12. Chapter XII
When Li Guanxiao came out of the fitting room, Qiu Jinyu sat on the resting sofa and cast an admiring look at her, this off-the-shoulder dress completely exposed Li Guanxiao's charming collarbone, the summer loose style was not bloated on her body, and the tall Li Guanxiao gave life to this skirt.
Li Guanxiao stood in front of the mirror and turned around twice, obviously she was also very satisfied with this kind of small floral skirt, coupled with a straw hat, it was a standard lady's dress. But when her eyes glanced at the price tag of the dress, she grinned helplessly and prepared to go to the fitting room to change it.
"Don't change it, buy it, it's very good-looking, it fits very well" Qiu Jinyu stopped Li Guanxiao in the back. Li Guanxiao looked at herself in the mirror again, she hesitated for a moment and decided to save it, it is better to save the money, Guan Xiao, who had changed her clothes in the dressing room, was about to come out and politely refuse when she heard the movement outside.
"I'm sorry, please find a new one with the same size to wrap up" Qiu Jinyu, who was outside, had already seen this qiē in her eyes, she walked to the cashier and handed out a □□ to the cashier. Li Guan, who happened to come out, smiled and reacted, Jin Yu wanted to buy her this dress, she and Jin Yu were not related, and there was no reason to accept her expensive gift.
"Jin Yu!" Li Guanxiao stopped Qiu Jinyu behind his back, took a step forward and snatched the □□ from the cashier's hand and put it back into Qiu Jinyu's hand.
But Jin Yu didn't mean to smile this time, but stubbornly handed the □□ over again, and urged the cashier to hurry up with his eyes.
"Qiu Jinyu, what are you doing! I don't need you to pay! Li Guan smiled at Qiu Jinyu and insisted on paying, she began to rummage through her wallet in annoyance, found her only □□ and slapped it on the table, "Use this card" However, the cashier returned Li Guanxiao's card with an apologetic face, and said in an apologetic tone, "I'm sorry, the payment has been completed." After speaking, he handed Qiu Jinyu's card back to her.
Li Guanxiao glared at Qiu Jinyu and walked out resentfully, while Jinyu chased Li Guanxiao with a paper bag, and finally grabbed Li Guanxiao's wrist at the corner in front of him. Li Guan smiled but shook off her hand angrily, gritted his teeth and asked Qiu Jinyu, "Qiu Jinyu, what do you mean!" Do you think I can't afford that dress! ”
Jin Yu looked directly at the angry Guan Xiao, but there was calm in her tone, her feelings did not change because of Guan Xiao's change, she was a stubborn person like Li Guanxiao. "It's enough that you like that dress, and that dress suits you well, it doesn't matter who pays for it, the important thing is that you wear it to go on a blind date...... It will definitely succeed" Qiu Jinyu smiled slightly at Guan Xiao after speaking, her two eyes were bent into two good-looking crescents, but Guan Xiao seemed to see something shining inside, and half of the anger she was angry about just now disappeared in an instant, she looked at Jin Yu's smiling appearance, and slowly fell into her unfazed attitude.
"Aren't you going to have your birthday, so I'll give you a gift!" Jin Yu quietly confided in Guan Xiao's hand with the paper bag in his hand.
"How do you know I'm about to have a birthday?" Li Guanxiao stared at Jin Yu in surprise, she didn't expect that she was about to forget Jì's birthday, and there was still someone to remember, she was still a roommate who had known her for less than a month.
"There are some of your birthdays in your rental registration" Jin Yu did not tell Li Guanxiao, after her house viewing, she specially asked the agent for Guan Xiao's simple information, and she firmly recorded that birthday date in her heart.
"Then your birthday gift is really valuable, how can I pay you back" Li Guanxiao shook her head, she handed the paper bag back to Jin Yu. Jin Yu naturally wouldn't take it, and pushed her hand, "You don't have to pay it back, it's good if you're happy" When she said this, Jin Yu suddenly felt a little inappropriate, would such an ambiguous language make Guan Xiao feel awkward. So she habitually followed the phrase "I'm sorry......
Li Guan laughed out loud, "You are really a person, you obviously apologize well."
"I suddenly felt that I was so self-righteous that it would make you hate me, so I ......" Qiu Jinyu explained, but she felt that it was worse to explain too much, so she simply shut up and said nothing.
"Hawkers, I was originally very angry with you for making decisions without permission, and besides, we are roommates, I have no reason to accept such a valuable gift from you" Li Guanxiao moved his gaze to Qiu Jinyu's face, and looked at each other, Qiu Jinyu actually felt that her heart was beating like numbness, and she hurriedly avoided this direct gaze. "You're the first person to give me a birthday present, though, so I decided to take it"
"For the first time? Haven't you ever received a gift before? Jin Yu didn't dare to go on a blind date and cheerful Guan Xiao how could she receive a gift for the first time, she didn't look bad, she must have thought about her, and there should be a lot of gifts or something.
"Isn't that weird? This is not surprising, my father is a gambler, no one wants to really get close to me, and when the time comes, I will come to borrow money, but it will be difficult to ride a tiger" Qiu Jinyu couldn't help but glance at Li Guanxiao, she found that Li Guanxiao's demeanor was not unnatural when she said these words, she seemed to have been used to it for a long time, and she could say this sad thing so naturally, Qiu Jinyu began to feel sorry for this woman.
"I don't have any friends, let's sympathize with each other," Qiu Jinyu wanted to comfort Li Guanxiao with this.
"No, you are different from me, you have a car and a house, and I don't have anything, and you have to pay back my gambling father, no matter how you look at it, I am more pitiful" Li Guan laughed twice and shook his head helplessly.
"What about your father? He can't bear to let you be here alone to pay off his debts? Qiu Jinyu's tone raised, and she felt like she was angry.
"He appeared once last year, and then I don't know where he went, but the IOUs that came to the door to ask for debts have increased, and now there is still a stack at home."
"I remember you said you were the youngest in the family, but what about your older siblings?"
"They are all honest rural people, and they don't have much money at all" Li Guanxiao sighed, she didn't want to continue this unpleasant topic anymore, so she took measures to change the topic, "I'm feeling a little hungry, why don't we go have a meal"
Qiu Jinyu followed Li Guanxiao's topic very clearly and said, "I know that there is a barbecue restaurant, and the barbecue there tastes good."
"Well, if you eat meat at night, you will be punished!" Li Guanxiao hurriedly said that he did not agree, losing weight or something was the most troublesome.
"You're not fat, you can't grow a few pounds of meat in one meal, let's go!" Qiu Jinyu took Li Guanxiao's arm and pulled her in the direction of the garage, Li Guanxiao thought about the squeaky barbecue for only a few dozen seconds, and finally compromised while telling herself not to eat more, while happily sitting in Qiu Jinyu's car.
The red Audi shuttled under the scorching midday sun, and soon they drove to a restaurant in the center of the city, just standing outside, you could feel the decoration of the restaurant, those unique pillars, doors and windows are telling sù Li Guan Xiao, this store must be very expensive!
Qiu Jinyu glanced at Li Guanxiao and walked in first, the greeting waiters standing on both sides of the door hurriedly came up to greet warmly, Li Guanxiao followed Qiu Jinyu all the way through this chic restaurant, and finally stopped at a position by the window. "Miss Qiu, this is the place you have booked," the waiter, dressed in the uniform of the store, respectfully stretched out his hand and bowed slightly, making a gesture of please. Qiu Jinyu nodded and sat in with Li Guanxiao, and the soft sofa-shaped seat made Li Guanxiao relax.
"You have been planning to bring me here to gain weight, right?" Li Guan smiled and pursed his lips, pretending to be angry.
"It was only when I saw the newly opened barbecue restaurant downstairs this morning that I thought of bringing you to this place to try it, so I booked a place" Qiu Jinyu took out the red napkin from the cup and threw it on his knees, at this time the little brother who ordered the food had already walked to their side, Qiu Jinyu skillfully opened the menu and pointed to a few special ingredients on it with his fingers brushed with nail polish, "A portion of roasted eel, okay, that's all" Qiu Jinyu handed the closed menu back to the waiter, and leaned comfortably on the sofa seat.
"Do you often come to this shop to eat?"
"Sort of, I prefer to eat barbecue" Qiu Jinyu thought about it and replied to Li Guanxiao, she often came to this restaurant alone to eat barbecue and enjoy the meaty ingredients.
"You love barbecue and don't gain weight! I have to work hard to maintain such a figure" Li Guanxiao shouted that it was unfair, Qiu Jinyu, who was half a head taller than her, felt good just by looking at it, the close-fitting lady's suit set off her lines extraordinarily beautifully, the standard melon seed face had a pair of calm light brown eyes, the clear lip line outlined her plump red lips, and the end of her chestnut long hair was slightly permed into waves, at this time, a part of it was spread on her shoulders and neck, and a small necklace pendant around her neck dotted the gap between her collarbones, She exudes not only a mature atmosphere, but also a quiet and chic that other women do not have. Qiu Jinyu doesn't like words, but this seems to Li Guanxiao to be in the face of her, Jinyu doesn't have a lot of words.
"Is there something on my face? "Jin Yu took a plate of snowflake beef brought by the waiter and put it in the middle of the two of them, followed by beef tongue, beef shoulder, beef tenderloin, pork belly and other meat dishes, and then there are vegetarian dishes, and finally the finale is two cups of fragrant pear pork rib soup, as soon as you open the small cup lid, you can see two pieces of white and transparent Sydney pear lying inside, the ribs that are chopped into small pieces and easy to eat are buried in the cool soup, the crisp taste of Sydney has not been lost at all, and the meat of the ribs is soft and juicy in a bite. Guan Xiao narrowed his eyes in satisfaction. This soup is much better than hers, which is Guan Xiao's weakness for soup.
Qiu Jinyu looked at Li Guanxiao's appearance and a smile on the corner of her lips, she felt that her heart was also satisfied, and she picked up the meat slices with a clip and spread them on the grill, and after a while, the squeaking sound sounded in the ears of the two, accompanied by the smell of meat. Looking at the edges of the meat slices slightly rolled up due to the high temperature, Li Guanxiao felt that a large amount of saliva was secreting from his mouth, and he was ready to start this meal. Jin Yu picked up the baked slice with chopsticks and put it into Li Guanxiao's sauce plate.
"Don't burn it, it's just baked" Qiu Jinyu successively sandwiched the roasted meat slices to Li Guanxiao, Li Guanxiao sighed to reduce the heat in his mouth while pointing at Qiu Jinyu's empty plate with chopsticks, and stared at the pair of apricot eyes.
"I've eaten too much, I'll give you all this"
Guan Xiao listened and hurriedly swallowed the sip in his mouth, drank a cup of tea, and returned the roasted meat slices on his plate to Jin Yu, "I won't let you feed me fat in my attempt to succeed, you hurry up and eat too" Qiu Jinyu smiled slightly, and did not refuse to pick up the meat on the plate and put it in his mouth to chew and swallow slowly.
"Jin Yu, if I were a man, I would definitely fall in love with you" Li Guanxiao said coldly, Jin Yu's hand holding a piece of meat shook, and the meat slice smashed into the plate, splashing and the sauce stuck to her collar and hair. That moment of distraction made her panic and wanted to cover it up, and quickly pulled up the tissue and turned around to wipe the sauce, she swept Li Guanxiao's face with her afterglow, at that moment she wanted to say the words she held in her heart, but she suppressed it vividly, Guan Xiao's tone was relaxed, she was just joking.
"Tsk, wipe it quickly" Li Guanxiao hurriedly grabbed out a few pieces of paper and prepared to come up to help her wipe it, "I'...... I'll do it myself" Jin Yu, who was nervous in her tone, caught Guan Xiao's attention, and she blinked her eyes, not understanding Jin Yu, who suddenly became flustered.
Qiu Jinyu realized that she was out of shape, she hurriedly suppressed her feelings provoked by that sentence, and squeezed out a reluctant smile, "Recently...... It's a bit tired, so it's always out of shape, don't mind......"
Guan Xiao, who was suspicious, sat back in her place and ate the slices of meat on her dish, but her eyes did not really leave Jin Yu, and Jin Yu's nervousness had fallen into her keen insight. And Jin Yu looked at the dishes in front of her in a daze, her ears were still echoing Guan Xiao's words, it was like a mallet hitting a bell and buzzing her head.