Volume 1 Beginning of Summer Chapter 27 Hot Pot
When Jiang You and his friends arrived, the seats at Little Frog were not full yet.
They found a four-person seat and sat down. Jiang You and Ma Yi sat on one side, and Wan Zi and Ju Zi sat opposite them. Jiang You used his mobile phone to scan the QR code on the corner of the table, and the menu popped up.
"Double-spicy hotpot. Mildly spicy, medium spicy, or very spicy?" he asked, looking at the meatballs.
"Medium spicy."
"Okay," Jiang You ordered the soup base, "Do you have any dietary restrictions?"
"I don't." said Ma Yi.
"I don't want carrots, Xiaoju doesn't want tripe, and he doesn't want brains. There's nothing else."
"I see." Jiang You ordered the dishes all the way down. After he finished, he handed the phone to Wan Zi, "Do you want to add anything else?"
Maru took a quick look and said, "Enough, enough ."
"What about drinks? I ordered two bunches of bayberry juice. Do you want some more?"
"Can."
"That's definitely enough," Ma Yi stood up, "I'll go get the seasoning."
Jiang You placed the order quickly.
Meatball and Orange also went to get the seasoning.
After the three of them came back, Jiang You was the last to go. He first took two plates of fruit, one plate of watermelon and one plate of cantaloupe, and put them on the table, and then went to get the seasoning.
When he returned to his seat, the waiter had already brought the pot.
There's already a queue outside the store.
“This business is really good.”
"The taste is good, the price is reasonable, and the cost performance is quite high."
"There is also a bullfrog hotpot restaurant next to my school. The taste is also good," Wanzi looked at the gradually boiling soup base, "but the bullfrogs are small."
"You're going to graduate this year, right? " Jiang You asked.
"Well, the defense is over."
“No wonder you have time to come to the Tangjiang Comic Exhibition.”
"Other students are doing internships, and many have found jobs," Wanzi pursed her lips, "Xiaoju will be in Tangjiang in the future, and she has received a formal offer."
"Eh?" Jiang You was a little surprised. "What job?"
Xiaoju said: "Accountant."
“It’s pretty good.”
Xiaoju nodded, "It's just that the company's location is a bit remote, in a new district, and the salary is not high."
"How many a month?"
"4500, maybe a little more after becoming a regular employee ."
"It's a bit low. Does it include accommodation?"
"It's included. There's also a cafeteria."
"That's good."
As they were talking, the soup base boiled. They took out the bullfrog, put it on a plate and started eating.
The waiter pushed the cart and brought up the dishes. Jiang You first put in the meat dishes that could be cooked for a long time, such as vegetable meatballs and old meat slices.
Jiang You watched Wanzi take a bite of leg meat.
He said, "I remember that when you were in your sophomore year, you and Isis danced together on the school basketball court in a video just as the sun was rising."
"Well, Isis and I go to the same school. She is one year older than me."
"It seems like there has been no news from her for a long time?"
"She is an English teacher in her hometown."
"What about you, what are you going to do after graduation?"
Maru lowered his hand, and the bell on his wrist swayed. "These past few days, Maomao took me to many entertainment companies."
"Are you going to debut?"
Maru nodded, bit her lip, and shook her head.
When the water started to boil again, Jiang You poured the beef slices in. "This will be cooked in a short time. Take it out quickly, otherwise it will melt."
More than ten seconds later, he picked up a piece with chopsticks, dipped it in the seasoning bowl, and put it into his mouth, "It's cooked, eat it quickly."
The three of them started to fish from the pot.
After eating two plates of beef slices, Jiang You put shrimp balls and fish slices into the pot. He thought for a while and threw some potatoes and cheese rice cakes into the pot.
"I can't act, and I don't like it. My singing is also average," Wanzi poked the meatball with chopsticks, "I graduated suddenly, and I don't know what to do."
"Maomao is your agent?"
"Yeah," Maru nodded, "Actually, we, those of us who dance otaku dance, are all pretty otakus, and we rely on her to help us get in touch with activities and stuff."
"I think she's pretty strict with you."
"She depends on them for a living, how can she not be strict?" Ma Yi said, "Finding a job is a serious matter. It's not too late to start studying for a civil service exam, or to get a teacher's certificate or something like that."
"My senior sister also told me so. Oh," Maru sighed, "I'll think about it again."
Then they chatted about some gossip about the otaku dance circle and the coser circle, and talked about this season's new anime. When they finished eating the meat and vegetables, Jiang You put all the vegetables in the white pot.
The waiter brought up four bowls of ice jelly.
After Wanzi ate a mouthful of bean sprouts, she put down her chopsticks and said, "I'm too full."
"Have some ice jelly to relieve the greasiness."
"Hmm." Wanzi scooped up the ice jelly with a spoon.
After eating hot pot, they went back to the insect house to get some food, then Wanzi and the other two said goodbye to Jiang You and left.
Jiang You was standing on the clear stone path in the yard, and out of the corner of his eye he saw Tang Butian step into the yard.
She held a wooden sword in her hand.
She looked at Jiang You.
Jiang You felt a little cold when he was looked at by her.
Tang Butian walked up to Jiang You and asked, "What clues did you get?"
Jiang You touched his stomach and said, "Go for a walk outside? I ate too much. I need to take a walk."
Tang Butian nodded slightly.
They walked slowly along the Cultural Street, to the riverside, and onto the stone arch bridge.
The night wind blew away the smell of hot pot on Jiang You’s clothes.
Jiang You leaned on the bridge railing, "Xia Xia should be a special case."
"What's the meaning?"
"In this era, no organization will focus on one person and exploit him to death. They like to harvest leeks. After harvesting one crop, it will grow again in a few years and can be harvested again. In this way, the income can be accumulated over a long period of time, and it will not be targeted by the state, so it is safer."
“Is this organization like this too?”
Jiang You nodded. "They get tattoos and circulate koi fish pictures out of superstition. Although this circle is becoming more and more commercial, it is not the entertainment industry after all. The power of reality, their parents, relatives and friends, will pull them back to normal life. They lose a few years of life in exchange for some youthful memories, and a good financial return. As for a certain person or organization, ghost servants, is that another way of saying it? They get some power. There is nothing to complain about."
“But Xia Xia is dead,” the wooden sword fell on Jiang You’s shoulder, and Tang Butian said, “You lied to me, you are not an ordinary person who knows nothing.”
"I read a lot of online novels." Jiang You raised his right hand, grasped the wooden sword on his left shoulder, and moved the knife away.
There was obvious suspicion in Tang Butian's eyes.
"According to the immortal cultivation novels, you are a cultivator, and you had an epiphany when you were watching Xia Xia dancing. Have you ever thought that this means that Xia Xia is much more obsessed than ordinary people, and that she was possessed by a demon, which is why the mark devoured all her lifespan."
“Is this also written in the novel?”
"I just guessed it myself. What do you think if I use this setting to write an online article? Will it be popular?"
