Eating melons

Chapter 257 Playing Mahjong

As for playing until one or two in the morning, they never even thought about it.

After all, I really can’t imagine how much I have to do to avoid being bored if I don’t go to bed until one or two o’clock.

Of course, Xiao Xuemu is an exception, because he often stays up until one or two o'clock before going to bed, but he is just working in the space.

Li Zhibin asked tentatively, "Do you want us to help?"

Jiang Qi waved his hand, "No, just give it to me.

Oh! By the way, here’s the key. Go there by yourself tomorrow and get the things out.”

After saying that, Jiang Qi gave Li Zhibin another key, which was the one Li Zhibin returned today.

Originally, they planned to sleep at Jiang Qi's room tonight. After all, there would be a fire burning all night, and the room would be very warm.

But just a short while later, Wei Wei and Jiang Qi felt a little dizzy from the stench.

They were afraid that they would not be able to finish eating so much braised meat, so they decided to burn more firewood and go to Wei Wei's place to play.

If they really stayed there for a night, Wei Wei and Jiang Qi were afraid that they would want to vomit after smelling the odor.

Xiao Xuemu and Li Zhibin helped move the braised food to Jiang Qi's house.

They saw a pile of things on the table, but they didn't know what they were, so they didn't ask. They just put the things down and left.

Wu Mei, Liu Jiaojiao and Yu Xi also came over carrying things.

As soon as the others left, Wei Wei, Jiang Qi, Liu Jiaojiao and Wu Mei took their mahjong and went to Wei Wei's side.

As soon as they entered the house, Wu Mei and Liu Jiaojiao smelled a faint fragrance.

Liu Jiaojiao sniffed and praised sincerely, "Weiwei, your room smells so good. My room always smells like pickled vegetables."

Hearing this, Wei Wei smiled and said, "I have eaten all the pickled vegetables here, so I don't have a pickled vegetable jar here. Sometimes my house used to smell like pickled vegetables.

After you finish eating the pickled vegetables, light two candles in the room. Once the candles are lit, the smell in the room will almost dissipate."

As for why it smelled so fragrant, Wei Wei didn't explain. She couldn't just say she had lit an aromatherapy diffuser yesterday! The source of this thing couldn't be explained, so it was better to change the subject.

Hearing this, Liu Jiaojiao's eyes lit up.

"Really? Lighting two candles will make the smell in the house go away? Is it that magical?"

"The substances produced by burning candles can absorb foreign particles in the air, so the smell of food, for example, is absorbed and cannot be smelled."

Hearing this, Wu Mei was thoughtful and asked uncertainly:

"Really? Does lighting a candle next to it make the food taste bad?"

Wei Wei nodded, "Yeah! What's wrong?"

Wu Mei opened her mouth, and thinking that Wei Wei, Jiang Qi, and Liu Jiaojiao were not the talkative type, she said:

"When we used to worship our ancestors, we would light candles nearby. I remember that the food after the worship had no taste. Is that because of the candles? Isn't it because the ancestors ate it?"

Upon hearing this, Wei Wei and Jiang Qi were stunned because they thought of the meme that was popular on the Internet before.

They don't know this either, but from a scientific point of view, it is indeed true.

But if we talk about it from a non-scientific perspective, I don’t know. It depends on whether they believe in science or not.

Although they both believe in science now, they are also quite superstitious. After all, they have both traveled through time.

Liu Jiaojiao just widened her eyes. She had never thought of coming here. So this was the reason?

Liu Jiaojiao looked at Wei Wei and Jiang Qi curiously, "Is that really the case?"

Wei Wei and Jiang Qi didn't know what to say, so they just said, "It depends on whether you believe it or not."

Liu Jiaojiao didn't say whether she believed it or not, but she made up her mind to go back and try it to see if candles can really absorb odors.

Although Liu Jiaojiao was very curious about this, she was more curious about mahjong at the moment. She had just learned how to play it and had just been interrupted. Now she was itching to play a few rounds.

Only after Liu Jiaojiao and Wu Mei got started did Wei Wei and Jiang Qi feel comfortable.

That's what nightlife should be like. Why lie in bed so early in the morning? Go to bed so early and wake up early the next morning.

In the past, they both played single-player games and Gobang every day, and they both almost vomited from playing.

The four of them didn't play for money, and didn't care about winning or losing. Winning was winning, and there was no prize. But it was extraordinarily fun on this boring night.

It was almost one o'clock when the few of them remembered the braised meat.

The four of them quickly put down their mahjong and went to Jiang Qi to get the braised meat.

When they smelled the fragrance, they knew it was already midnight and they were hungry, after all, they had dinner quite early.

Jiang Qi decided to make a midnight snack, so he used the small pot next to him to make a small version of spicy hot pot. He also took out some braised meat and planned to fry it. He sprinkled a lot of spices and chili peppers on it, making it both spicy and numb.

The aroma made the people nearby very hungry. The braised meat was fragrant enough at the beginning, and then a burst of fragrant and spicy aroma came over.

The old educated youth in the educated youth institute and the people around the institute were completely unable to sleep and were all cursing at home.

In the middle of the night, the faint sound of a child crying could be heard near the educated youth institute.

Fortunately, no one was hanging around outside and no one heard it, otherwise rumors would have started again.

Not only those people couldn't sleep because of their greed, but even Li Zhibin couldn't sleep either.

But tonight is not like yesterday. I can smell a faint fragrant and spicy scent in the air.

Li Zhibin knew that Wei Wei and Jiang Qi must have been unable to sleep late at night, or they were tired or hungry from playing and were making midnight snacks.