40. Independence vs. Boom
Friday evening quietly swayed out the window, Xue Lanlan tilted her head and sat in the café looking at the crowded street scene outside the window, waiting to meet Qiao Ping.
She tilted her head and looked at the big clock opposite when it rang to eight o'clock, and saw Qiao Ping's figure on time, he was still small, wearing casual clothes, and the shoes on his feet were the same as before, which was a super expensive limited edition.
"Sorry, am I late?" As soon as he saw Xue Lanlan, he trotted over.
Xue Lanlan shook her head lightly, and said lightly: "No, you came just right, I came early." She paused, got up and said, "What time did you book the ticket?" ”
"I'm going to set it at ten o'clock in the evening." Qiao Ping looked at the time on his phone when he spoke, and he paused: "I thought about eating something first and then going to the movies, so I didn't set a movie venue too early." ”
Xue Lanlan didn't say anything about this, just nodded, and she said, "What do you want to eat?" ”
"What do you want to eat?" Qiao Ping touched his neck as he spoke, and he paused: "It doesn't matter what I eat, I'm not a picky eater." ”
Xue Lanlan looked at Qiao Ping's slightly shy appearance, she inexplicably had a feeling that the tall boy in front of her who looked like a wolf dog was a little milk dog type.
Xue Lanlan paused and decided: "Then if you don't have a taboo, let's go eat barbecue, I want to eat that kind of Japanese barbecue!" ”
After Xue Lanlan finished speaking, she took the lead in leaving the café without waiting for Qiao Ping's response, Qiao Ping followed her until she hit Didi, and neither of them spoke again.
Xue Lanlan took the lead in getting into the car and looked out the window lightly, Qiao Ping followed her closely, like a large golden retriever. Xue Lanlan could see through the reflection of the window that Qiao Ping had been looking at him from time to time since he got into the car, and his fiery gaze was hotly poking at Xue Lanlan's back.
She can't feel it!
Xue Lanlan took a breath before saying, "Let's talk about something, it's a bit embarrassing just like this." ”
Qiao Ping "Uh-huh" for a long time before he took the initiative to start a topic, and he said, "That, is it convenient for me to ask about your family situation?" ”
"Yes." Xue Lanlan knows that this is a blind date, and the so-called blind date is to say the basic conditions of a person and see if there is a need for so-called blind date cooperation.
Xue Lanlan paused before saying, "My father died very early, and now my mother and I are left in the family, and I am a single parent. When she said this, she quietly looked at Qiao Ping's reaction, and it turned out that his expression was normal, and there was no displeasure.
Xue Lanlan calmed down a little, she had never seen the kind of thing that didn't say anything, but in fact, when she heard that the woman was a single-parent family, she felt that she was missing arms and legs, and she was treated like a defective product!
"Then may I easily ask how your father died?" After Qiao Ping said this, he seemed to be worried that Xue Lanlan would think more, and he immediately explained: "I don't mean anything else, it's just pure curiosity, if you poke your thunder point, you must tell me!" ”
"Don't be so nervous." Xue Lanlan deliberately glanced at Qiao Ping when she spoke, she could see that Qiao Ping was very nervous, she continued: "I didn't poke any thunder points, I was still a minor when my father died, to be honest, I don't know much about him." ”
"Don't know much?" Qiao Ping looked at Xue Lanlan with some surprise.
Xue Lanlan nodded, and said in a soft voice: "When I was a child, my father always neglected me and my mother because he was busy with work, and I saw my father only a handful of times a year at that time. ”
"It's even funny that one year, when my dad was on vacation, he was thinking about me and wanted to go to school to surprise me, but he waited from noon to evening at the gate of my elementary school." Xue Lanlan quietly recalled.
Hearing this, Qiao Ping couldn't help asking: "Could it be that when you were in junior high school, your father forgot the child's age like Brother Jackie Chan?" ”
"It's not." Xue Lanlan chuckled: "Because it was Children's Day, I went out with my mother for a day off, and we didn't know that my dad was back. ”
Xue Lanlan smiled, at this time the Didi car had arrived at the place, she looked at the Japanese restaurant on the side of the road, opened the door and walked down and said, "Let's go, it's time to the place!" ”
Qiao Ping, who was following her, was stunned and hurriedly followed Xue Lanlan out of the car.
Qiao Ping only noticed the Japanese restaurant after getting out of the car, and he followed Xue Lanlan in small steps, which looked like a person leading a large dog.
Xue Lanlan took a breath and led Qiao Ping into the restaurant, which was at the noon rush hour, but there were not many inside.
The biggest difference between a Chinese restaurant and a Japanese restaurant is that the Japanese restaurant is quieter, and at this time, there is a semi-circular design inside, and the outer corridor is full of fake cherry blossoms.
Xue Lanlan walked to a position and sat down with ease, and there was a waiter standing next to her, Xue Lanlan said lightly: "Two people." ”
"Hello, this is the menu, if you need it, you can press the bell and ask me." The waitress is a low-browed, pleasing girl with long braids.
Xue Lanlan didn't take the menu, but gave the menu to Qiao Ping opposite, and she said, "You look first." After she said this, she said to the waiter lady: "Don't go first, I'll order directly, I want a chicken and vegetable skewer, a grilled mushroom, and an eel handroll." ”
"Looks like you're here a lot!" Qiao Ping said while looking at the menu.
"Well, when I lived alone before, I often had to solve the problem of eating outside, so I didn't cook very well." Xue Lanlan thought of something and said something, and when she said it, she poured Qiao Ping a cup of barley tea.
"Thank you." After Qiao Ping thanked him, he ordered directly: "I want a takoyaki, a teppanyaki, and a roast beef." ”
After the waiter hurriedly finished recording, he and Qiao Ping carefully checked the dishes before leaving their positions.
Qiao Ping took a sip of barley tea at this time, and he smiled: "It doesn't matter if you don't cook well, I can cook, when I was in the army before, I cooked dumplings, buns, sweet and sour fish...... I will do a lot of home cooking. ”
"You're not going to be in the cooking class, are you?" When Xue Lanlan asked, Qiao Ping waved his hand again and again to deny it, and he said, "I am the fire department." ”
Hearing this, Xue Lanlan's favorability towards Qiao Ping increased a lot.
The serving speed of the Japanese restaurant was very fast, and after a while, the dishes they ordered were all on the table, Xue Lanlan saw that although Qiao Ping was holding chopsticks but refused to put down the chopsticks, she saw him and asked cautiously: "You don't have the habit of taking pictures when you eat!" ”
This reminded Xue Lanlan that many girls like to take pictures of the food first when eating, and then let others eat the beautiful food.
Xue Lanlan looked at Qiao Ping's posture, and she should have received the scourge of such a girl.
"I don't have those hobbies, let's eat!" Xue Lanlan smiled lightly and began to skewer herself, and Qiao Ping also ate happily when he heard this.
Just when the two of them were eating relatively silently, a coquettish voice came from the other table: "Huh, people want this!" ”
Xue Lanlan tilted her head slightly, attracted by the voice, she looked at it at a glance, the girl who spoke had big eyes, and she looked very cute.
The girl has fair skin, her hair is just waist-high, and she looks a little like a doll at a glance, but at this time the girl is wearing a small skirt and pouting slightly, which looks very cute.
At this time, the girl at the next table was coquettish with her boyfriend, and the boy was a little overwhelmed, and wanted to reason with the girl, but after saying a few words, he disarmed and surrendered.
Xue Lanlan looked at the pair of men and women with interest, then turned to Qiao Ping and said, "Are you boys all defenseless against this kind of girl. ”
"You say that?" Qiao Ping pursed the corners of his mouth as he spoke, and stretched out his thumb to poke the direction of the cute girl.
Xue Lanlan nodded and said, "Yes, that's the kind of thing, don't you like it?" ”
"I don't like it." Qiao Ping showed a little disgust when he said, and he said: "I don't like girls who are too cute, I like people like you." ”
"What does it look like to be like me?" Xue Lanlan looked at Qiao Ping in surprise, to be honest, isn't this an indirect confession?
Xue Lanlan's question made Qiao Ping suddenly not know what to say, Qiao Ping pursed his lips, then looked at Xue Lanlan and said: "I don't know if you will be angry if you say this, but I think you are a very independent, very royal sister girl, you have your own ideas, and those girls who can only talk are different, very handsome." ”
When Xue Lanlan heard him say this, she suddenly felt a little disappointed in her heart, she lowered her eyes, so that the other party couldn't see her expression, and she paused: "I also think I'm very independent." ”
"Yes, how nice an independent girl is, full of charm." Qiao Ping didn't notice Xue Lanlan's expression at all, but said very happily.
Xue Lanlan coped with it a little absent-mindedly, but she quietly envied the girl next to her who could only whisper, no girl likes to be said to be independent.
Being independent means that you have endured a lot, and it also means that you do not need to be taken care of.
Xue Lanlan took a deep breath, put down her chopsticks when it was almost time to watch, and she said, "I'm full, I'm going to the theater now?" ”
"yes, okay." Qiao Ping hurriedly picked up the last meal, and at this time Xue Lanlan had already scanned the code to pay for the meal, at this time, Qiao Ping also realized this, he immediately swallowed the food, and quickly took out his mobile phone and said, "I'll pay!" ”
"No, I've already paid for it." Xue Lanlan paused, and said as usual: "You paid for the movie ticket, so we covered the meal, and we are also AA." ”
"No...... Qiao Ping's face was full of tears when he heard this, "If my sister and my mother know, I will go out shopping with the girl and let her pay without breaking my dog's legs." ”
Oh, this is still a mom and a sister? Xue Lanlan lost all her good feelings at once.