[Wei Yong] Looking for Lilia

"Hey," said the waitress in the restaurant casually, she was slim and well-proportioned, with fiery red hair, "what can I get for you two handsome boys?"

"Uh, I have a problem," Yuuri said hesitantly after receiving Victor's "here you go, boss" look, "That... lady... I mean, lady..." He concluded Stuttering and blushing, Victor leaned on the table with his chin in his hands, looking like he was waiting for a good show.

"You can just call me by my name," the waitress said, pulling up her bodice to show him the name tag on her chest, revealing her slender midriff, and Yuuri quickly turned his face to the menu, and the waitress was amused by him . "My name is Mira," she said, much softer than before.

"Mira." Yongli called out in a low voice, not understanding why the waitress suddenly changed her attitude, but she was very beautiful, and his ears turned red with embarrassment, "That... I want to ask, this menu..."

"First time here, isn't it?" Mira asked understandingly. "I guess you are outsiders? It's a small town and everyone knows everyone. I don't know you." Her gaze Turning to Victor, lingering on his face for a moment, "But you... have we met somewhere?"

"If we met somewhere, I will never forget you." Victor replied.Mira shrugged.

"You can choose any two dishes and mix them together." She explained to Yuuri, "For example, you can choose normal sushi, half pasta, or half seafood stew, and half Chinese fried noodles—but you can't choose the same, Like chow mein and chow mein, chips and chips, that's not okay."

"why?"

"Sorry, the restaurant rules." Mira said, "The boss's purpose is to let everyone taste a variety of flavors at one time—'Global Village'." She made a grimace, and leaned down, "Quietly tell you, Don't order anything with prawns, our supplier's trailer is broken and they smell like hell right now."

"Oh!" Victor complained, "I just wanted to order a seafood bisque with prawn sushi rolls."

Yuuri couldn't tell if he was serious.He could only lower his head to study the menu again, while Victor and Mira chatted.

"So, what brought you two mysterious handsome guys to our town?" asked the waitress. "You're also here for our carnival?"

"Wish I could say 'yes,'" Viktor said, "but sorry, my colleagues and I are on a business trip." He pulled his wallet out of his pocket and handed him a business card under Yuuri's dumbfounded gaze. Mira, "We are employees of the headhunting company 'Zhi Xing', and one of our clients wants to start a dance school, and he commissioned us to find some teachers."

He said, and took out another photo of Lilia to show her, "Have you seen her? About ten years ago, we thought she lived in this town, and she should be a dance teacher."

Mira looked at the photo carefully.

"Sorry, never seen a person like that," she said. "I don't think she's in town anymore, because like I said, everybody knows everybody, and if she was, I'd know her. Sorry." She apologized again.

"It's okay," Victor replied amiably. "Would you mind telling me where the dance school is? We can't find it on GPS."

"Oh, I'm afraid that won't work, honey," Meera said, "I'm afraid you're going to be wasted—the dance school closed down two years ago." But then she added, "But you can go to the carnival Look, people who haven't left the town will set up stalls there - anyway, they have nothing else to do, they have to eat."

Yuuri and Viktor exchanged a look - it was disheartening how it ended like it was supposed to be going smoothly.

"What the hell is this event, this carnival?" Yuuri asked, "I can see people in any kind of costume."

"Well, yeah," Meera said, "because there were a lot of decorations and costumes that didn't sell out for Halloween and Christmas last year, and the city hall had a small surplus budget, so the mayor decided to have some fun, Otherwise, there would be too many unemployed homeless people, and there would be no room to lie down on the street in front of the supermarket.”

"...That's it?" Yuuri said, it sounds like the town government is a double of Victor, Viktor obviously had the same idea, he said happily: "I have an idea, I like it!" His eyes turned to Yuuri, "Let's go and have a look, shall we?" Perhaps the coquettish element in his tone was too proficient, and Mira's expression became a little suspicious.

"I thought you two were colleagues," she said.

"Yuuri is actually my boss," Victor replied without batting an eye. "He makes all our decisions and has the power of life and death."

"Wow," Meera said, "really, but you look really young—did you go to college?"

"Uh, I..." Yuuri's tongue was tied, and he looked at Victor at a loss. Victor smiled and helped him out: "He skipped a grade," he said smoothly, as if there was no lie, "don't be fooled He cheated, he cheated many girls like this, in fact, he will be thirty in November."

"Wow!" Meera said. "I'd love to hear how you take care of yourself. Do you do yoga? Pilates?"

"Uh," Yuuri said awkwardly, "it's nothing special... karate, maybe."

Mira laughed, putting her hand on Yuuri's shoulder.

"So," she said suddenly and seriously, "Headhunting company, huh? Do you have any job opportunities there for a waiter, bartender apprentice, model, iPhone case designer, and psychic medium?"

"That depends," Victor said, also with a serious air. "Does this man have any works that we can evaluate?"

"Well, she has this beautiful phone case," she said, pulling out her phone from the pocket of her apron, with colorful tassels and diamonds glued to the phone case, like peeling the skin of a gypsy. Yes," she said mysteriously, "see that guy outside in a sushi burger suit? She used to be one of the three contenders. Also, if you plan to go to the carnival tonight, you still have a chance Seeing this awesome fortune-telling tent—not that I'm bragging, I've accurately predicted Martian's album content and three-time Best Animated Feature Oscar winner."

Now Yuuri is almost sure she's joking, and he kind of wants to laugh, but Viktor nods, looking thoughtful.

"Wow, very impressive," he commented. "Isn't it, boss? We're definitely going."

"..."

Mira laughed. "Great, but you can't get in like this." She took a ballpoint pen from her apron and wrote an address on a tissue. "Go here, Johnny will be more than happy to help you get two outfits... oh," the smile on her face froze, staring in the direction of the window, Yuuri and Victor followed her gaze, almost A young man dressed like an 80s motorcycle racer in a leather vest and scarf was passing by, all of them with big beards.Mira's eyes moved with them, and she muttered, "Don't come in, don't come in, go away, go away, go away... oh no!" A few bearded men pushed the door open and said It was too late, and when Yuuri turned around again, Mira had already squatted down quickly, using their table to block her figure.

"What happened?" Yuuri asked, "What happened?"

"Uh, nothing..." Mira whispered, "Hey gentlemen, do you mind if I get someone else to take your order? Because it just occurred to me that I have something to do..."

Victor and Yuuri shook their heads silently, she couldn't stop thanking her, she squatted on the ground and moved away, her eyes were fixed on the direction where the bikers were seated, "Thank you so much," she said Said, "My booth is at E22! Two people can count as a free homemade mobile phone case, if there are three people..." She watched in horror as the biggest man stood up and yelled at the passing dishwasher for water , The guests sitting around them silently picked up the food and sat far away from them. "...If there are three of you, give me a nail art experience!" After Mira finished speaking, she had already moved to the bar, where she squatted and waved to them, then turned around and quickly entered the back kitchen.

Yuuri looked away, feeling her fiery red hair still burning on his retinas, and rubbed his eyes.

"...What's going on here?" he asked Victor, "Did you say she got into trouble?"

"Pretty girls are always in trouble," Victor replied, as a waiter walked up to them, and they dug into the menu again, working out the combinations.

They each ordered a grilled lamb chop, Yuuri with garlic bread, and Victor with a potato soup.It didn't take long for the food to arrive, Yuuri stared at his grilled Greek lamb chops and thought, Looks like "Pairing Good" is like any other gimmicky food on Yelp, the promotion is good, the reality is very skinny-literally skinny Feeling: The grilled lamb chops are too old.The garlic bread was sticky again, and they ended up sharing a night of creamy soup, which barely filled their bellies.

"You know what I'm thinking?" Victor said, "I want to have some McDonald's chicken nuggets, the product of the standardized process, it's really good now that I think about it." Yuuri chewed on the chewy lamb chops smiled.

They sat for a while, Mira never came back to the restaurant, Yuuri watched those rough motorcycle racers start to eat, and the doubts in his heart gradually rose as his stomach was filled.It felt like there was a small bag on the flat carpet, but he opened it to look, but couldn't find the reason.

"Just now...why did you say I'm 30 years old?"

Victor took a sip of warm water and shrugged.

"She's beautiful," he says, sounding like he's not answering Yuuri's question at all, "and checked her phone at the counter before she came over, and her phone wallpaper is George Clooney—she likes older guys. "

Yuuri was dumbfounded, his mouth widened, and after a while, all the doubts in his mind turned to anger.

"What are you... What are you doing... Why are you here again!" If it weren't for the restaurant, which was crowded with tourists participating in the carnival, he would definitely jump up to express his dissatisfaction, "Can you Stop being my wingman - especially if I don't know!"

"If you knew, would you still let me do that?" Viktor asks back, and Yuuri stares at him, thinking he's just being sophistical.He smiled at Yuuri, who folded his arms in a huff.

"As I said," Victor said, "time is tight, and the to-do list is so long! Your virginity is definitely my first priority, boss."

"..." Yuuri felt powerless for a while, and he was so angry that he laughed.Victor looked at him and smiled, and he smiled without any malice.

"You have scallions at the corner of your mouth." He muttered, pulled a tissue and handed it to Victor, and when Victor lifted the back of the spoon to look in the mirror, he said, "Stop doing this again, really, the top priority now is Lilia, I'm really not in a hurry...can you let me worry about my virginity?"

Victor put down his spoon and looked down for a moment. "Take a step back for each of you," he said, "we'll go to the carnival to find Mira, you can chat with her more, get in touch with her, if nothing happens, and she's not interested in you, then I won't meddle in my own business anymore , okay?" Yuuri subconsciously wanted to answer "no", but Victor said again: "I just want you to know how good you are, Yuuri. You lack self-confidence, and you don't even have a few words to a strange girl Dare, this is not good."

He sounded like he was giving his last words, Yuuri just wanted to refute, but suddenly realized that they might find Lilia at any moment, and every sentence might be the last sentence he and Victor said——Thinking of this, he felt There is no more anger.

"Where did you get your business card?" he asked after a while, feeling a little empty, as if he had asked the wrong question, and Victor pulled out his wallet and handed him one that really said " "Victor", a prospective headhunting company, even has a fax machine and an office phone underneath. If you smell it carefully, it even smells of sandalwood.

"Done this morning in the hotel office," Victor said, "sprayed with the boss's son-in-law. I think the staff at the dance school would be a lot better off if we called ourselves a headhunter looking for candidates for a well-paying position." Be positive - but I didn't expect this school to exist anymore, so, jackpot? Now these unemployed people will be eager to court us, hoping to get a job at my made-up school. After he explained, the lamb chops in Yuuri's mouth fell into the soup. He blinked, as if suddenly realizing something, he smiled helplessly, "What do you think of me? I just set two Just a more accessible role—like a police undercover, get it? Flirting with a girl is really unplanned.” It takes a while for Yong to fully digest his words as he stirs the plate with his fork.His anger disappeared without a trace, but the feeling of a small knot in his heart resurfaced again.

"...Do you often do this kind of thing?" Victor raised an eyebrow, and he explained: "Flirting... flirting or something."

Victor looked at him for a while, then actually laughed. "What's the matter, don't you like it?" He said to himself again, "That's right, Yuuri rarely even looks directly at girls."

Yuuri lowered his head, "I just..." he said vaguely, "I don't think flirting is interesting...Trying each other...If you like it, just say no?"

A smile flickered on Victor's face. "But people don't always confirm at a glance that this person is their destiny." He said, "And they don't always have the courage—what if they are rejected?" He thought for a while, and then said: "You believe in destiny?" Destined, isn't it Yuuri?"

"I don't know..." Yuuri said vaguely, every time he discussed relationship issues with Victor, he felt uncomfortable, "What about you?"

"I used to believe it." Victor pondered for a while, "but now I think people must fight for it—even then, the result is not guaranteed." He laughed again after speaking, "This is the meaning of the existence of 'flirting', right? Everyone knows that there is no real love for each other, but there is still a little bit of self-satisfaction in it-after all, it’s fun to chat and pretend to be another person.”

Yuuri bowed his head in deep thought, and Viktor tossed the onions aside on his plate, and after a while, he said, "If you don't like it, I won't do it again, I promise."

"Don't—" Yuuri said, "No... I didn't mean that." He thought for a moment, "I don't want to interfere with your lifestyle, and I've never dated any girls, so... don't mind what I think. "

They were silent for a while, before Victor broke the deadlock first.He stood up, took one last sip of his lemonade, and dropped some bills on the table.

"Well, we'll think about the relationship later," he said. "The first thing to do is to fit us into this crazy town. I'll rent a Gandalf suit."

Yuuri sits for a while longer, thinking about everything that happened and what Victor said, to fight for... even Victor said that.But then it occurred to him that Viktor is such a good people guy, flirting is as easy as drinking water for him, even if Yuuri fights for it...

The end result is still the same.