Chapter 25: The Twenty-Seventh Birthday
Xiao Wu returned to the table with the waiter who served the food.
The breath-in-breathing chat just now was temporarily interrupted, and a few chopsticks began to eat first.
Xiao Wu once again became the one who talked the most, and he chatted with Xu Jiandong a lot and asked a lot, and the chat atmosphere was quite good.
It was rare for Xiang Huan to see Xu Jiandong talking like this, and he listened to it quite devotedly unconsciously, and laughed along from time to time.
Only Cheng Ye, who has been eating slowly, basically doesn't speak.
When Xiao Wu took the initiative to add Xu Jiandong WeChat, he was refused.
The atmosphere was awkward again.
"I'm sorry, I don't have anyone on WeChat, and I don't want to add anyone." Xu Jiandong refused very calmly.
Xiao Wu laughed dryly, said that it was okay, it was okay, and walked away again by going to the toilet.
As soon as he left, the dinner table fell silent.
Cheng Ye sandwiched a piece of pork ribs, gnawed it in his mouth very gently, and suddenly asked with a unclear pronunciation.
"What do you call us?" He asked Xu Jiandong.
Xu Jiandong replied with two words, look at you.
Xiang Huan had a toothache when he heard this, thought about the age of these two, and said that Xu Jiandong was two years older than Chengye.
"Oh, so I should call him brother, right, then I'll call him Brother Xu from now on." Cheng Ye picked up Xiang Huan's words.
immediately shouted at Xu Jiandong.
Xu Jiandong glanced at Xiang Huan, and after agreeing, he didn't say how he would call Cheng Ye in the future.
After Xiao Wu came back, Cheng Ye began to join the chat and began to communicate with Xu Jiandong.
The conversation revolves around coffee.
Xu Jiandong said that when he was in Lincheng, he often visited some small coffee shops and met some friends who were baristas.
Xiao Wu was asking if he still had contact with those people, but Cheng Ye suddenly asked as well.
But he asked something else.
"Xiang Huan likes to drink coffee, where did you often go together before? I went back to Lincheng and tried it too. ”
Xiang Huan's heart jumped.
When she first met Xu Jiandong, she often went to the coffee shop together, and she sat all day.
In the end, I decided to get married, also in a coffee shop.
"The one I go to often, I don't open it when I leave, but she really loves coffee." Xu Jiandong said and looked at Xiang Huan.
After eating a meal for almost two hours, Xu Jiandong looked at the time and said that he had to leave and went back to work in the forest farm.
"Delay Brother Xu a little longer, I still have nothing to say." Chengye seemed to have just entered the state, and just remembered the purpose of today's meal.
Xu Jiandong sat still, waiting for Chengye to continue.
But as soon as Narino opened his mouth, a voice suddenly exploded in the originally small talking voice in the hotel, and the location was behind the side of their table.
Xiang Huan was startled and looked at it with disgust.
There were five or six men and women sitting at that table, and the one who was loud just now was a burly middle-aged man, who listened to the accent was a native of the town.
It should be that you have drunk too much, and you will always encounter this number when eating out.
The people at the same table got up to persuade the middle-aged man, but they heard the middle-aged man crying, and the cry was a little indescribable.
Xiao Wu frowned when he heard this, muttering to himself, what is a man crying outside.
He actually didn't have a loud voice, but somehow he was heard by the middle-aged man who was howling, and he turned his head and stared at him with round eyes.
"Who just said, what is a man crying outside! Who! The middle-aged man's face was staggered with tears.
Cheng Ye sat with his eyes down, Xu Jiandong raised his eyes to look at the middle-aged man, and neither of them made a sound.
Xiang Huan also furrowed his brows.
Xiao Wu put down his chopsticks and stood up, laughed at the middle-aged man twice, and said that he said it.
"Damn, you little deflated calf still dare to admit it, you give it here, come here!" The middle-aged man's voice raised several times, pointing at Xiao Wu and shouting.
Seeing that the conflict was about to intensify, the shopkeeper came out to play a round, and a few people from the middle-aged man's table also came over, wanting to pull people back.
Cheng Ye and Xu Jiandong still sat steadily, as if they had nothing to do with themselves.
Xiang Huan stood up and said to the middle-aged man, big brother, I'm sorry, my friend didn't mean anything else, and he was angry.
The middle-aged man tilted his head and saw that it was a beautiful woman apologizing to himself, his eyes rolled, and he sat down on the empty chair next to him.
I thought he was going to do something, but a circle of people heard a louder cry.
Xiang Huan pushed Cheng Ye down, and his eyes signaled that he was saying something.
Naruno raised his eyes to look at her, his face couldn't see anything, and he was still sitting.
The middle-aged man sat next to Naruno with his big hands on his face, and muttered a person's name in his mouth, which sounded like a woman's name.
Xiao Wu stared at his face full of confusion.
He asked the others who came with him, "No, what do you mean!" You're all together, what's going on! ”
Someone sighed and stepped forward to explain to Xiao Wu, saying that the middle-aged man had really drunk too much, because today was his only daughter's birthday.
Twenty-seventh birthday.
The man said and looked at Xiang Huan, "If that girl is alive, she will be about the same age as this beauty." ”
After listening to this, Xiao Wu scolded in a low voice in annoyance, and then looked at the eyes of the painful middle-aged man.
Xu Jiandong and Chengye also stood up and looked at the middle-aged man.
No one could have imagined that things would go this way.
Xiang Huan walked around Cheng Ye to the middle-aged man, took out a tissue and handed it over, and called Uncle at someone.
The one who explained just now saw Xiang Huan coming, and went on to say that the middle-aged man's daughter died ten years ago and was burned to death.
"You outsiders, if it were in our town, you must know about the fire, and several people died, miserable......"
"Just the original song and dance hall, the girl went to play and never came out again, leaving her father a ......"
Xiang Huan clenched the tissue bag in his hand, stared at Cheng Ye out of the corner of his eye, and his heart jumped up faster.
When the middle-aged man heard his friend's words, he cried even more, but he didn't bother with Xiao Wu anymore, and was finally helped out of the hotel by his friends.
Xiao Wu also went out with him to see him off, and when he came back, he had a broken face and looked at Cheng Ye with an uneasy look.
After listening to the words of the people who were burned by the fire, Narino sat down again and said nothing.
Xiang Huan couldn't sit still, she followed Xiao Wu out with her front and back feet, but she didn't step forward to talk directly to the middle-aged man.
After seeing the middle-aged man get in the car and leave, Xiang Huan slowly turned around and almost collided with Xu Jiandong behind him.
"It's okay." Xu Jiandong helped Xiang Huan and pulled her to stand under the tree next to the hotel.
Xiang Huan took a deep breath, closed his eyes and tried to calm himself down quickly.
"It's good that no one recognized him." Xu Jiandong's voice sounded faintly in his ears.
Xiang Huan opened his eyes and raised his hand to cover the intense sunlight shining through the gaps in the leaves.
She didn't even think about it just now, and after hearing that the fire had killed people, it was almost blank and completely broken.
"Go see him, I won't go in, I'll get in touch later." Xu Jiandong's voice rang in his ears again.
Xiang Huan walked back to the hotel and saw that Cheng Ye had an extra bottle of liquor in his hand.
Because of this episode, many people in the hotel began to talk about the fire ten years ago.
"Let's go, get up." Xiang Huan went over and wanted to pull Cheng Ye up and leave quickly.
Narino didn't move.
His head hung down and he said to Xiang Huan, "Let me listen." ”