Chapter 14: European Restaurant
The woman set a stack of paper money on fire and burned it, and I heard the woman giggling at the fire.
Then, she looked up at me and whispered a word.
I didn't understand the words clearly, and I was about to say something, when I saw the woman stand up and walk straight towards me.
Her eyes were fixed on me, and after she left me, she opened the door of the private room next to me.
I also went out, but the scene outside was very different from what I had just done.
At this moment, the corridor outside was gone, replaced by a large dining room.
The European style of decoration is outdated, but it is indeed obviously expensive.
Roman columns, fountains, European-style frescoes, everything, I seem to have made a breakthrough more than ten years ago, when I was a child, and I followed my father to such a restaurant once.
That time, it seemed to be Liang Yuan's birthday, and his father, who was still very rich at the time, held a birthday banquet for him at the best restaurant in Qingshen County.
I was dazzled by the magnificent decoration at that time.
The shop, which seems to be called the "Vienna" Hotel, is also located on Huaihua Street.
I still remember that the proprietress in her forties at the time wore the most fashionable fashion, which at the time was called "fashionable".
Liang Yuan's birthday banquet was held at that time, and a total of more than 20 tables were held.
There are five or six tables in the neighbors in the building.
On the beautifully decorated stage, a group of girls and sons twisted their waists and danced to the rhythm of the music, and Liang Yuan's father drank a little wine and looked at the guests in the hall with a red face.
Liang Yuan sat on his seat and ate, enjoying the glory brought by his father.
People sent him blessings, and he felt that it had nothing to do with him, only what he ate in his mouth was the best thing.
The feast that day was really sumptuous, I had never eaten so many good things, prawns and crabs or something, that was the first time I saw it.
Grandma clipped a crab leg for me, and I gnawed on it for a long time, but I didn't know how to get the meat out of the big tongs.
Next to me, there sat Chef Zheng's family, and Grandma Hu sandwiched chicken legs to Chef Zheng's daughter Zheng Dali, but the girl didn't appreciate it, stared at the crab legs in my bowl and said:
"Good things have been snatched away, what is there to eat in this chicken leg."
Grandma Hu glanced at her husband, Chef Zheng didn't say anything, and ate the meat heavily, as if it was normal for her daughter to scare her wife like this.
While he was eating, the lights suddenly dimmed.
I was stunned, and at this moment, on the other side of the stage, there was happy birthday music.
I saw the proprietress who was the woman I saw in the private room just now, wearing a beautiful dress and pushing a huge cake, came out of the darkness of the stage.
The candles on the cake are like fireworks.
Very eye-catching.
I was sitting far away from the stage, and when I saw this scene, I put down my chopsticks, stood directly on the stool, stretched my neck and looked at the other side of the stage.
The cake was huge, with five layers, and the color on it was very beautiful, and the cream was also thick.
I like to eat cream the most, swallowed saliva.
As the music was remembered, everyone present began to sing, and Liang Yuan was pulled to the center of the stage by his father, and all the spotlight was aimed at him.
He ate with his mouth full of oil, but he didn't know what was happening.
The proprietress stepped forward and asked him to blow out the candles.
Liang Yuan stood aside stupidly, at a loss.
With the help of the people around her, the candle was finally blown out, and then there was a long applause, and Liang Yuan's mother hugged the child and kissed it non-stop. On the huge background cloth, various photos of Liang Yuan from birth to the present are played.
My mother began to cry, and my father was very excited.
I was the happiest because I got a big slice of the cake.
I couldn't finish it alone, and the host said that he could take it back to eat, and I was very happy.
At that time, my dad stepped forward and touched my head, as if he felt a little guilty, he drank a little wine, and after getting slightly drunk, he said to me: "Xiaofan, don't hate your mother, she really didn't deliberately throw your ......"
As soon as he said this, his grandmother interrupted him.
After the banquet, I stood aside and watched as our family of three generations, and after saying goodbye to the host's family, I left with a large box of cream cakes.
Soon, the guests were almost gone.
There were only a few guests left in the hall who were still drinking, and these people seemed to have business dealings with Liang Yuan's father, and the flowers he said couldn't be understood by ordinary people.
My eyes wandered through the finished tables, and I didn't know what I was looking for.
Suddenly, I was stunned.
Because, in an inconspicuous corner, I actually saw a familiar figure, it was a woman, wearing a goose yellow blouse.
That's right, this woman is Xia Hong.
She was eating very seriously, gulping down, completely ignoring that she was almost gone by the side of the mountain, even if she was the only one left at the tables around her.
I looked at her for a while, and I saw that she had eaten almost all the dishes in front of her.
After that, she finally put down her chopsticks.
After pulling out a tissue and wiping it, suddenly, she looked up at me!
Her gaze was cold, and she struggled like a knife.
I couldn't help but shudder.
Just now I was standing here watching everyone eat, and no one noticed me, and the waiter with the plate passed in front of me, also with a blank face.
But at this moment, I was soberly aware.
Xia Hong definitely saw me, and with a provocative gaze, it seemed that she was declaring war on me.
Eventually, she stood up and walked over to me.
Her gaze was still on me, and I began to feel weak, looking around for a place to hide.
I saw Liang Yuan leave with his parents, and the men who had been drinking also dispersed.
I followed and walked in the crowd, Xia Hong was still behind.
She wears white pants over a pair of high heels, but she still walks fast.
Finally, I walked out of the hall and I came to Sophora Street.
Liang Yuan's family was gone, and I looked for them everywhere, but there was no trace of them.
At this moment, there are a lot of people on Huaihua Street, everyone gathered together to look up at the oblique upward, pointing and pointing as if they were saying something.
Standing in the crowd, I followed their gaze and looked up.
I saw the woman, the proprietress of the "Vienna" hotel, sitting on the roof of the second floor of the hotel, and the wind blew and raised the corners of her skirt.
She was wearing an orange dress.
The woman seemed to say something to the people below.
There were too many people for me to hear, and then she poured a bucket of gasoline on herself.
Amid the screams of the crowd, she was engulfed in flames......