Side Story Five: Traveler's Cheese Tea (Thanks to Alliance Leader Wang Xiaonan)
"Boss, one Lonely Grass Jelly and one Death Milk Cap Tea."
Urged on by several companions nearby, a college-aged young man walked up to the milk tea shop. He looked over the menu on the wall, then gathered his courage and spoke to the female owner inside.
The female owner, who was smoking, shot him a sidelong glance and slowly exhaled a smoke ring. "Loneliness and death are two things you can't have at the same time."
"Huh? Then... then what should I do?" Although he had long known that the owner here was strange, he had not expected her to reject a customer's order so bluntly. He stood there dumbfounded.
"You should drink mineral water." As she spoke, the owner opened the refrigerator beside her, took out a bottle of Nongfu Spring, and handed it over.
The college student blankly accepted the mineral water.
"Four yuan. Scan the Alipay or WeChat code yourself." Having said that, the owner sat back down.
"Huh?" The college student finally came to his senses. "That expensive? Isn't Nongfu Spring only one yuan at the supermarket?"
"That's right, but this is a milk tea shop." The owner pointed at the sign overhead.
Perhaps intimidated by the owner's imposing manner, the college student ultimately paid in a daze and returned to his companions carrying a bottle of mineral water, prompting a burst of laughter from the group.
This had originally been a truth-or-dare challenge. They all knew the owner of this milk tea shop was eccentric. In fact, aside from the opening day, when a few brave souls had come for the discounts, the place had immediately become deserted once everyone had fully experienced the owner's capriciousness.
By now, its only purpose was