"Oh, oh, oh... Let's keep the dishes ready, Sister Qiqi, and be careful on the road."
Ah Qing sat at the dining table, looked enlightened, and said to Wang Qiqi, who was driving, before hanging up the phone and turning to Momo: "Sister Qiqi said there are two juniors lost on the way to the birthday party, so we should just eat first and not wait for them..."
Although different campuses from Xinxing Agricultural Science College have students from the same batch, they address each other as classmates and don't have senior or junior roles.
However, at the Xiqi Campus, the only junior students are the green-haired girl brought back by Professor Huang, a young girl whose appearance resembles Momo by about thirty percent, and a little fox who processed enrollment procedures.
Once Wang Qiqi mentioned two juniors were lost, Ah Qing quickly guessed who they were.
"Alright!"
Momo nodded gently, invited everyone to start eating, and mentioned that there was still a large pot of beef bone soup in the kitchen. Beef and lamb would be sliced again once Wang Qiqi and the others arrived.
Due to the large number of classmates coming, the original table length wasn't sufficient, so the classmates moved a long table from the study that originally held a computer to make a five-meter table.
Four cartridge stoves were placed on the table, with various sliced beef, lamb, chicken, and fish laid out on the surface.
"Hmm?"
"Why are you all looking at me?"
Ah Qing had just placed Xiaolan in the baby chair when she sharply sensed classmates around the table, who instinctively revealed bizarre expressions, quietly stared at her, full of silent bewilderment.
Ah Qing looked back in confusion.
"What else can we do? The ones staring at you now are mostly classmates from northern provinces. I guess they are all ready to put on their painful masks..."
Ansheng teased Ah Qing with a cheerful expression while waiting on the baby chair.
In Jiule City, when eating dumplings and oyster omelets, the dipping sauces are fish sauce, sweet chili sauce, and ketchup.
Ah Qing had once made northern classmates wear painful masks in the cafeteria by pairing dumplings with sweet chili sauce.
Now, the classmates watching Ah Qing are largely from the Four Rivers province or the northern Three Provinces, full of dread.
Until.
After Ah Qing had prepared the dipping sauce, those classmates who had unconsciously looked at her naturally relaxed.
Cilantro particles + satay sauce + garlic dipping for beef, while lamb dipping is chosen as garlic ginger paste with peanut oil.
Thankfully... no haunted tomato sauce and damned sweet chili sauce.
Compared to Ah Qing's defying combinations with pastries, the stuff in the dipping bowls now looks pleasant.
At this moment, none of the classmates at the dining table mentioned whose dipping sauce pairing was more reasonable or tasted more authentic.
Except, one classmate handed a bottle of milk to Tang You to relieve the spiciness, and Tang You glanced at the bottle with a straw and cursed silently in her heart: "Darn it."
Coming from wealthy family like Tang You, when buying milk in the supermarket, one drinks by biting or twisting, "gulp, gulp."
Born in the province of the two major dairy companies, she only realized while traveling out of the province that drinking milk might have a straw.
This made Tang You feel extremely unsteady, even when she sees milk from the two major dairy companies now, although she doesn't like milk, she can't help but subconsciously curse.
.......
After eating, while preparing to gather on the rooftop for BBQ, chat, and play cards.
Lin Ying received a message, and she moved her phone in front of Momo, asking:
"Momo... is this your friend?"
In the photo, the Tropical Continent is under the bright noon sun.
A black-haired young man with long hair wrapped in a grass skirt sat crouched in front of a broken clay pot, preparing bark broth, looked terrified as if seeing a ghost towards the door, where a muscular beastman snapped his photo, swallowing hard.
"Yes! That's him!"
Seeing that Uncle Biao was still alive and even had the thoughts of seasoning bark and eating flour paste, Momo sighed in relief, saying, "I'm really thankful, once Uncle Biao returns, my uncle and Uncle Biao will definitely visit to gratefully thank you..."
"No need, it's just a small favor." Lin Ying smiled at Momo, saying, "We're all Master Fuli's friends, it's normal for compatriots to help each other when far from home..."
Lin Ying didn't request any thanks, as Lingnan region is very wary of owing gratitude, sometimes preferring to offer far beyond normal prices as compensation but inevitably need to repay any debts of gratitude. Free often equivalent to most expensive.
She merely transferred this favor onto Master Fuli, having Momo show more concern for him in daily life.
"How can that be, without Uncle Biao kneeling in gratitude, how can we repay Sister Lin's generous assistance."
Although Momo understood, some matters still have their distinction, and Uncle Biao had to visit to express thanks.
"The thought is what counts..."
Lin Ying waved her hand with a smile, leading Lin Bingyun, picking up Master Fuli to go upstairs and prepare for BBQ.
Lin Ying walked out the door, glanced between the elevator and the fire stairs, and then proceeded to the fire stairs with Master Fuli.
"Momo... she's quite a nice girl." Lin Ying smiled at Master Fuli, saying, "If I were to describe, I should use the term 'charismatic' on her."
"Charismatic?"
Ansheng was full of question marks, looking at Lin Ying, not quite understanding how the topic had moved here.
"Yes, beneath those jeans, the seemingly bare-leg artifact tights can easily be seen as regular tights paired with black silk, better shaping her leg contours." Lin Ying commented.
Though Momo is quite casual in makeup, she still puts thought into her attire.
With great temperament, exquisite taste, and exhibiting confident elegance during interactions, she really is excellent.
"Exactly, but Momo is a Narcissus..." Ansheng retorted, with her face going black as she looked at Lin Ying.
"Narcissus..."
Lin Ying paused, obviously having no understanding of the term Narcissus, she instinctively looked at Lin Bingyun.
Lin Bingyun's expression froze, and she quickly took out her phone to search the meaning of Narcissus being used on a girl.
"Narcissus youth, Narcissus..." Lin Bingyun twitched her mouth, explaining it simply to Lin Ying.
"......."
Lin Ying's smile froze awkwardly, silently climbed two flights of stairs before regaining her spirit and said to Master Fuli:
"...Momo should be a good friend. But Master Fuli, you'd better give her a reminder that the Tropical Continent over there isn't very safe now, her friends and others from same province should temporarily return to Xia Country."
"The area they are in originally belonged to an economic colony of Longevity Club members. However, following America's re-election, those old pirates... symbolized by the Mayflower organization."
"They've started fighting with Longevity Club. One of the battlegrounds is that Gold-digging Town. Recently, due to an earthquake, a site suspected to be from the 'Second Epoch' was shaken out."
"That thing is submerged in the underground water system, currently making it difficult for Longevity Club to excavate, while pirates plan to seize it..."
Lin Ying explained to Master Fuli the reasons she was attending meetings during this period.
Outside beggars circle the land training private soldiers, provoking real local organization resistance in America.
The term Mayflower organization may be unfamiliar, but they once emerged under aliases, having four million believers in America, if considering believers' families, it's a religious party organization controlling millions of population.
Only, later they were fed well and subjected to mainstream social suppression and gradually regressed to silence.
They aim to create another Roosevelt, to ban the currently crossed line Longevity Club basket.
"Second Epoch site?"
"A complete Second Epoch site?" Ansheng disregarded the Mayflower organization and inquisitively stared at Lin Ying.
"Probably, according to underwater probe feedback image, the site is very complete."
"Each metal ring encircles other rings, constructing aesthetically pleasing outer architecture, matching Longevity Club's definition of the 'Second Epoch' style." Lin Ying said to Master Fuli.
"Then... it's gone, telling him to run faster."