Chapter 34: A guest for dinner
On the other hand, Sansa Ran asked Jeffrey, “Dean Lan helped me last time, do you think I should call him to thank him or send him something?”
“Mom, I think a phone call is too casual, it’s not sincere, after all, they helped us.” Jeffrey wanted to see Dean Lan, too.Content (C) Nôv/elDra/ma.Org.
Sansa Ran was a bit depressed, owing people a favor is so troublesome: “Then what do you think we should do in the end? It’s up to you, okay?”
“Let’s invite him to our house for dinner, mom, you personally cook, how about this?” Jeffrey said with a smile.
“It’s not a good idea to come to my house and cook for me? Sansa Ran didn’t want to get too close to him,” she said.
Jeffrey heard this and was a little upset: “That’s how it looks like you’re sincere, just come to eat a meal, what does it matter?”
Sansa Ran had no choice but to thank Dean Lan for helping her last time, and at Jeffrey’s suggestion, she decided to invite him to her home and cook for him.
He slapped his head with remorse and underestimated: “Really, I should have known not to ask people indiscriminately.”
Jeffrey turned his head to look at Sansa Ran as if he heard him and asked a particularly funny question, “Mom, what are you talking about, you are reluctant!”
Sansa Ran hurriedly shook his head: “How can it be, you are happy! Let’s not talk to you first, I’ll call now, OK.”
Jeffrey nodded his head with a good look, Sansa Ran said he was speechless, this can also be heard.
So he made a phone call to Dean Lan inwardly full of tangled opening: “That, are you free? I just want to thank you for what you did last time, so I want to invite you to my house and I’ll cook a meal to thank you.”
“It’s okay, you’re welcome, no thanks.” Dean Lan unconsciously the corners of his mouth rose slightly.
“Well, if you’re busy, or if it’s too much for you, then you can not come it’s okay.” Sansa Ran thinks that people are so rich and powerful, they should be quite busy at work, and there is nothing to force.
If he refused to come, he could buy a gift and have Jeffrey send it to him.
“When?” Dean Lan decided he wanted to go.
Sansa Ran thought she had misheard: “Huh? What did you say? What what time?”
Dean Lan thought if Sansa Ran was standing in front of her right now, she would have knocked her head off: “Did I say I don’t have time to go? I said when.”
“Then today at noon, if you have time today at noon.” Sansa Ran wanted to finish the invitation early and finish it early.
“Got it,” he said, and hung up the phone.
Sansa Ran could not help but spit out a sentence: too rude it, how always look like an iceberg, owe him a few dollars la.
When Dean Lan entered her house at noon, Sansa Ran was busy cutting vegetables and cooking in the kitchen, so she said perfunctorily, “Find a place to sit by yourself, it will take about half an hour.”
Jeffrey ran over excitedly, “Dad, you should thank me. If I hadn’t told Mom to invite you to dinner, you wouldn’t have been able to come over.”
Dean Lan couldn’t help but smile, “Okay, okay, I know you’re the best.”
Sansa Ran brought all the food to the table in a short time and said admiringly, “Look at me, I’m so good, so capable, I can go up to the hall and down to the kitchen.”
Dean Lan found Sansa Ran more and more interesting and patted her on her narcissistic head: “You’re so good, hurry up and sit down and eat.”
“I’ll drink to you instead of water to thank you for helping me with that one thing.”
Looking at Sansa Ran’s serious look, Dean Lan laughed in his heart and thought it was funny, a serious face, what’s the big deal, responding to a few words.
“Well stop bragging, since you’re here to invite me to dinner, let’s eat quickly, I’ve said this little thing actually does not need to thank.” Dean Lan looked indifferent.
Sansa Ran nodded: “I know, I know you don’t need my thanks, but don’t I want to return the favor I owe to others?”
Hearing what Dean Lan said was a bit unpleasant, he was indifferent, but he still cared a bit in his own heart and didn’t like to be in debt to others.
“I didn’t mean it like that.” Dean Lan always felt that he was a little unhappy and could not have misunderstood.
“I know what you mean, you don’t want me to thank you too much for this small thing, well, let’s not talk about that, hurry up and eat!”
Sansa Ran looked at Dean Lan and smiled as Jeffrey livened up the atmosphere: “Yeah, I’m hungry, let’s eat and stop talking.”
During the meal, Jeffrey gave Dean Lan a dish to eat and Dean Lan gave it to Sansa Ran at the same time.
The atmosphere was awkward, Sansa Ran coughed and laughed: “Come on, eat your own, it’s okay to have something to eat, hurry up and eat.”
The three then took their rice bowls, heads bowed, and did not know what to say …
After finishing the meal, Jeffrey had a flash of light and said smartly: “That I have been with my classmates about to go to his house to play, I’ll be back later, mom I’ll go first, bye.”
“Wait, when did you make the appointment? I don’t know, and don’t go out at this hour.”
Sansa Ran looked puzzled and thought, “What do you want? If you go out, there will be two people left, me and him? This must be how awkward, when the appointment I do not know what I want to do, when I do not know how!
Dean Lan suddenly opened his mouth, caught off guard and said: “It’s okay, let him go out, I just came at noon when he told me, indeed his classmates want him to go out.”
“Yes, see no I have a witness ah, so let me go out to play, OK.” Jeffrey had a sincere look on his face as if he really wanted to go out.
“Okay, it’s okay, just go out and play, it’s okay.” Dean Lan doesn’t know anything at all, Jeffrey didn’t say anything to him about classmates or anything like that in the afternoon.
But since he, Jeffrey, had built the bridge, he might as well walk up with it.
“Well, let you go to the line did not, come back early.” Sansa Ran had no choice but to agree.
Sansa Ran and Dean Lan were the only two people left in the house, pervaded by awkwardness, two people alone is a bit strange.
“I’m going to go wash the dishes first, so feel free to do whatever you want.” After saying that, Sansa Ran wanted to slip away.