Chapter 317 (2/2)

He only reacted when he reached the door.

“Boss Yuan is becoming more and more influential now.” Seeing Yuan Zhou’ back inside of the kitchen, Wu Zhou sighed with emotion.

“Gee? It’s you two, again.” Having arrived at the door, Wu Zhou found the two people who came frequently these few days.

Li Cheng and Zhang Fan. The combination of the two persons were really eye-catching. Now that they stood at the door, Wu Zhou naturally got curious.

“Um. Hello.” Li Cheng greeted.

Standing beside him, Zhang Fan just smiled implicitly and said nothing.

“The combination is really strange.” Wu Zhou muttered in a low voice.

Li Cheng who stood at the foremost of the line had actually heard him, but he didn’t turn around to him.

He didn’t really care about others’ thought. As long as he could fulfill his own wish, it was good.

“Interesting.” When Wu Hai saw them in the latter part of the line, he also said.

Although they often heard of this combination these few days, he still felt it interesting.

Besides, Li Cheng asked Zhang Fan some specious questions every time.

In a little while, the lunch time commenced. As usual, Li Cheng ordered the Dongpo Pig Knuckle and the beef.

The two dishes were Zhang Fan’s favorite dishes. Li Cheng managed to find it out after the meals.

Just like the several times before, Li Cheng asked him some odd question while eating. Basically, Zhang Fan answered whatever he could answer.

After the meal, the two persons usual departed respectively.

This time, however, Zhang Fan stopped.

“Big boss, please tell me directly if you have anything to tell me. I don’t feel it good if you always offers me such treats.” Zhang Fan said with a helpless tone.

“Nothing at all. I just want to eat something with you.” Li Cheng said earnestly.

“You are my boss. I can’t take it for granted that you treat me the meals again and again. If you really have nothing to talk with me, please don’t treat me anymore next time.” Zhang Fan’s head was full of grey hair and the perennial hard work made his back bend slightly. However, the way he talked was methodical and rigid.

“Even after we had meals for several times, you still didn’t recognize me. I reckon you have truly forgotten me.” Li Cheng sighed first and suddenly said that.

“I’m sure that I don’t know you.” Zhang Fan nodded the head affirmatively.

He had lived a simple life. How could be there a chance to know such a big boss?

“Twenty years ago, you served in the army, right?” Li Cheng was still a little excited when he said that.

“Yes. Everyone that knows me knows about that.” Zhang Fan was a man of great caution.

He wouldn’t believe that a big boss would lay his heart bare to a nobody.

“You took train and went back home for vacation in Aug. of 1993.” What Li Cheng said was not a question, but an affirmative sentence.

“Well…” Zhang Fan lost his tongue.

Frankly speaking, he didn’t really remember that. He was merely a compulsory serviceman that would finish his duty and go back home after three years of military service. When there was a home leave, the time was enough long.

Since it happened so long ago, he had already got nowhere to remember that.

“It was extraordinarily hot that year. My mum took me to Jiangsu Province to visit my father. It’s really inconvenient for a woman that took her kid alone in that messy train possibly with bad guys.” While Li Cheng said that, his tone was always a little excited.

“Er…” Zhang Fan was actually slightly embarrassed.

It was indeed embarrassing that an unacquainted person told some private matters in front of you.

Not to mention that he wasn’t really interested in how the big boss made the giant business. He was nearly 40 this year and the time of believing stories had already passed.

Li Cheng just kept talking at the side and took no notice of him as if here were invisible.

“The green train was very slow and it was extremely hot. There was some breeze from the open window. My mum had carried me tight in her arms until she got seated.”

“I was told later that even her luggage was carried onto the train by others. It was a more than 30 hours’ journey. During the first few hours, she didn’t even dare to go to the bathroom.” Li Cheng was a little grieved when he thought of the experience.

“I’m sorry. But what are you intending to say?” Zhang Fan broke in at the gap of his conversation.

Li Cheng had done the same in the past few days. Treating, asking, treating, asking. Zhang Fan felt both impatient and perturbed.

With great difficulty, he mentioned that but meanwhile Li Cheng chattered about something else. Only then did Zhang Fan ask him.

Li Cheng, “…”