Chapter 94 (2/2)

Yuan Zhou, as usual, completely disregarded the wistful words of Wu Hai from the beginning.

“Why is the little girl not here?” when he found the girl was missing, Wu Hai couldn’t help but ask him.

“Humm, she is taking a break today.” Yuan Zhou’s muffled voice passed through the mask.

“Does the little girl go to school?” Wu Hai didn’t know the school time all along.

“It’s still early.”

“Then why isn’t she here?” Wu Hai was quite curious.

“Ah, I understand. Tsk-tsk. Boss Yuan, you are so kind-hearted.” watching Yuan Zhou’s speechless manner and listening to the rainfall outside, Wu Hai had a sudden inspiration. Then he asked.

“Concentrate on eating the noodle, please.” Yuan Zhou set down the dishes.

“Ok.” Wu Hai first carried the bowl up and gulped down half a bowl of the broth.

“In such rainy weather, it’s so comfortable to drink a warm broth like that.” after putting down the bowl, he heaved a sigh with emotion.

“Try to savour the garlic.” Yuan Zhou pointed at the two cloves of garlic.

“Boss Yuan, when can you carry the garlic to us after you peel off the skin?” upon seeing the skin of the garlic, Yuan Zhou got speechless immediately.

Yuan Zhou didn’t speak, nor took notice of Wu Hai. Instead, he just looked at the rain curtain outside and slightly frowned.

“Pa Pa Pa” with the sound of footsteps passing, a man, who had no umbrella in his hand, ran past the door of Yuan Zhou’s restaurant in the rain.

In no time, he returned and walked straight inside the main hall.

“Boss Yuan, you are still leaving the restaurant open?” the man that came in was just the guy who liked betting with others whether Yuan Zhou would open the door or not outside the entrance of the restaurant in the morning.

His name was Wu Min and he worked nearby. As he was resting at home today, he had planned to come out taking a walk and then have breakfast. Who could expect it would rain, which made him completely soaked in the sudden heavy rain.

Having failed in taking breakfast, he had only to run back quickly. Fortunately, it was not too cold. When he ran past Yuan Zhou’s restaurant, however, he found the ever capricious boss Yuan was surprisingly leaving the restaurant open for business. Of course, he must come inside and have a look.

“Why not? What do you want to eat?” while he was asking, Yuan Zhou took a white sealed towel from a cabinet and then handed over to him.

Eating at the side, Wu Hai nevertheless spared a little time revealing a mischievous smile to Yuan Zhou, as if he were telling that he was not the only one who was surprised.

“Clear Broth Noodle Soup, please. Thank you. I have never expected Boss Yuan you have new towels here.” Wu Min received the towel with astonishment on his face and began to wipe his arms.

“Humm, wipe the hair first.” Yuan Zhou stood inside and said earnestly.

“Boss Yuan is so considerate today. Are you afraid of me catching a cold?” as suggested, Wu Min wiped his hair. He frequently came here for meals in normal times and sometimes joked with Yuan Zhou.

“You wanna hear the true words or the lie?” Yuan Zhou asked primly.

“I wanna hear both.” Wu Min answered, smiling.

“True words are that I don’t want you to catch a cold.” Yuan Zhou said readily and then continued saying when he saw a touched manner was revealing on the face of Wu Min, “The lie is that I fear the rain on your hair will drop into the noodle and therefore it might affect the mouthfeel of the noodles.”

Wu Min got completely speechless. He sat down and replied, “I feel the lie is actually more like the truth.”

“It depends on the way you think.” Yuan Zhou spread his hands, indicating it was like that.

“How much is the towel?” Wu Min felt it meaningless to argue with Yuan Zhou about that, thus he directly asked about the price of the towel.

The fixed convention in Yuan Zhou’s restaurant was that payments came prior to eating, which also applied to the white towel used by him. So, he asked quite naturally, yet merely hoping it wasn’t too expensive.

After all, the towel was not edible. However good, it was still a towel. And he was naturally reluctant to pay if it was much too expensive.