Chapter 19 (Restaurant Encounter)
The weather is still cold today, and because of the strong wind, the body feels colder than usual. Yu Li feels cold in a down jacket. Looking at Huo Chen, who only has a shirt next to him, he is so calm that he seems to be on a tropical vacation.
"...You go in first, I'll call you after I get the taxi." After Yu Li secretly sent a message to Huo Zhenyu, she changed her phone to flight mode again, and then focused on dealing with the man in front of her.
"It's okay, I'm not cold." Huo Chen asked the front desk for a mask, and half of his face was covered.
Yu Li wanted to persuade her again, so he overtook her and parked a taxi that happened to pass by and got on the bus first.
"Come up quickly, the car is warm." He urged.
Yu Li followed helplessly, closed the car door and touched his hand: "It's all cold."
"It's okay, just go to the mall." Huo Chen answered while holding her hand.
The taxi driver in front glanced at the two of them through the rearview mirror and couldn't help but shake his head slightly. Yu Li happened to look forward and saw his regretful expression. She was puzzled for a moment. After she figured out what she thought of, she secretly lay in Huo Chen's ear and muttered in the voice of only two people: "Look, everyone said that you were asked to wait in the hotel. You wear so little in such cold weather. He thought my boyfriend was a fool."
Huo Chen raised the corners of his lips under the mask, and after she finished speaking, she imitated her appearance and whispered in her ear: "He doesn't think I'm a fool, but he regrets that you are such a beautiful little girl with me an old man."
Yu Li was stunned: "Where are you old?" She is only 26 years old, and she is so tender that she can pinch out water.
Huo Chen heard her questions and smiled in his eyes. Now he is 26 years old, she is 18 years old, and she is eight years old. It doesn’t sound much, but it depends on what kind of eight years old it is. If it is forty and forty-eight, it is not much different, but the newborn baby and eight-year-old child are very different.
The two of them are in the second situation now. Although they are only eight years apart, he has been struggling in the mall for a few years and has long since lost his childishness as a student. Every move is mature. However, Yu Li is very student-oriented and looks more like a high school student than a college student.
Of course, if she hadn't gone to school early, she would have been a high school student at this moment.
They stand together like this, and they are very compatible in appearance, but their aura is out of place. No wonder the driver is surprised. It is probably difficult for him to understand why a girl like Yu Li, who is so obedient, would find someone in society to fall in love.
The distance from the hotel to the mall was very short, and the taxi took only a few minutes to arrive. Yu Li paid the money on his own initiative and quickly ran into the mall. When he was wrapped in the heating in the mall, Yu Li sighed comfortably.
"Is it so cold?" Huo Chen looked at the down jacket on her body with a funny look.
Yu Li looked at him obediently: "I'm afraid you will be cold."
"I'm not cold," Huo Chen helped her take out the hair from the down jacket and sorted it out. "It's too inconvenient to spread it like this. Let's buy a headband first."
"Buy clothes for you first. Although the mall is very warm, few people dress as thin as you, so they are too out of place." Yu Li said, and was about to follow the prompts to take him to the men's clothing store on the third floor, but he pulled him back.
"I haven't eaten lunch yet, I'll finish lunch and go shopping again." Huo Chen reminded.
Yu Li didn't feel hungry at first, but when she heard him say lunch, her stomach purred, her cheeks became hot, and she coughed and lowered her head: "Then, then eat first, I'm not familiar with this place, where can I eat?"
Huo Chen helped her shoulder with a funny look and took her forward intimate manner. However, he did not take her to dinner directly, but went to a shop selling small accessories. After knowing what he was going to do, Yu Li was a little funny, but still cooperated to follow him.
All the customers in the small jewelry store were girls. He was a tall and long-legged man here, and many people couldn't help but look at him, but he seemed to be at his own house, without any discomfort. He walked around the store, finally took two headbands and a few small daisy hairpins, and after checking out, he called Yu Li to the corner.
Yu Li followed obediently and stood quietly towards him. Huo Chen borrowed the comb from the store and tied her long hair into a high ponytail in a few seconds. Then he used a hairpin to fix the scattered hair, revealing her fair neck.
He was skilled in movements and serious in his expression. Although he was wearing a mask, he still couldn't hide his handsomeness. So for a while, many people in the store stopped to watch. Some of them were cheerful and even came closer to see.
When Huo Zhenyu and his friends came in from outside, they saw a lot of people surrounding the corner of the jewelry store. The fat man and Zhugan liked to join in the fun, and immediately stretched their heads and looked in: "What are the selling of so many people inside."
"What else can I sell? The things that girls like," Zhugan looked in disdain, "But they are all crowded together, are they discounts?"
"Boss, why don't you go in and choose a gift for your sister-in-law? What a great opportunity! Or buy her a hair rope or something, I heard that girls like it." When the fat man heard the discount, he immediately turned around and called Huo Zhenyu.
Huo Zhenyu sneered: "The little fish does not tie their hair, nor does they wear jewelry."
"That's it..." There is really no need to buy it.
Several people quickly passed by the jewelry store as they spoke. When they were about to reach the next store, Huo Zhenyu suddenly turned around and looked at the people around them before leaving.
In the jewelry store, Yu Li didn't know that she had just passed by Death. She was staring at herself with a high ponytail in the mirror and looked left and right. She hadn't tied her hair for too long, and she felt that it was novel and familiar.
She only grew long hair when she arrived in college. She had always been unfamiliar with her hair tie skills. She was too lazy to organize, so she always had a long and straight look. Later, after dating Huo Chen, she handed her hair over to him. He had been his hair stylist for six years, but he didn't expect that he helped him tie it for the first time after he was reborn.
"It's much better," Huo Chen walked around her and looked at her, "Is it tight?"
Yu Li felt it: "It's not tight, it's just right."
"That's good." Huo Chen was very satisfied with his craftsmanship. He stared at her and admired her for a while. Until her cheeks were blushing, he led her upstairs with a smile.
The two went straight to the fifth floor and walked slowly forward from the first store, thinking about what to eat as they walked.
"Why go and have hot pot? I remember there is a hot pot here that is delicious, but it went bankrupt after a few months of opening. I have never brought you here. It should be during the opening period. Do you want to go?" Huo Chen said slowly.
Yu Li was about to nod, but Yu Guang suddenly noticed several familiar figures. Her expression sternly, and she immediately pulled Huo Chen into the nearest store. While walking inside, she pretended to be calm: "I don't want to eat spicy food today, so let's forget about hot pot. Let's eat it in this store, and occasionally I have to eat some mild food."
"...But this is a Sichuan restaurant." Huo Chen spoke speechlessly.
"..." Yu Li paused for a moment, swallowed her saliva and laughed dryly, "There are also non-spicy dishes in Sichuan restaurants, and I want to eat iced noodles."
"Then let's go here." Huo Chen naturally listened to her everything.
Yu Li nodded quickly when she heard this, and pulled him to the innermost seat to sit down. As soon as she sat firmly, she saw the four people passing by the Sichuan restaurant. She looked here, as if she was hesitating whether to come in to have a meal.
Yu Li was so desperate that she was dying by their eyes. Fortunately, they only took a look and then left. She breathed a sigh of relief and realized that Huo Chen had also looked at her eyes.
Yu Li: "...The words on the menu are too small, I stared at them for a long time but couldn't see them clearly."
"Where is the menu?" Huo Chen asked around and found that she was talking about a menu hanging on the wall facing the door. He turned back with a lot of laughter and cry, "I said, what are you looking at so focused? It turned out to be a menu, which should be a decoration, and the waiter will get us something else."
As if to prove that he was right, as soon as Huo Chen finished speaking, the waiter came over with the menu. The two of them ordered the dishes and started to sit and wait. Since seeing Huo Zhenyu also came here, Yu Li's heart has been hanging, and she has become absent-minded when talking to Huo Chen again.
Huo Chen didn't care at first, but seeing her becoming more and more perfunctory, he couldn't help but frown: "What happened?"
"Hmm?" Yu Li looked up and saw the worry in his eyes.
"I feel something wrong since I entered the restaurant. What's wrong?" Huo Chen held her hand.
Yu Li lowered her eyes and looked at the hands of the two of them holding each other, as if she was in a daze, but her mind was turning rapidly, thinking about how to turn something wrong with her.
After a long time, she endured humiliation and whispered: "I want to go to the bathroom... I'm a little bit of a suffocation."
Huo Chen was amused and laughed when he heard her reason: "The restaurant does not have a separate bathroom, so I have to go to the mall to manage it uniformly. I will accompany you."
After saying that, he was about to get up. Yu Li was startled and quickly pressed him down and sat down: "I'm really back soon, just wait for me."
Seeing that she insisted, Huo Chen did not want to follow her anymore. Yu Li breathed a sigh of relief and quickly walked out quickly. She said that she wanted to go to the toilet just to fool her, so she did not really go to the toilet. Instead, she pretended to walk a few steps and stopped. While looking around nervously, she was afraid that Huo Zhenyu would suddenly appear, she was counting on time to prepare to go back at any time.
The time she stood outside was so hard to bear every second. Fortunately, Huo Chen and Huo Zhenyu didn't come out. She stood alone for a while and felt that the time was almost over, so she took a breath and walked towards the Sichuan restaurant. Before she could walk in, a voice that was the same as a devil came out behind her: "Little Fish?"
Yu Li was stunned for a moment, turned around with a horror, and met Huo Zhenyu's hesitant gaze. He was still holding his cell phone in his hand, and he was dialing her number on the cell phone, but her cell phone, which was in her pocket, was not moving at all.
Chapter completed!