Little mortals' dreams come true

After work, Li Fan looked up from a pile of documents, stretched his waist, got up and walked towards Fang Qing's office.

Fang Qing was still swimming in the sea of ​​his codes, typing on the keyboard quickly.Li Fan walked slowly and looked at the computer screen curiously. Unsurprisingly, he only saw a string of ants-like characters, densely crawling all over the screen, making people dizzy.

"Ah, I really want to knock open your head to see if the man's brain is longer than a walnut. Why is it so crunchy when you use it!"

Fang Qing finished typing the last string of characters, closed the notebook, and while packing up, replied:

"The difference between a genius and an idiot is that a genius has a brain and an idiot only has a skull, which has nothing to do with walnuts."

"Yes, yes, but both geniuses and idiots have to eat, let's go, Fang Tiantian, idiots treat you to hot pot!"

Li Fan patted Fang Qing's shoulder with a smile, Fang Qing turned sideways, exaggeratedly brushed the place touched by Li Fan, and said:

"Prevent the contagion of stupidity."

The two walked out of the company chatting and laughing, and walked towards the hot pot restaurant that Li Fan had ordered.This hot pot restaurant is located in the busiest commercial street in the city. It is sandwiched among a bunch of western food and Japanese food stores. The bride always feels that it should be accompanied by a few loud suonas.

When approaching the door, Fang Qing's footsteps suddenly paused, and she said doubtfully:

"Isn't that Lu Qiu?"

Li Fan followed Fang Qing's line of sight, and he saw Lu Qiu getting out of the car at the entrance of a high-end Japanese grocery store.Immediately afterwards, the car door on the other side was also opened, and it was Han Sheng who got out, followed by Lin Dong.

Li Fan's smile suddenly froze, and he wanted to avoid it. When he was in a daze, Lu Qiu turned his head and just happened to see him and Fang Qing.Although Lu Qiu looked down on Li Fan a lot when he was in college, he was a mixed bag in the business field after all, and he didn't have the qualifications to be dumbfounded when he was young. Now that we met, the necessary greetings were inevitable.

Li Fan had no choice but to bite the bullet and stepped forward, Han Sheng also turned his head, his expression didn't seem to change, but Lin Dong behind him froze, showing a cowardly expression.

Last night, the figure with shrunken shoulders suddenly swayed in front of Li Fan. Li Fan's hands trembled a little, and his steps staggered a bit. Fang Qing, who was beside him, helped him calmly, and spoke first. :

"President Lu, what a coincidence."

"Manager Fang and Mr. Li, why, are you here for dinner too?"

"I heard that the hot pot restaurant next to it is good. I have been craving it for a long time, so I asked President Li to accompany me to try it. This is President Lu, come out to discuss business with President Han?"

Fang Qing glanced at Han Sheng behind Lu Qiu, and the two of them nodded their heads as a greeting. Afterwards, Fang Qing's eyes swept over Lin Dong's face, and a trace of doubt suddenly flashed in her eyes, but she was caught in an instant. Hidden in sight.

"It's okay, I've hit it off with Han Sheng, so I'll just come out and talk about some business matters."

With Lu Qiu's casual tone, coupled with that nonchalant smile, those who don't know will probably really believe that he just invites a companion out to relax.But the few business matters he said casually caused others to suffer.

"Boss Lu is so excited, I think he will have fun until late at night."

Fang Qing's question was a bit abrupt. Li Fan turned his head and glanced at Fang Qing. Seeing Fang Qing's eyes glanced at Han Sheng a few times, he immediately understood that Fang Qing was going around in circles to find out how late Han Sheng was. Just go back.

"That's natural. It's better to hit the sun than choose the day. President Li and Manager Fang are also together?"

"Don't bother me, I've been craving that hot pot for many days, and I finally invited a friend to try it today. Let's not stand here and blow the air, Mr. Lu, Mr. Han, you go quickly."

Lu Qiu didn't invite sincerely at first, but after Fang Qing refused, the two groups of people dispersed separately.From the beginning to the end of this exchange of pleasantries, only Lu Qiu and Fang Qing were talking.After Han Sheng greeted Fang Qing, he just stood there expressionless, and Lin Dong followed behind him with his head bowed, looking obedient and obedient.Li Fan, on the other hand, was blocked by Fang Qing slightly turning sideways, and kept smiling stiffly.

When turning to leave, Fang Qing helped Fu Li Fan's shoulder, Li Fan looked up suspiciously, Fang Qing shook his head slightly.Li Fan didn't know, his face was so pale that there wasn't even a trace of blood left.Fang Qing saw it clearly, but didn't say anything.

Entering the hot pot restaurant, the bottom of the hot pot was set up, and soon it was gurgling and rolling, and the scattered heat fell on his face, Li Fan's face finally turned rosy, and he recovered a lot.

Thinking of the gaffe just now, Li Fan smiled embarrassedly at Fang Qing. Fang Qing sat opposite with a very natural expression.

The bottom of the pot was chosen by Li Fan, and he ordered the hottest red pot.Fang Qing's mother is from Sichuan, and Fang Qing has always been fond of spicy food since she was a child, so naturally she doesn't mind.However, Li Fan has always preferred sweets, and his taste is light. Fang Qing was surprised that he didn't order the mandarin duck pot with half of the clear soup, and even picked the spiciest one.When Li Fan handed back the menu to the waiter, Fang Qing gave Li Fan a puzzled look, and Li Fan just smiled at him foolishly as if acting like a baby.

Fang Qing picked up a piece of tenderloin, looked at it, and said:

"You can eat."

The fresh ingredients are rolled in the steaming red pot. The bottom of the pot is made of thick bone broth and secret spices. It is covered by bright red spicy oil, and a burst of fresh and spicy steam is simmered. When it comes up, it makes the mouth full of fluid and appetite.

Fang Qing put a piece of thousand-layer tofu into his mouth, and the spicy soup was wrapped in the gap. With a light bite, it immediately burst between his lips and teeth, and the fresh and spicy flavor mixed with special spices quickly penetrated into every taste bud.As expected of the hottest red pot, as soon as one sip, the tip of the tongue seemed to be lit up with flames. Even Fang Qing, a senior person who handles spicy food, couldn't help sweating from the forehead.

Fang Qing was about to ask Li Fan if he could handle the heat, but when he raised his head, Li Fan was stuffing mouthfuls into his mouth, not picking what he got, and just putting it to his mouth and blowing hot air, all of a sudden Put the spicy and hot dish into your mouth, chew it a few times and swallow it.According to this way of eating, the dish would probably still be hot when it rolled into the stomach, and Li Fan was sweating profusely, even his neck was red.

Fang Qing was so frightened by Li Fan's attack that she was so full, she coaxed him to slow down like a child, while opening a can of milk and handing it over.Li Fan's throat was full of spicy oil, and he said vaguely: "Eat it yourself, don't worry about me." Then he took a few sips from the can of milk and sea, and continued to bury his head in the scalding steam, concentrating on Fill your belly with food.

The decoration of this hot pot restaurant is very retro. There is a wooden lantern hanging above each table. The warm yellow light is sprinkled from the cage, and it is on and off, which makes people feel a little unreal.The mist rising from the pot separated the two of them, Fang Qing couldn't see Li Fan's expression clearly, and felt a little uneasy for no reason.

Li Fan ate and ate, paused for a moment with the hand holding the chopsticks, and suddenly coughed while clutching his chest.Fang Qing reluctantly poured a glass of water and pushed it over, wanting to say something casually, "It's only because you don't choke after eating so fast", the words stuck in her throat, and Fang Qing suddenly realized that something was wrong.

Li Fan's cough became more and more severe, and he dropped the chopsticks in his hand on the table, his shoulders shrank into a ball.Fang Qing hurriedly got up and went to cheer for Li Fan. Li Fan curled up like a shrimp, Fang Qing carefully patted his back.Li Fan finally got over it in one breath, coughed a few more times, grabbed the water on the table and took a few sips.

"Ah, what a shame, I'm fine, I just choked."

Originally, his throat was a little hoarse due to the burning of the spicy oil, but after such a sharp cough, Li Fan almost spoke out of breath.

Fang Qing just let go of her heart, when she saw Li Fan looking up and smiling embarrassedly, her unsteady heart suddenly picked up.

Li Fan's eyes were red, and his face was covered with tears, but there was still a silly smile on his face.

"you……"

"Hey, what are you thinking about, I'm spicy."

Before Fang Qing could speak, Li Fan immediately rushed to speak, stretched out his hand to wipe his face, sucked his nose again, and continued:

"I'm going, the snot is coming out."

As he spoke, he hurriedly reached for the napkin on the table, sniffed his nose, and avoided Fang Qing's sight.Fang Qing stood aside, hesitated to speak, and finally just sighed leisurely.

"Hey, I'm fine, don't worry, hurry up and eat, this hot pot restaurant tastes pretty good, hehe!"

Li Fan drank some more milk, moistened his throat, finally his voice became clearer, he smiled and urged Fang Qing to go back to sit, turned his head and picked up his chopsticks to continue eating, but Fang Qing held down his hand.

"Don't eat it."

"How can I do that, boss, although I'm not poor, I can't waste food. This kind of behavior is shameful! Let's..."

Li Fan hadn't finished playing with his lips, he raised his eyes to meet Fang Qing's dark eyes, and knew it was useless to say anything.Li Fan's nose was sore, and the smile on his face became more and more rigid.The hard-maintained mask was easily lifted, and Li Fan looked away unnaturally, not daring to meet Fang Qing's eyes.That gaze seemed to be able to penetrate into the softest part of his heart, easily prying into his thoughts that he tried so hard to cover up, it was disturbing.

However, Fang Qing just patted him on the shoulder in the end, as if coaxing a child, and said softly:

"Let's eat it again in the future. If you like it, you can't eat Haisai like this. You usually don't eat much spicy food, and your stomach can't stand it."

The tone was gentle and flat, and nothing superfluous was revealed.

Li Fan hummed, followed Fang Qing out of the hotpot restaurant with red eyes.It happened that several girls were full of food and drink, chattering and walking towards the door, touching their bellies one by one, their faces flushed with hotness, laughing at each other while wiping away their tears, and carefully holding tissue papers to avoid any fancy makeup.

Li Fan walked behind them, his eyes were red, it seemed that there was no difference.