“The waiter in the store next door said that Mr. Chen was a little uncomfortable as soon as he came back and took a break, so he couldn’t come for dinner.”
Once Mrs. Lan came back and said this, the three people in the living room looked at each other.
Emily Guan handed over the baby to Mrs. Lan.
“Mrs. Lan, you take care of Chambers first, we’ll be back soon after we go out.”
“Don’t make trouble, say it properly.” Amelia Bright was afraid that Emily Guan’s temper would barge into someone’s home and say something she shouldn’t, causing unnecessary misunderstandings, so she pushed Bohdi Olson, and the two of them chased after each other.
The courtyard next door to the Cheng residence is slightly smaller, just a one-storey courtyard, originally a bean curd workshop, with the eastern wall right next to the courtyard where Amelia Bright and the others live in the inner courtyard of the Cheng residence.
Emily Guan clunked directly on the door.
The man who opened the door was a tall, thin man in a blue cloth coat, looking like a waiter, weak and frail, called Xiao An, they had met, and he knew Emily Guan.
“Miss Guan, what brings you guys here?”
“We heard that Mr. Chen is back, so we specially came to invite Mr. Chen over to have dinner with us, is Mr. Chen home?”
Said, Emily Guan then directly into the courtyard, just see the middle of the courtyard set up to do woodworking tools, it looks like she came a second before are still making things, when the eyes tightened a few points.
“I haven’t seen any customers coming to this inn of yours for months, isn’t it doing good business?”
Xiao An chased after her, explained, “came guests, just yesterday, Lan sister-in-law also met, a family of three, business is not good, but just starting out are like this, our boss said that when the word of mouth is stable will be good.”
“So, where is Mr. Chen then?”
“The boss is not feeling well and is resting.”
Ann was obviously a little nervous, and even Amelia Bright could see it.
She also followed into the courtyard, “Xiaoan, don’t be nervous, we are not bandits, that is, just now Lan sister-in-law is not from you here, you gave that big basket of fruit again? Emily wants to ask you where you bought, she also wants to buy some when she leaves in the evening.”
“That may not be able to buy, that strawberry is the boss let people from Dandong airfreight, cherry is …”
The words did not finish, Xiao An suddenly stopped talking, realized that he had missed something, his face immediately white a few points.
“Strawberries flown in from Dandong?”
Bohdi Olson took two steps closer, his face was a bit condensed, “Mr. Chen is so generous, so polite even for neighbors who met in passing, only the day before yesterday Amelia said she wanted to eat strawberries, and today someone brought them to her door.”
Amelia Bright’s face didn’t look too good either.
Although this was said by her in the courtyard, if it was really overheard, it would be considered eavesdropping.
She has vaguely guessed who did this, he really has nothing to do, the full moon sent handmade wooden horses, and fireworks, and now also keep an eye on their mother and daughter’s life, from time to time to ‘send warmth’.
Who cares.
The thought of being so bugged every day made her face turn sharply.
“What do you guys mean by that? Our boss is just being nice to people.” Little Ann hurriedly stopped the crowd buy last year.
“Yeah?” Emily Guan, whose guess was the same as Amelia Bright’s, nonchalantly pushed him away and walked straight towards the inner room, saying, grimly
“Then all the more reason for me to invite Mr. Chen to the house for a meal, it’s been such a long time since we’ve been neighbors and we haven’t even met yet, it’s not really appropriate.”
Little Ann wanted to stop, but Bohdi Olson a healthy step in front of him, poor little Ann thin body, really can not cross the Bohdi Olson this tall wall of people.
Amelia Bright wanted to verify her suspicions and rushed in to follow.
The two rooms in the east and west of the courtyard are the guest rooms of the inn, and the main house facing south is the living room, which is divided into two houses, generally speaking, the east house is the master’s bedroom, and the west house does the study.
The layout here is similar to their own pride next door, Emily Guan entered the door with ease and pushed open the door of the east bedroom directly.
“Mr. Chen, we …”
Emily Guan, however, stood in the doorway, and the latter half of the sentence did not come out.
When Amelia Bright entered the house, she saw Emily Guan standing like a statue in the bedroom doorway, one foot inside the threshold and one foot outside, keeping a movement to enter but not yet inside.
“Ahem,” came a man’s cough from the inner room.
This aged and vicissitudes of coughing, as if not him!
Amelia Bright immediately also followed the stiffness, after returning to his senses, he was busy making apologies, dragging Emily Guan out to stand by the hand, and shouting inside, “Sorry, Mr. Chen, we didn’t mean to barge in.”
“It’s okay.”
The voice in the house is a little old, not long after coming out of an old man wearing a white leisure suit, looking about fifty years old, hale and hearty look reminds Amelia Bright of the deceased old man Austin to, except that the old man in front of him is slightly fat, look very kind.
“Just now I heard you and Xiaoan talking in the courtyard, what’s wrong? Is there something wrong with the things I asked Xiaoan to send over?”
“No,” Amelia Bright hastily denied, with a twinkle in her eye
“It’s just that we feel that it’s too much to accept so many things from you, so we want to come and invite you over to have a meal together, Mrs. Lan has come so many times and been refused by you, we think it’s not dead sincere enough, so we came in person.”
The old man smiled, very bright and cheerful look, “I’m not afraid of you guys, I’m too old to eat those sweet things, but my son and daughter-in-law they don’t know, always send me these, it’s a waste to put them away, so I’ll borrow the flowers and give them to you.”
After saying that, he picked up the teapot in his hand to drink tea, and after taking a sip, he said calmly that
“The people living next door to you are all young people, so I won’t go over there to join the fun, people like to be quiet when they are older, let’s talk about it next time.”
Once this was said, it dawned on the two men.
The word ‘quiet’ is a bit harsh, obviously the meaning of the eviction order.
Amelia Bright blushed and pulled Emily Guan with her.
“It’s us who took the liberty, you rest, we’ll leave now.”
“It’s okay, you’re all awake, come and have a cup of tea.”
“No, no,” Amelia Bright wanted to find a crack in the ground, she was really disgraceful to do this with the heart of a gentleman, “we will leave now, come to apologize to you some day when you are well.”
After that, she took Emily Guan’s hand and walked away, apologizing as she went, simply embarrassed to the extreme.
After pushing and shoving Bohdi Olson out, he was still asking.
“You guys have seen a ghost? What’s this reaction?”
Amelia Bright stood in the courtyard, taking deep breaths in an attempt to chase away the embarrassment, yet still embarrassed beyond words.
“I blame you all, there is nothing ah, suspicious of this and that, people a fifty-year-old grandfather, caring for the younger generation, and neighbors get along, and Mr. Chen has said that his son and daughter-in-law sent him, he can not eat sweet so give us, what is this?”
“Son and daughter-in-law?”
Bohdi Olson suddenly frowned and
“It’s not right, didn’t he say before that the wooden horse was made for his son? This has a son and daughter-in-law, more than fifty years old grandfather, make a small wooden horse for his son?”