Rebirth: My Dear Little Wife Is So Scheming

Chapter 1358: Reunion

By the time it was almost closing time at night, Li Xiang was still busy in the kitchen, tidying up the remaining dishes and utensils. After the last customer left, a pile of dishes was brought into the kitchen.

If he didn't finish washing, his work for the day wouldn't be complete.

The boss had already finished preparing the meal, sitting outside alone, eating and drinking some liquor.

This boss was not only stingy but also liked to drink, and after drinking, he might go on a drunken rampage.

He had seen the boss hit the lady boss several times.

But what could he do?

His head felt a bit dizzy, and he kept feeling unwell today.

He looked at the sink full of dirty bowls and plates.

Silently, he stood there and started washing.

The cleaned dishes were all placed in a basin beside him. Li Xiang picked up the basin, preparing to place it on the shelf above.

But he used too much force, and his vision darkened, his body weakened, and given the greasy kitchen floor that hadn't been cleaned yet...

He slipped.

And then he heard a loud crash.

Li Xiang sat down among a heap of fragments, barely believing his eyes; a basin full of dishes had all shattered.

The fat boss probably heard the noise and rushed in, seeing the scene, becoming furious, and grabbed a broom nearby, hitting him hard.

"Tell me, what can you do? What can you do? You're just useless. I'm telling you, get out of here right now, my place is too small to keep you, a big Buddha like you. Just today, you've broken this basin of dishes, and you think you'll stop at this tomorrow?"

That broom came down relentlessly, hitting him until he was dizzy and blurry-eyed, and in no time, he fell to the ground.

He felt pain all over and his vision went black as he completely passed out.

...

When he opened his eyes again, he found himself lying on the ground, still in the restaurant kitchen. The surrounding shards hadn't been cleaned, but the boss was no longer there.

Getting up from the cold ground, he felt weak all over.

In the dead of winter, lying on the ground like that, he didn't know for how long, but he estimated he would get sick.

Because he felt himself shivering from the cold.

He looked outside; it was already daylight.

They needed to start preparing breakfast immediately, and if he didn't clean up the mess on the floor, when the boss came, he might get beaten again.

He didn't have a penny on him; if he left here, he might actually freeze to death outside.

Anyway, now was not the time to leave.

He had endured for almost a year, and now he just needed to hang on until the end of the year, and he would get the travel expenses to return home.

Anyway, he had to keep going.

Silently, he swept away all the fragments on the ground and started tidying up the kitchen and the outside.

Sure enough, the boss and the chef had already arrived in the morning, and their restaurant's breakfast business was always good every morning.

Seeing that he had tidied up the shop cleanly, the fat boss's expression finally softened a little.

But he didn't recall that Li Xiang had slept on that cold floor all night or noticed the abnormal redness on his face.

"Go, take these four bowls of wontons outside to Table No. 2. Be careful, if you break them again this time, I'll beat you to death." The fat boss threatened, with four steaming bowls of wontons exuding fragrance on the tray.

To be honest, the fat boss's chicken wontons were well-known in the area, attracting quite a few people to come and taste them.

Li Xiang picked up the wontons, feeling as limp as noodles, but he knew he couldn't afford to rest now, that was absolutely impossible.

Gritting his teeth, he carried the tray out.

Suddenly, his vision started to blur, and his head felt dizzy.

"I must not fall, I must not spill the wontons." Li Xiang told himself in his heart, clenching his teeth, knowing he must hold on because he had no means to leave here now.

Without earning money and leaving, he'd have no place to go.

Modu was still cold in the winter, and spending such a night outside would freeze someone to death too.

He was nearly at Table No. 2, his target in sight.

"Your wontons are here."

Li Xiang placed the wontons one by one on the table in front of the customer.

"Li... Xiang?"

Hearing the familiar voice, Li Xiang looked up in surprise.

The bowl of wontons in his hand slipped to the ground in shock because of the person he saw.

Looking at the scattered fragments on the ground, Li Xiang was filled with shame.

He didn't respond, squatting down, using the tray to scoop up the shards and spilled broth.

He completely disregarded that his fingers were being cut by the porcelain pieces again.

The fat boss, probably hearing the sound again, rushed out, scolding him while apologizing to the customer at that table.

"Sorry, sorry. Our worker here is clumsy, can't do anything right. I'll quickly get you another bowl." Meanwhile, he was twisting Li Xiang's ear hard, "Tell me, what can you do? I'm telling you, no food for you today, go to the back kitchen and wash dishes."

He was absolutely furious.

This little brat had broken so many bowls these past days, nearly driving him insane.

Looking at them just made him feel heartache.

"Wait, is this person your store's employee?"

Liu Hong suddenly stopped Li Xiang, hardly able to believe her eyes, the dark, skinny child in front of her, full of weariness, was actually her son.

The question was, how could this child be here?

Shouldn't Li Xiang be in his junior high classroom right now?

During the divorce trial, they didn't mention this child. Liu Hong didn't know where Li Xiang went. Li Shuanzhu didn't mention it, and naturally, she thought the child was with his father.

Besides, at that time, Li Shuanzhu said the child went out of town, and he didn't pay child support to Liu Hong.

Liu Hong naturally didn't pay much attention.

Li Xiang and Li Lu always got along well with Li Shuanzhu and Feng Qian.

They were very disgusted with her as their biological mother.

She naturally wouldn't throw herself on someone who didn't welcome her.

But who would have thought, just by going to a shop to have wontons in the morning, she would see her son reduced to a waiter?

And it seemed, the boss didn't treat him well.

"He is an employee at our shop; he's clumsy, sorry to have frightened you. I'll definitely deal with him properly when we get back." The fat boss was bowing and scraping, smiling apologetically as customer satisfaction comes first, fearing that if the wontons burned the customer, they'd be liable for damages, which would be a loss to them.

Anyway, they pushed all the blame onto Li Xiang.

Liu Hong sneered, "Boss, this child is probably underage, and your store dares to employ minors? That's illegal." Seeing Li Xiang in such a miserable state, as a mother, she didn't feel any happiness at all.

She wanted the child to suffer a bit to understand her previous intentions, but she didn't want to see Li Xiang being bullied like this.