976 Perplexed and Smitten 36 (1/2)
”Xiaoxi, I can't finish this. You may have it,” said Wen Yuechan, scooping some braised pork balls into Long Xiaoxi's plate.
Long Xiaoxi would have been overjoyed if it were Jin Yiheng or Long Wenlun who helped her to the food, because braised pork balls were one of her favorite dishes.
Yet, the person was Wen Yuechan.
She scooped the meatballs up and placed them back onto Wen Yuechan's plate. ”I don't want your meatballs.”
”I just thought you haven't had enough to eat…”
”I had enough.”
Wen Yuechan did not insist further and instead continued eating slowly.
Shi Bao'er humphed and remarked snidely, ”You really don't know any better. Yuechan was just being kind and giving you her food, yet you're still so ungrateful.”
Long Xiaoxi ignored her and said, ”If you can't finish that much food, don't get Auntie to scoop you so much. What a waste of food.”
She looked down and polished the food off her plate. She then wiped her mouth before skipping out of the cafeteria merrily.
Long Xiaoxi would ask for an extra portion for every meal. Although the food served at the cafeteria was nutritious and tasty, she still enjoyed snacking nonetheless. After all, she was just a child.
She ran back to her dormitory room and switched on the air conditioner before taking out a slice of soft and spongy chiffon cake. As soon as she took a bite, Ji Gui opened the door, not giving her the time to hide the slice of cake at all.
”Hey, Xiaoxi, I knew you were secretly eating in your room. Stop eating desserts. The more sugar you eat, the fatter you'll get. You'll slim down very quickly if you try to lose weight now.”
Since he had already caught her in the act, Long Xiaoxi decided to continue eating openly. She argued, ”My Daddy already said that I'm still young and I shouldn't be going on diets right now. I'll lose weight naturally once I'm older.”
”Your daddy's lying to you. Think about it, you're already so chubby now. You're going to get even fatter when you're older. By then, you'll have to spend years trying to lose weight.”
”My Daddy wouldn't lie to me, but… why do I have to spend years trying to lose weight?” asked a puzzled Long Xiaoxi.
”Of course you'll have to spend lots of years losing weight. By the time you're twenty years old, you'd have been fat for twenty years. Xiaoxi…” Ji Gui looked at her solemnly and continued, ”You'd definitely have to lose all your fats bit by bit. Hence, you'll be forty years old by the time you lose all the weight that you've gained.”
Long Xiaoxi found something wrong with his logic. After giving his words some thought, she said in a moment of epiphany, ”Dummy, are you stupid? I'm not going to get as fat as a balloon and become humongous just because I didn't go on a diet for twenty years.”
Ji Gui pondered over her words before saying, ”That seems about right.”
”You're such a dimwit and yet you still have the cheek to lecture me. I really wonder how you manage to reassemble the mobile phones you've dismantled,” Long Xiaoxi remarked, rolling her eyes at him.
He scratched his head and said, ”By the way, I came to ask you to go out to play. They're all playing on the field.”
”Nah, it's too warm outside. I want to stay in the dormitory to enjoy the air conditioning,” she refused.
”You're really not going?”
”No,” she said, remaining still.
”I saw Yuechan and Yiheng playing with marbles together when I was there just now.”
Long Xiaoxi immediately put her cake away and said, ”I must go and take a look.”
Ji Gui smiled smugly, seemingly having already expected her to react that way.
After switching off the air conditioner, Long Xiaoxi warned him, ”If what you said isn't true, you'd better prepare to receive a punishment from me.”
”I'm speaking the truth. Go and take a look if you don't believe me.”
The other children were still playing under the blazing sun when Long Xiaoxi and Ji Gui arrived at the field.
”See, Xiaoxi, what I said was true.”
Long Xiaoxi looked at him and said, ”Squat down.”