Night 32: Baked rice cakes

Huo Bai didn't expect that the young man slept until five o'clock, and he was ready to close and still didn't wake up.

"Wake up. Huo Bai cleaned up the stove and wiped his hands and walked into the tent, he stood at the table where the young man was lying and knocked on the table.

The young man slept like a dead pig, and did not move at all.

The hot and sour noodles in the bowl in front of him all rose up and squeezed into a ball, holding only one chopstick in his hand and the other poking straight into the bowl, the glasses on his face were crooked, and the black backpack at his feet also fell to the ground horizontally.

"It's closed, little brother wake up!" Huo Bai knocked on the table twice, but the young man still didn't wake up and didn't give him a reaction at all.

took out his mobile phone and glanced at the time, Huo Bai directly reached out and pushed the young man's shoulder, leaning over and shouting loudly while pushing: "Little brother, wake up!"

After a while, the young man woke up slowly.

After waking up, he looked at Huo Bai standing in front of him with a confused face and was stunned for a while.

Huo Bai saw that his face was covered with red marks pressed out of sleeping on the table and saliva flowing from the corners of his mouth because of his sleeping position, so he reached out and pulled two tissues from the tissue box on the table and stuffed them into his hands.

"Rub. ”

The young man was stunned and greeted himself with a tissue in his face.

“…… Boss...... Now, what time is it?" the young man wiped his face as if he had come to his senses, and he lifted his crooked glasses and opened his eyes to look out of the tent.

It's already a little light outside.

"Five twenty-three. Huo Bai didn't talk nonsense, and directly told the young man with a stunned face the exact time.

"Oh......"

"Trouble, help me pack ......," the young man nodded stunned, looking at the hot and sour noodles crammed into a bowl and said.

"Okay, right away. Huo Bai picked up the bowl of cold hot and sour noodles and walked out.

The hot and sour noodles were packed by Huo Bai and handed them to the young man, and Duan Ping, who took the last freezer back to the façade, saw the young man walking out of the tent, so he opened the curtain and went in, put away the tables and stools, and moved back to the façade room.

“…… Boss, what time is your business?" the young man took the bag and paid for it and did not leave immediately, he asked Huo Bai about the business hours of the food stall.

Huo Bai reached out and took off the small blackboard hanging under the tent with dense menus written on it. "Five in the afternoon to five in the morning. ”

"Oh. The young man uttered a monosyllable, and once again carefully looked at the position of the stall before leaving.

"Meow~" The cat boss yawned on the advertising sign.

"Brother Huo, the cat boss doesn't play the brand!"

"You carry the piece of meat on the back of its neck, and I'll collect the sign. ”

"Huo, Brother Huo, I can't catch ......"

"Get out of the way, I'll come. You go collect the signs, hurry up. ”

The cat boss doesn't know if he has a deep love for Huo Bai's red advertising sign with the three words of food stall written on it, and every time it lies on the lamp and naps Huo Bai to collect it, it is an inevitable 'vicious battle'.

Well, the cat boss is possessive, has a particularly fierce temper and is very stingy.

Seeing that Duan Ping finished collecting the light sign, Huo Bai secretly breathed a sigh of relief. Let go of the cat boss who was holding him in his arms, he gently rubbed the face that the cat boss had scratched several times without stretching out his paws.

Fortunately, the cat boss didn't stretch out his claws, otherwise he would have broken his appearance.

"Meow~!" The cat boss jumped on the top of Huo Bai's head, and it stepped on the hair on the soles of its feet with its paws to try the feeling of its feet, and then flicked its tail and lay down.

As soon as Duan Ping came out after putting the light sign, he saw Huo Bai with a black cat on his face without love.

"Poof~ cough, Brother Huo, I, I'll go back first. He struggled to hold back a laugh and coughed.

Huo Bai glanced at him with the cat and waved his hand impatiently, "Go back, go to bed early, be careful if you are late in the afternoon, I will deduct your salary." ”

Duan Ping smiled, hummed and left.

Huo Bai vaguely heard a cat or something......

Reaching out and scratching the chin of the cat boss lying on his stomach, the top cat went out to buy the goods.

As long as the cat boss reaches his head, it doesn't go down by itself. No matter how much Huo Bai tossed, it was all in vain, this was his experience for many years.

Sure enough, he was laughed at when he went to buy goods with a cat, Huo Bai was used to it, anyway, he was as thick as a city wall, and he wouldn't lose a piece of meat when he was laughed at.

Moreover, some bosses will give him a little bit of a head when they see the black cat on his head, and the cat boss can be regarded as a beautiful man in the cat world.

Anyway, Huo Bai thinks so.

After returning to the food stall after buying the goods, the cat boss's anger was almost spread, and as soon as Huo Bai opened the door, it 'swished' out, and disappeared in a blink of an eye.

At four o'clock in the afternoon, Huo Bai and Duan Ping washed vegetables and grilled skewers.

"Boss, my cat boss~?" Ah Miao dragged a suitcase printed with cat patterns and a big backpack on his back and stood in front of Huo Bai, who was sitting at the door of the façade room on skewers.

Huo Bai quickly skewered the skewers in his hand and replied in a somewhat dull voice that was stuffed in the mask: "I've gone out of the wilderness, and I haven't come back yet." ”

Ah Miao nodded, "Then I'll go first, and I'll pick up my kissing cat boss later~" She dragged her suitcase to the community with a bright smile.

The smile was brighter than the sun hanging in the sky.

Ah Miao has changed, she is a little different. Huo Bai didn't know exactly what had changed, but he always felt that this kind of Ah Miao seemed to be missing something from her before.

At five o'clock, the food stalls open for business.

The cat boss, who didn't know where to go, was squinting comfortably in the shadow of the door of the façade room, eating his dinner.

"Cat boss, go home~" Ah Miao's energetic voice suddenly sounded, the cat boss looked up in the direction of Ah Miao, and then lowered his head and licked the dinner in front of him, and then spread his limbs and walked over with cat steps.

After walking to Ah Miao's side, the cat boss meowed softly, and rubbed her exposed calves because she was wearing a skirt.

"Haha, let's go home~" Ah Miao was a little itchy by the cat boss, and she smiled and squinted her eyes.

"Boss, let's go. Ah Miao picked up the cat, and the boss held up one of its black and white paws and waved it at Huo Bai.

The cat boss also meowed very cooperatively at this time.

"Hmm. Huo Bai stood in front of the pot frying wontons with long chopsticks, looked at Ah Miao, who was wearing a skirt and holding a black cat and smiling brightly, and nodded lightly.

"Fried noodles with shredded pork, slightly spicy, no bean sprouts. A sweaty woman in a suit walked into the shadow of a food stall and wiped her sweat.

"Wait a minute. Pack it or eat it here?" Huo Bai put the fried wontons in the pot out of the pot in three or two times, and stretched out his hand to let Duan Ping, who was standing on the side and had nothing to do, go in and serve the food.

"Pack. ”

When the hot oil in the wok touched the shredded meat that still had some moisture, it made a 'lala~' sound, and after a while, the tip of the nose was surrounded by a fragrant aroma of fried noodles.

Seeing off the guests, Huo Bai squinted and glanced up at the sky outside, the sun was still hanging high, it was really hot.

"Boss, stir-fry a plate of green pepper beef and fish-flavored shredded pork, two bowls of rice, a bottle of beer and a bottle of soda, all of which are iced. A man and a woman walked over holding hands.

"Wait a minute, go sit inside. ”

"Boss, hurry up, wait for dinner." "The woman in the couple has a bit of a shrill voice, which pierces her ears when she listens.

"Rice cakes!" Huo Bai was stir-frying, when a short and hoarse female voice suddenly sounded.

The owner of the voice was a young girl with short hair about the same length as a dog's gnaw, and she was wearing a suit of clothes that had not been washed cleanly, stained, and unwashed traces of soap foam.

On his feet were a pair of dirty plastic slippers that could barely be seen to be pink.

The girl's name has a kind of flower in it, and no one knows what the girl's surname is, so they just call her Xiaohua.

Xiaohua lives with her elderly grandmother, who is very old, and she has no strength in her hands, so she can barely cook and wash two clothes.

Xiaohua's specific age is not clear, Huo Bai is not clear, she looks like both an eleven or twelve-year-old girl and an adult woman in her twenties and thirties.

It was her grandmother who took care of her all the time, and her parents were never seen.

The girl's face had a few bruises, Huo Bai knew what was going on, there were always a few bear children in the community who liked to bully people who were different from them, and Xiaohua was their best target.

Because Xiaohua no matter who she was bullied by, if she wasn't seen red-handed and caught first, she wouldn't have suered.

It's not that she doesn't want to, it's that she can't tell at all.

Huo Bai turned off the fire, bent down to pick up a coin that Xiaohua threw over and rolled to his feet on the ground and put it into the cash box on the side, turned his head to look at the two skewers of rice cakes that Duan Ping took out from the freezer and put on the grill, and patted him on the shoulder, asking him to get two more skewers to bake together.

"Why?" Duan Ping was slightly stunned, no one ordered rice cakes except Xiaohua.

"Let you take it, where is so much nonsense. Huo Bai patted him on the shoulder angrily.

"Oh, Brother Huo, if you want to eat too, just say it. Duan Ping reached out and grabbed the shoulder that was patted, turned around and went to get two more strings.

Huo Bai didn't bother to pay attention to him, stood in front of the stove and brought out the fried green pepper beef in the pot and brought it into the tent with rice and beer soda, and continued to fry the next fish-flavored shredded pork after coming out.

Xiaohua stood in front of the barbecue, staring at the rice cake skewers roasting on the red charcoal fire.

It's very hot in front of the grill, and the heat rising from above can distort one's vision, and everything is twisted and twisted.

Xiaohua's face was flushed with heat, and her face was covered with beads of sweat, Duan Ping saw that she was so willing to let her go and wait in the cool tent.

However, she just stared at the rice cake skewers motionlessly, refusing to move a single step.

The rice cake skewers on the charcoal fire are slightly bubbly and burnt in some places.

After the rice cake skewers were baked, Duan Ping reached out and took the seasoning jar on the side and asked Xiaohua, "What flavor?"

Xiaohua looked at him twice and didn't speak, and seeing that Duan Ping didn't give her the rice cake skewers in her hand for a while, her eyes suddenly began to become unkind.