Chapter 6 Salty Lies! 1
Hua Likong seems to be very busy recently , and Yining was taken out for a trip by her mother again. I had no choice but to lean alone at Table No. 1 in the curry restaurant, staring blankly at the passers-by outside the glass window.
Hua Likong is really a lucky cat. When he is around, the curry restaurant's business is extremely good. In the past few days when he was away, those girls who often came to the curry restaurant to grab seats were nowhere to be seen. Although the business was good today, I always felt empty inside .
"A glass of orange juice."
"Okay, here I come!"
I'm just a waiter who runs errands and is always available.
"Your orange juice." I brought the orange juice to the guests' table with a smile on my face.
The customers kept praising my excellent service attitude, and a feeling of joy filled my heart.
But I closed the museum the next day.
Hua Likong hasn't come back for several days, not even at night. As a boss, should I spur my employees on? After all, there is only one special guest left.
So, I decisively packed myself up and went out to find Hua Likong.
I remember Hua Likong told me that he had something to do and needed to go find a friend. In the end, I discovered a serious problem. Hua Likong never mentioned his family or his friends. Apart from him, I knew nothing about him. How could I find him?
I was a little confused, so I had to wander around relying on my usual bad luck.
But I didn't expect that I, who have always been so unlucky, would have the legendary good luck. When I passed by a coffee shop called "Life Leaves", I actually caught a glimpse of him.
But why is Hua Likong in the coffee shop? You know, it is a strange place known to everyone in the city. It is said to be strange because only strange people go there. This place usually gathers patients with strange thoughts, strange behaviors, and those who extremely pursue superhuman abilities...
Although I also believe that superhuman abilities exist in this world, after all, my father left me the ancestral magical recipe of curry house and curry rice. But when I saw Hua Likong on Life Leaves, I was a little bit unbelievable, rubbed my eyes hard, and found that I was not mistaken!
Not only that, there was a blue-eyed mixed-race child sitting opposite Hua Likong, who was the same person as the fair-skinned mixed-race child seen last time.
Could this be his friend?
The point is, what was going on when they were drinking coffee together at Life Leaves? Was Hua Likong sick? Or was it his friend? Or were they just friends at Life Leaves, drinking coffee together because they met here?
No, no, I’m going to go crazy if I keep thinking about this.
So, I decided to find out what was going on between Hua Likong and his friends.
I sneaked in through the door of Life Leaves, but to my dismay, I was caught by the waiter.
"Hello, do you need table 1 plus, table 2 plus, or table 3 plus?" The waiter was holding a large white plate with a red-heart dragon fruit cut into a flower shape in the middle of the plate.
Tsk tsk tsk, what a waste of plate space.
Plus table 1, a table exclusively for patients with peculiar thoughts; plus table 2, a table exclusively for patients with peculiar behaviors; plus table 3, a table for patients who extremely pursue super powers...
It is not clear which type Hua Likong belongs to, so I will not sit on it for the time being.
"No... no thanks."
After sending the waiter away, I secretly moved to table 37 and sat at table 36 with my back to Hua Likong.
Fortunately, I dressed wisely today, and Hua Likong will definitely not recognize me.
"Hey, hello, are you here to discuss the wonders of the universe with me?"
As soon as I sat down, I heard a strange sound. I looked up and found a smiling boy with fair skin sitting opposite me at table 36. If he hadn't asked me this very strange question, I would have thought he was a super sunny boy.
"Ahem." I lowered my head somewhat unnaturally, touched my eyebrows, and began my journey of cheating and deceiving.
"Yes, look, this is the book I've been studying recently." I quickly took out a hardcover edition of "100,000 Whys" from my bag and silently placed it in front of the boy opposite me.
Phew... I packed some things randomly when I went out, and I didn't expect that they would come in handy.
I glanced towards Table 37 nervously, afraid of being discovered, so I picked up the order on the coffee table and silently covered my face with it.
"This isn't the theory of cosmic miracles." The boy opposite said with some confusion.
Theory of the miracle of the universe? What the hell, never seen it.
"Please flip through it. I remember seeing something about the wonders of the universe in it."
Will you be struck by lightning if you tell a lie?
I have to find a lightning rod first.
"So it really exists." The boy opposite exclaimed.
My eyes almost fell off the cover of the hardcover edition of "100,000 Whys".
Well, I'm lucky. Now I don't have to worry about whether there is a lightning rod.
Seeing that the boy opposite was studying my book seriously, I quietly eavesdropped on what Hua Likong was saying.
Would eavesdropping also lead to being struck by lightning? Whatever, the right thing to do was to find the lucky cat. So, I pricked up my ears and listened carefully to the movements at table 37.
"Hey, Hua Likong, you've been in that place for so long, why haven't you recovered from your strange sequelae?"
This was the voice of the mixed-race boy sitting opposite Hua Likong, speaking very standard Mandarin.
"It's much better now. I can taste a little sweetness and bitterness. But if it's to be completely cured, you'll have to wait for a while. It should be soon." Hua Likong's familiar magnetic voice sounded.
My heart suddenly tightened.
"Why don't you think about your own affairs and always help that skinny girl? Time is running out." The mixed-race boy said worriedly.
"soon."
"You deliberately behaved like that in the curry restaurant, making that silly girl think she had met a savior, just so that you could enter the curry restaurant smoothly and let her cure your sense of taste. Since such a long time has passed and she can't help you solve this problem, I think you might as well find other ways and don't count on that girl anymore."
My heart trembled, and an extremely salty and bitter feeling surged into my heart. It's not that I didn't understand what Hua Likong and the mixed-blood child meant, but I didn't want to understand.
It felt like a heavy iron lock was pressing down on my heart, the salty and bitter feeling in my eyes became stronger and stronger, the tip of my nose became more and more sour, making it hard for me to breathe.
Before, I always wondered why Hua Likong was willing to enter the curry house for free. Even if the agreement between us was listed, there was really no benefit for Hua Likong in the curry house except that he could get the promise that I would try my best to cure his taste buds.
So it's not just because you wanted to help me?
I stood up feeling a little disappointed and left table 36 first.
"Your book..." The boy opposite me quickly stood up when he saw me stand up and leave expressionlessly.
"This is for you." I said lightly and left life leaves.
