However, before Olive could fully finish her words, she was interrupted by director Barman.
“Oops, I didn’t bring you here to eat to save you money, you silly girl blindly thinking what? You should not underestimate this place, this small restaurant although the environment does not look very good, but the taste of his food is absolutely first-class, you will know when you try it.”
After Barman said these words, and did not give Olive the opportunity to speak again, directly pulled her into the restaurant.
The decoration inside the restaurant is more simple than outside, not much space with some tables, chairs and benches, in addition to nothing, and those tables, chairs and benches also look like some years, and Olive even saw a table, the top actually has a chip.
Barman led Olive to a table and sat down, when an old man came out from the back kitchen, smiling and greeting Barman.
“Oh, Mr. Hingora, you haven’t been here for a while, who’s that next to you? Is that your daughter? She’s so good-looking.”
The old man was hunched over, looking 60 or 70 years old, with wrinkles stacked on his face, but he gave off a gentle and kind feeling.
Director Barman smiled very coyly and hurriedly shook his head.
“Boss you do not snicker at me, I am a single man where to come so big daughter ah! This is the new girl who joined our line, acting is particularly powerful, particularly agile, and ah, you look carefully, is not a special resemblance to a person!”
The boss he laughed twice, turned his head to scrutinize GuOlive, and then nodded, which made Olive feel very puzzled.
“It’s really! This little girl of yours really has some of the charm of Oshnar back then! It’s all very youthful and pretty and pleasing to the eye.”
Olive lowered her head in embarrassment, and a big, big blush surfaced on her face because she was shy.
“Thank you for your compliment boss, I … I am still far from Oshnar seniors.”
The boss laughed a few times and didn’t say anything, but turned around and went back to the back kitchen.
Barman director smiled and nodded, he is a long-time customer of this store, and the boss is also a good friend for many years, like to eat what dishes the boss has long been familiar with the heart, simply do not need him to ask.
Olive took a look at the menu on the table, it looked very ordinary, just ordinary home-cooked food, ordinary dishes that even she rarely cooks.
The owner first brought them a pot of tea and spoke a few more words with Director Barman, then turned and walked away with a smile on his face.
“Girl, you do not know, the first time I came here to eat, the owner of this store is still a middle-aged man, and I am just a fledgling hairy boy, economic constraints, stumbled upon this small store, the price is cheap, the taste is also surprisingly good, later ah, I met Oshnar, always bring her to come here to eat, a meal is most of life I’ve been eating here for most of my life.”
Director Barman said wistfully, but with a gentle smile on his face, as if explaining to Olive while reminiscing about the past.
Olive looked at Director Barman blankly, in her impression, Director Barman had been developing in the mainland before and went to Ilridge only after becoming famous, while Senior Oshnar had grown up in Ilridge since childhood and had never heard of ever coming to live in the mainland, so how come he often came to this restaurant to eat?
“Oshnar seniors are not living in Ilridge all year round? How come …”
“She does live in Ilridge all year round, very much she likes our meals in Nighbury, and especially likes this restaurant.”
Director Barman picked up the glass of water on the table, poured one for Olive and himself, picked it up and took a light sip, then narrated it to Olive.
“Oshnar fame when you were young, your generation only know her as a red rose in the show business, but few people know that she often traveled between our Virban City and Ilridge, at the beginning, she also did not develop in Ilridge, just because at that time Nighbury’s The show business was just getting started, and her agent had some connections with Ilridge before she moved there.”
Olive suddenly realized, no wonder Oshnar’s ancestry is in Nighbury, but is an Ilridge artist, so there is such a past.
“Before Oshnar went to Ilridge, she was just a little unknown actress in Nighbury.”
Director Barman sighed, his eyes shining.
“At that time, we were both new to acting, so we became good friends. After I brought her here for dinner once, we came here so often that even the owner knew us both, and later, became our friend.”
Barman said while looking back at the furnishings of the bistro, his gaze was deeply fond and nostalgic.
“I still remember that time, every time we finished work it was already late at night, almost no other stores on the street would be open, only here, no matter how late the boss would wait for us two, so the first thing we did after work was to rush here.”
“Oshnar started clamoring for their signature dish every time she was on the road, and she especially liked the owner’s handiwork and ate much, much more each time.”
“At that time, the owner of the store was still very young, his father was the chef of the store, but unfortunately that chef has passed away for many years, now can no longer eat it! At that time, the domestic economy was slow, who had the spare money to eat out every day?”
“So business was very poor, if it wasn’t for the fact that Oshnar and I were working on the set, we were late every day, so we wouldn’t have gone to the restaurant every day! We two always come to patronize, so this store also did not close down early as other stores.”
The smile on director Barman’s face diminished a few points, suddenly making Olive feel very sad.
What he told was decades old, but it gave Olive a feeling that it happened yesterday, and she seemed to have traveled back in time to see the two teenage girls laughing and joking while eating.
“Mr. Hingora, you and Oshnar-senpai must have been very good friends before!”
“That’s right! We were the best of friends.
“Before she left Nighbury before going to Ilridge, we were almost inseparable, both in the cast and in our daily lives …”
Director Barman paused as he spoke, his eyes slowly overflowing with despondent sadness.
“Later, she was introduced, followed her agent to Ilridge development, rarely came back to Nighbury, and I, again in the crew for many years, ate a number of hardships, only slowly boiled into the director’s assistant, and then became the director, and later also went to Ilridge to shoot the script.”