Chapter 10: Family Gatherings
After a meal, Zhang Lan and Li Ci chatted for a while, and finally had to leave first because there were some things that needed to be dealt with, and they did not forget to take away the garbage that Li Ci had piled up for a few days.
One afternoon Li Ci spent quickly playing with his mobile phone. After taking a shower and changing clothes, Li Ci went out and called a Didi, and the private car drove slowly on the road.
"So blocked?" Li Ci looked through the window at the surrounding cars parked.
The driver said, "Young man, this is your first time in Xifu City! That's pretty good, when there was no traffic restriction, it was called a block! If you give you a Lamborghini, you won't be able to get a bicycle as fast." ”
"It's the first time I've come to Hangzhou, right?
"Don't you have to wait long and the road won't be so blocked, why are you in a hurry?"
Li Ci shook his head and said, "No! go have a meal, it's not too embarrassing to let them wait too long." ”
The driver turned his head and glanced at Li Ci, quite surprised, and said, "That place is a villa area, it is not rich, local tyrants are everywhere, and the young man has not seen that you are also a person with a background." ”
Li Ci didn't explain, and opened the topic and chatted with the driver.
It took nearly half an hour longer than expected for Li Ci to arrive at Zhang Lan's home.
Zhang Lan repeated many times in Li Ci's place, Li Ci came over tonight, and Li Ci naturally couldn't refuse.
The door opened, Zhang Lan looked at Li Ci standing at the door, and said with a smile, "Xiao Ci is here, you can change the slippers by yourself, there is fruit in the living room, you sit first, and my aunt will cook the vegetables first." ”
Li Ci sat on the sofa, and the coffee table next to him was full of various fruits. Zhang Lan found a lot of peel crumbs in Li Ci's house, so she guessed that Li Ci liked to eat fruits, so she specially bought all kinds of fruits. This small behavior can be said to be clear to Li Ci, who has been a person in two lives.
"Xiao Ci, my aunt burned your favorite Dongpo meat for you, you will have to eat more later. Zhang Lan's voice came from the kitchen.
Li Ci nodded, and said, "Hmm!" His eyes swirled around, the whole house was quite Chinese, seemingly unpretentious but everywhere was finely crafted, the best Su wood furniture, the playthings made of red sandalwood, the white and flawless jade Buddha, the ancient and majestic bonsai, all of which penetrated the beauty of luxury.
The door was opened, and a man and a woman entered. The man is young and strong and quite majestic, and the woman Zhong Lingyuxiu is full of vitality. The two were not surprised to see Li Ci, and smiled at Li Ci.
Li Ci stood up, and according to the memory in his mind, he called out, "Hello Uncle Bai!" looked at the woman next to him, paused, and said, "Hello!"
Bai Qiangguo looked at Li Ci for a while and said, "Not bad, not bad." After so many years, your Aunt Lan has always thought that you are still there, worried that you are hungry and tired, and now it seems that it is completely unfounded. Now that you're back, your Aunt Lan is also considered to be a piece of heart. You have made Aunt Lan worry about you for so long, and today you have to make amends to Aunt Lan. ”
"Hmm!" Li Ci nodded.
"Xiao Su, haven't you been pestering Xiao Ci before? Why, you didn't see each other for many years?" Bai Qiangguo saw Bai Su standing aside, indifferent, and reminded him loudly.
Bai Su glanced at Li Ci and said, "Who is pestering him, hello, long time no see." Dad, I'll go to the bedroom first. ”
Bai Guoqiang looked at Bai Su's departing back, and shook his head helplessly, "The little girl has grown up, and she doesn't listen to me much anymore." Don't mind it, she doesn't know how happy she is when she hears the news that you're back. ”
Li Ci smiled, will the girl be happy? Li Ci didn't believe it very much. Since going to school, Li Ci has been Bai Su's nightmare, and Li Ci has been crushing Bai Su in the existence of morality, intelligence, physical fitness, and labor, and naturally Li Ci has also become a child of other families in Bai Su's eyes. Especially during Li Ci's four years in Bai Su's house, he robbed Bai Guoqiang and Zhang Lan of at least seventy percent of their love for Bai Su.
Born excellent, I'm ashamed.
"Xiao Ci, how are you? After the car accident, the salvage team didn't find you for three days, and your Aunt Lan didn't close her eyes for three days, you kid......!
"Guoqiang, what are you talking to Xiao Ci about doing this?" Zhang Lan's blaming voice came from the kitchen, "Can't Xiao Ci say something happy when he comes back? ”
"Okay, okay, I won't say it. Bai Guoqiang immediately changed the topic and said, "To be honest, Uncle and Aunt Lan are very grateful to you, if you hadn't pushed Xiao Su away at the beginning, it would have been Xiao Su who was knocked into the river." Xiao Su's life was saved by you. ”
Li Ci shook his head and said, "I have always regarded Xiao Su as my sister, and my brother should be my sister, just like you take care of me." ”
"Yes, it's all family. ”
The two kept talking, and Li Ci felt a lot more relaxed in their conversation. When talking to Aunt Lan, most of the trivial things in life, everything Li Ci said is fictional, and if you talk too much, you will naturally lose too much, Li Ci has to think twice, but when chatting with Uncle Bai, Li Ci will talk more about Li Ci's future plans, which is completely dependent on himself.
"It's time to eat. Zhang Lan walked to the living room and said, "Where is Xiao Su?"
"I ran into the room and didn't know what to do. Bai Guoqiang said and walked to the second floor, "I'll go and ask her to come down for dinner." ”
Li Ci stood up, held the wine glass in both hands, and said, "Uncle Bai, Aunt Lan, thank you for taking care of you for so many years, if it weren't for you, maybe I would have gone to the orphanage for the rest of my life." Uncle Bai said just now, Aunt Lan, you haven't closed your eyes for three days after my accident, right, it makes you worried. ”
After speaking, Li Ci drank the wine from the wine glass in one gulp.
Zhang Lan's eyes were slightly red, and she said, "It's good that you can come back, after so many years, every time I think of you, I feel sorry for Jiajia, and now that you can come back intact, I also have an explanation for your mother." ”
"Xiao Su, you toast a glass of wine to Xiao Ci. Bai Guoqiang said to Bai Su: "It was Xiao Ci who saved your life. ”
Bai Su looked at Bai Guoqiang, and finally gave in under Bai Guoqiang's majestic expression, poured Sprite into the wine glass, looked at Li Ci, and said respectfully, "Brother Xiaoci, thank you for saving your life." The little woman has nothing to repay, only to be a cow and a horse in the next life, and she has repaid her kindness to your brother. ”
At this moment, Li Ci finally understood what Song Xinsu meant by the words hehe after saying this to Song Xinsu.
"How do you talk like this kid!" Bai Guoqiang said reproachfully, but he couldn't say the sentence that was too heavy, so he had to use chopsticks to knock off the meat that Bai Su was about to take away, and said, "Xiao Ci finally came back, you often eat, leave some for Xiao Ci." As he spoke, he sandwiched the largest piece of meat into Li Ci's bowl, "Xiao Ci, this is Aunt Lan's must, you eat more." ”
Li Ci dodged Bai Su's eyes that he wanted to kill him, and buried his head in the rice. Bai Guoqiang's small action also completely reminded Zhang Lan that all kinds of dishes came to Li Ci's bowl through Zhang Lan's chopsticks, and there were only a few lonely vegetable leaves in Bai Su's bowl.
At this moment, Li Ci seemed to have returned to the age of 8. At that time, Li Ci had just come to Aunt Lan's house, and the little boy's bowl was full of fish and meat, and the little girl glanced at her bowl and then looked at the dishes in the little boy's bowl pitifully.
This time, Bai Su felt like he was back to when he had been abandoned.
Everyone was full of joy at a dinner, and of course Bai Su, the little girl, was excluded.