Taoist Master and the Cat - Chapter 19

Without the dried fish, Su Miaomiao’s listlessness lasted until lunch time.

After washing her hands and sitting on the seat, Su Miaomiao lay down again.

“Is Su Miaomiao sick?”

At the six-person table, Cheng Yue was the most enthusiastic and talked the most. 

Both Lin Xi and Zhou Yao looked at Xie Jingyuan. Although it was only two days since they started kindergarten, the children already knew that Su Miaomiao and Xie Jingyuan were best friends.

Xie Jingyuan: “She’s hungry.”

That was a very convincing explanation.

At that moment, Feng Xiaoyu came back, and there was still some distance from the six-person table. Su Miaomiao suddenly raised her head and stared at Feng Xiaoyu with big eyes.

With her like that, Xie Jingyuan and the others also looked at Feng Xiaoyu at the same time.

Feng Xiaoyu was a little flustered. Her face flushed, as she slowly returned to her seat with a guilty conscience.

Cheng Yue asked Su Miaomiao, “Why did you look at Feng Xiaoyu?”

Su Miaomiao swallowed, and moved her gaze to Feng Xiaoyu’s left pocket.

Feng Xiaoyu looked nervously at the teacher who had just come with rice bowls, raised a finger to her mouth, and said, “Don’t tell the teacher, I’ll give you one later.”

The blue bag with the dried fish belonged to Feng Xiaoyu.

She felt that Su Miaomiao must have discovered the snacks she brought.

Su Miaomiao nodded. She felt Feng Xiaoyu was very kind. Before that, she had never paid attention to other children in the class.

After the teacher placed their meals, they also sat in front of the classroom to eat.

Feng Xiaoyu secretly bit open the snack bag with her teeth. The aroma of the dried fish became more intense. The children at the other table couldn’t smell it, but the aroma made Su Miaomiao stare closely at Feng Xiaoyu’s hand.

There were five small dried fishes in total, Feng Xiaoyu gave one to Su Miaomiao, and then gave one to Xie Jingyuan, the monitor who liked to help them.

Lin Xi lowered his head to eat the rice in the bowl. Zhou Yao wanted to eat it too, but she was too embarrassed to speak.

Cheng Yue said straightforwardly, “I want to eat it too!”

Feng Xiaoyu was a little afraid of her, so she shared one with her, and quickly ate the last two.

It was the first time for Su Miaomiao to eat that kind of dried fish.

The small dried fish was deep-fried. It was fragrant and crispy when chewed.

Su Miaomiao ate lavishly. After eating the fish, there were still some dried fish oil stains on her fingers.

Such fingers were almost the same as dried fish in Su Miaomiao’s eyes. Just when she couldn’t resist the temptation and was about to secretly lick it, Xie Jingyuan took his small dried fish and placed it in her bowl over rice.

Su Miaomiao smiled at him, and then happily ate the new dried fish.

Xie Jingyuan prepared a small wet towel, and as soon as Su Miaomiao finished eating, he passed the towel over to hint her to wipe her hands.

Su Miaomiao, who had relieved her hunger for a while, regained her good mood, and while wiping her hands, she asked Feng Xiaoyu, “From where did you buy the dried fish?”

“My family has a supermarket, and recently this kind of small dried fish is being sold there.”

“Where is your supermarket?”

“Are you going to buy it? I’ll take you there after school.”

Su Miaomiao liked Feng Xiaoyu so much… She asked Feng Xiaoyu to lie on the bed next to her instead of Xie Jingyuan when they took a nap.

Xie Jingyuan silently carried his quilt to Feng Xiaoyu’s side.

In the afternoon, Su Miaomiao was still inseparable from Feng Xiaoyu, pulling her to play games together.

Lining up after school, Su Miaomiao stopped being attached to Xie Jingyuan and stood in the middle of the queue holding Feng Xiaoyu’s hand.

Feng Xiaoyu’s original hand-holding partner was a little girl, and before that little girl realized to look for Xie Jingyuan, Xie Jingyuan pulled Lin Xi to his side.

Grandma Tao and other parents stood outside the kindergarten, and when she noticed that Su Miaomiao was not with her grandson, she was very surprised.

“Grandma, I want to go shopping in Feng Xiaoyu’s supermarket.”

“Mom, Su Miaomiao wants to come shop in our supermarket.”

Holding hands, Su Miaomiao and Feng Xiaoyu said in unison.

Grandma Tao smiled, “What do you want to buy?”

“Small dried fish. They are very delicious!”

When Feng Xiaoyu’s mother heard it, she said, “Didn’t I say that you are not allowed to bring it to the kindergarten, why are you disobedient?”

Feng Xiaoyu hugged her mother’s leg, blushing in embarrassment.

Grandma Tao held Su Miaomiao in one hand and Xie Jingyuan in the other, and followed them to the supermarket.

The Feng family lived in the next community, and the supermarket was just outside that community.

Feng Xiaoyu enthusiastically dragged Su Miaomiao to the shelf where the dried fish was placed.

There were fried snacks there, such as chicken feet, beef jerky, etc. Su Miaomiao was only interested in small dried fish. Pointing to the shelf above, she said to Grandma Tao, “Grandma, I want it all!”

Xie Jingyuan frowned.

Grandma Tao liked children, but she also paid attention to principles. She looked at Su Miaomiao and said, “If you eat too much of this, your stomach will hurt. You can only buy one pack.”

Su Miaomiao pouted.

“Either buy a pack, or don’t buy anything, you choose.”

Su Miaomiao compromised decisively, “Then I’ll buy a pack.”

Grandma Tao asked her grandson, “Do you want to eat it too?”

Xie Jingyuan looked at Su Miaomiao and nodded.

Grandma Tao took two packs of dried fish, salt, soy sauce, and toilet paper, and went to the cashier to pay.