The Kindhearted Girl Gets a Wife 49

Chapter 49

Pei Yunle leaned on Chen Qingtang’s shoulder, watching her choose a Korean barbecue for two from the many seaside restaurants.

Pei Yunle scratched her eyebrows in confusion. “Why did you choose this?”

Chen Qingtang exited the purchase page and swiped the price page in front of her. The buffet for two was only 129 yuan, and it also had seafood. It was just that the word “fresh” had to be questioned. Compared to other seafood restaurants, it was a great deal. Even a seafood stall would cost several hundred yuan.

“We’re out to play. Can’t we be a little extravagant?”

Pei Yunle pinched her little fingertip. Just as she finished speaking, Chen Qingtang held her finger back and then shook her head with her hands on her hips.

129 yuan was already very extravagant. After all, the Zhang Ji barbecue in Pingshun was only 29.9 yuan per person, and you could drink free colored drinks.

Thanks to the bay, the business of the seaside restaurants was very good, day and night.

The barbecue restaurant was packed. Pei Yunle held the ticket number 125 and listened to the small loudspeaker calling number 97. The waiting area outside was almost full. She and Chen Qingtang stood outside and waited.

There were no plastic stools. Pei Yunle was wearing a pair of denim capri pants, which were dirt-resistant. So she just sat on the wooden steps, her legs spread wide.

When her knees turned to the sides, they would touch Chen Qingtang, who was standing on the side.

Chen Qingtang moved her toes to the left, and Pei Yunle moved her butt to the left, and then continued to poke her, back and forth several rounds. Chen Qingtang couldn’t stand it and turned her head to look at her.

Pei Yunle patted her own thigh, her lips forming the shape of words but without a sound, “Do you want to sit on me?”

She was just teasing the thin-skinned Chen Qingtang, but she didn’t expect the other person to arrange her skirt and really sit on her. Pei Yunle straightened her legs, turning them into a flat meat cushion.

Chen Qingtang held the skirt that was fluttering in the wind and sat steadily on Pei Yunle’s lap. At this moment, the thickness of her skin was no longer important. What was important was her sore legs.

The streetlights along the Star Tears Beach illuminated the wide stone road as if it were daytime. The afterglow fell on the beach, and the white shells, covered by the sand, revealed a bit of bright color, like the tears of the stars in the night sky.

People came and went on the main road. There were many sexy and beautiful girls, and their confident and bright appearance became the second scenery of the seaside.

Chen Qingtang propped her chin on her hands, her gaze attracted by those girls. Her eyes were full of amazement and admiration, and she would occasionally follow them for a few hundred meters. A bit of hot air was sprinkled on the back of her hand, which was even more uncomfortable in this high temperature. She looked along the back of her hand and met Pei Yunle’s eyes.

Their noses were almost touching. Chen Qingtang subconsciously twitched her nose and then reached out her fingertip to poke Pei Yunle’s brow, telling her to move back a little.

Pei Yunle leaned closer again, smiling lightly. “Can’t I be a little closer to you?”

The surroundings were crowded with people. Although no one was bored enough to look over here, Chen Qingtang was still not used to being so intimate in public. She always felt awkward.

Pei Yunle saw that she was still not responding with her hand on her chin. She didn’t dare to scratch Chen Qingtang’s sensitive spot, afraid that she would jump up. So she took advantage of her inattention and first lightly shook her legs. Although they were a little numb, she still had strength.

So Pei Yunle quickly bent her knees again. Chen Qingtang had been sitting relatively flat, but suddenly there was a slope underneath. Although the change was not big, it was sudden. In her panic, she subconsciously reached out one hand to hold Pei Yunle’s lower back.

Meeting Pei Yunle’s triumphant look, Chen Qingtang was a little helpless. This person was so childish.

Pei Yunle didn’t hug her, but just tugged at the corner of Chen Qingtang’s clothes. The soft fabric twisted a few times in her fingertips, and was squeezed into different wrinkles.

“Who told you to be so far away from me just now? Now it’s good, zero-distance contact.”

It was windy at night, but it was just a wave of hot air. The two of them moved around like this, and their arms were covered with a layer of sticky sweat.

Chen Qingtang was so hot that she couldn’t stand it. She wanted to stand up, her whole body as if it had been washed with water.

Pei Yunle loosely held her wrist bone, and the words she spoke, plus the warm breeze, made Chen Qingtang’s earlobes burn.

“If you’re so far away from me again, we’ll have negative-distance contact when we get back.”

Chen Qingtang immediately covered her unrestrained mouth, leaving only a pair of rolling eyes to look at her.

However, at this moment, it was not just the two of them looking at each other. There was another person standing next to them, staring at them.

A chubby little girl stood a few meters away, her hair in two small braids, her head tilted as she observed their actions.

Pei Yunle didn’t know if it was the hot air she had exhaled, or if the other person’s gaze was too intense. Chen Qingtang felt like she was holding a ball of fire in her palm. She immediately stood up from Pei Yunle’s lap and then rubbed her palm against the tree root next to her.

Pei Yunle glanced at the chubby little girl. The moment their eyes met, the girl walked over in her Crocs, the two lumps of flesh on her face jiggling with her movements. Her voice was young and tender, “What are you doing?”

Pei Yunle glanced at Chen Qingtang, then turned her attention to the girl’s hand and asked in return, “What are you holding in your hand?”

The girl unfolded the crumpled ticket in front of her. It said number 119. Pei Yunle glanced at her own 125. The gap between them was not just numbers, but an extremely long time.

“Little friend, where are your parents?”

“Mom went to buy water and hasn’t come back yet.”

“Did you get the number or did your mom get it?”

“I got it!” The girl proudly puffed out her chest, the lollipop in her mouth rolling around.

“So does your mom know what your number is?”

“No, she told me to queue up first, but I can’t read all the words. The waiter just handed it to me and I left.”

Pei Yunle nodded seriously and then showed her own ticket to the little girl. “Look, mine is 125, and yours is 119. My number is smaller than yours, so I have to go in before you.”

“Smaller? How do you see that? I don’t know three-digit numbers.”

“You haven’t learned three-digit numbers, but you’ve learned single-digit numbers, right? 5 is smaller than 9, right?”

The girl poked her short, chubby finger forward. “There’s also a 1 here.”

Pei Yunle took her chubby finger down. “This is not accurate. We usually just look at the last digit.”

“Really?” The girl’s eyes widened, her dark pupils glistening with clear water.

Pei Yunle also mimicked her and slightly squeezed her eyes round. “Really. So my ticket is better than yours. You have to wait outside for a long time. I’ll be eating when you’re still not eating.”

“Ah…” The little girl’s eyebrows drooped.

“Sigh, but since we’re so fated to meet, I’ll be merciful and swap this ticket with you. But this is our secret, you can’t tell anyone else.”

Pei Yunle waved the ticket in her hand. Just as she was about to stuff it into the girl’s hand, the ticket number 125 was snatched back by Chen Qingtang.

“What are you doing?” Pei Yunle mouthed silently.

Chen Qingtang put the ticket into the small pocket on the side of her dress and held up an index finger, wagging it from side to side at Pei Yunle.

“Big Sis, are we still swapping?”

Pei Yunle spread her hands. “There are no more tickets. We’re not swapping.”

“Oh…” The girl licked her lollipop. She was too young to know what this exchange meant. She only knew that she was hungry and wanted to eat. Seeing one person quickly signing, and the other pitifully propping her chin on her hand, she didn’t understand. She just felt bored, smacked her lips a few times, and ran away.

The person had run away, but Chen Qingtang was still outputting: How can you lie to a child!

Pei Yunle retorted: Children are for lying to.

Chen Qingtang: This situation is different.

Pei Yunle: I don’t care if it’s different or not. I’m hungry. Respect the old and love the young. The old comes before the young!

Chen Qingtang didn’t care if the steps were dirty or not. She sat down next to Pei Yunle, and the two of them argued about this issue in the night wind for half an hour.

Waves of people came and went in the restaurant. Because it was a buffet, there was a time limit. Plus, the atmosphere was tense, so customers came and went quickly.

Just as Pei Yunle’s backside was starting to hurt from sitting, the small loudspeaker at the entrance finally called number 125.

As soon as she entered, Pei Yunle quickly took several large plates and filled them with all kinds of meat. She took a large pile of things she had seen and not seen before.

When she passed by the pork belly, she saw that there was a durian-flavored one. Pei Yunle’s body had already walked to the vegetable section, but her eyes were still glued to the durian pork belly. So she turned back and took two plates of the durian-flavored meat.

She would definitely take the delicious ones, and not the bad ones. But for the particularly novel and strange ones, Pei Yunle would definitely take them.

Chen Qingtang, on the other hand, took some rice wine and made two dipping sauces.

Seeing that the ingredients Pei Yunle had taken almost filled the entire table, she signed, “Too much.”

Pei Yunle lowered her eyes and took out two packets of digestive tablets from her crossbody bag.

Chen Qingtang: …?

“It’s okay, it’s okay. I’m starving. I can definitely finish it.”

Pei Yunle threw all the meat down, almost covering the iron plate. Then she lifted her eyes and looked at Chen Qingtang. Seeing that the person had just lifted her cup to drink rice wine, Pei Yunle took advantage of her inattention and placed the durian pork belly in a corner, then put a few slices of potato on top to cover it.

The pork belly was thin and cooked quickly. Pei Yunle didn’t even dare to flip it twice, afraid of getting all the durian jam on the grill.

However, the cooked meat didn’t show the yellow of the durian. It was just a very ordinary piece of pork belly.

Pei Yunle was very attentive and placed this piece of meat in Chen Qingtang’s small dish. “You should eat more meat. Don’t eat string beans every day. A balanced diet is necessary to grow tall.”

Chen Qingtang found it funny. How old was she? How could she still grow taller? It was more like she would gain a few pounds of fat.

Just as she was about to dip the meat in the chili sauce, she was blocked by Pei Yunle’s chopsticks.

“Meat is best eaten in its original flavor. It’s not good to eat too much chili.”

Seeing her so insistent, Chen Qingtang had no choice but to not dip it and put it in her mouth.

Pei Yunle lowered her head, not daring to look at her reaction. Her chopsticks couldn’t help but poke at the holey potato slice.

Until the potato slice was about to become mashed potatoes, Chen Qingtang seemed to have no reaction.

Pei Yunle looked up. Seeing her normal expression, and that she hadn’t even had a sip of water, she naturally picked up another piece of meat.

“Is my grilling delicious?” she asked, leaning closer with eager eyes.

Chen Qingtang almost didn’t hesitate and nodded.

“Is that piece of meat delicious? It should be cooked, right?”

Pei Yunle stared at the slightly cool piece of meat. She could still faintly smell a hint of durian.

Seeing her looking at the food in her own dish, Chen Qingtang personally picked it up and handed it to Pei Yunle’s mouth.

Pei Yunle’s mouth was faster than her brain. The moment she opened her mouth, her mouth was filled with the unique taste of durian. Plus, the meat was not crispy, but soft and a little raw. She couldn’t chew it and couldn’t swallow it. The more she didn’t swallow, the longer the taste lingered.

Pei Yunle’s brows were furrowed so tightly that she could have crushed a mosquito. Her neck was almost stretched two miles long before she swallowed it.

It was the same last time at the market when she bought strawberries. Chen Qingtang had also had a calm expression. Every time, this boomerang would come back and hit her. Pei Yunle felt that her health bar was about to hit rock bottom.

She lifted her hand and took a sip of the rice wine. The alcohol content was not high, but it was still a little spicy.

This meal was carried out in Pei Yunle’s silence.

Chen Qingtang’s conscience was still very strong. After tricking Pei Yunle into eating a piece of durian pork belly, she spent the rest of the time actively putting food in her bowl.

The table they were sitting at was originally a long table with a very low divider in the middle, so it was divided into two cramped small tables.

Sitting like this, it seemed like two tables, but it felt like one table of people. It was too awkward.

Pei Yunle finished the last drop of rice wine, and a blush began to appear on her face. She had felt uncomfortable from the first time she had lifted her cup, not physically, but psychologically.

The moment she put down her empty cup, she met the gaze of the opposite sex at the next table for a second. That person then lowered his head to eat.

But he would occasionally stare at her again.

Pei Yunle stirred the half-plate of durian pork belly and asked Chen Qingtang, “Are you still eating this meat?”

Chen Qingtang quickly waved her hand. She saw Pei Yunle lower her head and stir the meat slices with her chopsticks, then hand the plate to the next table.

The yellow durian jam covered the bright red meat slices, and a hesitant sentence was scraped on it with chopsticks. Although it was not very coherent, it was still readable.

There were only four words: Look at your mom?

The entire buffet lasted for two hours. Pei Yunle never received any more strange gazes.

Of course, she didn’t eat a single one of the two packets of digestive tablets, because Pei Yunle was really starving. She was like a whirlwind.

After eating her fill, the two of them walked along the seaside for a while.

There were fewer people now than during the day, and it didn’t look so lively.

The light from the streetlights couldn’t reach here. The two of them walked slowly at the junction of light and shadow. Occasionally, they could hear the sound of the tide, an invitation from another world.

In the unfamiliar darkness, she couldn’t see the road ahead clearly, and her other senses would be magnified. Chen Qingtang always felt like she was walking on a single-plank bridge, and she subconsciously longed for Pei Yunle’s presence.

“The fish we ate just now was not good, the shrimp was not fresh, the crabs were cooked for a long time and I was too lazy to peel them, and the chili sauce was not to my taste.”

Pei Yunle chattered on and on, saying that the stingy owner only served one piece of fried chicken, and the lemon tea was not sour but sweet and greasy. She had eaten a lot with a bitter heart.

Chen Qingtang just held her hand tightly and then silently remembered to take Pei Yunle to eat the grilled fish at the town entrance when they got back, and to buy a few jin of green shrimp and some crabs at the market.

But, how to peel crabs? She had only heard that crab roe was very delicious, but she hadn’t eaten it just now. Chen Qingtang decided to go back and search for a few videos to see.

Pei Yunle had talked until her lips were dry. Why was Chen Qingtang still ignoring her? She walked forward and, as if angry, pressed her head on Chen Qingtang’s shoulder.

She was already taller than Chen Qingtang. This deliberate petulant pressure made it difficult for Chen Qingtang to walk, and her own waist was also uncomfortable.

Chen Qingtang was helpless. She reached out and touched her face. Pei Yunle supported her sore waist. “Why are you ignoring me?”

Chen Qingtang had wanted to reach for her phone in her pocket, but the sea breeze was blowing her dress wildly, and it was not easy to even reach her pocket. So she had to touch Pei Yunle’s palm.

There was a lot she wanted to say, but she didn’t know what to write.

Many things flashed through her mind. Chen Qingtang caught a vague pattern and then slowly drew it in Pei Yunle’s palm.

[Heart]

Only then did Pei Yunle slowly curl her fingers, wanting to catch the itch in her palm, not wanting it to disappear with the sea breeze.

“Chen Qingtang.”

The person who was called turned her head to look at her. The high, round moon was a noisy, bright spot in the night sky. The dark blue waves splashed a dark color on Chen Qingtang. She stood there, like a tall and unyielding podocarpus.

Pei Yunle tucked a strand of her hair behind her ear, then leaned closer to Chen Qingtang’s ear, exhaling the only hot air on this cool seaside.

“Like has to be said, love has to be done.”

“Obviously, the first half is not possible. We should go back and implement the second half.”

With that, Pei Yunle opened her palm. It was fair and unblemished.