chapter 28 Adultery
He took a good look at Sheng Muxi.
They discovered that Sheng Muxi was wearing white pajamas, with her long, honey-brown hair loose, and her silhouette gradually overlapped with the image of the figure Chai Qianning had just seen.
He was so hungry he was practically fainting; his brain wasn't working properly.
Going out to find food in the dead of night is already an irrational act, and this only adds another layer of irrationality to her behavior.
Chai Qianning rubbed her forehead, wondering how she could explain appearing at Sheng Muxi's room door in her pajamas.
"I... I just saw a group of figures, so I followed them to take a look. Teacher Sheng, why are you still up so late?"
“It’s not that I didn’t sleep. Shi Manwen had a terrible stomachache in the middle of the night and forgot to bring her stomach medicine. So she called me, and I got up to bring her some.”
"Oh." Chai Qianning scratched her head.
It seems this was a misunderstanding.
"Is she feeling better now?"
"I feel much better after taking the stomach medicine."
Sheng Muxi leaned against the door frame, arms crossed, and looked her up and down: "I just saw a shadowy figure... You didn't mistake me for a female ghost, did you?"
"No, I thought it was a thief, but I wasn't quite sure, and my mind just didn't immediately register that it was you. So I came to take a look, after all, I'm very responsible when it comes to the safety of the guesthouse guests."
Sheng Muxi: "..."
I've never seen someone praise themselves so much while also promoting their guesthouse.
Chai Qianning then suddenly asked out of the blue, "Are you afraid of gaining weight?"
Sheng Muxi: "??"
Chai Qianning: "Do you want to eat chicken cutlet?"
Sheng Muxi: "..."
Chai Qianning: "Are you sleeping?"
Sheng Muxi was utterly speechless. What else could someone be doing in the middle of the night instead of sleeping?
After praising her dedication to her duties, Chai Qianning then began to sing the praises of her fried chicken skills: "I made some chicken cutlets, would you like to try some? You'll regret it for a hundred years if you miss out."
Sheng Muxi finally spoke up: "Eating chicken cutlets in the middle of the night? Is that really okay?"
"What's wrong with it?" Chai Qianning tugged at her arm. "You scared me just now."
Sheng Muxi looked down at the other person's fingers resting on her arm, then lifted her eyelids.
Her clear eyes overlapped with the moonlight, and the twinkling stars in the sky seemed to be reflected in her eyes as well.
Her red lips parted slightly: "So? Are you going to stay here with me, or do you want me to take you back to your room?"
Chai Qianning licked her lips: "I don't mind if you let me stay here with you."
Just as Sheng Muxi was about to step aside to let her in, Chai Qianning said again, "But could you bring the chicken cutlet from the kitchen over first?"
Sheng Muxi: "..."
——
The two went to the kitchen, where the chicken cutlet was still hot and smelled delicious.
Sheng Muxi absolutely forbade her to bring the chicken cutlet into the room, so she had to finish it here.
He was happily munching on a chicken cutlet, and then he waved it in front of her, deliberately tempting her: "You really don't want to eat it?"
Sheng Muxi leaned against the stove, her eyes fixed on the hazy night outside the window, and said firmly, "I won't eat."
"It smells so good! One bite, and it's crispy on the outside and tender on the inside, leaving a pleasant aftertaste..." Chai Qianning continued her "attack," picking up a piece of chicken cutlet and waving it in front of her: "Ah—open your mouth! How will you know how great it is to eat chicken cutlet in the middle of the night if you don't try it?"
Sheng Muxi glared at her, thinking she really shouldn't have come to the kitchen with her to eat fried chicken.
Look how well this person's mouth has been shut up! She's eating chicken cutlet and still talking nonstop. We need to gag her with something, otherwise it's too noisy.
She picked up her chopsticks, imitated the other person, picked up a piece of chicken cutlet, and stuffed it into Chai Qianning's mouth, making the other person's cheeks bulge out, and her eyes stared at her with round eyes.
Sheng Muxi couldn't help but find Chai Qianning's appearance extremely comical, and couldn't help but lower her eyes and smile slightly, then used her fingertips to wipe away the crumbs from her lips.
Chai Qianning felt the softness of the other person's fingers brushing against the corner of her lips, and her attention shifted from the chicken cutlet to other things.
They spoke less, focusing intently on chewing their food, but their eyes remained fixed on each other.
Sheng Muxi felt a little anxious under her gaze and glanced back, "Why are you staring at me like that?"
Chai Qianning pointed to her cheek and said indistinctly, "You should eat some too."
He then pointed to the remaining chicken cutlet on the plate: "There's too much. We can't finish it. It's such a waste."
Sheng Muxi swallowed hard, but ultimately succumbed to the deliciousness and started eating the chicken cutlet.
"Why did you get up in the middle of the night to fry chicken cutlets?" Sheng Muxi asked curiously.
I've seen people eat late-night snacks, but I've rarely seen someone wake up in the middle of the night to eat a late-night snack.
Besides, in another two or three hours, it will be dawn, and this meal can be eaten as breakfast.
"I'm hungry," Chai Qianning replied simply.
Didn't you eat enough for dinner?
"I'm full, but I've finished digesting."
She picked up the last piece from the plate and thoughtfully fed it to Sheng Muxi. Sheng Muxi paused for a moment, but still accepted her feeding.
Just when Chai Qianning thought she had completely finished dealing with the chicken cutlet, she turned her head and found another plate containing more.
".."