Vol 1 Chapter 22 (1/2)

G.o.d's Left Hand - Book 1: Chapter 22

“I can’t.”  She quickly turned it down.  “I really can’t.”

The owner urged her on a few more times and gave up after seeing that Ai Qing really didn’t want to play.

Grunt took a couple of looks at her thoughtfully and 97 just smiled regretfully.

Suddenly, Dt stood up, took out ten dollars, and went to the counter to buy two bottles of c.o.ke. He handed one to Ai Qing.  “The air here is not good.”  It was as if he was talking to himself.

She sniffed.  “Indeed, a strong cigarette smell.”

The two looked at each other and stood up at the same time to walk out of the internet cafe.  The door of the cafe was facing a street full of local snack stands.  It’s close to dinner time and there were all kinds of enticing delicious food everywhere. Ai Qing was unfamiliar with the city, but she loved the food here and took a few looks at the place not too far away.

“I’m a bit hungry.  What do you want to eat?”  Dt said abruptly.

“Anything.”  She contemplated a bit.  “We just had a lot of stick food, let’s see whether there’s other stuff?  Should we buy some for Grunt and them?”

“En, wait for me here.”  He said.

He jumped down the stairs about the height of half a person and almost b.u.mped into several young girls who happened to bike by.  The young girls screamed immediately and tried to avoid him.

He took a step back away from those bikes.

The two young girls in the front looked at each other when they saw Dt and their anger instantly dissipated.  They teased him using the local Sichuan dialect but Dt just stood there, seemly not understanding what the girls were saying.  He embarra.s.sedly lowered his head slightly, bypa.s.sed the bikes, and went to the end of the longest line on the snack street.