But what Xu Shiqi didn't expect was that since this conversation, her opportunities to meet the girl became more frequent.
Two days later, it was Friday again. At about seven in the evening, Xu Shiqi received a call from Wen Baohua while she was tearing off the calendar. It turned out that Xia Bang was on a business trip again. She was sitting alone at home, feeling bored, and wanted to find someone to go out for a walk and talk with.
Xu Shiqi heard that women's personalities would suddenly change during pregnancy, and they would be different from usual. Baohua's voice on the phone was indeed muffled. She was always very open-minded, and it seemed that she was also suffering from some distress. Because Baohua's pregnancy had not exceeded three months, it seemed better for her to rest quietly, so she said, "Wait at home, don't come out," and then she got up.
When Wang Yuan saw her daughter going out, she casually asked where she was going. Xu Shiqi naturally would not tell the truth to irritate her, so she just said that she was going to get together with her classmates and left.
When they arrived at Wen Baohua's house, the woman looked no different from usual. But as soon as they entered, they felt that such a big house with only one person was indeed cold and lonely. Xu Shiqi first turned on the TV in the living room. This was her habit when she lived alone before, at least it felt more lively.
Wen Baohua's appetite seemed to have become better than before. She brought out a pile of snacks and prepared to eat them while talking to Xu Shiqiu. At this time, the doorbell rang again, and Xu Shiqiu got up to open the door.
Then I saw Wen Jialuo standing outside the door.
Xu Shiqi opened his eyes wide and blurted out: "What are you doing here?"
Wen Jialuo glanced at her, pushed her aside and went in to take off her shoes: "Is this your house or my sister's?" She walked in and put a box in her hand on the coffee table, "Sister, I brought you a mousse cake."
"Jia Luo, you are so kind." Wen Baohua happily opened the package and started eating in small bites.
Wen Jialuo fell on the sofa, rubbed the back of his neck, and asked a little tiredly: "Is there any more food? I haven't had dinner yet."
This sentence had a somewhat frightening effect. Wen Baohua and Xu Shiqi, who had just walked to the sofa, were both stunned and stared at her in surprise.
"What's wrong?"
Wen Baohua quickly swallowed the dessert that was already melting in his mouth, and said hurriedly: "There's more, I'll go heat it up for you."
"Let me do it." Xu Shiqi reached out and pressed her, saying with a smile, "It doesn't make sense to let a pregnant woman do it."
Sure enough, there were some dishes and rice in the kitchen. Xu Shiqi put them in the microwave to heat them up, then thought for a moment and turned on the gas to fry an egg. Finally, he put them all on a plate and arranged them like a rice bowl.
As soon as she brought out the plate, she saw Wen Jialuo already sitting at the table waiting. Xu Shiqi handed her a spoon and poured a glass of water and placed it next to her.
Wen Baohua also came over and said with a smile, "This egg is so fragrant. Seventeen, did you add vinegar?"
Then she saw Xu Shiqi staring blankly at the person sitting there eating, and when she looked over, she was just as stunned as her. She didn't know how long it had been since she saw her sister eating like this. She put every spoonful full into her mouth. Her mouth bulged quickly but she swallowed quickly too. In a short while, she had finished half a plate of rice. Wen Baohua felt goose bumps on her arms. She hugged her chest and watched, still a little scared. The eggs that Shiqi fried smelled so fragrant, but the eggs were fried too tender, and the tender yellow liquid spread softly on the rice. Wen Baohua was just thinking that Jialuo didn't seem to eat this kind of liquid egg yolk, but before she could finish her thought, Wen Jialuo had already put the liquid egg yolk mixed with rice into her mouth one bite after another.
Wen Baohua suddenly felt that he might have eaten too many snacks today and felt like he had indigestion.
Xu Shiqi's expression looked similar to hers. The two of them looked at each other, feeling strange, but they didn't dare to say it in front of the girl.
Wen Jialuo finished his meal quickly, pushed the plate away and burped.
"You..." Xu Shiqi asked jokingly, "How long have you not eaten?"
"I ate a little less at lunch." Wen Jialuo seemed to be still savoring something, her eyes slightly narrowed, not caring that the two people in front of her were looking at her strangely.
Xu Shiqi pointed at her speechlessly. Wen Jialuo licked the edge of his lips with the tip of his tongue as she moved. Hmm, it turned out to be a little liquid egg yolk.
Xu Shiqi's hand felt like it was burned, so she quickly withdrew it and took the plate into the kitchen. When she came out again, the two sisters were already sitting in the living room talking, and the TV was turned off.
"TV has radiation." Wen Jialuo said.
"The radiation from microwave ovens is also very strong." Xu Shiqi nodded, "Baohua, can you please not use them in the future?"
"Okay." Wen Baohua said with a smile. Although her husband is not around now, she has family, friends, and the baby in her belly, so this world is still perfect.
While chatting, Xu Shiqi realized that Wen Jialuo had left work early and rushed back home because she heard from Baohua on the phone that she wanted to eat the mousse cake she had brought back before. No wonder she looked a little tired.
When the three of them were sitting there, Wen Baohua was the one who was talking most of the time. Maybe she was too lonely alone, so she kept talking. Xia Bang's mother wanted to come over to take care of her when she heard that her daughter-in-law was pregnant. Xia Bang also felt that he didn't have much time to accompany her, so he asked her opinion. Baohua felt that it was not easy for the old lady to come all the way here, and her living habits were a little different. She was afraid that they would not get along well. Besides, this small family belonged to her and Xia Bang. Privately, she didn't want anyone to intervene for too long, even if it was her mother-in-law.
Xia Bang always listened to her, so he refused his mother this time, but he still couldn't hide his silence.
Hearing this, Xu Shiqi smiled and said that the relationship between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law is the most difficult to get along with in the world. You are not the first nor the last, so there is no need to be depressed about it.
Wen Baohua said helplessly that this is something you can only know after getting married, and you will know it in the future.
So why should I bother myself with this? Isn't it good to be alone? When Xu Shiqi said this, she knew that Wen Jialuo was staring at her. She felt helpless, thinking that it was better in the past, when no one knew her details, and didn't know what she meant by her words. The mask that was not torn was foolproof, but now it was like a hole was poked, and air was leaking everywhere, making her feel cold.
Although he was complaining, when Xia Bang called, Baohua's face was still filled with joy, and he walked aside to answer the phone.
Xu Shiqi started to eat snacks, all kinds of plums, some sour and some salty, which made her face slightly distorted. She thought to herself that pregnant women really have strange tastes.
“Does your family still sell porridge?”
Huh? Xu Shiqi looked up.
"Can we still eat porridge tomorrow?" Wen Jialuo asked in a different way.
"Yes." Xu Shiqi spat out the plum pit, "... I think we also steamed golden cake today, do you want some?"
"Okay." Wen Jialuo nodded and decided on breakfast for the next day.
After a while, Wen Baohua finished the call and seemed very satisfied. He began to yawn and fell asleep. Wen Jialuo reminded him not to make too many calls and it was best not to use the mobile phone. He should just install a landline. Then he took Xu Shiqi away.
"Why do you seem to know so much?" Xu Shiqi smiled at her when they went downstairs.
"But you have to call me auntie," Wen Jialuo said, holding the car keys with a smile on her lips, "She is closer to me than you, her godmother."
Xu Shiqi glared at her angrily, but she also felt that although they were not biological sisters, they were closer than those of other families.
After getting in the car, Wen Jialuo took a small box from the back seat and threw it to her. When she opened it, she saw that it was the same mousse cake that Baohua had eaten, with a circle of strawberries on it, which looked sweet. Xu Shiqi looked at the back and saw that there were still a few boxes. He couldn't help but raise his eyebrows: "Why did you suddenly become a big eater?"
"I brought that to my grandma." Wen Jialuo started the car. "She hasn't been sleeping well lately, so her appetite has also been poor."
"Then I can't eat it." Xu Shiqi immediately turned around and wanted to put it back.
Wen Jialuo pulled her with one hand and said, "Come on, don't miss this one."
Xu Shiqi then sat down obediently. But she didn't eat it immediately. It felt a bit strange to eat cake leisurely in Wen Jialuo's car. After thinking about it, she suddenly realized that it seemed that he was ordering the girl around. When she thought about it, she suddenly realized that she seemed to have gotten used to having Wen Jialuo send her off. This time, Wen Jialuo sent her directly to the door of the store without asking, and then left without saying anything. She stood at the door for a while, then smiled and went back to the store.
Leaving the cake to her mother who preferred sweets, Xu Shiqi went to the kitchen to confirm that there would indeed be a menu that she would provide to Wen Jialuo tomorrow morning, and then went back.
The next day, she was woken up by the phone ringing. In the middle of winter, no one wanted to get out of bed. Xu Shiqi had good personal habits, except that he would hide himself in the bed when he was asleep. From the outside, he looked like a mass, and it was impossible to tell the direction of his head and feet.
Xu Shiqi struggled to pull aside the quilt and thrust his head out, then reached out to touch his cell phone.
"Hello..." The voice was a little hoarse early in the morning, and there seemed to be a lingering echo in the hoarseness.
“… It’s me.”
Xu Shiqi calmed down and glanced at his phone: "Wen Jialuo, what time is it now?"
"Seven o'clock," the other party paused, "Didn't you say that breakfast should be eaten between seven and nine..."
Xu Shiqi held back and said, "I mean seven o'clock is fine, eight o'clock is fine, and nine o'clock and one minute doesn't make much difference."
"The early bird catches the worm. Hurry up, I'll wait in front of your store."
Staring at the phone angrily, the girl hung up without even saying goodbye. Xu Shiqi shrank back into the quilt. It's up to you if you want to wait, my store doesn't open so early. After tossing and turning for a while, he found that he was awake and no longer sleepy even if he closed his eyes. Xu Shiqi sighed.
You are so cruel!
Half an hour later, Xu Shiqi appeared in front of her store, panting. The girl's car was parked there. Without looking, one could tell that the air conditioner was on and it was warm. The girl was actually reading a newspaper. It couldn't be more comfortable.
As soon as he walked to the car, the door opened. Xu Shiqi got in and spoke with a cloud of white mist: "I was wondering what's wrong with you, so early in the morning..."
The words were interrupted by a cup of warm milk tea stuffed into his hand, although it was the freshly brewed kind bought from the supermarket.
Xu Shiqi held the milk tea in a daze.
"I was starving waiting for so long. I wanted to use this to warm my stomach." Wen Jialuo put away the newspaper. "You looked so cold..."
Xu Shiqi exhaled, clearing away the confusion in her heart. She lowered her head and took a sip. Sure enough, the warm and sweet taste slid from the tip of her tongue all the way to her stomach, and she felt a little more comfortable.
Wen Jialuo drove away from the store entrance, and Xu Shiqi kept looking back: "Don't you want to drink porridge?"
"Your store is too lazy to do business. It's not even open yet." Wen Jialuo said casually, "Let's eat tomorrow. Let's go to another place today."
What a spoiled little girl! Is my shop a breakfast shop? Those are just sold as a side dish, okay? Xu Shiqi was thinking but didn't say anything. She was busy drinking her milk tea.
Wen Jialuo drove the car directly to a shop that specialized in breakfast. Although it only sold breakfast, it had two floors and was decorated as magnificently as a hotel. The waiters all looked good.
When Wen Jialuo took out a card from her bag, the manager appeared and took them to a small private room on the second floor with a smile on his face. Then, without even asking what they wanted to eat, someone pushed a cart over and placed various small plates on the table.
Black truffle foie gras, vinegar egg tart, cod roll, green tea shrimp dumplings, crab roe dumplings, blood glutinous rice and bird's nest porridge...
This is really a table of yellow, green, white, and red breakfasts. Xu Shiqi looked at it with his chin in his hand. Wen Jialuo signed the list presented by the manager, then raised her chin and said, "Eat it." Seeing that Xu Shiqi was really curious, she said, "My mother is a frequent customer here. She called to order for me... Let's see what you like to eat."
"You took the initiative to come for breakfast," Xu Shiqi tilted his head, "How did your mother react?"
Wen Jialuo had a blank expression on her face: "Same reaction as you and my sister yesterday."
Xu Shiqi laughed: "So you discovered it."
"You are the weird ones, not me."
"Then why did you suddenly start eating normally again?" Xu Shiqi asked cautiously.
Wen Jialuo seemed to be thinking for a while. Before she started eating, there was a strange expression on her face, like a wolf that had not caught prey for half a month. Her eyes were glowing green. She licked her teeth again. Xu Shiqi was sharp-eyed and saw that she was licking her pointed canine teeth.
"I suddenly feel hungry." Wen Jialuo finally said. His stomach was always empty. Even if he filled it with food, his heart was still empty. "I'm very hungry."
Well, it was a bit too much to let a very hungry person look at a table of delicious food and not move. Xu Shiqi took the initiative to start eating, and then saw Wen Jialuo devouring the food in a gentle way. Others have insatiable desires, but she is a bit like that, but it is the desire of appetite. Although Xu Shiqi told herself in her heart that it had nothing to do with her, it really had nothing to do with her, but she couldn't help but worry about whether this girl would turn from anorexia to binge eating!