Chapter 21: Brother Zhang Is Happy Today
In the evening, inside a barbecue restaurant in Nanxiang Impression City.
Bei Wei lowered her head, tapping rapidly with her fingers, busy ordering on her phone.
Zhang Yang was also ordering. When he opened the self-service cart, he saw Bei Wei quickly adding dishes to it-grilled skirt steak, beef ribs…
"Brother Zhang, I ordered these. Do you think… it's okay?" After a while, Bei Wei finally stopped ordering.
"That's enough, that's enough. If I can't finish it, you'll have to eat the rest." Zhang Yang said with a smile. He could actually eat it all, but eating too much would make it greasy.
"Ah?" Bei Wei quickly put down her phone in alarm.
Zhang Yang looked closely at Bei Wei's fair and sweet little face and thought to himself that even if she gained weight, she still wouldn't look ugly. This kind of face could get chubby, but never unattractive.
Zhang Yang's gaze was too direct. Bei Wei inevitably felt shy and lowered her head, stirring the dipping sauce in her plate.
Before long, plate after plate of barbecue was brought over.
It already seemed like a lot when ordering, but now the table was completely full.
Bei Wei proactively stood up to grill the meat, cut it, and carefully placed perfectly grilled pieces onto Zhang Yang's plate.
"Brother Zhang, I didn't get the chance to ask you earlier. That girl the other day seemed pretty nice. Why did it fall through?"
"It felt like our values didn't match. We weren't on the same wavelength." Zhang Yang casually said while enjoying the special treatment.
"What kind of values would count as compatible?" Bei Wei paused and asked.
Zhang Yang took a bite of the meat on his plate, letting the fragrance spread through his mouth.
"Let me give an example. Suppose recently I wanted to eat barbecue. Even if I didn't tell you, you just happened to choose a barbecue restaurant. Or like this meat-I like it grilled tender and fragrant, and look, the way you grilled it suits my taste quite well."
While joking, he watched Bei Wei's cheeks turn rosy from the rising heat of the charcoal.
"Brother Zhang, you really like teasing me." She said it with a slight pout.
Zhang Yang smiled and stopped teasing her. "Don't keep working so hard. We're not in a hurry. I'll grill some myself."
After persuading Bei Wei to sit down, the two slowly grilled and ate while chatting about all sorts of things.
Bei Wei's residence was quite expensive. According to her, she had gotten lucky.
"My roommate is a rich and beautiful girl, a graduate student. She felt living alone was boring and wanted a companion, and I happened to get lucky." Bei Wei gently blew on the grilled meat.
"If we really split the rent equally, my entire salary would probably go into it."
"Then she must be a pretty nice person." Zhang Yang smiled.
"She really is. She's very loyal and takes good care of me." Bei Wei thought for a moment. "But she speaks very directly. People who don't know her well might find it a bit hard to get used to."
Zhang Yang nodded while listening. Seeing how enthusiastically Bei Wei was talking, he grilled a few pieces of meat and placed them onto her plate.
Bei Wei didn't notice for a moment. Her cheeks kept moving as she ate, and before she knew it, she had been fed quite a lot.
"Mmm… Brother Zhang, why do I feel like I've eaten a lot?"
"Not that much. Just keep eating." Zhang Yang kept coaxing her.
While chatting and eating, more than an hour passed without them realizing it. Near the end of the meal, Bei Wei quickly took out her phone from her bag and paid the bill first.
"Want to walk around for a bit after eating?" Zhang Yang still remembered his task and planned to buy a pair of shoes to increase his height.
"Sure, it's still early anyway." Bei Wei picked up her bag and agreed with a smile.
Inside Impression City, the two walked around casually. They happened to pass a milk tea shop, and Zhang Yang thought that after eating barbecue, it would definitely feel greasy, so he planned to buy two fruit teas to freshen up.
"I'll do it, I'll do it." Bei Wei blocked Zhang Yang with one hand while searching her bag for her phone with the other.
Her hand slipped, and the phone flew out in an arc, hitting the corner of a step. A crack quickly spread across the screen. It didn't look like there was any screen protector on it.
Bei Wei hurriedly picked it up, felt a moment of heartache, and then acted as if nothing had happened while paying.
"Brother Zhang, it's ordered." She said with a smile.
"No screen protector?" Zhang Yang asked.
"I had one, but it broke a few days ago so I removed it. Looks like I shouldn't have taken that chance." Bei Wei held the phone under the light. Starting from the corner, cracks had spread across most of the screen.
Zhang Yang saw it but didn't say anything.
"By the way, wait here for the drinks. I'll go to the restroom."
Bei Wei nodded lightly and stood quietly in the shop waiting.
After Zhang Yang left, he didn't go to the restroom. Instead, he went straight to a nearby digital electronics store.
There weren't many people inside. As soon as Zhang Yang entered, a staff member came up to him.
"I'll take an iPhone 14 Pro Max. The top configuration-1TB. White." Zhang Yang remembered that Bei Wei's iPhone 13 was white.
A moment later, he paid more than ten thousand, took the item, and left.
The whole process took less than ten minutes.
From a distance, he saw Bei Wei sitting in the shop holding her fruit tea, looking around as if searching for him.
"Here, this is for you." Zhang Yang walked over, standing beside Bei Wei whose black hair flowed over her shoulders, and casually handed her a shopping bag. "White. I also got you the original case and screen protector. Remember to apply it as soon as you get home."
Bei Wei looked up blankly for a moment, not reacting at all.
"Take it. Don't say you don't want it." Zhang Yang cut off all her words, took his own drink, and stuffed the shopping bag into her hands.
Bei Wei held the bag and saw inside a brand-new unopened iPhone 14 Pro Max. She immediately stood up and ran after Zhang Yang.
"Brother Zhang, if you do this I really… I'll transfer you the money. I can send part now, and next month…"
"Don't. Brother Zhang is in a good mood today. If you talk about money, I won't be happy." Zhang Yang took a sip of his drink and looked back at her with a faint smile.
The girl's ears and neck were completely red, and she looked completely flustered.
"But I…" Bei Wei still wanted to say something.
"No more buts. Come with me to buy something." Zhang Yang interrupted with a smile.
"Okay." Bei Wei answered very softly and stayed close beside him. "Brother Zhang, what are you going to buy?"
"A pair of height-increasing shoes. I want to experience being over 180 centimeters (~5 ft 11 in) tall." Zhang Yang said frankly.
Beside him, Bei Wei burst out laughing and looked at Zhang Yang with bright eyes.
"Brother Zhang, if you hadn't said anything, I would have always thought you were 180 cm."
"Don't remind me." Zhang Yang shook his head with a sigh.
"Then… let me choose a pair and give them to you. No, wait-you have to give me one yuan, otherwise giving shoes isn't considered lucky." Bei Wei said seriously.
"That could work, but isn't that superstition usually meant for couples?" Zhang Yang muttered to himself.
Bei Wei lightly spat in protest, clasped her hands behind her back, and ran ahead.
Inside a shoe store, Bei Wei picked out a pair of dad sneakers for Zhang Yang.
According to her, dad sneakers had a very obvious height-increasing effect. With Zhang Yang's current height, once he wore them, he would definitely look tall.
What she didn't know was that if Zhang Yang completed the task, his actual height would become 180 cm. When combined with these shoes, the effect would be far more exaggerated than she imagined.
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