"Hey, Qin is looking quite spirited today."
Uncle Shao lifted his eyes and saw Qin Guanglin walking into the store with a girl, and couldn’t help but admire.
Just last week when they came here for a drink there wasn’t such a big change, having a girlfriend really makes a difference.
"What spirited, this is called handsome." Qin Guanglin was not modest at all and joked as he passed the menu to He Fang, "Take a look, what do you want to eat?"
He Fang marked the menu twice and pushed it back to him, "You look."
Qin Guanglin took it over, glanced at it, three dishes, enough for two people to eat, didn’t add more, and directly handed the menu to Uncle Shao, "Okay Uncle Shao, just these few."
"Okay, coming right up." Uncle Shao just brought over the tea and took the menu to the kitchen.
At this moment, it was mealtime, and people came into the small restaurant one after another, looking like they were students from nearby, Qin Guanglin sat in a position against the wall and casually looked around, suddenly asked, "Are we considered to be on a date?"
"Of course." He Fang smiled and glanced at him, "What else did you think it was?"
"Just hanging out." Qin Guanglin was somewhat unclear about the definition of a date, "This dating thing... how is it defined?"
"You, me." He Fang pointed at herself then at him, "Set a place, meet up."
"Then our last visit was also a date?"
Qin Guanglin felt a subtle feeling in his heart, last time together here she even picked out the bones from the fish for him... and now he got a kiss from her.
Tsk, this is fate.
"Nonsense, eating together, watching a movie together, if not a date, then what?" He Fang rolled her eyes at him, totally clueless, only now catching on.
"Are we still going to watch a movie later?" she asked.
"We can." Qin Guanglin agreed.
A date, after all, is doing whatever you feel like, playing whatever you want, the key is being together.
In a short while, the dishes were served by Uncle Shao, who called out to them and returned to the kitchen busy with his work, Qin Guanglin got up to help He Fang serve the rice and sat down to eat.
Two light vegetarian stir-fries, one spicy stir-fried snails, giving Qin Guanglin some choice, to eat light or spicy.
He rarely ate snails, mainly because he found them cumbersome, having to pick them out with a toothpick, making his hands dirty and feeling bothersome.
Why use a toothpick? Because he couldn’t suck them out.
Watching He Fang suck down one snail after another, he couldn’t help but feel envious, "Eat slower, I haven’t had many."
"Who told you to be clumsy?"
He Fang picked one up to show him, "Just like this, put it in your mouth and suck." She made a slurping sound and showed Qin Guanglin the empty shell, "How simple?"
"Cough... cough cough..."
Qin Guanglin tried to imitate her but inhaled a spicy flavor straight into his throat and couldn’t help coughing, the meat still safely inside the shell.
This truly was an art.
"No way, I can’t learn." He took a sip of tea and honestly picked up a toothpick to pick the meat out.
"You need to practice more." He Fang glanced at him and continued slurping, "Too weak."
"Fine, don’t eat, it’s all yours." Qin Guanglin, finding it too bothersome, simply ate the other vegetarian dishes.
Snails are so cute, how could he bear to eat them? Eating vegetarian is not only healthy but also hassle-free.
"I’ll just cook snails every day from now on, starve you to death."
"I can cook too, won’t starve."
Being versatile never hurts, learning to cook is all benefit and no harm, he felt somewhat proud, "I’ll cook for myself."
He Fang didn’t pay him any more attention, focusing on her own meal. This dish was her own craving, knowing Qin Guanglin found it troublesome, she didn’t save any for him, a bowl of rice went down and a small pile of empty shells accumulated on the table.
"Just finished eating, want to walk around before watching the movie?" After finishing their meal and leaving the restaurant, Qin Guanglin patted his stomach and suggested.
"Sure."
Outdoors, Qin Guanglin had been holding an umbrella, which was quite tiring, and it was also hot, He Fang looked around then stepped towards the direction of the shopping mall, "Let’s go to the mall and enjoy the air conditioning."
"That’s a good idea." Qin Guanglin let her lead him that way, "You only bought me a shirt this morning, and you haven’t bought anything."
Buying clothes was also her money, although according to He Fang’s logic, his money would eventually be hers, but he still felt it wasn’t quite right.
She wasn’t working right now, and was also looking to rent an apartment soon, finances must be tight... he should find a chance to ask about this matter, or maybe directly help her with the rent.
"Shopping isn’t necessarily about buying things; it’s about enjoying the fun of browsing." He Fang spoke then stretched out her hand towards him, "Give me another candy."
Qin Guanglin took out a candy and handed it to her, "Isn’t the fun about spending money?"
"Not really."
"Don’t understand you women." He shook his head, how could there be any fun without buying?
He Fang turned her head, "I, we? Who else?"
"..." Qin Guanglin paused, "Who else?"
"Tell me, how many girls have you taken shopping?" He Fang nibbled on the candy and questioned him.
"Just you."
"Tsk."
"How many people have you gone shopping with?" Seeing she was joking, Qin Guanglin casually asked back.
He Fang curled her lips looking at him, "Quite a few."
"How many?"
"Can’t count them."
"Really impressive." Qin Guanglin sincerely admired, "I don’t believe it."
"Hmph, I’ll count for you, Zhou Nan, Wu Yunyun, Chen Yan, Zhang Mengmeng..."
As she was about to list out all her classmates, Qin Guanglin quickly interrupted, "Okay, okay, I believe you, I believe you."
If you put it that way, he had also ’shopped’ many times, Xiao Yu, Sun Wen, Yu Fei, Lu Guanyu...
No, hanging out with guys couldn’t be called shopping, that doesn’t count.
"I’ll ask again, how many guys have you gone shopping with?" He suddenly realized he had asked the wrong question earlier.
"Hehehe." He Fang chuckled, holding onto him, "Just you, happy now?"
"You didn’t need to tell me; I guessed it." Qin Guanglin smugly spoke after the fact.
Though he wouldn’t mind about this matter, this answer still made him happy.
"You guessed crap." He Fang saw the mall not far off, with few people on the hot streets, pulled half of the candy out from her mouth and teased him, "Want a candy?"
Qin Guanglin looked around like a thief, leaned forward and snatched it.
"You really ate it?!"
He Fang just wanted to tease him and didn’t expect him to move so fast, she didn’t even have time to hide it back.
"Should I give it back?" Qin Guanglin asked.
"Don’t want it, it’s not sweet after you’ve eaten it." He Fang turned away disdainfully, passing things back and forth, what kind of behavior was that.
"Not true." He smacked his lips, "Super sweet."