Su Bai sat in the living room by himself with a cup of tea, which was served by Litchi. Then Litchi and the fat guy went to the study and had their discussion there. Now Su Bai looked more like a guest in this house.
Even Su Bai himself felt a little absurd and confused. He took a sip of tea, stood up and went to the southern room on the first floor. He opened the door. Unlike his expectation, there wasn’t any stifling smell of dirt; on the contrary, the air was quite clear and fresh. On an altar, the photos of his parent were cleaned up and so was everywhere around it.
The housekeeping company was informed not to enter this room, so the personnel wouldn’t have made such a mistake. Besides, judging by the trace, it has just been clean up in the last few days.
Su Bai felt odd. Could it be Litchi?
There was a new censer, and the incense in it hadn’t finished burning yet.
Su Bai hadn’t offered any incense or worship to his parents yet, not even during the first day when he was home; in fact, he didn’t come into this room.
Outside, Litchi and the fat guy must have finished their conversation. The fat guy was walking while bowing and nodding with flattery.
Litchi stopped in front of the door, then pushed it open and saw Su Bai standing there.
"I helped with some cleaning up," said Litchi.
The fat guy stood beside her with an iconic smile. Su Bai knew about the fat guy’s ability; he could control that bronze chest, so he must be very capable. But even the fat guy was displaying full courtesy as a good boy, which indicated Litchi’s identity and status.
Ego had also changed his attitude utterly after he found that Su Bai and Litchi knew each other. Therefore, maybe Su Bai still couldn’t feel how terrible Litchi was, because he was not familiar with this community, but others could, especially those seniors.
"None of your business." Su Bai replied. Then he took the censer and threw it into the dustbin.
Litchi frowned.
The fat guy was dumbstruck, thinking, ‘This guy must be freaking awesome… He dares to offend her; that’s great and respectful. But it’s better if he’s not killed the next second.’
However, what happened next surprised him even more. Litchi didn’t punish this impolite guy, just asked:
"Why?"
Su Bai shrugged, "My mom said in her testament that she didn’t want to be worshiped. She hated the smoke of my dad’s cigarettes throughout her life, so she didn’t want to be put on a altar for more smoke from the incenses."
Litchi nodded and smiled. "Sounds like her."
"In fact, my mom also said that she wouldn’t agree if I put her photo here. She thought she’d look bad in black-and-white photos."
Su Bai said with a smile. Although his parents died long ago, they did leave a strong impression on him. His mother was still kind of innocent like a little girl, even after she had got a son. There was one time, when he was still young, she dressed him up like a princess, and his father was really unhappy about that.
"I’ve gone too far. Sorry." Litchi apologized to Su Bai.
"That’s alright. So, you knew my parents?"
Su Bai asked. If Litchi knew his parents, then it could explain why Litchi helped him. Besides, there were so many buildings here, Litchi was so capable that she could have picked any one, but she chose to stay in his place. Must be of the same reason.
"I’m an orphan." Litchi said, "I was raised up in an orphanage sponsored by your mother."
"The orphanage was shut down, right?" Su Bai asked.
"Yeah. Not long after your parents passed away. Due to shortage of funds. But by that time, I was already old enough to leave the orphanage."
"I’m sorry."
Su Bai apologized. His parents did not only leave him a tremendous number of real estates and bank savings, but also stock shares in many companies. Now everything was under Su Bai’s name. Su Bai was not out of money; even though he didn’t do anything, his fortune was still increasing. However, after what happened to Su Bai’s parents, he left Chengdu and went to college in an eastern coastal city, paying no more attention to what his parents had been doing, including funding schools and orphanages.
It was not because he didn’t know anything about it; in fact, many salvage service agents including schools and orphanages had managed to reach out to him for more funds, but Su Bai turned them down. At that time, Su Bai was disappointed because tragedy still happened to his parents after all those good stuff they had done.
Litchi stood next to Su Bai, looking at the two photos on the altar:
"Aunt Xu was nice. I liked her."
"Thank you."
"I won’t stay here for long. I will be away for quite some time; six month, a year, or maybe even longer."
"OK." Su Bai was calm. He wasn’t planning to get any extra help from Litchi after learning of her relationship with his mother. If he did, it would be disrespectful to his mother.
"I’ll leave Lucky with you, ‘cause I can’t bring it with me." Litchi went on, "Zhang Bayi’s also a Chengdu resident; you can come to him for help if you need anything."
The fat guy immediately stood upright: "Of course! No problem!"
Litchi turned around and looked at Su Bai. "In fact, when I was young, I saw you once when you were just a little boy. You were sitting in the car. Your mother asked you to go out and play with us, but you refused."
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