When Cheng Yi saw An Yan in the orchard before, he felt that An Yan’s figure looked slightly familiar, but he didn’t think much of it. At this time, he decided that fate was really wonderful.
“I know,” Cheng Yi saw An Yan’s embarrassed face and smiled. He pointed at the apple in his hand, “Hurry up and eat the apple, otherwise it won’t taste so good later.”
An Yan ate slowly because he couldn’t bear to eat it. It was rare to have such a big apple in his hand, so he wanted to take his time tasting the deliciousness of the apple.
However, since Cheng Yi had said so, An Yan was too embarrassed to continue to be slow. He hurriedly picked up the pace on the apple.
The two chatted away, and An Yan quickly finished the apple. He was about to stand up and leave when Cheng Yi shoved some crystal clear grapes into his hand.
An Yan: “……” Reason told him he should refuse, but his hand had spontaneously taken hold of the grapes.
Cheng Yi smiled and said, “I have given these to you. You didn’t take them yourself, so you can eat them.”
Although the red apple he had just eaten was so big that An Yan’s stomach was almost full, he couldn’t help but silently swallow his saliva when he looked at the crystal-full grapes in his hand and said, “Thank you.”
“You’re too polite to me. You’re the same age as my brother, in the same major, and your grades are excellent. I’d like to ask you to help take care of him more. “ Cheng Yi naturally found a very reasonable reason for his actions.
An Yan was tempted to say that his grades really weren’t very good, but was afraid that it would sound like he was deliberately looking for an excuse. He could only promise, “If there’s anything I can do to help, of course I’m more than willing.”
“So I’m the one who should be thanking you,” seeing An Yan’s cheeks puffed out as he slowly chewed on the grapes in his mouth. Cheng Yi shoved a few more into his hand, “Have a couple more; it must have been a hard day, right?”
An Yan shook his head repeatedly and said, in a slightly muffled voice, “No, it’s not hard, and your family is paying a lot of money for the work.”
A thousand star coins didn’t seem like much to Cheng Yi, but An Yan’s excitement and satisfaction made him feel like it was a lot of money.
“Eat slowly, don’t be in a hurry.” Cheng Yi said in a soft voice on seeing that An Yan had eaten so much that the corners of his mouth were covered in a little fruit juice.
He originally asked An Yan to bring these fruits for the little one to eat, but seeing him eat with gusto made Cheng Yi unable to resist peeling a grape and putting it into his mouth.
Once he tasted it, it was indeed very sweet.
While Cheng Yi and An Yan were sitting in the room, chatting and eating fruit, Zhao Xinxin in the banquet hall downstairs was a little agitated.
She had come to the banquet with her father with a purpose. She had just managed to catch the other party, but before she could say a few words, the banquet started.
When she had the time to look for Cheng Yi again, she could no longer find the other party.
Zhao Xinxin politely turned down the other men who came over to talk to her because of the high quality body potion and left the banquet hall alone.
She searched the garden and even went to the back kitchen to ask for him, but she could not find Cheng Yi.
She was so angry!
Zhao Xinxin was so angry that she stomped her feet, but there was nothing she could do about it. As the banquet was about to end, she could only go back to the banquet hall with a lot of resentment.
However, the truth is that she had once again miscalculated.
Cheng Yi didn’t show up, and his mother even found a good excuse for her eldest son. She said he wasn’t feeling well today. He had been forced to show up several times before, which was why he couldn’t personally see off the guests.
Zhao Xinxin was naturally furious, but she could not force herself to stay. She could only pretend to be a good girl and say goodbye to the Cheng parents and speak to Cheng Yang a few more times before following her father out.
When they arrived at the airship, Zhao Xinxin immediately changed her fave: “Dad, look how excessive Cheng Yi is. We have given him such an expensive gift, but he still deliberately avoids me! “
Zhao Chengxuan was more open-minded than Zhao Xinxin: “Sending a gift is only the first step. It would be abnormal if Cheng Yi immediately changed his attitude. There is still a long time ahead. You are too impatient.”
Zhao Xinxin’s mood slowly improved after being reassured by her father. She thought about how everyone had praised her at the banquet and her heart soared, “Dad, I realised today that the high quality body potions are really so precious. If only I could make some more in the future.”
Having lied to people for so long, at this moment, Zhao Xinxin had even fooled herself. She really felt that she had made the high-quality body potion herself.
Zhao Chengxuan did not correct this but instead hoped to use it to motivate his daughter. Most of the time, the strength one shows is far below their potential. It is only when one finds the right opportunity that they can fully realise their potential.
If he can convince Xinxin that she can make high-quality potions, we might be able to use this to inspire her potential to really make fine potions.
Zhao Chengxuan said, “So all the more reason for you to study hard and not be held back or influenced by external factors.”
Zhao Xinxin was still reminiscing about how she felt when she was being courted, so she didn’t even think about it and just nodded perfunctorily.
On the other hand, An Yan heard that the banquet was over, and stood up with a startled look on his face.
He just sat here to answer some questions and eat some fruit in the meantime. How could the party be over!
Cheng Yi didn’t expect to talk to An Yan for so long. He only wanted to tease the little one, but he didn’t expect they would talk until the party was over.
What was even more incredible to Cheng Yi was that he had initiated most of the conversation during the exchange just now.
He had never had much patience. He always went straight to the point when talking to people, and he tried to be as concise as possible. That was why people thought he was cold and aloof.
This time, however, it was just small talk, but he was surprisingly immersed in it, and even enjoyed it.
“Well…I’m sorry. I’ll go over and see if I can help. “ An Yan felt very self-conscious about the fact that he had sat here for so long. He really only planned to stay here for a short while.
Fortunately, though, it wasn’t too late and he should still be able to do something.
Cheng Yi frowned slightly. He had forgotten that the work in the back kitchen would instead become even busier after the dinner was over. If he had known, he would not have rushed to remind An Yan of the time.
“Don’t rush, sit down and talk with me for a while,” Cheng Yi gestured for An Yan to sit down, “what were we just talking about?”
An Yan was able to sit peacefully without knowing the time, but not now: “Eldest …… senior Cheng, I want to first go to the back kitchen. “
Cheng Yi was trying to find an excuse to make him stay when he saw the door to his room being forcefully pushed open. Cheng Yang arrived in a breeze: “Big brother, how dare you hide in your room and be lazy, even after the party …… eh, who is this? Is this a worker for the house? “
Cheng Yi immediately smoothly introduced, “This is An Yan, who came over to help out today. You know who he is when you hear this name, right? “
Although he had never met An Yan before, it didn’t stop him from expressing his shock: “My goodness! Are you the same An Yan who came first in the entrance exam and made a high-quality body potion? “
An Yan was quite embarrassed by Cheng Yang’s attitude, but Cheng Yi was happy to see it. This way, An Yan would not think about going to the back kitchen anymore, right?
“You’re really great! You’re practically my idol! “ Cheng Yang continued to exclaim, “How on earth did you create a high quality body potion back then?”
Hearing the latter half of the sentence, Cheng Yi, who had just put his heart down, couldn’t help but give his brother a warning look. It was rude to directly ask a pharmacist he had just met for information involving hidden secrets.
Cheng Yang also immediately realised the problem and was about to open his mouth to apologise when he heard An Yan reply with a pure expression, “Actually, I don’t know how I made the high quality body potion. I chose hamster mental power at the time, so I thought the potion I made should have failed. “
Cheng Yang, who was about to apologize, forgot what he was going to say when he heard these words and exclaimed, “What? You chose the hamster spirit power? That’s impossible! How can a body potion infused with hamster spirit power work on people who have hamster characteristics on their bodies?”
Cheng Yi was originally going to stop the two from continuing to discuss this issue, but he also couldn’t help but think about it as well.
Although he was not a pharmacist, Cheng Yi still had a lot of knowledge about potion making for some personal reasons.
He was well aware of the principles of potion making, and naturally knew that the situation An Yan was talking about really shouldn’t exist, at least not in the current system of potion knowledge.
But there was no way An Yan would lie about this, so what was the problem?
“I didn’t think it could work either, that’s why I didn’t think I would make a high quality body potion,” An Yan was also at a loss about this, “so I guess it’s possible that …… well, maybe something went wrong in the process problem, I guess.”
An Yan originally wanted to say that it might have been a problem with the academy’s test results, but Cheng Yi had already denied such a claim, so he improvised with a different statement.
