Lu Yao went to the kitchen and saw two blue fresh plastic boxes filled with eels, which were crowded and squirming, fat and fresh.
Ji Feiming and Qingmei knew Lu Yao's habit that the seafood just caught from the sea should be kept separately for a while before being put into the fish tank.
Qingmei saw Lu Yao coming back and said happily: "Boss, you can eat eel rice."
Lu Yao had not taken off his diving suit yet, so he took a casual look and asked: "Where did you get this box?"
Ji Feiming leaned against the door: "I bought it."
Wearing a temporary work badge, he can also enter and exit the special space in the store.
"Oh." Lu Yao stood up and walked to the bathroom. "I'll take a shower first, and then deal with them when I come out."
In the bathroom, Lu Yao filled it with hot water, soaked in it after taking a shower, and fell into deep thought.
She said yesterday that she wanted to eat eel rice. This morning, she encountered a trapped killer whale, and received two baskets of eels in the afternoon.
It doesn't seem like a coincidence. What exactly does he want to do?
If he wants to kill her, he has countless opportunities in every world.
I can't guess.
There was a "puff puff" sound of claws scratching the door.
"Meow."
It sounded like he was being selfish. Lu Yao came back to his senses. He had been soaking for a long time, so he got up and put on his clothes.
When Lu Yao came out, Qingmei had already left, and Ji Feiming was collecting cats all over the house.
Er Xin just wanted to hide in the bathroom, so he pulled the door open. Now he was picked up by Ji Feiming. Lu Yao
went to the kitchen to clean the eels. He picked out 20 fresh fat eels and prepared to send them to the snack bar to be grilled eels. The rest were put in the tank.
The deep-sea fish tanks are home to eels, octopuses, snappers, sea urchins, lobsters, crabs... There are more and more species, all separated by partitions, so there is no worry about spoiling them.
At 8:30 in the evening, the last table of guests left and Jiupintang Jianghu Restaurant closed.
Xie Minghua took off his chef's hat, raised his hand to wipe the sweat off his forehead, quickly finished cleaning the kitchen, changed his clothes and left.
He bought a two-yuan pancake from a pancake stand at the back alley of the restaurant, and walked towards the bus stop while eating with a cup of water he brought out of the store. He
stopped at the bus stop, and the bus arrived just as he finished his pancake.
He spent two yuan to take the bus to his home downstairs, and the time was about nine-ten.
He went to the underground garage to pick up the car, clicked on the order-taking software on his mobile phone, and started his second job.
Xie Minghua has two children. The eldest has just started elementary school, and the youngest daughter will soon be of kindergarten age.
His wife quit her job to take care of the children at home, and she is very busy every day.
In order to relieve the heavy financial pressure, he started to try to be an online car-hailing driver after work six months ago.
When there is a large flow of people, such as during holidays or when it rains, he can earn two to three hundred yuan a night. More often, he works until midnight and earns tens or hundreds of yuan.
At 2:30 in the morning, Xie Minghua goes home by hand.
Today is not so good. He has been waiting for orders for several hours and finally earned about fifty yuan.
Passing by the barbecue stall downstairs, Xie Minghua touched his stomach and couldn't help swallowing. In a hurry to go to work in the evening, he didn't wait for dinner in the store and ate a small cake in a hurry. Now he is really a little hungry.
An adult man needs to order a barbecue meal for at least thirty yuan.
After a busy night, he spent a total of more than fifty yuan. He really couldn't bear to order this meal.
Xie Minghua shook his head, held back his saliva, and thought about going home to cook a bowl of noodles to relieve his hunger.
In the kitchen, Xie Minghua was cooking noodles.
He was either too tired or distracted, or both, but when he was looking for chili oil, he didn't hold the bowl steady.
"Bang!" With a crisp sound, the bowl fell to the ground and broke into pieces. Soy sauce, vinegar, soaked chicken essence...all kinds of seasonings splashed everywhere and exploded into a mess on the floor, just like his mood at the moment.
In the bedroom, Zhao Rou suddenly opened her eyes and guessed that her husband had returned. With fatigue between her brows, she pulled back the thin quilt and got up to go out.
"What are you doing?"
Zhao Rou rubbed her eyes and came out. She saw the light on in the kitchen and a familiar tall figure squatting on the ground. His shadow was projected on the semi-transparent frosted glass sliding door, and his brows were slightly wrinkled.
She takes care of her little daughter during the day, picks up her son in the morning and afternoon, takes care of the housework and three meals, and helps her children with their homework at night.
The things are not big, they are all trivial. At the end of the day, her energy and temper are worn out. When she
walked to the door of the kitchen, she saw a mess on the floor and Xie Minghua was cleaning in a hurry.
The fire in her heart "exploded" and she pursed her lips tightly. She turned back to the bathroom to find a rag to wipe the floor. She pushed Xie Minghua away with her knees and said in a greasy voice: "I'll do it."
Xie Minghua shyly stepped aside, his face also tired.
The air was stagnant and stuffy, but work and trivial life had already drained all their energy, and they didn't even have the energy to quarrel.
Zhao Rou cleaned the floor and saw the boiling water on the stove. She turned around and took out a large clean bowl from the cupboard to prepare the seasoning.
Xie Minghua walked over to turn off the fire and said in a deep voice, "Forget it, let's not do it. I'm not hungry anymore."
Zhao Rou looked back at him, put the bowl down heavily, and turned back to the bedroom.
After a few minutes, Xie Minghua went back to the bedroom to get his pajamas, went to the bathroom to take a shower, and came out at almost 3:30 in the morning.
He lay down on the bed tiredly, and slept with his wife facing away.
Zhao Rou was tossing and turning beside him. Both of them were angry, but they were enduring it.
Arguing was too tiring.
They thought they would hold on to this anger all night and quarrel until dawn.
As a result, the two closed their eyes and fell asleep unknowingly.
"Let's go to the store. I heard there's eel rice today."
"There's also takoyaki with half an octopus leg. Hurry up, there won't be a seat if you go late."
"Am I the only one who goes to the store to masturbate? It's a cat cafe, but why are they all there for the food?"
A fish next to him rolled his eyes, "Then you have to be able to beat those perverts. There are too few cats in the store, so you can't masturbate at all."
"I can only settle for the next best thing and eat some cheap and big bowls of authentic seafood."
"You are so cute, uncle will catch crabs and feed you!"
"Look! These people have no shame, tsk."
"Let's go pick sea urchins together later?"
"Oh my go! Picking sea urchins is so much fun, and I can even ask the owner to help me make sea urchin rice!"
It was very noisy in his ears, and Xie Minghua opened his eyes dazedly, thinking he was dreaming.
There were talking fish all around him, and he turned into a seahorse.
His skin was gray and black, his belly was bulging, his tail was long, and he swam very slowly.
Xie Minghua tried to swim in the water clumsily, but he couldn't get the hang of it after several attempts. He looked up and found a seahorse with a turmeric body and light beige patterns on its back staring at him. It is
hard to describe the feeling at that moment, but he blurted out: "Zhao Rou?"
The ginger seahorse swam slowly in front of him, somewhat incredulously: "Husband?"
The two recognized each other and thought they were dreaming.
The fish around them had been discussing some small shop and were swimming in one direction.
Xie Minghua and Zhao Rou followed them, holding each other's tails, and swam slowly towards the shop.
The door of the furry shop was wide open, and the sea water was isolated by a transparent film.
The seahorse couple was surprised to see all kinds of fish ramming into the door and turning into human shapes.
They looked at each other, curled their tails together, and squeezed into the door.
After entering the shop, they turned back to their original appearance, but still didn't know where they were.
A regular customer noticed that the two were shy and took the initiative to greet them: "Is this your first time here? Are you here together?"
Xie Minghua held his wife's hand and nodded: "Yes, this is my wife. She came here for no reason. Brother, what is this place?"
The regular customer who spoke was also surprised and immediately smiled and said to the people around him: "I have been here for so long, and this is the first time I see you can come here together."
Xie Minghua and Zhao Rou were puzzled. Why can't you come here together?
They still doubted whether this place was really a dream?
Qingmei came out of the kitchen and saw the couple who were at a loss, and answered their doubts.
The two sat against the wall, next to which was a cat climbing frame.
Zhao Rou's eyes widened, observing the incredible scene around him.
This is a cat cafe opened on the seabed, and the customers are humans who have turned into deep-sea fish.
As long as you hand in some fresh seafood, you can play with cats, eat, and waste time in the store.
"Why did we come here?" Xie Minghua muttered to himself, and he became anxious when he thought about going to work in the morning.
Zhao Rou blinked and looked down at her hands, "Since we are here, why don't we try to relax? We can eat seafood without paying, and those cats are also very cute."
Since having Dabao and Erbao, the lives of the two people are almost entirely centered on the children. Living expenses are greatly tilted towards the children, and all time and energy are dedicated to the family.
Every morning and night, fatigue accumulates little by little, bending his back and wearing away her vitality.
They did not regret the choice they had made, and they loved their two children.
But Zhao Rou was a little eager to go on a relaxing vacation when they suddenly had a chance.
The regular customer who had greeted the two of them at the beginning told them that it was useless to be anxious when they came to this sea. If they didn't get the time, they couldn't go back. It was useless
for Xie Minghua to hesitate, and there was no point in worrying about the children. As the man said, they couldn't find a way to go back.
After completely letting go of the burden in their hearts, they both laughed.
Xie Minghua said, "I saw someone ordered eel rice just now. Do you want to eat it?"
Zhao Rou nodded, touched her pocket, and her face changed slightly: "But I don't have any money on me. Do you have any?"
Both of them were wearing pajamas, and Xie Minghua's pockets were also empty.
Silence spread.
Zhao Rou looked at the sea fish swimming outside the membrane, her brows furrowed.
Unfortunately, they were seahorses in the sea, and it was difficult for them to swim, let alone catch fish.
Without money and fish, all the wild dreams just now were in vain.
Zhao Rou raised her hand and touched her neck.
She was used to wearing a thin gold chain.
No pendant, just a naked chain.
This was the gift he gave her on her birthday in the third year of her relationship with Xie Minghua.
At that time, they were still students and had little money.
He worked part-time, helping people play games and delivering takeout. He saved more than two thousand in two months and bought this chain for her.
To her, this chain was more precious than the jewelry she chose for her wedding.
Xie Minghua noticed her movements, held her hand, and shook his head, "Don't move. I'll find a way."
A few minutes later, Xie Minghua came back with a smile, holding a bunch of seafood in his hand, including crabs and sea urchins, "I have agreed with a few brothers over there to go pick sea urchins with them in the afternoon. They lent me some seafood."
There are different species of autistic fish, some are good at hunting, while others can only sigh at the fish.
However, everything in this ocean is available to everyone. Autistic fish that are good at hunting often cooperate with fish that cannot hunt and go to the sea together to "catch the sea".
On the one hand, they can save "funds" for consumption in the furry shop, and on the other hand, it is really more fun to have more fish.
Fish that are not good at hunting can collect seaweed, work together to weave simple containers, or help intercept escaped food.
The couple exchanged seafood for an eel rice, a sashimi platter, and an octopus grilled dish.
There was no extra space in the restaurant, so the two of them ate by leaning against the cat climbing frame.
Lu Yao heard that a couple had come and served the food himself, and asked casually: "You two are seahorses in the sea?"
Zhao Rou nodded: "What's wrong?"
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