Chapter 99 Chapter 99 Everyone rushed to Hongxiang Garden. …
Everyone rushed to Hongxiang Garden.
The clothes worn by Li Baili and Li Hanshuang were indeed not conspicuous here, but one thing was still beyond doubt: their clothes were the most beautiful and looked the most expensive.
"What would you like to order?" A waiter came up and asked the three people, "We have peanuts, melon seeds, fruit plates, fine wine and beef. There are also seats available in the private rooms on the second floor. You can also sit in the lobby. What do you think?"
"We want the second floor," Li Hanshuang glanced at Li Baihe, smiled slightly, and then said to the waiter, "A private room."
The waiter nodded and looked at Li Qinglian again with a hint of doubt in his eyes.
Li Qinglian originally wanted to say that she would stay in the lobby on the first floor, but they were going to the private room, and it seemed inappropriate for her to separate from them. But if she followed them, they probably wouldn't be happy.
Li Qinglian thought about it. If they all squeezed together, it would be safe and there would be enough manpower, but it would be inconvenient if they really needed to find someone. It would be better for him to stay in the hall so that they could look for the second floor as well as the first floor.
He said to the waiter, "I'll just sit in the lobby on the first floor."
The waiter nodded: "Okay!"
Li Qinglian sat alone in the corner of the lobby on the first floor. This position was quite subtle. He could see what was happening on the second floor as soon as he raised his head. If he was willing to stand up, he could probably see a little bit of what was happening in the private room on the second floor.
Li Baili and Li Hanshuang entered the private room on the second floor.
The private rooms here are not fully enclosed, but the ventilation is better and there is nothing to complain about.
Gradually, people started to gather downstairs.
The waiter brought a plate of melon seeds and a plate of fruit and was about to leave.
Li Baili heard someone outside the door say, "It seems like there's some kind of event going on today?"
Another person said, "Yeah, there's an event going on today."
"What activity?" asked the man outside the door.
"Who knows? It's unclear. Maybe it's some singing and dancing competition. Anyway, there are always competitions here. What's so strange about it?" said another person.
The two men nodded and talked, gradually walking away.
Once again, only Li Baili and Li Hanshuang were left in the private room.
Li Baihe asked Li Hanshuang: "What kind of activity do you think it could be?"
Li Hanshuang really didn't care, and didn't want to know. He lowered his eyes and answered boredly, "Love is what it is, what does it have to do with me?"
He sneered, "As if there's anything I can do."
Li Hanshuang raised her hand and circled the fruit plate and melon seeds, not liking anything. She put her hand back, closed her eyes, and lay in Li Baili's arms, saying lazily, "I didn't come here for these. Isn't it enough for us to just look for or wait? Once we find what we are looking for, we can leave. I don't care about other things."
"Okay." Li Baili hugged him and closed her eyes for a moment, feeling drowsy. She soon perked up again, opened her eyes again, sighed and said, "It's all your fault. I'm so sleepy now."
Li Hanshuang closed her eyes and lay in his arms and smiled: "Come on, you will get sleepy if I'm not here."
As Li Hanshuang spoke, he turned sideways, buried his face in Li Baili's clothes, stretched out his hands and hugged him tightly, looking like he was about to fall asleep.
Li Baili patted him gently: "Wake up! This is not a place to sleep, and now is not the time to sleep. If you want to sleep, wait until you are free and in a safe place, and then rest slowly."
Li Hanshuang was silent for a while, as if he had fallen asleep, but Li Baili knew that he hadn't. She just looked at him. He had to force himself to stand up, open his eyes, and smile at Li Baili, weakly and helplessly: "I'll listen to you."
Having said that, he still refused to sit still. He moved the bench next to Li Baili at some point, squinting his eyes, dozing off while forcing himself to stay awake.
On the high platform in the lobby on the first floor, someone was already singing loudly.
The singing was clear and loud, and it went straight from the first floor to the second floor. It sounded like a bird without feet that never fell. It flew high into the sky in the blink of an eye, then slowly fell down, lingering in people's ears.
Judging from the lyrics, it seems as if a girl is singing about going up the mountain to pick flowers. The air is fresh, the scenery is beautiful, the stream is gurgling, butterflies are flying, and there are blue sky and white clouds. Everything is like a dream.
If he had heard it at other times, it wouldn't have been a big deal, but now that he heard it, Li Hanshuang felt even sleepier. He leaned into Li Baili's arms, closed his eyes and said, "It sounds like a lullaby."
Li Baihe was a little amused and replied, "This is not a lullaby sung just for you. You'd better wake up."
Having said that, he didn't do anything else. He didn't force the person to wake up, nor did he speak loudly in the sleepy person's ear. Instead, he lay there motionless, serving as a good backrest, making people feel that sleeping here was the most comfortable place.
Li Hanshuang couldn't help but hug Li Baihe and sighed: "What would I do without you!"
Without waiting for an answer, he buried his head in Li Baili's clothes, closed his eyes tightly, and murmured to himself: "Fortunately, we will never be separated, and no one can separate us."
He mumbled in a voice that no one could hear except himself: "We will be together forever, even after death. How can there be such a happy thing in the world?"
As if he had suddenly had a nightmare or suddenly shivered, Li Hanshuang was suddenly startled and stood up. He held Li Baili's hand with one hand and touched Li Baili's face with the other hand, as if to confirm whether this person was really there.
His eyes gradually changed from panic to relief, and a subtle sense of surviving a disaster. He lowered his hand from Li Baili's face, hugged her, and said with a smile: "It's really worth being happy about."
"It's worth being happy about," Li Baili nodded slightly and asked with a smile, "Are you awake now?"
Li Hanshuang hung limply on him, like a piece of clothing on a hanger, blinked her eyes and said, "Half asleep, half awake."
Li Baili was helpless and shook her head.
Li Qinglian, who was downstairs, looked upstairs from time to time. When the waiter came to ask him what he wanted, he said he wanted a cup of tea, so the waiter served him a cup of tea.
He was holding the cup of tea, and had not yet found any trace of the escaped sealed person he was looking for. Suddenly, he became a little worried about Li Baili and Li Hanshuang upstairs.
This worry was groundless. After all, in terms of strength, those two people were much stronger than him, so he didn't need to worry at all. In terms of numbers, two people were more than one, so it was enough for them to worry about him.
But that's how things are. He thought about it and thought that maybe the previous events had an impact on him. He still felt that something might happen when Li Baili and Li Hanshuang were alone together. It was a strange and paranoid intuition.
He asked the waiter, "When you went up, did you see the two people who came with me? What were they doing when you saw them?"
The waiter was stunned for a moment, thinking they were just friends. After all, there are friends who don’t want to sit together. He smiled and said, “Yes, I saw them. When I saw them, they were sitting side by side at a table, holding hands, very intimate, whispering to each other.
I didn't listen carefully, probably because they didn't want that kind of talk to be known to others, otherwise they wouldn't have to say it quietly. I put the things down and left. They didn't stop me, nor did they say anything else. They just looked at each other with very gentle eyes, as if there was no one else in the world except the person in front of them. What a rare good relationship!"
At this point, the waiter couldn't help but sigh: "I've met a lot of people while working here, but I've rarely seen a relationship as good as theirs. Even couples who have been together for many years would quarrel, but they look like they never quarrel."
The waiter chuckled.
Li Qinglian blinked her eyes, startled, and inexplicably felt that everything was settled. She couldn't help but asked with a smile: "How do you know they never quarrel? Maybe they are just pretending!
After all, even if they quarreled in private, it is not impossible to pretend to be gentle and peaceful on the surface. Most people still want to appear to be easy to get along with in front of others, so it is not surprising to do such a thing. "
The waiter listened, still smiling, but with a magnanimous demeanor, as if he had seen many people pretending to be on good terms with each other, so he could recognize who was real and who was fake at a glance. He said confidently: "It is possible that they are pretending, but I have also seen people pretending, and I can recognize them!"
The waiter seemed to want to prove that he had indeed seen it and that he really had such ability, so he couldn't help but show off and explain carefully: "I saw a couple a few days ago. It is said that they are a very close couple. They also came with friends. In front of their friends, they held hands and walked shoulder to shoulder, looking like very good friends.
But when they got to the room, they stopped pretending, threw their hands around, glared, blushed, and started arguing in low voices with thick necks, frowned, and wrinkles appeared on their foreheads. They didn't look bright and beautiful at all, and were completely different from how they looked outside.
Before I entered the room, I heard them arguing inside. I had to knock on the door to remind them that I was going in. Their voices stopped immediately when they heard me knocking.
They asked me who I was and I told them. When they heard that I was not their friend, they were relieved and let me in. I carried the things in.
The atmosphere in the room was still stagnant, just like the suffocating hot air before a heavy rain in summer, and there was faint sound of thunder outside the window.
They also sat around the table, but they sat facing each other, far away from each other, not holding hands, nor sitting side by side. They forced smiles on their faces, and the redness on their necks had not yet faded.
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