At four o'clock in the afternoon, under the coercion of Li Xianglu, Su Yan ate a bowl of rock sugar sea cucumber, brought a large kettle of mung bean water, a portion of spiced boiled eggs, a portion of deep-fried chicken legs, four watermelons, and twenty muskmelons for the road.
After seeing off Su Yan, Li Xianglu heated up the pig's trotters soup from lunch, and then warmed up some flower rolls; the old master felt a bit listless after Su Yan left.
If they had always been living apart, it would have been fine. But after living together for a long period and then parting ways, it was very hard to get used to. He always felt like something was missing beside him. Whenever he thought of something and wanted to talk to the person next to him, he found they were no longer there. The feeling of loneliness made the old master listless for the following two or three days.
