Perhaps it was because of the rainy day, but there were many people queuing in front of the hot pot restaurant.
Pei Shuo looked at the queue at the door and asked Tang Mi, "Have you made a reservation?"
Tang Mi pulled Jiang Suichu inside and said, "We made an appointment."
This is a newly opened hot pot restaurant, and business is booming. Tang Mi booked a place online yesterday just to be afraid of the queue.
She walked to the front desk and said to the waiter: "Hello, I made a reservation online."
The waiter smiled and said: "Please provide your reserved mobile phone number, and I will check it for you."
Tang Mi reported her mobile phone number. After checking the information, the waiter gave her a receipt, "Hello, your seat is No. 56. This way."
Then the waiter led them inside.
The hot pot restaurant is filled with the spicy aroma and steaming mist of the hot pot base. The group of people followed the waiter and walked to a long table near the window at the end.
"Suisui, let's sit inside." Tang Mi said to Jiang Suichu.
The location inside is by the window, and you can see the street view downstairs.
Jiang Suchu nodded and followed her to sit down. Lu Zhinian consciously sat next to her, and the other three sat opposite her.
It was Pei Shuo who still took the order. He first asked everyone if there was anything they wanted to eat in particular, and then took a pen to check out some of the side dishes commonly eaten in hot pot on the menu.
After ordering, the bottom of the pot was cooked first, but the food hadn't come yet. While waiting for the food to be served, Jiang Suichu took out the jade Buddha from his bag and gave it back to Jiang Minghao.
Jiang Minghao was sitting opposite him. He reached out to take it and wanted to put it in his pocket first, but found that his coat was still on Tang Mi. He had no choice but to untie the rope, wear it around his neck, and put the Jade Buddha in his collar.
They saw that there was not a single word between the two of them, but the movements were indeed so natural and familiar, as if the two of them had done this thing thousands of times.
Pei Shuo stood up and poured tea for everyone, "Drink some hot water to warm up first."
My hands were frozen all the way here.
"Sui Sui, give me your and Tang Mi's cups." Pei Shuo sat outside and couldn't reach their cups.
Jiang Suchu first took Tang Mi's cup and handed it to him. When Pei Shuo poured the water and reached out to take it, Lu Zhinian was one step ahead of her.
Lu Zhinian crossed his arm over Jiang Suchu and placed Tang Mi's cup in front of her. Then he took the hot water bottle from Pei Shuo and added hot water to Jiang Suchu's cup.
He put the water glass in front of her and warned: "Be careful of the scalding."
"Oh~" She touched the wall of the cup carefully with her fingers, which were a bit hot.
Soon the bottom of the pot was boiling, and the red and white soup in the Yuanyang pot was boiling one after another, and the mist made her face feel hot.
When the food was served, Pei Shuo was responsible for serving it, while the others were relaxed and only responsible for eating.
During this period, several people chatted while eating.
Pei Shuo thought of Jiang Minghao's part-time job and asked him, "Brother Hao, where do you work part-time?"
Jiang Minghao took a piece of duck blood and said, "An Internet cafe near the school."
Tang Zi: "Be a network administrator?"
Jiang Minghao nodded and said: "It's almost the same. If anyone needs it, I can help with game training."
He has to attend classes during the day and works part-time at an Internet cafe at night. Mainly registration information, network charging fees, and occasionally power leveling.
The boss is a very nice person, and all the training money is for himself.
Pei Shuo became interested and asked while placing the dishes: "Brother Hao, what games do you usually play? Do you play in the league?"
Pei Shuo likes to play games. If Pei Tian hadn't been so strict with him, he could play every day.
Jiang Minghao nodded and said, "I play everything, like LOL, League, and FireWire."
He said it modestly, but he couldn't do power training even if he knew a little bit.
Pei Shuo: "Then we have the opportunity to play two games together and learn from each other."
Tang Mi took the opportunity to interject, "We can line up in five rows."
Jiang Minghao raised his eyes to look at her, his eyes seemed a little surprised, and asked: "You also play games?"
Tang Mi nodded and said, "Yes."
Tang Zi took down her position and teased: "You call yourself a meeting?"
Tang Mi glanced at him, poked the potatoes in the bowl, and said confidently: "It's okay to know a little bit!"
Just a little bit really. In the past, she went to an Internet cafe with Tang Zi, Pei Shuo and others. She felt bored while they were playing games, so she asked them to teach her.
But they didn't like her food, so they always asked her to choose any meat costume. Anyway, it’s just about resisting beatings, as long as you know how to hide.
Jiang Minghao smiled and nodded: "Okay."
When it came to games, Pei Shuo couldn't stop talking. He was dancing so much that he forgot that he was holding a beef ball with the chopsticks in his hand.
Lu Zhinian noticed it and was about to remind Pei Shuo to be careful. Before he could say anything, he saw his chopsticks loosen and the beef balls in his hand fell into the boiling pot.
Jiang Suchu was sitting in the middle, watching the hot soup splashing. She reflexively moved back and put a hand directly in front of her face.
Several people were shocked.
A few drops of the boiling soup splashed on the back of Lu Zhinian's hand. Jiang Suchu anxiously took his hand and checked, "How are you? Are you burned?"
Lu Zhinian frowned slightly, took out a piece of paper and wiped the oil spots on the back of his hand, and said, "It's okay."
Then he looked at her again, "Have you been burned?"
Jiang Suchu shook his head and said, "No."
Seeing that the back of his hand was burnt red in several places, she frowned slightly, "It's all burnt red."
The palm of her hand was warm, and Lu Zhinian coughed and calmly withdrew his hand, comforting her, "It's nothing serious."
Pei Shuo apologized quickly, "Sorry, sorry, Anian, are you okay?"
"It's nothing." Lu Zhinian threw the paper ball in his hand into the trash can, looked at him sideways and reminded: "Be careful."
Fortunately, he reacted quickly, otherwise this oily idea would definitely burn Jiang Suichu's face.
Pei Shuo was also frightened for a while. If it really got so hot that he would be guilty of a big crime.
Fortunately, it only burned A Nian.
Pei Shuo breathed a sigh of relief and poured water for Lu Zhinian in a flattering manner: "Hey, I'll pay attention, I'll pay attention. Whatever else you want to eat, A-Nian, I'll give it to you."
Lu Zhinian glanced at him and twitched the corner of his mouth.
It took almost an hour to finish the hot pot meal. The rain didn't stop, but became heavier than before.
Several people stood at the entrance of the shopping mall. Tang Zi took out a cigarette and bit it in his mouth without lighting it.
He asked several people: "What are you going to do next, go home?"
Pei Shuo touched his belly and felt a little relieved, "I can do it, it's up to you."
Tang Mi didn't want to go home. She glanced at Jiang Minghao beside her. He was looking at his cell phone with his head down and didn't know what he was doing.
Just after eating, the sky was gray again, Jiang Suichu felt a little sleepy.
She wanted to go back to sleep.
Lu Zhinian glanced at Jiang Suichu, who had drooped eyelids, and said, "That's it for today. There's not much to do on this rainy day."
Tang Zi nodded, "Alright."
Jiang Minghao put away his cell phone and walked over, saying, "Then I'll leave first."
Pei Shuo: "Brother Hao, are you going back to school?"
"Yeah." Jiang Minghao nodded, then looked at Jiang Suichu and said, "I'm going home next weekend. Do you want to bring anything with me?"
"Go home?" Jiang Suichu thought of something, and her mind made up. She shook her head and said, "I'll make a video call to you then. I want to see grandma."
"good."
At this time, a car stopped in front of them and honked its horn several times.
Jiang Minghao looked at the license plate number and saw that it was the car he ordered.
"My taxi has arrived, let's go first," he said to them.
Tang Mi took a few steps forward and called him, "Jiang Minghao."
Jiang Minghao stood in front of the car door and turned to look at her.
"Your clothes." Tang Mi raised her hand to unzip her coat and was about to take it off and give it back to him when she heard him say.
"Wear it and give it back to me later."
After saying that, he got into the car, and soon the white body was submerged in the traffic.
Tang Mi stared blankly in the direction where the car disappeared. Her clothes were stained with the smell of hot pot, mixed with a faint smell of cigarette smoke.
That's Jiang Minghao's taste.
After returning home, Jiang Suichu changed his shoes and ran upstairs without saying a word.
Lu Zhinian put on his shoes and looked up only to see her hurried back.
Beibei ran towards him with the toy in her mouth, happily jumping around him.
Lu Zhinian took the toy in his mouth and walked to the sofa in the living room to sit down.
"Do you want it?" He raised the toy in his hand.
"Woof woof." Beibei barked twice, staring at the toy in his hand.
Lu Zhinian raised his eyebrows, touched its head, bent down and said in its ear: "I want it, then go up and see what she is doing?"
"Woof woof woof." Naturally, Beibei didn't understand what he said, so she jumped up and threw herself on him to grab the toy in his hand.
Lu Zhinian was knocked down by it and fell backwards on the sofa. He stroked the hair on its back and said with a smile: "Why do you have the same bad habit as her? You always pounce on people."
The same thing happened to Jiang Suichu when he was a child. He would knock him down if he couldn't defeat him, trying to take the lead in terms of strength.
Jiang Suichu went downstairs with the ointment and saw Lu Zhinian being thrown onto the sofa by Beibei.
"Beibei~"
Beibei turned her head when she heard the voice, her eyes lit up when she saw Jiang Suichu, and she ran towards Jiang Suichuan like a child.
Jiang Suichu squatted down and stroked its fur. It was covered in flesh and laughed at it: "Baby, it's time for you to lose weight."
"Ouch..." Beibei turned his head away, his enthusiasm was misplaced after all.
Lu Zhinian looked at them and smiled. He sat up and threw the toy in his hand to his feet. Beibei saw it and ran back again.
Jiang Suchu walked over and sat next to him and said to him, "Give me your hand."
Lu Zhinian saw the ointment in her hand, raised an eyebrow, and handed her the burned hand.
Jiang Suchu squeezed a piece of ointment on the fingertips of his right hand and held up the palm of his hand with his left hand.
"It seems to be redder. Will it leave scars?" His hands were so beautiful, like white jade. It would be a pity if there were scars.
She rubbed her fingertips in circles on the back of his hand, rubbing the ointment away.
Lu Zhinian felt the temperature of her fingertips and unconsciously slowed down his breathing.
"Does it hurt?" she asked softly.
Lu Zhinian looked at her lowered eyes and said slowly, "It doesn't hurt."
How could it not hurt?
Jiang Suichu can best understand the feeling of hot water and oil splashing on the skin.
Stinging, burning.
In severe cases, it may cause blistering and peeling. It then leaves permanent ugly scars.
She never raised her eyes to look at him from beginning to end. She kept her head lowered and applied the medicine seriously.
After a long time, Lu Zhinian heard her choking voice.
"Lu Zhinian."
"Huh?" Lu Zhinian frowned and turned his head to look at her.
But her head was lowered.
She said: "Don't do this again in the future."
Don't stand in front of me regardless.
Lu Zhinian moved his fingers slightly and asked her, "Why?"
She just shook her head and said, "I don't want it anyway."
Because she was used to this kind of injury, she could bear it even if the soup splashed on her.
But she didn't want to see him get hurt because of herself.
Lu Zhinian frowned deeply and withdrew his hand.
He said coldly: "I don't want it either."
Jiang Suchu raised his head and looked at him. He had already stood up and his hands were hanging down weakly.
He said: "Jiang Suichu, you can continue to hide in that cabinet."
"But don't push me away."
