CHAPTER 235: CHAPTER 235: CHOKED UP

This Hundred Flavors Inn, cousin also invested silver in it. Whether he just wants to play around or genuinely make money, he can’t let his cousin suffer losses on the Zheng family’s turf.

Qinglin Restaurant is a business given to him by the family to try his hand at, and it also represents a test of his abilities. It is certainly very important to him.

But if you compare it with cousin, it’s obvious that the identity of the Princely Heir of Prince Nan is much more noble.

His father’s task for him was to maintain a good relationship with his cousin. Not to mention just a bit of a business loss, even if he had to hand over the entire Qinglin Restaurant as a gift, he should be happily agreeing to it.

Zheng Shaochen said helplessly, "Cousin, I know what you mean. Aren’t you just afraid I’ll secretly go after that girl? But you can rest assured, although I really don’t like that girl, I, Zheng Shaochen, am an upright man and wouldn’t do such sneaky things."

Nan Jin Yu picked some food for Gu Nian and said to Zheng Shaochen, "This hotpot is a new way of eating Niannian came up with, and it tastes pretty good. You should try it too."

Zheng Shaochen reluctantly picked up his chopsticks, looking at the table filled with raw vegetables and pouted.

Clearly, they’re a bunch of bumpkins with no experience. Who would have a table full of raw food? After a glance around, only the pot of boiling soup in the middle seemed quite fragrant.

One side was clear soup with a large bone in it, and the other side had a red broth he couldn’t tell what it was made from, but the color was strangely appealing.

Zheng Shaochen scooped some cooked meat from the red broth and put it in his mouth. Instantly, a burst of spiciness overwhelmed his taste buds, catching him off guard, making him cough.

Wuxin couldn’t bear to see his foolishness and hurriedly handed him a cup of water from the side, "Young Master, drink some water to wash down the taste. This soup is spicy. If you can’t handle it, stick with the other pot."

Zheng Shaochen gulped down a big cup of water, feeling a bit better, wearing a bitter expression as he looked up and asked, "Gu Nian, what on earth is this thing you made? Is it even edible? Aren’t you afraid of making people sick?"

The taste almost made him think he had eaten poison.

"Of course, it’s edible. It’s you who can’t handle the spice, yet you blame my food for being bad." With that, Gu Nian picked up a mouthful with her chopsticks and put it in her mouth, chewing with her eyes squinted and savoring it, "Such delicious food, obviously you just can’t appreciate it!"

"Nan, you have some too!" Gu Nian challenged Nan Jin Yu while picking food for him as well.

Gu Nian’s boldness stunned Zheng Shaochen once again, and the next scene almost made his eyes pop out.

Nan Jin Yu, who never liked people getting close, actually ate the food Gu Nian picked for him!

Mind you, Gu Nian used her own chopsticks to pick the food, not the communal ones.

"This little girl is right, it’s you who can’t appreciate it." Bai Yanluo also didn’t hold back, eating from the red soup, and dumped his favorite mushrooms into it.

Only then did Zheng Shaochen realize why the table was filled with these uncooked vegetables—it turns out the way to eat this hotpot is to cook and eat on the spot.

Zheng Shaochen ate the bone soup hotpot for a while, but seeing others enjoying the red soup, his curiosity got the better of him again. He wanted to find out how delicious it really was, even his cousin, who was usually hard to please when it came to food, was enjoying himself so much.

If he wasn’t mistaken, the bowl of rice in front of his cousin was already polished off, right?