Chapter 211: Dinner and Gifts

"Wow, Sunny, why did you buy so many things?"

After receiving a call from Sunny, Kim Taeyeon walked to the dormitory building and was shocked when she saw the eight huge boxes that had been unloaded from the car.

She knew that Sunny went to China to find Huang Xu, and she also knew that she would definitely bring back some local specialties.

But when she came back before, she only brought two or three boxes at most. How come she brought back so many this time?
However, what she didn't expect was that when she was shocked by these things and exclaimed, Jessica Jung, who was standing next to her, looked at her with some indignation.

"Hey, Kim Taeyeon, don't you see I'm standing here too?"

"Xica, when did you come back? What a coincidence that you ran into Sunny?"

"Ah~, what do you mean I just happened to run into her? She and I bought these things together."

"Nani?"

After hearing what Jessica Jung said, Taeyeon’s already shocked face became even more surprised.

After all, she could see very obvious Chinese characters on the outer packaging of the boxes on the ground, so she knew that these things were most likely shipped from China.

Then why did Jessica Jung say that she and Sunny bought these together?
But these people obviously came from China. Does that mean she went to China too?
But shouldn't she have gone to Europe?

Why would you follow Sunny to China again?

While she was still brainstorming frantically, Sunny had already paid the taxi fare and was looking at Kim Taeyeon who was standing there in a daze.

"Taikoo, why are you still standing there? Hurry up and move the things in."

"Ouou, I'll move now."

Then the three girls took great pains to move all these things to the dormitory.

This is because there is an elevator in their dormitory building, so all these things can be moved up.

If there was no elevator, they really would have no way to move a box weighing nearly 50 kilograms upstairs.

But even with an elevator, they were still very tired after moving all these things up.

But looking at the boxes scattered on the ground, I still feel a sense of accomplishment.

Especially Kim Taeyeon, she was seen with her hands on her waist looking at the boxes on the floor, feeling very proud.

"Haha, it seems I'm still pretty good, huh?"

"just you?"

Before she could finish her words, she heard Jessica Jung's questioning voice, which made her break down.

After all, she didn't put in much effort when they were moving things just now. She just did some auxiliary work and helped them carry the luggage.

The heavier boxes were carried by Sunny and Jessica Jung.

However, because of her lack of strength, she has been beaten by her teammates countless times. Even now, she has been nicknamed "Paper Man" by others.

So she has become immune to this matter.

Looking at the two people who had worked the hardest and were now sitting on the sofa to rest, I was the only one still standing, so I quickly walked to the refrigerator and got two bottles of ice water for them.

After handing it to the two of them, he asked them:

"What did you buy? Why did you buy so much at once?"

"Won't you know if you open it and take a look?"

Jessica Jung looked at Kim Taeyeon helplessly. She was so tired at the moment that she didn’t want to pay any attention to her, so she pointed at the box and asked her to open it and take a look.

Kim Taeyeon ignored Jessica Jung's gaze, went straight to the drawer next to her and took out a pair of scissors, then started unboxing the items in a hurry.

"Wow, what is this? How can there be such a big sausage?"

"Is this a chicken? Why is the color so dark?"

“I wonder what it tastes like!”

"What is this? It's so heavy."

"Hey, is this box of dried fruits?"

"But I haven't seen many of these dried fruits before."

"Is it delicious?"

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Sunny looked at Kim Taeyeon, who was concentrating on opening the box with her butt sticking out and talking without stopping at all, and looked at Jessica Jung helplessly.

Then both of them saw a hint of helplessness in each other's eyes.

Because they really don't want to admit that the guy in front of them, wearing cartoon pajamas and sticking his butt out, immersed in opening boxes, is the captain of their group.

However, even if they wanted to rest and didn't want to pay attention to the excited Kim Taeyeon, they couldn't resist the fact that she had already opened all the boxes and started taking out things that they didn't recognize and began to ask the two of them what these were.

Sunny had no choice but to look at Jessica Jung who was already lying down, and could only get up and walk to Taeyeon Kim, and start to open the box, take out the things inside, and begin to introduce them one by one.

"This is the red sausage from Harbin, China. This is the smoked sausage. This is the dry sausage. This is the goose liver sausage. This is..."

"Wait, foie gras?"

Kim Taeyeon listened attentively to Sunny's introduction of the specialties they bought. She seemed to hear something that interested her, so she quickly interrupted Sunny and pointed to a kind of sausage that she had just introduced.

"Is it the foie gras I know?"

"Yes, it's the foie gras sold for tens of thousands of won per piece in the western restaurant."

"Omo, then you have to taste this carefully."

"You can open it and taste it now. These are bought for you."

After Sunny finished speaking, she prepared to open the foie gras sausage that Kim Taeyeon had just pointed at and let her taste it.

However, her action of opening it was stopped by Kim Taeyeon.

"Let's wait until dinner time tonight. I'm still trying to lose weight and need to control my weight."

"You want to lose more weight?"

Sunny looked at Kim Taeyeon's already very thin figure and looked at her with some surprise, obviously not quite understanding.

Including Jessica Jung, who was sitting on the sofa next to her, also sat up at this time with a puzzled expression on her face.

Kim Taeyeon is actually very thin now. It is not an exaggeration to say that she is skin and bones. Except for a little flesh on her face, bones can be seen in other parts of her body.

And her current nickname of Paper Man came from this reason.

After all, no one will have the strength if they don't eat and keep losing weight.

She is already so thin now, why does she need to continue losing weight?

However, Zheng Xiuyan thought of the company's previous practices, so she frowned and asked Jin Taiyan in confusion:

“Is it a requirement of the company?”

"No."

Kim Taeyeon looked at the two people who cared about her, did not hide anything, and began to tell the reason.

"This is my own request. It has nothing to do with the company."

"Then why do you want to continue losing weight?"

"That's right, don't you know what's happened to your body now?"

"I"

Kim Taeyeon felt warm inside when she heard her teammates' caring words, and was speechless for a moment.

When I told the company about this earlier, their first reaction was whether losing weight would affect my image, rather than my body.

After hearing this, Sunny and Jessica Jung immediately cared about their own health, which made her feel a little warm.

However, in response to the two people's persuasion, Kim Taeyeon said weakly:
"I know my current physical condition, but fans outside are saying that my face is too fat, so I want to lose weight."

"you"

When Jessica Jung listened to what Kim Taeyeon said, the expression on her face looked a little unhappy.

In fact, she also understands Kim Taeyeon's choice, and even feels a little empathy for the matter.

After all, she is also an idol and has experienced all this.

When fans look at celebrities, they want them to become more perfect, or more in line with their preferences.

As idols in a girl group, they are naturally the hardest hit, and their fans have more stringent requirements on their image.

This has resulted in many idols who are already very good looking being forced by their fans to undergo adjustments.

Those that were successful in their adjustments are still better, but there are also quite a few that failed and entered a long recovery period.

Kim Taeyeon’s case of being asked by fans to lose weight is relatively mild.

But if this continues, will there really be no problems with her health?

Therefore, Sunny and Jessica Jung looked at Taeyeon with concern.

Kim Taeyeon naturally felt the concern of these two people, so she said directly to them:
"It's okay. Didn't we live like this before?"

"Okay, but you must take care of yourself."

Sunny and Jessica Jung saw that they really had no way to persuade Taeyeon, so they could only tell her to pay attention to her health.

After all, this matter concerns her fans, and they have no other choice but to tell her to take care of herself.

But at this moment, Sunny felt that she had forgotten something, and it was a very important thing.

Her subconscious told her that if she could remember, she would be able to alleviate Kim Taeyeon's physical condition.

But now I can’t remember it for a moment.

This made her a little distressed, and her brows furrowed involuntarily.

"Don't worry, I will pay attention."

Kim Taeyeon looked at her two frowning teammates, then she smiled sweetly, enjoying her teammates' concern for her very much.

But then, she looked at Jessica Jung who was still frowning.

"Xica, I want to ask, you just said that you and Sunny bought these together? Did you go to Huaxia too?"

"Great! Xicaoni is also going to China?"

Lin Yoona looked at Jessica Jung in surprise, and was obviously curious about the fact that she went to China with Sunny.

Jessica Jung looked at the curious Yoona and her teammates who were very interested, so she rolled her eyes at the little guy who had just leaked the news.

Although she felt a little unhappy about the disclosure of this matter, she did not intend to hide it, so she nodded under the gaze of several people.

"Yes, I went to China with Sunny."

"Ouni really went to China. I thought you went to Europe."

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Jessica Jung looked at Yoona in front of her helplessly. She didn't expect that they knew her so well.

When I met Sunny in the company before, the first thing she said was that she had returned from Europe. Now Yoona also knows that I will go to Europe.

This made her doubt her life a little, and she also had a question: did they care about her so much?
However, she had asked many people about this issue, and now she could only helplessly deal with the interrogation of her teammates. It was already evening, and it was a few hours after they returned to Seoul. Moreover, today's time was quite coincidental, and they had nothing to do. After receiving the notice from Kim Taeyeon, the remaining six members of Girls' Generation returned to the dormitory within a few hours.

It's rare to see so many people gathered together, and Sunny and Jessica Jung brought back so many delicious foods. After discussing it, they naturally decided to have dinner together in the evening to taste the food they brought back, and they could also have a good drink while everyone was together.

Therefore, the few people who came back earlier went to buy drinks, and those who had cooking skills started to prepare the food.

It’s a pity that although Girls’ Generation has nine members, not many of them have the ability to cook, and some of them can’t even cook instant noodles.

Therefore, most people now gather in the living room to chat after returning, and naturally they discuss these delicacies, and then they know that Jessica Jung followed Sunny to China.

However, just when Lin Yoona started questioning Zheng Xiuyan why she returned to China this time and wanted to know who Sunny's boyfriend, Huang Xu, was, Sunny had already come out of the kitchen with Kwon Yuri carrying two large plates of food.

Just now, she and Kwon Yuri, who is currently the best cook, were busy preparing dinner in the kitchen.

As the current ceiling of Girls' Generation's cooking skills, Kwon Yuri crushed the other members of Girls' Generation with her superb cooking skills when she just debuted.

Sunny’s cooking skills were actually quite average before, but she has Huang Xu, a chef from China, to teach her.

After being with Huang Xu for a while, she has moved beyond the stage of being a novice in cooking and has directly transformed into a "cooking master" in Girls' Generation.

And most importantly, tonight's dinner is easier to make.

All you have to do is slice the various sausages and smoked goods that Jessica Jung brought back, wash some perilla leaves and lettuce, and add some kimchi, garlic slices and green onions.

That's why there were only two of them in the kitchen to complete today's cooking.

The two people who came out of the kitchen saw that the other members were still chatting enthusiastically, so they shouted to them:

"Children, it's time to eat."

"Here comes Ernie."

As one of the youngest members, Lin Yoona didn't bother to continue asking Jessica Jung why she went to China after hearing Sunny's voice.

Instead, he quickly stood up and took the plates from Sunny and Kwon Yuri, and placed them on the coffee table in the living room.

At this time, the rest of the people also started to stand up to help, some taking chopsticks, some carrying wine, and some taking wine glasses. It only took two minutes for several people to sit around the coffee table.

After everyone sat down, Kim Taeyeon picked up her glass and said something.

"Kids, let's thank Sunny and Xika for the delicious food they brought back!"

Then everyone raised their glasses together and started the dinner.

Following the thanks from several people, everyone drank the wine in their glasses, then put down their glasses and began to taste the various sausages that Sunny and the others brought back, and they all expressed their admiration.

"Wow, this red sausage tastes delicious!"

"Yes, it's full of meat and very fragrant."

"This black one is also good. Although it is a bit dry, it is like jerky. The more you chew it, the more delicious it becomes."

"And this round one, is there any dried fruit inside? It seems to have a unique fragrance."

"No, no, no, the best one is this. This sausage actually has goose liver in it!"

"Foie gras? Big deal!"

"Is it really foie gras? Let me try it."

"No one of you wants to eat this chicken? I think chicken is delicious too!"

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As the drinking party began, the few people also tasted the delicacies from Northeast China and were conquered by their deliciousness.

South Korea seems to have all kinds of fancy food, but in fact their seasoning and cooking methods are relatively simple.

Apart from some stewing to preserve the original flavor of the ingredients, the rest are frying, and there is no other way.

Moreover, their seasoning is basically based on chili sauce, chili powder or soybean paste. There are very few spices and products as many as in China that can produce a variety of flavors.

Of course, this is also their eating habit.

It is also because they were relatively poor in ancient times and could not afford those expensive spices.

However, after everyone was conquered by the specialties of Northeast China, some people began to question these foods.

Especially Kim Hyo-yeon, who has a good relationship with Sunny, tasted these Northeastern delicacies and asked Sunny in confusion:

"Sunny, these things are also Chinese delicacies. Why do they taste different from what we brought back last time and the time before that?"

"That's definitely different."

Sunny looked at Kim Hyoyeon who asked the question speechlessly. These are not specialties from the same place, so naturally the taste will not be the same.

"The ones I brought back this time are all specialties from Northeast China, while the ones I brought back before were all from the south, so the taste is naturally different."

"Okay, I think so, but these are all Chinese delicacies, why do they taste so different?"

"Do you know how big China is? It's normal for the taste to be different."

Sunny looked helplessly at Kim Hyoyeon and her teammates who had focused all their attention on her, and began to explain.

"China's land area is very large. Not to mention the taste difference between the south and the north, even in Harbin, where we went this time, there is a taste difference between one side and the other. I'm not surprised."

"Oh, can there be a difference in taste in a city?"

At this time, not only Kim Hyoyeon, but the rest of Girls' Generation, except Jessica Jung, were a little bit unconvinced about what Sunny said.

After all, a city is so small, can the taste be very different?
Sunny looked at the disbelieving expressions of several people, but she was not angry. After all, when she learned about those things, she was also a little bit unbelieving.

At the same time, if she had not gone out this time, she would not have imagined that the area under the jurisdiction of a city is eighty to ninety times that of Seoul, and even more than half of the area of ​​South Korea.

And this is not even the largest city in China.

So Sunny slowly told everyone the news she got from Huang Xu.

The result was not unexpected. After listening to it, they reacted just like themselves at the time, unwilling to believe that there was such a big city in the world.

Especially when I heard Sunny say that the area of ​​the largest city in China is almost as large as that of the entire South Korea.

Their first reaction was disbelief.

However, Sunny had already anticipated their reactions. After she finished her story, she took out her cell phone and started searching on Google.

After hearing that several people did not believe it, he took out his mobile phone and showed them the results of the search.

Looking at the message on Sunny’s phone, everyone in Girls’ Generation had to believe that what Sunny had just said was true.

There really are such big cities in the world.

It was also the first time that they had a concrete understanding of the geographical area of ​​China.

"Oh my god, there really is such a big city."

"Yes, the jurisdiction of a city is almost as large as South Korea. It is really too big."

"Then what Sunny said just now, that there is a difference in taste, is normal."

"Of course. Even if it's the second largest city that you guys went to, it's not surprising that the tastes are different at both ends."

“The area is just too big.”

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After they learned about the size of China, they all exclaimed in admiration, and then immediately shifted their attention to food again.

Sunny and Jessica Jung did not spoil the fun. They took out their phones and started introducing photos of the delicious food they had eaten in the past few days to the others.

But I don’t know if it’s because there were only photos, but although they were quite interested, their expressions were not too exaggerated.

There’s nothing we can do about it, as Northeastern cuisine really doesn’t look very photogenic.

These people often go to various high-end restaurants and have become immune to food photos.

Although they were not interested in these classic delicacies, when Sunny told them where there was a self-service lunch box with forty or fifty kinds of dishes for ten yuan per person, they couldn't help but exclaim in amazement.

After all, ten Chinese dollars is equivalent to about two thousand won in South Korea.

Here in Seoul, you can’t even get a serving of tteokbokki.

On weekdays, they spend more than 1,000 won to buy a loaf of bread at a convenience store.

To exaggerate a little, it would cost them almost 2,000 won to eat a bowl of Shin Ramyun at the market.

You can imagine how high the prices are in Korea.

Although wages in South Korea are relatively high, the price of the lunch boxes that Sunny and her friends eat is still a little beyond their imagination.

After all, there are more than 40 kinds of meat and vegetable dishes, and you can take as much as you want.

What surprised them the most was that Sunny said that after the meal there were two or three kinds of fruits left and they could eat whatever they wanted.

This completely broke their defenses.

You have to know that in Korea, the price of any fruit is not cheap. Even people with high incomes like them need to think twice before buying fruit.

But now someone tells them that for 2,000 yuan they can eat as much as they want of more than 40 kinds of meat and vegetable dishes, and that there is also unlimited supply of several kinds of fruits.

Therefore, several people felt that their worldviews were shattered.

They even wondered if Sunny and Jessica Jung were fooling them.

But looking at the content in the photo, although a few people could not understand Chinese characters, the Arabic numerals on it were used all over the world and could not be faked.

Even if some people don't believe it, they have to believe it.

But at this time, several people came up with an idea.

“If I have the chance, I must experience the prices there and taste them.”

Sunny also saw what they were thinking at this time, so she invited them.

"If there's a chance, I'll let Huang Xu take us to experience it."

"Thank you, Sunny."

After hearing Sunny's words, when no one else could react, Yoona, who had been craving for the food in the photos, hugged Sunny and expressed her gratitude.

As a recognized big eater in Girls' Generation, Yoona relies on her physique that never gains weight and can be said to be open to all kinds of delicious food.

Therefore, when she heard Sunny say that during the break, Huang Xu could take them to travel to China and taste various delicacies, she couldn't help but cheer.

After thanking Sunny, he raised his glass and spoke to the air.

"Thank you, Brother-in-law Huang, for the delicious food. Brother-in-law Huang is awesome!"

Looking at the excited Yoona, the others had no intention of spoiling the fun. They also raised their glasses and thanked Huang Xu together.

However, Huang Xu, who was being thanked by several members of Girls' Generation at this time, had no idea about what happened in Seoul. He was currently in a city in southern China, looking at the dazzling array of goods in the shopping mall and feeling worried.

Earlier, after Sunny helped him find Lee Soo Man and got EXO to endorse his software, he said he would give her a satisfactory gift.

So after sending Jessica Jung and Sunny away, he flew here directly to choose a suitable gift for her.

And a few days ago, I had some ideas and came here.

But after coming here, looking at the dazzling array of goods in the mall, I felt a little worried for a moment.

"What should I choose?"

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