Chapter 972 — Little Time Left
The Blossom Guardian · Page 2 of 2
Just then, the beef noodles Wei Zhao and Feng Xiaoxiao had ordered were brought up, yet they bore no comparison to Chen Xi's bowl. Their two bowls put together barely matched the amount in that one bowl over there!
"See now? Is one bowl enough to eat?" Wei Zhao smiled.
"It is enough! I don't eat much!" Feng Xiaoxiao said stubbornly.
"Who was it last time who ate until she could hardly walk?" Wei Zhao could not help recalling the time Feng Xiaoxiao had gorged on seafood in Yanjing, stuffed until she looked like a great crab and could only walk sideways.
"That was only because I wanted to eat that Wu Tieshou into poverty!" Feng Xiaoxiao's face flushed as she argued back.
As the two were talking, trouble struck Chen Xi over there!
Afraid her mother would see her tears, Chen Xi had wanted to hurry to the restroom, but the moment she stood she bumped into a customer who had just walked into the shop. The man was lighting a cigarette with his lighter, and Chen Xi's turn sent the lighter in his hand flying to the floor!
"Damn it, you little wench, are you blind? Watch how you walk?" The man flew into a rage when Chen Xi knocked his lighter to the ground.
"Sorry, sorry!" Chen Xi jumped in fright and hastily bent down to pick up the lighter. "Here you are, I am truly sorry, I didn't mean it!"
"Sorry? You think sorry is enough? Do you know what brand this lighter is? Zippo! You chipped the paint off it. Can you afford to pay for it?" The man bared his teeth and glared at Chen Xi, shouting at her.
"This..." Chen Xi had never imagined that one turn would cause such trouble. Though she did not know whether what the man said was true or not, she knew she was in the wrong and could only lower her head. "Sorry..."
"Cut the nonsense and pay up!" The man slapped the table with a bang, and the jolt knocked the beef noodles in front of Chen Xi's mother to the floor, where the bowl shattered to pieces and broth and noodles scattered everywhere!
Chen Xi had never expected the man to be so unreasonable. She had already apologized, yet not only would he not accept it, he had overturned her beef noodles, the bowl she had only resolved with such difficulty to buy for her mother!
At the thought of it, Chen Xi could not help letting her tears fall in grievance...
"I am sorry, brother, the child is young and does not know better. Whatever the lighter costs, I will pay you for it..." Chen Xi's mother had never expected such a thing to happen. Mother and daughter, who had just been happily eating their noodles, had met with such calamity!
"Hmph, five thousand yuan!" The man snorted coldly. "Hand over the money, or I will call the police and charge her with deliberately damaging another person's property!"
"Five thousand!" Chen Xi's mother was badly frightened and suddenly at a loss. To an ordinary family, five thousand yuan, while no small sum, could still be produced, but to Chen Xi and her daughter, it was an astronomical figure!