"One of my relatives."
A relative? Jiang Lan still wasn't convinced.
"Actually, treatment for autism is very scientific nowadays."
Tang Zhi Chu looked at Jiang Lan helplessly. "Sister Lan, I was joking."
"I know. So was I."
Jiang Lan looked perfectly serious. It was a joke, after all. Weren't many truths spoken that way?
Tang Zhi Chu couldn't be bothered to correct her. So what if it was autism? If she said it was, then it was.
Tang Zhi Chu and Jiang Lan stayed on the mountain until five thirty in the afternoon. But after setting up their fishing rods, neither of them paid them any attention.
Then they sat in their chairs playing a game similar to Honor of Kings. Jiang Lan didn't know how to play, and Tang Zhi Chu was only mediocre, so they played against bots.
At five thirty, they got ready to head down the mountain.
In the car, Tang Zhi Chu saw Jiang Lan replying to messages and suggested, "How about I drive?"
Jiang Lan put down her phone. "I invited you to have fun, not to make you do all the work."
The car wound through the mountain forest. Perhaps she felt her earlier refusal had been a little unkind, so Jiang Lan added, "How about you drive once we're off the mountain?"
Tang Zhi Chu shook his head. "Better not. I haven't driven in a long time. You drive."
Jiang Lan nodded. She'd only refused on instinct.
Jiang Lan took driving very seriously. It was a matter of personal safety, and the company's drivers received quarterly training that emphasized safe driving.
But Jiang Lan figured Tang Zhi Chu would be fine. He seemed like the steady type.
Jiang Lan felt that these habits of hers might be why she'd stayed single all