Under the bright lights, there were several tables of guests drinking and chatting in the front hall.
A beautiful woman was standing under the eaves laughing and talking. When she saw the two people approaching, she calmly walked down the steps to greet them.
With red lips and white teeth, her facial features are very delicate. Rou asked: "Mr. Qiao, are there two of us today?"
Xie Yunshu stayed beside Qiao Ye and looked at her, sighing in his heart, what a charming woman.
Qiao Ye nodded slightly to her and asked, "Is there anyone in the seat where you usually sit?"
"No, please come in." He said and led the two of them deeper into the courtyard.
Xie Yunshu was confused. Land in the city center was expensive. What kind of status would a family with its own courtyard in this area have? Why did it need to open a restaurant to make money?
After the two of them sat down in the waterside pavilion, she handed over the menu and said, "Mr. Qiao, let's see what we want to eat."
Qiao Ye took the menu and handed it to Xie Yunshu, "Look, I just want the ones I usually order."
Xie Yunshu opened the menu and looked through it, and found that these dishes were just like her restaurant, very retro. Plum blossoms, Jinling meatballs, steamed river dumplings, Longjing shrimps, crystal hoof and so on.
She lost her mind for a moment, "Let's try the Longjing shrimp."
The woman smiled and said, "There is really a tacit understanding. Mr. Qiao also likes this dish."
Xie Yunshu had no choice but to hand the recipe back to her, "Then just serve him what he likes."
The woman took the menu and said, "Okay, wait a moment, you two." After saying that, she left.
Xie Yunshu saw her walking out of the pavilion and asked, "Is she the mistress here?"
"Well, yes." Qiao Ye has never seen the male host before.
Xie Yunshu asked curiously: "She must have an unusual status to have such a yard in the city center, right?"
"Her ancestors were high-ranking officials in the ancient city. Later, when times changed, the family went overseas. They came back after the reform and opening up and bought back their own yard."
"Then why do you open a private restaurant again?" According to this, there should be no need to make money.
"I guess I want the house to return to the scene where it used to be full of guests." Qiao Ye recalled the first time he ate here. At that time, he also felt that opening a restaurant in such an exquisite house was too wasteful.
She said "Hey" in a long voice, and joked with a smile: "Then you mean you are also among the guests?"
Qiao Ye came back to his senses and looked at her expression of disapproval, "What do you want to do?"
"Of course I mean you are narcissistic." He said that there were many guests, so he was one of them.
Qiao Ye took out the cigarette case from his pocket, lit one and took two puffs. "Okay, I'm narcissistic. Don't compete with me when the food is served."
She felt the smell of smoke was unpleasant, so she stood up, walked to the window, and said stubbornly: "I'm going to snatch it from you!"
Looking out the wooden carved window, I saw a pond outside, dotted with water lilies, which had withered in autumn. The lights were dim, but I could still see koi carps swimming in the water.
She turned to look at him and said with a smile: "No wonder you like it here. There are few restaurants with such a beautiful view nowadays, and they don't do it deliberately."
Qiao Ye nodded, put the cigarette in the ashtray, stood up and walked to her side, looking out the window with her. "In the past, I always watched the scenery alone, but now I have you."
As he spoke, he hugged her from behind, warming her slightly cold body, and rubbed his chin on the top of her hair.
His warmth surrounded her, and she raised her head and said to him: "Well, I will accompany you to see the beautiful scenery. We can come here more often in the future."
