Chapter 167 Chatting All Night
After all Dou Ya was a good girl. She couldn’t go to the hotel with a man. Even if the man was the Mr. Mcdreamy and the Prince Charming in her mind, it was impossible either. Although Ouyang Ziqian said that she would live alone, she still felt strange and inappropriate. It would also cost a lot of money to stay in a hotel. She didn’t want Ouyang Ziqian to spend money anymore, while she couldn’t afford it by herself either. So, after thinking for a while, Dou Ya shook her head and said, “Sorry, I don’t want to stay in a hotel.”
“Well, it’s not safe for a girl like you to stay outside.” Ouyang Ziqian respected Dou Ya’s choice. After all, as a man, he couldn’t force a girl to go to a hotel. Otherwise, people would treat him as a lecher.
“It doesn’t matter. I’ll go to the overnight self-study room. I will have the final exam about a month later. I want to work hard for the scholarship.” Dou Ya laughed. She did not want to be his burden. Even though she was too sleepy to study. She had to find an excuse to let Ouyang Ziqian leave first.
“You work very hard. Your study must be good!” Ouyang Ziqian asked.
“All right!” Dou Ya smiled embarrassingly.
“I will have the final exam about a month later too. I’m busy this semester, so I did not study carefully. Shall we study together today? We can encourage and supervise each other.” Ouyang Ziqian said modestly. He knew what was in Dou Ya’s mind. He could not leave, because Xia Xiaoluo asked him to take care of Dou Ya. Therefore, he was responsible for Dou Ya’s safety.
“Do you have any books with you?” Dou Ya asked curiously.
Dou Ya was a good student. She always took review materials with her. But in her opinion, it seemed that only few people had this habit. Because Xia Xiaoluo did not like to take books with her.
Ouyang Ziqian smiled and went to his car at the school gate. He took out a thick stack of review materials. He shook it to Dou Ya and went to her. “I’m afraid I can’t finish it all night!”
Dou Ya also took out an English book from her big bag. “Don’t worry, I can’t finish it all night either. Otherwise I will be the superman. I’m glad that you’re not my classmate, or you will be a new competitor in my way of winning scholarship.”
“There’s nothing to eat in the self-study room, so let’s go somewhere near here. This fast food restaurant is quiet. If you’re hungry, I’ll invite you to eat late-night snack together.” Ouyang Ziqian pointed to the fast food restaurant. In fact, he knew that there was no air-condition in the overnight self-study room of Foreign Studies University. Dou Ya’s coat was thin, and he was afraid that she might catch a cold. But it was improper to slander her school. So he had to take food as an excuse.
“When those bad guys bullied me just now, the cashiers in this store did not help me. They even did not protect the customers in their store. I don’t want to go. There’s another 24-hour fast food restaurant across the street. I’ll invite you to eat hamburgers and drink milk tea there. I want to show my gratitude.” Dou Ya said with a smile. If she paid for the meal, she had to eat steamed buns with preserved pickle until she received her part-time salary next month. She still wanted to treat him sincerely.
“We’ll go there, but I will not let a lady pay for the bill. Because I’m a gentleman.” Ouyang Ziqian knew that Dou Ya did not have much money. Otherwise, she won’t stay overnight at the fast food restaurant just now. She would go to the hotel.
“You’re a gentleman. I want to treat you. So don’t argue with me!” Dou Ya insisted. She wanted to invite her Mr. Mcdreamy to eat something.
When they arrived at the restaurant. Ouyang Ziqian ordered a lot of delicious food quickly, such as hamburgers, fried chips, fried chicken legs, hot milk tea and so on.
When the cashier asked for one hundred and one yuan, Dou Ya felt that it was too expensive for her. But she still wanted to pay for the bill herself.
In order not to lose her face, Ouyang Ziqian took out a hundred yuan from his wallet and one yuan from Dou Ya’s hands. Then he handed it to the cashier directly.
“Ouyang, you agreed that I pay for the bill.” Dou Ya sat on the opposite of Ouyang Ziqian, feeling that it was not appropriate.
“Actually, you paid for it! Do you forget that? You paid for one yuan just now, so you bought the food here. Maybe the fried chicken legs I’m eating now is paid with your money and maybe the hot milk tea I’m drinking is paid with your money. I know your intention, don’t take it seriously!” Ouyang Ziqian was gentle, eating elegantly.
“Thank you!” Dou Ya smiled and ate with relax. She really liked the Mr. Mcdreamy in front of her. He always took care of her, protected her, and considered her first. She felt that she was falling into the warmth of the Mr. Mcdreamy in front of her.
Ouyang Ziqian took out the gloves from Xia Xiaoluo and looked at them. He liked it very much.
“Do you like Xiaoluo’s present?” Dou Ya asked.
“I like it very much!” Ouyang Ziqian nodded. “It’s getting colder. It’s very useful!”
“Do you mind it’s cheap?” Dou Ya asked.
“29.9 yuan! In terms of money, it’s really cheap. But Xiaoluo selected it personally. She also considered the weather and my need for gloves to keep warm. Her goodwill is the most important!” Ouyang Ziqian said. He tried the gloves on. He liked it very much.
“It’s fortunate that Xiaoluo give it to you. You like it so much. When we saw the presents prepared by other people were very high-end, Xiaoluo almost did not want to give you.” Dou Ya laughed. Now she liked him very much. In her opinion, the rich people were always snobbish. They did not like making friends with the poor people, and they would look down upon the poor people. However, Ouyang Ziqian’s modesty was different from those rich people. He always made people feel warm.
“Wow! I’m a little fearful to hear that. If Xiaoluo did not give it to me, my hands will freeze in winter.” Ouyang Ziqian joked. He could chat with Dou Ya at ease.
“You are wealthy. Will you lack a pair of gloves?” Dou Ya joked.
Ouyang Ziqian smiled and said nothing. Dou Ya continued to say, “Xiaoluo borrowed all my pocket money in order to buy the gloves.”
“Didn’t Ling Tianyi give her pocket money?” Ouyang Ziqian blurted out. Then he felt that he talked too much. After all, Xia Xiaoluo never told him that she married Ling Tianyi.
“Of course he did. Ling Tianyi is generous. But Xiaoluo said that she wanted to buy the present with her own money. It was meaningful. Since she came to school, you took care of her and helped her a lot. She did not want to buy a present for you with her husband’s money. That would be too perfunctory. However, her husband cared about her very much, so she could not do a part-time job. So she borrowed money from me. When she is able to earn money, she’ll pay me back. The present was paid with her future money, representing her goodwill.” Dou Ya almost told Ouyang Ziqian everything about her experience of selecting the present with Xia Xiaoluo. Ouyang Ziqian was much moved.
“According to you, the gloves is the most precious present I have received for my birthday this year.” Ouyang Ziqian touched the gloves, reluctant to wear them.
“Of course. Although you have received a lot of birthday presents, who bought them with their own money? Although the gloves are only 29.9 yuan, the present itself may be small, but the goodwill is deep!” Dou Ya said.
“I want to thank Xiaoluo for her kindness. But like you said just now, Ling Tianyi cared about Xiaoluo so much. It is not easy for me to invite her to dinner. Why don’t you do me a favor and invite Xiaoluo to dinner with you. So that Ling Tianyi won’t misunderstand. Xiaoluo gave me such a nice present today, but she didn’t even ate my birthday cake. Could you help me?” Ouyang Ziqian asked modestly. Of course, he felt that Dou Ya would not refuse him.
“No problem! Today you helped me. And we study all night here because you are worried about me. You are afraid I will be dangerous so you stay with me all night. Just because of your loyalty, not to say a meal, even if you have any troubles in the future, you can call me. I will certainly try my best to help you.” Dou Ya said boldly. It seemed that she could still had dinner for free if she helped Ouyang Ziqian, so she must do it well. But Ouyang Ziqian asked her for help, she couldn’t refuse him, it was also a kind of reward and gratitude.
“Thank you first. Dou Ya, do you and Xiaoluo often get together? Do you know what she likes to eat?” Ouyang Ziqian asked.
“We have been friends since kindergarten. We are best friends. Xiaoluo likes to eat everything. She especially likes the spicy hot pot and barbecue in roadside stands. You’re a gentleman, I’m afraid you don’t want to invite her to the roadside stands!” Dou Ya said. Then she began to gossip about a lot of interesting things of Xia Xiaoluo from childhood. Ouyang Ziqian listened to it carefully. He did not want to miss any details. He kept asking questions, hoping that Dou Ya could talk more.
For the whole night, the two people who planned to study all night were talking about Xia Xiaoluo until dawn when several college students went to the fast food restaurant for breakfast.
Dou Ya looked at the time, it was seven o’clock in the morning. “It’s daytime. It’s safe now. Ouyang, I’ll go back to school. You can go back to have a rest.”
“Well, call me if something happens.” Because it’s already daytime and there were many students outside, there were no safety problems. Ouyang Ziqian felt at ease. He did not insist on sending her back. So he let Dou Ya go back to her dormitory to sleep.