Chapter 62: U-571
From outside, the Immortal Roast Abode hotel looked like a huge glass house, three stories tall, crystalline and magnificent at night. It was supposedly a famous wedding venue, too; its exterior alone made it ideal for wedding celebrations.
Located in the Southeast, Shanghai generally grew dark earlier than inland cities in November. Around five, shortly after dusk, the streetlights would come on. Tonight, a large private room on the Immortal Roast Abode's ground floor held two square banquet tables, with relatives of the Tang and Mu families living in the area gathering for dinner.
Tang Wu, her mother, and the others had come straight over after shopping. By then, the evening had already deepened.
Outside the private room was a terrace connected to the lawn and open grounds. Some of the younger children chased one another noisily across the grass. The elderly Mu couple disliked the racket and preferred quiet, so they sat in the room's traditional wooden armchairs, eyes half-closed, chatting intermittently with the relatives who carefully kept them company.
Tang Wu leaned against the railing. Several boys and girls on the lawn watched her. A boy with snot and drool still hanging around his mouth wiped away the saliva with his sleeve and told his playmates, "I'm going to marry her when I grow up."
"Actually, the biggest reason Third Aunt keeps bringing up Su Can's family and opposing things is that she wants to satisfy her best friend, Aunt Zhao. Her son's twenty-four now. Her husband's the Electric Power Bureau director, and her son's worked there for two years. She also said they bought him a three-bedroom apartment of over a hundred square meters last year, and now they're planning to buy him a Buick worth over three hundred thousand. Third Aunt thought those