Although the stir-fried dishes looked burnt, they were, after all, dishes they had worked so hard to make.
Hence, both Josephine and Zayne were hoping that they could gain recognition for their work.
Jay, however, refused to eat their food no matter what. Josephine had no choice but to turn to the beautiful and kind Angeline. "Try the cauliflower, Sis Angeline.'
As soon as Josephine picked up the cauliflower, Jay avoided it like a plague. He picked up his plate and the cauliflower fell on the table.
"I spent a lot of effort making it, Brother," Josephine said with a wounded expression.
Jay was unmoved. He scooped the soup and fed it to Angeline.
Angeline was surprised. "I want to try the food Josephine made, Jaybie."
Josephine darted Jay a smug look, but Jay declined in a tactful way. "Angeline, their food is uncooked and their vegetables were fried with dishwashing liquid. It's not edible." 1
Angeline was dumbfounded.
Josephine was still clueless as to what had actually gone wrong and protested with indignance. "What's
wrong with dishwashing liquid? It's not like you can't eat dishwashing liquid, right? If it's not edible, why did you buy it and place it in the kitchen then?"
Angeline figured that Josephine was probably too naive to understand what Jay was saying, so she explained it to her seriously. "Josephine, you cook with oil, not dishwashing liquid. A dishwashing liquid is for washing dishes."
Josephine was dumbfounded.
Zayne spat out all the vegetables in his mouth and bolted into the kitchen anxiously to rinse his mouth.
When Zayne walked out, Jay made a sarcastic remark. "Are you okay? Do you need to go to the hospital to get your stomach pumped?"
Zayne put on a bold front and said, "I read the dishwashing liquid instructions. It's not poisonous enough to kill me. Don’t worry!"
Josephine looked regretfully at the table full of dishes. "What should we do with all this food then?"
"Throw them away. I'll fix you something else."
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