Soon, the attendant found Lili's room reservation information. She passed her passport and two room cards to Lili and said while bowing while smiling, "Thank you, Ms. Lili. Your room is B4506. Welcome to the Golden Dragon Hotel."
"Thank you, may I know if your hotel has a clothing shopping service?"
"Ms. Lili, we have all the services that will make our guests feel at home, convenient and comfortable."
"That's great. Please help me order a set of casual clothes for this handsome young man next to me, underwear and sneakers. I want the best and send them to our room tomorrow morning."
The attendant was stunned for a moment and turned her head to look at Zhang Lisheng who looked skinny and tanned like a wild monkey. She said while showing her eight teeth, "Sure, Ms. Lili. This' handsome man 'has a great body. It seems like he doesn't have to be specially tailored for casual clothes.
"I'll get it ready before 8 am tomorrow morning. You can call the front desk and ask the staff on duty to send it to your room."
"Thank you. Just to tell you, the clothes are for my son.
He's my biological son who inherited my genes, of course he'll have a great body. " Lili said proudly and held Zhang Lisheng's arm. They walked to the lobby elevator under the doorman's guidance.
Watching her walk away, the female attendant quietly moved to her close colleague and said softly while snickering, "Did you hear that? That country bumpkin who carried the bamboo basket just now is an American.
This cosplay is so cool.
If I wasn't on duty, I'd definitely take a picture of him with my phone and make a 'guess' post and upload it on the internet. I'll ask whoever can guess where he's from to treat me to a meal. "
"Doesn't that mean you'll only make a profit no matter what?"
"Of course, I'm a beauty after all."
As the two female attendants were chatting happily at the front desk of the hotel lobby, a young man who was as agile as a ghost in black tights and a black headgear in the chilly autumn wind in the deep mountain climbed over the wall and entered the Zhang family's old house in Guawo Village.
It was dark inside the house. In the dark, the man in black's pupils were glowing with a faint yellow light like a bobcat's eyes.
He looked around, and his ears twitched a few times. Suddenly, he frowned in confusion.
Three or four o 'clock in the morning was the time when ordinary people were the most tired and asleep, but there was not even the sound of breathing in the old house.
The black-clothed man cautiously shook his hands. As he shook them slightly, the tips of his fingernails, which looked like they hadn't been trimmed for a long time, suddenly flashed with a cold light under the moonlight.
Then, he crouched down and landed on all fours. Like a ferocious beast, he sprang more than ten meters away and directly rushed into the central room of the old house.
There was no ambush in the central room, but there were a few scattered clothes and messy footprints on the wooden table and chairs.
"He ran away. He's quite smart." The young man stood up and picked up Zhang Lisheng's scattered clothes from the ground to sniff them. His tall, skinny, slightly hunched body slowly walked out of the central room.
After stretching his body in the courtyard, he leaped onto the top of the wall like there were springs under his feet and disappeared in the blink of an eye.
Zhang Lisheng, who was supposed to be fighting desperately at this moment, was instead soaking in the bathtub of the luxury hotel suite's bathroom and dozing off comfortably in the luxurious hotel suite's bathroom after narrowly brushing past the assassin who was ordered to come here to take his life.
The Golden Dragon Hotel's business suite was separated from the living room into two master and assistant bedrooms with separate bathroom. It could allow two guests to stay in the same room while maintaining enough private space.
After settling down, Lili gave the master bedroom that was more spacious and comfortable to Zhang Lisheng while she went to the assistant bedroom to freshen up.
After washing away her fatigue and fatigue, she changed into clean pajamas and laid on the bed. However, she could not fall asleep as she tossed and turned on the bed as if there was something important that she had yet to do.
After thinking about it carefully, Lili got off the bed immediately and walked out of the bedroom. She walked through the living room and put her ear on Zhang Lisheng's bedroom door to listen carefully.
There was no snoring in the bedroom, there was only the faint sound of water.
After a moment of hesitation, Lili opened her son's bedroom door and walked to the bathroom door. She said softly, "Baby, I forgot to say goodnight to you.
It's already three in the morning now, rest early. Goodnight, sweet dreams. "
Zhang Lisheng suddenly heard someone saying goodnight to him outside the bathroom door while he was drowsy. He could not help but be stunned for a while before replying in a daze, "Sigh, erm, goodnight, mother."
"Oh yeah baby, I think I heard you speaking English in the car before. I think you said that you could communicate with people in English now, am I right?"
"Yes, mother. A foreign teacher came to our village a few years ago and he's been forcing us to teach in English the whole time," Zhang Lisheng replied. At the same time, he added in his heart, 'It's this foreign teacher who killed my dad with a car.'
Lili said happily outside the door, "Why don't we talk in English from now on?
I want to know your English level so that I can help you choose which grade to go to school in America. "
"Certainly madam, Mom."
"So fine, baby. So much better, baby."
"Is that so? Actually, I don't know much about my English level but that foreign teacher said that I should be able to communicate freely in complicated situations.
He even suggested me to study something related to language and become a diplomat. "
Your English is really good, you actually have a New York accent. This is unbelievable, it's a surprise again.
I'm so relieved that you've passed the language test. Can we talk more, baby? "
"Sure, can I not go to America?" Zhang Lisheng's heart skipped a beat and he blurted out.
After a moment of silence outside the door, Lili said in a low but firm voice, "Of course not, baby.
It's late, we should rest now, goodnight. "
After that, there was the sound of footsteps, and then the bedroom became quiet again.
The next day, Zhang Lisheng woke up while yawning with sleepy eyes.
He was shocked when he stepped on the hotel bedroom's soft carpet with his bare feet. He only recalled where he was after being stunned for a long time.
It was hard for anyone to adapt to the 180-degree change in his life all of a sudden.
Zhang Lisheng washed his face with cold water in the bathroom. Eventually, he felt that running away was not a solution after all, so he walked out of the room hesitantly while holding his wizard worm.
The living room of the suite was outside his bedroom. At the moment, the bright sunlight was shining through the huge floor-to-ceiling window that was facing the street.
A coffee table was used as a dining table with all sorts of fragrant Chinese breakfast dishes on it. There were seven to eight types of soup such as rice porridge, thin porridge, bean juice, peanut porridge and so on.
On the sofa next to the coffee table, Lili was looking at a few casual clothes that were similar to a large children's clothing after spreading them out.
Hearing Zhang Lisheng opening the door, she stood up and looked at her son. She said in English while smiling, "Baby, you're up.
It's past breakfast time. I thought you were going to wake up soon so I ordered food delivery for you. Come and eat.
"After you're done eating, change into the new clothes and we'll take our ID photos.
I've asked the waiter just now. There's a digital studio that specializes in taking ID photos at the next street corner on the left after leaving the hotel.
We can have fun in Chengdu today. Oh yeah, I still don't know, have you been to Chengdu before? "
Zhang Lisheng was not as natural as Lili. His behavior was worse than last night after he woke up. He could not even say 'mother' at the moment, he could only answer blankly, "No."
"Then, let's get a tour guide or search for scenic spots on the internet.
What are you holding, baby? "
Hearing his mother asking about the wizard worm, Zhang Lisheng raised Mountoad awkwardly and explained randomly, "I-I'm my mascot, and … and my only toy. We've been together since we were young, we've never been separated."
"This looks like a … a frog. This is a wooden frog, right?"
Zhang Lisheng said according to the situation, "Yes, its name is Mountoad. Its shape came from an ancient Chinese legend, it has the meaning of turning misfortune into fortune.
It's always by my side when dad's not home. "
Zhang Lisheng's lies became smoother as he spoke, his expression became more and more natural.
As a senior educator, Lili immediately realized that the ridiculous and ugly frog was most likely the target of her son's emotional transfer. She felt a pang in her heart and sat down again with a smile. She patted the sofa next to her and said, "Baby, come sit down and have your breakfast.
A wooden frog that's as big as a football is your mascot and it's always with you. Don't tell me you brought it to school before? "
Zhang Lisheng sat next to his mother and placed the wizard worm that would not listen to the witchcraft incantation under his feet. He nodded and said, "It's a little heavy but it's not inconvenient to carry it to school in a bamboo basket."
"Since you have this habit, you can still be inseparable from your cute mascot when you go to America. Mommy will buy you a big school bag.
Eat your breakfast, the porridge is getting cold. " Lili peeled a boiled egg and put it into the porridge. She then passed the porridge to her son and said that in a way to guide him instead of forcing him to change.
The breakfast that followed was the warmest breakfast that Zhang Lisheng had ever had in his life. However, at the same time, he felt awkward and struggling deep down in his heart. He wanted to run back to the village that he was familiar with deep in the mountain that gave birth to and nurtured him without caring about anything.
However, thoughts were just thoughts after all. Zhang Lisheng was falling deeper and deeper into the mother's web that Lili had weaved. In the end, the only thing he could do was to change into the casual clothes that Lili had specially bought in the hotel after breakfast.
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