bookrandom Chapter 99 The Lost Girl, First Encounter with Ying Chengfeng
Chapter 99 The Lost Girl, First Encounter with Ying Chengfeng
To walk around the car, you need to press the buttons in four directions on the car body.
However, when Li Xi pressed the first button on the left front, he didn't press hard enough, causing the testing machine to not detect it.
After she finished walking around the car, opened the door, sat in the driver's seat, and fastened her seatbelt, she heard the machine say, "Test failed."
Li Xi: "..."
Li Xi looked bewildered and couldn't help but question the examiner: "I didn't even start the car, how could I have failed the test?"
"Your driving school is deliberately ripping people off, isn't it?"
The examiner's face was very tense. He pointed to the front left of the car and said succinctly, "You're not strong enough, you didn't press it properly."
Upon hearing this, Li Xi felt embarrassed.
She continued to take the test a second time.
This time, she punched a button.
The loud banging made the examiner's eyes twitch.
She's a pretty girl, so why is she so short-tempered?
After she punched the test car a few times, it seemed to become more obedient, and Li Xi passed the subsequent tests smoothly.
After Li Xi finished the exam, he sat in the waiting room waiting for Xie Zhi's letter.
Twenty minutes later, Xie Jian came out, and Li Xi quickly waved to her.
"Did you pass?"
Xie Jian's expression was somewhat indescribable.
"Didn't pass?" Li Xi asked Xie Jian, "Where did you go wrong?"
Xie Jian said in a muffled voice, "During the first test, when I was doing the overtaking test, the lousy car in front of me was driving too slowly, which caused me to miss the overtaking opportunity."
This can be considered an external factor.
"What about the second one?" Li Xi asked curiously.
Xie Jian was silent for a while before saying, "After I finished the exam, I was so busy sending a text message to my sister to tell her the good news that I forgot to close the door when I got off the bus."
Li Xi: "..."
This is what they call "extreme joy turning into sorrow".
"Have you passed yet?"
Li Xi: "I passed."
Very well, Xie Jian stopped talking to Li Xi altogether.
The two took a taxi home together. Xie Jian was in a bad mood the whole way, constantly on her phone cursing Xie Zheng on WeChat.
It wasn't until Xie Zheng transferred 5,200 yuan to her that she finally beamed and invited Li Xi, "I'll treat you to Thai food!"
"Okay."
There is a well-regarded Thai restaurant in the large shopping mall behind Lanting Apartment.
Xie Jian's favorite dish is their traditional curry crab, while Li Xi tasted the dishes and confirmed that her favorite was the snowflake foie gras.
She took two beautiful photos of the dishes and sent them to Gu Zhen: "We're having a delicious Thai meal."
Gu Zhen not only replied to her, but also said: "We're eating a boring buffet."
Without Li Xi needing to remind him, Gu Zhen took a picture of the buffet.
Judging from the angle of the photo, he must have been standing in a relatively high position, which allowed him to capture a panoramic view of the buffet.
Looking around, you see expensive ingredients everywhere, the kind of high-end buffet you can't find even in city restaurants.
Li Xi: [This is not boring at all; I can eat as much as I want until I'm stuffed.]
Gu Zhen then asked, "You like this? I'll bring you to try it next time."
"You're having dinner with me, can you please stop chatting with your boyfriend on your phone?" Xie Jian said resentfully. "It must be because Coach Gu didn't supervise me properly when he asked us to drive."
Even Gu Zhen is guilty.
Li Xi quickly put down her phone. "Sorry, it's my fault. I'll help you peel the crab!"
Xie Jian was flattered and overwhelmed by the honor.
Just as Li Xi peeled off a crab leg, someone tugged at his coat sleeve.
Li Xi assumed it was some mischievous child from another table, so she glanced over casually, only to see a little girl standing in the middle of the aisle beside her.
The little girl was wearing a dark-style gothic princess dress and a lace embroidered veil on her head.
This outfit is practically a walking billboard!
Upon seeing the little girl, Xie Jian exclaimed, "A doll!"
Upon closer inspection, Li Xi immediately recognized the little girl by her natural chestnut-colored curly hair and mixed-race features.
"Ying Li?"
It was Ying Li, the little girl who lived in the same building as Grandpa Gu at his birthday banquet last time. She suffered from sleepwalking and would run into her room to sleep in the middle of the night.
Seeing that Li Xi still remembered her, Ying Li was very excited. She waved her little hands and gestured in sign language.
But Li Xi couldn't understand it.
"Xie Jian, do you know sign language?"
Xie Jian also looked bewildered.
"so."
Li Xi took out paper and pen from her bag and handed them to Ying Li. She bent down and told Ying Li as gently but firmly as possible, "Ying Li, write down what you want to say, okay?"
Butler Gu said that Ying Li just didn't want to talk, but she could hear him.
Ying Li nodded and picked up a pen to write on the paper.
Despite her young age, she writes very neatly with a fountain pen, which shows that she has been practicing calligraphy.
Ying Li wrote: "I've gotten separated from my dad. Could you please help me call him?"
After reading the contents of the paper, Li Xi pointed out, "I remember you have a cell phone."
The phone is Huawei's latest foldable screen model.
It's more expensive than what she uses.
Ying Li wrote: "My phone is with my dad; I forgot to bring it."
Do you remember your father's phone number?
Ying Li then wrote a row of numbers on the paper.
"Wait here, I'll call your dad."
Li Xi dialed the number on the paper, and the call was answered quickly.
"Who is it?" Ying Li's father's voice sounded very anxious.
The background noise on the other end of the phone was very loud; the other person was probably looking for Ying Li in the mall.
"Hello Mr. Ying, your daughter Ying Li is waiting for you at the Thai restaurant."
Upon hearing his daughter's name, Ying Chengfeng's heart, which had been hanging in suspense, finally settled down.
"Thank you!"
"Please keep an eye on Ying Li for me, Miss. I'll be right there!"
"You're welcome." After hanging up the phone, Li Xi gave Ying Li an OK sign.
Xie Jian really likes children, especially pretty little girls like Ying Li who look like they stepped out of a comic book.
She asked Yingli, "Little Yingli, would you like to eat something with us? How about crab?"
Li Xi declined on Ying Li's behalf, saying, "No, many people are allergic to crabs, and I don't know if the child is allergic to crabs."
Xie Jian then ordered Ying Li a glass of freshly squeezed orange juice, which is suitable for children.
Ying Li was holding her orange juice and had only drunk a fifth of it when an adult man in a white coat walked into the restaurant.
The restaurant seemed to quiet down the moment he appeared.
The man had features as exquisitely sculpted as a jade sculpture, his brows exuding a refined and scholarly air. Yet, the gaze in his pale brown eyes was like the cold moon in the dead of winter, chilling anyone who looked at him.
Everyone in the restaurant was looking at him.
But no one dared to look openly. Even Xie Jian only dared to steal a few glances at him before whispering to Li Xi, "What an amazing man."
Li Xi smiled and said, "Ying Li is so beautiful, how could her father be ugly?"
That's true.
Ying Chengfeng stood at the restaurant entrance, his gaze sweeping around the restaurant, and easily spotted Ying Li, who was dressed in a gorgeous and unique style.
"Li Li!"
Ying Chengfeng rushed over and lifted Ying Li into the air in his arms.
The moment she held the child in her arms, her gaze, which should have been as cold and sharp as frost and snow, instantly softened into a gentle and peaceful one.
"I'm sorry, Tanuki, Daddy almost lost you."
Ying Li held a juice in one hand and wrapped her other arm around Ying Chengfeng's neck, shaking her head to indicate that it was okay.
Ying Li patted Ying Chengfeng's chest, then pointed at Li Xi.
Ying Chengfeng then lowered his eyes to look at Li Xi.
Upon seeing Li Xi's appearance clearly, Ying Chengfeng seemed somewhat surprised and blurted out, "Li Xi?"