Chapter 34: Beef tongue, chicken skin, chicken skewers, and beer
Ruby Lin walked in, and the whole person stayed in a space where he was neither sad nor comfortable, as if he had lost the recipient's large parcel, moving awkwardly.
The black mist that shrouded around his massive body pressed down the entire air of Jingji, perhaps because it was noon, and there were not many guests in Jingji at this time.
"Can you order?" The waitress had never asked me in such a low voice.
"I'll do it." Ruby Lin, who was sitting next to me, took over the menu. "Hmm...... Trouble two servings of grilled beef tongue, two servings of grilled chicken skin, two skewers of chicken skewers, and two bottles of Ichiban's squeezed draft beer. ”
This is the first time I brought Ruby Lin here, and we both ordered.
I can't remember at all because of what case I stayed up late and worked overtime that day. Suddenly it snowed heavily during the night, and the road conditions became unusually bad within an hour - visibility was so low that even the tank-driving man would not dare to rush in. I called my wife to tell me that I had no choice but to stay in the office that night, and then I decided to go downstairs to the convenience store and buy two bottles of whiskey and a few packets of snacks – to pass the long night and to be drunk enough to sit at my desk and fall asleep.
As a result, I met Ruby Lin, who was also trapped in the elevator room.
I can't remember why Ruby Lin stayed up late and worked overtime that day. We are like two survivors who have accidentally bumped into each other on a lonely island, and the more we talk, the more speculative we become. As the temperature in the office became colder and colder, at my suggestion, the two of us set off for Jingji.
It was like the end of the world, with no cars, wild cats and dogs to be seen on the streets—and few lights were left in the warm residential buildings.
There was nothing on the road but the sound of the wind and the sound of us stepping on the snow.
I told him a joke in the cold wind, and we both laughed at the same time and ate a lot of snowflakes.
The waitress brought the grilled food and beer to the right place, and gave a hot towel and refreshing lettuce. The aroma of the food pulled me back from the memories and stamped it with the right time stamp for the here and now.
Jingji is 120% confident in the ingredients, so you won't see any extra sauce on each grill, just sprinkled with salt and just the right amount of lemon. There's nothing better to serve than Gingyoshi's grilled food.
I took a bite of the crispy and fragrant chicken skin, and picked up my glass to take a big sip of beer, but Ruby Lin suddenly raised her glass and stretched it out towards me.
"You know, I believe in you." He said to me.
I swallowed my remorse and touched a glass with him, and we both drank the wine from our respective glasses.
That night, the joke I told Ruby Lin was this:
One night, at almost 1 o'clock, a little girl who had just finished working overtime took a taxi home. Halfway through, the driver asked her with ulterior motives: "Yo, you're tired enough tonight, right?" ”
"Well, I'm tired." The little girl replied.
"How much can you make this night?"
"Huh? How can you earn more, at most give 40. The little girl didn't hear what the driver was asking.
The driver went crazy: "40? How do you count it? ”
"40 yuan a night, and the maximum reimbursement for the meal at night is so much!" The little girl didn't understand what it meant.
The driver suddenly realized: "Oh, you're doing advertising, right?" ”
"How do you know?" The little girl was a little curious.
"There is a saying - three kinds of people in the middle of the night: princesses, punks, and advertising people." The driver replied.
We are all people who have been abandoned by this world and need comfort.