Xiao Xiang Ning finally agreed to work a little harder, on the condition that Xu Tingsheng would have a weekend at her disposal, and he was not allowed to say no, not to think wildly, and not to make fun of her. Adding so much foreshadowing for one thing shows that what she thinks is always a bit difficult.
On Saturday, eat noodles.
In fact, Xiang Ning mentioned many times that he wanted to go to that seafood noodle restaurant together, but Xu Tingsheng always found a reason to shirk it, and would rather go and pack it by himself than appear in that noodle restaurant with Xiang Ning.
Because... the boss knows too much.
The old noodle restaurant was there for the first ten years and the next ten years. It used it as the old one after many years. The low-rise old house, the decoration that could not keep up with the times, the tables, the bowls and chopsticks brought Xu Tingsheng a rare feeling: as if , Two lives can really overlap.
Here, it seems that the distance that can erase time.
The couple in 2011, the couple in 2005, the same seat, the same table... Xiang Ning asked Xu Tingsheng, what kind of noodles do you eat, Xu Tingsheng said, you are familiar with this place, you help me choose.
This was the same conversation as in the previous life, and Xiang Ning also ordered the same kind of noodles for Xu Tingsheng.
In fact, being able to sit opposite her at this table, and see her smiling face, was already very satisfying to Xu Tingsheng. During the three years when he traveled around in the previous life, he also came to Yanzhou and here, but at that time, he was alone in her city, and he was afraid of meeting him.
In fact, perhaps, Xiang Ning, who waited alone during those three years, also sat here alone again and again.
Then there might have been a downpour, and she walked into the rain, alone, and wanted to ask him where he had been.
"Why do you keep looking at me?"
"because I like you."
A group of customers left one after another, and then there was a sudden rainstorm, no new customers came, and the number of customers in the store became less and more empty. Xu Tingsheng noticed that the boss' eyes had started to cast their eyes on the small square table where the two were sitting.
Just now, he came in sideways with his back to the boss, and Xiao Xiang Ning was also ordering, because he was afraid that the boss would see him.
When the crowd is crowded, the boss is busy and his line of sight is blocked. He is not worried, but this time, the people are in a straight line, there is no one in the middle, and he can see it at a glance. It is said that there was a 20-year-old boy who was emotionally hurt and sat in a small noodle restaurant. The boss gave him a glass of wine and a bowl of noodles. Now...
"Why don't you come over and say hello to me?" The boss sat down at the table for four, next to Xu Tingsheng, and said something meaningful to Xu Tingsheng.
"I saw you were busy just now." Xu Tingsheng said with some embarrassment.
"Hi boss, do you know him?" Xiao Xiang Ning actually knows the boss better. She came here almost every week when she was in junior high school.
"I know him, and I know you, but I didn't expect it to be you." The boss said with a smile. He was actually stunned when he saw it for the first time just now, and he couldn't believe it.
However, a person who can guard an old store for twenty years without other thoughts always has a more gentle and tolerant attitude towards life.
The embarrassing scene finally came. The fact that a guy in his twenties is haggard and suffering for a fifteen-year-old girl sounds a bit out of character. At this moment, both the male and female protagonists are on the scene.
Xu Tingsheng didn't say a word, and buried himself in his noodles.
The cheeky little Xiang Ning smiled at the boss, not embarrassed at all.
"It's been more than two years. For a while, a boy often came to my place to pack seafood noodles..." the boss said.
"It's for me." Xiao Xiang Ning said shyly.
It turned out that it had been more than two years. At that time, they didn't know each other well, and Xu Tingsheng was still a weird person who appeared out of nowhere. But at the very beginning, Xiang Ning didn't resist too strongly, and inexplicably believed that this person would not hurt her.
In fact, sometimes she has a vague feeling that this person is very familiar with herself.
The boss looked at Xu Tingsheng and smiled, and continued, "Yes, I know both of you well, but I just couldn't think of it. Anyway, he would come here intermittently, every once in a while. Until later, he didn't come for a long time... "
When little Xiang Ning heard this, she gave Xu Tingsheng a distressed look. It was the time when he was "banished" by Xiang's parents and Xiang's mother, and was wronged.
"It was during that time. One night he came here suddenly, drank me a glass of wine, and took away a portion of noodles..." the boss said.
"Where's the face?" Xiao Xiang Ning asked Xu Tingsheng.
"I walked around outside your school a few times, but I didn't dare to give it to you. Later, the noodles got cold, so I sat by the side of the road and ate them." Xu Tingsheng finally had to speak.
Xiao Xiang Ning imagined that scene, his mood at that time... stretched out his hand, and touched Xu Tingsheng's face.
Now it was the boss's turn to be embarrassed, he coughed lightly, got up and said, "I will come here often in the future."
The heavy rain continued for a long time, so the boss borrowed an umbrella. The water on the sidewalk outside the door was up to her ankles, so Xu Tingsheng asked Xiang Ning to hold an umbrella and hugged her.
"It seems heavy." Xu Tingsheng said.
Because of this sentence, the two drove to buy a personal scale before returning home.
94 catties.
"I, I... I gained eight catties." Xiao Xiang Ning looked at Xu Tingsheng, and he lost eight catties in more than a month. "It's all your fault, for cooking for me and buying me so many snacks..."
"But, you're 1.64 meters tall and weigh 94 pounds. That's normal, right? So you're too thin."
"Really?"
"Um."
"But, it's only been more than a month, will it not stop?"
"This...how about we stop buying snacks in the future? As for meals, we don't eat sweet and fried things. Do you think it's okay?"
"..."
"OK?"
"I think it's better to return the scale."
"ah?"
"Anyway, don't let me see it again, and you can't say it."
On this day, Xu Tingsheng could not say no to anything that was agreed upon. He moved the scale downstairs to the garage and put it away. After a few minutes, when he returned home, Xiang Ning was sitting cross-legged on the sofa, watching TV, holding potato chips... "Crack"... "Crack"...
Therefore, the crisis of eight catties a month was resolved in this way.
For dinner, Xu Tingsheng fried chicken legs and grilled sweet and sour pork ribs...
"Actually, maybe if you are fatter, you will grow up, just like what Lu Min and Su Nannan said, being fatter feels better." Xiang Ning sat on the sofa and muttered to herself, stroking her belly.
Xu Tingsheng was washing dishes in the kitchen, but he didn't hear clearly, so he came out with a half-washed plate and said, "What did you just say?"
"Well, getting fatter, will you grow up?" Xiao Xiang Ning puffed up her small chest and said, "It will make you feel better."
"... This, the feel, isn't important." Xu Tingsheng said awkwardly. In his opinion, Xiang Ning was just looking for a reason to continue eating unscrupulously.
"It's not important, you've touched it before, but... you know? You don't know it at all. It, it's just a little bit, it's like nothing, you probably thought you were touching my waist..."
"Really?" The bowl in Xu Tingsheng's hand almost fell to the ground.
"Well, one morning, I woke up before you, you, your hand is in my clothes, here, still moving..." Xiao Xiang Ning gestured for the position with her eyes, and said aggrievedly, "Then, I was shy all morning. ...but you don't seem to know."
"Ah? No way? I really don't feel it..."
Xu Tingsheng made a mistake.
Xiao Xiang stared over, "You still say?!" The little face was full of grievances. "Papaya soup is useless, and it doesn't grow when it grows up. Alas, what can I do in the future..."