I'm also guessing whose cubs belong to me

Xie Chao was completely distracted by the phone call from his parents, and his playful thoughts became a little less.

Zai Zai bit the soft cake in his hand, thinking about other things: "Grandpa said he would bring me Turkish Delight, and I can play with it, but Turkey seems to have a lot of rocks."

Cheng Li'an asked Xie Chao, "Your parents are coming back?"

Xie Chao nodded: "Well, it's still a mystery, I don't know what you want to do?"

"Wait for me to find out tonight." Cheng Li'an joked with a smile on his face.

Angus cleared his throat: "Is the whole family coming to Shanghai to play?"

"No." Xie Chao shook his head, "He wants to come back early after going on a trip, so he just told me."

Cheng Li'an smiled: "It's getting late, let's go there for a stroll, the night market is at its busiest time, I've come here before to eat zongzi leaves and meat, Zai Zai probably likes it too."

Xie Chao curled his lips and said, "What doesn't he like?" He seemed to remember something, "Uncle, let me tell you, have you ever eaten stinky cheese? You even like that."

Cheng Li'an raised his eyebrows slightly: "It tastes a bit like stinky tofu, you just stopped eating a lot of stinky tofu."

Xie Chao shrugged: "I don't know why, I just can't accept stinky cheese."

He became addicted to chatting about food, and poked Angus with his elbow: "I heard that you foreigners hate preserved eggs the most. Preserved eggs top the list of foods you hate most. Do you like them?"

Angus grew up abroad, but his mother often cooks very well and has traditional Chinese tastes, so he can accept both sides.

However, some things seem to go deep into the marrow of his bones, and he doesn't like to eat preserved eggs, thinking that stuff is really a magical invention.

He still denied it: "I don't like to eat it. The English translation of preserved eggs is turyegg, yearoldegg or thousandyearegg. It gives me the feeling that this egg seems to be an antique."

"Eggs that have been laid for 1000 years, after a century of eggs, how much do you have opinions on preserved eggs." Xie Chao clicked his tongue, "I really like it, and my son likes it too."

Xie Chao stretched out his hand and hugged Zai Zai under his arm, "It seems that I have more blood, and even stinky eggs are delicious."

Zai Zai didn't have time to pay attention to him, he glanced sideways hastily, and said, "Just now I said I can eat stinky cheese."

"I think your inheritance is too mixed, you can eat everything." Xie Chao rubbed his chin, "Anyway, I don't like stinky cheese."

It was rare for Cheng Li'an to see him willing to talk about another person, so he asked insincerely: "Now why do I remember that people like to eat stinky cheese?"

Xie Chao looked confused: "Which family, I don't remember who likes to eat?"

Cheng Li'an sighed silently, pretended to be stupid again, and said no more: "Let's go, I'll take you to eat porridge."

"Uncle Cheng, it suddenly occurred to me that you are studying at the university in Shanghai!" Xie Chao became excited, "Recommend some fun and delicious places for us, preferably antique ones, so that foreign friends can see them."

Cheng Li'an laughed: "You are 27 years old this year, counting the time, I haven't been here for 30 years, and I have changed a lot."

Xie Chao muttered, "Is there a 30-year-old store?"

Cheng Li'an thought about it carefully: "I really can't remember it. If I think of it, I will definitely take you there. I haven't been here for so many years."

"Well."

After walking for a while, Cheng Li'an led them into a small shop. The shop was very small, and it took a few laps to find it, but the inside was clean.

They found a hidden place to sit down, next to the carved window, under the window string was a pot of evergreen pine, the roots were intertwined, and the leaves were also pleasingly green.

"This is an old store, but the owner has grown bigger, and their chain stores are all over the country." Cheng Li'an said.

The energetic young man was wearing the clothes of the second generation of the Republic of China, with buttons running down his chest.There was a white towel on the shoulder of the gray jacket, and he came over and said with a smile: "It seems that this gentleman is a regular customer, and this is the birthplace of our boss. Although the place is small, it has been unwilling to expand, just to keep A thought."

This waiter is also interesting in speaking, and he is also generous.

Xie Chao asked with a smile: "Then besides pricking the meat, what special dishes do you have?"

"Really, here is the menu, take a look." The waiter brought up a thick bamboo strip, layered on top of each other, very retro.

Xie Chao handed it to Angus: "Order."

It was already late at this time, and there were quite a few people who came out for supper.There seemed to be a regular customer at the other end. The waiter had sharp eyes and politely said to their table: "Take your time, the dishes are all authentic. I'll come later." After speaking, he ran to entertain others.

Xie Chao raised his eyebrows and said, "Xiao Er is quite busy, I just need a prick."

Zai Zai studied for a long time, and finally touched his stomach: "I have eaten too much cake, and now I can't eat it anymore. Hey, I can only drink some juice."

Cheng Li'an rubbed his belly for him, and said slowly: "Besides piercing the meat, the owner of this shop has a special skill that no one else can make. It is said that it is a secret recipe handed down from the ancestors, but it is not available now." He narrowed his eyes He squinted and recalled his college days, "I always came here to eat, and the boss said at that time that this dish was too annoying and expensive, it didn't make money, and it was rarely sold on the table."

Zai Zai smashed his mouth: "I want to eat."

The waiter with a smiling face came over to take the menu again: "Okay, I'll let the kitchen do it quickly."

Cheng Li'an stopped him: "Has your boss accepted apprentices over the years, do you know how to cook his specialty?"

"I really don't know about this." The waiter shook his head and left.

The serving speed is fast, and after a while, the Zharou will be served. The steamed green zong leaves are wrapped in large pieces of Zharou, exuding the fragrance of green plants.

Before Xie Chao could move his chopsticks, the waiter came over with them again, put them down silently, and was about to leave.

"Hey, I remember we didn't order this." Xie Chao said.

They ate the snacks along the way, and their stomachs were already half full.Cheng Li'an never liked meat, so he ordered a plate of signature cold dishes.He and Angus ordered a large pork chop, and Zai Zai only had a glass of juice.

The young man smiled and explained: "There is a guest who wants to send you off, but he didn't say anything, and I can't pass on the message."

Xie Chao waved his hand: "Okay." He thought for a while and said to Cheng Li'an, "Uncle Cheng, is that your former friend?"

Cheng Li'an smiled and shook his head: "Where do I have so many friends?" He said and lifted the big lid of the dish, "Open it and have a look, maybe it's your friend."

Zai Zai poked his head over: "Let me have a taste first." Before finishing speaking, the chopsticks stretched out.

"Is it delicious?" Xie Chao asked him.

Zai Zai nodded vigorously, his blue eyes opened wide: "It's delicious, I like it."

"Let me try it, which one don't you like?" Xie Chao looked at Cheng Li'an, "Uncle, I don't have any friends in Shanghai, even if I do, they are busy."

But Cheng Li'an didn't seem to hear Xie Chao's words, the usual faint smile was gone, his eyelids were drooping, and there was no expression on his whole face.

Xie Chao stopped his chopsticks: "Uncle Cheng, what's the matter?" He looked at the plate of food, "Is it really your friend?"

Cheng Li'an was in a daze for a while, and it took a long time before he opened his eyes: "I'm fine."

It happened that the spirited little waiter passed by this person, Cheng Li'an stopped him: "Where is the guest who brought us food just now?"

"Let's go, just leave this sentence, let us prepare it and send it over." The waiter smiled apologetically.

Cheng Li'an let go of his bunt hem, and realized that he had lost his composure, so he slowed down and asked, "Then do you remember what he looks like?"

"Someone sent me a message to make this, and I didn't see that customer." He added, "But the dish he ordered is only sold internally, and it's a high-end route. Ordinary people don't order it. The material is too precious."

Cheng Li'an pulled out a smile: "Forget it."

Xie Chao had an intuition that something was wrong, and asked cautiously, "Uncle Cheng, what's going on?"

"Old acquaintance." He patted Xie Chao's helping hand, "I'm really fine."

Angus paused. He was still an outsider, so it was not easy to intervene, but this matter seemed not simple.

"Keep eating, it tastes good." He opened his mouth to ease the atmosphere.

Cheng Li'an picked up the chopsticks and echoed: "You young people eat more, spread out and go back to rest after eating, and you have to work tomorrow."

Xie Chao didn't want to ask any more questions, so he went to eat according to his wishes.Zai Zai drank most of the glass of juice heartlessly, and his mouth was full of greasy food.

On the way back, Zai Zai walked staggeringly with his belly full, and hiccupped: "I'm going out to eat tomorrow."

Xie Chao knocked his head once: "Okay, I can't support you."

Cheng Li'an was silent all the way, no matter how Xie Chao and Zai Zai hooked him up to talk, he seemed to be absent-minded, occasionally saying "um".

This is so abnormal.

And his parents, these three people are not normal recently.

Xie Chao held his son's little hand, silently thinking that only we two are the most normal.

The room Cheng Li'an booked was on the other side of the hotel, away from Xie Chao's room. Angus and Xie Chao's crew were all next to each other.

Zai Zai yelled and held Xie Chao's hand, not looking at the road.

Xie Chao protected him and said, "Angus, do you think my Uncle Cheng was in a bad state just now, completely different from the beginning?"

"Yes, it should have a great relationship with that guest." Angus nodded.

When Xie Chao heard this, he became even more determined. Even Angus could tell that he had to find a chance to ask Uncle Cheng.

-

Cheng Li'an walked slowly into the room, without turning on the light, sat down in the dark, and remained silent for a while.

After a while, he made a phone call: "Lin Qi, there is something I want to ask you for."

The voice on the other end was warm and pleasant, just waking up from sleep, with a little sleepiness: "What's the big deal, something is wrong with your body?"

"Didn't you help me forge a medical record back then?" His hand holding the phone trembled slightly, "I want to cancel the file."

Lin Qi wondered: "Why do you want to destroy it all of a sudden? It's been so many years. Who would turn over old accounts without incident? Besides, don't worry, even if my share is turned over, I won't be able to see it."

Cheng Li was quiet for a long time: "I'm worried, you know that."

Lin Qi replied: "Although I am the dean now, I only have the forged file here, and the real one has been taken away by Damon long ago. Don't worry, you guys."

"That's good. I just mentioned it to Damon before, but I didn't expect him to do it."

Lin Qi smiled lightly: "Don't worry, don't worry, you take special care of your own people and protect them well."

Cheng Li'an sighed softly: "If only I could have met Simon earlier, I wouldn't have gone to find you by myself back then."

"What's wrong with me?" Lin Qi's temper didn't change at all, "I'm the savior who saved you from life and death, and you didn't come to find me by yourself, I found out that you have a ghost by relying on the doctor's intuition .”

His tone suddenly softened: "I saw Little Biscuit on TV yesterday. He is so old. My mother still praised him for being handsome."

Cheng Li'an laughed again: "Why do you always call out the name you picked up before, and told you his name several times."

"I took the biscuit, it sounds nice." Lin Qi sighed suddenly, "The little biscuit also became a father back then, I don't know what he suffered. You two, really... don't know how to say it... "

Cheng Li'an leaned on the sofa and covered his face, and said in a low voice: "I am very satisfied now, and I really don't want to mention the past. In the past, I only dared to come back secretly. Fortunately, Guangping is a good person, and he still treats him Bring it out to meet me."

Lynch said comfortingly, "When Xie Guangping was a professor, you supported him."

"As for me, it's just a matter of raising my hands. Xie Guangping already has the ability."

"It's just that for so many years, I've been sorry for my little biscuit, and I've been ashamed of his parents." He was in a bad mood now, his voice was choked up, so he hurriedly said "good night" to Lynch, and hung up the phone.

Lynch said "Hello" a few times loudly, but failed to save his old friend from hanging up the phone directly.He stood in front of the window and watched for a while. Since he chose to return to China, he should let go of the past. I hope so.