Having a glance of the desolate street, Fang Tang decided to shut off the door of his restaurant. All of a sudden, a man run in, with on hand pushing the door and the other one hitting on Fang Tang's chest. Under his pushing force, Fang Tang stepped back unsteadily and hit the tables.
"Kid, you don't get how to be a good boy, do you? It's been a month since I cut off your water and power supply, how could you still have the nerve to run your business, huh? You have no idea what I can do to you!" said the bald man who pushed the door wearing a garish short sleeves shirt unbuttoned, and the tiger head tattoo on his chest is unveiled. Behind him, there were three men, each of them held a long iron stick.
"I get cameras in my restaurant, and they are all connected with the police station. Think carefully before you do anything, because these cameras will collect evidence for me. And I … I will put it on the internet and expose you gangsters." said Fang Tang with his feet slightly sliding away from them.
After hearing this, the bald man frowned his brow. He didn't expect Fang Tang could threat him. Nowadays, cameras are almost everywhere, it is really inconvenient for him because he has to be very careful and avoid the cameras. The things he did, such as cut off the water and power supply of Fang Tang's restaurant, threatened him, are indeed disgraceful. Even if Fang Tang reported him to the police, he could still find people to get all this taken care of. But once the video is exposed on the internet, the press will put their eyes on them, then his boss might be exposed as well. He can't let that happen.
"Find out all the cameras and destroy them!" said the bald man to his henchmen.
While they were looking for cameras, Fang Tang took the chance running toward the kitchen.
"Damn, you kid dares to run away from us! Fine, remember this, you can run but you can't hide!" shouted the bald man. He kicked away the tables and chairs in front of him and tried to catch Fang Tang, and Fang Tang rushed into and kitchen and locked the door.
While the bald man was violently banging the kitchen door, Fang Tang took out his cellphone and called 110: "Hello, is this the police station? I need your help. I'm in Six Flavors Restaurant, No.66, Nangang lane, old district. There are four robbers with iron staffs trying to hurt me. They are now pounding at the door, can you hear it? Please come and help me! My life is in danger!"He tried to speak loudly so that these people can also hear.
"Bastard, you'd better hide there all your life. Or, I will make your life into hell!" the bald man threatened. He was so pissed off after hearing Fang Tang's phone call. Then he turned to his henchmen and ordered: "Stop looking for cameras, destroy his restaurant first! Be quick, we need to leave soon!"
The banging sound started right after this bald man gave his order. About four minutes later, the banging and cursing sound ceased. Waited for another five minutes, Fang Tang walked out of the kitchen after hearing the sirens of police car.
The restaurant hall was a mess, all the glass windows were smashed. Most of the tables and chairs were broken, too. Even the refrigerator was pulled down.
Actually, there were no cameras in his restaurant. He just said that to threat those gangsters. Fang Tang's mom passed away many years ago. And his father died from heart attack three months ago, which made him a real loner. Before he recovered from the sorrow of losing his father, a real estate developer came to him wanting to buy his restaurant.
Six Flavors Restaurant has a over 40 years' history since it's founded by Fang Tang's grandpa. The first floor is used for restaurants, and the second floor for living. Fang Tang's father spent all his life in this house, and it also recorded Fang Tang's childhood. He can still remember that when he was a little boy, each time his father cook, he tried to help cutting the vegetables. How could he sell it? He won't do that no matter how much they offer.
Being refused by Fang Tang again and again, the real estate developer found people to cut the water, power and gas supply of this restaurant. But Fang Tang wasn't discouraged by that, he even didn't have the thought of stopping his business. He bought a small-scale diesel generator and bottled water to keep the restaurant running. And he used an induction cooker to cook food.
But the employees are quitting their jobs one after another, his neighbors are also moving out after selling their houses. Therefore, it's barely to see a customer coming into the restaurant. The developer is tired of waiting for Fang Tang to give in, so he sent people here to destroy Fang Tang's restaurant today.
After the policemen made some notes and left, Fang Tang began to clean the restaurant hall. Then he went to the kitchen, chopped some pork and chicken, boiled them with water and add some steamed rice in it, here a big pot of cat food is cooked.
When the food is not so hot, he poured it into a big bowel and took the bowel out of the kitchen to the street. There are six homeless cats waiting for him. They are cheerfully meowing after seeing Fang Tang.
"Easy, easy! You will all get food." Fang Tang was trying to calm them down. Seeing a few cats running toward him, he went back to the kitchen and brought a plate. He scooped some from the bowl and put it on the plate for those kittens that can't eat the food.
"Alas, I never expected that you will be the only customers of my restaurant." Fang Tang sighed with hands rubbing on those kittens' ears.
Fang Tang heard a slight meow, then he turned his head back and saw a dirty black kitten looking at him from the corner of a wall. He waved at him and said: "Come, there is still food left."
The black kitten stared at Fang Tang without moving. He knew that some abandoned cats have suffered a lot, so they are afraid of human beings. In order to let this kitten feel safe, Fang Tang turned back his head and stopped looking at it.
Those cats finished their dinner very fast and lied next to Fang Tang. He picked up the bowel and plate, then walked to his kitchen. After washing the dishes, he felt a little bit hungry as well.
"Fine, I need to boil a bag of instant noodle for myself." he muttered. He found a bag of stewed beef flavored noodle and then started boiling the water.
As a chef, Fang Tang has his own way of cooking instant noodle. He put the noodle into the boiling water and took it out in 3 minutes to ensure its chewiness. He never uses the dehydrated vegetables. He put some sauce, sesame oil, the cut green onion and a spoon of home-made peanut butter in it, and mix them all together. After that, he put some boiled water in and simmer it for about 3 minutes with pot cover on.
When he lifted the pot cover, a nice scent came out. Because of the peanuts butter and green onion he added in, the soup is more flavored. And the specific cooking time keeps the chewiness of the noodle and makes it chewier and smoother. That's indeed a bowel of perfect instant noodles.
Usually, Fang Tang would cut some sausage or a stewed egg when the noodle is simmered. But today, he heard an eating sound right after he took out the sausage.
He turned his back and saw a black kitten standing on the kitchen counter and enjoying the noodle with its head bending into the bowel. This cat seems to be the one he met at the corner of that wall.
"Holy shit, why didn't you eat cat food when I offered it to you? You can't eat instant noodle, alright? It contains too much salt." Fang Tang explained this and tried to take the cat away. But the cat loves this noodle so much that its back legs are in Fang Tang's hands and head is still in the bowel.
He never knew that a cat could stretch itself to this extent. Fang Tang was amused when seeing this, but he was still trying to move its head out of the bowel. Then he saw that the cat already finished eating. Even the soup was all gone.
After putting the cat on the floor and the bowel into the sink, he scolded it as if it could understand "Gluttonous cat, do you know the instant noodle contains a lot of salt, which is harmful for you? You can't eat this…"
Before he finished his words, he heard a glugging sound. Then he found out that he forgot to close the door of the refrigerator, and this back cat grabbed a bottle of milk from it.
"Jesus, why do you always choose the one you are not supposed to eat? You can't drink milk because you can't digest the lactose. I know you're hungry, but these are not what you should eat." Fang Tang said this and tried to take the milk away.
The black cat seems to know what he was going to do, it reached out its front paws and grabbed the milk box tightly trying to pour more into its mouth.
"kitten, you can't drink this any more. It will take you to hospital." said Fang Tang. He took the milk box away with his full force. And the box was scratched a few holes by the cat, and the milk was leaking through them.
Seeing that, this cat started jumping with its mouth open to get the leaking milk. Fang Tang put the milk box in to the sink as well and took the cat out of the kitchen.
This black cat was trying to escape from him, but failed. Fang Tang comforted it:" Milk won't do you any good, trust me. I can get you some water. You might be thirsty from the noodle you ate."
"Let go off your hands, muggle!" a tender voice came from the black cat. Fang Tang was completely in shock after hearing this and doubted whether it's a hallucination.
"Let go off your hands and bring that magical potion to me!" the black cat said again.
"Oh, my! Monster cat!" screamed Fang Tang and threw the cat away.