Chapter 487 Bachelors On Auction (1/2)
Chapter 487: Bachelors On Auction
Translator: Nyoi-Bo StudioEditor: Nyoi-Bo Studio
The two of them bought various kinds of snacks in the square. The festival drew in many tourists, and in turn attracted lots of food carts to the square.
Sophie preferred food with a lighter taste, such as boiled peanuts or corn with peppers and onions. Li Du ate quite a lot of food as he'd used the Time Deceleration ability during the balloon shooting.
Li had never eaten a lot in front of Sophie before. Therefore, he was slightly bashful about eating so much.
However, when the lady doctor noticed that Li Du had a good appetite, she was like an excited little girl and brought him around to buy different types of snacks.
”Come, try an oyster egg roll. It was invented by the gold miners where they used flour-coated oysters, bacon, and eggs in a fried egg roll. They're delicious! I want some too!
”This fried potato cake is very good. Look, it's topped with curried carrot and turnip soup. Awesome! Let me have one!
”Don't just keep eating, you need a drink as well. Look, there's Quirky coffee—double espresso with nutmeg and almonds. This is great! Wow, there's even a skull on the foam! Do you mind if I take a few sips?”
Sophie introduced the snacks to Li Du and paid for every single one. Li had wanted to pay but she stopped him and said, ”No, I'm buying for you.”
”No—how can I let you pay?”
”Of course you can. You helped me win the big bear, right?”
”But you helped me take care of Ah Ow.”
”Just listen to me, will you? You really want me to tell you the truth?”
Li Du was puzzled. ”What truth?”
Sophie stared at the tantalizing food Li Du held as if she wanted to have another bite. She admitted, ”Actually, this is all the food I want to eat but I can't. It's high in calories.”
”So?”
”So I'm worried I'll get fat,” Sophie said. ”But it would be wasteful if I only took one bite and threw it out. Now that you're here, I can take a bite and the food won't go to waste. So, of course, I should pay for the food.”
Li Du now understood why Sophie always wanted a bite of all the snacks. He thought about it a little bit and felt good about the whole thing.
As they bought other snacks, he ate them with Sophie. They even drank from the same cup. The two of them walked together as if they were a pair of lovers.
After they had their fill, Sophie started to get excited. She dragged Li Du to the square and they waited in front of the stage.
Li Du asked, ”What's up?”
Sophie replied with excitement, ”The most interesting event is going to start soon. It's an auction!”
”Do you think that auctions are interesting?” Li Du laughed. ”Then maybe you'd want to come along and see how I work. There's auctions every day.”
Sophie had a mysterious smile on your face. ”This is not your ordinary auction.”
Li Du started to get curious as this was not the first time Sophie had refused to reveal any details about this special auction. What's this auction about? A crop auction? A livestock auction?
A crowd of people started to gather around the stage. In no time, hundreds of people were there, and everyone was talking and chatting. Li Du wanted to hear what they were saying but Sophie gave him a pair of headphones.
”What are those for?”
The lady doctor wore a playful smile. ”It's to keep up the suspense. Come on, hurry up and put them on. Don't listen to what they're saying—if you do it won't be a surprise.”
Li Du put on the headphones. They played some piano music, but the lady doctor had turned the volume up so high that he felt his eardrum was shaking.