SWG Chapter 17
by VolareRuan Shengyi put down the menu, staring blankly at her.
Xiao Wenyu chuckled softly, “What’s wrong?”
“Wait for me.”
Ruan Shengyi hurried to the back kitchen, and after a few minutes, she hurried out again, followed by the owner of the restaurant wearing a chef’s uniform.
This restaurant isn’t big, and there aren’t many customers. The owner doesn’t have the money to hire another chef, and besides—
In this vast and boundless northwest desert, how many people would accept a congee-based hot pot, something quite strange!!!
So, the owner can manage it all alone.
Then, what is she doing out here?
Ruan Shengyi didn’t seem to expect the owner to follow her out. She only realized this person was behind her after she sat down, her face full of uncontrollable emotion.
Xiao Wenyu: “You… Hello?”
The owner wiped her hands repeatedly on her apron, and then handed it to Xiao Wenyu with great solemnity.
Xiao Wenyu was flattered and reached out to shake her hand.
The owner held her hand tightly, her eyes slightly red with excitement, choking with emotion, “Thank you so much! Thank you so much!”
“I’ll bring you dishes, I’ll bring you a plate of beef!!”
Xiao Wenyu: …?
“Thank, thank you?”
“No need to thank me! I should be thanking you! Thank you so much!”
With that, the owner hurried away again, diving into the back kitchen, seemingly to prepare the freshly cut beef she wanted to give them.
Xiao Wenyu sat down, completely baffled, and glanced at the person who was trying to suppress her laughter, playfully slapping her, “What did you do?”
Ruan Shengyi’s eyes curved into crescents, “I told her that you really appreciate this place and want her recipe and tutorial.”
Xiao Wenyu chuckled, “Then it’s over. If I can’t eat it later, wouldn’t her dao heart be shattered?”
“It’s okay, in that case, just pretend I didn’t ask.”
“…”
Ruan Shengyi fiddled with the chopsticks, scalded them for herself, and then reached for Xiao Wenyu’s.
Couldn’t move it.
The other person was holding it tightly.
Her eyes were fixed on her with affection.
Ruan Shengyi met her gaze, and after a long time, her heart trembled slightly, “What’s wrong?”
Xiao Wenyu smiled, released her hand, “Nothing, thank you.”
Xiao Wenyu said thank you to her again.
Saying thank you after kissing her.
Saying thank you after she said to just pretend she didn’t ask.
Xiao Wenyu’s timing for saying thank you is always so strange, yet so perfect.
Ruan Shengyi tapped the tablecloth and buried her head, “You’re welcome.”
She felt like she was being a coward at this moment.
She wasn’t a coward when they met in the afternoon. She almost smashed a bottle over her ex-sister-in-law’s head in front of Xiao Wenyu, shattering glass all over the floor.
But she was really being a coward now.
She suddenly remembered when she went to the back kitchen to find the owner—
“Boss Ruan? Have you ordered? Just give it to me.”
“No, I…” Ruan Shengyi held her cuff, “I want the recipe for this hot pot.”
“Huh?”
“I brought a friend, her stomach isn’t good, so…”
The owner leaned against the stove and raised her eyebrows slightly, “Ruan Shengyi, how long have we known each other?”
Yes, Ruan Shengyi lied.
What she didn’t tell Xiao Wenyu was that this owner is called Chen Yuexin, and she actually owns a bar too. She first came to work at Chen Yuexin’s bar, learning how to do business, how to mix drinks, and even Xie Yu was poached from Chen Yuexin’s Le Xin bar.
This somewhat strange restaurant is actually something she casually opened for fun when she was free.
It’s also something she runs for her wife to play with.
Chen Yuexin tilted her head and glanced at the person sitting upright in the hall, “You like her?”
“Neighbor.”
“Liar!”
That’s just how Chen Yuexin is, she can always see through Ruan Shengyi’s thoughts at a glance. After all, Ruan Shengyi learned her current ability to guard against people from her. Want to block her eyes? Go cultivate for another lifetime!
Ruan Shengyi smiled embarrassedly, touching her head.
Chen Yuexin smiled again, “Then I have to go see this girl, older sister or younger sister?”
“Three years older than me.”
“Oh~ Okay, I’ll send it to you later. By the way, find time to come home and play before the New Year, your teacher’s wife misses you.” Chen Yuexin winked and said with a smile, “Your little niece misses you too.”
“When did that happen?!”
“Just three months old, shh, don’t go around telling people.”
By the time Ruan Shengyi sat back here, the feeling of being seen through by Chen Yuexin was still clinging to her tightly.
Because of this, she dared not look at Xiao Wenyu even more.
Chen Yuexin can only see through the current her, but she always felt that Xiao Wenyu’s eyes were looking through the current her, looking at the her from seven years ago, or even longer ago.
Xiao Wenyu said to the her from seven years ago that she had grown into an excellent adult. Then, if she let Xiao Wenyu know about the her who gave up the college entrance exam nine years ago, the her who was in pain and numb thirteen years ago that afternoon, or the her who was locked in the closet and watched a live 。spring。palace eighteen years ago, what would Xiao Wenyu say?
Ruan Shengyi didn’t dare to think about it.
She was really a coward right now.
She told herself over and over again not to think about what she said this afternoon, but she couldn’t, she couldn’t help it, she couldn’t calm down, she…
Someone like her, does she really deserve to be genuinely liked by someone?
The moment this thought popped up, Ruan Shengyi calmed down.
Liking someone is her own business, but someone like her, it should be difficult for others to like her.
She straightened her back and realized that a gentle gaze seemed to have been watching her all along.
She didn’t know how long it had been watching her.
Ruan Shengyi gently tossed her long hair, crossed her right leg over her left, propped up her head, and said softly, “Am I very beautiful?” Saying that, she raised her lips.
Xiao Wenyu laughed, withdrew her gaze, and said softly, “Winter, what does it look like on our side?”
She wasn’t talking about Chuncheng. She’s a native of Chuncheng, how could she not know what winter in Chuncheng is like?
Winter in Chuncheng is covered by layers of white snow. The wheat sleeps under the snow, preparing for the harvest of the coming year. There aren’t many animals on the road or in the sky. Except for humans, a species that always has ways to keep warm, no animals like to come out in the winter in Chuncheng.
This place is just called Chuncheng, but winter can still be twenty or thirty degrees below zero.
Ruan Shengyi said, “Winter, the business of my bar will be bleak. The Mid-Autumn Festival business will be good, the National Day business is the best. It’s pretty good this year. The Mid-Autumn Festival and National Day are separated, which allows me to earn two waves.”
“After the National Day, the weather will be cold, and fewer and fewer people will be willing to come out at night. When November comes, and it snows, the city people are even less willing to go out. The farmers in the rural teams will come up. They don’t like to come to our kind of bar that looks very stylish. They like to go to those old-fashioned bars that integrate singing karaoke and playing mahjong.”
“By then I’ll be idle. The people in the bar work in shifts and won’t stay open until several in the morning. We’ll close around twelve o’clock.”
“But it’s hard to say about your photo studio. In winter, it’s even more deserted, but there should be more people.”
Xiao Wenyu nodded in understanding.
Ruan Shengyi: “I don’t make any money in the winter. Will Boss Xiao be hiring employees then? I’ll go work short-term for you.”
“Are you sure?”
“I can still sweep the floor and stuff.”
“…” Xiao Wenyu secretly calculated the days and smiled, “If we’re still friends by then, of course, you can.”
Ruan Shengyi propped her chin and leaned over to look at her, looking at her through layers of mist, her black and white eyes unable to see the colors of emotion, and said softly, “Does Boss Xiao have other good younger sisters?”
“Of course not.” But the things I’m worried about, how should I tell you?
Xiao Wenyu barely raised her lips and smiled softly.
If you were to dissect it, her psychological activities are not simpler than Ruan Shengyi’s, but she can control them very well.
There’s no other reason.
The hand placed under the table gently pressed on her lower abdomen.
She felt even more guilty.
*
Xie Yu opened the door with her bag on her back, looked at the brightly lit shop, then went back out to look at the sign, looked at her watch, and then entered the door, full of sarcasm, “Oh ho! A rare guest!”
It’s not really a rare guest. After all, the Mid-Autumn Festival holiday is tomorrow. Every time during this kind of holiday, Tonight Intoxicated also changes to a two-shift system. In comparison, Ye Min is more careful. She is in charge of the entire bar during the day, and Ruan Shengyi is responsible for the evening until the early hours of the morning.
But Xie Yu still wanted to be sarcastic to her.
She just likes to tease Ruan Shengyi.
But today the boss is so strange, as if she didn’t hear her sarcasm, silently wiping the newly arrived wine glasses there, her eyes dull and in a daze.
Xie Yu raised her hand and waved it in front of her eyes, “What’s wrong?”
Ruan Shengyi then recovered her consciousness, biting her lip slightly, “Nothing.”
“You damned thief! Where did you come from, you perverted 。ghost! Give me back my boss! How could that dead woman do such a lip-biting action, ah?!”
Ruan Shengyi then put down the wine glass in her hand and stared at Xie Yu faintly.
The cleaners around them silently bypassed this place.
Obviously, someone was going to suffer.
Unexpectedly, the boss didn’t greet Xie Yu’s shoulder with a slap as usual, but sighed faintly, “Xie Yu, tell me…”
“What’s the situation when someone says thank you to you at a very inappropriate time, when they shouldn’t say thank you at all?”
“…Did Boss Xiao sleep with you and then say thank you? Without even giving you money?”
“Get out!”
Xie Yu laughed, carrying her bag into the dressing room, and soon changed into a white shirt and came out, hooking Ruan Shengyi’s shoulder, “Boss, you’re a girl having spring fever.”
“Tell me about it, see if I, a love expert, can answer your questions.”
“A love expert whose first kiss is still there?” Ruan Shengyi raised her eyebrows.
Her first kiss is no longer there!
Xie Yu slapped her shoulder, “Are you going to talk or not?”
But Ruan Shengyi didn’t know how to say it.
Her lips trembled, then retracted, and said softly, “Forget it, it’s nothing.”
Xie Yu waved her hand, “Actually, you’ll know the answer if you ask. Just think about it slowly. Hey, there are a lot of people tonight, don’t think about leaving me alone here! I’ll sell your shop.”
Do you know the answer?
Ruan Shengyi didn’t know.
She didn’t know that when she came back last night, Xiao Wenyu suddenly asked her if she wanted to go to her second and third floors to see if there was any difference between the two sides.
She refused.
Xiao Wenyu didn’t say anything at the time, but when she parked the car and the two of them walked side by side to the door of the shop, Xiao Wenyu said in a low voice—
“Thank you.”
At that time, Ruan Shengyi suspected that she had heard wrong and asked again.
Xiao Wenyu didn’t seem to feel annoyed and slightly raised her lips, “I said, thank you.”
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