Xiao Wu returned to the table with the waiter who served the food.
The breathless chat just now was temporarily interrupted, and some people started eating with their chopsticks.
Xiao Wu once again became the one who talked the most. He chatted a lot with Xu Jiandong and asked a lot of questions. The chat atmosphere was quite good.
It was rare for Xiang Huan to see Xu Jiandong talking like this, so he listened very enthusiastically without knowing it, and started laughing along with him from time to time.
Only Narino kept eating slowly and was basically speechless.
When Xiao Wu took the initiative to add Xu Jiandong on WeChat, he was rejected.
The atmosphere was awkward again.
"Sorry, I don't have many people on WeChat, and I don't want to add anyone else." Xu Jiandong refused calmly.
Xiao Wu laughed dryly, said it was fine, and walked away to go to the toilet.
As soon as he left, the dinner table fell silent.
Narino picked up a piece of pork ribs and gnawed it in his mouth politely, and suddenly asked a question that he couldn't pronounce clearly.
"What do we call us?" He asked Xu Jiandong.
Xu Jiandong replied with two words, "Look at you."
Xiang Huan felt his tooth hurt when he heard that. He thought about the ages of the two of them and said that Xu Jiandong was two years older than Chengye.
"Oh, so I should call him brother, right? Then let's call him brother Xu from now on." Cheng Ye took up Xiang Huan's words.
He immediately shouted at Xu Jiandong.
Xu Jiandong glanced at Xiang Huan and agreed, but did not say how he would call Chengye in the future.
After Xiao Wu came back, Chengye started to join in the chat and started to communicate with Xu Jiandong.
The conversation revolved around coffee.
Xu Jiandong said that when he was in Lincheng, he often visited some small coffee shops and met some friends who were baristas.
Xiao Wu was asking if he still had contact with those people, but Chengye suddenly asked.
But he asked about something else.
"Xiang Huan likes drinking coffee. Which one did you often go to together? I'll go back to Lincheng and try it too."
Xiang Huan's heart skipped a beat.
When she first met Xu Jiandong, they often went to coffee shops together and even sat there for a whole day.
Finally decided to get married, also in a coffee shop.
"The one I often went to was closed when I left. She really loves to drink coffee." Xu Jiandong said and looked at Xiang Huan.
Nearly two hours after eating the meal, Xu Jiandong looked at the time and said he had to leave and go back to work at the forest farm.
"Delay Brother Xu a little longer, I still have something to say." Cheng Ye seemed to have just entered the state and just remembered the purpose of today's meal.
Xu Jiandong sat motionless, waiting for Cheng Ye to continue.
But as soon as Narino opened his mouth, there was a sudden explosion of voices in the restaurant, which was not loud at first, and it was located right behind their table.
Xiang Huan was startled and looked around in disgust.
There were five or six men and women sitting at that table. The one who spoke loudly just now was a burly middle-aged man. His accent sounded like he was a local in the town.
Probably because he drank too much. He always encounters this person when eating out.
The people at the same table got up and tried to persuade the middle-aged man, but they heard the middle-aged man cry, and the cry was indescribable.
Xiao Wu frowned and muttered to himself, why is a man crying outside.
In fact, his voice was not loud, but somehow he was heard by the middle-aged man who was howling. He turned around and came over with wide eyes.
"Who just said, why is a man crying outside? Who!" The middle-aged man had tears on his face.
Chengye sat with his eyes lowered, and Xu Jiandong raised his eyes to look at the middle-aged man, neither of them said a word.
Xiang Huan also frowned.
Xiao Wu put down his chopsticks and stood up. He laughed twice at the middle-aged man and said it was him who said it.
"Damn it, you little brat, you dare to admit it, come here, come here!" The middle-aged man's voice rose several times, pointing at Xiao Wu and yelling.
Seeing that the conflict was about to intensify, the store owner came out to smooth things over, and several people from the middle-aged man's table also came over, trying to pull him back.
Chengye and Xu Jiandong still sat calmly, as if they had nothing to do with them.
Xiang Huan stood up and said to the middle-aged man, "I'm sorry, brother, but my friend has no other intentions," to calm down.
The middle-aged man tilted his head and saw a beautiful woman apologizing to him. He rolled his eyes and sat down on the empty chair next to him.
I thought what he was going to do, but the people in the circle heard louder cries.
Xiang Huan pushed Chengye and looked at him to tell him to say something.
Cheng Ye raised his eyes to look at her, his expression was unremarkable, and he was still sitting.
The middle-aged man was sitting next to Narino, covering his face with his big hands and mumbling a name that sounded like a woman's name.
Xiao Wu stared with confusion on his face.
He asked the people who were following him, "No, what do these mean? You guys are together, what's going on!"
Someone sighed and stepped forward to explain to Xiao Wu that the middle-aged man had really drunk too much because today was his only daughter's birthday.
Twenty-seventh birthday.
The man said and looked at Xiang Huan, "If that girl were alive, she would be about the same age as this beauty."
After hearing this, Xiao Wu cursed in a low voice in annoyance, and his eyes softened when he looked at the painful middle-aged man.
Xu Jiandong and Cheng Ye also stood up and looked at the middle-aged man.
No one expected that things would turn out this way.
Xiang Huan walked around Cheng Ye and walked to the middle-aged man. He took out a tissue and handed it to him, calling him uncle.
The person who explained just now saw Xiang Huan coming and continued to say that the middle-aged man's daughter died ten years ago and was burned to death.
"You foreigners, if you are from our town, you must all know about that fire. Several people died. It was so tragic..."
"It was the original song and dance hall. My daughter went to play and never came out again. She left her father alone..."
Xiang Huan clenched the bag of tissues in his hand, staring at Cheng Ye from the corner of his eyes, his heart beating faster.
The middle-aged man cried even harder when he heard his friend's words, but he didn't care about Xiao Wu anymore, and was finally helped out of the hotel by his friends.
Xiao Wu also went out to see him off, but when he came back, his face was downcast and his eyes were looking at Cheng Ye uneasily.
After Narino listened to the words about the fire burning people to death, he sat down again and said nothing.
Xiang Huan couldn't sit still. She followed Xiao Wu out, but she didn't come forward to talk directly to the middle-aged man.
After watching the middle-aged man get into the car and leave, Xiang Huan slowly turned around and almost bumped into Xu Jiandong behind him.
"Are you okay?" Xu Jiandong helped Xiang Huan and pulled her to stand under the tree next to the hotel.
Xiang Huan took a deep breath, closed his eyes and tried to calm down quickly.
"Fortunately, no one recognized him." Xu Jiandong's voice sounded faintly in his ears.
Xiang Huan opened his eyes and raised his hands to block the strong sunlight shining through the leaves.
She didn't even think about it just now. After hearing the fire burning people to death, her mind almost went blank and completely fragmented.
"Go and see him. I won't go in. I'll contact you later." Xu Jiandong's voice rang in his ears again.
Xiang Huan walked back to the hotel and saw Cheng Ye had an extra bottle of liquor on hand.
Because of this episode, many people in the hotel started talking about the fire ten years ago.
"Let's go, get up." Xiang Huan went over, trying to pull Cheng Ye up and leave quickly.
Narino didn't move.
He lowered his head and said to Xiang Huan, "Let me listen."
