Sitting at the best vantage point to observe her closest friends was indeed an exciting thing.
Ye Huanyan did not intend to eavesdrop, but Ling Li had no filter at all. As soon as she sat down, she blurted out, "You two didn't come back for two nights. Where did you go? Why don't you tell me the truth?"
"You didn't sleep for the whole night. How do you know we didn't come back for the whole night?" Ling Zhan retorted angrily. She could see his slightly red face through the steam.
"Yeah, I didn't sleep for the whole night. Coincidentally, your sister played games for the whole night. There was no sound outside the house at all …"
"Okay, okay, you're just a little girl. Why are you asking so many questions? If you ask again, hurry back to America. "
"Tsk, brother, you're anxious."
Ling Li blinked and stood between the two of them. Just as she was about to sit down, she suddenly exclaimed in a tone full of disdain.
"This place is too dirty. Brother, you should've brought sister Xiao Ying here to eat. You deserve to be single."
Ye Huanyan did not notice that Gu Chi's eyebrows trembled when he heard this sentence. There was a moment of stiffness in his eyes.
Ye Huanyan lowered her head and smiled. At this time, the mutton noodle soup was served. The figure of the lady boss blocked their view, so they could not see Ling Zhan's table.
Ling Zhan blushed, which was rare for him.
The night before, he and Fu Yingxiang did not go home. In the past, he felt that there was no such thing as fate in this world. Everything was created subconsciously by people. But after meeting her, he suddenly felt that this thing might really exist.
From meeting by chance at the airport, taking the same taxi to the same place, to living under the same roof every day, to the celebration at the bar after the academic conference, and meeting her again, all of these were coincidences. But when there were too many coincidences, it became fate.
"Aren't you going to say hello?"
Gu Chi asked.
Ye Huanyan was eating noodles and shook her head when she heard this. "Eat the noodles first. It won't make a difference."
Gossip was more important than anything else.
From the moment Ling Li started to make jokes, Ling Zhan's somewhat impatient attitude clearly showed his attitude. But from the start to the end, Fu Yingxiang did not express her opinion. Actually, it was no wonder. The age gap between the two of them was not small, and from the way Fu Yingxiang looked at it, she did not like Ling Zhan's type.
Therefore, Ye Huanyan wanted to study it a little longer.
"Why do I feel like everything has changed after we went on a road trip?"
Not long ago, Fu Yingxiang said that she was tired of living in China and wanted to go back to Macau.
Looking at the situation now, it was likely that he was going to stay here permanently.
A bowl of mutton noodle soup, accompanied by the gossip behind the stove, made him feel comfortable all over.
Ling Li, who was sitting at the next table, had been nitpicking at the roadside stalls. This one was dirty, this one looked unhygienic, and she casually said that she would definitely have diarrhea tonight. She didn't care that there were still a bunch of men and women sitting at the roadside stalls who had come to eat supper. They had already cast angry glances at her many times.
"Shut up if you don't want to eat."
Ling Zhan finally couldn't stand her sister's nitpicking and couldn't help but scold her.
"I'm just saying."
"If your stomach is not very good, it's better not to eat the food here. I have pastries in my room that my friend brought over yesterday. You can go back and eat them as supper."
Fu Yingxiang's voice was unusually gentle.
Ling Li, however, was not a kind person. This girl was a little wolf dog who might not even accept a meat bun given to her. "I'm on a diet."
Fu Yingxiang smiled, "You're not fat."
Ling Li raised her eyebrows, "Women always say that others are not fat. In fact, it's a kind of psychological competition. You have more self-control than anyone else when you eat. For example, you look at the 20 mutton skewers, but in the past 10 minutes, you only ate this one. To be precise, you only ate one bite."
"Ling Li, are you done?"
Ling Zhan interrupted Ling Li and looked nervously at Fu Yingxiang.
She was still calm and collected, with the wisdom and magnanimity befitting her age. She didn't take Ling Li's provocation to heart at all. Instead, she put down the mutton skewers in her hand and smiled, "I just think that if I eat too many mutton skewers, it will affect the taste of my mutton noodle soup later."
"Do you dare to say that you can eat an entire bowl?"
"Depends on my mood."
"Tsk," Ling Li's face was full of disdain, "If you're a woman, you won't even dare to eat such a big bowl of mutton noodle soup. Do you still want your figure?"
Hearing this, Ye Huanyan subconsciously lowered her head to look at the bottom of her bowl with half a mouthful of noodles left. She silently placed her chopsticks on the bowl and revealed an embarrassed smile to Gu Chi.
"Diet is not the only way to maintain a figure."
Fu Yingxiang smiled, "If you know where your brother and I went the night before yesterday, you won't ask me this question."
"Where?"
Ling Li stared at her with her round eyes, "Let's talk about it after you finish this bowl of noodles."
Fu Yingxiang's expression was a little mysterious. She smiled and took the bowl of noodles from the owner's wife. She glanced at Ling Li meaningfully.
Ling Zhan on the opposite side had already handed over the disposable chopsticks and glared at his sister fiercely.
Since Ling Li moved into the old house, Ling Zhan glared at him so often that he felt his eyes ache every night before he went to bed.
"Why are you so sneaky? There must be something going on between you two."
Ling Li curled her lips, "Are you going to eat or not? If you're not going to eat, go home first."
Ling Zhan put the bowl of noodles in front of her heavily, and there was a hint of anger in her eyes.
Ye Huanyan's table paid the bill and left.
On the way back, Gu Chi drove the car and asked with a smile, "Why didn't you say hello to them? You should have at least said hello to them after they finished eating."
"To avoid embarrassment."
Ye Huanyan's voice came from the back seat, "Look at Ling Zhan and my fourth sister. They hid from Ling Li to have supper in the middle of the night, which means that they don't want to disclose their relationship for the time being. Maybe it's just the beginning of the ambiguous relationship, or maybe it's not stable, or they don't want to have a relationship in the future, or maybe it's a combination of both. With Ling Li around, they can't stand it."
"So we can only pretend to be deaf and dumb now?"
"Yes."
Ye Huanyan sighed, "Fortunately, I don't come back often. Everyone in the family is hanging around Xiao Yue, so I don't think anyone will notice them. It's just that it's been a long time, and I'm afraid they won't be able to keep it a secret if they develop further. It's normal that Ling Zhan doesn't know about this kind of thing. In fact, my fourth sister will be the one to decide."
It was not scary to be in a relationship with a younger man, but it was scary to have a family member who strongly opposed it.
Fu Yingxiang's parents had passed away many years ago, so she did not have such concerns, but Ling Zhan did.
Fu Yingxiang was about the same age as Chris.
Even if age was not the biggest obstacle, Fu Yingxiang's resistance to the issue of age would be an obstacle between the two of them.
"Based on your understanding of men, how serious do you think Ling Zhan is about my fourth sister?"
Ye Huanyan suddenly asked.
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