"Lao Shou, do you know how much a portion of dumplings here cost?"
"It's like seven dollars a piece."
The Xiaoli Malatang and Dumpling Shop in front of Experimental High School are combined.
Usually customers who come here order a dumpling first, and then order a ten-yuan spicy hotpot, which is guaranteed to leave their mouths full of oil.
In a spicy hotpot shop.
Chu Xuan was surrounded by two school beauties and two class beauties.
All four girls looked at him lovingly, which made Li Bin and Shou Bo feel as uncomfortable as eating flies.
At this time, Li Bin could only vent his hatred on the dumplings in front of him, and finished the portion in front of him in a few mouthfuls.
He suddenly remembered that he was the one who said he wanted to treat Chu Xuan to dinner today.
Moreover, although Chu Xuan ordered five dumplings,
Only thirty-five yuan,
But he ordered two large plates of Malatang, one portion was 20, and two portions of Malatang were 40. Including the dumplings for him and Shou Bo, the total was fifty-four, which was more than what Chu Xuan had eaten there, he was sure. I was embarrassed to ask Chu Xuan to pay.
Li Bin is a person with a good reputation. Since he said he wanted to treat a guest, even if Chu Xuan brought a few more girls, he still had to pay the money.
I spent a total of fifty-four here, plus Chu Xuan’s thirty-five, for a total of eighty-nine.
Li Bin rummaged through his pockets and only took out a total of seventy yuan, still short of nineteen yuan.
So he borrowed fifty from Shoubo and promised to return it to him the next morning.
Then he got up and went to the counter to pay.
High school students in 2008 were really poor.
Except for a few wealthy second-generation students, most people in the class only have twenty or thirty yuan of pocket money a week.
And this spicy hotpot meal only cost a hundred dollars, which is really luxurious.
Originally, Li Bin only planned to invite Chu Xuan and Shou Bo.
Even if the three boys are good eaters, the seventy yuan in Li Bin's pocket is definitely more than enough.
Who knew that later Xia Xue and Xu Shanshan came, and then Zhao Shuangshuang and Yu Xiao also joined, which made Li Bin's pocket money go bankrupt.
Ninety yuan, although not much, was already beyond the limit that Li Bin could bear.
He borrowed fifty yuan from Shoubo, added the seventy yuan in his pocket, and went to the counter with one hundred and twenty yuan in his hand.
"Boss, do the math for us. Two plates of spicy hotpot and seven portions of dumplings. How much does it cost in total?"
The business of this Malatang shop has always been very good. Even though it is very late now, there is still a steady stream of customers queuing nearby.
The owner of the store is an aunt in her early forties. Despite her age, she looks like a neat person. She is dressed very delicately and looks like a clean and tidy person.
While the proprietress was making spicy hotpot for other customers, she was distracted and began to settle accounts for Li Bin:
"You ordered four grilled sausages here, which cost ten yuan each, and bean curd, kelp, and bean dip for ten yuan each, a total of forty. Seven dumplings, the meat and vegetable version cost seven yuan, and the pure meat version cost ten yuan each. Servings, you have five meat and vegetable portions, two pure meat portions, a total of fifty-five dollars, plus the forty-yuan spicy hotpot, a total of ninety-five dollars."
Just now Li Bin counted eighty-nine, and now it has become ninety-five.
Fortunately, he borrowed fifty from Shou Bo and had enough money.
Li Bin's family conditions are still very ordinary, and his weekly pocket money is twenty.
He ate ninety-five in one go, which was equivalent to his monthly pocket money. If he said he didn't feel any pain, he was definitely pretending.
It's just that Li Bin is the kind of person who wants to save face and suffer. Since he said he would pay the bill, he must not break his promise.
Li Bin's pockets were full of change, but the fifty yuan he borrowed from Shou Bo was in whole currency.
He took out a fifty dollar bill from his pocket, then took out a twenty dollar bill, and two ten yuan bills. Just when Li Bin was looking for five yuan in change, a graceful figure suddenly appeared next to him.
The other party stood in front of him, his voice was clear and ethereal:
"Lady boss, help us settle the bill."
Li Bin, who was still bleeding from the bottom of his heart, was stunned for a moment.
When he raised his head, he saw a beautiful girl wearing a blue dress, the skirt swaying gently, like a fairy.
It is Xia Xue, the goddess in my heart.
I remember on the first day of class in my freshman year of high school, Xia Xue, dressed in a white dress, was sitting in the front row like a snow lotus emerging from the mud but unstained.
At that time, her pen fell, she bent down to pick it up, and then gently placed it in front of her.
Li Bin remembered that she gently said, 'Be careful next time. '
Then Li Bin was completely captured.
After that, the two separated, one sitting in the middle of the classroom and the other sitting against the wall of the classroom.
Even though they were far apart, Li Bin always looked towards her during the break.
Li Bin has been secretly in love with each other for three years, but he doesn't even have the courage to say thank you in person.
It's not that Xia Xue doesn't remember him, it's just because from the first year of high school to the third year of high school, before today, the two of them didn't even say a word.
At this moment, Li Bin swallowed hard. He handed a handful of change in his hand to the proprietress, and then said with a red face:
"Xia Xue, I made an agreement with Chu Xuan before this meal. I'm here to treat you. It's just a few dumplings. Don't argue with me."
While talking, Li Bin subconsciously stepped forward and got in front of Xia Xue.
This is the first time he has been so close to Xia Xue.
The two of them were sitting together just now, with a distance of twenty centimeters between them.
But now because he was rushing to pay the bill, Li Bin deliberately squeezed Xia Xue behind him.
The two people's shoulders were close to each other, and Li Bin could even clearly feel the other's delicate skin.
Then, just when the landlady was about to put away a large amount of change in Li Bin's hand, Xia Xue said calmly:
"Lady boss, I'll do it."
Xia Xue's voice was not loud, but it had a refreshing and cold sound that made people feel convinced.
Opposite me, the proprietress who had already taken the change from Li Bin suddenly hesitated.
I don't know why, but the boss lady always feels that the girl in front of her has a certain aura of speaking her mind.
So, she stuffed a large amount of change into Li Bin's hand, then smiled at Xia Xue and said, "This little girl is so smart. There are ninety-five in total. Just give her ninety."
When Li Bin wanted to pay before, the landlady didn't give up a penny.
But when Xia Xue took action, the other party wiped out the five yuan change without even saying a word. This shows how good the boss' wife is to Xia Xue.
On the side, Li Bin watched helplessly as the money in his hand was stuffed back by others, and his eyelids immediately jumped.
He already has a good reputation, and in front of the goddess he likes, there is no way he can get Xia Xue to invite him.
So he put the money in his hand directly on the counter without saying anything.
Just as he was about to turn around and leave, Xia Xue beside him glanced at him lightly.
Her cold eyes seemed to contain the purity and flawlessness of the universe and the stars, and at the same time, they also carried a faint pressure that was irresistible:
"Classmate Li Bin, your family situation is very average, so don't make money with me... Oh, I don't mean to belittle you when I say this, but this meal is just pocket money for me, let's just Stop trying to pull each other off, it will be ugly.”
Xia Xue was always the kind of aloof girl. In the class, if a boy wanted to approach her, she wouldn't even open her mouth. Just an indifferent look would make him feel ashamed.
Li Bin has been secretly following Xia Xue for three years, and naturally knows that she is the kind of girl with a cold personality and a simple mind.
Similarly, Li Bin also knew that Xia Xue did not mean to belittle herself when she said this. She really just wanted to pay.
At this moment, Li Bin originally wanted to persist, but in the confrontation with Xia Xue, after just a second, she was defeated by Xia Xue's cold eyes and obediently took back the change on the counter.
At this time, Li Bin gave way.
Xia Xue stepped forward gently and took out an exquisite bag from her pocket.
At this moment, the lady boss opposite suddenly widened her eyes and said with envy:
"This is Hermès' BEARN, H-buckle women's wallet."
Under the wide eyes of the landlady, Xia Xue glanced at her curiously for the first time. She didn't expect that the other party could accurately call the name of this bag, so she nodded lightly and said: "It is indeed Hermès."
After receiving the affirmative answer, the landlady couldn't help but sigh:
"My daughter likes these fancy luxury goods. Once she took me to the mall and fell in love with this bag at first sight. Hermès is not only a carrier of exquisite craftsmanship, but also a source of art and creativity, depicting A colorful world.
There are also many card slots designed to facilitate the storage of various cards, delicate and smooth lines, comfortable hand feel, and so on. Anyway, it was so hyped. When I finally looked at the price, it was 166,000, which scared me. He grabbed his daughter’s hand and ran away…”
While the landlady was talking non-stop, Xia Xue opened her wallet.
Li Bin glanced at it subconsciously.
At a glance, he could see that Xia Xue's wallet was filled with various bank cards, and even a black gold card that he had never seen before.
Xia Xue directly opened the inner layer, which was filled with a thick stack of hundred-yuan bills. She randomly took out one and handed it to the landlady at the counter, saying in a clear voice: "No need to look for it."
When Xia Xue put away her wallet, she exuded a noble and noble aura.
On the side, Li Bin subconsciously put a large amount of pocket money in his pocket.
It wasn't until this moment that Li Bin truly realized that there was such a huge gap between himself and Xia Xue in front of him.
It is not too much to say that there is a difference between cloud and mud.
At this moment, Li Bin suddenly sighed deeply, as if he heard the sound of his own heart breaking.
Xia Xue naturally drooped one hand and hugged her chest with the other. She said softly like an elegant princess:
"Classmate Li Bin, thank you for writing so many love letters to me. I read every one of your love letters carefully. I didn't know who you were before, so I didn't reply to anyone because I was afraid of misunderstanding. However, if If we can still see each other after graduation from college, I will consider making an exception and reply to you a letter, of course, as long as you don't have any hopes."
At this moment, Xia Xue had a slight smile on her lips. She wore a platinum bracelet on her right wrist, also in the Hermès style, which radiated dazzlingly under the light above her head.
Li Bin could clearly hear the beating of his heart.
This was the first time he saw Xia Xuexiao.
It's the kind of smile that warms people's hearts.
Swallowing hard, Li Bin still wanted to seize the little bit of hope even though he knew it was impossible. He blurted out:
"Xia Xue, which university did you apply for? If I try my best, I wonder if I can get into the same university as you..."
