"Brother Hui, give me a plate of stir-fried beef with yellow peppers!" Ye Qian said decisively as she walked up to Yu Hui's stall.
She had been craving that boxed lunch she had just given to Xiong Bowen, and now, without even thinking, she ordered a stir-fried beef with yellow peppers.
"Didn't you say you were going to lose weight?" Yu Hui looked at her with a blank expression.
As he set up his stall, he caught a glimpse of the transparent lunchbox in Ye Qian's hand. He had also vaguely overheard her conversation with Xiong Bowen earlier.
"I...I was planning to lose weight, but I didn't say it would start today, it'll start tomorrow!" Ye Qian was a little embarrassed, her face turning red instantly, but all of that paled in comparison to the boxed lunch.
"Okay." Yu Hui nodded and handed her a boxed lunch of stir-fried beef with yellow peppers.
Upon receiving the boxed lunch, Ye Qian's eyes lit up; she couldn't wait to devour it all, leaving not even the takeout container.
She returned to her stall and went on a rampage, eating like crazy.
With her eating speed of eight bites per second, she would definitely be the champion in a competitive eating contest!
Seeing this, Yu Hui shook his head helplessly, sighing inwardly: No wonder he can't lose weight; at this rate, he'll only get fatter...
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"Delicious, delicious! Boss Yu must have secretly learned the techniques from New Oriental. How can his skills be so good!"
Xiong Bowen held his lunchbox, opened his mouth, and kept rummaging through it with his chopsticks; his mouth was like a harvester.
Wherever it goes, not a blade of grass grows.
In no time, he finished a bowl of stir-fried pork with chili peppers.
"Hey, where's my other lunchbox?"
Only then did he realize that the boxed lunch Ye Qian had brought was gone again!
"What bad luck!" Xiong Bowen patted his head, his face full of melancholy. He admired himself for being so forgetful all the time, losing a lunchbox twice a day.
After searching around the stall for a while, I finally discovered that the boxed lunches were scattered all over the ground.
"Oh my god, I spilled my whole lunchbox?"
Xiong Bowen's eyes widened, his heart aching with pain.
After cleaning the floor, he happily ran off to buy a boxed lunch, complaining as he went.
"I'm speechless. Today is the worst day ever. I guess it's those skinny guys cursing me again!"
Before he even reached Yu Hui's stall, he saw Ye Qian acting suspiciously, clearly trying to avoid him.
What's going on? Does this girl have a crush on me?
Unaware of what was going on, Xiong Bowen walked up to Ye Qian's stall and placed his hands on it.
"Xiaoqian, why are you hiding like this?"
"ah?"
Ye Qian was enjoying her meal when she saw Xiong Bowen rushing over, and she was terrified.
She instinctively put the lunchbox on the ground, afraid that Xiong Bowen would see the "stolen goods".
Just a moment ago I was enthusiastically saying I wanted to lose weight, and now I've bought a boxed lunch and am eating it like crazy?
Ye Qian found it a little funny when she thought about it.
"What are you doing here again?" Ye Qian asked. She was so hungry that she had been focused on cooking and hadn't noticed Xiong Bowen standing not far away.
Why not eat a vegetable salad when you're hungry?
Of course I have no appetite!
"Can't I come over?"
"Don't you think I'm unlucky? I left my lunchbox here, and after you brought it over, it spilled!"
Xiong Bowen recounted his story with a face full of grievance.
Ye Qian didn't feel sorry for him at this moment; she just found it funny.
"So you came here to buy another one?" Ye Qian asked tentatively. She almost thought that Xiong Bowen had seen her sneaking a bite and then rushed over.
Now that I think about it, surely no one has that much free time?
"Yes! One serving isn't enough for me, so I'll have to buy another one. I can't exactly sweep up what's on the ground and eat it, can I?"
Ye Qian burst into laughter upon hearing this.
"I think it's fine. A little dirt won't hurt you!"
After chatting for a while, Xiong Bowen finally remembered the important matter.
"Okay, I'm not talking to you anymore. I almost forgot I came here to buy a boxed lunch."
"Boss Yu, another order of stir-fried beef with yellow peppers, please." He turned his head and looked at Yu Hui.
"Okay!" Yu Hui took a steaming hot lunchbox out of the styrofoam box. "Take good care of it this time, don't spill it."
"I won't do it this time. I'm not that reckless."
After collecting his lunchbox, Xiong Bowen prepared to go back, but after taking only a few steps, he seemed to remember something and turned back.
"Boss Yu, I'd like another pound of braised beef, cut in half!"
at the same time.
Ye Qian moved the half-eaten boxed lunch to the partitioned area of the stall, worried that it might be seen.
Smelling the aroma of boxed lunches, and glancing at Xiong Bowen, Ye Qian frowned and muttered to herself.
"Why isn't this guy leaving yet? He's keeping me from eating!"
Xiong Bowen didn't know Ye Qian had bought a boxed lunch and thought she was trying to lose weight. Ye Qian kept an eye on him, afraid that he would find out that she had secretly eaten.
Yu Hui, with his God-like perspective, looked at the two of them and found it a little funny.
At this moment, Xiong Bowen also finished buying the braised beef, a pound of braised beef, packed in two plastic bags.
Does he intend to have one meal at noon and another in the afternoon?
No, that's not the case.
"Xiaoqian, I noticed that your lunchbox is full of vegetables and has no protein at all. I bought you some braised beef."
In the blink of an eye, Xiong Bowen walked up to Ye Qian, from a position where he could see the boxed lunches under the stall cart.
This startled Xiaoqian quite a bit; her cheeks instantly turned red, and even her ears and neck turned red.
When Xiong Bowen saw this scene, he thought the girl was just shy.
"It's alright, it's just half a pound of braised beef, nothing to me!" He patted his chest and said with a smile.
He thought he was very tall and handsome, but in Ye Qian's eyes, he was just a complete idiot.
All she wanted at that moment was for Xiong Bowen to leave quickly and not stay there.
"Thank you." Ye Qian took the braised beef from Xiong Bowen's hand.
"No need to thank me, it's what I should do!" Xiong Bowen said, brushing a few tufts of hair from his head.
Even at this moment, he couldn't resist showing off, which made Ye Qian very anxious.
You little brat...
"Okay." Ye Qian forced a smile. She didn't want to say another word now, and just hoped that Xiong Bowen could go back soon.
She only ate half of that boxed lunch. With her appetite, a whole meal would barely be enough to fill a tooth gap, let alone half a meal.
"Then I'm off." Xiong Bowen waved.
Ye Qian hummed in agreement, and seeing the boy about to leave, she was happier than anyone else.
However.
To her surprise, Xiong Bowen turned his head away again.
"It smells so good! What's that smell?"
"This doesn't seem to be the lunchbox I'm holding..."
He sniffed around for a moment, then returned to Ye Qian's side. "Hey, the smell is stronger here."
Upon seeing this, Ye Qian's heart pounded wildly, feeling as if it were about to jump out of her chest.
No, is this kid born in the Year of the Dog?
The thing she least wanted to see still happened.
Xiong Bowen leaned down and glanced over, just in time to spot the leftover boxed lunch.
"What...what is this?"
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