my comic life

The man wearing a red peaked cap came down from the second floor, asked Rorschach for a cup of coffee, and took a sip, "By the way, little brother, we did a pretty good job, and I even saved your life..."

"how?"

Seeing the man in the red peaked cap hesitate to speak, Rorschach asked in confusion.

The man rubbed his fingers together and held it in for a long time before he uttered: "Shouldn't you give us a tip?"

"It's the custom here in the United States to tip?"

Luo Xia touched his chin and hesitated for a while, "Tipping is not extra money given to satisfied customers. I am very picky. Even if I give a tip, it will be in the form of us Chinese."

"Besides, you asked for a tip, does Ben know?"

"If you don't want to give it, forget it!"

After saying a few words, the man in the red peaked cap walked up to the second floor.

Rorschach shook his head, followed him up to the second floor, and opened a room at random. It was clean and tidy, and it felt like a new room. It was no worse than those star-rated hotels.

"not bad."

After taking a few photos, Luo Xia glanced at the time on his phone, smiled and said, "We Chinese don't have the habit of tipping, but we do have the tradition of treating guests to dinner."

"It's almost time. Mr. Ben, I'll treat you to a meal."

……

New York, Chinatown, a newly opened beef hotpot restaurant.

"cheers!"

"Another plate of beef!"

"I'll take a sip of soup first!"

"I'll take some beef balls first..."

"Let me put in some beef offal and tripe first..."

"Well, my tip is much more affordable than other things, right?"

He ate vigorously, dipped in more chili peppers, and his face turned red without drinking any alcohol. Rorschach put one arm around Ben Parker and the other around the man in the red peaked cap, and said loudly.

"It's affordable and loyal enough. I'm Mario, here's a toast to Brother Luo."

"Hahaha! I don't drink, so you can enjoy it. If you think it tastes good, you can eat here more often. It's opened by us Chinese, so the taste is not bad after all."

"sure."

"Eat, eat openly like me. Anyway, there are discounts when the new store opens, and I'm the one paying. What are you afraid of? Eat as hard as you can!"

He stretched out his hand to call a waitress over. Luo Xia grinned with pride. The consumption in the morning was so great that Luo Xia thought he could eat ten cows. "Miss, beef, beef offal, tripe, beef." Maru, give me ten more plates!"

"Okay, guest."

The waitress nodded, turned around and ran quickly to the kitchen, turned a corner and walked into the tea room.

"Madam boss, the customer at table 23 is so voracious. After fifty plates of beef, he still wants to continue ordering..."

"Before the opening, you told me that if anyone eats too much, they should come in and report it..."

"There are about ten people at table 23. That works out to about 5 plates per person. It's quite edible among normal people. What's the problem?"

The graceful, fair-skinned and young boss lady with long black hair braided and wearing a blue cheongsam crossed her legs, drank a cup of tea, glanced at the tablet, and spoke slowly.

"One of them ate half of it and still wasn't satisfied. He could still eat another fifty plates..."

"Okay, I understand. You go and do your work. I'll go over and take a look later."

Putting down the tea cup, the landlady's eyes turned cold, she turned the jade bracelet on her wrist and said to herself: "My appetite is much higher than that of ordinary people. Is he a mysterious extraordinary person?"

After flipping her hair, fixing her hair into a slightly divergent style, and putting on black high-heeled shoes, the landlady stood up and left the tea room.

……

"This guest, do you mind if I sit next to you?"

"you are?"

Rorschach took a look at the beauty in front of him. Her facial features were in line with Chinese aesthetics, including long black braids, pearl earrings, cheongsam, jade bracelets, and high heels.

It’s so perfect, it’s like a Two-dimensional character coming into real life!

Unfortunately, there is a silver ring on the left ring finger, and she is married.

"I am the proprietress of this store, Lei Ling."

"Your husband is so lucky to have such a good wife like you."

If this great beauty was unmarried, Rorschach would really like to have a relationship with the purpose of getting married.

"No, I opened this store myself. My husband is in China, not here."

Pulling up a chair and sitting on it, Lei Ling folded her hands on her thighs and said with a smile.

"Living in two places all year round, there will be problems in your love life. Or is it that Miss Lei Ling has great confidence in your husband?"

Luo Xia raised concerns like a close friend, but still retained a trace of unrealistic delusions about Lei Ling, whom he liked for ten minutes.

"That's not the case. My husband and I have a good relationship. We have video calls every night."

Lei Ling raised her left hand and placed it on the dining table. Under the light, the ring on her ring finger looked particularly bright.

Getting slightly closer to Luo Xia, Lei Ling asked softly: "It looks like you are Chinese, sir. What kind of job do you have now?"

"I'm not Chinese, I'm Chinese."

Blinded by Miss Lei Ling's ring, Luo Xia leaned back. He hated being asked what he did for a living.

Spreading his hands, Luo Xia said truthfully with some helplessness: "I am an unemployed vagabond. I came to the United States to inherit the inheritance of some relatives. I planned to sell it for money and then return to China to enjoy happiness. Now some of them have encountered some things and cannot go back for the time being. …”

"Maybe I can never go back..."

"Now that technology is so advanced, if you want to go back to your country, you can just take a flight."

"Miss Lei Ling, your husband is in China, why did you come to the United States?"

"its me,"

Lei Ling's cold eyes flashed past, and she couldn't help but smile. She placed her right hand on her left hand, covering up the sparkle of the ring, "To be honest, I was invited by Mr. Smith, the president of Miskatonic University, to take up the post of archaeologist. professor."

"How is the boss lady young? She is actually a university professor, she is really amazing!"

"Yeah yeah!"

"As for opening a hot pot restaurant, it's just that I personally love hot pot, so I open it part-time."

"How many people are doing nothing and working hard all their lives to have enough food and clothing. Miss Lei Ling is young and promising, I have to admit that she is awesome!"

Rorschach said with emotion, thinking of the takeaway clerk who delivered half-person pizza and the convenience store employee who carried entire boxes of chocolates.

"Sir, you are the one who will inherit the inheritance and live a life without worries. Is that something that we, who still have to work hard for, can compare to?"

"I have a little money in my hand, but I'm just sitting on nothing. Sooner or later, I'm going to be doomed. I'm planning to rent out the single room on the second floor to earn some living expenses..."

"When I meet a fellow countryman from a foreign country, how about I give my husband a free meal?"

"As far away as the United States, I can still eat authentic hot pot from my hometown. I can't help but eat more."

After pouring a plate of beef into the hot pot, Luo Xia stacked the empty plates and glanced at Lei Ling beside him, "Isn't it because the ingredients are not prepared enough that you are driving us away?"

"how come!"

Picking up the cooked beef, Luo Xia ate a few pieces, pointed at an octagonal rune stone placed on the cash register not far away, and said casually:

"I think that stone is interesting, why don't you give it to me. I'll pay the full price for this meal, and I'll come here often in the future."

Following Luo Xia's finger, Lei Ling glanced at a rune stone. A bull's head was carved in the center of the rune stone, which was one of the twelve talismans.

It is normal and easy to understand that cow images appear in beef restaurants.

"That stone is not worth much, so it doesn't matter if you give it to Mr. Luo. It was just given to me by one of my teachers, so I'd better keep it..."

"Ok."

Putting down his chopsticks, Luo Xia said bluntly: "There is an antique shop among my inheritance. There is a stone like this in the store. I saw another one that I want to collect. I hope Miss Lei Ling can meet this small request of mine. I Willing to pay..."

"China has a tradition of adult beauty. In this case, I will pass on this small stone given to me by the teacher. Cherish it."

After gently touching Luo Xia's shoulder, Lei Ling let out something from her fingers.

"Thank you very much, Miss Lei Ling. I will come and take care of your store often."