Marvel Teleporter

Chapter 5 The Strange Disease
Anjia Restaurant is not a star hotel, but an ordinary restaurant. There are more than a dozen large or small round tables in a hall, and a few chairs and stools form a circle. The surroundings are opened in the style of hollow screens, a typical Chinese restaurant. style.

Finding a table by the window and sitting down, Zhang Xuan turned his head and looked around, and found that Anjia Restaurant didn't seem to have changed much from what he remembered, and even the positions of the tables and chairs hadn't moved a little.

"Alex, are you familiar with this place?" Steve put aside Bucky who was still pestering him, hoping that he would make more love, and turned to look at Zhang Xuan and asked casually.

"When I was young, I lived here for seven or eight years." Zhang Xuan's memory of this place is pitiful, and he changed the topic after saying a word, "It takes some time to prepare Chinese food, we may have to wait a little longer!"

"It's okay, don't worry, just walk a few blocks to the Stark Industrial Park, there won't be any delay." Bucky said casually, and then looked at the surrounding environment with curiosity.

"Ah Xuan, come and taste the wine made by grandma. It has been stored for almost 20 years!" While speaking, Mrs. An walked slowly over with a cane in one hand and a dark brown clay bottle in the other. , with a delighted smile on his wrinkled face.

Looking at the carved vase in Grandma An's hand, another series of images appeared in Zhang Xuan's mind, and childhood memories flowed out like water from a faucet.

"Is this Huadiao wine?" Zhang Xuan took a few steps forward, picked up Grandma An, took the bottle, and said excitedly.

Mrs. An sat beside Zhang Xuan with a smile, watched Zhang Xuan eagerly pat the seal off the wine bottle, squinted her eyes and said, "I still remember when you were seven years old, you sneaked away when you were less than the height of the table. You went into my wine cellar to steal wine and drank it, and got so drunk that your mother was hard to find. After returning, you beat me up..."

All the stories that Alex had forgotten were told by Mrs. An slowly, with the dust of history, telling the absurd and beautiful life of Alex when he was young.

The more Zhang Xuan listened, the more embarrassed he became. He turned his head and glanced at Steve and Bucky who were facing him, and found that they were looking at him in confusion. Otherwise, it will be embarrassing!"

"More than ten years have passed in a blink of an eye. Huiru is gone, and you have grown up!" Before you knew it, the dishes were already on the table. If you know, you can feel at ease."

"Eat, eat quickly!" With a sigh, the old lady An immediately regained her energy, and pointed to the dishes on the table and said, "Ah Xuan, please don't just sit still, eat while it's hot! "

Zhang Xuan calmed down, looked at the two people who were already drooling, grabbed the chopsticks on the table, and greeted with a smile: "Can these chopsticks be used? Can't I change the knives and forks for you?"

Steve and Bucky looked at each other, shook their heads and said firmly, "No!" After speaking, they looked at Zhang Xuan's movements carefully, and then stretched out their hands to the chopsticks on the table. It's funny, but fortunately, you can hold the chopsticks firmly, but it's a little difficult to pick up food.

Zhang Xuan didn't speak, poured a full glass of wine for the two of them, then ignored the two of them, poured a glass for himself and Grandma An, and asked in a low voice: "Grandma An, before you said that my mother gave birth Strange disease, why don't I know?" Zhang Xuan couldn't hold back the doubts in his heart after all, and asked.If he didn't ask clearly, Zhang Xuan wouldn't feel at ease eating this meal.

Old Madam An was stunned when she heard the words, and she was silent for a while before she spoke: "Hui Ru hasn't told you all this time, but I just don't want you to know!"

"Grandma An, just tell me, I can't even know how my mother died!" In Alex's memory, his mother's death came suddenly and without warning.Zhang Xuan didn't know before, but after hearing that she had a strange disease, he immediately realized that her death was probably related to this disease.

"Huiru is such a pitiful person. First, she met a heartless person, left you two without a word, and let her suffer from such a strange disease again. God is not fair!" Mrs. An said while knocking With the crutch in his hand, it made a crisp sound on the bluestone floor, "A good girl like Huiru, why are there so many disasters!"

Hearing Grandma An's shout full of resentment, Zhang Xuan didn't feel a blockage in his heart, a stagnation of anger in his chest, and he wanted to vent it out.

On the other side, Steve and Bucky also stopped, looking at Zhang Xuan and Mrs. An, who looked wrong, and wanted to say something, but unfortunately they didn't know what Zhang Xuan and Mrs. An said, so they could only He stared blankly.

"Grandma An, what is the disease? Can it be cured?" Although the medical technology in 1940 was not as developed as in the 21st century, many diseases are no longer incurable, and there are not many terminal diseases.

"They say that Huiru is a monster, but I know that it is a disease that cannot be cured." Mrs. An's eyes gradually became moist, and there was deep guilt in her cloudy eyes, "They want to drive Huiru out. , I persuaded them, but they didn't agree. Sin, this foreign country, without the care of the folks, how much you two have to suffer!"

Hearing Grandma An's words, Zhang Xuan was completely stunned. Didn't he say that he was sick? Why did he even mention monsters?

"Grandma An, what's going on? What's wrong with my mother?" Zhang Xuan was a little anxious.

"I don't know what's wrong." Mrs. An shook her white-haired head, her old face was full of horror, "The golden scales all over her body and face are like fish scales, it's very scary to look at!"

"At the beginning, no one noticed, but then I don't know who saw it, and the rumor spread that everyone in the neighborhood knew about it. Then they said that Huiru was the reincarnation of a monster, which would bring disasters, and they must drive her away." As she spoke, An The old lady raised her hand and wiped the tears from the corners of her eyes, "I advised them to stop them, but they just didn't agree and insisted on driving you away! I really have no choice!"

"Fish scales?" Zhang Xuan was stunned when he heard the words. He didn't believe what monsters said, and he didn't think it was really a disease.This is the Marvel world, he thought of a possibility.

Looking at Grandma An who was crying so hard, Zhang Xuan came back to his senses, gently patted his back and comforted him softly: "Grandma An, my mother won't blame you. After we left Chinatown, we didn't suffer anything. Live well and be happy, so don’t blame yourself!”

This is not Zhang Xuan comforting Mrs. An, she really did it, and this is what Zhang Xuan admires most about her.A woman, with a child, raised the child with her own hands, supported him to go to school, and even saved him an apartment. What a great and hardworking mother!
After a long time of consolation, Mrs. An finally calmed down, and with the support of Uncle An, she walked away slowly on crutches.Looking at Grandma An who was gradually going away, Zhang Xuan thought to himself, his words must be able to relieve some of the guilt in her heart.

"Alex, what were you guys talking about just now? Why are you crying?" Steve couldn't help but wonder as he watched old lady Ann walk away.

"It's nothing, just talking about things when I was a child, the elderly are easily agitated, so I cried!" Zhang Xuan found an excuse to fool the past, or the two asked again, and quickly called them to eat food quickly, "Huaxia food habit?"

Seeing Zhang Xuan's explanation, Steve and Bucky didn't care too much, nodded and said seriously: "Huaxia cuisine, it's really delicious!"

"Eat more if it tastes good!" Zhang Xuan laughed when he heard the words, he moved his chopsticks like flying, and kept picking up food for the two, but he was thinking about what Old Madam An said in his heart.

"I don't know if I also have the X gene in my body?"

(End of this chapter)