Chapter 171: A Barbecue
After eight or nine o'clock, it is the busiest time of the day on Chengde Street. Fixed food stalls are lined up on both sides of the street, and occasionally there are small tables and small stools for customers to sit on. The endless stream of people has come to a standstill, and all kinds of faces linger in front of the various food stalls.
Yongchun Lane is one of the eight alleys of Chengde Street, and the most of the alleys are barbecue stalls. When Long Qing arrived at the entrance of the alley, a girl with long hair was standing there and watching.
Lin Ruoyu is wearing a pair of skinny jeans and a white T-shirt today, dressed simply, almost featureless, but under the backdrop of a delicate green face, she still looks young and invincible.
Her face, without powder, is delicate and fair, exuding a healthy glow. Passers-by beside her, young and old, involuntarily looked at her a few more times.
Seeing Long Qing coming, Lin Ruoyu's face instantly bloomed with a bright smile, like a cold winter plum blossom, like a midsummer breeze suddenly coming, in an instant, almost the whole world was overshadowed by her smile, which made Long Qing, who was used to seeing beautiful women, stunned.
"Coach Long, you're here!" Lin Ruoyu greeted her happily, and as soon as she finished saying six words, she saw Long Qing's gaze move to her face, so she lowered her head a little shyly and fiddled with the hem of her T-shirt.
"I've kept you waiting, you said you would eat barbecue, where are we going to eat?" Long Qing saw that Lin Ruoyu couldn't let go, so he didn't say much, and asked directly.
"No, I didn't have to wait long, at the end of the alley, you come with me. Lin Ruoyu hurriedly replied, and then hurriedly turned around and led the way in front.
There are so many people in the alley that it's almost shoulder to shoulder. Long Qing followed Lin Ruoyu to turn left and right in the cracks, and finally arrived at the end of the alley after a few minutes. There are a lot fewer people here than in the alley, and the sparse people sit on small stools and eat barbecue, which is also very flavorful.
In front of a stall, Lin Ruoyu stopped. The stall owner, a middle-aged woman, is fiddling with a large row of skewers on the grill.
"Mom, my classmate is here. Lin Ruoyu walked up to the middle-aged woman and shouted softly.
"Classmate?" Long Qing had a strange expression on his face, "Can you still pretend to be a college student at your age?"
The middle-aged woman raised her head, revealing a warm smile, and after glancing at Long Qing, the smile on her face became even brighter: "Hello classmate, I am Lin Ruoyu's mother, you find a seat to sit first, and I will bake some skewers for you in a while." ”
"Auntie, you're busy, I'm not in a hurry. Long Qing hurriedly said. Now he understands, no wonder Lin Ruoyu wants to invite himself to eat barbecue, dare to love her mother is a barbecue stall!
"You girl, what are you doing in a daze, don't bring your classmates over and sit down. Mother Lin said with some disgust.
Lin Ruoyu nodded hurriedly, and then took Long Qing to a small table and sat down. Long Qing glanced around, this stall was much better than several other barbecue stalls around, and it was obvious that Mother Lin was also well-run.
After Lin Ruoyu asked Long Qing to sit down, she walked to her mother's side, and then she didn't know what Mother Lin had ordered in her ear, so she saw Lin Ruoyu walking over gently with two bottles of beer.
"Coach Long, do you drink beer?" Lin Ruoyu asked cautiously.
Long Qing couldn't help but feel a little funny, you brought the beer over, only to know if you want to ask others if you want to drink it? In order not to embarrass Lin Ruoyu, he smiled and said, "You can drink some." ”
Lin Ruoyu breathed a sigh of relief, put down the two bottles of beer, and then sat down gently, picked up the wine bottle and was about to pour wine for Long Qing, but suddenly remembered that he didn't take the bottle opener, and hurriedly stood up and said, "I'll go get the bottle opener!"
"No need!" Long Qing stopped Lin Ruoyu with a loud voice, then picked up a bottle of wine, pressed his thumb against the edge of the bottle cap, and flicked it lightly, and saw a "pop" sound, and the bottle cap flew up!
Lin Ruoyu was dumbfounded, and it wasn't until the bottle cap hit the ground that she slowly came back to her senses, and couldn't help but reach out and pick up another wine bottle and flick it a few times, but found that her fingers were hurting, and the bottle cap still didn't move.
"Coach Long, how did you do it!" Lin Ruoyu asked with wide curious eyes.
Long Qing smiled: "It's not a matter of skill, it requires a certain amount of strength, and you can't do it at the moment." ”
"Oh. Lin Ruoyu put down the wine bottle with some disappointment.
"Do you drink beer?" asked Long Qing as he picked up the bottle.
Lin Ruoyu hesitated for a while before whispering, "Drink a little." ”
Long Qing nodded, poured a glass for Lin Ruoyu first, and then poured himself a glass.
After chatting for a while, Lin Ruoyu's mother came over with a large plate of skewers!
"Classmate Long, it's very simple here, and there's nothing to eat, you can eat these skewers first, and when I'm done baking for those guests, I'll fry a few side dishes!" Mother Lin said enthusiastically.
"Auntie, you're polite, you are busy first, these are enough for us to eat!" Long Qing hurriedly said.
"It's really a sensible good boy, our family is a little wooden if it rains, you can be casual. Mother Lin said with a smile, and then turned her head and instructed Lin Ruoyu, "Ruoyu, don't patronize and eat, treat your classmates well!"
Lin Ruoyu nodded again and again.
"Why do you say I'm your classmate?" Seeing Lin's mother leaving, Long Qing asked Lin Ruoyu with some doubts.
Lin Ruoyu lowered her head and whispered: "I don't dare to say that you are my savior, otherwise she will know that I am in danger again, and I don't want her to worry about me anymore." Moreover, my mother doesn't like me to socialize with people in society, she is afraid that I will be deceived, she only likes me to socialize with my classmates, so I said that you are my classmate. ”
Long Qing nodded with some understanding, whoever has a beautiful and simple daughter like Lin Ruoyu will be a little worried that she will be bullied.
"Where's your dad?"
"He divorced his mom when I was younger, and I don't know where he is. ”
Long Qing was silent, it turned out that Lin Ruoyu grew up in a divorced family, and she complained that she had formed such a cautious character, and she didn't dare to say anything about being bullied in school.
"Coach Long, I toast you with a glass of wine, thank you for saving me twice in a row. Lin Ruoyu stood up with a beer and looked at Long Qing with sincere gratitude in his eyes.
"This stupid girl, how can drinking with her classmates be like respecting your elders!" In the distance, Mother Lin, who was fiddling with the barbecue, glanced over and couldn't help crying and laughing.
Long Qing drank Lin Ruoyu's toast, picked up a skewer and ate it. I have to say that Mother Lin's craftsmanship is quite unique, and the amount of skewers is relatively sufficient, no wonder there is a good business at the end of the alley where the customer source is relatively bleak.