Chapter 80: A distinguished scholar at the banquet
Sunday's cold wind blew harder still. Even with memories of two lives, Su Can was not very familiar with Rongcheng's layout. After all, he had not lived here long. Fortunately, the Fourth City Garden Restaurant, where Tang Wu's birthday banquet was being held, was not far away, in nearby South Lake Park.
Wearing a stand-collar sweater, Su Can walked through Rongcheng's streets in the wake of a cold front, past lawns edged with benches, urban construction sites and workers' sheds, intersections with traffic lights, old steamed-food restaurants, and ancient streets. The multicolored exterior of the Fourth City Garden Restaurant came into view on the far side of South Lake Park.
In Su Can's memories, although Tang Wu had not been known to everyone during their three years of junior high as she was now at No. 27 Middle School, she had still been a class monitor who attracted attention in their class.
Yet he did not recall hearing of Tang Wu ever celebrating her birthday like this. Another possibility was that her parents had seldom been around when she was in Xiahai, so her past birthdays had presumably been very simple affairs. Naturally, her eighteenth birthday was not only especially significant; this coming-of-age banquet must also have been something her parents had arranged expressly to make up for the past.
Today, he would probably be able to get a firsthand impression of Tang Wu's family.
A neat line of servers stood outside the restaurant. On hearing that he was attending the birthday banquet, the floor manager naturally led Su Can to the private room.
The garden restaurant's vivid colors were apparent from its exterior. Its three floors were distinguished by their thematic colors, while freestanding glass sunrooms dotted the lawn below.
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