On New Year's Eve, even state-run restaurants closed for the night.
These past few days, Liu Yinyin has been eating at state-run restaurants.
Guo Zhen was a generous person and gave her a lot of money. Combined with her own savings, she wouldn't be short of money even if she ate at state-run restaurants every day.
She neither knew how to cook nor wanted to do the kind of work that involved cleaning up after meals, so she simply went to state-run restaurants to solve her three meals a day problem.
Liu Yinyin didn't want to eat at the state-run restaurant every day, but Xia Lei hadn't come to see her for several days since their argument. Xia Lei neither came back to apologize to her nor cooked for her, and she couldn't even see him every day.
Liu Yinyin was very angry. She couldn't cook and hadn't even prepared anything for the New Year. There was nothing at home, so she had to eat out.
But chefs need to rest and reunite with their families during the Lunar New Year, so how could they possibly continue operating?
Liu Yinyin visited several state-run restaurants, but all of them were closed, with signs saying they were closed for the Spring Festival.
On the day when the whole family was reunited, Liu Yinyin walked alone on the desolate road, with only some educated youth returning to the city wandering around.
For some reason, she felt an indescribable loneliness and grievance, and felt that she was no different from these homeless educated youth.
This idea dealt a heavy blow to Liu Yinyin. She bit her lip and walked away quickly.
At present, there is only one restaurant that may be open: Old Mo's Restaurant.
She had been to Old Mo with Guo Zhen before, so she knew the place well. When she arrived, she saw that Old Mo's Western Restaurant was indeed still open, and there were people sitting inside, all dressed smartly and young.
As Liu Yinyin walked in, she felt the gazes of others and the coldness in her heart melted a little.
"Ma'am, are you traveling alone?"
"I'm all alone."
"Please come in."
Liu Yinyin finally managed to adopt a posture befitting her arrogance and walked towards the inside.
Someone was looking at her, and Liu Yinyin noticed it, but she pretended not to see it.
She ordered food that cost a good twenty yuan, took off her coat, and started eating as soon as the food was served.
She attracted more attention. Liu Yinyin stood up straight, paying close attention to her image in public. However, she didn't realize that because she rarely ate at Western restaurants, her attempt to appear familiar with them made her look particularly ridiculous to others.
Liu Yinyin finally finished her medium-rare steak. She elegantly took a sip of red wine, glanced at the unfinished dishes, gave the waiter a tip, and walked out.
Several young men who had been eyeing her followed her out.
"Why is the lady eating alone at Lao Mo on New Year's Eve? Did she have a fight with her family?"
The young man chased after her and blocked Liu Yinyin's path.
Liu Yinyin was surprised that someone had caught up with her. She looked at them warily and said, "What I do is none of your business."
"I need to go home, please make way."
With a cold expression, Liu Yinyin was about to walk past them.
The young men, of course, wouldn't have it. They immediately clung to her again, saying, "Why are you walking so fast? Comrade, where do you live? We'll take you back. If a pretty young girl like you were to encounter any of those naked educated youths on the road, you'd be in big trouble."
Liu Yinyin sensed something was wrong and immediately said, "If you don't move aside, I'm going to find the police!"
Upon hearing this, the young men couldn't help but burst into laughter.
"Why don't you even bother to find out who we are? If it were useful to call the police, we would have been arrested long ago!"
Liu Yinyin tensed up, her intention to avoid the situation obvious.
The young man in the lead immediately grabbed Liu Yinyin's arm, his gaze sweeping over her overly charming face, a greedy look appearing in his eyes. "Comrade, we're not bad people. Look at you, wandering around outside all alone during the New Year. Why don't you come and have some fun with us, right?"
"Let me go!"
Liu Yinyin said angrily.
The young man wouldn't listen to her and tried to pull her away.
Fear flashed in Liu Yinyin's eyes. "Let me go!!"
His companions let out cackling laughter, completely disregarding Liu Yinyin's resistance.
"Stop!" someone shouted angrily.
The young men stopped and turned around, only to see a man in a thick coat with a serious expression standing not far away, watching them.
The leading youth looked at his attire, hesitated for a long time, and asked, "Who are you?"
The man strode over, grabbed the young man's hand, and said, "What do you think?"
The young man felt the pressure emanating from the man, and after a long while, he reluctantly let go.
"Let's go."
The young man in the lead quickly left with his cronies.
The man withdrew his gaze and looked at Liu Yinyin, his eyes lingering on her face for a long time. His voice was gentle, "Are you alright?"
Liu Yinyin was so frightened that her eyes reddened, and she exuded an aura that needed to be protected. She bit her lip, shook her head, and looked like she was about to cry.
The man asked again, "Why aren't you home for the New Year?"
Liu Yinyin lowered her eyes, her mood becoming increasingly somber.
Seeing this, the man stopped asking questions. He smiled and said, "My surname is Shan, and my name is Shan Fangdu. What's your name?"
one……
Liu Yinyin immediately thought of Guo Zhen's daughter, whom she had seen in the newspaper before; she also had the surname Shan.
Liu Yinyin pursed her lips. "Liu Yinyin."
...
Jiang Ci hadn't even gotten out of bed when she heard the sound of firecrackers going off outside. She yawned. She had been keeping watch all night, playing cards with Zhou Mingli and Huang Zheyue. She had finally made it to midnight, but Zhou Mingli, who was wide awake, kept pulling her to fool around.
Jiang Ci wasn't wearing any clothes, and only one arm was showing when she was pushed back down.
"Sleep a little longer."
A hoarse, weary voice rang in Jiang Ci's ears.
When she looked up, she saw Zhou Mingli's handsome, thin face with a bit of stubble.
"The firecrackers have been going off all night, how can you still sleep?" Jiang Ci was also very sleepy, but with all the firecrackers going off outside, it wasn't easy for her to fall asleep.
Zhou Mingli didn't say anything, but pulled the person into his arms from under the covers and rubbed them for a while.
Jiang Ci wanted to bite him, so she raised her leg and pressed her knee against Zhou Mingli's abdomen. "If we do this again, we'll be late."
She ate a lot last night and doesn't want to eat at all now.
Zhou Mingli had no choice but to stop regretfully and suggested, "Shall we go downstairs to set off firecrackers?"
Since she couldn't sleep anyway, Jiang Ci immediately nodded.
The two quickly put on their new clothes, all bought by Jiang Ci; they were thick and warm.
As soon as Jiang Ci stepped outside, she heard noises coming from the next room, which were drowned out by the sound of firecrackers.
"Wow! Crackling and popping! I want to set off fireworks too!"
"I want to too!"
"Your parents haven't gotten up yet, so you're not allowed to go downstairs."
Well, so all three kids woke up earlier than them.
Zhou Mingli, holding the large plate of firecrackers with a thousand shots, shouted to the three children, "Go set off firecrackers!"
"Yeah!"
"Wait for my dad!!!"
Huang Zheyue walked out, leaning on her cane.
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