My Gorgeous Neighbor Is Cooking Every Day - Chapter 11

Chapter 11

Xiao Jiang asked shyly, “Are you going to help me name myself?”

Xia Xingye shook her head: “I’ll ask your owner to give you a name.”

“She won’t,” Xiao Jiang sounded a little disappointed, “She’s too lazy to think of a name for me.”

“How could that be? It must be a misunderstanding. I’ll put in a good word for you.”

“Really?” Xiao Jiang’s leaves trembled happily.

Xia Xingye nodded: “But what kind of name do you want?”

This question stumped Xiao Jiang. It was silent for a long time before saying: “I don’t know either…”

Xia Xingye sighed: “If you don’t know, even if I get you a new name, you won’t be happy, right?”

Xiao Jiang whispered: “Because it’s a new name, I’ll like it.”

Xia Xingye was quiet for a while, then suddenly asked: “Are you actually not very concerned about what your name is?”

“A little bit, anything is fine.” Xiao Jiang’s voice got softer and softer.

Xiao Jiang’s reaction made Xia Xingye feel a little inexplicable. An idea suddenly popped into her head, and she asked hesitantly: “Did she actually ask you before what name you wanted, and you said ‘whatever’?”

“How did you know?” Xiao Jiang suddenly let out a tiny shriek. Although the sound was still very soft, it was truly a shriek compared to its usual voice.

Xia Xingye gently patted its leaves: “No wonder you’re called ‘Xiao Jiang’. I guess when she asked you what name you wanted, you said ‘whatever’, and she really just picked a name at random.”

“That’s right.”

Xia Xingye didn’t know whether to laugh or cry: “You were the one who said ‘whatever’, and now you want to change your name?”

“Can’t I change it now?” Xiao Jiang sounded a little regretful.

“Then do you like the name ‘Xiao Jiang’?”

Xiao Jiang thought for a moment: “I like it. For me, as long as I have a name, I like it, whether it’s a formal name or a nickname.”

“Since you like it, then keep it.” Seeing that Xiao Jiang still wanted to say something, Xia Xingye added: “Although it sounds a bit random, it is indeed the name she gave you.”

“Is this name too ordinary?” Xiao Jiang asked tentatively.

“It is a bit ordinary,” Xia Xingye said truthfully.

Seeing that Xiao Jiang fell silent, she comforted it: “But this is the name she gave you. Has she named anyone else or any other plants?”

“No.” Xiao Jiang’s leaves shook.

Xia Xingye coaxed it: “So you are the first one, you are special. Although the name doesn’t sound special, you are special.”

Xiao Jiang was soothed by Xia Xingye’s string of “special” that it felt dizzy: “Then I don’t want to change my name, I want this name!”

Xia Xingye breathed a sigh of relief. She had originally thought that Jiang Yingyue had picked the name randomly and wanted to help Xiao Jiang get a nicer one. She hadn’t expected the name to be Xiao Jiang’s own doing.

Since that was the case, it was better to keep this name. It was just a pity that she couldn’t discuss a new name with Jiang Yingyue.

“To repay you, I can tell you something good,” Xiao Jiang said a little awkwardly, “I just don’t know if you need it.”

“What good thing? Do I need to pay anything?”

“No need!” Xiao Jiang said excitedly, “You just have to take me out first.”

“Take you out?” Xia Xingye looked at Jiang Yingyue hesitantly.

Xiao Jiang said: “It’s fine, just ask her, and she’ll agree.”

Xia Xingye didn’t know why Xiao Jiang was so confident. It was already very kind of Jiang Yingyue to lend it to her to play with, after all, Xiao Jiang was not an ordinary plant.

“Go ask, and you’ll find out,” Xiao Jiang urged, “Hurry up and ask!”

Xia Xingye had no choice but to take Xiao Jiang over to Jiang Yingyue.

Noticing the movement, Jiang Yingyue stopped writing and looked up at her.

Xia Xingye cautiously asked: “Can I take Xiao Jiang out for a while?”

“You take it out?” Jiang Yingyue looked at Xia Xingye, then at the Xiao Jiang in her hand, “Do you want to go out, or does it want to go out?”

“I want to go out, but I want to bring it with me,” Xia Xingye told a white lie, “Look, isn’t it a plant? It needs some sunlight, right? The sun is good today, let’s take it out for some photosynthesis.”

Jiang Yingyue said plainly: “It doesn’t need photosynthesis.”

Xia Xingye looked at her with a pitiful expression.

Jiang Yingyue sighed: “Alright, you can take her out, but don’t go too far.”

“Will there be any effect if I take her too far?”

“No major effect,” Jiang Yingyue paused before adding, “But it won’t be very good for it.”

Before Xia Xingye could reply, Xiao Jiang said in a soft, delicate voice: “We’ll just walk around the neighborhood, we won’t go too far.”

Xia Xingye also quickly nodded: “Yes, we’ll just walk around the neighborhood, we won’t go too far.”

She looked at Jiang Yingyue with eager eyes, like a large Golden Retriever.

Jiang Yingyue had not intended to refuse in the first place, and being looked at like that, she just nodded and said, “Fine.”

After getting permission, Xia Xingye took Xiao Jiang out. As soon as they left the house, Xiao Jiang happily said: “Great! We can go out and play!”

Xia Xingye asked while walking downstairs: “You’re not playing a trick on me, are you?”

“How could I!” Xiao Jiang said seriously, “You’ll know when we get there.”

In the neighborhood, Xiao Jiang directed her to walk forward.

After walking for a while, Xiao Jiang suddenly told her to stop: “Turn right, and you’ll get a free lunch.”