Chapter 66(1/2)
While the two were talking in the car, Jiang Fang replaced Xu Qiao's seat in the restaurant, asked the waiter to clean up the food residue, took a pair of new dishes, and pityedly rinsed the remaining half of the beef on the table.
The Cheng family has done the aftermath with great efficiency and the restaurant has returned to order.
Jiang Fang should have left, but he failed because of Cheng Lang's explanation of "Take care for her friends".
Although he felt that the two ladies on the other side looked very independent and self-reliant, they were not "scamned" girls at all, and they didn't need his care at all.
Then he will take care of his hungry stomach.
Zhu Li and Yu Jin had already eaten all the time. They certainly would not refuse Jiang Fang's humble request to "eat me some leftovers", but seeing the person on the other side looked like a starving ghost, they were still stunned.
"Didn't you eat?" Zhu Li and Jiang Fang had a relationship with each other in the bar last year. They were a little familiar with each other and took the initiative to talk to him.
"Do you think Lang always seems to be a person who can eat?" Jiang Fang replied while sautifying the meat, "I'm sorry for my family that I can't go home during the Chinese New Year, so I'll give up my stomach to accompany the gentleman."
"Oh," Zhu Li nodded, "I can't tell that you men are so fucked."
Jiang Fang sighed and shook his head: "I was going to go back to China yesterday, but I was pulled by Mr. Lang to drink. I thought I couldn't catch up with the plane. I told my family, "Good guy, when my father heard that I was accompanying Mr. Lang, he issued a death order and said that if I couldn't serve Mr. Lang, I would break my legs if I dared to go home for the New Year."
"..." Then your father is really far-sighted and understands human investment.
Jiang Fang looked at the two people on the other side and choked, took a few bites, remembered something, and asked Zhu Li: "Then do you mean at home?"
Zhu Li wanted to say that her relationship with his plastic brotherhood was different. When he spoke, he was too lazy to say pretentious words. He shrugged and said, "Accompany Koi, accumulate character, and ask for wealth in the coming year."
Jiang Fang put down his chopsticks, looked "lucky and lucky" and raised his wine glass: "We are both people who have fallen into the world."
Zhu Li twitched his lips, picked up the wine glass and touched him casually.
The river put a glass of wine down and continued to sweep away the remaining clouds.
Yu Jin looked at the car downstairs that had not moved for a long time and asked Zhu Li in a low voice: "It seems that he will make up?"
As soon as Cheng Lang and Xu Qiao left, the three of them analyzed and discussed the situation together. Regarding the reasons for the breakup, they guessed a version that agreed with each other - probably Xu Qiao misunderstood what the relationship between Cheng Lang and the "woman" just now, and Cheng Lang was unable to explain this because the other party was actually a man.
Now, the truth is revealed. In the eyes of the three, the problem should be solved.
Before Zhu Li answered, Jiang Fangxian sighed: "If you don't make a reconciliation, I can't go back to this family!"
Zhu Li glanced at him: "Who told you to bully our Koi sister, you deserve it."
"Oh no, I'll say justice..."
Jiang Fang sold Cheng Lang's condition in the past two days and said, "Tonight he was going to go home for the New Year's Eve dinner. After thinking about it, he couldn't worry about Xu Qiao. I said, "You use some tricks to get people home. He refused, saying that he didn't want to force her with any money and power halo on him. I said, go find her, and then we came here. As a result, he found out about your dining table number and asked the waiter to arrange a seat for him that he could see you but would not be seen by you."
Jiang Fang looked convinced: "Isn't this sick? I asked him what he was doing? He said he wanted to see Xu Qiao, but he didn't want her to eat because of her own appearance."
Zhu Li and Yu Jin were also shocked.
Isn’t this the legendary dog licking? I actually saw a living person in my lifetime, and I was still the president who had a "throne" to inherit from the family.
Jiang Fang's final summary of the lyrics: "To be fair, I have never seen Mr. Lang like this. A man doesn't want all his face and dignity. That's really a sacrifice. Don't be too harsh."
Zhu Li said "tsk" and it wasn't that he sympathized with Cheng Lang. He felt that both sides were actually affectionate and felt very uncomfortable. He nodded and said, "I hope Mr. Lang can satisfy our Koi sister now."
"I'm afraid that Mr. Lang is so humble now that he dares not act," Jiang Fang put down his chopsticks, "Hey, why don't we give them a fire to help?"
Zhu Li raised his eyebrows: "I don't do such a naive thing."
"How naive is this? Lovers finally get married. How fucking beautiful?"
Jiang Fangba Labala persuaded Zhu Li, and he annoyed him and replied perfunctorily that he would see what happened to them first.
So the three of them stared at the Bentley downstairs outside the window, hoping that the car would go directly - that proved that Cheng Lang had coaxed Xu Qiao.
However, the scene that everyone expected did not appear: ten minutes later, Cheng Lang got out of the car, opened the car door for Xu Qiao, and sent her back to the restaurant.
Zhu Li helped his forehead and Jiang put aside a bowl and chopsticks.
The two of them all looked like "This Spring Festival holiday will have to be spent here, right?"
Three seconds later, Jiang Fang pressed the table and leaned against the opposite side: "Two ladies, please do a favor?"
——
Xu Qiao was sent into the main entrance of the restaurant by Cheng Lang.
The waiter reached out and was about to lead the way for the two of them, but Cheng Lang compared with Xu Qiao with a gesture: "I won't go up anymore, I won't disturb you to have the New Year's Eve dinner."
Xu Qiao looked at him and said "Oh".
He said he would give her time to consider it, and to really change her aggressive style, she was a little uncomfortable.
She touched her nose, walked up the stairs, and after a few steps, she looked back and saw Cheng Lang still in place, frowned at her: "Be careful of the steps."
She held the handrail and said silently: "What, your house is tonight..."
"Don't worry," Cheng Lang smiled, "I've explained it well."
Xu Qiao nodded, as if he wanted to say something, but after thinking about it, he closed his mouth and turned around and went upstairs.
But Yu Jin was left on the dining table.
Jiang Fang's whereabouts were not within Xu Qiao's concern, and she asked, "Where is Zhu Li?"
Yu Jin cleared his throat: "She said it was too unreasonable to go to bed early on New Year's Eve. She went to contact the hotel to open a party room, held a second party later, and was ready to call us over later."
Xu Qiao was still immersed in the stories Cheng Lang had just told, and did not notice that Yu Jin's expression was a little unnatural. He nodded and called out a few bites after the meal. He was so savory that he had eaten or not.
After dinner, Xu Qiao urged Zhu Li to ask for the address. Zhu Li said that it was a bit troublesome to hold a party temporarily at this time, and was still communicating with the hotel, asking her and Yu Jin to go back to the homestay first.
In fact, because of the episode at dinner, Xu Qiao had no intention of having fun tonight, but considering that Zhu Li had been here for more than ten hours, it would be too unwilling to let her stay with her and do nothing, so she agreed.
It was not until after ten o'clock in the evening that Zhu Li finally contacted Xu Qiao and posted a position saying that everything was ready.
Xu Qiao simply cleaned up himself and was about to go out, but received a call from Cheng Lang.
She was stunned for a moment, and kept pulling the door with one hand and answered the phone.
The head Cheng Lang asked blankly: "Are you going to Weirsting?"
"How do you know?" Xu Qiao opened his phone and confirmed the position given by Zhu Li.
Cheng Lang sighed with a headache: "Don't go, take a break early."
"Um?"
"Jiang Fang also suddenly asked me to go there."
“…”
Xu Qiao spent a second to figure out this bloody routine with her toes - Zhu Li and Jiang Fang planned to make an appointment with her and Cheng Lang to the hotel separately, and then both of them retired.
She said why did Zhu Li need to prepare for several hours to have a small party? Is this a sex suite for her and Cheng Lang?
She put her hand on the door handle and said to Yu Jin: "Tell me and Zhu Li, I won't go." Then she turned around and returned to the bedroom with her cell phone.
Because she didn't hang up, Cheng Lang of course kept the phone open.
After the bedroom door was closed, there was only a slight sound of electric current in the earpiece. After a moment of silence—
"you……"
"you……"
Cheng Lang laughed: "You talk first."
Xu Qiao thought about it and asked, "Why are you here to remind me?"
According to Cheng Lang's previous style, he could have pretended not to see through Jiang Fang's tricks and made the appointment just by mistake.
Anyway, the person who set up the situation is Zhu Li and Jiang Fang. When Xu Qiao finds that he has been deceived, it is impossible to blame Cheng Lang.
"Because I have said that from now on, I will only tell you the truth." Cheng Lang smiled.
Xu Qiao didn't know what it felt like, it seemed a little sour.
She sat down on the bed and couldn't respond for a while.
Cheng Lang got relieved again and changed the topic: "Will you wait for the zero o'clock in a while?"
"Don't wait." Xu Qiao's mood was really bad, "I want to go to bed."
"Then Happy New Year in advance." Cheng Lang was still smiling.
"Oh." Xu Qiao responded muffled. When Cheng Lang took the initiative to ask "hang up the phone", he finally replied, "Happy New Year."
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Unfortunately, this first night of the New Year is destined to be unhappy.
Xu Qiao spent the whole night having a messy dream. She had no herself in the dream. From beginning to end, there were Cheng Lang and the transvestite patient, as well as the pale and helpless scenes when he was sick. So much so that after she woke up early the next morning, she always felt that the matter was not over yet.
She didn't forget it in her heart.
After careful consideration, she went to Cheng Lang's alma mater again on the first day of the first lunar month.
The local schools in London are naturally not affected by Chinese festivals and are attending classes as usual.
Xu Qiao took the idea of trying his luck and asked the passerby about the transvestite patient. Finally, she searched for something without searching. Outside the window of the school cafe, she saw him and a Chinese man drinking coffee face to face.
The two seemed to have a good conversation. The Chinese man looked at the opposite side and clearly felt a heart-warming look.
This Chinese man was completely a passerby who had nothing to do with her, but a fire of namelessness arose in Xu Qiao's heart.
To be continued...