"Hey, handsome guy, to thank you for sending me back, would you like to stay for a meal tonight?" Li Zhihan tilted his head and looked at Zhang Ziqing and said with a smile.
Zhang Ziqing was stunned for a moment and shook his head, "No, I'd better go back to eat. It's going to be dark soon. It won't be good to continue to stay at your house."
"What's wrong with this? I'm not afraid of a girl. What are you afraid of? I can't eat you." Li Zhihan rolled his eyes and pointed to his legs, "Look, I'm still He is a patient, so you might as well be a good person and help me solve the dinner problem."
Zhang Ziqing hesitated for a moment and sighed, "Okay then, how to eat it?"
"I want to eat hot pot."
"Can you go out like this?"
"I can't really do it, so I can only eat it at home."
"So do you have hot pot ingredients and kitchen utensils?" Zhang Zi scanned the room and found nothing related to cooking.
"Of course not, I can't cook." Li Zhihan said with a smile.
Seeing the bright smile on Li Zhihan's face, Zhang Ziqing began to feel something bad. He shouldn't have agreed to her so hastily.
Sure enough, Li Zhihan quickly continued: "Look, my leg is injured and I will definitely not be able to walk, so the task of going out to buy pots and vegetables can only fall on you."
Zhang Ziqing's eyes widened with disbelief on his face.
"Oh, by the way, I want to eat beef rolls. You can buy more. There are still a thousand..." Li Zhihan counted on his fingers, "When you go downstairs and exit the alley, turn right and there is a big restaurant. In the shopping mall, the supermarket on the first floor sells hot pot ingredients.”
Zhang Ziqing took a breath of air, "Do you think I will go?"
"Yes." Li Zhihan blinked with a smile.
Half an hour later, Zhang Ziqing opened the door to the room with two large bags of hot pot ingredients. To his surprise, the room was no longer as messy as the first time he entered. The clothes were neatly folded and placed beside the bed. , the cosmetics were also placed in an orderly manner on the table, and there was more space for feet in the room. It seemed that Li Zhihan also tidied up the house during the half hour he was out.
Putting down the things in his hands, Zhang Ziqing was a little curious about why Li Zhihan didn't say anything, so he took a look at the bed and found that Li Zhihan had fallen asleep on the bed.
Originally she was just a little girl in her early twenties, not very old. She suffered such a big fright this evening, coupled with more than an hour of strenuous exercise on the 89th floor, she was able to persist until now before going to bed. It’s already not easy.
Li Zhihan has changed out of her professional attire for work. Different from her sexy and charming appearance outside, she is now wearing a pink strawberry bear nightgown. The hem of the skirt just reaches her knees. Her wounds have also been bandaged. The bandage was also tied with a very girly bow.
In addition, Li Zhihan has also taken off the makeup on his face. Now he looks more like a little girl who is still in college. He looks much more innocent than most girls. Look. The makeup she usually wears when she comes to work is really the thick disguise she has been wearing.
Zhang Ziqing walked to the bed, hesitated for a moment, and gently moved his fingers in the air. The quilt on the bed flew up automatically and covered Li Zhihan.
Then Zhang Ziqing turned around, carried the ingredients and walked out of the room. The shared kitchen was a public kitchen, and he had to go outside to prepare.
But what he didn't notice was that when he was carrying the ingredients out, Li Zhihan's eyelashes fluttered slightly, but he didn't open his eyes. There was a peaceful smile on his face.
Not long after, Zhang Ziqing brought a hot pot with the bottom of the pot from outside the house, put it on the table and started burning it on the induction cooker that he had turned on, and then brought a few plates of hot pot that he had cut from the kitchen outside. The hot pot ingredients are placed in a circle around the hot pot.
The heat of the induction cooker was turned on very high, and soon the hot pot was boiling. The aroma from the spicy pot bottom filled the whole room. Zhang Ziqing began to put the meat and vegetables on the table into the pot, while hesitating whether to wake Li Zhihan up. .
But before he could make any move, Li Zhihan yawned in time and sat up from the bed sleepily.
"You're back. I was too sleepy just now. I wanted to lie on the bed and wait for you for a while, but I accidentally fell asleep." Li Zhihan said, rubbing his eyes.
"It's okay. I woke up at the right time. Let's come and eat." Zhang Ziqing looked up and saw that Li Zhihan, who had just woken up, still had the naive look of a child on his face. As expected, people are most real only when they are sleeping. Own.
"Hey, how did you know that I like beef hot pot the most, and it's especially spicy." Li Zhihan sniffed, and after smelling the aroma of hot pot, he couldn't wait to get out of bed.
But when she got out of bed, she forgot that her leg was still injured. A sudden burst of severe pain made her fall back on the bed as soon as she stood up.
"Slow down, your leg has just been bandaged."
Zhang Ziqing was a little stunned. He bought the butter pot bottom not because Li Zhihan wanted to eat it, but because Su Ran always liked to eat the particularly spicy butter pot bottom when he and Su Ran had hot pot before.
"What are you doing standing still? Why don't you come over and give me a hand?"
Li Zhihan's voice interrupted Zhang Ziqing's thoughts. Zhang Ziqing stood up from the chair, walked to the bed, and stretched out his hand to Li Zhihan.
"Why are you so stupid? How will you find a girlfriend in the future? You won't last long just by looking good, uncle." Li Zhihan stretched out his hand to hold Zhang Ziqing's hand and limped towards the table.
After sitting on his seat, Li Zhihan looked at Zhang Ziqing and put his face in his hands, "Uncle, you said you are thirty, why haven't you found a partner yet?"
"Why are you looking for a partner?"
"There are so many things that two people can do together. It makes me happy just thinking about it."
"for example?"
"For example? That's a lot!
For example, you can go to the movies together, cook hot pot and eat barbecue together, go shopping together to catch dolls, travel together, go to Tibet to see the Potala Palace, go to Shangri-La to see the sun and moon in your heart, go to Finland to see the aurora, and go to England to watch the Thames River. Drinking coffee...Uncle, have you been to the Thames? "
"Been there."
"Is it fun there?" Li Zhihan suddenly became interested.
Zhang Ziqing put the blanched beef on Li Zhihan's plate, "It's quite artistic. When I went there before, many college students and office workers from the University of London were drinking afternoon tea by the river and chatting about daily life. British The pace of life is very slow, so it’s quite pleasant.”
"It sounds very comfortable." Li Zhihan raised his face and said longingly: "It would be great if I could go there one day."
Zhang Ziqing almost blurted out that he could just go if he wanted to. Then he thought of Li Zhihan's current situation, and changed his words to, "There will be such a day."
After finishing speaking, he picked up the beef in the pot and put it in front of Li Zhihan. Li Zhihan's plate could hardly hold it, "Eat quickly, the beef roll will not taste good when it gets cold."
Li Zhihan nodded, picked up the meat that was almost piled up in front of him and stuffed it into his mouth, and said vaguely: "Uncle, you said you are in your thirties and don't have a girlfriend. Do you not like women?"
Zhang Ziqing's hand holding the vegetables froze in the air, and he rolled his eyes, "What nonsense are you thinking about?"
"Then you shouldn't be doing this. With a face like this, the girls who like you will have to go from Jiangning to other provinces. Moreover, you own a shop, and you have a little money anyway. There must be no shortage of girls chasing you. , but there has never been a suitable one, so I wonder if there is something wrong with you."
"Maybe it's because one is used to it."
"You are used to being alone when you are young, and you are no longer in your seventies." Li Zhihan asked curiously: "Is there something wrong with you? Tell me about it, I promise not to tell anyone else."
Zhang Ziqing was a little helpless, "I have no problem, I'm just used to living alone."
"Don't you think it would be nice to have someone by your side?"
Zhang Ziqing shook his head, "Two people who are together will eventually separate one day. Instead of facing the pain of separation, it would be better not to start at all."
Li Zhihan tilted his head and said, "Although that's what I said, it would be a pity if I didn't start.
In my opinion, even if we know that we will eventually separate, at least there was a happy process in the middle. This process is a very meaningful thing in life.
At least I have experienced it, experienced this person from the person you love to the person you hate extremely in the end, and then separated peacefully, then I will feel no regrets.
Although it will indeed be painful for a period of time in the end, this pain will also make you remember, know what you really need in a relationship, and avoid getting into trouble again. "
"So you've been in a lot of relationships." Zhang Ziqing asked casually.
"Of course, my charm is no joke. The boys who have followed my sister since childhood can form two football teams." Li Zhihan counted on his fingers, "About six. ?Seven? Six, maybe. One of them is not very formal and can’t be counted.”
Zhang Ziqing had no idea about these, so he just nodded, "That's indeed a lot."
"I was young at that time. Let's talk to those little boys to pass the time. While I'm still young, I can talk a few more times to find the feeling of love. I can save some stories of my youth and tell them to my children later." At this point , Li Zhihan paused for a moment, and said with a strange expression: "But at that time, we were in love, but we didn't do anything. Being able to hold hands with me was their biggest reward."
Hearing Li Zhihan's words, Zhang Ziqing's hands holding the food paused slightly, and he raised his eyes to glance at Li Zhihan. Although there was no expression on his face, Li Zhihan could tell at a glance that Zhang Ziqing did not believe her words.
"You don't believe me! I am very pure in love." Li Zhihan raised his head and said angrily: "I have never let a boy take advantage of me since I was a child...except for this scumbag Chen Hao."
Zhang Ziqing nodded, "I believe it."
"real?"
"Yeah, really."
