The birthday banquet appeared joyous on camera, while off-camera, the audience enjoyed the spectacle.
[I never imagined I'd be able to attend a birthday banquet online. I thought a birthday banquet in the countryside would be simpler, but it looks just as good as the one I attended at the hotel the other day.]
[This kind of birthday banquet feels more lively; everyone is chatting and laughing, and it feels more intimate. The birthday banquets I've attended before were held in five-star hotels, which were beautiful, but the feeling was completely different.]
[Wow, there are so many people here! There seemed to be so few before.]
[There weren't many people. As mentioned before, some of the attendees came from the foot of the mountain and from other towns.]
[There were probably only enough people from their village to fill two or three tables.]
I thought Brother Fu wouldn't like the food, but he ate it with great relish! The food here must be delicious!
Upon seeing this comment, Fu Chi had taken a quick look at the live stream during his lunch break, twitched his eyebrows slightly. He slowly wiped his fingers with a wet wipe while watching the screen. On the screen, Fu Yunyi was wearing a shirt worth several thousand yuan, holding a white porcelain bowl, and sitting on a bright red stool...
Wang Chengran for a chicken leg.
Fu Chi watched for a while, then suddenly laughed.
[My positive impression of Brother Fu has shattered completely.]
[What kind of rural-urban mix is this?! Fu Yunyi is dressed like a noble young master, so why does he blend in so well? Shouldn't he be completely out of place?!]
[ Wang Chengran, how dare you! You dare steal my Brother Fu's chicken leg! (doge)]
[Hahaha, how did they even start fighting over it? I didn't even blink! Hahaha!]
[Hilarious! Wang Chengran, that childish brat, will drag everyone else down with him sooner or later.]
In the scene, before anyone else noticed, Fu Yunyi and Wang Chengran were poking at the stir-fried chicken with chili peppers on the table several times with their chopsticks.
As a result, the chicken leg that the two people were fighting over was suddenly picked up quickly and accurately by another pair of chopsticks and placed into the fourth person's bowl under their gaze.
Xue Ranran: "Seeing how conflicted you all are, I'll do a good deed and give it to Sister Yueyue."
Wang Chengran: "..."
Fu Yunyi: "..."
Qin Yue: "..."
Qin Yue's expression was somewhat subtle.
It wasn't that she disliked Xue Ranran's chopsticks, but rather...
Qin Yue thought helplessly, "I don't eat spicy food."
This stir-fried chicken with chili peppers truly lived up to its name. Qin Yue was taken aback when it was served. The chicken was actually quite substantial, but the dish was served in a large bowl, a whole bowl full of large pieces of green chili peppers, and the aroma of spicy chili peppers was overwhelming.
It looks really spicy!
She had no intention of eating it at all!
Xue Ranran, unaware of this, happily said to Qin Yue, " Sister Yueyue, eat up! The ones you snatch taste even better. This chicken leg must be delicious!"
Wang Chengran: "... You just said you robbed it, right?"
Xue Ranran: "No, you misheard."
Wang Chengran wanted to say something, but out of the corner of his eye he saw a pair of chopsticks reaching for the stir-fried beef that he also liked very much, so he didn't bother to continue and quickly picked it up.
No wonder, not only he liked this dish, but everyone else at the table loved it too! It was almost all gone!
Fu Yunyi quickly picked up a piece of beef with his chopsticks, but didn't continue shoveling more into his bowl. After eating a few mouthfuls of fragrant rice with the salty, spicy, and savory dishes, he remembered something and asked, " Xia Zhiyi really sitting at the children's table?"
Xue Ranran and Wang Chengran turned their heads at the same time, looking in the other direction with perfect understanding, and found that Xia Zhiyi was still surrounded by several children.
Xue Ranran: "... Teacher Xia is really popular with kids! Why is that? Could it be that these kids are watching the live stream too?"
That's not impossible.
Wang Chengran: "What's so strange about that? Teacher Xia is naturally likable. The first time I saw him, I thought—wow, we're sure to get along!"
"I guess those kids are the same way."
Everyone: "..."
Wait a minute, when you said that, didn't you feel like something was off?
But Wang Chengran didn't sense anything was wrong at all. Then, after a moment's thought, he asked, "The kids don't seem to like eating properly. Look, they're still trying to talk to Teacher Xia. Does that mean no one is eating the food at their table?"
Xue Ranran: "Isn't this table of food enough for you?"
Wang Chengran: "Hey, I just didn't want to waste food."
Wang Chengran really wanted to eat at Xia Zhiyi's table.
Don't accuse him of stealing food from a child; he's a child himself!
Stand tall!
The birthday celebrant was quite old, and his sons and daughters were also getting on in years, with the youngest reportedly being sixty. So, when it came time for the toasting, it was the birthday celebrant's grandson who went from table to table offering the toasts.
When the middle-aged man arrived at their table and saw the four of them, he paused for a moment and asked, "Where's the handsome young man?"
Fu Yunyi put down his chopsticks, ready to speak, Wang Chengran the first to say, "He's at the kids' table."
Fu Yunyi: "... Xia Zhiyi has only recently come of age, and since a few kids seemed to really like him, we simply let him take the kids to sit over there."
Fu Yunyi is someone whose emotional intelligence is at least a tiny bit higher than Wang Chengran's.
The middle-aged man paused for a moment, then smiled, said nothing more, politely toasted everyone at the table, expressed his gratitude, and then moved on to other tables.
After everyone sat down, Xue Ranran nudged Wang Chengran: "Don't say that next time. Doesn't Teacher Xia have any face?"
Wang Chengran: "Huh?"
I have absolutely no idea what I just said wrong.
Xue Ranran: "..."
Xue Ranran: "I suddenly feel so smart."
Wang Chengran: "What do you mean?"
Xue Ranran: "It's nothing, hehe."
Then the two of them started arguing again.
Qin Yue and Fu Yunyi, standing to the side:...
Shouldn't Xia Zhiyi be the one sitting at the children's table?
[Children's table: Xia Zhiyi and his group of underage children; Adults' table: Xue Moumou and Wang Moumou, who could turn into three-year-olds at any moment; Fu Moumou's identity is questionable.]
[I would have watched the show if it hadn't already started airing. Seeing this scene, I thought their relationship was really bad.]
[A bickering couple, hahaha]
[It's so peaceful over there with Teacher Xia, completely different from here, such a serene and peaceful place.]
[Yes, those kids were a bit unruly at first, but after Xia Zhiyi said a few words, they all sat down obediently and started eating.]
[That's why the contrast is so obvious, hahaha]
Fu Chi looked at the scene, and the colors on the boy caught his eye, his gaze darkening slightly.
In the video, a boy wearing a light yellow short-sleeved shirt picks up a piece of wood ear fungus for himself while simultaneously using serving chopsticks to serve some food to the other children without any hesitation. Everyone eats it obediently without being picky.
What's strange is that wherever the boy's hand passes, more color appears in Fu Chi's eyes.
Fu Chi's attention to Xia Zhiyi, whether intentional or not, was certainly not love at first sight.
Instead...