In those years, we were not together

Chapter 16 Finally Say I Love You (5)
"Uh..." Lily really didn't think about this question.Because she never thought that Li Lei would ask herself this question.

"Dinner is ready!" Jim shouted before Lily could answer.

So Lily went to the bathroom to wash her hands, Li Lei helped move the table, Jim carried the hot pot base and put it on the table, Susan put all kinds of washed and cut vegetables around the hot pot.

"Well, it smells so good!" Jim said while smelling the aroma in the pot, "My wife's cooking skills are always the best!"

"Lily, dinner is ready!" Susan greeted.

So, the four of them sat around a table and prepared to eat.

"Come on, wife, eat this, it's good for your health." During the meal, Jim frequently picked up vegetables for Susan, and even winked at Li Lei from time to time, asking him to pick up vegetables for Lily.

"Lily, eat more shiitake mushrooms, it's good for your skin." Li Lei said as he put some shiitake mushrooms into Lily's bowl.

"Thank you!"

"Come on, let's have a drink and celebrate." Jim said as he poured four glasses of red wine.

"Come on, cheers!" The four toasted together and said happily.

In short, this meal was really enjoyable, and it seemed much more enjoyable than the embarrassing meal at noon.

15. Entangled phone calls

Just when Lily was about to leave, Li Lei's cell phone rang, and it was Sun Yifei who called.

"Li Lei, I waited for you for a long time that night, but you didn't call. Did you stay busy until late at night?" Before Li Lei could speak, Sun Yifei on the other end of the phone said a little angrily.

"I'm sorry, I got home a little late that night, and I was busy on a business trip the next day, so I didn't call you. I'm so sorry!" Li Lei said apologetically.

"Then tomorrow, you should rest, right? Let's meet at the gate of the World Trade Center at 10 o'clock tomorrow morning." Sun Yifei said.

"Not tomorrow, I'm in Shanghai now, and I won't be back until tomorrow night."

"Then what should I do? Next Tuesday is my mother's birthday, and it will be too late." Sun Yifei was a little anxious.

"Why don't you find someone else to go shopping with you, okay?" Li Lei suggested.

"I just want to go shopping with you, and I want you to attend my mother's birthday next Tuesday!"

"I'm sorry, I still have something to do here, so hang up first!" Li Lei said and hung up the phone.

"Li Lei! Li Lei!" Sun Yifei shouted eagerly.

"Huh, why is this, you don't keep your word and dare to hang up on my phone!" Sun Yifei was really angry.

"Sorry, a friend called." Li Lei said to Lily.

"It's okay, hehe, I'm leaving." Lily turned around and was about to go out.

"Lily, let me see you off!" Li Lei said.

"That's right, let Li Lei send you off!" Jim also agreed.

"You don't live far away, so Li Lei will take you there. It's only a 20-minute walk anyway." Susan also said.

So Lily went out with Li Lei.The two of them just walked on the road without speaking, as if they were meeting each other for the first time, they were too embarrassed to speak.

"Lily, I'm here this time to tell you..." It was Li Lei who spoke first.

Seeing that Lily was silent, Li Lei stopped talking and remained silent for tens of seconds, which seemed to be decades of silence to the two of them.

"What are you here to tell me?" Lily asked him.

"Tell you, don't get married." Li Lei finally mustered up the courage to say.

"Li Lei, we are all grown-ups now, please don't talk like a child, okay?" Lily said.

"Lily, I'm serious. For so many years, I have been ignoring your feelings. It wasn't until yesterday that I found out that I had the most real feeling around me, so I came to Shanghai specially to tell you , let's... fall in love!" Li Lei finally said.

Lily was stunned and didn't speak for a long time, then threw herself into Li Lei's arms, weeping uncontrollably.

This kind of crying is a kind of moving, a kind of joy, and a longing for persistent pursuit!

It was past 11 o'clock when Li Lei returned to Jim's house, and Susan was helping Li Lei tidy up the room.

"Li Lei, you can sleep in this room tonight, just make do with the night, don't mind!" Susan said.

"It's okay, I'm the one who sleeps on my head, there's no place I can't fall asleep." Li Lei said with a smile.

"Haha, that's good," Jim said.

When Jim and Susan left, Li Lei was left alone in the room.A strange room, strange walls, and strange decorations were nothing to Li Lei.I am used to going out on business, Li Leizhen is like what he said, as long as he is sleepy, he will fall asleep, no matter where he is.However, the premise is that you are sleepy, or that there are no distracting thoughts in your mind.

However, how could he still be in the mood to sleep now?A few familiar names dangled in my mind, and familiar faces floated back and forth in my memory, without stopping for a while.

At this time, the mobile phone rang. It was so late, who would call?Li Lei answered after thinking about it.

"Hello, Lei Lei? I'm mom!"

"Mom, it's so late, are you still awake?"

"I'm going to bed soon, I'll call you before I go to bed, where are you now, son?"

"I'm in Shanghai, I'll go back tomorrow."

"Okay, go to bed early, the weather has cooled down a bit in the past two days, so go to bed at night and put on the quilt, don't catch a cold!" Li Lei's mother warned.

"Okay, I see, Mom. You and Dad should go to bed early!"

"Okay, bye, son."

"Goodbye, Mom."

After hanging up the phone, Li Lei's eyes were a little moist.For so many years, no matter where she went, her mother would always call or send a text message to care for her.Maybe in my life, there will never be a lack of love, but I am too greedy, and I will never see the most simple love around me, I don’t know how to cherish it, so that I lose it again and again...

16. An accident happened to Han Meimei
The next morning, when Li Lei woke up, Susan was already preparing breakfast in the kitchen.

"Are you up?" Susan greeted Li Lei.

"Well, where's Jim?"

"He, he's still sleeping in. It's like this every day, staying out of bed." Susan said with a smile, and brought out a steaming breakfast from the kitchen.

"Jim, wake up!" Susan yelled, walking to the bedroom.

"Wake up, you see Li Lei has started to eat breakfast." Susan rubbed Jim's head.

"What time is it?" Jim asked, narrowing his eyes.

"It's past seven o'clock."

"It's still early, I'll sleep a little longer." After Jim said, he turned around and continued to sleep.

"You... oh." Susan had no choice but to walk out of the bedroom.

"He needs to sleep for a while, let's eat first!" Susan said to Li Lei.

"Ok."

Just as Susan and Li Lei were about to finish their breakfast, Jim came out of the bedroom.

"Good morning!" Jim greeted.

"Hurry up and wash up, come and have breakfast, it's cold." Susan urged.

Li Lei suddenly felt that this kind of trivial life was very happy. This kind of life pace was not very fast, but it was very sweet.For so many years, I have been alone. I don’t feel lonely when there is no comparison. When I see this situation, I will feel lonely. Maybe, as the saying goes, when you are 30, you can start a family and start a business. A [-]-year-old man will feel this way!
After breakfast, Jim proposed to take Li Lei out for a stroll, and Li Lei readily agreed.

As soon as he went downstairs, Jim called Lily and made an appointment to meet at a place.

And Li Lei's cell phone rang, and it was Lin Tao calling.

"Lei Zi, where are you now?"

"I'm in Shanghai!" Li Lei said.

"Come back soon! Meimei was in a car accident and is in the hospital now!" Lin Tao said anxiously on the other end of the phone.

"What's the matter, what's the matter?" Li Lei asked.

"I don't know the details. When Han Gang called in the morning, he seemed very anxious. He said that Meimei wanted our classmates from class [-] to come over, so I called you." Lin Tao said.

"Oh, okay, I'll go back right away." Li Lei said.Although he had begun to accept Lily, when he heard that something happened to Han Meimei, Li Lei was still anxious.

"What's the matter?" Seeing that Li Lei was in such a hurry, Jim asked.

"Lin Tao said that Han Meimei had a car accident and is in the hospital!" Li Lei said.

"Ah, how could this be? Then what to do?" Jim was also a little anxious.

"I think I'd better go back first," Li Lei said, "Lily, explain to me." Li Lei said as he walked towards the parking garage.

"Hey, Li Lei, don't be so anxious. We're coming out anyway. Lily is waiting for us. Let's go and meet her first. Maybe she will go back with you!" Jim said .

"No way? She still has to go to work!"

"Besides, since you have come to Shanghai for Lily, and she plans to be with you again, if you leave now, Lily must be sad again, we'd better go see her first, and find out what's going on. said Jim.

"Then...alright!" So the three of them walked towards the agreed place.

In the small garden on the corner of the street, Lily was already waiting there.At this time, Lily was wearing a small magenta gray suit, gray shorts, magenta shirt and magenta short boots, and her blonde hair like a waterfall. Looking from a distance, it was really a beautiful landscape.

Seeing Li Lei, Jim and Susan approaching, Lily hurried over and said, "What should I do? Something happened to Meimei!"

"You also know?" Li Lei asked.

"Well, Han Gang called me this morning and said it seemed serious." Lily said anxiously.

"Lin Tao said the same thing when he called in the morning." Judging from Li Lei's expression, he was very worried.

"How about, let's go see Meimei together!" Lily suggested.

"Are you going back too?" Li Lei looked at Lily and said.

"Hmm." Lily nodded.

"I'm afraid we won't be able to go back. We have an important guest to receive tomorrow." Jim said.

"It's okay, it shouldn't be a big problem, we can just go back," Li Lei said.

"That's fine, but, Lei Zi, when you go to see Meimei, take Polly with you, it will probably be better if she recognizes Meimei." Jim thought for a while and warned.

"Ok!"

So, Lily and Li Lei set off together.

(End of this chapter)