Adrian in the Land of Potters Chapter 3

Although Adrian Sun had stayed in the mountains for three years, his demand for food did not decrease just because he had to eat from a big pot with the digging workers every day.

He was not satisfied with the restaurant Miles Ma took him to because there was a chili on the sign.

"I don't eat spicy food." Adrian Sun said.

"It's not spicy. You can bear it." said Miles Ma.

"Drawing such a big pepper," Adrian Sun insisted on not getting out of the car, "Do you have any alternative places?"

"Ouch!" Miles Ma reluctantly restarted the car, "It's so big, so tacky, so tacky, so tacky..."

"You are the unsophisticated one." Adrian Sun said.

"Turkey," Miles Ma slapped the steering wheel hard, "food! Want to eat?"

"Eat." Adrian Sun nodded.

In fact, the food at the construction site is not bad, with a combination of meat, vegetables and fruits every day. But the food is cooked in a big pot, and the taste is so delicious that you can’t think too much about it. If you think about it, you will feel hopeless about life.

But if the chef had not been from Hunan and had not eaten chili peppers with every meal for the past three years, Adrian Sun would not have risen up in rebellion as soon as he saw the chili peppers on the sign.

To be honest, he admires himself a lot. He faced his father's tyranny with courage and tenacity... and he ate chili peppers for three years.

He had never been to the Turkish restaurant that Miles Ma took him to before. The food tasted pretty good and the environment was comfortable. Adrian Sun immersed himself in eating.

"What are your plans after you come back?" Miles Ma asked him while eating.

"No." Adrian Sun answered simply.

"Why don't you come to my place?" Miles Ma said.

"Let's talk about it later," Adrian Sun leaned back in his chair, "I need to enjoy my life for a few days first."

Miles Ma is two years older than him. He is his father's apprentice, a formal one. He started learning pottery making from his father when he was in his teens. His talent is average, but he is honest and sensible. His father likes him very much.

But in the end, he chose his buddy over his master in the dispute. His father "expelled him" in anger. Now he has set up his own studio and is doing well.

"Ask the channel," Miles Ma lit up a cigarette, "what do you say, when will you be able to have a proper shape?"

"I am pretty now," Adrian Sun glanced at him, "I am healthy and handsome, and I have no children."

"Let me tell you something, seriously," Miles Ma moved closer to him, "You have talent, talent..."

Adrian Sun said nothing and continued eating.

"I know you don't like making... pottery," Miles Ma said, "but you're not a child. You have to grow up a little."

Adrian Sun still didn't say anything.

"Don't tell me that you are still planning to go and hang out with Li Bowen." Miles Ma frowned.

"Shut up and eat yours. If you don't want to eat, pay the bill." Adrian Sun finally said something.

"Think about it," Miles Ma waved to the waiter, "my words."

After dinner, Adrian Sun asked Miles Ma to accompany him to the mall and bought several sets of clothes.

"Spendthrift, spendthrift, play, plaything." Miles Ma said as he swiped the card. He had thrown the card to Miles Ma before he left, and he couldn't remember how much money was in it.

After buying clothes, Miles Ma drove him back to the community. When he got downstairs, Adrian Sun saw Sun Jiayue’s red mini.

Otherwise, he would have known that the Beetle belonged to Sun Jiayue as soon as he saw it.

"You go back first and drive the car away." Adrian Sun said to Miles Ma, opened the door and got out of the car.

After walking two steps, he found that the car was still parked, so he turned around and raised his middle finger towards the driver's seat. Miles Ma honked the horn, turned the car around and drove away.

Sun Jiayue got out of the car and leaned against the door with her arms folded: "Oh, my brother doesn't like the car I gave him?"

"It's useless," Adrian Sun said, "If you don't take it away, I'll let Liangzi open it."

"Let him open it," Sun Jiayue smiled and looked him up and down for a while, "You've lost weight."

"How can a fat person grow there?" Adrian Sun said, and looked at Sun Jiayue, who was still the same, pretty and flamboyant, and didn't look like a sister to Sun Yao at all. "You just came to see if I'm fat or thin?"

"That's about right. I just want to ask you..." Sun Jiayue paused and lowered her voice, "Are you going home for the New Year?"

"Are you annoyed?" Adrian Sun immediately felt upset and his tone became irritable.

"You think I want to ask? I don't care about these trivial matters at home! You can reply or not, I'm asking for Sun Yao," Sun Jiayue frowned, "Look at your donkey face, coupled with your hairstyle... Hey, go and fix your hair, I'll introduce you to..."

"Go home quickly," Adrian Sun sighed helplessly and patted her shoulder, "so that your husband won't cry and complain about you not being home."

"Take this business card," Sun Jiayue took out a business card from her bag, "I've been getting my hair done by him. Give him a call and ask him to come over and do it for you. I can't stand your hairstyle as the second stupid guy in the village."

Adrian Sun took the business card and was about to put it in his pocket when he felt something was wrong with it. He rubbed it with his fingers and found another card underneath it.

Just as he was about to speak, Sun Jiayue had already gotten into the car, started the car, and then reversed it right next to his legs.

"Hey!" Adrian Sun was startled, "Do you have any idea?"

"This is given to you by my elder sister. It's up to you whether you want it or not. Don't come to me. I'm so annoying!" Sun Jiayue lowered the car window and shouted.

Adrian Sun looked at the card in his hand and said nothing.

Sun Jiayue's car was about to turn around, so it made a big circle, then rushed onto the opposite sidewalk, then quickly moved back, and then quickly drove out on the sidewalk with one wheel. It returned to the road and drove away after about ten meters.

Adrian Sun stood on the side of the road, watching Sun Jiayue's thrilling U-turn. He was deeply moved that Sun Jiayue, whose driving skills were the worst in the universe, could drive into the passage of the community late at night to give him a card.

He was so moved by the cool autumn breeze that he broke into a sweat.

Kata took it home and threw it into a drawer.

Most of the time, Sun Yao puts the overall situation first and stands on her father's side. She won't take the initiative to give him the card. It is probably her mother's idea to give him the card.

Adrian Sun yawned. He felt sleepy before ten o'clock.

The nightlife at the construction site is playing cards. He likes playing cards very much, but he doesn’t like playing with people who will fight when they get angry, so he usually goes to bed at ten o'clock.

However, before going to bed, he still went into the bedroom despite his sleepiness, took out all the old clothes in the closet and stuffed them into the bag, then went into the bathroom.

He had been in a hurry to go out for dinner with Miles Ma and hadn't taken a close look at the bathroom. This time when he came in, he discovered that on the shelf next to the sink, in addition to Miles Ma's newly bought shampoo, shower gel and other items, there was actually a pile of half-used ones on the bottom shelf.

Moreover, they were used quite carelessly, with the bottle caps loose.

Adrian Sun was already feeling depressed today, and when he saw this pile of things, he suddenly felt extremely unhappy. He stared at it for a long time, and finally took the shelf down directly, and threw it and the bottles and jars into the garbage dump downstairs.

After tossing and turning for a long time, when he lay down on the bed, he didn't even have the chance to look at the time. He fell asleep as soon as he closed his eyes.

Normally he seldom dreams, but only dreams at night about what he thinks about during the day. He stays in the mountains and thinks about nothing every day. He just looks at the mountains and the soil, and he can't think of anything to dream about.

But today he dreamed.

Dad is here.

run.

The ex-girlfriend is here.

run.

My son is here.

run.

And Li Bowen brought a woman who came from nowhere and rolled around on his bed, in his closet, and in his bathroom... He rushed forward in anger and chased the two of them around the house.

Anyway, they all ran away in the chaos overnight.

When he woke up, he always had the illusion that he had gone to dig soil the day before, but the content of the dream was not very clear. The only thing he remembered was the last scene when he opened the refrigerator door and Fang Chituan smiled at him contemptuously from inside the refrigerator: "Dad."

My hope of sleeping until I wake up naturally was dashed.

Although there were no early-morning footsteps, no voices of greeting and chatting, no roosters crowing with a smile, and no one knocked on his door...Adrian Sun lay on the bed staring at the ceiling for a while, then got up, went into the kitchen, and opened the refrigerator door.

Fortunately, there were only a few bottles of yogurt that Miles Ma bought for him.

He took out a bottle and drank it. It tasted good, but the texture was a bit strange. There were some pulp-like things in it. He took a look at it and found that it was aloe vera.

After drinking the yogurt, he walked around the room in his pajamas, turned on the TV, and finally stood by the window.

Suddenly I feel a little bored.

It has only been three years, but he has already forgotten what his life was like three years ago and how he spent his days.

During the three years in the mountains, I had nothing to do every day, wandering back and forth between the engineering department and the construction site. I ate when I was hungry and slept when I was tired. When I had nothing to do, I would go up the mountain and sit on a mound of dirt to stare at trees for a few hours.

But it wasn’t as aimless as it is now.

Maybe it’s because I have something to look forward to? I hope that after three years I will be free.

Now I am free, but what should I do next?

He took the phone and looked at the contacts in the phone book. They were all his friends, but none of them could arouse his desire to call and talk.

But just as he was about to throw his phone away, it rang.

Li Bowen’s phone number.

Adrian Sun frowned and answered the phone.

"Hey? I thought you couldn't answer the phone at this time!" Li Bowen shouted on the phone.

"I got up early." Adrian Sun opened the curtains and stood by the window.

"I'll pick you up in the evening," Li Bowen said, "I've already booked a table."

"Who are they?" Adrian Sun asked.

"Who else could it be? It's that group of people. They've been waiting for you to come out. You were supposed to come to my place, but I still felt that I couldn't be so casual. I had to give you a good welcome..." said Li Bowen.

"If you don't know, you would think I've been in prison for three years." Adrian Sun sighed.

"It's no different than being in jail for three years," Li Bowen said with a smile, "Do you still want to use this number? I told them not to call you yet, because I'm afraid the old man has it."

"I got it back," Adrian Sun said, thinking of the clothes and unused toiletries from yesterday, "Do you have anything else you want me to bring you?"

"What did you bring me?" Li Bowen was stunned for a moment, paused for two seconds, and then laughed, "No need, just throw it away."

"Oh." Adrian Sun responded.

"I'm telling you, if I hadn't gone over there often," Li Bowen said unhappily, "I don't know what Miles Ma would have done to your house."

"Oh." Adrian Sun said nothing else.

"Then..." Li Bowen seemed a little embarrassed, "I'll call you when I pick you up this afternoon."

"Yeah." Adrian Sun responded again.

"That's it." Li Bowen hung up the phone.

Adrian Sun changed his clothes and went out to have breakfast, but his cell phone kept ringing from the moment he left the house. Both men and women were his old friends, asking him how he was doing after returning and saying they wanted to get together.

I guess it was Li Bowen who notified them.

The longer he went into the mountains, the longer he had no contact with these people.

When his father threw him into the mountains, his phone was forcibly confiscated. Manager Zhang gave him a pager or some local phone, but there was no signal once he left the town where the construction site was located. His phone was worse than those of the workers digging the soil.

The only person whose number he could remember without relying on his telephone instinct was Miles Ma.

However, after Miles Ma somehow got his confiscated phone back, he did not let Miles Ma send him the contacts in the phone. His passion to compete with his father was ignited by the remote area.

Come to the mountains if you want to.

Three years is three years.

If you don’t contact friends, then don’t contact them.

Can I just die here?

He was having breakfast across the community while answering the dozen or so phone calls, which saved him from the bad mood he was in because of Li Bowen.

At the same time, his previous dazed state was also restored. These familiar people, familiar voices, and familiar ways of speaking helped him quickly regain his previous feeling.

Although none of these people were close friends, it didn't matter. For Adrian Sun, this was just a return to the life he was accustomed to.

A dinner was arranged in the evening, and none of the guests had seen each other for several years. Adrian Sun studied his image in the mirror and decided to call the hairstylist introduced by Sun Jiayue to come and do his hair.

I threw the business card on the table and never looked at it. When I picked it up and prepared to make a call, I saw that the hairstylist's name was not TonyKevin or R...

Called Xiaoji.

female?

"Chicken?" Adrian Sun felt a little awkward when he called. He had the illusion that the other party would cackle as soon as he opened his mouth.

"Yes, who are you?" Xiao Ji is a man with a very masculine voice, and he doesn't speak closely to Ji.

"Sun Jiayue gave me your phone number..." Adrian Sun said.

"Sister Jiayue's friend? What's your name?" Xiao Ji said immediately, and from the tone he sounded he was quite familiar with Sun Jiayue.

"Sun asked."

"Brother Sun, do you want to get your hair done? Today? I won't be able to go there until the afternoon," Xiaoji said enthusiastically, "Hey, your last name is also Sun... You are Sister Jiayue's brother..."

"Yes," Adrian Sun interrupted him, "then come over this afternoon."

After giving the address to Xiaoji, he quickly hung up the phone. He was a little overwhelmed by such a familiar stranger who talked too much.

"You are lying to me." Ethan Fang was sitting in the first row of the bus and calling Chen Xiang. Behind him were more than thirty uncles and aunts, talking noisily, and some were singing in loud voices.

"How could I fool you?" Chen Xiang said with a smile.

"You said it was a messy group, but this is clearly a group of uncles and aunts." Ethan Fang said.

"I just found out about that, too. Not really... about my age, I guess." Chen Xiang probably heard the singing and laughed even more happily, "Why do you like that stupid group?"

"I didn't say I liked you, and I didn't want to mess with you," Ethan Fang turned his head and looked out the window, "I just made a fuss."

"Uncles and aunts have good physical strength. They usually ride bicycles and hike for fun. It's easy for them to be led by you," Chen Xiang said, "I'll introduce you to a young group next time."

"I have to review after the New Year, so I won't be able to bring..." Before Ethan Fang could finish his words, an auntie behind him suddenly stood up and shouted.

"Xiao Lin---"

"Ouch," Ethan Fang was so scared that he almost hit his forehead against the car window. He looked back and found that the aunt was asking another aunt in the back seat to sit in the front. He sighed and lowered his voice, "I was scared to death."

"You scared me too," Chen Xiang laughed for a long time over there, "Hey, you just said you were going to review?"

"I'm going to take the college entrance exam next year, so I only have half a year left," Ethan Fang said. "When I asked for leave today, my homeroom teacher looked at me like I was a future failure."

"If you hadn't told me, I would have forgotten that you were in your third year of high school," Chen Xiang sighed, "Well, I've watched you grow up."

"Then I have seen you grow old," Ethan Fang looked back again, "Okay, I won't talk to you anymore. We'll be there soon."

Ethan Fang is not a professional guide, he has always been staying in Chen Xiang's outdoor club. He is familiar with the places they often go to. At the beginning, they asked him to help because there were not enough people, but later they gradually came to him directly.

But this job is not easy, tiring and not fun.

"We will leave from here in a while," the leader said to the group members in a hoarse voice after the car entered the mountain and stopped at a flattened area covered with broken soil on the cliff. "We will have to walk along a winding mountain road first, and then we will enter the mountain. Bring your things and check your shoes. The road is not easy to walk on. Be careful not to twist your ankle..."

Ethan Fang stood under a tree on the roadside, listening to what was said intermittently, with his bag at his feet. His equipment was much more professional than that of the group members. Several aunts stood around and watched him for a long time.

"This is our guide for this canyon trekking trip, Ethan Fang," the team leader turned and pointed at Ethan Fang, "He is very familiar with this section, and he will remind everyone when we come to special terrain..."

Ethan Fang nodded to the group members who looked over as a greeting. These group members were okay. Looking closely, they were all probably in their forties. They were not as interesting as the group of young people, but they were better than the group of uncles and aunts. Of course, the really old ones generally would not stay overnight.

The team leader briefly repeated the precautions mentioned earlier, and everyone picked up their bags and began to hike along the road towards the mountains.

Ethan Fang was not familiar with this team leader and had little to say. He walked silently at the front of the team, listening to the team members chatting behind him.

The conversation was lively in the first twenty minutes, but after half an hour, almost no one was talking. Although the winding mountain road was flat, it was too steep and very tiring to walk on.

Ethan Fang turned around and looked. Although they were no longer chatting, he could tell that these uncles and aunts exercised regularly, and they were all walking very vigorously.

After walking for almost an hour, Ethan Fang stopped.

"After turning the corner ahead, there's another..." He was halfway through his sentence when his cell phone rang. He took out his phone and saw it was Lauren Fang. "At this speed, we'll reach the entrance to the mountain in fifteen minutes."

"Come with me tonight to look for Adrian Sun," Lauren Fang said on the phone, "He's having dinner with someone today, I guess..."

"I can't go back to the city today, so I took people into the mountains." Ethan Fang said.

"What!" Lauren Fang shouted, "Are you going to go look for him again in the next two days?"

"I'll be back tomorrow." Ethan Fang knew Lauren Fang was going to yell at him.

"Tomorrow..." Lauren Fang thought for a moment, "Then tomorrow, tomorrow night, but I have to go there early, in case he wants to go out so I can stop him."

"...Oh." Ethan Fang's eyes flashed with Adrian Sun's face full of impatience and contempt, and he felt a little unhappy.