Chapter 5: Strange Diseases

Anjia restaurant is not a star-rated hotel, just an ordinary restaurant, a hall with more than a dozen large or small round tables, a few chairs and stools around a table is a table, and then open with a hollow screen style around it, a typical Chinese style.

After finding a table by the window and sitting down, Zhang Xuan turned his head to look around, and found that the appearance of Anjia Restaurant and his memory did not seem to have changed much, and even the position of the table and chair had not moved in the slightest.

& Alex, do you know this place well? Steve put aside Bucky, who was still pestering him and hoping that he would make up more, turned his head to look at Zhang Xuan and asked casually.

& I lived here for seven or eight years. Zhang Xuan had very little memory of this place, so he changed the topic after saying a word, "It will take some time for Chinese food to be made, we may have to wait a little longer!" ”

& Things, don't be in a hurry, walk a few streets to Stark Industrial Park, and you won't delay anything. Bucky said casually, and took a look of wonder at his surroundings.

& Xuan, come and taste the wine made by grandma, it has been stored for almost 20 years! As she spoke, Mrs. An walked slowly with a cane in one hand and a dark brown and quaint clay bottle in the other, with a happy smile on her wrinkled face.

Looking at the carved vase in Grandma An's hand, another series of pictures appeared in Zhang Xuan's mind, and childhood memories flowed out like water from a faucet.

& Is it Huadiao wine? Zhang Xuan took a few steps forward, picked up Grandma An, took the wine bottle, and said excitedly.

Mrs. An sat beside Zhang Xuan with a smile, watched Zhang Xuan impatiently pat the sealing mud on the wine bottle, squinted and said: "I still remember when you were seven years old, you were less than the height of the table, so you secretly ran into my wine cellar to steal wine and drink, and you were so drunk that your mother was easy to find." When I went back, I was beaten up by you......"

The stories that Alex forgot about were slowly told by Mrs. An, with the dust of history, telling the absurd and beautiful life of Alex in his childhood.

The more Zhang Xuan listened, the more embarrassed he became, he turned his head to look at Steve and Bucky opposite, and found that the two were looking at him with a confused face, and he secretly breathed a sigh of relief: "Fortunately, they don't understand Huaxia, otherwise it will be too big!" ”

> More than ten years have passed, Huiru is gone, and you have grown up! Before I knew it, the dishes had already been put on the table, and Mrs. An sighed, with the old man's unique feelings, "Your mother knows everything, and you can rest assured." ”

>> Eat quickly! With a sigh, Mrs. An immediately regained her spirits, pointed to the table full of dishes and greeted, "Ah Xuan, let your friends not sit still, eat while it's hot!" ”

Zhang Xuan calmed down, looked at the two people who were already drooling on the other side, grabbed the chopsticks on the table, and greeted with a smile: "Can these chopsticks be used?" Can't I change your knives and forks? ”

Steve and Bucky looked at each other, shook their heads and said resolutely, "No! After speaking, he took a closer look at Zhang Xuan's movements, and then stretched out his hand to the chopsticks on the table, but the movements of the two were very funny, fortunately, they could grasp the chopsticks steadily, but it was a little difficult to pick up the dishes.

Zhang Xuan didn't speak, poured a full glass of wine for the two of them, and then stopped caring about the two of them, poured a glass for himself and Grandma An, and asked in a low voice: "Grandma An, you said before that my mother had a strange disease, why didn't I know?" After all, Zhang Xuan still didn't hold back the doubts in his heart and asked. If you don't ask for a clear understanding, Zhang Xuan won't be at ease at this meal.

Mrs. An was stunned for a while, and was silent for a while before she spoke: "Huiru hasn't told you, she just doesn't want you to know!" ”

>> Grandma, just tell me, I can't even know how my mother died! Alex remembers his mother's death as sudden and without warning. Zhang Xuan didn't know about it before, but after hearing that she had a strange disease, he immediately realized that her death was likely to be related to this disease.

&If it's really a poor person, I first met a negative person, leaving you two without any news, and just let her have such a strange disease again, God is unfair! As she spoke, Mrs. An tapped the cane in her hand, making a crisp sound on the bluestone floor, "A good girl like Huiru, why are there so many disasters!" ”

Listening to Grandma An's resentful shout, Zhang Xuan didn't feel a blockage in his heart, and a breath of anger was condensed in his chest, and he wanted to vent it.

On the other side, Steve and Bucky also stopped, looking at Zhang Xuan and Mrs. An, who looked wrong, and wanted to say something, but unfortunately the two didn't know what Zhang Xuan and Mrs. An said, so they could only watch in a daze.

& Grandma, what is the disease? Can't be cured? "Although the medical technology of 1940 was not as advanced as in the 21st century, many diseases are no longer incurable, and there are not many that can be called terminal.

& They say that Huiru is a monster, but I know that it is a disease, a disease that cannot be cured. Mrs. An's eyes gradually moistened, and there was deep guilt in her cloudy eyes, "They want to drive Huiru out, I persuaded them, but they didn't agree." Evil, this foreign country, without the care of the villagers, how many sins do you two have to suffer! ”

Listening to Grandma An's words that the cow's head was not in the horse's mouth, Zhang Xuan was completely stunned, didn't he say that he was sick, why did he still talk about monsters?

& Grandma, what the hell is going on? What is my mother's disease? Zhang Xuan was a little anxious.

>> I don't know. Old Mrs. An shook her head full of white hair, and her old face was full of horror, "The golden scales on her face are like fish scales, and they look terrifying!" ”

& At first, no one found out, but then I didn't know who saw it, and the whole neighborhood knew about it. Then they said that Huiru was the reincarnation of a monster, which would bring disaster, and she must be driven away. As she spoke, Mrs. An raised her hand to wipe the tears flowing from the corners of her eyes, "I persuaded them and stopped them, but they just didn't agree, and they had to drive you two away!" I really can't help it! ”

& Scales? Zhang Xuan was stunned when he heard this, he didn't believe in any monsters, and he didn't think that this was really a disease. This is the Marvel world, and he thought of a possibility.

Looking at Grandma An, who was crying silently, Zhang Xuan came back to his senses, gently patted his back and whispered: "Grandma An, my mother won't blame you." After we left Chinatown, we didn't suffer any crimes, we lived well, we were happy, so don't blame yourself! ”

It's not that Zhang Xuan comforted Mrs. An, she really did it, and this is what Zhang Xuan admires most about her. What a great and hardworking mother a woman with a child, who raised the child with her own hands, provided for him to go to school, and saved an apartment for him!

After a long period of persuasion, Mrs. An's mood finally eased up, and she left slowly on crutches with Uncle An's support. Looking at Grandma An, who was gradually moving away, Zhang Xuan thought to herself that her words must be able to reduce the guilt in her heart.

&&Lex, what were you guys talking about? Why are you crying? Seeing Mrs. Ann walk away, Steve couldn't help but be curious and asked.

& What, just talking about things when I was a child, the elderly are easily emotional and cry! Zhang Xuan found an excuse to fool the past, otherwise the two of them asked again, and hurriedly beckoned the two of them to hurry up and eat vegetables, "Are you used to eating Huaxia cuisine?" ”

Steve and Bucky didn't care too much when they saw Zhang Xuan's explanation, nodded and said seriously: "Huaxia cuisine, it's really delicious!" ”

& Eat more! Zhang Xuan laughed when he heard this, moved his chopsticks like flying, and kept serving vegetables to the two of them, but he was thinking about Mrs. An's words in his heart.

&Do I know if I have the X gene in my body too? ”