69novels Chapter 214 The Unexpected
Chapter 214 The Unexpected
The next morning, guests arrived as usual.
Su Ping was still sitting at the tea table, and the invitation was placed on the counter, waiting for the woman who might come to take it back.
Bai Shi, who was greeting guests, would look back at the door from time to time, and then continue to put on a smiling face to entertain the guests, without any mistake.
While Su Ping was drinking tea, he couldn't help thinking, "He shouldn't be coming. According to common sense, there is no need for him to come out of the water. Besides, I have no connection with the Golden Dragon Gate.
Even if it was an invitation from their owner, if it didn’t work out the first time, they would have to wait a few days before coming back. It seems that Bai Shi is still too nervous. How could there be…”
Just as the young man was saying to himself that the woman would not come again today, the woman indeed came, and she changed into a long skirt that reached her ankles, with her black hair tied up and wearing a hairpin.
"Excuse me, is Mr. Su here?"
This time, the woman did not run directly to the tea table, but stood by the counter, looking around for the exit.
Bai Shi turned around and said directly: "Not here!"
The woman, however, turned a deaf ear to him and walked forward with small lotus steps, even swaying with each step, thinking she was very graceful. When she saw the young man, she gave him a look whose meaning was unknown.
Su Ping quickly turned his head and stared at Bai Shi, waiting for her to solve the problem. After all, the other party vowed that she could solve the problem, so the young man had a rare opportunity to play the good cop.
Bai Shi chuckled a few times, and asked the customer next to him to choose first, then he walked forward and said with a faint smile: "I don't know what's the matter, young lady, he is not Mr. Su."
The woman did not show any anger on her face, and asked, "How come he is not Mr. Su?"
Bai Shi said slowly, "We don't have the three gentlemen Su Xun, Su Shi and Su Zhe in our shop. We only have one Su Ping, so they are not the ones you are looking for."
The woman said, "But I'm looking for Mr. Su Pingsu, or you can call him Sergeant Su!"
Bai Shi's eyes flashed, "So, the young lady is here to call for punishment?"
The woman smiled and said, "That's not true. If Sergeant Su doesn't honor me by coming to the martial arts hall to watch the performance, what can I do? I just want to know the reason."
Bai Shi smiled inwardly and on his face, saying, "Su Ping clearly refused yesterday, saying he had something important to deal with, but you ignored him and slammed the invitation on the table. Who can you blame?"
The woman asked again: "What's the important matter?"
Bai Shi's face darkened. "I don't need to tell you what's important. This is a secret of our shop and cannot be leaked."
The woman hummed, "I see. I was a little rude, but please forgive me, Sergeant Su. Can you talk to me for a few minutes? Is it really okay to reject a woman's pursuit like this?"
Bai Shi snorted coldly, "He has a beautiful woman in his heart and can't tolerate other women. Do you think we should keep our distance?"
"Really? It turns out that Sergeant Su already has a beautiful girl in his arms, but I don't know where she is. Can I meet her and have a chat with her? Maybe we can become friends and get to know Sergeant Su better!" The woman's words were shocking and her tone was shy, which made people imagine a lot.
Bai Shi was about to explode, but Su Ping told him to stop. He could not help but speak himself, decisively and with great momentum.
"Girl, if you're not here to buy anything, then the invitation is on the counter. You can take it and leave. Don't disturb other customers. I don't know what you like about me, but anyway, I already have a girl I like, so please respect yourself!"
As Su Ping spoke, the woman looked at him intently, nodding repeatedly as if observing her unattainable existence.
But the woman shook her head again and said firmly: "I won't give up. You just don't like me now, but you may like me in the future. I can compete fairly with the woman you like, Sergeant Su, and the winner will be my wife!"
Su Ping frowned. Even though he thought his imagination was bad enough, he didn't expect that the woman was so shameless that she could even say such a thing.
Bai Shi was all shocked. He stood there in a daze, speaking incoherently as he listened to the woman's words.
But the strange thing is, other people in the shop seemed to think this was normal. There were even a few young girls who were just beginning to fall in love, secretly cheering for the woman, as if supporting her!
Seeing that the young man and the girl stopped talking, the woman said in surprise, "Sergeant Su is indeed a man of great righteousness and foresight. I will work with the other person to strive for..."
"Wait a moment!" Su Ping had no choice but to raise his voice, "I'll say it again, I have someone I like, please don't waste your time on me, please find someone else, do you understand?"
The woman smiled faintly and said, "It's good that Sergeant Su is so considerate of me. I think the other girl is also living a comfortable life. My choice is indeed the right one!"
Seeing this behavior and these words, even Bai Shi was unable to speak. He stared blankly at the young man beside him, not knowing what to do.
Su Ping went on to explain: "I don't mean for you to stay, I mean for you to find someone else you should like!"
The woman said frankly: "But I only like you."
Su Ping said: "But I already have someone I like, and we love each other, so there is no room for one more person."
The woman nodded. "So I said, it's a fair competition, the winner gets to be with you, isn't that great?"
Su Ping remained silent, while the others supported him. Bai Shi gnashed her teeth in anger, her face furious. She could never have imagined that the other party would speak so shamelessly and bluntly. He was simply not a human being.
"I won't agree to it." Su Ping said this, then stood up suddenly, ran into the yard quickly, and went to the pastry shop next door to avoid the monster.
In Su Ping's eyes, such thoughts and words were nothing more than a monster in human skin, irrational and incomprehensible.
Bai Xiao turned around and looked at the boy standing by the door and asked, "What happened?"
Su Ping took a breath and said, "I can't stay there any longer. I came here to hide from the limelight for a while."
"It's rare that you need to hide from something." Bai Xiao said calmly.
Su Ping smiled bitterly and helped pack some cakes. Since he was already here, there was no point in just standing there and watching. He finished packing until almost noon.
The peak period of customers had passed, and the shop was quite quiet. Su Ping was still frightened when he thought of what happened in the morning as he returned to the grocery store.
It's not that I'm afraid, nor am I nervous because of this. I just can't figure out what's going on in that person's mind. I feel like there's really no way to communicate, so it's better not to meet.
Fortunately, the woman had left and didn't leave anything behind. This made Su Ping, who had never panicked in the face of the monster army, breathe a sigh of relief.
Bai Shi looked unhappy, with his chin supported by his hands. He sat on the tea table, looked at the two people who came in from the back door, and said weakly, "You are back."
Bai Xiao was surprised and asked, "What's wrong with you?"
"That woman is so awesome. She even wiped the tables and chairs before leaving and said she would come back tomorrow!" Bai Shi sighed.
Bai Xiao took a deep breath, "How shameless!"
Bai Shi nodded hesitantly, as if his edges had been smoothed out.
Su Ping looked at the chair and half of the table with wet stains, and said thoughtfully: "Since she wants to work, let her do it. We can pay her daily wages and make everything clear. This way, we don't have to worry about her taking advantage of her status to do something else."
Once money and business were involved, Su Ping could see things much more clearly. In fact, to put it bluntly, he should be right, and it seemed that no one was wrong at all. But when things were made clear, one party must be wrong.
In this case, he would remain unchanged in the face of all changes. If the other party wiped the table, he would pay, and if the other party came to his door, he would leave. Anyway, as long as the two parties did not owe each other anything, he did not believe that there would be any progress.
As for whether the other party would continue to be like this for a lifetime, it still applies. The feelings generated by just one glance will definitely not last long, and the woman knew that Su Ping had no interest in her, so it was even more beneficial to him.
Su Ping had the advantage, and he could fight back against any enemy with his generals and block any water with his earth. It was like he didn't believe that his rock-solid and impregnable method could be blasted away by the other side.
Su Ping thought of this and said, "Let's go to the post office this afternoon and send the tip. This is the first step to avoid any confusion."
Bai Shi nodded, but still looked hesitant.
Bai Xiao sighed, patted the girl's head, and comforted her for the first time: "Don't be like this, at least you are still a normal person in comparison, keep working hard."
Bai Shi was disappointed and said, "It would be better not to praise this sentence."
Su Ping went upstairs with his hands behind his back, both to cook and to think about how to explain Bai Zhou's outrageous incident to his sister Ningguang tonight.
As I was thinking, the food was served on the table. A man and two women each held their bowls, thinking about their own things, and ate lunch quietly.
Bai Xiao, who rarely had a quiet ear, seemed to be very uncomfortable and smiled awkwardly, "It's not possible. Did she really scare you like this?"
Bai Shi's face was dull, "It's easy to sit and talk, but if you saw her like that and heard what she said, you might not be able to eat."
Su Ping said quietly, "It's not that outrageous, but it's really puzzling. How could she think of things like that?"
"I don't know." Bai Shi shook his head.
Bai Xiao also spread her hands. Based on the few words the two said, she couldn't guess what the woman looked like, but in short, she was very hateful.
It is hard to imagine that a scene like that in the morning would happen in Liyue Harbor, a country of etiquette. Especially since the onlookers seemed to think that this was normal, it is really incomprehensible.
Su Ping also had no idea what earth-shattering changes had occurred in Liyue Harbor in the months since he joined the army and the months when he was resting from his injury that led to such a thing.
But no matter what, his feelings for Ningguang would definitely not change. He had always thought of them being together for the rest of their lives, and that was something that would never change.
Just like that, Su Ping, who had determined this truth, went to the post office in the afternoon to help send the tip. The price of 400 Mora was a very reasonable amount of money for wiping a chair and half a small tea table.
After all, he was passive in this matter, and he didn't ask the woman to help with the cleaning, so giving her four hundred Moras was the most he could do.