Chapter 24: Yaoyao
"Xiao Yuan" Yaoyao silently read my name, then waved the mobile phone in her hand at me and said, "The name is good." The mountains and rivers know where they are, and they are very meaningful. ”
"Ahh Her sudden sentence exposed my shallow cultural literacy on the spot. I have to sigh once again, I hate less when the book is used.
I guess my parents didn't mean it when they gave me this name, but when it came to her mouth, I really felt that my name was quite high.
At this time, in the adjacent industrial area, the workers began to walk out of the gate in twos and threes. I looked at my phone, it was already twelve o'clock, no wonder there is always someone who says that happy times are always short-lived.
Before I knew it, I had been pulling her on the road for more than two hours. It just so happened that my stomach protested at this time, and I realized that I had not eaten a grain of rice since I was pulled into the Internet café by Chen Kun last night.
I've been hungry for eighteen hours now, no wonder my stomach protests. Yaoyao also heard a sound in my stomach, and laughed heartily again.
Fortunately, it's not the first time I've made a fool of myself in front of her, and I'm used to it, so it's hard to explain anything if I break the jar and break it. It's as if God deliberately punished me today, and I have exhausted all the ugliness of my life.
Seeing that Yaoyao didn't stop laughing, I sighed heavily and said, "You also heard the call from my stomach, let's have a meal together." ”
Only then did she hold back her smile, smile sweetly at me and say, "Okay! ”
Well, this girl is really beyond my expectations, the 800-word manuscript I have typed in my stomach is instantly useless.
Seeing my incredibleness, Yaoyao asked me with a clear face, "What, do you think I will reject you?" It's time for lunch, I'm going to eat anyway, and maybe I can eat two more bowls of rice with multiple people with me, so why not? ”
After speaking, he spread his hands at me, which means, "I don't have a problem with this explanation, do you still have any different opinions?" ”
With the previous experience, this time I was much calmer, shrugged my shoulders, and said I had no opinion. Then I turned around and looked around, and by coincidence, we happened to be standing at the door of the restaurant where we had dinner with Chen Kun and Li Xiuying last time.
Looking at the three strong and powerful characters on the door, I suddenly felt a sense of stability in my heart. After all, I have been here once and am familiar with the environment here, and I also understand the consumption level here, so I don't have to worry about the embarrassment of not being able to pay for the meal after eating.
At that time, there were often news of sky-high bills on the Internet, so no matter where I went to eat, the first thing I did was to look at the price of food.
I'm afraid that after eating, the boss will suddenly come up with a bill that is beyond my ability, and then a group of shirtless men will surround me and not let me go out without money, then I really want to cry without tears.
I asked Yaoyao in the direction of the restaurant, "Is it okay to eat here?" I've been here with my friends once before, and their food is pretty good. ”
Yaoyao looked in the direction I was pointing, probably the same as when I first saw this restaurant, I was frightened by their decoration, and whispered to me: "Just the two of us, let's eat a little bit, it feels like it's too grand here."
"It's okay, let's go, I'm in for a treat today." I couldn't tell her, so I got up and walked inside, and Yaoyao wanted to stop her.
However, the waiter at the door of the hotel had already seen me and rushed to greet me, and she could only helplessly follow my footsteps. She caught up with me in two steps and walked inside side by side with me.
I glanced at her with my peripheral vision, and saw that her face was resolute at this time, and her pace had increased a lot. Looking at her now, I think of myself when I first came here, and I can already guess what she was thinking.
I followed behind the service without showing my face, and when I entered the store, Yaoyao obviously fluctuated again, I don't have to guess anymore, her performance is almost a copy of my last time.
I gently touched her arm, then turned my head to the side and whispered to her, "Don't worry, I was here last time, although they are very luxuriously decorated, but the food is not expensive." ”
She tilted her head and threw me a "sure look." I closed my mouth and nodded my head twice in affirmation. Only then did she slowly breathe a sigh of relief, and her tense body relaxed.
The waiter still took us to a window position, although it was lunch time, but in the whole lobby, there were only two or three tables of guests sitting in twos and threes, which was very different from the first time I came.
I asked the waiter, "Why are there so few people eating today, and they were almost full last time I came." ”
"We don't usually have much business here at noon, and we only come in the evening, and if you come during the evening rush hour, you have to queue up."
After listening to her explanation, I realized that the two of us didn't have to go to work today, but everyone else was still working in the workshop.
Although their food is very affordable, they are surrounded by factories, and how many people are really willing to spend half a day's salary to come here for a meal?
Most people still choose roadside self-selected fast food, which is cheap and has enough dishes, which is enough to meet the survival needs of most people.
I watched the waiter skillfully take away the extra dishes and chopsticks on the table, then brought us tea and cups, and opened the dishes and chopsticks on the table and placed them on both sides of the table.
I helped Yaoyao pull out the chair in front of the table and motioned for her to sit down first, and waited for her to sit down before she sat down. Then she took the dishes and chopsticks in front of her, poured tea and washed them.
I learned it after I arrived in Guangdong, and the first time I went out to eat, I almost made a joke. When I handed the cleaned dishes and chopsticks to Yaoyao, the waiter also came to me with the menu. I didn't open the menu, but pushed it to Yaoyao, who was sitting across from me.
Yaoyao didn't even look at it, shook her head again and again and pushed the menu back in front of me, and said, "I won't order, you can order." ”
I didn't refuse, flipped through the menu, and asked, "Where are you, can you eat spicy?" Are there any taboos? ”
Yaoyao smiled seductively and said, "I grew up in Guangdong, but I'm from Jiangxi, guess I can eat spicy food?" ”
"Haha, well, it's me who didn't see it. If you don't have a taboo, I'll make my own decisions. ”
"Well, you can order it, I don't have taboos, as long as it's cooked, I can do it." I have to say that it feels very easy to stay with Yaoyao, no matter what she says, she can easily pick it up, and there will be no cold situation.
I ordered three dishes, and when I was about to continue flipping through the menu, Yaoyao stopped me and said, "Enough, the two of us can't eat so much, don't waste it." ”
Then he said to the waiter: "It's okay, let's order so much first, we will order again after a while."
I asked the waiter for two more rice and a bottle of orange sweat and handed the menu to the waiter. The waiter smiled and said, "Our amount of dishes is quite large, and the two of you shouldn't be able to finish these three dishes." ”
After that, he took the menu I handed him and turned to leave. The waiter walked away, and the two of us looked at each other awkwardly and suddenly fell silent.
I played with the teacup in my hand, and from time to time I raised the cup to take a sip of water to ease the awkward atmosphere. My mind was racing, trying to find something to talk about to ease the atmosphere.
"You just said that you grew up in Guangdong, so are your parents also in Shenzhen?" Finally, I remembered that Yaoyao had just mentioned that she grew up in Guangdong, so I asked casually.
"No, they are in Dongguan, and I am alone in Shenzhen. My aunt and uncle run a company here, so I'll come to them. I don't like to stay with my parents, they have to take care of everything, they can't hang out if they want to. ”
"Haha, it seems that we are all the same, we don't like to be controlled by our parents"
"Who likes to be managed, my aunt and uncle usually don't care about me, and they only ask me to go to their house for dinner when I am on vacation."
When she said this, her eyes became very gentle, and it was not difficult to imagine that the aunt and uncle in her mouth must have an important place in her heart.
"My aunt is only ten years older than me, and when I was a child, my parents were busy with work, and she took care of me. So I'm closer to her than to my parents. ”
After speaking, it was as if he was caught in the memories of the past, and his face was filled with a happy smile. Perhaps because of my upbringing, I have always longed for this kind of harmonious family relationship.
Seeing that Yaoyao's face was full of happiness and satisfaction, I was naturally infected by her emotions, and a sense of happiness surged in my heart.
The waiter quickly came up with the dishes, and looking at the rice piled up like a small mountain bun in the small bowl, Yaoyao showed a embarrassed expression.
He looked at me and said, "I can't eat so much, why don't you order it?" ”
Naturally, I wouldn't refuse, but when I watched her pour more than half of the bowl of rice into the small bowl in front of me, I asked her in disbelief, "Are you sure you can eat enough?" Our cats eat more than that, right? ”
"Enough, girls are not like you boys, they don't eat much, I'll eat more food later." Hearing her say this, I can't force it anymore. Based on my own obsession with food, I have always thought that everyone has an inseparable affection for food just like me.
But since I came into contact with post-adolescent girls, I have come to understand that there are humanoids in this world, and in order to maintain their figure, they can really not have any passion for food.
Not surprisingly, Yaoyao's eating is quite Sven, which is in stark contrast to my gobbling momentum.
I saw her slowly chewing the food while looking at me seriously, with a warm smile on her face all the time.
"I think the food is very fragrant when you eat." If it weren't for the fact that she was looking at me with a smile on her face, I would have thought she was squeezing me too much.
I don't know if it's because of the poor conditions at home when I was a child, or if it's caused by some other reason. For as long as I can remember, this is the virtue of eating, I rarely chew, and I basically swallow it raw. It is precisely for this reason that I have grown very fat since I was a child.
When I was in kindergarten, I grew to 40 pounds, and the nickname "fat" has never left me since. It wasn't until I was young and began to realize that my fat might affect girls' evaluation of me that I consciously began to control my appetite.
Of course, I just controlled the amount of food, but the habit of eating fast has not been broken, so that I have eaten with many people before they first started.
"I'm used to it, when I was a child, my family was poor, and I couldn't eat enough when I ate slowly, so I ate very fast. You don't have to worry about me, just follow your own habits. I said half-seriously and half-jokingly.
"Then you don't have to be so fast now, eating too fast is not good for your health, and it is easy to get stomach problems. Chew slowly to give your stomach plenty of time to secrete gastric juice to digest the food. ”
Yaoyao explained to me and showed me what it means to chew slowly. I saw her put a small bite of food in her mouth, chewed it slowly for a while, and then swallowed it gently.
I was a little stunned, to be honest, I didn't dare to look her in the face ever since I met her. will always consciously or unconsciously avoid her sight, making her look like a thief.
In order to see her demonstration of chewing slowly, I looked at her seriously for the first time. She wore silk hair in a bun very casually, and a few strands of unrestrained hair hung down on her temples, setting off her delicate and three-dimensional facial features.
I can't remember the first time she surprised me, and I've had countless people tell me to eat slowly, but when someone actually shows you what it means to chew slowly.
The emotional impact it brought still broke through my defenses in an instant. At that moment, a warm current flowed through all my limbs, bathing my whole body in warmth.
She probably noticed my eyes too, rolled her eyes at me, and said seriously, "You try." ”
I didn't expect her to be so serious, so I could only follow her example, eat the food in small bites, and carefully count how many times I chewed each bite.
And Yaoyao stared at me with a serious face, like the teacher who stared at me when I was a child to learn to write.
The more she did this, the more I felt that there was something extremely rare in her heart - kindness, although I could not get a glimpse of her heart yet.
But her various performances have clearly conveyed to me that she has a kind, simple and sparkling heart.
The meal was very long, and under Yaoyao's supervision, I had to chew each bite of the meal carefully ten or twenty times before swallowing, otherwise it would attract her eyes.
At first, I carefully counted how many times I chewed it, but slowly I realized that this action was really too difficult for me.
The habits of life that have been cultivated for more than ten years really cannot be changed all at once, and I instinctively want to swallow the food as soon as I eat it.
And after the meal has been chewed more than a dozen times, it has almost lost its taste, and that feeling is really the same as chewing wax.
Finally getting the last bit of food into my stomach, I raised the bowl in my hand to her with relief. She nodded in satisfaction, then handed me a tissue and pointed to the corner of her mouth as I motioned for me to wipe the corner of her mouth off.
I had begun to get used to her nuanced observation, smiled back, and reached out to take the tissue she handed over. Fingers inadvertently touched her skin, delicate and smooth, slightly cool.
"Are you wearing less, I feel like your hands are so cold."
"No, we girls are like this, our hands and feet are not easy to warm."
I suspiciously wiped the grease off the corners of my mouth and asked her, "Have you eaten well?" I'll pay for it when I'm done. ”
"Why don't we AA, and let you have a treat when we meet for the first time......" She hesitated, and it took about half a minute to squeeze out two words, "not good".
It turned out that her hesitation just now was thinking about what words should be used to describe the behavior of letting me treat me when we met for the first time. Compared to the girls who take boys for granted now, she does seem to be a little different.
"I'll invite you today, and next time you invite me, that's okay, right?" For the "next time" opportunity she inadvertently created, I naturally will not let it go.
"Okay" This time she didn't object, and readily agreed to my plan, and I got up and paid for it. Then we walked out of the hotel together, the sun outside was still warm, and the workers at work had gathered at the door of the factory from all directions.
I haven't slept all night, and I have just eaten a full meal, and sleepiness hits me. And Yaoyao was also tired at this time, and I knew it was time to separate.
Reluctant to give up, he asked her: "Where do you live, I'll send you back, I haven't slept all night, go back and make up for sleep." ”
"Hmm" It seemed that she was indeed tired, and without any extra words, she turned and walked in the direction we came.
Her place of residence is not far from the hotel, and it is only a few hundred meters away from our company dormitory. sent her downstairs, said "goodbye" to each other, and watched her go upstairs.
I stared at the hallway where her background disappeared for two minutes before I turned to leave. When I returned to the dormitory, I fell asleep, and the purple figure in my dream was smiling like a flower, waving at me.