Sang Zhi looks the rice noodle without any slice of beef. It's too plain, there are only few slices of carrot and veggies. She looks up and stares at the bowl that Duan Jia Xu takes. The bowl is full of beef.
She sulks but she cannot let it out.
"......"
You! Really! Like! Beef! That Much!!!
Sang Zhi pursues her lips and picks up her chopsticks unhappily.
She knows that no one will help her now. She also has no energy to complain. She acts like she should endure this humiliation in order to carry out an important mission.
On the dining table, the one that speaks a lot is only Qian Fei. After drinking the beer, Qian Fei is even chattier. Tonight most of the time he is the one that do the talking and most of the food is eaten by him.
Sang Zhi is too bored to listen to their chat.
Except chatting about games and games, they never talk about girls or any other subjects.
Sang Zhi just eats her rice noodle.
After a while, Qian Fei starts to go crazy. This time he starts to talk about his relationship life. He was so in despair and almost fell apart. "Dammit, why I still have no girlfriend though I am now in the third year of college ah—"
Sang Zhi wants to take a chicken wing and suddenly retreats her hand because she is so surprised of Qian Fei's action.
She peeks at him.
Sang Yan says: "Don't howl, you can cry later on after you graduate."
"I will not! I have enough of it." Qian Fei points at Sang Yan: "The women that come toward me always ask for your phone number...." Then he points at Duan Jia Xu: "If not they want yours!"
"......"
Qian Fei sobs: "There's no one who wants my number."
Looking at how this adult male is crying so hard, Sang Yan suggests: "Don't be like this. Next time you just say that you are Sang Yan, then they will ask your number."
Duan Jia Xu doesn't mind Qian Fei, he just takes a tissue. He takes a chicken wing with tissue and puts it on Sang Zhi's bowl. He says: "Just tell your name is Duan Jia Xu is okay too."
"......"
Aren't these two guys planning one disaster after another?
Qian Fei stops crying and looks at both of them.
The atmosphere turns intense.
Sang Zhi doesn't dare to look around, she feels like something will explode.
But after a while, Qian Fei suddenly cries again like he receives an imperial favor. He is shedding a grateful tears: "Good brothers!! wooo! Good brothers!"
Sang Zhi: "........."
—-
When all of them are full, Sang Yan goes to settle the bill and goes to take the car.
Duan Jia Xu holds the drunk Qian Fei, he lowers his head and says to Sang Zhi. "Xiao Hai, walk in front of Ge Ge."
Sang Zhi just "Oh."
Qian Fei looks at Sang Zhi when he hears her voice, he suddenly remember something. "Ah, Xiao Mei Mei, Ge Ge has promised you to get a doll for you. Wait for me, which one do you want? Ge Ge is very good at it."
Looking at how unsteady he is, Sang Zhi hesitates and says: "No need..."
"No! I always take everything I say seriously, I never lie! Qian Fei takes out twenty dollars from his pocket. "Let's go, let's go and catch the doll."
There are five clawing machine nearby the barbecue restaurant.
Qian Fei changes his twenty dollar banknote to coin. He gives ten coins for Sang Zhi and says proudly. "Tell Ge Ge which want do you want, Ge Ge will help you take it."
Sang Zhi just chooses one randomly.
Qian Fei walks over the clawing machine unsteadily.
Sang Zhi looks around and goes to the clawing machine that has Doraemon inside it. She puts three coins inside. She isn't good at it so she is very slow. It's not that she cannot place the claw on point but the claw seems to be too weak to clutch the doll.
After a while, Duan Jia Xu goes and stands beside her.
Looking at him makes her thinking about what happened before, she feels embarrassed but thinking about the slices of beef makes her unhappy.
She is silent and just puts inside three more coins.
This time she still couldn't do it.
Sang Zhi glances at Qian Fei and notices that he also doesn't get any doll so she just turns a bit okay. She hesitates for a while whether she should continue to play or she should stop and save the remaining coins.
In a next second, Duan Jia Xu says lazily; "Xiao Hai, give Ge Ge coins?"
"....' Sang Zhi looks at him and seems to be unwilling to share. "Why do you want coins from me?"
Duan Jia Xu smiles: "Ge Ge has no money."
After a while, Sang Zhi still gives him.
Duan Jia Xu stands in front of the clawing machine and asks her: "Which one do you want?"
Sang Zhi points at the doll with a red hat and says: "I have been doing this six times but I couldn't get it."
Duan Jia Xu: "Em, Ge Ge will get it for you."
Sang Zhi looks at him and watches him. He could point the claw on the red-hat doll but it just falls down before it reaches the places.
"......" Sang Zhi looks at Duan Jia Xu's face.
He doesn't feel awkward or embarrassed. He glances at her and says: "Give Ge Ge more coins?"
"......."
Afterwards, Sang Zhi just stands beside him silently. She accepts how shameless Duan Jia Xu keeps asking for more coins. Finally at the last chance, he successfully gets the doll for her.
Duan Jia Xu kneels down and gets the doll for her. "It's not easy to get this one."
Sang Zhi: "It's better to buy one."
"Ge Ge never plays this one." Duan Jia Xu looks at her and passes the doll to her. "Why are you disliking me?"
Sang Zhi doesn't take it.
After a while she takes it and says: "Xie Xie, Ge Ge." (Thank you Ge Ge.)
Duan Jia Xu laughs lightly: "A difficult little girl."
"...."
"I've caught one for you." Duan Jia Xu stands up and strokes her head. "Don't cry again."
His words seem to correspond what Sang Yan said to Qian Fei before.
He clearly knows that it's not the reason of her crying, he acts like he forgets all of it for caring for her feeling.
Sang Zhi holds the doll and smiles. She nods.
—
Because Qian Fei is too drunk, Sang Yan drives him back home first. He and Duan Jia Xu get off the car and carry him together upstair. Then Sang Yan drives the car to Nan Wu university front gate.
Duan Jia Xu gets off the car and waves his hand to both of them. Then he leaves.
Sang Zhi watches him till he is gone.
The car starts to move.
Sang Zhi asks: "Ge Ge, Jia Xu Ge is living in the dorm?"
Sang Yan: "Em."
"Why isn't he going home?"
"His house is not here."
"Isn't it holiday time right now?"
"I don't know." It's clear that Sang Yan doesn't want to mind her. "Why are you so talkative today?"
Sang Zhi is silent for a while and moves her head closer to Sang Yan's face. "Is it true what Qian Fei said that a lot of women want your phone number?"
Sang Yan: "Rubbish."
Sang Zhi: "Then what's next?"
Sang Yan: "Nothing."
"Ah." Sang Zhi thinks about it. "It's lucky that you don't give it."
Sang Yan just stays silent.
In a next second, Sang Zhi says again: "I think it's possible that they are looking for Qian Fei Ge for your phone number. Then they will ask you whether you could give them Jia Xu's Ge contact number to them."
"....."
"Ge Ge, you should be careful."
"Shut up."
"Don't let them humiliate you."
"..........."
"Though you are the ugliest in our family, but." Sang Zhi is considering her wording, then says docilely: But, outside you are quite ugly too."
"........."