Chapter 299 — How About Eating Instant Noodles Instead? Though His Youngest Son Had Once Received Guidance From a Noble Patron and His Business Was Now Quite Large, Guan Xuemin Regretted That No One in the Family Studied Medicine! With Her Delicate Nature, His Little Granddaughter Was Destined Only to Be a Nurse, and She Was Not Cut Out for Studying Medicine

So while Guan Xuemin felt that regret, he was always thinking of finding someone to carry on his mantle, or he would never have been so delighted to meet Wei Zhao in the bookstore and wanted to take Wei Zhao as his last disciple.

But now Guan Xuemin had given up that idea. His own medical skill was not even a third of Wei Zhao's, so what was there to pass on? It was hard to say who should be whose teacher.

Still, whatever else might be said, Guan Xuemin now had something to look forward to.

"Ding-dong..." The doorbell rang. Wei Zhao parked his car in front of Guan Xuemin's villa and pressed the bell of the villa.

Hearing the bell, Guan Xuemin lit up with joy and quickly stood up, waving off Liu Ma, who was about to answer the door. He would open it himself! Toward Wei Zhao, Guan Xuemin dared not stand on ceremony in the slightest. In learning there is no old or young, the master comes first. Since Wei Zhao was better than him, then he was better.

"Xiao Yi, you are here!" Guan Xuemin opened the door, and seeing Wei Zhao, said happily.

"Heh, Grandpa Guan, hello. I came right after school and brought no gift, so please do not mind." Wei Zhao smiled and spread his empty hands. When others came to Guan Xuemin's house, they always arrived loaded with presents in big and small bags, while Wei Zhao came empty-handed.

"What gift!" Guan Xuemin was amused by Wei Zhao's words. "I am happy enough that you could come. It took this old man a lot of nerve to call you, boy, and ask you to come keep me company over a couple of drinks. If you keep standing on ceremony like this, even with a thick face I will not dare to call you again!"

"Heh... All right, then when I have nothing to do I will come freeload food and drink!" Wei Zhao said with a smile.

"That is more like it!" Guan Xuemin nodded as if it were only right.

Guan Xin walked out of the kitchen carrying the sweet-and-sour fish with wasabi, and suddenly heard someone at the door shamelessly declaring that he would come freeload food and drink whenever he had nothing to do. She was annoyed at once! Who are you? You come to freeload? Do you really think yourself no outsider?

Fine, since you came to eat, then she would let you eat your fill, and see if you dared to come again! Tonight's feast of sour, sweet, bitter, spicy and numbing flavors would surely leave you with an unforgettable memory!

Only the voice sounded somehow familiar. Had he been to her house before? Guan Xin frowned but paid it little mind. Just as she was about to set the wasabi fish in her hands on the dining table, she looked up and froze, nearly dropping the fish on the floor!

"Lin... Wei Zhao?" Guan Xin stared with wide eyes, looking in disbelief at the visitor. How could this man who wanted to come freeload meals all the time be him?

"Guan Xin?" Wei Zhao was also taken aback. What was Guan Xin doing here? Then he suddenly remembered what Guan Xuemin had said about his granddaughter. Could Guan Xin be Guan Xuemin's granddaughter? Both were surnamed Guan, so that explained it. "You are Grandpa Guan's granddaughter?"

"So you are that outstanding young man Grandpa talked about?" Guan Xin blushed a little. How could he be the outstanding young man Grandpa meant? Did he not already have a girlfriend? Why would Grandpa still want to introduce him to her?

For a moment, tender feelings twisted and turned in Guan Xin's heart, leaving her at a loss. The fondness she had meant to hide deep inside surged up again, and she lowered her head shyly.

"Outstanding young man?" Wei Zhao paused at the title, then smiled wryly. "I can hardly count as an outstanding young man, though I might just barely pass as young and promising!"

"Bragging..." Guan Xin could not help pursing her lips in a smile. Who was ever so immodest? Was an outstanding young man not much the same as young and promising? It was just Granny Wang praising her own melons.

"Xiao Yi, you and Xinxin know each other?" Guan Xuemin had feared his granddaughter might resist, but seeing her expression he understood most of it. What was more, the two clearly knew each other already, so his worrying had been quite unnecessary!

"We know each other. We just met today." Wei Zhao nodded.

"Oh? You just met today? Then you already seem very close!" Hearing Wei Zhao's words, Guan Xuemin said, "That saves me the introductions. Since you and Xinxin know each other, it is even easier. I will skip all those introductory words, let us hurry and eat! This old man has been hungry for ages! I always eat early, but today I waited specially for you until now!"

"Heh... Good! Then I will not stand on ceremony!" Wei Zhao smiled and looked toward Guan Xin. "What a coincidence. So today I get to taste your cooking..."

"Ah!" Guan Xin started in fright, holding the wasabi fish and about to run back to the kitchen. She had never imagined that Grandpa's outstanding young man would be Wei Zhao. Had she known earlier, why would she have made these strange-flavored dishes? Had she known, she would surely have prepared with care and used every skill she had to make this dinner...

Guan Xin grew regretful. If Wei Zhao ate the "grand meal" she had prepared, he would probably never come again. What was she to do? Thinking of this, she wanted to dump all the dishes on the table and cook them over...

"Xinxin, where are you going? Why take the fish away? Grandpa loves sweet-and-sour fish best. Bring it here, Grandpa cannot wait!" Guan Xuemin waved his hand and said to Guan Xin.

"I... I will heat them up again... Yes, these dishes have gone cold, I will heat them all up..." As she spoke, Guan Xin reached to grab the other dishes on the table... In any case she would carry them to the kitchen, throw them out and cook again. There were still some ingredients left, she would make what she could...

"Heat them up? What for? They are not cold, they are still steaming! Stop fussing and put them down!" Guan Xuemin was baffled by Guan Xin. What was she doing?

"Ah... Oh..." Guan Xin had no choice, and reluctantly set the plate in her hands and the sweet-and-sour fish back on the table.

"All right, Xinxin, you sit down too and eat together!" Guan Xuemin eagerly opened a bottle of Moutai, poured a cup for Wei Zhao, and poured another for himself.

"This... All right." Though unwilling, Guan Xin had no way out at all, and could only sit down with a worried face.

"Heh... Grandpa Guan has long told me your cooking is excellent. Just looking at the color of the dishes on the table is tempting and appetizing. Let me taste how they are?" Wei Zhao picked up his chopsticks with a smile.

"Ah... Er... Grandpa, I have a good idea. How about we eat instant noodles? Drinking with instant noodles is very tasty. What do you think?" Guan Xin suddenly stood up. "I have not had them for ages. Instant noodles are delicious. Let us throw all these dishes away?"

"Xinxin!" Guan Xuemin was a little angry. Why had his granddaughter become so abnormal ever since seeing Wei Zhao? Could it be that the relationship between the two was not, as he had imagined, that Xinxin had feelings for Wei Zhao, but that there was some conflict? Otherwise why would his granddaughter keep wanting to throw the dishes away and eat instant noodles?

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