Li Xiaoshan sat by the lake for more than an hour, smoking almost one cigarette after another. He smoked at least half a pack of cigarettes before suddenly throwing away the cigarette butt in his hand, standing up and leaving.
Xu Tongdao and Zheng Qing watched him walk about ten meters before getting up and following him.
"Hey, where do you think he is going?"
Zheng Qing asked Comrade Xu in a low voice.
Tongdao Xu shook his head slightly, "Do you think I am a fortune teller? Even if I am a fortune teller, my calculations are not so accurate, right? You will know if you follow me."
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Li Xiaoshan never noticed that Xu Tongdao and Zheng Qing were following him.
Li Xiaoshan walked through half of the park and came to an old residential area. He walked into an alley with his head down and said nothing, and came to the door of a bungalow with a yard. He hesitated for a moment before walking into the building.
He walked into the small courtyard, took out the key from his waist, opened the door and walked into one of the rooms.
Comrade Xu and Zheng Qing, who followed later, were a little surprised - after Li Xiaoshan entered the door, he didn't close the door, and as soon as he took a step inside, he stood blankly in the door and did not continue to go into the room.
"What happened? This guy was hit on an acupuncture point?"
Zheng Qing murmured in a low voice.
Xu Tongdao frowned and said nothing. They stood outside the courtyard. Although the fence of the courtyard was not very high, they could see the situation in the courtyard and Li Xiaoshan standing in the door of the room, but they could not see the people in Li Xiaoshan's room.
specific situation.
Under such circumstances, no matter how big his imagination was, he could not figure out what happened to Li Xiaoshan.
At this moment, the door of the room next to Li Xiaoshan's room opened, and a young woman in her twenties came out with a child in her arms. She looked at Li Xiaoshan who was standing in the door of the next room and coughed lightly, "Hey
, Xiaoshan! When Pingping leaves, let me tell you something."
Hearing this, Li Xiaoshan looked back at the young woman, frowning slightly, his face as heavy as water, took a deep breath, then walked out of the room, forced a smile, and asked: "What, what are you talking about?"
Young woman: "Pingping asked me to tell you... She, she said she wanted you to forget her, and she also wished you could find a better one in the future. She wished you the best. Yes! Just these two sentences."
After saying that, she looked at Li Xiaoshan with some sympathy, opened her mouth, and seemed to want to say something, but in the end she just said: "Xiaoshan, you, are you okay?"
Li Xiaoshan forced out a smile, but the smile was full of bitterness. He shook his head slightly and his voice became very low, "It's okay! Thank you, thank you!"
After saying that, he nodded, turned around and entered the room, and this time he closed the door.
"His girlfriend is gone? Does this mean she broke up with him?"
Outside the yard, Zheng Qing asked Comrade Xu with a complicated expression.
Tongdao Xu nodded slightly, agreeing with his judgment.
Zheng Qing sighed, "This guy is too miserable. He lost his job and lost his love in one day. What a bad luck!"
Comrade Xu narrowed his eyes, but still didn't answer.
After a while, Zheng Qing suddenly said: "Hey, you said...this guy's girlfriend...couldn't it be that he really hooked up with the boss's brother-in-law? Otherwise, he shouldn't even meet this guy.
When a guy sees someone, he packs up his things and leaves, don’t you think so?”
Comrade Xu still didn't answer, he just nodded slightly and shook his head slightly.
This confused Zheng Qing, "What do you mean by nodding and shaking your head?"
Xu Tongdao: "It doesn't matter what I mean, like this! I'll wait here. You go back to the Shuxiang Pavilion and order a few dishes. When ordering, pretend to be curious and ask the waiter over there who Li Xiaoshan is.
What kind of person he is, focus on understanding his craftsmanship and attitude towards doing things, go ahead! After you have inquired, come and meet me here."
Zheng Qing raised his eyebrows in surprise, "You attach so much importance to this guy? It's just a job of recruiting a chef. Do you need to be so serious?"
Comrade Xu smiled and said, "When recruiting a head chef, of course you have to be serious. Moreover, it is a rare opportunity to get to know such a person. Knowing more is better than not knowing anything at all. Go ahead! I'll wait for you here."
Zheng Qing: "Okay... okay! I'll go then. If you need anything, just call me."
Comrade Xu returned the gesture with an OK gesture.
Zheng Qing left. Comrade Xu looked at the closed door of Li Xiaoshan's room, and then at both ends of the alley... He saw a canteen not far away. He hesitated slightly, walked over, took out his wallet and bought a bottle.
Mineral water, and then sat on a plastic stool at the entrance of the canteen, drinking water and resting.
There was a pretty young woman sitting at the counter of the canteen. She was looking up at the TV in the corner. Some TV series was playing on the TV.
When she saw Comrade Xu bought water and did not leave, but sat outside the door to rest, she just smiled and said nothing.
After all, the stools outside her canteen are for people to rest.
Time passed quietly. Comrade Xu sat calmly outside the canteen, taking a sip of water from time to time. His eyes were always paying attention to Li Xiaoshan's door intentionally or unintentionally. Sitting in his position, he could just see Li Xiaoshan's door.
About half an hour later, the door next to Li Xiaoshan's room opened again, and the young woman who had just sent a message to Li Xiaoshan came out of the door holding her child.
At first, Xu Tongdao didn't pay attention.
But as the young woman walked out of the yard and walked toward the canteen with the child in her arms, Comrade Xu's heart moved and he looked at the young woman holding the child.
Not long after, the young woman walked into the canteen with her child in her arms and said to the woman at the counter: "Bring me a pack of Ice Cream!"
"Hey, good!"
The woman at the counter stood up, opened the freezer not far away with a smile, and took out a pack of Bingbaolu frozen into ice cubes.
A large red ice cube wrapped in a transparent packaging bag.
Tongdao Xu, who was sitting outside the store, couldn't help but look nostalgic when he saw this thing.
He also liked this stuff when he was a boy.
I remember that when I was in elementary school, Bingbaolu came in a white packaging bag. After I entered middle school, it became a transparent packaging bag, but the large ice cubes that were originally colorless turned into red or orange ice cubes.
"Boss lady! Get me a pack too!"
Tongdao Xu stood up and expressed that he wanted to do it too.
The landlady agreed crisply and got him a pack.
The young woman holding the child glanced at Xu Tongdao and smiled.
Comrade Xu smiled back and said naturally, "It's getting hotter and hotter today, so Bing Bao Lu is better!"
The young woman holding the child smiled and agreed: "Yes! Ice Baolu is cheap and durable, especially if it is frozen hard."
Tongdao Xu took the Bingbaolu handed over by the landlady and nodded, "Yes! It's so hard that you can chew it for at least an hour, and it's cool to hold in your hands."
The young woman holding the child chuckled and turned to leave.
Tongdao Xu suddenly asked: "Hey, sister-in-law! Do you know how Li Xiaoshan and his girlfriend broke up?"
The young woman holding the child turned back in surprise and looked at Comrade Xu up and down, "You... know Li Xiaoshan and his girlfriend?"