Chapter 115
The tone of his voice was different from that in the morning, and Chu Xia was subconsciously stunned.
In the deep silence of the night, she felt her heartbeat suddenly increase twice.
Then she came to her senses and calmed her heartbeat.
I replied to him out loud: "I can't teach you this, you should figure it out on your own."
Then he immediately said, "Goodbye."
Then she waved at him, turned around and ran into the alley back to the restaurant.
***
Back in the restaurant, Chuxia helped clean up.
After cleaning the restaurant inside and out, the three young people left work together. Chuxia, Tang Haikuan and Wu Xuemei took the account book and the collected money and went back to the back.
Sitting down in the room, Chuxia helped count the money.
After Wu Xuemei finished the accounts, she washed up and went back to her room to sleep.
I turned off the lights and lay down on the bed, lying in the soft and warm quilt, but I didn't feel sleepy at all.
Chuxia was lying on the bed blinking, and her mind suddenly started to think seriously.
She always said that Lin Xiaohan didn’t understand love, but did she really understand it?
If she thought about it carefully, she couldn't help but wonder - what exactly is love?
Under the control of the novel's setting, she has liked Han Ting for more than ten years, silently giving to him without asking for anything in return, risking her life for him, and feeling content as long as she sees him happy. Is this love?
Tong Rui was pursued passionately by Han Ting, and had a romantic, beautiful, pure love affair with Han Ting that was envied by everyone. Even after being ignored by Han Ting, she still couldn't forget him. Is this love?
There are also Su Yun and Han Ting. The two of them accompanied each other in the hardships of the countryside, warmed each other, comforted each other and supported each other for three years, but after returning to the city and truly becoming a family, they separated. Is this love?
What does it mean to like someone and love someone?
Is it the same way she treated Han Ting before, with him all in her heart and eyes, she couldn't bear to see him suffer or be sad, she wanted to give him everything she had, she was happy to see him happy, satisfied to see him satisfied, she treated him as the whole world, and all her joys and sorrows were related to him?
As soon as she finished thinking about it, Chu Xia couldn't help but shook her head.
After shaking her head, she lay flat on the bed, blinking her eyes to empty her mind. Then, as she blinked, Lin Xiaohan's face suddenly appeared in her empty mind.
When she realized it, Chuxia's nerves tensed and her heart skipped a beat.
Then she pulled the quilt up to cover her head - was she crazy?
After covering herself like this for a while, Chuxia suddenly pulled down the quilt to expose her head, took a long breath and closed her eyes, telling herself in her heart - daydreaming is a disease, so go to sleep quickly.
***
Because I had too many random thoughts before going to bed, the dreams I had that night were quite messy.
After waking up, I didn’t remember what I did in my dream, but my head was dizzy and groggy. It took me a long time to wake up completely after washing up.
Just as agreed last night, Lin Xiaohan came today.
But Chuxia didn't greet customers with him today. She just sat behind the counter with a book at hand. When someone came over after meal, she collected the bill.
Although she was holding a book, she was not reading most of the time.
When no one came to pay the bill, she would glance at Lin Xiaohan from time to time, watching him smiling and talking to the guests in the restaurant, and all his enthusiasm seemed to come from the bottom of his heart.
Looking closely, she suddenly discovered that he seemed a little different from before.
It's not that he has gained some age and maturity, but his eyes, no longer seem to be covered with frost like before, sometimes look like spring stream water.
Chu Xia lay on the counter and looked at Lin Xiaohan.
Just as she was looking and thinking intently, Lin Xiaohan suddenly turned his head and looked at her, as if he knew she was looking at him.
It felt like I was caught peeking.
But Chuxia did not panic. She just silently withdrew her gaze and turned to the window without making any sound.
She looked out the window for a while with a tense expression, then cleared her throat, sat up straight, and picked up the book to read.
Just after she read a few words, Lin Xiaohan came over and stood beside her. He reached out to look at the menu that had not yet been paid, and asked in a low voice: "Why are you staring at me?"
Chu Xia looked at the book and said calmly: "No, I was just in a daze."
Lin Xiaohan smiled, looked at her, and went back to work.
***
After the busy lunch, fewer people came to eat in the afternoon.
Chuxia and Lin Xiaohan went to the inner courtyard to rest for a while, sitting in the sun, eating melon seeds and chatting casually.
Chu Xia was eating melon seeds and looked at Lin Xiaohan and asked, "Why are you suddenly interested in love again?"
Lin Xiaohan looked at Chu Xia and asked back, "Is it strange that I'm interested in love?"
Chu Xia: “Isn’t it strange?”
Lin Xiaohan: "People change."
Chu Xia: "Oh, then do you want love or a woman?"
Lin Xiaohan: “…”
He looked at Chuxia for a while, but before he could say anything else, he suddenly heard someone shouting at the second door: "Brother Ting."
Lin Xiaohan and Chu Xia looked over together and saw Chaozi and Guogai.
Whenever Han Ting is at home, the two of them always come over, as if the three of them can't live without one of them.
After they entered the second door, they saw Chu Xia and Lin Xiaohan, but pretended not to see them and went straight into the east room.
It wasn't long before the two of them entered the east room.
Han Ting's voice came from the room: "Go away, don't bother me!"
After a while, Chaozi and Guogai came out again.
They still pretended not to see Chu Xia and Lin Xiaohan, and walked out of the second door with slightly heavy expressions.
After Chaozi and Guogai came and left, there was no one else in the yard.
Chu Xia looked at Lin Xiaohan and continued, "Actually, I don't know what love is, and I don't know what it's like to like someone."
Lin Xiaohan: "Then you should think about it again?"
Chu Xia: "Okay, I'll tell you when I figure it out."
***
Chu Xia and Lin Xiaohan finished eating the melon seeds in the yard and then went forward.
No one else was in the inner courtyard. Wang Cuiying was so angry that she wanted to find someone to talk to, so she went out to visit friends after lunch. So Han Ting was the only one sleeping in the room.
For the next few days, Han Ting stayed at home and didn't go out.
No matter who calls him, whether they are brothers or buddies, he just shouts "Get lost" and sends them away.
When he had a wife at home, he never went home and spent all day outside with his brothers.
Now that his wife is no longer at home, he stays at home without going out, just lying in bed and sleeping, as if there is nothing in the world that interests him anymore.
Although Han Ting stayed in his room every day, as if he wanted to isolate himself from the whole world, Lin Xiaohan still came to the restaurant every day.
Of course, there is not much time before the New Year, so Tang Haikuan and Wu Xuemei closed the business one day in advance, just like last year.
I set aside one day to clean the house and buy New Year's goods.
Since the restaurant was closed, Lin Xiaohan naturally wouldn't come.
Chuxia, Tang Haikuan and Wu Xuemei got up in the morning. Tang Haikuan kneaded the dough with warm water and left it at home to rise. Then the family of three took advantage of this last day to go to the market to buy some things.
In addition to food, things to buy for the Chinese New Year include red paper window decorations, couplets, firecrackers, and fireworks.
I went to the market and came back around noon.
After putting the large and small packages in the main room, the family of three began to make the fillings for the steamed buns, and cut radish into shreds and mince pork for frying radish balls and meatballs.
Tang Haikuan carried the hot water from the stove to the yard.
In early summer, Wu Xuemei helped to wash pork, cabbage and radishes in the yard.
While he was washing, Han Ting suddenly came out of the room carrying a wash basin and an aluminum teapot filled with hot water.
He came over to the stone trough to wash, his whole body full of decadence.
He spoke up to greet Tang Haikuan and Wu Xuemei.
Tang Haikuan talked to him while washing vegetables, "You haven't been out these days, I see you've been bored at home. It's not good to be bored like this, it will make a good person bad. Why don't you go out and relax more, you will feel better faster."
Han Ting seemed to have seen through the mundane world: "I don't know what to do when I go out. Suddenly I feel like there's no point in doing anything."
Then he gave a bitter smile and said, "Uncle, is your restaurant still short of people? Otherwise, I'll go to your restaurant after the New Year."
Hearing this, Tang Haikuan said quickly: "That won't work. You are not someone who works for others. If I let you work in my restaurant, won't your mother eat me? Besides, our restaurant is so small that we don't need so many people."
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