After lunch, it's almost time to prepare the ingredients for the opening of the shop in the evening.

Bai Yao took out fifteen broccoli flowers from the refrigerator, broke them open one by one, soaked them in water and washed them clean, and also took out a dozen pieces of steak from the freezer, stacked them neatly on the tray, and sprinkled them after they were placed at room temperature. Pepper and salt well.

While waiting for the steak to heat up, he took out the scallops, shrimp, clams and tofu, washed them all and placed them in separate bowls next to the stove for the seafood soup.

All the steps and procedures are in order. Bai Yao has practiced cooking for five or six years, and these steps have long been engraved in his body, so he can prepare everything without thinking too much.

The menu is actually different every night, sometimes it depends on what ingredients are in the freezer, and sometimes it just depends on Bai Yao's mood, what dishes he wants to cook and what he doesn't want to cook. But no matter how you change the dishes, the restaurant will always have a total of thirteen dishes, which is the limit that Bai Yao can make while ensuring the quality.

After a table of ingredients had been neatly placed on the kitchen countertop, Bai Yao stopped to take a breath, thinking about going out to smoke a cigarette and take a rest. But when he raised his eyes, his eyes fell on the little sea otter in the yard.

Looking out of the kitchen window, I could just see a corner of the backyard. At some point, the little sea otter had already gone out again, busy in the yard.

It turned its back to the window, and Bai Yao didn't realize until he turned around that there was a big gray stone in front of him, and the little sea otter was trying to push it forward.

The stone is too big for the little sea otter, and it is inconvenient to move on land. The forelimbs are short, so it can't drag it at all. Only a few centimeters away.

It looked back at the distance it had pushed, took a breath in frustration, and started pushing again after resting enough.

After pushing for a long time, the little sea otter changed to pushing his head on the ground again, and put his limbs on the ground to push hard secretly, but the grass was a bit slippery, and he didn't step on it firmly, so he slapped on the ground and let out a weak "squeak" from his throat.

This stone was used to prop against the door when the restaurant was first built. The Golden Shell Seafood Restaurant was basically built by Bai Yao. At that time, he didn't know anything, and he didn't even know how to fix the door hinges. When a gust of wind came, the hanger was closed, and only a big stone could be picked up to support it.

After the door was repaired, the stones were not thrown away. They were kept in the backyard as garden decorations.

Bai Yao couldn't figure out what the little sea otter was doing so hard to move a big rock. He couldn't stand it anymore. After washing his hands, he went around to the yard, walked slowly, squatted down and looked at it on the same level, and asked Said: "You want to go to the whole house for me? Do you want me to stumble and fall to death?"

His tone was frivolous and lazy, his peach eyes were slightly narrowed, and he looked bad, just wanting to tease sea otters out of boredom.

The little sea otter looked into his eyes, nodded and shook his head, agreeing with the previous sentence, but expressing deep negation of the latter sentence.

Bai Yao pretended not to understand what it meant: "That won't work, I can't move such a heavy stone."

The little sea otter instantly became aggrieved, his beard trembled slightly, and he was about to cry. He stretched out his claws and pulled the back of Bai Yao's hand, and his little nose moved up to touch Bai Yao's fingertips.

The tip of the nose is wet, a little cold and soft, not too different from a puppy's nose.

I can't be funny, this is not raising a pet, this is raising a son.

The stone was about the size of two and a half basketballs, and it was quite heavy. With a slight twitch of the muscles in Bai Yao's arms, he lifted it up, and kept a little distance between it and his body with some distaste.

It's a bit slimy, full of moss, and still clinging to dirt that hasn't dried out from last night's rain.

The little sea otter saw that Bai Yao could not only carry it, but also seemed to help move its stone into the house, so he jumped up and down excitedly, but his webbed slipped on the water-dropped grass , fell to the ground with a snap.

After the fall, he didn't feel any pain, so he got up, raised his head, and fixed his eyes on his own big rock, as if worried that Bai Yao would confiscate it.

Bai Yao lifted the stone and looked at the fool in front of him, wanting to say something, but in the end he didn't say anything, just sighed.

He carried the stone and followed the little sea otter to the restaurant, and after entering the door, he asked it in a strange way: "Where do you put it?"

The little sea otter walked around the restaurant slowly, looked around, and finally squatted in the middle of the restaurant's entrance, patted the floor with its little paws, and looked up eagerly waiting for Bai Yao to put down his stone.

Bai Yao: "..."

This is the most conspicuous location in the entire restaurant.

If I knew that the restaurant was built at that time, I should have thrown the stone directly.

At that moment, Bai Yao felt like an elevator, delivering the custom-made Jacuzzi from the street to the luxury penthouse.

After he was placed on the ground, the little sea otter walked around his rock, wagging his tail in great satisfaction, and touched it with his paw. Then it turned around again, straightened up, rubbed its paws on its chest, and bowed to Bai Yao to express its thanks.

After doing this, it just sat down next to the stone and stood still, watching quietly, as if it was praying to some statue in a temple.

Bai Yao looked at it guarding his big rock inexplicably, and just wanted to ask what it was doing, but swallowed the words again.

Hey, don't ask, there's no answer at all.

But it didn't take long, and he finally got the answer at dinner.

Bai Yao seldom has time to rest when the restaurant is open, from opening at 4 o'clock to closing at 8 o'clock in the evening, there is no time to sit down for four hours, often four or five pots are on fire at the same time when several tables are ordering dishes , I wish I could grow two more arms to use.

However, he was strong and strong, and he didn't feel too tired after standing and busy all night, he was just very busy.

Only after the restaurant closed did he realize that not only did he have to eat, but there was also a sea otter waiting to be fed.

Bai Yao was fine, and he was used to eating late, usually around nine o'clock, so he couldn't say how hungry he was. But that silly sea otter is hard to say, it looks very thin, but it looks like it eats a lot.

The article I read seems to say that sea otters can eat a quarter of their own body weight in a day, so the little sea otter is not only stupid, but also a small eater.

Bai Yao carried it upstairs when the restaurant was about to open, and told it not to come down or make too much noise.

I haven't heard the sound all night, so I won't faint from hunger.

After seeing off the last table of guests and locking the store door, before he had time to tidy up the kitchen, he rushed upstairs in two or three steps. Bai Yao searched for a long time but couldn't find the sea otter. Finally, he saw a bag bulging in the quilt in the utility room. When he opened it, the little sea otter was indeed nestled inside.

It was half asleep, still holding several small shells in its arms tightly, and its paws were resting on the one he liked the most, which was the one that Bai Yao had pried open for him the first day.

"Not starved to death? That's good." Bai Yao secretly breathed a sigh of relief, lifted the quilt completely, and asked it brightly, "What do you want to eat? I'll treat you."

The little sea otter let out an angry whine, his stomach grunted like a duet and also at the right time, listlessly raised his head and glanced at Bai Yao, then stretched out his paws and patted his leg vigorously as a greeting.

It is not hungry, it is very hungry, but it has been enduring it.

He didn't come to him when he was hungry, and he completely followed Bai Yao's words as orders, and he didn't make a sound when he was upstairs.

He stayed so quietly from afternoon to night, patiently waiting for Bai Yao to come upstairs to look for it after he finished his work.

Very obedient, so obedient that it makes people feel distressed.

Bai Yao suddenly blamed himself, scolded himself inwardly, knelt down and picked up the sea otter, tucked it under his arm and went downstairs.

"...Squeeze when you're hungry next time, or I'll forget about you."

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Little Sea Otter: Hungry, starfish, woo~