Xu Shiqi's parents run a small restaurant, which has only 20 tables including four private rooms. The restaurant is located on the street behind a big hotel, surrounded by entertainment venues such as Internet cafes, game rooms, and foot massage parlors. Her family's restaurant is called "Xu's Food Diary", and regular guests often refer to it as "going to Xu's house", and people who don't know would think they are going to a friend's house. The reason why regular guests shuttle between these entertainment venues to eat at her house can only be said that her father's positioning of the restaurant is very wise. Because her family's dishes are all freshly fried, and the raw materials are not left overnight. In the eyes of guests who often eat out and have developed a taste for food, being able to eat fresh fried dishes is sometimes a reward for the taste buds.
However, because of this, when some dishes take a little longer to prepare, you can see customers in the restaurant taking turns going to the kitchen to yell and complain, and then continue to sit obediently in their seats waiting for their food.
There are two chefs in the kitchen, and during the peak meal time, the place is extremely busy and bustling like a fire. The customers sitting outside are struggling with the contradiction between having to wait another hour to get their food and being so hungry that their stomachs are sticking to their backs.
At this time, comfort is very important. Xu Shiqi's father, Xu Zhongda, is in charge of the kitchen work. The most common thing he does is to use his broad body to block the kitchen door and listen to everyone's complaints; her mother, Wang Yuan, guards the cash register, and then occasionally looks up to apologize to the guests, although her face is plain. There is no way, such things happen every day, not everyone will remember to reserve a table in advance, and of course there will be people who wait impatiently and leave angrily when the food is not served.
Xu Shiqi admired this kind of calmness, and gradually she learned it herself.
After Xu Shiqi came back, she didn't rush to find a job. The family restaurant was always busy, so she simply helped out here, even though she often couldn't do much.
That day, her mother was dressed brightly and went to meet someone mysteriously, so she took her place at the cashier. It was not yet eleven o'clock in the morning, and there was only one table of customers in the store, sitting in the private room on the second floor. She was bored, so she turned on the TV, but because it was hung high, her neck hurt after a while, so she kept nodding her head and actually felt a little sleepy. She struggled to look at the sun outside the glass door, and sighed that it was almost November, but it was still so hot.
Because there was only one table of guests, the dishes were served relatively quickly. The waitress walked back and forth in front of her wearing a buttoned-up shirt that looked like red peppers and trousers that looked like green leaves - this was her mother's taste. Fortunately, she didn't ask for a headscarf.
While Xu Shiqi was daydreaming, the glass door was pushed open and a man and a woman walked in. They looked like a mother and son. The woman had been talking non-stop since she came in, while the man was responsible for frowning and finding a seat.
They did not go up to the second floor, but found a seat by the window, a little far from the cashier. The second sister Lingzi who led them in handed over the menu, then turned around and winked at Xu Shiqi - she seemed to have heard something interesting.
After Lingzi placed her order and returned to the cashier to get her drinks, she whispered to Xu Shiqi, "These two people are here for a blind date."
Xu Shiqi couldn't help but reveal a look of sympathy: "Let's wish him good luck."
Lingzi's facial expression became more and more vivid, because she knew that Xu Shiqi had been caught by the store manager's wife for a blind date not long ago. However, the man was obviously not as active as this one today, and was "killed" by the word "late".
But after a while, Lingzi came back to Xu Shiqi again, this time with her mouth raised high, looking quite dissatisfied.
"What's wrong?" Xu Shiqi asked in a low voice.
"The mother complained about why the woman chose such a small restaurant, as if it was shameful..."
Xu Shiqi smiled and patted her hand that was scratching the table angrily. The mother and son were dressed very elegantly, so maybe the woman was a frequent visitor to our house.
After some time, the "mother" finally stood up after looking at the time on her wrist eleven times, gave the man a few more instructions, and then left in a hurry.
It seems that only the male and female protagonists will be left later.
Because she had been forced to go on a blind date, Xu Shiqi was also curious about other people's blind dates. Even when other guests came later, she was still very concerned about the situation at this table. However, after twelve o'clock, people kept wandering around in front of her, and then she received a call from Wen Baohua in the midst of her busy schedule.
"Where are you?"
Xu Shiqi answered directly: "I'm helping out in the store."
The person on the other end seemed relieved, exclaimed "That was a close call", and then hung up the phone in a hurry.
Xu Shiqi was very puzzled. Someone else came to pay the bill, so she could only put down the phone and plan to call back later.
But she didn't have to return the call, because a few minutes later, Wen Baohua pushed open the glass door of her restaurant.
There is another girl following behind her. When you look at her, you will find that she has a pair of very plain eyes and a very thin figure, which you can tell without looking her up and down.
The two of them walked in one after the other, but they acted separately as if they had agreed on something. Wen Baohua went straight to the cashier, while the thin girl went to a table where only one person was sitting - this person was the man who was waiting for a blind date.
Xu Shiqi saw them both at almost the same time, and instantly recognized that the thin girl behind Baohua was her cousin Wen Jialuo, who had been Baohua's bridesmaid.
"She..." Xu Shiqi pointed at the man and woman who were having a blind date at the table in astonishment, and then he saw Wen Jialuo's eyes sweeping over him after he sat down. He retracted his finger at this look and said to Wen Baohua, who had just asked for a bottle of water, "No way..."
"That's what you saw." Wen Baohua took a breath and answered her ellipsis affirmatively.
Xu Shiqi was speechless, and she began to understand that the blind date scene in her family's restaurant was probably not a coincidence, but the factor of Baohua was involved.
Now that she thought about it, it seemed that Baohua had said that her sister was more troublesome than herself. However, Xu Shiqi really couldn't see where the trouble was, nor did she understand why Baohua brought her to the store for a blind date.
Wen Baohua seemed to see Xu Shiqi's doubts, and smiled helplessly: "You and my sister don't know each other very well, and it's not convenient for me to take you and her to a blind date, so your store is the best place." But she still had something to say. When designating the location, the man originally wanted to meet at the best western restaurant in the city, but was rejected by Jia Luo. Her attitude of "going against you" reminded Wen Baohua of Xu Shiqi, so he suddenly had an idea and chose this place according to her wishes.
Looking back, Jia Luo's expression was still calm, and she didn't say anything. I don't know if the man with his back to her is giving a personal show, or is as silent as her. Thinking of this scene, Wen Baohua couldn't help but shudder. Then, seeing that he was in love and married, he was very glad that he didn't have to endure this embarrassment.
The sound of food being served next to him started to rise and fall like a long music. In such a noisy situation, he could not hear anything from the other side. Xu Shiqi gave up his curiosity. It seemed that Baohua would explain it to him anyway.
Before Wen Baohua and her had chatted for a while, the blind date heroine stood up and walked straight over here. Xu Shiqi sat at the counter, leaning on her hands and looking at her. Suddenly, she felt that her usual opinion that her restaurant was not big enough and the space between the tables was too narrow was not true. Seeing Baohua's cousin coming over from afar, not like the waitresses who danced the waltz left and right, she couldn't help but move her lips slightly and sighed: "Your sister is really skinny."
She raised her eyes and saw Baohua frowned and seemed to sigh, then she quickly asked Wen Jialuo who had already walked over: "What's wrong, do you want something?"
Wen Jialuo didn't even look at Xu Shiqi at the counter, but said calmly: "It's too noisy here."
Xu Shiqi's mouth twitched, and then he heard Wen Baohua ask again tentatively: "Then... let's change places?"
"No," Wen Jialuo seemed to smile, "because it was too noisy, so the blind date ended."
These words were really cold, so it was Wen Baohua's turn to twitch his lips, while Xu Shiqi could only suppress his smile, shrugged his shoulders and lowered his head to show that he didn't care about their family's affairs.
"Let's go." Wen Jialuo said these two words and turned to leave.
As the host, Xu Shiqi hurriedly said as usual: "Goodbye, welcome back next time."
Wen Jialuo immediately steadied himself and turned to look at her.
This sound...
When Xu Shiqi saw her turn around, she immediately wondered if she had said something wrong. To be honest, her reason for rejecting the blind date because she disliked the noise here was probably half true and half false. She was afraid that the other party would not come again. So she smiled and added two words: "Goodbye."
Wen Jialuo, who was still a little hesitant, immediately confirmed that it was this voice!
This was the voice I heard upstairs in my cousin's house the day before her wedding. But she left afterwards and didn't see who had this great voice. She only knew it was a classmate of her cousin. Later, when she was a bridesmaid, there were too many of her cousin's classmates and she couldn't recognize them all. Then this voice became a heavenly sound that passed through her heart but left only a trace.
She didn't expect to hear this voice again here, and was a little disappointed that the owner of such a gentle and pure voice did not have a classical and beautiful face like her cousin.
If he hadn't heard her speak, Wen Jialuo would never have associated that heavenly voice with this woman with a slightly fluttering eye and a hint of frivolity.
No wonder she couldn't recognize the voice among her cousin's classmates.
With this thought, the obsession with the voice was thrown out of his mind. At this time, Wen Jialuo had already opened the door and walked out. Wen Baohua had no choice but to stomp his feet behind him, made a phone call gesture to Xu Shiqi, and chased after him.
After the two Wen family members left, Xu Shiqiu could finally laugh. God, she thought the excuse of "late" was already the best, but she didn't expect that the word "noisy" could actually solve the problem. Xu Shiqiu couldn't help biting her lip, wondering if she could use it next time.
Soon, the male protagonist who lost the heroine also came over. He asked for a pack of cigarettes and continued to talk on the phone.
"No, she's too skinny! She's skinny and it hurts my hands to hold her... I don't want her no matter how good the conditions are..."
This time Xu Shiqi couldn't laugh anymore. She gave him some change in a daze. Suddenly, a strange idea crossed her mind. But she rejected it immediately because it was really not worth it. If it were her, she would never abuse herself like this.