Chapter 70. Family Dinner?
Lin Zihan occasionally scooped a spoonful of dry rice, put it in her mouth to chew and swallow.
It had no taste.
When there’s no appetite, you can’t taste anything you eat.
But she kept nodding from time to time.
Throughout, she didn’t contradict Elsa once.
What was there to contradict?
The result of contradicting… would only be meaningless arguments.
This was the experience Lin Zihan had gained over these years.
The best strategy was to keep nodding, or come out with a sincere “Ah yes, yes, yes!”
Finally, Elsa’s lecturing ended.
Only then did Lin Zihan’s eyes suddenly light up again!
As if the dining table had regained its luster!
She thought of little Bai’s cute little face again!
Hehe, when people think of happy things, they always want to confide in someone. Even to her “sick” mother, she wanted to share this joy.
Or rather, besides telling her, Lin Zihan had no one else to tell.
“Oh right, Mom, there’s another reason I stewed beef today. I met a childhood playmate yesterday, saw she was very healthy, I was very happy too, so I was in a good mood!”
“Your childhood…?”
“Mm-hmm! Do you remember those two sisters from the Ye family? Ye Zhiyun and Ye Zhibai, I often went to play with them when I was little. That Ye Zhiyun was too fierce… little Bai is better! She’s very cute and interesting, I’ve always liked her quite a bit.”
“You… talked to them?”
“Yes! Little Bai just got out of the hospital, Mom, do you want to find time to see her too? Ah… but we probably can’t just go to the Ye family whenever we want now, making an appointment in advance would be good too. You don’t know, yesterday Ye Zhiyun even hit me! She’s still the same as before, especially protective of little Bai…”
Crash!!!
“…”
The dining table that had just brightened up.
Darkened again.
Elsa suddenly stood up, smashing the half-eaten bowl and chopsticks in front of her to the ground!
The rice along with the beef Lin Zihan had worked hard to stew all rolled onto the floor.
And… her furious scolding voice.
“Zihan!! How dare you still provoke those big family people! Didn’t I tell you, when you see them, stay as far away as possible? Have you forgotten how your father lost everything? How dare you!”
Lin Zihan lowered her head, her golden bangs half-covering her crimson eye on the other side.
Her voice became much lower.
“Mom… What happened back then has nothing to do with the Ye family.”
“Even if it has nothing to do with the Ye family! They must all be birds of a feather, if they want to put you in mortal danger, do you think you have any chance of escape? We’ve finally been able to live peacefully for a few years, and you want to bring trouble again?!”
Hearing this, Lin Zihan’s voice became even lower.
“You know very well… that was just family superstition… I didn’t bring the trouble… and I didn’t provoke them, I just…”
“Then you still shouldn’t provoke big families! From tomorrow on, when you see those two sisters, avoid them! Stay as far away as possible! There’s only a few days until the college entrance exam, can’t you let Mom worry a little less?!”
“Mom… you’ve gone mad.”
“What… did you say? What are you saying, child!!”
“Forget it, I was wrong, I’m sorry.”
“What kind of attitude is this?! Mom is doing this all for your own good!”
Blood pressure maxed out.
Lin Zihan was careful left and right, not understanding how a good lunch had turned so tense again.
All she wanted… was for Mom to eat some beef, to be happy for her.
Lin Zihan completely lost her appetite.
She pressed down her school uniform skirt, squatted down, picked up a few larger pieces of broken porcelain bowl, and threw them in the trash.
Then she turned the chopsticks over to use, picked up a few pieces of beef that had fallen on the floor, and put them in a clean bowl separately.
It would be a waste to just throw away the beef, she could rinse it with clean water later and reheat it for another meal in the evening. But this action, in the eyes of the already furious Elsa, was even more unacceptable!
“Zihan! What are you doing, is this what the young lady of the Lin family should do? Where are the manners I taught you from childhood!”
Heart like still water, the endpoint after blood pressure maxes out, is calm.
“I’m no longer the young lady of the Lin family…”
Lin Zihan’s eyebrows twitched, she slammed the bowl and chopsticks on the dining table with a bang, didn’t say anything more, but went straight to the entrance to change her shoes.
When she spoke now, she surprisingly no longer had the previous confrontational tone or other emotions.
As if nothing had happened
Even, smiling.
“Mom, you just rest later, if you don’t want to go to the flower shop in the afternoon you don’t have to, I’ll clean up the things on the floor when I come back from school in the evening, you don’t need to worry about it.”
“Zihan…!”
“I’m going to school! I’ll be late!”
Bang.
Lin Zihan didn’t slam the door as she left.
Instead, she closed the door very lightly.
After leaving, she still had a smile on her face, greeting every neighbor, aunties and uncles she met with a smile.
“Zihan going to school?”
“Yes! I need to speed up a bit, I’m almost late at this time!”
Just like a happy, carefree little sun, a joy-bringer.
So carefree.
Ye Zhibai had a solid natural wake-up nap.
Being able to wake up naturally from an afternoon nap was a very, very memorable, milestone-like event!
Or rather, when she could wake up naturally, she wanted to continue sleeping.
Wuu, in the past I had to go to work at 6 PM and then get scolded by the supervisor, now I don’t need to work, isn’t it good to sleep a bit more!
But… at 6 PM there were still sparrows chirping non-stop in the yard.
Ye Zhibai covered her head with the blanket, but still couldn’t block out that chirping worse than an alarm clock.
Sigh… why can’t these cute birds fly into the oven themselves?
You don’t need to call, I don’t need to be hungry, we both win.
However, worse than the bird calls.
Was the fox call.
“Ye Zhibai!! Get up! The sun has set! The drinks are long gone! If you don’t get up, do you want to bask in the moonlight?”
Guang Yu!!!
If you don’t have drinks, buy them yourself! Someone without even an ID card dares to yell about ordering takeout!
Ye Zhibai suddenly woke up.
She saw Guang Yu waving at the sparrows in the yard, and with a flap of their wings, they all flew away.
You mischievous fox, you’re actually in cahoots with these chirping birds!
Supporting her aching forehead as she sat up, Ye Zhibai shook her head: “What time is it?”
“It’s almost 7 o’clock! Oh my, you humans’ sleep schedule is ridiculous, you sleep at noon, and still don’t get up at this time, haven’t you missed many joys of life?”
“Be brief… speak human.”
“Wuu wuu didn’t eat lunch, still sleeping at dinner time, going to starve to death! We want wasabi! Want flatbread!”
See, if you had said this earlier, wouldn’t it have been understood?
But Ye Zhibai really didn’t know what to eat for dinner.
And just a few minutes later.
Ye Zhiyun, who happened to come to Ye Zhibai’s room to see if she was awake, simply solved this problem.
“Sister, perfect timing that you’re awake. Dad just sent me a message saying he’s free tonight and can arrange for us to have a family dinner in the banquet hall! We should have arranged this earlier, sister has been back for several days, not having a proper family dinner is outrageous!”
Zhiyun, thank you for your explanation
But, even without a family dinner, it’s definitely not outrageous!
