"You, how did you become like this?" Zhang Jiali asked in disbelief.
"I, I had plastic surgery, because, for you, I, I thought you would, like, me." Lin Fan stammered.
"For me? Why?" Zhang Jiali asked.
"Because, because I like you..." Lin Fan's face suddenly turned red.
…
Qin Nan and Ma Xiaotao saw Zhang Jiali away from the police station. They stood at the door of the police station and watched Zhang Jiali's leaving figure, and couldn't help but sigh.
"Well, I finally solved the last case before the New Year." Ma Xiaotao stretched and said.
"You don't have any feelings about this case?" Qin Nan asked.
"What do you think? I'm used to all this." Ma Xiaotao looked at Zhang Jiali's back and sighed.
"By the way, you said this was your last case before the Chinese New Year. Did you take a holiday?" Qin Nan asked.
"Yes, I'm on vacation! I'm back to work on the third day of junior high school. By the way, you said you were going to treat me to a barbecue. When will you treat me?" Ma Xiaotao asked, raising her eyebrows.
"Well, just for these two days, I'll take my cousin and the others with me." Qin Nan said.
"Okay, then I'll go back to my work station to pack my things. I'll see you another day!" Ma Xiaotao leaned against Qin Nan and waved, then walked inside.
"Hey, aren't you going to send me off?" Qin Nan asked with a frown.
"I won't send it."
…
Time is January 19th.
After Qin Nan returned home, he stayed at home for another two or three days. At noon that day, Wu Haotian had just finished cooking and was not in a hurry to ask Qin Nan and Zeng Li to eat.
Instead, he was scrolling on his phone on the sofa, looking a little nervous.
After Qin Nan and Zeng Li smelled the aroma of the food, they walked out of the house and sat at the dining table as usual.
Qin Nan rubbed his eyes and saw Wu Haotian sitting next to the sofa scrolling through his phone, with an expression on his face that looked a little nervous.
Immediately, Wu Haotian sighed and turned off his phone.
"Are the test results out?" Qin Nan asked.
"Well, after coming out, only two subjects scored 100 points, and the rest were 97 or 98." Wu Haotian said looking a little disappointed.
"I'll go, then you've already passed, why are you still sighing?" Qin Nan asked with a surprised look on his face.
"Oh, I thought they were all full marks." Wu Haotian sighed and said.
Qin Nan swallowed awkwardly, then went to the kitchen to serve his food, then came and sat back in his original position.
He felt insulted again, because he would have been thankful if he had passed 80% in his college major course, but he didn't expect that a real top student would be sitting next to him.
"Wow, Brother Haotian, you are so awesome!" Zeng Li said with a smile.
"How about this, let's go to that buffet barbecue tonight. Let's eat this lunch table tomorrow. You see..." Qin Nan hadn't finished speaking.
At this time, the three of them put down their bowls and chopsticks one after another.
"Okay, okay, why didn't you tell me earlier? You made Brother Haotian make lunch for another day in vain." Zeng Li curled her lips and said.
"No, it's okay. I'll just heat it up tomorrow and it'll be fine. I haven't cooked many dishes anyway." Haotian said with a smile.
At five o'clock in the afternoon, the owner of the self-service barbecue restaurant was putting up a new billboard at the door. It said that steak, garlic vermicelli vermicelli scallops, and pressure cooker oysters were all unlimited.
Moreover, this time the boss also specially added the word "seafood" on his billboard to attract diners. The most important thing is that this time the price is ten yuan less than last time.
It used to cost 79 yuan per person, but now it only costs 69 yuan, in order to achieve the purpose of attracting diners.
"Boss, is this really not a loss?" asked a store clerk.
"Don't worry, it won't be a loss. Even if they can eat it, it only costs twenty or thirty yuan at most." The boss said confidently while looking at the brand new advertising sticker.
"But, what if you are a big eater?!" the waiter reminded.
"Big eater..." At this moment, the boss suddenly thought of those people that day, and couldn't help but shake his head as he thought about it.
"Impossible, absolutely impossible. There are no real big eaters. They are just some Internet celebrities. By the way, they can help me publicize..." Before the boss finished speaking,
At this time, three women and two men came not far away.
"Boss, it's really diverting traffic. I didn't expect customers to come so early. I'll go in first and get busy." The clerk hurriedly walked into the store.
The boss couldn't help but look familiar to the people coming over there. When he saw the two fat girls, he couldn't help but be slightly startled and said something bad in his heart.
"Oh shit……"
…
Qin Nan and the others walked slowly towards the self-service barbecue restaurant. This time, there was another Ma Xiaotao in their team. After all, Qin Nan had already agreed to her meal.
"Sister Xiaotao, let me tell you, this store is really cost-effective. Every time we go in and out, we hold on to the wall. Moreover, it is the best self-service barbecue restaurant for me. A few of us last night
You haven't eaten until noon today, what about you?" Zeng Li asked.
Ma Xiaotao chuckled. In fact, Ma Xiaotao just wanted to have a meal and didn't expect whether she could get it back. She mainly wanted to trick Qin Nan.
"No, I'm just a little curious. Last time Detective Qin said that the buffet barbecue here is good and there are relatively few people, so I want to give it a try." Ma Xiaotao said with a smile.
"So that's it..." Zeng Li looked at Qin Nan and then at Ma Xiaotao thoughtfully, then the corners of her mouth raised, not knowing what she was thinking.
"Look, there are many people at the door of Lijie Noodle House. It's only five o'clock in the afternoon. Let's go and say hello to her," Qin Nan said.
When the owner of the self-service barbecue restaurant saw Qin Nan and the others walking towards the noodle shop next to them, he couldn't help but let out a sigh of relief, and then came to the door of the hot pot restaurant nearby and started wandering around.
After a while, Qin Nan and the other two walked into the self-service barbecue restaurant.
"Hello, are you five?" the sister at the cashier said.
Qin Nan glanced at this sister. He had never seen her before. She seemed to have just arrived recently. She must be a college student who came here to work part-time.
"Yes, five." Qin Nan said.
"Okay, I'll issue an invoice for you, wait a moment." said the cashier girl.
"You are so lucky. We are having an event in the store today. The original price was 79 per person, but now it is 69 per person. There is also unlimited oyster steak, and there are many more dishes than before." The cashier girl handed the receipt to Qin Nan and said.
"Okay, thank you." Qin Nan secretly rejoiced. Today is really a good day. I didn't expect it to be such a coincidence.
The waiter led several people to a large square table. When Qin Nan and others saw several plates of oysters stacked up in the freezer over there, they hurriedly went forward and brought several plates and grilled them all on the stove.
Several people were not in a hurry to eat other cooked food, but Ma Xiaotao brought two desserts.
When the owner of the barbecue restaurant saw that there was no customer at the table next door, he showed an imperceptible smile and thought:
"Haha, it seems that the business next door has also begun to decline. I hope I can successfully divert traffic this time by adding seafood."
The owner of the barbecue restaurant walked back in the direction of his own store. When he saw that the five people were not eating noodles at the restaurant next door, he couldn't help but frowned, and then hurriedly walked into his own store.
When the boss saw the five people sitting at the square table over there, he couldn't help but sigh and thought: "If I had just discovered that they were coming to our store, I would have led them to the oven with the smallest firepower over there.
It’s over.”
When the boss saw Qin Nan and the others grilling a table full of oysters, they also started playing with their mobile phones and seemed to have a fight with the oysters.
The boss took a deep breath to calm down his emotions a bit. He raised the corners of his mouth, smiled and walked forward and asked:
"Guys, there are a lot of cooked foods over there, like beef, steamed dumplings, and fried chicken tenders. You can try it. The test is really a bit slow."
"Ah, thank you boss, we will get those later, I don't want to eat them right now." Qin Nan said with a smile.
In fact, a few of them just wanted to eat more oysters, because they were afraid that after eating those tight meats, they would no longer be able to eat these seafood oysters. Their strategy was to first look for expensive ones that would not fill their stomachs.
The boss didn't know what they were thinking, so he winked at the kitchen, and the chef over there understood instantly, and then took out a bunch of barbecue and started grilling...
[Author's digression]: The event in this chapter is January 19th