City’s Best Divine Doctor
Chapter 412 - 412 0413 Afraid of Not Having Enough Money

412: Chapter 0413: Afraid of Not Having Enough Money 412: Chapter 0413: Afraid of Not Having Enough Money Liu Xia usually cooked for herself, but if she ate out, she definitely opted for fast food.

However, if Ye Qiu could completely cure her bromhidrosis, Liu Xia felt her sales performance at the 4S shop would be even better.

Once her income increased, she planned to move to a clean apartment complex.

As for those ten-yuan fast food meals, she would not have them anymore.

Liu Xia brought Ye Qiu to the restaurant, and upon seeing it, Ye Qiu noted that this restaurant only seemed slightly better than the street food stalls.

Ye Qiu had initially wanted to go inside to enjoy the air conditioning, but Liu Xia hesitated and still didn’t dare to enter.

Although the odor from her armpits was no longer noticeable, her feet and other parts still hadn’t been cured of the bromhidrosis and still emitted an unpleasant odor.

“Let’s sit outside, I’m afraid of disturbing other people’s appetite,”

Liu Xia said.

When Ye Qiu and Liu Xia found a seat outside, Liu Xia was curious why Ye Qiu didn’t reject and feel disgusted by her odor, as others did?

“Doctor Ye, why aren’t you like the others?”

“What do you think?”

Ye Qiu had a more sensitive sense of smell than the average person.

Of course, he could clearly smell the bromhidrosis emanating from Liu Xia, but he did not react like everyone else because he knew he could cure her condition.

“Maybe you’re different from other people,”

was what Liu Xia thought.

Just then, a female waitress came out with a menu.

As she handed it to Liu Xia, she detected the foul smell coming from the beautiful young woman.

Liu Xia had just taken a bath, and since she hadn’t sprayed herself with perfume, the smell coming directly from her without the mixture of perfume was easy for the waitress to pick up when she came close.

The waitress guessed what the smell was, but she just wrinkled her brow and then, after handing Liu Xia the menu, said, “Take your time looking, and let me know when you’re ready.”

After the waitress left, Liu Xia still felt somewhat embarrassed.

If this had happened before Ye Qiu had reduced the smell of her armpit bromhidrosis, it probably would have been even more obvious.

Perhaps the moment the waitress approached, she would’ve sensed a stench worse than stinky tofu — a mix of dead salted fish and rotten mice.

As Liu Xia held the menu, feeling awkward, Ye Qiu moved closer and said, “You okay?”

“I’m fine, I’ve gotten used to it,”

Liu Xia replied.

Although most people’s reactions were like that, it still made Liu Xia feel uncomfortable inside.

Ye Qiu then patted her shoulder and said, “It’ll be over soon.”

“Thank you, Doctor Ye,”

Liu Xia remarked.

She realized if the people from her past had been like Ye Qiu, she wouldn’t have suffered such a huge blow to her dignity and wouldn’t have become so lacking in confidence.

But she found that among so many people, probably only Ye Qiu and her parents would treat her that way.

When Liu Xia handed the menu to Ye Qiu, he saw it was all stir-fried dishes and some porridge; the stir-fry was thirty yuan each, and the pricier seafood was over a hundred yuan per jin.

“Miss Liu, you sit here and I’ll go inside and check out the seafood,”

Ye Qiu said.

“Seafood?”

Feeling embarrassed at the mention of seafood, Liu Xia was concerned that she might not have enough money, and her credit card limit was not sufficient.

They might not accept credit cards here, which could mean she would have to text Xiao Hong to bring her money.

Otherwise, what would they do after eating if they couldn’t pay the bill?

After Ye Qiu took the menu inside, he indeed found many live seafood options, including fish, shrimp, and even hairy crabs.

“Boss, how much are these?”

Ye Qiu inquired.

“The prices are all listed here.”

Seeing Ye Qiu dressed so plainly, the restaurant staff doubted that he could afford to eat there.

The mandarin fish here cost two to three times more than outside, and that was for the cooked dishes.

“These, those, and these—all of them, I want everything,” Ye Qiu said.

Ye Qiu ordered seven or eight kinds of seafood.

Having been reborn in this world, Ye Qiu certainly took the opportunity to savor the delicacies it had to offer.

Even after taking the order and weighing the seafood, the employee still had his doubts about Ye Qiu being able to pay.

If Ye Qiu dared to dine and dash, he was determined to teach him a lesson before taking him to the nearby police station.

When Liu Xia saw Ye Qiu entering the restaurant and looking at the seafood, she sent a text to Xiao Hong.

Possibly Xiao Hong hadn’t seen the message, so Liu Xia called her.

“Xiaxia, what’s up?

I’m getting my hair done.”

“Liu Xia, Ye Qiu might be eating seafood.

I don’t have enough money; lend me some,” Liu Xia said urgently.

“That’s fine, I’ll bring you the money when I come down,” Xiao Hong readily agreed, aware that Liu Xia had run out of funds and would not be able to afford the seafood dinner with Ye Qiu.

As Liu Xia and Xiao Hong just hung up the call, suddenly a group of people headed their way; they were unmistakably local ruffians from the nearby urban village.

The ruffians were planning to dine here with their boss, who immediately spotted Liu Xia sitting coolly, dressed in light clothing.

From a distance, Liu Xia’s figure, back, and face all looked exceptionally beautiful.

The boss and the thugs noticed a beautiful woman sitting alone, engrossed in her phone.

“Boss, there’s a beauty!”

“I have eyes.

I can see,” said the boss.

With that, he led the thug towards where Liu Xia was sitting.

When the boss and his lackeys sat down two tables away from Liu Xia, they got an even clearer view.

Wearing a light summer outfit and slippers, Liu Xia certainly seemed like a local.

The boss and his minions were puzzled; they had been hanging around the neighborhood for a long time but had never seen such a beautiful, classy, and seemingly innocent woman.

Ordinarily, Liu Xia would bundle herself up tightly and wear thick glasses, which surely made her less attractive than she appeared now.

However, just a short while later, the thug boss and his minions smelled an unpleasant odor.

Sitting next to Liu Xia, they were struck by a gust of hot wind carrying the smell of body odor right into their faces.

“Boss, do you smell that?”

“What smell?”

“Like a dead rat.”

“And a stinky salted fish.”

“It’s even worse than stinky tofu.”

The boss and his thugs all smelled it.

At first, they thought a dead rat was decomposing outside the restaurant, something the owner hadn’t taken care of.

After all, it was common for the urban village environment to have dead rats, and even more so for the large, living rats to sneak out at night in search of food.