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Chapter 128

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Protagonist:

Lu Feng

Immediately after, he slowly raised his head, his sharp gaze slowly sweeping across the other three people at the table.

Liu Zhen Guo and the others weren't speaking a word right now, each of them keeping their heads down and slurping noodles in big mouthfuls, their heads nearly buried in their bowls.

"Well, well, you guys!"

Grandpa Qin instantly couldn't hold back; he had only eaten one piece of beef from his bowl of Braised Beef Noodles, and it was almost eaten down to just braised noodles by these three guys.

He pointed at the three who were eating noodles intently and shouted loudly: "No wonder you guys suddenly cared so much about Xiao Yu's matter today, turns out it was to divert my attention so you could steal my beef, right?"

"Old Qin, don't be angry!" Xu Shao Ying licked the remaining sauce from the corner of his mouth and said to Grandpa Qin with an embarrassed smile: "

Your bowl of Braised Beef Noodles smelled so fragrant, we couldn't help but eat two pieces. How about this, I'll treat you to a bowl tomorrow, consider it compensation!"

"Two pieces?" Grandpa Qin widened his eyes, pointed at his bowl and said loudly: "There was so much beef in my bowl originally, if you guys really only ate two pieces each, there wouldn't be just this little left for me!"

"Is that so? Hehe... I'm old, I can't remember how many pieces I ate just now."

Xu Shao Ying pretended to be clueless and blinked, then pretended to be angry as he looked at the other two burying their heads eating noodles: "You two tell the truth, did you eat extra just now?"

"Old Qin, just now those two ate one more piece than me, I see there are still two pieces in your bowl, how about you share one with me..."

Liu Zhen Guo laughed as he raised his head, eyes fixed on the last two pieces of beef in Grandpa Qin's bowl, licked his lips and spoke.

Before he could finish, Grandpa Qin immediately picked up his chopsticks, stuffed both pieces of meat into his mouth in one go, and while chewing glared at him indistinctly: "What joke, I only have these two pieces left, you still have the nerve to ask me for them? I haven't even settled the score with you yet! What did you say when ordering just now?"

"What did I say?"

Liu Zhen Guo's eyes rolled, looking at Zhao Jian Hua and Xu Shao Ying with a serious face: "You two heard it too, I just said whoever snatches is a dog, which of us three snatched Old Qin's beef just now? None of us, right?"

"No, no."

Zhao Jian Hua shook his head vigorously, looked at Grandpa Qin with a righteous face and said: "We three just now were stealing... no wait, we just borrowed a few pieces of beef from your bowl while you weren't looking."

After speaking, the three looked at each other and laughed, nodding in unison, feeling very satisfied with this excuse.

"You guys..."

Looking at the fox-like smiles on his three old friends' faces, Grandpa Qin was instantly speechless, feeling both angry and amused.

In the end he couldn't help but sigh and said to the three with infinite resentment: "You three have no martial virtue, ganging up to ambush me, an old comrade over eighty, is that okay? That's not okay, I advise you to behave yourselves, starting tomorrow each of you treat me to a meal at Xiao Lu's place, otherwise I'll go tell all our old comrades about this properly!"

Liu Zhen Guo and the other two couldn't help but burst into laughter, nodding in agreement.

Only then did Grandpa Qin feel psychologically balanced, picked up a chopstick of noodles and ate fiercely.

Although the beef in the bowl was gone, the noodles coated in Braised Sauce were still delicious.

The four old men ate while joking with each other, and hearty laughter rang out in the Hall from time to time.

An hour of Business Hours ended quickly, and in the blink of an eye it was time to close again.

"Take care, welcome next time."

Hu Xiaoyun had a warm smile on her face, sent off the last customer who had finished their noodles in the Hall, and then began to clean the Hall floor seriously.

Although she had been busy this whole hour, she didn't feel very tired, and felt very happy inside.

Those customers were all very enthusiastic toward Hu Xiaoyun, this new Waiter; during business today, she accidentally mixed up two customers' orders, and after discovering it hurriedly apologized to them, but those two customers had no intention of blaming her at all, and even smiled and encouraged her, which made her feel very warm.

Hu Xiaoyun was very moved by this, and worked even more seriously.

Some new customers didn't understand the rules Lu Feng set, and Hu Xiaoyun explained them one by one, gaining their approval.

When those customers ordered, they would sometimes actively chat with Hu Xiaoyun, and she would also respond enthusiastically.

Unknowingly, she felt she didn't seem to have that much social anxiety anymore, and speaking with strangers became more and more natural.

When Lu Feng told Hu Xiaoyun in the Kitchen that Business Hours had ended, she still couldn't help feeling a bit lost, feeling time had passed a bit fast.

She liked this part-time job too much, liked these friendly customers too much.

Being able to work in such an environment, Hu Xiaoyun felt like she was dreaming.

Lu Feng walked out from the Kitchen, looked at Hu Xiaoyun still busy in the Hall, couldn't help but walk up and say: "It's already off work, leave it, I'll clean up later."

Hu Xiaoyun raised her head, wiped the sweat from her forehead, shook her head with a smile and said to Lu Feng: "It's fine Boss, I'm not tired at all, I'll be done cleaning soon."

Lu Feng didn't take no for an answer, snatched the rag from her hand, and said in a brook-no-refusal tone: "I pay you one hour's wages, you only need to work one hour for me, I have no overtime rules here."

Seeing Lu Feng's persistence, Hu Xiaoyun only then stopped her work, prepared to say goodbye to Lu Feng with a grateful face: "Thank you Boss! Then... I'll head back to School first, I'll come earlier tomorrow."

"You sit for a bit first."

But Lu Feng called out to stop Hu Xiaoyun, then walked into the Kitchen under her somewhat puzzled gaze, brought out two bowls of steaming hot Braised Beef Noodles, placed one in front of her: "Eat before you go back."

Hu Xiaoyun looked at the bowl of Braised Beef Noodles emitting tempting Aroma in front of her, couldn't help but swallow her saliva.

Smells so good!

She, who hadn't eaten Dinner yet, was indeed a bit hungry right now, plus when she was serving bowls to customers just now, the fragrance of Braised Beef Noodles kept drilling into her nose, her stomach had been growling non-stop.

But Hu Xiaoyun still shook her head, said embarrassedly: "No need Boss, I'll eat back at School."

"It's already made, eat." Lu Feng smiled and said, pushed the bowl toward Hu Xiaoyun again, and even fetched her a pair of chopsticks.

Hu Xiaoyun hesitated for a few seconds, finally said somewhat reluctantly: "Then... Boss, the money for this bowl of noodles, just deduct it from today's wages..."

"Business Hours have ended, this is an Employee Meal, free, deduct what money?"

Lu Feng frowned upon hearing this, looked at Hu Xiaoyun with some puzzlement and asked.

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