"Why?" Finn asked.
"I don't like sitting in it," Adrian said.
"Why didn't I know you had this problem before?" Fein said, "Dr. Wei's meal is already served, don't change it."
Adrian had already stepped out of his seat, and helped Wei Lan change the dinner plate to Zhong Yan's position. Wei Lan had no objection, and Zhong Yan sat wherever he wanted. Now that Adrian said it, the two of them switched places. .
Seeing Wei Lan sitting by, Fern was confused and didn't know what Adrian was doing, but he also sat next to Wei Lan. The tables are wide, and people sitting in the same row are much closer together than those sitting across from each other.
Not long after they changed their seats, the meals for several people were served one after another.
Adrian removed the decorative flowers on the plate, and pushed the plate to Zhong Yan.
Zhong Yan observed his steak carefully for a few seconds before starting to cut it. The steak he ordered had a small amount of hard-to-chew tendons visible to the naked eye, but fortunately it was almost concentrated on half of the steak. Zhong Yan carefully planned the cutting line and cut out the pure meat half.
He had just finished cutting when Adrian suddenly stretched out his hand and forked away the sinewy half.
Before Zhong Yan realized what was going on, Adrian had already put the half steak into his own plate, and dragged the plate back to him.
"Wait!" Zhong Yan said quickly, "Wrong, the half is not for you."
"With your strength, can you cut or chew this half? You eat slowly." Adrian said impatiently, "Stop talking nonsense and eat quickly."
Zhong Yan had no choice but to start eating.
Fein took two sips and said, "No wonder the virtual community has such a high rating. I thought the store hired someone to write it. This black pepper juice is really delicious."
"Hmm." Adrian echoed casually, "It tastes good."
Zhong Yan paused for a second when he cut the steak, then glanced thoughtfully at Adrian's plate.
Their meal was coming to an end, and the waiter girl who brought Wei Lan the plate at the beginning came again, this time she brought Adrian a crystal high saucer with a creme brulee inside.
Adrian wondered, "Did we order this?"
"Commander Yate, our boss said that this is for you." The girl explained, "Thank you for your contribution to the Na'vi sector. A small dessert is not a tribute."
Adrian nodded and said: "I have received my heart, thank you boss for me."
The girl thanked her again, glanced again at Zhong Yan, then at Adrian, with a dreamlike expression on her face, and then she left.
She thought she was watching very secretly, but Adrian still noticed it. He couldn't help but think that the waiter was a little strange, but he didn't think much about it.
He pushed the saucer containing the pudding towards Zhong Yan, "Eat it."
"It's given to you, it's not good for you if you don't eat it." Zhong Yan refused.
"I said I got it." Adrian frowned at the layer of caramel on top, "It's too sweet. We have our backs to the restaurant, so no one will see it."
Adrian doesn't like sweets, and the cakes can barely accept the matcha flavor. Zhong Yan knows this, why should he: "Shall I eat that layer of caramel for you?"
Fein deliberately added confusion: "Boss, I can help you eat, I'm not afraid of sweets, give it to me."
Adrian glared at him, then directly picked up the high plate and put it in front of Zhong Yan, "Eat quickly, don't dawdle. I'll wash my hands, and I'll see you finish eating when I come back."
The bathroom is close to the back kitchen of the steak house. Adrian came back after washing his hands. When he passed the back kitchen, he suddenly saw the waiter shrinking in a corner, lowering his head and not knowing what he was looking at.
He hesitated for a moment, then stepped forward lightly.
Conscience of heaven and earth, Adrian really just remembered that she had a strange look before, and now she was hiding here furtively, and felt very suspicious, so she approached her quietly, and waited until he found the girl With his head down, he was just using the terminal to scan the news of the discussion group. He immediately wanted to back off to avoid other people's privacy, but it was too late.
The girl is a bit short, and Adrian is much taller than her, so she can easily look down on the content on her screen from behind her. Thanks to her good dynamic vision, Adrian has already seen the discussion group clearly at just one glance The name—Silver Eye Giant Rabbit Forum Frontline Squad (Navi Squad).
silver eyes...
giant rabbit...
What is it
Don't rabbits have red eyes
What is the Na'vi team in the brackets? Are there teams elsewhere
Adrian was completely puzzled, and at the same time felt that the frequency of giant rabbits appearing in his life was too high in the past few days. He hadn't heard the creature's name in years.
In fact, he had a vague guess in his heart, and felt that these two words seemed to have something to do with him and Zhong Yan, but he couldn't do the thing of peeking at other people's chats, so he could only turn away in confusion, planning to go back and talk again. Find out what this organization does.
The four said goodbye at the entrance of the restaurant.
Zhong Yan and Adrian walked towards the parking lot, and the cold winter wind blew past. Zhong Yan touched his neck, stopped and said to Adrian, "Go and start the car first, I seem to have forgotten my scarf on the steak. It's inside, I'll go get it."
"I'll accompany you there." Adrian said, and then added, "I'll wait at the door of the store, or what if you take the opportunity to escape."
When they returned to the steak house, someone else was already seated in the corner, and someone at the front desk said, "Zhong... oh no, are you back looking for a scarf?"
"right."
"Here, the waiter who cleared the table just now picked it up." The waiter at the cashier at the front desk handed out a note, "Here."
"Thank you." Zhong Yan didn't answer, but paused for a second, then lowered his voice and asked, "Is your boss in the store?"
"Ah?" The cashier was taken aback, "Do you have anything to do with our boss?"
"I'll tell him to his face."
The cashier dialed out a message, and after a while, a middle-aged man with a beer belly came out. He looked at Zhong Yan suspiciously, and was about to ask what was going on, when he was suddenly stuck by the address.
He was worrying about not knowing how to address Zhong Yan, so Zhong Yan spoke first: "Hi, I want to ask, is your black pepper juice recipe sold? I can sign a non-disclosure agreement, guaranteeing that it is for personal use, never for profit, never for sale. Leak, if you are willing to sell it to me, you can set the price."
The boss wiped off his sweat and said, "Oh, that's it! I thought what's wrong... This, it's ok, if you go back and use it for yourself, the price is easy to negotiate, but the liquidated damages in the agreement should be higher, will it work?"
"Okay." Zhong Yan agreed bluntly. Adrian was still waiting outside. He was in a hurry to leave, so he exchanged contact information with the boss, and signed the contract online later.
He was about to leave when the cashier at the side saw that Zhong Yan's scarf was still in his hand, and hurriedly stopped him: "Hey, wait a minute, Zhong—"
"I can't say it!" The boss hurriedly interrupted the cashier's words in fright.
"Oh my god, I forgot!" The cashier also broke out in a cold sweat, patting his chest and said, "I almost yelled out, it scared me to death, but fortunately, Commander Art is not here."
"What did you call out?" Zhong Yan who was called back asked suspiciously, "Why is it lucky that he is not here?"
The cashier returned the scarf to him, and the boss said in surprise: "Don't you know? Your name cannot be spoken in our star sector, and the commander will get angry."
"... Oh." No wonder, Zhong Yan carefully recalled the people in the Na'vi star area he had contact with, and it seemed that few people really called him by his name.
The cashier asked: "Sir, are you and the commander getting married? It seems that the fine is about to expire." More importantly, when they came in for dinner just now, it seemed that the relationship between the two was not as it was said in the rumors The sword is on the verge of breaking out.
The boss waved his hand and said, "The commander has his own arrangements, why are you asking nonsense?"
Zhong Yan said goodbye to them, and after leaving the house, the cashier said to the boss: "I don't know what that person who bought the formula is doing."
"What else can you do? Didn't he just finish his dinner here? He thinks it's delicious, so he's going to go back to Capital Star and make it for himself."
The cashier was even more puzzled. She said: "But the steak he just served was not served with black pepper sauce? Or he made a note to replace it with tomato sauce. He doesn't like the taste of black pepper at all, right?"
"Why is it taking so long?" Adrian scolded Zhong Yan just after he came out, "It's still so dawdling with a scarf."
Zhong Yan didn't refute, and said, "Let's go, go buy a quilt."
This street is quite bustling, and today is the first day of the New Year. There are many pedestrians passing by. Many people have recognized the two people walking side by side on the road. They all looked here and passed by. Also look back frequently.
Adrian paused, before Zhong Yan could ask what was wrong, Adrian put on his coat and hat with one hand.
Zhong Yan was taken aback for a moment. Of course he was aware of so many gazes, but he had been the focus of attention for ten years, and he was already used to being noticed by passers-by. It stands to reason that Adrian should also be used to it. Maybe... Adrian doesn't want to be seen by too many people walking with him.
This is also normal, Zhong Yan raised the scarf silently, after all he is such an identity, Adrian should really avoid suspicion. Or, he didn't avoid suspicion, but simply didn't want others to see them together. After all, the boss told him just now that Adrian would get angry when he heard his name.
"I should have worn sunglasses when I came out." Zhong Yan's voice was muffled in the scarf, "Why don't we go separately, I remember where the car is."
Adrian said inexplicably: "Why are you leaving separately? Do you really want to run away? But what you said makes sense. I'll buy you a pair of sunglasses later. These people are just like the good-looking people I've never seen in eight lifetimes."
He swallowed the last half of the sentence in time, but unfortunately he said the same thing too many times seven years ago, which didn't affect Zhong Yan's understanding at all.
In order not to embarrass Adrian, he tried his best to control his smile, and asked a question temporarily: "By the way, did we tie the rabbit up before going out?"
"It's tied." Adrian said, "What memory, you asked me before you went out."
The two chatted about the rabbit, got into the car, and drove to the business district.