The world is vast, and life is long. In the grand scheme of things, there will always be someone who travels thousands of miles to be by your side, to care for you, to cherish you, and to give you a lifetime of warmth and感动 (gǎndòng, a feeling of being deeply moved).
Lu Wanzheng could sense these things from Xiao Qifeng.
She thought that Xiao Qifeng must really like her, or even love her, so she should also immerse herself in the role and learn to truly love him.
She never believed that love at first sight was true love; it was merely a fleeting attraction. She believed that the key to whether two people could stay together was the development of feelings over time.
A waiter brought the pot to their table, placed it in the recessed area of the table, and turned on the heat.
Immediately after her came another waiter with a piece of paper for grilling meat, which he placed on the grill for them.
As they approached each other, they secretly peeked at each other.
Good heavens!
He's so handsome!
She's so beautiful!
Mom! She wants to be in a relationship even more now!
After they bent down and left, returning to the kitchen, their excitement made them keep sharing their feelings about the close-up observation with their friends, saying, "It feels like we're in love with ourselves."
Xiao Qifeng stared intently at the girl in front of him the whole time, ignoring the strange looks he received from those around him.
At first, Lu Wanzheng didn't pay attention, but she soon discovered the problem. Logically, each table should have a designated waiter to serve the dishes.
At this moment, each person serving the dishes seems different from the previous one, even if they are wearing the same clothes, they are all easy to distinguish.
After all the dishes were served, she roughly counted and realized that almost every waiter in the restaurant had brought her food.
Is this because there are no customers in the store, and everyone is rushing to do the work?
Lu Wanzheng said she couldn't quite understand their thought process.
But now that all the dishes were served, she was ready to start eating.
She picked up the plate of shrimp paste, and with a small spatula, carefully cut off small pieces from the whole plate of shrimp paste and put them into the pot.
Then she picked up the small tongs for grilling, brushed oil on the grill, and placed a good piece of beef on it. She remembered that it was called Wusangge beef on the menu. It was marbled with fat and lean meat. The grill made a sizzling sound, and the oil bounced on the meat.
After baking until it changed color slightly, she sprinkled on the seasonings that were placed aside, flipped it over, and continued baking until it was about 90% cooked. She then used chopsticks to pick up a piece and put it into Xiao Qifeng's bowl. "Try it and see how it is." Her eyes were full of anticipation, wanting to know his opinion on it.
“You can dip it in this sauce,” Lu Wanzheng reminded him, using the sauce she had just prepared for him.
Xiao Qifeng picked up his chopsticks, took a piece of meat from the bowl. The meat had turned a light gray color. He coated it with sauce and ate it in one bite. The texture was firm, elastic, and chewy. The meat was sweet but not dry. He nodded and said, "It tastes better than any beef I've ever had before. I can feel your love for me."
Being praised like that, Lu Wanzheng was naturally overjoyed. She put a few more pieces of meat into Xiao Qifeng's bowl. The light gray beef in the white porcelain bowl was decorated with a few scallions that had been roasted to a golden brown.
"Eat more if you like it. This beef, brimming with love, is only available to me." Lu Wanzheng picked up the remaining beef from the grill and put it into her own bowl before grilling the rest.
She blew on it gently, then dipped the beef in the sauce with her chopsticks. The beef was coated in sauce, and with one bite, it was incredibly fragrant. The fatty parts even burst with juice when you bit into them, but it didn't feel greasy at all.
The meat is of good quality.
She then scooped out cooked shrimp paste from the hot pot. The pink shrimp paste had been tinged with red by the spicy broth, making it look incredibly appetizing.
She poured it into her own bowl, and the white porcelain bowl, having received the shrimp paste, also turned red when it touched the surface.
Taking advantage of the break, she poured a lot more food into the hot pot, and also put other meats in the grill. Cooking the two pots together brought double the joy.
The two were engrossed in their meal. Lu Wanzheng would occasionally put some grilled meat on Xiao Qifeng's plate. During this time, she would steal a few glances at him out of the corner of her eye. The man ate quietly, his movements slow and leisurely, and his expression seemed a bit aloof.
By the end, Lu Wanzheng couldn't eat anymore. The hot pot ingredients were all gone, but there was still some meat left on the grill. So she took the grill tongs and kept flipping the meat on the grill. "Your royal-level grill chef, Xiao Lu, is online to serve you alone. Remember to give me a five-star review."
"Then I'll have to trouble you, Master Lu. You must use your best skills."
"No problem, no problem."
The two of them weren't speaking loudly.
When it was time to eat, many customers came into the restaurant, and the waiters became busy, constantly passing by them.
The two looked at each other and smiled.
The afterglow of the setting sun dyed the entire sky orange, and to outsiders, the couple sitting by the window appeared to be bathed in gold. The woman used tongs to grill meat and placed the cooked pieces into the man's bowl. The man picked up the meat the woman gave him and savored it slowly, not only enjoying the delicious food but also the emotions that the meat carried.
The two of them grilled and ate together in perfect harmony, creating a sense of peaceful tranquility.
It inspires envy in people's hearts and longs for in the gods.
"Have you eaten enough?" Xiao Qifeng saw that Lu Wanzheng was grilling meat for her and was worried that she hadn't eaten enough. It's not a gentleman's thing to let his girlfriend go hungry.
"I'm full. I'm not a child anymore."
Seeing that the meat was almost cooked, Lu Wanzheng stopped to rest. The white porcelain bowl in front of Xiao Qifeng, which was no longer recognizable, was filled with the roasted meat.
Lu Wanzheng picked up the milk tea that had cooled to room temperature and took a big gulp.
Xiao Qifeng looked up at her and asked, "Didn't you eat your fill?" How could she still drink milk tea? Sometimes it's really hard to guess what girls are thinking. You never know if what she means is the same as what you understand.
"My stomach is full from eating hot pot and barbecue, but it's still full from drinking milk tea. So I'm filling it up now." Lu Wanzheng pinched the straw and shook the milk tea in her cup.
Xiao Qifeng nodded, seemingly understanding but not quite.
"Can I understand this as your stomach saying it's full, but your mouth saying it's hungry?"
"Maybe." Lu Wanzheng waved the milk tea in front of Xiao Qifeng.
Girls' thoughts are indeed hard to guess.
After the two had eaten and drunk their fill, this time, Xiao Qifeng did not rush to pay the bill.
The store manager personally saw the two off at the door, waving goodbye with tears in his eyes, hoping they would come again next time.
She turned to look inside the store and saw that there were many more customers than usual today, with a long line of people waiting to come in and eat.
The two left the hot pot restaurant.
Lu Wanzheng: "Let's take a walk around and digest our food."
Xiao Qifeng: "Okay."
Thus, in this huge shopping mall, you can see two young people aimlessly wandering around floor by floor, but they don't buy anything.
Lu Wanzheng's hand was held by Xiao Qifeng as they strolled from the fourth floor to the first floor. When they first arrived, she noticed that there was a large supermarket on the first floor, so she took this opportunity to buy some food.
So she pulled Xiao Qifeng into the supermarket.
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