Chapter 972 — Little Time Left
The Blossom Guardian · Page 1 of 2
"The portions here are so generous, no wonder it costs this much!" Her mother gazed in delighted surprise at the beef noodles before her. "This is easily enough for the two of us!"
"Yes..." Chen Xi smiled bitterly to herself. This must have been that waiter's doing, putting in a special word with the kitchen for the two of them. After all, though there were few customers now, she had come to look the place over before and had paid special attention to other people's portions, and they had never been this large.
This bowl held more than half again as much! And there were so many more pieces of beef that the cost of this one bowl alone must have come to fifteen yuan!
Chen Xi cast a grateful glance toward the busy waiter, then handed the chopsticks to her mother. "Mom, shall we eat?"
"All right, let's eat, Xiao Xi, you first!" Her mother looked at Chen Xi and said with tender love.
"It's so delicious!" Chen Xi knew that if she did not eat, her mother certainly would not touch a bite, so she took a mouthful first and at once pushed the noodles toward her mother.
The flavor was truly, truly wonderful, yet the better it tasted, the less Chen Xi could bear to eat it. She wanted to save it all for her mother. She could eat anytime in the future, for her life stretched long ahead of her, but her mother...
"No wonder people stream in and out of here every day, it really is delicious!" After one bite, Chen Xi's mother nodded in contentment. "Xiao Xi, you are still growing, eat more meat!"
"You eat too, Mom!" Chen Xi could hardly bring herself to eat, taking only a small piece of beef for herself while slipping a large piece into her mother's mouth...
"See, the noodle portions here really are huge, aren't they!" Feng Xiaoxiao pointed toward Chen Xi and her mother as she spoke to Wei Zhao.
"Are you really stupid or only pretending?" Wei Zhao shot back.
"What?!" Feng Xiaoxiao nearly jumped up onto the table to stomp on Wei Zhao. Why are you so fierce to me? Shen Yushu is always asking silly questions too, so why don't you ever ask her if she is really stupid or just pretending?
"Feng Xiaoxiao, what are you really after? I keep feeling something is off about you?" Wei Zhao looked at Feng Xiaoxiao and said.
"What is off about me? I am not after anything. I told you, I like you and I want to pursue you." Feng Xiaoxiao said.
Wei Zhao shook his head. If Feng Xiaoxiao would not tell the truth, then there was naturally nothing he could do about it.
Over there, Chen Xi was still sharing the same bowl of noodles with her mother, whose eyes remained full of tender love as she kept urging Chen Xi to eat more. Yet the more she did so, the more Chen Xi's heart ached, and tears slipped down before she could stop them. Afraid her mother would see, she quickly rose to her feet and hurried toward the restroom, saying as she went, "I am going to the restroom, Mom, you keep eating..."
"Eh? Why is she crying!" Feng Xiaoxiao had been watching Chen Xi's every move, and seeing her cry, she was suddenly puzzled.
"Her mother is dying." Wei Zhao said flatly.
"What!" Feng Xiaoxiao was startled and nearly sprang up from her seat. "You say her mother is dying? Really?"
"Look at her mother's complexion, so clearly ashen and lifeless. I fear she has little time left." Wei Zhao said.
"You took one look and know she has little time left?" Feng Xiaoxiao did not quite believe it.
"When Bian Que met Duke Huan of Cai, he took one look and turned away. It is the same principle." Wei Zhao said. "Sometimes, one glance is enough to tell how long a person can live."
"Then tell me how long I can live?" Feng Xiaoxiao's heart stirred, though on the surface she asked casually, while inwardly she was unbearably nervous.
"You? I see no sign that you are dying." Wei Zhao thought Feng Xiaoxiao was joking and paid it no mind, answering casually.
"Oh..." Seeing that Wei Zhao had not taken it seriously at all, Feng Xiaoxiao was suddenly disappointed.