Chapter 10

Pei Manman’s recovery ability was pretty good.

Last night’s situation wasn’t easy at all, but his spirits were much better this morning, and he had an appetite for food.

But he still needed to be nursed for a few days, and he couldn’t let his guard down.

So, the chef didn’t serve him a lot of noodles, the main part was the soup, it looked like he was eating a lot, but he was actually drinking soup.

Lu Shiqi wasn’t interested in this kind of clear soup noodles at all.

Even if the ingredients were luxurious and abundant, with noodles from different countries, he would only eat a few bites, just to taste the flavor.

But seeing Pei Manman eating so deliciously, he went from disbelief to curiosity—what did it taste like? Was it really that delicious?

Lu Shiqi reminded him, “Eat slowly, don’t eat so fast, you can’t eat too much today.”

Pei Manman blinked when he heard this.

He looked down at his bowl, most of the sweet soup was gone, and there weren’t many noodles left, so he immediately slowed down.

Oh yeah!

There were only a few noodles left, if he ate them all, there wouldn’t be any left! He couldn’t eat them too fast; he had to eat slowly!

Lu Shiqi thought his words had taken effect.

He didn’t expect Pei Manman to listen to him so much.

His mood improved a little, he had a feeling that was hard to describe, but it definitely made him feel satisfied.

The little guy slowed down his eating speed, but the deliciousness didn’t seem to decrease at all, instead, he became more serious.

He treated each noodle with care, his eyes never leaving it, he devoutly and actively stuffed it into his mouth, chewing it with satisfaction.

Lu Shiqi finally couldn’t hold back, “Are these noodles really that delicious?”

The little guy had only slurped half of his noodles, he just nodded, and before he could give a definite answer.

The chef next to him answered, “Delicious, of course it’s delicious.”

The happiest and most accomplished person was actually the chef.

Before Pei Manman arrived, he had almost given up on his job.

Even though the Lu family had a lot of money and few things to do, it was a place that many people envied, but the young master Lu was really hard to feed, and the chef lived in doubt about his cooking skills every day.

He would make a few meals for him a day, and he would complain about every meal, he wouldn’t eat a few meals, who could stand that?

He would get up early and stay up late to find the freshest and best ingredients, racking his brains to think about the best way to cook them, and he had won many awards in competitions in his spare time over the years, but when he was in front of Lu Shiqi, the young master would just say two words: Don’t eat.

No matter what kind of delicacies, or what kind of ancestral secret recipes, he wouldn’t eat, was he being given face?

Until Pei Manman appeared.

He got the feedback and affirmation he most expected and hoped for from Pei Manman.

Last night, the chef was so excited that he almost couldn’t sleep, countless recipes appeared in his mind one after another, and he finally had a place to show off his skills.

Although he unfortunately learned from Ling Yue this morning that the child had gastroenteritis and went to the hospital last night, and he had to cook some light and easy-to-digest food today.

But looking at the child’s thin and pale appearance, the chef had already silently planned his feeding strategy.

No rush.

When the child recovers, he will let him know what true delicacies are.

Even when facing Lu Shiqi, who had once made him lose confidence, he felt a little inflated, and started to praise himself, “This brown sugar isn’t too sweet or greasy, it’s very refreshing, and the rice flour used to make the noodles is also chewy and refreshing. If you added an egg and some osmanthus dumplings, it would be even better… But the little guest can’t eat that yet, so it can only be like this for now.”

Then he asked, “Would the young master like to try some?”

It was expected that Lu Shiqi would refuse, the chef was used to it.

Anyway, he had gained a sense of fulfillment from Pei Manman, and now he found the little guy more and more adorable, he felt more and more (heartbroken) and liked him more and more.

But unexpectedly, this time, Lu Shiqi agreed for the first time, “Okay, then please give me a bowl too.”

The chef couldn’t believe his ears.

This young master actually took the initiative to ask for something to eat? Was the end of the world coming, or had the earth already been destroyed?

But the chef didn’t dare to have too high expectations.

He just wanted to eat, he hadn’t eaten yet, and based on his experience, he wasn’t sure if this young master would even eat a few bites.

So, the chef was very calm, “Okay, I’ll go get you a bowl now.”

A few minutes later, the chef brought over another bowl of noodles.

Compared to Pei Manman’s plain bowl, Lu Shiqi’s bowl had a soft-boiled egg added, and some dried osmanthus flowers were sprinkled on top as decoration.

There was no way around it, this young master was difficult to please.

Lu Shiqi smelled it first, there was indeed a faint osmanthus fragrance, but he still had no appetite for it just by looking at it.

The reason he wanted to eat it was simply because he saw Pei Manman eating so deliciously, and he felt a little curious to try it.

He took a sip of the soup first, then ate a noodle.

As the chef said, the brown sugar wasn’t too sweet, and the noodles were very refreshing.

But compared to a main course, it was more like a sweet dessert.

And Lu Shiqi didn’t like to drink sweet soup, the actual food and the expectations Pei Manman had created for him were ten thousand miles apart.

That’s right, Lu Shiqi thought disappointedly, how much good food could Pei Manman have eaten? From yesterday to now, what wasn’t he eating with gusto?

So without even poking the soft-boiled egg, Lu Shiqi was about to put down his chopsticks.

But his peripheral vision caught a glimpse of Pei Manman, his bowl was already empty, and he was now eyeing his bowl with a hungry look.

His eyes were filled with undisguised envy, his gaze followed the movement of his chopsticks, as if he was afraid of missing any detail.

“That round thing, it’s an egg.”

He couldn’t suppress his desire to eat, but the little guy still tried to pretend to be casual.

“Is it a chicken egg or a duck egg…”

The chef answered, “It’s a chicken egg, but chicken eggs are not easy to digest, little baby can’t eat it yet, eat it when you’re better.”

The chef naturally saw Pei Manman’s longing, he almost felt heartbroken, the little guest had just become a little baby so blatantly.

But Pei Manman didn’t react, he didn’t believe anyone would call him little baby, he still stared straight at the egg in Lu Shiqi’s bowl.

His bright, dark eyes blinked, they were round and round, like a naive, cute puppy.

He was also wearing new clothes, today he was wearing another set of fluffy pajamas with a little duck pattern.

He looked clean and refreshing, cute and innocent, like a cotton doll.

He was still a little pale and weak from being sick, his whole body was soft and squishy.

He inexplicably made people want to bully him.

He looked like he would cry if you pinched his cheek.

Lu Shiqi felt a little uneasy, as if some bad thoughts that he didn’t want to see were being stirred up in his heart.

He wasn’t even planning to eat anymore, but seeing Pei Manman like this, he picked up his chopsticks again and poked the egg.

The yolk inside was half-solidified and half-liquid, a perfectly soft-boiled egg.

Seeing Pei Manman swallow his saliva, Lu Shiqi picked it up and took a bite.

“…Good, is it delicious?”

The longing in the little guy’s eyes was even more undisguised, he wished he was the one eating this egg.

Because he loved to eat eggs.

Boiled eggs, poached eggs, egg custard, fried eggs, scrambled eggs, as long as it was an egg, no matter how he ate it, he could never get enough.

And he rarely got to eat soft-boiled eggs like this.

It looked delicious just by looking at it.

The brown sugar noodles were already delicious, if you added the runny yolk to the sweet soup… what kind of deliciousness would that be, he couldn’t even imagine.

Unfortunately, he couldn’t eat it, he could only watch Lu Shiqi eat it.

And the more he showed that he wanted to eat it, the more people wanted to bully him.

At least Lu Shiqi felt that way.

Even though he thought it was nothing special, he still deliberately answered, “It’s delicious, it’s very delicious.” Then, under Pei Manman’s gaze, he finished the egg and the noodles, even drinking most of the soup.