"What did you do? Why are you in such a bad state?"
When Zhang Zhong drove to Li Yan's community to pick her up, Li Yan came out with a pair of dark circles under her eyes.
"I read a novel for a while last night, and ah ha - I didn't fall asleep until late at night."
"Why don't you go and go back to sleep. I can keep an eye on Peng Peng."
"No, I'm fine in this state. I just need to sleep in the car for a while."
"Oh well."
Li Yan said she wanted to get in the car to catch up on some sleep, but as soon as she got in the car, she completely forgot about sleeping. She and Peng Peng had a great time poking me and me poking you.
The class reunion was scheduled for the evening. The reason why Zhang Zhong took them out in the morning was because he wanted to buy some sets of clothes for Pengpeng.
Although Pengpeng already had no shortage of clothes to wear, Zhang Zhong thought that since it was the Chinese New Year, it would be outrageous not to wear some new clothes.
"Auntie, let me show you something." After fooling around for a while, Pengpeng mysteriously took out a long box from the back of the back seat.
This box is very long, about one meter.
"What is this?" Li Yan asked curiously.
Pengpeng held the box with a mysterious look on his face, "What's inside is the Nimbus 2000, the latest aircraft."
Is the aircraft a remote control plane? But the box doesn't look like it. Li Yan was a little confused and went to get the box, but Peng Peng hugged the box into her arms and said, "Don't move, it's very afraid of strangers."
Zhang Zhong looked through the rearview mirror and saw Peng Peng's sneaky look, and saw the confusion on Li Yan's face, which made him feel a little funny.
"Auntie, I'll just give you a look."
Then Pengpeng slowly opened the box a crack. After opening a crack, she quickly closed the box again, "Did you see it?"
"I saw it..." Li Yan was a little confused. What she saw seemed to be a broom made of wood?
"Is this Nimbus 2000?"
Pengpeng nodded heavily, "Auntie, it's not that I don't want to show it to you. My father said that magicians' things cannot be easily seen by Muggles."
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Later, Zhang Zhong explained it to Li Yan, and she knew what the so-called Nimbus 2000 was.
"You usually tell her these stories. What was the gourd boy last time, and what is the magician this time. Where did you hear them from?"
Pengpeng shook his head and said, "Dad told me many stories, including Snow White."
"Snow White?" Li Yan glanced at Zhang Zhong in surprise, "Are you still paying attention to the fifth-grade vegetative person? I remember he told a story about Snow White last time?"
Zhang nodded and said, "Let's take a look sometimes."
Seeing Zhang Zhong nod, Li Yan became interested, "Did you read his new book last night?"
Zhang Zhong glanced at Li Yan's two big dark circles through the rearview mirror and said, "You were able to fall asleep in the middle of the night just by reading his new book last night?"
"Otherwise, who else distributed a new book last night?"
"Oh, I thought you usually read romance novels."
"Who are you scolding?"
…
Did I curse?
"Those romance novels are for little girls. I don't want to read them, such as the domineering president falling in love with me. I've been reading books about fifth-grade vegetative people recently. You haven't answered me yet. His new book has you
Have you seen it?"
"Looked at it."
"Have you finished reading?"
"Well, I've finished reading."
"Oh, then why are you in such good condition?"
Of course it’s because I read the book before it was released…
But of course he couldn't answer like that, but said, "I'm used to staying up late, so I don't feel much."
In fact, Zhang Zhong felt that Li Yan might be able to react after some time. She just didn't think about it for herself now. When she thinks about it when she is free, she might associate herself with the fifth-grade vegetative state.
She had heard about Pengpeng learning painting, and Zhang Zhong's name in whispers was the writer Zhang Qianli. There were many coincidences.
"So what do you think of his new book?"
"Very good, very good."
Li Yan smiled and said, "I think it's very good too, but his style seems to have changed a bit recently. The previous book "Flowers for Algernon" was not a detective novel, but this time it is a spy novel.
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"Then do you think it's good for him to change like this?" Zhang Zhong asked.
"I don't know. Anyway, the book is good to read. It's just a bit regretful. I still want to continue reading Poirot. Logically speaking, Poirot's two books are quite successful. Why should we change the style? It would be better to make a series.
OK, I really don’t understand.”
At this time, Zhang Zhong regarded Li Yan as an ordinary reader and asked her these things to know her opinion on his change of style. He seemed to have no resistance. As for the regrets about the Poirot series, he could make up for it if he had the opportunity in the future.
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"If you like Fifth Grade Vegetative Man, I'll get you a signed book from him later."
Li Yan's eyes suddenly lit up. Her eyes were already bright, but now they looked even brighter under the dark circles. "Can you still get an autograph?"
"Well, there is a classmate who works in a publishing house and can use the back door."
"Aren't all your classmates majoring in computer science? How come some of them work in a publishing house?"
"High school classmate."
"High school classmates? I know most of your high school classmates. Who went to work in a publishing house?"
It's okay that they all know each other... But Li Yan said the same thing. He was in the same class as Li Zhuo at the time. This girl's elementary school was nearby. She would go to their class when she had nothing to do. After a long time, she also knew the classmates in their class.
Seven, seven, eight, eight.
"Little Fatty sitting in the back, I don't know if you still remember me. I don't study well, I often play games, and I don't have much presence in the class."
Li Yan raised her eyebrows and thought for a while, then finally shook her head, "I can't remember, it's been too long."
"Okay, we're here."
Zhang Zhong took Li Yan and Peng Peng around the mall...not just one, but many times.
In the past, Zhang Zhong always brought Pengpeng to buy clothes very quickly. As long as he saw something Pengpeng liked, he would just swipe his card. This time, after Li Yan came with him, the speed of buying clothes was greatly reduced.
She took Pengpeng to try on several sets of clothes in each store. Whenever Zhang Zhong said he wanted to buy something, she would say: Go to another store to have a look and come back to buy again.
But when he walked out of the mall, he didn't see Li Yan looking back.
Zhang Zhong checked the time. They spent more than three hours shopping in the mall, and finally bought only one coat and two sweaters for Pengpeng.
Pengpeng was much happier than before, and she even discussed it with Li Yan.
"Auntie, that little cotton-padded jacket just now is also pretty good-looking, but it's only red. I want the pink one."
"And that vest, doesn't it look great with my sweater? But I already have several vests..."
To be honest, Zhang Zhong was listening to their "women" talk and couldn't understand the fun at all.