Wen Xinya seemed to have thought of something and continued, "I remember when I was a kid, I was often hungry. One time, I found a customer's leftover lunch box in the trash can at the entrance of a restaurant. The owner of the restaurant saw me and chased me for three blocks with a stick. He kept calling me a brat and said that these leftovers were used to feed pigs. When I was happily holding the half lunch box and preparing to have a full meal, it was snatched away by a beggar. I was so sad that I cried with my head in my hands."
Si Yiyan remained silent. He naturally knew about Wen Xinya's past, but hearing her talk about it in person gave him a different feeling.
As if she realized that her topic was a bit heavy, Wen Xinya changed the subject and asked, "What were you like when you were a child?"
Si Yiyan seemed to be lost in a long memory. After a while, he said calmly, "When I was young, I was a spoiled child and very timid. I would cry and make a fuss if I was not satisfied. I could get what I wanted just by crying. My father would often get furious about this, but my mother said it was good and I could live a peaceful life."
My father was often filled with sorrow. How could he, with his character, be able to take on such a huge family business? Even the elders around him disliked him. If his parents had not died one after another, he would probably have grown up mediocrely, just as his mother wished!
However, just as my mother said, his mediocrity prevented the old guys from killing him immediately, giving my father's old subordinates the opportunity to take him back to the country.
Wen Xinya was stunned. She really couldn't associate Si Yiyan's current appearance with his childhood, but she subconsciously felt that Si Yiyan did not lie to him.
What does a person have to go through to have his weakness and fragility tempered into the coldness and indifference he has today
She thought of herself. She had experienced a life and death experience, and her rebirth completely changed herself.
And what about him! What did he go through
At this time, the proprietress brought another plate of steamed clams. Wen Xinya quickly took a clam and gently pried it open: "I heard that pearls may be born from clams like this, but I don't know if it's true."
Si Yiyan smiled and said, "The chance of this happening is very small. Only old clams can contain pearls. The waters around here have been fished for years. Where would we get old clams?"
The clams were pried open, and as expected, there were no pearls inside. She pried open a few more clams, and there were still no pearls inside.
Although Wen Xinya was a little disappointed, it did not affect her interest in enjoying the food.
Si Yiyan peeled the seafood for her and Wen Xinya ate happily.
At this time, the oysters came up. Facing Wen Xinya's smiling gaze, Si Yiyan calmly picked up the oysters and pried them open with a knife.
Wen Xinya stared at Si Yiyan and said, "I heard that to eat oysters, you have to pry them open and suck them into your mouth."
Under Wen Xinya's gaze, Si Yiyan calmly picked up the oyster, brought it to his lips and sucked it into his mouth.
Eating raw oysters is generally recognized as the most uncivilized behavior, and many people even think that eating oysters is an indecent act, so many people are unwilling to eat oysters in public. However, Si Yiyan ate it very elegantly, which made her feel pleasing to the eye. She originally wanted to embarrass him, but ended up making Wen Xinya realize that eating raw oysters is indecent, but it actually depends on who is eating the oysters.
"It tastes good, you should try it too." Si Yiyan said as he pried open another oyster and placed it on the plate in front of Wen Xinya.
"Well, I don't want to eat such disgusting things." Wen Xinya picked up the oysters from the plate and put them on Si Yiyan's plate with a look of disgust. She definitely couldn't eat as elegantly as Si Yiyan, so she didn't give Si Yiyan the chance to make fun of her.
Si Yiyan's smile deepened, and he put the oysters back on Wen Xinya's plate: "Be good, eat it, maybe you'll get a surprise after you eat it!"
Wen Xinya's curiosity was aroused by him. She looked at Si Yiyan and asked, "What surprise will there be?"
Si Yiyan's voice was filled with a low, coaxing tone: "You'll know after you eat it!"
"Really?" Wen Xinya looked at him with some suspicion, always feeling that he had bad intentions.
Si Yiyan couldn't help but laughed softly: "It's more real than pearls!"
Curiosity kills the cat, and Wen Xinya is the cat at this moment, so she showed an expression of a hero who would cut off his own arm, picked up the oyster, took a deep breath and brought it to her lips.
Si Yiyan looked at her with a tragic expression as if she was about to die, and couldn't help but joked, "It's just an oyster, there's no need to make such a tragic expression as if she's going through fire and water!"
Wen Xinya closed her eyes, put the oyster to her lips and sucked it. The acidity of the lemon neutralized the saltiness of the oyster. It tasted fresh and delicious in her mouth. It was really good.
At this time, Wen Xinya felt like there was something in her mouth. She reached out and took a tissue, spitting it out gently. When she looked closely, she saw a flat pearl with not very good luster lying on the tissue.
Wen Xinya's eyes widened, she reached out to pick up the pearls on the tissue, and said in surprise: "Oh! There are really pearls!"
Seeing her eyes becoming brighter due to excitement, Si Yiyan couldn't help but smile and said, "You are very lucky."
Wen Xinya looked at the pearl in her hand as if she had found a treasure: "Si Yiyan, how did you know that there would be a pearl in this oyster?"
He had never opened an oyster, so how could he have predicted that there would be pearls inside
Si Yiyan smiled and said, "You can think of me as a prophet!"
Wen Xinya stared at him and said, "I don't believe it. Tell me the real reason."
Si Yiyan picked up the oyster shell and showed it to Wen Xinya: "Look at the shell of this oyster. Is there a piece missing? You can tell at a glance that it was missing a long time ago. This proves that the oyster here was once injured."
Wen Xinya asked in confusion: "What does the injury of the oyster have to do with the pearl?"
Si Yiyan said: "An oyster that has never been injured can never produce pearls. Pearls are the product of wound healing. Oysters can secrete a kind of shiny nacre. When a small grain of sand drills into the oyster, these nacres start to work, covering the surface of the small grain of sand layer by layer. Day after day, a beautiful pearl is formed. Therefore, pearls are the product of pain. Only after years of polishing can beautiful pearls be formed."
Si Yiyan's voice was meaningful. In his eyes, she was a pearl, a grain of sand that had been transformed into a pearl after painful polishing. Although she still needed to be polished, sooner or later she would bloom with her own brilliance.
Wen Xinya carefully examined the pearl in her hand, and suddenly felt that the pearl became extremely precious: "Compared to the transformation of a butterfly into a cocoon, the years of painful polishing of a pearl seem to be even more precious." She suddenly looked at Si Yiyan and said: "Si Yiyan, do you believe that one day I will also emit my own brilliance like a pearl."
Si Yiyan smiled and said, "I've never doubted it." He looked at her quietly and said, "There is a beautiful legend in this town. Everyone who finds pearls in their food is lucky and will be happy."
Wen Xinya smiled and said, "There is actually such a saying. But I like it. From now on, this pearl will be my lucky charm."