Chapter 54: Pig's Trotter Soup
"You're so afraid of me?" Xi Xinghe pulled his hand out of Tong Wan's back.
Tong Wan just stared at him innocently with the corner of the quilt, and didn't answer for a long time.
"Dumb?" Xi Xinghe didn't like to see Tong Wan pretending to be stupid the most, especially her pitiful eyes that knew everything but still pretended.
"Nope." Tong Wan blinked and continued to guard against Xi Xinghe like a wolf.
Seeing this, Xi Xinghe only felt bored, straightened out the shirt that had been wrinkled because he hugged Tong Wan, and sighed angrily, "It's really a wood." ”
"What ...... you say?" Tong Wan turned his head and asked.
"Nothing." Xi Xinghe turned his head lazily, raised his feet and was about to walk out.
With a thud, the door was mercilessly slammed shut.
Tong Wan was about to breathe a sigh of relief, but the door was pushed open again, revealing only Xi Xinghe's perennial iceberg-like side face.
"If you don't want to starve to death, remember to tell your aunt in advance what you want to eat."
"Auntie?" Tong Wan stretched out her head and looked at the door, "What aunt?" ”
"Aunt Cooking, of course." Xi Xinghe didn't bother to explain to her at all, reluctantly closed the door, and said loudly while going downstairs, "The food I cook is poisonous, I'm afraid that if you continue to eat, your life will be gone!" ”
“……”
Tong Wan listened to the sound that was getting farther away, and slowly retracted his head into the quilt.
He...... I don't think I'm in love with myself, right......?
Just as I was thinking about it, my phone rang suddenly.
Sitting up from the bed, Tong Wan picked up the mobile phone on the bedside table and glanced at it, and the screen displayed a string of text messages from an unfamiliar number, "The money has been received, thank you." ”
Tong Wan almost didn't have to think about it to know who this person was, hesitated for a moment, but still replied to him, "I hope this is the last time." ”
After waiting for a while, the mobile phone didn't ring again, Tong Wan exhaled, got out of bed, and walked to the bay window with slippers.
The air conditioner in the room was so heated that there was even a faint mist on the window, Tong Wan sighed and wiped a clear vision with his sleeve.
It was the first time she had stood by the window to look at the scenery since she lived in the villa, so much so that she now realized that the temperature outside the window had dropped so much.
Winter is coming.
Tong Wan opened the weather APP on her mobile phone, and the AI voice assistant gently reminded her in an extremely temperatureless voice that there would be light snow tonight, and she should pay attention to the cold when she goes out.
Tong Wan looked up at the gray sky, only to feel that his stomach was suddenly a little empty.
Downstairs, there was really an aunt in the kitchen with an apron who was busy driving back, and when she heard Tong Wan coming downstairs, she quickly wiped her hands on the apron and greeted her with a smile.
"Miss Tong, what do you want to eat tonight? Mr. Xi said that you just came back from the hospital and avoid spicy, heavy oil and salt, I thought if I should cook you a bowl of lean porridge? ”
The enthusiasm of the middle-aged aunt made Tong Wan a little overwhelmed, and she nodded at her embarrassedly, "It's okay." ”
After speaking, he didn't forget to ask politely, "By the way, Auntie, what should I call you?" ”
"Oh! My name is Wu Ying, my hometown is Chaozhou, you can call me Aunt Wu, Aunt Wu is fine! ”
"Okay, then I'll call you Aunt Wu, be kind." Tong Wan smiled at Aunt Wu, walked straight to her side, looked left and right, and then said, "Is there anything I can do for you?" ”
"Hey! Don't! You did this! Go and rest! Later, if Mr. Xi sees it, it will be distressing! ”
Aunt Wu saw that Tong Wan picked up a handful of garlic seedlings and was about to peel them, so she hurriedly took the garlic seedlings over, and while shouting "Amitabha", she insisted on pushing Tong Wan directly out, "These are my internal affairs, Miss Tong's kindness, Aunt Wu understands it!" ”
Tong Wan saw that Aunt Wu insisted on not wanting her to help, so she had to retreat from the kitchen.
Bored, I walked to the sofa in the living room, picked up a miscellaneous book on the coffee table, and slowly lay down on the sofa while turning the pages.
……
When Tong Wan woke up again, the crystal lamp in the living room had already lit up.
"Aunt Wu, what time is it?"
Tong Wan rubbed her eyes in a daze, called Aunt Wu a few times in succession, but no one answered, and was curious about to get up, when she saw Aunt Wu running in from the door in a hurry when she was halfway through the slippers.
"Miss Tong, look what this is!"
Aunt Wu excitedly trotted all the way to the sofa, and her two hands suddenly opened, revealing the fluffy white on her palm.
"Next...... Snow?! ”
Tong Wan stretched out her finger in surprise and poked the small snowball.
However, Aunt Wu was obviously more excited than her.
"That's right! It's snow! It's the first time I've seen snow when I'm so big! It's beautiful! ”
Aunt Wu said as she carefully sent the small snowball to Tong Wan's hand, "Miss Tong also went out to take a look, it's beautiful!" ”
After speaking, he didn't forget to put the wool shawl on the sofa on Tong Wan's shoulders gently, "Mr. also explained, if Miss Tong wants to go out to see the snow, remember to wear more." ”
"Sir really cares about Miss Tong."
Aunt Wu smiled, and her dark skin had the unique simplicity of the Chaoxiang people.
Tong Wan smiled faintly at her, wrapped her shawl tightly, and walked towards the door.
As soon as she pushed the door open, a clammy cold air split her head and covered her face, and she pretended to be full of it.
Tong Wan shuddered, poked his head out, and slowly stretched his feet out.
A gust of wind that was not too fierce, blowing a few clusters of fluttering snowflakes, fell on Tong Wan's forehead, and before he could wipe it, it quickly turned into water.
A thin layer of white veil had fallen on the open space under the steps of the gate, and it looked like it had just come down.
Tong Wan took out her mobile phone from her pocket, planning to take a picture of this year's early winter snow.
As soon as I pressed the flash, I saw Jiang Da's call suddenly flashing on the screen.
"Tong Wan? Where are you now? The landlord says you've moved? ”
Jiang Da's tone on the other end of the phone was a little eager.
"Well, I haven't been moving for long, so I haven't had time to tell you yet."
Tong Wan replied gently, maybe it was because she hadn't eaten for a day, she felt that she was very tired now.
"And where do you live now? I'll go look for you. ”
"...... now?" Tong Wan suddenly felt a shadow drifting behind her, and when she turned around, she found that Xi Xinghe was standing behind her at some point, and was looking at her intently.
"Present...... At...... It may not be very convenient......" For a moment, Tong Wan actually had a feeling of cheating out of thin air.
"Do you have a problem?" Jiang Da felt that Tong Wan's tone was a little strange at this moment.
"Still not so convenient......?" He then asked.
"Oh, it's okay, it's just ......" Tong Wan looked at Xi Xinghe again, "It's just that I'm not at home now, next time......"
"Oh......" Jiang Da's heart was a little lost.
"It's a shame." After a pause, he added, "Do you see the snow outside?" ”
"Hmm." Tong Wan responded.
"I remember when I was a child, you liked snow days the most, and every time it snowed heavily, you would pester me to secretly go to the playground to build a snowman." Jiang Da laughed a little stupidly, "Once I was almost caught by the dean, and you were so scared that you lay directly in the snowdrift...... My clothes and pants are all soaked...... Haha......"
Jiang Da couldn't help but sigh in his heart as he spoke.
The memories that originally belonged to him and Tong Wan did not seem to fade as they grew up, on the contrary, Jiang Da at this moment seemed to feel that the scene was like yesterday.
Jiang Da talked to himself for a long time, and by the time he pulled the subject of the call back to reality again, the snow had stopped.
Looking at the white and vast silver earth, Jiang Da suddenly fell silent.
After a long time, he finally let out a long sigh of relief and moved his phone to the other side.
"Tong Wan, in fact, there is a sentence, I have wanted to ask you for a long time?" Jiang Da's breathing became a little short, "Actually, I've been ......"
"Do you want to eat......
Xi Xinghe's voice floated coldly from behind, Tong Wan turned his head sharply and made a silent gesture at him, and quickly covered his phone tighter.
"Who? It's so nervous. Xi Xinghe stared at Tong Wan's mobile phone suspiciously, unable to understand why Tong Wan reacted so violently.
And Jiang Da on the other end of the phone seemed to have heard the male voice that seemed to be deliberately said to himself, and the words that almost fell out of his mouth suddenly choked in his throat.
"Are you with Xi Xinghe?" Jiang Da's tone was surprised and indescribable.
“…… Well. ”
Now that he has discovered it, Tong Wan simply doesn't plan to hide it from him anymore.
"Actually, I ...... moved to his house...... But don't worry, I paid the rent. ”
Tong Wan quickly explained to Jiang Da, for fear that he would misunderstand something.
"Why don't you discuss it with me?" Jiang Da showed rare unhappiness.
Tong Wan was thinking about how to explain to Jiang Da that things were not what he thought, but before the words were organized, the mobile phone was suddenly snatched by Xi Xinghe.
"Hey! Give me back my mobile phone-" Tong Wan reached out to grab it, but Xi Xinghe directly circled her in his arms with his other hand, and then said extremely impatiently to Tong Wan's mobile phone, "She is going to eat now, if you have anything to say, let's talk about it after eating." ”
After speaking, he decisively pressed the hang up button and stuffed the phone into his pocket.
"What are you doing!"
Tong Wan looked at him speechlessly, but the movements in his hands did not stop, and he pulled Xi Xinghe's arm straight out.
"What's wrong with letting you eat?" Xi Xinghe threw her an indifferent look, "Starve you to death." ”
Letting go of his hand, he walked inside.
Tong Wan stood behind and gave him a vicious look, but her uncompetitive stomach had been wailing for a while, so she had to endure her dissatisfaction with Xi Xinghe, and decided that it was not too late to eat first and then settle the account.
"Pig's trotter soup is coming!"
In the kitchen, as soon as Tong Wan sat down, she saw Aunt Wu walking out with a steaming casserole with a spring breeze on her face.
"This was specially instructed by Mr. Xi, and it was stewed for eight hours! Miss Tong, hurry up and try it! ”
Aunt Wu greeted Tong Wan while serving soup to Tong Wan.
Tong Wan sat in the corner of the table, looking at the white and tender pig's trotter soup in front of her, and then at Xi Xinghe, who was sitting opposite her and eating porridge slowly, she couldn't be dreaming......