When Adrian and Zhong Yan walked into the door of the restaurant, the restaurant that was buzzing with people a second ago fell into an eerie silence.
Both of them were accustomed to the attention of the crowd, Adrian randomly picked an empty seat and sat down, Zhong Yan sat directly opposite him.
Usually when performing missions, Adrian eats in public restaurants like ordinary soldiers. As we all know, this young commander has no airs in private and is very popular in the army. If he is not accompanied by an officer for a dinner, he will usually sit by himself opposite the ordinary soldiers who are alone. Sometimes he will see him alone. Soldiers, regardless of rank, offered to sit with him.
Of course, no one should do this these days. I heard that the commander's mood has been extremely bad in the past half month, and his temper is ten times more irritable than usual.
Now the source of this problem is sitting at the same table with the Commander, facing each other and preparing to eat together...
Someone silently sped up their eating speed, fearing that there would be a century-old explosion in a while, and they would be affected by innocence, and some boldly slowed down, wanting to see with their own eyes the man who had become a taboo in the Na'vi military region.
Zhong Yan didn't pay attention to these undercurrents, he was flipping through the virtual menu displayed on the table.
On this type of combat warship, in order to save more space, the non-combat areas are designed very simply. The dining room table is a narrow long table, just wide enough for the two people sitting opposite to put their dinner plates together. With such a narrow distance, there is no need to embed a virtual menu on the desktop of each seat like most restaurants, but two places share a menu, and there is a virtual screen vertically displayed on the table in the middle of the table, with front and back sides can be seen.
Zhong Yan hastily flipped through two pages, and was about to order a bowl of noodles that looked quite standard when Adrian suddenly grabbed his hand.
The hearts of all those who devoted their energy to paying attention to this side were suspended—what's wrong? Are you going to fight
"Spicy." Adrian said, letting go of his hand.
"Oh." Zhong Yan gave up the bowl of noodles, he doesn't like spicy food.
After turning a few more pages, Zhong Yan's eyes lit up. In the end, there was a page of desserts. Although there were very few types, there were only a few classic ones, and the cupcake didn’t have any fancy decorations.
Zhong Yan was about to point, but Adrian grabbed his wrist again.
"What's wrong? This is also spicy?"
"You ordered this, don't you want to eat?"
"Isn't it okay for me to save you some money?"
"Thank you so much, thank you." Adrian grabbed his hand with one hand and closed the dessert page with the other hand, "Order dinner."
Zhong Yan stared at him from above the virtual screen: "I want to eat cake."
"No." Adrian said maliciously, "You still want to eat cake when you come to my place. It's too beautiful to think about it. It would be nice to have something to eat for you."
With people under the eaves, Zhong Yan could only order a proper meal aggrieved. But when it was Adrian's turn to order, Adrian ordered a full meal plus a cupcake in front of him, and then slowly turned off the virtual screen.
Zhong Yan was too angry to speak. After a while, both of their dinner plates arrived. Zhong Yan stared at the cupcake on the other's plate that was close at hand, and couldn't bear it and said, "Don't you eat sweets?"
"I'll take a look at it." Adrian said, "I'll throw it away when I get tired of looking at it."
"Fortunately, you are still a soldier, wasting food is shameful!"
"The person who is least qualified to say that is you." Adrian retorted, "You can finish what you ordered before you talk."
Zhong Yan looked down at the lunch portion in front of him, and choked for a while.
His appetite has always been very small. For so many years, he basically cooks by himself, and cooks as much as he eats, but eating out is more embarrassing. It is common for him to order a single serving and not be able to eat. In the years when they were in the highest school, whenever they ate out, Zhong Yan would share part of the food with Adrian before eating, so as not to leave any leftovers.
What's more, this is a restaurant on a battleship, and the portions are larger than ordinary restaurants. For him, it seems that he really... can't eat it.
This is the warship of the Na'vi Military Region. With so many people from the Na'vi Military Region looking at it, it would be too ugly if he ate half of it and left the other half. Zhong Yan began to regret that he didn't insist on ordering a small cake just now. Otherwise, just pack it up and forget it, it’s better to be hungry than to be seen half of him left...
Zhong Yan was holding the tableware in a dilemma when suddenly, Adrian, who was sitting opposite him, pushed his plate forward.
Zhong Yan was taken aback. This action is too familiar. A long time ago, before they started eating, as long as Zhong Yan showed embarrassment, Adrian would push his own plate or bowl over like this, and signaled Zhong Yan to share it with him. This was already a mutual agreement between them. There was a tacit understanding, and later when they ate in public, as long as Zhong Yan looked at him, Adrian would silently share some of the food for him.
"What are you doing in a daze?" Adrian said impatiently, "Aren't you really going to waste the food on my ship?"
Zhong Yan quickly grabbed the plate.
The people in the dining room were horrified to see the member of staff who was said to be the mortal enemy of the commander pull over the commander's dinner plate, and naturally moved half of it from his own dinner plate, and finally straightened the broccoli and salad with a spoon After setting the plate, he returned the plate.
Adrian frowned and said, "That's all you eat? Rabbits eat more than you."
Zhong Yan's eyes lit up, and he said, "It depends on what kind of rabbit it is. Adult interstellar giant rabbits eat more than you."
"..."
Most of the time, Zhong Yan is not a talkative person, even to strangers he should belong to the type of few words, but once the giant interstellar rabbit is mentioned, things will always get a little out of control. Adrian recalled "how ordinary rabbits mutate into giant interstellar rabbits" and "one hundred habits of giant interstellar rabbits" that were pulled by his roommate for two hours to popularize science, and he couldn't help choosing to shut up wisely. , do not answer this topic, and deeply reflect on yourself.
There are so many animals that eat so little, why did he insist on talking about rabbits
Zhong Yan sat in Adrian's office holding that small cupcake.
Adrian is sitting behind his desk dealing with official business. The office virtual screen is one-way, and he can't see the content. It seems to be the internal affairs of the ship. After all, the signal is unstable during the voyage, and it is not easy to contact the land.
Zhong Yan stared at Adrian's side face for a while, then put the cupcake—which Adrian finally promised him just now—carefully placed in a corner of the desk, opened his terminal and began to write a report, preparing for a When it lands, it will be sent back to the capital star.
"Why do I have to live with you for half a month?" Zhong Yan paused in the middle of writing and asked, "I can't tell Capital Star that it's because you forced me to pay a fine for refusing to marry, right?"
Adrian said without raising his head, "You can also choose to pay the fine now, and then you can return to the voyage immediately after we finish talking about the business."
Zhong Yan said: "Why don't you pay the fine now? Even if you detain me for half a month, I won't give you the money. When the half-month deadline is up, you still have to pay it. You are wasting your time."
"If you don't give me the money before it's due, I'm afraid you won't be able to bear the consequences." Adrian paused his work, stared at Zhong Yan coldly, and said, "Do you think I'll allow a member of the council to share partner rights with me? ? When the time comes, don’t talk about clothes, you don’t want to hold your terminal yourself.”
Zhong Yan had to admit that this threat was quite powerful. In today's era, without a personal terminal, a person is basically useless, not to mention a person like him who is in a high position but is temporarily in a distant star area. If he loses the terminal and cannot work remotely, the entire department below him will stop.
But let him pay the money...
There are still half a month, and then think of a way. Zhong Yan closed the terminal with a headache, picked up the cupcake and began to nibble on it.
"Is there anyone on your ship who is about the same size as me?" Zhong Yan struggled to roll up the cuffs on both sides to expose his hands, "The rolled up cuffs keep falling off, it's too troublesome."
Adrian looked up at the person wrapped in his coat, imagined that the clothes were changed to someone else's, and immediately felt offended.
"No. If you come to join the army with your physique, I will be eliminated in the first round."
Zhong Yan wanted to say something more, but was interrupted by a knock on the door.
It was only then that Adrian remembered that the dead communicator in this office hadn't been reported for repair, so he asked loudly, "What's the matter?"
"Commander, Adjutant Cister's fleet has joined us."
"Tell him to come over to this warship and wait for me in the conference room. I have something to tell him."
"Yes."
Zhong Yan stopped eating the cake. He suddenly felt that the cake was not so delicious.
Before Adrian went out, he was puzzled to see him slowly put down the hand holding the cake. Are you choking
Not long after Adrian left the office, there was another knock on the door.
Zhong Yan hesitated for a moment, but went over to open the door. He originally thought that Adrian might have locked him here, but unexpectedly the door opened, and there was a patrolling soldier outside.
"Ai... your commander is out." Zhong Yan said.
"I know, I'm here to look for you." The patrolman said nervously and handed him a glass of water.
Zhong Yan took it and asked suspiciously, "What is this?"
"This is a glass of water."
Zhong Yan was even more surprised: "...why did you give me a glass of water?"
The patrol soldier didn't know how to answer for a moment. Adrian stopped him just now and asked him to "pour a glass of water to someone in my office, but don't say I called it".
"I... If you have nothing else to do, I'll go first."
After the patrolman finished speaking, he hurried away, leaving Zhong Yan standing at the door in a daze holding the glass of water.