I will never give in to Miss Death

Feeling that the jelly in my hand was almost stirred, I poured the contents of the basin into the pot and continued to turn the liquid in the pot with a spatula: "Don't worry, she and Xiaomo have a good relationship."

"Well, I trust both of you."

After drinking the remaining Coke in one gulp, Elodie walked out of the kitchen: "Ah... It's a new day again, get ready for work."

"..."

Watching Elodie go upstairs, I set the heating time on the induction cooker and put the lid on the pot.

This way, when I go to buy groceries, the time will be almost right, and the jelly will have cooled down by the time I get back. I just need to cut it into pieces, add honey and put it in the refrigerator.

Considering that I was going out to buy groceries instead of taking a walk, I found my "heirloom" extra-large food plastic bag in the closet in my room, cleaned up the kitchen garbage, and took it out with me.

Making food for dragons and demons... Let me think about it.

For Xiaomo, a big fish and a portion of seafood are definitely indispensable, so let's have a larger portion of fish head and tofu soup. This is relatively simple to make. Just add some chopped green onions and ginger slices to the fish head and tofu. As for the seafood... buy a few hairy crabs?

To be honest, I don’t have much experience in handling aquatic products such as crabs and lobsters. The most important reason is that I’m poor.

Even though Kamihama City is a large coastal city with three freshwater rivers, the price of hairy crabs here was far beyond what I could afford when I was an uncle.

But this does not mean that I don't know how to deal with them, because I worked as a barbecue apprentice for a period of time before, and there were quite a few people who came to the store in the evening, ordered a few hairy crabs and two boxes of beer, and then chatted, drank and ate crabs with a few brothers until dawn.

Now I have finally made it. Even though I don't have much savings, I still have enough change to buy a few hairy crabs. This is Filo's first time in the human world on Earth, and I can't treat her badly.

That's it. Elodi has to go to work in the evening, and there are 4 people in the house. Lan Jiajia is not very fond of seafood, so she can eat 2 hairy crabs. As for me, maybe 1 is enough. Philo is a giant dragon, and Xiaomo loves seafood, so they are both 3. So I need to buy 6 hairy crabs, and then according to the "cat litter box theorem", in case there is not enough food, I will buy 1 more, for a total of 7 hairy crabs.

As for vegetables, I'd like some lettuce which goes well with seafood, and some refreshing Chinese cabbage. One fish head soup may not be enough, so I'll cook some... bone soup?

Filo is a giant dragon, so it’s definitely a good idea to cook more meat.

After calculating Xiaomo's part, I will go to the vegetable market to see if there is any better meat. Beef and pork should be fine.

Silently calculating the dishes to cook tonight, I walked along the corridor of the community to the vegetable garden at the back and walked into the vegetable market at the end of the garden.

"Hey, what are you going to buy today?"

The old men and women here were still as enthusiastic as before. When they saw me, they acted like they were old acquaintances: "There aren't many girls like you who are willing to come out to buy vegetables and cook for themselves. Come here, they're cheaper. I'll sell my own vegetables to you for money!"

"Homemade eggs, free-range chickens, would you like some, little sister?"

egg?

By the way, will the dragon clan be shy about this?

"How about taking a look at the chicken? It's freshly killed, so fresh!"

Then I noticed several stalls at the entrance of the chicken farm.

Yes!

The oven in the kitchen that I moved from my tiny apartment has been idle for a long time. Since there's a guy who loves meat coming over today, I can make some roast chicken!

I walked over to the chicken stall and picked out two big chickens.

One of them is going to be Orleans roast chicken, and the other one is going to be a medicinal steamed chicken based on what I learned in the coffee shop this month.

Although the recipe of the steamed chicken in the coffee shop is kept secret, I have been to the kitchen quite often this month and I have roughly remembered the ingredients. Even if the taste is different from that in the coffee shop, it will definitely not be too bad.

After buying two chickens, I bought bighead carp, hairy crabs, pork bones, etc. according to the ingredients I thought of when I walked over here just now. I carried large and small bags to the back of the vegetable market, found a fast food restaurant, and asked the owner for a whole roast duck.

This should be enough, right? I have a small appetite, so I can almost ignore it at the dinner table. Lan Jiajia is a girl and doesn't eat much either. Xiaomo should be able to finish the fish head soup and hairy crabs. Is it okay for Philo to finish the remaining Orleans roast chicken, steamed chicken with medicinal herbs, and this roast duck?

The main consideration is that it’s the first time someone comes to our house. If we don’t prepare something luxurious, wouldn’t it be embarrassing if she doesn’t have enough to eat?

Even though Philo's appetite has decreased after he turned into a human, it's okay to put the unfinished food in the refrigerator and use it as breakfast for the four of us tomorrow.

"Good weight……"

On the way back, carrying so many things, I once again felt the trouble brought by my lack of physical strength as a "little loli".

I originally thought that I could easily carry out a few vegetables, a few chickens, a fish, and a few crabs, but now it seems... a bit difficult...

If this was the uncle from before, he would have…

"Sister Nuoer?"

Coincidentally, I bought a lot of food from the market and was walking in the middle of the path in the vegetable garden. It was just the end of the school day for the nearby Xingguang Primary School. Amid the noise, Li Denghua and Zhou Xiaofei, who were wearing primary school uniforms, called me from a distance: "Aren't you going to work today?"

"Rest today."

I turned around and saw two elementary school students running towards me. "Is your home nearby?"

"The road is being repaired over there, so let's take a detour back."

Li Denghua looked at the bags in my hands curiously: "Wow, are there any guests coming to your house today?"

"Yes!"

I smiled and said, "Aren't you going to evening study tonight?"

"Our classroom will be renovated tonight and tomorrow, but our homeroom teacher said we don't need to go."

Li Denghua still spoke in the same tone as the young lady in her memory, but she was not as arrogant as she was then, and was a little more gentle: "When can you come to tutor me in my homework?"

"Why, your problem hasn't been solved yet?"

I laughed a little: "Are you sure you need my guidance?"

Li Denghua’s problem is very simple. To put it bluntly, she just wants “friends” or “company”.

Children are very innocent, and this innocence can easily turn into pure "evil" if not guided properly. For example, Li Denghua is such a case. Her parents are busy with work, and she had a good relationship with her father when she was a child. She hoped that her father could always play with her. Later, her father also went to work, so she hoped to attract her parents' attention by doing things like "not good at English", "not good at Chinese", and "studying advanced science subjects according to my father's requirements".

Originally, this child's parents had good genes, one was in aerospace and the other was in advanced physics. Li Denghua was smart since childhood, and there was no possibility that she could not learn or did not know how to learn.

Li Denghua's parents are still so busy and still neglect to discipline their child, but Li Denghua no longer needs her parents' company.

Because of my introduction, she made her first good friend, Zhou Xiaofei.

It can also be clearly seen that Li Denghua cherishes this friend very much. She often buys her snacks and takes her out to play.

"Has she been paying attention in class recently?"

In the vegetable garden, I turned to the girl next to me and asked, "Have you completed your homework on time for Chinese and English classes?"

Zhou Xiaofei's family is not well off and her academic performance is average. The two have now become good friends. When Zhou Xiaofei encounters questions she doesn't understand, she can only ask Li Denghua. Even if Li Denghua doesn't want to learn, she will force herself to learn. It is even more impossible for her to deliberately make mistakes on the Chinese and English test papers like she did before, hoping to attract the attention of her family.

When I was in college, I took an elective course on child psychology. In fact, almost all problems that children have, whether they are character or learning problems, can be attributed to "lack of faith."

Some children are very smart and have good learning ability, but they just have bad grades and are too lazy to study because there are problems in their families.

For example, if mom and dad quarrel, or if the parents have bad personalities and have beaten and scolded the child since childhood, then the child will have this mentality - "No matter how well I study, I get full marks on the exam and rank first in the grade, but what's the use of taking the full-marked test paper home? My mom who plays mahjong every day at home will not even look at this full-marked test paper, let alone praise me. I might as well just muddle through like this."

Those kids who skip classes every day, fight with others, climb over the wall to go to Internet cafes, and hang out with gangsters outside basically don't come from good families, because they know that if they are good at playing games, their teammates online will praise their shooting skills and call them big brothers, and their friends who hang out together will also respect them and call them big brothers. This can easily lead to a kind of "belief", which will make them work hard for it, and the hard work will have positive feedback and visible rewards, instead of studying hard, getting high scores, and then throwing the high-scoring test papers under the desk of their parents who only come home once every few years, waiting for them to mold without seeing any hope or warmth.

The most distressing thing is that these people basically don’t care about their children. They are too lazy to praise their children when they make progress. They may even make sarcastic remarks, such as “What’s there to be proud of with full marks? Look at the guy next door who got full marks three times in a row and didn’t even bother to tell his parents. Look at you.” After making sarcastic remarks, they go off to play mahjong. A few years later, they find their children addicted to online games and immediately make a report to the city leaders every day, saying, “It’s the games that have ruined my children. As a parent, I call for all games to be shut down!”

Although Li Denghua's family is wealthy, her situation is similar to that of left-behind children.

What she needs is not extra lessons or a teacher with excellent academic skills, but a friend.

And relatives.

Of course, if I were more unscrupulous, I could actually make this money. Five hundred or one thousand yuan an hour is really very tempting, but I think this makes no sense to Li Denghua.

"Well, Li Denghua is smarter than me and learns faster than me. I usually ask her if I don't understand something after class."

Compared to Li Denghua's big-girl temper, Zhou Xiaofei was very frank: "In the last exam, she ranked first in math, physics and chemistry, and also ranked second in Chinese and English."

See, I knew it.

Only a month has passed, and it turns out that children with friends and "faith" are different.

"Sister Nuoer, if you don't have enough strength, don't lift so many things."

As if she didn't want to continue the conversation on this topic, Li Denghua took the bag from my hand and said, "I'll help you."

Zhou Xiaofei also reached out and took my two chickens: "I'll help you too."

"Uh...thank you."

Although it seemed a bit embarrassing to ask two elementary school students to help, considering that I still had to cook when I got home, it would be good to save some energy at this time, so I acquiesced to the help of the two little guys: "I'll treat you to snacks when we get home."

"Tsk, I don't want to. I'm in a hurry to go home. Please invite Xiaofei."

Li Denghua took the initiative to walk to the front and asked: "Why isn't your boyfriend going with you today?"

How come even you know that Xiaomo is...the one from my family...

I hurried to catch up: "She went out for something."

"Out for work?"

"That's it."

"Oh, I figured it out then."

"What came out?"

"You should be the P in the yuri relationship, or the bottom, similar to the wife in a couple. You usually do housework at home and cook for your husband. And the sister is your husband. He is mainly busy with things outside and makes money to support you. Am I right?"

"Who did you learn this from? You are such a smart kid."

"I'm not little anymore. I'm about to go to junior high school."

“Is the junior high school big?”

"At least it's bigger than Sister Nuoer's. I'm almost having a B."

"I don't know why I want to beat you up."

"..."

She helped me carry my bags all the way to the entrance of Xingxing Garden Community, and walked along the path to the community apartment building. I noticed that Zhou Xiaofei's eyes were fixed on the roast duck in my hand.

"Why don't you come sit in the house?"

Seeing that the little guy seemed to be very greedy, I took the initiative to invite him: "Why don't you come to our house for dinner? It's very lively at home tonight."

"Eh?"

Zhou Xiaofei had a timid expression, seeming to be somewhat yearning and a little timid: "I..."

"Xiao Fei, isn't your mother at home tonight? Why don't you have dinner with her?"

At the elevator entrance, Li Denghua returned the things in my hand to me: "We are so familiar with each other anyway, right?"

I asked curiously, "Is her mother the only one at home?"

"Mom and grandma. Xiaofei usually lives with grandma."

Li Denghua groped in Zhou Xiaofei's skirt pocket and took out an old black-and-white phone: "Call grandma and tell her that you will be home later today and have dinner at a friend's house."

"what……"

Zhou Xiaoming was obviously scared. The little guy looked at the roast duck in my bag, then looked at Li Denghua: "How about... just forget it..."

"It's nothing. Sister Nuo'er is my friend and your friend. It's okay to have a meal together."

In contrast, Li Denghua, who is obviously introverted, was very generous at this time. She winked at me and said, "I'll leave my wife to you tonight."

"Who did you learn this from, wife..."

"A yuri novel written by Sister Xinmeng."

"..."

Finally, Zhou Xiaofei couldn't resist Li Denghua's repeated guidance, so she called her grandmother and briefly explained the situation in the local dialect.

"We will be going back soon, so you can ask her to bring some food back for grandma."

When Zhou Xiaofei was talking to her grandmother on the phone, Li Denghua leaned close to my ear and said, "Their family is very poor. I've been there a few times before. They live in... a shabby house by the sea, which leaks wind and rain."

It turned out to be the case.

I nodded: "Okay, I understand."

I didn't expect that you, a little girl, have no manners at all when speaking. You are quite thoughtful and nice to your friends.

"I told grandma."

After a while, Zhou Xiaofei, who had gone to the side to make a phone call, came over and said, "Grandma agreed."

"Okay, let's go upstairs then."

I looked at Li Denghua: "Do you want to come and have dinner with us?"

"No, no, my mother has already prepared the meal."