Chapter 40: Let's Clean Up Together

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Today's dinner was omelet rice.

One of Asaba Rika's specialties is fried rice with chicken, onions and tomato sauce, and a golden egg crust on the outside.

See two omelettes served with a smiley face painted on the egg crust with ketchup, also with strawberries on the plate for decoration.

Just looking at the exquisite and delicious dinner, you can feel the care Asaba Rika has taken in preparing the food.

Shen Yu slashes the egg skin with a fork and the fragrant fried rice inside is revealed, and he sulks as he scoops a bite of it into his mouth with a spoon.

"Shen Yu, how does it taste?"

Asaba Rika did not move his chopsticks, but watched him eat before waiting expectantly for his comments.

"It's okay."

"I'll try next time!"

Shen Yu was speechless and thought to himself, "Can't you take a hit?

After all, it did taste good, and he couldn't in good conscience say that it tasted awful. It was like there were two little people fighting in his heart, as the white little person grabbed the black little person's demon chopper and slashed the black little person to death, yelling that it tasted so good that it exploded.

"Why go to the trouble of wrapping the egg crust around the fried rice when it's just filling your stomach anyway?"

Shen Yu asked if he was the one who would just throw the same ingredients into the pan and fry them up, unlike Rika, who made the dinner look like a work of art.

Asaba Rika also cocked his head and wondered, "If you are eating it all by yourself, why don't you make it look better before you eat it, it will always feel better."

"Is that so?"

"Mmmmmm!"

Shen Yu slows down the pace of eating, allowing the food to linger longer in her mouth and trying to experience the sensations that come with it.

It seems to be a bit different

If that's what you call eating dinner, then he used to call it eating to refuel his body.

After the meal, Asaba Rika actively tidied up the dishes and cleaned the kitchen.

When Shen Yu went into the kitchen, she almost didn't recognise it as her own.

The kitchen is clean and tidy, pots and pans are in order, and Asaba Rika, wearing an apron, is leaning over to wipe down various greasy corners such as the sink and kitchen counter.

"Isn't it already clean?"

"There are still a lot of corners left to wash, and I'm going to wash them all today."

"Do you want me to help you?"

When Shen Yu said this, he felt that he was the guest and Asaba Rika was the host.

"So, Shen Yu, help me scrub the fridge!"

Asaba Rika stopped, let out a breath and said, " Shen Yu must never have cleaned the kitchen, so many stains are so hard to scrub, while I have time now, I have to wash them all."

"Oh."

Shen Yu grabbed a rag and put some detergent on it to wipe the fridge.

Asaba Rika hurriedly called him and used soapy water to help him wash a softer cotton cloth, "That rag is used to wipe the kitchen table, Shen Yu use this cloth."

Shen Yu, a little dazed, asked, "Isn't it all the same?"

"It's not the same! Refrigerator doors are more fragile and should be wiped with soapy water and a cotton cloth so they don't finish dull."

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It is Rika who has the final say here, so Shen Yu listens to her.

Cleaning the fridge is not a dirty job, Asaba Rika does the dirty work.

She scrubbed the greasy corners of the kitchen table and sink with a wire ball and stain remover, and although she was wearing plastic gloves, some of the stains still bounced off the skin of her arms, sticking out like ink spots on white snow.

She was so serious about her work that she didn't mind the small stain, but Yuan Jia wanted to get a tissue and wipe it off her arm.

"Shen Yu ."

"Hmm?"

When he heard Asaba Rika call out to him, Shen Yu turned his head to look.

Asaba Rika was on her little feet, trying to remove the hood's grease box, which hadn't been removed for washing for who knows how long, and the black grease was hardened inside.

"I'm not tall enough, can you help me take this down?"

She stretched her arms again, but she could reach them, but she couldn't see how they had been removed, and it took a long time to get them off.

Shen Yu went over and helped her take it off, disgusting himself with the dirty oil container.

Asaba Rika wasted the grease in a rubbish bag, washed the grease box with a strong stain remover and cleaned the hood with her little feet before asking Shen Yu to help her put the box back.

The two of them worked together for almost an hour and finally cleaned all the corners of the kitchen.

"Great work!!!"

Asaba Rika looks at the clean, new kitchen with great satisfaction.

"Thanks to Shen Yu's help!"

"Hmm."

Shen Yu looked at the fridge she had cleaned and saw that Rika did 90 per cent of the cleaning, so it was really hard to be a help.

Asaba Rika removes the plastic gloves from her hands, the skin of her soft fingers is wrinkled.

Shen Yu looked at it and felt a strange feeling in his heart, but he couldn't tell where it came from.

I guess I was under the impression that a pretty girl like Asaba Rika should not do such dirty work.

So Shen Yu opened his mouth and said, "Why don't we go out to eat in the future, it's too hard to cook for ourselves."

"It's okay! My mum has to do all these chores at home and I do them all at home. It's expensive to eat out all the time and it's so cheap to buy food here.

"There aren't many girls who want to do that anymore."

Shen Yu said with a sigh of relief that he had seen many girls on the internet who advertised themselves as sophisticated girls, whose sophistication consisted of beautiful clothes, expensive bags, trendy make-up, afternoon tea for a few hundred dollars and romantic trips to Europe.

They may also put a strawberry on their omelet to show off their sophistication, but they don't necessarily make it look as good as Rika, for them, it just has to look good enough to post to their friends.

Every day I go out as a sophisticated girl, and at night I come back to a cluttered and untidy rented house, with dishes that have not been washed for days in the sink.

Such delicacy is also really ironic enough.

Shen Yu returns to the living room and sits on the sofa, turning on the TV and watching in boredom.

Asaba Rika brings out a plate of cut cantaloupe from the kitchen, divides it into small pieces and pokes two toothpicks into it.

"Shen Yu, eat cantaloupe!"

She loved the fruit, holding a cantaloupe and eating it with Shen Yu.

After eating the cantaloupe, she asked Shen Yu in some distress: " Shen Yu, do you still have that cold medicine you rubbed on my hand, it hurts.

"What bubbles?"

She then opened her little hand to show Shen Yu a small blister on the tiger's mouth of her right palm, worn from using the shovel this afternoon.

"Cool oil doesn't work, you take a toothpick and poke it, it'll soon heal."

"So."

Asaba Rika took a toothpick and poked it, gritting his teeth and closing his eyes, but the poke was crooked and he sucked in his breath in pain.

Shen Yu couldn't take it anymore and rolled his eyes, "Is that so awful? I love picking bubbles, isn't it great to burst them?"

"I, I'm afraid of the pain!"

Asaba Rika also likes to poke bubbles, but is poking someone else's bubble the same as poking your own?

"Come with your hands."

Shen Yu took the sharpest toothpick he could find and looked at the little bubbles on Rika's hand.

Asaba Rika looked at him with some caution and carefully put his small hand over, "Then, then you have to be a little gentle"

"It's just a matter of picking a bubble, it'll be ready in a minute."

"Really?"

Shen Yu cupped her palm and could feel the warmth coming from her hand as her skin touched.

A girl's hands are really as soft as if they had no bones

Asaba Rika timidly closed her eyes, not daring to look, only to feel as if she had been stung by a small ant, before Shen Yu let go of her hand.

"All right."

"It really doesn't hurt, yeah!"

Published at: 11/25/2021 20:00