Chapter 79: Being Useful Is Enough

"Little auntie, could you let go now?" Su Ziqiao wore a pained expression.

How embarrassing!

"Sorry, Brother Su." Gu Lingling was just too happy, and after Su Ziqiao’s reminder, she quickly let go of his hand.

Su Ziqiao didn’t expect her to suddenly let go like that. Unconsciously, he stumbled back two steps, but his foot stepped on something, and he fell backward.

"Ouch."

Fortunately, he reacted quickly, and noticing someone behind him, he avoided crashing directly down, but he still bumped into Hao Lianlian, and the two of them ended up on the ground.

The scream was from Hao Lianlian after she fell.

"Sorry, sorry." Su Ziqiao felt that his twenty-two years of charming image had been completely ruined today.

Gu Lingling covered her eyes, unable to bear watching what had just happened.

"Lingling, you could at least give a heads-up before letting go." Hao Lianlian, blushing, was helped up by Liu Yating.

Though Su Ziqiao didn’t fall on him, that hand of his...

Forget it, she’ll just pretend she doesn’t know, okay?

"I... it’s my fault, my fault." Who told her to be so excited just now? "How about I cook you a big meal for lunch? Braised pork, right? No problem."

Su Ziqiao was dazed, staring at his hand. Could it be...

"We also have fish today," Liu Yating added, "and ribs, so you can really show off your cooking skills."

"Really? I’ll go grab some stuff from the kitchen." Su Ziqiao, hearing there’d be good food, cared about nothing else, quickly said, "You must wait for me."

Better leave here; who knows how much more embarrassment could occur.

"Lingling, you were amazing." Liu Yating said excitedly, "That move just now was so cool."

"Too bad it wasn’t powerful enough," Gu Lingling thought to herself. She still needed more physical training.

Well, Liu Yating felt utterly defeated.

She had at least grown up here and had some foundation before, but compared to Gu Lingling, she was worlds apart.

At noon, at Liu Yating’s house, Gu Lingling indeed showed off her skills in cooking.

Su Ziqiao sneaked some top-quality pork belly from the kitchen, and also got some vegetables, while Yang Yunhai even brought in some fresh beef.

Coupled with the fish and ribs from Liu Yating’s house, Gu Lingling prepared a table full of dishes.

Braised pork, boiled beef, pickled fish, soy-braised ribs, minced pork fried with noodles, stir-fried cabbage, sour and spicy shredded potatoes, Mapo tofu, assorted meatball soup...

Each dish was plentiful, and after finishing the meal, Su Ziqiao felt he could last a week.

The food was so delicious he wanted to bite his tongue right off, better than the food at the Capital City’s state-run restaurants.

All the embarrassment from the morning was completely gone.

"Dad, you know? Lingling just took down Brother Ziqiao." Su Ziqiao comfortably patted his full belly and heard Liu Yating excitedly bragging to Liu Jianping.

"It’s true, Brother Ziqiao didn’t even have time to react."

Adding salt to the wound!

Su Ziqiao felt he couldn’t continue living this way.

"Brother Hai taught Lingling the acupressure techniques." Su Ziqiao admitted quietly with his head bowed.

"Really?" Liu Jianping was not the only one surprised, even Wang Shuxia was shocked as well, "Is it the techniques from your Yang family?"

Gu Lingling was stunned there.

That set of techniques was exclusive to the Yang family? She thought they were military martial arts.

"So... so what do I do now that I’ve learned it? I didn’t know..." Usually, such techniques were only passed on within the family. She really didn’t know; if she had known, she wouldn’t have learned them no matter what.

"It’s nothing much," Yang Yunhai said calmly, "if it helps you protect yourself, it’s useful."

Useful?

Well, Su Ziqiao was a bit triggered.

"If you want to learn, I can teach you too," Yang Yunhai lightly glanced over with his phoenix eyes.

"No... it wouldn’t be any use for me, haha, no use at all."