Know Yourself in the Dragon World

Chapter 392 Meeting an Old Friend in a Foreign Land (6)

A corner of the city is lit up by the lights of the food stalls.

Food stalls are lined up on the street. Amid the smoke and fire, the stall owners are busy and the diners are noisy.

Su Xiaoqiang covered his nose, feeling repulsed by the greasy table top.

It’s not that I dislike it, it’s just that I’m simply not used to it.

"You kept me hungry for more than an hour and told me there were good places and delicious food. Are you referring to this place?" Su Xiaoqiang asked Han Qiu who was holding a menu.

After driving over a hundred kilometers and across a city, I brought my girl to eat at a food stall.

It sounds a bit outrageous and abstract.

"Last year, I spent almost half a month's living expenses to take you to a high-end restaurant. You told me that there was no need to book such a good restaurant, as you almost turned the restaurant into a canteen." Han Qiu wrote down the names of the dishes one by one with a smile.

"So you think there is no need to spend so much money and brought me here?" Su Xiaoqiang asked.

"Yes, don't underestimate it, the taste is quite good. I specially asked passers-by about it!" Han Qiu handed the menu to Su Xiaoqiang, "Take a look and see what you want to eat. You are tired of eating three-star Michelin restaurants, so you need to change your taste, right?"

"It's okay to change the taste, I just can't adapt to the environment here." Su Xiaoqiang rubbed his nose.

The smell of alcohol, cigarettes, and cooking, all kinds of smells mixed together.

The light from the fire, the lamps, the polluted air and the moonlight half-obscured by the clouds, all mixed together yet their sources could be identified.

"This is how life is." Han Qiu took out a tissue and handed it to Su Xiaoqiang. "You've been in the luxury box for too long. A good entrepreneur should walk into the lives of ordinary people. It's not a good thing to put yourself on the shelf."

"You are not my elder." Su Xiaoqiang reminded with a grin.

"I know, I'm just giving you some advice. Your comfort zone is comfortable, but you can also step out of it. For you, it's just an experience when you have nothing to do, so it's a good thing if you gain something from it."

"No harvest?"

"Then go back to your comfort zone, little angel, and don't waste your good conditions. You have many, many, many opportunities to choose, while most people in the world can hardly have a chance to choose once in their lifetime. I may go to Africa for a trip in the future. If you are interested, I can let you know then."

"It's started again!" Su Xiaoqiang pointed at Han Qiu's nose, "No more preaching. We've had enough preaching today. Also, you can let me know when the time comes for us to go to Africa."

"Got it. Have you ordered the food? My lady."

"I don't know what to order. You decide." Su Xiaoqiang handed the menu back to Han Qiu and added, "I want soup."

"Then let's have the old-fashioned soup."

Han Qiu added the traditional Chinese soup and called the waiter skillfully.

For two people, eight dishes and one soup, the waiter was confused by the dishes ordered.

In order to save food, the waiter confirmed with Han Qiu whether so many dishes were needed.

Han Qiu said with a smile that the portion could be smaller, but the dishes had to be the same, and the prices would be according to the menu.

Hearing this request, the confused waiter became even more confused.

Is there any customer who asks for a reduction in quantity without reducing the price?

"Another case of beer." Han Qiu patted the waiter's shoulder, a young man of the same age as him, "Keep your word, I can pay the bill first, it's okay, just do as I say."

Han Qiu took out a few hundred-dollar bills from his pocket. He had already calculated the total price, including the drinks, when ordering the dishes.

This calculation is nothing to the S-rank hybrids.

"No need to look for it." Han Qiu said.

The waiter was still confused and walked towards the counter relying only on the money in his hand.

Han Qiu watched the waiter communicating with the proprietress with great interest. When he turned around, Su Xiaoqiang was still covering his nose with a tissue.

"Well, seeing how you are like this, it's likely that you won't be able to accept it no matter how many times you try. I'll take you somewhere else to eat next time."

"It's okay." Su Xiaoqiang slowly took off the tissue, "I feel a little more adapted. Have you been here before? It seems that you are quite skilled in ordering food."

"I've never been here before. I ordered too many dishes. It's nothing special. I'm just familiar with it."

Damn it, Han Qiu couldn't help but lie.

Thanks to the short video software, I hope time can go faster. The speed of information transmission is terribly slow now.

This familiarity with the dishes is all thanks to watching short videos late at night, otherwise Han Qiu would not have known what dishes to order when he came to Lingnan.

"We've been chatting all day, and it's all about our own business. Since you're going to meet those classmates, why not chat about them? To be honest, we're from all over the world and have basically no contact with each other." Su Xiaoqiang kept pulling out tissues and spread them all in front of him.

If one layer is not enough, add one more layer, and then you dare to put your hands on the table.

The waiter looked at them in surprise, and thinking of Han Qiu's generosity just now, he became even more curious about their identities.

"Classmate? Let me think, did you know that Zhao Menghua was admitted to a mental hospital?" Han Qiu asked.

“I know about this.” Su Xiaoqiang said, “Big Pig and Little Pig talked about it in the literature club group. The group is very quiet now. At first, you and Lu Mingfei were no longer in the group, and then Chen Wenwen also left.”

"Lu Mingfei and I took some time to go see him."

"What?" Su Xiaoqiang suddenly became interested. "Have you visited Zhao Menghua? Even Liu Miaomiao didn't visit him."

"Yes, I happened to go to Beijing to attend an academic exchange conference at that time, and my tutor took me, Lu Mingfei, and Chu Zihang with him."

Su Xiaoqiang couldn't suppress his surprise at all, "Wow! Chu Zihang is here too, isn't this a grand visitor lineup?"

How could it not be luxurious? Han Qiu felt helpless.

Zhao Menghua has gone to Longwo to play games. He is the king of the earth and mountains. How can he beat him without a luxurious lineup?

"It's okay. It was Chu Zihang who was the one who was in charge, not me and Lu Mingfei." Han Qiu recalled the situation at that time. "Zhao Menghua was quite ill at that time."

"Yes, it was on the news. He said he saw a dragon in a subway tunnel and played games with it." Su Xiaoqiang's gossipy nature was aroused at once. "This is really nonsense. How can there be such a creature as a dragon in the world? And a dragon playing games, it's hard to imagine such a scene."

"So he is mentally ill, and we are not." Han Qiu made a joke, and then lamented: "I felt that he was quite pitiful at that time. In the world of mental illness, he is not mentally ill, we are mentally ill. Liu Miaomiao was with him, and she didn't go to see him. When Lu Mingfei and I went to see him, he was so excited that he almost cried. He was very different from the Zhao Menghua I knew before. Fortunately, he was cured later, but he had to take a year off from school."

"Yes, he also left the group last November and lost contact with everyone."

"Is this happening?"

"Well, we had a class reunion during the winter break, but he didn't come. I heard he went on a self-driving tour, taking advantage of his break from school to travel around the country."

“Travel is the beginning of change, and settling down is the end of change.”