HCB Chapter 456 Night Talk at the Wonton Stall
Chapter 456 Night Talk at the Wonton Stall
Xu Yiyi, with a cold face, led Wu Yuan up to the third floor of the inn. Just as she put him on the bed, the child was suddenly awakened.
He held her neck tightly, tears streaming down his face.
When Lao Lu saw the scene after putting their bags inside, he felt a pang of heartache.
After he made such a fuss, he couldn't care less about promoting the big house to Xu Yiyi anymore.
"You should try to comfort her."
Old Lu was in a panic.
"You go out first."
Xu Yiyi spoke softly, and after Lao Lu closed the door, she immediately lay down on the bed, hugged Wu Yuan, and hummed a little tune.
The original intention was to coax the child back to sleep.
Xu Yiyi didn't know that he wasn't asleep, but she, who hadn't slept all night, had fallen asleep.
Once her breathing had calmed down, Wu Yuan lay on top of her and stared at her.
After watching for a long, long time, the child suddenly grinned and smiled.
He touched her face with his little hand and fell into a deep sleep again.
By the time the two of them woke up, it was already completely dark.
The room was dark, with only a small sliver of street light filtering through the window, making out the vague outline of her eyes and nose.
She awoke with a start from a suffocating nightmare, her chest feeling as if a huge rock was pressing down on it, and she was about to clutch her heart and gasp for breath.
She then realized that Wu Yuan was still fast asleep on top of her, his plump body rising and falling gently with his breath.
She burst out laughing; it turned out that the hand that had choked her so hard in her dream was this boy.
"woke up?"
Just then, Gouyuan opened his round eyes and looked at her.
She carefully turned to the side and put Wu Yuan off her.
He sat up and wiped the sweat from his forehead.
"You've really gained a lot of weight; you've never looked like this before."
Xu Yiyi complained helplessly, feeling a sharp pain in her chest, and carefully rubbed it while frowning.
"Once you're better, it's better to sleep in separate beds. If this happens a few more times, I'm afraid you'll crush me to death."
She hummed to herself, saying that Wu Yuan's little bed had been prepared long ago.
But it's basically useless, because he cries as soon as he lies down in it.
She was incredibly stubborn, crying until her voice was hoarse several times, but she still wouldn't stop.
Since then, his little bed has been left unused.
She kept rambling on, while Wu Yuan crawled around on the bed, occasionally glancing at her and smiling.
"Get up and get ready to eat when you wake up."
Old Lu from the next house heard the noise and quickly came over to knock on the door.
When Xu Yiyi finished packing and carried Wu Yuan out, it was just time for the scheduled update.
Yuelai Inn only provides accommodation, not meals.
If there weren't no curfew here, the three of them would have had to go hungry tonight.
"Let's go! I'm starving."
Old Lu swallowed hard, looking much more listless.
Xu Yiyi asked curiously, "Are we going to Bafang Restaurant?"
The stairs thumped loudly as the two walked down one after the other.
She glanced at Lao Lu's face and could tell whether he was still angry or not.
Bafang Restaurant belongs to Fang Zhongyuan.
"Go to hell! If he makes me angry again, I won't be eating tonight either."
After disembarking, I only drank some wine and ate a few peanuts for my meal.
By now, I'm starving.
What exactly did you two argue about?
She didn't know Lao Lu very well, but she knew he wasn't someone who got angry easily.
In the afternoon, I was so angry with the owner of Bafang Restaurant that my face turned black, like a freak show.
Old Lu's lips twitched slightly, perhaps because he had been having a heart-to-heart talk with Xu Yiyi for a long time in the house.
He suddenly felt there was nothing to hide.
"Oh! These are all trivial matters from the past. If you want to hear them, I can tell you."
As Lao Lu spoke, he carried a clean bench from the wonton stall and placed it in front of Xu Yiyi.
"You sit down first, I'll go buy Wuyuan a bowl of porridge."
As he spoke, Lao Lu got up and squeezed into the lively crowd.
Xu Yiyi sat on the innermost side with Wu Yuan in her arms, watching people come and go.
The little one opened his bright, dark eyes and looked around curiously from her arms.
The stall owner lifted the lid, and steaming steam rose up, blurring the figures of people and vehicles coming and going.
"I watched the person make it, and I made sure he didn't add any salt."
As Lao Lu spoke, he placed a bowl of steaming, thoroughly cooked fish porridge in front of Wu Yuan.
The child's eyes widened in amazement, and he reached out to grab it, but Old Lu was quicker and moved his hand away.
"I knew you were going to arrest me, hehe."
Old Lu chuckled, a hint of smugness in his eyes.
He casually turned around and brought over the chicken soup wontons that he had ordered for Xu Yi.
He pulled the wine flask from his waist, opened it, and handed a clean spoon to Xu Yiyi. After watching her take a sip of soup, he said, "Eat while you listen to me."
Oh, I see.
Lao Lu was born into a family of officials and merchants in Jianzhou Prefecture. He was the youngest son of a local official.
My mother's family was a prominent pearl merchant family in the Qiongzhou Strait, controlling multiple pearl farms along the coast and being extremely wealthy.
Lao Lu can be described as having lived a life of luxury since childhood.
Before he could even remember anything, his father arranged a marriage for him.
The girl came from an ordinary family and had a modest background, but her father was a highly skilled doctor.
Just then, her father urgently needed a rare medicinal herb in order to curry favor with the powerful and wealthy, and in the entire prefecture, only that girl's father could procure it.
Thus, a marriage contract became the bargaining chip for exchanging that emergency medicine prescription.
That girl was Jiang Qinshui.
His mother also made a fuss about this, but she still couldn't go against his father's wishes.
The marriage was thus arranged.
Back then, Lao Lu was just a little kid who didn't understand what liking someone meant. He only knew that he was going to marry Jiang Qinshui when he grew up.
So he usually protects her.
The two of them grew up in a daze.
When Lao Lu encountered his sister's situation later, he felt worried.
After a year of searching, I still couldn't find any trace of my eldest sister.
When he returned home, he found that his mother had been beaten to the point of near death by his father.
With both old and new grudges combined, in a fit of rage, he had a fierce conflict with his father and accidentally killed him.
Having committed the heinous crime of patricide, he was forced to flee Jianzhou Prefecture in haste.
During his escape, he knew he was guilty of a serious crime, his future was ruined, and his life was uncertain. He had no chance of returning to fulfill the marriage agreement and did not want to delay Jiang Qinshui.
So, the year after he left, he sent someone back with a letter and a large sum of money.
The letter clearly stated that Jiang Qinshui did not need to wait for him any longer.
The engagement was called off, and he hoped she could find another husband. The generous sum of money was the dowry he could prepare for her, thus fulfilling the promise of their engagement years ago.
He thought the matter was over.
Who knew that although Jiang Qinshui later married as promised, she divorced her husband a few years later for some unknown reason.
This was simply incomprehensible to Lao Lu, but it was Jiang Qinshui's own business. It was normal for her to have a falling out with someone if she was having a hard time.
What he shouldn't have done was that Fang Zhongyuan, that blockhead, seeing that he was now all alone, still wanted to try and match him up with Jiang Qinshui.
"So that's why you argued with him?" Xu Yiyi asked.
"Yes."
Old Lu took a big gulp of wine, and the liquid went down his throat, making him feel instantly refreshed.