Chapter 21: Delicious or unpalatable

Jiang Baiwan didn't know that Ji Chen started to try foods he had never eaten because of her few words. When Ji Chen remembered to look for Jiang Baiwan again, Jiang Baiwan's new store was already under renovation.
"Ji Chen?" Jiang Baiwan looked at Ji Chen standing in front of his house, somewhat surprised, "Why are you here?"
Ji Chen nodded at her, then walked into the room very naturally: "Can't I come?"
Jiang Baiwan quickly shook his head and denied: "No, no, you can come anytime."
Ji Chen looked back at her, with a smile but a smile: "I thought you would be very angry after seeing those photos."
I am very angry, but I can't help it. Jiang Baiwan curled his lips and didn't say this sentence.
"Jiang Baiwan," Ji Chen's face suddenly became serious, "I just want to do you a favor, but there is no good way for the time being, so I can only do this. I came today to apologize to you."
Jiang Baiwan was caught off guard by Ji Chen, she was a little startled, and subconsciously said: "This...it's okay, I'm not angry."
"A girl's reputation is very important, I know this," Ji Chen's ears were a little red, "I just hope I didn't bother you." As he said, Ji Chen put the box in his hand in front of Jiang Baiwan: "This is my apologize."
When it comes to this, Jiang Baiwan can only accept Ji Chen's apocalypse: "It's okay, but you have to advance next time... Forget it, don't have the next time."
Ji Chen hooked the corner of his mouth and changed the subject graciously: "How does your store look like?"
"It's already being renovated," Jiang Baiwan said of his Mala Tang shop and was very excited. "When someone is recruited in a while, it can open for business!"
Ji Chen turned his head, he looked at Jiang Baiwan's happy face, hesitated for a long time, and finally asked, "Do you like spicy spicy soup?"
Jiang Baiwan didn't think much about it, but just nodded: "I used to... When I ate Mala Tang, I thought Mala Tang was so delicious and delicious!"
Ji Chen nodded thoughtfully, and when he looked at Jiang Baiwan, his eyes became more meaningful: "I thought you didn’t like to eat these foods. After all, you used to want to stay in shape, so you didn’t eat them. meat."
Hearing this, Jiang Baiwan didn't blink his eyes and opened his mouth without blinking: "That was the me before, and now I am a brand new me. Don't look at people with old eyes."
Hearing this, Ji Chen raised his eyebrows, and said nothing. Jiang Baiwan quietly breathed a sigh of relief, thinking that he should have been fooled.
Fortunately, Ji Chen did not continue to entangle this topic. After sitting for a while, he got up and left. Jiang Baiwan sent him to the door. Ji Chen suddenly turned around and said to Jiang Baiwan, "What is the name of your mala Tang shop? Ok?"
"This is a secret," Jiang Baiwan said with a smile, "After two days when the shop is ready, I will invite you to see it, and I will make you a bowl of spicy soup by myself!"
With a smile on Ji Chen's face, he lowered his head slightly and looked directly at Jiang Baiwan's eyes, as if there were stars shining in his eyes: "Then I'll just wait."
Jiang Baiwan responded and looked at Ji Chen's back. For some reason, Jiang Baiwan suddenly felt a little hot on his face.

Jiang Baiwan did not break her promise. After her mala Tang shop was renovated, she really called Ji Chen. At that time, Ji Chen was in a meeting. He was sitting in his seat and listening to the report from the person under his hand. Suddenly the phone vibrated.
Ji Chen glanced at the caller ID, and unexpectedly, he whispered a few words to Assistant Xu, then grabbed the phone and left the meeting room.
Back in his office, Ji Chen pressed the answer button: "Jiang Baiwan?"
"Ji Chen, my shop is decorated!" On the other end of the phone, Jiang Baiwan's voice was full of joy and joy, "Are you free now?"
Listening to Jiang Baiwan's voice, Ji Chen softened his voice unconsciously: "I'm free."
"Well, you come to my house, I will take you to my store for a stroll!" Jiang Baiwan said.
When Assistant Xu came to look for...Ji Chen with the minutes of the meeting, he saw his CEO in the rest room of the cubicle, changing his tie in front of the mirror. There were already a dozen ties with different colors and fancy colors. Assistant Xu's expression was a bit stiff. Ji Chen's expression remained unchanged, but he picked up another tie.
"Mr. Ji," Assistant Xu couldn't help it, "the one just looks better."
Ji Chen glanced at him, hesitated, and finally listened to Assistant Xu's suggestion and put on the tie just now.
Assistant Xu took the opportunity to say: "Mr. Ji, this is the meeting record."
"Put it on the table," Ji Chen hesitated, then said again, "I have to go out later."
Assistant Xu understood from just seeing Ji Chen's tangled look when he changed his tie, and he understood: "Don't worry."
Ji Chen fastened his tie and went out in a hurry. Assistant Xu looked at his back and couldn't help but sigh in his heart-even if he was as cold as Mr. Ji, he was like a hairy boy when he was moved.
Jiang Baiwan waited at home for a long time before Ji Chen knocked on the door. She quickly opened the door to Ji Chen: "I have been waiting for you for a long time, why are you so slow?"
Ji Chen thought of the way he had just changed his tie, and felt guilty for no reason: "There is a traffic jam on the road."
"Yes, it's the city center after all." Jiang Baiwan easily accepted this reason, "Come here, I will show you inside my store, it just so happens that my store is not far from here, it will be there after a short walk, don't Let's drive."
Ji Chen glanced at his wrist being pulled by Jiang Baiwan, and didn't mean to break free at all: "Okay."
Jiang Baiwan was anxious to show his shop to Ji Chen, his feet were like a wind, and he led Ji Chen on the road. After two more intersections, Jiang Baiwan said: "It's coming! Look over there and see me. Is your shop sign?"
Ji Chen looked in the direction that Jiang Baiwan was pointing, and saw a facade standing in the middle of a pile of storefronts, and a few large characters were written on the signboard-"Five Ring Mala Tang".
Ji Chen:...
"It's this one!" Jiang Baiwan led Ji Chen straight to the door of the spicy restaurant, "How about it? Does it look new?"
No, whether the store is new or not does not seem to be the point?
Ji Chen looked up at the signboard again, and confirmed that he had not read it wrong: "Why...want to call Wuhuan Mala Tang?"
Jiang Baiwan lowered his head to open the door and said, "Because I just want to go to the fifth ring! There is no reason why I just want to go to the fifth ring!"
Ji Chen:? ? ?
Jiang Baiwan opened the store, looked back at Ji Chen, and found his face full of confusion, and couldn't help but smile.
Seeing that Jiang Baiwan didn't mean to explain, Ji Chen sighed softly: "This is a good name."
"Are you sure?" Jiang Baiwan was surprised, "Don't you think this name is weird? You actually think it is a good name?"
Ji Chen really didn't know what to say now. He was silent for a while and took the initiative to lift his foot and walked into the store: "Take me in and take a look."
The shop under Jiang Baiwan's bag is not big, but although the sparrow is small and complete, and because of the just re-decoration, the whole shop looks bright and clean. The sun shines through the windows into the floor of the shop, and it looks like Warm.
"Sit down," Jiang Baiwan greeted Ji Chen with a smile, "How about? My little shop looks pretty good, right?"
Ji Chen smiled and nodded. Jiang Baiwan was affirmed and smiled stupidly: "Come on, I'll show you around!"
The two people walked around a small shop like this one after another. Ji Chen could clearly feel Jiang Baiwan's inner happiness, and he was infected by the emotions of the people around him. Ji Chen also relaxed some of his tight nerves.
The atmosphere is just right.
"By the way, you go sit down," at this moment, Jiang Baiwan seemed to suddenly remember something, "I said that before? I'm going to make a bowl of mala Tang for you to taste."
The smile on Ji Chen's face stiffened, and he suddenly remembered the bowl of Mala Tang that he had eaten even the soup and water that day, the thick salt and MSG, and all kinds of cheap ingredients that could not be named. And not new...Fresh vegetables, coupled with the soup that has not been boiled for long, is completely a nightmare.
Just looking at Jiang Baiwan’s smiling face, Ji Chen didn’t want to refuse at all. His hand shook insignificantly, and then he decided: "Okay, then I will wait for you."
Seeing Jiang Baiwan rushing into the kitchen, Ji Chen sighed slightly—forget it, go back and drink more water.
From time to time, there was the sound of pots and pans in the kitchen. Ji Chen sat on the chair outside, staring at the kitchen door, and constantly doing psychological construction for himself.
Only after a while, a faint scent gradually came from the kitchen, not very strong, but it smelled a little different from those cheap mala Tangs.
Ji Chen wrinkled his nose, his eyes moved slightly.
After waiting for a while, Jiang Baiwan came out with a big bowl, and saw that the bowl was full of dangdang. It was still a variety of cheap ingredients that Ji Chen could not name, but it seemed...a bit delicious?
Is there any psychological illusion?
"Here, chopsticks!" Jiang Baiwan did not notice Ji Chen's trance, she handed the chopsticks to Ji Chen, "Try it."
With Jiang Baiwan's expectant look in his eyes, Ji Chen clamped a brown pee cowball and took a bite.
Jiang Baiwan only felt that her heart was about to jump out of her throat. She watched Ji Chen chew and swallow, and then cautiously asked, "How is it? Is it delicious?"
Unpalatable.
It's really unpalatable, the soup has almost no taste, and the juice absorbed by the can not increase the umami taste. The whole bowl of Mala Tang tastes light and light, but compared to the thick bowl of Mala Tang that day, the light bowl of Mala Tang made by Jiang Baiwan is really unpalatable.
Ji Chen thought in his heart, and at the same time turned his head and smiled at Jiang Baiwan: "It's delicious."
With that, he put the peeing cow pill into his mouth.