Chapter 643 - 062 Street shopping, sweet_3
Lin Yuan’s nose tingled, touched by the simple affection between the two. The deepest and most profound confession isn’t "I love you," but "I’ll spend my lifetime with you." Perhaps the elderly couple had their fair share of quarrels when they were young, but they remained deeply in love in their old age. Maybe they were just used to each other’s presence, but it was this kind of ordinary, common love that was truly moving.
As they watched, the old man once again picked out the egg yolk from his bowl and offered it to the old lady. This time, she didn’t accept it but instead looked up, furrowed her brows, pushed the yolk back to him, and huffed, "You old fool, is an egg yolk going to choke you to death? If you dare to try putting it into my bowl again, don’t expect to sleep at home tonight!"
The old man muttered something under his breath but eventually, under the old lady’s watchful eye, ate the egg yolk down, looking every bit the picture of a henpecked husband.
Lin Yuan and Xia Zheng glanced at each other and burst into laughter.
Just then, their noodles were ready. The shop was run by a middle-aged couple, the man responsible for cooking noodles, and the woman for tidying bowls and serving the food.
The woman placed two bowls of noodles in front of them, and seeing them laughing at the old couple, she couldn’t help but start chatting quietly, "That old pair is really something. The old man didn’t used to like eating eggs, especially when he was in poor health, but the old lady would insist on him eating them to get some nutrition. Now that he’s healthier, he likes eggs even less. But every time she nags him, no matter how reluctant, he always ends up eating them obediently."
Lin Yuan smiled, "The old man, he just can’t bear to let the old lady down."
The woman smiled too, "Right? They used to come eat noodles here often. Back then, that old man had quite the temper, quick to catch fire. But after he got sick, he started to listen to everything the old lady said, as if he were a whole new person."