Chapter 89: Black Ball Stewed in Red Wine
This is not asking the waiter to go up and receive the guests, it is clearly sending the waiter to his death.
The world of rule ghost stories is so scary, and the restaurant rules don’t say you can’t eat waiters, and of course they don’t say you can’t eat customers.
Under the rules, whoever triggers the rule is, of course, more powerful. The waiter was trembling with fear, unable to refuse the manager. Perhaps one of the rules in the work code was to obey the orders of superiors.
Although Lin Xi’s previous job did not have similar rules, watching other anchors’ rebroadcasts, some of them had such rules.
The waiter chose the latter, likely hoping the guests were full and wouldn't attack him. However, the starving ghost at the next table, with his narrowed eyes, kept looking around, and didn't look full at all.
The waiter walked slowly, feeling uneasy. He really didn't want to die. But there were two pieces of news for him. The bad news was that Yuan Yuan, the starving customer, clearly wasn't full. The good news was that he had his eye on the guests at the next table.
The table next to them is where Lin Xi and her friends are.
Lin Xi and Shen Sangning's chairs were so close together, they were practically tucked together. From the perspective of the nearby starving ghost, it couldn't see Shen Sangning, who was obscured by Lin Xi. It could perhaps vaguely make out small details like her hair and her white dress, but it couldn't see Shen Sangning in her entirety. Perhaps because of this, it misjudged the situation, believing it was just Lin Xi and some unknown entity.
In short, it stood up from its seat and walked towards Lin Xi while mumbling "hungry." Neither the manager, the waiter, nor the restaurant itself tried to stop it. After all, the rules didn't say guests couldn't assault other guests. As long as it didn't damage the restaurant's tables, chairs, and other property, the restaurant would leave it alone.
The starving ghost looked impatient and even reached out to push away the tables and chairs in front of him, but he moved carefully, fearing that he would accidentally break the chairs.
Its mouth was wide open and it made a "hungry" sound. It looked very similar to the former owner of the funeral home. After all, they were the same kind of ghost.
Lin Xi's eyes lit up, and he moved his chair back a little, revealing Shen Sangning's figure. The moment the starving ghost saw Shen Sangning clearly, he froze for a moment, then changed direction while saying "hungry" and walked towards the customer next to him.
But Shen Sangning was also "hungry". She tilted her head and her eyes shone with golden light. Starving ghosts should be a very strong type. Anyway, Lin Xi encountered two starving ghosts, both of whom were very strong.
Being strong means being able to turn into a bigger black ball, which Shen Sangning will love.
Then an invisible wall blocked the starving ghost's path. It hit the transparent wall and collapsed onto the ground, its huge, fat body like a funny tumbler. Shen Sangning effortlessly transformed the starving ghost into a black ball, and with a wave of his hand, the black ball landed in his bowl.
The waiter who was waiting for them to order was very quick and swift. He picked up the plate very servilely. After the black ball landed on the plate, the waiter asked, "Miss, do you need it processed?"
The restaurant also offers this service.
"Does processing require an additional payment code?"
Lin Xi was very keenly aware of this problem. In the real world, if you bring your own food to a restaurant, there's an 80% chance they'll charge a handling fee. Lin Xi once took Chen Sangning to a restaurant with Yangcheng Lake hairy crabs she'd bought online. She bought eight, and the restaurant charged her 10 yuan for each crab, and a whole dish of hairy crab cost her 80 yuan.
If I had known this earlier, I would have eaten it at home!
What's so easy about processing hairy crabs? Isn't it just washing them, adding ginger slices and steaming them in a steamer? She was charged 80 yuan for this!
The ambiance was quite pleasant, though. They chose a window seat, which featured Jiangnan-style decor and old-fashioned tables and chairs, even the chairs were armchairs. Outside, a pavilion, a stream, and a garden awaited. Otherwise, Lin Xi wouldn't have spent so much money to come all the way to the restaurant. Since then, Lin Xi has become more cautious, at least asking what the processing fee is.
Sure enough, the Rules of Weird World also requires a processing fee, but it is not expensive: "It's only ten dollars. How do you want to do it?"
How to do it...
Lin Xi was stunned. She looked at the black ball, not knowing what to do. This time, the black ball was neither too big nor too small, slightly larger than her fist, but nowhere near as big as the children's basketball. Even though Lin Xi was a skilled cook, she had no idea what to do with this black ball.
So she chose to leave it to the restaurant: "Just make it as you like, as long as it tastes good."
The waiter agreed, and Lin Xi ordered a few normal dishes and waited for the restaurant to serve the food.
This restaurant served food so quickly that Lin Xi wondered for a moment if it was pre-prepared food. But when he thought of the starving ghost just now, it seemed that if the restaurant was a little slower, it would be in big trouble. He also understood why the restaurant served food so quickly.
If restaurants in the real world all serve food this fast... forget it, let's not serve it so fast. If food is served this fast in the real world, it's most likely pre-prepared dishes.
Most of the dishes were pretty normal. Lin Xi didn't order much, just a plate of pork ribs with preserved plum sauce, a plate of spicy chicken, a plate of stir-fried vegetables, and a bowl of tofu soup. Only the dish made of black balls was particularly strange. It looked like sliced preserved eggs with something like black pepper sauce drizzled on them. But the sliced preserved eggs were emitting a screaming sound, a sound that penetrated Lin Xi's head, making him feel like he was listening to a mandrake screaming.
She couldn't help but cover her ears, but the waiter who brought the food didn't think it was offensive. Instead, he looked at the dish with great greed. If she wasn't afraid that Shen Sangning would eat it together, Lin Xi would have guessed that it would definitely steal a bite when it was brought over.
Shen Sang Ning had been paying attention to Lin Xi. Seeing her covering her ears and turning her head to the side, she simply reached out to slice the preserved egg and muted the sound manually.
The waiter prepared an extra knife and fork for Shen Sangning, and even introduced the dish solemnly: "Black balls stewed in red wine with black pepper sauce, medium rare, please taste it."
"..." Lin Xi suddenly realized that this was not century egg slices, but steak!
There was no need for a knife. Shen Sangning used a fork to pick up the black balls and swallowed them quickly one by one. Seeing that she was eating quickly, Lin Xi asked, "Wife, is it delicious?"
Shen Sangning nodded. There was still a piece of meat on the fork, so she raised the fork and walked over to Lin Xi: "Wife, eat! It's delicious!"
Lin Xi wasn't a big glutton, although she usually enjoyed eating, but this thing looked so ugly that she really didn't want to eat it. But Chen Sang Ning had repeatedly asked her to eat it, so maybe... it really was delicious? Thinking of this, Lin Xi couldn't help but swallow.
Shen Sangning moved closer, the fork almost touching Lin Xi's lips. Lin Xi couldn't help but lean back, avoiding a little. Her eyes were fixed on the fork in Shen Sangning's hand. The black ball had been sliced and stewed, and it was stuck on the fork, with the sides drooping softly.
The aroma of seasoning penetrated Lin Xi's nose. The waiter had just told her the cooking method. It was stewed with red wine and black pepper juice. It must smell fragrant and particularly tempting.
Lin Xi thought of the black balls' screams. For some reason, she felt like there was a little figure hidden within them, reminiscent of the famous painting "The Scream." At that moment, Lin Xi's craving for food was quenched. She grasped Shen Sang Ning's hand and pushed it away, "Ning Ning, no, no, I don't want to eat anymore. You should eat it yourself!"
Even if it tasted good, she wouldn't eat it! It felt like fried insects, a regional specialty in China. Grasshoppers, bee pupae, stick insects—though she imagined they'd be delicious, given their supposedly chicken-flavored, crunchy texture—they should be charred and crispy after frying, and with the added toppings, they'd probably taste similar to prawns.
But knowing is one thing, eating is another!
Lin Xi refused, so Shen Sang Ning had no choice but to eat it herself.
After lunch, Lin Xi and Shen Sang Ning strolled around for a while before the No. 14 bus arrived. After boarding, Lin Xi and the driver agreed on a time to pick them up that evening. Not long after, they arrived at the school gate. It was still lunchtime, and many students were entering and leaving the school.
Lin Xi tried to blend in with the crowd of students, but was discovered by the security guard and ruthlessly kicked out.
"No, how can I not be a student?" Lin Xi argued with the security guard, and Chen Sang Ning, who was standing beside him, was also eager to take down the security guard. The security guard's scalp was tingling, and he had to step in to chase Lin Xi away due to the rules. When he heard Lin Xi's words, his eyes widened: "Do you look like a student?! How do you look like one?!"
"You are so old, and you still pretend to be a student. How shameless!"
Lin Xi snorted coldly, and she flicked the candle at Shen Sang Ning who was about to rush over: "Several students are much older than me, and you didn't stop them!" She was of course referring to the anchors who were assigned student identities, and they pretended to be deaf and dumb, pretending not to hear what Lin Xi said.
Lin Xi could only grit his teeth and give up on entering through the school gate.
But she
She hadn't given up yet. She was determined to get into school this afternoon. She had to bribe some of the students! To do so, she even brought a lot of junk snacks! In this world where making money is so difficult, surely parents wouldn't use such valuable money to buy junk snacks for their children? Using junk snacks to gain the children's approval—that was the brilliant plan Lin Xi had come up with last night.
She grabbed the bag of snacks she'd just bought near the restaurant and pulled Shen Sangning over to the side. She pulled two packs of cola-flavored gummy candies from the bag, giving one to Shen Sangning and opening the other for herself. The two of them ate as they walked around the school. They reached the side of the school, outside the playground. There were quite a few children playing there, and some were right next to them, separated only by a fence and a wall.
The children also saw Lin Xi and Shen Sang Ning eating the candies, and at that moment, their eyes were fixed on Lin Xi.
Lin Xi stuffed another candy into his mouth, then looked at the kids and asked, "Want some?"
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