Chapter 12 (1/2)

Chapter 12: A Weird Rule

“Monkey, you turn left in the front. I will be waiting for you two guys at the door of the restaurant.” Seeing that he was nearly there, he drove the car onto the narrow street with great care after giving his final directions to his friends.

“Sun, let me tell you. If the food is not to my satisfaction, after coming so far, you’d better call me a grandpa. Otherwise, you just wait and see.” The man on the other side of the phone was grumpy due to the heavy traffic. He could only hope that the restaurant Sun Ming found served really scrumptious food.

“Take it easy. You hurry up here with Ali.” He parked the car and found Yuan Zhou waiting for him. As he waved his hand to Yuan Zhou, he hung up the telephone.

His friends Monkey and Ali were meanwhile trying to find the way into the street. They looked at each other..

Both of them knew Sun Ming through a gourmet QQ group. Members in the group would recommended fine food nearby and often gathered together to party, they started to know, and later, got familiar with one another. Sun Ming was found of these two people. Fine delicacy definitely ought to be shared with good friends. As for making them suffer, Sun Ming would never admit it. After all, the Egg Fried Rice was indeed super delicious, except the fact there was also a horrible rule accompanying it.

“You really think there is such delicious Egg Fried Rice?” Monkey asked first. With a nickname like Monkey, he indeed seemed similar to one. Besides being skinny, his arms were especially long. With a good face and a short hair, he looked fairly spirited.

“Maybe.” Ali answered absentmindedly with a drowsy look.

Monkey looked at the drowsy Ali, “You didn’t sleep last night again, did you? Besides, did you still have a cold?”

“I am almost recovered. Concentrate on driving. We are nearly there.” Ali took a look at the road in the front and reminded Monkey. Smoothing the hair with his fingers, he crouched in the passenger seat.

“Save your breath. I know. Don’t sleep anymore. We’ll be there right away.” Monkey made a gentle turn into the street and looked around for Sun Ming’s car.

“There it is.” He drove ahead and parked next to Sun Ming’s car. Both cars were extremely near, yet his vehicle didn’t graze Sun Ming’s car at all. Judging by that, he was a driving expert.

“Let’s go. My friends are here. Now it’s your turn to shine and serve us something delicious.” Just as Sun Ming was about to greet Yuan Zhou, he saw Monkey parking his car. Thus he left that sentence behind and then went up to Monkey’s car.

“Don’t worry. I’m going to prepare now.” Yuan Zhou wasn’t going to greet the two friends of Sun Ming. He knew neither of them.

Yuan Zhou wasn’t an enthusiastic person. He spoke little, unless absolutely necessary and had gotten used to the loneliness. He would rather listen to the music quietly than talk with others. When he was upset, he liked counting money, which would always make him feel better.

His dream was to be able to count money until his hands cramped up and sleeping enough. However, reality was harsh.

“Ok.”

“Monkey, Ali, this way please.” Sun Ming stepped forward and greeted them.

“Sun, you said you discovered a good place but it’s fairly crowded outside with so much traffic, yet there are so few people here.” Waiting until Ali got off the car, Monkey shut the door and said.

“Of course. Only at quiet and clean places can we enjoy our delicacy.” Saying that, Sun Ming turned around and pointed to Yuan Zhou’s restaurant, “This is the restaurant owned by my brother which I mentioned to you.”

Monkey and Ali raised their heads and looked at the restaurant in front of them. It looked really inconspicuous. It was a tiny eatery, the only difference was that this one looked fairly clean. Clean as it was, it didn’t even have a shop sign.

“Your brother didn’t even hang a shop sign?” No wonder Monkey felt weird. Although he was as skinny as his name revealed, he was nevertheless a senior foodie. He had left footprints in many nameless eateries. Before he came, Sun Ming had mentioned to him that this was a new restaurant operated by his good friend.

Other eateries didn’t have names because they ran their business at home thus it was not convenient to hang a shop sign, or they had lost their shop sign. Never had he seen a restaurant that was newly opened but didn’t have a shop sign.

“You ask too much. Come on in and eat.” Following their eyes, Sun Ming also just noticed Yuan Zhou’s restaurant didn’t even have a shop sign. Nevertheless, it was inappropriate for him to admit that he also didn’t know. Having said that, he led the two friends into the restaurant.