I asked the proprietress in confusion, and she looked at the two of us with a smile, then slowly said:

“I won’t accept the money. It’s my apology.”

If I came with Fatty and the others, I would probably be very grateful for the free beer sent by the lady boss, but this time it was not Fatty and the others who came with me, but this little girl Liu Tongtong…

Seeing this, I was about to ask the landlady to return the beer, but Liu Tongtong was obviously one step ahead of me. She took the bottle opener from the landlady and then silently opened the lid of the beer in front of her.

“Thank you, Madam Boss.”

“Hey, girl… why thank me? It’s all my duty.”

Upon seeing this, the proprietress smiled and said a few words to us before leaving. I looked at the beer in front of me and sighed silently. Now that the bottle has been opened, there is no way to return it even if I want to, right?

“Why do you want to drink?”

I looked at the beer in front of me and couldn’t help but feel a little confused. Although Liu Tongtong couldn’t be called a good girl, she definitely wasn’t someone who liked drinking either.

“Of course, it’s to make up for the regret of not having a drink with you last time.”

“Last time?”

After hearing what she said, I immediately recalled the last time I accompanied her to a dinner party, except that she drank quite a lot that time.

It’s wine again…

Thinking of this, I suddenly felt a headache and melancholy, so much so that I subconsciously said:

“Why do you guys like drinking so much?”

“Oh, brother… From what you said, you’ve had drinks with other girls?”

“Uh……”

After hearing what Liu Tongtong said, I couldn’t help but feel a little embarrassed. However, Liu Tongtong didn’t continue to ask me anything. Instead, she silently picked up her beer and gently tapped the beer bottle in front of me with the bottle mouth.

“The drunkard’s interest is not in wine, but in the mountains and rivers.”

Liu Tongtong said this while supporting her chin with one hand, then tilted her head slightly, smiled at me and spoke slowly.

Chapter 261: Caring about Mountains and Rivers

After hearing what Liu Tongtong said, I not only raised my eyebrows, but also stopped serving the soup. When the girl saw that I stopped serving the soup, she couldn’t help but take the porcelain bowl from my hand with a smile.

“Hey, thank you, bro.”

This little girl…

I didn’t say anything when I saw this, but just took another porcelain bowl and continued to serve the soup in the casserole. To be honest…even if the girl didn’t grab it, the bowl would actually be for her.

Although this action seems a bit intimate, after all, I got this meal for free, so I can’t just eat it by myself, right?

As the last rays of the sun disappeared from the horizon, night quietly climbed up the sky, dotted with stars, but not as dazzling as the crescent moon hanging in the sky.

Although I have had experience of going out for barbecue in the evening, this was my first time to have barbecue with a girl at night. Even though I have had several failed relationships, I have never had such an experience.

After all, how many girls would sit on this cheap plastic chair with me and eat barbecue with me alone at night?

Thinking of this, I let out a breath, then silently took a sip of the beer in the bottle. While secretly sighing at my bizarre experience, I couldn’t help but recall the dreamlike time I had recently.

It’s interesting that when I had a partner, I felt like a single aristocrat, but after I became single again, I felt like someone with a partner.

Thinking back to my previous love experiences, I sometimes really wonder whether I was really in love at that time.

It feels like two people are together, calling each other their other half, and then just eat together, make video calls, and occasionally give each other small gifts.

It’s like finding a companion of the opposite sex to fill the emptiness in your heart, but once you encounter real problems, conflicts will arise.

Over time, the theme of love has changed from change and adaptation to search and replacement. As the number of romances increases, people no longer have the patience to understand and get to know a person, let alone change themselves or adapt to each other.

Because the interactions between people are easy and relaxed only at a relatively superficial level. Once they go deeper and become complicated, they will become each other’s maze.

“Brother, why are you drinking alone here?”

“Huh? Is there any?”

At this moment, I heard Liu Tongtong’s voice, which immediately awakened me from my memories. I wanted to make up a lie, but I found that I had already finished half a bottle of beer in my hand.

“Ahem, this is a bit emotional.”

“What are you feeling?”

“Uh……”

After hearing what the little girl said, I didn’t know how to respond. I couldn’t tell her that it was night time and she was a little sentimental because of the scene.

Wouldn’t that mean I would be laughed to death by this little girl?

“Ahem, I feel sad that I never thought that one day I would be sitting at a barbecue stall eating skewers with a beautiful girl.”

“Hmm, although I guessed that you were lying, I won’t pursue it because you are good at making up lies.”

As the girl Liu Tongtong said this, she put down the skewers in her hand, picked up the beer bottle beside her and raised it towards me.

“Here, I’ll drink with you.”

“Will you drink with me? Um… can you drink well?”

As I said this, I lowered my head and looked at Liu Tongtong’s petite body. She didn’t look like someone who could drink. If she really drank too much, it would be a headache to send her back.

I don’t know many girls in school, so I can’t… call Bai Yun to take Liu Tongtong back to the dormitory? Although their dormitories are close to each other, it feels weird to think about it.

As if she had caught my suspicious look, the girl couldn’t help but look at me angrily, holding a beer bottle in one hand and pointing at herself with the other and said to me.

“Just kidding, I’m a great drinker, okay?”

Why do I suddenly have a strong sense of déjà vu? Ahem… No, no, if I really connect with this, I will definitely be dragged into the sentence for tea, right?

However, it was not quite what I imagined. Liu Tongtong was unexpectedly a good alcoholic. After drinking two bottles of beer, except for her face being slightly red and a little tipsy at most, it can be said that there was almost no impact.

But just in case, I snatched the beer from her hand when she was about to drink the third bottle with me.

“As the saying goes, the drunkard’s interest is not in wine, but in the mountains and rivers. It would be nice for you to take a break and look at the mountains and rivers for a while.”

As I said this, I served her another bowl of soup. After all, there are different ways to drink alcohol: fast or slow. If you just drink alcohol without eating or drinking, you will probably feel drunk very quickly.

“Hehehe, okay.”

As Liu Tongtong spoke, she couldn’t help but lean on the table, revealing a faint smile, and just looked at me straight.

“What do you see me doing?”

“I’m watching ‘Shanshui’.”

When I heard what the girl said, I immediately raised my eyebrows. I couldn’t tell whether she was teasing me or just talking nonsense after drinking.

“You don’t mean to say that I am the ‘mountain and water’ that the ‘drunkard’ cares about, do you?”

I couldn’t help but laugh when I heard her words, then I put the bowl of soup in front of her and said casually:

“It’s impossible that so many people care about me, right?”

“It’s not impossible, is it?”

“Does that include you?”

As I said this, I glanced at her inconspicuously, but the girl did not respond directly. Instead, she silently stirred the soup in the porcelain bowl with a spoon, then silently raised her head and looked at me.

“I didn’t say that. But brother…why do you have such an idea?”

We smiled at each other, but no one said anything more on this topic.

I know what she knows, and she knows what I know. Even if we don’t say anything to each other, as soon as we exchange glances, we know what each other is thinking.

People call this subtle tacit understanding…unspoken understanding. It is a way to leave room for yourself, and also a way to leave room for others.

Neither of us said anything to each other, but I could feel that the atmosphere around us became a little different at this moment.

Maybe I should say something at this moment, but I don’t know how to start, because I don’t know whether it is my wishful thinking or the real reality.

I’m not quite sure, and I don’t quite understand. It all felt like it happened too suddenly, so I’d rather believe that this was another prank by this little girl.

But even if it was really a prank—

……

“It’s okay, because I’m only like this with you, little brother.”

……

In my mind, I recalled what Liu Tongtong said to me under the school bell tower when the club was recruiting new members.

Is a prank played on only one person really a prank?

Chapter 262: This moment is just like…

I leaned back in my chair, thinking carefully about everything that had happened, but a barbecue stall in the evening was obviously not a suitable place to think about such things.

The noisy sounds around me, as well as the sounds of laughter and scolding, made it impossible for me to calm down and think for a long time. Liu Tongtong, who was sitting opposite me, was obviously also distracted, because she had been looking at the empty beer bottle for a long time.

At this moment, amid the noisy sounds around me, a very abrupt whistle was heard. I frowned and glanced in the direction where the sound came from not far away.

It seemed that the sound came too abruptly. People at several tables nearby followed me and looked in the direction where the sound came from. I saw a few yellow-haired people… yes, that’s right… their hair was not dyed, but real yellow hair, wandering around in groups.

As for why I say they are genuine yellow-haired people, it is because they have angular features and are typical Western faces. They are about the same age as us and are most likely international students from the nearby university town.

They were seen chatting in English from time to time. Occasionally, when they saw a beautiful woman passing by on the street, they said something to each other, and then laughed together, and even whistled loudly, as if they were showing off.

After seeing this scene, I immediately felt disgusted. It’s not that I’m xenophobic, but I simply felt that such behavior was very uncivilized or uneducated.

Their high profile attracted a lot of attention. Even though they noticed us and many people were looking at them, they seemed not to care at all and continued to look around as usual.

Perhaps my gaze was too strong, and soon one of them made eye contact with me, but soon his gaze was attracted elsewhere and he looked at Liu Tongtong who was sitting opposite him.

When he saw Liu Tongtong, he couldn’t help but greet his companions with a smile, and looked over here without any concealment. After several people around him cast their eyes over, they burst into laughter again.

Seeing this, I narrowed my eyes slightly. I didn’t want to cause trouble, so I moved my chair and sat next to Liu Tongtong, blocking their naked sight.

This is a protection for Liu Tongtong, but also a warning to them.

“Ok?”

It seemed that my movement was a little too big. Liu Tongtong, who was originally staring at the beer bottle in thought, came back to her senses instantly. When she saw me move a chair and sit next to her, she was slightly stunned for a moment.

Our eyes met for a moment, and Liu Tongtong was in a daze, obviously unaware of what had just happened.

After seeing my action which seemed to be marking my “territory”, her cheeks actually turned slightly red, and it was obvious that she had misunderstood something.

“Ahem, little brother, I’m very curious…”

“What are you curious about?”

I was stunned when I saw her face suddenly turn red and she coughed lightly as if she was organizing her words. This girl usually speaks eloquently, but this is the first time I see her needing to organize her words.

Is there any profound theory?

Seeing this, I immediately took two sips of beer to calm myself down, but just after I had taken half a sip of beer, I heard the girl slowly say:

“I’m curious, where do I rank among all the girls you know?”

“Wh—cough, cough, cough!”

After hearing what the girl said, I almost spit out the beer in my mouth, but when I saw that she was sitting next to me, I swallowed the beer painfully.

Liu Tongtong seemed not to have expected such a big reaction from me. After seeing me coughing for a while, she actually handed me a napkin instead of making fun of me.

It seemed that she wanted to know my answer more than making fun of me, which made me swallow my saliva immediately, and then… I coughed even harder.

“Ahem… What kind of question is this? Why would I bother to do this?”

“It’s really useless when we’re alone together, but if we’re all together, then it’s very useful, um… like the last election conference.”

“Uh……”

After I heard her words, I immediately recalled the violent scene at the previous general meeting. When I heard this little girl bring up that past event again, I didn’t know what to say for a moment.

And why do I always feel that this little girl is intentionally reminding me of something?

I don’t know why… After listening to her words, I just felt an inexplicable sense of oppression on my body, as if I was carrying a Five Finger Mountain on my back.

Eh? Why is it Wuzhi Mountain?