Chapter 20 Late Night Cafeteria
It was almost nine o'clock, and there were no people in the store. I don't know if it was too late or too early.
Rika Inoue smiled and said, "Uncle! I'm here to attract customers for you!"
The man wearing a navy blue kimono and a white apron on his waist touched his chin and looked at it, as if it was a group where his brother and his sister went out together. His eyes remained on the squirrel on Ji Changan's shoulder for a few seconds.
"Well, Rika has brought me three new guests."
"Okay, although it's not time to actually open the door, since you're a new guest, please be comfortable once."
The man with a scar on his right face grinned and pointed at the menu on the wall behind them and said:
"There are only these recipes, but as long as I can make them, you can order them even if they are not on the menu. This is my business policy."
Rika Inoue covered her mouth and smiled, "Uncle still knows how to joke. There are only two people, hey... Uncle, do you even count the squirrels from Inspector Ki's family?"
The boss wrapped his hands in his chest and smiled:
"Lixiang, don't be too small for those seemingly humble ants. Maybe one day, they will shine with infinite light that makes the gods tremble in awe."
Hearing this sentence, Ji Changan, who looked sideways at the menu, turned his head and stared at the greasy middle-aged man.
The boss reported it with a hearty smile and said, "Haha, don't care about new customers, it's just my personal feeling. Do you have any delicacies you want to eat? As long as I know how to cook, I can make it for you to eat."
Rika Inoue raised her right hand and cheered like a little girl: "Fried meat pie, I want to eat fried meat pie with a high glass of wine!"
"Well, Lixiang is still exactly the same as before, but are you drunk today?" The boss rubbed the stubble and looked at Ji Changan and Ji Nuanshu with a smile, "What do you guys, what do you want to eat?"
Ji Changan thought for a while, touched his stomach and said, "Do you have ramen? Give us two bowls of ramen and two more fried meatloaf."
"Do you want something to drink?"
"Are there any drinks for children?"
"Orange juice?"
"Can!"
After a simple conversation, we decided to set up the dinner for Ji Chang'an and Ji Nuanshu tonight.
In fact, they came out of a small bar before, and Commissioner Inoue didn't seem to be in a good mood tonight, so he took them to a small bar and completely forgot that Ji Changan was actually underage, let alone the little warm tree beside him.
The whole process was basically Rika Inoue who poured herself wine, and Ji Changan and Ji Nuanshu ate some fried tempura.
In the end, I was really afraid that Miss Inoue would be drunk tonight and she would get herself drunk. Ji Changan forced Rika Inoue out of the bar. Several people were wandering around aimlessly on the street until it suddenly rained heavily in the sky. The cold night rain hit Rika Inoue's face, causing her drunkenness to dissipate a lot.
Ji Changan asked her if she knew where there was a good restaurant. Rika Inoue took them all the way to this small restaurant.
The boss walked into the kitchen. The kitchen was not big, but it was full of all kinds of cooking equipment neatly arranged.
Ji Changan looked at everything in the store and said curiously: "Uncle, you said just now that it was not time to open the door. When will you open the door?"
The boss turned around in the kitchen and said, "My business hours are from 11:00 pm to 7:00 the next day. This is a late-night cafeteria."
Ji Changan said in surprise: "So late... will there be any guests coming to the door?"
The boss laughed and said, "You ask me if I have any customers? To be honest, there are quite a lot of them."
"Uncle, give me the wine first!" Rika Inoue suddenly shouted.
"Okay, wait a moment, why does Xiao Lixiang look a little sad tonight?"
I don't know if it's because of the alcoholism, my cheeks are slightly red. Inoue Rika lay on the table, her hands piercing her chin, and pouting:
“Is it that obvious?”
Ji Changan complained in his heart, saying that he was almost writing it on his face!
Miss Inoue was doing well this morning, but she was a little depressed in the afternoon, with an ugly and forced smile on her face.
The short two days of getting along have allowed them to establish a better relationship with Rika Inoue, who is twenty-two years old. Perhaps because of her similar age, Ji Changan can chat with her.
The only thing that was a little regretful and regretful was that his desire to take the little warm tree to enjoy the cherry blossoms was shattered.
The extrajudgment who wanted to adjust a life sequence from the local executive department was severely rejected by Miss Inoue, pointing out that the arbitrarily tampered with the force of external force would cause the plant to die prematurely.
The boss walked out of the kitchen with a plate, placed three empty glasses in front of the three of them, poured a glass of orange juice for Ji Changan and Ji Nuanshu, and then poured a light yellow liquid into Rika Inoue's cup.
Ji Changan sniffed his nose and smelled the rich ginger fragrance.
Rika Inoue muttered, "Uncle... Has Akaichikun come to your place recently?"
The boss put away the plate and patted his head, as if he remembered something:
"Ah, Ai Yijun came to me in the early morning yesterday. His expression didn't look very good. Have you had a quarrel?"
Rika Inoue smiled bitterly and said, "I don't even have the right to talk to Akaichikun now. I have to talk about any quarrel. At least I have to be able to speak in the case of a quarrel, right?"
The boss scratched his head, looking worried, and didn't know how to speak.
Ji Changan and Ji Nuanshu were holding glasses beside them, siping orange juice in small sips, but their attention was concentrated on Miss Inoue's side.
Sadie, who seemed extremely silent since entering this store, had his obsidian eyes circling around the store owner in confusion, but he was still confused and always felt like...
Where have you seen this person?
After a desperate thought, Sadie turned his head and looked at Ji Chang'an and Nannan, speechless for a while, feeling that he had finally discovered why Nannan was so close to the boy from Chang'an.
At this time, the two little guys held orange juice and looked deaf. But they quietly pricked up their ears and eavesdropped on their faces, which looked so similar!
"Puff...Uncle, this is not a tall glass of wine, this is ginger beer!"
Rika Inoue poured half a glass of wine, then vomited it all out, and was taken all by the boss who had prepared a lot in the trash can.
Under the stimulation of the rich ginger fragrance, Rika Inoue stuck out her tongue and her mind became much clearer.
The boss put down the trash can, placed the bottle of ginger beer in front of Rika Inoue, put his hands on his waist, and said with a serious look on his face:
"Well, this is what your Achii-kun left for you. Is it really good to vomit?"
"And do you think you are still suitable for drinking in your current state? Could it be that you will have to let this young man and the little girl pay you back later?"
Rika Inoue bit her lips lightly, looked at the bottle in front of her with a blurry look, and muttered in a low voice:
"Uncle is so cunning. How could Ai Yijun leave me with ginger beer and lie to me again..."
The boss put his hands on his chest and said seriously: "I didn't lie to you. It's just Aichi-kun a month ago. He asked me to sell you less wine after the autumn season. If it really doesn't work, use ginger beer instead. This bottle was what he brought to me."
Rika Inoue was stunned for a long time and murmured: "Since Aichikun cares about me, why doesn't Aichikun answer my phone? We haven't met for a long time. Why did Aichikun keep avoiding meeting me? Did I do something wrong..."
When the words came to the end, Miss Inoue, who was able and proud in the eyes of many colleagues and always smiled, stepped her face into her arms and her shoulders twitched gently.
Ji Changan was shocked by the side. Is this the legendary emotional dispute? Could it be that Miss Inoue met a scumbag?
"Ah..." The boss held his waist with one hand and patted the back of his head with his other hand, as if he had a headache. "Achiyijun... probably has his own troubles. If you really can't accept the status quo, then find an opportunity to sit down and have a good chat with Achiyijun. Isn't the so-called love a process of communication and acceptance between the two parties?"
"Uncle... are you still single? Why do you say one by one?"
The boss said embarrassedly: "I have seen this... I have heard it a lot, and I have heard it too much, so it's almost like this. I won't say it anymore, I'll go to cook first, please wait for a while."
The boss crawled into the kitchen and worked hard. Ji Changan finished a glass of orange juice while sucking. Yu Guang always observed Miss Inoue who seemed to be a little depressed.
Poor lady, can't you really meet a scumbag who is tired of the new, right?
No... If the man is an ordinary person, then he really can't say who is pitiful.
Even if you don’t use authority, it is absolutely not difficult for Miss Inoue to fight twenty-eight with the physical and nerve reactions of the third-level extramarital person!
The clock hanging on the wall kept rotating at a constant speed, and time passed by minute by minute.
The tempting fragrance drifted out of the kitchen, and the sound of the meat patties wrapped in breadcrumbs rolling in the oil was clearly heard.
As Ji Changan looked forward, the boss finally walked out of the kitchen with a plate, placed two bowls of bone soup ramen in front of them, and then a fried meat pie decorated with scallions. The meat pie wrapped in breadcrumbs looked brown and tempting.
"I'm sorry, there is only instant ramen in the store, but the soup is a special bone soup I made myself. Please use it to see if it suits the taste."
The boss smiled and nodded at Ji Changan, with expectation in his eyes.
As if she smelled the tempting smell of fried meatballs in the air, Miss Inoue raised her head as if she was resurrected on the spot, stared at the fried meatballs in front of her, and bit off half of them with a big mouthful. The lips without lipstick inevitably had oil stains.
She chewed while making unspeakable but disturbing murmurs, which made Ji Changan, who was about to feast, numb his scalp and prayed for the Chi Yijun in his heart.
He followed the customs and shouted "I'm starting to move." Both figures, one big and one small, took a bite of the meat patty first, feeling the satisfaction brought by the meat, and then sucked the ramen in the bowl with a sensation.
Although it is just a quick ramen, the two people who are hungry can ignore these small flaws.
The boss sat on the chair with a smile and took out a pack of cigarettes from his pocket.
He had just smoked a cigarette out of the cigarette box, but glanced at the little girl, hesitated, and pushed the cigarette back.
For a moment, there was only the sound of chewing meatloaf and the sound of sucking ramen with big mouthfuls.
The boss put his hands on his chest and smiled. As a chef, nothing can satisfy him more than the current scene.
Sadi, who moved from Ji Changan's shoulder to the top of his head, suddenly felt shocked.
He finally remembered why he felt strangely familiar with the store owner!
Chapter completed!