Chapter 129 - The Feeling of Love (1/2)

Chapter 129: The Feeling of Love

Translator: Fan Translation Studio

Ye Xiaoxian did not answer but just looked at the pomelo flesh in her hands and felt very complicated.

That night, after was.h.i.+ng up, Xiao Baoshan went back to his own room rather early. His thoughts remained as before: As Little Ye finds me annoying, I’d better not disturb her for now.

As for Ye Xiaoxian, seeing the tightly shut door to Xiao Baoshan’s room, she remained silent for a while and then also went back to her own room.

Lying on the bed she slightly sighed. There was a lack of pa.s.sion between them. She could not sense the feelings of love. Just let it be!

Xiao Baoshan came back this time and would stay for a couple of days. He felt bored being at home and so went to the restaurant to help.

He did not cling to Ye Xiaoxian this time when he went to help. He sometimes served the food as a waiter. However, he was too tall and strong and when he served food there was no smile on his stern face, so none of the customers dared say anything once he came over.

Li Hongmei was afraid that he would scare customers away, so she asked him to come back and go to the backyard to help the others chop vegetables.

Xiao Baoshan had little choice and could only go to the backyard.

What they were doing in the backyard was was.h.i.+ng and chopping vegetables. Xiao Baoshan then started working with the newly employed a.s.sistants. There was a door in the yard which was for the employees to come in and go out.

Xiao Baoshan was was.h.i.+ng the stuff and suddenly spotted Xian who came in from outside.

An a.s.sistant asked Xian, “Sister Xian, where did you go?”

Xian looked a bit tense. “No…nowhere particular. I just went out to buy some stuff. We were lacking some ingredients just now.” Xian then hurried back to the kitchen.

Xiao Baoshan stopped the work he was doing and frowned slightly.

Now Ye Xiaoxian was mainly in charge of inspection and management at the restaurant. She sometimes went to the front hall to take bills. Occasionally some customers would call her over and chat with her, asking how she cooked the dishes and how she won the prize in the provincial capital.

Ye Xiaoxian was not very good at socializing, so once she could not manage a social conversation Li Hongmei would fill her shoes while she would find an excuse for saying she was busy in the kitchen.

On that day, Ye Xiaoxian went to the kitchen and found there were only Little Five, Little Six and a fire-attending a.s.sistant inside. Xian was missing.

Xiao Baoshan was not there either.

Ye Xiaoxian did not mind where Xian went as she might go to the toilet at any time. It was just that she felt a bit upset at Xiao Baoshan not being here. Would he go back to the new house because she ignored him? Or go back to the dock?

Ye Xiaoxian thought about it and felt that her mind was also very contradictory. When Xiao Baoshan was here she found him annoying but when he was not here she was worried that he may have second thoughts about their relations.h.i.+p. If he did have second thoughts, would her situation return to what it was like in the past? She was previously like a widow with a husband.

Ye Xiaoxian went the backyard and wanted to have a look if he was was.h.i.+ng vegetables there.

However, Xiao Baoshan was not in the backyard either. What was more strange was that Xian was also not in the backyard.

Seeing that Ye Xiaoxian seemed to be looking for someone, a new a.s.sistant pointed at a room in the backyard.

In order to avoid gossip the door was not shut. Ye Xiaoxian cautiously looked inside and noticed that Xiao Baoshan and Xian were talking by the door.

Ye Xiaoxian walked towards the door with lighter steps and heard Xiao Baoshan talking.

“…This is your freedom and we respect your freedom. We won’t force you to stay, but I hope if you do want to leave you should leave decisively and do not take anything here with you. Well, I’ll give you two hours to think about it. If you make up your mind, come and talk to me later.”

Xian did not say anything but was only sobbing in a low voice.

Xiao Baoshan soon came out of the room. Seeing Ye Xiaoxian standing outside he nodded to her slightly and added, “I was discussing something with Xian.”

“What were you discussing?” asked Ye Xiaoxian. She had actually guessed that Xian seemed to want to leave the restaurant.

Xiao Baoshan was yet to answer but Xian inside could not help but come out and directly knelt down in front of Ye Xiaoxian. “Sister Ye, it’s all my fault. I shouldn’t have met that Sister Xiang. Sister Xiang said that she wanted to hire me to be the chef of her restaurant and cook the dishes on their menu.”

“Have you agreed?” asked Ye Xiaoxian plainly.

“No, no, I haven’t agreed formally. Brother Xiao just told me that Sister Xiang is actually up to no good and aims to defeat our restaurant. When she achieves her goal she’ll cast me aside because if I can betray Sister Ye, I can also betray her. Betrayers will not end up well. I’m having a great time in Sister Ye’s restaurant and I shouldn’t be greedy, so I won’t go.”

While Xian was speaking she started crying.

Ye Xiaoxian quickly helped Ye Xiaoxian to get up, wiped her tears for her and then smiled. “Look at you. Don’t cry. It was her who came to you. It wasn’t you who volunteered to find her and besides, you haven’t said yes to her.”

“But I…” Xian did not have the nerve to tell them that she almost said yes.

Ye Xiaoxian said again, “Do you feel that the wage we pay you is not enough?”

“No, it’s not like that,” said Xian.

Ye Xiaoxian smiled. “Let’s call it a day for now. We’ll have a meeting tonight after the restaurant is closed.”

Xian went back to work while Ye Xiaoxian looked at Xiao Baoshan. Xiao Baoshan also looked back at her. The two pairs of eyes met each other while the two people seemed to be calm, but inside their hearts something was churning up and down like the tide.

Xiao Baoshan still thought that Ye Xiaoxian would find him annoying so he said, “I’ll go and help the others wash vegetables.”

“Baoshan, wait a minute!” Ye Xiaoxian called him to stop.

“Yes?” said Xiao Baoshan.

Ye Xiaoxian walked under the eave and continued to ask him, “How did you find out about Xian?”

“She left in the middle of work and when she came back she looked very tense. I guessed that there must be something on her mind. After I asked her she became more nervous and could not hold it back, so she spilled everything.”