Chapter 488 - Meet a Friend in the Village (1/2)

This girl had a good tongue. Xia Yu adored her very much, so she could not help smiling and said, “Yes, please.”

“Sister, I promise you won’t regret.” Seeing Xia Yu take her recommendation, the girl said happily, “Sister, our chickens are all local chickens raised by ourselves with grain, not forage.”

“Facts speak louder than words. We will know it after we taste it, but we should say some ugly words first. I won’t pay if it doesn’t taste good or authentic.” Shen Qiang was also interested in the girl’s words and said with a smile on the side.

“It’s utterly true. I promise you will want to eat more if you have it. By the way, since you two have no other companions, you don’t need to order too much food in case it is wasted. I guess a chicken hotpot is enough for you. What do you think?” Xiao Shuang advised them.

“Other restaurants want customers to order more food so that they can earn more money. But you just do in the opposite way.” Shen Qiang smiled and said on the side.

“I just said that it would be wasted if you ordered too much food. We’re honest and conscientious. We can’t trick you into spending extra money in order to earn more money.” Xiao Shuang looked at them carefully for a while again and smiled, saying, “Though you’re rich, your money is also hard-earned. Right?”

“Little child, you really have a good tongue.” Xiao Shuang’s words made Shen Qiang feel amused. “Well, we’ll listen to you. Let’s order a native chicken first, and tomorrow we’ll taste other dishes in your restaurant.”

“Good!” Xiao Shuang took the order with delight, but she didn’t leave at once. Instead, she looked at Shen Qiang and said as she was not convinced, “You don’t look older than me. Why should you call me a little child?”

Xiao Shuang hummed twice in a row and then left. She gave the order to her father.

Her father, Boss Huang, was an honest and tolerant person. He just watched and stood aside when Xiao Shuang was chatting with them. And he had heard what they had just said.

He didn’t take the order handed over by Xiao Shuang but turned to his wife and children, saying, “Catch a chicken quickly. The customers must be hungry after a long journey.”

“OK. I’ll do it now.” Xiao Shuang rolled up her sleeves. She went back to her room and brought out a ladle of grain to scatter it on the ground.

The chickens saw the food, and all of them vied to eat. Xiao Shuang looked at her brother and gave a hint to him. He had a tacit understanding and stood on her right.

“Catch a bigger one.” Boss Huang said to his families.

In the beginning, Xia Yu was watching them catching the chicken aside with Shen Qiang. She felt it was interesting, so she involuntarily felt like having a try. “Can I join you?”

“OK!” Xiao Shuang agreed without hesitation.

Xia Yu took a look at Shen Qiang and found that he had taken on a gesture to join in them to catch the chicken. Xia Yu had preferred the Luhua chicken among them, which had beautiful feathers. She pointed at it, and others understood her and were ready to catch it.

Though they had many people, those chickens were very clever. Before they could approach them, those chickens all fluttered away. They tried to outflank the Luhua chicken several times, but it had a narrow escape from them every time they were about to catch it.

“This time I won’t let it escape.” Shen Qiang said with confidence when he cornered the chicken. However, as he dashed at it, it fluttered over his head while waving its wings and got out of the wall. What was left in Shen Qiang’s hands was just several feathers falling from the chicken.

The fact that he did not catch it again amused Xia Yu, and she laughed her head off on the side.

“It’s too hard. Let me have a break first.” Shen Qiang could hardly catch his breath out of tiredness, so he just sat down on a bench aside, taking deep breaths constantly.

Guoming just went out to keep catching the chicken. But shortly after he went out, he came back with the chicken in his hands. “Da Bing helped us catch it.”

Da Bing was their neighbor and happened to pass by when the chicken fluttered out. He knew that they were catching the chicken. So, he just helped to catch it.

Boss Huang took over the chicken from his son and slaughtered it on the side. Xiao Shuang pulled some beautiful feathers off its body to make a nice shuttlecock quickly after the chicken was dead completely.

She raised her foot and kicked it several times to see if it was good after it was done. Then she came to Xia Yu and handed it to her. “Sister, this is for you.”

“Thanks.” Xia Yu took it from her and kicked it several times to have a try.

She recalled those days when she kicked the shuttlecock before high school. But later, the heavy pressure from the overloaded homework and the college entrance examination dampened her spirits, so she never played it again.

“Sister, you’re a good player. Let’s have a match after I finish my work.” Xiao Shuang said and then ran to meet some other new guests.

“Sister, it may take a long while for them to prepare the meal. How about hanging out?” Shen Qiang suggested.

After they finished walking around and came back from outside, Boss Huang happened to finish the chicken cuisine. Shen Qiang put one piece into his mouth and really felt it was rather delicious, which tasted different from what they usually ate indeed.

They went back to their rooms after the meal. These days they were so tired that when they lay down on the bed, they fell asleep without any dream through the night.

Xiao Shuang got along well with Xia Yu after they spent one day together. They became WeChat friends as well. They even made an appointment that they would get together again when Xiao Shuang went to S city the next time.

“Sister, there is a production crew shooting a TV show here in a village nearby. Why not go and have a look since you are waiting for a person here and have time?” Xiao Shuang asked Xia Yu out with excitement.