Chapter 74: The White Lotus
"Hehe, Sister Wang, I'm not afraid of your mouth, I'm afraid of your small belly! I'll let you get it all at once today! Zhou Jianhua said that, he took out a big unity from the bag, slapped it on the counter, and asked with a smile:
"Is it enough?!"
"Ah...... No, don't you want to be so fierce! Wang Xiaozhen couldn't help but be secretly surprised when she saw Zhou Jianhua throw out ten yuan so happily, and said that this young man was so generous, he was willing to spend ten yuan to invite himself to dinner, which is half a month's salary of an ordinary young worker! Could it be that he deliberately showed off, pretended to be generous, and waited for me to be polite? Wang Xiaozhen thought of this, so she pretended to be tentative:
"Ten dollars, where are you going to eat...... Otherwise, let's go to Jiangnan Hotel to eat! I went there once before, although the place is a bit expensive, but their dishes are full of color, flavor and flavor, especially their specialty dish "Crispy Duck" is made of Poyang Lake's unique red-haired duck, crispy skin and crispy meat, soft and fragrant, but delicious! If you pair it with a glass of red wine, it's a fairy-like treat......"
"Uh...... Where to eat, is ten dollars enough? Zhou Jianhua asked with a comfortable face.
"It's just the two of us, it's enough to order a duck!" Wang Xiaoling replied with a smile:
"I remember that the crispy duck there is 8 yuan a piece, let's order a duck, and then have a glass of red wine, it's just right, there is no money to eat there, it's full!"
"Are you sure enough is enough?" Zhou Jianhua still asked with some hesitation.
"Sure! Guaranteed enough, you don't have to worry! If it's not enough, I'll have it! Wang Xiaozhen looked at the hesitant Zhou Jianhua and said with a playful smile on her face.
"...... you?" Zhou Jianhua looked Wang Xiaozhen's plump figure up and down with exaggerated eyes, and then shook his head with regret and said:
"No, Sister Wang! In case the money is not enough. I'm reluctant to compensate you to the chef of Jiangnan Hotel! ”
"What are you talking about?!" Wang Xiaozhen's face flushed, and she explained strangely:
"I mean, I have the money too — in case that ten dollars isn't enough. I can be out! ”
"Oh! That's the way it is, that's good. That's good, hehehe......" Zhou Jianhua laughed loudly:
"Then let's go! Hungry at all! ”
Zhou Jianhua of Jiangnan Hotel has no impression, but he knows that in this era, any hotel named after the province must be the best hotel in the province, and this kind of hotel must be mainly used to entertain central leaders who come to inspect or senior cadres from other provinces who come to work, or when some meetings are held in the province to entertain local leaders from all over the province, it is estimated that there will be a few foreign guests living there occasionally. Presumably, the sky-high price of 8 yuan a piece of "crispy chicken" and red wine that Wang Xiaozhen just mentioned is also true.
Zhou Jianhua took Zhong Min to Xinchun City for a trip back and forth in the past two or three days, and the original 30 yuan on his body included food and lodging. There are only more than 12 yuan left in his pocket, if he eats 10 yuan tonight, the remaining 2 yuan is only enough for him to live in Nandu for one night and then eat two meals of "rice noodles fried meat", fortunately, as soon as he arrived in the provincial capital in the afternoon, Zhou Jianhua had already spent 6 cents to buy a ticket to return to Jiancheng County early the next morning, and he had no worries.
Just now, Zhou Jianhua was afraid that this Jiangnan Hotel would be too pompous and too expensive, and he was worried that if the ten yuan was not enough, it would be foreign, so he was a little hesitant. Zhou Jianhua is a thrifty person, and he has no extravagant habits. But when he auctioned it out for 10 yuan, he really wanted to invite Wang Xiaozhen to be chic.
Wang Xiaozhen helped herself so much this afternoon, what is ten yuan? Zhou Jianhua is thrifty, but he is not a stingy person with money. Every time I think of Wang Xiaozhen, she was criticized by the leader because of herself last time. and Wang Xiaozhen tearfully tugging on her sleeves pitifully to prevent herself from leaving, Zhou Jianhua will have a very uncomfortable feeling in his heart, although it is not his fault. but because of himself. If spending some money can make her happy, it can also make her no longer feel so deep guilt in her heart.
"Are you really going to the Jiangnan Hotel?"
Wang Xiaozhen saw that Zhou Jianhua suddenly became refreshed. I was a little hesitant. She didn't believe that Zhou Jianhua would really be willing to spend ten yuan to invite herself to dinner, and said that she would go to Jiangnan Hotel. I just wanted to tease the hypocritical people in front of me, but I didn't know that Zhou Jianhua was real.
Wang Xiaozhen couldn't help but secretly regret it in her heart, and said in her heart that how could she make this little brother's advantage like this, it is not easy for people in a small county town to make a few dollars, but the words have been spoken, and now if you want to change your words, she will seem to be timid, and it seems that what she just said about the crispy duck and red wine in the Jiangnan Hotel has a showy meaning.
"Why don't you go, there is crispy duck, red wine, and full, I drool, hehe......" Zhou Jianhua said happily with a greedy face.
"Oh...... Then I'll make a phone call first......" Wang Xiaozhen glanced at Zhou Jianhua hesitantly after speaking, then turned around and walked to the inner room, closed the door, and after a while, Wang Xiaozhen's voice on the phone came faintly from inside, and then, Wang Xiaozhen soon came out again, picked up the small navy blue artificial leather satchel that had been packed on the desk, and smiled at Zhou Jianhua charmingly: "Let's go!" ”
"Where to call? It's so late......" Zhou Jianhua asked casually as he walked out with Wang Xiaozhen. In this era, there are generally no private telephones, but it is so late, and the general unit has already left work, and it is unlikely that it will make a business call to any unit at this time.
"Oh...... It's a call to a friend......" Wang Xiaozhen replied vaguely.
"Oh? Is it a boyfriend? Come with him! Anyway, one duck is enough for three people to eat. Zhou Jianhua suggested.
"Where's your boyfriend?! Don't talk nonsense! Wang Xiaozhen protested shamefully, blushing and white-eyed Zhou Jianhua, and her round little mouth also pouted.
"It shouldn't be! Sister Wang, you're almost in your twenties, aren't you? On your terms, there aren't many people who come to your door to propose marriage to break through the threshold of your home? Zhou Jianhua turned his head to look at this plump and lovely-looking girl, and couldn't help but gossip.
"Humph! This girl should respond to the call of the country, marry late and have children later! ”
Wang Xiaozhen replied a little shy and playfully. He closed the two inlaid glass and wooden doors of the store.
"Talking about friends is not ...... marriage," Zhou Jianhua replied disapprovingly, and casually helped Wang Xiaozhen pull out the iron fence gate outside the wooden door.
"Don't worry about it!" Wang Xiaozhen said coquettishly.
Wang Xiaozhen locked the iron fence door. He turned around and jumped onto the sidewalk of the road, and took advantage of the situation to swing the satchel in his hand. His body also spun happily with the satchel, and as he spun his body, he moved down the sidewalk towards the downtown square.
"Don't you take the train?!" Zhou Jianhua, who was left behind, saw that Wang Xiaozhen did not go in the direction of the nearby tram platform, so he shouted to her from a distance.
"Don't sit!"
"Why don't you take the car? How many stops! Zhou Jianhua himself didn't want to crowd the tram for two or three stops, but he felt that girls in the city should not like to walk.
"I've been stuffy in my room all day, and I'm still going to squeeze the tram, I'm not in ......a hurry, anyway, I'm not in a hurry," Wang Xiaoling replied happily while spinning from afar.
Wang Xiaoling pulled the strap of the satchel, rotated the satchel faster and faster, and slowly stretched out her arms from side to side. The rapidly rotating light gray figure seemed to be about to float, and under the diffusion of the silver-white mercury street lamp, it transformed into a blooming white lotus, and her silver bell-like happy laughter also rippled with the rotating figure wave after wave, floating in the broken steps, on the road, and among the treetops.
Zhou Jianhua admired Wang Xiaoling's vivid and lively rotating posture from a distance, and felt her relaxation and happiness from the heart, and the cheerful and pleasant laughter made Zhou Jianhua also infected, and his face unconsciously showed a happy smile. Zhou Jianhua slowly paced behind Wang Xiaoling, letting her happily spread joy in front.
Wang Xiaoling didn't get closer until Zhou Jianhua was about to get closer. He gradually stopped, with a relaxed and cheerful smile on his face, but he couldn't stand on his feet because he had rotated too fast just now, and his body couldn't keep his balance. fell crookedly to the side, but fortunately, Zhou Jianhua reacted quickly and caught up with an arrow step. grabbed Wang Xiaoling by the waist.
Wang Xiaoling, who was held in Zhou Jianhua's arms, let out an "ah" in a panic, but she was still unable to maintain her balance. His body was limp, as if he had lost his legs. can only let Zhou Jianhua hold him in his arms. At this time, Wang Xiaoling was ashamed and anxious, but she had nothing to do, so she had to curl up in Zhou Jianhua's arms with her hot cheeks with both hands.
Wang Xiaoling's embarrassment made Zhou Jianhua laugh hehehehe, Wang Xiaoling, who was already embarrassed, finally had a reason to vent, lying in Zhou Jianhua's arms, shyly picked up two small pink fists and smashed them in Zhou Jianhua's arms, and then finally slowly recovered and got out of Zhou Jianhua's arms.
"Sister Wang, if you want to play like this next time, you have to find a secluded place." Zhou Jianhua jokingly said:
"Fortunately, there are not many people walking this road, and it's night, otherwise people would have to treat us as a gangster @ gang and send us to the police station."
"You're a rogue @ a scoundrel! I want to play and I don't play with you! Wang Xiaoling's anger of shame is not over yet.
"Uh...... Sister Wang, you have to choose a place to play with......" Zhou Jianhua muttered.
"You ......" Wang Xiaoling was embarrassed and angry, and she didn't know what to say for a while, and suddenly found that her pair of pink fists were still alive, and suddenly she rushed up with her pink fists again, and fell on Zhou Jianhua's shoulders and arms, and she couldn't stop scolding "rogue @ hooligan" in her mouth.
"Heaven and earth can be learned, at most I can only be regarded as a hero saving beauty, where can I climb to the ...... of such a high realm as a rogue @ hooligan" Zhou Jianhua pleaded while hiding, and saw that Wang Xiaoling had no intention of stopping, so he had to shout: "Stop!" If you shout hooligan @hooligan again, rogue @hooligan will really be recruited by you......"
Wang Xiaoling was stunned by Zhou Jianhua's sudden drinking, stood in place and pouted, glanced at Zhou Jianhua with slanted eyes, thinking of the embarrassed look she had just now, she couldn't help but laugh out loud, but her mouth still said unrelentingly:
"I wanted to spare you, but now I have decided, I have to eat all your ten dollars today to relieve my anger!" (To be continued......)
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