White Olive Tree

8 • Exchanging Number

Ran Yuwei's house was mortgaged. She bought it early and lives alone in the 100-square-meter house.

The house is decorated in style, but not very homely. She doesn't cook, and eats in the company cafeteria. When Song Lisa comes, they either go to a restaurant or order takeout.

Song Lisa used to be a cook.

During the summer vacation of the second year of junior high school, Ran Yuwei and her then boyfriend who was a diplomat got off work late. Song Lisa bought vegetables and cooked a meal by herself, and waited for her mother to come home obediently and proudly.

After Ran Yuwei came home and saw a table full of dishes, she didn't say anything for a long time, then she called Song Zhicheng and scolded him, asking how Yang Huilun abused her daughter and why Lisa could cook at such a young age.

Yang Huilun was actually very good to Song Lisa , too good.

The people living in the tube building were all Song Zhicheng's colleagues and intellectuals. If there was any big noise in one of their homes, it would be known by other families. Yang Huilun had not read much and was timid. She was also afraid that outsiders would say that she was a vicious stepmother, so she was very nice to Song Lisa , like a guest. Song Lisa always took the initiative to do things to make her stepmother happy, or to prove that she was not a guest. This subtle psychology also quietly brought to the imperial city. In the diplomat's house, she had to prove that she was not a troublesome guest who came to eat and live for free. However, when she came again the next year, her mother's boyfriend was nowhere to be seen.

Ran Yuwei has had several relationships over the years, but none of them ended well. She is still single.

The two ordered Japanese takeout. Song Lisa found a few bottles of good grapefruit wine in the refrigerator and drank it with ice.

Ran Yuwei poured herself some red wine and asked, "What have you been busy doing running around the city these days?"

"Look up some historical data. It's too hard to find the ones from Dongguo." In fact, she contacted Luo Junfeng, a well-known best-selling book planner, but she didn't want her mother to know. "I've been running around in libraries. I couldn't find it in Liangcheng before."

Ran Yuwei returned to the topic they had talked about in the car at the right time: "The resources in Dicheng are really incomparable to Liangcheng. If you want to develop well, you have to come here."

Song Lisa still resisted, not knowing whether she was resisting Dicheng or Ran Yuwei. Perhaps in her eyes, Dicheng was equal to Ran Yuwei. She said, "I don't have any big pursuits, it's good like this now."

"I think you are just like your father."

"I am his daughter, so of course I have the same character as him."

Ran Yuwei raised her eyes to look at her. The woman in her forties had crow's feet at the corners of her eyes that could not be hidden even with makeup. She said coldly: "You are his daughter, so you are not my daughter?"

Song Lisa couldn't stand it anymore and whispered, "Can you stop being like a child?"

Ran Yu chuckled: "The wings are hardened."

Song Lisa had nothing to say.

When Ran Yuwei and Song Zhicheng were fighting for custody, Song Zhicheng dragged his feet and refused to divorce. Ran Yuwei was disgusted by her cheating husband and gave up the division of property and Song Lisa just to get a divorce as soon as possible. Little Song Lisa was only two or three years old at that time, holding on to the wall, running and crying loudly for her mother.