Chapter 331: Chapter 331: The Fruity Scent That Drifted Into His Breath
At the Song Family’s dinner table, Tang Li didn’t feel as constrained as she did at the Lai Family.
There were none of the many rules she had anticipated.
Since it was the approaching New Year, the sounds of fireworks and firecrackers ca intermittently from outside.
Song Jingtian was nibbling on a crab leg, but his mind had already drifted outside. Xiao Minglan, seeing him like this, helplessly yet amusedly said, “We just happen to have so fireworks at ho. After dinner, let Ji Ming accompany you to set them off for a while.”
The little guy was delighted and hurriedly buried his head to scarf down his al.
Just as Xiao Minglan was about to look away, she glimpsed Tang Li sitting next to Song Jingtian. Not wanting to neglect her guest, she called out, “Help yourself to anything you like, and don’t be shy at our ho.”
“Okay,” Tang Li replied with a smile.
Just as she turned her head back, a small porcelain dish appeared beside her.
It was filled with crab at,
Song Baiyan’s deep magnetic voice said, “Treat this like your own ho. Whatever you like to eat, just speak up if you can’t reach it.”
Tang Li looked up, and Song Baiyan had just finished wiping his hands and set the towel aside.
Dinner was nearly finished by seven o’clock.
After getting up from the table, Song Jingtian urged Ji Ming to go set off the fireworks.
Tonight, Tang Li was Song Jingtian’s guest. Now that he had run off by himself, she felt a bit awkward and went to help tidy up the dishes into the kitchen before suggesting that she should leave.
Xiao Minglan intervened, “If you leave now, and Jingtian cos back and doesn’t see you, he will throw a tantrum. If you don’t mind, why not stay and watch so TV with this old lady? Ji Ming will keep an eye on Jingtian, and the little guy should be back in an hour.”
Given the situation, Tang Li was no longer in a hurry to leave.
She didn’t see Song Baiyan downstairs, but since Ji Ming was still there, she glanced upstairs and guessed that Song Baiyan might be in the study.
Sitting down on the couch, Xiao Minglan turned on the television with the remote control and chatted with Tang Li, her manner very amiable.
Even soone as friendly as Qin Yueru, who had been a wealthy wife for over two decades, occasionally revealed her difficult nature, but with Xiao Minglan in a prominent family like the Song Family, Tang Li didn’t feel any superiority.
Upon learning that Tang Li had grown up in Diannan, Xiao Minglan’s smile deepened, “What a coincidence, my eldest once spent several years in the military district in Diannan.”
“You studied in the Capital, are there any other family mbers at ho?”
Hearing this, Tang Li, who was peeling an apple, paused. She didn’t want to lie to Xiao Minglan, but so things were not easy to say, so she simply chose to address the simpler part: “My mother has passed away. I ca to the Capital two years ago and have been living with relatives, but now that I have a job, the company has also rented an apartnt for outside.”
Xiao Minglan then asked Tang Li about her age, and Tang Li truthfully responded, “I’ll be 20 after the New Year.”
“Still so young?” Xiao Minglan was taken aback.
She had thought that Tang Li was already in her mid-twenties.
Although Tang Li looked young, Xiao Minglan had assud she was a recent graduate when she heard Tang Li speaking about working. She really hadn’t expected Tang Li to be only nineteen.
When Tang Li went to the restroom, Aunt Min, who had just finished washing dishes, ca over and heard Xiao Minglan sigh, “She’s a bit too young.”
Aunt Min, puzzled, took the initiative to ask the elderly lady.
“If I’m not mistaken, she is the young girl who saved our eldest by the Mihesha River back then.”
“Miss Tang?” Aunt Min was sowhat surprised.
Xiao Minglan nodded, “Earlier at the dinner table, I noticed the eldest had sothing special towards her, not like it was their first eting. She said she grew up in Diannan and spent a few years near the Mihesha River with her mother; it reminded of so things from when the eldest was in the military.”
Aunt Min wondered, “Could it be just a coincidence?”
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