Chapter 6: A Chance Encounter in a Café
The sixteenth day of the eighth month of the lunar calendar is Lan Yue'er's birthday, and she didn't tell anyone. In the morning, she called home N times, but no one answered. Dad came to Xiping City on a business trip a few days ago and brought him a birthday gift in advance, but it didn't give her much comfort. Every year, the family celebrates their birthdays together, and today is the right day, so Mom and Dad should at least call to say hello. Yesterday was the Mid-Autumn Festival, and several phones in the school dormitory were very busy, Lan Yue only talked to her mother for a few minutes, and it sounded like her mother was also a little absent-minded, and she didn't mention her birthday the next day. She wondered if she was arguing with her father again.
Most of the students whose families are in the local area went home for the reunion festival last night, and everyone will come back in the afternoon. In the morning, Lan Yue first went to the English corner to practice speaking for a while, had breakfast and passed the time in the library, and accidentally knocked over the water cup when flipping the book, but fortunately, the administrator did not count her, but asked her with a gloomy face if she was from this school, carefully checked the library card, and didn't say anything more. At noon, she walked around the school a few times and did not find a cake shop, but she stumbled upon a café with several cakes of different shapes in the window. Lan Yue walked in and sat down in a corner where no one was around.
The café is not big, and it can sit for seven or eight tables, and the window seats are separated by high-backed chairs, which is relatively private. Lan Yue asked for a cup of coffee and a small cake, and sat in the corner watching the flow of people passing by outside the window. The cake came up quickly, small, square, with a small fork beside it, it was her first time in this kind of place, and the aroma of the coffee was a little intoxicating.
Just as she was thinking wildly, she suddenly saw a familiar figure passing through the glass window next to her, pushing the door in like the wind.
"Zheng Fei, did you bring anything?"
"Of course I took it, why did I come, I said Miss, when will you not be so embarrassed."
"I didn't lose it, it's not inconvenient for me to take the bus, you have to drive to the studio after eating anyway, it's not troublesome to help me pick it up."
"Then you deliberately left the cake ticket at home? What a chicken thief! ”
"You're a chicken thief, isn't it natural for your brother to do things for your sister?"
"When did you take me as a brother, have you called it, I was in Zheng Fei and Zheng Fei all day long."
"Nonsense, I call you brother at home, and I still call you big brother, have you forgotten? Especially when grandpa and grandma are around. Oh, don't be so-calculated-argue, alas? Where did you put the stuff? Simin looked around, but didn't see what she was looking for.
"I can't carry something that big in the car."
"Whoever asked you to mention the café, I asked you to send me to the school gate, or better yet, just to the dormitory."
"Come on, carry such a big thing, and send it to the girls' dormitory, I don't know who I think I'm chasing."
"Hehe, chase me, what's the matter, isn't your sister and me beautiful enough? Cut, chase me like this and drop your price? ”
"Whoever chases will lose my price, and tell you, your brother-I-Zheng Fei will never chase a woman, only a woman will chase me."
"Madness-delusion-ego-magnification"
"You don't believe it? You see, here it is. ”
"Brother Fei, your coffee, this young lady, what do you drink?"
The brother and sister were teasing, and the proprietress came over with a smile and served coffee to Zheng Fei personally. She was a woman of great grace, dyed long flax blonde hair, and a pair of eyes that smiled crookedly and charmingly.
"Give her a black coffee with no sugar." Zheng Fei also smiled.
"Don't listen to him, who wants to drink that bitter thing."
"This is ...... Phineas, aren't you going to introduce it? The smile of the proprietress was even more gossipy.
"Hey, you're thinking too much, this is my sister!"
"It turned out to be Miss Zheng, you are really, how can girls like black coffee, we have hand-poured cappuccinos here, as well as freshly squeezed juices and multi-flavored fruit teas."
"No, I just want Italian-Style-Dark-Coffee-Coffee, no sugar!" Zhan Simin said word by word, the corners of his mouth hooked up a smug smile, and the right cheek accompanied by a smile also brought out a shallow pear vortex.
Zheng Fei also smiled, looking at Simin, as if returning to childhood, a two or three-year-old little girl handed him a piece of chocolate, with a shallow pear vortex on her chubby little face, he didn't know what to think at that time, and suddenly used his fingers to pick the pear vortex, and then the little girl cried.
The proprietress looked at Simin with some amusement, then at Zheng Fei, and left with a smile.
"Tell me honestly, when did this boss lady meet? Do you want me to go home and join you? Before Zheng Fei could come back to his senses, Simin had already quickly taken his coffee from in front of him, took a sip of light pressure, and made a look of enjoyment.
"I just met," Zheng Fei glanced at Simin helplessly, "Lao Ma's friend, the coffee shop has just opened, I have done a small favor in design, and the proprietress is also a graphic model in her spare time." ”
"Models? Have you ever painted? ”
"No, I'm planning to paint, I'm in good shape, European and American fan, I have a feeling." Zheng Fei lowered his voice slightly.
"Feeling it so quickly? You really live up to your name as a playboy. ”
"You're misunderstanding again, I'm talking about the feeling of painting"
"You're still drawing, have you forgotten what Dad said at the dinner table last night? You are limited to report to the company within a week, and if you don't report, you will go back to the original design institute, otherwise the studio will be closed and you will not be mixed again? ”
"Oops, oops, don't say it, it's annoying, you know me, I'm not an office character at all, I'm about to vomit when I draw drawings in the design institute, won't my dad say it? The house I designed had to be built on the moon, and not a single house on earth. So, I'm not an architect, he had to let me study architecture, 5 years, a professor from abroad said that if I had been concentrating on painting, I would have become a big man. ”
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At noon, the business in the café was not very good, so Lan Yue could also listen to the conversation between the brother and sister, she actually didn't have the habit of eavesdropping, but she was afraid that she would be noticed by the brothers and sisters as soon as she stood up. Fortunately, the brother and sister were not prepared to continue to fight each other like this, and after drinking coffee, Simin left quickly.
Lan Yue ate the small pitiful cake one bite at a time, swallowed the last sip of coffee and got up to check out.