Killer Nights

Chapter 71: An Old Newcomer

A-Jiao put down her phone and turned around to order a bowl of hand-cut noodles for Jiang Zhengkai.  She believed he was smart enough to figure out that she was at Uncle Cai’s noodle shop.  These days, the noodle shop was no longer the sleepy joint that it’d been just a few months ago.  Because of Uncle Cai’s honest and friendly personality, not to mention the excellent quality of his noodles, this hole-in-the-wall restaurant was almost always packed with customers during mealtime.  As a result, Uncle Cai no longer had time to come out of the kitchen to engage in the lengthy chats with A-Jiao like the way he used to.  In addition, he’d hired a server, an elderly gentleman named Gao, to take care of the customers.  This Gao was the very same person whom Uncle Cai had introduced to A-Jiao and Jiang Zhengkai as an old buddy of his, the last time they’d been there.

“Thank you, Uncle Gao!” A-Jiao...