As soon as Mu Yuze's car drove into the village, it stalled shortly after.
He sighed silently, tapped the steering wheel, and got out of the car.
There was only a solitary streetlight in front of the village.
Not far away were the fields, and one could faintly hear one or two barks of dogs.
He abandoned the car by the roadside and walked in the direction of the old house in his memory in the dark. When he stood in front of the old house and saw a glimmer of light from the yard, he finally confirmed that Lu Xue had returned here.
He stood at the door and thought of some words, wondering how he could persuade Lu Xue to go back.
Most likely, Lu Xue had run away this time because she was angered by Mu Ziyue.
Actually, the best way to handle this was to bring Mu Ziyue here too, let her apologize to Lu Xue face - to - face, and make Lu Xue change her mind.
But given Mu Ziyue's fiery temper, the possibility was extremely slim.
Mu Yuze couldn't help but sigh softly in his heart. It seemed that he had to prepare himself for the scolding and making things difficult for him.
With the mental preparation that no matter how Lu Xue made things difficult for him, he would bear it well, he slowly walked into the old house.
However... just as he stood at the door, he smelled the aroma of roasted meat inside.
The aroma was extremely alluring. Just smelling it, one could already imagine the smell of the skewers turning on the grill, mixed with cumin and pepper.
He didn't expect that Lu Xue would still be in the mood to have a barbecue in her yard.
He pushed open the rusty gate and saw Lu Xue and Han Xiaolv merrily roasting skewers inside.
Under a beam of light in the yard, the two girls had brought a few bottles of beer and several packs of chips. They were enthusiastically sprinkling all kinds of seasoning powders beside the grill.
The words Mu Yuze had prepared in his mind got stuck for a moment, and he didn't know how to start.
It was the two girls in the yard who looked up and noticed the tall and handsome man at the door.
Lu Xue was a bit surprised.
"Why did you come?"
Mu Yuze was just about to say something, but his stomach growled first.
He lowered his head, looking a bit embarrassed.
He had driven all the way to this small village this afternoon and hadn't had time to eat.
It was dinner time now, and the smell of the roasted meat was just too... alluring.
The two girls both burst out laughing.
Lu Xue said, "Since you're here, have something to eat with us."
As she said that, she put a few more skewers on the grill.
So, that night, the three of them sat around the grill and shared a dinner together.
Lu Xue and Han Xiaolv were both easy - going girls. They didn't care that there was a man they weren't very familiar with beside them and just chattered away on their own.
"You don't know how perverted that customer was. I had already promised to give him a cashback, but he still wanted to give me a bad review. I was so angry that I fought with him on the keyboard for three hundred rounds that day..."
Han Xiaolv was complaining about the strange customers she had met in her Taobao store recently while biting angrily at the skewer in her hand.
Lu Xue just said "hmm" and listened. Most of her attention was on the delicious food in front of her, and it was hard to tell how much she had actually taken in.
"Don't just talk. Go and get some new skewers quickly! I think the grilled steamed bread slices are quite delicious. There are still some in the fridge."
Han Xiaolv was a bit reluctant to get up at Lu Xue's order and went to rummage for new ingredients in the fridge.
Lu Xue's fridge was a second - hand appliance of unknown age. The fridge door was a bit mottled and yellowed. Fortunately, it still worked well, but its capacity was small. It couldn't store too many things.
The two of them had originally planned to cook a good meal when they came back to the yard this time, but Han Xiaolv rummaged through the fridge for a long time and couldn't find the ingredients to make a complete dish.
There were a few dried - out steamed buns and potatoes on the upper layer of the fridge, and a little bit of packaged meat slices on the lower layer.
Apart from that, there were some strange foods.
For example, Han Xiaolv found that Lu Xue especially liked to store all kinds of sauces. There were Korean sauce, spicy soybean paste, peanut butter with granules, as well as all kinds of five - spice and spicy beef sauces, condiments for rice, salad dressing, ketchup, oil - vinegar dressing, and stone - pot bibimbap sauce...
After examining these ingredients, Han Xiaolv resolutely decided that they might as well have a barbecue tonight.
While Han Xiaolv went to the fridge in the inner room to get the ingredients, Mu Yuze coughed lightly, as if he had found a slight chance to insert a topic.
"About what happened yesterday... I'd like to apologize to you on behalf of Mu Ziyue. She's been like this since she was a child, arrogant and unreasonable."
Lu Xue took a bite of the meat with relish and said slowly, "Don't worry. I didn't take yesterday's things to heart at all."
Mu Yuze was a bit surprised.
Lu Xue seemed more open - minded and able to let go than he had imagined.
But if she didn't care about what happened yesterday, why did she suddenly leave?
He had many more questions, but he didn't continue to ask because Han Xiaolv had already come back.
"Lu Xue!! I'm not kidding. Can you live a proper life? Even stock up a few more edible ingredients in the fridge! Even a slovenly homebody like me can't stand it. What kind of life are you living every day..."
Lu Xue didn't even look up and said, "As long as I don't starve to death. Why do you have so much to say?"