"How did your date with Xu Yanfeng go on Thursday morning?"
On Saturday night, four people from the dormitory went out to eat hot pot. They had just ordered the dishes, but they hadn't been served yet. I took the opportunity to interview Xia Xi to find out if there was any new progress between her and the great god.
Xia Xi took a sip of the pearl milk tea she had bought on the way, slowly chewing the pearls in her mouth. Her eyelids fluttered, and she thought back to that day. She had spread rumors about her pregnancy, portraying Xu Yanfeng as a scumbag who would turn his back on her and ignore her. He was powerless to argue and was so angry that he wanted to walk away. She quickly stood up, grabbed his sleeve, and smiled and explained to the patrons watching the show, "Don't take it seriously. I was just joking with my boyfriend."
Xu Yanfeng became even angrier.
In order to keep him steady, she said a lot of nice things.
Although the breakfast wasn't perfect, she was generally satisfied. Xu Yanfeng noticed she couldn't handle the soy milk, so he lowered his eyes and whispered, "If you can't eat it, don't eat it. Order something else."
He still cares about her...
"Hey, wake up! Why are you dreaming before you even go to bed?" Wang Qiuyu, who was sitting next to Xia Xi, picked up a flyer from the table and fanned it in front of her eyes. "You're smiling so brightly. No need to ask, it must be good news."
Xia Xi came back to her senses, put the back of her hand to her face, and asked in disbelief, "Did I laugh?"
The three of them nodded in unison.
Zhao Lei: "It's more than just a smile, my face is red."
Xia Xi pointed at the hot pot in front of her in a dissembling manner: "The fire is too strong, it's roasted red."
"Sister, can you come up with a more plausible excuse? We haven't even started firing yet."
“…”
As they were talking, the waiter came over with a cart and brought the dishes they ordered to the table one by one: beef, tripe, duck intestines, shrimp balls... There was so much food that the table at the back couldn't hold it any more, so they had to stack them up.
The waiter lit the fire for them, said "Enjoy your meal" and left.
The pot hasn't boiled yet, so a few people eat brown sugar rice cakes first.
"Oh, right..." Zhao Lei chewed the sticky rice cake in her mouth and was speechless for a long time. After she swallowed it, she pointed at Xia Xi and asked, "Do you know when Xu Yanfeng's birthday is?"
Xia Xi: "I know, November 4th."
Today is November 1st, and the day after tomorrow is Xu Yanfeng's birthday. She has collected so much information about Xu Yanfeng, how could she not even know the most basic birthday? That would be a complete failure.
"So you knew." Zhao Lei said, "I saw that you didn't prepare any gifts recently, so I thought you didn't know."
The pot was boiling, bubbling, the air was filled with the aroma of spicy butter, and white steam was rising. Xia Xi used a serving chopstick to pick up the ingredients on the plate and put them into the pot, answering her question nonchalantly: "Because I didn't prepare a birthday present for him."
Hearing her say this, the three roommates were shocked.
On such an important day, Xia Xi didn't even prepare a gift? How could they not believe it?
Xia Xi picked up the quickly cooked tripe, dipped it in the sauce bowl, and before taking a bite, said, "Even if I prepared a gift, with his temper, he probably wouldn't accept it."
After saying that, Xia Xi ate the tripe with satisfaction. The first bite caught her off guard and she choked on the spiciness. She quickly drank a sip of milk tea to relieve the spiciness.
"Then you didn't show any reaction at all?" Zhao Lei asked.
Xia Xi wiped her mouth with a tissue. Facing several pairs of inquiring eyes, she lifted the corners of her lips slightly, revealing an enigmatic smile. She deliberately kept silent, whetting their appetite.
"I knew you had other plans." Zhao Lei slammed the table anxiously. "You're keeping us in suspense. Tell us now!"
Xia Xi scooped a few times in the pot with a slotted spoon, picked up a piece of braised pork ribs that were almost cooked off the bone, and called out to them, "Stop gossiping and eat quickly. The meat is all cooked."
The three of them were so curious that they couldn't eat unless they got the answer.
"Xia Xi." Three voices called Xia Xi's name at the same time.
The sound was a bit loud, attracting the attention of the customers at the table next to Xia Xi.
The tables in the hot pot restaurant are small spaces separated by hollow wooden boards, with an aisle in the middle for people to walk. People on opposite sides of the aisle can see each other, but people in adjacent seats cannot see each other. Because the backrests of the booths are slightly high, people can block their heads when sitting down, but they can hear sounds through the hollow wooden boards.
In the row of booths where Xia Xi sat back to back, a boy turned around after hearing a loud "Xia Xi", knelt on one leg on the seat, and looked at the next door through the hollow gap in the wooden board.
It was Xia Xi and her roommate.
The boy sat down, and the girl who was eating hot pot with him asked, "What are you looking at?"
The boy lowered his voice, worried that the people next door would hear him: "I heard someone calling Xia Xi's name, it really was her."
"Xia Xi? The one pursuing Xu Yanfeng?"
"Yes."
"You and Xu Yanfeng live in the same dormitory. What does he think of Xia Xi?"
"That person doesn't reveal his thoughts, so how would I know?"
"Can't you just ask?"
"Do you think Xu Yanfeng will tell you if you ask him?"
"Well, that's according to your observation."
"From what I've observed, Xu Yanfeng seems to have a special feeling towards Xia Xi."
"Tsk, what kind of observation skills do you have! If Xia Xi keeps chasing and blocking him like that, Xu Yanfeng should be annoyed to death."
At the next table, Xia Xi spat out a bone, which "plopped" into the bone dish. A smile dotted her beautiful eyes, covering her entire face. "I plan to confess my love to him in public on his birthday."
The three roommates who were chattering about what big move Xia Xi was going to use seemed to have pressed the pause button and were silent.
Xia Xi knew they didn't understand, so she explained, "Although I've been pursuing Xu Yanfeng and he knows it, I haven't actually confessed my feelings to him formally. Birthdays are such a beautiful and important holiday, so of course I have to use them to confess my feelings. I want him to think of me every birthday from now on."
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