Math professor returns to routine

Chapter 449 Enjoy the moment

About an hour later.

Lu You, Li Yu and Deng Rui took the elevator to the third floor.

At this time, all three of them were wearing loose steam suits, and the indoor heating was turned on at full speed, which was stable at more than 20 degrees Celsius, so people didn't feel cold.

The elevator door opened and three people stepped out.

The entire third floor is dedicated to food and drinks. To the right of the elevator door is a bar with ambiguous lighting, and to the left is a bright and spacious buffet restaurant.

It was not yet nighttime, so it was not suitable to go to the bar. Even if it was, Lu You and the other two would not go.

They are all non-drinkers and have no interest in alcohol.

The three of them just looked to the right for a few seconds, then turned decisively and walked left.

A mere alcohol solution is far less real than delicious food. Moreover, Lu You and the others were already hungry and thirsty after a round of bathing, scrubbing and sauna.

Entering the restaurant, the various aromas immediately aroused the appetite of the three people.

Deng Rui swallowed his saliva. Although he wanted to rush out and eat a lot, his family education taught him that he should wait for others before eating.

"What do you say, should we eat first, or wait for the girls?"

Lu You's eyes slowly swept across the entire place, while secretly making a list of hunting targets in his mind, he replied calmly: "I'm not particularly hungry yet, it can wait."

"Then..."

Deng Rui had just begun to speak when he was rudely interrupted by Li Yu.

"You are not hungry, but I am starving! You guys wait, I'm going to eat first!" After saying that, Li Yu left the two of them and walked straight inside.

Deng Rui turned his head and met Lu You's gaze, as if asking, "What should I do?"

Seeing that Li Yu had already picked up the plate with two juicy pork ribs on it, Lu You couldn't eat any more and said, "Find a conspicuous spot and eat while you wait."

The restaurant model is similar to that of a school canteen and can be roughly divided into two categories: prefabricated and freshly made.

Pre-prepared food is made in advance and placed in an insulated container, so diners can take it directly. Most of them are local specialties, desserts, buns, etc. They are convenient and quick, and can be eaten right away.

Freshly made, as the name suggests, means that diners order dishes and chefs cook them, such as barbecue, spicy hot pot, and teppanyaki. These dishes have the most aroma, the best taste, and are the most popular with diners. The disadvantage is that sometimes you need to wait in line.

In addition, fruits, drinks, candies and ice cream are also available.

Lu You walked around the venue, holding two half-full plates, and sat down closer to the entrance.

The amount of food Lu You took was not large, but the variety was complete, with basically one or two pieces of each dish, mainly for trying something new.

Soon, Deng Rui also came over with food. His plate was mostly filled with seafood, including prawns, crabs, clams, oysters, and fried fish.

Lu You chewed on a thumb-thick piece of blanched cabbage heart and asked curiously, "Do you like seafood?"

Deng Rui took a shrimp from his plate and gave it to Lu You, and replied, "Normally, it's mainly to make back the money I spent."

"Excuse me, these ordinary seafood are actually not expensive, especially when restaurants buy in large quantities, the price is even lower."

"Who cares? I think it's enough to get my money back."

Compared to Lu You and Deng Rui who took as much as they ate, Li Yu kept running back and forth, bringing back two full plates every time.

When the table was almost full, Li Yu still wanted to take more food. Lu You couldn't bear it anymore and stopped him.

"You took so much, can you finish it?"

"Why can't we finish it? It's not just the three of us, don't we have Nian Nian and the others?" Li Yu replied.

"You're right, but are you sure you got the food that girls like?"

"That makes sense." Li Yu looked at the food on the table again and said, "By the way, there are no drinks yet. I'll go get them. What do you want?"

"Whatever you drink, I'll drink that." Lu You said casually.

"Me too." Deng Rui agreed.

Two minutes passed.

Li Yu ran back with three bottles of drinks in his hands, an excited smile on his face.

"Dude, I got the Jingshui!"

Deng Rui was stunned for a moment and asked, "What is that?"

"Beijing water! Take a look for yourselves!" Li Yu placed two bottles of drinks in front of Lu You and Deng Rui respectively, and kept one bottle for himself.

Lu You looked closely and saw a man named Leng Feng wearing a white shirt on the wrapping paper of the glass bottle. He was holding the same drink in his hand and had a Mona Lisa-like smile on his face.

"Wow, it's really Jingshui!"

"Really?" Li Yu sat down on the empty seat next to Lu You and took a big sip from the straw.

The next second, Li Yu's brows frowned slightly, and then returned to normal, as if nothing had happened.

"How is it? Is it delicious?" Deng Rui asked.

Li Yu picked up a piece of fried chicken and put it into his mouth, saying, "It tastes good. It tastes very good. It's much better than those two brands from Lao Mei."

"Is it true?" Looking at the four words "Yaozi Soda" on the bottle, Lu You expressed strong doubt.

Lu You had never seen this brand before in real life, but he had seen it a few times occasionally when watching food videos.

"If you don't believe it, forget it." Li Yu held the straw in his mouth again, and the orange liquid in the glass bottle dropped a lot at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Then, Li Yu burped loudly, and his satisfied expression seemed to say, "See, I didn't lie to you."

Seeing this, Deng Rui took a sip doubtfully.

The moment the drink came into contact with the taste buds, Deng Rui's facial features twisted uncontrollably like a table rag.

"Fuck, you bastard, you actually lied to me!"

"Hahaha--!"

Li Yu laughed loudly after his trick succeeded, and said, "I picked that bottle of lychee-flavored soda especially for you. Isn't that sincere? Hahaha!"

"You are a real dog!" Deng Rui quickly picked up two chopsticks of blanched Chinese cabbage, and with the help of soy sauce and garlic, he barely suppressed the cloying smell of industrial saccharin that filled his mouth.

"Is it really that exaggerated?" With a cautious attitude, Lu You took a small sip and said, "It's not bad, right? It tastes the same as Sprite, and even a little less sweet than Sprite."

"Your original flavor and my lychee flavor, how can they be the same?" Deng Rui said unhappily.

"makes sense."

Lu You likes to eat lychees, especially the white sugar lychees produced in western Guangdong, which have thin skin, small core, rich flesh and full of juice.

At the end of May every year, the Lu family would regularly refresh several boxes of white sugar poplars that had just been picked less than a day ago. Some of them would be given away by Lu Jianyan, and some would be kept at home.

Lychees have the same characteristics as mandarin oranges, which can easily make people addicted to them. Lu You's highest record was that he ate more than two kilograms of lychees in one afternoon, but the price he paid was tonsillitis for a week, and he couldn't even swallow water.

If lychee is the god among all fruits, then drinks or foods with lychee flavor are the shit among all the shit. They are sweet, the kind that can kill you.

"By the way, when are you two planning to go home?" Lu You asked.

Deng Rui and Li Yu looked at each other and said, "I haven't thought about it yet."

"Me too." Li Yu agreed.

"Tang Wan and I both have exams for week 19, which is next week. We plan to leave on the weekend. How about we go together?" Lu You suggested.

Deng Rui immediately shook his head and said, "Nineteen weeks is too early. I haven't finished my exams yet, and I have work to do in the library, so I can't leave at all."

"What about you?" Lu You turned his gaze to Li Yu.

"I'm afraid I can't either. Although I will also finish my exams next week, Niannian and I agreed to spend a week in the capital before returning."

"That's it."

Lu You sighed secretly, feeling inexplicably sad.

Times have changed. The good brothers who used to spend every day together and go to school together now have new lives, and it is difficult to get together as travel companions.

Maybe, this is life.

No one can stay with another person forever. Parents will grow old, brothers and sisters will start new families, friends will go different ways, and even a partner who promises a lifetime will face an end called "death."

Old people go and new people come, we meet again and again, and part again and again.

However, Lu You was negative for a short moment, and soon he adjusted his mood.

The reason why parting is painful is because of the beauty of the process. If you don’t even enjoy the beauty of the process and fall into the pain of parting, you can only say that you lost the watermelon and picked up the rind, which is the maximum loss.

The three of them ate and chatted, from complaining about the school bathroom, to sharing some weird people and things, to recalling the little good things in their painful high school life.

Before we knew it, the dining table, which was originally almost full of plates, was now mostly empty, and the remaining plates that still had food on them showed signs of having been touched by chopsticks to some extent.

Li Yu glanced at the clock on the wall inadvertently.

【18: 58】

"What time did we agree to meet?"

Deng Rui put down his chopsticks and pondered, "We arrived here at five o'clock, wasted ten minutes at the front desk, and then took the elevator to the second floor. We separated at around five-twenty and agreed to meet on the third floor in an hour, so it should be before six-thirty."

"Six thirty? It's almost seven o'clock and there's no sign of the three of them. I'm afraid they fainted in the bath!" Li Yu's tone was a little anxious.

Lu You was very calm. He had been with Tang Wan for a long time and naturally knew the girl's habits.

"Calm down. Girls take a long time to take a bath, especially three girls taking a bath together. Just be patient and wait!"

"But one and a half hours..."

Li Yu wanted to say something when three beautiful figures appeared at the entrance of the restaurant.

"Look, isn't it coming?" Lu You raised his right hand and waved it back and forth at the three people.

Tang Wan was the first to notice Lu You's presence, and then led Xu Nian and Wang Linghua over.

"Sorry, I kept you waiting." Tang Wan sat down next to Lu You and apologized with a smile on her face. At this moment, she was wearing the same steaming suit as everyone else, her hair was tied behind her head with a rubber band, revealing her snow-white and slender neck.

A high ponytail, a face without makeup, eyes as clear as a lake, and a faint smile at the corners of her mouth.

Lu You was dazed for a moment, as if he had traveled through time and saw Tang Wan who was still studying at Chunhua three years ago.

Lu You suddenly thought of a word, white moonlight.

A clean school uniform, a swinging ponytail, outstanding looks, a pure temperament, a quiet personality, plus top three grades, isn't this exactly the white moonlight in many people's minds?

However, to Lu You, Tang Wan was his girlfriend whom he could grasp and touch, not a satellite sitting in the clouds and out of reach.

Tang Wan keenly sensed Lu You's gaze, so she reached out and pinched his waist without making a sound.

The pain that hit his cerebral cortex directly made Lu You's body tremble, and his mind, which had been drifting away, flew back from the past.

Li Yu was enthusiastically introducing various dishes to Xu Nian, telling him which ones were delicious and which ones were not, but suddenly saw Lu You tremble, so he asked, "What's wrong, is your purple mood leaking?"

"Go away, you idiot." Lu You was too lazy to pay attention to Li Yu. He took out clean chopsticks and a plate, placed them in front of Tang Wan, and said, "Eat what's on the table first. I'll get you anything else you want."

"Thank you." Tang Wan took the chopsticks and plate and asked, "Are you full?"

"Almost. I can eat a little more."

"When I came in just now, I saw some hot and sour noodles over there. Can you get me a bowl?"

"Okay." Lu You stood up, looked at Xu Nian and Wang Linghua respectively, and asked, "What do you want? I'll get it together."

As if they had telepathy, the two said in unison: "Fruit, the more the better."

"Oh, by the way, I want a bowl of hot and sour noodles too," Wang Linghua added.

"Well, I'll be back soon."

(End of this chapter)