Devil Fruit of the City

On the ninth day of the first lunar month, the weather was fine.

The holidays for the Spring Festival have all been over one after another. Many companies have already started official work, and all kinds of white-collar workers are struggling to go to work. The atmosphere of the Chinese New Year has not yet completely passed.

Huimin Building, located on the East Street of Xingfu Street, South District, H County, is an 18-story ordinary office building. Together with the H County "Government" building next to it, it constitutes the commercial center of this area.

At 12:00 noon, it is the lunch break time for all companies in the office building. The office area of ​​the umbrella advertising company located on the seventh floor of Huimin Building, the employees who have been busy all morning put down their work one after another, stretch their waists, and prepare to have lunch. Also relax your tense nerves by the way.

Due to the low living standard in the county town and the high consumption level nearby, many office workers bring their own lunch boxes to the company to eat, so when you enter the interior of each company, you can see the desks. It is full of colorful self-contained small lunch boxes.  Urban Devil Fruit 116

On the seat against the wall on the east side of the office area, sat a thin man wearing glasses. While eating, he aimed his eyes at the lunch box of his colleague next to him to see what was inside.

The nine-to-five job is actually very boring. Talking with colleagues about the meals they eat every day is a common opening for them, and it is also a good conversation starter, so they do it every day with great enjoyment.

"Hey, Xiao Wang, you have a pretty good life, you eat so much, let me see, sweet and sour pork ribs, stir-fried beef with broccoli, barbecued pork in honey sauce, tsk tsk, this little life is going well, It seems that you have lived a very prosperous year." The man with eyes enviously shouted.

"Hey, what's the matter, you have to be like this, you can't lose yourself when you lose anything. People are tired enough to live, and if they don't eat something smooth, then what's the point."

"Xiao Bing, you are saving too much. Money is a bastard. You don't bring it with you when you die. If you have some spare money, you might as well use it to improve your life." A fat man next to him said disapprovingly. Shaking his head, he is an instant gratificationist.

"You can see it. I can't help it. The salary commission is not as high as yours. There are parents to take care of at home, so I can only eat some cheap food." Xiaobing adjusted his glasses, opened his lunch box, and slammed He took a bite of white rice.

"Xiao Bing, the food in your lunch box is already pretty good, at least there is some shredded pork or something. Look at Sister Li, she only eats a few pickled cucumber sticks, even if she is at the level of an African refugee, that's all. " Said another young man with a black face behind him, and pouted at a woman in her thirties who was sitting in the middle of the office area.

There was only a small lunch box on the woman's table, which contained a little pickled cucumber and two other vegetarian dishes, all of which were pitifully small.

"Xiaojun, Sister Li is on a diet to lose weight. You really think that Sister Li can't afford it. Hey, Sister Li, in fact, according to me, you don't need to lose weight at all. It's just right now. It's called plumpness, and I like it very much. This is the type of Sister Li." Hearing this, Xiao Bing grinned, turned his head and said loudly to Sister Li.

"Go, brat, you don't even have a girlfriend, what do you know?" Sister Li with a fair face and a plump figure gave Xiao Bing a hard look.

"Hahaha..." The dozen or so employees in the office all laughed.

"Hey, where did Xiao Lu go? Why didn't you see it?" Xiaojun looked around, but he didn't see Xiao Lu, and asked strangely.

"Lu Yiming, that kid must have gone out to look for food. Every day at this time, he would go out to the restaurant to eat." Someone next to him said so.

After hearing this, Xiaobing said with emotion: "This kid Lu Yiming lives a fucking extravagant life. He actually goes to the restaurant to have a good meal every day. It's not as hard as we are, and we have to bring food from home."

"Hey, this is called different fates. Lu Yiming is a rich second generation, and his family is not short of money. He comes to work here just for fun. Maybe when he hates it, he will resign." Xiao Wang said. After eating a piece of beef, he raised his head and said.

Just as he was talking, the glass door of the office area was pushed open again, and a young man with long hair walked in, holding a plastic bag in his hand.

"Xiao Lu, everyone is talking about you, why did you finish lunch so quickly?" Everyone raised their heads and saw him, and couldn't help asking questions.

"Hey, the heat is killing me. It's not easy to buy something to eat in this queue." Lu Yiming returned to his desk, put the bag in his hand on the table, lay down on the computer chair, and let out a long sigh. in one breath.

"Are you queuing? Just have lunch, do you need to work so hard?" Xiao Bing asked curiously.  Urban Devil Fruit 116

"Yes, you usually go to the green tea restaurant, shouldn't the food be served there very quickly?" Xiao Wang wondered.

"Well, everyone knows that I have very high requirements for food. Today I heard from the people from the real estate company next door that there is a new restaurant next to Master Tang's restaurant downstairs. It tastes amazing. They eat it at noon to buy."

"As soon as I heard what they were talking about, it seemed like some kind of dragon meat and phoenix gall, so I wanted to try it. But when I got to the place, there were more than one person, and there was a long queue at the takeaway, although now It’s winter, but there are so many people, the temperature around me immediately rose several degrees, making me sweat profusely.”

Lu Yiming pointed to the hard-earned takeaway box on the computer desk, and said with great emotion.

"Isn't it just a takeaway? What's new about this, and you need to queue up?" Someone asked unconvinced.

"Master Tang's gourmet food? Isn't this restaurant a restaurant that has been making a lot of noise in County H recently? The advertisement is very popular. Could it be that restaurant bought this takeaway?" Xiao Wang obviously knows something inside.

After hearing this, Lu Yiming nodded and said, "That's right, that's the restaurant."

Speaking of this, Sister Li suddenly remembered, and said: "It turned out to be that restaurant, no wonder, during the Chinese New Year, the neighbors around the house seemed to be clamoring to go there for a meal, so I followed to see it out of curiosity. After a while, it was a sea of ​​people, people were sitting inside and out, and there was even a long queue at the takeaway window. Seeing this, I immediately retreated, Xiao Lu, you are very good, and you managed to get in line."

Lu Yiming smiled complacently, and said: "No, it's not easy to buy this takeaway. I specially spent a lot of money to bribe a waiter in their store, and that waiter secretly left it for me. Otherwise, it will wait until our company gets off work , if you go to queue again, I'm afraid there will be no vegetable dregs."

Takeaway that you have to bribe the waiter to buy? !

Xiaojun was the first to disbelieve, with a suspicious face on his face, he said: "Xiao Lu, your words are a bit exaggerated, although the food in that restaurant may be delicious, but you have to bribe the waiter to buy it. Even if you go to those five-star restaurants, it’s nothing more than that.”

After listening, everyone looked at Lu Yiming, wanting to hear his explanation.