The owner and his wife run the business together. The owner cooks, and the owner's wife works as a waitress. The two of them work together enthusiastically.
The shop is small, with only five or six tables inside. Since it's daytime and the awning outside hasn't been set up yet, it looks even more desolate.
Ye Ningwan explained as she ate.
"It's daytime now. Come back at night, there will be a queue! The owner and his wife are too busy to handle everything."
Pei Fengzhi glanced at the pile of cold dishes on the table, and didn't know where to put his chopsticks.
In the end, I could only reach for the free peanuts in the small dish with my chopsticks, take a bite, and chew slowly.
A short while later, the owner and his wife placed the twelve pounds of crayfish that Ye Ningwan had ordered on the table. The owner wiped his hands and looked at Ye Ningwan with a gleam in his eyes.
"Miss Ye, all your dishes are served. I've picked out the biggest crayfish here for you! Please start eating, and call me if you need anything!"
Ye Ningwan smiled at the boss and his wife.
"Thank you, boss and boss's wife."
The proprietress exclaimed, her face full of wrinkles but beaming with smiles.
"Miss Ye, please don't be so polite with us. If it weren't for your help back then, we would still be heavily in debt, and we probably wouldn't have this small shop now, able to make a living like we are today!"
The boss couldn't help but wipe his eyes when he thought about what happened back then; his eyes were slightly red.
"Yes, thanks to you, you are our family's great benefactor! If it weren't for you, we wouldn't have such a good life now. My husband and I will remember your kindness for the rest of our lives."
"Thinking back to those days, it was actually very difficult for you too, your family..."
As the boss was speaking, his wife gave him a strong tug and a meaningful look, signaling him not to say anything he shouldn't.
The boss seemed to realize that he had touched a sore spot on Ye Ningwan, and immediately shut his mouth, apologizing to Ye Ningwan.
"I'm so sorry, Miss Ye, I didn't mean to."
Ye Ningwan smiled and didn't take it to heart.
"It's nothing, it's not an important person or thing anyway, I never take it to heart."
The couple smiled at each other.
More customers came in one after another, and the owners went back to their work.
Little Star had already picked up a crayfish and started to eat it with gusto, but Pei Fengzhi sat upright at the table, not touching his chopsticks for a long time. The veins on his forehead were throbbing as he looked at everything in front of him with difficulty.
Ye Ningwan turned her head away, smiling as she looked at Pei Fengzhi's usually aloof face, which was now filled with helplessness. Suddenly, she found him really adorable.
"Ninth Master Pei, you've never eaten crayfish before, have you?"
Pei Fengzhi turned his head to look at Ye Ningwan, and after a moment of silence, he spoke firmly.
"I've eaten it!"
As he spoke, Pei Fengzhi picked up a crayfish with his chopsticks, held it to his mouth for a long time, but in the end he didn't bite into it directly. Instead, he placed it on the stainless steel plate in front of him, and then kept fiddling with it for a long time with one chopstick in one hand, turning the crayfish over and over.
Then, jiu—flew into the air in a perfectly parabolic arc, and finally fell to the ground.
"puff--"
Ye Ningwan couldn't hold back any longer and finally burst out laughing the moment the crayfish landed so miserably.
Pei Fengzhi glanced at Ye Ningwan with some resentment, like a pitiful big dog. Despite his fierce and immense strength, he was so soft and cute when facing her. Ye Ningwan almost couldn't resist pinching Pei Fengzhi's cheek.
But Ye Ningwan held back her laughter and asked Pei Fengzhi.
"So you really haven't tried it before?"
Pei Fengzhi refused to admit it and emphasized it again.
"I've eaten it!"
However, he was raised abroad from a young age, and foreigners don't eat shelled food, so the lobsters he ate were all shell-less.
Although it didn't seem to be the same kind as the one in front of him, he had never seen such a small lobster before.
Little Star suddenly spoke up with a grin.
"Daddy, it's better if you just eat it with your hands. I'll teach you how to peel it. First, get a sheath..."
Pei Fengzhi glanced furtively at the direction of the little star out of the corner of his eye, then looked down at a small square package on the table and was stunned.
Um……
He glanced at Ye Ningwan with some shock and asked in a low voice.
"This store also offers this..."
Before Pei Fengzhi could finish speaking, he saw Ye Ningwan take one of the small square packaging bags, tear it open, pull out a transparent... plastic product, shake it out, and put it on her hand.
Ye Ningwan watched as Pei Fengzhi picked up a crayfish, frowned, and tried to peel it with his hands. However, because he was not good at it, juices splashed everywhere, and the crayfish in his hand broke into pieces.
Pei Fengzhi's expression looked rather dejected.
Suddenly, a hand reached out and placed a peeled, pink shrimp on Pei Fengzhi's lips.
Pei Fengzhi watched Ye Ningwan smile at him, then opened his mouth and put the pink shrimp meat into his mouth. The bouncy and tender lobster meat spread between his lips and teeth, and the spicy flavor was strong and rich. He couldn't help but turn his head away and cough twice, his face turning red from the spiciness.
Seeing Pei Fengzhi so irritated by the spiciness, Ye Ningwan couldn't help but laugh.
"So you don't eat spicy food!"
Pei Fengzhi turned his head, maintaining his usual aloof and refined demeanor.
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