Sewing machine's love storyChapter 21

Although Xu Nian didn’t actually want to bring Cheng Chen home, he wasn’t able to put up a fight against Li Fang’s overflowing feelings of hospitality and so could only give in in the end. 

When he brought up the matter with Cheng Chen, he was a bit embarrassed, and tried finding the right way to put it, but in the end just vaguely said, “My mom’s inviting you to come over to my place to have a meal with us.” zfgu84

Cheng Chen didn’t bat an eye and looked at him. “Why are you inviting me to eat?”

Xu Nian smiled as he said, “To thank you.”

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Cheng Chen hmmphed. He didn’t say yes or no, but after work he told Chen Di to drive them to the house Xu Nian rented.  

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Li Fang had been waiting at the door early on. 

Xu Nian got out of the car first. For once, Cheng Chen didn’t make a fuss, and simply got out obediently. When he saw Li Fang he even greeted her with an “Auntie”.

Li Fang was truly a bit embarrassed. “Mr. Cheng is too polite.”

Chen Di was planning on leaving, but was stopped by Li Fang. “Let’s have lunch together too, Secretary Chen, you always help drive our Nian Nian to the hospital.”

Chen Di secretly peeked at Cheng Chen, saw that the other didn’t have much of a reaction, and so boldly agreed. 

As soon as Xu Nian came in, he ran to the kitchen to see what food his mother had made, since he was clear on Cheng Chen’s tastes, so he was afraid that she hadn’t gotten things suited for Cheng Chen, and would neglect him.   

Fortunately there was fish and stuff, Li Fang had even gotten some marinated ribs, it’s just that she hadn’t finished making them, the ribs and the sauce were still separate.  7WguqN

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Li Fang agreed, then went to make a pot of tea for Cheng Chen and Chen Di. Just as Chen Di was preparing to have a pleasant rest, he saw his boss glare at him. 

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Chen Di politely asked, “How many dishes are left?”

Li Fang counted her fingers as she counted. “Marinated ribs, pickled chinese cabbage, and a yellow eel soup……” She smacked her head, as if she had just remembered something. “Ai ya, I haven’t butchered the yellow eel yet.” XdZEoC

Chen Di thought, so in the end you basically didn’t do anything?!

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Li Fang’s body had just gotten better, if she really went into the kitchen to work in front of so many people, then the people sitting outside would feel uneasy. However, Cheng Chen also wasn’t feeling good about just leaving Xu Nian in the kitchen to work by himself, so he kicked Chen Di under the table. a9OMUE

Chen Di: “??”

Cheng Chen stood up and announced, “I’ll go and help Nian Nian.”

Chen Di just about died of fear. “Boss, boss, I’ll go, I’ll go.”

Cheng Chen smiled without really smiling while looking at him and said, “You stay here and take care of Auntie.” lnEHCN

Chen Di：“……”

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When Xu Nian saw Cheng Chen come in he was also scared out of his wits for a moment. “Why aren’t you outside having tea?”

Cheng Chen’s face was terrible and roughly said, “It’s not good.”

“……” Xu Nian wondered, what was the problem this time?

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Cheng Chen watched him prepare the marinated ribs for a moment, then slowly and loftily said, “I’m here to help out.”

Xu Nian fell silent, then said, “How about you go and wash the cabbage?”

Cheng Chen leisurely took off his suit jacket and then said, “I want gloves.”

Xu Nian had no choice but to put the marinated ribs to the side for a while and go find a pair of dish washing gloves for him.  iwb34F

Boss Cheng started delicately washing the cabbage leaves one at a time. 

Xu Nian finished preparing the marinated ribs, started up the heat for a pan then poured the ribs in and stir fried it for a while. Finally, he placed the cover onto the pan and let the ribs simmer. When he finished this, he looked back to check on the lettuce’s progress and found that only a few leaves had been washed. 

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Xu Nian：“……”

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He lowered the heat to small, then found a stool to sit on next to Cheng Chen and started washing the cabbage together with him. 

Cheng Chen glanced at him, took off one glove and said, “Wear it.”

Xu Nian obediently put on the glove, but as they were washing, it was unknown which one of the two non-gloved hands at the side of the bottom of the bowl grabbed hold of the other first, but they ended up clasped together. The two people’s hands that each had a glove washed a head of chinese cabbage with great difficulty together, yet neither was willing to let go.  

“It won’t be clean if we wash it like this……” Xu Nian couldn’t take it anymore and softly said.  UiRFhS

Cheng Chen raised his head. He was a very tall and big man, so sitting as he did by the little stool truly made him seem a little pitiful. It was unknown what exactly he was being happy about, but his leg was gently shaking. 

Xu Nian moved his leg and used it to keep Cheng Chen’s stool in place, and gave him a small kick. He teased, “Stop shaking, the bowl’s going to flip over.”

Rinrin: After seeing some of your comments about seeing the leg shaking like a dog’s tail wagging, the gently shaking leg in this chap really did bring to mind a softly wagging dog tail hhhhhh😂 astpId