Rebirth of the Millennial: Getting Rich After Parents Get Laid Off

Chapter 182 No need to be ordered to do it
But soon, Shen Qingqing realized that for some people, whether a game is simple or complex has no direct relation to whether the character they are playing dies or not.

Because Wu Fangyi died seven times in the first level of the Forest Fireman game, and doubled that to thirteen times in the second level.

Generally speaking, the initial levels of these games are so easy that anyone can play them.

However, for Wu Fangyi, it seems that the almost invisible difficulty was magnified several times over.

After finishing the second level, Shen Qingqing moved the mouse several times, but couldn't bring herself to put the cursor on the third level.

She dared not imagine whether she could continue playing if Wu Fangyi died twenty or thirty times in the third level.

Fortunately, at that moment, Li Xunli called some children outside to go out and eat red peach cakes.

Shen Qingqing breathed a sigh of relief, released the mouse, and happily grabbed Wu Fangyi's hand as they rushed out.

After being pan-fried, the originally pink peach-shaped rice cakes become crispy on the outside and tender on the inside, with small bubbles appearing on their smooth surface.

Li Xunli took two rice-filled ones and two salted mung bean paste-filled ones.

The aroma of glutinous rice and red bean paste mingled together, along with the oily fragrance of the rice cake skin, enticing the two little ones who had been dawdling in the room to rush out quickly.

"Xiao Hong, give your dad a piece of this mung bean paste filling!" Li Xunli wrapped it in a tissue and handed it to Shen Hong.

Shen Hong took one piece and ate it himself, while carrying the other piece to the master bedroom.

"Here you go!" Shen Qingqing handed the chopsticks to Wu Fangyi, then picked up a piece of rice-filled chopsticks and took a bite. "Sister Fangyi, do you prefer rice or red bean paste?"

Wu Fangyi looked at the two kinds of red peach cakes on the plate. "Both are fine, but I eat the red bean paste one more often. The rice-filled one we buy has meat chunks in it, and my cousin prefers that kind. I ate most of the remaining red bean paste one."

"Then you can try them all!" Shen Qingqing enthusiastically recommended.

When Li Xunli came out after washing the pot and heard Shen Qingqing say this, she immediately suggested that Wu Fangyi could eat more.

After finishing the red peach cakes to fill their stomachs, Shen Qingqing organized a card game. Since Shen Hong was too young, he automatically teamed up with Shen Yangyang, while Shen Qingqing and Wu Fangyi each formed a team and played a fishing game.

This way of playing was taught to Shen Qingqing by her great-grandmother.

In a three-group scenario, each group receives seven cards as bait and ten cards as fish. Starting points are determined by rock-paper-scissors in a clockwise direction. Cards that add up to 10 are paired up to "fish" for a card. Once a card is caught, a card is flipped over and put back. If no bait is found, a card is drawn and put back into the hand. This continues until all cards are used up. Finally, the red points for each group are calculated, and the group with the highest points wins.

The above was explained to Wu Fangyi.

"Sister Fangyi, have you never played this before?" Shen Yangyang asked curiously.

Wu Fangyi shook her head: "No, I used to either read books or study. I wouldn't go out to play, because it would cost money. My aunt and uncle wouldn't have given me money back then, so I never went out to play with my friends."

Shen Qingqing fell silent. No wonder Lin Ziyang described Wu Fangyi as having that kind of personality.

"Don't worry! We know a lot of other things too! We'll make sure you learn them all during your stay at our house!"

Not long after, Shen Qingqing taught Wu Fangyi all the poker games she knew, and Wu Fangyi was utterly defeated by Shen Qingqing's incredibly fast learning speed.

Shen Qingqing sighed, realizing that a true math whiz like her was worlds apart from a struggling student like herself.

The children played their games, and after answering the customer's questions, Shen Rongzhou went into the kitchen with Li Xunli to prepare dinner.

Seeing that the two of them were about to get busy, Wu Fangyi couldn't help but stand up and follow them to the kitchen: "Uncle and Aunt, is there anything I can help with?" "I can pick, wash, and chop vegetables, and I can also wash and chop meat."

Shen Rongzhou and Li Xunli quickly replied, "No need, no need! You can go play with Qingqing and the others!"

“We don’t have the habit of having young children help out in the kitchen. Besides, you’re still young, so you don’t need to do these things now. You can help out when you’re older.”

After being refused help, Wu Fangyi was repeatedly distracted by the delicious aromas wafting from the kitchen.

She had never experienced such a scene since she was a child.

She has been helping whenever she can.

So she always thought that whenever the adults in her family were busy with something she could help with, she had to go and help.

This has been going on for nearly ten years, but it was only through a conversation between Shen Rongzhou and Li Xunli that I learned it was not a necessary condition for existence.

Wu Fangyi looked at Shen Qingqing. If Shen Qingqing hadn't kept inviting her, she probably wouldn't have had this experience.

While Wu Fangyi was lost in thought, Shen Qingqing won three games in a row and finally realized something was wrong.

"Sister Fangyi, what's wrong?"

Shen Qingqing leaned closer to Wu Fangyi and asked.

She remembered that Wu Fangyi had gone to the kitchen to help but failed, and since then, things had been like this.

"If you want to go into the kitchen, you can cook lunch tomorrow, but don't ask me for help. I don't want to cook anymore. But when my parents are cooking, just wait and eat."

Wu Fangyi: "...?"

"Shall we cook our own lunch tomorrow?"

Shen Qingqing resisted and stretched out a hand: "No, there are no 'we,' only you."

After pausing, he circled the two smaller children with his other hand and added, "Perhaps there are others as well."

"But don't include me. I finally have a break from this, and I want to relax."

After a moment of understanding, Wu Fangyi asked, "In your family, do the children also cook for themselves?"

Shen Qingqing blinked. "Yes, before, it was because my parents both had to work and I got out of school early, so I had time to cook. After we moved, when my parents and I were at work or school, we hired a housekeeper to cook. When we were on vacation at home, we cooked for ourselves. Sometimes my dad would cook if he wanted to, and sometimes I would cook if I wanted to."

Wu Fangyi refuted what Shen Rongzhou and Li Xunli had just said, but the feeling of envy did not diminish.

Because Shen Qingqing said she "wanted to do it," not that she was ordered to do it.

Wu Fangyi smiled slightly: "Then please tell your aunt and uncle for me that I'll cook lunch tomorrow. You haven't had my cooking before, have you? I'm not kidding you, my cooking skills are pretty good!"

Shen Qingqing raised her eyebrows in surprise: "Really? What are you planning to include in the menu for tomorrow? I'll have my mom bring it back when she goes grocery shopping!"

See you tomorrow night~