Chapter 27 No Loose Ends (1/2)

The Xiaoxiao Noodle House was about to close when they arrived there. Seeing that Xiao Bing was back, Zhang Jing, Li Hong, and Wang Guifang came to surround him immediately. They all felt relieved. Zhang Jing and Li Hong kept asking him about what had happened.

Xiao Bing smiled bitterly and said, ”I will tell you all later. Aunt Wang, could you please make us some noodles? We haven't had dinner yet.”

Dumbass raised three fingers and said, ”Four bowls for me please.”

Wang Guifang looked at him and got puzzled.

”Oh, no.” Dumbass raised four fingers and said, ”Three bowls for me please.”

Wang Guifang laughed and said, ”Your friend is funny. Okay, I will make you a big pot. You can eat as much as you want.”

Dumbass scratched his hair and laughed.

After Xiao Bing and the others sat down, while Wang Guifang went to cook noodles, Xiao Bing started to slowly tell them what happened in the cell in detail, including how Dumbass got framed and how they met.

After hearing that, Li Hong took a look at Dumbass, said with anger, ”Brother Bing, he tried to break your leg. And you brought him out and treated him to noodles!”

After she said that, she looked to Dumbass with hostility, which made Dumbass a bit confused.

Ever since Xiao Bing promised to take care of Li Hong, she had viewed him as a big brother. She was moved by him and now he was more than a manager to her. Therefore, after knowing that the silly man in her sight tried to hurt Xiao Bing, she got a bit upset right away.

Xiao Bing laughed and said, ”Don't feel bad, Li Hong. There was nothing he could do. Think about it, he was threatened to be locked up in jail for his whole life and was told plenty of evil things about me. If it were you, what would you do?”

Hearing Xiao Bing defend Dumbass, Li Hong had less hostility in her eyes.

Xiao Bing smiled and said, ”Be nice to Dumbass. I'm guessing that there is no place for him to go now. Maybe we could keep him here to help us. There are two resting areas. We could let him stay in one of them so that he has a place to rest at night.”

After hearing this, Zhang Jing said in a hesitant voice, ”That's alright with us, but would Aunt Li agree?”

Xiao Bing said with a smile, said, ”As for Aunt Li, I will talk to her. Things will be okay, don't worry.”

Dumbass laughed from the side and said, ”I don't need a salary, I just need food.”

Xiao Bing laughed and patted on Dumbass's head, laughing loudly, ”You are not silly at all. Don't worry, you will have your salary. But you eat a lot, so we will deduct that from your salary.”

Zhang Jing and Li Hong were chuckling at one side, Yezi even said, ”Brother Bing, he was named Dumbass, but that doesn't mean you can bully him because of that. He won't cost you that much for food.”

Dumbass scratched his hair, laughed and embarrassedly said, ”I feel fine about that though.”

The noodles with gravy got served quickly. Wang Guifang also sat down at one side after she put three bowls of noodles on the table. While eating, Xiao Bing and Yezi kept talking and laughing with the others. However, Dumbass stopped talking and buried his head in the bowl, gobbling down food. Before Xiao Bing got to talk more with others, Dumbass had already finished his noodles. He put his bowl aside, and said with oil on his lips, ”Two more bowls please.”

Looking at his empty bowl, the others all got stunned except Xiao Bing. Xiao Bing laughed and said, ”All right, help yourself and go to the kitchen to get more.”

”Okay.” Dumbass stood up and went straight to the kitchen. He quickly brought two bowls of noodles, and started gobbling them down again. This time nobody spoke, they all just stared at Dumbass. In under a minute, Dumbass had wolfed down two bowls of noodles. He didn't even chew. It was more like pouring food down his mouth.

Dumbass stood up again, entered the kitchen again with two empty bowls, brought back two more bowls of noodles, sat down, and kept on eating...

In less than ten minutes, he ate up five bowls of noodles. Looking at those empty bowls, Xiao Bing asked curiously, ”Are you full?”

Dumbass smiled, embarrassed, and said hungrily, ”There's no more in the pot...”

”Jesus!” Wang Guifang got shocked and said, ”Five bigs bowls of noodles and you're still not full?”

”My mom said, I eat a lot, so I have more strength than others...”

Xiao Bing laughed and said, ”What your mom said make sense. Sister Wang, can you make him some more noodles?”

Dumbass said hurriedly, ”No need.”

The others looked to him. Xiao Bing asked, ”You don't want more?”

Dumbass stood up and ran to the kitchen, ”I will cook for myself.”

Everybody looked at each other and laughed.

Yezi laughed and said, ”I didn't know that this silly brother of yours knew how to cook.”

Wang Guifang said aside, ”Actually, for people from the more remote areas, the more hardworking they are, the more versatile they would be.”