The lovers who had been separated for seven years hugged each other, as if they wanted to fill up all the vacancies of these years, and they were reluctant to separate. It was not until Xia Huaijin twitched because of a stomachache that Cheng Yu hurriedly broke away from his arms.
"What’s wrong with you?"
she asked him anxiously.
Xia Huaijin rubbed her twitching stomach with one hand: "I didn't eat at night and I have a bit of a stomachache."
Cheng Yu looked at the time and saw that it was already past ten o'clock. How could he not feel a stomachache when he was so hungry?
"There is a wonton shop nearby, I will take you to eat some."
Cheng Yu pulled him to get out of the car.
Xia Huaijin obeyed and got out of the car, holding her hand tightly, for fear that she would disappear without a trace if he let go.
Cheng Yu let him hold his hand and led him across the road and into an alley where he bought snacks. This was a village in the city, where countless Beijing drifters lived, and this alley was the food for the Beijing drifters at night.
When she came to her favorite wonton shop, the proprietress saw her as soon as she entered the shop. Naturally, she also saw Xia Huaijin holding hands with her, and her face suddenly had a smile of a stranger.
Cheng Yu was a little embarrassed and said to the landlady: "Please give him a bowl of shrimp wontons."
The landlady responded with a smile, then turned around and went into the kitchen.
This is the time when many of the first wave of Jingpiao's night shift ends, so there are a lot of people in the store, and there are no seats inside, so we can only sit on the simple tables set up temporarily outside.
Cheng Yu knew Xia Huaijin's family background and was afraid that he would dislike it, so she whispered: "Although it is a bit crude, the boss lady likes to be clean, so you can eat it with confidence."
Xia Huaijin held her hand tightly: "I don't mind it. As long as you are by my side, I am willing to squat next to the trash can."
Cheng Yu's ears turned red and she couldn't help but think of the time when the two of them were together.
I don’t know why Xia Huaijin is so good at talking about love. She obviously won’t say two words to others who can say one word, and won’t say two sentences to others who can say one sentence. But when she is with her in private, love words always come out of her mouth.
Come.
She said he was sweet-talking, and he retorted in a serious manner, saying that they were all his true words, speaking from the bottom of his heart, and he had no intention of trying to coax her.
But this itself is a sweet and touching love story.
In those years, she was probably the only one who knew that her Huaijin was actually very nice to talk to, and only she knew how lucky she was to win his heart.
The landlady brought the wontons and thoughtfully brought an empty bowl.
Xia Huaijin sincerely thanked you for this careful act: "Thank you."
The landlady smiled and went back to work.
Xia Huaijin was finally willing to let go of her hand temporarily. He took apart a pair of disposable chopsticks. Before eating himself, he picked out the shrimps in the stuffing and put them into an empty bowl, one, two, and three... in front of Cheng Yu.
The empty bowl soon became filled with a pile of shrimps.
Shrimp wontons, Cheng Yu only eats shrimps. This is a bad habit she had when she was raised by Xia Huaijin.
But in the seven years since she left him, she had long since given up this habit.
But she didn't tell Xia Huaijin that in the seven years without him pampering her, she was not qualified to eat only shrimps and not wontons.
Xia Huaijin peeled off all the shrimps and gave them to Cheng Yu. In the end, there was only a "tattered" bowl of wontons left in his bowl. The wonton fillings were floating in the clear soup, and he looked like he didn't want to eat them.
But Xia Huaijin loves to eat wontons like this. Even though she is not around these years and no one eats the shrimps he picks out, he still maintains this habit. His friends always ask him why he orders them every time if he doesn't eat shrimps.
He never explained.
"Why don't you eat?"
Seeing that she didn't move her chopsticks, Xia Huaijin asked her uncertainly: "Now...don't you like eating shrimps?"
He asked so cautiously, as if he was afraid that after they had been apart for so many years, he would only remember her old habits, but he didn't know that she no longer loved those things in the past.
Cheng Yu shook her head sadly, picked up her chopsticks and ate, as if to prove that she still loved eating shrimps, she ate them so fiercely that she choked and shed tears.
How could she not like that the bad habits that Xia Huaijin had fostered were carved into her bones. During those years in prison, she suffered a lot because of those bad habits.
She thought she had given up, but as soon as she met Xia Huaijin, they all screamed and ran out to claim their master.