Chapter 174: The Legend of Malatang
"What’s up?"
Lin Tian nodded, remembering that incident.
"Didn’t I ask someone to help sell it later? Sold it for five million, and I haven’t given you the money yet!"
Bai Shishi said apologetically, "There was the bank incident, almost getting into a mess with Du Dahai, plus a bunch of other things, I forgot about it!"
As she spoke, Bai Shishi took out a golden bank card from her wallet and handed it to Lin Tian. "That piece of imperial jade was sold, and this money is yours!"
Lin Tian pushed the bank card Bai Shishi handed back to her. "Miss Bai, I already said it’s for you, I can’t take this money!"
"Take it, you must take it today, this money rightfully belongs to you!" Bai Shishi handed it back to Lin Tian again.
Lin Tian pushed it back once more, "No, I said it’s for Miss Bai, I don’t want it!"
"If you don’t take it, you’re denying me as your boss!" Bai Shishi threatened, "If you don’t take it, you’re looking down on me!"
"How about this, let’s split the money, I’ll take two and a half million, and the rest goes to Miss Bai. Isn’t your cosmetics company having some issues lately? What if you need the money?" Lin Tian suggested a compromise.
Bai Shishi thought for a moment and nodded. "That’s fine, but let this two and a half million be a loan from you!"
"Alright!"
Lin Tian nodded in agreement.
Seeing Lin Tian holding an admission ticket, Bai Shishi asked, "Where to next to check out the exam venue?"
"Going to the Third High School to check the venue, and then nothing else!"
Lin Tian waved the admission ticket in his hand as he spoke.
"Then let’s check out the venue first, and grab something to eat after." Bai Shishi felt a bit hungry.
After all, they hadn’t had any food or drink since leaving the Bai Family’s place at noon.
"Okay!"
Anyway, since Bai Shishi was the driver, Lin Tian followed her lead completely.
By evening, Lin Tian finished checking the exam venue at the Third High School and got back into the car.
"What should we eat?" Bai Shishi asked.
"Let’s just drive around and see!" Lin Tian replied.
"What exactly are we going to eat?" Bai Shishi had already driven Lin Tian around half of Kanyue City in her Mercedes.
Not seeing any restaurant to his liking, Lin Tian said helplessly, "How about hot and spicy soup?"
"Street food again?" Bai Shishi was somewhat resistant to street food.
"I know a really delicious spot for hot and spicy soup!"
Suddenly Lin Tian remembered a very good street food place.
"Alright then, let’s go for hot and spicy soup!" Bai Shishi stepped hard on the accelerator. "I’m starving, you lead the way!"
"Turn left ahead, then right at the intersection..."
The Mercedes parked at the entrance of a small alley, inside the alley were barbecue, hot and spicy soup, and various snacks, it was practically a street of snacks!
"Where is it?" After parking the car, Bai Shishi looked at Lin Tian.
"There, that one!" Lin Tian pointed to a shop not far away.
Bai Shishi looked from afar and saw many tables and chairs set up at the shopfront, filled with young men and women eating and laughing.
"Thirteen Fire Pao?"
Bai Shishi was puzzled by the name on the shop sign, "What does this shop name mean?"
"Ha ha, you don’t get it, do you?"
Lin Tian laughed, the first time he came here to eat with Wu Yong, he also didn’t understand the shop’s name.
After coming here more times, he understood what it meant!
"If you see ’fire’ and ’bao’ as one character, you’ll get it!" Lin Tian hinted with a mischievous grin on his face.
"Thirteen Cannon?"
Bai Shishi was still confused, "What does that mean?"
"It means nothing, it’s just a random name by the owner!"
Lin Tian couldn’t bring himself to explain directly, so he hinted indirectly, "Look up ’Hot and Spicy Thirteen Cannon’ on Baidu when you have time, you’ll know what it means!"
"Okay!"
Bai Shishi wasn’t someone who would let it slide easily and silently noted it in her heart.
For hot and spicy soup, you naturally have to choose the ingredients, Bai Shishi and Lin Tian each took a plastic basket, picked ingredients, and handed them to the owner.
"Altogether thirty yuan!" The store owner checked the ingredients and quoted the price.
"Also, a cold beer!" Lin Tian shouted.
"Altogether thirty-six yuan!"
"Here’s the money!" Bai Shishi, feeling a bit awkward, took out forty yuan.
Normally, a meal usually costs hundreds of yuan, how could it not feel weird that now two people are just eating for thirty-six yuan?
"What are you standing there for? Come and sit!" Lin Tian found an empty table.
Bai Shishi sat across from Lin Tian, watching him drink beer directly from the bottle.
Seeing Bai Shishi seemed a bit reserved, Lin Tian joked, "Feels like you’re not used to places like this?"
"It’s okay, just not used to it because I come here rarely!"
Bai Shishi spoke the truth, counting the previous time eating barbecue, she had only been to street food stalls twice.
"No worries, if I invite you for meals in the future, we’ll come to places like this until you’re familiar with them!"
Lin Tian meant that if he invited Bai Shishi for a meal, it would definitely be at street food stalls, he wasn’t willing to go to high-end restaurants.
"Why aren’t you eating?"
While Lin Tian and Bai Shishi were chatting, their attention was suddenly drawn by the conversation of a table of young men and women nearby.
"I flew all the way to Kanyue City, and you’re treating me to six yuan hot and spicy soup!" The young woman seemed a bit aggrieved.
"What else then?" The young man didn’t think there was anything wrong with eating six yuan hot and spicy soup.
"Actually, there’s nothing wrong with eating six yuan hot and spicy soup, but can you do it thirteen times in one night?" The young woman looked at the young man with an expectant look.
"That’s a bit difficult!" The young man gulped.
"Pfft~!" Lin Tian almost choked on his beer, it went down the wrong pipe, and he spat it out.
"What are you doing?"
Sitting across from him, Bai Shishi quickly handed him a tissue when she saw Lin Tian coughing repeatedly from the spittle.
"Nothing, nothing!"
Lin Tian took the tissue and wiped his mouth, coughs persistent.
With Lin Tian’s interruption, the young men and women didn’t continue their previous conversation but bowed their heads to eat their hot and spicy soup.
Soon, the two finished eating and left in a hurry.
"Lin Tian, what do they mean by six yuan hot and spicy soup thirteen times?" Bai Shishi couldn’t help her curiosity and asked.
Lin Tian actually knew but was embarrassed to explain directly. "I’m not Baidu, how would I know? Ask Baidu!"
Hearing this, Bai Shishi reached into her bag for her mobile phone, preparing to search, and Lin Tian hurriedly stopped her. "Check when you get home, the hot and spicy soup is here, let’s eat first!"
The store owner placed two bowls of hot and spicy soup on the table, and the rich aroma immediately distracted Bai Shishi from her urge to search, and she tore open the disposable chopsticks, eating with big mouthfuls.
"Eat slowly, it’s hot!"
Lin Tian smiled affectionately at Bai Shishi’s voracious eating.
For Bai Shishi, a woman who was already tired of gourmet dishes, occasionally taking her to a street stall was undoubtedly an enjoyable experience.
The two bowls of hot and spicy soup were soon devoured, Lin Tian patted his bulging belly.
"I’m full!" Bai Shishi rubbed her stomach, feeling satisfied.
Lin Tian suggested, "How about we walk around to digest?"