The next day, Tang Xiaowan got up very early.
I don't know if it was because of the pills that she didn't dream all night long. She slept soundly until dawn.
There were only her and Li Zihan in the huge restaurant.
Usually Li Zishen would have come down early at this time, but now, the food was all served and no one was around.
Mother Chen's face was not very good, and she seemed to be worried, but this did not affect her work. She did whatever she had to do and arranged everything properly.
"Master Zihan and Miss Tang are all here."
After saying this, Mother Chen bowed and left, leaving only two young men waiting in the restaurant.
I usually wait until the meal is over!
What's wrong with us today? You don't care about us anymore?
Weird and abnormal!
Tang Xiaowan frowned, bit her spoon, paused for a few seconds and looked at Li Zihan who was eating shrimp dumplings: "Hi, where is your brother? Where has he been?"
Although the two of them were sitting across from each other, the table was too wide and Tang Xiaowan's voice was too quiet, so Li Zihan, who was busy enjoying the food, didn't hear what was said and had to put down his chopsticks in confusion.
For a moment, he even mistakenly thought that Tang Xiaowan had an epiphany overnight, figured it out, and was willing to convince Cheng Shi for him to accept him as his disciple.
"Xiaowan, what did you just say?"
"Where's your brother?"
This time the sound was loud enough that even the servants heard it.
"Oh, my brother, he doesn't want to eat today, so don't worry about him. He probably won't eat at night either."
"What, you won't eat at night?"
"Hmm, eat it quickly, these shrimp dumplings are good."
Tang Xiaowan frowned and took a big mouthful of shrimp dumplings: "Well, it's really good. It tastes great."
She suspected that Li Zishen was irritated by paying back the money last night, so she went on a hunger strike today to scare people, so that she would feel guilty and compromise obediently.
"By the way, I will ride in a car with you from today on. Little Black Dragon has gone abroad. It will probably take several days to come back."
Tang Xiaowan almost choked with one sentence.
"Don't you know how to drive?"
"Why don't you want to take me with you?"
"No, no, that's not what I meant. Cheng Shi was driving too fast, and I'm afraid you weren't used to it."
"It's okay, it's better to hurry up."
"Oh, okay, let's go together then."
"It's noon. Let Cheng Shi have dinner with us at noon. It will be more lively with him."
Tang Xiaowan nodded with a half-smile.
I thought to myself, this is too false. Cheng Shi is just a stupid person, and he is more lively. I think you want to learn from his master, which is fine.
You little guy, you actually did this trick with me, so I wish you all the best!
On the way to school, he didn't know if Cheng Shi did it on purpose or if he saw that Tang Xiaowan had a strange look on his face and drove the SUV like a sports car, almost running a red light.
Li Zihan was very excited. Not only did he not complain, but after getting off the car, he praised Cheng Shi fiercely, saying that his driving skills were so good and he drove fast and steady. He even suspected that he was a professional racing driver.
When leaving the complex, Li Zihan deliberately revealed a secret to Tang Xiaowan in order to gain her trust and enhance friendship.
"Actually, if my brother doesn't eat, it's not because he has no appetite, but because he misses someone."
"Who is she? Is she an ex-girlfriend? Has your brother been abandoned before?" Tang Xiaowan asked with a hint of gossip.
"No, he doesn't have any ex-girlfriends. He only has one girlfriend like you."
"Oh, why is that?"
Li Zihan looked around for a week, and then said seriously: "This has been his old habit. Every year on September 12th, my brother will go on a hunger strike for a day in order to commemorate an old friend for my father."
"It can't be your father's ex-girlfriend, right?"
Li Zihan: "..."
"Have you read too many novels? Why are you thinking so much about your ex-girlfriend?"
Tang Xiaowan suddenly realized that she probably shouldn't bring up the matter in front of Li Zihan. After all, it was the deceased elder or his father, so she quickly explained: "I'm sorry, mainly because I heard your brother talk about it some time ago, saying that your father went to college. I once liked a girl, she was pretty, gentle and lovely, but then the girl was gone, so..."
"If you go to Bieyuan for dinner on Saturday, don't mention it in front of my mother, otherwise the consequences will be serious."
"Oh, I know, I will be jealous."
Li Zihan suddenly frowned and looked at Tang Xiaowan intently: "She has a pretty face, gentle and lovely? Tell me honestly, has my brother shown you a photo? Is she really beautiful? What does she look like?"
"No, I just made a wild guess based on your brother's description. I think it should be very beautiful, right?"
"I don't know, maybe."
Li Zihan's voice was low and a bit hoarse, and his eyes were full of helplessness.
The person who was so active just now suddenly became much quieter, which made Tang Xiaowan couldn't help but blame herself and regretted saying those words of praise.
In fact, this had nothing to do with her at all. Li Zihan was just feeling sorry for his mother.
In his young memory, when his father was alive, he was preoccupied with a female classmate named Yi, but he ignored his wife, Mrs. Li, and even let her live as a widow for many years and was criticized by others.
It is said that Liyuan is a safe haven, but it gets too noisy when there are too many people.
But why can my brother move there? However, I and my mother could only live in Nanjiang Villa. When I wanted to see my father, I had to go to Liyuan Study Room or the office building.
For a period of time, Li Zihan even suspected that he was a wild child picked up from the trash can, so his father did not love him and was unwilling to sleep with him, let alone play games with him.
Until one day when I had a high fever and I heard a conversation, it turned out that his father loved him very much, but he just didn't love his mother.
Since then, Li Zihan has often caught colds.
As long as he gets sick, his mother, Mrs. Li, will be very happy, his father, Li Zhenshan, will be very worried, and his brother, Li Zishen, will go to Bieyuan to accompany him and tell him stories.
It's just that the happy days were short-lived. Not long after, Li Zhenshan died in a car accident.
That year, Li Zihan was only five years old.
"Zihan, Zihan."
Tang Xiaowan shouted several times before Li Zihan broke free from the memories and smiled reluctantly.
He looked embarrassed like a child who had made a mistake.
"Zihan, are you okay?"
"Why are you looking at me like this? What can happen to me? Okay, let's go. See you at noon."
"Okay, see you at the same place."
Li Zihan nodded, ran away with a smile, but the moment he turned around, there were a few tears in his bright phoenix eyes.
"Young man, you ran away pretty fast!" Tang Xiaowan touched her nose, then looked up at the sky, "Fool, don't be sad. At least you still have a father to think about and a mother to call to. What about me? Even my parents are If no one knows, wouldn’t it make us cry like a sea?”
After Tang Xiaowan laughed at herself, she hummed a little tune and left. She was bouncing along the way, very joyful, still in the same tune, and still smiling.
"La la la, la la la, la la la la la; la la la, la la la, la la la la la..."
