Chapter 39: Wu Yu 06 (3)
I slept rather well that night at her home. The only exception was around dawn, where I felt someone at the room’s door a few times. I knew more or less it was her checking on me because she was concerned. For some reason, her presence caused me to sleep even deeper. I did not open my eyes until the sun outside was so bright that the deep-colored curtains could not block the light anymore. Immediately, a pleasing aroma greeted me.
I walked out of the room and saw Tan Jiao in the kitchen with a white top and floral mini skirt shielded by an apron in the front. She was pan-frying some eggs and tending to a pot of steaming hot porridge on the stove.
Her pale, straight legs caught my attention again, but she looked like an honorable lady with the cute outfit she had on.
I leaned against the entrance to the kitchen and looked at her quietly, but she still heard the sound of my movements and turned around with a smile. “You’re awake? Food will be ready soon. Go wash up, I bought a one-time use toothbrush and a new towel for you.”
After washing my face, I returned to the entrance to the kitchen. For some reason, I did not want to leave the entrance that I was leaning on as I watched her. She took some pickled vegetables from a jar after she finished pan-frying the eggs. Then she glanced at me and asked, “Why are you just standing there? Go take a seat, the food is ready.”
“Have you always been so good at taking care of people?” I heard myself asking.
She let out a chuckle. “You’re mistaken, I’ve never taken care of anyone before.”
The two of us fell into a lull in the kitchen as the clinking of the pot of boiling porridge filled the air.
I had no idea what I was hoping for or what I was after when I heard myself asking in a tender tone, “So this is your first time?”