Chapter 102: Suddenly pretending to be a boyfriend? (The second update is a bit late)
There was no umbrella, but the rain was not heavy and the road was not far, so only his shoulders and back were slightly wet. Su Xiaoqiang took off the school uniform jacket that he was wearing to keep out the rain and wrung it dry, watching Lu Mingfei open the plastic curtain for him, and the cool air from the air conditioner came out.

Yan's private kitchen.

It's hard to comment on the environment of the restaurant. In short, the area is not big, with about seven or eight tables. Although it's not meal time, there are still five or six tables with people sitting. There are old black stains on the walls. Maybe only the stools are clean.

The lights are very bright, and sometimes a little smoke from cooking in the kitchen would come out, rising in the enclosed space, which is quite fragrant.

Su Xiaoqiang sat down with her skirt pressed down, took out a few napkins and placed them under her elbows.

"Is this what you call hygiene?" The little goddess frowned.

"Yes, it's OK. At least it has a health license."

Lu Mingfei pointed at the health license posted in a prominent place in the store, with an expression that said, "Just tell me if this is sanitary or not."

Su Xiaoqiang sighed helplessly, thinking that he really shouldn't have believed this guy's nonsense.

"Don't worry. Although the hygiene is not as good as those Michelin Black Pearls you eat every day, the license means that at least their food is clean."

Lu Mingfei said as he placed the menu in front of Su Xiaoqiang, "You order first. This meal is on me as a way of paying you back for the last one."

Su Xiaoqiang sneered at him: "We spent more than 8,000 yuan on our last meal. Can this meal cost only 80 yuan?"

"Eight thousand? So expensive?"

"What else? Half of the bottle of red wine is gone. Do you think foie gras and caviar are cheap?"

Although Su Xiaoqiang was insulting Lu Mingfei, he still used his slender fingertips to straighten the menu and look at the dishes.

To be honest, this was her first time to eat at such a small, fly-infested restaurant. She would never pass by such greasy snack streets in the past. Her only impression of these restaurants was from TV dramas.

But today the situation was a little special. Because of Lu Mingfei's words, she was in a rare good mood and accepted Lu Mingfei's invitation.

It's just a one-time meal anyway. No matter how unhygienic it is, the worst that can happen is diarrhea. Can it kill her?

Thinking of this, she looked at Lu Mingfei again.

Even if someone dies from eating it, there is still someone to take the blame for him.

"Have you seen anything you want to eat?" Lu Mingfei asked from the side.

"I won't watch it anymore. Even if I do, I won't know what the dishes taste like."

The little angel waved her hand, called the proprietress over, and directly took out two red bills from her wallet and handed them to the proprietress.

"Give us something worth a hundred dollars, whatever you like, some meat and some vegetables, and a few bottles of drinks."

In 2006, a full meal at McDonald's was only 18 yuan, and the average per capita consumption in this small restaurant was estimated to be only about 10 yuan. You can have a meal in this restaurant for 100 yuan.

The proprietress was also stunned. It was obvious that she had never seen a girl as silly as Su Xiaoqiang since she opened the shop.

"One hundred yuan, I'm afraid you two students can't finish it."

"Then put more meat and cook the vegetables more hygienically. It's up to you, just make sure it's enough for the two of us. If there's any extra money, you can give each table two bottles of beer."

This way of acting can be said to be very little angelic.

Lu Mingfei vaguely remembered that when he was in middle school in his previous life, Su Xiaoqiang also booked a theater for them to watch a movie. The movie played was "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" starring the handsome Brad Pitt.

This is a fantasy love movie, quite touching. At that time, Su Xiaoqiang booked the largest screening room of the largest cinema in the city center.

Because the screening room was so big, Su Xiaoqiang just waved his hand and called the people from the two classes next door over, and gave each of them a bucket of popcorn and a cup of Coke.

Because Chen Wenwen arrived late and sat in the back row, Lu Mingfei followed her to sit in the back row. People from the next class in front of them ate Su Xiaoqiang's popcorn while saying that she was showing off her wealth.

In fact, this is their misunderstanding. If they really understood Su Xiaoqiang, they would know that the little goddess never showed off her wealth.

What is showing off wealth? Showing off wealth is like Zhao Menghua, who usually wears the same school uniform as you and carries a school bag of similar price, and then carries a Lingines worth hundreds of thousands of yuan in his hand, pretending that it accidentally pops out from his sleeve.

When you praise him, he will pretend to make excuses. This is what you call showing off your wealth.

The little angel doesn't show off her wealth. She just never hides the fact that she is rich. But if you don't have money, she won't look down on you or step on you.

The dishes would take some time to be served, so two bottles of Coca-Cola were brought up first. The proprietress opened the lids for the two of them, and the glass bottles collided with a clang in the air.

"The Coke is no different from that in a five-star hotel," commented the little angel.

“Not necessarily. The price is still a little different.”

Lu Mingfei didn't comment, then changed the subject and asked, "By the way, why haven't you gone home yet? I remember you left as soon as the get out of class was over."

Su Xiaoqiang rolled his eyes.

"I don't want to go back. Don't ask about other people's family affairs."

Lu Mingfei nodded. He vaguely heard that there was a story behind the words, so he didn't ask any more questions.

In fact, among the three campus beauties of Shilan Middle School, Su Xiaoqiang's family seems to be the least mysterious one.

Needless to say, as for Liu Miaomiao, others only know that her family is rich, but no one seems to know what she does specifically.

As for Chen Wenwen, even though Lu Mingfei had known her for three years, he had never been to her house once. Every time they went home together, they would separate at the gate of the community. No one knew what her parents did, but they vaguely knew that they were from a scholarly family. Only Su Xiaoqiang, everyone knew that she was a Chinese-Portuguese mixed-race, her mother was Portuguese, and her father was a mine owner.

"By the way, I've known you for such a long time but I've never heard you tell me what your family does?" Su Xiaoqiang asked.

"My parents are both international archaeologists. They fly back and forth abroad and are not at home all year round, so I have been living with my uncle and aunt before."

"Oh, they are from an educated family. I didn't realize that."

Su Xiaoqiang looked Lu Mingfei up and down, thinking that it was no wonder that he saw a sense of aristocratic temperament in Lu Mingfei from time to time. It seemed that Lu Mingfei's family also had some background.

"How does that saying go? Divide the gold to find the dragon and look for the mountain..."

"... Each level of entanglement is a level of difficulty, right?" Lu Mingfei sneered, "Archaeologists and tomb raiders are two different things, right?"

"I don't understand this, so isn't it normal that I can't tell the difference?"

Su Xiaoqiang shrugged. "It's like what people say in school: my family is a coal miner and my dad is a coal boss, which makes my family look so unsophisticated. In fact, my dad's company is called Su's Energy Development Group, a listed company. My dad is also a college graduate from Central South University of Mining and Metallurgy."

Lu Mingfei was secretly surprised. No wonder he always felt that the combination of the coal boss and the Portuguese was a strange one.

It turns out that this is not the plot in Duras's "The Lover" where a wealthy Chinese businessman keeps a French girl as his mistress, but a transnational love story between a senior intellectual and a Portuguese student.

"Then your parents should have a good relationship, right?"

Just at this moment the dishes were served, three dishes and a soup. The steam rising from the soup obscured Su Xiaoqiang's expression at the moment.

"Don't talk about this, let's eat first." Su Xiaoqiang said without raising his head.

……

Overall, this meal was a pleasant surprise for Su Xiaoqiang. He didn't expect that in such an inconspicuous little restaurant, the dishes were so delicious and the flavors were so bold.

Su Xiaoqiang had eaten two of these dishes in high-end Sichuan restaurants, but the taste of the two dishes was completely different.

To paraphrase Lu Mingfei, “This is the difference between the traditional school and the Jianghu school.”

After three rounds of Coke, what was originally just a dinner arranged by Lu Mingfei on a whim suddenly turned into a one-sided complaining session by Su Xiaoqiang.

Originally, Su Xiaoqiang told Lu Mingfei to stop asking about other people's affairs, but as they were eating, he started talking to himself, almost making Lu Mingfei suspect that the store had mixed wheat juice into Su Xiaoqiang's Coke.

"... Let me tell you, that cocky boy named Liu in my middle school was really annoying. He stuffed a bunch of roses into my drawer every morning, making him seem like he knew a lot about romance. Didn't he know that my name wasn't Qiang, which means "rose", but Qiang, which means "shaft that falls on the ground and is destroyed"? "

"...I hate those dinner parties the most. There are always all kinds of old guys bringing their sons and nephews to toast with me. Those men have teddy bears in their eyes. I'm only sixteen, okay? Blind dates aren't for people at this age. They all saw that I'm the only daughter of my father, and they want to take advantage of me."

"…I have another dinner to attend in September this year. It's really annoying. I've already attended one in Hong Kong before. It's the premiere dinner for Chenglong's movie "Baby Project" that I told you about before. The last time was in Hong Kong, and this time the dinner is in mainland China."

I talked about every topic, but I didn't mention anything about my family situation.

Suddenly, the little goddess' eyes flashed, as if she remembered something, and she looked at Lu Mingfei in front of her again.

"How about you accompany me to the dinner in September this year?" Su Xiaoqiang suddenly said.

"I'll go with you?" Lu Mingfei was stunned. He didn't expect the little goddess to suddenly bring this up. "How can I go with you? This kind of dinner is usually by invitation only, right?"

"It's okay. Each invited guest can bring someone in. I have an invitation."

"Then why should I accompany you?"

"Didn't I tell you that every time I attend a dinner party, there are always old guys coming with their sons and nephews to harass me."

The little goddess blinked and said, "Will you just accompany me for a while and be my shield?"

Lu Mingfei's heart skipped a beat, thinking, doesn't this mean she wants him to pretend to be her boyfriend?
Shit. As someone who had returned from the world of Japanese light novels, Lu Mingfei had certainly seen girls asking boys to pretend to be their boyfriends and dissuading their suitors, but he never expected that this would happen to him one day.

And the person who wanted to pretend to be her boyfriend was actually the incredibly beautiful little angel Su Xiaoqiang?
It seems that the strong wind has blown away all the bad luck in love that was floating on my paralyzed senior brother and also blew it onto me?
Lu Mingfei asked, "Why me? There must be someone more suitable than me, right?"

Although he does look more handsome than before after dressing up recently, the little angel should not be the kind of person who likes someone just based on their appearance.

Otherwise, she would have liked the paralyzed senior brother in her previous life.

"No reason, I just think you're a good fit. As long as you can tone down your reckless temperament, stand and sit properly, and brag about your parents' archaeological identities, that would be enough to dissuade some shameless guys. Anyway, you don't have to do anything, just eat there and watch a movie."

Su Xiaoqiang shrugged, "Just tell me whether you are going or not?"

"Forehead……"

Helping the little goddess was not a big problem, but she asked it so suddenly that Lu Mingfei found it hard to accept.

"What will happen if I say I won't go?"

"If you really don't want to go, I can't force you to go. After all, I, Su Xiaoqiang, am not the kind of person who uses power to bully others."

As the little angel was talking, a naughty smile suddenly appeared on the corner of her mouth, and her delicate and charming eyes stared straight at Lu Mingfei.

"It's just that someone said he wanted to repay me for something after taking my phone last time, but I haven't gotten to that yet."

……

(End of this chapter)