Chapter 424: – Fish
Spending time with Xia Tian was actually pretty nice, at least it felt comfortable for Lin Jin.
Because there was an extra servant. Yeah.
It was just like with Liu Shengqi back then, Lin Jin kept bossing Xia Tian around. But Xia Tian wasn’t a big M like Liu Shengqi, who would take the initiative to buy things for Lin Jin without her even asking. As for this Xia Tian person, even when Lin Jin asked him to go get vinegar, soy sauce, or whatever, he’d always come up with some excuse to avoid it.
However, since Xia Tian had eaten the breakfast Lin Jin made with her own hands and was also still hanging out at her place, no matter what excuse he tried, Lin Jin always found a way to make him go downstairs to buy what she needed.
Xia Tian went downstairs to buy ingredients for lunch, but he had no clue how to pick them out. In the end, Lin Jin waited for half an hour only to see him come back with a bunch of smelly fish and rotten shrimp… Of course, it wasn’t really rotten. Though the smell was bad and the stuff really didn’t look great. The crab was too soft, he didn’t ask the seller to clean the fish, and as for the vegetables, it was too old.
"You’ve definitely someone who has never bought groceries as a child." The corners of Lin Jin’s mouth twitched as she looked at the ingredients Xia Tian had brought back. She sighed, "Don’t you know to ask the seller to clean the fish for you?"
"The seller did ask if I wanted help with that." Xia Tian’s expression was a bit awkward "But I thought if they handled it, they might skimp on the weight. And I didn't know how you wanted it done, anyway."
"You’re not not stupid." Lin Jin had nothing to say to Xia Tian. She could only deal with the fish herself.
However, Lin Jin never liked eating fish, and she had never cleaned one in her life. Doing this for the first time had her body all tense. The fish’s tail kept wagging back and forth. She firmly pressed down on the still alive fish with one hand while carefully holding a knife in the other hand, trying to cut open its belly.
But the fish wasn’t dead yet. It was still moving and its scales were very slippery.
Maybe it was stimulated by the blade, but the fish’s thrashing became even more fierce. Just now, Lin Jin could still hold it down with her hand, but the moment the knife touched it, the fish wriggled free from her grasp and leapt straight into the sink. With the fish in the sink, Lin Jin couldn’t react in time and accidentally cut her thumb.
F*ck! It hurts!
Lin Jin looked down at the blood slowly flowing from her thumb. Feeling the sting of the cut, and she was completely dumbfounded.
She clearly felt it was quite stable just now. How did her knife hit suddenly miss?
Xia Tian, bored with nothing to do, wandered into the kitchen. He saw Lin Jin staring blankly at something, while the fish that was supposed to be getting gutted was now energetically flopping around in the sink.
"What happened?" Xia Tian walked over and stood next to Lin Jin. When he looked down, he immediately noticed the blood coming out of her thumb. "You’re bleeding, why are you still dazed here?!"
Lin Jin raised her head to look up at Xia Tian and actually saw a third expression she’d never seen before from this iceberg.
"Why do you look so worried?" Lin Jin saw Xia Tian’s frowning face and, for some reason, she couldn’t help but burst out laughing "Wow! Are you showing care for me?"
"I mean, why do you look so nonchalant when you’re bleeding?" The expression on Xia Tian’s face quickly disappeared. He grabbed Lin Jin’s bleeding hand and ran it under the water for a few seconds before asking "Do you have bandaids at home?"
"Probably not." Lin Jin was a bit stunned as she looked at her hand being held by Xia Tian. She then glanced at his expressionless but obviously nervous face, and didn’t know what to say. She just stood there in a daze and let him lead her to the living room.
"I'll go down and buy some for you. You be careful."
After saying a few words, Xia Tian hurriedly ran downstairs.
Was there something wrong with this guy? Lin JIn scratched her head with her uninjured hand, completely unable to understand Xia Tian’s actions.
It was just a small cut. Why was he so worked up?
As someone who had been cooking and chopping vegetables since she was a child, while Lin Jin’s hadn’t been "tempered a thousand times", she was long immune to the occasional cut. Otherwise, she wouldn’t have been so calm earlier.
Well, it did hurt, but that was it. At most, she just thought about "Yeah, it hurt, but that was about it. The only other thought she had was, "How did that fish dodge so high!"
Still, Lin Jin obediently sat on the couch, playing on her phone with her good hand. Her other hand just sat motionless by her side as if it had been amputated.
After just five or six minutes, Xia Tian came running back, completely out of breath. He had a red bottle of Merbromin, a bag of cotton swabs, and some bandaids in his hands, looking nervous as he returned to Lin Jin’s side.
"Why'd you buy Merbromin for such a small cut? In the past, cuts like these just healed on their own." Lin Jin rolled her eyes.
"It’s okay. You never know when you might need it in the future, so it’s good to have a bottle at home." Xia Tian muttered as he reached out. He carefully lifted Lin Jin’s injured hand andthen gently dabbed a cotton swab dipped in Merbromin on the cut on her thumb.
"It stings." Lin Jin winced from the sharp pain as the Merbromin touched her wound. She instinctively tried to pull her hand back, but Xia Tian held it firmly in place.
"How do you manage to cut yourself while cleaning a fish?" Xia Tian’s tone was full of reproach.
Lin Jin rolled her eyes: "Isn’t it your fault? Who even cleans their own fish nowadays? Isn’t it always the seller who does it? I usually just chop the fish into pieces or braise it whole, okay? Besides, I don’t really eat fish that often."
Even though Lin Jin had supposedly mastered cooking, this mastery didn’t seem to include knife skills at all.
As a result, her knife skills were still as eye opening as ever.
Watching Xia Tian carefully apply medicine to that tiny cut and then wrap her thumb with a bandaid, Lin Jin didn’t know why, but she actually felt being taken care of by Xia Tian was really… comfortable? Or maybe it should be warm?
"How is it?" After Xia Tian bandaged her thumb, he worriedly looked at her.
"You let go of my hand first." Lin Jin motioned with her mouth toward the hand Xia Tian was still holding tightly.
Lin Jin’s hands were very small, at least much smaller than those of normal men. So Xia Tian’s hand completely enveloped hers, making her feel really uncomfortable.
Embarrassed, Xia Tian quickly let go of her hand, then continued with his usual blank expression: "Then, are you still making lunch? Your hand’s already like this now."
"What do you mean by like this? Which cook hasn’t been cut before?"
Lin Jin rolled her eyes. If she didn’t read wrongly, the bandaid packaging even said it was waterproof, so she could definitely still continue making lunch.
"I’ll let you have a taste of my skills!" Lin Jin proudly lifted her head, but then suddenly remembered the fish "But you’ll have to deal with that fish for me. Either you handle it, or you take it back downstairs and ask the seller to do it."