NOVEL WEB Chapter 40
Chapter 40
Shan Zhu’s classmate, Hong MaoDan, was moving the mango boxes as he watched Shan Zhu and Ling Meng came back empty-handed. It was no surprise that they had finished handing out the flyers so quickly.
“Hey~~~~ Lemon Daddy!” Shan Zhu’s friend didn’t fail to recognize the popular internet celebrity and began to kick up a fuss from a distance.
Ling Meng pretended not to hear him and continued to move forward. Hong MaoDan shouted to him: “Lemon Daddy, would you like to eat mango lao?”
Ling Meng immediately turned back: “Really?”
“Of course, I’ll give you an extra-large portion!”
“Great, mango lao is my favorite.”
From behind, Shan Zhu gave the friendly warning: “Take it easy, he’ll eat until our booth is empty.”
The mango was sweet, soaked in yogurt, with the watermelon, honeydew melon, and sago pudding also added to it; Ling Meng was full of endless praise as he ate.
“It’s really delicious, you should taste it too.” He recommended to Shan Zhu, who was passing by carrying a mango box. He bowed his head and ate the spoonful of mango lao Ling Meng had just scooped up.
“Mm, it’s delicious.”
Ling Meng: …
He had meant for Shan Zhu to find Hong MaoDan and ask for a new one, he didn’t think he would eat it directly from his own spoon. He wasn’t annoyed even one bit (/s). Now Ling Meng was tied up in knots; the spoon that had been in Shan Zhu’s mouth, could he still use it?
The department’s flower had been waiting a long time for Ling Meng to come back and then she turned around and found out he was just eating in the booth next door.
“You’re too much. I finally got a boy to help me and you actually used a bowl of mango lao to steal him away.”
When Hong MaoDan saw the beautiful girl shouting, he smiled back and said: “Beauty, don’t be angry, I’ll treat you to a bowl too.”
The first guest came to the entrance, holding two coupons and wavering back and forth.
“I’m going to order a lemon ice next door. Can I eat mango lao here?”
“You can order a mango lao here and have lemon ice next door. Our two families are one.” From the start, Hong MaoDan was well-acquainted with the idea of sharing everything with each other.
Hong MaoDan’s words let Ling Meng and Shan Zhu shuttle between the two booths without restriction. The news of the handsome guys spread through social media and the number of guests kept increasing, 80% of them were girls.
“I’ll buy one lemon ice and one manga lao. Can I take a group photo with two waiters?”
Before Ling Meng could speak, Shan Zhu sold him off: ”No problem, we’ll try our best to meet the reasonable requests of our guests.”
So Ling Meng stood next to the unfamiliar jiejie6, rigidly flashing a peace sign.
As someone had opened the floodgates, there was a second one, then a third; Ling Meng couldn’t think of any other pose and just showed a peace sign to the bitter end.
It wasn’t that no one recognized Ling Meng either.
“Eh? Aren’t you that expression pack?”
“I’m really not, you’ve mistaken me for someone else,” Ling Meng replied with a straight face.
“Impossible! Puff up your cheeks for me to see.”
Ling Meng puffed up his cheeks.
“Yes! It is you!”
The group photos continued.
“What the fuck, Lemon Dad? Am I blind? Really in the flesh?”
Having given up on the struggle, Ling Meng said: “Isn’t this a group photo? Come on.”
Fortunately, the ones to recognize him as Lemon Daddy were all boys. Ling Meng was no longer stiff, but instead showed a disgusted expression on his face.
After finishing the photos, he turned around to look for Shan Zhu, who had hidden a while back. His voice is too recognizable so it was difficult to have it not to be recognized by Galaxy players.
If it came out that Mang God was here, Ling Meng thought, heh heh, we wouldn’t need to sell mango lao anymore, we could directly charge for group photos.
The more guests there were, the more weirdos came who made requests like this one:
“I’ll buy one lemon ice and one mango lao. Can I take a photo of the two waiters?”
Ling Meng got ready with his peace sign pose, but unexpectedly, the other party did not move to stand between them.
“I mean, take a photo of just you two.”
“Ah?” Ling Meng’s hand hung in the air showing a V; he didn’t understand what she meant.
Shan Zhu slung an arm over his shoulder: “Like so?”
“Can you be more intimate?”
Shan Zhu caught Ling Meng off guard and lifted him into a princess carry from behind.
“Good, good, good!” The guest excitedly raised her phone in excitement and went crazy tapping on the screen.
“Hey!” Ling Meng protested.
“The customer is god.”
This god wrapped up five servings of lemon ice and mango lao and happily left. The two booths simultaneously hung up sold out signs.
Ling Meng collapsed on the table and Shan Zhu sat down beside him, putting the last ice cream in his possession down in front of him.
“Tired out, eh?”
“Mostly heart sore7,” Ling Meng struggled to sit up, ” Unexpectedly, to be an anchor, you have to fake gay to sell rot; to sell sweets, you also have to fake gay to sell rot. Life really is a hardship.”
“Oh yeah,” Ling Meng stretched out his closed hand, “Hand out.”
A lemon pin fell into the hollow of Shan Zhu’s palm.
“I was too late. All the gifts were handed out; only this one I was wearing is left. You like it, so I’ll give it to you.”
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Footnotes:
1. mango lao: see picture below ↩
2. same-sex envy: to be envious of the appearance of someone of the same gender, common example would be women jealous about the beauty of a popular woman ↩
3. friend (朋友): can also mean boyfriend, heh heh ↩
4. appearance-obsessed (颜控): those who attach great important to appearance, loan term from Japanese meaning face-con ↩
5. girl teasing (撩妹): literally titillate the young sister; slang for the ability to pick up girls or doing something spectacular to get girls’ attention ↩
6. jiejie (姐姐): older sister, used for older girls, -jie is the honorific ↩
7. heart sore (心累): to be exhausted at the core from life’s stresses ↩