Jiang Miaomiao's smile vanished instantly.
"I only know how to cast nets, not kill fish!"
Ji Xi said, "I can make buns. When my mom used to run a breakfast cart, I often helped her make them, but I don't know how to handle crabs."
Shen Fangli looked at her two highly useful companions, then at her own hands. "I... can wash vegetables?"
Ji Xi comforted her. "Washing vegetables is hard work too. It's still better than doing nothing and just sitting there waiting to eat."
Yan "Does Nothing but Sit Around Waiting to Eat" Xianjue: "???"
Was that a jab at me, or was I imagining things?
He haughtily raised his chin. "What a bunch of stupid two-legged beasts. You can't even make crab roe buns."
"How about this? I'll generously lend you my chef."
Ji Xi immediately clarified, "Are you lending him to us for free?"
Yan Xianjue glanced at him. "What kind of dream are you having?"
Shen Fangli said, "I knew it!!!"
"If money is involved, that's called hiring, not lending!!!"
Yan Xianjue casually waved his hands. "Come on, it's basically the same."
Shen Fangli said, "They're obviously very different, okay? Don't use your score of over one hundred and thirty in Chinese just to play word games with us!"
"Holy crap, how much? Did my ears go blind?"
"Or maybe your eyes went deaf."
"Wasn't he supposed to be a bad student?! I clearly remember that iconic scene where Shen Fangli and Ji Xi tutored him together!"
"A student from the same school would like to ask quietly: who told you that?"
"Same school +1. He was only bad at physics. He still hovered around the top one or two hundred in the whole school year-round, so his grades in other subjects definitely weren't bad."