half city sweet

The vermilion wall clock made a deep sound, which lasted for a long time in the coffee shop. Candy quickly brought out a thermos bucket from the back kitchen. As soon as she opened the curtain, she saw Qiao Chu and Huo Jingchen coming down the stairs. Candy Understanding it, he changed hands and hid the thermos bucket behind him, and smiled at Qiao Chu, "Boss, I forgot to order food today. I heard that the restaurant opposite has a new vegetarian dish. Why don't you try it."

Qiao Chu glanced at the silver-white thermos behind Candy, Candy straightened up and hid the thermos back, and waved at Huo Jingchen secretly with one hand.

Huo Jingchen nodded to her, with a trace of gratitude in the corner of his eyes.

Candy smiled at Qiao Chu again, and slipped back to the back kitchen with the thermos in her arms.

Candy said that the restaurant was very close, across the road from Qiao Chu's cafe. Huo Jingchen followed Qiao Chu and stared at his gray hair. Suddenly, the corners of his eyes became hot, and Huo Jingchen quickly stepped forward. Stepping up to Qiao Chu's side, he grabbed his sleeve.

Qiao Chu turned his head and looked at him calmly, Huo Jingchen tightened his grip on his sleeve, "Go slowly, wait for me."

Without saying a word, Qiao Chu wrenched his sleeve away from Huo Jingchen's hand and continued walking forward.

Huo Jingchen stopped for a moment, then quickened his pace to chase after him, and then walked forward side by side with Qiao Chu.

I haven't eaten with Qiao Chu for more than two years. Huo Jingchen held the menu and didn't know what to order for a while. The waiter at the table kindly introduced today's vegetarian dishes to Huo Jingchen. Huo Jingchen nodded and ordered today's new products After reading it again, the moment he closed the menu, he saw a picture of browned and crispy pork ribs in the corner. Huo Jingchen rubbed it with his fingers, and smiled at the waiter, "Please add another garlic ribs."

Qiao Chu's hand holding the cup tightened slightly, his face turned pale, and he returned to normal in the next second.

The food was served quickly. When the waiter brought the plate of garlic pork ribs, Qiao Chu hadn't eaten two bites. Huo Jingchen took the plate and removed a vegetarian dish in front of Qiao Chu and put the ribs over. Qiao Chu grabbed the chopsticks The hand clenched tightly, and the next moment, the person covered his mouth and vomited, then pushed the chair away and rushed into the bathroom.

Huo Jingchen's hand holding the plate softened and smashed the whole plate on the table, and then chased after Qiao Chu with a blank face.

Qiao Chu locked himself in the bathroom, and Huo Jingchen stood at the door holding the doorknob, panicked, just kept banging on the door and anxiously called "Qiao Chu, Qiao Chu, Qiao Chu, let me in." "

Qiao Chu couldn't hear Huo Jingchen calling him at all, he just felt that he was about to throw up his stomach, but he still couldn't stop the nausea that came from deep in his heart.Qiao Chu filled the washbasin with water, and then plunged his whole head in. The cold water soaked into his skin and stimulated his nerves. Qiao Chu blinked and remained motionless in the water for a minute.

It took about 10 minutes for Qiao Chu to open the bathroom door with his wet hair on his head. The weather was so cold that Huo Jingchen immediately took off his coat and wrapped it around Qiao Chu's body, then pulled his sleeves and wiped his hair. They were all dumb, "Do you feel uncomfortable? Let's go to the hospital."

Qiao Chu's face was frighteningly pale, and he didn't want to say a word, but just shook his head.

"Then let's go home, I'll cook for you when we get home." With a choked voice, Huo Jingchen pulled Qiao Chu and asked the waiter for a towel to wipe his half-dry hair, leading him to the residence in a hurry.

Qiao Chu vomited for a while. He was so tired that he lost energy and was not in the mood to eat. As soon as he entered the house, he went to the bedroom. Huo Jingchen stuffed him under the quilt and touched his forehead. He didn't say it when he saw that he didn't have a fever. Twitching the corners of his mouth, he forced a smile and said, "You sleep for a while, I'll cook."

Qiao Chu closed his eyes and shrank himself into the quilt.

Huo Jingchen tucked the quilt for Qiao Chu, sat by his bed and watched for a long time before getting up to cook.

The things in the kitchen are all new, some of them haven't been unpacked. Huo Jingchen stood in front of the kitchen faucet and turned the water to the maximum. Then he took a knife and cut the potato in half, blood oozed out from his fingertips. , Huo Jingchen stared at the bright red blood stain, and a tear fell into the pool. He was never a person who could cry, but when he met Qiao Chu, he suddenly, suddenly, couldn't help it.

After seeing off the last guest in the morning, Candy moved her cheeks that had been stiff with laughter, and the wall clock above her head rang "Dang". Walking down, before he reached the counter, the door of the cafe was pushed open.

Huo Jingchen held a carved lacquered wood lunch box in one hand and a black umbrella in the other. Water was still dripping from the edge of the umbrella. Huo Jingchen conveniently put it on the storage shelf at the door.

Seeing the food box in Huo Jingchen's hand, Candy immediately smiled and said, "Boss, Boss Huo is looking for you for dinner." She winked at Huo Jingchen as she spoke, "Boss Huo, today is your cooking again."

Huo Jingchen nodded slightly.

Candy was very cooperative and added, "It's hard work, don't worry, the boss will definitely eat up."

Qiao Chu looked at the two people who did not know when they formed a group, and took Huo Jingchen upstairs in a face-saving manner.

Candy quietly gestured an ok gesture to Huo Jingchen, hummed happily and went to the back kitchen.Two days ago, Boss Zhang Ye specially called her to ask her to be Boss Huo's helper at an appropriate time, and said that as long as the two of them reconciled, he would give her a big red envelope. Although Boss Qiao Chu's wish was very important, But the red envelope is more important, so she only hesitated for a second before making the decision to join forces with Zhang Ye.

Three-layer food box, three vegetarian dishes, and a cup of rich vegetable soup, very light, without a trace of meat.

Qiao Chu lowered his eyes and stared at the lotus pond stir-fry closest to him. His eating habits had changed a lot in the past two years, but Huo Jingchen was still as careful as before, and he figured out all his preferences after only eating with him once.

Huo Jingchen handed him the bowl containing the soup, "It's cold, I put ginger slices, drink the soup first to warm it up."

Qiao Chu hesitated for a while before taking it. In fact, he never drank any soup in the past two years, as if he deliberately made himself remember the mistake of trusting others two years ago.

Huo Jingchen added another bowl of rice to Qiao Chu before he said, "Master Zhang's people over there in Ningjin are very busy. Zhang Ye can't take the plane. I asked someone to buy her a train ticket and I won't be able to come back until tomorrow. But don't worry, from Ningjin Jin has only been here for 20 hours, with Fang Chen accompanying her on the road, there shouldn't be any accidents."

Seeing that Qiao Chu didn't intend to answer, Huo Jingchen pulled the corners of his mouth and dryly told some jokes he had heard on TV.He was used to being serious, no matter how funny things came out of his mouth, it was as if he was giving a meeting report, but he still babbled on some unnutritious gossip tirelessly.

Hearing this, Qiao Chu felt melancholy for no reason. In the past, Huo Jingchen would never waste time on these boring gossip variety shows, and he would never be a quiet listener like he is now.Two years was neither too long nor too short, but the two of them seemed to have gone through a predicament, unable to make out what they were before.

It wasn't until the soup bowl in his hand was replaced that Qiao Chu realized that he was distracted. Huo Jingchen was looking at him worriedly.

Qiao Chu shook his head to indicate that he was fine, and picked up the vegetables with his chopsticks. Before he could stretch out the chopsticks, a white light pierced his face, as if someone accidentally reflected it with a mirror.

Qiao Chu closed his eyes reflexively, and waited for the white light to flash before he looked at the opposite office building.The wide and bright floor-to-ceiling windows were a little far away from him, and he could only vaguely see a man wearing a jacket and a baseball cap. The figure of that man was faintly familiar. Before Qiao Chu had time to think about it, the man opposite him The person quickly left his sight as if he had sensed something.

Qiao Chu didn't pay much attention for a moment, lowered his eyes and continued to eat.

In the afternoon, a lightning warning was broadcast on TV, and Qiao Chu ordered all the employees in the store to get off work. The clouds were very low, the sky was dark, and there were very few pedestrians on the street before six o'clock.

The customers in the cafe left one after another, and after the last table of customers left, Qiao Chu hung up the closing sign.

Huo Jingchen came out with a rag from the back kitchen, pointed to the plate left by the guest and said, "I'll clean it up, you go to settle the accounts, the weather is bad, go back early today."

While talking, Huo Jingchen neatly folded up the plates and held them in his left hand. With a turn of the rag in his right hand, he wiped the table clean in an instant, and then took the plates to the back kitchen to wash.

Looking at Huo Jingchen, who was wearing waiter's clothes, carrying dishes and washing dishes without changing his expression, Qiao Chu rubbed his forehead helplessly. He always felt that this person was addicted to being his waiter.

The rainstorm came as expected, crackling on the roof.

Standing behind the counter, Qiao Chu flicked the flow details on the screen with one hand, and sketched on the bill with a pen in the other.

"Dong dong" a regular knock on the window reached his ears through the whistling wind, and Qiao Chu followed his reputation.

Outside the glass window to the left of the cafe entrance, the man in a jacket and a baseball cap was knocking on the glass window again and again with the silver-rimmed glasses in his hand.Seeing Qiao Chu looking at him, the man raised his eyebrows, his eyes flashed with malice, and the corners of his mouth twitched obliquely, revealing a wanton and wicked smile, and he opened and closed his lips and silently said the name "Qiao Chu" . '

Almost as a conditioned reflex, Qiao Chu threw the pen in his hand, stepped on the counter and jumped out, slammed the glass door with one hand and rushed into the rain.

"Bang..." The glass door trembled twice due to the loud slamming sound of the door. Huo Jingchen immediately ran out from the back kitchen, but only saw the signature pen rolled down at the door.

Huo Jingchen's face turned pale, and he also rushed out.

The torrential rain poured down, the thunder exploded, and two young men rushed out from the corner of the empty street, one behind the other, chasing each other closely.The oncoming rain almost blurred his vision, but Qiao Chu stared at the man in front of him without blinking. He waited for a whole year, and this man finally appeared.

As if he was very familiar with this area, Lin Qi wandered into the alley next to the commercial street. It was a long and narrow alley, and there were two or three forks within a short distance. Qiao Chu didn't even remember where he turned. After several turns, when he ran out from the alley on the left again, Lin Qi had disappeared.