How to eat pineapple buns on the immigration ship

Chapter 289 An Encounter at the Dinner
Just as Nancy and Yating were chatting happily, Nancy suddenly felt a chill run down her spine. She shivered, looked around, and then, with her keen senses, she sensed a familiar gaze.

Let's talk again next time.

After leaving that message in the three-person chat group, Nancy decisively closed the chat interface.

"Nancy, it's been a long time."

Nancy realized that her recent chills had indeed been a premonition; the sound she least wanted to hear had just appeared behind her.

She stopped smiling and turned around.

Sure enough, standing behind them was the pretty girl whose three not-so-pleasant junior high school years were directly linked to the reason why the three childhood friends had such a bad time.

"Oh, Sasha, you actually came."

Nancy greeted her with a forced smile.

"I just noticed that everyone at this banquet is someone of your age who is highly regarded by their respective families, so I thought it would be your older sister or younger brother who would be here."

When the beautiful girl—Sasha—heard these words, she almost lost her smile, and her face turned pale, making her look rather pitiful.

“You guessed right… I didn’t come alone this time. My sister and mother are chatting with other ladies on the terrace.”

Sasha knew that Nancy was deliberately targeting her, so she quickly regained her composure and put on a smile again.

"Really? Then why didn't you come along? This is a rare opportunity, with all the prominent families and company executives from the Third Fleet gathered together. I see how much you value your future development, even going so far as to study economics, isn't it all so you can escape your family and make a name for yourself?"

Nancy squinted, her smile widening.

It wasn't that she deliberately inquired about it, but rather some rumors she overheard while gossiping with students from other classes during her middle school years.

At that time, due to the underhanded tactics of Sasha and her lackeys, the trio of childhood friends had an extremely unpleasant time in class, let alone developing new relationships.

Therefore, their circle of friends during middle school was mainly developed in other classes outside their own class, and even in other grades.

Even after graduation, Nancy, a social terrorist, maintained close contact with the gossipy people she knew from junior high school.

A while ago, Sasha caused all sorts of trouble at the Agricultural University Affiliated High School. She immediately shared it with her gossipy friends from junior high school so that her classmates from other classes and grades could see the jokes that this "class beauty" and her followers made.

“Nancy…you don’t have to do this, I…I’m not trying to oppose you, I just…”

Seeing her once again display her pitiful and weak appearance, Nancy couldn't help but shiver; she felt like goosebumps were about to break out all over her body.

"Alright, alright, you know I don't fall for that. This looks rather unappetizing. By the way, is there anything you need? If not, I'm going to go pick something to eat. I was busy all day yesterday, and today the elders at home have been ordering me around. I'm starving."

Seeing that Nancy was about to leave, Sasha quickly stopped her.

"I... I just want to ask where Aino is? I haven't seen him at the Li family's house for the past few days."

Sasha seemed to have made a huge decision before asking the question, her face flushed red.

"Hmm? Didn't you hear from the other ladies? He's doing an outdoor study tour in Kagawa. He's expected to stay for a month, but judging from Kagawa's current state, which seems to have his mobility boosted, the rest of the 'Tongue Tip Club' probably won't just sit around watching. So it's not impossible that he'll stay there until school starts." It wasn't that Nancy was deliberately using Kagawa to make things difficult for Sasha; it's just that... summer vacation has only just begun.

With the popularity of "A Bite of China," the emergence of new staple bread, and new agricultural products, Nanxi even felt that Xiangchuan was preparing to give them a big surprise before the start of the school year.
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Upon hearing Nancy's words, Sasha's face turned deathly pale.

Sasha had a bad feeling when she hadn't seen Aino when she had been wandering around the Li family's neighborhood, or when Ouyang Yating and Nancy came to visit Aino.

But Sasha was unwilling to confront this premonition and could only comfort herself by thinking that perhaps Aino was just traveling somewhere else.

Even though she herself knew that it was very unlikely that she would encounter other fleets before the fleet exchange period, it was even less likely that Aino would leave the main ship to go to other places.

However, when Sasha actually heard that Aino was now living in Kagawa's house, she couldn't help but gasp.

"She...Aino...didn't she say she didn't like her classmate, the club president?"

Sasha asked, trembling, her eyes even welling up with tears.

"Ah? Is there any?"

Upon hearing this, Nancy couldn't help but laugh out loud.

"I think Aino really likes Kagawa. Besides, among the women around us who can tolerate his personality, only Kagawa is besides the two of us. If we can really get this troublesome guy to Kagawa in the future, it will lighten our burden a bit, and we'll have a legitimate reason to go to Kagawa's place for a free meal."

With each word she spoke, Sasha's face grew paler.

"Would Aino's mother and father agree...? The Xiang family's history is still far behind both Aino's and my family's. As a newly established family, the Xiang family doesn't have much of a family foundation right now, and President Kagawa doesn't have anything special about her other than being an information flow contact person..."

Upon hearing this, Nancy couldn't help but let out a cold laugh.

"I see. So that was your true opinion of Kagawa during your visit? Well, I can only say that it's a good thing we didn't let you get any closer to Kagawa and Aino."

Yes, during the joint field trip organized by the High School Affiliated to the University of Finance and Economics and the High School Affiliated to the Agricultural University, Nancy and Ouyang Yating keenly sensed something strange in Sasha's gaze towards Ai Ye. They promptly took steps to stop Sasha from approaching Kagawa again, even separating her from Aino. As a result, the two protected individuals seemed to have almost forgotten about Sasha after the field trip ended.

Upon hearing this, Xiao suddenly looked at Nancy.

"You...you really did it on purpose!"

Sasha tried her best to control her volume, but her voice still trembled slightly. Her eyes welled up with tears, which looked like they were about to fall.

“What else?” Nancy chuckled. “It was the last group activity before summer vacation. Considering that Kagawa had been busy for the club, the class, and even the entire fleet for the whole semester, we two idle people who often freeloaded were still willing to help her maintain a relaxed and good mood when she went out to participate in the activity.”

"And you should be glad that we didn't tell the other people in Class 8 of Grade 1. Those guys are practically no different from ancient culture fanatics now. If they knew that someone wanted to ruin Kagawa's good mood and prevent them from eating and drinking around Kagawa, you might have been stuck in the free movement area of ​​the Affiliated High School of Finance and Economics by now."

This wasn't Nancy exaggerating. Given the attitude of those gluttons in Class 8 of Grade 11—they would never disagree with Kagawa's orders, and if he told them to go straight, they would never turn left or right—she felt that if they had known about this potential problem during the joint visit between the two schools, they would have nipped Sasha's little schemes in the bud, ensuring she would never rise again at the Affiliated High School of Finance and Economics.

After all, anyone who opposes Kagawa is opposing ancient cuisine.

To go against ancient cuisine is to go against the ancient gourmets of Class 8, Grade 11.