Sitting in the living room, I lit a cigarette.
I kept listening to the noise outside, wanting to know Lin Chan's every move.
I heard a door opening and closing, and then footsteps coming down the stairs.
Lin Chan must have gone to buy groceries.
I washed up and changed into a T-shirt and jeans.
I take after my father in appearance and figure.
He is exactly 1.8 meters tall, with delicate features and a high nose bridge.
My good friend Chen Haonan has encouraged me several times to find a rich woman to live off of.
Every time I scoffed and said disdainfully: "Don't hurt me, bro, I'm a man of integrity."
Chen Haonan asked several times: "You don't date, what kind of girl do you like?"
Every time I say, "Dating and marriage are things that happen after the age of 30. If you get married too early, it's easy to get divorced. My parents are an example.
In the future, my daughter-in-law doesn’t have to be beautiful or well-educated, but she must be good to me.”
Whenever he saw my sadness, Chen Haonan didn't say much.
Chen Haonan is my best buddy.
He graduated from a university in Beijing last year and currently works and lives in Haidian.
He and I often talk on the phone and chat online, but we don't meet often.
He usually comes to see me, but I seldom go to Haidian.
Always worried, I met my mother while walking on the street.
The capital is a big city, but people who don’t want to meet each other will still meet by chance.
I have seen my mother on the street, in the park, in Xidan, and at The Place.
Every time, I turned and ran away.
She should have seen me that time in the park, but I no longer looked like a child. I don’t know if she could realize that the boy who ran away was her son.
There were footsteps on the stairs outside.
Lin Chan came back from buying groceries.
Without waiting for her to ring the doorbell, I opened the door and walked out.
When eating Auntie’s dumplings, I also need to take the initiative.
Lin Chan raised her eyebrows and looked me up and down.
"You have a nice figure. Can you make dumplings?"
"Not really."
"I'll teach you."
Lin Chan opened the door and I followed her in.
She put down the dish and looked at me with a smile: "Making dumplings is very simple, just roll out the dough, put the filling in, and wrap it up."
"Then boil water and put the dumplings in and you can eat them. I know the process." I looked at her innocently.
"Ha ha……"
Lin Chan trembled and then went to the bathroom.
The room is really not soundproof.
I touched my nose, sat down on the sofa, and saw cigarettes and a lighter on the coffee table.
It turned out that Lin Chan also smoked, and her cigarettes were of decent quality, costing more than 20 yuan a pack.
Lin Chan walked out of the bathroom after washing her face, her almond-shaped eyes bright and watery.
She sat down and started making tea.
"Mengding Ganlu, a tea from my hometown. I'm not a woman of great taste, but I like drinking tea all year round."
"I like drinking tea, too. When my dad was alive, the staple food he and I drank was Huangshan Maofeng tea, which cost over 100 yuan per jin. It was cheap and delicious."
"Huangshan Maofeng has high-end tea, and the special grade before Ming Dynasty is no cheaper than West Lake Longjing."
There is always a sweet feeling when Lin Chan speaks.
The Mandarin spoken also has a Sichuan flavor.
The curled tea leaves of Mengding Ganlu gradually unfolded, and the process of the tea blooming actually made me think a lot.
As Lin Chan poured the tea, she said softly, "This tea has a chestnut aroma."
"Yeah, that's the taste."
I drank a cup of tea, and when I put the cup down, I didn't control it well enough and it made a clicking sound.
"Be gentle."
"good."
I was completely enveloped by embarrassment.
I even wanted to say to her, Auntie, I don’t want to eat dumplings anymore.
Lin Chan poured me some more tea and whispered, "Did your mother have children after remarrying?"
"Later, we had another daughter. She's fifteen now and is in junior high school in Haidian. She's about to go to high school."
After I explained the situation, I hurriedly explained, "I only heard it from others. I haven't seen my half-sister very often."
"No matter what, you and that girl are family from now on. No matter what your mother's decision was, she will never forget her son. I'll go wash the vegetables and teach you how to make dumplings later."
Lin Chan went to the kitchen.
While washing vegetables, I hummed a popular song recently.
It seems that the aunt who lives next door has some money and lives a fashionable life.
Start making dumplings.
My performance definitely exceeded Lin Chan's imagination.
She must have thought that I was clumsy, but my hands were so nimble.
"You are so good at it, just teach me."
Looking at the beautiful dumplings I made that looked like gold ingots, Lin Chan couldn't help swallowing her saliva.
I didn't say anything and continued to speed up.
"How much do you know?"
Lin Chan suddenly asked this.
I didn't react and blurted out: "1.8 meters."
"You have a great figure, I can see it all, there's no need to promote yourself. I've already said that we're decent neighbors."
Lin Chan said with a sly look on her face, "I'm asking how much money you're prepared to bet on the Golden Flower game."
"I still have a few thousand yuan. I'm used to keeping some cash on hand so I don't have to run out to find an ATM."
"That's fine. Take it easy at the card table. The people who come to my house to play cards are all experienced players."
"When playing Poker, I often can't tell the difference between big and small cards. I feel that any pair larger than 10 is a big card, and I often suffer losses." I sighed.
"Small pairs can easily lead to big losses. Sister Lin tells you that a straight in Golden Flower isn't considered a big deal, and a Golden Flower with a hand smaller than 10 isn't even worth playing with."
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