Chapter 19: Can You Cook?
Li Nuanchun felt an unease in her heart, greatly worried that Si Chen would come back and have a fight with his wife. Her gloom was so apparent that she didn’t even manage a smile while she was cooking.
"Where have you been all morning?" Chen Yanmei entered the kitchen with a bowl of vegetables and noticed the long face Li Nuanchun was pulling, casually asking, "Did you have a fight with your man or something? You look as long-faced as a cucumber."
"I wouldn’t be this worried if we really had a fight." Li Nuanchun had been feeling suffocated, eager to vent her feelings she shared the morning’s events. "Dr. Si’s wife may seem pretty and clever but she’s a frivolous spender. Not even a bank at home could put up with that kind of spending! She goes through two to three hundred yuan in an outing, just a fan alone costs a hundred and fifty yuan. As for coal briquettes that everyone else uses, she prefers to burn whatever is more expensive."
Having finally managed to prepare lunch while her child was asleep, Chen Yanmei initially just wanted to do some idle gossip. But upon hearing that it was about Si Chen’s couple, her eyebrows immediately raised and upon hearing that Tong Yao spent two to three hundred yuan in a single outing, her hand which was peeling a potato suddenly froze.
"What? Did Si Chen’s wife really spend two or three hundred on an outing?"
"Am I capable of lying?" Li Chunnuan frowned even more in worry. "I was the one who took her out, what if Dr. Si blames me for not stopping her."
"Seems like they’re big city people, must want everything they see, huh?" Chen Yanmei sneered with schadenfreude, wishing that the couple would get into a fight. "I told you so, Dr. Si’s wife is ill-mannered, she isn’t wife material. They told me she is from the countryside, not to mention her skinny and boyish looks, I have no idea what Dr. Si saw in her."
"You’ve got that wrong, Tong Yao’s looks are not bad at all, dare I say...."